{"id":7740,"date":"2022-04-26T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7740"},"modified":"2022-04-26T15:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:55:14","slug":"the-return-of-hunter-bidens-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7740","title":{"rendered":"The return of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The president\u2019s son remains under investigation for matters related to tax payments and his foreign work, the New York Times reported<\/a> last week. And that report cites emails that, per the Times, are \u201cfrom a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop.\u201d”
…
“nearly a year and a half later, it\u2019s worth revisiting what happened back in the heat of the 2020 campaign. Some decisions and claims look dubious in retrospect. Twitter briefly blocked links<\/a> to the story for potentially containing hacked material and Facebook briefly restricted it<\/a> as possible \u201cmisinformation\u201d \u2014 but it may have been neither. And no evidence has emerged to back up suspicions from former intelligence officials<\/a>, backed by Biden himself<\/a>, that the laptop\u2019s leak was a Russian plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the emails were indeed being put out as part of an orchestrated campaign<\/a> by Trump\u2019s team to try to drive negative media coverage toward Joe Biden shortly before the election. And whatever the revelations about Hunter, claims from conservatives that the leaked emails proved Joe Biden acted corruptly in some way were false \u2014 they proved no such thing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There were two supposed \u201csmoking guns\u201d about Joe Biden that conservatives touted in the materials. The first was an email<\/a> the Post called a \u201cblockbuster,\u201d in which an executive at the Ukrainian gas company Burisma thanked Hunter for the \u201copportunity to meet your father\u201d in 2015. If you\u2019re steeped in Trumpworld lore, this was damning because of the theory that Biden had the corrupt prosecutor general of Ukraine fired to benefit Burisma, and Biden had said he knew nothing about Hunter\u2019s Ukrainian work, but look, a meeting! (Apparently, it was a dinner at Cafe Milano<\/a> that Hunter had organized, with about a dozen people.) This appears to amount to Vice President Biden seemingly going to one dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The second involved a business venture that Hunter tried to set up with a Chinese energy tycoon in 2017 (after Joe Biden was no longer vice president). One email mentions<\/a> that the equity split would include \u201c10 held by H for the big guy ?\u201d A former business partner of Hunter\u2019s named Tony Bobulinski<\/a> came forward to claim \u201cthe big guy\u201d was Joe Biden. But a subsequent email<\/a> from Hunter says his \u201cChairman\u201d gave him \u201can emphatic no,\u201d and a further email clarifies that the chairman is his dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this amounts to Joe Biden apparently refusing some deal Hunter tried to enmesh him in. An alternative possibility is that Joe was not actually ever involved and that Hunter had just been throwing his name around. By Bobulinski\u2019s own account<\/a>, he briefly met Joe Biden the day before and after an event, and the former vice president only said vague things to him (and the proposed deal never came together in the end).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this was indeed covered in the press in October 2020 (I wrote about it at the time<\/a>). So the real objection from conservatives is that they didn\u2019t get the narrative they liked out of the mainstream media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hunter\u2019s emails contained a whole lot of embarrassing and arguably newsworthy material about himself, and the shady foreign business interests of the son of the potential next president are certainly a worthy topic of media coverage. But as for the Biden who was actually on the ballot, there was very little from him personally in those messages (other than an exchange where he comforts his despondent, drug-addicted son<\/a>). The emails didn\u2019t dominate mainstream media because, at least so far, they didn\u2019t have the goods.”   
https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22992772\/hunter-biden-laptop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The president\u2019s son remains under investigation for matters related to tax payments and his foreign work, the New York Times reported last week. And that report cites emails that, per the Times, are \u201cfrom a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop.\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“nearly a year and a half later, it\u2019s worth revisiting what happened back in the heat of the 2020 campaign. Some decisions and claims look dubious in retrospect. Twitter briefly blocked links to the story for potentially containing hacked material and Facebook briefly restricted it as possible \u201cmisinformation\u201d \u2014 but it may have been neither. And no evidence has emerged to back up suspicions from former intelligence officials, backed by Biden himself, that the laptop\u2019s leak was a Russian plot.
\nBut the emails were indeed being put out as part of an orchestrated campaign by Trump\u2019s team to try to drive negative media coverage toward Joe Biden shortly before the election. And whatever the revelations about Hunter, claims from conservatives that the leaked emails proved Joe Biden acted corruptly in some way were false \u2014 they proved no such thing.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“There were two supposed \u201csmoking guns\u201d about Joe Biden that conservatives touted in the materials. The first was an email the Post called a \u201cblockbuster,\u201d in which an executive at the Ukrainian gas company Burisma thanked Hunter for the \u201copportunity to meet your father\u201d in 2015. If you\u2019re steeped in Trumpworld lore, this was damning because of the theory that Biden had the corrupt prosecutor general of Ukraine fired to benefit Burisma, and Biden had said he knew nothing about Hunter\u2019s Ukrainian work, but look, a meeting! (Apparently, it was a dinner at Cafe Milano that Hunter had organized, with about a dozen people.) This appears to amount to Vice President Biden seemingly going to one dinner.<\/p>\n

The second involved a business venture that Hunter tried to set up with a Chinese energy tycoon in 2017 (after Joe Biden was no longer vice president). One email mentions that the equity split would include \u201c10 held by H for the big guy ?\u201d A former business partner of Hunter\u2019s named Tony Bobulinski came forward to claim \u201cthe big guy\u201d was Joe Biden. But a subsequent email from Hunter says his \u201cChairman\u201d gave him \u201can emphatic no,\u201d and a further email clarifies that the chairman is his dad.<\/p>\n

So this amounts to Joe Biden apparently refusing some deal Hunter tried to enmesh him in. An alternative possibility is that Joe was not actually ever involved and that Hunter had just been throwing his name around. By Bobulinski\u2019s own account, he briefly met Joe Biden the day before and after an event, and the former vice president only said vague things to him (and the proposed deal never came together in the end).<\/p>\n

All of this was indeed covered in the press in October 2020 (I wrote about it at the time). So the real objection from conservatives is that they didn\u2019t get the narrative they liked out of the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

Hunter\u2019s emails contained a whole lot of embarrassing and arguably newsworthy material about himself, and the shady foreign business interests of the son of the potential next president are certainly a worthy topic of media coverage. But as for the Biden who was actually on the ballot, there was very little from him personally in those messages (other than an exchange where he comforts his despondent, drug-addicted son). The emails didn\u2019t dominate mainstream media because, at least so far, they didn\u2019t have the goods.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[835],"class_list":["post-7740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-hunter-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7741,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions\/7741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}