“Hunter Biden promises Dad’s protection to Burisma for $50000 a month”. It’ll be next October’s headlines in the New York Times, fresh from the latest Wikileaks dump of Burisma emails. “We are serving mankind by revealing information,” Wikileaks will arrogantly claim, though the one piece of information they won’t reveal is who hacked the emails. “We don’t reveal our sources”. It all echoes 2016: if only FBI Director Chris Wray would open an investigation.
It could happen.
GRU Hacking
We will never know whether it’s real or not, whether those emails were written by Hunter Biden, or by a young lieutenant in a St. Petersburg GRU facility. The first step has already occurred. The GRU – Russian Military Intelligence, hacked the Burisma Company computers. They used the same “spear fishing” technique that worked so well on the Democratic National Committee, convincing employees that they were confirming passwords on a fake site. A US computer security company announced the crime this week.
We don’t know what was taken. But it really doesn’t matter. The GRU is good at hacking, but they are just as good at creative writing. Look how they manipulate social media to get Americans to believe that Democrats are mourning Iranian General Soleimani. How hard would it be to dump hundreds of emails to Wikileaks, and bury in the pile a few that are a products of their imagination.
Truth and the Media
The mainstream media here in the United States only casually recognizes their impact on the 2016 election. Clinton and DNC emails and other Clinton “scandals” dominated the headlines through the fall of 2016. Meanwhile, the known scandals of Donald Trump, from porn stars to the Trump Foundation, seemed to go quietly under the radar. In an election decided by 0.06% of the vote, it had a determining impact.
But like a junkie to a dealer, the media will go right back to the source in 2020. If Wikileaks offers up “Burisma emails,” don’t think that anyone will pass them up. “Well it’s already out there,” they’ll say, “people will read them on the internet”. But the headlines will be trumpeted as “BREAKING NEWS” on the CNN and MSNBC chyrons. It will be impossible to verify, and Hunter Biden will claim they are faked. “We will leave it to the public to decide,” will be the high and mighty media claim.
Trump Re-Election Plan
It’s all a part of the Trump re-election strategy. We know that, it’s what Rudy Giuliani has been doing for the past two years. Rudy’s been searching for Hunter Biden dirt, asking already compromised Ukrainian politicians to “be honest”. Honesty can be purchased for the price of a visa to the US.
And now the Giuliani operation seems a little darker, as evidence reveals that US Ambassador Maria Yovanovitch was under surveillance by a Trump minion. She stood in the way of Giuliani’s plan. Evidence now shows that Robert Hyde messaged Giuliani’s associate Lev Parnas, “…if you want her out, they are willing to help if we/you would like a price,” and “guess you can do anything in Ukraine with money … is what I was told.”
New evidence also reveals that another fired prosecutor, Yuri Lutsenko, offered “dirt” on Hunter Biden if Ambassador Yovanovitch was removed. Giuliani responded that “No. 1” was involved. Yovanovitch was soon summarily ordered to leave Ukraine and return to Washington.
Everyone’s Involved
Giuliani’s plotting may all sound like some comedic spy story, a kind of “Get Smart goes to the Ukraine”. But it all gets more serious when the GRU, already involved in feeding the CrowdStrike 2016 election conspiracy, hacks into Burisma. And there’s a Washington angle to all of this as well.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stood against witnesses testifying in the Senate Impeachment trial. But if he’s forced to hear John Bolton and the others, there’s always a fall back plan. Bring Hunter Biden in. No matter what he says, or what he doesn’t say, it will keep his name on “above the fold” on the front page.
All ready for next October’s headlines.
