Pinkerton: The Swamp Wants Its Obama-Biden Insider Crony Deals Back
Democrats say that the swirl of allegations surrounding Hunter Biden—kicked off by two reporters at the New York Post, furthered by Peter Schweizer’s writing in Breitbart News, and contextualized by the Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel—have not been proven.
Fair enough: We can have full confidence that the information on Hunter Biden’s laptop computer, as well as corroborating allegations coming from other sources, will be thoroughly investigated. Right?
After all, there should be no doubt that Hunter Biden’s laptop, reportedly in an FBI vault, is safe and secure. Right? So nothing bad will happen to it, or to any other evidence associated with the case. Right? Similarly, any and all allegations about how Joe Biden, and the rest of his family—and even Kamala Harris—might be involved will be carefully reviewed. Right? Right?
Yet as we wait for the wheels of justice to do their proper grinding, we might look back to some issues concerning Joe Biden that are not in dispute. And why aren’t they in dispute? Because they are part of the historical record, and it’s a record that sheds light on Biden’s long-standing association with crony capitalism. For instance:
On October 27, 2009, Vice President Biden stood in front of the shut-down Boxwood Road manufacturing plant in Wilmington, Delaware, and proclaimed that the facility would soon be reopening and making hybrid electric cars. As the vice president said that day:
American innovators, American business, American labor has never let this country down when we’ve been given a fighting chance. And today, this factory in Delaware, and the industry, are going to get back up off the mat.
The occasion was the announcement that the U.S. government was loaning money to Fisker Automotive to start building cars in Biden’s home state. The cheering headline on the White House blog: “‘You’ve Got to Believe’ — Building the Cars of the Future in America.”
If that name, Fisker Automotive, isn’t familiar, perhaps that’s because the company didn’t last long. Having received at least $193 million from Uncle Sam, Fisker declared bankruptcy in 2014 and was bought out by a Chinese company, Wanxiang. (An all-new company, Fisker, Inc., was created in 2016.)
Yet as the Washington Post reported in 2013, while Fisker Automotive was alive, it benefited from a “fog of politically connected investors and lobbyists, as well-placed as former Vice President Al Gore, who was an initial investor in Fisker and a senior partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.” We might observe that the “fog” that the Post mentioned is another name for “swamp.” The newspaper added that another partner at Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr, served on President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
In other words, Fisker was connected. Too bad its connections didn’t add up to a viable commercial product—and so all of Biden’s cheerleading was for naught.
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