For 17 months, Joe Biden and his aides have ignored the scandal, broken by The Post three weeks before the 2020 election.
They have denied our revelations, refused to respond to our questions, told lies, and relied on their media and Big Tech allies to censor and cover up credible allegations of corruption involving the president and his family.
But the dam is about to burst, as more Americans learn about the scandal and draw negative conclusions about Biden's integrity.
© RasmussenA Rasmussen poll taken in December 2020, shows 48 percent of voters are gravely concerned about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The fallout for the White House is only likely to get worse. There is a limit to what Democratic spin merchants, CIA liars and false allegations of "Russian collusion" can do to bury the story.
The New York Times broke its silence last week, and admitted the laptop is real. The Washington Post also woke from its slumber and has begun investigating the laptop, recently phoning sources The Post interviewed long ago.
International scheme
And, as a grand jury in Delaware moves closer to potentially indicting Hunter, 52, over alleged tax evasion, money laundering and violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, pressure is mounting on the president finally to explain his role in the international influence-peddling scheme run by his son and his brother Jim Biden while he was vice president.
A Rasmussen poll shows 48 percent of voters are gravely concerned about Hunter Biden's laptop.NY Post Illustration
The laptop, along with evidence provided by Hunter's former business partner Tony Bobulinski, and Treasury documents provided to a Senate inquiry, reveal millions of dollars flowing to the Biden family and associates from dubious foreign sources, including three flashpoint countries vital to US national security: Russia, Ukraine and China.
Evidence also exists showing that Joe Biden financially benefited from his then-drug-addicted son's overseas business dealings — perhaps by several million dollars.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki played dumb last week and refused to answer questions from The Post's Steven Nelson about how the president is navigating conflicts of interest during the Ukraine-Russia war when it comes to sanctioning people who have done business with his family.
© Getty ImagesElena Baturina and Hunter Biden
Now, new evidence has emerged via the laptop showing that Baturina wired as much as $118 million to various offshoots of Rosemont Seneca Partners, the consulting firm co-founded by Hunter, Archer and John Kerry's stepson, Chris Heinz.
Most of the money is believed to have been used to buy properties in Brooklyn and Chelsea for Baturina, as well as shares in commercial office buildings across the country.
Baturina, the wife of the former corrupt mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov, was living in exile in London at the time after her husband fell out with the Kremlin. Perhaps this is why she has not been sanctioned by the Biden administration, although Vladimir Putin was photographed sitting beside her and hugging her at her husband's 2019 funeral in Moscow.
Biden, as vice president, met Baturina on April 16, 2015, at a small dinner organized by Hunter in a private room of the Georgetown restaurant Café Milano. Also on the guest list were Hunter's Ukrainian paymaster, Vadym Pozharskyi, and Kazakhstan's then-Prime Minister Karim Massimov, now in jail for treason, and his associate, oligarch Kenes Rakishev.
© Fox NewsHunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski had firsthand knowledge of his suspicious business deals while Joe Biden was vice president.
Joe Biden was observed that evening sitting and eating an entire meal with Hunter and his "investors," despite a claim by the White House to Washington Post fact checkers last year that he only attended briefly.
Corruption in Ukraine
VP Biden also is believed to have attended a second "investor dinner" organized by his son at the end of March 2016, during another visit to DC by Pozharskyi, an executive of the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which was paying Hunter $83,333 a month at the time.
© Bella Bellini/WikimediaHunter Biden apparently invited Vadym Pozharskyi to meet his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, at a lavish dinner in Washington, DC, in 2015.
Pozharskyi's visit coincided with the ouster on March 29, 2016, of Ukraine's chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who had been investigating Burisma's owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, the exiled energy minister of the former Russia-aligned government.
The month before he was removed from office, Shokin issued warrants for Zlochevsky's arrest and seized all his "movable and immovable property," including four houses, two plots of land and a Rolls-Royce Phantom, reported the Kyiv Post and Interfax-Ukraine.
Two weeks later, Shokin was fired by then-President Petro Poroshenko, although it took a month for parliament to ratify the decision.
© Volodymyr PetrovUkrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin speaks after a press conference in Kyiv on Nov. 2. Media reported that Shokin had submitted his resignation on Feb. 16, hours after Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he had asked the official to quit.
VP Biden later admitted, in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, that he had forced Poroshenko to fire Shokin by threatening to withhold $1 billion in US aid for Ukraine.
Biden claimed that Shokin was corrupt. Shokin, in turn, claimed that he was pressured to resign because he was pursuing Hunter's boss, Zlochevsky, for corruption.
In a 2019 interview with Ukrainian publication Strana, Shokin claimed he had been planning "to interrogate [Hunter] Biden Jr." before he was fired. This is just one of dozens of concerning stories that emerge from any honest interrogation of Hunter's laptop.
The White House refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of Hunter Biden's business deals with Ukraine, Russia and China under Joe Biden's watch.
The president may have plausible explanations for what looks like extensive corruption during his vice presidency. But so far, he and his defenders have just tried to shoot the messenger. That tactic is not working, because the American people are rapidly getting up to speed on the laptop scandal.
The Rasmussen poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday nights, shows that more than two-thirds of voters have been "closely" following news reports about Hunter. Almost half think the story is "very important" and another 18% say it is "somewhat important."
But the most politically lethal poll question found that 48% of voters believe that Joe Biden likely would not have been elected president "if the media had fully reported the story about Hunter Biden's laptop before the 2020 election." That compares to 45% who still think it is likely he would have been elected.
This goes to Biden's very legitimacy as president and shows that the media's failure to report the laptop story really was election interference. It is an epic scandal that refuses to go away.
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Which is just another layer of proof for me that the cyber attack will have nothing to do with Putin.
But what would I know?
Slightly off topic this but I was watching The Startup (yep, I still consume some tv time) yesterday and I’m on season 3 episode 10 (filmed in 2018 btw) and up comes a fictional news item. A chemical attack on LA happens, but what peaked my interest was a certain scene… obviously manipulated by photoshop or whatever to show bright yellow buildings surrounded by a sea of blue. The bold headline flashing on the bottom of the screen in bright yellow writing on a blue background. In the bottom right corner they had a breaking news warning blue on the top and yellow on the bottom in a perfect flag shape.
Also the adverts! Nearly every ad had bright blue and yellow visuals that were clearly not the colours of the original advertiser.
Propaganda is everywhere I look. But at least it all comes wrapped in summery colours I guess. Silver linings and all that!