Now that Joe Biden has been pushed aside by the Democratic Party, the mainstream media is suddenly able to publish stories about Hunter Biden’s scandals. Glenn and “Blood Money” author Peter Schweizer discuss a recent New York Times piece titled “Hunter Biden Sought State Department Help for Ukrainian Company.” It details how the Biden administration (after he dropped out, of course) released records proving that Hunter solicited U.S. government assistance while his father was Vice President. But did the Times really JUST NOW learn about this? How long did they have this story before they were allowed to publish it? And who gave the order? Glenn and Peter also discuss whether Barack Obama and the Democratic Party orchestrated a coup against President Biden to kick him out of the race.

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GLENN: So now that Joe Biden has been pushed aside, the officials are allowed to emit the elites at the New York Times and elsewhere -- you can now publish stories about Hunter Biden.

Emails were released that reveal that Hunter, while his father was vice president wrote a letter to the US ambassador in Italy, asking for introductions to help the Ukraine gas company Burisma, land a lucrative contract in Italy.

Huh. I thought none of that was happening. Now the New York Times is reporting this. Review you see, everything that was, is no longer.

Now it's a news story. And everything that was about Kamala, is no longer.

Now, she's great. I can't -- I don't know what. Let me just talk to people who are in the press. What is it like to be you?

Honestly, lying is so hard.

I guess not.

If you don't mind, you know, just being caught in lies.

I guess it's not real hard. But I don't know how you keep it straight.

What can you report today. Who issues that?

Who tells you, were you standing, waiting for this story. And you were waiting for permission to drop it. Or do they actually say. I want to let everybody know.

Thanks for flying the New York Times airlines. We're going to be landing in Truthville just a few minutes on Hunter Biden.

But Hunter Biden only.

We are in lie city, on everything else, that is going on in the Biden administration. And Kamala Harris. Thanks for choosing New York Times airlines.

How do they announce it?

How do they tell their reporters, what they can say today, that they couldn't say yesterday?

GLENN: So I want to talk to you, Peter, one about Hunter Biden. And the other about that Sunday, with Joe Biden.

I would love to hear. And I know it's all speculation. But I would love to hear, how you think that all went down.

I am convinced this was a coup against the president. They had a gun to his head, called the 25th Amendment.

And they said, we can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way.

And it had to be quite a negotiation, as he knows stuff about them. And they know stuff about him.

And it was mutually assured destruction.

How do you think that went down?

PETER: Great question, Glenn. I think I would look as the coup leader, Barack Obama. There's no question, in my mind. There's never been any love lost between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

And let's remember, I talk about this in my book, Profiles in Corruption.

Kamala Harris and the Obamas have been friends before Obama was the United States senator.

So they have long, deep ties, and share worldviews, that are very, very similar, and different to Joe Biden's. And what you should do is go back and listen to an interview that Barack Obama gave with Steven Colbert in 2020, where he says, Colbert asks him, would you ever want to serve a third term?

And Barack Obama says, oh. He says, but my secret fantasy is to have a president, whether he or she, that I have my voice in their earpiece, and I am able to tell them what to do and how to do it.

And then he kind of chuckles at the end. I think that is a major part of what happened. I think that ultimately, they decided that Joe Biden couldn't beat Donald Trump. And they had to change horses, so to speak. And I think the discussion and negotiation was not with Obama himself, but with, you know, look, the finance chairman of the Biden campaign. Jeffrey Katzenberg. Was Barack Obama's finance chair. So we know who these people are.

And I think the negotiation was a combination of stick and carrots.

And the carrot was, look, we'll take care of your family.

You know, we'll take care of Hunter. We'll take care of Jim. And we'll take care of the family.

And you need to step down, or other bad things will happen to you.

But as you alluded to. They have now started to turn on him with the reports and with the Department of Justice.

GLENN: Yeah. So how did that happen?

How does the press get their marching orders to say, okay. Now you can release this information?

Now you can take on Hunter Biden.

PETER: Yeah. Glenn, you know, when I first started looking back into this, in 2016, 2017, 2018. I had relationships with numerous reporters at the New York Times and Washington Post. They cited me and used my material on all kinds of stories. When I told them what we had on Joe Biden in 28, one of the top reporters at the New York Times, who covers China and politics, said, if Biden runs, we will cover this story. And, of course, they never did.

I think that it is the management leadership, and they have convinced themselves, they have convinced themselves, deluded themselves, into believing that Trump is such an existential threat to democracy.

You know, that phrase that they always use, that allows them and leads them to say, well, we cannot cover Joe Biden. Now that it's Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, you have the New York Times that you said.

You also have the Department of Justice, in the filing on the tax. The federal tax --

GLENN: Interesting.

PETER: -- saying, they explicitly say in that tax filing document, that Hunter Biden was collecting foreign money because he was running a foreign influence the campaign. This is the Biden Department of Justice saying this.

GLENN: Huh. Interesting. Isn't it?

I would love to have been a fly on the wall, and see how this all really went down.

You know, maybe in -- you know, I don't know. One hundred years.

The files will be released. And we will find out what really happened. But any doubt in your mind this was a coup.

PETER: No. None whatsoever. None whatsoever.

GLENN: Amazing. Amazing. Peter Schweizer. Thank you so much. You know, if I would have said that, oh, you know, that they would perform a coup on the president, the press would have gone crazy on me. They would have been covering up yet again, and lying to you yet again.