Дональд Трамп - Triggered

In 2009, after closing a swampy lobbying firm in Washington, Hunter Biden opened a venture capital and investment firm called Rosemont Seneca Partners with Heinz and two other partners. Five years later, square in the middle of Obama’s second term, they set up shop in China. They named the company Bohai Harvest RST. The “Bohai” represented the Chinese stake in the company, the “RS” stood for Rosemont Seneca, and the “T” stood for the Thornton Group. A consultancy firm in Massachusetts, it was run by James Bulger, the son of longtime Massachusetts Senate president Billy Bulger and nephew of James “Whitey” Bulger, the infamous Boston gangster. Isn’t that nice?

In his book Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends , Peter Schweizer described the curious timing of a 2013 trip to China the vice president made with his son and daughter:

Vice President Biden, Hunter Biden and [Hunter’s daughter] Finnegan arrived to a red carpet and a delegation of Chinese officials. Greeted by Chinese children carrying flowers, the delegation was then whisked to a meeting with Vice President Li Yuanchao and talks with President Xi Jinping.

According to Schweizer, that trip coincided with the deal between the Bank of China and Rosemont Seneca that formed Bohai Harvest RST.

“In short, the Chinese government was literally funding a business that it co-owned along with the sons of two of America’s most powerful decision makers,” Schweizer wrote.

Bad, right? It gets worse. One of Bohai Harvest’s investment partners in China was the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). Just the year before, according to the Wall Street Journal , AVIC had stolen technologies dealing with our stealth fighter for the Chinese version. Can you imagine anything remotely close to that happening during my father’s presidency? We’d have a special counsel appointed faster than you could say “Adam #FullofSchiff.”

“My frustration is not that the solid reporting on Trump has been too tough, but that the reporting on the Obama administration has been way too soft or in some cases nonexistent,” Schweizer wrote.

But if you think China was bad for Joe and Hunter, things really got interesting a few years later in Ukraine. On March 16, 2016, Joe Biden flew to Kiev on a mission. In his sights was Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin, who was so corrupt that the vice president of the United States had to fly to Ukraine to take matters into his own hands. In no uncertain terms, Biden told the Ukrainian government to fire Shokin or the United States would withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees. One billion is a lot of money, and the threat worked. The prosecutor general was voted out by the Ukrainian parliament soon after.

Now, on the surface, it would seem that Biden was like a new sheriff in town, riding to the rescue. The only thing he was missing was a stallion and a white cowboy hat. Like a lot of things about Biden, however, what’s on the surface has very little to do with what’s going on in secret.

About the time of Joe’s visit to Kiev, Shokin had reopened an investigation into a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma Holdings. On the board of Burisma Holdings, getting paid upward of $50,000 a month, was one Hunter Biden. Hunter, who even the failing New York Times had to admit had no prior experience in energy, had just been discharged from the navy reserve for a cocaine-related offense, and had been given the job solely for his connections in Washington. “Hunter Biden and his American business partners were part of a broad effort by Burisma to bring in well-connected Democrats during a period when the company was facing investigations backed not just by domestic Ukrainian forces but by officials in the Obama administration,” the Times stated. In other words, Hunter was enlisting high-profile Democrats and the swamp creatures who surround them to shield his company from scrutiny by the US government! By any measure, it was a pretty bold move by the vice president’s son and one that sent the Washington rumor mill into overdrive. Everybody in the Obama administration had to know what he was doing. Everyone except dear old Dad, who claimed that he had found out about his son’s involvement in Burisma only when he had read about it in the newspaper. Now, my father calls the former vice president “Sleepy Joe” for good reason. But he’d have to have been in a coma not to know what his own son was doing in Ukraine. And I’m not even talking about the lines!

I began this section by telling you that I’ve learned a thing or two about politics. Here’s another thing I’ve learned: The hypocrisy on the left has no limits, and the Mueller Report might be the best example of this. Victor Davis Hanson, who wrote The Case for Trump , summed up nicely the double standard Mueller applied to Democrats in a piece he wrote for National Review : “The problem with the Mueller investigation, and with former intelligence officials such as Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and McCabe, is pious hypocrisy. Those who have lectured America on Trump’s unproven crimes have written books and appeared on TV to publicize their own superior virtue. Yet they themselves have engaged in all sorts of unethical and illegal behavior.” And when their lies are exposed, they just cook up new ones. When it’s not collusion, it’s obstruction. Then, when it’s not that, it’s something else. It’s a constant cover-up, and it always leads to nothing.

When it comes to being sanctimonious, Democrats literally wrote the book, and Joe Biden is a prime example. One of the best things about my father’s presidency, however, is how he’s exposed the deception under which Washington operates. Still, people such as Comey, Clapper, Brennan, and Biden continue to get away with criminal behavior because the left refuses to see what is now plainly evident. So we have to fight fire with fire. If liberals get to investigate, so should we. As Peter Schweizer wrote in an op-ed for the New York Post : “If a two-year investigation of President Trump, Russia and the Trump family was justified to ensure the president isn’t compromised, an investigation into Joe Biden, China, Ukraine and the Biden family is imperative.”

I can hear the left now: “You can’t investigate Joe Biden; he’s running for president!”

Yeah, right. Nobody running for president ever gets investigated.

As the election approaches, there are some things you probably won’t be able to avoid. First, there will be the inevitable “town hall” events during which Democrats will try to tap into some of the off-the-cuff magic that got my father into the White House in 2016, rolling up their sleeves and putting one foot on a stool while they do their best Gee, that’s a good point faces. There will also be a thousand photo ops with blue-collar workers, all screen-tested by the campaign staffs for diversity and camera-readiness. These will probably end with the candidate promising to “keep jobs in America” and “look after the working class.” If you’re lucky, the candidate might even be wearing a cute little hard hat.

Please know that no matter how uplifting they may seem, the photos are all bullshit, especially if Joe or Bernie is wearing the hard hat.

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THE OPPOSITION AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATES ARE OUT OF TOUCH, OUT OF THEIR MINDS, AND FRANKLY DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN.

IN ASSESSING THE 2020 Democrats hoping to run against my father, I have to be careful. It’s very easy for me to become sarcastic.

Lord knows, the last thing today’s political debate needs is more sarcasm from me. I mean, what purpose would it serve for me to call Vice President Biden “Joey Hands”? Or make fun of Crazy Bernie—oops, Senator Sanders—again? Or refer to the senator from Massachusetts as a fabled Native American princess from the 1600s? There is no reason to add fuel to the fire, especially in today’s political atmosphere. Anyone who does so is provoking just for the sake of provocation.