The Hunter Biden story is
a troubling tale of privilege
Washington Post,
by
David Von Drehle
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
10/6/2019 12:27:11 PM
For all his barking and hucksterism, Rudy Giuliani is having limited success drawing the gullible into his sideshow tent. But the fact that Giuliani’s spectacle involving the Biden family is as phony as a horse that does arithmetic does not mean there is no story worth examining. The real story of Joe Biden and his troubled son Hunter is full of pain and littered with questions and deeply relevant to our populist moment.
I claim no intimate knowledge of this story beyond the soul-baring that Hunter performed with reporter Adam Entous of the New Yorker — an airing of family laundry without precedent, that I can recall,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/6/2019 12:39:41 PM (No. 199282)
The only thing this sob sister knows is (1) what he read in Hunter’s cathartic piece for the NYT a while back and (2) apparently his own experience with an addict in the family.
This is one big long boohoo for poor widdle Hunter.
Sorry David. I’m not buying what you’re selling. WaPo. Should have known what this would be.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mathman 10/6/2019 12:45:35 PM (No. 199289)
Nobody ever gave me $50,000/month for being ignorant. Of course Dad was not VP, either.
And for 12 years? Wow.
I see the quid, what was the quo?
"Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever did."
It sure looks suspicious to me.
But I am a Republican.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 10/6/2019 12:45:35 PM (No. 199290)
Poster #1, at first that's what I also thought, but on reflection, I can hear in the distance the sound of long knives being sharpened.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jinx 10/6/2019 12:47:23 PM (No. 199293)
Do Americans really want a lazy drug addict living in the WH? That's where Hunter will end up if Joe finally gets there. I don't think so. I have never liked Joe Biden. Not gonna start now.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 10/6/2019 12:48:01 PM (No. 199294)
Uh-OH! The CommiePost is no longer making excuses for Hunter....do I smell toast burning?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 10/6/2019 12:51:01 PM (No. 199297)
#2, it was actually $83,000 per month. I have seen an image of the bank records which show the transfer to his account each month, on Levin, when he interviewed Peter Schweizer. The records were obtained when Biden's partner was charged with fraud. They had a common account.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
davew 10/6/2019 1:15:31 PM (No. 199325)
You may think Rudy (who has jailed more Mob bosses and political con men in his life than any of his media detractors) is just making it all up and is a Trump stooge. But you cannot turn you eyes away from the sworn testimony and affidavits he received from the Ukrainian justice system that paint a clear picture of high level corruption between Joe Biden and the Ukrainian government who fired the prosecutor, Victor Shokin, after Biden withheld the US aid. Why the lack of interest in such a specific and detailed case as laid out by Giuliani? I mean, if he is a fraud as you say what could be better than to expose him to the public and destroy his credibility forever. There might even be a Pulitzer prize in it for some young ambitious reporter. Instead they keep bashing Rudy, covering their ears, and going "la,la,la,la, I can't hear you". How childish.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/6/2019 1:20:05 PM (No. 199330)
The cocaine addict was receiving one million dollars per year from the Ukraine, a salary as senior VP of Delaware's MBNA credit card company, when he was just two years out of law school, he and his uncle crashed and burned a hedge fund, 1.5 billion chicom money for another hedge fund, and now Old Jo says Hunter will be teaching at a law school!
Who says drug addiction is bad??
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
udanja99 10/6/2019 1:42:55 PM (No. 199352)
The road to Joe and Hunter ultimately ends at 0bama’s doorstep.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Omen55 10/6/2019 2:06:30 PM (No. 199381)
Joe is just not getting the hint.
He may need the have a harder one.
Shame if your only surviving son had to do some time.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 10/6/2019 2:30:22 PM (No. 199399)
Obama knew
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ret.TxLeo 10/6/2019 2:32:32 PM (No. 199402)
Shaking my head...another story of a spoiled rotten kid, never facing consequences, getting bailed out by Daddy or Mommy. Democratic party full of them. Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Obama, etc the list is long and not distinguished. The young Biden is probably the bottom of the lack of morals barrel. Disgraced military officer, slept with his brothers wife, treasonous with foreign government chip off the old block hey Creepy Uncle Joe?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/6/2019 4:15:27 PM (No. 199464)
I’ll stick with my evaluation of this writer and article at #1. He relates more to Hunter than to the rest of us. And he certainly does not relate to President Trump.
4 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 10/6/2019 4:16:37 PM (No. 199465)
Leave it to the WaPoo and a Bezos Boy to call a huge case of vile, massive and overt international political corruption into "a troubling tale of privilege''.
5 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
bad-hair 10/6/2019 4:23:25 PM (No. 199467)
So because Hunter lost his mommy and sister at a young age he is entitled to be a coke addict and pull down a million a year for doing nothing and knowing less. Cry me a river.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
snapper451 10/6/2019 4:39:14 PM (No. 199487)
Hunter left a crack pipe in his returned rental car after a recent bender. Zero coverage by the liberal press of this or the local cops that were told to stand down. Imagine if Don Jr. or Erik did this?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/6/2019 6:58:51 PM (No. 199572)
Giuliani is very successful, and he knows a lot more than this punk "writer."
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
padiva 10/6/2019 8:17:54 PM (No. 199633)
What did the other board of directors (or whatever they are) get for their work?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/6/2019 10:30:24 PM (No. 199714)
If someone with enough go-power were to check that nepotistic corruption thing, chances are they would find that is there are quite a number of family members of DC UniParty members who are cashing in because their relative is holding down a high level elected or appointed position in the USA Government. Clearly President Trump who was sent to DC by the American people to drain the corrupt DC UniParty and Deep State Swamp, has been doing just that, and the DC Swamp dwellers are “resisting” Trump will all sorts of faux information and procedures.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 10/6/2019 10:52:16 PM (No. 199734)
How many know that Kerry's stepson, Pelosi's son and a Romney senior aide were ALSO on the board of this corrupt Ukrainian gas company?
Lots and lots of corruption to go around. And probably lots more to be uncovered yet.
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