Interestingly enough, no one seems to talk about the elephant in the room: that is, how both presidents’ family members – Trump and Biden – may have used their positions of privilege to strike deals that could possibly earn them large amounts of money. From the outset, it looks like Hunter Biden made some bad mistakes: trusting a guy – who purports to be “legally” blind to fix his laptop (an act questionable in itself if Hunter were not under the influence), and then failing to remember to pick it up. But under the law, leaving an item in the possession and care of a shopkeeper is called a Bailment. In a “Bailment,” the Bailor (the owner of the property), gives the property to the Bailee (here the shop owner), who is by virtue of the law of bailment, entrusted to fix, safeguard and return the laptop in his possession. But the critical question is, What did the repair shop owner do when Hunter failed to pick up the laptop?
After Hunter failed to pick up his laptop, it was then incumbent upon the shopkeeper (Bailee) to get in contact with the owner of the laptop – Hunter Biden (Bailor) to ask him to pick it up by phone, email, or letter. And if Hunter Biden is so well-known and his data “so valuable” as is proclaimed – it was incumbent upon the Bailee (shopkeeper) to make a concerted effort to contact the rightful owner. And with Hunter Biden known to be the US president’s or Vice President’s son at the time, and with the shopkeeper located in their home state of Delaware – that task wouldn’t be very hard to do.
But what did the Shopkeeper do instead?
The Shopkeeper not only violated the privacy rights of the laptop owner (here Hunter Biden) distributing its contents, he violated basic Bailor/Bailee agreements that are established by law. A Bailee (here the shopkeeper) had no legal right to put the owner’s data out for public viewing, nor did he have the right to copy or sell the laptop or the data to the next highest bidder. His legal obligation was always to safeguard and then find the rightful owner – to make contact with them. If it proved too difficult for the shopkeeper to locate the owner (which wouldn’t be the case with a President or VP’s son), the email addresses were assuredly available via the laptop itself – and receiving an email from one’s own laptop, should be enough to summon its owner. If that didn’t work, bringing the laptop to a local police department for officials to locate the owner would be the next viable option.
But what did the shopkeeper do?
Yet, it appears none of the above was done – and now here we are. Hunter, a former drug-addicted son of a US leader, who turned to drugs due to several losses and hardships he suffered: loss of his mother, sister and then beloved brother – is hard for anyone to take hold of – especially being the son of a high-ranking government official. No doubt Hunter had a limited emotional capacity due to his losses, and the drugs only diminished it further. And apparently, after all that is said and done, the only illegality Hunter Biden can be connected with, is buying a gun while not checking the box, confirming he had a record for drug addition…now let’s compare…
False Equivalency…?
Then President Trump’s son-in-law and “senior adviser,” made several visits to the Saudi’s and received two Billions Dollars for his efforts six months after Trump left office. Do we really know what that was all about? Does it seem reasonable that Saudi’s – who literally control the price of the oil we use to heat our homes and gasoline to fill our gas tanks, would give a guy whose father was imprisoned for fraud and corruption, billions of dollars for managing “private equity” when he had no such experience, other than “advising” President Donald Trump? Doesn’t that seem like a major conflict of interest and a potential “quid pro quo” – or exchange, one that is more than worthy of “questioning” than Hunter Biden’s laptop?
Yet no one is investigating this – not the media, not the Democrats – no one. Is there a false equivalency here? Is what Hunter Biden did – the president’s son, “who never was an advisor to the president” and “never” worked in the White House, the equivalent of son-in-law Jared Kushner, who “was” “Senior Adviser” to President Trump during his presidency, and a regular in the White House meetings with officials and dignitaries, with access to confidential information and documents, the same thing? I think not!
And no one seems to question why would the Saudi’s be giving Kushner boat loads of money? What smarts or wares was he selling that would harness him that kind of loot? All I know, since he came back, our oil prices have skyrocketed – and now Biden takes the blame? Really? From my perspective it looks like an attempt on the Saudi’s part, to make people nostalgic for the lower prices of the pre-pandemic “Trump” years. Could it be their way of putting barrels of oil on the scale of public opinion – aiming their sweet crude to flow in favor of Trump? Is it their “intent” to fan the flames of blame onto Biden, before the next presidential run?
And what about the Saudi’s involvement in 911, and the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, a longtime American resident, who came to a horrific death at the hands of the Saudi’s? I guess we will never know why the US and it’s leaders make deals with those who would harm our nation, US residents, or even economically disadvantage the US by curtailing oil production after Saudi’s promised President Biden – after the Biden administration conferred “immunity” to the Saudi Prince believed to have ordered a “hit” on the life of the Saudi Journalist Khashoggi.
We may never know the answer to these questions, but as they say – the Devil is in the details – and there are many details that need to be followed up. I doubt that Hunter Biden and his laptop is one of them…but we shall see. However, just in case, I think looking at Kushner, his financial records, and “why” the top secret documents were illegally taken from the White House, and casually stored at Mar-a-lago, next to Trump’s toilet – may be a good start.
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