The Biden Betrayal

        America runs on critical minerals, rare earths, lithium, cobalt, graphite… Dozens of exotic metals pulled from the Earth in microscopic quantities, and yet they power everything. They’re in fighter jets, electric vehicles, smartphones, satellites… yet in 2025, America produces almost none of them. Meanwhile, China dominates 70–90% of global processing and refining capacity for the minerals our economy and military can’t function without… and they’ve weaponized it. Beijing has already used its grip to throttle gallium, germanium, and rare earths, directly targeting American defense contractors. So how did we let this happen? Who watched it unfold? Who got rich while we lost control? Let’s stop pretending this was an accident… and just start following the money.

      It started, like most disasters do, with good intentions and terrible consequences. In the early 2000s, China was welcomed into the World Trade Organization (WTO), the global trade club that promised “free and fair” markets. What the U.S. got instead was an economic ambush. China flooded the world with cheap, state-subsidized exports, including rare earths. American mines couldn’t compete with the artificially low prices. They didn’t just lose… they were bankrupted. And what did the U.S. do? Nothing. No tariffs. No protections. Not even a warning shot. The WTO looked the other way because technically, China was following the rules, even as they strategically gutted our supply chain from within. So when someone says, “WTO accession let China kill U.S. mining,” it’s not hyperbole. It’s history.

      But the real betrayal came after. From 2001 to 2021, U.S. trade policy wasn’t just naive, it was a slow-motion act of surrender. While the American public was sold a dream of clean energy and global cooperation, insiders were quietly brokering our industrial extinction. The architects? Well, that’s a long list. Let’s start with Ambassador Katherine Tai, one of Biden’s key trade advisors. Under her watch, the U.S. pursued “clean energy cooperation” with China, dressing up the collapse of American industry in the language of climate diplomacy. We didn’t compete. We complied. We didn’t protect. We partnered. As permits stalled here at home. Deals flowed abroad. And while American miners sat in regulatory limbo, our “leaders” stood at podiums preaching carbon virtue, while knowing exactly who they were enriching. “Clean energy cooperation” wasn’t cooperation. It was collusion. We traded cheap and green for strong and sovereign… and now we’re paying the price. China doesn’t just lead. They own. The refineries. The factories. The future. And the most twisted part? They never had to take it. We gave it to them.

        So, who profited while America got stripped bare? Well, that question introduces the tortured artist himself, Hunter Biden. In 2017, while American miners begged for permits and our supply chains crumbled, Hunter quietly acquired a 10% stake in BHR Partners, a China-backed investment firm seeded entirely by Chinese state-owned money. That same year, BHR used $1.14 billion in Chinese capital to purchase a 24% stake in the Tenke Fungurume cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (one of the richest cobalt deposits on Earth). By 2019, BHR had flipped the stake to China Molybdenum, giving Beijing 80% control of the mine, and locking in dominance over a mineral essential for EVs, missiles, and fighter jets. Hunter’s 10% stake in BHR meant that if the firm profited, so did he… indirectly, quietly, and off the books of American accountability. No headlines. No investigations. No consequences. Just another family name profiting from the slow bleed of American power.

        But Hunter wasn’t the only one cashing in while America slipped into dependence. Next up? John Podesta, a longtime Democratic powerbroker and the Biden administration’s so-called “clean energy czar”. While he preached climate equity and sustainability from the White House, Podesta quietly sat on the board of the ClimateWorks Foundation, an organization that has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into global energy and carbon projects, many of which are allegedly deeply entangled with foreign supply chains dominated by China. Under the guise of philanthropy and planetary progress, Podesta’s influence helped channel U.S. capital away from domestic development and into overseas ventures that built up the very competitors now holding us hostage. It wasn’t sabotage with a sledgehammer. It was sabotage with a grant application. And while American processors withered under permitting delays, foreign-controlled clean tech projects flourished… with Washington’s blessing.

       And then there’s Jennifer Granholm, Biden’s Secretary of Energy and the face of America’s so-called “green industrial revolution.” (Are we seeing a pattern?) While she stood at press podiums preaching equity and innovation, Granholm held stock options in Proterra, an electric bus company entangled in overseas supply chains for critical minerals. And while she was holding those options? The Department of Energy, her own department, awarded Proterra-connected ventures hundreds of millions of dollars in federal green subsidies. It was the perfect Washington circle: Subsidize the market, spike the valuation, and cash in on the story you helped write. And when Proterra collapsed into bankruptcy in 2023? No accountability. No hearings. No headlines. Just another failed “green bet” paid for by taxpayers, tied to foreign supply lines, and propped up by the people claiming to lead the charge for energy independence.

        They didn’t do it by mistake. They did it for money. For stock options. For board seats. For clout at climate conferences and cocktail parties in Davos. They sold out the country that gave them everything, in exchange for quiet partnerships, clean PR, and a slice of the globalist dream. They knew what they were doing. They saw the flags on the contracts. They saw the minerals leave our soil and didn’t flinch. Because it was never about building a future for America. It was about building fortunes for themselves.

        But here’s what they didn’t count on: We’re still here. And we’re done being polite. Make America Mineral Independent Again isn’t a slogan… It’s a reckoning. We are the voice they can’t buy off, the story they can’t bury, and the movement they can’t cancel. We will call out the lies. We will name the names. We will dig until the truth is louder than their money. This is the line in the sand. We won’t be silenced. We won’t be sold. And we damn sure won’t let them sell what’s left of this country without a fight. It’s time to follow the money. Expose the deals. Reclaim the minerals. And Make America Mineral Independent Again.