Former President Donald Trump demanded a “whole-of-government” response to the COVID pandemic, and he got it. Now there’s a “whole-of-government” response for a corrupt purpose: to protect President Joe Biden and his family from allegations of corruption.

There were probably inklings of Biden’s corruption going back to his days in the Senate, but the first one we should recall is the 2014 appointment of his son, Hunter, to the board of directors of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, for which Hunter was reportedly paid up to $50,000 per month. Hunter, of course, had no experience or expertise related to anything having to do with energy. His only expertise was in taking drugs and seducing his brother’s widow.

Biden, of course, has always insisted that he “never spok[e]” to his son about Hunter’s “overseas business dealings.”

And then there was the allegation that Joe Biden had pressured Ukraine’s government to fire a prosecutor investigating Hunter’s involvement with Burisma. When Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to see if he could investigate Biden and his son, the Dems and the media went wild with accusations of abuse of power. That telephone request — as reasonable as it was — was turned into the first impeachment of Trump. (RELATED: Wray and the Federal Bureau of Obfuscation)

And let’s not forget Hunter’s complaint that half his salary went to paying his father’s bills.

The Campaign to Protect Joe Biden

There has been, from the beginning of the 2020 campaign, an enormous and consistent effort by the FBI and CIA to protect Joe Biden and his son from any allegations of corruption. But the stink of corruption emanating from the White House grows stronger every day. Consider two examples.

Weeks ago, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed documents from the FBI that purportedly were evidence that Joe Biden engaged in a $5 million bribery scheme in which he traded policy decisions for the money. Last week, the FBI confirmed that the document (which is unclassified) existed, but Director Christopher Wray refused to produce it.

Wray’s refusal was legally and constitutionally unsupportable, but he made it nevertheless. Congress has, as the Supreme Court has affirmed, a constitutional right and obligation to oversee what the executive branch is doing with the money it appropriates. The only limitations on that congressional function are the witness’s constitutional rights against self-incrimination and such.

It was only when House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) threatened Wray with contempt of Congress that Wray compromised. Wray is reportedly going to bring the document to Comer for him to examine but neither copy nor keep. Why Comer compromised his congressional oversight obligation in that fashion is a mystery.

The document, an FBI form FD-1023, contains information from a trusted FBI source whose reports date back to the Obama administration. It reportedly says that then–Vice President Biden engaged in a “criminal bribery scheme with a foreign national.” The House Oversight Committee has a constitutional duty to identify the FBI source and question that person itself. We’ll see if Wray’s compromise with Comer works.

That’s not all by a long shot. The National Archives is refusing to release what are characterized as “myriad communications” between Joe and Hunter (and Hunter’s business partners) advising Joe when he was vice president. According to one report:

Of particular interest is a communication from Hunter Biden business partner Eric Schwerin to the Office of the Vice President (OVP) about a “China Lunch” that preceded an official visit from then-Chinese President Hu Jintao to the U.S. in 2011. [The National Archives] acknowledged the communication’s existence but refused to release it because doing so “would disclose confidential advice between the President and his advisors, or between such advisors.”

That is one of the grounds under the Freedom of Information Act to deny a request for documents, but it won’t stand up in court. The National Archives is delaying the release of the documents requested, not justifying their non-release.

Which is exactly what they want to do: delay every release of information past November 2024.

And then there’s the long-stalled prosecutions of Hunter for lying on a gun-purchase document and failing to pay taxes. It’s pretty clear that Attorney General Merrick Garland and Wray are doing their best to prevent any prosecution of Hunter Biden only because it would hurt Biden’s 2024 campaign.

In 2006, Hunter and James Biden (Joe’s younger brother) purchased a firm called Paradigm Global Advisors. According to another report, James Biden told executives of the firm: “Don’t worry about investors. We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.” Obviously, Hunter and James were peddling their influence with Joe. Any payments to Joe in furtherance of that scheme for influence-peddling is a criminal act by Joe, Hunter, and James.

The FBI has possession of Hunter’s infamous “laptop from hell,” the contents of which have been — at least mostly — revealed on several internet sites.

You must remember the laptop. It was the subject of a letter, signed by 51 former intelligence officials, that proclaimed — falsely — that the laptop “story” (first reported by the New York Post) was a Russian disinformation campaign. The letter was disinformation, not the story. The letter was created by the Biden 2020 campaign and its intelligence community allies. The letter was timed to be released a few weeks before the 2020 election, in time for Biden to use it in a debate with Trump.

What Will Happen Next in the Biden Case?

The FBI should be expected to reveal what’s on the laptop, in full, to Comer. But that the bureau won’t do. Comer should demand a full disclosure of what is on the laptop. But will he?

On May 10, Comer had a press conference at which he announced that between 2015 and 2017, at least $10 million was paid to firms owned by Hunter Biden, James Biden, both of their wives, Beau Biden’s widow, and several of their children by various foreign sources, including Chinese billionaire Ye Jianming, founder of a now-defunct energy company. Jianming has since disappeared (or has been disappeared).

Comer has a lot of digging to do into the probable corruption that surrounds the president and his family. But Garland and Wray won’t cooperate. Their lack of cooperation goes far past contempt of Congress and should be grounds to impeach both and, possibly, Joe Biden.

Biden’s corruption, and that of his family, should be a focus of the conservative media from now until Election Day 2024. Everyone else in the media and among Biden’s government loyalists will do their best to bury the story.