Tea at Trianon: Hunter Biden’s ‘Ultimate Purpose’ At Ukrainian Energy Firm

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Hunter Biden’s ‘Ultimate Purpose’ At Ukrainian Energy Firm

From Conservative Brief:

GOP lawmakers expressed outrage on Tuesday after finding the previously undisclosed email chain from 2015, which came before the then VP-s well-known trip to Ukraine. The email chain revealed the “ultimate purpose” behind Hunter Biden’s affiliation with Burisma Holdings, an energy company based in Ukraine.
Fox News reported that, in the month leading up to former Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Ukraine, during which he issued a threat to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid unless Ukrainian leaders dismissed their top prosecutor, there were discussions between Hunter Biden and Burisma executives regarding a potential contract aimed at countering any federal investigations concerning Burisma’s founder and then-president, Mykola Zlochevsky.

“The sequence of events that led to the firing of Viktor Shokin, and the subsequent comments by then-Vice President Biden, raise serious concerns as to what machinations were really at play — and were purposefully concealed from the American people,” Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., a member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, told Fox News Digital.

“No matter how you slice Hunter Biden’s involvement, it screams public corruption at the highest levels and must be fully investigated,” she added. (Read more.)

Meanwhile, Biden gives away jet tech secrets to India. From The Blaze:

If you need someone to hand over advanced fighter jet technology to another country, look no further than Joe Biden. The Biden administration signed off on a deal with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that will allow General Electric to produce jet engines with Hindustan Aeronautics, a state-owned company. Mark Levin, while never surprised at Biden’s decisions, is not pleased. (Read more.)

Megyn Kelly discusses the recent scandals with Michael Knowles. Great discussion.