So the story here is that Joe Biden had a meeting in 2017 -- when he was not in office and not running for office -- to discuss a potential business opportunity with a Chinese energy firm that never happened.
I mean really, what the hell? This guy's bombshell is that he met Joe Biden ONE TIME, and the Biden's hold him not to mention Joe's involvement (duh!) and then... nothing happened. This is the election-moving story?
No joke, I was super interested in this story. Anyone following me the last week has seen me tweeting inquisitively about it. But if this is the best Trump, Giuliani and all these guys can do it's maybe one of the most overplayed stories I've ever seen.
And by overplayed, I mean overhyped by Trump, Giuliani, etc. who all claimed they were going to uncover Joe Biden's corruption when rly they uncovered a single business meeting between Joe Biden / Chinese reps when he wasn't in office or running for office that never materialized
1/ Alright. Let's go through this Kim Strassel column. The lede of a story is always incredibly telling, so surely hers will center on the bombshell news that Joe Biden corruption is now proven!
2/ This is unlike anything we have ever seen in American politics. Here we have a politician who is -- buckle up your seatbelts everyone!!!! -- worried about his "family brand."
3/ Alright everyone. This part is confusing. See if you can follow along. Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, was trying to make money based on who his father was. I know, I know. It's incomprehensible. What kind of family would profit off their own name???
Pretending Hunter Biden didn't sell off his name for lucrative business deals is asinine. He did. Duh. There are still a lot of questions about how much Joe knew or whether he ever "got a cut." And there's also the rather obvious fact that Trump's corruption is worse.
Trump spent an entire business career stiffing contractors, low-wage workers, hiring undocumented immigrants. Now he's spent his entire political career pretending he was a friend to blue-collar workers and the enemy of undocumented immigrant workers stealing jobs. Laughable.
Trump spent his entire business career cutting deals w/ shady foreign actors and sucking up to leaders like Vladimir Putin. Now his political career is him pretending he has no involvement anywhere but USA while his own kids continue to profit overseas and campaign for him.
1/ We're now seeing the worst fears come true about appointing John Ratcliffe as Director of National Intelligence. Remember: his first nomination went up in flames because he was the least qualified person to ever have a shot at the position. He lied about his credentials.
2/ Even Donald Trump conceded Ratcliffe was not vetterd properly for the job. DONALD TRUMP CONCEDED HE MADE A MISTAKE. That's how bad Ratcliffe's initial appointment was. But the impeachment hearings changed everything.
3/ Ratcliffe made it clear he was a rabid defender of the president at all costs. It was an obvious audition. Trump had placed Richard Grennell as DNI -- the only person less qualified than Ratcliffe to be appointed, and so he left the Senate with little choice but to accept him.
1/ So. The Hunter Biden story: absent from the hompages of WSJ, NYT, WaPo, USA Today, or any of the major local PA/Wisconsin papers that I just perused. This story is existing almost entirely on NY Post & Fox News. This is really, really important in terms of the election.
2/ Anyone regularly reading Fox News or NY Post is voting for Trump already. He does not need this story to penetrate there. He needs what happened w/ Hillary... he needs it to get major coverage across the paper remaining indies and persuadable voters may read or view as legit.
3/ Right now, only sign of it in those other papers is reporting that has raised deep, serious questions about the seriousness of how NY Post vetted the story. Including this one from NYT: nytimes.com/2020/10/18/bus…
1/ Dear America, please meet your new press secretary Kayleigh McEnany! Many Americans still don't know her, but I've been following McEnany for some time. Here are some things McEnany, the new White House arbiter of truth, has said:
2/ McEnany once claimed Obama “rushed off to a golf game” after American journalist Daniel Pearl was beheaded. Pearl was beheaded in 2002 when Obama was a little-known Illinois senator. She later apologized. thewrap.com/cnn-kayleigh-m…
3/ On CNN, once claimed that Trump doesn’t lie. “I don’t think this president has lied,” she said on Chris Cuomo, claiming Trump never misleads Americans.