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Ett textmeddelande som tydliggör hur försiktigt Joe Biden och hans kumpaner agerade, som inte riktigt uppmärksammats i tråden:
https://nypost.com/2020/10/22/hunter-ex-partner-tony-bobulinski-calls-joe-biden-a-liar/
Artikeln i New York Post ovan var tidigare förbjuden att länka till på twitter etc, innan valet.
Fortfarande lika overifierat som före valet, men NY Post kränger ju vad som helst som de bedömer gynnar Trump och säöljer deras egen tidning.
Genomgång av hur Bobulinski och Trumplägret försökte sälja in storyn, och hur nyhetsmedia agerade, här:
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/29/tony-bobulinski-hunter-biden-and-china-explainer/
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So far, much of what Bobulinski has said remains unverified. What Trump allies were trying to sell as a smoking gun in the run-up to the election has produced little smoke thus far. It’s the latest chapter in the push for dirt on Hunter Biden that led to Trump’s impeachment in 2019.
Who is Tony Bobulinski, why is he all over News Feed?
Bobulinski, a former Navy lieutenant, has claimed that Joe Biden knew about one of his son’s proposed business ventures with a Chinese oil company. Bobulinski claimed he met with the Biden family multiple times.
On Oct. 22, the night of the final presidential debate, Bobulinski said in a statement to reporters that he wanted to "set the record straight" on the Biden family’s "dealings with the Chinese."
Bobulinski said that, in 2017, Hunter Biden consulted with his father about forming a new venture with CEFC China Energy Co. to invest in real estate and technology in the U.S. Bobulinski was brought into the venture by James Gilliar, an English businessman who purportedly knew the Bidens through Rob Walker, a former Clinton administration official.
Bobulinski became a partner and CEO of the venture, which was named SinoHawk Holdings LLC. The company was incorporated in Delaware in May 2017.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the deal fell through; SinoHawk never received money from or completed deals with the Chinese oil company. According to the newspaper, Hunter, Joe Biden’s brother James, Gilliar and Walker were also involved — but there was no role for Joe Biden.
Bobulinski claimed otherwise.
"Everything I’m saying is corroborated by emails, WhatsApp chats, agreements, documents and other evidence," he told reporters gathered Oct. 22, before gesturing to three phones that he claimed contained incriminating evidence and said he would hand over to authorities.
Bobulinski provided some of his records to outlets like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. Both reported that they do not show Joe Biden had business dealings with SinoHawk Holdings or took money from the Chinese company.
That wasn’t the angle Trump allies described as they pitched the story to the Wall Street Journal in early October. The New York Times reported that a White House lawyer, a former deputy White House counsel and a public relations man close to Donald Trump Jr. took Bobulinski’s claims to the Wall Street Journal with the hope that the newspaper would cover them before Election Day.
The Journal stalled on the story while its reporters tried to determine whether Bobulinski’s documents implicated Joe Biden. In the meantime, Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani took a version of the allegations to the New York Post.
The tabloid published an article Oct. 14 that made allegations based on emails on a computer hard drive allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden that was left at a repair shop. No news organizations have been able to verify the authenticity of those emails.
Former Trump aide Steve Bannon told the Times that Bobulinski got spooked by the length of time the Journal was taking on the story and sent an on-the-record statement to a range of news organizations. Breitbart, a conservative site, published the statement.
Som sagt, Wall Street Journal krävde att få göra sin egen research för att kunna bedöma om de ansåg storyn trovärdig och då sprang Giuliani och Mr. Bubbles vidare till New York Post, som slog upp det mesta så som Giluliani ville ha det utan att göra någon egen granskning. Det var ju viktigt att få Big Man Trump återvald och man behövde en smaskig skandal, ett slag under bältet på motståndaren.
Att Joe Biden skulle ha haft någon roll i SinoHawk är förtfarande bara spekulation och Bobulinskis trovärdighet har inte blivit ett dugg bättre på de nästan 1½ år som gått sedan valet.
Dessutom: i maj 2017 var Joe Biden inte längre knuten till vare sig Vita huset eller ens senaten; han var politiskt sett en privatman vid det laget. Om han hypotetiskt *hade* gått med på t ex en roll som "senior adviser" i ett bolag med affärer med Kina hade det inte spelat någon roll, juridiskt sett, och det hade inte brutit mot npgra etikregler. Oavsett vad Trumpgänget säger.