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Unfortunately, Hunter's profile now remains without any images because no one has provided any online with the appropriate attribution licenses & details. I spent a considerable amount of time, yesterday, attempting to locate from Flickr, crop, convert to the correct format, and upload two images to Hunter's profile. Regrettably, they've been removed simply because they included a detail about "noncommercial use" in the Creative Commons, Generic, attribution license. I would like to request that someone please upload a good image of Hunter to Flickr, not only with the appropriate license, but all appropriate details, so that a face can be placed with a name. Daniellagreen (talk) 19:20, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
- Here you are: pro-Russian propaganda (youtube) in German - you can find some very nice and clear photos of him there:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m85wgNs3r8k (only for info, not as propaganda, please don´t remove!).
- It could be, perhaps, usefull for your/our purpouses here. (Sorry for my English, not beeing excellent, I know.)
- BR from Germany & Poland (I´m Silesian and love both countries - and Europe & the USA, and Ukraine too.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.114.37.119 (talk) 14:02, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
- Hello 46.114.37.119, I appreciate your offer and the link that you provided; it was very thoughtful of you! I wish, however, that I could use those photos, though there is no legal release and waiver of use associated with them. In fact, the photo in the YouTube video that shows Hunter with his father is a copyrighted photo in the US; I also located that one on Flickr.com, but could not use it because of copyright restrictions. Your English is excellent; I only know a few words of German. I visited Germany and toured Eastern and Western Europe and the British Isles many years ago - it was wonderful! God bless, Daniellagreen (talk) 16:12, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Current Activities (past start of 2014)
Under current activities, and in regards to the turmoil in the Ukraine with the overthrow of the elected president, why does the article not more clearly mention that Hunter Biden is among the boards of directors of Burisma Holdings? 84.112.136.52 (talk) 14:51, 3 June 2014 (UTC) This whole thing reads like it was authored by Biden's PR department. There's an editor here who sounds like they are on first-name terms with the subject. I'll make some changes. Sceptic1954 (talk) 08:57, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
Presidential Material Now
According to the news, Biden was discharged from the Navy for a positive urinalysis test. This, all the while allowing gays to openly practice their lifestyle while in uniform, and, at the same time, allowing women in combat positions.
There is no balance in the nation's military yet. The injustice that Biden was just publicly subjected to, the humiliation that his family now has, is intolerable and inhumane. And this after we had Bush, Jr., as a president. The shame isn't on Biden, it's on us as a nation.
I don't trust those military urinalysis tests, anyway.
He has my vote for president now. That is, if his father doesn't run on his own. Or, better yet, he can be his dad's VP. That's really where we are as a nation. This should be in the main article somewhere.--76.212.150.246 (talk) 03:34, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
Kolomoisky
Why was Igor Kolomoisky added out!? --79.223.0.15 (talk) 18:26, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
- Because... Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden had leveraged the Maidan coup and war in East Ukraine to strike lucrative oil fracking deals with Burisma in East Ukraine, along with a John Kerry family friend. The Limassol, Cyprus based energy firm Burisma Holdings, collected large energy contracts, with Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, closely tied to Burisma, which pushed for fracking exploration on land owned by East Ukrainian residents. Did we have "paid editors" whitewashing the article? --93.211.213.120 (talk) 12:52, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi, this is open for suggestions - arrangement of the internal refs needs some work (some don't perfectly match the statements), but section also needs to be tweaked to meet WP:BALANCE/WP:WELLKNOWN, so the more eyes on that the better. Thanks, Earflaps (talk) 16:48, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
- Original from a few months back/current
In May 2013, Biden was selected as a direct commission officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, a program that allows civilians with no prior service to receive a limited duty officer's commission[1][2] after attending a two-week class covering topics such as military history, etiquette, and drill and ceremony, in lieu of boot camp.[failed verification][2] As Biden was past the cut-off age for the program he needed a waiver. Biden received a second waiver because of a past drug-related incident.[3][4]
One month after commissioning, Biden tested positive for cocaine use and was discharged from the Navy reserve in February 2014.[5]
News of Biden's discharge was not made public and was not first reported until October 2014 when it was revealed to the Wall Street Journal by a Navy official who spoke to the newspaper on condition of anonymity.[5][6] In a statement released by his attorney, Biden later acknowledged his discharge.[7] A staff editorial in Biden's hometown newspaper, the News Journal, following the incident described the process by which Biden came to receive the various waivers that allowed him initial entry into the Navy as "soft corruption."[8]"Hunter Biden's special exceptions raise questions". The News Journal. October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 18, 2014.</ref>
- Earflaps' initial recommendation
In November 2012 it was reported that Biden was one of seven civilians recently selected to be a direct commission officer (DCO) in the U.S. Naval Reserve. The program allows civilians without prior service to receive a limited duty officer's commission[2] after attending a two-week class on military topics in lieu of boot camp.[failed verification][1] Biden was past the cut-off age of 42 and was granted a waiver,[2] which the Navy Times described as "not uncommon."[1] It was later reported that Biden received a second waiver for a drug-related incident when younger. The South China Morning Post wrote that "officials say [the waiver] is not uncommon."[5] However, a staff op-ed in the News Journal of Wilmington opined that "Biden may have applied for his exceptions as an average American," but that the selection committee had an element of "soft corruption," in that Navy careerists would still "[see Biden] as the vice president's son, whether he told them or not."[8]
He was discharged in February 2014.[5] The discharge was not made public until a Wall Street Journal article in October 2014,[3] which quoted an anonymous source stating Biden had tested positive for cocaine in June 2013, and had been discharged accordingly.[clarification needed][4][6] The Navy confirmed Biden's discharge but not the details or reasons.[6] Biden acknowledged his discharge as well,[7] writing that it had been "the honor of my life to serve in the U.S. Navy, and I deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge. I respect the Navy's decision. With the love and support of my family, I'm moving forward."[9]
- Version being worked on (contribute edits or comments)
In November 2012 it was reported that Biden was one of seven civilians recently selected to be a direct commission officer (DCO) in the U.S. Naval Reserve. The program allows civilians without prior service to receive a limited duty officer's commission[2] after attending a two-week class on military topics in lieu of boot camp.[failed verification][1] Biden was past the cut-off age of 42 and was granted a waiver,[2] and also received a second waiver for a drug-related incident when younger. Though the South China Morning Post wrote that "officials say [the waiver] is not uncommon,"[5] a staff editorial in Biden's hometown newspaper, the News Journal, described the Navy's process through which Biden received the waivers as "soft corruption."[8] He was discharged in February 2014.[5] The discharge was first made public in a Wall Street Journal article in October 2014,[3] which quoted an anonymous source stating Biden had tested positive for cocaine in June 2013, and had been discharged accordingly.[clarification needed][4][6] The Navy confirmed Biden's discharge but not the details or reasons,[6] and Biden acknowledged his discharge as well,[7] writing that it had been "I deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge. I respect the Navy's decision. With the love and support of my family, I'm moving forward."[9]
References for all three sections
- ^ a b c d Baldor, Lolita C. (November 9, 2012). "VP Biden's son joins Navy Reserve". Navy Times. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f "Hunter Biden, VP Biden's son, to be commissioned in Navy Reserves". NBC News. November 9, 2012. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
- ^ a b c Cooper, Helene (October 17, 2014). "Biden's Son 'Embarrassed' Over Navy Ouster". New York Times. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
- ^ a b c Barnes, Julian (October 17, 2014). "Biden's Son Hunter Discharged From Navy Reserve After Failing Cocaine Test". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f "US Navy expelled Vice-President Biden's son after positive cocaine test". South China Morning Post. October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Shalal, Andrea (October 16, 2014). "Biden's son discharged from U.S. Navy reserve after drug test: sources". Reuters. Retrieved 2015-05-15.
- ^ a b c Bradner, Erin (October 16, 2014). "Biden's son discharged from Navy after testing positive for cocaine". CNN. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
specialexceptions
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Peligri, Justin (October 17, 2014). "Who is Hunter Biden?". CNN. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
Source evaluation
Hunter Biden released a statement to ABC News denying claims he had an Ashley Madison account. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hunter-biden-denies-ashley-madison-account-belongs/story?id=33301506 The news article then links to a screenshot, attributed to Breitbart.com and subsequently reprinted by Gawker.com, that shows Biden's first and last name, email address, and birthday (the birth year was off 10 years). The screenshot shows a GPS location and credit card zip code appear near his DC home. 184.180.121.142 (talk) 16:22, 26 August 2015 (UTC) notloggedin
- The ABC news article is a reliable source, the screenshot itself is not (neither are Briebart or Gawker, at least on a matter like this). How do you propose that it be used in the article? Fyddlestix (talk) 16:28, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
- The following report appears to be neutral and accurate analysis of available information. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/27/exclusive-hunter-biden-ashley-madison-account-created-at-college-he-taught-at/68.100.42.108 (talk) 04:38, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
- Generally speaking, Breitbart isn't considered a reliable source for any controversial statements of fact, especially when it comes to politicals-related stories. It certainly isn't considered a "neutral" one. (Neutrality isn't required from sources, of course, but when a source has a clear bias, we need to make it clear who's saying whatever rather than just putting it up as objective fact; and we have to take the bias of sources into account when considering relative due weight.) --Aquillion (talk) 06:36, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
- Just write-up a broad background on the incident--which CNN, People, and Washington Times is now covering--and list Hunter Biden's excuses (hackers, Russians, etc) and Breitbart's findings (IP addresses, credit card codes, etc)- give the segment all the angles and let the reader decide. Pounamuknight (talk) 13:50, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- I would object to adding this content, unless a reliable source determines that the profile was actually created by the subject of this article. Breitbart is not a reliable source. - MrX 13:56, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- Opinions on the credibilty of Breitbart's story or believablity of Hunter Biden's excuse should not get in the way of documenting this in a responsible neutral manner. It hasn't stopped Washington Times or CNN. Pounamuknight (talk) 16:37, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- See WP:BLPSOURCES. Washington Times is also a poor source, and CNN is not great. I'm my view, we would need to see at least three iron-clad sources that discuss this in some detail before we would be justified adding the material to this article.- MrX 16:53, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- Like all entries, I understand WP:BLPSOURCES. Agreed, we are should be discussiing this in detail. This isn't a gossip piece, the Ashley Madison hack is a large story and the Vice President's son's entanglement is of obvious importance. It has been widely covered by the BBC, ABC, NBC, CNN, Fox News, Yahoo News, The Hill, New York Daily News, People magazine and Washington Times. Each news service has objectively presented Biden's public response while accurately counterbalancing with Breitbart's evidence. Pounamuknight (talk) 23:27, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- I just searched and most of the sources seem of poor quality, for example: Brietbart, RushLimbaugh.com, Daily Mail, Washington Times, and New York Daily News. Based on the sparse high-quality sources, I don't think that we should include this material at this time. - MrX 00:13, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- By my reading, even those sources generally aren't asserting that he actually used it, only that there was an account by someone who used his name and details. Without a reliable source explicitly accusing him, I tend to agree that including it would be a violation of WP:BLP (and including a lot of details to try and encourage the reader to conclude that he used it when no reliable sources are saying it would be WP:SYNTH on top of that.) It's a serious accusation against someone who falls under BLP, so to include it (even implicitly) we'd need to be able to source it explicitly to a high-quality reliable source. --Aquillion (talk) 00:52, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- Neither do solid reliable news sites BBC, ABC, NBC, CNN, Fox News, Yahoo News, The Hill, New York Daily News, and People magazine accuse Hunter Biden. And neither is that the point of detailing this incident. His profile was found in one of the internets biggest and most controversial hacked commercial website dumps. Hunter Biden denies it is him. CNN and ABC report that maybe the case as the ashleymadison profile birth date is ten years younger than Hunter Biden's. NBC report that the names differ as well. Conservative news and opinion website Breitbart claim the IP address & credit card details align. However Mr Biden states he does not use the registered email anymore and that the dating site do not confirm email addresses. BBC confirm this and remind that Biden was the victim of an identity theft in a fake business in 2014. Pounamuknight (talk) 07:03, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- By my reading, even those sources generally aren't asserting that he actually used it, only that there was an account by someone who used his name and details. Without a reliable source explicitly accusing him, I tend to agree that including it would be a violation of WP:BLP (and including a lot of details to try and encourage the reader to conclude that he used it when no reliable sources are saying it would be WP:SYNTH on top of that.) It's a serious accusation against someone who falls under BLP, so to include it (even implicitly) we'd need to be able to source it explicitly to a high-quality reliable source. --Aquillion (talk) 00:52, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- I just searched and most of the sources seem of poor quality, for example: Brietbart, RushLimbaugh.com, Daily Mail, Washington Times, and New York Daily News. Based on the sparse high-quality sources, I don't think that we should include this material at this time. - MrX 00:13, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
- Like all entries, I understand WP:BLPSOURCES. Agreed, we are should be discussiing this in detail. This isn't a gossip piece, the Ashley Madison hack is a large story and the Vice President's son's entanglement is of obvious importance. It has been widely covered by the BBC, ABC, NBC, CNN, Fox News, Yahoo News, The Hill, New York Daily News, People magazine and Washington Times. Each news service has objectively presented Biden's public response while accurately counterbalancing with Breitbart's evidence. Pounamuknight (talk) 23:27, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- See WP:BLPSOURCES. Washington Times is also a poor source, and CNN is not great. I'm my view, we would need to see at least three iron-clad sources that discuss this in some detail before we would be justified adding the material to this article.- MrX 16:53, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- Opinions on the credibilty of Breitbart's story or believablity of Hunter Biden's excuse should not get in the way of documenting this in a responsible neutral manner. It hasn't stopped Washington Times or CNN. Pounamuknight (talk) 16:37, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- I would object to adding this content, unless a reliable source determines that the profile was actually created by the subject of this article. Breitbart is not a reliable source. - MrX 13:56, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- Just write-up a broad background on the incident--which CNN, People, and Washington Times is now covering--and list Hunter Biden's excuses (hackers, Russians, etc) and Breitbart's findings (IP addresses, credit card codes, etc)- give the segment all the angles and let the reader decide. Pounamuknight (talk) 13:50, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
- Generally speaking, Breitbart isn't considered a reliable source for any controversial statements of fact, especially when it comes to politicals-related stories. It certainly isn't considered a "neutral" one. (Neutrality isn't required from sources, of course, but when a source has a clear bias, we need to make it clear who's saying whatever rather than just putting it up as objective fact; and we have to take the bias of sources into account when considering relative due weight.) --Aquillion (talk) 06:36, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
- The following report appears to be neutral and accurate analysis of available information. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/27/exclusive-hunter-biden-ashley-madison-account-created-at-college-he-taught-at/68.100.42.108 (talk) 04:38, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
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Viktor Shokin (former Prosecutor General in Ukraine) was fired by Joe Biden
Joe Biden meddled with Ukraine legal proceedings. Got gov't attorney fired for investigating his son/Burisma. 1, 2, [1] → "... financial records showing just how much Hunter Biden’s and Archer’s company received from Burisma while Joe Biden acted as Obama’s point man on Ukraine. Between April 2014 and October 2015, more than $3 million was paid out of Burisma accounts to an account linked to Biden’s and Archer’s Rosemont Seneca firm, according to the financial records placed in a federal court file in Manhattan in an unrelated case against Archer." --93.211.213.120 (talk) 12:03, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
- This is a textbook example of what US foreign policy pundits like to call kleptocracy? Or does that term only apply to officials and oligarchs from countries the US has targeted for regime change? The Bidens are entangled in a Ukrainian corruption scandal: Joe Biden pushed Ukraine to fire a prosecutor seen as corrupt. BUT the prosecutor had opened a case into a company that was paying Hunter Biden. The Bidens say they never discussed it. Hunter Biden's partners recruited firms to diffuse Ukrainian investigations into an oligarch whose company was paying Hunter Biden $50k/month. The cases were closed in 2017, but 2019 they've been reopened. For 5 years, Hunter Biden was on the board of BURISMA, a gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch accused of enriching himself using his position in the Russia-aligned YANUKOVYCH gov't. Hunter Biden stepped down last month, as his dad was preparing to run for president.
- Biden Faces Conflict of Interest Questions That Are Being Promoted by Trump and Allies
- Hunter Biden’s Work in Ukraine Emerges as a Potential 2020 Scandal, --87.170.197.22 (talk) 22:51, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- FYI, Joe Biden says they never discussed it. Hunter says they did. Media is not investigating.https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/21/biden-discuss-hunter-biden-ukraine-deal/. CsikosLo (talk) 14:51, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
Source on ukraine
Would the michael savage source be acceptable?
There was a government official who was commenting on this, but i forgot his name.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.209.197.234 (talk) 08:46, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
sept 2019 trump scandal news
I looked at this article after seeing the CNN Guiliani interview to try and find what substance there was to claims he seemed to be making. I found the section on Burisma to have a very confusing outlook. I tried to clean it up to read better and added a few more links to news. However my Internet connection was buggy and for one edit I deleted the whole article then had to revert to fix it. I tried to put everything back together but I ran out of time and may have missed some small detail. Also, I'm not sure if this news should be here or in other articles about Burisma, Trump, Guiliani, 2020 campaign... I suspect there is a lot of duplication and someone could clarify a lot by connecting all those properly. Also it would do to have someone with expertise weight in, I personally am just a reader of the news so have no expertise. Anyway, apologies if there are more mistakes I missed. Thanks for helping, everyone! Rusl (talk) 02:46, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
- That's why the External link to the May 2019 New York Times piece is there. It contains an even-handed description of what happened and how an appearance of a conflict of interest is not a good idea even if nothing untoward actually happened. Even Fox News refers to it as a reasonable account. 68.199.42.57 (talk) 00:47, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
Personal life
Numerous details regarding Hunter's personal life are being repeatedly deleted from this page due to their so-called "tabloid" character (most recently by user Gandydancer. This includes his struggles with addition (which he has discussed publicly), as well as the fact that he dated his deceased brother's widow, only to then elope with Melissa Coehn. Given his position as a central figure in current news stories, as well his father's presidential campaign, removing any mention of these events -- including objective, non-salacious accounts -- provides a myopic and, in effect, inaccurate picture of Hunter's personal life. Indeed, given the fact that Joe Biden himself regularly includes highly emotionally-charged details of his family's history as a part of his presidential campaign's stump speech, it seems odd to provide a whitewashed version of this history here. Gagaboatly (talk) 21:29, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Gagaboatly. I guess your intention here was to write "addiction" rather than "addition". Am I right?
- BTW, I came here because I didn't find anything in the article about his public confession regarding his struggle with addiction. And I find this weird.
- I read about this issue in a German paper and I wanted more information. Meanwhile I have found some information in the MSM:
- The New Yorker: Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?, newyorker.com
- CNN: "In an extensive and deeply personal interview with The New Yorker, Hunter Biden, 49, details his abuse of alcohol and drugs, which included first using cocaine while in college at Georgetown. [...] In 2014, he was discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine." Hunter Biden opens up about struggle with addiction in new interview, cnn.com
- WaPo: Hunter Biden: Joe Biden's son shares his addiction struggles ... , washingtonpost.com
- Joe Biden praises son struggling with addiction and mental ... , washingtonpost.com
- The News Journal: "Hunter Biden is finally speaking out — and he's not shying away from this past. In a deeply personal article published July 1, Joe Biden's son spoke to Adam Entous of The New Yorker about his struggles with addiction, his relationship with his brother Beau's wife, Hallie, and his business deals that have sparked controversy and ethical questions." Hunter Biden talks about his addiction, 'I was in that darkness' , delawareonline.com
- So there is no doubt that this issue has been widely discussed in MSM this summer and I don't understand why it was edited out of this Wikipedia article. 2003:CF:3F0E:9D3C:FC8A:7737:C24F:CF9F (talk) 08:46, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
- That's why the External link to the July 2019 New Yorker piece is there. Much of it is based on Hunter Biden's own statements about his struggles. Even Fox News has referenced the piece favorably. 68.199.42.57 (talk) 00:49, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
- I don't think the purpose of External links is to remove reliably-sourced information that was previously part the article and hide it in a link. Specifically, WP:EL states such links are for material that "cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article" or might "fail to meet criteria for reliable sources yet still contain information about the subject of the article". The New Yorker information and that from the other reliable sources listed above seem worth including. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 06:21, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
- Biden's alcohol and illegal drug use is widely reported in reliable sources such as The New Yorker. It should be included. 84percent (talk) 05:55, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
BHR Partners & Burisma Holdings
Here's my suggestion for how to improve the article.[2]
BHR Partners teamed up with its strategic partner, China's AVIC Auto, in acquiring U.S. automotive supplier Henniges, through a joint venture structure.[1] In August 2019, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has called on the Treasury Department to investigate CFIUS's 2015 approval of AVIC's acquisition of Henniges.[2][3][4]
Hunter Biden's company Rosemont Seneca received $3.4 million from Burisma Holdings.[5][6]
Hunter Biden’s ties to Burisma Holdings was criticized as a conflict of interest in a New York Times editorial.[7][6] The White House dismissed nepotism accusations against Hunter Biden.[8][9]
References
- ^ "BHR and AVIC Auto Acquire Henniges Automotive". PR Newswire. September 15, 2019.
- ^ "Grassley, invoking 'Uranium One,' probes Biden-linked sale of sensitive tech company to China". Fox News. August 15, 2019.
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User:SPECIFICO obviously disagrees.[3] SPECIFICO's edit summary: "rv poorly sourced UNDUE SYNTH insinuation and BLP smear." -- Tobby72 (talk) 13:18, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
- SPECIFICO is right. In addition to violating WP:SYNTH and WP:UNDUE, this material also violates WP:NPOV by not mentioning how, for example, the New York Times looked into allegations of Hunter Biden's shady dealings with China and found them groundless, and the Washington Post fact-checkers deemed them "more like smoke than fire" [4][5]. XOR'easter (talk) 15:48, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
Bohai Harvest
There is reliably sourced text (Wall Street Journal) that is continuously being removed from this section. Please seek consensus here for removing it. Circulair (talk) 21:42, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
- The consensus has already been established that it does not belong. XOR'easter (talk) 21:46, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) I have just blocked the above user for violating WP:1RR restrictions on this article. XOR'easter removed it earlier today with the edit summary:
"Peter Schweizer is not a reliable source".
I agree. I cannot remove it again or I violate 1RR. – Muboshgu (talk) 21:48, 25 September 2019 (UTC)