Showing posts with label conflict of interest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conflict of interest. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Op-ed:
Even In a Time of War 2+2 Should = 4
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor 
This opinion piece is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com  

...Sounds to me like a
“we'll do this for you if you do that for us” sort of game which to some degree is but veiled bribery of sorts, and surely something any president would want to be kept hidden even if good intentions and a war winning scenario were involved.

Simply, illegalities are one thing, and while no technical illegalities are involved regarding President Trump or his family in relation to their ongoing business ventures with certain of the Iran war's key players, the optics of money privately still being garnered, and the possibility of decisions being rendered on the urging of those key players, is really not a good look to have, especially when these same players have a stake in the outcome of the war itself.

Trump's actions in regards to control of the “Strait of Hormuz” are now financially hurting the very Gulf nations he and his family have big money (albeit) legal dealings with, and it's definitely because of our ongoing blockade. So here I say that maybe.. .just maybe...some decisions made by our president are...Read entire article here.  

Monday, August 24, 2026

Op-ed:
Even In a Time of War 2+2 Should = 4
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor
This opinion piece is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.or google.com 

This is an article I never really wanted to write, but after President Trump made certain statements at an August 14th Republican candidates rally in Long Island, New York... statements like, “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated,  pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” adding that “Insuring Iran could not build a nuclear weapon was worth paying a tiny little bit more for your gasoline.” And to those very words he then also added that, “When you have to pay a little bit more, you’re at $4. It’s okay,” and “I’ll never apologize. I did the right thing;” So it now seemed like the right time to remind folks of certain well documented and verified facts.

And while these facts I will be referring to have been in the public domain for a number of years, the Trump team along with the Trump “can do no wrong” crowd, either tried to bury those facts, downplay them, ignore them, or hope they'd simply just fade away, forgetting that when words are part of the public domain they could, if rediscovered, come rightfully back to haunt.

And while President Trump has done absolutely nothing illegal in what I am about to disclose nor do I...a three time Trump voter...accuse him of willfully or deliberately deceiving “We the American People,” I do feel that certain actions taken coupled with inactions not taken during this still ongoing but not yet won war with Iran, might start to make a bit more sense. And while 2 + 2 two still equals 4...except in “Common Core” math...telling the truth serves one better than trying to divert the discourse to keep us from discovering tried to be hidden facts. And this is especially true when those facts could change not only the logistics of how this war with Iran is militarily being fought, but answers the question on many of our minds as to why this war seems so misguided after Trump switched his original goal of Iran's unconditionally surrendering to his now diplomatic deals fiasco.

So let me start by saying that the old adage, “money is the root of all evil” might actually be shadowing how President Trump is handling this war for whether some care to believe it or not...and again no actual illegalities come into play...the fact remains that our president and his family do have extensive business interests and investments in the Middle East including in the very countries who while on paper are our allies, but who in reality are tenuous, sleep with one eye open, allies at best.

And so here the “follow the money” game begins with big name countries... big monied countries...oil rich countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Eremites (UAE), Oman, and Qatar seeing President Trump and his family, while not owning actual physical real estate in these countries, still having made what are combined real estate (as in hotels, mega-buck luxury apartments, and golf courses), brand licensing, management, and crypto currency monetary dealings with said countries.

In fact, President Trump and his family, besides being developers, are also the co-founders of, and are still directly involved with, the major investment firm “World Liberty Financial” (WLF) which itself is directly linked to the UAE's purchase of a “49% stake” in the family's crypto venture via hundreds of millions of dollars in upfront payments. And this is in addition to both Trump and his family garnering additional monies from digital token sales which are also tied to said investment firm, with its proceeds now reaching upwards of one plus billion dollars mostly thanks to Gulf nation investors...no real surprise there.

The “Art of the Deal” truly come to life...all completely legal...all highly successful...all extremely profitable business deals managed by the Trump family via licensing and development deals...all what Trump has proven to do best. And here might I add my kudos to Trump on his monetary success, while at the same time having his ego stroked by Gulf developers who pay big money to put his name on “luxury towers, golf courses, and hotels” in countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman, and Qatar. See a pattern here...I sure do.

And this pattern itself is what is more than a bit troubling to me in that the actual monetary aspect involved has Trump and his family directly tied into the countries who, during this time of war, remain but tenuous allies at best... allies with agendas of their own...allies smart enough to know that Trump will likely do as they say as his current and future business ventures do hang somewhat in the balance. So why not use the war itself as their bargaining chip...their “Trump chip” if you will...to get Iran to stop lobbing missiles and drones into their oil rich countries.

Remember, the big money players of these countries have much to lose the longer that this war lingers on no matter that Trump originally did state that the Iran war “will only take a few weeks”...and yet those words...that very time frame...now has dragged on, in but one guise or another, for over a year. And with those countries all being key Mideast countries that Trump, and his family, have highly profitable business dealings with, coupled with those countries being either players to one degree or another in the war itself and who now see themselves being the target of Iran's retaliation after U.S. bombs go boom... all I can say is “Houston” we might have somewhat of a “conflict of interest” here in how this war...whether knowingly or not...is being both physically played out, and who exactly is giving the orders in regards to who, when, where, and why.

And here also note that over the past month or so each of those aforementioned countries' leaders have told President Trump to stop or at least slow down the Iran bombings...bombings getting a bit too close to Iran's capital Tehran...and which, as I started to write this article, saw Trump complying with their wishes. And even in his doing so, some of those countries remained“behind his back busy” by privately forging their own alliances with both Turkey and Pakistan...countries technically allies, but allies with fingers most assuredly crossed behind their backs.

Why so? First, Turkey's leader Recep Erdogan is no friend to our ally and war partner Israel as he outwardly despises and vocally condemns her leader Benjamin Netanyahu. And second because while Pakistan remains what's known as a “transactional partner” of the U.S. rather than her being a binding “treaty-bound” ally, we find our relationship with them being defined as one of “deep strategic mistrust.” Why so...because we have more friendly dealings and trust with Pakistan's long time enemy India, the very country who has now forged a working relationship and friendship with Israel as well.

And besides, and this is key, I do not believe that Pakistan's acting as a negotiating go-between for us and Iran has worked out very well as witnessed by the numerous deals made that have fallen apart, ceasefires that have been breached, and Trump's supposed “Red Lines” laughingly being crossed by Iran.

And yet it's Pakistan that remains Trump's go-to in regards to diplomatic negotiations with Iran, leaving me to wonder why...thus I found this interesting little bit of information...the Trump family has financial and digital asset connections to Pakistan through aforementioned “World Liberty Financial” (WLF), and it's courtesy of the family-linked cryptocurrency venture being used as one means of “cross-border payments”* for services or business transactions rendered. Translation: the Trump family has garnered roughly $500 million to $800 million from token sales and its crypto-partnerships with Pakistan, 

But again, there's absolutely nothing illegal about this nor with any of Trump's or his family's previously mentioned business ventures. But even with illegalities removed from the mix, I still see President Trump's omission of truth...especially regarding his personal investments in the Gulf region raking in billions of dollars not for our country or the Iranian people, but for he and his family alone. Simply, what currently passes for truth must be separated from made up media news reported truth so that 2+2 actually does equal 4, thus helping to eliminate the optics of what was at the beginning a rightful war, but which now has started to get a bit blurry.

Why so...first because Trump's all consuming obsession with the “Strait of Hormuz” finds him completely ignoring the regime's execution of Iran's freedom fighters still being carried out on an almost daily basis...the very people who begged us for help...the very people he told “help is on the way” but who are still waiting for said help. And second, all his decisions of late regarding to bomb or not bomb Iran seem to be based upon imput received from the very Gulf nations he not only has personal monetary dealings with, but who personally are affected by his blockade of Hormuz.

Sounds to me like a “we'll do this for you if you do that for us” sort of game which to some degree is but veiled bribery of sorts, and surely something any president would want to be kept hidden even if good intentions and a war winning scenario were involved.

Simply, illegalities are one thing, and while no technical illegalities are involved regarding President Trump or his family in relation to their ongoing business ventures with certain of the Iran war's key players, the optics of money privately still being garnered, and the possibility of decisions being rendered on the urging of those key players, is really not a good look to have, especially when these same players have a stake in the outcome of the war itself.

Trump's actions in regards to control of the “Strait of Hormuz” are now financially hurting the very Gulf nations he and his family have big money (albeit) legal dealings with, and it's definitely because of our ongoing blockade. So here I say that maybe...just maybe...some decisions made by our president are not really in our, the Iranian people, or the world's best interests, but in his own dollars and cents interests, which can not only affect the war's outcome, but his presidential legacy, and the Republican party's future as well

And again, I am not accusing our president of any legal wrongdoing, just thinking out loud as nothing else in his mishandling of this war seems to make 2+2=4 sense. Case closed.

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Footnote

* Cross-border payments are financial transactions where the sender and the receiver are located in different countries. These transfers often require currency conversion and pass through multiple intermediary or correspondent banks to move money across distinct national banking systems and regulatory frameworks.

Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Op-ed:
On Tuesday's Presidential Debate

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio
The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google

Tuesday night's presidential debate was, in my opinion, a “bought and paid for” Democrat run operation which morphed into a moderator tried for “political lynching” of Donald J. Trump, which thankfully failed. But no matter what transpired during the actual debate...including the Trump “fact checking” nonsense...Trump's closing statement should have put any undecided voters into the Trump camp for these 39 words puts all one needs to know into proper perspective. Stating that, “So she just started by saying she’s going to do this, she’s going to do that. She’s going to do all these wonderful things. Why hasn’t she done it? She’s been there for three and a half years....” Trump laid bare the fact that Kamala Harris hasn't done a damn thing to benefit “We the People” because she, “believes in things that the American people don’t believe in.”

And how right Trump is for Kamala Harris exposed just that by her refusing to answer the very first question...as in “are we economically better off today than four years ago.” Rambling instead about  her middle class background, moderator David Muir let her ramble on without her ever directly answering this or any other question asked. In fact, both Muir and fellow moderator Linsey Davis “fact-checked” just about all of  Trump's responses, but not once did they “fact check” any of the lies Harris said. And so the Trump “witch hunt” was publicly resurrected “live on air” courtesy of  ABC News.

And Davis should not have been allowed to moderate this debate for she had a direct “conflict of interest,” as in her being a sorority sister of Harris, something she bragged about many times “on record.” Actually, I believe both Muir and Davis should be fired for their overt partisan bias has ruined what's left of any credibility ABC News had.

Simply, this debate was but a farce perpetrated on “We the People” for we still don't know any of Harris' true positions...they “flip” according to how the poll numbers come in...and  besides all we got from Harris was memorized statements to questions she never answered...questions I believe she was privy to beforehand.

We need a strong proven leader like Donald J. Trump during these difficult times not the “flip-flop” queen who will say anything and do everything to get elected...including now trying to appear as a “moderate” which this “socialist” most assuredly is not. Remember, Kamala Harris remains an integral part of all the problems we Americans face today as was easily seen in her debate performance...a performance worthy of a “Golden Raspberry” award. Case closed.
 
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Op-ed:
Evidence Now Exposed
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio

It's an email scandal of monumental proportions and just like with Hillary the media once again remains basically silent as they circle the wagons to protect the guilty parties. And with proof coming out almost daily about Joe Biden and his on again-off again, six times in rehab, drug addicted son Hunter, the fact is that the Democrats are trying to cover up one of the biggest political corruption scandals in American history.

And here let's begin by saying that influence peddling for introductions does indeed come at a high price, and Hunter Biden most assuredly used his influence with his then vice-president dad to not only pad his and his family's pockets, but did so via an enemy nation and his dad blackmailing an ally. And to make matters worse it was all sanctioned to some degree by then President Barack HUSSEIN Obama who not only knew what was going on, but who actually approved some of what was legally...or should I say illegally...needed paperwork regarding Hunter Biden's foreign business ventures...

Read entire article and see videos here: https://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2020/10/op-ed-evidence-now-exposed-by-diane.html

Monday, October 26, 2020

Op-ed: 
Evidence Now Exposed 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio

It's an email scandal of monumental proportions and just like with Hillary the media once again remains basically silent as they circle the wagons to protect the guilty parties. And with proof coming out almost daily about Joe Biden and his on again-off again, six times in rehab, drug addicted son Hunter, the fact is that the Democrats are trying to cover up one of the biggest political corruption scandals in American history.

And here let's begin by saying that influence peddling for introductions does indeed come at a high price, and Hunter Biden most assuredly used his influence with his then vice-president dad to not only pad his and his family's pockets, but did so via an enemy nation and his dad blackmailing an ally. And to make matters worse it was all sanctioned to some degree by then President Barack HUSSEIN Obama who not only knew what was going on, but who actually approved some of what was legally...or should I say illegally...needed paperwork regarding Hunter Biden's foreign business ventures. And while Obama should also be called to task he, as always, will get a free pass via his use of the “race card”...after all the feds fear charging let alone arresting America's supposed first black president for they know to do so will see the BLM rioting and mayhem we're currently bearing witness to being but a cake walk in comparison.

So what exactly has unfolding in the week since my article, 'Evidence Found, Evidence Suppressed' was published last Tuesday regarding both Biden's? First, as expected, the Democrats claimed that Russia set the whole thing into motion. Poor Russia gets blamed for everything it seems, and while they might be guilty of some things, neither the Biden's email woes nor the Russian collusion nonsense regarding President Trump is of their doing. In fact, John Ratcliffe, the Director of National Intelligence, last week on FOX's 'Mornings with Maria,' stated that not only are the details of the case and the laptop itself being held by the FBI and not by U.S. intelligence agencies, but that the information contained on Hunter Biden’s laptop “is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign,” thus hopefully silencing Rep. Adam Schiff 's claim that the accusations being made are nothing but a “smear campaign” created by Moscow.  

  

"Let me be clear: The intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that. And we have shared no intelligence with Adam Schiff, or any member of Congress,” Ratcliffe said adding that, “It’s funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence.” And how right the director is for it was Adam Schiff himself who not only started the Russian disinformation nonsense with his words on CNN that, “We know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin. That’s been clear for well over a year now that they’ve been pushing this false narrative about this vice president and his son,” but who bore the full weight of being warned by Director Ratcliffe not to “leverage the intelligence community for a political narrative that’s not true.”

But thankfully truth has a way of eventually coming out for within a few days after 'The New York Post' article was published the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s emails have still not really been disputed by either Joe Biden or his campaign...a campaign which last Monday morning called for a 72-hour media blackout leading up to Thursday night's presidential debate. I guess 'Uncle Joe' and his "people" needed the time for the media to not just circle the wagons around their boy, but to come up with a doable plan for damage control to make this true October surprise go away. Simply, not only is Joe Biden in panic mode but so is the Democrat party hierarchy for they know that the China and Ukraine info now being exposed is irrefutable and politically quite damaging.

So over the past week what else has been disclosed besides Hunter Biden's signature having been verified as the one being on both the $85 computer repair slip and the “bill to” section of said bill? For starters, how about that a man by the name of Tony Bobulinski, a decorated Navy veteran and former partner of Hunter Biden, came forward with both a formal statement regarding the Biden's, as well as having held a press conference 90-minutes before last Thursday's final presidential debate.

 

And in the official statement, Tony Bobulinkski...the primary recipient of the May 13, 2017 email chain as he was the CEO of the company Hunter was forming with the Chinese...“corroborated the veracity of the messages,” along with the emails and the outline of the payout made to “the big guy” Joe Biden. And he also stated that not only did he personally witness Joe Biden discussing business deals with Hunter, but that Hunter's using the words “my chairman” in many of his emails was in direct reference to daddy Joe, and that Hunter “frequently referenced asking him (Joe Biden) for his sign-off or advice on various potential deals that we were discussing.”

So why did Bobulinski come forward with this damning information less than two weeks before the presidential election, as it goes beyond just his accusation that the Biden's went “behind my back” and received millions of dollars from the Chinese, “even though they told me they hadn't and wouldn't do that to their partners.” And it does, for while it speaks well of Mr. Bobulinski who asks, “the Biden family to address the American people and outline the facts so I can go back to being irrelevant - and so I am not put in a position to have to answer those questions for them,” and that “I don't have a political ax to grind; I just saw behind the Biden curtain and I grew concerned with what I saw,” the fact remains that Tony Bobulinski is now legally and rightfully separating himself from what in the end might be serious federal charges being brought against not only both Biden's but others as well.

Also, according to Bobulinski, both Hunter and Joe Biden “were putting the Biden family name and its legacy on the line” and “The Biden family aggressively leveraged the Biden family name to make millions of dollars from foreign entities even though some were from communist controlled China.” And while Joe Biden loves to call President Trump to task for his being a wealthy man, the difference is that Trump's wealth comes not from influence peddling but from his being a smart and savvy businessman doing legitimate and profitable business transactions, while the bulk of the Biden's wealth comes from Hunter's selling, with daddy Joe's permission, his position as vice-president to the highest foreign bidder no matter if said bidder is not America's friend.

So while Tony Bobulinski is now talking and has turned over to the FBI the three cell phones mentioned and shown at his press conference, included on which are email evidence of where Hunter and James Gilliar discussed putting together a deal between SinoHawk, a Biden family company...and China...a deal that must leave "chairman" Joe's name out of it...know that he soon will also be speaking to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and providing Johnson with copies of what was on his cell phones as well. 


And know that “nepotism” has always run deep within the Biden family for Hunter Biden was raking in big bucks from his dad’s political connections way before he was making deals with countries his then vice-president daddy traveled to. In fact, it seems that many of the six-figure jobs Hunter listed on his resume came via daddy Joe's donors, lobbyists, and political allies while he was a Delaware senator.

Want examples? How about a still unnamed Biden “associate” admitted to “finding employment” on Wall Street for Hunter to a tune of $1.2 million and did so as a “special favor” for the then senator and first time running for president Joe Biden, even though his fresh out of college son had no high finance experience whatsoever. And what did the “associate” get in return? How about that he, like other Biden's donors, ended up seeing legislation and policies being passed favorable to their businesses and investments, thus setting the stage early on for the Biden family's unending greed.

And then there's this...it appears that dear old Uncle Joe and his son continued to be up to no good in the years leading up to Joe Biden becoming Obama's vice-president. For example, in early 2008, Hunter Biden was working as a paid consultant, to a tune of a half a million dollar retainer spread out over five years, at the Wilmington, Delaware based bank holding/credit card company MBNA Corporation at the very same time his then still senator dad was pushing for the passage of bankruptcy legislation that ended up benefiting his son’s then employer. And daddy worked hard to get what became the “Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act” passed even while knowing that said act made it extremely difficult for Americans to get rid of not only credit card debt but student loan debt as well for this bill made such loans one of but ten debts that could not be “forgiven” when someone declared bankruptcy. And suddenly, low and behold, Biden's proposed act became law in 2005, the very same year Hunter Biden stopped working at MBNA.

And isn't it odd that back in 2008, the uber liberal rag 'New York Times' alluded in an article that Hunter Biden's consulting job with MBNA created a “potential conflict of interest” for Joe Biden, as he was now being vetted as Obama's vice-presidential pick. My how times have changed, for what was considered to be a “conflict of interest” by the paper back in 2008, oddly seems not to be so now no matter that they wrote, “Consumer advocates and other Democratic allies remain sharply critical of Mr. Biden’s actions, saying in recent days that they could hamper the campaign’s efforts to attack the Republicans over their handling of the nation’s credit crisis.” Odd indeed, for with daddy again running for president, Hunter Biden's influence peddling for mega sums of money, which Joe Biden was party to, is now being heralded by the same paper as the Biden's having done nothing wrong.

Now a few other revelations of note is that we saw not only a photo surfacing of Hunter and Joe Biden smiling sweetly with Kazakhstan’s former Prime Minister Karim Massimov and Kenes Rakishev, a relative and junior partner of oligarch Timur Kulibayev, a man regarded as one of the most influential investors and businessmen in Kazakhstan...but that this “cash-soaked but highly corrupt” country was a country that Hunter Biden was desperately trying to do business with.

Also, the FBI claimed in its subpoena, a subpoena signed by FBI Special Agent Joshua Wilson, that Hunter Biden's laptop and hard drive...both in their possession for now over a year...were but part of a bigger probe regarding a money laundering operation, now referred to as Case ID number: 272D-BA-3065729. But know the FBI is legally unable to open a case without “predication”...as in an offense that's part of a larger criminal offense or scheme...but that the FBI obviously did believe there was “predication” regarding criminal activity on the Biden's part being stored on the laptop and its hard drive otherwise they would not have subpoenaed it.

So now with but one week to go until Election Day, Joe Biden can no longer hide from a scandal of his and his son's own doing. And while the liberal media...social media included...continues to collude with the Democrats to silence the truth regarding Joe and Hunter's criminal activities, the fact remains that the Democrat candidate for president has rightfully seen his candidacy seriously compromised. And it's now up to AG Barr to make needed arrests...that is if he has the courage needed to do so. Case closed.

Copyright © 2020 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.  

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