Thursday, June 30, 2022

Joe Biden Voicemail Means It's Time To Appoint A Special Counsel

In 2018, while Hunter Biden was reportedly under investigation for his dealings with Chinese businessmen, Joe Biden left a voicemail message telling Hunter: "I think you're clear." This latest development in the Biden family pay-to-play scandal provides further proof a special counsel is needed to oversee the ongoing criminal probe.

In an exclusive, The Daily Mail on Monday reported that a voicemail recovered "From a backup of Hunter's iPhone XS," stored on his abandoned MacBook laptop, captured Joe Biden leaving this message for Hunter on December 12, 2018: "Hey pal, it's Dad. It's 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance just give me a call. Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk to you. I thought the article released online, it's going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good. I think you're clear. And anyway if you get a chance, give me a call, I love you."

The Washington Post, which independently authenticated Hunter's abandoned laptop months after its pre-election discovery, likewise reported that emails recovered from the hard drive showed that an intermediary for CEFC first "Reached out to Hunter Biden in December 2015 to set up a meeting between the then-vice president's son and Ye.".

In 2018, when the article that prompted Joe Biden's messages hit, the millions in payments from CEFC to business ventures controlled by Hunter Biden were not known.

That Joe Biden told his son "I think you're clear" in relation to reporting discussing Hunter's connection with CEFC, and that this assurance came just one week after Ho's conviction while Hunter Biden was reportedly under investigation for his business dealings with Ye and Ho, raises the question of whether Joe Biden had any inside information concerning the investigation of his son.

A related question concerns the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wiretapping of Ho. According to The Daily Mail article that broke news of Joe Biden's voicemail message, the outlet had obtained a copy of a FISA surveillance order that "Revealed that federal agents were monitoring Ho as a potential spy for China." That surveillance likely continued, at a minimum, until Ho's arrest in late 2017, meaning that the FISA surveillance likely swept up some communications with or about Hunter Biden.

Even if not, the evidence continues to mount against the Biden family, leaving two fundamental questions: What is taking the Delaware U.S. attorney so long? And why hasn't a special counsel been appointed yet?

https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/29/joe-bidens-voicemail-to-hunter-means-its-time-to-appoint-a-special-counsel/ 

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