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The Washington Post on Wednesday became the second major news outlet to reverse course and admit that emails from the infamous Hunter Biden laptop are authentic — nine months after it obtained them and a year and a half after the New York Post first reported on them.

The paper said two security experts used cryptographic signatures from Google and other technology companies to validate nearly 22,000 emails from 2009 to 2019, including messages related to Hunter Biden's controversial overseas business dealings.

Some verified emails involved a deal President Biden's son pursued with the CEFC China Energy conglomerate for which he was paid nearly $5 million, according to the Washington Post.

Other verified emails related to his work for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, for which Hunter Biden was paid as much as $83,333 or a month, or $1 million a year.

In October 2020, the New York Post exclusively revealed the existence of Hunter Biden's emails after being given a copy of the hard drive from a damaged MacBook Pro laptop that the owner of a repair shop in the Biden family's hometown of Wilmington, Del., said was dropped off in April 2019 and never retrieved.

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The major news media knew before the election this was an explosive damning story that could severely damage Biden's chances of winning the election chose to without any supporting evidence that it was Russian. During Presidential debates Trump called Biden out on this and Biden straight up lied and denied saying it was Russia. We know now Trump was right and Biden tried to divert attention to Russia. This has been a huge scandal involving our news media who's failure to report honestly and fairly influenced the 2020 election. Now there is evidence that Hunter sent large sums of money to his father... if this can be proven it means Joe Biden did know what his son's activities were and most likely was in collusion.

Could someone explain why this is ok in a way that I can use to explain it to a friend.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income while working in the White House, according to an analysis of financial disclosures by CREW. It is impossible to tell the exact amount as the income is sometimes reported in broad ranges and cover four months of income before Ivanka Trump officially joined her father's administration and nearly one month before Jared Kushner joined.

Both Kushner and Trump announced they would not take a salary while working for the government in an attempt to shut down nepotism concerns. While their supporters marked this as a public sacrifice, the massive amount of money they made on the side undercuts that argument, as government salaries would have been less than 1% of their income.

One major factor in their outside profits came from Ivanka Trump's ownership stake in the Trump Hotel in DC, just blocks from the White House and the locus of influence peddling in the Trump administration. Before business slowed down due to the pandemic, the couple paid a combined 23 visits to the hotel. All told, Ivanka made more than $13 million from the hotel since 2017, dropping from about $4 million a year between 2017 and 2019 to about $1.5 million last year, at least in part due to the pandemic. On top of the drop in revenue, there's an unexplained drop in the value of her ownership. Having previously claimed it to be worth between $5 million and $25 million, in her final disclosure she listed it as only worth $100,000 to $250,000. She did not report selling any of her ownership share in the hotel.

The hotel was far from Ivanka Trump's only controversial source of income while working in the White House. In 2018, Ivanka announced she was shutting down her namesake brand, and she later filed a disclosure with the government that "[a]ll operations of the business ceased on July 31, 2018." But we discovered that she still made up to $1 million from it in 2019 despite the fact that she claimed it no longer existed.

While after four years it's still a little hard to tell what, exactly, Ivanka actually did in the White House, her tenure was still marked by repeated scandals revolving around potential conflicts of interest with her businesses. While dealing with foreign governments can raise obvious questions for the children of presidents, getting financial or other benefits from foreign governments while working as a senior staffer in your father's administration should be an obvious non-starter. But when it comes to Ivanka's time in the administration, getting foreign trademarks to use after leaving the White House may have been her biggest accomplishment.

Just a month before her father was elected president, Russia renewed two trademarks for Ivanka Trump's business. This would be the start of a pattern. In 2017, Ivanka's business won preliminary approval for three Chinese trademarks on the same day that she dined with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago. In May 2018, Ivanka's business was awarded "registration" approval from the Chinese government for five trademark applications, with an additional one getting "first trial approval." The same week, President Trump announced he would try to save jobs at ZTE, the Chinese telecommunications giant closely tied to the government. A month later, Ivanka's business got registration approval for three more Chinese trademarks, on the same day her father announced he'd lift sanctions against ZTE.

Ivanka's business applied for Japanese trademarks the day after her father won the presidency. They were approved around the time of Mike Pence's visit to Japan where he met with then-Prime Minister Abe. Ivanka also met with Abe, along with her father, about a week after her company applied for the trademarks. She won approval for additional Japanese trademarks in 2017.

In what would become the defining scandal of her time in office, in October 2018 Ivanka's brand won 16 new trademarks from the Chinese government, including for voting machines. These approvals came about three months after Ivanka announced that her brand was shutting down, and mark the largest number of new Chinese trademarks she received in a single month during the Trump presidency. Six months after the company officially shut down, it received a new trademark to sell the Ivanka brand in Canada. In all, CREW found at least 28 foreign trademarks approved for Ivanka Trump while in the White House.

While most of her work in the White House was fairly nebulous, we do know that she worked on the Trump administration's implementation of the Opportunity Zones program in 2018, apparently violating conflict of interest law in the process. At the same time that Ivanka was working on Opportunity Zones, Jared owned a significant financial stake in a company called Cadre which offers investment vehicles under the Opportunity Zones program. When Trump and Kushner entered the administration, Kushner's stake in Cadre was valued between $5 million and $25 million. The value would rise to $25 million to $50 million. Kushner originally failed to disclose his ownership in Cadre. Despite the fact that the top White House ethics official determined at one point that it was "reasonably necessary" for him to divest from Cadre in order to do his job at the White House, he never did.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump should never have been allowed to work in the White House. The Department of Justice reversed decades of precedent to grant President Trump's wish to have his children work in the White House. While taking on enormous responsibilities that they were unqualified to carry out, and debasing their positions with constant ethics scandals, they likely made hundreds of millions of dollars from questionable sources. All that was waived off by the same nepotism that got them their jobs. Some "sacrifice."

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What is going on today is not about the Trumps and what they did or didn't do. Why do people need to spin and deflect?  Two wrongs do not make a right. Biden's  democrat support and poll numbers are falling fast. This information coming out with more and more scandalous activity and coverups could and possibly will severely cripple Biden's presidency and possibly lead to Biden resignation. Definitely will have an impact on the 22 mid terms. Should the grand jury indict Hunter I have no doubt Joe will pardon his son and that will be the end of Joe Biden and hello Kamila Harris. I suspect should Republicans take back the house majority and Biden has not resigned they will launch a much deeper investigations into Hunter Biden and what Joe knew and when he knew it. Then move for impeachment in the House.

Quote from: Hobby on Apr 06, 2022, 04:25 PMWhat is going on today is not about the Trumps and what they did or didn't do. Why do people need to spin and deflect?  Two wrongs do not make a right. Biden's  democrat support and poll numbers are falling fast. This information coming out with more and more scandalous activity and coverups could and possibly will severely cripple Biden's presidency and possibly lead to Biden resignation. Definitely will have an impact on the 22 mid terms. Should the grand jury indict Hunter I have no doubt Joe will pardon his son and that will be the end of Joe Biden and hello Kamila Harris. I suspect should Republicans take back the house majority and Biden has not resigned they will launch a much deeper investigations into Hunter Biden and what Joe knew and when he knew it. Then move for impeachment in the House.

So, if I get what you are saying, we should forget the past of the Trump children, because bringing up something in the past is just spin and deflection and shouldn't reflect on Trump at all, nor should their past improprieties be of any interest in what is happening now.

But we SHOULD pay attention to the past when it comes to Hunter, because the past is telling on both him and Biden and everything that he's done should be put under a microscope and if he did ANYTHING corrupt, by implication President Biden should be convicted as well because well, he is Biden's child and of course, had to be part of anything illegal his child did.

Did I get that right?

Quote from: Blkfyre on Apr 06, 2022, 05:18 PMSo, if I get what you are saying, we should forget the past of the Trump children, because bringing up something in the past is just spin and deflection and shouldn't reflect on Trump at all, nor should their past improprieties be of any interest in what is happening now.

But we SHOULD pay attention to the past when it comes to Hunter, because the past is telling on both him and Biden and everything that he's done should be put under a microscope and if he did ANYTHING corrupt, by implication President Biden should be convicted as well because well, he is Biden's child and of course, had to be part of anything illegal his child did.

Did I get that right?

Stop it you sound like a blubbering idiot trying to defend Biden with what Trump or his kids may have or may not have done! You should be more worried about Biden and what all this means for Democrats! Trump is gone and it is old news. There may be shit found on Trump and his kids yet. Right now it is Joe Biden and his horrible crooked drug addicted son who used his father's name to make deals in foreign countries and made millions.

Quote from: Hobby on Apr 06, 2022, 05:37 PMStop  blubbering about Trump trying to defend Biden with what Trump or his kids may have or may not have done! You should be more worried about Biden and what all this means for Democrats! Trump is gone and it is old news. There may be shit found on Trump and his kids yet. Right now it is Joe Biden and his horrible crooked drug addicted son who used his father's name to make deals in foreign countries and made millions.

Actually, my comments in no way defended Biden. I was exploring the fact that republicans were inconsistent in their messaging about the kids of Presidents.

In Trump's case, we should ignore anything they might have done and any investigation is just political. In Biden's case, we HAVE TO INVESTIGATE because if the president's child did something, by extension the president had to have known that and is also guilty.

Catch-22 at its finest...

Probably not! Evidence and proof is coming out about Hunter and could implicate his father... sadly news media knew much of this before the election and withheld it.  Some say they would not publish allegations without evidence and proof.  The only problem with making a claim like this is the news media that withheld information about the laptop and its contents were the very same that published the Russia conspiracy that Russia planted the evidence on the laptop yet they had no proof of this whatsoever. So to say credible news agency only publish what is fact and proven... is false.  It is a big sandal when the new media withholds information from the public in order to advance the candidate they support. Sure appears from the facts this is exactly what the New York Times and Post did. Sat on information they knew could damage Biden printed a false narrative that they knew was false and now the truth has come out what they did.... This should bother all of us...

How about we put the Biden crime family in the same prison and the Trump crime family?

Quote from: Blkfyre on Apr 06, 2022, 06:18 PMActually, my comments in no way defended Biden. I was exploring the fact that republicans were inconsistent in their messaging about the kids of Presidents.

In Trump's case, we should ignore anything they might have done and any investigation is just political. In Biden's case, we HAVE TO INVESTIGATE because if the president's child did something, by extension the president had to have known that and is also guilty.

Catch-22 at its finest...

In Bidens case they are covering it up along with not reporting the income instead of owning up..

Quote from: HighStepper on Apr 06, 2022, 07:40 PMHow about we put the Biden crime family in the same prison and the Trump crime family?

I will drink to that!  Terrible when you got two president back to back involved in scandalous behavior... not just our president but what excuse does the press have for their behavior?  Fox News Left Wing Right Wing Media they all cover shit up and publish what they want people to know and not necessarily what they don't want people to know. Sad state of affairs!

Quote from: Hobby on Apr 06, 2022, 08:14 PM... Fox News Left Wing Right Wing Media they all cover shit up and publish what they want people to know and not necessarily what they don't want people to know. Sad state of affairs!

It is all about the RATINGS. In a deal struck with Congress TV broadcasters had to give 1 hour a day of information to the American public (the evening news). Congress failed to forbid paid advertising during the public news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_i9fw43Moo

Quote from: Bande on Apr 06, 2022, 08:14 PMIn Bidens case they are covering it up along with not reporting the income instead of owning up..

In Trump's case they aren't covering it up, it's right there to see but republicans just ignore it...

Quote from: Blkfyre on Apr 07, 2022, 12:40 AMIn Trump's case they aren't covering it up, it's right there to see but republicans just ignore it...

Like when left news media and democrats did covering Hunter just before the election! or before Trump, Democrats covering up for Hillary Email, and Server, Democrats covering for Obama selling arms to Cartels, before that, Republicans covering up for Bush, Iraq invasion lies, Democrats covering for Bill Clinton lies, Monica Lewinsky! What about Reagan Contra Affair. then Carter Iran crisis, Ford pardoning Nixon, Nixon Water Gate scandal. Just how far back do you want to go?

Quote from: Hobby on Apr 07, 2022, 06:54 AMLike when left news media and democrats did covering Hunter just before the election! or before Trump, Democrats covering up for Hillary Email, and Server, Democrats covering for Obama selling arms to Cartels, before that, Republicans covering up for Bush, Iraq invasion lies, Democrats covering for Bill Clinton lies, Monica Lewinsky! What about Reagan Contra Affair. then Carter Iran crisis, Ford pardoning Nixon, Nixon Water Gate scandal. Just how far back do you want to go?

Just back to Trump. Like you want to go back to Hunter. Why is it if they are in the same time frame it's ok to look at one but not the other?

Quote from: Blkfyre on Apr 07, 2022, 07:14 AMJust back to Trump. Like you want to go back to Hunter. Why is it if they are in the same time frame it's ok to look at one but not the other?

WTF and HS wants me to restrain myself? Oh I am using restraint... Hunter is the fucking news today or can't you get this through your head! There is no going back here... The truth is coming out about what was going on before the election about the laptop and Hunter, there is no way around it. Do you have a clue as to what fucking day today is and what the left media is now saying about the laptop and Hunter?