How many laws did Hunter Biden break?
So numerous are those scandals that it is impossible to tell the players without a scorecard. Those scandals begin with the revelation, weeks before the 2020 presidential election, of the laptop Hunter left in a Delaware repair shop. But the laptop has proven to be only the tip of the iceberg.
The questions that are emerging now pertain to: how personally involved Joe Biden was in his son’s business dealings; why Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department ran interference for Hunter when questions of criminal culpability arose; and what Chinese and Ukrainian firms thought they were acquiring when they gave money to the Bidens.
The laptop abundantly documented Hunter Biden’s dissolute lifestyle, involving multiple addictions. But far more relevant both to the 2020 election results and to the security of the US was what it revealed about the Biden family influence-peddling business.
Even before the first New York Post story about the laptop appeared, the FBI and other government agencies leaned hard on both Twitter and Facebook to not allow dissemination of the Post stories. (See “Beware the Government-Industrial Censorship Complex,” Mishpacha, Issue 965). The night before the first Post story, FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan sent ten messages to Twitter executives and almost certainly did the same with Facebook, implying that it was likely Russian disinformation.
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