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For years the establishment media and the Democratic campaign apparatus have operated like a single machine — and in 2019 one of the few mainstream reporters who dared to follow the Hunter Biden trail was Ken Vogel. When Vogel’s reporting raised real questions about Hunter’s role with Burisma and potential conflicts tied to Joe Biden’s Ukraine pressure, the Biden campaign didn’t politely rebut — they launched an organized attack to discredit the messenger.
Vogel’s reporting in the spring of 2019 — published in major outlets and picked up across Washington — documented how Hunter Biden’s lucrative placement on a Ukrainian energy company’s board overlapped with U.S. pressure on Kyiv and invited legitimate conflict-of-interest questions. Rather than engage those facts, the Biden team and allied outlets focused on smearing the coverage as fringe or politically motivated. Conservative Americans watching saw something else: the familiar playbook of power protecting itself.
The reaction from the left was predictable and revealing. Campaign fact-check memos, public shaming of reporters, and strategic smears were used to blunt coverage instead of answering straightforward questions about influence and foreign money. That coordinated response — documented in contemporaneous reporting — is not the behavior of confident innocence but of a political operation desperate to bury inconvenient truths.
Ken Vogel hasn’t retreated; he’s doubled down, spending years digging into the murky world of foreign pay-for-play in Washington and assembling the kind of reporting our country sorely needs. His new book, Devils’ Advocates, promises a deep look at how foreign interests have bought access and influence in both parties, and it’s being released in October 2025 — exactly the kind of work that should make every patriotic American uneasy about who’s running our foreign policy.
Even some mainstream outlets acknowledged that Vogel’s coverage exposed a “significant liability” for the Biden campaign back in 2019, a phrase that should make voters wonder why the story was met with ad hominem attacks rather than thorough, public answers. When reporters who uncover potential corruption are treated as enemies by a campaign instead of being met with transparency, that tells you everything about where priorities lie in Washington.
We owe hardworking Americans straight talk: corruption and conflicts of interest don’t vanish because they are politically inconvenient. The media and political class must be forced to answer, and conservative citizens should keep the pressure on until every question is answered and every corrupt influence is exposed. Our republic depends on citizens who refuse to look away.
