The second and final debate is now in the history books, but the controversy attached to the emails authored by Joe Biden's "troubled" son is a long way from being resolved. In fact, Biden simply dodged offering any explanation, and called the incriminating emails a "Russian plant..." He then added the fiction that some 20 CIA persons agreed. Its all "garbage," he declared in his hesitant, "slow Joe" way.
"You know me and my reputation for honesty," said the 77-year-old Biden as he stared into the eye of the cameras which was live streaming the debate to millions of viewers in America and throughout the world. "Check us out closely." Not a wise thing for Biden to say, as viewers might take him up on his invitation and his questionable past might not be helpful to his campaign. The debate went on for 90 minutes in the halls of Belmont University in Nashville. There were no rest periods as the moderator, Kristen Welker, White House Correspondent for NBC, led the discussions touching upon various topics. During the debate, the normally pugilistic Trump thanked Welker for her able moderating, although prior to the actual debate, the President had said that Welker, whom he sees regularly in news conferences, was a "radical Democrat," and that he preferred someone without an agenda. Welker for sure ought to take that as a compliment.
Trump has said that he was disappointed with the conduct of Chris Wallace, a registered Democrat who moderated the first debate on Sept. 29 and allowed his prejudices to ooze out with his mush-mouthed questions and body language.
The emails which have the President up-in-arms were found on the computer of Hunter Biden, 50, Joe's son, and are now in the hands of the FBI which reportedly is conducting an investigation into "money laundering." Both the FBI and the nation's Director of Intelligence have said that the computer is the property of the Biden son, and that emails were authored by him, and recipients of them have confirmed their authenticity.
Trump lashed out at Biden on the debate stage and called him a corrupt politician and has said that the Biden family is a "criminal enterprise' with everyone sucking money out of China, the Ukraine and other countries. He even asked Biden to explain why Hunter took three and one-half million dollars from the ex wife of a Moscow mayor, but Biden never responded.
Other emails authored by Hunter, who has a history of drug abuse, said that a share of the cash obtained in deals was being held by "H" for the "big guy," and associates of Hunter have said that Hunter is "H" and Joe Biden is the "Big Guy."
" What about it....we need an explanation from you," Trumped demanded at the debate. Biden had nothing to say, but he never denied that it was his son's computer with emails authored by him. "A smear," was the Biden response.
Reportedly the FBI and possibly a senate committee is considering subpoenaing the troubled Hunter Biden who was released from the naval reserve in 2012 because of a cocaine addiction. In 2014, when Vice President Biden was the Obama administration's "point man to Ukraine," Hunter became a board member for a Ukraine gas company and received a salary of $83,000 per month though his duties were never defined. He did not live in the Ukraine and did not speak the Ukrainian language and had no special expertise in gas matters. His most powerful credential was that he was the son of the vice president of the United States.
Livestreamed throughout the globe, the debate opened with a back and forth on the Covid-19 pandemic which has brutalized much of the world. Biden contended that masks and distancing would have solved the problems and that Trump was responsible for the deaths of 225,000 persons in the country. His charge was without basis, and President Trump argued that the country was rounding the curve and recovering and that he was confident that a vaccine was coming soon and that machinery was in place using the military to make it available to all Americans
When the debate focused on climate change and the threats it presented, the former vice president stated he intended to rid the country of the oil industry, "retrofit" millions of homes and large buildings and install 500,000 charging stations on the highways to accommodate the takeover by electric cars.
As he spoke of "transitioning" the country away from fossil fuels and eliminating all oil by 2025, Trump interrupted and said that he hoped that the states of Texas, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma were listening to the Biden plan, which Trump said would cost $100 trillion and knock out thousands and thousands of jobs.
The Biden plan for the climate is a remake of the "Green New Deal" conceived by the Marxist/Socialist advisory team of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and First term Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, a former New York bartender. The Biden Plan and the Green New Deal are identical except for the name.
Ask him about "fracking," President Trump called out to the moderator. He charged that Biden had said he would ban it in accord with his new climate plans for America. Fracking is a drilling technique used to extract natural gas and oil from the earth. Biden contradicted Trump and said that he had never said he would ban fracking. "Show me where I ever said that," said Biden, and he called upon the President to "prove it." Trump promised to do so, and the following day his campaign posted ads with films of Biden and his vice presidential running mate promising to ban fracking.
In other areas covered, Biden complained that the Trump's border police were throwing small children into cages, separating them from their parents. Trump said efforts were underway to reunite all children with parents, but too often the parents cannot be found or do not want to be found. Trump pointed out that it was Biden and Obama who built and made use of the cages. "Who built the cages?" Trump asked Biden on three occasions, in an effort to make his point, but Biden declined to respond.
With Biden asking viewers to look him over closely, it's my guess that some will take him up on that. If they do, they will find that he has a long established reputation for telling lies, and making gaffes. The Washington Post in fact has called him the "Lamborghini of Gaffes."
As a student at Syracuse Law school in the 1960s, Biden was caught plagiarizing and came close to being expelled. He finished school and received a law degree, but then told constituents and friends that he had finished in the top half of his class. He finished very close to the bottom of the class and was regarded by classmates as the "dumbest s.o.b." in the school.
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