I agree with Josh Rogin’s assertion in his Washington Post column that the “debate” revealed how broken our political discourse about China is. However, a funny thing happened in his column. The only party he actually accuses of lying in the debate is VP Joe Biden:
Biden then inaccurately accused Trump of not even asking Chinese President Xi Jinping to allow U.S. scientists to enter Wuhan, a false claim the ex-vice president has been repeating since March.
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Biden said Beijing has perfected “the art of the steal†by duping Trump into a weak trade deal. But he claimed the U.S. trade deficit with China is higher now, which is false.
Here’s his corresponding charge against President Trump:
The president also falsely claimed that Hunter Biden “[took] out billions of dollars [from China] to manage,†a gross misrepresentation of a murky deal involving the Bank of China to which the younger Biden was a party.
Is that a lie or merely a “gross misrepresentation”? Gross misrepresentations in a political debate? Blow me down! What will happen next? Given the vice president’s role at the time and his son’s lack of credentials or experience I think it beggars belief that influence peddling was not involved regardless of what any investigation might have found. IMO our political class has come to accept such corrupt practices far too casually.
I would much rather see two better-informed candidates coolly discussing the issues but that’s not the present state of our politics.
“Given the vice president’s role at the time and his son’s lack of credentials or experience I think it beggars belief that influence peddling was not involved regardless of what any investigation might have found.”
I have been in fundraising mode. I’ve sat across the table from serious, serious investors. I know how it works and what it takes. To think Hunter Biden was given such a huge anchor investor’s position on merit is to self identify as an idiot.
Then look at the portfolio investments made. My god.
Washington knows this. Some reasonable portion of the media knows this. Crickets. What is being perpetrated is a fraud on the public. Shameful.
I read another article this morning that made a pretty fair case that an emerging story that the Bidens were actually in “collusion” with Russia is being completely ignored by the mainstream media. Since I believe that very nearly all politicians, regardless of party, are in collusion with just about anybody who will give them money, er, a campaign contribution or will provide a job for them or their relatives after they leave office, that would not particularly shock me. But remember I have a problem with anybody who holds elective office for more than a term or two.
There are any number of people who have enumerated Trump’s lies during the debate. However, he lies so often that it is expected. I presume thats why Rogin pointed out Biden lying. It is not the norm for anyone else besides Trump.
Steve