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Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, have been permanently banned by Russia from entering the country.
They have been added to a “black list” of nearly 1,000 Americans. The list includes Democratic and Republican politicians in response to U.S. sanctions placed on Moscow following its invasion of Ukraine.
Former President Donald Trump suggests there could be another reason why Joe and Hunter Biden are banned.
“Russia just sanctioned Joe Biden,” Trump explained. “While that is a terrible thing, in so many ways, perhaps it will now be explained why the Biden family received 3.5 million dollars from the very wealthy former Mayor of Moscow’s wife.”
One dark secret from the Bidens’ past is that they allegedly received millions of dollars from the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.
Hunter Biden’s company received a staggering $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov who was the former mayor of Moscow.
Baturina publicly disclosed that they have “a financial relationship,” but declined to delve deeper into why the wire transfer was made. The payment to Biden’s investment firm was made in early 2014. Fast-forwarding to 2022, there is widespread speculation that the Bidens have been doing favors for the Russians all along.
Trump also noted that ex-Fox News anchor Chris Wallace prevented Trump from questioning Biden over this issue during the presidential debate. “During our Presidential Debate, ‘moderator’ Chris Wallace, then of Fox, would not let me ask that question. He said it was inappropriate,” Trump said.
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo made this same argument while showing a flashback video clip of Wallace during the 2020 presidential debates. Instead of being a fair and unbiased moderator, Wallace shamefully defended Joe Biden and wrongfully shut down Trump’s criticism of corrupt overseas business dealings arising from the contents Hunter Biden’s laptop.
During the debate, Trump said it’s a “fact” that Hunter Biden’s laptop implicates his father in corrupt overseas business deals. Wallace inappropriately shot back by saying it’s an “open discussion” and Americans are more interested in hearing about “substantive issues.” Wallace shut down any discussion about Hunter’s laptop.
Bartiromo aired this old clip because the media got it wrong and Trump was right. Just months before the election, Wallace and others were part of a cover-up scandal that censored information about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Wallace is accused of putting “his leftist politics before truth” and doing “all he could to help Joe Biden save face” during the debate.
Both Wallace and Joe Biden seemed to agree that Trump’s accusations were “discredited.” In response, Wallace stopped the debate and lectured President Trump on the Hunter Biden laptop by refusing any discussion on the topic. Trump was attempting to argue that the Bidens received a $3.5 million dollar transfer from the former mayor of Moscow’s wife.
The contents of Hunter’s laptop of since been “authenticated” and Hunter is under federal criminal investigation for violations of tax, money laundering and foreign lobbying laws. His father is repeatedly referred to as “the big guy” in Hunter’s emails and texts surrounding the business dealings. To date, Hunter hasn’t been criminally charged.
Here’s the original segment from the debate:
The laptop not only contains disturbing images and videos of Hunter’s crack cocaine use and sex escapades, but it also implicates his father’s participation and abuse of power by being involved in Hunter’s corrupt overseas business dealings.
Joe Biden wasn’t sitting on the sidelines during these deals. There have been 8 corrupt business dealings discovered in Hunter’s emails and texts that involve his father.
In emails and text messages, Hunter repeatedly refers to his father as “the big guy.” In one text message found on the laptop, Hunter says his father takes 50% of his salary.
In the beginning, a man named John Paul Mac Isaac says Hunter Biden entered his computer repair shop on April 12, 2019. His store in Delaware was called “The Mac Shop.”
“I could definitely tell that he was inebriated,” Mac Isaac explained. “When I asked for his last name, there was a long pause. And he kind of sarcastically added Biden.” Mac Isaac says he called the FBI after he found an “astounding” and “disgusting” volume of homemade pornography. What began as a simple computer repair quickly turned into a troubling revelation.
Mac Isaac also found a PDF indicating that Hunter had made $1.2 million for Burisma, a private energy company in Ukraine. He researched Burisma and the contents of the laptop, which he found deeply troubling.
When he met with FBI agents, he said they were not in a rush to look into the laptop or take action. “I think that was my first indication that maybe the FBI was more interested in returning the laptop to the former owner and protecting the Bidens than they were protecting me or getting this to the proper channel,” he said.
Hunter’s lavish lifestyle and foreign business dealings have raised major concerns. There were at least four large transactions that banks flagged as “potential criminal activity” while his father served as vice president under Barack Obama. Another suspicious wire transaction was a $100,000 payment from a subsidiary of CEFC China Energy. At the time, this company was owned by Chinese billionaire Ye Jianming. The payment went to Hunter’s law firm, Owasco, in 2017.
In another alarming instance, Hunter and “the big guy” used Air Force Two to travel to China where Hunter Biden’s company Bohai Harvest Equity Investment Fund closed a corrupt deal a Chinese mining company. Two weeks later and the Bidens were profiting as the deal was formally signed.
Some of these claims are still labeled “False” by official Facebook fact-checkers, such as FactCheck.org, which writes, “We also found no evidence that Joe Biden used his position as vice president to enrich his son.” Most fact-checks are beginning to issue their own correction notices following the authentication of contents on Hunter’s laptop.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network at the U.S. Treasury Department received these four warnings of potential criminal activity. In 2020, an investigation was launched into Hunter’s financial activity by the Senate Homeland Security Committee and Senate Finance Committee. To date, the Bidens have not been criminally charged.
