The Duran Podcast - Neocons turn on Joe Biden

Episode Date: September 21, 2023

Neocons turn on Joe Biden The Duran: Episode 1700

All right, Alexander, let's talk about the Hunter Biden indictment on firearms. And let's talk about the growing scandals in and around Hunter Biden, but more importantly, around Joe Biden. And the scandals are picking up pace. Absolutely, they're picking up pace. They're getting bigger. The president's problems are becoming, you know, are becoming very, very serious indeed. So you can track this from what some important people are now saying.

But let's first of all begin with Hunter Biden. We had that sweetheart deal of a few weeks ago and it collapsed when the judge made it pretty clear that she was very unhappy with it. And now we've had actual indictments of Hunter Biden. They are very difficult to defend against. even when they're brought by someone like David Weiss, who has up to this point been bending over backwards not to investigate Hunter with too much rigour. So we've got that problem.

The president's son, and we mustn't forget this, he is the president's son, is now under indictment, and is now facing criminal prosecutions and potentially prison time. So that's one thing. The second is we now have. all this awful business about Burisma, which of course again relates to the President's son, it's all now finally reaching the political centre stage. And a couple of days ago I sent you an article which had appeared in National Review. National Review, for those who don't know,

is the flagship magazine of the establishment rhinos. I mean, it's, It goes all the way back to the 50s. It was set up by William Buckley back in the 50s. It's the sort of place where the rhinos write. It's very much the magazine of the McConnell-McCarthy wing of the Republican Party, the country club wing of the Republican Party. And they've been very reluctant to go after Biden. We've discussed this many times.

National Review, just to accept to tell people, opposed Donald Trump's nomination as Republican candidate in 2016, 2015, 2016. As I well remember, they supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump in 2021. So, you know, they are not at all people who up to this point. And, you know, they supported Biden's re-election. They said there was nothing to, rather election. They said there was nothing to find there the 2020 election was perfect. Now, they've come up. They've published a massive article, huge article, saying, yes, the title is, yes, Joe Biden is corrupt.

That's the title of the National Review article. and it goes through the Burisma affair in extraordinary detail. And it does so. The only thing about it which was new to me was the timeline that it provided. And you see all of these meetings whenever, you know, there's an awkward meeting for an awkwardness, a problem for Burisma. You find that people like Zlachevsky, the old. of Burisma, send a bit more money to Hunter, call a few people up on the phone, and then

within hours, within days, Joe is on the scene, he's doing things and he's protecting, or so it seems, at least that's what the National Review says, he's clearly acting to protect Burisma. So they say this is clearly corrupt. They're also saying that Biden, at the very least, when he became, vice president should have told his son to stop being involved in these things and he didn't they say that and they said if he wasn't going to tell his son to stop doing these things the only honorable thing for joe biden to have done as vice president was to declare an interest and say that from this point on i have nothing no dealings with ukraine because my son has big business interests there and of course he didn't. And of course they talk about the money

that passed and all of those sort of things. So that appeared in National Review. And I sent it to you and I said it looks to me as if the McCarthy wing has now decided to support the impeachment and sure enough, just a few hours later McCarthy announces that there is going to be an impeachment inquiry. Then, just a few hours after the impeachment inquiry

is announced, we start, seeing articles appearing in all sorts of places. The first one started to appear in Britain, by the way. There's a long article by Alistair Heath, who is the editor of the Sunday Telegraph in Britain, very close to the United States, saying Biden is too old, that he's clearly suffering from mental issues.

I mean, you know, that's what Alistair Heath says. He's not up to the job of being president, anymore. He can't do it any longer. And just a few hours after that, after the sort of ground has been prepared with articles appearing in the British

media, we have David Ignatius strong support of the Democrats, a person who is very close to the US intelligence community. He's coming out in saying the same thing, that Biden can't, shouldn't

seek re-election next year. that this is simply not helpful and that he should step away and allow open the space for someone else. Yeah, you think they're really going to make the move to get Biden out? Well, I don't know. I mean, here. I'm 50-50 on it, you know. I would put it 50-50. And you can see that through certain things that they've now started to do.

Firstly, Hunter himself is now starting all sorts of, frankly, ridiculous cases. I mean, he's brought a case against Mr. Isaacs. You remember we interviewed him, the man who, the laptop repairman that he gave the laptop to. He's saying that Mr. Isaacs breached privacy law by publishing information on, that came out of this laptop. But of course, he won't admit at the same time that he's making that claim that the laptop is his.

It's very bizarre. It is such a weird case. It is one of the weirdest legal cases that I've ever seen. And of course, because he's not accepting that it is his laptop, he says that he is not bound by the agreement

that he signed with Mr. Isaacs, that, you know, that waiving effectively confidentiality about its contents. I mean, it's, it just doesn't make any kind of sense. I mean, it's, it's risable. I mean, it is, it is a ludicrous case. But nonetheless, he's brought it. He's brought a case against someone else who I gather published more information about him on his website or his YouTube channel or something of that.

He's busy doing those kind of things. So that I would suggest. is a sign of nervousness. It's an attempt to use the courts to silence people in advance of both cases that have been brought against Hunter himself and in advance of the potential impeachment inquiry. That's what it looks like to me. But the other thing they've done is they've got,

I think it's the White House, and this is really most astonishing. It's not the mean, it's not Biden's own. but it's the White House. They've now sent this newspaper, this letter to all the media people, saying, you know, cover this case, you know, responsibly and carefully.

There's lots of distortions and factual untruths. You must act, you know, in a responsible way. And people like Jonathan Turley, and he's not the only one, are coming out and saying, this is completely astonishing. It is, in effect, the White House telling the media, come to the President's rescue.

We need your help because all of this, you know, the walls are closing in. Eve Smith, by the way, Naked Capitalism has done a good piece about this as well. So read the pieces by Eve Smith and by Jonathan Turley on this because they've covered all of this well. So the Biden team are worried.

I mean, they're worried about all of these calls. I think the one they're probably worried about most. is the one, however, from David Ignatius. They've got all of these cases closing in, but they've got a clear sign from someone like David Ignatius that he's been talking to people in what we might as well call the deep state. And they're unhappy with Joe, and they want him to go. And that's what they're signalling.

And I'm going to suggest that there's two reasons why the deep state, or those kind of people, are unhappy with Joe, One is that they're starting to worry that Joe can't beat Donald Trump in the election next year. He's becoming so unpopular that with all the legal cases, all the things that you've been trying to do to stop Donald Trump, if Joe who's running, Trump might win. I think that's one concern. I think also, and I'm going to say, I think also there is. an attempt now to fix the blame for the failed offensive in Ukraine, encho.

He's the obvious scapego. The offensive hasn't succeeded. Right at the start of the offensive, I remember reading an article. I think he was actually in Politico. I said in my channel that it was Washington Post, but in Politica about how nervous Biden was about the offensive. that he felt that a lot of his political capital was invested in it and of course the offensive has failed and we see that he's right to be nervous political support for him in

Washington is starting to crumble and by the way I read another piece this is about a week or so ago by Andrew Coburn who's presumably a member of the dynasty of journalists who come from the Coburn family. So again, a pretty establishment figure. But he was saying that at the Vilnius summit, the NATO summit in July, the Europeans were absolutely shocked by the condition in which they found Biden. They were astonished by how he came across and the deterioration that they saw in the year since the previous NATO summit.

And, you know, that might have been because of stress because the offensive wasn't going well, but the fact is stories like that are circulating. So I think altogether things are not looking good for him. But I don't think he's going to go willingly. I think he's going to cling on and fight as hard

as he can. He's putting a legal team together to defend the impeachment. The word is they're going to be very aggressive. We see the message that has been sent to the media. The media has consistently backed Biden up to this point and I don't see any reason why that should change but things are beginning to look

worse for him and I can't help but think that they're going to continue to deteriorate especially if this impeachment inquiry really does take off and we start to see more and more information trickling out about the kind of things that Hunter was up to yeah Dr. Chill will not let Biden remove himself. That's what I think is going. I think she wants Biden to stay in office. Anyway, you know, I'm starting, I think she likes the White House a lot more than he does. I'm starting to think that the trip from Zelensky to D.C.

is actually a setup in a way. Because last year when Zelensky was in D.C., you know, it helped build up Biden as this foreign policy, you know, master, foreign policy genius, destroying Russia by using Ukraine to destroy Russia. But I think now Biden and Zelensky, those two together, that's not going to help Biden at all. No, I don't know. I think someone may be manipulating this to further degrade Biden's position, because the media will support Biden until someone who is on top of Biden, you know, someone who's really pulling the strings, tells the media, no, uh-uh, you're not supporting this guy anymore. We have seen some of the mainstream media outlets, some thinking CNN, they started to talk a little more openly

about all the corruption in and around Biden. And when you talk about the corruption around Biden, the alleged corruption around Biden, you know, one country is on the top of the list consistently over and over again, and that country is Ukraine. Absolutely. He's knee-deep in Ukraine.

He is knee-deep in Ukraine. I mean, it's, I mean, if you put the most favorable spin on what Biden himself, the president, was up to, and, you know, assumed that he had no connection at all with anything other than the Sunday. that his son was doing, he's still knee-deep in Ukraine. It's impossible because, I mean, the amount of interactions, the amount of communications, the money, the meetings, the telephone calls, the messages, the, you know,

the pressure to get the prosecutor sacked, all of that is just there. You can't get away from it. There's just too much of it. And as the National Review article said, already there's enough there, which is indisputable and proven fact to answer the question with, you know, is Biden corrupt? National Review says yes. So, and we know that there's an awful lot more to find. And National Review actually said that.

They said there's an awful lot more coming. So, I mean, you know, presumably they know what there is. And we haven't even started looking at other places like China, for example, where the money is going to be much more. So when people are starting to, when these murmurings in places like CNN begin, it is a very bad sign for Biden and for his team. And you're absolutely right.

Bringing Zelensky to Washington is not going to be a good look. The Republicans are already complaining about, the real Republicans, the Republicans who actually care about these matters, they're already complaining that the United States is throwing away money in Ukraine, that there's got so many other problems. We've had a disaster in Hawaii, and, you know, the president showed no interest in that. He's focused always on Ukraine.

He's doing all of these things. And so there's already that. So the Republicans were already unhappy. The American people. The polls show are already also becoming increasingly unhappy. The economy is not looking strong. We have inflation rising. We have an 8% budget deficit.

I mean, this is a topic to discuss some other time, actually. But things are not good with the economy. Things are not good with people's living standards. And, of course, what you do, you bring back, you bring into view damaged goods the man who came along to Washington

last year gave that speech told us everybody that he was on the cusp of victory but this year took all of America's money and all of America's weapons and failed to deliver he promised this great victory

at this counteroffensive and it hasn't come and of course what that reminds us of what that's going to remind lots of people in the US is here we have all of this talk about Ukraine and Biden and the Suns dealings in Ukraine and here we have the president meeting with Zelenskyi meeting with this person in Ukraine sending even more vast sums of money to Ukraine our money taxpayers money

inevitably some people are going to make the connection a connection they're going to say that the president is spending our money to protect his own interests it's exactly what it is though yeah that's exactly what it is he's you know Biden's presidency uh is completely tied into ukraine yes yes huge strategic era on his team's part they tied up his entire presidency with with ukraine Yes, yes. All dependent on Ukraine and Ukraine is losing and they're losing bad. And if Ukraine is losing, well, Biden is losing. It's that simple.

Absolutely. This is entirely correct. I mean, I should say this is entirely predictable. I remember before Briden became president, I had a discussion with a journalist. I won't say which, but an American journalist. And he said to me, you know, I mean, given all this happened in Ukraine with Biden, you'd have thought, you know, he was expecting that Biden. would keep clear, steer clear of Ukraine during his presidency.

He did the diametric opposite. He plunged in. Of course, the reason he did that was because he assumed that it would all be over quickly, that he'd announced all these huge raft of sanctions against the Russians. Russia would implode. Putin would fall and Biden would be the hero of the hour. And then last year and this year, he thought, that would be this offensive and they'd break through to the sea of Azov and it would be the same all over again. It hasn't turned out that way.

And now, of course, he's stuck. He's got this most unwelcome visitor, Zelensky, are coming, begging for more, which is the very last message that many Americans want to hear. And of course, it's going to put ideas into their heads, which the president himself, if he understands anything anymore, would prefer them not to have or would most definitely not want

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