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Friday, October 16, 2020

Hunter Biden's Troubled Life

Hunter Biden's Troubled Life

Hunter Biden's Forgotten Laptop Mirrors Troubled Life

By Rowan Scarborough
The Washington Times
October 16, 2020

At the time Hunter Biden’s laptop reportedly sat unclaimed at a
Delaware repair shop, the son of Democratic presidential candidate
Joseph R. Biden was living a tumultuous life, including facing a
paternity lawsuit from an exotic dancer.

The repair shop owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, told The New York
Post a man who he cannot identify left the MacBook Pro in April
2019.

He never returned, and Mr. Isaac eventually took custody.

He gave a download of the contents to the FBI and President
Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who provided
the data to the Post.

The chain of events raises the question of how someone —
Mr. Biden, an associate or someone else — could forget about
or knowingly discard a computer containing tens of thousands
of emails that tell tales of lucrative foreign cash transactions.

The hard drive also held explicit sex scenes involving drugs.

Robert Costello, Mr. Giuliani’s lawyer, told Fox News on Wednesday
that the hard drive contains 40,000 emails, thousands of text
messages, photographs and videos.

Hunter Biden’s attorney has not disputed that his client used
the laptop.

Hunter Biden has long been a liability for his father’s presidential
campaign.

The elder Mr. Biden has weathered criticism dating back to his
days as vice president in the Obama administration for conflict
of interest over his son’s high-flying business deals.

Hunter Biden, who has been in and out of treatment centers for
drugs and alcohol abuse, had moved to Los Angeles in 2018 to sort
of disappear, he told The New Yorker for a July 2019 profile.

In April 2019, Hunter Biden ended his much-criticized relationship
with Hallie Biden, the widow of his late brother, Beau.

In May 2019, the month after the computer was dropped off,
he married a South African woman, Melissa Cohen, six days
after they met. They were photographed in Los Angeles.

That same month, Lunden Alexis Roberts, a former exotic dancer
in a D.C. nightclub frequented by Hunter Biden, filed a paternity
lawsuit claiming Mr. Biden had fathered her child, born in August
2018.

Mr. Biden denied he ever had sex with Ms. Roberts. In November
2019, Ms. Roberts filed documents saying Mr. Biden’s DNA matched
the child’s. The case was settled in March.

In May 2019, Breitbart News broke the story that an Arizona police
report in 2016 said Hunter Biden was suspected of doing illegal
drugs in his Hertz rental.

A cocaine pipe was found in the car.

He also left behind personal items, such as two D.C. driver’s
licenses and multiple credit cards.

After the report, Hunter Biden failed to appear with other family
members at his father’s presidential campaign launch in
Philadelphia.

He resigned in April 2019 from the board of Burisma Holdings the
Ukraine natural gas company where he served with his business
partner, Devon Archer.

Burisma hired Hunter Biden after his father was named the
White House’s point man on Ukraine.

He and Mr. Archer earned millions of dollars from Burisma,
a Senate report released last month found.

Around the same time, Mr. Giuliani mounted a public campaign
to paint Hunter Biden as a lawbreaker by laundering money out
of Ukraine.

The Republican Senate report cited confidential U.S. Treasury
Department reports in suggesting that Hunter Biden violated
federal laws.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/15/hunter-bidens-forgotten-laptop-mirrors-troubled-li/

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Nancy Pelosi Lashes Out At CNN's Wolf Blitzer

Nancy Pelosi Lashes Out At CNN's Wolf Blitzer

By Joseph A. Wulfsohn
Fox News.com
October 14, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., accused CNN anchor
Wolf Blitzer Tuesday of being "an apologist ... for the Republican
position" during a stunning interview in which she grew visibly
frustrated with "The Situation Room" anchor's questions.

The fireworks began when Blitzer asked Pelosi why she "won't
accept the president's latest [coronavirus] stimulus offer."

"I hope you'll ask the same question of the Republicans on why
they don't want to meet the needs of the American people,"
Pelosi responded. "But let me say to those people because all of
my colleagues -- we represent these people ... and their needs
are not addressed in the president's proposal. So when you say
to me, 'Why don't you accept theirs?' Why don't they accept ours?"

Blitzer interjected, telling Pelosi that Americans "really need the
money now" and quoted Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who recently
said, "People in need can't wait until February. $1.8 trillion is
significant & more than twice the Obama stimulus ... Make a deal
& put the ball in McConnell court."

"So what do you say to Ro Khanna?" Blitzer asked.

"What I say to you is I don't know why you're always an apologist
-- and many of your colleagues [are] apologists for the Republican
position," Pelosi fired back, adding "Ro Khanna, that's nice, that
sn't what we're going to do and nobody's waiting til February."

The contentious exchange continued when Blitzer pressed Pelosi
again about Trump's $1.8 trillion proposal, asking her, "why not
work out a deal with him and don't let the perfect, as they say
here in Washington, be the enemy of the good?"

"Well, I will not let the wrong be the enemy of the right," Pelosi
fired back.

"What's wrong with $1.8 trillion?" Blitzer asked.

"You know what, do you have any idea what the difference is
between the spending that they have in their bill and what we
have in our bill?" Pelosi asked before ticking off a list of her
issues with the proposal.

"That is precisely why, Madame Speaker ... it's so important right
now," Blitzer responded "Yesterday, I spoke to [former Democratic
presidential candidate] Andrew Yang, who says the same thing. It's
not everything you want but there's a lot there."

"But you know what? Honest to God!" Pelosi complained. "You
really- I cannot get over it because Andrew Yang, he's lovely.
Ro Khanna, he's lovely. They are not negotiating this situation.
They have no idea of the particulars. They have no idea of what
the language is here ..

The tension carried on until the very end, when Blitzer attempted
to wrap up the interview after the speaker accused him of
"defending the administration all this time."

"We'll leave it on the note that you're not right on this, Wolf, and
I hate to say that to you," Pelosi told the CNN anchor. "But I feel
confident about it and I feel confident about my colleagues and
I feel confident in my [committee] chairs."

Blitzer responded, "It's not about me, it's about millions
of Americans who can't put food on the table, who can't
pay the rent, and who are having trouble getting by."

"And we represent them, we represent them," Pelosi repeated
several times over Blitzer.

"As we say, don't let perfect be the enemy of the good," Blitzer
reiterated.

"It is nowhere near perfect ... we're not even close to the good,"
Pelosi shot back. "Thank you for your sensitivity to our constituents'
needs."

"I am sensitive to them because I see them on the street begging
for food, begging for money," the anchor said.

"Have you fed them?" Pelosi blurted out. "We feed them,
we feed them."

Tuesday was not the first time the speaker verbally attacked
a journalist during an interview.

In August, Pelosi lashed out at "PBS NewsHour" anchor Judy
Woodruff, accusing her of being an "advocate" for Republicans
during another heated negotiating period on coronavirus relief.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/pelosi-lashes-out-cnn-wolf-blitzer

Friday, October 9, 2020

Dear Nancy Pelosi

Dear Nancy Pelosi

By The Last Boy In Line
Friday, October 9, 2020

Dear Nancy Pelosi:

Sincerely,

Thursday, October 8, 2020

Kamala Harris: Abrasive and Condescending In Vice Presidential Debate

Kamala Harris: Abrasive and Condescending In Vice Presidential Debate

By Yael Hanlon
Fox News.com
October 8, 2020

Undecided Voters found Democratic vice presidential nominee
Kamala Harris to be "abrasive and condescending" at various points
throughout Wednesday's debate with Vice President Mike Pence,
pollster Frank Luntz told the Fox News reaction panel.

"The complaint about Kamala Harris was that she was abrasive
and condescending," said Luntz, who monitored the reactions of
15 undecided voters from eight battleground states throughout
the evening.

"The complaint about Mike Pence was that he was too tired, but
[he was] vice presidential, or presidential," added Luntz, who went
on to say that "if this is a battle over style and substance -- which
is often the case with undecided voters because they simply do not
choose on policy, they also choose on persona -- this was Mike
Pence’s night."

Luntz clarified that "it’s not that Pence did so well, it’s that they
[voters] felt both candidates were not answering the questions as
well as they would have liked.

Despite this, voters seemed to appreciate that the two nominees
were significantly more cordial to each other than President Trump
and Democratic nominee Joe Biden had been in their first
presidential debate last week.

"They really did not like the ducking of questions," Luntz explained,
"but they were so much happier with this debate than they were
the first one. The first one to them was embarrassing. This one,
at least, they had the decorum. But the frustration ... was [that]
'They're ducking the question, they are pivoting.'"

Luntz said that while voters were frustrated with the vice president
for repeatedly running over his allotted time, "Harris’ reactions
to Pence -- the smiling, the smirking, the scowling" left them far
"angrier" with her performance.

"Voters do not like it when candidates run long, and when they run
long every time, they think that’s an example of being
undisciplined and unfocused," he argued.

"However, they were more agitated with Kamala's presentation than
they were with Mike Pence."

"It was clear," he concluded, "that Mike Pence was the winner of
tonight’s confrontation.""