(New York Post) Democrats will open their convention with a celebration of President Joe Biden, the candidate for whom they nigh-unanimously voted in primaries only to jettison as unelectable as November beckoned.
What better time, then, to remind the public of why Biden was thrown under the proverbial bus?
That’s the thinking of House Republicans, who’ve released a final report on their long-running probe of the Biden family business — i.e., the lucrative sale of Biden’s political influence to agents of corrupt and anti-American regimes.
It’s two extremes of reckoning the Biden record.
The Democratic encomia will be as cynical as their bookend project (to be executed Tuesday through Thursday): the transmogrification of Biden’s Vice President, Kamala Harris, from unpopular speaker of word salads to America’s progressive sweetheart.
Republicans, by contrast, mean every word of their report.
It is an important summary of the Biden Family Business, as much accountability as the public can expect given the limitations of congressional investigations that are stonewalled by an incumbent administration.
It is, moreover, a useful record of that stonewalling — very much including the corruption of the Justice Department — which connects the current Biden administration with the tireless self-dealing of Biden’s career, culminating in his term as vice president.
As the investigation spearheaded by House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) documents — and richly corroborates with bank records and testimony from accomplices and whistleblowers — the Biden family cashed in, to the tune of more than $27 million, in marketing access to the current president.
Much of the most egregious influence peddling occurred during Biden’s vice-presidency.
It was then that he took meetings with top executives of a corrupt Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, that put his ne’er-do-well son Hunter on their board — paying millions of dollars in exchange for connection to the Biden name (and, tellingly, slashing Hunter’s compensation in 2017, once Joe was out of office).
These were the years when the then-vice-president, after being beseeched by Hunter’s Burisma paymasters, pressured Ukrainian officials to fire the prosecutor who — like British law-enforcement — was investigating Bursima for corruption.
These were the years during which — even as the vice president theatrically railed at Bucharest to crack down on corruption — Hunter re-ran the Burisma play by taking $1 million from Romanian real-estate tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu in exchange for pressuring Romanian anti-corruption authorities to back-off (though not enough to erase Popoviciu’s nine-year prison term).
Almost simultaneously, Hunter pressured the Obama-Biden State Department to put in a good word for Burisma with the Italian government.
Naturally, we learned of that only last week — you’ll be shocked, I’m sure, to hear that the Biden-Harris administration withheld disclosure this “Biden Brand” self-dealing until after the plug was pulled on President Biden’s 2024 reelection bid.
It was also in the Obama years that Xi Jinping’s Communist Chinese regime purchased hooks in the Biden family.
