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S8 Ep174: PREVIEW — Ken Vogel — Hunter Biden and Foreign Influence Peddling. Vogel discusses Hunter Biden's documented involvement with Chinese business figures and financial entities, noting Hunter's own stated "wonderment" regarding the sophisticated networks he

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEWKen Vogel — Hunter Biden and Foreign Influence Peddling. Vogel discusses Hunter Biden'sdocumented involvement with Chinese business figures and financial entities, noting Hunter's own stated "wonderment" regarding the sophisticated networks he accessed and his acknowledged awareness that his personal value derived fundamentally from his family surname and paternal political connections to Vice President Joe Biden. Vogel argues that foreign entities, particularly Chinese governmental and commercial interests, deliberately targeted the Biden family for systematic influence operations and strategic cultivation, accurately calculating that Joe Biden possessed substantial political authority as a sitting Vice President and remained a viable prospective presidential candidate, making influence investment strategically rational from Beijing's geopolitical perspectives and national interest calculations.
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This is John Batchel, a conversation with New York Times investigative reporter Ken Vogel,

0:36.0

his new book, Devils Advocates, about the

0:38.9

lobbying that goes on the Trump administration, the Biden administration, we can presume the Trump

0:44.1

administration again, by influence peddlers, sometimes related to the president himself,

0:51.4

such as the Biden, sometimes related to friends of the president.

0:55.7

But in any event, the Hunter Biden story is both obvious and knee-slapping at the naivete of people

1:03.9

who first heard about it.

1:05.5

Here's Ken Vogel to describe how Hunter Biden himself was amazed at the circles he was traveling with and why?

1:14.1

Well, there is that last name.

1:16.5

Here, Ken Vogel to explain much more of this tonight and tomorrow night, a two-hour interview

1:21.2

with Ken Vogel in New York Times.

1:23.0

Devil's Advocates, Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and all the rest of the gang making money,

1:29.4

influence peddling to foreign agents, especially foreign agents from unsavory sovereignties.

1:37.4

Much more.

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