Bari, Nellie--The Story is the Biden corruption machine. And it’s not being covered. Why not?
I think it’s fine to take a bow for the stories you have covered, but if aren’t willing or interested in covering what looks like massive corruption in the White House, do you really get to call yourself the antidote to the NYT?
Bari, Nellie--The Story is the Biden corruption machine. And it’s not being covered. Why not?
I think it’s fine to take a bow for the stories you have covered, but if aren’t willing or interested in covering what looks like massive corruption in the White House, do you really get to call yourself the antidote to the NYT?
This one might be the hardest of all for "transitioning" progressives, as exposing Joe Biden for what he has always been undercuts almost every argument Democrats have been putting forth since 2017. Biden's corruption is not just an unusually blatant example of inside-the-Beltway greed and sleaze. If what appears to be emerging about his multimillion-dollar indebtedness to our country's most dangerous enemies is true, it explains many of his otherwise incomprehensible policies: stubbornly refusing to control the border, lifting all the hard-won sanctions on Iran, attacking and promising to end our lifeblood oil and gas industry, mandating EV's whose manufacture depends on China's good graces.
Hopefully, with our support and a bit more time, they'll get all the way to the truth. Meanwhile, they are a breath of fresh air.
I don't know, maybe there's not much there, NC. The GOP in Congress has had a committee for the last eight months or so looking into all the smoke and fog involving Joe and Hunter and so far, not too much. And they've got hundreds of staffers. Where's the fire? There might be an impeachment inquiry coming soon - something more official and serious. With even more researchers looking for proof. I wish them luck. Perhaps the FP can write something about how something looks really bad, but not provably so. Like the 2020 elections..
Watergate was just a story about a 3rd rate burglary, until 2 years later, it wasn’t. The evidence for something of this (possible) magnitude does not spring up in a couple of weeks, neatly wrapped with a big bow.
As soon as evidence is produced a “special prosecutor “ is appointed. Not even an independent prosecutor. If there’s no there there, why so much covering up?
Where's Jim Jordan when you need him? He's been at this for months. No press reveals. No exposes like the Dem committee covering Jan 6. Nothing. Where are all the subpoenas? Only a couple.
McCarthy isn't even so sure an impeachment inquiry is coming. It looks like he's being pushed by his MAGA wing to have one. But he's worried that not all GOP members of Congress will sign on. If there's so much evidence being thrown around, why the reluctance?
I think bc it exposes too much deep corruption across DC, both parties (Dems more but R yes) would falter. Obama has to be a factor, this would destroy his legacy of “no scandals on my watch”🤣, he’s still very powerful. Threats are being made .
I’ve been waiting for the Biden family expose, but I think it’s beyond Biden. IT’s Democrat party corruption beginning with Obama, mainstream media and Soros.
This comment says it all...but not in the way it is phrased. What FP subscribers, readers and fans of you and your contributors are asking for is what FP provides consistently, a clear, objective but thoughtful and well researched look at the facts so that we as citizens can see a path forward on the issues of the day. It’s not Biden per se, it’s the desire for an objective, no “spin, no dictated catch phrase” review of what has happened to the political class. How can so many politicians and governmental “C Suite” level employees use public service as a path to wealth, using taxpayer’s money & “equity value” in access to the still greatest asset on earth- the US Constitutional Democracy and the vast opportunities that flow from it.
It’s asking a lot from the FP to take this on but if not you, who? If not now, when? As a FP supporter and happy reader I applaud and appreciate you.
Perhaps it's such a massive story, that it would suck up too much time and energy to properly cover it. Taibbi and Shellenberger and doing a great job of it, but I wish they would also publish here so TFB would be a bit more balanced. Especially since Shellenberger is listed as writer for TFP, but hasn't had anything here!
I'll offer a suggestion: Perhaps it is the subconscious belief of "If not Biden, then Trump". The fear that attacking the Biden family will ensure Trump's re-ascendancy.
Is THAT a valid reason to avoid reporting on corruption and privilege in the highest office in the land? Or is it a vestigial artifact of a liberal/leftist past?
If you are congratulating yourself for doing cutting edge reporting that goes after stories the MSM won’t cover, but then not do stories laying out the evidence against the Bidens, I think the congratulations are a bit premature. If Greenwald can do it night after night, why can’t we expect it here too?
A big surprise for me in reading the FP since inception is just how very very conservative many are Commentators are, not just considered conservatives but actual “drink the right-wing Kool-Aid. Examples: Biden didn’t win without fraud; vaccines are experimental and unproven; supporting Ukraine helps only (pick any) the Democrats, the military money machine, or the dreadful EU; the ERA is a socialist/communist plot; Biden is ga-ga; Trump is not guilty of ANYTHING.
This is not the FP itself but the commenters. I think one has to glean the “truth”, elusive as it is, by looking at many news sources and hope some wisdom emerges. The FP is invaluable, especially by inviting me to look more critically at all sources. I still subscribe to the NYT, mainly for some of its columnists, just as I do to The Economist, The Atlantic, and the WSJ - none of them is the universal oracle.
Yes, that was definitely a big surprise for me too, good to know I’m not alone. It’s the reason why while I find FP great, I rarely look into its comments section, because it’s not very useful. Interesting in comparison with another news web that I read regularly, where the reporting and journalism quality kinda sucks, but the comments are often insightful. One would expects those two aspects to correlate, but doesn’t seem so…
Will, your juvenile name calling is the practice of vapid ideas unable counter an argument. Saul Alinsky wrote the playbook, you are a beginner. Name calling means you have already lost the debate of ideas. I am a very Conservative American who finds the FP refreshing in it actually offers stimulating arguments. Biden won due to massive interference by media, Establishment, mail in voter fraud and Trump Derangement Syndrome. Glenn Greenwald has covered the issue, it would be nice to see Biden corruption finally be addressed on FP.
Hi Will, Looks like you are inclined to read media on the left.
Here are a couple to add—Darkhorse Podcast, two PhD biologists on the left have been exclaiming practically from the start that mRNA vaccines are experimental, unproven and dangerous. The evidence continues to prove them right. Glenn Greenwald, also a noted lefty, is anti Ukraine war.
I enjoy listening to views like these three, plus other people on the left, like Taibbi and Shellenberger, who are challenging the narratives of their team and starting to sound, ahem, like conservatives. Amazing what a little critical thinking can do.
If you read on Substack then you know Biden won by information control, the FBI and cia in conjunction with a bunch of GONGOs conspired with the msm to supress information about Hunter’s laptop in particular.
If Americans had been told it was real millions would have either stayed home or voted Trump according to polls.
One must pick and choose their battles. Bias may contribute to this choice, but also could be factors such as resource allocation, who is already fighting this battle, expertise about the topic, access to sources, etc.
Yeah, came here to say basically this but from a slightly different angle: reputable news sources that are just starting out and attempting to be neutral and establish credibility can't be out ahead of everyone else on every story. Investigating, fact-gathering, gaining access to credible sources to corroborate, and publishing actual news (rather than half-baked speculation and partisan hot takes) takes time. Even more so for young, independent news sources with paid subscribers numbering in the thousands rather than millions--i.e., having a small fraction of the resources of both legacy media and more well-established new media. So, just because TFP hasn't yet published results of such a process with respect to a particular topic doesn't mean they're not going to (or even need to, because they never purported to be a paper of record or a one-stop-shop for news). Any inference that they haven't covered the Biden mess or anything else because they are partisan in one direction or another is unsupported by any of their *actual* reporting. And it's not logically valid to say a political bias exists in one direction or the other simply because a publication has not yet reported on a situation people who *do* have political bias think they should. Their stated mission is to bring critical thinking and rigorous journalism back. We already have plenty of news outlets muddying the waters, pandering to one side or the other by rushing to press with unsubstantiated facts, conjecture, and innuendo. Anyone who wants their conspiracy theories of any type confirmed can find a publication that will do that for them. Just not necessarily this one. Which is exactly why I pay to subscribe to this one. Because the reason I read news is to educate and inform myself--and to have my opinions changed when warranted, based on new information. Anyone who's just looking to have their beliefs and biases validated can vote with their dollars and subscribe to a different publication. Complaining in the comments is pointless. You have to vote with your dollars to get the journalism you want. Which is why I subscribe to the Free Press.
In addition, going up against the DNC - Clinton, Biden, Obama machine is dangerous. My belief is that, for instance, that amazing primary win of Biden in his 1st election was election fraud and helped by classical Republicans. Flatly, as a scientist trained in statistics, that win was impossible. It displays the red flags that get science papers taken down. Picking battles. Yes, Greenwald does it.
If you or anyone doesn't know what's on the laptop, you're not looking.
Just maybe the House Oversight Committee is working slowly & methodically before they make a major move, unlike Nancy Pelosi & House Democrats who impeached Trump for innocently doing the very thing Biden may be guilty of doing.
All Trump did in his phone call is inquire why and to what length the Bidens were involved with Burisma.
Why was there a threat to withhold foreign aid?
Why would any sitting Vice President insist his clearly inept son sitting as a board director of a major global energy company, accused of corruption, in a foreign country?
And why would that same sitting Vice President insist on a special prosecutor investigating corruption on the same energy company to be fired?
What possible business of this could be his?
Furthermore, how does a 50 yr. politician living on a government salary afford to buy the DuPont mansion, along with two other very expensive homes? Stock tips from Al Gore?
Shame on all of you ignoring this and looking the other way!
Yes 234! If I could add another question. Why would a sitting US President send his VP to clean up a political/law enforcement controversy involving that VP’s own son? And from that same President we get nary a word of explanation. If these people looking the other way chose to ignore this blatant conflict of interest, then let their naïveté deliver to them the consequences. I believe the truth will emerge and perhaps it wont be delivered by the GOP.
Lol. Actually, what's funny is that an average citizen wouldn't actually have to be dealing with this tax issue shenanigans. Pay a fine/pay back and move on.
Are you being deliberately evasive with what evidence you claim there is?
We know there are hundreds of emails from fake accounts that Biden is claiming executive privilege. That has been acknowledged by all parties and is not disputed. You aren't remotely curious about how the President or Vice President (or Hilary Clinton for that matter) set up private fake accounts to conduct government business, and now these emails are shielded by the WH and DOJ, yet want to know where the evidence is. I think any ethical person would question that.
Yeah....the Clinton email stuff has already been examined, investigated and explained, Marcia.
As far as Biden, Fox News has info on some of the Biden emails, too.
You didn't question/have a problem with Kushner and Ivanka getting billions from Saudi Arabia and China to influence foreign policy while actually working in the WH.
I think any non-hypocrite would question that.
Oh....look who SUDDENLY has a problem with "Executive Privilege." Lol.
1. I worked in a classified environment for almost 30 years--and I know if I'd set up a private server in my home, set up a private email address, and conducted CLASSIFIED business government business, I would be in prison. So yeah, we can also go down to the two-tier system of justice in this country road if you want.
2. I don't know how much more I can dumb this down for you, but I'll try. Executive privilege is the "privilege, claimed by the president for the executive branch of the US government, of withholding information in the public interest." By claiming executive privilege on a PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNT BIDEN IS ADMITTING he was thwarting FOIA. Exec Priv allows the government to withhold evidence, so dummies can claim 'LOOK THERE'S NO EVIDENCE." Look up FOIA and see how people fought tooth and nail for this to bring accountablity and transparency to the government.
Why do you think the only evidence that exists is on the laptop? You might be surprised if you find out later that you have overlooked other potential sources. Try to think outside of your GOP obsessed box.
Right...but that has nothing to do with the claims against Joe Biden.
The charge that has been repeated ad naseum is that Joe Biden was receiving payments, via shell companies, to his bank accounts/financial instruments in order to take unsanctioned actions as a representative of the U.S. Government. A plot, ironically, run by a crackhead and dementia patient.
Ok...so Hunter didn't pay his taxes. So? Fine him, do whatever - but that was never what all the "Hunter Laptop" stuff was about.
I'll talk to anybody. That's TO not AT. Part of the problem is people don't talk TO people they may disagree with. At best the talk AT the person....Actually its more like Yell Name Call the other person. One of the reason I like Free Press is I can talk TO/WITH people I may disagree with.
Why do you say 'It's Vile"? Now it may be many things, but Vile? I don't know about that.
Are you interested in any of the emails written under Biden's pseudonyms? The ones being withheld because of "executive priviledge"? What's taking Democrat party so long to call him out for using private emails and fake names to avoid FOIA?
The GOP promised that there would be evidence of money going to Joe Biden's bank account/financial instruments in a direct quid pro quo for him taking actions as a representative of the U.S. Government. So, that's the GOP's job to "call out," Marcia. Just like it was the Democrats to "call out" the Billions Kushner and Ivanka got from the Saudis and China.
Interested in pseudonyms? Not really, Marica. Unless it can be proven those pseudonyms were used to facilitate criminal activity....so, let me know when that happens. Fox News has reported on an email exchange where Hunter had the temerity to contact his Dad in order to see if he could get him an interview. GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh....look who suddenly has a problem with "Executive Privilege."
You do realize Hunter rented Daddy's (Joe's) house for $50,000 a month when Joe was VP? Do you see anything unusual about that? I guess you are a blind loyalist or uninformed. FP has not covered any of this issue. Greenwald has as has Matt Tailbi.
So I guess you won’t be convinced until we find a cheque to Biden from Burisma, with the memo line reading “for firing the prosecutor.” Influence peddling doesn’t work that way. There are smoking guns everywhere and Dem ideologues just wave it away. Same thing with the laptop. The FBI, the CIA, the regime media and big tech all worked together to keep it hidden and elect Biden. Nothing to see here folks.
Trump is a narcissistic psychopath, but the Dems are so much more dangerous because they control all the institutions - the regime media, big tech, big finance, academia, NGOs, the bureaucracy, the culture. All of this is enabled by people like you who are willfully blind to the corruption of policy and people. But MAGA, MAGA, MAGA. We’re constantly told these fascists are a threat to democracy. Meanwhile, the Dems donate more than $10 mill to the most extreme candidates during Republican primaries.
Go ahead, keep deluding yourself, keep moaning about trans issues, keep whining about free speech, but most of all, keep supporting Joe Biden and carrying water for the people that bring you censorship and 13 year olds with chopped off body parts.
Yep. That's what I was promised. It's called "evidence." Or maybe a wire transfer? Enough with the debunked "fired prosecutor" nonsense. Giuliani has no credibility.
Hunter Biden, people of privilege, getting a job and being overpaid because of their last name is pretty standard SOP, dude. Did you miss orientation or something?
Just like getting Billions from Saudi Arabia, well....not exactly.
Gasp!!! You mean one political party donates to the extreme candidate for another party in order to try to win?!!! Thank God Republicans don't do anything like that?!! What's next?!!Gerrymandering?!!!
Lol....nah...I think it's you that keeps moaning about trans issues. They don't have an effect on my life. So, really don't care.
How many 13 year olds have chopped off body parts? Is it like an epidemic?
What about the text message from Hunter to his daughter complaining about giving 50% to the old man? Nothing to see here. The old man could literally be anyone.
You mistake my contempt of Biden and the Dems as support for the GOP. Not even close. Investigate all the corrupt POS because the US is infected with them at all levels of govt. I don’t play partisan games like that.
What doesn’t happen is the security state, big tech, the regime media - and all the institutions - providing cover for the GOP.
But carry on. The Dems need foot soldiers like you to
If Hunter gives 50% of his money to his Dad. So? That's his/their choice, right? Why are you trying to control what American citizens do with their paychecks? You sound like a Communist.
Maybe Joe is concerned about Hunter's substance abuse issues and feels he can't handle money responsibly? Because after all.....he is a crackhead, right?.....So seems you're basing a lot of your evidence off of the words of a crackhead communicating about a senile, dementia-ridden old man. Not the strongest case, Jim.
Nah....not support. Just know you had/have nothing to say about Kushner getting Billions from the Saudis while he was working in the administration in order to influence foreign policy.
Kushner. Hunter Biden. That's all SOP. I don't care what either one of them do/did. Actually, that's what you're supposed to do.....some people might call it a form of "privilege" - I don't, because that's not a real thing.
Seriously, Hunter left his laptop with actual evidence. You repeat alleged crimes about Trump with not a shred of evidence, only hearsay. Trump Derangement Syndrome is your disease. Put a mask on to keep it from spreading any further. LOL
“I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
In one breath you call Hunter a crackhead, in another you wave away any hint of corruption - afterall don’t all international gas companies hire crackheads for $1 mill a year. Okay then.
Why would I not approve of Jared Kushner being investigated? Of course I would. Investigate all these corrupt POS. But I’m not an ideologue carrying water for a political party. That’s the difference between you and me.
Wow....you don’t even consider that the Justice Department and the White House have custody of most of the documents that would prove the corruption. Its all so dirty, corrupted and wrong. With the help of some crooked federal Judges, the info stays suppressed in a litigious mess. The truth will emerge soon and many journalists will be sorry they let the people of this country down by ignoring the biggest scandal in US History.
Once again you miss the hypocrisy. You believe that accusations about Trump need to be disproven by the accused instead of proven by the accuser. But then you claim that with accusations against Biden, the accuser has the burden of proof. You are trying to argue with folks who are way more informed than you are.
And it’s not pro Trump or Pro Republican to write critically and truthfully about a sitting President’s mental state or history of corruption. It’s good journalism.
Actually....I don't know if it's disinformation or not, as I have yet to have anyone cogently explain what exactly is suppossed to be on this laptop. Wire transfers? Encoded files, screenshots of handing over satchesl full of money, etc.?
I know there's videos of him with women and cocaine, cause MTG was showing the pics.
But hasn't the GOP had the contents of this laptop for a long time? What EXACTLY is suppossed to be on there?
Morning Comprof, It's sometimes hard to remember all the details. But in one particular email Hunter was talking about "10% to the big guy". Please Google that phrase and see what comes up. Then there was the fact that Hunter was on the board of a Ukrainian gas company being paid A LOT even though he self admittedly knew nothing about gas. Why would they hire Hunter Biden?? Joe Biden went to Ukraine to have a prosecutor who was investing the company for corruption fired. JB said if they didn't fire him he would withhold a billion dollars of aide. Got him on tape saying this. Guess what! They fired the prosecutor. The laptop has evidence of money payments to.Hunter. Anyway, I'm going down a rabbit hole here. If you want to know more, please Google it.
The real scandal, in my view, is how the intelligence community has directly operated upon elections.
They invented and ran an intelligence operation against the last president, then censored Americans on a stupendous scale, and buried this factual information from the public by lying to them and censoring them still more, before an election.
Comprof the link Han supplied above is pretty detailed and well documented. Check it out. Han has answered your original question re. what's on Hunter's lap top.
communist professors aren't interested in detailed, well documented references, they're interested in how to get people to give away their rights and bow to corruption.
No. I read it. So, now Hunter Biden is no longer the "real scandal" but it's the Russia-Trump stuff. Just thought that was funny. How the "real scandal" always comes up when there's no evidence for the other one everyone on this board have been yammering about. Hilarious.
Yep. Hunter got a job because of his last name/nepotism. Shocking.
Payments to Hunter?!!! Uh...he's a private citizen, who cares if he got payments from a foreign company?
Now, if someone were to...say get Billions from Saudi Arabia for real estate while they were a government official to influence foreign policy, etc. THAT would be interesting
No. The Giuliani "fired prosecutor" stuff has been debunked.
Your stupidity is truly striking. You've been beating that dead horse of "NO EVIDENCE" for quite a while now. Really do love to display your idiocy, don't you?
That's all I'm asking. I was promised evidence of wire transfers, via perhaps Nigerian shell companies, into Joe Biden's personal bank account/financial instruments in a direct, quid pro quo situation for taking action as a representative of the U.S. Government. I was told the Hunter Biden laptop would have all of this.
Bari, Nellie--The Story is the Biden corruption machine. And it’s not being covered. Why not?
I think it’s fine to take a bow for the stories you have covered, but if aren’t willing or interested in covering what looks like massive corruption in the White House, do you really get to call yourself the antidote to the NYT?
This one might be the hardest of all for "transitioning" progressives, as exposing Joe Biden for what he has always been undercuts almost every argument Democrats have been putting forth since 2017. Biden's corruption is not just an unusually blatant example of inside-the-Beltway greed and sleaze. If what appears to be emerging about his multimillion-dollar indebtedness to our country's most dangerous enemies is true, it explains many of his otherwise incomprehensible policies: stubbornly refusing to control the border, lifting all the hard-won sanctions on Iran, attacking and promising to end our lifeblood oil and gas industry, mandating EV's whose manufacture depends on China's good graces.
Hopefully, with our support and a bit more time, they'll get all the way to the truth. Meanwhile, they are a breath of fresh air.
Uh....that's probably because they're is nothing to report?
Let me guess.....you think Hunter Biden was paying his dad 50k/mo for rent, don't you?
I don't know, maybe there's not much there, NC. The GOP in Congress has had a committee for the last eight months or so looking into all the smoke and fog involving Joe and Hunter and so far, not too much. And they've got hundreds of staffers. Where's the fire? There might be an impeachment inquiry coming soon - something more official and serious. With even more researchers looking for proof. I wish them luck. Perhaps the FP can write something about how something looks really bad, but not provably so. Like the 2020 elections..
Watergate was just a story about a 3rd rate burglary, until 2 years later, it wasn’t. The evidence for something of this (possible) magnitude does not spring up in a couple of weeks, neatly wrapped with a big bow.
Not much there?
As soon as evidence is produced a “special prosecutor “ is appointed. Not even an independent prosecutor. If there’s no there there, why so much covering up?
Where's Jim Jordan when you need him? He's been at this for months. No press reveals. No exposes like the Dem committee covering Jan 6. Nothing. Where are all the subpoenas? Only a couple.
McCarthy isn't even so sure an impeachment inquiry is coming. It looks like he's being pushed by his MAGA wing to have one. But he's worried that not all GOP members of Congress will sign on. If there's so much evidence being thrown around, why the reluctance?
I think bc it exposes too much deep corruption across DC, both parties (Dems more but R yes) would falter. Obama has to be a factor, this would destroy his legacy of “no scandals on my watch”🤣, he’s still very powerful. Threats are being made .
"Bari, Nellie--The Story is the Biden corruption machine. And it’s not being covered. Why not?"
I think we all know the answer to that!
I would also say while it is A Big Story, it is Not the Only Story. Most of them are not being covered by Cooperate Media either, IMO.
I’ve been waiting for the Biden family expose, but I think it’s beyond Biden. IT’s Democrat party corruption beginning with Obama, mainstream media and Soros.
Lol. You think Hunter Biden paid 50k/ mo in rent to Joe Biden, don't you?
Not sure who this comment was aimed at, but the Biden’s are corrupt. And Joe had a free reign while “Obama the god” was in charge.
100% aimed at you, Scott
hUNter bIDen WaS paYING 50k A mONTH iN rENt to JOe bIDEn!
Derp!
Relax, dude....it's not like he Hunter got Billions from Saudi Arabia and China to influence
foreign policy while working in White House or something
What does Obama have to do with this?.....seems you have some "issues" with him, Scott. Let it go. America had a non-white POTUS. It's ok.
I agree. The only way Biden could get away with his grift for so long is that 'they' are all in on it. That included the Rs.
Definitely includes the Rs-not all though and some are fighting to expose the truth.
Scott, don’t leave out the Clintons!
LOL! The original Democrat crime family.
This comment says it all...but not in the way it is phrased. What FP subscribers, readers and fans of you and your contributors are asking for is what FP provides consistently, a clear, objective but thoughtful and well researched look at the facts so that we as citizens can see a path forward on the issues of the day. It’s not Biden per se, it’s the desire for an objective, no “spin, no dictated catch phrase” review of what has happened to the political class. How can so many politicians and governmental “C Suite” level employees use public service as a path to wealth, using taxpayer’s money & “equity value” in access to the still greatest asset on earth- the US Constitutional Democracy and the vast opportunities that flow from it.
It’s asking a lot from the FP to take this on but if not you, who? If not now, when? As a FP supporter and happy reader I applaud and appreciate you.
Another topic is the two tiered justice system. It’s so blatant now, it begs attention.
Perhaps it's such a massive story, that it would suck up too much time and energy to properly cover it. Taibbi and Shellenberger and doing a great job of it, but I wish they would also publish here so TFB would be a bit more balanced. Especially since Shellenberger is listed as writer for TFP, but hasn't had anything here!
I'll offer a suggestion: Perhaps it is the subconscious belief of "If not Biden, then Trump". The fear that attacking the Biden family will ensure Trump's re-ascendancy.
Is THAT a valid reason to avoid reporting on corruption and privilege in the highest office in the land? Or is it a vestigial artifact of a liberal/leftist past?
If you are congratulating yourself for doing cutting edge reporting that goes after stories the MSM won’t cover, but then not do stories laying out the evidence against the Bidens, I think the congratulations are a bit premature. If Greenwald can do it night after night, why can’t we expect it here too?
What is the evidence?
A big surprise for me in reading the FP since inception is just how very very conservative many are Commentators are, not just considered conservatives but actual “drink the right-wing Kool-Aid. Examples: Biden didn’t win without fraud; vaccines are experimental and unproven; supporting Ukraine helps only (pick any) the Democrats, the military money machine, or the dreadful EU; the ERA is a socialist/communist plot; Biden is ga-ga; Trump is not guilty of ANYTHING.
This is not the FP itself but the commenters. I think one has to glean the “truth”, elusive as it is, by looking at many news sources and hope some wisdom emerges. The FP is invaluable, especially by inviting me to look more critically at all sources. I still subscribe to the NYT, mainly for some of its columnists, just as I do to The Economist, The Atlantic, and the WSJ - none of them is the universal oracle.
Yes, that was definitely a big surprise for me too, good to know I’m not alone. It’s the reason why while I find FP great, I rarely look into its comments section, because it’s not very useful. Interesting in comparison with another news web that I read regularly, where the reporting and journalism quality kinda sucks, but the comments are often insightful. One would expects those two aspects to correlate, but doesn’t seem so…
Will, your juvenile name calling is the practice of vapid ideas unable counter an argument. Saul Alinsky wrote the playbook, you are a beginner. Name calling means you have already lost the debate of ideas. I am a very Conservative American who finds the FP refreshing in it actually offers stimulating arguments. Biden won due to massive interference by media, Establishment, mail in voter fraud and Trump Derangement Syndrome. Glenn Greenwald has covered the issue, it would be nice to see Biden corruption finally be addressed on FP.
Lol. You think Hunter Biden paid 50k/ mo in rent to Joe Biden, don't you?
Hi Will, Looks like you are inclined to read media on the left.
Here are a couple to add—Darkhorse Podcast, two PhD biologists on the left have been exclaiming practically from the start that mRNA vaccines are experimental, unproven and dangerous. The evidence continues to prove them right. Glenn Greenwald, also a noted lefty, is anti Ukraine war.
I enjoy listening to views like these three, plus other people on the left, like Taibbi and Shellenberger, who are challenging the narratives of their team and starting to sound, ahem, like conservatives. Amazing what a little critical thinking can do.
Hi Will
If you read on Substack then you know Biden won by information control, the FBI and cia in conjunction with a bunch of GONGOs conspired with the msm to supress information about Hunter’s laptop in particular.
If Americans had been told it was real millions would have either stayed home or voted Trump according to polls.
I think you need to go back to the start.
Lol. You think Hunter Biden paid 50k/ mo in rent to Joe Biden, don't you?
One must pick and choose their battles. Bias may contribute to this choice, but also could be factors such as resource allocation, who is already fighting this battle, expertise about the topic, access to sources, etc.
Yeah, came here to say basically this but from a slightly different angle: reputable news sources that are just starting out and attempting to be neutral and establish credibility can't be out ahead of everyone else on every story. Investigating, fact-gathering, gaining access to credible sources to corroborate, and publishing actual news (rather than half-baked speculation and partisan hot takes) takes time. Even more so for young, independent news sources with paid subscribers numbering in the thousands rather than millions--i.e., having a small fraction of the resources of both legacy media and more well-established new media. So, just because TFP hasn't yet published results of such a process with respect to a particular topic doesn't mean they're not going to (or even need to, because they never purported to be a paper of record or a one-stop-shop for news). Any inference that they haven't covered the Biden mess or anything else because they are partisan in one direction or another is unsupported by any of their *actual* reporting. And it's not logically valid to say a political bias exists in one direction or the other simply because a publication has not yet reported on a situation people who *do* have political bias think they should. Their stated mission is to bring critical thinking and rigorous journalism back. We already have plenty of news outlets muddying the waters, pandering to one side or the other by rushing to press with unsubstantiated facts, conjecture, and innuendo. Anyone who wants their conspiracy theories of any type confirmed can find a publication that will do that for them. Just not necessarily this one. Which is exactly why I pay to subscribe to this one. Because the reason I read news is to educate and inform myself--and to have my opinions changed when warranted, based on new information. Anyone who's just looking to have their beliefs and biases validated can vote with their dollars and subscribe to a different publication. Complaining in the comments is pointless. You have to vote with your dollars to get the journalism you want. Which is why I subscribe to the Free Press.
In addition, going up against the DNC - Clinton, Biden, Obama machine is dangerous. My belief is that, for instance, that amazing primary win of Biden in his 1st election was election fraud and helped by classical Republicans. Flatly, as a scientist trained in statistics, that win was impossible. It displays the red flags that get science papers taken down. Picking battles. Yes, Greenwald does it.
they are showing their Bi-ass
I'm a G.G. fan too.
Uh....probably because there's nothing to report.
and google prof shows up
Yeah. I prefer sharing actual, factual data rather than hyperbolic, unhinged conspiracy.
And here's Compost making a fool of himself once again on a national stage.
Good morning 234, Compost hasn't been rude. He's asked what's on the laptop. Legit question. No need to devolve into name calling.
I didn't say he's rude. I said he's a fool.
If you or anyone doesn't know what's on the laptop, you're not looking.
Just maybe the House Oversight Committee is working slowly & methodically before they make a major move, unlike Nancy Pelosi & House Democrats who impeached Trump for innocently doing the very thing Biden may be guilty of doing.
All Trump did in his phone call is inquire why and to what length the Bidens were involved with Burisma.
Why was there a threat to withhold foreign aid?
Why would any sitting Vice President insist his clearly inept son sitting as a board director of a major global energy company, accused of corruption, in a foreign country?
And why would that same sitting Vice President insist on a special prosecutor investigating corruption on the same energy company to be fired?
What possible business of this could be his?
Furthermore, how does a 50 yr. politician living on a government salary afford to buy the DuPont mansion, along with two other very expensive homes? Stock tips from Al Gore?
Shame on all of you ignoring this and looking the other way!
Yes 234! If I could add another question. Why would a sitting US President send his VP to clean up a political/law enforcement controversy involving that VP’s own son? And from that same President we get nary a word of explanation. If these people looking the other way chose to ignore this blatant conflict of interest, then let their naïveté deliver to them the consequences. I believe the truth will emerge and perhaps it wont be delivered by the GOP.
What's on the laptop, 234?
What's taking the GOP so long?
I was promised evidence that a senile, dementia-riddled man was currently running the world's largest crime syndicate.
Maybe the same FBI agents that took five years to find Hunter's tax problem are working on the laptop?
Or maybe....664 pages of material are already public...
Maybe if the GOP had anything they could hold a press conference or publish it in a report....
Hunter Biden has tax issues? Gasp!!! Well....he's certainly lost my vote for POTUS.
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
Lol. Actually, what's funny is that an average citizen wouldn't actually have to be dealing with this tax issue shenanigans. Pay a fine/pay back and move on.
Are you being deliberately evasive with what evidence you claim there is?
We know there are hundreds of emails from fake accounts that Biden is claiming executive privilege. That has been acknowledged by all parties and is not disputed. You aren't remotely curious about how the President or Vice President (or Hilary Clinton for that matter) set up private fake accounts to conduct government business, and now these emails are shielded by the WH and DOJ, yet want to know where the evidence is. I think any ethical person would question that.
Yeah....the Clinton email stuff has already been examined, investigated and explained, Marcia.
As far as Biden, Fox News has info on some of the Biden emails, too.
You didn't question/have a problem with Kushner and Ivanka getting billions from Saudi Arabia and China to influence foreign policy while actually working in the WH.
I think any non-hypocrite would question that.
Oh....look who SUDDENLY has a problem with "Executive Privilege." Lol.
1. I worked in a classified environment for almost 30 years--and I know if I'd set up a private server in my home, set up a private email address, and conducted CLASSIFIED business government business, I would be in prison. So yeah, we can also go down to the two-tier system of justice in this country road if you want.
2. I don't know how much more I can dumb this down for you, but I'll try. Executive privilege is the "privilege, claimed by the president for the executive branch of the US government, of withholding information in the public interest." By claiming executive privilege on a PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNT BIDEN IS ADMITTING he was thwarting FOIA. Exec Priv allows the government to withhold evidence, so dummies can claim 'LOOK THERE'S NO EVIDENCE." Look up FOIA and see how people fought tooth and nail for this to bring accountablity and transparency to the government.
Why do you think the only evidence that exists is on the laptop? You might be surprised if you find out later that you have overlooked other potential sources. Try to think outside of your GOP obsessed box.
Because that's all everyone has been talking about for 2 years.
No, I will not be surprised. If they had anything, they would make it public. Every prediction I have made has come to pass.
Try to think outside your Fox News obsessed box.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go watch Tucker Carlson's interview with a man who claimed to have gay sex and smoked crack with Obama.
It is online, go read it!
Can you just tell me? Maybe one little tiny bit of it? What's on the laptop?
You are not a serious people.
Except the Biden crime syndicate.
Perhaps we can ask Jim Jordan what he's found out so far after months looking..
Which is WHAT exactly, Bruce?
What's taking the GOP so long, Bruce?
"What's taking the GOP so long, Bruce?"
1. Meaning What?
2. What would you have them do?
Find the evidence?
Well....I think a good start would be releasing all the incriminating evidence on the laptop.
They Have.
This is the laptop evidence feds could use in Hunter Biden tax fraud case
By Emily Crane
Published Oct. 7, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/10/07/the-laptop-evidence-fbi-could-use-to-charge-hunter-biden/
Right...but that has nothing to do with the claims against Joe Biden.
The charge that has been repeated ad naseum is that Joe Biden was receiving payments, via shell companies, to his bank accounts/financial instruments in order to take unsanctioned actions as a representative of the U.S. Government. A plot, ironically, run by a crackhead and dementia patient.
Ok...so Hunter didn't pay his taxes. So? Fine him, do whatever - but that was never what all the "Hunter Laptop" stuff was about.
Why are you talking to compost 2.0?
It’s vile
I'll talk to anybody. That's TO not AT. Part of the problem is people don't talk TO people they may disagree with. At best the talk AT the person....Actually its more like Yell Name Call the other person. One of the reason I like Free Press is I can talk TO/WITH people I may disagree with.
Why do you say 'It's Vile"? Now it may be many things, but Vile? I don't know about that.
Give it time
I too tried to talk to it.
It’s vile
Wow, Pat.
I think you mean "He's not MAGA."
Are you interested in any of the emails written under Biden's pseudonyms? The ones being withheld because of "executive priviledge"? What's taking Democrat party so long to call him out for using private emails and fake names to avoid FOIA?
The GOP promised that there would be evidence of money going to Joe Biden's bank account/financial instruments in a direct quid pro quo for him taking actions as a representative of the U.S. Government. So, that's the GOP's job to "call out," Marcia. Just like it was the Democrats to "call out" the Billions Kushner and Ivanka got from the Saudis and China.
Interested in pseudonyms? Not really, Marica. Unless it can be proven those pseudonyms were used to facilitate criminal activity....so, let me know when that happens. Fox News has reported on an email exchange where Hunter had the temerity to contact his Dad in order to see if he could get him an interview. GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh....look who suddenly has a problem with "Executive Privilege."
https://youtu.be/C_pT9KOjqaw?si=_ySO46oCKLA-o6jH to see reporting on the evidence Biden is crooked and linked to Hunter.
Lol....you know Hunter wasn't paying 50k in rent to Joe Biden, right?
You do realize Hunter rented Daddy's (Joe's) house for $50,000 a month when Joe was VP? Do you see anything unusual about that? I guess you are a blind loyalist or uninformed. FP has not covered any of this issue. Greenwald has as has Matt Tailbi.
LOL!!! You do realize that was for office space in DC, right?
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/our-familys-sick-why-hunter-biden-lied-about-paying-50k-rent/
Even if it were true? Nope. Free market. People can rent whatever they want at whatever price they want. What are you? A Communist/Marxists?
Lol!! That's your evidence? A fake story about a "crackhead" renting a house from a "dementia-riddled" old man?
What I find unusual is how you, Greenwald and Taibbi are all super cool with the Billions given Kushnet and Ivanka by Saudi Arabia and China.
So I guess you won’t be convinced until we find a cheque to Biden from Burisma, with the memo line reading “for firing the prosecutor.” Influence peddling doesn’t work that way. There are smoking guns everywhere and Dem ideologues just wave it away. Same thing with the laptop. The FBI, the CIA, the regime media and big tech all worked together to keep it hidden and elect Biden. Nothing to see here folks.
Trump is a narcissistic psychopath, but the Dems are so much more dangerous because they control all the institutions - the regime media, big tech, big finance, academia, NGOs, the bureaucracy, the culture. All of this is enabled by people like you who are willfully blind to the corruption of policy and people. But MAGA, MAGA, MAGA. We’re constantly told these fascists are a threat to democracy. Meanwhile, the Dems donate more than $10 mill to the most extreme candidates during Republican primaries.
Go ahead, keep deluding yourself, keep moaning about trans issues, keep whining about free speech, but most of all, keep supporting Joe Biden and carrying water for the people that bring you censorship and 13 year olds with chopped off body parts.
Yep. That's what I was promised. It's called "evidence." Or maybe a wire transfer? Enough with the debunked "fired prosecutor" nonsense. Giuliani has no credibility.
Hunter Biden, people of privilege, getting a job and being overpaid because of their last name is pretty standard SOP, dude. Did you miss orientation or something?
Just like getting Billions from Saudi Arabia, well....not exactly.
Gasp!!! You mean one political party donates to the extreme candidate for another party in order to try to win?!!! Thank God Republicans don't do anything like that?!! What's next?!!Gerrymandering?!!!
Lol....nah...I think it's you that keeps moaning about trans issues. They don't have an effect on my life. So, really don't care.
How many 13 year olds have chopped off body parts? Is it like an epidemic?
What about the text message from Hunter to his daughter complaining about giving 50% to the old man? Nothing to see here. The old man could literally be anyone.
You mistake my contempt of Biden and the Dems as support for the GOP. Not even close. Investigate all the corrupt POS because the US is infected with them at all levels of govt. I don’t play partisan games like that.
What doesn’t happen is the security state, big tech, the regime media - and all the institutions - providing cover for the GOP.
But carry on. The Dems need foot soldiers like you to
defend them - until they don’t.
50%? 10%....
What is the exact verbatim statement/text?
If Hunter gives 50% of his money to his Dad. So? That's his/their choice, right? Why are you trying to control what American citizens do with their paychecks? You sound like a Communist.
Maybe Joe is concerned about Hunter's substance abuse issues and feels he can't handle money responsibly? Because after all.....he is a crackhead, right?.....So seems you're basing a lot of your evidence off of the words of a crackhead communicating about a senile, dementia-ridden old man. Not the strongest case, Jim.
Nah....not support. Just know you had/have nothing to say about Kushner getting Billions from the Saudis while he was working in the administration in order to influence foreign policy.
Kushner. Hunter Biden. That's all SOP. I don't care what either one of them do/did. Actually, that's what you're supposed to do.....some people might call it a form of "privilege" - I don't, because that's not a real thing.
Seriously, Hunter left his laptop with actual evidence. You repeat alleged crimes about Trump with not a shred of evidence, only hearsay. Trump Derangement Syndrome is your disease. Put a mask on to keep it from spreading any further. LOL
This is the exact statement verbatim.
“I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
In one breath you call Hunter a crackhead, in another you wave away any hint of corruption - afterall don’t all international gas companies hire crackheads for $1 mill a year. Okay then.
Why would I not approve of Jared Kushner being investigated? Of course I would. Investigate all these corrupt POS. But I’m not an ideologue carrying water for a political party. That’s the difference between you and me.
Wow....you don’t even consider that the Justice Department and the White House have custody of most of the documents that would prove the corruption. Its all so dirty, corrupted and wrong. With the help of some crooked federal Judges, the info stays suppressed in a litigious mess. The truth will emerge soon and many journalists will be sorry they let the people of this country down by ignoring the biggest scandal in US History.
Actually, no. The GOP has plenty if evidence, info, etc.
They should hold a press conference or publish it.
That would be the most direct, efficient way.
Check out this reporting! https://youtu.be/C_pT9KOjqaw?si=_ySO46oCKLA-o6jH
Lol....ok....
Are these the people that told you Hunter Biden was paying 50K a month in rent to Joe Biden?
https://www.racket.news/p/bidens-praetorian-media-guard?utm_campaign=email-post&r=bt7y7&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
It's only fair that Shifty goes first.
He's not GOP.
That's on them.
Do you not know how this works?
Once again you miss the hypocrisy. You believe that accusations about Trump need to be disproven by the accused instead of proven by the accuser. But then you claim that with accusations against Biden, the accuser has the burden of proof. You are trying to argue with folks who are way more informed than you are.
And it’s not pro Trump or Pro Republican to write critically and truthfully about a sitting President’s mental state or history of corruption. It’s good journalism.
Because the Hunter Biden laptop and all the incriminating evidence on it was “Russian Disinformation,” right?
Actually....I don't know if it's disinformation or not, as I have yet to have anyone cogently explain what exactly is suppossed to be on this laptop. Wire transfers? Encoded files, screenshots of handing over satchesl full of money, etc.?
I know there's videos of him with women and cocaine, cause MTG was showing the pics.
But hasn't the GOP had the contents of this laptop for a long time? What EXACTLY is suppossed to be on there?
Morning Comprof, It's sometimes hard to remember all the details. But in one particular email Hunter was talking about "10% to the big guy". Please Google that phrase and see what comes up. Then there was the fact that Hunter was on the board of a Ukrainian gas company being paid A LOT even though he self admittedly knew nothing about gas. Why would they hire Hunter Biden?? Joe Biden went to Ukraine to have a prosecutor who was investing the company for corruption fired. JB said if they didn't fire him he would withhold a billion dollars of aide. Got him on tape saying this. Guess what! They fired the prosecutor. The laptop has evidence of money payments to.Hunter. Anyway, I'm going down a rabbit hole here. If you want to know more, please Google it.
https://bidenlaptopreport.marcopolousa.org/report_viewer/index.html#p=1
The real scandal, in my view, is how the intelligence community has directly operated upon elections.
They invented and ran an intelligence operation against the last president, then censored Americans on a stupendous scale, and buried this factual information from the public by lying to them and censoring them still more, before an election.
Oh....I thought the real scandal was Hunter Biden getting a job/paid because his last name is "Biden."
Comprof the link Han supplied above is pretty detailed and well documented. Check it out. Han has answered your original question re. what's on Hunter's lap top.
Of course it's detailed and well documented.
communist professors aren't interested in detailed, well documented references, they're interested in how to get people to give away their rights and bow to corruption.
I believe he's an adjunct prof at a 2-year college, hardly an influencer.
I don't see a link. Unless he was responding to someone else. So, no, I don't think my original question has been answered in the least.
Can you copy/paste it? I'll look at it.....and I'm sure it'll be about crack, dick picks and prostitutes....I'm assuming.
https://bidenlaptopreport.marcopolousa.org/report_viewer/index.html#p=1
644 pages? Can't believe the GOP hasn't run with all this, held a press conference, published it, etc. Looks like a slam dunk.
Now, broad strokes, what's the "criminal activity" connecting Hunter Biden to Joe Biden?
that's because you failed to read my comment.
No. I read it. So, now Hunter Biden is no longer the "real scandal" but it's the Russia-Trump stuff. Just thought that was funny. How the "real scandal" always comes up when there's no evidence for the other one everyone on this board have been yammering about. Hilarious.
that isn't what I said. Read it again.
Who is "The Big Guy?"
Yep. Hunter got a job because of his last name/nepotism. Shocking.
Payments to Hunter?!!! Uh...he's a private citizen, who cares if he got payments from a foreign company?
Now, if someone were to...say get Billions from Saudi Arabia for real estate while they were a government official to influence foreign policy, etc. THAT would be interesting
No. The Giuliani "fired prosecutor" stuff has been debunked.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/trump-revives-false-narrative-on-biden-and-ukraine/
Your stupidity is truly striking. You've been beating that dead horse of "NO EVIDENCE" for quite a while now. Really do love to display your idiocy, don't you?
What is the evidence, BD?
That's all I'm asking. I was promised evidence of wire transfers, via perhaps Nigerian shell companies, into Joe Biden's personal bank account/financial instruments in a direct, quid pro quo situation for taking action as a representative of the U.S. Government. I was told the Hunter Biden laptop would have all of this.
What is taking the GOP so long?
The evidence is everywhere clown. Even an individual with 1/16th of a brain could find it. Sadly, you don't even have that.
Such as? One example?
Arizona girl, please don’t feed the troll, or waste your time supplying facts! He can’t or won’t hear you!
people that use factcheck dot org , politifact dot org etc. etc. as proof of their positions are intellectually corrupt.
Nah. Reality proves the position. It's been debunked. Sorry. Durham looked into this during his investigation.
no it hasn't.
What did Durham find about it, specifically?
That it was Giuliani BS.
Maybe there's evidence on the laptop though, that the GOP hasn't made public.
We'll see....
a huge amount of material on that laptop is criminal activity, yet he hasn't been charged with those crimes.
only a liberal shill can defend that situation.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/trump-revives-false-narrative-on-biden-and-ukraine/
using fact check shows what a fraud you are . Thought you were better than that Conny
Lol!! You just said establishing accurate facts is fraudulent.
"there's none so blind as those who will not see' "
Jeremiah 5:21
Election wasn't stolen, Steve.