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Australian conservative journalist speaks at Restoration Weekend.
In this recent talk, Australian conservative journalist
exposes the corrupt dealings surrounding Joe Biden that was kept hidden
from the public. She also addresses the exploitation of Hunter Biden
and the extent of activist media coverup -- from killing important news
stories to censorship. Don’t miss this engaging presentation, held at
the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 2021 Restoration Weekend on Nov.
11th-14th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. A transcript
follows.
Transcript:
Miranda Devine: Thank you so much. It's just such a treat to be
here. It's such a wonderful occasion, and of course, my first time at
Restoration Weekend, and amazing to follow James O'Keefe. I've come to
know Project Veritas and admire them very much because they do a lot of
the gonzo journalism, the really uncomfortable, behind-the-scenes
uncovering of people's secrets that used to be the province of all
journalists and seems now to have been sort of given away. It's too
hard, it's too dangerous, and maybe they don't want to uncover secrets.
So I mean, it's interesting that just in the last few months, I know
four people in New York and Washington who have been raided by the FBI
over their uncovering of Joe Biden corruption. Three of them are lawyers
and one of them is a journalist, James O'Keefe. The other three are
Rudy Giuliani, who was the first person to tip me off to the existence
of Hunter Biden's laptop, or his lawyer, Bob Costello, did last October;
and the other two are lawyers associated with Rudy Giuliani: Victoria
Toensing and Joe diGenova. And all four of these people have had no
charges laid against them. They've had their front doors either beaten
down or they've had the same experience that James just told you about.
Simultaneously with the raid were really defamatory and unfair and
dishonest leaks to various new organizations, the New York Times, the
Guardian.
This is a coordinated strategy whereby someone who is uncovering
secrets that somebody in power does not want to be exposed, and the
justice department, the Southern District of New York, once the most
respected and independent and most powerful law enforcement agency in
the country, seems to have been weaponized against people who want to
expose Joe Biden's corruption.
So at the New York Post, we know all about the powers that be trying
to shut us down and censor us. It was 13 months ago that we published
the first of our bombshell stories that came from Hunter Biden's laptop.
This story was on the front page October 13, and it was titled,
"Biden's secret e-mails." And it detailed an e-mail from one of Hunter's
business partners, a Ukrainian businessman, Vadym Pozharsky, thanking
him for the meeting with Joe Biden, who was then Vice President, in
Washington. Now, this was important because Joe Biden had been telling
journalists throughout the campaign that he knew nothing about his son's
overseas business dealings. So a, it showed that he was lying, and b,
we also know that just months after this meeting in Washington with the
Burisma executive, this Ukrainian corrupt energy company that was paying
Hunter Biden $83,333 a month to sit on its board, even though he had no
expertise, and which, after Joe Biden ceased being Vice President, they
cut Hunter Biden's pay in half. So it's pretty obvious it was a quid
pro quo.
But months after this meeting in Washington that Joe Biden denied
and that we put on the front page, he went to Kiev. He was the Vice
President, and he went to Kiev, and he threatened the government there
that he would withhold a billion dollars in aid, in U.S. aid to Ukraine,
which they desperately needed. He said he was doing it because he
wanted them to fire their chief prosecutor, a man called Viktor Shokin.
Now, what you don't know, and what the New York Times and Washington
Post and the rest of the media in this country never reported was that
Viktor Shokin, at that time, was investigating Hunter Biden's boss at
Burisma, the owner of Burisma, an oligarch named Zlochevsky. And a few
days before Joe Biden made this threat, Viktor Shokin had moved to seize
all of this Burisma owner's property. All his mansions in Kiev, even
his Rolls Royce Silver Phantom. All his property was seized. This was a
current and serious investigation that was on foot. And yet, the story
that you will hear from Joe Biden and from his media allies, is that no,
Viktor Shokin was doing nothing about corruption in Ukraine, that he
wasn't investigated anybody at Burisma, that he himself was a corrupt
prosecutor, and that was why Joe Biden, because Joe Biden cares so much
about corruption, had threatened the government. And they made him -- he
made the government fire Viktor Shokin.
So we published this story, and it was a momentous story in anyone's
language. It was news. And yet, none of the rest of the media touched
it. And within a couple of hours of the story going live on our website
at 5 a.m., Facebook announced that it had stopped our ability to spread
it on their website. No one was allowed to share the story on Facebook,
and they said that this was because they needed to fact-check it. They
were concerned about its accuracy. And to this day, there's been no
evidence that Facebook even tried to fact-check it. I know that people
who were recipients of various of the e-mails that we had published have
never been contacted by Facebook. People like Tony Bobulinski. No one
has ever contacted any of the other recipients, which is the first thing
you would do if you were fact-checking. So that was a lie.
Next, Twitter decided to pile in, and they locked our account for
the next two weeks. They prevented anyone from being able to share the
story. And in fact, they even suspended Kayleigh McEnany, who was then
President Trump's press secretary, because she tried to share the
story.
So that was a useful fig leaf for the rest of the media, for the New
York Times, for CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, to ignore our story. They
could legitimately say, in their own eyes, that this was fake news, this
was a suspect story, because big tech had censored it. And that was
something that they clung on to for a few days.
And then the coup de grace came out: It was a letter that John
Brennan orchestrated and that he had one of his proxies give to
politico, and this letter was signed by 50 former high-flying, important
officials in the intelligence and defense communities. People like
James Clapper, like Leon Panetta, like Michael Hayden. Fifty of them had
used their authority and the prestige of their former offices to
declare that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. You've
heard that story before. And John Brennan, of course, who's been at the
center of every dirty trick against Donald Trump, was instrumental in
getting this letter out.
And that letter served to completely kill our story. Nobody would
touch it. It was Russian disinformation. Adam Schiff, James Clapper,
John Brennan fanned out across the media and they told this story. They
said the intelligence community had found that the laptop was Russian
disinformation. It was Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin's last-ditch
attempt to install their agent, Donald Trump. So of course, everyone
bought that. Project Veritas actually was quite helpful in that period
because the CNN News meeting that James just told you about, in one of
those morning meetings straight after we'd published our story, Zucker
and one of his senior executives told their CNN editors not to cover the
New York Post story. They said, it's not true. It's old news. We
already know this. This is what got Trump impeached. Just ignore it. And
they did.
So this was a very successful and coordinated censorship operation.
It was effective because it shut down our story, and we know that if
that story had been allowed to get to the American people, it would have
potentially, from a poll done by Media Research Center, changed the
course of the election, because they polled Biden voters and found that
50% of them had never heard of Hunter Biden's laptop. They knew nothing
about the corruption it contained. And they knew nothing about the
investigations that the Department of Justice had opened up into Hunter
Biden and his uncle, Jim Biden, Joe's brother, over tax evasion, money
laundering and various alleged violations of the Foreign Agents
Registration Act. So they knew nothing about that.
And what the poll found was that if 10% of them would have changed
their vote, if they had known, and in battleground states, we know that
Joe Biden only won the election by 45,000 votes spread across a number
of battleground states. So that small percentage, the 10% of the 50% of
Biden voters who didn't know about the laptop and would have changed
their vote, could have changed the course of the election. So it was a
very effective and successful censorship operation.
But what it did do was it -- in their panic, just three weeks, or
less than three weeks before the election, it brought the social media
giants out into the open. We could see -- they flexed their muscles. We
could see the power that they had, and soon afterward, of course, they
kicked President Trump off social media.
And shortly after the Brennan letter was released, Joe Biden had to
do a debate with Donald Trump, and he was prepared with that letter,
armed with that letter, the Brennan letter, to combat anything that
Donald Trump would say -- obviously would bring up about the corruption
found on the laptop. And all Joe Biden said was, the intelligence
community, these 50 respected members of the intelligence community,
have said it's Russian disinformation; it's just you doing favors for
your handler in the Kremlin. And then, when Donald Trump brought up all
the porn and the crack use, the drug use and the really degenerate
material that's on the laptop, Joe Biden just pulled off this masterful
Jujitsu move, obviously practiced. He looked down the barrel of the
camera, and he said, like many of you at home, my son has an addiction
problem. But he's beaten it, and I'm very proud of my son. And that was
it. He managed to turn around what should have been a crippling blow
into a nothing burger. You can only say that the censorship of the New
York Post story amounted to election interference, and you can see from
the concerted efforts to censor the story just how dangerous Hunter
Biden's laptop was to Joe Biden's election prospects.
Now, I've spent more time than is healthy delving into the innards
of Joe -- of Hunter Biden's laptop, and I can tell you, it's dangerous
to Joe Biden for two reasons. It is about Joe Biden; it's not really
about Hunter Biden. He's just the vessel. First, the book -- the laptop
exposes Joe Biden as a liar and a terrible father. I mean, what father
would put his drug-addicted son in front of gushing torrents of
unaccountable cash? And Hunter Biden even says, in his own memoir,
Beautiful Things, that he really wrote to sort of launder some of the
most objectionable material in the laptop, came out as a crackhead who'd
recovered -- he even says that the money that he was getting from
Burisma, $5 million from Burisma for nothing, he even said that that
became a temptation for him in terms of falling off the wagon.
But the second important reason why the laptop was so dangerous to
Joe Biden is because it shows the extent of his influence-peddling
scheme overseas. It began, of course, the way he made money and enriched
himself and his family, in Delaware more than four decades ago. But
when he became Vice President and Barack Obama appointed him point man
for China, Joe Biden then internationalized this influence-peddling
scheme and the result is that America's national security has been
compromised.
Now, I'll just briefly, because it seems to be a question everyone
asks me -- I'll briefly cover the porn and the sort of degenerate aspect
of the laptop. And there are lots of photographs of Hunter's erect
penis; I can tell you that. He had an obsession with photographing it.
He would place M&Ms along it. He would measure it with a ruler and
photograph that. He would -- one time flopped it into a plate of pizza
from room service at a luxury hotel in Las Vegas and photographed that.
So he had this bizarre compulsion to photo-record everything in his
life. He would video-record his sex sessions with various women,
prostitutes, his brother's widow, with whom he had a sort of torrid
affair for some time. He would video-record their sex sessions and
upload them to a website called Pornhub, which is a sort of amateur porn
site, and he'd give these videos little titles like "Lonely Widow."
So you really have to acknowledge that, because the reason it's
important is because this is someone who was not a functional human
being. He would spend, in the nine years on that laptop, several of them
were spent on benders. He would spend months living in the Chateau
Marmont in Hollywood, living in a bungalow near where John Belushi died
of an overdose. He would have a string of hookers and drug dealers come
through that cottage by the pool. He would photograph a lot of it and
videotape a lot of it. He learned how to cook crack over the four-burner
stove on -- in the bungalow at the chateau, and he would photograph
that. He was very proud of his prowess with the crack cooking, and he
would have little baggies with these little pieces of crack inside it,
and he would weigh them on a little Cheech and Chong scale and take
photographs of that.
So this is someone who would either be on benders, or then he would
go into very expensive rehabs, and this was just a cycle that he would
live in. And I mean, one of these rehabs -- I mean, all these rehabs
seem to be a joke. They didn't really do anything for him. They were
just sort of pampering time for him. But he -- one rehab that he did in
Newburyport in Massachusetts had -- he would -- during the day he would
get these intravenous infusions of a drug called ketamine, which is a
horse tranquilizer. And it's also a party drug. But he would spend the
days getting this drug coursing through his system. It was supposed to
somehow stop addiction. And at night he would go back to his lodgings
and he would invite over prostitutes and drug dealers and smoke crack
all night. So I don't really think his rehab, he took it very
seriously.
So the reason it's important, though, to address that before you get
to the corruption is because this is not somebody who could hold down a
job at McDonald's. This is not a high-powered international businessman
who's capable of flying around the world doing billion-dollar deals
because of the genius of his entrepreneurship. This is someone who was
introduced into the very inner sanctum of not just President Xi Jinping
in China, but of Vladimir Putin in Russia. He was also in the inner
sanctum of oligarchs across the world from Romania, from Ukraine, from
Kazakhstan. And he would fly to Lake Como or Monte Carlo to meet these
-- these are playgrounds of the oligarchs. And he would hang out with
them. And so that was his bizarre life. One time his business partner,
Devon Archer, described themselves as like something out of Jason
Bourne, that they saw themselves as living this sort of James Bond
lifestyle, meeting what Devon Archer called "the garchs" at Lake Como,
the oligarchs.
So this person is the President's must trusted advisor. I mean,
currently. He's in and out of the White House. He's in and out of the
long weekend White House in Delaware. Biden, just on Wednesday, Joe
Biden, the President, he gave a eulogy in Delaware, and he said that he
took Hunter's advice before doing a climate deal with China. He said
Hunter advised him to use empathy when figuring out how to negotiate
these deals with China to -- Joe Biden explained to the congregation
what empathy means, putting yourself in another person's shoe, seeing
things from their perspective, and that was Hunter Biden told his
father. He said, see it from China's perspective.
And of course he did, because Hunter Biden is still a business
partner. He's in business with the Chinese government. We have annual
reports and board meetings and other papers and documents on the laptop.
He holds, still holds, 10% of a Chinese investment fund called BHR,
which, among other things, partnered with the Chinese military to buy a
Michigan automotive firm which had, basically, secrets. It had -- what's
it called, anti-vibration technology, which is used by stealth fighters
in the U.S. military. So that was bought and taken to China. BHR, this
company that Biden owns 10% of, has shares in Chinese firms which have
been sanctioned by the United States for trying to steal American
secrets and technology. It also owns shares in a facial recognition firm
called Face Plus Plus, which has been used to -- for human rights
abuses, basically, let's say, on the Uyghurs. BHR invested, actually,
$30 million in 2017 in Face Plus Plus, we see on the laptop, and two
years later, that value of that investment had more than doubled. So
there should be some nice fat profits coming out of that fund for Hunter
Biden when he cashes in his chips, which he'll probably do the day
after Joe Biden stops being President.
And of course, this is important because Joe Biden ran as Honest
Joe. Integrity was his byword. And he asked people to compare his
character to Donald Trump's, and he vowed before the election that
nobody in his family would have any business dealings with foreign
interests. But as I said, Hunter is in business, still, with the CCP,
and Jen Psaki gets asked about it periodically by -- only the New York
Post and Fox News, in the press conferences, and she has had since
February that Hunter is working very hard to unwind his shareholding in
BHR, but he still owns it, and no one cares. There's really no interest
to the media. They obsessively pored over every aspect of Donald Trump's
business, his children's business, but not interested with Hunter
Biden. You know the story.
So what the laptop tells us is that Joe Biden not only knew about
what Hunter was up to, but he was intimately involved in his family's
influence-peddling operation around the world. He orchestrated it and he
benefited from it. For instance, we know that Hunter wanted to be an
artist or a writer. That's all on the laptop, all his longings to be a
creative person, but he was not allowed to be. He had to be the bag man,
the money man, the earner for the golden child, which was his older
brother, Beau, who, sadly, has died. But that was Joe's plan, that Beau
was going to become president and -- after Joe, of course, and it was
going to be this Biden dynasty that was going to rival the Kennedys,
that Joe Biden had been -- just admired and had modeled himself on since
he was a child.
And so what we had was, Hunter Biden, having to go into business, do
something he hated, and basically represent his father. We saw what
happened in 2013 when Joe Biden, as Vice President, took Hunter along on
Air Force Two to Beijing to meet President Xi Jinping. And we know that
Joe Biden came away from that meeting with the Chinese president
emptyhanded on behalf of America. There were some pressing issues,
especially for America's allies in the South China Sea. China was
militarizing those islands that were going to be a threat to Taiwan and
Japan and Australia and America's allies there, but Joe Biden came away
emptyhanded. Also on the subject of intellectual property theft:
nothing. But Hunter Biden came away from that meeting a very wealthy
man, because he was signed up then to this 10% ownership of, basically, a
Chinese company that would, by 2019, have $2.5 billion of funds under
management. And during that visit, Joe Biden also secretly met with
Hunter's business partner in that operation. So he was instrumental and
knowledgeable. He knew what was going on.
And to Chinese eyes, Joe Biden arriving with his son on Air Force
Two was very normal, because this is the way that business is done.
Corruption is done among the elites, the so-called Red Families in
China, through their children, their family members, who are called
princelings. And so they recognized Hunter for what he was: a
princeling. When he walked off Air Force Two with his father, they
understood that this was American power come to do business.
And Joe's connections would continue to unlock doors for his son to
the inner sanctums of all these oligarchs and Putin and Xi. It got to
the stage -- he's still taking drugs. He's still completely out of
control. Uncle Jim has dispatched to kind of babysit him. And he -- it's
like some sort of -- I don't know -- a sort of a comedy routine.
Bungling Jim Biden and his drug addict nephew Hunter are sort of
bumbling around in the center of these really gigantic geopolitical
deals between Russia and China over energy. They were in the middle of
this power struggle between the U.S. and Russia over energy, and
somehow, they're in the center of it. They're crucial to it. And they
have no idea what's going on. All they care about was money.
And so finally, look, I think you hear from Walter Shaub, who's the
Obama ethics czar, a former Obama ethics czar. He's now quite outraged
about Hunter Biden's latest grift, which is the -- his artworks where he
is -- dubious artistic merit, first-time painter, and he's selling
these paintings for as much as $500,000. And the White House's ethical
solution to this obvious dilemma is to say, well, we'll just keep secret
the people who buy these paintings, which is just -- does not make
sense. So Walter Shaub, rightly, is outraged about it.
But I want to know, where was Obama's ethics czar during the Obama
administration, during eight years when Joe Biden was monetizing his
influence? There was nobody railing against or stopping Joe Biden from
doing what he was doing, which he was doing pretty much out in the open.
It was pretty obvious when he was taking his son on Air Force Two,
flying him all over the place, and his business partners. We had Devon
Archer, Hunter's business partner, went to the Oval Office just before
he and Hunter were placed on the Burisma board, and he went to the Oval
Office and did a selfie with Joe Biden, which was then put up on the
Burisma website. And there's e-mails on the laptop from the Vice
President's counsel saying, quickly get that down! So they were aware
that Joe was dodgy, but they turned a blind eye.
And they didn't care about the story of Café Milano. Now, I told you
about the e-mail that the New York Post ran that first day, and we only
had the tip of the story at that point. What the story really was, and
what I discovered through more documents on the laptop, is that on April
16, 2015, Hunter Biden organized a dinner for his business associates
from Russia, from Ukraine and from Kazakhstan in a private room at an
Italian restaurant, very well known, in Georgetown called Café Milano,
and he invited his father to meet his business partners. And Joe went.
And Joe denied it. He just refused to answer questions, and his people
said no, no, no, there was nothing, no meeting on that date. He was
otherwise engaged. Nothing on his official diary.
But we have RSVPs, we have e-mails in which Hunter invites people
and assures them his father will be there. We have the guest list, which
Hunter cooked up with his friend Devon Archer. We know who was invited.
We know one of the people invited was the Russian oligarch Yelena
Baturina, who later showed up in a Senate inquiry by Chuck Grassley and
Ron Johnson as having given $3.5 million to Devon -- into one of Devon
Archer's bank accounts that he had founded, in one of the companies he'd
founded. So we know there was dirty business going on, and we know that
Joe Biden was involved in it, and yet, no one's interested. The
receipts are all on the laptop. That's why there was so much trouble
exerted, and that's why social media, big tech, came out of the shadows
and flexed their muscles and showed just how much power they had, which
is probably a good thing in the end.
So I'll just leave you with two thoughts. One is that people are
saying that Joe Biden should get a pass because of his cognitive
decline. They're saying, well, he doesn't really know what he's doing.
He doesn't understand what's going on. Now, I'm one of the first to say
that his behavior is bizarre and there's definitely something wrong with
him, but whatever's wrong with him was already baked in. I mean, that
was clear before the election. It was why they hid him in the basement.
But it sort of goes beyond the mere aging process and whatever alleged
childhood stutter he had.
But I'm told by foreign officials who have had -- been in these
high-level meetings with Joe Biden over the last six months that he has
times -- at times he's completely incoherent, like he was at the G20 in
June, wandering around just behaving inappropriately; delirious is how
he was described to me. But there have been other meetings in which he
is completely lucid, where he relies not very heavily on notes, where he
is running the agenda, where the people around him, the Tony Blinkens,
the Ron Klains, the Jake Sullivans are taking his lead. They are obeying
his instructions. They are treating him like the guy in charge. He runs
the agenda. So I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the fact that Joe
Biden is in charge and that there's a B team around him that allows him
to make decisions, and he's always been a man of poor character, he's
always been a liar and a fantasist, and he's always had poor judgment.
So it should be no surprise that his presidency is so disastrous, and
that just is with him running things.
And then lastly, this point is a bit of a horror movie point, and I
apologize for it, but Hunter Biden has serious political ambitions. He's
discussed it seriously with people who are closest to him. His ex-wife
laughed in his face and he was very resentful that she would think it
was an idiotic idea. I've spoken to someone to whom -- who's involved in
the laptop, but to whom Hunter, off the record, to whom Hunter has
confided a lot of his innermost thoughts, and he definitely -- this
person thinks that Hunter could become president. Wants to become
president, and could.
And I laughed and scoffed, and they said, no, when you think about
it, it's a classic redemption story. He's seen the hard times. He
understands how politics works. And he always gets what he wants. He's
very smart. And he wanted to be an artist, he wanted to be an author;
he's now both, and he's now in the White House as the President's
advisor. So, stranger things have happened. I just would be aware that
that's a possibility in the future. Thank you. I think -- okay.
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