How a circle of spies, Blinken covered up Biden scandals: Miranda Devines new book exclusive

Hunter Biden’s abandoned MacBook was a window into the Biden family business, a secret international influence peddling operation.New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, who exposed many of Hunter’s secrets in her book “Laptop from Hell,” returns with “The Big Guy,” the story of how the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, the IRS and the Department of Justice conspired to protect Joe Biden and his family.

Here, an exclusive first excerpt:With his floppy hair, European reserve, and bilingual fluency, Antony Blinken’s foreign affairs pedigree could not have been designed better to impress Joe Biden.He’d grown up a world away from Scranton, Pa.— in Paris, in East Hampton and in the tony River House co-op on New York’s Upper East Side, which his father, Donald Blinken, an investment banker-turned-ambassador to Hungary, once described as “a special island in the midst of Manhattan” inhabited by “people who are not as exposed to the vicissitudes.”At the École Jeannine Manuel in Paris, where the lonely 9-year-old moved in 1971, after his parents’ divorce, to live with his mother, Judith, and her new husband, Samuel Pisar, a former adviser to John F.

Kennedy, Blinken found a kindred spirit in Robert Malley, the son of an Egyptian journalist.He would later recruit his childhood friend to be the Obama administration’s lead negotiator on the ill-starred Iran nuclear deal, only to suffer the embarrassment of Malley being suspended without pay in 2023 during Biden’s presidency, the target of a mysterious FBI espionage investigation which continues to this day.Blinken’s career trajectory was rather more tranquil.After Harvard, and Columbia Law School, he transformed himself into the consummate Washington staffer, with a sideline as a guitarist in a rock band named Cash Bar Wedding.Joe Biden, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, identified the urbane young staffer early on as a “superstar” and a useful source of th...