One Nice Guy Not so Nice: Joe Biden's Ineptitude

By Murali Venugopalan, Johanna Venugopalan and Mundiyath Venugopalan

This book surveys President Biden's first two years in the White House. It examines first why he hasn't been able to keep his promise to stop the pandemic and to follow always his mantra "Follow the Science." Then there is discussion of the importance of critical thinking and examines how race was incorporated into it to generate the critical race theory the teaching of which in schools and colleges has come under sharp attack from parents whom his administration has termed domestic terrorists. His contention that white supremacy is the greatest danger to the country follows, with the added topics of the increase in crime since summer of 2020, associated looting, shooting and shop lifting and Democrats demand for better gun control and defunding of police. Open border and immigration is treated in the context of building back better border-less with the huge crowds there. After that we review the domestic policy, foreign policy, and climate policy, all of which has resulted in bankrolling trillions of dollars in the inflation nation with nothing to show the taxpayer who is suffering from increasing food and fuel prices daily. Three following chapters discuss the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, assisting Ukraine as hired hands with weapons and money to defend the Russian invasion, and China's actions to take control of Taiwan, respectively. The last chapter is about midterm elections in which control of the House of Representatives was taken over by Republicans and the prospects for completing two terms as president.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9798823007832

Murali Venugopalan

Murali Venugopalan graduated from the University of Illinois in Economics and Political Science and received PhD in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Kansas. He taught and directed international programs at various institutions including Western Illinois University (WIU), Virginia Commonwealth University, and Kennesaw State University. He led three successful accreditation initiatives and recruited 400 students from more than 20 countries, and established university partnerships and short-term programs to further enhance international studies. He has published numerous papers and presentations on topics including international relations, foreign policy, comparative education, literature, and student success in higher education. Mundiyath Venugopalan received his PhD from Banaras Hindu University in India, where he was a lecturer in Chemistry. During study-leave in 1960-63 he had yearlong photochemistry awards at the University of Munich, National Research Council of Canada, and University of California-Santa Barbara. On a conference trip to Canada in 1961 he came to know a Dutch lady named Johanna who grew up in France and was working in Montreal for Air France. In 1964 they married and moved to Kingston, Canada where Murali was born and Mundiyath worked at the Royal Military College. In 1969, the family moved to Illinois, where Mundiyath joined the Chemistry faculty at WIU. During sabbaticals, he held fellowships at Argonne National Laboratory and universities in Germany and Switzerland. He retired from WIU in 1992 and joined the faculty at University of Queretaro in Mexico. Upon his return, he taught at WIU for few more years, and then moved to Texas in 2010. His scientific research papers and books on electrical discharge plasma chemistry and physics were published around the world. Author House published Murali's critically acclaimed novel, iKill, in 2013. With his parents he coauthored From Deplorable to Neanderthal Thinking, published by Fulton Books in 2022.

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One Nice Guy

Not So Nice

Joe Biden’s Ineptitude

Murali Venugopalan

Johanna Venugopalan

Mundiyath Venugopalan

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1     The Biden Presidency

Chapter 2     Biden Can’t ‘Shut It Down’

Chapter 3     Biden’s Mantra: Follow the Science or Not

Chapter 4     Critical What? Race, Crime, Guns, etc.

Chapter 5     White Supremacy and Domestic Terrorism

Chapter 6     Building Back Better Borderless

Chapter 7     Domestic Policy: Gateway to Bidenflation?

Chapter 8     Foreign Policy: America Back Last

Chapter 9     Climate Change

Chapter 10   Taliban back in Afghanistan

Chapter 11   Ukraine, Russia, and America’s New War

Chapter 12   Two Chinas and the Indo-Pacific

Chapter 13   An Ending of Sorts

Bibliography

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., elected repeatedly as Senator, Vice President and now President for the story of this book that begins with his presidency of the United States on January 20, 2021, and finishes with the commencement of 118th Congress in January 2023. It was interesting to us since he used the mantra, follow the science, during the campaign and presidency. According to Nobel physicist Albert Einstein and science philosopher Karl Popper, science proceeds through a series of mistakes. With our experience in scientific work, we feel the same way. When Biden’s government claims to be ‘following the science’ in response to a problem, like the recent pandemic, we ask ourselves, Was their changing advice on the same problem a series of mistakes?

We started making notes as campaign and presidential events unfolded beginning in April 2019. Numerous internet media sources published news of the events the same day, and we collated them for our story. We thank the following media outlets: Google, Wikipedia.org, Web.MD, ABC, BBC, CBS, csmonitor, CNN, The Economist, Fox News, NBC, PBS, Politico, Reuters, Stat, and VOA.News. We acknowledge their courtesy at source in the book, and apologize if some sources were omitted by mistake. We recognize that media reports are diverse, partisan, opinionated, and may contain misinformation and even disinformation.

A traditional folk tale from India about six blind persons and an elephant tells how different people can have dissimilar perceptions on the same object (https://williepietersen.com/the-lessons-of-the-blind-men-and-the-elephant-2/). For example, a person touching an elephant may interpret the tusk as a spear; the trunk as a snake; the ear as a fan; the foot as a tree trunk; the side as a wall; and the tail as a rope. These observations are correct because different parts of the elephant were touched, and the elephant consists of all those characteristics.

Similarly, there might be some truth in what politicians and pundits proclaim. We may not agree with their viewpoints for reasons explained. For example, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently declared, the border is not open in a press briefing because she saw the very tall Trump Wall on TV; however, Republicans viewed the long lines of asylum seekers on the same network and deemed her statement as a bold-faced lie (https://www. foxnews.com/media/karine-jean-pierre-faces-backlash-claiming-border-open-bold-faced-lie).

We included the elephant folk tale to encourage readers and the media to consider assessment awareness -awareness that each of us creates a unique view of the world based on personal experience, language, and culture, to understand why it took more than two years for the New York Times and the Washington Post to print what the New York Post had reported on the authenticity of the Laptop from Hell. Also former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and former Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who revealed to podcaster Joe Rogan in August 2022 that the FBI approached Facebook to warn about Russian propaganda) both censored the Post report from their social media platforms, for it interfered in the presidential election of 2020 and thereby altered the course of America’s history. New Twitter CEO Elon Musk dropped a bombshell of information on December 2, 2022, admitting that Twitter had suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop scandal on its platform ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

We thank the staff at AuthorHouse for its attention to detail and its professionalism. They answered all our inquiries thoroughly and offered useful suggestions. Their evaluators and designers ensured this book was valuable and appealing to a broad range of readers. We are grateful to the AuthorHouse staff for the successful publication and marketing of the book.

Joe and the Chinese moon (Photomontage by Mundiyath)

President Biden calling MAGA a threat to democracy in front of Independence Hall

(Public domain, photo courtesy of voanews.com)

Preface

One nice guy was born on November 20, 1942. He was named Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., and his friends and family called him Joe. He was first raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and later in New Castle County, Delaware. He attended the Archmere Academy in Claymont and graduated in 1961. While at the Academy, he experienced an epiphany of two well-dressed men in suits kissing each other and his father saying Joey, it’s simple. They love each other. He also faced a bad dude by the name of CornPop at a swimming pool where he was working as a security guard. Then he enrolled at the University of Delaware and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 with a double major in history and political science, and a minor in English. A year later, he married Neilia Hunter, a student at Syracuse University. They had three children: Beau, Hunter, and Naomi. In 1968, Biden earned a Juris Doctor from the Syracuse University College of Law and was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1969. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970, and became the sixth-youngest senator ever when elected to the US Senate from Delaware in 1972 at age 29. A few weeks after this, a very sad event took place: wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident. In June 1977, he married his second wife Jill Tracy Jacobs. They have one daughter, Ashley, who is a social worker. Beau became Delaware Attorney General and died of brain cancer at the young age of 46. His brother Hunter remained close to his Dad.

As senator and vice president

Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and eventually became its chairman. He also chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, dealing with drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties issues; led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act; and oversaw six US Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas that introduced the new word borked in the English Dictionary. The 1994 Biden Crime Bill is the largest crime bill signed into law by President Clinton in the history of the US, and provided for 100,000 new police officers, $9.7 billion in funding for prisons, and $6.1 billion in funding for prevention programs, which were designed with significant input from experienced police officers and berated by the progressives. [As President, Biden now has to answer this to his progressives who want to abolish prisons and defund police. Not so nice!]

Biden was reelected to the Senate six times and was the fourth-most senior senator when he became the 47th vice president after Obama won the 2008 presidential election. During those 36 years he rode Amtrak from Delaware to Washington DC and back daily, earning the nickname Amtrak Joe. As vice president, Biden leaned on his senatorial experience and frequently represented the administration in negotiations with congressional Republicans, including the Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved a debt ceiling crisis, and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed an impending fiscal cliff. He also oversaw infrastructure spending in 2009 to counteract the Great Recession. On foreign policy, Biden was a close counselor to the president and took a leading role in designing the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq in 2011. He was Obama’s pointman for China and Ukraine, and succeeded in firing Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, investigator of Hunter’s business deals in Ukraine. Biden repeatedly denied discussing Hunter’s business deals with him and Hunter’s associates on Ukraine and China, but on June 27, 2022, the Daily Mail published a voicemail that contradicted the president’s denials. [Not so nice!]

As Obama’s second term neared completion, Biden considered a possible 2016 presidential bid. He decided not to run, in large part due to the then recent death of his son Beau from brain cancer. That helped Hillary Clinton to secure the Democratic nomination. Unfortunately for her, she lost to outsider Donald Trump, who became the 45th US president. After the vice presidency, Biden was honorary Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor and Senior Fellow at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania. He gave roughly a dozen lectures and talks for about $900,000, but never taught a full semester’s course. (https://www.foxnews.com/ politics/ biden-says-he-was-professor-didnt-teach-single-class-nearly-1m-gig.) After launching his presidential campaign in April 2019, the university released a statement saying he would be taking an unpaid leave of absence from his work at the Penn Biden Center.

As presidential candidate

Amid growing speculation that he would run for president in 2020, Biden announced his candidacy in April 2019, joining a crowded Democratic field: seven senators, seven congressmen, two governors, three mayors, four businessmen and one cabinet member under President Obama. The Democrat National Committee wanted 12 debates among these candidates and prescribed the qualifications required. In the first two debates, every participant repeated the same answer or raised their hands when the debate moderator asked a question. After two debates, in each of which 20 candidates participated in groups of 10, only 10 qualified for the third debate in September 2019: Biden, Booker, Buttigieg, Castro, Harris, Klobuchar, O’Rourke, Sanders, Warren and Yang. Pollsters predicted five of them can defeat Trump, and Biden led them. Debates in Westerville (OH), Atlanta, and Los Angeles followed. Biden had opposed school busing for desegregation in the 1970s, calling it an asinine concept, and said, non-orderly racial integration policies would cause his children to grow up in a racial jungle. He did not believe that a child with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin like Kamala needs to sit next to his blond-haired, blue-eyed son Hunter in order to learn anything. That’s why he objected to quota systems which assured a certain number of blacks, Latinx, or whomever in any school. And all this came out in the first Democrat primary debate from Kamala herself, now his vice president.

Seeing that she may not qualify for the debate on December 12, Harris dropped out of the Democratic Primary. There were seven candidates, including Biden, onstage at St. Anselm College in Manchester on February 7, 2020. Biden did not perform well there, and subsequently left for Charleston, where his longtime friend Rep. James Clyburn was waiting to help him attract black voters. Thus, Biden won the South Carolina primary on February 29 handily. He began cashing his 45 years of IOUs to get nominated and elected. Senator Bernie Sanders finished second. After the March 3 and March 10 primaries, Biden had 823 delegates, Sanders 681. Biden and Sanders debated on March 15 on CNN in Washington DC without audience. Biden promised a female Vice President. Sanders claimed he was the better choice to get rid of Trump. With 16 more primaries completed, Biden became the Democratic presidential nominee by reaching the threshold of 1,991 pledged delegates needed to clinch his party’s nomination. Sanders suspended his presidential campaign and backed Biden, claiming his ideas moved the Democratic’ party to the left. Biden officially presented his running mate Senator Kamala Harris, on August 12, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden’s policies appeared to resemble rehashed Sander’s policies. To cite a few in the transformative agenda: a big minimum wage increase, free college for most, enhancing the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), transformation of federal housing policy, financial boost to schools with low-income students, labor-friendly climate agenda, major commitments on union organizing, and open borders on immigration.

His running mate

Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California to a Jamaican father and Indian mother. She graduated from Howard University with a degree in Political Science and Economics in 1986 and received the Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989. She was hired as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California, where she was described as an able prosecutor on the way up. As a member of the Democratic party, she was elected the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017 and United States Senator of California from 2017 to 2021.

Biden’s wife Jill expressed frustration that Harris was the top choice for vice president, according to the book "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future" by two New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns. ‘Why,’ she asked, do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe, the authors wrote of a conversation Jill Biden had after she learned Harris became a leading candidate for running mate.

After Democrat nomination

Biden was officially anointed the Democratic presidential candidate at the party’s convention in a pre-recorded roll call vote from delegates in all 50 states. In the most forceful and steely virtual speech of his career from Wilmington, Delaware on August 20, Biden spoke of bringing light to the season of darkness, his metaphor for Donald Trump’s tenure, of hope and healing, vowing to be an American president working hard for those who don’t support him. The strongest theme of the Wilmington speech by far was Biden’s melding of family, with an emphasis on his lost loved ones, and the healing of the country. He declared, in what would have been applause lines had there been a crowd, that character, compassion, science and decency were on the ballot. There was a heavy emphasis on the toll of COVID-19, the millions of lost jobs, and then the laundry list of liberal causes. Biden made an explicit appeal to combat racism, invoking Charlottesville, invoking his talk with George Floyd’s young daughter, and accusing Trump of fanning the flames of hate and division.

Biden’s campaign was unique: he spoke from the basement of his Wilmington house most of the time to no one. Occasionally Basement Biden stepped out and campaigned from neighboring towns to a few, from six to 10, sometimes holding his favorite vanilla and chocolate chip ice creams on waffle cones in both hands (https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220128/Here-s-the-scoop-on-Joe-Biden-and-ice-cream). When media grilled him at a ice cream shop on his increasing super enthusiasm for lots of ice cream even in the middle of winter, he would reply, Come on, Man! Climate change. AOC. No more cows. Perhaps it’s a bit of common ground for Biden with Russia’s Putin, who also is reported to eat ice cream in winter.

His physical approach to connecting with people has led to the nickname Creepy Uncle Joe, with some women accusing him of unwanted touching and hair smelling, though none have said the physical contact was sexual in nature. The former vice president responded by saying he recognized that social norms had changed in recent years and that he would be cognizant of that change. Some Republican - including President Trump himself - already have tried to use Biden’s longtime hands-on campaigning style as a way of defanging sexual-assault accusations against President Trump.

Although Biden ran on the Democrat Platform in the primaries he switched to the Unity Pledge with Socialist Sanders in the general election. This represented an effort to bring together the more radical elements of the Democrat Party - those who had supported Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist with training in Russia, and Cortez, the progressive squad-turned-octet leader, along with Biden’s left turned candidacy. The task force’s mission, according to a statement, was to address the key areas: climate change, criminal justice reform, economy, education, health care, the COVID-19 pandemic, and immigration with open borders.

The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced that it would host four debates: three debates between President Trump and former Vice President Biden, and one vice presidential debate between Vice President Pence and Democrat vice presidential nominee Harris. However, the second debate was cancelled because Trump opted not to participate in a debate that was declared virtual only later. During the third debate Biden invoked a phony letter, signed by 51 ex-intelligence liers of the Obama era, discrediting his son Hunter’s laptop as Russian disinformation. In terms of the impact of the debates on the race, in our view, neither candidate likely persuaded any undecided voters one way or the other. However, Biden was able to hold his own through much of the debates, and if nothing else, his performance largely invalidated the president’s prior attacks on Biden’s mental acuity and cognitive abilities. Ultimately, with the election close to one month away, and with thousands of Americans already having voted, the debates made clear that the race was closer than many thought, and was far from over though pollsters suggested otherwise.

Campaigning continued until voting day, November 3, 2020, with more than 98 million ballots already cast by mail. Some states coneniently extended their ballot deadlines, but President Trump declared victory the next day, although it remained unclear who had the votes to win. Trump had been projected to have won important states such as Florida, Ohio and Texas, but he needed to win several battleground states, such as traditionally Republican Arizona and Georgia, and purple states like Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Trump’s law suits citing election fraud to recover victory in these states failed, and ‘middle class Joe’ claimed a clear victory on November 7, 2020.

On January 6, 2021, Congress was to review the Electoral College results for acceptance with vice president Pence presiding, and Trump had pressured him to decertify the results of the election. The same morning there was a Save America Rally where Trump spoke from the Ellipse near the White House and went on to say we are going to walk down to the Capitol...peacefully and patriotically [to] make your voices heard. Instead, that afternoon a violent mob stormed the US Capitol, forcing lawmakers into halting Congress. Later that night, Congress reconvened for the constitutionally mandated counting of the Electoral College results, in which Biden defeated Trump, 306-232. Trumps left the White House on January 20, 2021, morning and Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president at noon in the Capitol.

Following inauguration

I’m back Biden shouted following inauguration in Washington, DC and later at the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) meeting in Brussels. On Inauguration Day Biden announced the suspension of the Keystone XL pipeline designed to make the country energy independent, and declared The Federal Government must be guided by the best science and be protected by processes that ensure the integrity of Federal decision-making. In the South, we saw people, some of whom were criminals, unchecked and unvaccinated, prancing through the border left open by Biden’s discontinuation of construction of the Trump wall, carrying with them drugs like the Chinese fentanyl and coronavirus that has already infected more than eighty million Americans and killed more than one million. Little encampments built on tent poles by illegal immigrants were popping up on sidewalks in many areas of the country. These became a presidential legacy like the Hoovervilles of the 1930s, and were named Bidenvilles (https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/commentary/bidenvilles-americas-new-emblem-decay).

A few months later, disregarding science, Biden waived sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany. He then withdrew the troops former President Trump had left to stabilize Afghanistan by aiding Americans and Afghans who had in turn helped us. This insane move enabled the Talibans to retake Afghanistan in a matter of days. Biden rounded out his first year in office by inadvertently encouraging a Russian invasion of Ukraine, currently digesting chunks of our weapons and money. Not so nice!

Fast-forward to the one-year mark of Biden presidency, it was clear that even though Biden said he would stop the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) to get elected, it’s the virus that had defeated him as a pandemic and killed more people than any other administration. The highly contagious Delta variant of the corona virus initiated lockdowns, remote working, and closed schools. We heard his shocking admission that there is no federal solution to the pandemic! Vaccines developed during Trump’s administration started becoming available, and Biden started mandates for vaccinations and masking. Many people objected and ended up fighting their battles in courtrooms. Massive spending and inflation followed, with national debt swelling to $31 trillion. Shootings and violence increased in many cities, and race, crime, and guns became topics for discussion. Not so nice!

During Biden’s second year, China announced plans to flex its muscles near Taiwan in response to a visit Speaker Nancy Pelosi made to the island. Biden had assured the media that he will defend Taiwan if China attacked, in spite of the One China policy that had been in effect since 1979. When the Supreme Court announced the official overturn of Roe v. Wade, effectively ending recognition of a constitutional right to abortion and giving individual states the power to allow, limit, or ban the practice altogether, ‘wise guy’ Biden said the abortion decision is a tragic error by the Supreme Court. He signed an executive order protecting abortion and contraception access in the US, with little regard for science. We believe President Biden’s top lifetime achievement was on August 8, 2022, when his administration became the first in 233 years to invade his predecessor’s home at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. The Biden administration is now working on a national strategy for establishing diversity, equity and inclusion policies for the government, that officials hope can be used as a template/mantra for companies, schools, and other organizations throughout the country. Not so nice!

On foreign policy and national security, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote in his tell-all book I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades. In a recent op-ed published in Fox News, our former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote, Biden’s ‘weak’ woke military isn’t ready to face China and Russia. [The] US must boost military spending. (https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/team-biden-weak-woke-military-ready-face-china-russia-america-needs-act-fast-defense). But Biden is [p]leading from behind like his predecessor Obama. He is emptying our Strategic Petroleum Reserve in the name of climate action. Our lack of military strength and readiness puts the world at risk of devastating conflict, if not catastrophic war.

As the midterm elections in 2022 approached, the White House slammed Republicans, accusing them of the same nonsense that got Biden elected in 2020. These include, but are not limited to, defund the police, defund the FBI, and support for the gun lobby over the fight against gun crime by opposing assault weapons ban legislation backed by Biden, passed by Pelosi Democrats in the House, now pending Senate approval. But they excluded defund the IRS. Not so nice!

The blame game

For everything that was going bad in the country, Biden first blamed the previous administration. Then he switched to COVID-19 and governors of states who didn’t obey his mandates. When Taliban ran over Afghanistan during his botched exit he blamed Trump and the Republicans. As Russia ukrained him he shifted the blame to Putin and started funneling our arms and money in the billions to Ukraine. When Putin threatened to go nuclear in Ukraine he scared us with fears of an end to the world scenario of Armageddon (not the 1998 American film). President Truman didn’t scare us like this when he dropped the Little Boy on Hiroshima and Fat Man on Nagasaki in August 1945. And when record inflation and gas prices hit us he assigned blame on everything from Putin to greedy meat conglomerates and disruption of global supply chains. Following few legislative 51-50 victories he started the midterm campaign with the slogan ‘democracy under attack’ and calling the 74 million who voted for Trump MAGA Republicans and semi-fascists dangerous to democracy. And he berated, scolded and insulted media reporters from stupid son of a b---- to get educated. When classified documents were found scattered from Washington via Biden Center in Pennsylvania to Biden’s garage and residence in Delaware he said they were inadvertently misplaced, but when they were found in a doubly locked room at Trump’s residence guarded by Secret Service, Biden asked "how could anyone mishandle and be that irresponsible?"

This book

This book follows our earlier book on Trump presidency (From Deplorable to Neanderthal Thinking, Fulton Books, 2022). We begin Chapter 1 surveying the initial activities of the Biden administration. In Chapters 2 and 3 we examine why he hasn’t been able to keep his promise to stop the pandemic and to follow always his mantra Follow the Science. Chapter 4 begins discussing the importance of critical thinking and examines how race was incorporated into it to generate the critical race theory the teaching of which in schools and colleges has come under sharp attack from parents whom the Biden administration has termed domestic terrorists. Chapter 5 deals with Biden’s contention that white supremacy is the greatest danger to the country, the increase in crime since summer of 2020, associated looting, shootings, and shop lifting, Democrats demand for better gun control, and de-funding of police. Open border and immigration are discussed in Chapter 6 in the context of Biden’s building back better borderless. After that we review the domestic policy, foreign policy, and climate policy (Chapters 7-9). Three chapters (10-12) discuss the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, assisting Ukraine with weapons and money to defend the Russian invasion, and China’s actions to take control of Taiwan along with Biden’s promise to defend Taiwan, respectively. The last chapter 13 is about midterm elections, Republicans recapturing the House of Representatives from Speaker Pelosi, and Biden’s prospects for completing two terms as president.

And he did…nearly 5 million illegals in two years!

They built borderless Bidenvilles all over the country.

One can find these in many US cities except in Martha’s Vineyard.

(Public domain, photo courtesy of voanews.com)

Beautiful Bidenvilles near Del Rio, Texas

(Source Anonymous)

Chapter 1

The Biden Presidency

Joe Biden has been active in Washington politics as a senator and vice president for almost half a century before embarking on the successful presidential run and defeating incumbent President Trump in 2020. We begin this chapter with his presidency starting January 20, 2021. He wanted the federal government to be a diversity and equity model for a democratic nation with a population of 332 million, of whom only 12 percent were black. We describe many of his presidential activities during the first two years and how vice president Kamala Harris performed during his administration. We avoid most of his family saga, and finish with midterm election results. We witnessed former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ comment on Biden in play with the botched Afghanistan withdrawal and heavy support of the Russia-Ukraine proxy war.

Even during his presidency, Biden was hammered by some media, not his friendly mainstream fake news media, regarding leaks from the laptop his son Hunter had abandoned in a Delaware repair shop. Throughout his career, the president had repeatedly denied discussing Hunter’s laptop and business ventures with him, particularly in Ukraine and China, where he was President Obama’s point man as vice president. On June 27, 2022, the Daily Mail published a bombshell voicemail that many feel is the truth that contradicted Biden’s previous denials. In an interview aired October 4, 2022 on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,’ Tony Bobulinski, a retired lieutenant in the US Navy and former business associate of Hunter Biden, said he believes Joe Biden served as the chairman and a figurehead to his son’s overseas business dealings. He challenged mainstream media outlets and the FBI to investigate his claims.

Joe Biden was a 78-years old doddering dull granddad, wobbly on his feet and barely able to articulate a single thought without confusion and clarity, when he became president. Many times we saw him in an angry disposition shouting, with raised clenched fists, unaware of his location, and uttered an occasional joke. Vice president Harris was giggly and made word salads as the media laughed. Their inauguration looked a lot different than in previous years, and masks reminded everyone the pandemic was still raging. After being sworn in, Biden’s inaugural address called for unity, in which he pledged to be a president for all Americans, including those who did not support his campaign. After the ceremony outside the Capitol, he signed an Inauguration Day Proclamation and nominations to Cabinet and sub-Cabinet positions for Senate approval. The ceremonial parade was canceled, and some customs went virtual. The day’s historic events navigated heightened security measures in Washington DC, COVID-19 precautions, and a historically rare snub by the absence of the outgoing President. Still, the unprecedented day closed with fireworks and a large crowd at the grand opening of the soon-to-be porous southern border.

Early Presidential Activity

Biden’s early presidential activity centered around proposing, lobbying for, and signing into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to speed up the United States’ recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing recession, and a series of executive orders. These orders addressed the pandemic and reversed several Trump policies, advocating open southern border by stopping construction of the wall, and canceling the agreements with Mexico and Northern Triangle countries. The US rejoined the Paris Agreement on climate change and reaffirmed protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients.

But what did he do first on inauguration day? He claimed he has knowledge of science and hurt those who voted for him by suspending the Keystone XL pipeline former President Trump had initiated to make the US energy-independent. Following that unlucky day, we keep paying very high fuel prices, more than twice the pre-inauguration prices, because oil producing countries declined his request to pump more oil. A few months later and much to our surprise, Biden disregarded science and pleased Putin as well as Merkel by waiving sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, thereby fueling Europe cheaply. He acted quickly to make numerous Americans angry and suffer economically for electing him president, regardless of the media’s portrayal of his being a ray of sunshine for all Americans.

In April 2021, Biden delayed the withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan to September 2021. This decision, changing an upcoming May target set by the Trump administration, met with a wide range of reactions, from support and relief to trepidation at the possible collapse of the Afghan government without American support. The botched exit by the Biden administration resulted in America’s defeat and Taliban’s victory after 20 years of war. Kudos to president who abandoned Afghans and American geopolitical strength.

As of June 30 - less than six months after taking office - Biden had signed 51 executive orders, 26 presidential memoranda, 92 proclamations, and 16 notices. These dictatorial actions surprised us coming from someone who had been active in Congressional legislation for nearly 40 years!. He had Democrats Pelosi and Schumer as House Speaker and Senate Leader, respectively, a majority of four in the House and the one vote majority of Harris in the Senate, if Democrats Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia cooperated.

His cabinet

Biden’s cabinet was peculiar and included the LGBTQ+ community. Names submitted for advice and consent by US Senate consisted of Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, Small Business Administrator Isabel Guzman, US Permanent Rep. to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse, Chief of Staff Ron Klain, National Intelligence Director Avril Haines, Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Shalanda Young, and US Trade Rep. Katherine Tai. Call it Biden’s Inclusion Masterpiece.

He appointed Dr. Anthony Fauci OMRI, a leader in the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, as his administration’s chief medical advisor and part of the COVID-19 response team. He is a Cornell graduate, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director, and has acted as an advisor to every US president since Reagan. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work on the AIDS relief program. A year ago, he received the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (OMRI). And by the way, Fauci has been accused of using taxpayer funding for virus research at a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan.

(Public domain, courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory, US Department of Energy)

The Biden administration has created a council of diversity officers from several different federal agencies to implement and sustain a plan for encouraging policies that support diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) in government hiring and employment. It’s not going to be easy. To cite one of many instances, the black diversity chief at the Pentagon has made anti-White social media posts, writing exhausted with these White folx. Additionally, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has a white director to ensure government is our country’s model of excellence when it comes to implementing DEIA policies. While the council will help government diversity officers advance DEIA goals by setting clear strategies, benchmarks, and metrics, the OPM emphasized it will also collaborate with public and private stakeholders on DEIA policies, both in the government and across other employment sectors.

Bizarre Biden boasted that more than half of the women in his administration were women in a widely mocked clip during a White House event. The president did not get his words mixed up, as many thought; he was referring to women in his administration who were men by birth and turned gay playing wife in married life, or transgendered incompletely. Joe has set a new standard for leaders.

Juneteenth, another federal holiday

On June 17, 2021, Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, which officially declared Juneteenth (June 19th) the eleventh federal holiday. US General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, and shared the news that the Emancipation Proclamation had been passed two years earlier. The Civil War had ended two months before June 1865. It is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared the tenth holiday in 1986. We’re just happy Joe’s advisers forced him to sign the Act prior to June 19, and not after.

Multitasking vice president

Biden entrusted Harris, one of the most experienced vice presidents in US history (or her story?), with the following responsibilities requiring effective multitasking: immigration as border czar, increasing broadband access, black mortality, racial inequality, women in the workforce, infrastructure, voting rights, and space czar. Harris uses Venn diagrams to visually represent the similarities and differences between two concepts and data sets. She also likes to talk about the significance of the passage of time. Her appearance as Space Czar during World Space Week on a kids’ You Tube special gushing about their love of space exploration became a controversy as she advised them Never let anybody tell you who you are, you tell them who you are. As the Border Czar, she has never been to any border, not even to Europe, she bemoaned. Can you readers define ironic for us? Later, she visited Paris with her husband, and was received by President Macron at the Élysée Palace. She learned that France does not have open borders. Was this an obvious sign of discrimination, or lack of DEIA?

In a recent interview with Telemundo, she said the [nonexistent] Federal Drug Administration approved the abortion drug mifepristone 20 years ago, not the real federal agency Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that approved it. We are used to octogenarian Biden saying things like that, but not a 58-year old vice president and former senator.

Harris first went to Guatemala and Mexico to find the root causes of increased migration from Central America. Later, she traveled to Singapore and Vietnam to present US views regarding China’s growing power and influence in the Indo-Pacific region. As the Russian war in Ukraine progressed in 2022, she went to Poland and Romania, bordering Ukraine, to pledge full American support. In September 2022 she went to Japan for the funeral of former Prime Minister Abe, and had discussions on the Indo-Pacific with Prime Minister Kishida. Then she traveled to Seoul, South Korea to observe the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas with binoculars, and said the US has a strong alliance with the Republic of North Korea before returning to Washington, DC.

According to a new book (The Fight of His Life by Chris Whipple, Scribner, 2023) there have been real tensions between Biden and Harris, with the president venting to friends that he has been annoyed with her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, complaining about the VP’s official assignments. Reportedly frustrated with Harris he called her a work in progress. We think he meant her work on the border, to be fair, he could have meant her work on domestic and foreign policy in general.

Vice president’s ‘word salads’

Like her befuddled brain of a boss, Harris has been widely criticized for her public speaking, ranging from repetitive ‘word salads’ to personal anecdotes of dubious authenticity. During a White House event alongside Prime Minister Andrew Holness of her fatherland Jamaica on March 30, 2022, Harris and Holness touted relations between the US and Jamaica and offered highlights of what was discussed in their meeting. However, the vice president raised eyebrows when she attempted to explain how the US was going to assist the Caribbean nation from the negative impacts of the pandemic. We also recognize just as it has been in the United States, for Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way of its impact has been the pandemic, Harris said. So to that end, we are announcing today also that we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to, I believe, what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health but also the economy. Please refrain from being disappointed; her boss recently referred to China instead of Canada during a recent visit to Ottawa.

Moreover, on July 5 of last year, comments Harris made in Highland Park (a suburb of Chicago), following the horrific Independence Day parade massacre, went viral. We’ve got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are, because you have been forced to take this seriously, she said to the press and Highland Park residents. The whole nation should understand and have a level of empathy to understand that this could happen anywhere any people in any community. And we should stand together and speak out about why it’s got to stop, Harris added more before stepping away. You can find many more instances of her word salads in the viral media. No doubt some woke university in some woke city will offer her a six-figure salary to teach a literature and/or politico-talk course.

White House Press Briefing

Biden’s presidency began with Jen Psaki as the press secretary. She quit on May 13, 2022 and Karine Jean-Pierre took over. There were no heated confrontations like the one between CNN’s Jim Acosta and President Trump when Sarah Huckabee Sanders was the press secretary. But we found reporters frustrated by Karine’s nonanswers to their questions (https://www.foxnews.com/ media/wh-reporters-frustrated-karine-jean-pierre-press-briefings?intcmp=tw_fnc). For example, when Fox News Peter Doocy asked about the Biden family and a Chinese energy company, alleging three Biden family members were paid by the company, citing the GOP-led House Oversight Committee as his source, she responded that the question isn’t worth responding to and that House Republicans have been lying about this issue for years. Nevertheless, the Biden administration touted the appointment of Karine as the first Black and openly-gay White House press secretary.

Karine Jean-Pierre’s press briefing

(Public domain, photo courtesy of White House.gov)

A global oil salesman

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced on May 24, 2022, an additional Notice of Sale of up to 40 million barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). This Notice of Sale is part of President Biden’s announcement two months earlier to release one million barrels of crude oil per day for six months to address the significant global supply disruption caused by Putin’s war on Ukraine and help stabilize volatile energy costs for American families.

On July 8, 2022, media souces reported that the Biden administration had sold over a million barrels of oil from SPR to the Chinese state-owned company Sinopec, the trading arm of the China Petrochemical Corporation (https://freebeacon.com/national-security/biden-sold-a-million-barrels-from-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-owned-gas-giant). In 2015, Sinopec Marketing had received a $1.7 billion stake from a private equity firm Hunter Biden had cofounded. We are neither surprised nor amused, but we are happy for the 21st century Rembrandt-in-making.

Biden also claimed proudly that he exported more than five million barrels of oil from US emergency reserves to Asia and Europe hoping to help lower energy costs and address the pain Americans were feeling at the pump. Not only did this move have a minimal effect, but it also depleted oil reserves to their lowest level since 1986. Still, Biden has continued to release oil from the reserves whenever it furthered his agenda. To help Democrats ahead of midterms, he announced the release of another 15 million barrels from SPR. This is a dangerous man’s policy during war time, and calamities like hurricanes. It is incredulous he would believe that climate change will save tomato soup from being thrown at Van Gogh paintings in museums. Biden tapping oil reserves was ‘playing politics’ with a national security asset, according to Rep. Michael McCaul.

We have not kept a continuous record of Biden’s oil sales from the SPR. The latest we heard was the sale of 26 million barrels set to be delivered to the market from April 1 to June 30, 2023 which takes the number of barrels in the reserve to a new low of 346 million dating back to 1983.

When Biden took office in January 2021, the SPR contained 638 million barrels. In two years he has sold almost half of it. By keeping up the current rate of sales, he will be able to empty the SPR and promote the green energy agenda before the end of his first term. Does he suspect that he will not be reelected to a second term?

Global health, WHO and human rights

Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office to halt the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), which Trump had ordered but had not yet taken effect. Biden also appointed Dr. Anthony Fauci as the head of the delegation to the WHO. The US remains the largest financial contributor to the WHO, providing roughly one-fifth of its annual budget. Fauci stated the US would meet its financial obligations of $400–$500 million per year, and rejoin the COVID-19 Vaccines Global framework COVAX to vaccinate people in low- to middle-income countries which had been stalled by lack of funding.

Biden renewed COVID-19-related travel bans barring non-US nationals from several parts of the world, including the Schengen Area, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, and Brazil from entering the US. These bans had initially been imposed by Trump, but before leaving office, Trump ordered that the bans expire on January 26, 2021. The day before the travel bans were set to expire, Biden extended them and added South Africa to the list of affected countries. The bans on entry by mainland Chinese and Iranian nationals were not scheduled to expire by Trump, and they remained in place.

In early February 2021, Biden returned the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Council (from which the Trump administration withdrew in 2018), and directed the State Department to re-engage immediately and robustly with the council. Blinken, Biden’s secretary of state, said, the best way to improve the Council, so it can achieve its potential, is through robust and principled US leadership.

Biden also rescinded the Mexico City Policy (Global Gag Rule), and Trump-era anti-abortion measure which prevented nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from providing abortion-related information, referrals, counseling, and services (even with funds contributed by private donors) from receiving any US foreign aid. The policy, first adopted under Reagan, has been alternately imposed under Republican administrations, and rescinded under Democrat administrations and was extended in scope under Trump. Biden’s repeal of the rule was welcomed by, among other groups, Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty International. Biden also withdrew the US from the Geneva Consensus Declaration, an anti-abortion declaration that the US had joined under Trump, and restored funding to the UN Population Fund.

When a reporter asked the president whether he believed migration is a human right, Biden responded, Well, I think it is a human right if your family is being persecuted. I thought it was a human right for, you know, Jews in Germany to be able to go - to get to escape and get help where they could. Critics took aim at Biden for comparing asylum-seeking immigrants to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Some were quick to point out that many seeking asylum or illegally crossing the border are not innocent victims. Mark Levin tweeted in response What a disgusting and awful statement from this ignoramus, and the corrupt media are silent. Indeed, it was a stupid statement. Biden an ignoramus?

Gender-affirming health care

President Biden appointed transgender (T in the LGBTQ alphabet) woman Dr. Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health and was confirmed by the US Senate. Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic - no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability - and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond, Biden said in a statement.

In an interview with left-wing outlet Now This News, Biden answered an array of questions pertinent to young Americans on gender-transition treatments as life-saving care. When a transgender person asked if states should have the right to ban gender-affirming care for transgender and gender diverse individuals, Biden said I don’t think any state or anybody should have the right to do that, as a moral question and as a legal question. I just think it’s wrong.

Biden also expressed concern over the idea that transgender Americans could be prohibited from certain medications or procedures. I feel very, very strongly that you should have every single solitary right, including use of your gender identity bathrooms when public, Biden added. His administration is expanding the range of taxpayer-financed gender-affirming health care options available to federal employees, starting in 2023, according to an OPM explanation of federal benefits released in late September. But on December 9, 2022 a federal appeals court ruled that Catholic health organizations can deny trans care (https://www.modernhealthcare.com/legal/catholic-providers-deny-trans-care-religious-objections).

As states move to restrict certain treatments for transgender youth, experts explain the many types of care, the need for them, and their impact (https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/what-gender-affirming-care-your-questions-answered). The World Professional Association for Transgender Health promotes the highest standards of health care for individuals through the articulation of Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People based on the best available science and expert professional consensus. In a recently surfaced video of the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Levine called big tech companies to censor misinformation about gender-affirming care for kids on the internet. Better learn when you’re young, right Joe?

Biden-Soros gender identity proposal for schools

George Soros is a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist who used his fortune to create the Open Society Foundations. On June 24, 2022 the Biden administration unveiled a sweeping Title IX proposal that would bring in gender identity and sexual orientation just as a George Soros-funded advocacy group called Governing for Impact (GFI) aimed at adopting rules on anti-transgender bias in schools. Earlier, the secretive liberal nonprofit GFI, whose board included a high-level Soros director, had prepared a legal memo for the Education Department, similar in structure and reasoning. The America First Policy Institute has now provided parents a toolkit to combat the proposed changes to Title IX. An Education Department spokesperson did not directly address questions on GFI involvement, and told Fox News Digital that the proposed rule was developed through a transparent and public process including stakeholder engagements and a public hearing and comment process, including hundreds of comments and feedback regarding protections to end discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Fox News had previously reported that GFI, which has maintained a shadowy presence in the Biden administration, has quietly worked behind the scenes and boasted through internal memos about implementing more than 20 regulatory agenda items as it attempted to reverse Trump-era deregulations by zeroing in on education, health care, housing, labor, and environmental issues. We believe the notion that a group, so deeply rooted in Soros’s pocket, is calling the shots on regulations that will affect the education and safety of almost every child in the country is deeply disturbing and should be rejected.

The proposed changes for Title IX have stirred up such controversy that they have generated a record number of criticisms from parents in spite of Biden’s efforts to silence them. However, it is unlikely that the current, gender-bending-friendly administration will back away from controversial provisions that allow biological males to compete in girls’ sports and use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identity. Unfortunately, there is a core political constituency demanding the change males competing as females that Biden and Soros favor. It reminds us of the eugenics programme of the 1930s in Germany. We believe that Title IX remain as it has been over the last 50 years. Also, we propose that Congress initiate legislation, Penis as Penis, Vagina as Vagina, to counter these insane and obscene ongoing gender neutrality policies. After all, how were these male- or female-turned gender generics conceived in the first place?

Earth day created MAGA party

President Biden attacked his Republican opponents during Earth Day remarks on Friday, April 22, 2022, calling their party the MAGA party, a reference to Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan. This ain’t your father’s Republican Party, Biden said during remarks in Seattle, but he likes MALA Republicans who voted for him, as he described Republican support for his climate change agenda and other policy goals in Congress. Biden said the MAGA crowd is the most extreme political organization in recent American history. These guys are a different breed of cat. Republicans who know better are afraid to act because they know they will be primaried, Biden said, referring to primaries, or party nominating contests. After six months of research, liberals coined the term ultra-MAGA, and Biden pushed that label on Republicans unhappy with soaring inflation and his stalled domestic agenda. Lately, he has taken to using the term to warn of Republican extremism. The GOP laughs off Biden’s ‘ultra-MAGA’ attack, calling it ‘hilarious.’ Looking to avert a midterm disaster that would all but end his domestic agenda, Biden landed on a message aimed squarely at the political movement of his predecessor, whom he named MAGA King. We presume this occurred after it was explained to Joe by political peers that MAGA did not stand for Make America Gay Again and/or Make America Gender-neutral Again."

The Infamous Voice Mail

Hey pal, it’s Dad. It’s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you have a chance, give me a call. Nothing urgent - I just wanted to talk with you, Joe Biden said in a voicemail from 2018. "I thought the article released online, it’s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good. I think you’re clear." Joe was referring to an artcle to be published by the Times in December 2018, and concerned a private meeting between the chairman of a now-defunct Chinese energy company, then known as CEFC, and Hunter Biden at a Miami hotel in May 2017.

Press secretary Jean-Pierre was asked on July 5, 2022, why there was a voicemail of Biden speaking to his son about his business dealings if he has repeatedly claimed he had never spoken to his son about his ventures. Well, first, I’ll say that what the president said stands, Jean-Pierre said. So, if he, if that’s what the president said, that, that is what stands. When pressed further, Jean-Pierre said she was not going to talk about alleged materials from the laptop from the podium. When asked if she was disputing that it was, in fact, Biden’s voice on the voicemail, Jean-Pierre answered: I’m not going to talk about alleged materials on the laptop. Afterwards, the New York Post editorial board mocked the situation with a piece headlined, Compliant media can’t protect Hunter Biden forever. No Republican could possibly be a greater adversary to Joker Joe in 2024 as his son, the Artist Formerly Known as Hunter.

Eventually, Hunter admitted in 2014 that his longtime business partner, Eric Schwerin, the president of since-dissolved investment fund Rosemont Seneca Partners, was a close confidant and counsel to then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to an email from his infamous abandoned laptop that was verified by various media sources. Biden and those in the president’s camp have long cast materials that came from the laptop, purportedly belonging to Hunter, as Russian disinformation, which was echoed by some media sources. However, intelligence community officials have maintained, as far back as October 2020, that neither the laptop nor materials on it are part of any sort of disinformation campaign.

On July 28, 2022 Fox News reported (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-met-14-hunters-business-associates-vice-president) that Biden met with at least 14 of Hunter Biden’s business associates from the US, Mexico, Ukraine, China, Russia, and Kazakhstan - all while Joe was Obama’s vice-president, casting further doubt on Joe’s repeated claims that he had no knowledge of his son’s foreign business affairs. A federal investigation into Hunter’s tax affairs began in 2018, but we don’t expect any charges to be filed as long as Dad is president. That’s how the DOJ operates and the country is governed.

Views of the media

Comedian Bill Maher says Democrats can’t ‘pussyfoot’ around how Hunter ‘was selling the influence of his father.’ It took more than two years for the Real Time host to blast the widespread suppression of the laptop story. During the August 26, 2022 panel discussion, Maher highlighted the controversial comments made by liberal podcaster Sam Harris, who openly approved of the conspiracy to bury the brewing scandal that implicated then-candidate Biden in order to defeat Trump on Election Day. Is it okay to have a conspiracy to get rid of Trump? Maher began. They were talking about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which was a story, and now all the mainstream press has finally admitted it was a real story. It was a real laptop.

New York Post columnist and Laptop from Hell author Miranda Devine ripped Biden on Brian Kilmeade’s radio show on September 6, pointing to overwhelming evidence that the president was directly involved in Hunter’s shady business dealings. Devine referred to testimony from one of Hunter’s former associates, Tony Bobulinski, who claimed the Big Guy mentioned in controversial emails surrounding the scandal is President Biden himself.

The Big Sunday Show panelists reacted two days later to claims FBI officials told agents not to investigate the Hunter Biden laptop due to concerns over influencing the 2020 elections. FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Timothy Thibault, retired over the weekend, according to a source from that office. He was walked out of the building, which is standard procedure, per the source. Thibault’s name has been in the news for his alleged bias and that he tried to interfere in the Hunter Biden investigation. Thibault was named by Senate Judiciary ranking member Chuck Grassley in a July 18 letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland. Grassley cited whistleblowers who alleged a pattern of political bias from high-ranking officials, including Thibault. As you are aware, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault is not the only politically biased FBI agent at the Washington Field Office, Grassley wrote. He added that the FBI answers to Congress and the American people. In response, Garland issued a memo to personnel reiterating DOJ’s policy that department communications to Congress must go through the Office of Legislative Affairs.

Senate and House committees

Senators Chuck Grassley, R-IA, and Ron Johnson, R-WI, were calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to turn over communications between government agencies and Facebook employees regarding Hunter after Zuckerberg admitted that his company censored news articles about the president’s son after the FBI reached out. The American people deserve to know whether the FBI used Facebook as part of their alleged plan to discredit information about Hunter Biden, said the senators’ letter to Zuckerberg, which was obtained and published by the New York Post. If so, Congress and the American people require clarity with respect to the extent the FBI communicated with Facebook during the 2020 election about Hunter Biden-related information. It continued although you noted that users could still share the articles, you clarified that the number of users who could see it decreased by a ‘meaningful’ amount, referencing Zuckerberg’s interview with American UFC Color Commentator and Podcaster Joe Rogan.

During an exclusive interview that aired on October 4 on "Tucker