Marco Rubio: Biden’s Business Dealings Leaves the White House Open to Blackmail

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and Vice Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence joined the Guy Benson Show to discuss China’s recent threats against the United States. Later, Rubio and Benson discuss the new Biden family scandal details and testimony.

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Guy Benson: With us now is U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. He’s the vice chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence and a member of the Foreign Relations Committee as well. Senator, welcome back to the show.

Marco Rubio: Thanks for having me back.

Guy Benson: So I understand that you have led an effort to try to resist the Biden administration and a move that they’re making on Chinese electric vehicle companies. Tell us about this.

Marco Rubio: Well, we passed this bill right away. I didn’t vote for it, but we passed this bill where all this money is out there to push this electric car situation and get more people to buy it. But it turns out you really can’t make them buy them without at least component critical components coming from China. So, in essence, what you’re saying is American taxpayer dollars are going to flow to these companies. That’s what we need to prevent that from happening. Why would we be passing a law to incentivize American dollars being spent to build up and give the Chinese a bigger advantage in the field, which of course, they’ll then use to not just simply expand those businesses and command, you know, global dominance, but they’ll also use whatever development they get from those new investments to to help the military, everything there. It’s not like here where some private American company innovate some product and then the military wants to use it. You’ve got to pay them forward and all that nonsense, right? I mean, in China, anything they develop for civilian use is going to be transferred to the military and vice versa. I mean, it’s all fuzed together. There is no separation there. So it just makes absolutely no sense to pass a law that incentivizes American investment in American dollars flowing to helping China build another in which they will dominate production, and in this case, innovation.

Guy Benson: Senator, on that same front with China, we’ve seen a number of stories popping up just recently. I saw a few people noting on social media within the last year. Plus we’ve got these secret Chinese police stations that have been discovered in New York City and elsewhere, used to track down and intimidate Chinese nationals and dissidents, basically blackmailing people who are saying, you know, we’re going to hurt your family back home unless you reduce your criticism and that sort of thing. There was this CCP funded class material that has cropped up in certain K-through-12 schools. And then I’m not sure if you saw the story of this illegal laboratory that was found in California, research on a bunch of diseases, including HIV and other deadly diseases, they were doing totally off the books, experimentation on animals and that kind of thing. Links to the CCP there. It just feels like the Chinese Communist Party and various elements of their global reach. They’re getting more aggressive and more open about it, even within our own borders.

Marco Rubio: Yeah. I mean, it extends everywhere. I mean, in Hollywood, you can’t get a movie made today by a major… You can’t get a movie. Makers are on strike, but you can’t make a major movie in Hollywood today without it basically having to take into account what the Chinese censors are going to say about the movie because of the going to be distributed in China. The producers don’t want to produce this sort of censor content for that purpose. So it’s reached everywhere here. The bottom line is this They are able they have an all of the above strategy, all hands on deck, a 50 year, 30 year and 20 year plan. And it’s taking advantage of our open. And then we have in our country a bunch of people in charge of important things who aren’t all that patriotic or don’t really look out for America on these things, but more importantly are looking for the money they can make off of it. And so in their mind, they’re not even thinking this is bad for America, good for America, this is how much money can I make on it? And we had a vote last week, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan, which is basically the 401K for all federal workers, is investing money in Chinese companies, in the Chinese stock market, including Chinese companies that are innovating weapons for the military. I tried to put a stop to it and it got voted down. Almost every Democrat voted against it got voted down. So it’s easy to talk tough on China like a lot of people tried to do. But when the moment of truth comes, the people that are making money off of these investments, off of these things in the states, you’ve decided to couple the school districts who got this free material paid for by somebody. They all stand up and fight against it. And the Chinese have played our system against the state. They have used capitalism and have used the openness of our society against it. And we still don’t have enough serious people in government who want to do anything about it.

Guy Benson: Well, there are questions about the Biden family connections in China. We recall we mentioned it on this program. Joe Biden on the presidential debate stage in 2020 against Donald Trump, said that his son Hunter had not made any money from China. In fact, is the only person who made money from China is you this guy pointing over at Trump. Hunter Biden admitted in open court last week that, yes, of course, he did make money from China. He admitted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. There’s millions that have been discussed flowing into various Biden bank accounts from Chinese companies. Whether you think that is direct evidence that Joe Biden is compromised or whatever by China, he clearly lied on the debate stage. He said he never talked to his son about any business deals at all. We know that’s not true. But the one thing he could say, despite knowing nothing based on a previous lie, was that he wasn’t making money. Hunter wasn’t in China. We know now for sure that he was making money in China. It just seems like a lot of this stuff is building. Senator, there have been developments this week, the Devin Archer testimony. I’m not sure how closely you’re following that over on the House side, but what’s your reaction to some of these new twists and turns in the Biden controversy?

Marco Rubio: Well, I think common sense tells you that somebody like Hunter Biden would not make 1/10 the money he made had his last name not been Biden. So the first question is, was the vice president at the time now president in on it? Was he helping him to make this money? And if he was and he’s obviously misled the American people and potentially even traded on the vice president for policy changes. But here’s the other piece that people have to understand. So let’s suppose Hunter or even Joe Biden was involved at some level and making all that money from China when he was vice president, when he was out of office and he’s now said something inconsistent, you know, who would know that? The Chinese will know that they will know they will have emails. They will have all the evidence of that happened. Now, imagine them holding that over the head of a U.S. president saying, look, this is the kind of stuff we’re going to release and make sure it gets out there. If you don’t do what we want you to do on public policy, we want you to do. Yeah, I mean, just extortion, blackmail and that that is. Would you open yourself up to. Now, look, all these things require evidence of proof. And obviously, I think the house is doing an excellent job, but it’s not easy. You have to understand that that everybody involved in this site, including the national media, has tried everything possible to ignore this story only last week that they begin to have to report on it, because in open court, that whole plea deal fell apart. Right. But the House has been the one that’s slowly but surely has been putting these things out there in the public domain. You start getting individual pieces. And then I think the third question here, apart from the blackmail, apart from the potential undue influence and the like, is there are two systems of government, like how did our law enforcement agencies handle these accusations that they handle in the way they’ve done with the Trump stuff or any other stuff, or they handled it differently because you can’t have a two tier system, just one for Democrats and one for Republicans. So that’s another question that needs to be answered. Those are the three things that really matter here. And I think there’s more attention being paid to it because the evidence started to mount and the information started to mount. It’s hard to ignore it. But but, you know, we’ll see where it leads.

Guy Benson: Yeah, I’m with you on the questions and the ratcheting up of these questions based on the new evidence that we’re learning. On that last question that you asked, is there a two tier system of justice? I think in the minds of many Americans, that question has been answered, whether it’s looking at the lack of charges for Hillary Clinton, the unbelievable deal, even worse than we thought that they were going to strike until it got blown up at the last minute by a judge. For Hunter Biden between this collusion with the prosecutors in the defense, a very eye opening. So, of course, we’re watching that closely here. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, our guest on the Guy Benson Show. A lot to get to. Senator, we always enjoy your time. We’ll talk again soon, we hope.

Marco Rubio: I look forward to it. Thank you for having me on.

Guy Benson: You bet.