Hi Miriam,
Then let the facts come out sooner rather than later so we can put the Biden
campaign to bed in time for the democrats to get a better candidate. Sad
that the likes of the NYT and Washington Post want to hide the truth here.
That would just about guarantee the re-election of Trump.
It really is time to break up both parties, neither of which is worth saving
in my book and make them start from scratch.
Bob Hachey
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Subject: [blind-democracy] If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for
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If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden
September 21, 2019
The Establishment media is in a frenzy about what they hope will be the
downfall of Trump, but if the facts come out, it could be the downfall of
Joe Biden instead, writes Ray McGovern.
By Ray McGovern
Raymcgovern.com
The Joe Biden-friendly Establishment media has mounted a full-court press to
"prove" that Biden is, well, not a crook.
The stakes are extremely high, Biden is vulnerable, and media players are
using to a faretheewell the old adage about the best defense being a good
offense. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street
Journal are desperately trying to steal the ball and get ahead in the
publicity game. But time is about to run out, and pre-emptive propaganda is
unlikely to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat. IF the facts do come
out and IF they are reported, Biden's presidential hopes may suffer a mortal
blow.
Hunter and Joe Biden at Obama's 2009 inaugural parade. (Wikimedia Commons)
When the corruption in which the former Vice President and his son Hunter
were involved in Ukraine becomes more widely known, the press wants to be in
position to "show" that it's all the fault of President Donald Trump and his
lawyers for trying to derail Biden's candidacy by exposing him. If past is
precedent, the media will largely succeed. The question is whether enough
people will, nevertheless, be able to see through this all-too-familiar
charade.
In an interview with The National Interest, Joe Lauria put this episode in
context:
"It was in February [2014] when Yanukovych was overthrown, and just a few
months later (in May), Joe Biden's son and a close friend of John Kerry's
stepson, they both join the board of this Ukrainian gas company. And the
name of that was Burisma Holdings," said Joe Lauria, editor of Consortium
News and a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. "So just after
an American-backed coup, you have Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and this John
Kerry family friend joining the board of probably the largest private gas
producer in Ukraine. They installed the new government, and as the bounty of
this coup, Joe Biden's son personally profited. He would not have gotten
that job if Yanukovych was still in power," Lauria told The National
Interest.
Will U.S. voters have any way of putting these dots together, and also in
discerning, for example, how much truth there may be in charges that Vice
President Biden pressed hard for the ouster of Ukraine's Prosecutor General,
Viktor Shokin, who was canned after investigating corruption at Burisma
Holdings Ukrainian gas company of which Hunter Biden was a board member? If
the truth does come out, no one will have to rely on remarks from the likes
of Rudy Giulinai, one of Trump's lawyers, who has called the episode "an
astounding scandal of major proportions." That may be hyperbole but, still,
the damage to Biden could be fatal.
And so, damage control is in full swing today at the Times, the Post, the
Journal and other "usual suspects," with the Times winning the laurels with
its Editorial Board, no less, weighing in with "What did Trump tell
Ukraine's president?" There have also been op-eds by Max Boot, Jennifer
Rubin, Anne Applebaum, Greg Sargent and (my favorite), George T. Conway III
and Neal Katyal at the Post, whose headline is: "Trump has done plenty to
warrant impeachment. But the Ukraine allegations are over the top."
That title is correct.
This piece was republished with the author's permission.
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical
Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. Ray was a CIA analyst for 27
years; in retirement he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for
Sanity (VIPS).
