Biden Corruption: Trickle Of Information Becomes Flow Becomes Flood Becomes Avalanche

October 23, 2020/ Francis Menton

Kindly give the Manhattan Contrarian some credit for calling this one correctly at the very earliest stages. On the other hand, this was not a difficult call to make; you had to be either blind or braindead or corrupt or all three not to call it correctly. The category “all three” applies to the entirety of the progressive, Washington and mainstream media blob.

It was September 20, 2019 that the Wall Street Journal reported the existence of a so-called “whistleblower” complaint, asserting that on a telephone call in July of that year, President Trump had “pressured” the new President of Ukraine to investigate allegations of money laundering involving Joe and Hunter Biden. On September 23, 2019, as reported in the New York Post, Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani responded by asserting that some $3 million had been paid to Biden’s son Hunter from Ukraine. Over the next couple of weeks, various journalists (all from the right) put together relatively detailed timelines of the activities of Hunter Biden in Ukraine. (Here is one from Jim Geraghty of National Review on September 30, 2019.) Meanwhile, the “whistleblower” allegations turned into the impeachment inquiry, that continued until it ultimately cratered with Trump’s acquittal in the Senate on February 5, 2020.

By October 6, 2019, I was already ready to make the call, which I did in a post titled “The Bidens: ‘Stone Cold Crooked.’” That post covered in considerable detail the facts as to the Bidens and Ukraine as then known; but really, this was not complicated. Dubious Ukrainian energy companies in the crosshairs of prosecutors do not pay $1 million per year for attendance at two annual board meetings to people with Hunter Biden’s background (no experience in the energy industry) supposedly to get the benefit of their business acumen. It was screamingly obvious that this had to be payment for access or influence or both with respect to Hunter’s dad Joe. For many more Manhattan Contrarian posts on the subject of Biden corruption, particularly as regards Ukraine, go to this composite link and scroll down.

And then, there the matter sat for a year plus. At the outset, Joe Biden decided that his defense was going to be flat denial, combined with refusal to answer any particularized questions, placing complete reliance on his media allies to cover for him. As early as September 21, 2019, speaking to reporters in Iowa, Biden answered a question from Steve Doocy of Fox News with the lines “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” and “everybody’s looked at” the allegations and “there is nothing there!”

The intervening year has seen mostly only a trickle of new information about Biden family corruption, with a new tidbit or two coming out every now and then. For example, it was late October 2019 when information first came out about Hunter’s dubious dealings in Romania. Skip all the way to September 23, 2020, when the Senate Finance and Homeland Security Committee released a Report revealing some $3.5 million in payments in or about 2015 to Hunter Biden from the wife of the Mayor of Moscow, Elena Baturina. At the first presidential debate on September 29, Joe Biden had not changed at all from his strategy of complete stonewall. Confronted by Trump (not the moderator of course) about the $3.5 million from Baturina, Biden just repeated the same thing over and over: “That’s not true. . . . None of that is true. . . . It’s been discredited. . . . My son did nothing wrong.” But the Senate Committees based their report on wire transfer records that they specifically cited. What about that? No response.

Now, suddenly, in just the past ten days, the trickle of information about Biden corruption has gone to a flow, and then to a flood, and just today to an avalanche. It started on October 14 with the New York Post reporting on emails contained on a laptop left by Hunter at a computer repair shop; and it has accelerated from there. The new information includes not only incriminating emails and other documents, but also extensive indicia of authenticity not previously available, live eyewitness accounts of events contradicting Joe Biden’s preposterous defense, and revelations of widespread previously-concealed dealings in China involving massive sums of money.

Let’s review these revelations, starting on October 14:

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https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2020-10-23-biden-corruption-trickle-of-information-becomes-flow-becomes-flood-becomes-avalanche

Hunter Biden's Company Partnered With Chinese Military to Acquire Stealth Tech, Assisted By The Big Guy and John Kerry

By Jennifer Van Laar | Oct 24, 2020 5:30 PM ET

For the last 50 years, the United States military has enjoyed air superiority over essentially every other nation on the planet. In addition to good-old American ingenuity and freedom to create, this superiority was created and is maintained by the government’s support of ongoing research and development to maintain that superiority. The research and development process for new fighter jets can take decades, as with the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). China has always lagged significantly behind the United States in this department, but they’ve recently made major strides.

A significant factor in China’s progress comes as a result of the 2015 acquisition of Henniges Automotive, a Michigan company whose anti-vibration technology is used on the F-35 (stealth) fighter, by Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC), the state-owned entity that produces fighter jets for the Chinese military.

Guess whose company partnered with AVIC in that acquisition? That’s right – Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz’s BHR.

As a refresher: BHR is a Chinese venture capital firm in which Rosemont Seneca Thornton (the Biden/Heinz/Archer/Bulger partnership) owned a 30 percent stake, and which is majority-owned and controlled by the state-owned Bank of China. (Hunter Biden still owns 10 percent through his Skaneateles, LLC entity.)

For the 2015 transaction a wholly-owned subsidiary of AVIC, AVIC Auto, partnered with BHR to acquire Henniges, with AVIC Auto owning 51 percent and BHR owning 49 percent – meaning that the Chinese government-owned military manufacturer ended up with controlling interest of Henniges.

The Chinese government and military have attempted for decades to catch up to the aforementioned US military superiority, by any means necessary. At the time of the sale, US government officials – and the public, through Edward Snowden – were aware that China had hacked “terabytes” of data, including F-35 technology, and made use of it in their J-20 fighter. By acquiring Henniges and their anti-vibration technology, AVIC could put that technology directly to use in the Chinese military jets.

In a press release announcing the deal Daen Lu, described as chairman of Henniges Automotive, said (emphasis added):

“This acquisition represents a long-term, strategic investment by AVIC Auto to sustain and grow the Henniges business, while keeping the successful leadership, culture, benefits and contracts associated with the company intact. We are excited about this acquisition, and look forward to the addition of their significant expertise and the benefits it will bring to both of our companies.”

Yes, we’re sure AVIC looked forward to the significant expertise Henniger brought to the table. And who is Daen Lu? A Bloomberg profile describes him as both the Chairman of the Board of Henniges Automotive and as Chairman of AVIC Capital Co., LTD. So, was he on the board of Henniges before the acquisition, or was he inserted by AVIC?

BHR’s press release shares similar sentiments. In a March 2016 interview BHR CEO Jonathan Li characterized the Henniges transaction as BHR’s “typical business model”:

Henniges [an automotive equipment manufacturer acquired last year] is our typical business model. We set up a joint venture with AVIC – they own 51% and we own 49% – and did the acquisition together. AVIC has industry experience, operations in China, and it knew Henniges well. As a financial investor, we use our international network and our professionalism. While the AVIC is very experienced in international acquisitions, some Chinese companies don’t have the same cross-border experience and so may appreciate what we can offer in this domain.

Xin Wang, a US-educated Canadian attorney who serves as BHR’s Managing Partner, said that by BHR serving as a conduit for the SOE they “can facilitate the transaction.”

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https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2020/10/24/hunter-biden-chinese-military-stealth-joe-john-kerry268540-n268540

China killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 CIA sources from 2010 to 2012, hobbling U.S. spying operations in a massive intelligence breach whose origin has not been identified, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/chinese-group-behind-release-biden-tapes-claim-bidens-offered-cia-agents-china-went-missing-2010-2012/

not all clowns are cabal…..