Oh, the irony. After four years of hyperbolic claims that Facebook determined the 2016 presidential election, we now know that social media may actually have swayed the 2020 results. This week, Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger confirmed for mainstream audiences what objective political observers have long known: Hunter Biden's emails, which the New York Post published on the eve of last year's election, are genuine.
The emails suggest Hunter was trading access to and influence from his father abroad in return for money. Specifically, they indicate that in 2015, Hunter secured a meeting with his father for a Ukrainian businessman working for the energy firm Burisma, which was paying Hunter $50,000 a month even though he had no energy experience. Then-Vice President Joe Biden subsequently convinced Ukrainian officials to fire a prosecutor investigating the company (in Biden's partial defense, here, the prosecutor is widely believed to have been corrupt).
Other emails from 2017 suggest Hunter was involved in a deal with a Chinese energy company known as CEFC that would see Hunter ..........
