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Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2024-08-19): The investigators put the total at $27 million, according to the bank records they received. But the investigators failed to turn up evidence that Biden himself received money from those companies or participated in the foreign business deals beyond the occasions when Hunter Biden called him on speakerphone to exchange pleasantries while in the company of foreign business associates or when he saw them at his son’s birthday dinner. [...] In other parts of the report, the committees provide numerous examples of financial deals between Hunter Biden and Chinese corporations but does not provide direct links to Joe Biden while he was vice president or evidence of specific policies he changed or encouraged during that time. They also point to an example in 2017 when Sara Biden, the wife of the president’s brother James, signed a $40,000 check to Biden designated as "loan repayment" from an account with money that had come into her account through various transfers that originated from Hunter Biden’s dealings with a Chinese energy company. The committees also point to instances of Hunter Biden’s business associates’ describing a future role in certain business ventures for Joe Biden after his time as vice president ended. In his testimony before the Oversight and Judiciary committees, Hunter Biden denied his father’s involvement or ascribed any references he made to his father to his drug and alcohol use at the time.
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2023-09-13): WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he is launching an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, yielding to mounting pressure from former President Donald Trump and his allies in what’s shaping up as an election-year clash between Congress and the White House. In a statement Tuesday, McCarthy said the House investigations into the Biden family this year have uncovered a "culture of corruption" that demands deeper review. [...] And while Republicans have sought to directly connect Hunter Biden’s financial affairs to his father, they have failed to produce evidence that the president directly participated in his son’s work, though he sometimes had dinner with Hunter Biden’s clients or said hello to them on calls.
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2019-10-04): WATCH: China trade deal ‘has nothing to do’ with call to investigate the Bidens, Trump says "I don’t think there’s anything improper about doing that," GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said of Trump’s call on China to investigate the business dealings of Hunter Biden, the son of leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. On Friday morning, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney dissented: "By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling." He added, in a tweet: "When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated." Romney and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse appeared to be the only Republicans going public with concerns. Sasse said in a statement to the Omaha World-Herald: "Americans don’t look to Chinese commies for the truth. If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that’s a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running torture camps."
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2024-08-19): To tie the elder Biden to his son’s actions, the Republicans rely on a series of phone calls and pop-by dinner meeting visits Joe Biden made while Hunter was conducting business. At times, Hunter would put his dad on speakerphone for his guests as the father and son exchanged pleasantries. The Bidens are a famously tight-knit family and acknowledge they speak almost daily, including during this time, with the father checking on his son’s well-being. In his own defiant closed-door deposition to House investigators, Hunter Biden insisted he did not involve his father in his business. WATCH MORE: White House holds briefing as House speaker asked to ‘move on’ from Biden impeachment All told, the House Republicans allege the Biden family and its associates received some $27 million in business payments from partners or clients in Russia, China and other countries. They allege an additional $8 million in loans, including some from Hunter Biden benefactor Kevin Morris, a Hollywood attorney, and question the purchases of the son’s artwork. The report said it is "inconceivable" that President Biden did not understand what was going on.
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2023-09-14): It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced that he’s directing three House committees to start investigating whether President Biden benefited from his son Hunter’s business dealings overseas. McCarthy accused the Biden family of "a culture of corruption," saying that the Biden administration gave Hunter "special treatment" in a criminal tax and gun investigation, and that Biden himself had lied about his knowledge of his son’s financial dealings. [...] CORRECTION (Sept. 18, 2023, 11:20 a.m.): A previous version of this article stated that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy asserted, without evidence, that Hunter Biden shared some of the money he received through foreign deals with his family. In fact, there is evidence that Hunter Biden’s family members also received money through these deals, but in his announcement, McCarthy did not offer evidence that it was illegal or corrupt.
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2023-12-14): Republicans have accused the president and his family of profiting from his time as vice-president and have zeroed in on his son, Hunter, who had business ventures in Ukraine and China during that period. [...] In July, one of Hunter Biden’s former business associates, Devon Archer, gave sworn testimony to congressional investigators that Hunter had sold his foreign clients "an illusion of access to his father". Archer recounted how Hunter would put his father on speakerphone to impress clients and business associates, however he also stated that Joe Biden was never directly involved in their financial dealings. Republicans have also pointed to a couple of falsehoods in Biden’s public statements about his son’s business dealings. For example, during the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden said that his son had never made any money off business transactions in China. That was later contradicted by Hunter Biden himself.
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2023-02-13): Comer claims the email text shows Joe Biden was aware of Hunter Biden’s business with a Chinese company. Comer also claims those business ties influenced President Biden’s policy choices toward China, but it is unclear how. Biden has kept the Trump-era tariffs on China in place and added new export controls on U.S. chipmaking technology since taking office. While he was campaigning for President in Iowa in September 2019, Joe Biden told reporters, "I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings." [...] It does not. What is known about Hunter Biden’s business deals with Ukrainian and Chinese companies creates an impression that he was making a lot of money off the prestige of being Joe Biden’s son, but there isn’t evidence that Hunter Biden’s business transactions have influenced decisions that Joe Biden made as Vice President or as President. There is also no clear evidence that money from Hunter Biden’s business dealings ever made their way to Joe Biden’s accounts. (House Republicans have alleged they don’t have that evidence because of obstruction from the Biden Administration.)
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2020-02-06): I probably have a legal obligation, Mr. Attorney, to report corruption. But they don't think it's corrupt when a son that made no money, that got thrown out of the military, that had no money at all, is working for $3 million up front, $83,000 a month. And that's only Ukraine. Then goes to China, picks up $1½ billion, then goes to Romania, I hear, and many other countries.
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2023-06-30): The message, allegedly from Hunter Biden to a Chinese business associate, showed him berating the associate in July 2017, when Joe Biden was a private citizen and former vice president. [...] In 2009, as Joe Biden was beginning his term as vice president under President Barack Obama, Hunter Biden co-founded Rosemont Seneca Partners, a Washington, DC-based investment fund with business in China. [...] Using testimony from whistleblowers and former government officials, Republican lawmakers have accused the Biden administration of obstructing attempts to find out more. They also argue Hunter’s business dealings have a direct effect on Biden’s policies towards China, a charge the White House has denied.
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2023-08-01): What is clear is that Hunter Biden did receive "a dollar from China." However, note that Welker asked "about the work your son has done in China and for a Ukrainian energy company when you were vice president." Biden might have been narrowly interpreting that question as confined to just that period of time — and the payments to Hunter Biden came after his father left office. [...] Joe Biden’s comment that Hunter Biden made no money in China was made in the course of a contentious debate in which he rebutted a number of false claims made by Trump. Yet he made his statement in response to a direct question from the moderator. It’s possible he purposely tailored his answer to just the period when he was vice president, but Biden has never been known for such parsing of language. The president tends to be sloppier in his phrasing — which often gets him into trouble. But the fact remains that Biden, during the debate, denied his son had made money in China. In court last week, his son has said he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese business deals.
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2023-10-02): Evidence reveals that then-Vice President Joe Biden spoke, dined, and developed relationships with his family’s foreign business targets. These business targets include foreign oligarchs who sent millions of dollars to his family. It also includes a Chinese national who wired a quarter of a million dollars to his son. Joe Biden also lied to the American people about his family making money in China. He has continued to lie about it even when the House Oversight Committee uncovered bank wires revealing how the Bidens received millions from Chinese companies with significant ties to the Chinese intelligence and the Chinese Communist Party. Just this week, we uncovered two additional wires sent to Hunter Biden that originated in Beijing from Chinese nationals. This happened when Joe Biden was running for President of the United States. And Joe Biden’s home is listed as the beneficiary address.
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2023-09-13): House oversight committee research has documented that Hunter Biden and Archer made millions off their foreign business deals, and Archer testified that Kenes Rakishev, a businessman from Kazakhstan, once wired $142,300 to Hunter Biden to purchase a car. But there has been no evidence presented so far that Joe Biden’s brief interactions exchanging "general niceties" with his son’s foreign business associates resulted in Hunter Biden securing millions in those deals. (In one such incident in which Joe Biden visited via speakerphone, Archer noted they did not get the business of prospective clients, a French energy company). Archer said Joe Biden never participated in any of their business deals. [...] In August, Joe Biden did deny that bank records obtained by the oversight committee showed $1 million in transfers to Biden family members through a third-party paid by a Shanghai-based energy company. He also falsely claimed during a presidential debate in October 2020 that Hunter Biden "has not made money" from China. According to a transcript of court testimony in July, Hunter Biden acknowledged that he did receive hundreds of thousands of dollars via Chinese business deals in 2017 and 2018.
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2023-09-14): Republicans have long scrutinised President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, for his business dealings abroad. [...] They also allege that Joe Biden participated in phone calls with Hunter Biden's business associates to benefit his son, stymied the investigation into his son's taxes and took part in an alleged - but unsubstantiated - bribery scheme. US outlet Axios reported Wednesday that two claims previously made by Joe Biden - that he had not met any of his son's Ukrainian business associates while vice-president, except maybe for a brief hello, and that his son had not made any money from China - were false, according to testimony from Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer.
Claim: Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden was wrong that Hunter made no money from China (Viral post, 2023-08-06)
Evidence (2023-12-13): The oversight committee says the Biden family and its business associates received more than $24m (£19m) from foreign sources in China, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia and Ukraine between 2014 and 2019. [...] Last week, the Kentucky Republican released bank records he claimed showed direct payments from Hunter to Joe Biden through a company he owned that received payments from China. [...] The elder Mr Biden has said his son "has not made money" in China or elsewhere. He has also repeatedly said he never spoke to his son about his business dealings.
Claim: claims that Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once stated, "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." (Viral quote, 2019-09-18)
Evidence (2019-09-18): There is no evidence that Shaw ever said or wrote this saying.
Claim: claims that Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once stated, "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." (Viral quote, 2019-09-18)
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Claim: claims that Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once stated, "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." (Viral quote, 2019-09-18)
Evidence (2019-05-07): George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) came to an English theater settled into the well-made play, a theater that had not known a first-rate dramatist for more than a century. The pap on which its audiences had been fed, not very different from television fare today, provided a soothing escape from the realities of the working world. Instead of fitting himself to this unreal mold, Shaw offered reality in all its forms: social, political, economic, and religious. He was a didact, a preacher who readily acknowledged that the stage was his pulpit. In startling contrast to his contemporary Oscar Wilde and Wilde’s fellow aesthetes, Shaw asserted that he would not commit a single sentence to paper for art’s sake alone; yet he beat the aesthetes at their own artistic game. Though he preached socialism, creative evolution, the abolition of prisons, and real equality for women, and railed against the insincerity of motives for war, he did so as a jester in some of the finest comedy ever written. [...] Davis, Tracy C. George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994. [...] Innes, Christopher, ed. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Claim: claims that Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once stated, "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." (Viral quote, 2019-09-18)
Evidence (2018-05-01): William Shakespeare was, famously, a playwright and an actor. George Bernard Shaw was, famously, a playwright and a critic — and a particularly acerbic critic of Shakespeare, whose cult he insisted had mushroomed by the 20th century far beyond what the man’s dramaturgy merited, and whose characters he declared "have no religion, no politics, no conscience, no hope, no convictions of any sort." [...] Or mayhap not: Shaw was also famously a bombastic old curmudgeon (even in his youth), a genius gadfly given to making outrageous claims to get an audience’s attention, then using his peerless wit and erudition to make a watertight case for the more measured position he’d actually come to argue. (Or the opposite position: Shaw is forever giving equal time to the opponents of his own ideas.) [...] Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Claim: claims that Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once stated, "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." (Viral quote, 2019-09-18)
Evidence (2017-09-11): Shaw makes the childhood poverty and struggle against prejudice endured by his Irish characters seem like an advantage in life Those who know Shaw by reputation as a writer of English society plays may be surprised to learn that he regarded himself as so thoroughly Irish, even after living in London and Hertfordshire for decades. While one might expect to see evidence of Shaw’s Irishness in his three plays set in Ireland – John Bull’s Other Island, O’Flaherty, V.C., and Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman – my book, Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook (published by Palgrave Macmillan and now available in paperback), demonstrates that Shaw’s Irishness is also manifest in his plays set outside of his native country. In this study, I analyse Shaw’s use of Irish and Irish Diasporic characters, as well as what I call "Surrogate Irish" and "Stage English" characters, to prove the veracity of critic RF Dietrich’s recent contention that Shaw "wrote always as an Irishman". [...] In Daniel Corkery's notorious 1931 study, Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature, he claimed that Shaw was one of the Irish Protestant writers "for whom Ireland was never a patria in any sense". My book demonstrates just how preposterous (and, indeed, sectarian) such a statement is. Shaw maintained a strongly Irish outlook throughout his life, and it inspired or significantly informed most of his best work – and, of course, Shaw's masterpieces are among the greatest dramatic works of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Claim: claims that Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once stated, "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." (Viral quote, 2019-09-18)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950) By Switzky, Lawrence George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, music and drama critic, and political theorist who pioneered the play of ideas as a dramatic genre, was instrumental in the formation of the Labour Party in England, and remains the only person to have won both the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938, Best Adapted Screenplay, Pygmalion). The intellectual and social seriousness of his ideas, his effusive, literary dialogue, and his invention of new genres such as the discussion play were pivotal contributions to the modernization of drama. Born into a Protestant family in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876 and began ghost-writing a music column for The Hornet while also pursuing an unpromising career as a novelist and becoming involved with the Fabian Society, a British socialist organization that promoted a gradualist rather than revolutionary approach to social reform. In The Quintessence of Ibsenism, initially delivered to the Fabians as a lecture in 1891, Shaw articulated his nascent dramaturgical principles. He argued that Ibsen’s most important contribution to the development of modern drama was replacing the violent catastrophes of melodrama with discussion scenes in which characters sat down and talked about intractable social problems. Shaw’s views about modern drama were put into practice in his first three plays: Widowers’ Houses (1892), about slum landlordism, The Philanderer (1893), about divorce, and Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893), about prostitution.
Claim: claims that Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once stated, "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." (Viral quote, 2019-09-18)
Evidence (2024-01-01): George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature and an Oscar, for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of this play of the same name). He declined the monetary award for the Nobel Prize, requesting instead that it be used to finance translation of fellow playwright August Strindberg’s works from Swedish to English. [...] - Flyleaves (1977), Text of flyleaf inscriptions written by Shaw in 8 books in his library; these books were sold at auction on July 25, 1949, 350 copies printed, Erratum slip inserted - How to settle the Irish question (1917) [...] For more works by George Bernard Shaw, click here.
Claim: claims that Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once stated, "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." (Viral quote, 2019-09-18)
Evidence (2014-07-10): Some wise and witty quotes from the great Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). [...] Image (top): George Bernard Shaw by William Strang (1907), Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Image (bottom): George Bernard Shaw (1936), Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Discover more from Interesting Literature