Not everyone wants to follow you down the Fox/Breitbart/American Stinker/Treehouse rabbithole of lies, Charley.

It is public knowledge that Hunter hit the sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock and roll lifestyle harder than he should. So what? His job with Burisma was probably a sinecure, with the aim of securing access to his father. That didn't work out - it's a matter of record that Joe Biden's only involvement with Burisma was working with international authorities to fire a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor who had failed to investigate Burisma for them.

Hunter is hardly the first child of a prominent politician to try and monetise his genealogy, (Ivanka Trump sausage casing anyone?).

But at the risk of repetition, Hunter is not standing, Joe is. Apparently the dirtiest dirt Team Trump can dig up is a single email , in poor English, that may be about a meeting between Biden senior and a Burisma board advisor. There's no evidence the meeting actually ever happened and Team Biden are clear that it did not.

Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley spent many months and thousands of taxpayers dollars digging for dirt on the Biden's Ukrainian interests and came up empty:-

the extent to which Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board affected U.S. policy toward Ukraine is not clear

(Well not quite empty, they claimed Hunter received $millions from the wife of a former Russian mayor. He did not)

So what is the substance behind the Biden 'manure'? Please, no hearsay, insinuation, 'interpretations' or falsehoods.

"the CCTV footage from the shop was wiped."

“What? Like with a cloth or something?”

Asking for a friend named Hillary.

Durham’s grand jury reportedly is considering if false information about a Trump backchannel to Putin may have been knowingly passed to the U.S. government.

https://amgreatness.com/2020/10/15/a-glaring-hole-in-the-alfa-bank-trump-server-story-could-unravel-the-russia-hoax/

David Ignatius "The truth behind the Hunter Biden non-scandal"

The internet is amazing, no?

https://www.trumpgolfcount.com/

David Ignatius "The truth behind the Hunter Biden non-scandal"

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1317287500625420288?s=09

Clearly the word 'substance' is giving people a problem.

Situation normal.

And your comments on this, Phil?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-biden-business-associate-flips-prison-releases-emails-detailing-china-influence

( how hard can you hit the crack and still be within suitable grounds? )

Yes to the internet.

https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-16-at-10.23.37-AM.png?w=710&ssl=1

And your comments on this, Phil?

You seem to have misundersood. I was interested in hard evidence, I specifically disbarred 'hearsay, insinuation, 'interpretations' or falsehoods.'

Try again?

I was interested in hard evidence, I specifically disbarred 'hearsay, insinuation, 'interpretations' or falsehoods.'
Oct 18, 2020 at 1:37 AM Phil Clarke

But you believe in Mann's Hockey Stick Haven't you disbarred yourself as a trustworthy witness, jury and judge?

Don't worry, Phil. Plenty on the way over the next two weeks :

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/10/17/schweizer-more-emails-proof-of-relationship-between-hunter-biden-russian-oligarch-forthcoming/

Some more fun reading on the Biden MO :

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/16/before-biden-did-ukraine-there-was-iraq-and-serbia/

Adam Schiff is always good for a laugh :

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/17/adam-schiff-claims-hunter-biden-bombshell-reports-come-from-the-kremlin/

Rudy aware that the material needs careful checking :

https://www.theepochtimes.com/giuliani-details-steps-taken-to-authenticate-hunter-biden-material_3541047.html

Joe Biden is taking another day to rest.

So, nine years ago, an associate of Hunter Biden helped facilitate a meeting at the White House for a delegation of Chinese businessmen. Other than being cc-ed on some emails there's no direct evidence that Biden himself assisted, in fact the only times his name is mentioned underline that he was not involved - 'travelling in UAE', 'couldn't confirm this with Hunter'.

And, as ever with ZH the piece is written under a pseudonym.

Really, that's it?

Always jam tomorrow, huh?

Nobody concerned about the ethics of sharing private photographs and correspondence?

Thought not.

RE: https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/16/before-biden-did-ukraine-there-was-iraq-and-serbia/

When a troublesome Ukrainian prosecutor named Viktor Shokin seemed to be taking too much interest in Burisma, Papa Joe came to the rescue, openly threatening the western-dependent politicians installed after Ukraine’s 2014 color revolution with withholding of a billion dollars in U.S. aid until Shokin, whom Joe unironically alleged to be “corrupt,” got the heave-ho. As Tucker Carlson nails it, Shokin’s ouster followed a direct request from Burisma’s Clinton-connected PR firm, Blue Star Strategies, to Hunter to lobby his dad to get Shokin off their back. Joe did just what was asked.

This is a lie. The investigation into Burisma concerned events that happened before Biden joined the company and had in any case been shelved years before Shokin was removed (by Parliamentary vote). His sacking came after pressure from the US, EU, World Bank and the IMF who saw his lack of diligence in prosecuting corruption as corrupt in itself.

I said no falsehoods, remember?

It is clearly unethical to expose how these grifters profit from being in public office.

It is clearly unethical to expose how these grifters profit from being in public office.

Do let me know when that actually happens.

Do you suppose it would be worth Ivanka trademarking 'Ivanka Trump Nursing Homes' if her last name was Smith? Would the Trump University and the Trump Charitable Foundation (both now closed down for fraud, naturally) have got off the ground without the T word?

Some unkind souls are even saying The Trump Presidency Is One Long Grift without even venturing into the twilight world of right wingnut conspiracy theories and dubiously-sourced private emails.

See above re: Jam tomorrow.

How is the great Minnesota Ballot Harvesting scandal coming along? ;-)

"In and of itself there is no problem at all with mainstream news media applying high evidentiary standards to its reporting and making sure readers are aware when political manipulators could be pulling the wool over their eyes. In and of itself this would be a good thing. The problem is that all this emphasis on verification and truth only comes up when it is politically convenient for these plutocratic media outlets, because only favoring truth when it’s convenient is the same as lying constantly."

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/10/15/imagine-if-msm-consistently-applied-the-evidentiary-standards-its-applying-to-hunter-bidens-emails/

"This is surely the first time, at least in recent memory, that we have ever seen such a broad consensus within the mass media that it is the civic duty of news reporters to try and influence the outcome of a presidential general election by withholding negative news coverage for one candidate. There was a lot of fascinated hatred for Trump in 2016, but people still reported on Hillary Clinton’s various scandals and didn’t attack one another for doing so. In 2020 that has changed, and mainstream news reporters have now largely coalesced along the doctrine that they must avoid any reporting which might be detrimental to the Biden campaign."

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/10/18/the-emails-are-russian-will-be-the-narrative-regardless-of-facts-or-evidence/