Media silent on Hunter Biden’s Russia prostitute counterintelligence scandal

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Opinion
Media silent on Hunter Biden’s Russia prostitute counterintelligence scandal
Opinion
Media silent on Hunter Biden’s Russia prostitute counterintelligence scandal
Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Ashley BIden
President Joe Biden hugs first lady Jill Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and daughter Ashley Biden.

The strange saga of
Hunter Biden’s
waylaid laptop constitutes one of the bigger scandals in the recent history of American journalism and politics.

In the last month of the
2020 election campaign,
Democrats, much of the media, and Big Tech worked together to suppress discussion of that laptop and its unflattering contents. They did so in a manner that reeked of collusion. The impact of this suppression on the election is difficult to gauge, however, since nobody had effectively killed relevant reporting in such a nakedly partisan manner before.

That was then.

In the more than 20 months since, the media have gradually decided that maybe there’s something there after all. The
original contention
that the “laptop from hell” was mere Russian disinformation has given ground to the reality that it was the careless first son’s property. The Washington Examiner commissioned a forensic examination
that proved as much
. Other outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC News, and Politico have grudgingly admitted that it’s really Biden’s laptop and the sordid information contained therein is real.

Not that the media seem interested in pursuing stories derived from that laptop about what Biden and his father were up to — particularly, that is, regarding shady finances with foreign ties. There’s a plethora of data to work with, but the liberal media don’t seem eager to report any of it. Apparently, it’s now acceptable to admit that it really was Biden’s laptop, but nobody’s supposed to discuss its contents.

It has therefore fallen to conservative outlets to do that reporting, and some of those findings can be fairly termed bombshells. Yet, these continue to be trees falling in forests that many people don’t hear about since the media keep ignoring these investigative reports.

Take the case of the
exclusive story
reported this week by the Washington Examiner. It concerns the younger Biden’s rather recent dalliances with Russian escorts, which were being funded by his father. Personally, I don’t care about his prolific sexual antics during his years of epic drug binges, but when it involves
Russians
and shady finances, that’s getting into my counterintelligence wheelhouse. To any trained eye, this week’s report raises troubling questions about Biden and his Russian friends.

To summarize it, over less than four months in late 2018 and early 2019, Biden spent in excess of $30,000 on Russian escorts, many of whom were linked to “.ru” Russian email addresses and worked with an “exclusive model agency” called UberGFE. He exchanged numerous text messages with a woman named Eva, who served as his primary point of contact at UberGFE. Eva called him “Robert” which is, in fact, Biden’s first name. As the Washington Examiner report notes, his bank “accounts were temporarily frozen at one point because his attempted payments to her ‘girls’ with Russian email accounts were too much of a ‘red flag’ for his bank.” The president’s son also searched on Google for “dc russian escorts” and visited UberGFE’s website to search for escorts in Boston.

The report likewise notes that the elder Biden was financing Hunter Biden’s dalliances with Russian escorts. The current president wired his son over $100,000 during the period in question. Hunter Biden was spending his father’s money as fast as it landed in his accounts. As the report dryly states, “Joe Biden wired his son $5,000 while he was actively engaged with an UberGFE escort. … Texts indicated Hunter Biden convinced his father to wire him $20,000 to finance his stay at a New York City drug rehabilitation program that he never checked into.”

As the Washington Examiner report emphasizes, there’s no indication that
President Joe Biden
knew what his son was spending that money on. Let’s give the president the benefit of the doubt that he had no clue that Hunter Biden was dropping $10,000 or so every month on Russian escorts. What happened is bad enough. Summed up, the younger Biden was seeking out Russian escorts in Washington, a city that’s crawling with Russian (and many other) spies, while giving tens of thousands of dollars to Eva, who appears to have been running a human trafficking ring. For years, Democrats and their media allies have insisted that
former President Donald Trump
was “compromised” by the Kremlin. Well, this story constitutes worse kompromat than the media ever reliably reported about the Trump family.

In other words, this is a bombshell report. It carries troubling counterintelligence implications for the first son and potentially for the Biden family. One might think the media would eagerly expand on this intriguing story in an effort to “speak truth to power” and all that.

One would be wrong.

Since that Washington Examiner report appeared, it has been commented on in a few right-of-center outlets, but Google searches reveal no further media amplification of the story whatsoever. This coordinated ignoring of a major story with national security implications amounts to censorship. It worked in October 2020, but it’s not working anymore.

If Republicans retake the House of Representatives in January, as seems likely, expect to hear more about this matter. And rightly so.

John R. Schindler served with the National Security Agency as a senior intelligence analyst and counterintelligence officer.

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