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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Friday April 8, 2022. We are back from Palm Beach and ready to return to our previously scheduled programming.

One note, happy birthday to Steve Borsak, friend of the pod, friend of the family, friend of friend to you and me.

Steve Borsak is a terrific guy and he came and I was going to wish him a happy birthday from the stage, but I couldn't because there was too much going on.

So there you are happy birthday to Steve Borsak with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald Hyab.

Hi John.

Senior writer Christine Rosenhykristin.

Hi John.

And, and, uh, Buddha, associate editor, no arosment. I know hi John.

So there's so many things to talk about like the fact that, um, Hunter Biden's, uh, the Hunter Biden's business practices are, uh,

people are now looking at the Hunter Biden's business practices. What else, what else can I say? I mean, we have, uh, we have a Washington Post editorial on Sunday saying, you know, it's important to look into this kind of behavior.

We have a Catherine Harrage of CBS news reporting that Joe Biden's brother Robert, uh, is has been sort of something he's been up to no good, but there are a lot of different little bits and pieces of detail.

The fact that Biden had a key one of four keys to, to the office that Robert Biden and Hunter Biden shared, the fact that, even though Joe Biden said he had nothing to do with Hunter's business, he Joe Biden wrote personally a recommendation letter for a son of a Chinese businessman that Hunter was doing business with.

And all of that, it's, it is the sort of thing that would, the fact that, you go ahead, sorry, more than 150 transactions of the Hunter and, and, and Joe Biden's brother, international bank transactions were flagged by US banks as.

That's Catherine Harrage's story, right, 150 transactions. So, um, a friend of mine just sent me, a, sent me email last night, uh, saying this, which I think is a very good point. At some point, will any member of the press court ask it a briefing one does the president or has the president filed any F bar.

And so, the president has been informed since he became president, those are foreign beneficial account reporting form since he became vice president, meaning things you have to report if you have somehow gotten some kind of benefit either cash or not cash or gift or something like that from, from a foreign entity or do any of those forms exist too.

And so, the president's part of the president's public financial reporting three has the president received any financial transfers from Hunter Biden were gift tax returns filed were applicable for those transfers, where there any transfers as a result of interest held by Joe or Jill Biden or entities associated with them in business ventures of Jim or Hunter Biden.

So, what were those entities and the associated transfers, these are plain questions, they're pretty simple and the interesting thing is that in the what sauce for the goose sauce for the gander, if we're going to spend four years talking about Donald Trump's tax returns, I see no reason.

And then the entire democratic party structure and the liberal structure saying no, no, it's okay Donald Trump doesn't have any right to privacy with his tax returns, because he's because he's bad he's a bad person and so it's okay that the New York Times publishes them this most private information leaked apparently by his by his niece.

And that's that that's good that's moral in fact we should we should we should sponsor prosecutions based on the leak of that very private information but, but are these questions going to be asked of Joe Biden as the new appears to be tightening around Hunter, I mean there are there is an active FBI investigation of Hunter's business practices.

Okay, but when when the spokes when the White House spokespeople are asked about this, they make it they're kind of continuing they can't continue the spin that this was all Russian disinformation campaign anymore, because that was blown out of the water boat.

Jen Psaki was recently asked by a conservative reporter, I should add, about the laptop and her answer was both Orwellian and and sort of chilling, she says we don't talk about the laptop.

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