The link between the Durham case and Biden family corruption
Hugo Gurdon
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A central irony of the FBI’s investigation into Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, launched without “any actual evidence of collusion,” has been helpfully emphasized by the final report from special counsel John Durham.
It is that the lies bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton to tarnish her Republican rival as President Vladimir Putin’s stooge may themselves have been Russian disinformation. The sources who gave ex-spook Christopher Steele his tawdry fabrications about a pee tape may have worked, wittingly or not, for Putin’s intelligence services as well as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.
THE LEFT’S DISINFORMATION MACHINE
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials who expressed alarm that Russia interfered in the election, among other things with (much exaggerated) disinformation, thus became egregious peddlers of disinformation. And people who claimed to be staunch defenders of democracy against corrosive disinformation sowed, watered, and nurtured that disinformation all over the news landscape.
Like the U.S. Army major in Vietnam who told the Associated Press, “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,” these valiant would-be rescuers of democracy were wreaking havoc in what at least some of them genuinely believed was a good cause. Some of us suggested back in 2017 that Putin could hardly have dreamed of the success gifted to him by the resistance in his efforts to undermine public trust in our political system.
Left-wing partisans in Washington are trying to discredit Durham, who was widely admired for his professionalism until his appointment thrust him into the maelstrom of federal politics. This is what you would expect, for politicians, political operatives, pundits, and many others in the federal capital make their living by being apparently credible analysts of federal politics. There is thus no hope that most of them will admit they got it almost all tendentiously wrong.
Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) responded to Durham’s report by trashing it as “300 pages essentially denigrating and attacking the FBI.” An offering from a more sinister quarter was that of disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok, the guy who told his mistress that they’d stop Trump from being president. He tweet-quoted the New York Times’s unpersuasive view that “Durham’s investigation was politically motivated, a direct consequence of former President Trump’s weaponization of the Dept of Justice.”
Even though the Durham investigation and report were wholly worthwhile, establishing for history that there was an egregious record of wrongdoing by federal intelligence and security services, it will not oblige anyone to admit they were wrong or abandon the position at which they dug in their heels. Deflections, denials, evasions, and counterattacks will ensure that Washington continues on its lamentable way, irredeemably dishonest and irreconcilably divided.
Deviancy has been defined down so far that few senior politician’s or bureaucrat’s turpitude is ever deemed by a bipartisan body of opinion to have risen to the level of an unforgivable transgression.
This is likely to be proven again as more stinking details ooze out about the business dealings and influence peddling of President Biden’s family. Newly revealed documents expose another money network linking the president’s son, Hunter, and shady Chinese investors, this time through the University of Pennsylvania, where Biden was discovered in January to have left classified papers.
The chief executive of China Merchants Bank, which gave $5.5 million to Penn in 2018 and 2019, happened to be a member of an influential entrepreneurs’ club that linked to the Chinese Communist Party, and also happened to meet with Biden when he was vice president. Another Chinese firm, which gave Penn $1 million in 2019, was also a major shareholder in a mining company that three years earlier bought a mine in Congo with the help of a company founded by Hunter Biden.
There are any number of ways in which the president and his son will be able to slither through these details, again by a combination of deflection, denial, evasion, and counterattack, and they will have plenty of acolytes willing to pipe up that there is “nothing to see here, so let’s move on.”
It will work like the aftermath of the scandal which has been confirmed by the Durham report. In that, the most powerful intelligence and law enforcement agencies are revealed to have disrupted an entire presidential term with a pack of lies for the partisan benefit of one half of the ideological spectrum.
In the Biden-China financial shenanigans, a seven-figure check made out to Joe Biden may never be found — presumably none was ever written — but a wide web of financial connections, forgettably named companies, family members, and the strategic and business interests of America’s foremost enemy were all tangled together in ways that peddle influence, procure rich rewards, and allow disingenuous denials.
Sometimes, circumstantial evidence amounts to an open-and-shut case. It seems to be so with the political corruption of government agencies and of President Biden.