{"id":41065,"date":"2020-12-11T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41065"},"modified":"2020-12-11T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:43:07","slug":"theres-a-reason-the-media-is-suddenly-reporting-on-hunter-bidens-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=41065","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a reason the media is suddenly reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Andrea Widburg<br \/>\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n<p>In the world of Democrat politics, there are no coincidences. With that principle in mind, it\u2019s possible to understand why Democrat media outlets are suddenly reporting about Hunter Biden\u2019s corruption, a story that spills over onto his father. The first is to get ahead of potential breaking news about Hunter&#8217;s imminent arrest. The second theory is the one Monica Showalter advanced: The leftists used Biden to attain the White House (or so they believe) and are now ready to get rid of him. Having a criminal son may be just what the Obama\/Harris camp needs to make that happen. And if there\u2019s any doubt about this theory, an article in\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0seems to lay it to rest.<\/p>\n<p>We conservatives remember how, in October, the media and the tech tyrants conspired to block any reports about Hunter Biden, whether those reports were the Senate Intelligence Committee\u2019s findings about the $3.5 million Hunter received from the wife of a Russian politician, or the shocking details of political corruption, drug addiction, and sexual debauchery contained on his hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Well, to ordinary people, these stories were shocking. To the media and the tech tyrants, these stories were potential dangers to Joe Biden\u2019s candidacy. They had to be stopped \u2013 and stopped they were. Twitter and Facebook, the two biggest social media tech tyrants, refused to allow any reports to circulate and banned people,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/kayleigh-mcenany-locked-out-of-twitter-for-sharing-posts-hunter-biden-story\/\">including President Trump\u2019s press secretary<\/a>, from their platforms when they refused to bow down to this censorship.<\/p>\n<p>News outlets derided the reports about the Biden family\u2019s corrupt dealings, all of which implicated Joe Biden as the man who pimped out his addled son for huge sums of money, as non-stories. That\u2019s not an exaggeration. It\u2019s explicitly what NPR\u2019s public editor said:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/images\/bucket\/2020-12\/225830_5_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Likewise, CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour, who\u2019s served as a shill for every tyrannical regime on earth, insisted that, because she was a real \u201cjournalist,\u201d it was not her job to investigate stories. Instead, it was only her job to determine whether the results of other people\u2019s investigations met her standards. The Hunter Biden story did not:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1337085128728662023&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2020%2F12%2Ftheres_a_reason_the_media_is_suddenly_reporting_on_hunter_bidens_corruption.html&amp;siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1337085128728662023\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When President Trump tried to bring the story to Americans\u2019 attention during the first presidential debate, Biden snapped back that it was Russian disinformation, a lie that the media and tech tyrants enthusiastically disseminated:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1336875410576072705&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2020%2F12%2Ftheres_a_reason_the_media_is_suddenly_reporting_on_hunter_bidens_corruption.html&amp;siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1336875410576072705\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, though, the media is releasing information about the criminal investigations into not both Hunter Biden and Joe\u2019s brother, James Biden. As the above tweet notes, these investigations have been ongoing for years. We also know that a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2020\/11\/24\/17-of-biden-voters-would-not-have-voted-for-him-had-they-known-scandals-liberal-media-censored\/\">sizable number of voters<\/a>\u00a0would have passed over Biden for Trump had they known about Biden family corruption. So, what gives? Why are Hunter and, by extension, Joe himself, suddenly fair game?<\/p>\n<p>It could be that bad things are about to come down from the FBI. After all,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/trump__youll_see_a_lot_of_big_things_happening_over_the_next_couple_of_days.html\">Trump did promise<\/a>\u00a0that \u201ca lot of big things\u201d will happen soon. The sudden flurry of reports about the Bidens could just be the Democrats\u2019 way of getting ahead of the story so that, if Hunter is shown doing the perp walk, they can say that it\u2019s \u201cold news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, it\u2019s equally likely that the Democrats are making plans to get Biden out of office as quickly as possible \u2013 or perhaps, sideline him before he\u2019s even sworn in (assuming, of course, that Biden hangs onto that president-elect title). As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/circling_vultures_the_far_left_is_at_war_with_biden_and_its_getting_out_into_the_open.html\">Monica Showalter pointed out<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday, Biden is not making leftists happy. He\u2019s filling his possible administration with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/left-wing-group-label-biden-administration-picks-as-corporate-friendly-insiders\">corporate insiders<\/a>, he wants a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/12\/08\/joe-biden-faces-blowback-on-dod-pick-possibly-worst-of-all-options\/\">former military officer<\/a>\u00a0to head the defense department, and he\u2019s continuing to show\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-joe-biden-announces-name-of-his-chosen-hhs-chief\">a very rapid cognitive decline<\/a>. He&#8217;s offering Clinton-era politics with a side of dementia and that is not what the hard left side of the party wants.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, the goal, always, was to get Kamala into the White House. It didn\u2019t and doesn\u2019t matter that the voters don\u2019t like her &#8212; as demonstrated by the fact that even her home state of California\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/08\/11\/kamala-harris-final-poll-number-in-california-7-percent\/\">didn\u2019t like her<\/a>\u00a0and her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/12\/03\/kamala-harris-drops-out-of-2020-presidential-race.html\">early retreat<\/a>\u00a0from the primaries. What matters is that she, unlike both Hillary and Joe, is Barack Obama\u2019s true third term.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is as hard left as they come and willing to do whatever it takes to maintain power. While Joe Biden, despite his corruption and his shift to the hard left, still cherishes some residual notions about the Constitution, Kamala is not hindered by such old-fashioned ideas:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1294018535555989504&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2020%2F12%2Ftheres_a_reason_the_media_is_suddenly_reporting_on_hunter_bidens_corruption.html&amp;siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1294018535555989504\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With Americans at large finally learning that Hunter Biden and James Biden are crooked and that Joe is the big, corrupt tree from which these rotten apples fell, there\u2019s going to be lots of pressure on Joe to retire as quickly as is politely possible. It\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/10\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-investigation.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0that gives the game away. On Thursday, it published a positively wistful article entitled \u201cInvestigation of His Son Is Likely to Hang Over Biden as He Takes Office: Unless the Trump Justice Department clears Hunter Biden, the new president will confront the prospect of his own administration handling an inquiry that could expose his son to criminal prosecution.\u201d The opening paragraph, speaks of Biden in a\u00a0\u201cno-win situation\u201d\u00a0that could be\u00a0\u201cpolitically and legally perilous,\u201d\u00a0and the report continues in that vein. The subtext is clear: Leave. Leave now.<\/p>\n<p>Joe served his purpose by being the bland front person for a full leftist assault on the White House. Now it\u2019s time for him to go. And while his handlers may reward him for a job well done with the pleasure of the inauguration, you can be sure that they\u2019ll pressure him to do\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/bronsonstocking\/2020\/12\/03\/watch-bidens-bewildering-answer-to-how-hell-resolve-disagreements-with-kamala-harris-n2581037\">what he promised to do<\/a>, which is to invent a respectable disease and quit ASAP.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Image:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7mPM4vM7PNA\">Hunter Biden at the DNC convention<\/a>. YouTube screengrab.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/theres_a_reason_the_media_is_suddenly_reporting_on_hunter_bidens_corruption.html\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/theres_a_reason_the_media_is_suddenly_reporting_on_hunter_bidens_corruption.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}