originally posted by: network dude
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What baffles me, is that those who are protecting him (the same one's that if Trump has 1/10 of this kind of thing going on, the world would be
outraged and demanding his execution) also live in the US, and are subject to his actions. If he is compromised by China, and making this odd push to
EV's to give profits to China, as it looks on the surface, then wouldn't the effects of that, also effect those folks? Or is there some money grab
that those on the right are missing out on?
I am curious to know from the left, but until they are allowed to talk about it, I don't think they will.
So, as I understand it, your theory is that one or more Chinese businessmen funneled money through Hunter Biden to Joe Biden in 2017 in return for Joe
agreeing to sell out the USA to China after Joe became POTUS. Is that it?
A few comments:
First, Joe wasn't even a candidate for POTUS when Hunter was making money by selling access to important people, much less even his party's nominee.
If someone was trying to buy influence from a future POTUS, they would at least wait until their guy was the candidate. Otherwise, they would
probably just be throwing their money away. The idea that a Chinese businessman would pay money in 2017 to Joe Biden to do him a favor after becoming
POTUS 5 years later and before Joe was even a candidate makes no more sense than the idea that Donald Trump would pay money to a porn star to keep
quiet about having sex with him without her actually having sex with him.
Second, Joe Biden has always released his tax records publicly, and the IRS automatically audits the POTUS and VPOTUS, every year. Any cash
transaction over $10,000 automatically gets flagged as a suspicious transaction, especially if the money comes from China. There's no way Joe could
receive a substantial payoff from China without it having a paper trail or showing up as a sudden improvement in his life style without a paper trail.
Third, about a month and a half ago, Biden put into effect by executive action a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs, effectively pricing them out of the US
market. In the same action, he put into effect a 25% tariff on Chinese batteries, steel and aluminum and a 50% tariff on solar cells and
semiconductors. During his first 3 years in office he negotiated and then signed 3 different bipartisan bills to boost American industry with
subsidies to build modern steel, aluminum, battery, solar cell, and semiconductor manufacturing facilities--some of which are already under
construction. Joe's actions in these areas are not some kind of payoff to China. He's been working systematically to make the US LESS dependent on
China for EVs, not MORE dependent. I guess you didn't get the memo.
And we haven't even talked about military strengthening of the US against China, where Joe has entered into deals to provide nuclear attack submarines
to Australia, additional military bases in the nations surrounding the South China Sea, strengthened alliances with South Korea and Japan, and
increased spending on military systems aimed specifically against China.
Joe has been much, much more aggressive on getting in China's face than Trump ever dreamed about.
Your theory is that there was some surreptitious quid pro quo between Joe Biden and China, but you can't produce either a quid or a quo.