By Ray McGovern
AntiWar.com
September 27, 2019
The Joe Biden-friendly Establishment media has mounted a full-
court press to, “prove” that Biden is, well, not a, "crook."
The stakes are extremely high, Biden is vulnerable, and media
players are using to a faretheewell the old adage about the best
defense being a good offense.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street
Journal are desperately trying to steal the ball and get ahead in
the publicity game.
But time is about to run out, and preemptive propaganda
is unlikely to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat.
IF the facts do come out and IF they are reported, Biden’s
presidential hopes may suffer a mortal blow.
When the corruption in which the former Vice President and his son
Hunter were involved in Ukraine becomes more widely known, the
press wants to be in position to “show” that it’s all the fault of
President Donald Trump and his lawyers for trying to derail Biden’s
candidacy by exposing him.
If past is precedent, the media will largely succeed.
The question is whether enough people will, nevertheless,
be able to see through this all-too-familiar charade.
In an interview with The National Interest, Joe Lauria put
this episode in context:
“It was in February [2014] when Yanukovych was overthrown, and
just a few months later (in May), Joe Biden’s son and a close friend
of John Kerry’s stepson, they both join the board of this Ukrainian
gas company.
And the name of that was Burisma Holdings,” said Joe Lauria,
editor of Consortium News and a former correspondent for the
Wall Street Journal.
“So just after an American-backed coup, you have Joe Biden’s son
Hunter Biden and this John Kerry family friend joining the board of
probably the largest private gas producer in Ukraine. They installed
the new government, and as the bounty of this coup, Joe Biden’s
son personally profited. He would not have gotten that job if
Yanukovych was still in power,” Lauria told The National Interest.
Will U.S. voters have any way of putting these dots together, and
also in discerning, for example, how much truth there may be in
charges that Vice President Biden pressed hard for the ouster of
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin, who was canned after
investigating corruption at Burisma Holdings Ukrainian gas company
of which Hunter Biden was a board member?
If the truth does come out, no one will have to rely on remarks
from the likes of Rudy Giulinai, one of Trump’s lawyers, who has
called the episode “an astounding scandal of major proportions.”
That may be hyperbole but, still, the damage to Biden could
be fatal.
And so, damage control is in full swing today at the Times,
the Post, the Journal and other “usual suspects,” with the
Times winning the laurels with its Editorial Board, no less,
weighing in with “What did Trump tell Ukraine’s president?”
There have also been op-eds by Max Boot, Jennifer Rubin,
Anne Applebaum, Greg Sargent, George T. Conway III and
Neal Katyal at the Post, whose headline is:
“Trump has done nothing to warrant impeachment and the
Ukraine allegations are over the top.”
That title is correct.
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2019/09/22/if-the-facts-come-out-
it-could-spell-the-end-for-joe-biden
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