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发帖数: 209 | 1 说调查9寸半的都是小报的，说9寸半的事与它爹无关的，看看这个小报怎么说。
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bidens-and-tony-bobulinski-11603927190?mod=
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The Bidens and Tony Bobulinski
Joe owes the public a response about the family’s business.
Joe Biden is asking voters to elect him on the strength of his character,
honesty and judgment. Which is why Mr. Biden owes a response to new
allegations about his son Hunter’s business deals.
Tony Bobulinski on Tuesday sat with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson to provide
details of a 2016-17 business venture involving Hunter, Jim Biden (Joe’s
brother), and CEFC China Energy, a conglomerate tied to the Chinese
government. Mr. Bobulinski, a Navy veteran and financier, was recruited by
Hunter and associates to serve as CEO, and the interview shed more light on
hundreds of emails and documents he recently made public.
Mr. Bobulinski said that in 2017 he twice met with former Vice President Joe
Biden, as part of a Biden family effort at “wining and dining” him to “
take on the CEO role.” He pointed to documents in which Hunter and others
refer to Joe’s involvement in the deal, including an email from Hunter
partner James Gilliar that proposed the “big guy” get 10% of the company
equity, held in Hunter’s name. Mr. Bobulinski says “the big guy” is Joe.
He also related a conversation in which he said Jim Biden said the answer to
questions about Biden family involvement with foreign entities was “
plausible deniability.”
Mr. Bobulinski sounded credible. He said he wants to clear his name of
accusations that he was a tool of foreign election-meddlers, and he
repeatedly declined opportunities to speculate or get partisan. He said he
felt a duty to American citizens “to go on record and define the facts for
them and let them do their own work, let them decide how they view those
facts or not.”
Joe Biden was a private citizen at the time of these alleged meetings, and
there is no evidence we’ve seen that he personally benefited from the China
deal. But he hasn’t denied that the meetings took place, and the
Bobulinski documents make clear that Mr. Biden hasn’t been honest about his
knowledge of his son’s business affairs.
Here’s Mr. Biden in 2019: “I have never discussed with my son or my
brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses. Period.
” Yet Mr. Bobulinski says his two meetings with Joe were for the purpose of
Hunter’s business and that it was “crystal clear” Hunter had briefed his
father.
“There was no other reason for me to be in that bar meeting Joe Biden than
to discuss what I was doing with his family’s name and the Chinese CEFC,”
Mr. Bobulinski said.
Mr. Bobulinski says he was spurred to come forward to clear his family name
after House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff claimed his emails were “Russian
disinformation.” He says he privately communicated to a Biden
representative his desire that the Biden family set the record straight
about the authenticity of the emails and texts—so that he didn’t have to
go public. Instead, Mr. Biden—who Mr. Bobulinski said sat with him “face-
to-face” and knows he “traveled around the world with his son and his
brother”—also played the Russia card.
Whether Mr. Biden was an active participant, or simply lent his prestige so
Hunter could close the deals, Joe Biden appears to have aided his son’s
transactions with often shady characters in Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan and
beyond. Mr. Biden might be forgiven for wanting to help a troubled son
succeed, but to ignore the ethical and security risks attached to Hunter’s
Chinese Communist partners is bad judgment.
Mr. Biden last year said his son is a “grown man” who makes his own
decisions—a line that ignores the nature of Hunter’s deals. The Bobulinski
material suggests the Chinese engaged Hunter not for his financial prowess,
but for his connections and influence.
Nearly all of the press is ignoring this story, and Mr. Biden’s strategy is
to ignore it as well and run out the election clock. But Mr. Bobulinski’s
evidence is too detailed and credible to go away. Much of the campaign
against Donald Trump as a threat to U.S. security has concerned his personal
business interests, especially with foreigners. Mr. Biden should want to
contrast himself by explaining his role in assisting Hunter’s business, and
his rationale for doing so. |
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