RADIOAugust 14, 2024

New York Times FINALLY Reports Hunter & Joe Biden’s Ukraine Scandals…What Took So Long?!

Now that Joe Biden has been pushed aside by the Democratic Party, the mainstream media is suddenly able to publish stories about Hunter Biden’s scandals. Glenn and “Blood Money” author Peter Schweizer discuss a recent New York Times piece titled “Hunter Biden Sought State Department Help for Ukrainian Company.” It details how the Biden administration (after he dropped out, of course) released records proving that Hunter solicited U.S. government assistance while his father was Vice President. But did the Times really JUST NOW learn about this? How long did they have this story before they were allowed to publish it? And who gave the order? Glenn and Peter also discuss whether Barack Obama and the Democratic Party orchestrated a coup against President Biden to kick him out of the race.

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GLENN: So now that Joe Biden has been pushed aside, the officials are allowed to emit the elites at the New York Times and elsewhere -- you can now publish stories about Hunter Biden.

Emails were released that reveal that Hunter, while his father was vice president wrote a letter to the US ambassador in Italy, asking for introductions to help the Ukraine gas company Burisma, land a lucrative contract in Italy.

Huh. I thought none of that was happening. Now the New York Times is reporting this. Review you see, everything that was, is no longer.

Now it's a news story. And everything that was about Kamala, is no longer.

Now, she's great. I can't -- I don't know what. Let me just talk to people who are in the press. What is it like to be you?

Honestly, lying is so hard.

I guess not.

If you don't mind, you know, just being caught in lies.

I guess it's not real hard. But I don't know how you keep it straight.

What can you report today. Who issues that?

Who tells you, were you standing, waiting for this story. And you were waiting for permission to drop it. Or do they actually say. I want to let everybody know.

Thanks for flying the New York Times airlines. We're going to be landing in Truthville just a few minutes on Hunter Biden.

But Hunter Biden only.

We are in lie city, on everything else, that is going on in the Biden administration. And Kamala Harris. Thanks for choosing New York Times airlines.

How do they announce it?

How do they tell their reporters, what they can say today, that they couldn't say yesterday?

GLENN: So I want to talk to you, Peter, one about Hunter Biden. And the other about that Sunday, with Joe Biden.

I would love to hear. And I know it's all speculation. But I would love to hear, how you think that all went down.

I am convinced this was a coup against the president. They had a gun to his head, called the 25th Amendment.

And they said, we can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way.

And it had to be quite a negotiation, as he knows stuff about them. And they know stuff about him.

And it was mutually assured destruction.

How do you think that went down?

PETER: Great question, Glenn. I think I would look as the coup leader, Barack Obama. There's no question, in my mind. There's never been any love lost between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

And let's remember, I talk about this in my book, Profiles in Corruption.

Kamala Harris and the Obamas have been friends before Obama was the United States senator.

So they have long, deep ties, and share worldviews, that are very, very similar, and different to Joe Biden's. And what you should do is go back and listen to an interview that Barack Obama gave with Steven Colbert in 2020, where he says, Colbert asks him, would you ever want to serve a third term?

And Barack Obama says, oh. He says, but my secret fantasy is to have a president, whether he or she, that I have my voice in their earpiece, and I am able to tell them what to do and how to do it.

And then he kind of chuckles at the end. I think that is a major part of what happened. I think that ultimately, they decided that Joe Biden couldn't beat Donald Trump. And they had to change horses, so to speak. And I think the discussion and negotiation was not with Obama himself, but with, you know, look, the finance chairman of the Biden campaign. Jeffrey Katzenberg. Was Barack Obama's finance chair. So we know who these people are.

And I think the negotiation was a combination of stick and carrots.

And the carrot was, look, we'll take care of your family.

You know, we'll take care of Hunter. We'll take care of Jim. And we'll take care of the family.

And you need to step down, or other bad things will happen to you.

But as you alluded to. They have now started to turn on him with the reports and with the Department of Justice.

GLENN: Yeah. So how did that happen?

How does the press get their marching orders to say, okay. Now you can release this information?

Now you can take on Hunter Biden.

PETER: Yeah. Glenn, you know, when I first started looking back into this, in 2016, 2017, 2018. I had relationships with numerous reporters at the New York Times and Washington Post. They cited me and used my material on all kinds of stories. When I told them what we had on Joe Biden in 28, one of the top reporters at the New York Times, who covers China and politics, said, if Biden runs, we will cover this story. And, of course, they never did.

I think that it is the management leadership, and they have convinced themselves, they have convinced themselves, deluded themselves, into believing that Trump is such an existential threat to democracy.

You know, that phrase that they always use, that allows them and leads them to say, well, we cannot cover Joe Biden. Now that it's Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, you have the New York Times that you said.

You also have the Department of Justice, in the filing on the tax. The federal tax --

GLENN: Interesting.

PETER: -- saying, they explicitly say in that tax filing document, that Hunter Biden was collecting foreign money because he was running a foreign influence the campaign. This is the Biden Department of Justice saying this.

GLENN: Huh. Interesting. Isn't it?

I would love to have been a fly on the wall, and see how this all really went down.

You know, maybe in -- you know, I don't know. One hundred years.

The files will be released. And we will find out what really happened. But any doubt in your mind this was a coup.

PETER: No. None whatsoever. None whatsoever.

GLENN: Amazing. Amazing. Peter Schweizer. Thank you so much. You know, if I would have said that, oh, you know, that they would perform a coup on the president, the press would have gone crazy on me. They would have been covering up yet again, and lying to you yet again.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.