Lee Smith in The Tablet writes the continuing horrors being revealed from Hunter Biden’s laptop are far more damning to the security apparatus of this country than to the two-bit player and slime bucket himself. It seems every national security agency, as well as most major media, have been aware of the corrupt international undertakings by the younger Biden and his well-connected cronies, doing everything in their power to deflect them by dismissing all as “Russian Disinformation.”
Smith writes:
The U.S. spy chiefs . . . including John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden, and James Clapper—had directed America’s foreign intelligence services while Biden was vice president and before that chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. They knew what his son Hunter was doing abroad, because it was their job to know what foreign services know about leading U.S. officials and their families, and how it might affect U.S. national security.
But none of these powerful and experienced men, presumably dedicated to defending the national interest, lifted a finger to stop Hunter Biden—and really, how could they? He was Joe Biden’s son, after all. And by doing nothing about him, the pillars of America’s intelligence community became the curators of the Biden family’s scandal.
Here your Tatler must take exception to Smith. “[T]hese powerful and experienced men, presumably dedicated to defending the national interest” could certainly have stopped Hunter Biden but that would have required putting self-interests aside, which is to say their careers, well-being, and possibly lives. Sadly, virtues like that are increasingly rare in this country, especially in most of those coming out of our most distinguished colleges and universities, where moral-relativism (a euphemism for cowardliness) holds sway. But that is a minor quibble.
Smith is spot on when he points out it was only when Donald Trump, unlike the entire DC establishment and mainstream media,
[S]tarted asking questions in 2019 about Hunter and his father, prompted by Joe Biden’s public comments about protecting Hunter’s business associates abroad, it became clear that the only way to contain the mushrooming scandal involving key U.S. interests in Ukraine and China—a scandal whose magnitude they had known about for a decade—was to provide the former vice president with all the resources the U.S. government could muster. And that helped make him president.
Thus the coverups and lies will continue at least until the upcoming fall election or, more likely, the 2024 presidential election, but only possible with the happily decreasing chances of Biden or some other Democrat winning.
Which raises a question for all those Trump haters on the right: Donald Trump was the only major political figure to make a stink against the sleazy doings of Hunter Biden and Company, possibly even including his old man (though the latter is so far non compos mentis he’ll probably get a pass). Is there any other political figure out there who has the guts and stamina to call out the Washington establishment over their failures when it comes to the Biden corruption machine?
There are some who will point to the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, a figure much admired by this writer and who no doubt has a brilliant future in politics. “Politics” however is his bugaboo. DeSantis has never to this writer’s knowledged had a job outside of Government, if the military is included. To the contrary, for which he was much criticized, Donald Trump had zero government experience until he landed the highest position of all in American politics.
Instead, Trump made his career in one of the roughest and nastiest businesses there is, New York real estate and succeeded brilliantly, despite having to compete with such charming players as the Fisher Brothers, the Macks, and the Milsteins. Yes, Trump is as vulgar as they come, loud, brash, mannerless, and often tasteless,
but he also is utterly fearless, loves his country with a passion and is the only person in this writer’s opinion who can take on and bring down the rank beast that is the Biden Administration, along with all its foul cohorts.
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