Hunter Bidengate: Fredo With a Crack Pipe, Castro With a Social Network - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Hunter Bidengate: Fredo With a Crack Pipe, Castro With a Social Network
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Hunter Biden (YouTube screenshot)

In the immortal film Godfather Part II, there is an equally immortal scene that takes place in a Havana sex club just prior to Fidel Castro seizing the reins of power in that country. Michael Corleone, the head of the Corleone crime family, overhears his gormless older brother Fredo referencing prior knowledge of a gangster named Johnny Ola and realizes his brother has betrayed him.

“I know it was you, Fredo,” he says later, in a signature scene in motion picture history. “You broke my heart.”

This is the kind of bombshell that should ruin not just Biden but his party’s down-ballot contenders. It casts an impression that the entire Democrat Party is a criminal conspiracy.

This week we learn that real-life Fredo Corleones exist, and particularly in American politics. Take, for example, one Hunter Biden, who can out-Fredo Fredo himself for sheer immoral stupidity. After all, who but a moron records himself smoking crack while engaging in extramarital sex? This describes Hunter Biden, so you’ll know; on the same computer hard drive where the biggest news of the week was found was a 12-minute video of Hunter’s flagrant vice.

Normally, crack and hookers would be October Surprise enough. But Hunter’s Fredo-ing goes much further. Wednesday’s New York Post landed the biggest journalistic marlin of the 2020 election cycle:

Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post.

The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.

“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email reads.

An earlier email from May 2014 also shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma’s No. 3 exec, asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf.

The blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim that he’s “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings” — is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer.

Hunter might not be the only Fredo in the Biden camp. The computer in question was water-damaged and taken to a repair shop in Delaware by somebody from the Beau Biden foundation … and then left there. The owner of the shop couldn’t track down the customer, and then got curious about what was on it. Once he hit that mother lode, he contacted President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the FBI.

Biden’s campaign put out a statement in response to the New York Post piece, which couldn’t be less convincing in denial. They don’t deny Biden met with Pozharskyi, they just say the meeting wasn’t on Biden’s official schedule. Well, no kidding — putting that meeting on his official schedule would be like taking out a billboard ad somewhere along the Beltway saying, “I’m owned by Burisma.” One would hope somebody that stupid wouldn’t be vice president, but on the other hand …

Now the Senate, which has already laid out the Biden–Ukraine sleaze, is investigating the substance of what’s in the New York Post story, which includes emails where this Pozharskyi character is explicitly asking Hunter Biden to use his influence to put a stop to a prosecutor investigating Burisma — Pozharskyi claims in the email that the investigation is a shakedown, and he might well be correct, but that hardly exonerates the Bidens for monetizing Joe’s influence as vice president. Essentially, this is the proof that everything Joe Biden has said about his son, Burisma, and Ukraine is a complete lie, and that Biden and his Fredo son are as mobbed-up as the Corleones where it comes to their dealings in that former Soviet republic.

If you don’t already know this, you’re incurious — to put it mildly. But it’s rare when you can get this level of proof even of the obvious. Hunter Biden got a million-dollar board position with a company in an industry of which he had zero knowledge in a country with which he had no familiarity, solely for that company’s purpose of buying a sitting American vice president who had been made the point man on foreign policy with that country. This really can’t be disputed anymore thanks to the New York Post‘s reporting, and to call it disqualifying to Biden, even in the absence of anything else already in the hopper where he’s concerned, might even be charitable.

This is the kind of bombshell that should ruin not just Biden but his party’s down-ballot contenders. It casts an impression that the entire Democrat Party is a criminal conspiracy, so open was Biden’s corruption and so shameless was the Democrats’ attempt to cover up the Ukraine mess by impeaching Trump for having mentioned it in a phone call with that country’s new premier last year.

But will it have that effect? Probably not.

Why not? Because the American corporate legacy media, every bit as corrupt as the Biden family, is actively suppressing the story.

You already knew that would happen, of course. But what you might not have expected was this:

While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook’s third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.

That’s from a tweet by Facebook’s Policy Communications Director Andy Stone, a former Democrat campaign apparatchik who worked as a field coordinator for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign and served as Barbara Boxer’s press secretary, among other things.

So the single most important piece of journalism of 2020, which proves pretty conclusively that one of the two major parties is running for president a man whose son was given a million-dollar board appointment in return for his foreign-policy influence which he’s on video bragging about using, is going to be suppressed on the world’s largest social media network.

Netflix has a documentary out called The Social Dilemma, which is well worth watching as it exposes Facebook for the truly atrocious, manipulative entity it has become. Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife have donated $250 million to a shady nonprofit for the purpose of paying local elections officials to turn out the vote in heavily Democrat areas. Facebook has been censoring, fact-checking, shadow-banning, and even jailing its users for spreading “fake news” that isn’t fake at all.

And now they’re openly suppressing a major American newspaper for proving the corruption of Facebook’s favored presidential candidate.

If you haven’t seen The Social Dilemma, you should fix that. And if you’re still on Facebook you need to at least have a plan to get off. This kind of abusive manipulation, which in our Godfather metaphor corresponds to Castro’s gang rolling into Havana in jeeps at the end of The Godfather Part II, ought to be responded to as the Cubans did — by getting the hell out.

The market should kill Facebook before federal regulators and politicians do. But if federal regulators and politicians have to kill it, and one way that ought to be done is to impose a confiscatory tax on the data mining of social media users as suggested in the Netflix documentary, then so be it. We should not have people like Mark Zuckerberg wielding anything like this kind of power over us.

Meanwhile, and least surprising of all, Team Biden called a lid on Wednesday’s campaign events early in the morning.

As for Hunter, or Fredo if you’d rather, don’t look for him to go fishing on a lake anytime soon.

Scott McKay
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Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator  and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site. Scott is also the author of The Revivalist Manifesto: How Patriots Can Win The Next American Era, and, more recently, Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It's All Obama, available November 21. He’s also a writer of fiction — check out his four Tales of Ardenia novels Animus, Perdition, Retribution and Quandary at Amazon.
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