The Big Tell (UPDATED)

     I’ve been under the weather recently, and haven’t had the energy to produce my usual volume of bilge for this dive. But I have kept track of the news, as far as possible, and the most recent developments in the Biden corruption scandal compel me to draw my Gentle Readers’ attention to an important pattern in human deceit. Baldly, it’s this:

The “big tell” is not angry denials.
It’s a refusal to speak at all.

     If you want to know when a prominent party accused of wrongdoing has effectively confessed, it’s not when he’s most enraged by the accusations and passionate in his denials; it’s when he refuses to address the subject – in extreme cases, when he seeks to silence anyone who addresses the subject.

     Just now, the “Burisma scandal” emails purported to be to and from Hunter Biden are “front page above the fold” news for sincere journalists. The associated story about the FBI having been in possession of those emails for more than a year while not investigating the tale they seem to tell is merely extra glare thrown onto this sordid episode in American foreign policy. But Google, Facebook, and Twitter, the most powerful companies in the world of digital communications, are struggling to suppress the story.

     It gets better still: When Tucker Carlson introduced a new batch from that trove of emails on last night’s show, Twitter shut down completely.

     Have a few links:

• The New York Post’s original, suppressed story about the emails.
• The Biden family’s “profit sharing plan.”
• There’s a video of Hunter Biden you’ll want to see (but if the reports are accurate, you’ll wish you hadn’t).
• Tucker Carlson spills the really big beans.
• Twitter shuts down.

     And what has the Biden family’s response been? Silence. They can’t outrightly deny it all because they have no idea whether they’ve seen everything. The critical, nail-it-to-the-wall item of evidence might not yet have been reported on. Should the Bidens issue blanket denials and then be confronted with something that makes the evidence of their massive corruption irrefutable, the damage would be thermonuclear.

     American foreign policy was perverted to serve Biden family bank accounts. The government of Ukraine was bludgeoned by its need for American financial assistance into firing its chief prosecutor and ending the investigations he was conducting. He who wielded the power of the Vice-Presidency to swing that bludgeon is now the Democrats’ candidate for President. Neither of the accused parties is saying anything to anyone – and the Bidens’ allies in the media and Big Tech are struggling to suppress all mention of the story.

     I submit that the “big tell” is now before us.

     The truly horrifying thing about all of this is that such corrupt wheeling and dealing has been treated as a de-facto perquisite of high federal office. The FBI, which has possessed the laptop for more than a year, suppressed the evidence. FBI agents may have threatened John Paul Mac Isaac, the man who came forward with the key laptop and the emails on it, in a further attempt to prevent disclosure, though at this point that aspect of the story is uncorroborated.

     But perhaps there’s something to ponder that’s even more horrifying: Despite all this – most especially despite the “big tell” of Biden family silence – millions of private citizens will vote for Joseph R. Biden for president of these United States.

     UPDATE: The nail-it-to-the-wall item has arrived:

     When asked how he could prove that the damning texts and emails came from Hunter Biden’s computer, Giuliani revealed that Biden’s lawyer contacted John Paul Mac Isaac, the Delaware computer repair shop owner who had discovered the material, as soon as the story broke.

     “I’ll give you something that really verifies it,” Giuliani said. “The very morning this came out, Hunter Biden’s lawyer called the merchant, and asked him if he could have the hard drive back,” he said. “We have email evidence of that. So if the lawyer is asking for the hard drive back—it must be the hard drive.”

     “He actually did it by telephone and email and we have the email,” Giuliani added.

     Crowder was stunned.

     “It’s almost as if it makes it worse on them, Mr. Giuliani!” he exclaimed.

     “Oh yeah, it’s the dumbest thing a lawyer can do,” Giuliani agreed. “”I mean, Joe Biden was the dumbest kid in law school.”

     There can be no further doubt.