“Because that’s where the money is.” That was the answer that Willie Sutton, an expert in his chosen field, gave when asked why he robbed banks. Maybe the Bidens, Joe and Hunter, should consider employing a kindred candor about their business activities in Romania, Ukraine and elsewhere back when Joe was Obama’s VP.

So far, they have been disappointing on that score. Here’s the state of play: an FBI whistleblower revealed the existence of a complicated bribery scheme that allegedly funneled millions of dollars into the Bidens’ coffers via a network of at least twenty shell companies set up to launder the dough. The Oversight Committee of the Republican-controlled House subpoenaed the FBI for access to the particulars set forth in what the agency calls a “1023” form. At first, the FBI stonewalled. Finally, under mounting pressure from Congress, they relented, allowing members of the committee to read a redacted version of the form. Details are still scant, but the details seem beside the point, which can be crystalized is a single number: 5,000,000, as in $5 million, the amount of pelf said to have been deposited for Joe, with an equal amount bestowed upon Hunter.

Asked about the payments at a press conference, Biden laughed it off. Then “where’s the money?” he scoffed, adding that the whole money-for-influence charge was “a bunch of malarkey.”

“Malarkey” is a word that Joe Biden likes.  Back in 2019 when he was gearing up for the 2020 campaign, he had the words “no malarkey” emblazoned on his campaign bus, painfully explaining that he was taking his message to people across Iowa.

It’s an interesting word “malarkey,” uncannily apt for Joe.  My dictionary says that its origin is obscure, but speculates that it might be from the Greek “μαλακός,” “soft; compliant, meek; gentle, mellow, mild, mild-mannered.” Another possibility for malarkey’s origin is “μαλακία,” “masturbation, idiocy, stupidity; bullshit, nonsense.” I have no opinion about this lexicographical problem but can report that the word was popularized by the cartoonist Thomas Aloysius (“Tad”) Dorgan, who started using it in cartoons in the 1920s.

It turns out, however, that by “no malarkey” Joe Biden meant “malarkey aplenty;” for what started as a trickle of revelations has turned into a mighty current, with more 1023s detailing more charges of financial malfeasance and corruption. Naturally, the media has been focused laser-like on the saga of Donald Trump’s martyrdom for stashing files from his first term as president at his Palm Beach residence. That sounds like malarkey to me, but it is nothing compared to the truckloads of malarkey that Biden and his handlers will distribute to bury the news of the Senescent One’s corruption. Unfortunately for Biden, though, these revelations are just the latest reminder the sell-by date for this crime syndicate has come and gone.

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