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The Blackout On Biden Corruption By America's State Media

Post by Riddick » 05-14-2023 06:52 PM

Now that the House has released corroboration in actual money transfers linking many in the Biden family, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) tried to induce the press to show some interest. “Easy pickings & Pulitzer-level stuff right here,” he pleaded.

The response was virtually immediate. Despite showing nine Biden family members allegedly receiving funds from corrupt figures in Romania, China and other countries, The New Republic quickly ran a story headlined “Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden.”

Few outlets seem to be angling for the next Pulitzer. The media is insisting that this is no scandal because there is no direct proof of payments to Joe Biden.

For many of us, it was otherworldly. A decade ago, when then-Vice President Joe Biden was denouncing corruption in Romania and Ukraine and promising action by the United States, massive payments were flowing to his son Hunter Biden and a variety of family members, including Biden grandchildren.

The media invested in this scandal at the outset by burying the Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation” before the election. It took two years for most major media outlets to admit the laptop was authentic. Hundreds of emails detailed potentially criminal conduct and raw influence peddling in foreign countries.

When media outlets such as the New York Post confirmed the emails, the media then insisted that there was no corroboration of the influence peddling payments and no clear proof of criminal conduct. It entirely ignored the obvious corruption itself.

Putting aside that this is only the fourth month of an investigation, the media’s demand of a direct payment to President Biden is laughably absurd. The payments were going to his family, but he was the object of the influence peddling.

The whole purpose of influence peddling is to use family members as shields for corrupt officials. Instead of making a direct payment to a politician, which could be seen as a bribe, you can give millions to his or her spouse or children.

Moreover, these emails include references to Joe Biden getting a 10% cut of one Chinese deal. It also shows Biden associates warning not to use Joe Biden’s name but to employ code names like “the Big Guy.” At the same time, the president and first lady are referenced as benefiting from offices and receiving payments from Hunter.

Indeed, Hunter complains that his father is taking half of everything that he is raking in. None of it matters. The New York Times ran a piece headlined, “House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden.”

That puts aside evidence against all the family members around Joe Biden. It also ignores evidence that clearly shows Biden lied about his family not receiving Chinese funds & never having any knowledge of Hunter’s business dealings.

The coverage has all the markings of a state media. The consistent spin. The almost universal lack of details. The absurd distinctions.

It is a blindside of our First Amendment, which addresses the classic use of state authority to coerce and control media. It does not address a circumstance in which most of the media will maintain an official line by consent rather than coercion. The media simply fails to see the story.

Of course, it can always look to the president for enlightenment. Just before his son received a massive transfer of money from one of the most corrupt figures in Romania, Biden explained to that country why corruption must remain everyone’s focus.

“Corruption is a cancer, a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy,” he said. “Corruption is just another form of tyranny.” It is just a shame no one wants to cover it.

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