I kept hearing about this Biden Crime Family, operating out of the East Coast somewhere, as your better crime families do, little state called Delaware, apparently, wherever that might be.
Their capo dei capi or capo di tutti i capi and what have you simply rule the roost there, in this Delaware. Mobsters on the order of Lucky Luciano. They live on Shakedown Street. Trying to get the capital city renamed Corleone. Out of respect. Gangsters of the old school.
So when you want to find out about the Mob, where you gonna go? Fox News, right? So I went to Fox News.
Bingo. There it was. None other than Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, explaining it all for us. And who would know better? Sammy was second in command of the Gambino Crime Family, after all, in a little burg called New York, which knows from its crime families.
“Is politics the Mafia, but in cheaper suits than you guys wore?” Fox host Jimmy Failla asked The Bull in a televised interview.
“I would take that as an insult,” The Bull said. “The Mafia is nothing like politics. We’re not on their level. We’re a different organization. Politics don’t give a damn about anybody. They’re robbing the public. They’re hurting people. Open borders. The cities are falling apart. There’s no comparison to what these scumbags are doing to what we did.”
“I would commend that. Because obviously in the Mafia women and children were off limits whereas what’s going on in politics, doesn’t really have a regard for anybody, does it?” Failla asked.
“No. And they weren’t off limits. They were people that we protected. They were people in our neighborhood. We loved people in our neighborhood. We never hurt people in our neighborhood … We’re like Boy Scouts compared to them,” The Bull replied.
“What do you think of the idea of the Bidens being a crime family?” Failla asked.
Because, right, naturally, the comparison, as we are saying, is apt. Crime families should be compared to crime families.
“You know, I’ve been listening to what’s going on with him, and I understand the RICO law, and the Biden family is an exact replica of the RICO law, ‘cause that’s what they did. You talk about gangsters and different kinds of crimes, but they sold out the entire country. … That’s organized crime to a degree that is really disgusting. I wouldn’t mind if someone stole a little bit here, didn’t pay taxes there. But they’re definitely a crime family,” The Bull said.
“And no one would know better than you,” Failla said.
Really? No one knows better than Sammy, the made man turned state’s witness, the ex-con?
Because here’s where this whole crime family thing falls apart.
La Cosa Nostra — big family, right? Lotsa mobsters, lotsa stealing, lotsa killing.
Whereas the Bidens? Big Irish family, sure. But they have one thug — Hunter. One of the sons. And one thug a crime family does not make.
Months of investigations by President Joe Biden’s political opponents, the GOP majority in the House of Representatives, have failed to come up with any indication that Dad, as opposed to clearly ne’er-do-well Son, is mobbed up.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Kentucky, was so sure of his conviction that Hunter’s employment by Ukrainian companies was ridiculous when he had no experience that should land him such a job that he literally used the Fox talking point: “Biden Crime Family.”
So he and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, called in Hunter’s former business partner, Devon Archer, as what they felt would be a star witness. It was a closed-door hearing — yet Comer released the transcript.
“Oops!” as Bill Press reports in The Hill. “There’s only one problem. Either Comer and Jordan weren’t listening to Archer’s testimony or they didn’t read the transcript before releasing it. Because the transcript shows that not only did Archer provide no evidence of illegal actions by Joe or Hunter, he directly contradicted five claims the two chairmen had been making against them.
“One. Joe Biden never discussed business matters on the phone with Hunter. Yes, Archer admitted, Hunter Biden did get his father on the phone ‘some 20 times’ during meetings with officials of Burisma, the energy company on which both Hunter and Archer sat as board members. But there was no discussion of business. ‘It was, you know,’ Archer said, ‘just general niceties and, you know, conversation in general about the geography, and the weather, whatever it may be.’
“Two. Joe Biden never altered U.S. policy to help Hunter’s business deals. ‘I have no basis to know if he altered policy to benefit his son,’ Archer testified. ‘I have no knowledge.’
“Three. Hunter Biden never expressly promised that his father could deliver anything. Yes, Archer testified, Hunter made sure everyone knew who his father was, he put him on phone calls, he sold the Biden family ‘brand,’ but he never ‘overtly’ told business associates he could or would use his father’s influence for any specific purpose.”
Hunter Biden is clearly a drifter, a grifter, a sleazeball — a former drug addict, and a bad painter to boot.
What an embarrassment of a son for a president of the United States to have.
But in this ongoing effort to impeach the current president because their president was twice impeached, there is so far no there there. No evidence of influence-peddling. No indication that Joe Biden himself — or any other Biden other than Hunter in this big family — made out like a bandit.
I’ve had no truck with Joe Biden ever since he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court in 1991 and allowed Thomas to testify before Anita Hill did, knowing that the law professor would say Thomas had repeatedly asked her to go out with him and did not respect her rejections, knowing she would say he talked about sex and pornography “in vivid detail” during workplace conversations. Biden refused to allow the testimony of three other women who had similar stories. He lost me there.
He’s no genius. He’s a bit on the older side. He ought to step down and let someone younger run for president.
But the boss of bosses of the Biden Crime Family? There hasn’t been a shred of evidence to indicate he’s that, or that he’s committed any high crimes or misdemeanors worthy of impeachment.
If Republicans in Congress produce any evidence that he has, we’ll get together over a glass of red in a little cafe in Sicily, and we’ll talk. I’ll be taking the seat facing the door.
Larry Wilson is on the Southern California News Group editorial board. lwilson@scng.com
