Power Line's Steven Hayward observes that the Washington Post has quite recently followed The New York Times in itemizing the ethical shortcomings of Hunter Biden, and at least inferentially his father, Joe Biden. Hayward quotes the WaPo reporting as follows:
Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate [CEFC] and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements. . .
The contract, signed on Aug. 2, 2017, stated that Hunter Biden would get a one-time retainer of $500,000 and would then receive a monthly stipend of $100,000, with his uncle James Biden getting $65,000 a month. . .
The potential energy projects Hunter Biden discussed with CEFC never came to fruition.
A few weeks after he went into business with the CEFC executives in the fall of 2017, Hunter Biden requested changes to the fifth-floor office space he was renting.
On Sept. 21, 2017, Hunter Biden wrote to a building manager requesting new office signage to reflect a new family enterprise and a new business relationship: “The Biden Foundation and Hudson West (CEFC- US),” he wrote in emails to the property manager.
He also requested keys for his new office mates: his father, Joe; his mother, Jill (sic); his uncle James; and the Chinese executive, Gongwen Dong.
Actually, Jill Biden is Hunter's step-mother. It's unclear whether Hunter or the WaPo misidentified her as his mother. What is clear is that father Joe was intimately involved with son Hunter's 'consulting' activities, raking in massive Chinese bribes for doing nothing anyone cares to talk about.
Hayward holds the view that this "golly, look at the corruption" discovery by WaPo is part of a Democrat effort to get rid of Joe Biden, and he predicts similar revelations about Kamala Harris, perhaps helped along by CA Gov. Gavin Newsom.
