Journalism
Pretty Much All You Need To Know About Trump's Sad Loser 'Tony Bobulinski' Hail Mary Pass
Wall Street Journal Hunter Biden disinfo blocked by heroes at ... the Wall Street Journal.
October 23, 2020 12:08 PM
Donald Trump, a guy whose entire family lives off his name, is trying to gin up a scandal because Hunter Biden monetized his own father's name. That's it, that's the tweet.
Or really, that's the entire stupid, last minute, Hail Mary pass from Team Trump. Half a mile from the White House is a Trump-branded hotel where foreign governments, lobbyists, and corporate entities slip millions of dollars directly into the president's pocket every year. But Donald Trump wants to make hay out of Hunter Biden trying — and mostly failing — to cash in on his connections. And he's doing it with the aid of not one, not two, but three Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlets, because those are the only ones who'll touch this shit with a 10-foot pole.
And now we have to learn about some asshole named Tony Bobulinski!
This year SUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS.
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Okay, fine. Let's start with "Hunter Biden's" laptop, which was <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/watch-rudy-giuliani-pull-this-hilarious-disinformation-out-of-his-hat" target="_blank">supposedly abandoned</a> at a repair shop in Delaware in April 2019. This week we <a href="https://time.com/5902557/hunter-biden-rudy-giuliani-ukraine/" target="_blank">learned</a> from <em>Time</em> that back in September 2019, someone in Ukraine was trying to sell the same set of images and texts supposedly found on Hunter Biden's hard drive for $5 million. Why, yes, that <em>is</em> when Rudy Giuliani was traveling around Ukraine trying to gin up dirt on Trump's electoral rival!
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Over at <em>Salon</em>, Roger Sollenberger <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/10/22/scoop-rudy-giuliani-declined-offer-of-compromising-hunter-biden-emails-and-images-in-may-2019/" target="_blank">reports</a> that Giuliani was approached in May with a trove of Hunter Biden's texts and emails, but passed on them because it seemed <em>too sketchy.</em>
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It certainly looks like some portion of the data is genuine, likely the product of a phone hack. (Who uses their laptop to text?) And it's been floating around for upwards of a year.
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Wikileaks is out of commission as a cutout to selectively leak real or doctored versions of hacked data into the public domain, but then AMAZINGLY, it just turns up on a laptop in some random computer repair shop in Delaware. Lucky break for Rudy and his team, huh?
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Assuming the <em>New York Post</em> screenshot of a subpoena is genuine, the FBI took possession of the data in December of 2019, since which time it has done exactly nothing with it. Because there's nothing illegal about Hunter Biden being a sleaze with a drug problem.
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But let's note that Rudy's Eastern European peregrinations were <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-biden-ukraine-russian-disinformation/2020/10/15/43158900-0ef5-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html" target="_blank">picked up</a> by US intelligence agencies trying to combat foreign election interference, and those same agencies have been <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/deep-state-works-to-protect-free-and-fair-elections-lock-them-up" target="_blank">working hand-in-glove</a> with social media companies this cycle. Is it a coincidence that Twitter and Facebook both immediately tripped the breaker on this story to limit its spread? Maybe. Or maybe not.
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Increasingly desperate to make something stick to Joe Biden, Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon are currently <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/does-rudy-giuliani-also-pull-his-pants-down-all-the-way-to-pee" target="_blank">tucking their shirts in</a> all over "Hunter Biden's" hard drive. NBC has a terrific <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/inside-campaign-pizzagate-hunter-biden-n1244331" target="_blank">deep dive</a> into how this story worked its way up through the feverswamp into Pizzagate-style allegations of child pornography. And for her pains, reporter Brandy Zadrozny found herself with a giant target painted on her back courtesy of Tucker Carlson. Ain't he a peach?</p><p>
Because Rupert Murdoch's entire army has laid down on that bed with Rudy and joined the circle "tuck," with the <em>New York Post </em>playing the role of cutout, allowing Fox News to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-fox-news-passed-on-hunter-biden-laptop-story-over-credibility-concerns/" target="_blank">pass up the original story</a>, then devote a thousand hours to reporting on the <em>Post's </em>reporting. Which in turn allowed the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> to launder it up from Fox to its own opinion page. <em>It's the circle of li-i-ife!</em>
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Which brings us to Tony Bobulinski. Back in 2017, Boba Fett was part of a group trying to get a deal going with Chinese oil company CEFC China Energy Co. Bobble Head produced a series of texts in which Hunter Biden allegedly acknowledged that his family name was the main lure for the project.</p><div id="474a3" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d49d285df40606413dec130b3a5c66d3"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1319390872761454594" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Interesting to see this alleged incoming text on a phone connected to Russia’s @ru_mts mobile network. https://t.co/FKFtTJUul5</div> — Christopher Miller (@Christopher Miller)<a href="https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/statuses/1319390872761454594">1603402271.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Whoa if true! And also, not illegal.<br></p><p>
Anyway, the deal fell through and no money ever changed hands. But later, Hunter Biden went into business himself with CEFC, and Bubble Tea was PISSED.
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Yesterday
Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo put out a <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/22/hunter-biz-partner-confirms-e-mail-details-joe-bidens-push-to-make-millions-from-china/" target="_blank">statement</a> in the <em>New York Post</em> saying that Joe Biden was a silent partner in the CEFC deal and that Hunter always discussed his business dealings with his father. At a press conference yesterday, the Bluetick Coonhound produced three old cellphones as proof. No, you cannot examine Borat's cellphones; you just have to take it on faith.</p><p>Biden has flatly denied Bhagavad Gita's allegations, and pointed to the 22 years of tax returns he's released as proof that he never had a penny of foreign income. </p><p>Nevertheless, diehard winger Kimberly Strassel has happily <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-biden-family-legacy-11603409528" target="_blank">treated</a> Bob's Burgers's allegations as gospel truth on the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>'s Opinion page. Even as she admitted that Biden was out of office by 2017 and entitled to enter into business with anyone he liked, she tut-tuts that "CEFC was always a suspicious company with ties to a rival government. It would have a been risky for any public figure to deal with it, much less a potential presidential candidate." She has no tuts to give over Donald Trump's myriad connections to the Chinese government, including <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-09/china-s-biggest-bank-said-to-reduce-space-at-nyc-s-trump-tower" target="_blank">renting three floors</a> of Trump Tower in Manhattan to a state-owned bank and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/trump-taxes-china.html" target="_blank">continuing negotiations</a> for a Trump development in China well into 2016. Plus the Chinese bank account and the taxes he paid to the Chinese government, and the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-trademark-requests-were-fast-tracked-in-china-after-trump-was-elected/" target="_blank">dozens of Chinese trademarks</a> awarded to Ivanka Trump when she was theoretically working for the people as a senior White House aide. </p><p>There's also the minor detail that Joe Biden was never involved in a deal with CEFC, and there's no proof that he ever even knew about his son's business negotiations. All of which is confirmed by the <em>Journal's</em> news side, which published a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-bidens-ex-business-partner-alleges-father-knew-about-venture-11603421247" target="_blank">piece</a> noting that "Corporate records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show no role for Joe Biden," and that "Text messages and emails related to the venture that were provided to the Journal by Mr. Bobulinski, mainly from the spring and summer of 2017, don't show either Hunter Biden or James Biden discussing a role for Joe Biden in the venture."</p><p>The authors of the piece, Andrew Duehren and James T. Areddy, also add in a few more details that Strassel omitted from her piece, although she had access to exactly the same set of documents they did. </p><p>Here's a statement from another partner on the proposed CEFC deal, James Gilliar:</p><blockquote>I would like to clear up any speculation that former Vice President Biden was involved with the 2017 discussions about our potential business structure. I am unaware of any involvement at anytime of the former Vice President. The activity in question never delivered any project revenue.</blockquote><p>And although Strassel updates her piece after the debate with "Mr. Biden was given ample opportunity to deny the authenticity or facts of the Bobulinski information at Thursday's debate; he didn't," she neglects to address her own newspaper's news side story completely debunking her own. Nor does she mention that Biden's spokesman Andrew Bates categorically denied Benihana's allegations, saying, "Joe Biden has never even considered being involved in business with his family, nor in any overseas business whatsoever. He has never held stock in any such business arrangements nor has any family member or any other person ever held stock for him."</p><p>Probably an oversight by Kim Strassel, whose journalistic integrity is beyond question. <a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/05/23/move-over-sean-hannity-make-room-for-kimberley-strassel/" target="_blank">AHEM</a>.</p><p>All of which is part of an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/business/media/wall-street-journal-news-opinion-clash-letter.html?smid=tw-share" target="_blank">ongoing battle</a> between the news and editorial sides at the <em>Journal</em>, where opinion writers regularly publish statements contradicted by the paper's own, fact-based reporting. Because, forget this dumb Hunter Biden shit — the issue of WHAT IS NEWS is the real, enduring legacy of this idiotic saga capping off a truly idiotic presidency.</p><p>This isn't story about Mr. Bubble <em>or whatever that guy's name is</em> appearing as Trump's guest at a presser before last night's debate. It's about how the media ecosystem deals with literal FAKE NEWS being weaponized to pervert our political processes. And it turns out we <em>have</em> learned something from the 2016 disaster when Bannon and Giuliani's bullshit about the Clinton Foundation and her Buttery Males was treated by the news side as worthy of coverage <em>as if it might be true.</em> Which it very clearly wasn't.</p><p>Trump's efforts to make The Blob <em>a thing </em>failed. No one knows who that guy is, the social media platforms signaled hard that the story was bullshit, and outside of the wingnuttosphere, it hasn't penetrated. They tried to October Surprise us, and it didn't work.</p><div id="f1cc2" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5c946f5ecfc2e6360f17cdc0e67f0688"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1319369105640665089" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">No indication at all of a decline in Joe Biden's favorability ratings, which is what Trump presumably would be hopi… https://t.co/Y5gfOwVxIa</div> — Nate Silver (@Nate Silver)<a href="https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/statuses/1319369105640665089">1603397082.0</a></blockquote></div><p>We don't have to forget all about Barney Rubble, because we never bothered to learn his name in the first place. 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The 4264 Stupidest Moments In The Final Trump Biden Debate
The tone! The tone!
October 23, 2020 10:24 AM
Against our expectations, Donald Trump actually showed up for the second and final debate with Joe Biden last night, after having refused to participate in what should have been the second debate because it was going to be held virtually. Unlike in the first debate, Trump didn't go completely batshit screamy-faced for the first 40 or so minutes, managing instead to deliver his baldfaced lies in what counts, for Trump, as a more serious tone, before becoming more agitated and interrupty later. It would be the vilest speculation to suggest the drugs wore off after a while, so we certainly will not say that.
CNN's Chris Cillizza, who can be relied upon for the worst takes in mainstream punditry, proclaimed Trump's performance "significantly better" and claimed that for the first hour, Trump "displayed a level of message discipline that he has rarely been able to stick to during his presidency," which might be semi-accurate if you don't mind that whatever focus Trump maintained was devoted to lying. But even Cillizza noted that President Stepford's brief imitation of calm wasn't enough to overcome how far behind Trump is, particularly since it evaporated in the final third of the debate, and that Trump constantly lied — a detail Cillizza relegated to a separate bullet point.
Let's run down a few takeaways from this, which we might dare to hope is the final national debate in which Trump will appear.
<h2></h2><h2>Nobody Cares About Hunter Biden, Not Even Donald Trump</h2><p>Trump tried to hammer Joe Biden on the supposedly scandalous "Hunter Biden's laptop" bullshit, but the whole made-up "scandal" is so convoluted that you have to be a dedicated consumer of rightwing media to even know what Trump was talking about. Trump just kept accusing Biden of getting rich off foreign countries, but he couldn't make any of the claims stick, because they're garbage, and incoherent garbage at that. After the debate, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Nicolle Wallace had a good laugh together about the fact that they could barely make heads or tails of it, "And we're cable news anchors!" Factcheck: true.</p><h2>Moderator Kristen Welker Brooked No Bullshit</h2><p>She enforced time limits, wouldn't let Trump talk over her, and when it was time to move on to another topic, moved on, without any of Chris Wallace's weird "now here's a question you'll probably like, Mr. President." To be sure, it helped her that Trump seemed less hopped up on goofballs this time, but could we please have Kristen Welker run training workshops for moderators at future presidential debates? </p><h2>Trump Is Just A Donald Trump Cover Band Now</h2><p>Donald Trump has never had anything more than a superficial — and wildly distorted — understanding of anything, ever, so it shouldn't be much surprise that on virtually every topic, Trump just spouted lies from his campaign rallies. Coronavirus? It's going away, and everything's fine. Trump dismissed the rapidly growing infection rates across the country as a "flare up" that will soon go away, and lied that a vaccine will be instantly available in just a few weeks. Obamacare was a disaster and Trump will replace it real soon. Stopping climate change is somehow the same as "clean air." Donald Trump is the least racist person anywhere, because after all, he's done more for African-Americans than any president since Lincoln. </p><p>Trump is so married to his set material that he was genuinely thrown off when Biden sarcastically said, "Abraham Lincoln here is one of the most racist presidents we've had in modern history." Trump could only sputter, "He made a reference to Abraham Lincoln, where did that come in?" Then he carefully fact-checked Biden's sarcasm, pointing out that he <em>actually </em>said he's the best <em>since</em> Lincoln, so Biden lied, he LIED! Guess Trump automatically wins, then. (This is sarcasm. Shame on us.)<span></span></p><h2>Donald Trump Remains a Racist Monster </h2><p>Welker asked what Trump would do about the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/lawyers-cant-locate-parents-of-545-kids-taken-by-trump" target="_self">545 kids whose parents can't be found</a>, years after they were separated at the border in a pilot program for the infamous "zero tolerance" program. The "president" clearly had no idea what she was talking about, and fell back to his cherished lies: Traffickers! Rapists! Catch-and-Release! Obama built the cages! Biden, who actually knew what Welker meant, called Malarkey: </p><blockquote>Coyotes didn't bring them over. Their parents were with them [...] They got separated from their parents. And it makes us a laughingstock and violates every notion of who we are as a nation.</blockquote><p>Trump could only talk about cages, because immigrants aren't people, they're an applause line at rallies. Besides, he insisted, the children were very well cared for (<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-explains-no-filthy-baby-jails-no-filthy-baby-jails-youre-the-filthy-baby-jails" target="_blank">factcheck bullshit</a>) in very clean facilities (again, <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/us-moves-300-children-from-sh-tty-border-jail-to-new-sh-tty-border-jail" target="_blank">bullshit,</a> and even clean baby jails <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/america-is-the-wire-mother" target="_blank">don't negate lasting trauma</a>). Then, to top things off, Trump lied again and claimed sure, whatever those kids might be, if they're people at all, the government is working hard to reunite them with their parents. Except for how the administration<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/usa-too-fucking-lazy-to-find-deported-parents-tells-aclu-to-do-it" target="_blank"> completely washed its hands</a> of any responsibility for reunifying families. </p><p>Oh, yes, and before we go, just a reminder that Trump <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/factchecking-the-final-2020-presidential-debate/" target="_blank">lied all the way through,</a> 220,000 Americans have died because Donald Trump has done nothing, and anyone who talks about his improved tone needs to <a href="https://twitter.com/DoktorZoom/status/1319472834901540866" target="_blank">step on a Lego.</a> One of those little one-stud fuckers. Barefoot. On a hardwood floor, in the dark. Then they should bang their shin, hard, on the coffee table. </p><p>The end. <br></p><p>[<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/22/politics/last-presidential-debate-hits-and-misses/index.html" target="_blank">CNN </a>/ <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-did-what-he-came-to-do-in-nashville-but-biden-was-ready-for-what-came-at-him/2020/10/23/3016a3ea-14c5-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html" target="_blank">WaPo </a>/ <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/factchecking-the-final-2020-presidential-debate/" target="_blank">FactCheck.org</a>]</p><p>Yr Wonkette is supported entirely by reader donations. 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Who Wanna Watch MSNBC's Hallie Jackson Dick-Punch Hogan Gidley?
YOU DO! YOU DO!
October 23, 2020 09:20 AM
Hey was there a debate last night? We didn't hear.
Anyway, y'all love it when women kick Trumpers in the nuts and make them eat it, especially when it's woman reporters on the fake news, so since it is Friday — maybe the next-to-last Friday before our long national nightmare begins to end! — here is a post about MSNBC's Hallie Jackson dickpunching Trumper Hogan Gidley.
Y'all remember Hogan Gidley, right? He is the White House spokes-nerd whose name can't possibly be real, and moreover nothing else about him can possibly be real. ALLEGEDLY, he is a different person from "Judd Deere," the gay one. ALLEGEDLY.
Point is, Gidley went on the TV to talk to MSNBC's Hallie Jackson on Thursday, and immediately he started blabbing his dumb lying face off about mail-in voter fraud. But wait! How could he possibly do that after FBI Director Chris Wray and Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe called a SUPER EXTRA IMPORTANT press conference, in part to explicitly say that rumors on the internets you hear about rampant mail-in voter fraud are hell-lies from Iran, which is spreading them by hitting "record" on videos of Donald Trump talking about rampant mail-in voter fraud?
How could he possibly do that? Because he is paid for lying.
Watch Hallie Jackson dickpunch Hogan Gidley:
<div id="cb116" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d92de13ac3f49597debb5a884edd09f3"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1319313529716023297" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Hey, guys - watch Watch Hallie Jackson stuff Hogan Gidley into a locker when he starts spewing voter fraud conspira… https://t.co/V880i6BDjV</div> — Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@Rex Chapman🏇🏼)<a href="https://twitter.com/RexChapman/statuses/1319313529716023297">1603383831.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Jackson asks Gidley if Trump is going to STFU about voter fraud now that Wray and Ratcliffe called BS. Gidley responded by whining about TV reports in "local markets" about voters "finding ballots in trash cans." He says "you CAN'T deny" that!</p><p>Approximate transcript, except for how the Hallie Jackson parts are <em>verbatim</em> and the Hogan Gidley parts are jokes about his balls:</p><blockquote><strong>JACKSON: </strong>There is no widespread evidence of voter fraud, Hogan, you know that. I don't want to have to rehash this conversation, I'm asking if the president is going to back off those claims. If you can't answer that, that's fine, we can move on, but just answer the question. <br><br><strong>GIDLEY: </strong>OW! MY BALLS! OW! MY BALLS!<br><br><strong>JACKSON: </strong>OK, well we're going to move on [...] My other question is this. Does the president have confidence in Director Wray? <br><br><strong>GIDLEY:</strong> WHIIIIIIIIINE!<br><br><strong>JACKSON: </strong>Hogan! The FBI director himself, specifically, within the last 12 hours said, on national television, across every network, that there is no widespread evidence of voter fraud. Somebody who's part of the Trump administration's own intelligence expert field, HOGAN. That's not coming from me, that's coming from Wray. Does the president have confidence in his FBI director? Yes or no?<br><br><strong>GIDLEY: </strong>I'm Hogan Gidley! That's my real name! OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW MY BALLS THOUGH, MY BALLS!<br>JACKSON: <em>That's not what I asked.</em></blockquote><p>AND SO FORTH!</p><p>And then she kicked him off her TV show, because fuck off, she's busy.</p><p>Well done, Hallie Jackson, you are Wonkette's Most Valuable Hogan Gidley Ass-Kicker Of The Week!</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE!</a><br></strong></p><p><strong>GIVE IT WONKETTE. We mean money. Thank you.</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: initial;"></span></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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When Is The Debate Tonight? Where Can You Watch The Debate? WHY, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY?
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October 22, 2020 04:33 PM
Just a quick reminder that Joe Biden and that orange fellow will be meeting for their second televised debate tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, broadcast on all the networks, the cable news channels, and livestreamed right here at Wonkette while Yr Editrix livebloogs the whole insane spectacle as long as her brain holds out. We cannot rule out the possibility that we may all be driven mad like an HP Lovecraft character reading an accursed eldritch text. So come and gibber in ancient and obscene tongues with us, won't you?
<p>Remember, this time around, the Commission on Presidential Debates has decreed that for the first two minutes of each candidate's response, the other candidate's mic will be muted, which Donald Trump has already protested as an unconstitutional infringement of his Article "People love that I'm an asshole" rights. We'll turn the volume up a little to see if Trump nonetheless rants while Biden is speaking. </p><p>Moderator Kristen Welker of NBC News has announced six general topics, which will each get 15 minutes of "discussion." Let's list them here, with a table indicating what each candidate will discuss during that segment: </p><p><br></p><table><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><strong> Topic </strong></td><td style="text-align: center;"><strong>What Biden will talk about</strong></td><td style="text-align: center;"><strong>What Trump will talk about</strong></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;">Fighting COVID-19</td><td style="text-align: center;">Fighting COVID-19</td><td style="text-align: center;">Hunter Biden</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;">American Families</td><td style="text-align: center;">American Families</td><td style="text-align: center;">Hunter Biden</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;">Race in America</td><td style="text-align: center;">Race in America</td><td style="text-align: center;">Riots, Hunter Biden, semi-deniable <br>"Turner Diaries" allusion</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;">Climate Change</td><td style="text-align: center;">Climate Change</td><td style="text-align: center;">Hunter Biden, banning cows & planes</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;">National Security</td><td style="text-align: center;">National Security</td><td style="text-align: center;">Hunter Biden Ukraine, Hunter Biden China</td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;">Leadership</td><td style="text-align: center;">My friend Barack Obama</td><td style="text-align: center;">Dick size, antifa, Hunter Biden, <br>the 1984 New Jersey Generals lineup</td></tr></tbody></table><p>We have also learned, from the Twitters, that Trump is planning a devastating surprise that's sure to shake Mr. Biden to his core! </p><div id="468f1" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="86d59b20534c29c161d35b827c061777"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1319360677081993216" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Trump aides have been telling people that the big surprise in store for tonight's debate is he's bringing Tony Bobu… https://t.co/cg6xG3ZKid</div> — Edward-Isaac Dovere (@Edward-Isaac Dovere)<a href="https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/statuses/1319360677081993216">1603395072.0</a></blockquote></div><p>OH NO, NOT TONY BOBULINSKI! </p><p>We'll have the livebloog up for you to read around 8:45 Eastern. If you forget to bring something to drink / a comfort object, that's on YOU. </p><p>In the meantime, please buy literally all the <a href="https://wonkettebazaar.com/collections/joe-biden-2020" target="_blank">Joe Biden</a> and <a href="https://wonkettebazaar.com/collections/kamala-2020" target="_blank">Kamala Harris merches</a> from your <a href="https://wonkettebazaar.com/" target="_blank">Wonkette Bazaar.</a> </p>
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