Fire Hydrant of Freedom
Politics, Religion, Science, Culture and Humanities => Politics & Religion => Topic started by: Crafty_Dog on September 24, 2019, 04:16:51 PM
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Looks like this brouhaha is going to need its own thread:
Kicking it off with this:
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/435906-us-embassy-pressed-ukraine-to-drop-probe-of-george-soros-group-during-2016?fbclid=IwAR2xK-eZfB_e7F7bne0B4LIiS0FK08mmM_30oXDTfITuvY_wvvp1clJf6D0
Feel free to repaste relevant articles from other threads.
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https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/the-troubling-reason-why-biden-is-so-soft-on-china/?fbclid=IwAR3jqZDqCmQiWXB9J_w2BGXmwvXWVsTU8bH8fIJFWh8pjHNotJleZOZ0BZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0VGXy_AJjs&fbclid=IwAR0yQ5WogL1VEx-sDLYcGA7WQRxe-en_M1wrrrr5hoGxMVkR6_qakxVeVl8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo3LpGOFIAY&fbclid=IwAR0AIGTMgE8PpogbNbIwjgtjJCrHIM8qVTIEXnUCMcHr9JpAi6_3gyKL5PU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH_sdTC7Anw&fbclid=IwAR0MxMpQrqmxl3tv47PvZxSnhAYrBQBYHpu_4O8r31w1Ca-r07J2hVMRevA
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From the Biden thread:
I am missing the point of why he is openly talking about this. Did he do nothing wrong? Same people that dismiss this are worried about Trump's "emoluments".
In his own words at the Council of Foreign Affairs:
[But had not talked with his son about business in Ukraine - in the year his other son died]
Foreign Affairs Issue Launch with Former Vice President Joe Biden
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden
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"And so I got Ukraine. And I remember going over, convincing our team, our leaders to—convincing that we should be providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor. And they didn’t.
So they said they had—they were walking out to a press conference. I said, nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The president said—I said, call him. (Laughter.) I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."
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More here at the Hill, April 1, 2019
Joe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived
BY JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 04/01/19
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived
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Levin on Biden
if anyone wants a pep talk:
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/levin-theres-not-single-democrat-whos-interested-hunter-bidens-suspicious-business-history/
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https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/435906-us-embassy-pressed-ukraine-to-drop-probe-of-george-soros-group-during-2016?fbclid=IwAR2fz4EhzkPRdbxQQ39L711l8Mtgq_DFScvbJmBsIdZnTSaZfOMJqB8Of-M
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cocaine-laced-cigarettes-crack-and-vodka-binges-hunter-biden-details-his-drug-and-alcohol-abuse
Fear and loathing.
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Is it merely a coincidence that Taco Bell recently introduced a new cheesy chalupa and another episode in the Obama administration's policy in favor of one Ukraine political faction has emerged under the pretext of a whistleblower complaint to the DNI?
The Russia collusion hoax began as a Ukrainian-influence operation inside the DNC by Andrea Chalupa. She worked for and supported an anti-Russia faction in Ukraine. When Manafort joined the Trump campaign in early 2016, Chalupa and the DNC began the earliest versions of the Russia story because she and her Ukraine faction feared that Manafort would steer Trump to support Russia in its disputes with Ukraine.
But there is a third faction inside Ukraine that is anti-Russia and anti-corruption. That faction elected the new president of Ukraine. Chalupa was supporting an anti-Russia faction that was likely corrupt.
Now that the original Russia hoax diversion has been proven false, the alignment between the corrupt Ukraine faction and many Obama administration members along with Biden's son could come to light because the current Ukraine president has authorized an investigation into this type of corruption. Hence, the need for certain partisan members of the intelligence bureaucracy to try and parry this threat until after the 2020 election.
This time, they chose not to leak transcripts of the phone call. Instead, they abused the whistleblower statute and reg's inside DNI in order to provide cover for the identity of the whistleblower and the leaker. Then, they leaked to Schiff the existence of the questionable whistleblower complaint.
It is also no coincidence that this occurred at the same time that Trump was at the UN and Iran's Rouhani will speak at the UN. Because that deal also could be argued to be corrupt.
There are some bad people working inside the bureaucracy. And they are tarnishing the reputations of the many workers there who do their jobs properly.
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Hi Rick
thanks for update
please keep it up as more information comes out.
anyone think whistleblower wears a maga hat at home? :wink:
ps
ate a cholidil or something like that at Taco Bell yesterday. I don't know what is so great about Chipotle . TB is better and more reasonable in price
then those crummy bowels or salads or burritos you get at chipotle
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH_sdTC7Anw&fbclid=IwAR0MxMpQrqmxl3tv47PvZxSnhAYrBQBYHpu_4O8r31w1Ca-r07J2hVMRevA
Hunter Biden was brought onto the Ukraine natural gas company board (at US$50,000 per month) "that was facing corruption charges to help with it's transparency and corporate responsibility."
Looks more like using international corruption to get out of domestic corruption charges.
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Rush pointed this out that the establishment Dems are now going to "take out " dentured - plugged - red eyed - botoxed - cognitively impaired -man . (besides they know he is a loser anyway )
what Rush didn't say as to why surprised me:
It is also to clear the field so they can focus attention solely on the alleged trump corruption .
can't keep pushing the Trump Ukraine angle with Biden's obvious corruption being the elephant in the room.
Just like the left went after a few token me too dems (only those that would not cost them any seats) to clear the field to go after Donald for his , ahem , indiscretions...........
I mean the MSM can only look the other way so long. The Left has to sweep their own dirt under the rug at some point.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo3LpGOFIAY&fbclid=IwAR0AIGTMgE8PpogbNbIwjgtjJCrHIM8qVTIEXnUCMcHr9JpAi6_3gyKL5PU
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/peter-schweizer-biden-familys-foreign-dealings-7-essential-facts
Peter Schweizer: Biden Ukraine dealings – 7 essential facts
Peter Schweizer and the Government Accountability Institute spent three years investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter and their dealings in the Ukraine and China. Below are some of the results of the investigation.
1. Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, joined the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma in April 2014, according to RSB bank records. Hunter Biden had little background in energy. Over a 16-month period, Burisma paid $3.1 million to a bank account associated with Hunter’s business.
2. Joe Biden led the Obama administration’s policy toward Ukraine when he served as vice president. Biden helped shape Ukraine’s energy and anti-corruption policies, issues that directly impact Burisma.
3. Burisma sought to capitalize Hunter Biden’s name and relationships. According to The New York Times, Hunter Biden helped assemble the company’s legal team, which consisted of American attorneys and consulting firms, including a former Obama Justice Department official.
4. Burisma is led by an oligarch named Mykola Zlochevsky. Zlochevsky served as ecology minister under pro-Russia former Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovich, leading to allegations that he used his office to benefit Burisma.
5. Burisma was under legal scrutiny. Shortly before Hunter Biden was appointed to Burisma’s board, British authorities froze $23 million of Zlochevsky’s assets as part of a corruption investigation. Ukraine opened its own probe later that year.
6. Financial records from Morgan Stanley show numerous lines of money going into the account of “Robert H. Biden.” The funds originated from oligarchs and anonymous LLCs in Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan and elsewhere.
7. In 2013, then-Vice President Biden and his son Hunter flew aboard Air Force Two to China. Ten days later, Hunter Biden’s firm scored a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China.
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********Peter Schweizer: Biden Ukraine dealings – 7 essential facts
Peter Schweizer and the Government Accountability Institute spent three years investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter and their dealings in the Ukraine and China. Below are some of the results of the investigation.
1. Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, joined the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma in April 2014, according to RSB bank records. Hunter Biden had little background in energy. Over a 16-month period, Burisma paid $3.1 million to a bank account associated with Hunter’s business.
2. Joe Biden led the Obama administration’s policy toward Ukraine when he served as vice president. Biden helped shape Ukraine’s energy and anti-corruption policies, issues that directly impact Burisma.
3. Burisma sought to capitalize Hunter Biden’s name and relationships. According to The New York Times, Hunter Biden helped assemble the company’s legal team, which consisted of American attorneys and consulting firms, including a former Obama Justice Department official.
4. Burisma is led by an oligarch named Mykola Zlochevsky. Zlochevsky served as ecology minister under pro-Russia former Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovich, leading to allegations that he used his office to benefit Burisma.
5. Burisma was under legal scrutiny. Shortly before Hunter Biden was appointed to Burisma’s board, British authorities froze $23 million of Zlochevsky’s assets as part of a corruption investigation. Ukraine opened its own probe later that year.
6. Financial records from Morgan Stanley show numerous lines of money going into the account of “Robert H. Biden.” The funds originated from oligarchs and anonymous LLCs in Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan and elsewhere.
7. In 2013, then-Vice President Biden and his son Hunter flew aboard Air Force Two to China. Ten days later, Hunter Biden’s firm scored a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China.****
Mario's obnoxious kid (the youngest one not the older one)
et al:
**Yes these facts above are true but still "NO PROOF" of anything done wrong . "NO PROOF"
so nothing here and let's skip this and get back to Trump.
The Dem machine behind the scenes saying time to get rid of Biden and take away Trump/Gullianis's: "what about Joe?" retort.
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This was the first look I had at the 'scandal'. Nothing I have seen or heard since has contradicted McCarthy's analysis.
https://news.yahoo.com/breaking-down-whistleblower-frenzy-103053753.html
Breaking Down the Whistleblower Frenzy
National Review
Andrew C. McCarthy
,National Review•September 21, 2019
The Democrats’ media narrative of impeachment portrays President Trump and his administration as serial law-breakers who, true to form, obstruct all congressional investigations of wrongdoing. This then becomes the analytical framework for every new controversy. There are at least two fundamental problems with this.
First, our constitutional system is based on friction between competing branches vested with separate but closely related powers. The Framers understood that the two political branches would periodically try to usurp each other’s authorities. Congress often does this by enactments that seek to subject executive power to congressional (or judicial) supervision. Presidential pushback on such laws is not criminal obstruction; it is the Constitution in action.
Second, we’ve become so law-obsessed that we miss the forest for the trees. Often, the least important aspect of a controversy — viz., whether a law has been violated — becomes the dominant consideration. Short shrift is given to the more consequential aspects, such as whether we are being competently governed or whether power is being abused.
These problems are now playing out in the Trump controversy du jour (or should I say de l’heure?): the intelligence community whistleblower.
As this column is written on Friday afternoon, the story is still evolving, with the president tweeting as ever, and the New York Times producing a report by no fewer than eight of its top journalists, joining the seven (and counting) who are working it for the Washington Post, which broke the story.
It stems from — what else? — anonymous leaks attributed to former intelligence officials. Whether they are among the stable of such retirees now on the payroll at anti-Trump cable outlets is not known. While the media purport to be deeply concerned about Trump-administration law-breaking in classified matters, there is negligible interest in whether the intelligence officials leaking to them are flouting the law.
A Promise to Ukraine?
In any event, we learn that an unidentified “whistleblower” has filed a complaint with the intelligence community’s inspector general (IGIC), relating that President Trump had recent interaction with an unidentified foreign leader during which the president made a “promise” which is not further described to us, other than that the whistleblower found it very “troubling.” The inference that President Trump is the subject of the complaint (or at least a subject) derives from the fact that intelligence officials say it involves someone who is “outside the intelligence community,” and that there are issues of “privilege” that justify non-disclosure to Congress. (The president is “outside” the intelligence community in the sense of being over it as chief executive; and, as I discussed in a column earlier this week, presidents have executive privilege, which shields communications with advisers.)
The latest news to break suggests that the communications (there is more than one) relate, at least in part, to Ukraine. The whistleblower complaint is believed to have been filed on August 12. President Trump is known to have spoken by phone with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25. Rudy Giuliani, who is Trump’s private lawyer (and who hired me as a prosecutor many years ago), has been open about urging Ukraine to pursue an investigation implicating Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden. Specifically, when he was Obama-administration vice president, Biden is rumored to have pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was conducting a corruption investigation of a natural-gas company. Biden’s son, Hunter, sat on the company’s board, and his law firm was lavishly compensated.
Thus, the theorizing in anti-Trump circles is that an intelligence official privy to details of the July 25 call must have learned that the president made a quid pro quo arrangement with Ukraine, promising some kind of assistance in exchange for movement on an investigation that could politically wound Trump’s potential 2020 opponent. (A CNN interview that became a spirited argument between Giuliani and Chris Cuomo got lots of play on Friday. Meanwhile, to my knowledge, there has not been much congressional interest in examining Obama-administration and Clinton-campaign dealings with Ukraine in 2016, when our government encouraged Kiev to investigate Paul Manafort, and a leak about a claim of lavish cash payments to Manafort resulted in his removal as Trump’s campaign chairman.)
President Trump is pooh-poohing the whistleblower complaint as a fabrication by “Radical Left Democrats and their Fake News Partners, headed up again by Little Adam Schiff.” That last derogatory reference is to the California Democrat and Trump antagonist who chairs the House Intelligence Committee. Conveniently omitted by the president are the facts that (a) the whistleblower has tried to comply with federal law and go through government channels rather than leaking information to the Trump-hostile media; (b) the IGIC to whom the whistleblower made his report is a Trump appointee, namely Michael Atkinson, a career Justice Department prosecutor who got the IGIC gig in 2018; and (c) Atkinson concluded that the whistleblower’s complaint was credible and sufficiently serious to be deemed a matter of “urgent concern.”
‘Urgent Concern’ — Another Confusing Dual-Use Term
This brings us to a common situation that we rarely notice but that often skews public debate. I’ll call it the dual-use term: A word or phrase that has both a common meaning because it is invoked in everyday parlance and a specialized meaning in statutory law — either because Congress has taken the trouble to define it or the courts have authoritatively construed it.
“Urgent concern” is a dual-use term. Such terms confuse things because politicians seamlessly shift from the common to the specialized meaning. Frequently, legal consequences limited to the narrower legal sense of the term are triggered by anything that fits the term’s broad general understanding. To take a notorious example, “collusion” — the subject, ahem, of a certain new book — has both a broad general connotation (concerted activity that can be benign or sinister, or anything in between) and a narrow specialized meaning when invoked in law-enforcement investigations (criminal conspiracy). For years, Chairman Schiff and other Trump critics have intimated that episodes of unremarkable collusion in the broad sense (e.g., negotiating policy or real-estate deals with Russians) are evidence of illegal collusion in the narrow, specialized sense (conspiracy to commit cyberespionage with Russians).
The common meaning of urgent concern is obvious: It could describe anything that raises the specter of imminent harm. But urgent concern is also a specialized term in federal law. Under Section 3033(k)(5)(G) (of Title 50, U.S. Code), an “urgent concern” relates to specified problems involving intelligence activities and classified information that are within the responsibility of the Director of National Intelligence. The DNI is the cabinet official who oversees the so-called community of intelligence agencies. The urgent concerns Section 3033 outlines include, for example, violations or abuses of laws or executive orders, or deficiencies in the funding, administration or operation of an intelligence activity. Section 3033 urgent concerns also include misleading of Congress regarding intelligence activities, and reprisals against whistleblowers who report an urgent concern.
Notice the difference between the common and statutory meaning.
Any executive action that imperils national security, particularly in connection with classified information falling into the hands of a foreign power, could accurately be described as a matter of urgent concern, as that term is commonly understood. Even if there were no Section 3033, and there were no specialized statutory definition of “urgent concern,” it would be entirely appropriate for Congress to inquire into such matters.
On the other hand, if a situation qualifies as one of the narrower sets of “urgent concerns” defined by Section 3033, it triggers the mandatory reporting procedures prescribed in the statute. To wit, if an intelligence official believes a Section 3033 urgent concern has arisen, that official (a whistleblower) may report the matter to the IGIC with an eye toward its transmission to Congress. The IGIC then has two weeks to decide whether a complaint is credible. If the IGIC so finds, the matter must be referred to the DNI, who must notify the congressional intelligence committees within one week.
Section 3033 Does Not Apply to the President
Here, the whistleblower (who is reportedly represented by a lawyer well versed in Section 3033) believed President Trump’s undescribed promise to the unidentified foreign leader qualified as an “urgent concern” under the statute. On August 12, the whistleblower reported the matter to IGIC Atkinson. In what I believe was an error, Atkinson concluded that the complaint did indeed spell out a Section 3033 urgent concern because it was credible and raised a serious issue. (As we’ll see, my quarrel is with the application of the statute to the president; I assume the Trump-appointed IGIC is correct that the complaint is credible and serious.)
Atkinson thus notified Joseph Maguire, the acting DNI. Maguire, however, did not believe the matter met the Section 3033 definition of an urgent concern, because it related to an activity by someone not under the authority of the DNI (inferentially, the president). Consequently, Maguire declined to pass the complaint along to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.
As noted above, current and former intelligence officials continue to leak like sieves in their years-long campaign against the sitting president. Thus, the existence of the complaint, the report of it to the IGIC, and the acting DNI’s refusal to alert Congress became known to the media and to Chairman Schiff. The chairman is claiming that the Trump administration is violating the law by failing to notify Congress of an urgent concern, as mandated by Section 3033.
In my view, Chairman Schiff’s claim, based on IGIC Atkinson’s interpretation of the statute, is wrong. Section 3033 does not apply to a president’s negotiations with or commitments to foreign powers, or to a president’s sharing of classified information with foreign powers. To repeat, the statute applies to intelligence activities by government officials acting under the authority of the DNI. If I am right, the Trump administration should not be accused of law-breaking for declining to follow Section 3033, even if the whistleblower had an “urgent concern” in the ordinary understanding of that term.
In our system, the conduct of foreign policy is a nigh plenary authority of the chief executive. The only exceptions are explicitly stated in the Constitution (Congress regulates foreign commerce, the Senate must approve treaties, etc.). Congress may not enact statutes that limit the president’s constitutional power to conduct foreign policy; the Constitution may not be amended by statute.
Consistent with this principle, the Justice Department has long adhered to the so-called “clear statement” rule: If the express terms of a statute do not apply its provisions to the president, then the statute is deemed not to apply to the president if its application would conflict with the president’s constitutional powers. Section 3033 does not refer to the president. By its terms, it applies to intelligence-community officials. And, in any event, it may not properly be applied to the president if doing so would hinder the president’s capacious authority to conduct foreign policy.
At least when a Republican is in the White House, progressives are enthralled by laws that, in effect, empower bureaucrats — here, “intelligence professionals”– to second-guess and otherwise check the president’s power to direct the executive branch. That is not our system.
Congress’s Selective Interest in Presidential Abuses of Power
In conducting foreign affairs, the president may make commitments to other foreign leaders (subject to the Constitution’s treaty clause). The president, unlike his subordinates, also has the power to disclose any classified information he chooses to disclose. Like all presidential powers, these may be abused or exercised rashly. When there is a credible allegation that they have been, that should cause all of us urgent concern.
To take one example, President Obama misled Congress and the nation regarding the concessions he made to Iran in connection with the nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). The Obama administration, moreover, structured the arrangement so that commitments to Iran were withheld from Congress — as if what were at stake were understandings strictly between Tehran and the U.N.’s monitor (the International Atomic Energy Agency), somehow of no concern to the United States. Representative Schiff’s skepticism about Iran became muted when a Democratic president cut the deal. Yet these cloak-and-dagger arrangements with a jihadist regime that proclaims itself America’s mortal enemy, in which a U.S. president willfully end-ran the Constitution’s treaty provisions and congressional oversight, were and remain urgent concerns for millions of Americans and most members of Congress.
So how should we evaluate the current controversy?
For starters, we should recognize what is important and what is not. Section 3033 should be the least of our considerations. As argued above, it very likely does not apply, despite the IGIC’s conclusion to the contrary. Its lack of application would not stop the whistleblower from getting the information to Congress (though it may affect whether the whistleblower is protected from reprisals). More to the point, it is irrelevant whether Congress should have been notified within one week of X date as prescribed by statute. Regardless of whether I am right about the statute’s inapplicability, the intelligence committees are now on notice and positioned to examine the matter.
The issue is not Section 3033 and whether the DNI should have alerted Schiff. The issue is whether President Trump has abused his foreign-affairs powers.
On that score, we should withhold judgment until more facts are in. Democrats would have us leap to the conclusion that impeachable offenses have been committed; the president would have us dismiss the matter out of hand as a political contrivance. There are reasons to doubt both of them.
For one thing, there has been a three-year campaign by current and former government officials to undermine the Trump presidency by lawless leaks of politicized intelligence. On the other side of the coin, though, IGIC Michael Atkinson is a Trump appointee. It is he who found the whistleblower’s complaint serious and credible. And the acting DNI, Joseph Maguire, does not appear to be refuting that conclusion; his quibble (which I share) appears to be that Section 3033 urgent concerns are inapposite where presidential foreign-affairs powers are involved. Many of President Trump’s foreign policy moves have been impulsive; it is hardly inconceivable that he could have offered a commitment that was poorly thought through. Giuliani, a key outside adviser to the president, has been pressing the Ukrainians to look into Biden, and, when asked on Friday about whether he discussed Biden in the July call with Ukraine’s president, Trump declined to answer directly, replying, “Someone ought to look into Joe Biden.”
And maybe someone should. The fact that Biden may end up being Trump’s rival in the 2020 election does not immunize him from investigation. If he used his political influence to squeeze a foreign power for his son’s benefit, that should be explored. Of course, Trump should not use the powers of his office solely for the purpose of obtaining campaign ammunition to deploy against a potential foe. But all presidents who seek reelection wield their power in ways designed to improve their chances. If Trump went too far in that regard, we could look with disfavor on that while realizing that he would not be the first president to have done so. And if, alternatively, the president had a good reason for making a reciprocal commitment to Ukraine, that commitment would not become improper just because, collaterally, it happened to help Trump or harm Biden politically.
The president has the power to conduct foreign policy as he sees fit. The Congress has the power to subject that exercise to thorough examination. The clash of these powers is a constant in our form of government. It is politics. For once, let’s find out what happened before we leap to DEFCON 1.
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from the transcript released at least
no clear "quid pro quo"
to me
so he asked the Ukranian leader to look into the Biden thing - so what.
of course the LEFt will claim otherwise.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/24/democrats-wrote-to-ukraine-in-may-demanding-it-investigate-trump/?fbclid=IwAR2Z3k3zsVCvMQyQNjSDuuNbfmTVmpEkE6GEJghYcIKCPj4KwtMhVciswQQ
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/peter-schweizer-biden-familys-foreign-dealings-7-essential-facts?fbclid=IwAR0_8XSOs8hFht8ipSqN1LHMEHX-Yqib1yceFyw8_vASbylcsrXmrxF1bNk
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from the transcript released at least
no clear "quid pro quo"
to me
so he asked the Ukranian leader to look into the Biden thing - so what.
of course the LEFt will claim otherwise.
The transcript:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf
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Biden in 1998 warns of impeaching over politics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b9faG2gHB0
The election of the president is the only nationwide vote the American people will ever cast and that's a big deal. The American people don't think they made a mistake in electing Donald Trump [Bill Clinton] and we in Congress had better be very careful before we upset their decision and make darn sure we convince them, if we decide to upset their decision, that our decision to impeach him was based upon principle and not politics.
- Direct quote except for the name changes, Joe Biden 1998
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJVKNXVl3Zk
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/peter-schweizer-biden-familys-foreign-dealings-7-essential-facts?fbclid=IwAR0_8XSOs8hFht8ipSqN1LHMEHX-Yqib1yceFyw8_vASbylcsrXmrxF1bNk
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/24/democrats-wrote-to-ukraine-in-may-demanding-it-investigate-trump/?fbclid=IwAR2Z3k3zsVCvMQyQNjSDuuNbfmTVmpEkE6GEJghYcIKCPj4KwtMhVciswQQ
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Although the Biden episode is getting all the ink/pixels, the other two topics involving Ukraine and the 2016 election are very interesting:
1) the fact that the DNC server analyzed by Crowdstrike (but not he FBI) may be in Ukraine; and,
2) the US ambassador to Ukraine being discussed as a very bad person.
Wonder if our ambassador was facilitating the DNC's efforts about Russia collusion through the Ukraine government back in 2016 when the pro-Obama president was in charge there?
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/read-full-text-whistleblower-complaint-n1058971
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I must say, the Trump administration has done a good job of getting all the information out there - at least after it blew up last week.
Trump admitted the phone call. Put out the transcript and now has made sure everyone had the 'complaint' in its entirety, at least as much as possible.
I read it. It says over and over that he did not witness any of this first hand and mostly doesn't know who did. He refers to the phone call, but we already have the transcript of that. He alleges a cover up but that means nothing now. It is loaded with his opinions more than facts. As McCarthy said, the complaint doesn't constitute an urgent matter.
In the heart of the matter, is it wrong, is it illegal for a President try to get to the bottom of international corruption if the alleged corruption would reflect badly on an opponent, potentially benefiting himself?
Where is Liz Warren, the anti-corruption candidate, on the President's effort to get this obvious influence peddling investigated?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/elizabeth-warren-roars-for-impeachment-after-ukraine-news-confirmed-trump-thinks-hes-above-the-law
Just a hypocritical head fake. Investigate Trump for investigating corruption? Who should investigate the corruption then, if not our AG cooperating with theirs? The UN?
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NYT now says the whistleblower is a CIA analyst assigned to work at White House.
Mitt Romney's former special adviser on security issues is the Burisma director who succeeded Hunter Biden.
https://www.waynedupree.com/mitt-romney-hunter-biden-burisma/ (https://www.waynedupree.com/mitt-romney-hunter-biden-burisma/)
These guys must fear that if Trump's investigation of 2016 gets close to Ukraine, it will uncover a bunch of bad stuff.
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Wow
our own intelligence service people spying on our *own* President and trying to bring him down.
could this happen in any other country?
if anyone thought Edgar Hoover was bad........
Schumer's words clearly ring true today
don't they.
I wonder if Brennan is somehow in the loop.
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https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf
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second
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/09/whistleblower-white-house-used-classified-system-hide-trumps-phone-call/160163/?oref=defense_one_breaking_nl
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/463274-five-takeaways-from-trump-whistleblower-hearing?userid=188403
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https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html?fbclid=IwAR3PUyQ7sSfsnIvyomKcJhG0NGPK3Ha66bZqAk6w3S4I3_b1sdqX5kvgPd0
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https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/434875-top-ukrainian-justice-official-says-us-ambassador-gave-him-a-do-not-prosecute?fbclid=IwAR3cySoroLxXTdHCshnwW4I3P6udVdbxrddlXocYIPaTIQNKaeXqQ5oYRlw
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https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-intel-inspector-general-found-ryan-saavedra
"Whistleblower" Had ‘Bias’ In Favor Of ‘Rival Candidate’ Of Trump
he attorney for the whistleblower has previously worked for Democrat New York Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer.
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https://www.congress.gov/treaty-document/106th-congress/16/document-text?fbclid=IwAR3WzaimqQa87_oC6E6N4GvuL1biYe_AWxRmBz54uSIKyX4kfisf03-ctJU
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https://www.uawire.org/lutsenko-admits-that-us-ambassador-did-not-give-him-do-not-prosecute-list?fbclid=IwAR2-aoWWxsfZUeUsny5xWTO8gYds2Ycin9iQ_LazXiRU6TEOabIaW8oec1Y
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https://bigleaguepolitics.com/trump-ukraine-whistle-blower-is-represented-by-deep-state-lawyer-who-worked-for-hillary-clinton/
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https://bigleaguepolitics.com/trump-ukraine-whistle-blower-is-represented-by-deep-state-lawyer-who-worked-for-hillary-clinton/
A total coincidence!
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https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story?fbclid=IwAR0bxkc-u8p_8HREfXqluSIRV2pPcM645gNn_WBey95Ili35xEHvU32W-ek
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Would like to add this to the previous Hunter Biden lack of qualifications list:
Doesn't speak Ukrainian.
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What we know about Hunter Biden in the gas business:
He had absolutely no experience or expertise in the industry.
He had no history of being able to do any other job.
He was a drug addict and a drunk.
His dad was Vice President of the United States.
Burisma paid him 50k/month over a period of time.
VP Biden did in fact intervene in the Ukraine with the threat of taking away a billion in aid to get the prosecutor looking into Burisma fired.
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https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story?fbclid=IwAR0bxkc-u8p_8HREfXqluSIRV2pPcM645gNn_WBey95Ili35xEHvU32W-ek
The emerging truth in the Biden corruption story makes the effort of wanting it looked into a proper Presidential act.
He ran for president promising to clean up this type of deep state corruption.
Missing in the phone call transcript, only in Adam Schiff's parody does it say he tells them to make false charges (dirt) on Biden. There is no hint of that anywhere.
I fail to see how pressing for a real investigation of real corruption, an appropriate Presidential act when it involves communicating at the leadership level of an ally, can be an impeachable offense, even if a political rival is involved.
Are all political rivals immune from all investigations? If so, how does anyone in the Obama-Biden administration justify the FISA pursuit of candidate Trump and President Trump, the wiretapping of Flynn, and the wiretapping of the meeting at Trump tower, for examples. According to House Democratic logic, pursuit of investigations of a political rival team or family for any reason is a crime.
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See the last graf in John Solomon column to which craftydog first linked.
Did Biden exaggerate his role in the Ukraine prosecutor firing when he spoke on the Council of Foreign Relations panel in 2018? Solomon suggests that he may done so.
Is it a matter of public concern for the US to discover if Biden, while acting in his official capacity as VP of the US, used his official position to cause the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating alleged illegalities in Burisma, a company that had named Biden's son as a member of its board of directors?
Burisma itself is very interesting given that it had first named Biden's son to its board when Biden himself was VPOTUS. Then, shortly after Trump took office, Burisma named a former CIA official to its board to replace Biden. And this CIA official just happened to have been a foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney during the now senator's 2012 presidential election campaign.
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not a CIA peep about Biden.
only Trump.
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not a CIA peep about Biden.
only Trump.
Yes, CIA intervention only on one side. No one was offended during FISA-gate?
Also, the group think of the Democrats is amazing. Not one can just apply an objective test and say there is nothing there.
If you say no impeachment, or part on any issue, you are out, even though Biden, Nadler and others are on 1998 record of opposing political impeachment.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/flashback-1998-jerry-nadler-said-impeachment-is-an-undoing-of-a-national-election/
Possible exception, Tulsi Gabbard, but not without adding Trump is "corrupt" (offering no evidence), "unfit" and "unqualified". That should cover her, but she won't be moving into leadership anytime soon.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-defies-pelosi-no-compelling-cause-for-trump-impeachment
Republicans are different. If Trump did commit a high crime, he's out. We turn on our own all the time.
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"Republicans are different. If Trump did commit a high crime, he's out. We turn on our own all the time."
Last I heard Hawley still against impeachment but states will have to wait and see...........
Trump fucked himself over on this one.
But I still fight because if he goes down all of us on the right will too as does the nature of our country.
Just too much at stake as great one Levin says.
I like Pence but I don't have confidence he has the charisma to carry on.
Trump's inability to be gracious turned what should be a great Presidency into a totally controversial never ending mud wrestling / MMA fight.
If only.....
I stand to fight on....... no choice.
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In addition early on in Trump's presidency it was Brennan , I think , who pointed out that Trump's personality could be used against him. His impulsiveness could be used against him.
Like the Dem operatives in the CIA with their Dem operative lawyers happily did as we can see.
Irritate his enough and he starts to do stupid things apparently in reality as well as saying stupid shit.
The hypocracy of the DC establishment and the Dems is so sickening. Republicans should just give them the finger and hold firm.
The Rino retort that ( this will come back to haunt us when the Dems get power ) is hollow. The Dems do whatever it takes no matter what.
So by playing nice now will not be rewarded by integrity by them at anytime in the future when push comes to shove.
SO that argument is bogus and false.
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A must read, start to finish. VDH puts the details in context.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-impeachment-frenzy-may-strengthen-trump/
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"Any president has a perfect right to tell a foreign head of state and recipient of major U.S. aid that his corruption-plagued country has played a destabilizing but still murky role in recent American elections and in scandals that have affected the American people, and in particular the current president of the United States — and that it would be a good thing to get to the bottom of it." ...
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Hope VDH is right.
Hope the swing voters see through all the media Dem Party hype , distortions , and propaganda and obvious manipulation .
There not fooling me.
but I am in the choirs
There big push is 24/7 try to persuade more than 50% impeachment is correct.
So far, they fall on their own swords .
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Interesting column
https://amgreatness.com/2019/09/26/trump-has-the-bad-guys-surrounded-in-ukraine/ (https://amgreatness.com/2019/09/26/trump-has-the-bad-guys-surrounded-in-ukraine/)
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We delayed payment of the aid to Ukraine because we were concerned about the pending sale of a Ukraine defense contractor to a Chinese company.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-usa-bolton-statement/trump-adviser-bolton-tells-ukraine-beware-chinese-influence-idUSKCN1VI1KD (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-usa-bolton-statement/trump-adviser-bolton-tells-ukraine-beware-chinese-influence-idUSKCN1VI1KD)
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-did-the-ukrainians-know-and-when-did-they-know-it/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-did-the-ukrainians-know-and-when-did-they-know-it/)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-aims-to-block-chinese-acquisition-of-ukrainian-aerospace-company-11566594485 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-aims-to-block-chinese-acquisition-of-ukrainian-aerospace-company-11566594485)
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conspired the whole thing. Worth the listen of ~ 15 minutes:
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/levin-adam-schiff-knows-exactly-whistleblower/
Democrat lawyers , Schiff , and the MSM.
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This is outrageous:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/09/27/oh-so-thats-why-the-trumpukraine-whistleblower-complaint-is-loaded-with-errors-n2553847
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This is outrageous:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/09/27/oh-so-thats-why-the-trumpukraine-whistleblower-complaint-is-loaded-with-errors-n2553847
Yes, more here:
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/intel-community-secretly-gutted-requirement-of-first-hand-whistleblower-knowledge/
"Between May 2018 and August 2019, the intelligence community secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide direct, first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings. This raises questions about the intelligence community’s behavior regarding the August submission of a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump. The new complaint document no longer requires potential whistleblowers who wish to have their concerns expedited to Congress to have direct, first-hand knowledge of the alleged wrongdoing that they are reporting."
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If it doesn't go through Congress and get signed by the President, how is it a law?
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The left is responsible for the tone. Aside from the massive criminality under Obama/Biden, the calls for impeachment started BEFORE Trump was even sworn in.
"Republicans are different. If Trump did commit a high crime, he's out. We turn on our own all the time."
Last I heard Hawley still against impeachment but states will have to wait and see...........
Trump fucked himself over on this one.
But I still fight because if he goes down all of us on the right will too as does the nature of our country.
Just too much at stake as great one Levin says.
I like Pence but I don't have confidence he has the charisma to carry on.
Trump's inability to be gracious turned what should be a great Presidency into a totally controversial never ending mud wrestling / MMA fight.
If only.....
I stand to fight on....... no choice.
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This is outrageous:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/09/27/oh-so-thats-why-the-trumpukraine-whistleblower-complaint-is-loaded-with-errors-n2553847
In case you still had any illusions about the America you grew up in being dead and buried...
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https://twitter.com/votebeebe/status/1177669258932871174?s=21&fbclid=IwAR3RkeMWzjLWTgUi4e0hg9YS2YxZ-H1pNyXZ270zWFc4NNXvk1GXFWC5ecE
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GM points out:
"The left is responsible for the tone. Aside from the massive criminality under Obama/Biden, the calls for impeachment started BEFORE Trump was even sworn in."
Absolutely.
That agreed upon ,
I could be wrong here, but believe if Trump had only played even a modest of the persona of being "above it all", and more traditionally "Presidential" and stop making people who leave his administration into personal extreme enemies ( no one is going to come to HIS funeral), and repulsed even a few of the rinos etc., I sincerely believe his approval ratings would be 10 to 20 % higher.
That said,
it is all too late now.
We, who want him to win, are left having to clean up after him.
He could not have made it any harder to do.
And like Rush said, the republicans simply don't know how to dig in like the crats.
The crats and their media arm of the party will keep "leaking" damaging information every day or few days for the next month which is why they drag this out till "the end of October" to have time to persuade and rogue Repubs and the electorate we must impeach. I am very worried the REpubs who usually cave will do it again for the thousandth time.
No thanks to the liked of Paul Ryan. I wonder how much they pay him to go to monthly or quarterly board meetings.
back stabber.
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Yup.
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Democrats Set a Bear Trap
Pelosi thinks she has Trump’s number. She may be right, though Biden won’t escape this scandal.
By Peggy Noonan
Sept. 26, 2019 7:07 pm ET
Photo: Chad Crowe
Every time I imagine Elizabeth Warren debating Donald Trump, I picture him rumbling onto the stage like a big white bear—roaring “Grrr grrrr,” towering over her, paws flailing, claws extended. She’ll stand there looking up at him in the lights, and you’ll wonder if she’s trembling, cowering, because clearly she’s about to be crushed. And then she’ll take a brisk step forward and punch him hard and sharp in the kidney. And he’ll howl—“Aarrrrggg!”—because he’s surprised and it hurts and he assumed he’d easily chase her around the stage.
She’ll say, “Mr. President, I know everyone’s supposed to be afraid of you and your rough ways, but I don’t find you so tough. And I’m not afraid of you.” (Transcript: “Applause, cheers.”) Then she’ll call him soft, corrupt, incompetent—a phony martyr who doesn’t respect his own supporters enough to fake respectability.
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He’ll call her a left-wing nut who’ll ruin the economy, destroy capitalism, kill our greatness, steal our private health insurance.
We’ll be off. And no one will know where it’s going.
That is my impeachment thought: Nobody knows where this is going. The politically obsessed may think they do, but something wild and unpredictable has been let loose. The charges are serious and credible. But America is as divided as it was in 2016, America is still in play, and it’s all up for grabs.
Everything, the entire outcome, will depend on public opinion.
The charge is that the American president went to the leader of Ukraine and invited him to take part in the 2020 presidential election by investigating one of the president’s likely competitors. Mr. Trump might have added pressure by delaying U.S. aid.
What is immediately striking is that no one who has spoken in defense of the president, including his spokesmen, has said these words: “Donald Trump would never do that!” Or, “That would be unlike him!” That will be the president’s problem as public opinion develops: everyone knows he would do it, everyone knows it is like him. There’s no mystique of goodness to be destroyed.
If everything depends on public opinion then a lot depends on how the House comports itself. Will the Democrats be sober, steady, fair-minded? Or will they be disorganized divas who play to their base and win over no one else? Are they capable of rising to the moment?
The guess here is that articles of impeachment will be drawn, presented and pass the House.
Impeachment is a grave constitutional and governmental act, but it is also a political one that requires public support. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has calculated that the case is strong and the people will come along. She wouldn’t have moved forward if she didn’t think she was going to win. The president is wrong when he says she’s finally bowed to the mad progressives of her party, who are so colorfully belligerent, who last summer pushed to impeach William Barr and last week wanted to impeach Brett Kavanaugh. Mrs. Pelosi is an attentive vote-counter and a practical pol. I think she’s moving now because she thinks she got him and the jig is up.
At an off-the-record meeting in New York Monday, the night before she announced the impeachment push, she looked like someone whose old hesitation was gone. In its place was the joy of the hunt.
As for the Senate, the understandable and previously reliable common wisdom was that Republicans there will keep the needed 67 votes for conviction from materializing. That’s probably still likely, but it’s no sure thing. Tuesday the Senate voted unanimously for the whistleblower’s complaint to be made public. (On Thursday it was.) Senators didn’t say, “This is just another partisan witch hunt. Grrr grrr.” Why not? Because the charges were serious and they couldn’t refuse to ask for more information. Because they wanted to signal to the White House that they couldn’t accept the idea that aid to Ukraine could have been held up over something like this. Because they had to assume more bad information was coming. And because they’re four years into the Trump era and are tired of having to excuse and explain everything the president does that is surprising, illogical, unprofessional, dubious.
Most of them wouldn’t miss him if he were gone. They’d happily peel off if public opinion back home seemed to shift.
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Among Trump supporters right now, the Ukraine story would look like a Washington-centric phony drama—more partisan nonsense, business as usual, ignore it. But if the story gets bad, if it comes to be thought of as a real national-security question, as the whistleblower charged in his report, they will pay attention and care.
So much depends on who’s called to testify and what they say and how ugly a picture they paint.
Wholly anecdotal but perhaps significant, I heard this week from two separate Trump supporters, one in the past passionate, the other whose support was always softer, who shared their dismay at the Ukraine story. Both said these words: “Maybe Pence wouldn’t be so bad.” They were exhausted by the drama and wrongness. Why not the man with the soft white hair?
In the end, in purely practical political terms, the one person who will be hurt by this story will be Joe Biden. Every telling of this story necessitates pointing out that Mr. Biden’s son Hunter had cozy financial relationships with other countries, including Ukraine. It’s real swamp stuff. It looks bad, say the former vice president’s friends. No, it is bad.
It is infuriating that members of America’s leadership class so often show themselves to the world as self-enriching. As a nation we spent the 20th century presenting ourselves to the world as a truly moral leader, a self sacrificing country, one to be looked up to. In the 21st century our political figures and their families too often look like scrounging grifters—Americans with connections who can be hired, who leverage connections to fame for profit. There’s a fairly constant air of soft corruption, of an easy, seamy reality of big-power back scratching.
It makes America look bad. It makes us look weak and craven, like we can be bought.
There should be something called the Class Act. If you have any class, you don’t profit financially from a relative in power in the world’s greatest democracy. You don’t embarrass your country that way. Because, you know, you have class. You’re lucky to be from a respected family. A president or vice president might say, “It’s unfair to make my child sacrifice a deal because of what his father does!” Actually, no one asked you to ask for power; no one told you to want it. If you get it, it’s an honor. Do your job. Yes, your family should sacrifice, as should you.
The story of Hunter Biden and his business adventures isn’t new, and yet sometimes stories come alive in new ways. This one will probably come into focus for a while and be emblematic of the swamp.
Joe Biden probably thought it was old news, already dissected and dismissed. But it’s back, and will hit him like a kidney punch.
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https://twitter.com/votebeebe/status/1177669258932871174?s=21&fbclid=IwAR3RkeMWzjLWTgUi4e0hg9YS2YxZ-H1pNyXZ270zWFc4NNXvk1GXFWC5ecE
Every time I think I have seen it all...
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/how-about-a-bipartisan-treaty-against-the-criminalization-of-elections/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202019-09-29&utm_term=WIR-Smart
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Here is a link to 50 USC Sec 3033.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3033 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3033)
The person claiming whistleblower status is claiming status under this law.
In the letter dated 21 August, this person claims to be bringing forward a matter of urgent concern as protected by this law. Specifically 50 USC Sec 3033(k)(5)(A).
This section applies specifically to an employee of an element of the intelligence community, an employee assigned or detailed to an element of the intelligence community, or an employee of a contractor to the intelligence community.
This person is also claiming to be presenting a matter of "urgent concern" to Congress.
"Urgent concern" is defined in 50 USC Sec 3033 (k)(5)(G). The things that fall under this law are: a) a serious or flagrant problem; b)abuse; c) violation of law or Executive Order; or d) a deficiency. These things must be "relating to the funding, administration, or operation of an intelligence activity."
Differences of opinion on policy matters are specifically excluded from meeting the definition of an "urgent concern."
And this intelligence activity must be under the responsibility and authority of the Director of National Intelligence.
The complaint is not about activity related to an intelligence activity. It is about foreign policy.
And, the complaint is not about something under the responsibility and authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The complaint concerns things happening under the authority of the President of the United States.
I don't think this person meets the requirements of presenting a matter of urgent concern.
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https://theintercept.com/2019/09/25/i-wrote-about-the-bidens-and-ukraine-years-ago-then-the-right-wing-spin-machine-turned-the-story-upside-down/
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/10/rumors-joe-biden-scandal-ukraine-absolute-nonsense-reformer-says/
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https://theintercept.com/2019/09/25/i-wrote-about-the-bidens-and-ukraine-years-ago-then-the-right-wing-spin-machine-turned-the-story-upside-down/
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/10/rumors-joe-biden-scandal-ukraine-absolute-nonsense-reformer-says/
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Eye rolls apart, what is the answer to this?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHihyFsgJGc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0fo39sq9daRl-i1IGS8KstVuwIZjaJNEHsD6ezcmeHnbqOtKWXomNB4OM
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Link to opinion from Office of Legal Counsel finding that pseudo-whistleblower complaint is not a matter of urgent concern and whistleblower has no right to bring his complaint to Congress.
https://games-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/5f9e761a-68b1-4faf-88ff-a18f462005ab/note/732946be-0742-4e91-9e6b-2f4bac91565f.pdf#page=1 (https://games-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/5f9e761a-68b1-4faf-88ff-a18f462005ab/note/732946be-0742-4e91-9e6b-2f4bac91565f.pdf#page=1)
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Sources say the "whistleblower" is REO Speedwagon singer Kevin Cronin, who...
Heard it from a friend who...
heard it from a friend who...
heard it from a friend you've been messin' around.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/the-week-in-pictures-whistleblower-edition.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiu-KiKNM08
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Eye rolls apart, what is the answer to this?
Your Glenn Beck post that follows answers it quite well. Follow the timing, follow the money, follow the decisions made. Smell the Joe Biden - Hunter Biden rat. Hunter was the loose cannon, but that doesn't mean VP Joe wouldn't do anything for his son. His statement that he had no idea what his son was up to is beyond laughable and he is hurting all the Democrats who stand by him, cf. Kamala Harris: "Leave Joe Biden out of this." Investigate Republicans endlessly but leave Joe Biden alone? Another smell test problem...
There had to be some rationale for why Joe Biden bragged publicly about getting the prosecutor fired. This reporter provides a possible rationale for the technocrats to cling to. Meanwhile everyone else knows the son was there cashing in on his Dad's clout and everything his Dad did happened to help that. People hate that kind of thing.
The legal point must be that this obvious, inappropriate relationship has no smoking gun for prosecuting either one of them, so the story and the stench just lingers.
If AG Barr indicted and prosecuted one or both Bidens on circumstantial evidence charges, it would be horrible political optics for Trump and the Republicans. Both Bidens can do far more harm to their own causes by continuing to run free.
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Democrats like to destroy words in our language. "Whistleblower" is a sports analogy, right? The referee sees a rules violation and blows the whistle. People love to hate the refs because they don't call what they don't see. "Ref, are you blind?!" And they don't ask bystanders what they saw.
What we have in the Ukraine case is a 'Hearsay Complaint' that mixes opinions and emotions with what others reportedly saw and heard. Nothing criminal or wrongful witnessed firsthand was reported.
Now the referees are players/operatives. Their job is to move the ball forward, not to be impartial. The Hearsayer hands it off to the Committee with their team in the media and off they go!
Take Adam Schiff's appearance on "This Week with George Stephanoupolus" yesterday for example. The two of them were able to use the word "whistleblower" 18 times in a 2 minute drill and close to 30 times total over the course of the show - all to describe someone who did not qualify as a whistleblower until the definition was changed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Ay2sNhBTs
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https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/437719-ukrainian-to-us-prosecutors-why-dont-you-want-our-evidence-on-democrats?fbclid=IwAR2ga0CFZbkGA7zsdaXmARLvUq0nd0M4GHKZcmdchpy8DascPRv97FX2av8
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Eye rolls apart, what is the answer to this?
Why was Snorty Biden employed by the Ukraine entity? Did they have excess cocaine they needed to be rid of ? Aside from being the son of the Vice President of the US, what does he bring to the table to justify his incredible compensation?
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Link to opinion from Office of Legal Counsel finding that pseudo-whistleblower complaint is not a matter of urgent concern and whistleblower has no right to bring his complaint to Congress.
https://games-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/5f9e761a-68b1-4faf-88ff-a18f462005ab/note/732946be-0742-4e91-9e6b-2f4bac91565f.pdf#page=1 (https://games-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/5f9e761a-68b1-4faf-88ff-a18f462005ab/note/732946be-0742-4e91-9e6b-2f4bac91565f.pdf#page=1)
Thank you Rick. It's always nice to have the actual document posted here.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/30/ukraine-mystery-schiff-staffer-made-august-visit-for-think-tank-backed-by-hunter-bidens-old-employer/
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/donald-trump-inspector-general-whistleblower-complaint-conspiracy-fact-check/index.html
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/donald-trump-inspector-general-whistleblower-complaint-conspiracy-fact-check/index.html
CNN? Really?
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/donald-trump-inspector-general-whistleblower-complaint-conspiracy-fact-check/index.html
I'm glad this side is brought to our attention. It's hard to say that, "Experts say..." only settle it or that CNN stating "This is false" is persuasive. We will need the rest of the information and shouldn't jump early on that just as the impeachment people shouldn't have jumped before receiving facts.
"although the submission form that whistleblowers from the intelligence community fill out was revised in August 2019..."
- Why was it changed in August? There was no Act of Congress issued in August on this. Who writes these rules? Who made the change? What was the change? Did it have ANYTHING to do with THIS complaint?
"Experts say..."
- That how we do fact check now? Professional journalism?
"in order for the inspector general to determine that the concern is credible "the IC IG must be in possession of reliable, first-hand information." "
- Of which the hearsayblowers complaint is not.
Adam Schiff et al are on the tube making endless false claims. We need to be careful too.
As I understand it, this phone call was classified. Someone committed a crime by telling details to this hearsayblower. The blower worked with high level experts to make and shape his complaint. Was that a crime, the further sharing of leaked classified information? The form might or might not have been changed in that period to raise the significance of an insignificant event. If so, who was involved? Was it the same people that investigate the complaint? Either way, it was not firsthand information and it was not an urgent matter. In the document Rick posted, this complaint was determined on Sept 3 to NOT be an urgent matter. The blower or the handlers of the blowers got the complaint to the committee who sat on it, strategized, and then went public. Trump immediately admitted mentioning Biden in the phone call and declassified and released the transcript of the phone call taking all the air out of the tires on this inquiry. The complaint itself was released and also the Opinion of the Office of Legal Counsel that it was not an urgent concern was released. The mystery is gone; we know what he said and didn't say.
The content of the phone call had nothing wrong, strange or criminal in it. After the greetings and congratulations, an ally talked with an ally about investigating corruption that has been all over the news in both countries. A particularly famous name in the most egregious part of it was mentioned. Should he have mentioned Biden's name? No. But... NO ONE SAID MAKE UP DIRT. NO ONE SAID AID WOULD BE WITHHELD FOR THIS PURPOSE. People were talking about conducting real investigations about real corruption THAT THEY WERE ELECTED TO DO. Was there another plausible reason why aid was temporarily held up? Yes. Again, Rick posted it, sourced by Reuters and the WSJ. National Security Director Bolton had a American national security concerns over the purchase of a company in Ukraine by China. It is ordinary and common practice to use aid as leverage for help on other matter of national interest? Yes. It's done all the time. Was this all an organized attempt to turn something of otherwise zero significance into an impeachable offense, just like the meeting at Trump tower, just like the Steele Dossier, just like the FISA scandal? Yes.
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Nothing says "Urgent Concern" like a Congressional Recess for the first two weeks into it.
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White House ordered security upgrades storing information in the Spring of 2018 to stop leaks.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/01/white-house-trump-leaks-code-015194 (https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/01/white-house-trump-leaks-code-015194)
"The changes came months after entire transcripts of President Trump’s calls with the leaders of Australia and Mexico were leaked to the Washington Post, setting off a furious internal search for the source of the unauthorized disclosures and widening the mistrust between the president and his own staff."
Pseudo-whistleblower's complaint claimed that extraordinary measures were taken just for this call.
"White House officials told me that they were "directed" by White House lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization, and distribution to Cabinet-level officials.
Instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective."
This is really a complaint about the heightened security established in 2018 after the same types of employees leaked the complete MEMCONs of conversations between Trump and the former Presdient of Mexico and the President of Australia.
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFr4eRRWkAAdgoI.jpg
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFr4eRRWkAAdgoI.jpg)
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From RickN:
NYT just reporting that fake whistleblower coordinated and colluded with Schiff and his staff for several weeks before his complaint became public.
So, now, we may have an impeachment inquiry that could constitute an obstruction of the Durham investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion hoax.
I am starting to see a grand jury subpoena in Congressman Schiff's future. Remember, no elected official is above the law. And members of Congress are only immune for actions and statements made on the floor of Congress.
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From 5 days ago:
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/levin-adam-schiff-knows-exactly-whistleblower/
This whole thing is coordinated with the Dems the media and the rest .
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From 5 days ago:
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/levin-adam-schiff-knows-exactly-whistleblower/
This whole thing is coordinated with the Dems the media and the rest .
Yes. Hard to say if seeing it published in the NYT now makes it better sourced. :wink:
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Other things to consider about this fake whistleblower complaint.
1. An employee of the intelligence community can only contact a congressional committee directly in order to report an "urgent concern." 50 USC Sec 3033(k)(5)(A).
2. An "urgent concern" must relate to "the funding, administration, or operation of an intelligence activity that is within the responsibility and authority of the Director of National Intelligence involving classified information." 50 USC Sec 3033(k)(5)(G).
3. An employee of the intelligence community can contact one or both congressional intelligence committees only if he gives notice of this intent to the Director through the IG before making any contact; and, along with this notice provides the IG with a statement of the complaint or information that he will be giving to Congress. 50 USC Sec 3033(k)(5)(D)(ii)(I).
4. Any member of the committees or one of its employees who receives a complaint or information is acting in his or her official capacity regardless of the circumstances of the contact. 50 USC Sec 3033(k)(5)(D)(iii).
5. Zelensky was elected President of Ukraine on 21 April 2019. He assumed office on 20 May 2019.
6. The actual complaint released by Schiff's committee says, "Over the past four months, over half a dozen officials have informed me" about efforts to pressure Ukraine.
7. The date of the cover letter to the committee is 12 August. The date of the complaint on the new form created in late August is September 2019.
8. Thus, all of this behind the scenes chatter about "pressuring Ukraine" began at about the time Zelensky was elected and assumed the presidency in Ukraine.
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But Rick,
The LEFT wing media already is pointing out that the Right is disputing the "process " of the complaint and not the "content".
So they ignore this and move on ......
How do we counter this?
The only way respond to counter seems to be to point out Democrats have done exactly the same thing and in effect started this whole cascade of events:
1) Biden family etc
2) three senators sending letter to Ukraine
3) Obama's administration using Ukraine to find dirt on Trump
4) Clinton campaign doing same (Steele Dossier)
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I will say, this puts him in some trouble. He clearly wasn't being forthright in that interview with us a couple weeks ago. And he should have been."
- Sam Stein, Daily Beast Political Editor, on Morning Joe, MSNBC
Transcript from 9/17/19:
ADAM SCHIFF: "We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. We would like to."
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Amazing that Democrats couldn't find one person more honest than Trump to lead the investigation. Schiff lied and made stuff up in the Russia hoax. MSNBC was burned badly on that. Schiff has been lying and making stuff up for decades; anyone following his career knows that.
Former Rep John Campbell of Orange County Calif on Hugh Hewitt radio, paraphrasing: I used to do radio debates with Adam Schiff on Los Angeles public radio. He would say things I hadn't heard before. I would ask my staff to look these things up and found out over time that he would just make things up to support his points. He would lie so convincingly that he would no doubt pass a lie detector test. After a time I had to quit the show. How do you argue with someone like that?
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https://www.defenseone.com/politics/2019/10/pentagons-top-lawyer-review-all-ukraine-aid-documents/160351/?oref=defense_one_breaking_nl
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a Democrat
no kidding - isn't it obvious:
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/10/03/cnns-tapper-whistleblower-a-registered-democrat/
A crat working with crat lawyers other crats in the administration , in Congress, and likely some in the CIA .
who could have guessed .
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the whistle felatist is getting donor money for his "lawyers"
if this does not smell of DC Dem lawyer chicanery :
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/03/nonpartisan-group-aiding-lawyers-for-whistleblower-tied-to-democrats-far-left-organizations/
Wait , I thought this all about saving democracy ! :wink: :x
the lawyer sets up a go fuck trump page so he can get the funds to pay himself? what?
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... getting donor money for his "lawyers"
I wonder what kind of legal trouble he* is in? Filing a false federal report?
* We were saying he or she but Adam Schiff called the hearsayblower a 'he', and he ought to know!
How much do they need to raise - to pay for free legal? Was "free legal for whistleblowers" false advertising or do they also think he is not a 'whistleblower?
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https://twitter.com/AlexLeroy90/status/1179688770913865729/video/1
Funny and true!
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I forgot all about this guy and didn't even remember he was energy secretary
rumor he is resigning due to Ukrainian ties:
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/rickperry-resign/2019/10/03/id/935580/
My question is what the hell is going on with all this Ukrainian BS?
All our people are over their taking bribes or what. :x
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I am in debate with a wily prof on FB and having trouble answering this question.
What is the legal basis for Giuliani being involved with pressing the Ukes the Biden Grifting Operation?
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https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/impeachment-2-may-have-jumped-the-shark/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/documents-heighten-scrutiny-on-biden-ukraine-dealings-indicate-hunter-may-have-made-millions?fbclid=IwAR2lcIDDAaF3il3jn4JRGY9NXFfnOQn18UWoVfE3aqrIvsvO279cTVkr49E
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I am in debate with a wily prof on FB and having trouble answering this question.
What is the legal basis for Giuliani being involved with pressing the Ukes the Biden Grifting Operation?
Why would you want to have someone you trusted who had a long history of successful investigations of organized crime and corruption as a federal prosecutor looking into this issue?
:roll:
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Outstanding rejoinder GM!
That said, my question refers to the legal basis. For example there is the treaty between the Ukes and us allowing/calling for cooperation (posted earlier in this thread) but it specifies the DOJ headed by the AG.
RG is completely outside this structure.
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Outstanding rejoinder GM!
That said, my question refers to the legal basis. For example there is the treaty between the Ukes and us allowing/calling for cooperation (posted earlier in this thread) but it specifies the DOJ headed by the AG.
RG is completely outside this structure.
Without wading through the US Code, I do recall that Nixon appointed Elvis to be a Special Agent at Large for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (Precursor to the DEA). How is it that as Chief Executive, Trump doesn't have the authority to appoint Giuliani to act with the authority of the USDOJ, which is at least in theory is under his control as it's part of the executive branch of the federal government? I was once going to be sworn in as a Special Deputy US Marshal because I was part time working with a USMS violent criminal task force. Most local/state level cops working with federal task forces get those appointments while on the task force.
Is the professor citing the doctrine of "Orange man bad!" ?
Ok, I waded through the US code anyway:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/542
28 U.S. Code § 542. Assistant United States attorneys
U.S. Code
(a) The Attorney General may appoint one or more assistant United States attorneys in any district when the public interest so requires.
(b) Each assistant United States attorney is subject to removal by the Attorney General.
(Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 4(c), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 618.)
Rudy, Special AUSA at large (Snorty Biden UKE corruption task force)
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Nothing definitive, but worth noting:
https://www.oann.com/report-sen-romney-has-connection-to-biden-ukraine-scheme/?fbclid=IwAR2AViVXU-Oy9MBgvAMh9Ig-adTV5SwPMTK6ag6fVHdQaHhJGDNv8iQKn4s
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Nice find GM!
My clever prof adversary will nitpick though and ask whether AG has so appointed him , , ,
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Nice find GM!
My clever prof adversary will nitpick though and ask whether AG has so appointed him , , ,
Ask the professor what statute requires a formal appointment beyond a presidential directive. The burden of proof is on him.
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Nice find GM!
My clever prof adversary will nitpick though and ask whether AG has so appointed him , , ,
"28 U.S. Code § 542. Assistant United States attorneys
U.S. Code
(a) The Attorney General may appoint one or more assistant United States attorneys in any district when the public interest so requires.
(b) Each assistant United States attorney is subject to removal by the Attorney General.
(Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 4(c), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 618.)
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I would add what others like Andrew McCarthy have pointed out, the President has all the powers that anyone in the executive branch has. He IS the executive branch.
Some appointments require Senate confirmation, the rest don't:
Article II, Section 2, [President] “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for.”
Giuliani is an envoy, messenger, representative, to the President. No one would argue he is an Officers of the United States.
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"The Obama administration named 19 envoys and special ambassadors in its first eight months" ...
"the envoys do not require Senate confirmation"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/25/obamas-empire-of-envoys/
I wonder if the good professor objects to this President having this special envoy or if he objects to all Presidents having any special envoys.
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Former US Special Envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker''s prepared remarks to the House Intelligence Committee yesterday, October 3rd.
https://www.scribd.com/document/428765582/Full-Statement-from-U-S-Ukraine-Envoy-Ambassador-Kurt-Volker-on-October-3-2019 (https://www.scribd.com/document/428765582/Full-Statement-from-U-S-Ukraine-Envoy-Ambassador-Kurt-Volker-on-October-3-2019)
This rebuts the conspiracy theory of Schiff and the fake whistleblower.
Link to article on The federalist explaining all of this.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/testimony-from-ukraine-envoy-kurt-volker-directly-contradicts-democrats-impeachment-narrative/#.XZeB4LJfpLo.twitter (https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/testimony-from-ukraine-envoy-kurt-volker-directly-contradicts-democrats-impeachment-narrative/#.XZeB4LJfpLo.twitter)
Trump didn't know that Zelensky was an anti-corruption guy. He thought he was no different than Poroshenko. Zeleensky reached out to Giuliani through an aide to Zelensky as the initial step by Zelensky to try and prove to Trump that he was anti-corruption. Volker himself also believed Zelensky was different and tried to help Zelesnky gain credibility with Trump. Volker thought that Trump's reluctance with the aid would end once he got to know Zelensky. He didn't even think the aid delay was important and didn't tell Zelensky about it until after Schiff tweeted about it in late August when Schiff was leaking bits of the fake whistleblower complaint to the media via Twitter.
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can't paparazzi find out who the whistleblowjobber is?
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can't paparazzi find out who the whistleblowjobber is?
Yes. But the left always protects it's operatives.
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https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/report-anti-trump-whistleblower-concealed-contacts-with-house-democrats-from-inspector-general/
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https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/464404-the-7-most-explosive-exchanges-in-ukraine-envoy-texts
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BREAKING: The Democrat whistleblower who complained about Trump digging up dirt in Ukraine was himself helping dig up dirt in Ukraine against Trump (and Manafort) while working in the Obama White House during 2016 campaign.
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) October 4, 2019
The whistleblower was doing what he accused Trump of doing.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/10/04/huge-if-true-yup-the-whistleblower-is-a-registered-democrat-but-it-gets-worse-so-much-worse/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1KfU5ifhqE&fbclid=IwAR3TaB4CsQEQQ_Zyr0IHFZllOHHlxpaVebqMury-vfCiaq6SCfJ4lRlNG9s
https://www.oann.com/son-of-house-speaker-pelosi-made-money-in-ukraine-used-her-in-ads/?fbclid=IwAR3er5XIzowJ97k5DhCjvu_bcT6FedFRPmv__Mqqx7LWD2Qi7KbkNjQE0zw
https://www.theblaze.com/glenn-radio/dnc-ukraine-collusion-sytnyk?utm_content=buffer621f8&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=fb-theblaze&fbclid=IwAR1b4UscomfNP3P9l5NvQMXZ0Prh2mw1ccQ872c2mgjevr9Db5pHrVRoXXA
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https://sputniknews.com/world/201910041076961747-biden-and-burisma-gas-company-may-be-linked-to-around-15-cases---ukraines-prosecutor-general/?fbclid=IwAR06_EdaIVW3CNmNQxj4nYlpgzmYg7oDjjk4vkCYZW3ot0WgZHSEWBcryZg
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In Months Before Trump Call, Ukraine Officials Sweated White House Pressure
The administration in Kyiv felt it had to accede to White House wishes in order to secure a summit
By Alan Cullison,
Georgi Kantchev,
Thomas Grove and
James Marson
Oct. 4, 2019 7:27 pm ET
KYIV, Ukraine—Two weeks after national elections in April vaulted him from the role of television comic to Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky got word that President Trump’s personal lawyer wanted to come to Kyiv to talk.
Mr. Zelensky and his advisers, many of whom were ex-producers and screenwriters, huddled over the request. Before his improbable rise, Mr. Zelensky didn’t know who Rudy Giuliani was, according to one aide. By now, though, Mr. Zelensky sensed trouble. In an April 7 appearance on Fox News, the former New York City mayor had made it clear he wanted information about his client’s political rival, Joe Biden, and his family.
Mr. Zelensky, fearful of getting sucked into a foreign drama when he had plenty at home, declined to take the meeting.
He got sucked in anyway. Over the next several months, Mr. Zelensky’s administration tried to sort through conflicting signals from Washington that have now become central to an impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump. A summit dangled by the U.S. leader kept receding. At the last minute, it was announced that Energy Secretary Rick Perry would be attending his inauguration instead of Vice President Mike Pence.
Most worrying, for a country that depends on its strategic alliance with the U.S. to help fend off Russian aggression, the Ukrainians learned long after the fact that Washington had decided to withhold nearly $400 million in approved military assistance.
“This is a damaging mess for Ukraine,” said Pavlo Klimkin, Ukraine’s foreign minister until the end of August. “It has always been a key point of Ukrainian foreign policy to show we have U.S. support. We can’t afford to lose that.”
This account shows how events looked from the Ukrainian side—in particular how the administration in Kyiv felt under pressure to accede to White House’s wishes.
It is based on multiple interviews with current and former Ukrainian government officials; consultants close to members of Mr. Zelensky’s inner circle; current and former U.S. diplomats; and internal documents produced in connection with the U.S. congressional impeachment inquiry.
Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, seen here in Manchester, N.H., made clear he wanted information about his client’s political rival, Joe Biden, and his family. Photo: jonathan ernst/Reuters
Mr. Zelensky’s difficulties were magnified by his lack of familiarity with U.S. politics. Famous inside Ukraine for his television sitcom role as a history teacher who accidentally becomes president, he was elected by a landslide largely for his distance from a political establishment laboring under a cloud of corruption and self-dealing.
After becoming a front-runner, he took a crash course in civics, getting tutored on the function of institutions like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, one of the country’s biggest backers, one person close to him said.
For years, Mr. Giuliani and others close to Mr. Trump had blamed Ukraine for bad press during the 2016 U.S. election. They accused the previous Ukrainian administration of Petro Poroshenko of spreading allegations of financial crimes by Mr. Trump’s onetime campaign chief, Paul Manafort, when he worked there as a political consultant.
Before the latest election, Mr. Giuliani met with Ukraine’s top prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, according to a person familiar with the matter. Mr. Lutsenko told Mr. Giuliani he thought there were unanswered questions about the role of the former vice president’s son, Hunter Biden, at Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings Ltd., where he had accepted a board seat in 2014, this person said. No allegations of wrongdoing about Hunter Biden have been made public, and Mr. Lutsenko has since said there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden or his son.
Mr. Zelensky, seen at his inauguration, was previously famous for his television sitcom role as a history teacher who accidentally becomes president. Photo: sergey dolzhenko/EPA/Shutterstock
Messrs. Trump and Giuliani have alleged that the senior Mr. Biden helped lobby for the ouster of a previous Ukrainian prosecutor to protect his son from an investigation. That prosecutor was dismissed by parliament in the face of a broad criticism by Western countries for not being tough enough on corruption. Mr. Biden has called the accusations against him lies and distortions.
After Mr. Zelensky’s election on April 21, Mr. Giuliani announced his plans to come to Kyiv, press his investigation and meet the new president.
After the new administration demurred, Mr. Giuliani told Fox News in May that the new president had surrounded himself with “a group of people that are enemies of the president…in some cases enemies of the United States.”
Mr. Giuliani took aim in particular at Serhiy Leshchenko, an adviser to Mr. Zelensky who publicized financial documents purported to relate to Mr. Manafort, who was later convicted and jailed for 7½ years on tax and bank fraud, among other crimes. Mr. Leshchenko, a former journalist, said he left Mr. Zelensky’s team to reduce the chance of provoking the ire of Mr. Trump and his allies.
After his election, Mr. Zelensky got a congratulatory phone call from Mr. Trump, who made general reference to the need to fight corruption in Ukraine, without mentioning Mr. Biden or Mr. Giuliani, according to people close to the situation.
There were signs of possible displeasure. Mr. Zelensky’s team was told Mr. Pence would attend his inauguration. Instead, he got Mr. Perry, a cabinet member relatively low in the pecking order.
At the start of his administration, Mr. Zelensky’s administration was eager to clinch a White House summit to show Washington’s support. Mr. Zelensky’s administration was hoping for a quick turnaround, and aides were aiming for a June or July meeting.
“Zelensky was a bit offended; he was asking, ‘Why is it not happening?’” an official close to the situation said.
Before Mr. Zelensky’s inauguration in May, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent advised members of the incoming team around the president to avoid making Mr. Giuliani any promises, according to people in the U.S. and Ukraine.
Formal diplomatic channels were soon disrupted. Mr. Trump fired the U.S. ambassador in Kyiv, Marie Yovanovitch, whom Mr. Trump would later call “bad news” in a phone call with the Ukrainian president. Mr. Trump ordered her removal after months of complaints from allies outside the administration, including Mr. Giuliani, that she was undermining him abroad and obstructing efforts to persuade Kyiv to investigate the Bidens, The Wall Street Journal has previously reported.
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was pushed out after complaints from Trump allies, including Mr. Giuliani. Photo: Mikhail Palinchak/Associated Press
Ms. Yovanovitch didn’t respond to requests for comment. People close to her disputed that she did anything wrong and defended her work.
Kurt Volker, then the U.S. government’s special representative to Ukraine, began laying the groundwork for a longer phone call between Messrs. Trump and Zelensky, where it was clear to participants that Mr. Giuliani’s investigations would be on the agenda.
After having breakfast with Mr. Giuliani in July, Mr. Volker messaged U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, another political appointee under Mr. Trump.
“Most impt is for Zelensky to say that he will help investigation—and address any specific personnel issues—if there are any,” Mr. Volker said in the text, which was released this week by Congressional Democrats.
Unbeknown to Mr. Zelensky’s team, a fresh blow had already landed on U.S.-Ukrainian ties. In July, Mr. Trump asked his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to place $391 million in aid to Ukraine on hold.
If Washington intended to deliver a message, it didn’t land. Mr. Zelensky had no ambassador in Washington, and other channels of communication had broken down. As they prepared for a promised phone call with Mr. Trump, the Ukrainians were in the dark about one of the most crucial pillars of U.S. support.
On the morning of July 25, hours ahead of the phone call between the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents, Mr. Volker reached out to senior aide Andriy Yermak with advice on how to navigate the call.
“Heard from the White House—assuming President Z convinces Trump he will investigate/”get to the bottom of what happened” in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to Washington,” he wrote.
On the Ukrainian side, advisers weighed in on how to handle the U.S. president. One official suggested Mr. Zelensky tell President Trump that he is draining the swamp in Ukraine, a reference to a popular Trump refrain.
The 40-minute conversation ended with Mr. Zelensky mentioning he stayed “at the Trump Tower” and promising President Trump he would look into the Burisma case and talk to Mr. Giuliani.
When the Ukrainian leader hung up the phone, many of those huddled around him were jubilant. One flashed a thumbs up.
“Phone call went well,” Mr. Yermak texted Mr. Volker, adding that Mr. Trump had asked Mr. Zelensky to choose dates for a White House visit, according to the messages released by Congress. The Ukrainian side responded with Sept. 20-22.
Andriy Yermak, the Zelensky aide who met Mr. Giuliani in Madrid. Photo: nemesh yanosh/EPA/Shutterstock
Little more than a week later, Kyiv followed up on its promise to meet with Mr. Giuliani, sending Mr. Yermak, the Zelensky adviser, to Madrid for a meeting. In an interview, Mr. Giuliani described Mr. Yermak as “very receptive” to their conversation. Mr. Yermak told Mr. Giuliani the Ukrainian president didn’t want to get embroiled in U.S. politics, a person familiar with the conversation said.
Days after the Madrid meeting, Mr. Yermak texted Mr. Volker to say that once a date for a Washington summit was set, the Zelensky administration could announce a “vision for the reboot of US-UKRAINE relationship.” That relationship, he wrote, would include “Burisma and election meddling in investigations.”
The two sides couldn’t agree on the language of an announcement. On Aug. 16, Mr. Yermak shared a draft of a statement on those topics with Mr. Volker, according to Mr. Volker’s testimony to the House released this week. The draft didn’t mention Burisma or the 2016 elections. Mr. Giuliani pushed back, and the U.S. side emphasized the need to include those references. Ultimately, Mr. Yermak rejected it, saying Ukraine didn’t want to be seen as intervening in the 2020 U.S. elections.
When news broke that Mr. Trump had blocked hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid for Ukraine, stunned officials in Kyiv frantically called contacts in the State Department and the Pentagon to learn the reason.
Some Ukrainian officials surmised that there may have been a technical budgetary reason for the holdup. Others thought it could be that the U.S. is halting foreign aid in general. And some thought it was a personal decision of Mr. Trump.
Vice President Mike Pence, center and Mr. Zelensky, left. The Ukrainians had expected Mr. Pence at attend the presidential inauguration. Photo: UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
The revelations about the July phone call and the release of a rough transcript by the White House caught Mr. Zelensky’s team by surprise. He later said publicly he thought only Mr. Trump’s side of their call would be published.
Earlier this month, while seated next to Mr. Trump during a press conference, Mr. Zelensky said that he didn’t feel pressured by Mr. Trump.
“Only my son, who is 6 years old, can put pressure on me,” Mr. Zelensky said.
With Ukraine now thrust firmly into the middle of a partisan fight in Washington, the Ukrainian president and his team are playing for time. Ukraine’s prosecutor general announced this week it would look at a number of investigations that had been closed under previous administrations, including 15 connected to the owner of Burisma and others. Mr. Biden wasn’t mentioned by name.
The prosecutor stressed that the reviews weren’t connected to political pressure and that the move was part of a broader evaluation of what his predecessors had done in the past.
“Now, they are confused, don’t want to take sides,” said the adviser to Mr. Zelensky’s administration. “They are asking everybody what to do.”
Write to Alan Cullison at alan.cullison@wsj.com, Georgi Kantchev at georgi.kantchev@wsj.com, Thomas Grove at thomas.grove@wsj.com and James Marson at james.marson@wsj.com
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Not remembering where (sorry) but I heard one report that Zelensky's principal backer (oligarch?) now owns Burisma. Can we confirm or deny this?
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https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/03/tucker-and-patel-truth-about-impeachment/?fbclid=IwAR1EaA_vB36JFC-_1bM0gL4ORPAQRDBciBWK4UMOOGG0UWy8AHkWKM77gW8
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Thumbs up:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/06/mcconnell-vows-kill-democrat-impeachment-effort-senate/
maybe we need to add an impeachment thread?
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Looking for citations of Dems telling Ukes whom not to prosecute.
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again :
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/05/judge-trump-records-foreign-leaders-031255
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https://amp.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3031632/joe-bidens-son-listed-director-china-backed-equity-firm?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR073GNGYXkEipiqSKMrLWrW2i0a5jaQ8dTUdiU0rk8EI0ZGpd-1wVoVxBw
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Let's remember that this thread is Biden-China too:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-adviser-claims-chinese-gave-him-quite-a-bit-of-background-on-hunter-biden/
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as well as his son as well as his son's friend
yet when they all golf together just ask about the kids and grandkids....
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/10/10/joe-biden-was-paid-900000-by-burisma-n2554546
But Cuomo's kid will say this proves nothing .
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Ukraine Will Get the Truth on Corruption
Our alliance with the U.S. depends on answering questions about the Bidens and election interference.
By Valentyn Nalyvaichenko
Oct. 10, 2019 6:19 pm ET
The building of the prosecutor general in Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct. 4. Photo: Str/Zuma Press
The U.S. and Ukraine are wrapped together in a crisis, and the future of our partnership depends on us finally getting to the facts. As a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, one of my country’s foremost national security experts, and a leader of our fight against corruption, I know discovering the truth is the first step toward any acceptable resolution.
Serious allegations have been made in the U.S. and Ukraine, including that Ukrainian government officials and organizations assisted Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016 and that Burisma, a major Ukrainian gas company, hired Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, for cynical purposes. Regardless of the implications of these charges within American politics, Ukraine has a responsibility to investigate them completely and transparently.
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First, as I have insisted for more than two years, we must resolve the allegation that Ukrainian officials interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. If we find that Ukrainian laws were broken, the perpetrators here must be prosecuted swiftly, to the fullest extent of the law.
Second, Ukraine must resolve the allegations regarding Burisma. As the former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, our version of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, I know there are many accusations of corruption against this company.
It isn’t clear whether Ukrainian officials meddled in the American election, but Parliament must find out. We also do not know if Hunter Biden was complicit in Burisma’s alleged corruption, or why he was appointed to the board of a Ukrainian company. The allegation that Burisma arranged its relationship to the younger Mr. Biden by donating to a U.S. think tank is merely a small part of the larger question about its activities.
There is no way to know if crimes were committed unless the Ukrainian government investigates all allegations properly and transparently. It is imperative for our country and our place in global society that corruption at the top is dealt with seriously, with no one placed above the law.
That is why I am proposing that all parties in the new Ukrainian Parliament, which took office a month ago, join in an investigation to discover exactly what took place with Burisma and the 2016 U.S. elections.
In Ukraine, members of our national parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, are obliged to pursue the truth vigorously in these matters. There must be no diplomatic hangover from corruption crimes committed before the current government was seated. After all, the old government is long gone.
Since we won our freedom in 1991, Ukraine has worked closely with the U.S. to develop a world-class democracy. With Western support we have come a very long way. We have further to go, and one of the steps we must take is to prove we are trusted partners in the global fight against corruption.
When crimes are committed, it is vital that the criminals are brought to justice. We must act.
Only when our two great nations recognize the necessity for strategic partnership and work together in pursuit of justice can we assure that this never happens again.
Mr. Nalyvaichenko is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament. He served as head of the Security Service of Ukraine from 2006-10 and 2014-15.
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Why does Judicial Watch have to go to court to get this info?
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Tom Fitton: JW Files Lawsuits on Biden Ukraine-China Scandal; JW Battles in Court to Question Clinton; Trump Boots China From U.S. Port
Judicial Watch Files Two More Lawsuits on Biden Ukraine-China Scandal
Our government doesn’t assume that every business investment opportunity is good for our country, and so there are checks in place, including something called the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). CFIUS is commissioned to review “transactions involving foreign investment in the U.S. to determine the effect of such transactions on the national security of the United States.”
What does CFIUS know about Hunter Biden’s questionable overseas ventures? The agency is playing its cards close to the vest. So we are suing the State and Treasury Departments for information on CFIUS’ handling of investments in the U.S. by two companies tied to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The companies are Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings and China’s Bohai Harvest RST (BHR).
We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the departments failed to respond to June 24, 2019, FOIA requests for CFIUS records related to investments by the Ukrainian company Burisma Holdings LTD or any of its affiliated entities and records related to investments by the Chinese company Bohai Harvest RST or any of its affiliated entities (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:19-cv-02960)), (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of the Treasury (No. 1:19-cv-02961).
Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden, is reported to be one of nine directors of BHR Partners, which was registered 12 days after the vice president’s son, in December 2013, flew to Beijing aboard Air Force Two, while his father made an official visit as vice president. Hunter Biden, then-chairman of the private equity firm Rosemont Seneca, reportedly signed a deal with the Chinese government-owned Bank of China to set up the BHR $1 billion joint venture investment fund.
In 2015, BHR Partners participated in a $600 million buyout of Michigan automotive-suspension-systems maker Henniges Automotive. Henniges produces anti-vibration technologies which have important military uses, particularly in military aircraft.
In April 2014, Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings, one of the Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies. Hunter was reportedly paid $50,000 a month to, in the words of a Burmisa news release, “provide support for the Company among international organizations." Biden has denied that was his role.
In 2015, Viktor Shokin, Ukraine’s prosecutor general, launched an investigation into allegedly corrupt practices by Burisma. Shokin was ousted in 2016. And in a widely distributed 2018 video, Joe Biden confirmed that he had successfully pressured the Ukrainian government, under threat of withholding $1 billion in U.S. government aid, to fire Shokin. (In September, we sued the State Department for records about the firing of Ukraine’s top prosecutor after then-Vice President Joe Biden threatened to withhold aid.)
The Commerce Department recently barred over two dozen Chinese companies from doing business in the U.S., one of which is reported to be Megvii Technology, an artificial intelligence company focused on developing facial recognition technology. BHR Partners owns a stake in Megvii.
Have no doubt: We will continue to press for information to get to the bottom of this influence-peddling scandal involving Joe Biden and his son. As Congress is obsessed with attacking President Trump, it is again up to us to do the basic investigative work on this growing scandal.
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https://www.newsweek.com/video-joe-hunter-biden-corruption-resurfaces-1464726
This video has been circulating the last couple of days. I couldn't figure why a lefty anchor was being so tough on Biden. Only one possible answer. He was doing the work of another Democrat candidate. Most likely Hillary Clinton was trying to clear the field, fed a corruption question on her opponent to the media. How ironic. And now it helps Trump.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/opinion/sunday/ukraine-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/opinion/sunday/ukraine-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
"But if you believe Giuliani, the black ledger was part of a plot to damage Trump."
- No one is asked to believe Rudy. He is giving a heads up of reports coming. Take with grain of salt but I would add, his record of accuracy and honesty is better than hers *.
"This addled, through-the-looking glass fantasy came to drive American foreign policy in Ukraine. Trump withdrew the American ambassador to the country, Marie Yovanovitch, whom reformers saw as their champion."
- Switching ambassadors alone is a non-event, and which people are the "reformers"? If the let-go ambassador knows something relevant, speak up, but her story is that she doesn't accept that she served at the pleasure of the President even though it was in her contract.
"He withheld military aid that Ukraine desperately needed, while asking Zelensky to do him a “favor” and investigate deranged fictions about Ukrainian interference in American elections."
- Goldberg ties these events together. That doesn't make them tied together. Reuters reported aid was held up related to the Chinese purchase of a Ukraine company and others reported the President of Ukraine didn't know aid was held up. Hardly quid pro quo. She says fiction on the interference charge. We don't know about that. Sounds like someone is desperate to set their own narrative before facts come out.
"...as well as Joe Biden and his son, Hunter."
- These are the most visible and influential people caught up in the corruption. Does the author think it should not be investigated if the names were Mike Pence and son or Donald Trump and son?
"...defamed by powerful forces in the United States, once the world’s strongest backer of those fighting for democracy in his country."
- Umm, the US was a not "the world's stronger backer of those fighting for democracy in his country" under Trump's predecessor when Crimea was taken.
"Here in Ukraine, a country locked in a proxy war with Russia, coping with a deluge of disinformation and propaganda and struggling to transcend a history of corruption, reformers are trying to figure out what it means when the American president sides against them."
- Mentioned above, they did not have a US ally before Trump.
I think if you check the email and phone log and you will find Biden campaign fingerprints on this misdirection play. We already know that's how they plant stories and narratives.
I have plenty of time to wait for facts to come out and am happy to have Mike Pence assume the Presidency is Donald Trump is caught committing high crimes and misdemeanors. So far no crime by Trump - or she wouldn't be writing about a change of Ambassadors in the Ukraine.
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* Same author, pre-Mueller report Jan 19 2018:
"Is this the collusion we are waiting for?"
[Attn NYT: The rest of us aren't waiting for any collusion.]
"..one of those episodes that is easy to lose track of amid the avalanche of evidence connecting the Trump administration and Russia."
[Ooops, no "avalanche".
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/opinion/nra-russia-investigation-trump.html
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https://www.theblaze.com/glenn-tv/alexandria-chalupa-dnc-ukraine?utm_content=buffer16026&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=fb-glennbeck&fbclid=IwAR0Qlp35SHv0Thgyf7TOnPCXA1YOXEL-QB0PPholqhOvsaukntLBWMB3O90
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second post
https://www.judicialwatch.org/uncategorized/breaking-jw-investigates-if-ousted-ukraine-ambassador-ordered-state-dept-to-monitor-journalists-trump-allies/
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/hunter-biden-comprehensive-timeline/
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https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/17/hunter-biden-burisma-ukraine-china/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10543
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"That is my impeachment thought: Nobody knows where this is going"
"Everything, the entire outcome, will depend on public opinion"
https://dogbrothers.com/phpBB2/index.php?topic=2746.msg119670#msg119670
- And the pols and media mis-measurement and mis-interpret public opinion all the time, making the outcome even more unknown to all sides.
Democrats are pleasing their base with this inquiry. Today they "interview" an aide to VP Mike Pence in closed session [Pence was on the phone call] setting up a first in American history, impeach and try to remove the Pres and VP in one trial. I wonder if Nancy Pelosi will recuse herself from the vote. Maybe she will pick Adam Schiff to be her VP, the man who made it all possible! They won't need fauxcahontas if they already hold the White House.
Then there is the other outcome: This blows up in their face. Trump Pence (and Senate) are reelected along with a new Republican House, Trump gets two more Supreme Court picks, China caves, spending is cut, entitlements reformed, the budget gets balanced and the 9th Circuit becomes known as one of the most conservative courts in the land.
All because Democrats overplayed their hand. )
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OR Pelosi
the rest in line or all Republicans:
Current order
The table below details the current presidential order of succession as established by the 1947 presidential succession statute as amended.[1][2] The order is determined by the offices. However, the individual in an office must still satisfy the constitutional requirements for the office in order to serve as acting president.[3] In the table, the absence of a number in the first column indicates that the incumbent is ineligible, and an italicized number indicates that the incumbent's eligibility is uncertain. In such cases, a note explains the detail.
No. Office Incumbent Party
1 Vice President Mike Pence Republican
2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi Democratic
3 President pro tempore of the Senate Chuck Grassley Republican
4 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Republican
5 Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin Republican
6 Secretary of Defense Mark Esper Republican
7 Attorney General William Barr Republican
8 Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt Republican
9 Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue Republican
10 Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross Republican
11 Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia Republican
12 Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar Republican
13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson Republican
— Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao[A] Republican
14 Secretary of Energy Rick Perry Republican
15 Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Republican
16 Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie Republican
17 Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan Independent
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Besides Mike Pence, one person on that list has an interest and chance of being a future President. Mike Pompeo.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/grassley-johnson-call-on-state-dept-to-release-documents-pertaining-to-hunter-biden-and-burisma/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=18552596
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https://www.judicialwatch.org/tom-fittons-weekly-update/coup-update-schiff-show-trial-set-wheres-the-whistleblower-more/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=action+alert&utm_term=members&utm_content=20191110075717
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https://www.westernjournal.com/eric-ciaramella-linked-soros-foundation-informed-soros-movements-asked-anticipate-particular-problems/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=empowerconservatives&fbclid=IwAR0_3VeRjsCtA6BmtpI_jViVeBAqNII0yi8HdHaF6pHaS4sJuSt3BBpmwPs
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second post
https://pjmedia.com/trending/dna-test-confirms-hunter-biden-cheated-on-his-dead-brothers-widow/
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second post
https://pjmedia.com/trending/dna-test-confirms-hunter-biden-cheated-on-his-dead-brothers-widow/
You can't make this stuff up.
If you were pro-abortion and hindsight 20/20, which of these people do you abort?
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Why does ANYONE get federal loan guarantees? And if anyone gets federal loan guarantees, know that the politically connected will get disproportionately more, cf. Bidens, Venezuela.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/hunter-biden-linked-company-received-130m-in-special-federal-loans-while-joe-biden-was-vp?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/21/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=12167
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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/sheep-during-reset-lions-now/
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second post
https://pjmedia.com/trending/dna-test-confirms-hunter-biden-cheated-on-his-dead-brothers-widow/
Get this guy on our board of directors NOW! Spare no expense!
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/jun/20/paternity-suit-lists-bidens-son-49/
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/so_hunter_biden_followed_his_dad_around_to_romania_too.html?fbclid=IwAR2n0cpqPepWvOJWJ6Kn4X-_G5StCXoBjkcii3b0am8kTHemDmVYH_R9CME
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/so_hunter_biden_followed_his_dad_around_to_romania_too.html?fbclid=IwAR2n0cpqPepWvOJWJ6Kn4X-_G5StCXoBjkcii3b0am8kTHemDmVYH_R9CME
https://www.pacificpundit.com/2019/10/15/hunter-biden-got-1-76-million-from-tax-payer-funded-amtrak-media-silent/
Bush appointed him to the board! How does that work?!
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/03/giuliani_i_have_documents_showing_ukrainian_collusion_with_top_democrats.html?fbclid=IwAR2RAkeqZ2ETAeakv2zv4T08pVgljiY1iuo3Tnyhy29nB33HmgBxH1jprHY
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Second post
https://bongino.com/family-ties-firm-linked-to-hunter-biden-given-130m-in-fed-loans-while-dad-was-vp/?fbclid=IwAR20vwH-r_0QsPtfx22LCgHCcruH9eyQ7vhOmErmoGrKXCPNMdtx_e6V7aw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=tbFAxr-sCRE&feature=emb_logo
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7740665/Hunter-Biden-requests-Protective-Order-seal-financial-records-amid-child-support-suit.html
second post
https://pjmedia.com/trending/dna-test-confirms-hunter-biden-cheated-on-his-dead-brothers-widow/
Get this guy on our board of directors NOW! Spare no expense!
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/jun/20/paternity-suit-lists-bidens-son-49/
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Did Obama-Appointed Ukraine Ambassador Intervene to Help Anti-Trump Ukraine Group?
As the coup abuse against President Trump accelerates, Judicial Watch focuses on the real Ukraine collusion scandal. We just sued the State Department for documents related to a reported “untouchables list” given by former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch to Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko in late 2016 (Judicial Watch vs. U.S. Department of State) (No. 1:19-cv-03563).
Lutsenko recently told The New York Times that Yovanovitch “pressed him not to prosecute anti-corruption activists.” Lutsenko previously reportedly said the do-not-prosecute list included a founder of the Ukraine group Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC), which was funded by George Soros foundations and the U.S. federal government, and two members of the Ukrainian Parliament who vocally supported the Soros group’s agenda:
The implied message to Ukraine’s prosecutors was clear: Don’t target AntAC in the middle of an American presidential election in which Soros was backing Hillary Clinton to succeed another Soros favorite, Barack Obama, Ukrainian officials said.
Recently, Rudy Giuliani stated that AntAC “was co-funded by the Obama administration and far-left billionaire financier George Soros,” and “was ironically under investigation for alleged corruption, namely a ‘misplaced’ $4.4 million in U.S. funds designated to ‘fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic,’ during the 2016 presidential election in America.”
Amb. Yovanovitch, who was recalled from her Ukraine post in May of this year by President Donald Trump, was a key witness for Democrats last month in their public impeachment hearings. Yovanovitch denied providing any do-not-prosecute “list.”
We filed our FOIA lawsuit here in DC after the State Department failed to respond to our September 24, 2019, FOIA request for:
• All records of communication between the Department of State and any representative of the Ukrainian government regarding any actual or proposed investigation or prosecution of the AntAC; the International Renaissance Foundation [Open Society Foundations’ office in Ukraine]; and/or Transparency International.
• All records concerning any meeting or telephonic conversation between former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.
• All records related to the list of individuals and entities provided to Lutsenko by Yovanovitch in late 2016.
Amb. Yovanovitch is on our radar for a number of issues. On October 9, 2019, we filed a FOIA request for State Department records related to the possibly illegal collection of information by Yovanovitch on prominent conservative figures, journalists and persons with ties to President Donald Trump.
Reports suggest that the Ukrainian Embassy was a hotbed of anti-Trump, Deep State activism and tried to promote and protect leftist allies in Ukraine and the United States. As the coup attack on President Trump continues, this new federal lawsuit is designed to get to the real truth of the Deep State’s games in Ukraine.
Judicial Watch Sues for Key Docs Of Deep State Official At Center of Latest Coup Attack on Trump
It’s all too easy for our intelligence agencies, acting behind their curtains of secrecy, to abuse their power. Fortunately, Judicial Watch takes them to court to get to the truth. One Deep State player in particular was likely up to no good, and we’re going to find out.
We have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department for communications records of Michael K. Atkinson – former Assistant Attorney General in DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD) from 2016 to 2018 and currently Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG).
The records we are seeking are regarding Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment and/or presidential impeachment. We’re also seeking all emails and text messages of Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) and members of Schiff’s staff.
We sued after the Justice Department failed to respond to our October 1, 2019, FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-03566)). We asked for:
• All emails (whether on .gov or non-.gov email accounts) and text messages sent to or from former Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General Michael K. Atkinson regarding Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, and/or presidential impeachment.
• All emails and text messages between former Senior Counsel Atkinson and Representative Adam Schiff or any member of Mr. Schiff’s staff.
• All travel requests, travel authorizations and expense reports of former Senior Counsel Atkinson
• All calendar entries of former Senior Counsel Atkinson.
• All SF50s and SF52s of former Senior Counsel Atkinson.
The NSD falls under the direct supervision of the assistant attorney general.
During Atkinson’s tenure at NSD, he was senior legal counsel, first to NSD head John Carlin (Robert Mueller's former chief of staff when Mueller directed the FBI) and later to acting NSD head Mary McCord. McCord accompanied then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates to see White House Counsel Don McGahn regarding Michael Flynn.
During the period Atkinson was legal advisor to Carlin and later McCord, the FISA court found there was “significant non-compliance with the NSA’s minimization procedures involving queries of data,” otherwise known as spying, under the Obama Administration. Additionally, during this period, DOJ-NSD was working in coordination with the FBI Counterintelligence Unit on Operation Crossfire Hurricane, which included former FBI officials Bill Priestap, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. Page was the intermediary between FBI Counterintelligence and DOJ-NSD.
Since becoming Inspector General, Atkinson also has come under scrutiny for his handling of the so-called “whistleblower” complaint raising concerns about President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, which became the basis for the ongoing impeachment proceedings against Trump:
• Atkinson changed the standing practice of requiring whistleblowers to present firsthand information in order to have their complaint considered both “credible” and “of urgent concern” for submission under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act.
• After receiving the complaint and a recommendation from Atkinson that it be referred to Congress, the DNI refused to forward the complaint because, based on an opinion of the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel, “The complaint submitted to the ICIG does not involve an ‘urgent concern.’” In testimony before Congress, Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, said the complaint was essentially “hearsay” and not “corroborated by other folks.”
• After the existence of the whistleblower was leaked to the press, Atkinson told Congress he was unaware the whistleblower had first gone around him to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and his staff with his complaint before submitting it to the IG’s office.
After listening to Atkinson testify about the whistleblower behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee on October 4, ranking Republican committee member Republican Devin Nunes (R-CA) said of him:
[The ICIG is] either totally incompetent or part of the deep state, and he’s got a lot of questions he needs to answer because he knowingly changed the form and the requirements in order to make sure that this whistleblower complaint got out publicly. So, he’s either incompetent or in on it … he’s either a quack or he’s lying … and he’s going to have more to answer for, I can promise you, because we are not going to let him go; he is going to tell the truth about what happened.
Rep. Adam Schiff has yet to release Atkinson’s testimony.
Atkinson has been a key Deep State official involved with questionable and abusive investigations of President Trump. As Adam Schiff keeps Atkinson’s testimony on the impeachment attack on President Trump secret, we’re going to court for transparency under the law.
Court Tells FBI It Can’t Hide Records about FBI-Clinton Lawyer Meeting on Russia
The Justice Department wanted to pretend that a meeting between an FBI official and a Clinton lawyer didn’t happen, telling Judicial Watch that they would “neither confirm nor deny” it. And the DOJ wanted a U.S. District Court to go along. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg wasn’t having any of it.
The judge denied the effort to block the release of communications between former FBI General Counsel James Baker and Michael Sussmann, a Perkins Coie law partner and former DOJ attorney, who reportedly met with Baker to share information targeting Donald J. Trump during the presidential campaign.
While at Perkins Coie, Sussmann represented the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s campaign during the time Perkins Coie secretly paid for the development of the anti-Trump dossier the DOJ used to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. The court specifically rejected the FBI’s argument that it needed to protect the “privacy” of Hillary Clinton’s lawyer.
Baker testified before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees that he received documents as well as computer storage devices on Russian hacking from Sussmann. The Mueller report, however, concluded that there was no evidence that the Trump campaign improperly colluded with Russia.
In March 2019, Judicial Watch filed suit after the FBI failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request dated October 5, 2018 (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00573)). The lawsuit seeks:
• Any and all records of communication between former FBI General Counsel James Baker and former Department of Justice attorney and current Perkins Coie Partner Michael Sussmann.
• Any and all records created in preparation for, during, and/or pursuant to any meeting between Mr. Baker and Mr. Sussmann.
• Any and all calendars, agendas, or similar records, either in paper or electronic format, documenting the schedule and activities of Mr. Baker.
The FBI would neither confirm nor deny the existence of records. Judicial Watch successfully argued that:
[T]he sworn testimony of Baker, the former FBI general counsel, confirms that Sussmann was sharing the same documents with the media.… Rather than privacy, this confirms that Sussmann was seeking to obtain attention for his activities. Hence, this is far from a typical case … Sussmann had no expectation of ‘personal privacy,’ as he was actively seeking publicity for himself and the information he wanted to share.
In any event, the public interest in disclosure of the existence of records is manifest.
Judge Boasberg ruled:
“[A]ny risk of invasion [of privacy] evaporated once Baker publicly testified that he had received documents from Sussmann, as well as met with and spoken to him on multiple occasions in 2016.”
In October, Baker testified before the U.S. House Judiciary and Oversight committees in October 2018, where he stated: “It was like — my recollection was it was a stack of material I don’t know maybe a quarter inch half inch thick something like that clipped together, and then I believe there was some type of electronic media, as well, a disk or something.”
In his testimony Baker acknowledged that Sussmann’s information related to the FBI’s Trump–Russia investigation. He also testified that Sussmann had shared the same information with the media, stating that Sussmann had told him “some elements of the press had this information as well and were going to publish something about it.”
In August, another federal court judge rejected FBI efforts to protect of the privacy of Clinton spy Christopher Steele and ordered the FBI to conduct a search for certain records about Steele’s work with the FBI during the Mueller investigation.
The FBI is corruptly trying to keep secret documents to protect those behind the Russiagate smears of President Trump. Two federal courts have now rejected the FBI’s desperate attempts to hide the details of its anti-Trump conspiracy with Hillary Clinton’s Fusion GPS-FBI spy operation. Why is Director Wray allowing the corrupt cover up the FBI’s Russiagate collusions with the Clinton gang?
Judicial Watch previously obtained heavily redacted copies of FISA warrants used by the Obama-era DOJ to spy on the Trump campaign, which seem to confirm the FBI and DOJ misled the courts in withholding the material information that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC were behind the “intelligence” used to persuade the courts to approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team. One of the FISA warrant renewals was granted in June 2017 and did not expire until September 2017, some eight months after President Trump assumed office.
I’ll be sure to let you know about any major revelations as more documents come in.
Until next week …
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Did Obama-Appointed Ukraine Ambassador Intervene to Help Anti-Trump Ukraine Group?
As the coup abuse against President Trump accelerates, Judicial Watch focuses on the real Ukraine collusion scandal. We just sued the State Department for documents related to a reported “untouchables list” given by former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch to Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko in late 2016 (Judicial Watch vs. U.S. Department of State) (No. 1:19-cv-03563).
Lutsenko recently told The New York Times that Yovanovitch “pressed him not to prosecute anti-corruption activists.” Lutsenko previously reportedly said the do-not-prosecute list included a founder of the Ukraine group Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC), which was funded by George Soros foundations and the U.S. federal government, and two members of the Ukrainian Parliament who vocally supported the Soros group’s agenda:
The implied message to Ukraine’s prosecutors was clear: Don’t target AntAC in the middle of an American presidential election in which Soros was backing Hillary Clinton to succeed another Soros favorite, Barack Obama, Ukrainian officials said.
Recently, Rudy Giuliani stated that AntAC “was co-funded by the Obama administration and far-left billionaire financier George Soros,” and “was ironically under investigation for alleged corruption, namely a ‘misplaced’ $4.4 million in U.S. funds designated to ‘fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic,’ during the 2016 presidential election in America.”
Amb. Yovanovitch, who was recalled from her Ukraine post in May of this year by President Donald Trump, was a key witness for Democrats last month in their public impeachment hearings. Yovanovitch denied providing any do-not-prosecute “list.”
We filed our FOIA lawsuit here in DC after the State Department failed to respond to our September 24, 2019, FOIA request for:
• All records of communication between the Department of State and any representative of the Ukrainian government regarding any actual or proposed investigation or prosecution of the AntAC; the International Renaissance Foundation [Open Society Foundations’ office in Ukraine]; and/or Transparency International.
• All records concerning any meeting or telephonic conversation between former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.
• All records related to the list of individuals and entities provided to Lutsenko by Yovanovitch in late 2016.
Amb. Yovanovitch is on our radar for a number of issues. On October 9, 2019, we filed a FOIA request for State Department records related to the possibly illegal collection of information by Yovanovitch on prominent conservative figures, journalists and persons with ties to President Donald Trump.
Reports suggest that the Ukrainian Embassy was a hotbed of anti-Trump, Deep State activism and tried to promote and protect leftist allies in Ukraine and the United States. As the coup attack on President Trump continues, this new federal lawsuit is designed to get to the real truth of the Deep State’s games in Ukraine.
Judicial Watch Sues for Key Docs Of Deep State Official At Center of Latest Coup Attack on Trump
It’s all too easy for our intelligence agencies, acting behind their curtains of secrecy, to abuse their power. Fortunately, Judicial Watch takes them to court to get to the truth. One Deep State player in particular was likely up to no good, and we’re going to find out.
We have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Justice Department for communications records of Michael K. Atkinson – former Assistant Attorney General in DOJ’s National Security Division (NSD) from 2016 to 2018 and currently Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG).
The records we are seeking are regarding Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment and/or presidential impeachment. We’re also seeking all emails and text messages of Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) and members of Schiff’s staff.
We sued after the Justice Department failed to respond to our October 1, 2019, FOIA request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-03566)). We asked for:
• All emails (whether on .gov or non-.gov email accounts) and text messages sent to or from former Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General Michael K. Atkinson regarding Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, and/or presidential impeachment.
• All emails and text messages between former Senior Counsel Atkinson and Representative Adam Schiff or any member of Mr. Schiff’s staff.
• All travel requests, travel authorizations and expense reports of former Senior Counsel Atkinson
• All calendar entries of former Senior Counsel Atkinson.
• All SF50s and SF52s of former Senior Counsel Atkinson.
The NSD falls under the direct supervision of the assistant attorney general.
During Atkinson’s tenure at NSD, he was senior legal counsel, first to NSD head John Carlin (Robert Mueller's former chief of staff when Mueller directed the FBI) and later to acting NSD head Mary McCord. McCord accompanied then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates to see White House Counsel Don McGahn regarding Michael Flynn.
During the period Atkinson was legal advisor to Carlin and later McCord, the FISA court found there was “significant non-compliance with the NSA’s minimization procedures involving queries of data,” otherwise known as spying, under the Obama Administration. Additionally, during this period, DOJ-NSD was working in coordination with the FBI Counterintelligence Unit on Operation Crossfire Hurricane, which included former FBI officials Bill Priestap, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. Page was the intermediary between FBI Counterintelligence and DOJ-NSD.
Since becoming Inspector General, Atkinson also has come under scrutiny for his handling of the so-called “whistleblower” complaint raising concerns about President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, which became the basis for the ongoing impeachment proceedings against Trump:
• Atkinson changed the standing practice of requiring whistleblowers to present firsthand information in order to have their complaint considered both “credible” and “of urgent concern” for submission under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act.
• After receiving the complaint and a recommendation from Atkinson that it be referred to Congress, the DNI refused to forward the complaint because, based on an opinion of the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel, “The complaint submitted to the ICIG does not involve an ‘urgent concern.’” In testimony before Congress, Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, said the complaint was essentially “hearsay” and not “corroborated by other folks.”
• After the existence of the whistleblower was leaked to the press, Atkinson told Congress he was unaware the whistleblower had first gone around him to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and his staff with his complaint before submitting it to the IG’s office.
After listening to Atkinson testify about the whistleblower behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee on October 4, ranking Republican committee member Republican Devin Nunes (R-CA) said of him:
[The ICIG is] either totally incompetent or part of the deep state, and he’s got a lot of questions he needs to answer because he knowingly changed the form and the requirements in order to make sure that this whistleblower complaint got out publicly. So, he’s either incompetent or in on it … he’s either a quack or he’s lying … and he’s going to have more to answer for, I can promise you, because we are not going to let him go; he is going to tell the truth about what happened.
Rep. Adam Schiff has yet to release Atkinson’s testimony.
Atkinson has been a key Deep State official involved with questionable and abusive investigations of President Trump. As Adam Schiff keeps Atkinson’s testimony on the impeachment attack on President Trump secret, we’re going to court for transparency under the law.
Court Tells FBI It Can’t Hide Records about FBI-Clinton Lawyer Meeting on Russia
The Justice Department wanted to pretend that a meeting between an FBI official and a Clinton lawyer didn’t happen, telling Judicial Watch that they would “neither confirm nor deny” it. And the DOJ wanted a U.S. District Court to go along. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg wasn’t having any of it.
The judge denied the effort to block the release of communications between former FBI General Counsel James Baker and Michael Sussmann, a Perkins Coie law partner and former DOJ attorney, who reportedly met with Baker to share information targeting Donald J. Trump during the presidential campaign.
While at Perkins Coie, Sussmann represented the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s campaign during the time Perkins Coie secretly paid for the development of the anti-Trump dossier the DOJ used to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. The court specifically rejected the FBI’s argument that it needed to protect the “privacy” of Hillary Clinton’s lawyer.
Baker testified before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees that he received documents as well as computer storage devices on Russian hacking from Sussmann. The Mueller report, however, concluded that there was no evidence that the Trump campaign improperly colluded with Russia.
In March 2019, Judicial Watch filed suit after the FBI failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request dated October 5, 2018 (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00573)). The lawsuit seeks:
• Any and all records of communication between former FBI General Counsel James Baker and former Department of Justice attorney and current Perkins Coie Partner Michael Sussmann.
• Any and all records created in preparation for, during, and/or pursuant to any meeting between Mr. Baker and Mr. Sussmann.
• Any and all calendars, agendas, or similar records, either in paper or electronic format, documenting the schedule and activities of Mr. Baker.
The FBI would neither confirm nor deny the existence of records. Judicial Watch successfully argued that:
[T]he sworn testimony of Baker, the former FBI general counsel, confirms that Sussmann was sharing the same documents with the media.… Rather than privacy, this confirms that Sussmann was seeking to obtain attention for his activities. Hence, this is far from a typical case … Sussmann had no expectation of ‘personal privacy,’ as he was actively seeking publicity for himself and the information he wanted to share.
In any event, the public interest in disclosure of the existence of records is manifest.
Judge Boasberg ruled:
“[A]ny risk of invasion [of privacy] evaporated once Baker publicly testified that he had received documents from Sussmann, as well as met with and spoken to him on multiple occasions in 2016.”
In October, Baker testified before the U.S. House Judiciary and Oversight committees in October 2018, where he stated: “It was like — my recollection was it was a stack of material I don’t know maybe a quarter inch half inch thick something like that clipped together, and then I believe there was some type of electronic media, as well, a disk or something.”
In his testimony Baker acknowledged that Sussmann’s information related to the FBI’s Trump–Russia investigation. He also testified that Sussmann had shared the same information with the media, stating that Sussmann had told him “some elements of the press had this information as well and were going to publish something about it.”
In August, another federal court judge rejected FBI efforts to protect of the privacy of Clinton spy Christopher Steele and ordered the FBI to conduct a search for certain records about Steele’s work with the FBI during the Mueller investigation.
The FBI is corruptly trying to keep secret documents to protect those behind the Russiagate smears of President Trump. Two federal courts have now rejected the FBI’s desperate attempts to hide the details of its anti-Trump conspiracy with Hillary Clinton’s Fusion GPS-FBI spy operation. Why is Director Wray allowing the corrupt cover up the FBI’s Russiagate collusions with the Clinton gang?
Judicial Watch previously obtained heavily redacted copies of FISA warrants used by the Obama-era DOJ to spy on the Trump campaign, which seem to confirm the FBI and DOJ misled the courts in withholding the material information that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC were behind the “intelligence” used to persuade the courts to approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team. One of the FISA warrant renewals was granted in June 2017 and did not expire until September 2017, some eight months after President Trump assumed office.
I’ll be sure to let you know about any major revelations as more documents come in.
Until next week …
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Tucker had a devastating segment last night on Biden & Son working their craft with the credit card companies. Can we lay our hands on it? It's not on youtube yet , , ,
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12/16/19:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6116312324001#sp=show-clips
12/17/19:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/17/tucker_carlson_when_you_take_the_side_of_finance_over_voters_you_lose.html?src=ilaw
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Yup, thank you!
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https://pjmedia.com/trending/giuliani-says-hes-uncovered-two-major-money-laundering-bribery-schemes-involving-joe-biden-obama-admin/
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https://johnsolomonreports.com/latvian-government-says-it-flagged-suspicious-hunter-biden-payments-in-2016/
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Caveat Lector: Source Unknown
https://neonnettle.com/news/9634-husband-of-impeachment-democrat-took-700k-from-ukrainian-oligarch
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https://www.theblaze.com/glenn-radio/bombshell-rudy-giuliani-uncovers-8-year-long-money-laundering-scheme-in-ukraine-records-lead-to-burisma-bidens?utm_content=buffera3149&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=fb-theblaze
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/15b-contract-in-iraq-for-bidens-little-brother-exposes-obama-ahead-of-debate
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/ryan-robertson/2012/10/23/bidens-brother-awarded-lucrative-govt-contracts-media-silent-thus
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This could turn into a really interesting avenue to dig into Hunter, but if I have it right this will require getting through the secrecy of family court rules , , , a leak perhaps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gT5SBOo0zM
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another soap opera with a stripper :
https://pjmedia.com/trending/hunter-biden-accused-of-156m-counterfeiting-scheme-with-burisma-crowdstrike-legal-filing-claims/
If true no wonder Biden tried to cover it up.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-republicans-savaged-my-surviving-son-hunter
A witty friend comments:
"Maybe he shouldn’t smoke crack and cheat on his brother’s widow with strippers from Arkansas while taking graft payments from the most corrupt company in one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. But I digress."
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https://nypost.com/2020/01/18/how-five-members-of-joe-bidens-family-got-rich-through-his-connections/
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https://johnsolomonreports.com/joe-bidens-conspiracy-theory-memo-to-u-s-media-doesnt-match-the-facts/
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/steve-hilton-trump-hounded-biden-investigation
also see
https://www.westernjournal.com/obama-biden-admin-fined-bank-millions-something-suspiciously-similar-burisma-hiring-hunter/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=AE&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=2020-02-01
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Giuliani stocks personal website with anti-Biden content
Trump lawyer slammed as ‘thug’ for harsh rhetroric
BY ROWAN SCARBOROUGH THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Rudolph W. Giuliani has been barnstorming TV and social media in recent weeks trying to sell his findings that the Bidens are corrupt and Ukraine interfered on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
He stocks a website with podcast updates and tweets various allegations, such as on Monday: “The Biden Family Enterprise has been selling his office for years. The corrupt media has been covering up. It was handed to me and I had the courage to reveal it knowing the Swamp would try to destroy me. I served my country. They are betraying it. I will not stop.”
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is raising a caution flag. He says there’s a chance Mr. Giuliani is being played by the Russians in the same way they manipulated Christopher Steele. The ex-British intelligence officer wrote a Democratic Party-financed dossier filled with bogus allegations from the Kremlin against candidate Donald Trump that reached the FBI’s hierarchy.
But Mr. Graham, South Carolina Republican, says the actions of presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden and his son Hunter in Ukraine need scrutiny.
“I just think the media is so in the tank over this issue” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “It makes me sick to my stomach.”
The former vice president Monday repeated that his son did nothing wrong and labeled Mr. Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, a “thug.”
Besides social media, Mr. Giuliani has appeared on One America News (ONA) alongside a cast of witnesses who he says bolsters his Ukraine investigation. Over the weekend, he made two appearances on Fox News.
Laura Ingraham, host of Fox’s “The Ingraham Angle,” has touted one of Mr. Giuliani’s witnesses, Andrii Telizhenko, to talk about a Jan. 19, 2016, meeting at the Obama White House among National Security Council staffers and Ukrainian Embassy staff and prosecutors.
Mr. Telizhenko, then a member of the Ukrainian Embassy staff, is listed in the official visitors’ log. He says the Bidens’ names were brought up by NSC staff in discussing Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas firm owned by Mykola Zlochevsky.
A month before the White House-Ukraine meeting, the elder Biden, as the Obama administration’s point-man on Ukraine, had traveled to the country and demanded the regime fire top prosecutor Viktor Shokin. Mr. Biden later bragged that he told Ukrainian officials either fire Mr. Shokin or lose $1 billion in U.S. aid.
Here lies the rub. Mr. Biden said he made the demand as part of an overall anti-corruption campaign in a country bedeviled by bribes, kickbacks and money laundering. Mr. Giuliani says Mr. Biden laid down the edict to protect his son, and he cites Mr. Shokin as his witness.
Shortly after the Obama White House named Mr. Biden as overseer of Ukraine policy Hunter Biden landed a lucrative spot on Burisma’s board in April 2014. In the ensuring years, Burisma transferred more than $3 million into Hunter Biden’s investment firm, according to court records reviewed by author Peter Schweizer.
Mr. Giuliani brands the Hunter Biden financial arrangement as corrupt. He claims a document he displayed on Fox shows Burisma was laundering money from Kyiv to Latvia to Cyprus.
Mr. Telizhenko, now a political consultant, told Ms. Ingraham that the Jan. 19, 2016, White House meeting involved “people from Biden’s team.” He said he was told by embassy staff to cooperate with the Democratic National Committee to find dirt on the Trump campaign, which he says he refused.
One of Mr. Telizhenko’s first media appearances as a pro-Trump whistleblower occurred in January 2017 in a Politico article that exposed Ukraine’s pro-Hillary Clinton bent. The headline: “Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire.”
Conservatives point to the article as proof of Ukrainian interference. They say that once former the former vice president announced he was running for president last year, liberal media interest in the story waned.
The Politico story said: “Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.”
Republicans contend that one product of a Ukraine anti-Trump campaign was the so-called “black ledger” in an August 2016 New York Times story.
The ledger (actually one page from a purported ledger) was handled at some point by a member of Ukraine’s parliament. It supposedly shows secret cash transactions from the pro-Russia Party of Regions to Paul Manafort, a political consultant who became Trump campaign manager. The news story forced Manafort’s ouster.
Manafort claims the ledger is fake and there is evidence to back him up. The FBI showed what was supposed to be Manafort’s signature to his associates. They said the signature was forged. Special counsel Robert Mueller never verified the document.
As for Mr. Shokin, he filed an affidavit on behalf of Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian businessman living in Austria and facing extradition on federal criminal charges in Chicago. Mr. Shokin provided his version of his firing by then-President Petro Poroshenko.
“Poroshenko asked me to resign due to pressure form the U.S. presidential administration, in particular from Joe Biden, who was the U.S. vice president,” Mr. Shokin’s said in his affidavit, which was posted online by investigative reporter John Solomon. “The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma Holdings, a natural gas firm active in Ukraine and Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was a member of the Board of Directors.”
The probe into Burisma ended in 2016, according to House testimony in the Trump impeachment inquiry.
On “Face the Nation,” Mr. Graham, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, made several new disclosures.
Once committed to investigating the Bidens, he now says the matter is better suited to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Chairman Richard Burr, North Carolina Republican. Mr. Graham said he didn’t want to end up like Mr. Steele spreading Russia disinformation.
He said he also spoke Sunday with Attorney General William Barr, who agreed that the Justice Department would review Mr. Giuliani’s evidence.
“They told me take very cautiously anything coming out of the Ukraine against anybody,” Mr. Graham said. “Rudy says he’s got the goods. All I can tell Rudy and anybody else, if you got some information connected to the Ukraine against anybody, go to the Intel Committee, not me … If Rudy Giuliani has any information coming out of the Ukraine, he needs to turn over the Department of Justice, because it could be Russian propaganda.”
He said a genuine issue is how did Hunter Biden win a spot on the Burisma board just as his father was appointed Ukraine envoy.
“I think questions about the conflict of interest regarding Hunter Biden in the Ukraine need to be asked,” Mr. Graham said. “The State Department had warnings, and they ignored the conflict of interest. And we’re to make sure that Hunter Biden’s conflict of interest is explored, because it’s legitimate. How could Joe Biden really fight corruption when his son is sitting on the Burisma board?”
Mr. Graham also said there is no question Ukraine interfered in the election.
“There are people in the Ukraine that were pulling against Trump because they hated Manafort,” he said. “To suggest there was no political interference coming out of the Ukraine directed toward the president, I think, would not withstand scrutiny.”
The former vice president has steadfastly defended his son, saying he did nothing wrong and the two didn’t discuss Burisma business.
“I don’t think our sons are fair game at all,” Mr. Biden told CBS News on Monday. “No one has said he’s done anything wrong except a thug, Rudy Giuliani.
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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/05/19/leaked-audio-of-joe-bidens-ukraine-quid-pro-quo-call-destroys-msm-narrative-about-shokins-ouster-n407354
Nothing new, but basically confirmation of what we thought.
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I am in the middle of a knock-down FB brawl.
Help me with hard answers to the allegations here please:
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-claims-about-hunter-biden-in-china/
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I am in the middle of a knock-down FB brawl.
Help me with hard answers to the allegations here please:
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-claims-about-hunter-biden-in-china/
https://nypost.com/2019/10/10/6-facts-about-hunter-bidens-business-dealings-in-china/
So there is no objection to a serious investigation of the allegations, right?
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https://nypost.com/2019/10/10/6-facts-about-hunter-bidens-business-dealings-in-china/
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https://www.dickmorris.com/penn-univ-paid-biden-900000-wont-say-how-much-was-from-china-lunch-alert/?utm_source=dmreports&utm_medium=dmreports&utm_campaign=dmreports
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Discussion of Hunter begins at 06:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=EWC0enOhGrw&feature=emb_logo
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https://thenationalpulse.com/news/biden-coal-hypocrisy/
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/senate-report-details-hunter-bidens-extensive-foreign-business-dealings-and-obama-officials-efforts-to-distance-themselves-from-it/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=21586638
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second post
https://neonnettle.com/news/11766-biden-s-cancer-charity-caught-funneling-millions-to-executives
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https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ukraine%20Report_FINAL.pdf
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Hunter Biden’s Business
A Senate report reveals Joe’s passivity amid his son’s influence-peddling.
By The WSJ Editorial Board
Sept. 23, 2020 6:55 pm ET
Joe Biden is running against Donald Trump’s character and supposed corruption, so a Senate report documenting the Biden family’s ethical swampiness certainly counts as news.
Senate committee Chairmen Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley on Wednesday released the findings of their year-long investigation into the problems that the business dealings of Hunter Biden, Joe’s son, presented to the Obama-Biden administration. The report makes clear Hunter was profiting off his father’s position—in Ukraine, and notably in China. Foreigners knew they were buying influence by association.
The Ukrainian gas company Burisma hired Hunter to “consult” on corporate governance in May 2014, only weeks after Vice President Biden took the U.S. lead in helping Ukraine fight corruption. Burisma was a top investigation target, and U.K. officials had seized the London bank accounts of Burisma’s owner. Hunter had no experience in Ukraine or natural gas. The report cites emails showing Hunter and his business associate, Devon Archer, requesting meetings with State Department officials after their Burisma appointments. A U.S. lobbying firm working for Burisma invoked Hunter’s name as it sought a State Department meeting.
Former State official George Kent wrote to superiors in 2016 that Hunter’s Burisma position made it “very awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine.” He testified that officials had to worry about “opponents” saying “What about Hunter Biden?” State Department email chains show U.S. officials mulling how to handle the Hunter problem.
Committee documents show Hunter’s businesses received millions of dollars from other deals with foreigners during the Obama years. This included a $3.5 million wire transfer in 2014 from Elena Baturina, the widow of the former mayor of Moscow.
The report details a “vast web of corporate connections and financial transactions between and among the Biden family and Chinese nationals.” Several of these transactions involved Hunter and Joe Biden’s brother, James. No charges have been filed against the Bidens, who say they did nothing wrong.
Mr. Kent raised Hunter’s Burisma ties with Joe Biden’s staff in 2015. And former Obama Special Envoy Amos Hochstein that same year took it directly to the Vice President, warning that Russians and corrupt oligarchs would use Hunter’s position to “undermine [Vice President Biden’s] message.”
Yet Mr. Biden never stopped Hunter or recused himself from work on Ukraine, China or elsewhere. Joe Biden said last year that “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” But the report includes testimony that he was informed and discussed it with Hunter.
Democrats and the press are dismissing this as old news, but the facts show this was a legitimate area for investigation—especially after Democrats made Ukraine the center of their impeachment case. At best Hunter’s tale is an example of egregious Beltway influence-peddling and a father’s passivity despite warnings. Voters can now add this to their election calculus, and decide whether this is what Joe Biden means by a return to normalcy.
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/24/hunter-bidens-network-wealthy-corrupt-foreigners-s/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=evening&utm_term=evening&utm_content=evening&bt_ee=sEAdJgD%2B50rgfUp6foGDknqhQlRHdm3XRoPJZnd8giNwQL5MXZIrekbz90%2B8luKe&bt_ts=1600978585402
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https://www.gingrich360.com/2020/09/newts-world-ep-130-the-bidens-chinese-secrets/
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/73938-china-owns-the-bidens-2020-10-06?mailing_id=5351&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.5351&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body
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https://www.gingrich360.com/2020/09/newts-world-ep-130-the-bidens-chinese-secrets/
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second
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/senate-report-details-hunter-bidens-extensive-foreign-business-dealings-and-obama-officials-efforts-to-distance-themselves-from-it/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=21586638
https://www.westernjournal.com/hunter-biden-report-will-sent-doj-criminal-referral/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=AE&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=2020-09-25
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-biden-longtime-biz-partner-and-burisma-board-buddy-going-prison-after-obama-judge?utm_campaign=&utm_content=Zerohedge%3A+The+Durden+Dispatch&utm_medium=email&utm_source=zh_newsletter
MARC: No longer available
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/14/report-feds-had-evidence-of-joe-biden-ukraine-burisma-meeting-since-impeachment-inquiry/
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/giuliani-and-the-new-york-post-are-pushing-russian-disinformation-its-a-big-test-for-the-media/
Not without plausibility. Rudy has been pushing variations of this meme for months now (w assist by Chanel Rios of OAN). I would think if there were solid substance there we would have seen more before now. Now, with just three weeks to go running this down will be hard to do-- which may be the point?
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/the-hunter-emails-report/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MJ_20201015&utm_term=Jolt-Smart
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this completely throws egg on the face of the Dem Media intelligence FBI CIA etc
over the whole impeachment
thing
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this completely throws egg on the face of the Dem Media intelligence FBI CIA etc
over the whole impeachment thing
Right. The corruption Trump was looking into was real. Burisma and both Bidens.
It's confusing to people. So many scandals, so little time to sort it out:
FBI - go after political opponents with the Logan Act.
Hunter with Joe's VP entourage: sellout in China.
How is Tara Reade doing? Did the Univ of Delaware come up with that personnel file yet? Bleachbit?
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/john-kass/ct-joe-biden-ukraine-kass-20201015-5bholabkvrbtvmwbdd5zcyposu-story.html
Joe Biden had this impeachment thing that was bleepin’ golden, but Hunter Biden messes it up
By JOHN KASS
CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
OCT 15, 2020
Isn’t it odd that Joe Biden and the Democrats have somehow forgotten to use their ultimate weapon against President Donald Trump in this campaign?
How to describe this super weapon? A Chicago Democratic political crook pardoned by Trump might say Joe has thing and it’s bleepin' golden:
Trump’s impeachment in December 2019, making him only the third president in the nation’s history to be impeached by House vote. Wouldn’t you think Biden and the Democrats would be raising that issue, relentlessly, in the battle for Trump’s reelection?
Yet you hardly hear of it anymore.
Democrats accused Trump of a quid pro quo — that he threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine unless it investigated various Biden family dealings there.
It was a terrible move by Trump to leverage aid for a political favor, on the verge of criminal. But I didn’t think it rose to the level of removal from office.
Cable news, all the news sites and social media were full of speculation 24/7. Though the Democrats didn’t have the votes to convict in the Republican-controlled Senate, they bragged that they’d use that impeachment stick and whomp Trump good in the campaign.
I had the feeling the impeachment was like an ax handle and they’d whomp him like some rabid critter you might find in your shed.
Yet now they don’t use it, one of the more curious features of this rather curious campaign.
So, what happened to the ultimate weapon?
Hunter Biden.
He had met business officials in foreign countries while traveling with his father, then Vice President Joe Biden. In Ukraine, Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings, a large natural gas company serving that country, and records showed he began raking in more than $50,000 a month though he had little-to-no experience in the field.
Joe Biden says he never discussed business with his son. He wasn’t involved with Burisma. Joe didn’t know anything.
If you dared call him on it, Biden was apt to get angry, call you a “damn liar” and “fat” and challenge you to a pushup contest to the death, as he did to that Iowa farmer, a Democrat, who dared mention it.
Now Hunter’s made news again, with the The New York Post reporting about emails purporting to be evidence of a meeting between Joe Biden, Hunter and a Burisma adviser in 2015.
What makes it more controversial is that Facebook announced it would limit distribution of the Hunter Biden story on its platform until everything gets checked out with its reliable, and probably completely, absolutely, 100% politically-unbiased fact-checkers.
The Post reported that the meeting was revealed in an email from Vadym Pozharskyi, “an adviser to the board of Burisma” a year after Hunter began receiving Burisma cash.
According to the Post, the email reads:
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”
Is the story real? I don’t know. The emails were allegedly found on an old hard drive by a computer repairman in Delaware and delivered to the Post by Trump henchman Rudy Giuliani. Was the repairman’s name Vladimir Putin?
Whether the Post story stands up or not, the fact is that Biden is staying away from using Trump’s impeachment because of his son’s questionable business dealings in Ukraine and elsewhere.
What we do know is that there were many news stories insisting that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton that turned out not to be true.
I suppose that in this strange 2020 campaign, some of you might still be searching for virtue in politicians. But since I was born in Chicago and spent my life covering politics, I stopped looking for virtue in them long ago.
That would be like searching for magic pixies that’ll happily scrub your bathroom, even the toilets, without complaint.
Either way, what we do know is that Hunter Biden, without experience in the oil and natural gas business, picked up loads of cash from that Burisma deal. Biden’s dealings got more scrutiny after a trip to China with his father in 2013 where Biden, we later learned, was looking to form a Chinese equity fund.
Call it a Chicago Way thing: the kid shows up with the dad with supreme government clout, and those who want the dad to play nice cut the kid in on deals.
Trump got into trouble when asking the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden. But it was Joe Biden bragging on video, to the Council on Foreign Relations, that he threatened withholding a billion dollars in U.S. loan guarantees unless Ukraine fired a prosecutor.
That prosecutor was investigating Burisma.
“I said … I’m leaving in six hours,” Biden bragged on that video. “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a b----. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
Is that on the edge of criminality, or just politics?
If Joe Biden were running for mayor of Chicago — or for mayor of New York, San Francisco or Scranton — you can bet that good-government reformers and pundits would be investigating the deals his son got.
But Joe’s just running for president, and the impeachment inquiry, if raised, would make him have to address those deals.
So just shut up about the ultimate weapon, and hope he doesn’t become angry and threaten to kill us with pushups.
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https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm/
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https://pjmedia.com/election/megan-fox/2020/10/14/did-the-fbi-sit-on-a-computer-containing-evidence-of-hunter-sex-tape-and-biden-burisma-corruption-n1054706
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Is 'Sleepy Joe' now Traitor Joe?
He called them an organized crime family but let's see if "Traitor Joe" gets its debut before Thursday's debate.
It's not just that they profit constantly from influence, it's that these relationships and transactions work against the best interest of our country.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3105923/fbi-investigated-whether-alleged-hunter-biden
why was Wray not sent packing ?
how political is this?
deep states working feverishly to get Biden in
they will be rewarded I am sure.
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/10/19/joe_bidens_lies_about_his_sons_burisma_dealing_are_coming_back_to_haunt_him_144479.html
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".Now we know why Biden gets so angry whenever the subject of Hunter’s Burisma job comes up: Not only did Joe Biden apparently know about the crooked arrangement, but he was the reason for it. It was plain and simple — a bribe so Vice President Biden would protect Burisma from seizure by the Ukrainian government."
the LEFT :
oh but the above is NOT true
honest Joe was acting on behalf of the United States when he got that Ukranian guy fired
there are "400 " international people who wanted him out - blah blah blah
ain't that right Joe? "yes "
ok folks move a long from this russian rudy phony hit job and put russia in jail
brennan speaks to FBI to tell them this has " all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign". and Fay Wray , who is clearly in the tank for the Democrats dutifully obliges and investigates that phony angle and buries the real angle
and the media can go ahead and ignore with the blessing of the FBI (now disgraced)
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https://disrn.com/news/schiff-claims-hunter-biden-email-smear-on-joe-biden-came-from-the-kremlin
DNI -
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2020/10/19/director-of-national-intelligence-throws-cold-water-on-hunter-biden-story-being-russian-disinformation-n2578335
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/if-joe-biden-lies-and-the-media-ignores-it-does-he-make-a-sound
Salena Zito, DC Examiner
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The Bidens and China Business: The story won’t go away without explanation, even if the Veep wins.
Wall Street Journal ^ | October 20, 2020 | WSJ Editorial Board
Most of the media is ignoring the emails found in Hunter Biden’s laptop, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t news. Joe Biden has an obligation to answer questions about his son’s influence-peddling and his own financial dealings—notably regarding China.
The New York Post last week obtainedthe contents of a laptop purported to belong to Hunter. The Post has been transparent that it obtained its copy of the hard drive from Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who says he received it from the owner of a Delaware computer-repair shop, where it was abandoned in 2019. Mr. Biden derides this as a “smear campaign,” while House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff calls it without evidence “Russian disinformation.”
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe says the government has no intelligence to support the disinformation claim. A repair-shop order from April 2019 contains Hunter’s name and what appears to be his signature. The shop owner supplied a subpoena showing the computer and hard drive were seized by the FBI in December 2019. And the Biden campaign hasn’t said the emails are phony.
The emails regarding Hunter’s business in Ukraine have been widely reported. But as intriguing is a May 2017 email thread that includes a discussion about “remuneration packages” for six people as part of a business deal with a now-defunct Chinese energy titan, CEFC China Energy. The Chinese company was international news a few years ago, after the U.S. government charged a CEFC-funded organization with money laundering, and its CEO was detained by Chinese authorities. CNN reported in 2018 that “at its height” CEFC was “hard to distinguish” from the Chinese government.
According to the emails, both Bidens were in line in 2017 to benefit from a deal with CEFC. (subscribe at wsj.com)
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Photo shows Joe Biden meeting Hunter’s alleged business partner from Kazakhstan
https://nypost.com/2020/10/20/photo-biden-meets-hunters-alleged-partner-from-kazakhstan/
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/joe-hunter-biden-kazakh-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1236&h=820&crop=1)
And the plot thickens...
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https://nypost.com/2020/10/22/hunter-biz-partner-confirms-e-mail-details-joe-bidens-push-to-make-millions-from-china/
"The Big Guy" was Joe. Selling out America.
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but he is such a NICE man who everyone loves
just one of. the middle class types
he was /is always the lying partisan scumbag
for Gods sakes he cheated to get thru law school
who does that if they are honest or "nice " guy?
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-sen-johnson-suggests-bobulinski-emails-are-authentic-may-release-to-public_3550494.html?utm_source=morningbrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2020-10-24
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In September 2015, the Obama-Biden administration approved the sale of a strategically sensitive Michigan manufacturer, Henniges Automotive, to a firm connected to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and a Chinese military contractor that was on an American watch list because of its close ties to the People’s Liberation Army. Hunter Biden’s equity fund, backed by the Communist Chinese government, and the Chinese contractor, Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC), needed special approval for the deal from the Committee of Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CIFIUS) because Henniges produced technology with potential military use.
AVIC entities have been sanctioned by the United States on five separate occasions since 1993 and the addition to the watch list–a major red flag—occurred less than a year-and-a-half before they co-purchased Henniges with the Biden-led Chinese joint venture known as Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). The fact that CFIUS approved the deal is alarming given that Henniges owns numerous facilities in the United States that are now controlled by a Chinese military front company.
Internal BHR documents show exactly how the Chinese military contractor was able to disguise its ownership via shell corporations and formed a joint-venture with the son of the vice president to facilitate the Chinese takeover of an American dual-use technology supplier. Additional documents suggest that Hunter Biden’s Chinese-backed venture funneled money to an entity controlled by Vanessa Kerry, the daughter of then-Secretary of State John Kerry, just one month before CFIUS approved the takeover. At the time, Secretary Kerry played a lead role on the Obama-Biden CFIUS committee.
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/23/code-name-project-hanson-insider-documents-reveal-how-hunter-biden-associates-helped-chinese-military-contractor-acquire-michigan-dual-use-manufacturer
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https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/biden-hits-trump-administration-in-leaked-call-with-poroshenko
https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/17/leaked-2016-call-reveals-joe-biden-risked-national-security-to-sabotage-trump/
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/breaking-exclusive-text-messages-show-vp-biden-wife-brother-key-family-members-aware-concerned-colluded-suppress-hunters-actions-around-certain-minor/
RUMINT that he OD'ed on Cocaine, BTW.
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Full NABU leak on Biden
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IP1kVSMLH76t/
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http://ace.mu.nu/archives/391003.php
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http://ace.mu.nu/archives/391003.php
Damning on Joe. Most certainly Hunter. He sounds far more like Joe than the very best impersonators. Exact same voice. Also he is definitely imbibing in the the truth serum, alcohol and perhaps other.
He knows his energy terms, "it's the biggest f*cking LNG port in the world", implying his partner got a cut in it and he didn't. He makes very clear his Dad was involved.
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Imagine for one moment this is Trump jr talking about his father.
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".f*cking"
you mean fracking right ?
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WHOA , , ,
https://www.foxnews.com/shows/tucker-carlson-tonight
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https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/biden-family-scandal-7-uncomfortable-realities
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".f*cking"
you mean fracking right ?
) True. Fracking is the source of all this new, clean LNG, Liquefied Natural Gas.
But in the Hunter Biden quote, the asterisk represents the letter u, as in angry, spoiled, f*cking parasite not getting his agreed share of the graft.
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https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/majority-media/johnson-grassley-release-report-on-conflicts-of-interest-investigation
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/hsgac-finance-report
Read pages 65-87.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/hunter-biden-on-tape/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MJ_20201029&utm_term=Jolt-Smartftp://
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-investigating-hunter-biden-for-money-laundering-report/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=21939119
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-investigating-hunter-biden-for-money-laundering-report/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=21939119
:roll:
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Yeah, like his laptop with CP, the FBI sat on since last year. They'll get right on that!
How's the Epstein investigation going?
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13073718/hunter-biden-second-laptop-seized-government-scandal/
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13073718/hunter-biden-second-laptop-seized-government-scandal/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-bidens-laptop-hell-was-national-security-nightmare
MARC on 2/26/21: No longer available
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Whoa , , ,
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Whoa , , ,
Note how the FBI jumped right on that investigation!
Fidelity! Bravery! Integrity!
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htps://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-bidens-laptop-hell-was-national-security-nightmare
"...and was protected by the password "Hunter02" "
Wouldn't that prove right there he wasn't qualified for any of those jobs or partnerships?
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/beijing-and-wall-street-could-deepen-ties-under-biden-presidency_3573144.html?utm_source=morningbrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mb-2020-11-11
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"Beijing, Wall Street Could Deepen Ties Under Potential Biden Presidency"
of course they will
that is why I suggested maybe time to buy Chinese stocks
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/state-dept-emails-reveal-that-after-joining-burisma-hunter-biden-requested-meetings-with-antony-blinken
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Looking for citation of Hunter's email that daddy was in on the take.
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Looking for citation of Hunter's email that daddy was in on the take.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-bidens-ex-business-partner-alleges-father-knew-about-venture-11603421247
In the correspondence provided by Mr. Bobulinski, an email he received from Mr. Gilliar in May 2017 proposed a possible equity arrangement for the five partners. The email references “10 held by H for the big guy?” Mr. Bobulinski said the “H” referred to Hunter Biden and the “big guy” was Joe Biden. Mr. Gilliar didn’t respond to a request for comment, nor did the other partner in the venture, Mr. Walker.
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he is in on family deals
like he was in on the Trump spying scandal
now he wants to "unify us". no one takes him seriously. - as he appoints all radicals and far left people around
him
the scumbucket partisan he is from day one.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpzjBaPd0AM
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blacked out
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpzjBaPd0AM
The GoolagTube has fired up the memory-hole.
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https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1KiPuX_dwsAV1QlJoQjH1FFCHQyjbV7QZ_SBy1NirgoNvkf2e8bVekB4c
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https://patriotpost.us/alexander/76333?mailing_id=5492&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.5492&utm_campaign=alexander&utm_content=body
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hunter-biden-says-feds-investigating-his-tax-affairs/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=22338306
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36 days to investigate
then it will all disappear to never be heard from again
while they get revenge and go after trump and family and his supporters with a nasty vengeance. :x
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hunter-biden-says-feds-investigating-his-tax-affairs/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=22338306
It was known, and hidden.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/391624.php
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https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/12/10/report-joe-bidens-brother-under-federal-investigation-for-role-in-bankrupt-healthcare-firm/
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9040381/Hunter-Biden-raked-6m-nine-months-Chinese-business-dealings.html
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/12/hunter-biden-investigation-overt-and-primed-for-a-special-counsel/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MJ_20201211&utm_term=Jolt-Smart
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https://cms.zerohedge.com/political/chinese-money-launderer-called-james-biden-after-fbi-arrest-who-said-he-was-trying-reach?utm_campaign=&utm_content=Zerohedge%3A+The+Durden+Dispatch&utm_medium=email&utm_source=zh_newsletter
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9061559/Hunter-Biden-asked-Chinese-energy-tycoon-Ye-Yianming-10-million-2017-email.html
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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/05/biden-sold-out-america-china-while-working-daniel-greenfield/?fbclid=IwAR2opNOHyHA9ZDJkHObniRQiZkrE7Odncfjbt52m77uSnvYD0Agj31cJcio
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https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/04/hunter-biden-cefc-china-jianming/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2360&pnespid=iuR29qReXB6NnAZy1n.AA3oTExk3rM7p8tDSqFdy
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GM: Your man at Front Sight says this today:
"The images and video will circulate the Internet like wild fire. It is explicit. It is with minors. It is with Hunter Biden's relatives, who are minors. It is illicit drug use. It is sick and it is twisted. AND IT INVOLVES MALIA OBAMA. Yep. Hunter Biden having sex with Malia Obama and her credit card being used to cut cocaine on a night stand. Poetic Justice for Michelle and Barack."
Is this true?
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GM: Your man at Front Sight says this today:
"The images and video will circulate the Internet like wild fire. It is explicit. It is with minors. It is with Hunter Biden's relatives, who are minors. It is illicit drug use. It is sick and it is twisted. AND IT INVOLVES MALIA OBAMA. Yep. Hunter Biden having sex with Malia Obama and her credit card being used to cut cocaine on a night stand. Poetic Justice for Michelle and Barack."
Is this true?
I don't know. I would avoid any contact with such files for obvious reasons.
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Given the increasing range of issues with Big Guy & Son, I have modified the name of this thread,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY5XgJu_mfY
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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17012/china-push-biden
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/white-house-press-sec-dodges-when-asked-why-hunter-biden-still-has-a-stake-in-chinese-investment-firm/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first
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https://nypost.com/2021/01/30/hunter-biden-now-laying-low-in-la-focusing-on-a-new-art-career/
It says here he is paying $12 K per month for his LA pad
but I read it is 25K.
I read he is coming out with a book about his fight with addiction - and got $2 million advance .
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https://nypost.com/2021/01/30/hunter-biden-now-laying-low-in-la-focusing-on-a-new-art-career/
Poor guy...
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/01/hollywood-hills-hunter-biden-4.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1286)
Did they take his phone away? He WILL screw up again.
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Book deals and selling "art" is a perfect way to launder influence peddling payoffs. Oh, a "modeling" contracts...
https://nypost.com/2021/01/30/hunter-biden-now-laying-low-in-la-focusing-on-a-new-art-career/
It says here he is paying $12 K per month for his LA pad
but I read it is 25K.
I read he is coming out with a book about his fight with addiction - and got $2 million advance .
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"Book deals and selling "art" is a perfect way to launder influence peddling payoffs. Oh, a "modeling" contracts..."
Watch for the Picassos in stashed Dr Jill 's house
and other relatives
Bid guy gets what ? was it 10%
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Did I see that Hunter's book is a big seller in China? I.e. that the Chinese are paying him even now?
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https://patriotpost.us/alexander/74237-joe-bidens-chicom-quid-pro-quo-crime-syndicate-2020-10-19?mailing_id=5633&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.5633&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/secret-service-agents-intervened-in-hunter-biden-gun-incident-report/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MJ_20210325&utm_term=Jolt-Smart
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The CCP can money launder some more to him for the fine
and include the10% for the big guy:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/27/penalties-for-lying-on-atf-background-check-form-as-hunter-biden-allegedly-did-include-fines-jail-time/
"the rule of law!" as the leftist scream while going after Trump or anyone else Republican
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There will be no fine as there will be no arrest and no prosecution.
The CCP can money launder some more to him for the fine
and include the10% for the big guy:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/27/penalties-for-lying-on-atf-background-check-form-as-hunter-biden-allegedly-did-include-fines-jail-time/
"the rule of law!" as the leftist scream while going after Trump or anyone else Republican
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/reminder-gun-incident-one-small-piece-corruption-biden-home-also-minor/
There will be no fine as there will be no arrest and no prosecution.
The CCP can money launder some more to him for the fine
and include the10% for the big guy:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/27/penalties-for-lying-on-atf-background-check-form-as-hunter-biden-allegedly-did-include-fines-jail-time/
"the rule of law!" as the leftist scream while going after Trump or anyone else Republican
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/31/hunter-biden-lashes-out-trump-pushing-debunked-con/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=ChlOZGM94oZvZKdA49F3FeAO8BdZI8l5GKx3%2B9pqnIfseDvXh%2Fm5EQrxQUrACmI9&bt_user_id&bt_ts=1617221268651
I am paywall blocked. Could someone paste the article please?
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/31/hunter-biden-lashes-out-trump-pushing-debunked-con/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=ChlOZGM94oZvZKdA49F3FeAO8BdZI8l5GKx3%2B9pqnIfseDvXh%2Fm5EQrxQUrACmI9&bt_user_id&bt_ts=1617221268651
I am paywall blocked. Could someone paste the article please?
Hunter Biden lashes out at Trump for pushing 'debunked conspiracy theories'
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, Hunter Biden arrives at the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Hunter Biden says his service on the board of ... more >
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By Haris Alic - The Washington Times - Updated: 9:33 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31, 2021
After having his private and professional life take center stage during the 2020 presidential election, Hunter Biden is set on getting even with the “vile man” he believes responsible — former President Donald Trump.
“He pushed debunked conspiracy theories about work I did in Ukraine and China, even as his own children had pocketed millions in China and Russia and his former campaign manager sat in a jail cell for laundering millions more from Ukraine,” writes Mr. Biden, the younger son of President Biden, in his upcoming memoir “Beautiful Things.”
Within the book, the younger Mr. Biden sheds light on his life as a member of America’s new first family, as well as his decades-long battle with substance abuse.
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“I’ve bought crack cocaine on the streets of Washington, D.C., and cooked up my own inside a hotel bungalow in Los Angeles,” Mr. Biden writes. “‘I’ve been so desperate for a drink that I couldn’t make the one-block walk between a liquor store and my apartment without uncapping the bottle to take a swig.”
The book, which is slated for publication early next month, is being pitched for its candidness. While excerpts reviewed by the Washington Times indicate Mr. Biden is forthcoming about his tribulations with drug abuse, little is said about his business dealings.
For decades, Mr. Biden has found himself in professional roles connected to his father’s political influence.
In 1996, at the age of 26 and fresh out of Yale Law School, Mr. Biden was hired as a senior vice president at MBNA Corp. The company at the time was one of the largest credit card distributors in the U.S. It was also the largest donor to then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden of Delaware.
The position raised eyebrows from ethics watchdogs as MBNA employees had just donated $63,000 to the senator’s re-election campaign in what appeared to be a coordinated manner to sidestep federal campaign finance regulations.
Mr. Biden remained on the company’s payroll as a consultant throughout the mid-2000s. The agreement, which was not unveiled until 2008, struck many as troublesome because Mr. Biden’s father was championing legislation to make bankruptcy reform harder, an outcome that proved profitable to credit card giants like MBNA.
Mr. Biden similarly engaged with politically-connected businesses during his father’s tenure as vice president. One of those dealings, with the Ukrainian natural-gas giant Burisma Holdings, became a central issue in the 2020 presidential campaign.
Mr. Biden joined Burisma’s board of directors in 2014, despite having no background in the energy industry or Eastern Europe. The appointment came shortly after the elder Mr. Biden got the task of leading the Obama administration’s policy towards Ukraine.
Although the exact nature of Mr. Biden’s relationship with the company has remained unclear, he was paid more than $1 million for his services over a few years.
Burisma, whose founder has been accused of corruption on multiple occasions, drew the attention of Mr. Trump’s reelection campaign early.
Mr. Trump, in particular, made much of the fact that in 2016 the elder Mr. Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, and even publicly bragged about doing so. The prosecutor at the time had an open investigation into Burisma, although many claim the probe was long dormant.
Both Bidens have denied any wrongdoing. In his memoir, the younger Mr. Biden attempts to sidestep the controversy, suggesting it’s only “remarkable for its epic banality.”
“I did nothing unethical, and have never been charged with wrongdoing,” he writes. “In our current political environment, I don’t believe it would make any difference if I took that seat or not. I’d be attacked anyway.”
Mr. Biden’s book also attempts to dismiss the scandal as nothing more than one part of a “vile mission” by Mr. Trump to hold onto the White House.
“Trump believed that if he could destroy me, and by extension my father, he could dispatch any candidate of decency from either party, all while diverting attention from his own corrupt behavior,” Mr. Biden writes.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/hunter-biden-actually-posted-biden-family-porn-pornhub-says-president-trump-vile-man-vile-mission/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/31/hunter-biden-lashes-out-trump-pushing-debunked-con/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=ChlOZGM94oZvZKdA49F3FeAO8BdZI8l5GKx3%2B9pqnIfseDvXh%2Fm5EQrxQUrACmI9&bt_user_id&bt_ts=1617221268651
I am paywall blocked. Could someone paste the article please?
Hunter Biden lashes out at Trump for pushing 'debunked conspiracy theories'
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, Hunter Biden arrives at the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Hunter Biden says his service on the board of ... more >
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By Haris Alic - The Washington Times - Updated: 9:33 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31, 2021
After having his private and professional life take center stage during the 2020 presidential election, Hunter Biden is set on getting even with the “vile man” he believes responsible — former President Donald Trump.
“He pushed debunked conspiracy theories about work I did in Ukraine and China, even as his own children had pocketed millions in China and Russia and his former campaign manager sat in a jail cell for laundering millions more from Ukraine,” writes Mr. Biden, the younger son of President Biden, in his upcoming memoir “Beautiful Things.”
Within the book, the younger Mr. Biden sheds light on his life as a member of America’s new first family, as well as his decades-long battle with substance abuse.
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“I’ve bought crack cocaine on the streets of Washington, D.C., and cooked up my own inside a hotel bungalow in Los Angeles,” Mr. Biden writes. “‘I’ve been so desperate for a drink that I couldn’t make the one-block walk between a liquor store and my apartment without uncapping the bottle to take a swig.”
The book, which is slated for publication early next month, is being pitched for its candidness. While excerpts reviewed by the Washington Times indicate Mr. Biden is forthcoming about his tribulations with drug abuse, little is said about his business dealings.
For decades, Mr. Biden has found himself in professional roles connected to his father’s political influence.
In 1996, at the age of 26 and fresh out of Yale Law School, Mr. Biden was hired as a senior vice president at MBNA Corp. The company at the time was one of the largest credit card distributors in the U.S. It was also the largest donor to then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden of Delaware.
The position raised eyebrows from ethics watchdogs as MBNA employees had just donated $63,000 to the senator’s re-election campaign in what appeared to be a coordinated manner to sidestep federal campaign finance regulations.
Mr. Biden remained on the company’s payroll as a consultant throughout the mid-2000s. The agreement, which was not unveiled until 2008, struck many as troublesome because Mr. Biden’s father was championing legislation to make bankruptcy reform harder, an outcome that proved profitable to credit card giants like MBNA.
Mr. Biden similarly engaged with politically-connected businesses during his father’s tenure as vice president. One of those dealings, with the Ukrainian natural-gas giant Burisma Holdings, became a central issue in the 2020 presidential campaign.
Mr. Biden joined Burisma’s board of directors in 2014, despite having no background in the energy industry or Eastern Europe. The appointment came shortly after the elder Mr. Biden got the task of leading the Obama administration’s policy towards Ukraine.
Although the exact nature of Mr. Biden’s relationship with the company has remained unclear, he was paid more than $1 million for his services over a few years.
Burisma, whose founder has been accused of corruption on multiple occasions, drew the attention of Mr. Trump’s reelection campaign early.
Mr. Trump, in particular, made much of the fact that in 2016 the elder Mr. Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, and even publicly bragged about doing so. The prosecutor at the time had an open investigation into Burisma, although many claim the probe was long dormant.
Both Bidens have denied any wrongdoing. In his memoir, the younger Mr. Biden attempts to sidestep the controversy, suggesting it’s only “remarkable for its epic banality.”
“I did nothing unethical, and have never been charged with wrongdoing,” he writes. “In our current political environment, I don’t believe it would make any difference if I took that seat or not. I’d be attacked anyway.”
Mr. Biden’s book also attempts to dismiss the scandal as nothing more than one part of a “vile mission” by Mr. Trump to hold onto the White House.
“Trump believed that if he could destroy me, and by extension my father, he could dispatch any candidate of decency from either party, all while diverting attention from his own corrupt behavior,” Mr. Biden writes.
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https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2021/04/01/npr-corrects-article-that-claimed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-discredited-by-u-s-intelligence/
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https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2021/04/01/npr-corrects-article-that-claimed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-discredited-by-u-s-intelligence/
They correct, but the damage was done. Mission accomplished.
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Or we can be relentless in spreading the word and look to destroy their residual credibility.
No one ever said keeping our Constitutional Republic would be easy.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9445105/What-Hunter-Biden-left-tell-memoir-revealed.html
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https://www.ar15.com/media/mediafiles/374309/HunterB_jpg-1898484.JPG
second post
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https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-bidens-memoir-listed-1-best-seller-chinese-biographies-amazon-1567304
Biden book
a book Vanity Fair could love,
" Grounded and gritty and self-realized, Beautiful Things, out on Tuesday, is, at its core, as honest an account of addiction and grief as is possible to clearly see either of those two things."
" But he has bared the details of his yearslong struggle with alcohol and drugs, the tragic accident that took his mother and little sister, and the loss of his brother, Beau, to reveal an imperfect, haunting humanity."
"The book operates on a Biden-esque strategy of underpromise, over-deliver, as we’ve seen with the administration so far. There was little fanfare leading up to its publication. To date, Hunter has taped just three interviews for the book’s publicity, none done in print. The work is mostly speaking for itself. As Hunter writes, it is a love story, after all. A twisted one. One that certainly does serve him, and allows him to redefine himself, make some money, and become the artist he always wanted to be. But it’s one we can all, in some way, see ourselves or our families or our hearts in at the same time.
Amazing how libs can turn this selfish disgusting human criminal into an intersesting honest self actualized ? hero.
Some lib assholes in Hollywood must have already paid him the rights
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https://www.ar15.com/media/mediafiles/374309/HunterB_jpg-1898484.JPG
second post
(https://www.ar15.com/media/mediafiles/374309/HunterB_jpg-1898484.JPG)
So, when will the "AFT" be arresting Hunter?
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/identify-prohibited-persons
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https://www.conservativereview.com/bareback-rocket-ride-the-hunter-biden-story-2652424618.html
I am thinking anti social personality disorder appears to fit best from what we know :
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20354463#:~:text=A%20personality%20disorder%20is%20a,relating%20to%20situations%20and%20people.
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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17317/hunter-biden-laptop
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https://amgreatness.com/2021/04/30/business-records-show-hunter-biden-still-owns-stake-in-chinese-private-equity-firm/
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9522591/Hunter-Bidens-close-relationship-Chinese-American-secretary-revealed.html
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https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/17/hunter-biden-runs-back-into-his-house-and-slams-the-door-when-confronted-by-journalist-and-huge-digital-billboard/
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Manchurian Joe!
https://www.breitbart.com/.../biden-in-michigan-ignores.../
'Most notably, the Obama-Biden administration approved the acquisition of the Michigan-based electric battery company A123 Systems in 2013 after previously being rewarded with American taxpayer dollars worth $12.5 million to develop lithium ion battery technology for plug-in hybrid EVs.
'Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, had particular ties to such Chinese acquisitions of American EV companies, Mansour notes:
"Consider, for example, China’s controversial acquisition of the Michigan-based electric battery company A123 Systems. In 2008, the company was awarded a $12.5 million grant sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop lithium ion battery technology for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. But now this American taxpayer-funded research is owned by China, thanks to the Obama-Biden administration’s approval of the company’s sale in 2013.
"In 2016, China purchased the electric vehicle company Fisker Automotive, after U.S. taxpayers had spent $193 million funding the company’s electric vehicle research. Fisker was based in Biden’s home state of Delaware, and it benefitted from a “fog of politically connected investors and lobbyists,” according to the Washington Post. The Obama-Biden administration approved China’s purchase of Fisker, again despite all the money American taxpayers spent funding the company’s research.
"In 2015, the private equity firm of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, partnered with a Chinese military contractor to acquire Henniges Automotive, another Michigan-based company. Henniges created dual-use military technology that China’s communist regime wanted. Despite all the red-flags that this sensitive technology would end up in the hands of China’s military, the Obama-Biden administration approved the company’s sale.
"Specifically, in 2008, Biden’s Department of Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm — then, the Governor of Michigan — approved a $10 million taxpayer-funded grant to A123 Systems and praised the move. In 2013, the Obama-Biden administration approved the Wanxiang Group’s acquisition of A123 Systems.
"A database compiled by Public Citizen reveals hundreds of cases where the Obama-Biden administration approved Chinese acquisitions of American companies — many in the auto and batteries industry."
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9571753/Former-FBI-director-Louis-Freeh-gave-100-000-private-trust-Joe-Bidens-grandchildren.html
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https://www.patreon.com/posts/51841527
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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/06/24/joe-biden-nominates-a-second-doj-lawyer-with-hunter-biden-ties-n1457033
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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/06/24/joe-biden-nominates-a-second-doj-lawyer-with-hunter-biden-ties-n1457033
I can’t wait for Andy McCarthy’s defense of this in NR!
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9678005/Joe-Biden-entertained-Hunters-billionaire-business-associates-vice-presidents-office.html
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https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/biden-denied-talking-business-son-picture-found-hunters-laptop-puts-ducks-row?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-FP&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2021-07-06&ats_es=639c4dfcf4902e5be56a6038ef508105
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https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/law-professor-clear-hunter-biden-selling-access-influence-joe-aware?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-FP&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2021-07-07&ats_es=[-MD5-]&fbclid=IwAR0LFUDQKU308KagfW3AVerD3fW8Sn3AVxuh6Q0mM8iKdUVFlCtZ__5Mhy0
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9769107/White-House-helped-Hunter-Biden-reach-deal-buyers-paintings-confidential.html
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two times I saw MSM
including CNN mentioned the disgusting sleaze of the phony art money laundering bribery scheme
and both times
one time they end the segment with this has happened before "when relatives cash in "
such as Billy beer
and lastly to put the cherry on top at the end when Ivanka got 10 patents from China
so somehow even with this they have to drag trumps name into it.
the other time the Obama ethics guy ends the talk with this sets a bad precedent :
and can one imagine a president like trump doing this ?
well jack off , trump did not do it.
or his family
if anything his family , the massively angry TDS niece made money off of criticizing him
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https://nypost.com/2021/07/09/psaki-claims-biden-didnt-discuss-business-with-hunter-despite-docs-that-show-otherwise/
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Hunter Biden’s Secret Art Sale
You won’t believe what the White House thinks is an ethical solution.
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As President Biden’s son Hunter prepares for an art exhibition this fall that could include selling his paintings at prices up to $500,000, the White House is reportedly working with his attorney on a strategy to avoid ethical compromises. Here it is: Keep everything secret. Yes, for real, that’s the plan.
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The New York gallery hosting the sale, media reports say, will refuse “suspicious” offers, including those over list price. The names of the buyers and bidders will be kept confidential, even from Hunter. As the paintings sell, apparently hundreds of thousands of dollars will simply appear in his bank account, and neither he nor the public will know where it came from.
You don’t feel reassured? Sources in the art world say the prices being floated—from $75,000 to $500,000, depending on the piece—are seriously high, especially for an unknown painter doing a first sale. So the question is who might be quietly trying to funnel money to President Biden’s son.
The art sale is a bad idea, full stop. But at least transparency would let bids be scrutinized in real time, preferably before a sale is final. Instead the White House is proposing opacity, even as its press aides brag that President Biden “has established the highest ethical standards of any administration in American history.”
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Would the promised confidentiality be kept? Whispers about who bought what are inevitable. A Russian oligarch could have a proxy purchase a $500,000 painting for the purpose of leaking the information to hurt President Biden’s credibility. Why take this risk?
None of this is to cast aspersions on Hunter’s artistic talents. One critic characterized his work as having “a hotel art aesthetic,” and another called it “generic post zombie formalism illustration.” But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and Hunter’s paintings look pretty good next to our stick figures. If some collector wants to hang an original Hunter Biden after his father leaves the Oval Office, fine.
But Joe Biden has public obligations, and Hunter spoke at the Democratic National Convention to urge voters to put his father in the White House. He also has that Burisma baggage. Hunter can keep on painting, but for at least the next four years the best advice his father could give his son would be to do it for the art’s sake, not for the money.
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".None of this is to cast aspersions on Hunter’s artistic talents. "
:roll: :roll: :roll:
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https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/shades-clinton-joe-biden-used-private-email-send-government?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
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****https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/shades-clinton-joe-biden-used-private-email-send-government?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter***
I am thinking that unknown mysterious buyers of Hunter pseudo art
are not buying his crap
for nothing
bribing Hunter repeatedly is because the bribes pay off
and are successful
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Of course, that's how you launder the influence peddling.
I've seen on a smaller scale with a corrupted Police Detective and his human trafficker sponsor.
****https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/shades-clinton-joe-biden-used-private-email-send-government?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter***
I am thinking that unknown mysterious buyers of Hunter pseudo art
are not buying his crap
for nothing
bribing Hunter repeatedly is because the bribes pay off
and are successful
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https://michaelyon.locals.com/upost/896188/the-president-s-son
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https://michaelyon.locals.com/upost/896188/the-president-s-son
"Smartest guy I know"-Joe Biden
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10021713/Hunter-Biden-asked-2-million-plus-success-fees-help-unfreeze-Libyan-assets-emails-reveal.html
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https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/05/white-house-refuses-to-answer-questions-about-hunter-bidens-stake-in-chinese-company/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/opinion/biden-ethics-son.html
Could someone with guest access or login codes post further details?
He's not just dumb or senile, he is corrupt.
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There should be little doubt that President Biden was not being truthful when, days after the Taliban’s victory, he told ABC News that his senior military advisers had not urged him to keep some 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. The president’s claim was flatly contradicted last week in sworn testimony from Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., the head of U.S. Central Command.
During the generals’ testimony, the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, sought to defend her boss by pointing to a line in Biden’s interview in which he appeared to suggest that the military’s advice “was split.”
Another whopper. What split? As The Times’s Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt and David Sanger reported in April, right after Lloyd Austin was sworn in as secretary of defense in January, he and his top generals “were in lock step in recommending that about 3,000 to 4,500 troops stay in Afghanistan.” Asked whether there were top military advisers who argued otherwise, Psaki evaded the question.
Biden’s dissembling, regarding the worst-executed major foreign policy decision in years, would be a scandal in any presidency. It’s worse coming from the man who campaigned for office by insisting that he stood “for honor and telling the truth.”
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A week earlier, Politico’s Ben Schreckinger published a scrupulously reported book on the Biden family. It makes a compelling case that some of the most explosive emails from Hunter Biden’s purported laptop were entirely genuine — a claim that Schreckinger confirmed with multiple sources, including a Swedish government agency, and that was never explicitly denied by Hunter himself.
That includes a 2017 email in which one of Hunter’s potential business partners proposed a “provisional agreement” with the now-defunct company CEFC China Energy to share equity percentages in a new venture, with “10 Jim” and “10 held by H for the big guy?” Jim Biden is the president’s brother. “The big guy,” according to Tony Bobulinski, a recipient of the email, is Hunter’s father.
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This does not mean the president received, or even expected to receive, money from this supposed venture, or even knew about it.
But it provides good reason to believe that the news media gave far too much credence to his assertion that the leaked emails were “a Russian plant,” as he put it in his second debate with Donald Trump. It makes it more difficult to ignore Bobulinski’s claim that he met with Joe, Jim and Hunter Biden in May 2017 to discuss the overall terms of the deal. And it is worth asking whether the president may have been willing to make himself useful to his family, even if he didn’t profit personally or directly from their deals.
“The Bidens pride themselves on integrity, and are fond of pledging ‘my word as a Biden’ when they really mean something,” Schreckinger writes. “The evidence marshaled in the closing weeks of the campaign built on a picture in which Joe’s relatives trade regularly on their connections to him, while the separation between their private dealings and his public duties is not as far and wide as he has claimed.”
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All this would be bad enough if it were just history. But what are we to make of Hunter’s recent venture as a visual artist — a field in which he has no formal training and no commercial track record?
In case you missed this: A SoHo gallerist intends to sell 15 of Hunter’s works at prices of up to $500,000 apiece. To safeguard the propriety of these transactions, the White House has issued “ethics guidelines” that are supposed to keep things aboveboard by hiding the identity of the buyers from both Hunter and the White House. And it falls to the gallerist — that is, the person who stands to gain from the commissions — to police the guidelines by rejecting suspiciously lucrative offers.
It screams of a scam. “The Treasury Department warned last year that the anonymity of high-value art transactions could make the market attractive to those engaging in illegal financial activities or people subject to U.S. sanctions,” The Times’s Zolan Kanno-Youngs reported in July.
In another report of dubious activities, Mattathias Schwartz wrote in Business Insider about emails that indicated that in 2015, while his dad was vice president, Hunter was allegedly exploring a $2 million-plus “success fees” deal with two Democratic donors to help recover Libyan assets that had been frozen as a result of U.S. sanctions. The effort came to nothing — Hunter’s reputation for hard living didn’t help — but at least one of the donors was attracted to Hunter’s offer because he is “son of #2 who has Libya file.”
“When it comes to opening doors in Washington,” Schwartz notes, “the illusion of access can be as valuable as hard currency.”
Some readers may be inclined to dismiss this as merely an indictment of a troubled son. They might ask themselves what conclusions they would draw if this were about, say, Eric Trump. Some readers will also think it isn’t the president’s job to police his adult son. But it is his job to ensure that Hunter and other relatives don’t profit by trading on his position in government.
That would be corruption. The president will have to do better than give us his “word as a Biden” that he’ll put an end to it.
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Thank you! That is a pretty hard hitting column for NYT to publish.
Too bad they only run basic facts like this in the opinion section.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10070093/Joe-Biden-Hunters-shared-bank-accounts-make-president-target-FBI-probe.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10070093/Joe-Biden-Hunters-shared-bank-accounts-make-president-target-FBI-probe.html
Anyone think this is going anywhere?
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https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-bidens-is-the-first-family-corrupt?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NDM0NzAyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0Mjc5NzAyOCwiXyI6IkorV0U0IiwiaWF0IjoxNjM1MzkxNTY3LCJleHAiOjE2MzUzOTUxNjcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xMDQyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.SNTkiM6N2ouZJoWmfs24mnhovjCT1eDi1A607RSEz94
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https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/10/27/all_about_the_bidens_introducing_realclearinvestigations_hunter_biden_reader_799475.html
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https://amgreatness.com/2021/11/01/radical-left-wing-billionaire-funding-hunter-biden-art-shows-raising-ethical-concerns/
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just another Jewish person whose real religion is Democratic Party
worship
too bad he won't go back to Israel and leave us alone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moishe_Mana
oh, the self righteous Jews ...........
yes there is a civil war among American Jews (I am sure the fight and bicker in Israel too though ).
my mother said once many yrs ago :
"there is an old saying , put 100 Jews in a room , and you will get 100 different opinions"
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10226309/Hunter-Biden-firm-helped-Chinese-company-purchase-one-worlds-largest-cobalt-mines.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10226309/Hunter-Biden-firm-helped-Chinese-company-purchase-one-worlds-largest-cobalt-mines.html
Amazing. Is there anything this guy can't do?
https://www.drivingelectric.com/lithium-and-cobalt-for-electric-car-batteries
A single electric car needs between six and 12kg of cobalt, with a requirement of almost 120,000 tonnes a year anticipated by 2030.
The Chinese aren't worried about the Congo child labor issues? It doesn't worry the taxpayer subsidized Tesla buyers?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cobalt-children-mining-democratic-republic-congo-cbs-news-investigation/
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/combatting-child-labor-democratic-republic-congos-cobalt-industry-cotecco
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and were on their way to the estate of David Rubenstein, the co-founder and chairman of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group, the report said.
Although the president has spent vacations and Thanksgiving on the island for decades — 46 years, to be exact — beginning when he was just a junior senator from Delaware, he does not own a house there. Biden and family have previously stayed at the homes of Democratic supporters Rubenstein and Louis Susman, ambassador to the United Kingdom under former president Barack Obama.
Joining Biden for the holiday are his son, Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen, daughter Ashley Biden, and several of their grandchildren, according to the White House. They are scheduled to return on Sunday, the White House said.
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"Joining Biden for the holiday are his son, Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen, daughter Ashley Biden, and several of their grandchildren... "
I wonder if Project Veritas will be there to bug it. Or if SNL has sense of humor enough to do a skit on it.
A weekend of Joe, Hunter and the journal writer Ashley. Missing would be the grandchild living with the prostitute and the late brother's wife that Hunter used to sleep with.
I could see there being some awkward moments of conversation in between the "inappropriate showers with Dad" and being "hyper sexualized" at home so young.
"Hunter, how's business?"
"Bought any Cobalt monopolies lately son?"
"You ought to know Dad, you're the Big Guy."
Ashley: "Come on Dad, get your clothes off, it's time to go swimming."
No mention that President Jill will be there. What could go wrong.
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https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/24/hunter-biden-claims-to-divest-bhr-partners-skaneateles/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2360&tpcc%3D=newsletter&pnespid=rqM8B31ANaQFwffCqWq5CZCO4kyzUYp7dbKs3flksR5m5vJJrzzWpGBT1Xh5FSUim4wpSBiy
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https://nypost.com/2021/11/28/chinese-titan-lavished-hunter-biden-with-3-carat-gem-offer-of-30-million
‘More money than God:’ Chinese titan lavished Hunter Biden with 3-carat gem, offer of $30 million
By Miranda Devine
November 28, 2021 6:12am Updated
Ye Jianming, former chairman of the Shanghai-based CEFC China Energy conglomerate in an undated photo. A Senate committee is investigating a bombshell cache of alleged Hunter Biden documents acquired by a Delaware computer repairman.
Ye Jianming, former chairman of the Shanghai-based CEFC China Energy conglomerate in an undated photo. A Senate committee is investigating a bombshell cache of alleged Hunter Biden documents acquired by a Delaware computer repairman.
The Biden family offered their services to a huge, Chinese-government-linked energy consortium to expand its business around the world. How do we know? Because of hundreds of emails documenting the deal found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, left in a Delaware repair shop in April 2019. In her new book, “Laptop from Hell,” New York Post columnist Miranda Devine tells the tale:
James Gilliar, a wiry, 56-year-old British ex-SAS officer, got to know Ye Jianming, the 40-year-old chairman of CEFC, when they were both working in the Czech Republic.
Hunter Biden’s firm helped China gain control of electric-car mineral: report
CEFC was a Chinese conglomerate, one of the largest energy companies in the world.
Ye’s task at was to spend $1.5 billion as quickly as possible to ensure the Czech Republic would become China’s “Gateway to the European Union,” a priority of President Xi.
To that end, Ye bought everything from a football team and a brewery to an airline, before being named “special economic advisor” to Czech President Milos Zeman.
Now he was looking for an influential partner to help with acquisitions in other locations around the world that had strategic significance for the Chinese state.
Gilliar had an idea who could help: The Biden family.
Gilliar connected with Hunter Biden through trusted Biden family friend Rob Walker, a former Clinton administration official whose wife, Betsy Massey Walker, had been Jill Biden’s assistant when she was Second Lady.
Miranda Devine's book Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide
Miranda Devine’s book Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.
Gilliar emailed Walker in February 2015 to praise Hunter’s appearance in Beijing at a board meeting of the fledgling investment fund Hunter had founded with John Kerry’s son, called BHR.
“Hunter was great,” Gilliar wrote to Walker. “True sheikh of Washington.”
He emailed Hunter a few weeks later: “It has been made clear to me that CEFC wish to engage in further business relations with our group.”
Gilliar knew CEFC was the capitalist arm of President Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative to spread China’s influence — and debt traps — across the world. No Chinese company executed its goals more ardently than CEFC and its young chairman, who was dubbed the “Belt and Road billionaire” in the press.
Chairman Ye had built his provincial energy company into a Fortune 500 colossus virtually overnight, an achievement described by Chinese news agency Caixin as “another great enigma in the miraculous world of Chinese business.” He enjoyed the support of President Xi and was former deputy secretary general of the government’s propaganda arm, the China Association for International Friendly Contacts.
In a rare interview with Caixin at CEFC’s palatial marble headquarters in Shanghai’s upscale French Concession District, Ye is portrayed as a “hermit king” sitting on a golden chair in “a room that resembles a miniature Great Hall of the People.”
Uniformed staff members wearing earpieces glide by. “Most of them were young women wearing smart clothes and bright faces.”
Ye’s face was “as expressionless as a stone statue. Amidst the gilded surroundings, his canvas shoes had an eye-catching plainness. .
“In his public activities as a private entrepreneur, Ye Jianming is al- ways walking alongside important foreign political figures. He has been photographed with world leaders such as Israeli President Peres, Turkish President Erdogan, Chadian President Déby, and European Commission President Juncker. He has met with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and the Prime Minister of Bulgaria held a feast to welcome him.”
In the winter of 2015, Chairman Ye and CEFC Executive Director Jianjun Zang, a.k.a. “Director Zang,” flew to Washington, DC. A meeting with Ye was scheduled in Hunter’s diary for December 7, 2015, in a week that was a swirl of back-to-back Christmas parties hosted by Joe and Jill at the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory.
One of his former associates, who spoke on condition of anonymity, believes that Hunter brought Chairman Ye to meet Joe at one of those parties. There is no indication of any such meeting on the laptop, but Hunter had a pattern of introducing business associates to Joe when they came to DC.
After a frustrating experience in another Chinese deal as a minority partner in private equity firm BHR, in which the payday would not come until the end of the fund’s life, Hunter and his uncle Jim Biden wanted more control of the CEFC partnership and a regular income stream.
Enter Tony Bobulinski. The naval officer turned wealthy institutional investor came highly recommended by Gilliar to build what they planned would be a world-class investment firm, called SinoHawk, named after Hunter’s late brother Beau’s favorite animal, the hawk.
Tony Bobulinski, former business parter of Hunter Biden.
Tony Bobulinski, former business partner of Hunter Biden.
REUTERS/Tom Brenner
In December 2015, Gilliar tells Bobulinski he needs help structuring a Chinese joint venture for “one of the most prominent families in the United States.”
The plan is to “build an investment firm like Goldman Sachs,” he writes in a WhatsApp message, transcripts of which were obtained separate from the laptop.
“The family is the Biden family,” Gilliar will soon disclose. Joe, who has announced that he will not run for president in 2016, will be actively involved once he leaves office, and the Bidens expect billions of dollars of projects to flow through the company, Gilliar says.
He lets Bobulinski in on the last piece of the puzzle in March 2016: the Bidens’ Chinese partner is CEFC, which has “more money than God,” he writes. “This is the capital arm of one belt one road.”
At about this time, Bobulinski is introduced to Rob Walker, who tells him he is “a proxy for Hunter Biden, Jim Biden and the Bidens around the world.”
Finally, in February 2017, Gilliar sends Bobulinski a WhatsApp message saying he wants to introduce him to his “partner.”
“Who is your partner?” asks Bobulinski.
“Hunter Biden,” replies Gilliar.
Bobulinski is leery. “I understand you want me to . . . help drive things in the US, but Hunter is [already] here.”
Gilliar: “Money there, intent there . . . skill sets missing . . . We need to create the best deal platform in history, and they haven’t got a clue.” Bobulinski doesn’t like the fact Hunter “was kicked out of US Navy for cocaine use.”
“But he’s super smart,” says Gilliar. “Just a lot of under achievers around them using their name. Has a few demons but u are used to those, right?”
Bobulinski asks: “Is he the decision maker or the Chinese?”
Gilliar: “New platform. Best discuss face to face but I’m the driver.”
Later, Bobulinski asks: “Ok who is putting up the $10MM [million]?”
Gilliar: “Joint vehicle — half us and then equally split — money is already in. Discuss more face to face.”
Ye Jianming, chairman of Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC, gives Hunter Biden a 3.16 carat diamond estimated to be worth $80,000
Ye Jianming, chairman of Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC, gave Hunter Biden a 3.16-carat diamond estimated to be worth $80,000.
Three weeks after his father left office, in 2017, Hunter flew to Miami with Gilliar and Walker to meet Chairman Ye, who was there for the Miami International Boat Show.
New York Post front cover Nov. 28, 2021.
They booked into the $700 a night beachfront Nobu Hotel on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, and scheduled lunch with the Chinese for Thursday in a private room set for 10 at the Bourbon Steak restaurant in the ritzy JW Marriott Turnberry Resort & Spa, where Ye was staying with his entourage.
But Hunter flew home the day before the lunch. He already had met with Ye, over a private dinner on the Tuesday night, at which the CEFC chairman made him an offer too good to refuse: $10 million a year, for a minimum of three years, for “introductions alone,” as Hunter would later assert in an imperious email to CEFC executives.
Ye sealed the new alliance with a rich gift — a 3.16 carat diamond worth $80,000. Photographs of the stunning stone appear on Hunter’s laptop along with a grading report that lists it as a “round brilliant” of Grade F with prime “VS2” clarity and “excellent” cut.
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Photos of the A 3.16-carat diamond were found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The gift could not have come at a better time. Hunter was in the middle of an ugly divorce from Kathleen, and his office manager, Joan Peugh, had just sent him the latest in a series of overdue bills, a tax collection notice from the District of Columbia for $47,226.78.
Hunter would tell the New Yorker’s Adam Entous that he had flown to Miami to meet Chairman Ye purely for charitable purposes, hoping to secure a donation to World Food Program USA, the nonprofit on whose board he served and which he had used before as a cover for his foreign business activities.
Hunter said it was just chance that the altruistic encounter “turned to business opportunities” and claimed to be surprised when Ye gave him the diamond. He didn’t mention the happy coincidence that his business partners Gilliar and Walker were with him in Miami to clinch a business deal with CEFC.
Aug 2 2017 email from Hunter Biden to CEFC associates Gongwen “Kevin” Dong and Mervyn Yan demanding more money
An Aug. 2, 2017 email from Hunter Biden to CEFC associates Gongwen “Kevin” Dong and Mervyn Yan demanding more money.
Robert Hunter
But the diamond was just an appetizer.
Nine days after Hunter’s meeting in Miami with Ye, $3 million is wired into an account for Rob Walker’s company, Robinson Walker LLC, from State Energy HK Limited, a Shanghai-based company linked to CEFC, according to the Chuck Grassley-Ron Johnson inquiry.
On March 1, another $3 million is wired to Robinson Walker by the same company. Both transactions are flagged by the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement network in a “suspicious activity report,” filed with the Senate committees as “Confidential Document 16.”
Using the document as a source, the Grassley-Johnson report of Nov. 18, 2020, says: “At the time of the transfers, State Energy HK Limited was affiliated with CEFC China Energy, which was under the leadership of Ye Jianming. In the past, State Energy HK Limited transferred funds to at least one company associated with Hunter Biden’s business associate, Gongwen Dong . . .
Hunter Biden emailed best wishes from the ‘entire’ family in $10M Chinese tycoon ask
“These transactions are a direct link between Walker and the communist Chinese government and, because of his close association with Hunter Biden, yet another tie between Hunter Biden’s financial arrange- ments and the communist Chinese government.”
The Senate report concludes it is “unclear what the true purpose is behind these transactions [$6 million from CEFC] and who the ultimate beneficiary is.”
We know from the laptop that Hunter received regular payments from Robinson Walker. One document lists $56,603.74 from Robinson Walker as income for Rosemont Seneca Advisors, between June and December 2017.
Rob Walker paid at least $511,000 to Hunter’s firm Owasco in 2017, according to an email from Hunter’s tax accountant, Bill Morgan.
Walker tells Bobulinski his role in CEFC is “being a surrogate for H [Hunter] or Jim when gauging opportunities, i.e. digging around in Texas on high speed rail with some of my republican friends . . . or hitting new countries and contacts abroad where things are lukewarm, but not hot enough for H to close or too odd for H to be present . . .”
Aug 3 2018 Hunter in bed Palms Casino Resort Vegas
An Aug. 3, 2018 photo of Hunter Biden in bed at Palms Casino Resort Vegas was found on his laptop.
On March 5, 2017, Page Six breaks the news that Hunter and his brother’s widow Hallie are an item.
When Hunter doesn’t show up for a scheduled meeting three days later in New York, Gilliar tells Bobulinski it doesn’t matter: “In brand he’s imperative but right now he’s not essential for adding input to business.”
It is at this point that Gilliar explains to Bobulinski that the Chinese involved in CEFC are “intelligence so they understand the value added” of the Biden name.
Bobulinski remains troubled by Hunter’s scandals, and Gilliar, who is in Australia with Director Zang looking for acquisitions, is worried he might pull out. So, he arranges for him to meet Hunter the following month at the Chateau Marmont, in Bobulinski’s hometown of L.A.
They meet by the hotel pool in April and speak for two hours while Hunter chain-smokes. Bobulinski finds him respectful and polite. Hunter boasts that he has his father’s ear and can bypass his advisers.
Hunter tells Bobulinski how the joint venture vehicle should be structured and expresses caution about US laws, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which prohibits businesses paying bribes to foreign officials. He appears to conflate that law with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a 1938 antispying law that requires anyone acting as a lobbyist for a foreign power to register with the US government as a foreign agent.
“No matter what, it will need to be a US company at some level in order for us to make bids on federal and state funded projects,” Hunter writes later.
“Also, we don’t want to have to register as foreign agents under the FCPA which is much more expansive than people who should know choose not to know.
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“Regardless we should have a . . . company called CEFC America, and ownership should be 50 me 50 them. We then cut up our 50 [percent] in a separate entity between the 4 of us.”
Hunter seems focused, but Bobulinski is puzzled about Uncle Jim’s frequent meddling in CEFC business.
For instance, in April 2017, Jim pulls strings at New York’s elite Horace Mann School to get Director Zang’s daughter Rouqi fast-tracked for entry, although she ends up enrolling in another school.
Jim also writes a letter on behalf of CEFC to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo requesting a meeting. “We intend to discuss potential projects and investments in New York.” He lists the other attendees as Hunter, Chairman Ye, Director Zang, and an unnamed “Member of the Royal Family of Luxembourg.”
“What is the deal w Jim Biden as he wasn’t part of the discussion but now seems a focal point?” Bobulinski asks Gilliar. “What role does Jim see himself playing?”
“Consultant is what he’s offered as [far as] I know,” Gilliar replies. “He [Hunter] brought in Jim simply to leverage getting more equity for himself and family in the final hour, that is evident.”
In another WhatsApp message, Gilliar tells Bobulinski: “With H [Hunter’s] demons, could be good to have a backup, he [Jim] strengthens our USP [unique selling point] to Chinese as it looks like a truly family business, and I like the dude.”
With the deal progressing, Hunter tells Bobulinski it’s time for the next step.
“I want Dad to meet you,” he says.
Excerpted with permission from “Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide” (Post Hill Press), out Tuesday.
COMING TOMORROW:
JOE BIDEN JOINS THE DEAL
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Imagine the names reversed, Trump for Biden, and the media reaction. It's been a year! Democrats only reaction has been to ban the newspaper. So much for caring about corruption and integrity. They don't.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/28/media-helped-hide-the-real-joe-biden-by-censoring-hunter-stories-devine/
Unlike Trump stories, everything turned out to be true and they came across the information legally. The story isn't about Hunter. It is about Joe letting himself be the product Hunter is selling. The amounts paid to the Bidens are millions and the gains made by the Chinese are in the billions. And still no one left of center knows or cares. The FBI is investigating conservative parents. What a country.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10272869/Hunter-Biden-Tucker-Carlson-close-friends-emails-show.html
seems like everyone in DC is in bed with everyone else somehow.............
everyone is connected directly or through one to two people
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I've been thinking about this story.
a) Tucker, a lifelong Washingtonian has consistently spoken kindly of the human dimension of man losing his mind and that he always found Biden personally friendly;
b) He has gone after the Hunter-Grifter Joe story with true vengeance.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10282493/Psaki-says-Hunter-doesnt-say-sold-Chinese-holding-made.html
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how do we know Hunter is not taking money from drug dealers
who are laundering money?
etc.
we don't.
laws for you not for thee.
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https://www.gingrich360.com/2021/12/03/why-congress-must-investigate-hunter-biden-and-all-those-protecting-him/?fbclid=IwAR3CcdPMH3eaoXaGQwj26j9yQxnXMB-h-oEO8KeKps6bKx9_fP3BscBwNbM
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-reveals-how-ashley-bidens-inappropriate-showers-joe-diary-made-its-way-project?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=363
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1480020477267652609
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/gop-senators-grassley-johnson-secret-service-hid-names-information-hunter-bidens-overseas-travel/
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"Life is tough. It is tougher when you are stupid."
John Wayne
And we are about to discover just how much tougher that can be. Prepare to have our assumptions shattered.
Electing this man to the presidency is of a level of stupidity that may well bring our country down:
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Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer on Sunday revealed how the Biden family have profited from business with individuals “linked to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence.”
Schweizer, the author of Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, said Biden’s son Hunter, while the elder Biden was serving as both vice president and president, was engaged in deals with individuals tied to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence. He called the Biden family’s business dealings “unprecedented.”
“One of the most startling things we uncovered is the simple fact that the Biden family, while he was vice president of the United States and continuing when he became president, received some $31 million from Chinese individuals who are linked to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence,” Schweizer outlined on Fox News Channel’s Life, Liberty & Levin.
He continued, “And these deals, which we lay out in the book, were carried out by a couple of individuals. One is a guy named Che Feng. Hunter Biden, in the Hunter Biden emails, refers to him as the Super Chairman. That’s kind of his nickname for him, and he says in one email, ‘I don’t believe in the lottery anymore, but I believe in the Super Chairman.'”
“His business partner was the vice minister at the ministry for state security,” Schweizer added. “He was in charge of, among other things, recruiting foreign nationals to spy for China. He was the head of something called the Number Eight Bureau. It doesn’t get any higher than that. These are the sorts of individuals that were striking deals with Hunter Biden. In this particular case, Che Feng happened to help a $20 million deal be secured. Another individual that helped arrange that deal is a guy named Mr. Zhao. Mr. Zhao helped with that $20 million deal. He also sent $5 million to Hunter Biden, and he sent that money from a very interesting business called Harvest Global.”
According to Schweizer, Jiao’s business partner is “the daughter of the former head of the ministry of state security.”
“This is the guy who runs the entire spy apparatus for China,” Schweizer emphasized. “Again, it does not get any higher than that.”
“And for the life of me, Mark, this is unprecedented,” he added. “I don’t know of a time in American history where the American first family has had this kind of a financial bond with a foreign intelligence service, particularly a foreign intelligence service that wants to defeat the United States in global competition.”
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"Electing this man to the presidency is of a level of stupidity that may well bring our country down"
yet the LEFT will blame Trump
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just shows how the statement is true:
"everyone has their price"
well almost everyone ......
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https://nypost.com/2022/01/30/hunter-biden-and-associates-received-2019-subpoena-over-business-deals-in-china/?fbclid=IwAR026fjc3Cv9Roea2RFkoe36-y9T9phwU_2oQRcQfxTZA0U3NvIrb5lYG68
Why is this coming out only now?
What happened with the subpoena?
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https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-does-vladimir-putin-have-on-joe-biden?fbclid=IwAR0AdGCjgO0ssMz0hKaQvqZ6cNkgXzQyOEGPm91REjltj94qK47qUXBr71Q
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https://www.businessinsider.com/nyt-sues-state-dept-wants-officials-hunter-biden-emails-2022-2?fbclid=IwAR0Ej5Hjs3KXWJxLrhC6jiIs7iALySz9Hye9-DdmCbSk969057dzPQShx5A
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Grassley Challenges Garland to Explain Why He Won’t Answer Key Biden–China Questions
By Mark Tapscott February 3, 2022 Updated: February 3, 2022biggersmaller Print
Attorney General Merrick Garland has refused to answer Sen. Charles Grassley’s (R-Iowa) “fundamental questions related to the Hunter Biden criminal investigation,” and the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee isn’t taking it sitting down.
“I’ve asked serious ethical questions of the Justice Department (DOJ) that the department refuses to answer. In fact, the department has actually publicly contradicted itself,” Grassley said during a Senate floor speech on Feb. 2.
The contradiction came, according to Grassley, in a federal court filing by the DOJ in which it said it had information about Patrick Ho, a Chinese businessman with deep connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Beijing’s intelligence apparatus. The information had been obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
“Patrick Ho was also charged and convicted of international bribery and money laundering offenses relating to his work for companies connected to the communist regime,” Grassley told the Senate. “After his arrest, his first call was reportedly to James Biden, President [Joe] Biden’s brother. Hunter Biden reportedly represented Patrick Ho for $1 million.”
Grassley, along with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), asked DOJ in a March 2021 letter to share the FISA information about Ho and other Chinese nationals connected with Hunter Biden.
Grassley and Johnson have been investigating Hunter Biden’s dealings for nearly two years, and issued a September 2020 report and a November 2020 update that together detailed extensive links between the Biden family and business interests and individuals with close ties to Beijing. Grassley was Senate Finance Committee chairman and Johnson chaired the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs when the report and update were issued.
The DOJ response to the March 2021 letter, Grassley explained, said: “‘Unfortunately, under the circumstances described in your letter, we aren’t in a position to confirm the existence of the information that is sought (if it exists in the department’s possession).’
“‘If it exists in the department’s possession.’ Simply put, that’s not a true and accurate statement,” Grassley told the Senate, noting that either DOJ has the FISA information, as it told the court, or it doesn’t.
Grassley and Johnson asked Garland in a November 2021 letter to clear up the contradiction. To date, Garland hasn’t responded.
Grassley also told the Senate that he and Johnson “asked Attorney General Garland if Nicholas McQuaid is recused from the Hunter Biden criminal case.”
“McQuaid works in the Department’s Criminal Division but worked with Hunter Biden’s criminal attorney before joining the Department. This poses a clear conflict of interest,” he said.
Again, no answer has been forthcoming from Garland, Grassley said.
In a third example of Garland failing to respond to the senators, Grassley said Garland initially didn’t say if Susan Hennessey—a DOJ National Security Division employee who was publicly critical of U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation of issues linked to the Russiagate accusations against former President Donald Trump—was recused from that probe.
Garland claimed in a November 2021 appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Hennessey has no role “whatsoever” in the Durham probe. Garland said the same thing when asked if Margaret Goodlander, a DOJ employee who is married to Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan, is recused from the Durham investigation.
Grassley told the Senate: “Sullivan worked for the Clinton presidential campaign. While there, he peddled the false Alfa Bank story about the Trump Organization having a secret back-channel with the Russian bank.
“On the one hand, Attorney General Garland has publicly said Susan Hennessey and Margaret Goodlander have no role in the Durham investigation. On the other hand, Attorney General Garland refuses to say the same for McQuaid and the Hunter Biden criminal case. Why? Why won’t Attorney General Garland say that McQuaid has no role in the criminal case involving the president’s son? This is a fundamental ethical question.
“What’s the Biden Justice Department hiding? This blatantly inconsistent treatment has cast a cloud over the Hunter Biden criminal case. Just imagine if this fact pattern involved President Trump and his sons.
“You wouldn’t hear the end of it from my Democratic colleagues and the media. Yet not a sound from them in this case. The American people are rightly skeptical of how the Justice Department is handling the Hunter Biden criminal case. And the secrecy and lack of public transparency will only increase that skepticism.”
The DOJ media relations office didn’t respond by press time to The Epoch Times’ request for comment.
In a related development, it was learned last week that U.S. Attorney David Weiss issued a grand jury subpoena in 2019 for bank records of Hunter Biden and James Biden, the president’s brother. Little else is known about the DOJ’s continuing investigation of Hunter Biden’s lobbying, financial activities, and tax problems.
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I wonder if President Biden will continue with plans to double the number of IRS agents, as he looks at his own family's tax issues looking into vast amounts of monies made overseas.
Hunter may go to jail. The Big Guy to follow? Or does he have Democratic immunity?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10537615/Hunter-Bidens-ex-girlfriend-Zoe-Kestan-lingerie-designer-testifies-lavish-spending.html
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Be serious Doug. You know they are untouchable. An unprotected person would be in federal prison for what was on Hunter's laptop alone, much less for all the other federal crimes the feds actively intervened in to avoid charges or negative publicity.
Remember the gun incident?
https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/hunter-biden-texts-shoot-down-secret-service-denial-over-gun-incident/
Or this?
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/biden-son-cocaine-charge-marijuana-yavapai-arizona-sheila-polk-11298921
Or this?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/17/hunter-biden-drug-test/17427857/
I wonder if President Biden will continue with plans to double the number of IRS agents, as he looks at his own family's tax issues looking into vast amounts of monies made overseas.
Hunter may go to jail. The Big Guy to follow? Or does he have Democratic immunity?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10537615/Hunter-Bidens-ex-girlfriend-Zoe-Kestan-lingerie-designer-testifies-lavish-spending.html
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http://republicbrief.com/bombshell-grand-jury-testimony-on-hunter-biden/
what a farce
goal is to get him on tax evasion?
big deal.
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http://republicbrief.com/bombshell-grand-jury-testimony-on-hunter-biden/
what a farce
goal is to get him on tax evasion?
big deal.
I'll believe it when I see it, but successful prosecution of the tax charge will prove he made the income.
At this point his Ukraine, china deals are 'baseless accusations of the right wing media'. We could use a higher level of proof that he was making millions on deals worth billions.
And what was Hunter selling, his expertise or was he selling his Dad's influence? The photos and emails released since the election show what it was and that Dad was a willing accomplice. The repeat and referral business Hunter kept receiving proves his customers were getting what they were paying for, and it wasn't a crackhead's time and expertise. What did he call it, a lottery jackpot? Those generally don't require a contract for labor to get paid.
Aren't 'online handles' self named? 'Weed slut 420', I wonder what her interests were.
A moderate center right friend said he leans (Kasich) Republican but could not vote for Trump because of "integrity". And he voted for Biden? Here's an integrity question for Biden, how many grandchildren do you have? Joe Biden does not recognize the innocent child of his only living son, born out of wedlock, but supports his son's underground multimillion dollar criminal enterprises at every turn. Joe Biden is our national model of integrity? Good f'ing grief.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/secret-service-says-it-cant-find-hunter-biden-travel-records-for-2010-2011-or-2013
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/secret-service-says-it-cant-find-hunter-biden-travel-records-for-2010-2011-or-2013
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It’s in the same vault as the Epstein client database and the hidden camera video footage of Bill Clinton on Pedo Island.
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Nice find CCP.
What a banana republic we've become.
Of course, this will go unnoticed by the Pravdas.
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Hunter Biden Associate Devon Archer Sentenced to One Year, One Day in Jail
By Zachary Stieber February 28, 2022 Updated: February 28, 2022biggersmaller Print
A longtime associate of President Joe Biden’s son was sentenced on Feb. 28 to one year and one day in jail for defrauding a Native American tribe.
Devon Archer was convicted for participating in a scheme to bilk the Wakpamni Lake Community Corporation of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of tens of millions of dollars. The tribe didn’t answer a phone attempt for comment on Monday.
Archer was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams, an Obama nominee who split the ground between prosecutorial and defense sentencing recommendations.
Prosecutors asked for 30 months in prison, arguing for the same sentence as the one handed down to Bevan Cooney, a co-defendant. Prosecutors noted that there were 10 or more victims of the scheme, which caused a loss in excess of $25 million, and said guidelines would lead to a sentence of between 108 and 135 months, but decided not push for a longer sentence because of a “need to avoid unwanted sentencing disparities.”
Matthew Schwartz, representing Archer, claimed his client was “plainly kept in the dark” about much of the scheme and himself lost “a substantial amount of his own money” while receiving nothing from the plot. Schwartz asked the court for no jail time.
Abrams told the courtroom that the fraud was too serious for a sentence of no time behind bars but that the COVID-19 pandemic led her to give a shorter sentence than the one prosecutors sought, the New York Post reported.
Abrams also ordered Archer to forfeit some $15.7 million and pay over $43 million in restitution.
Abrams is the same judge that tossed Archer’s conviction in 2018, only for an appeals court to reinstate it in 2020.
An appeal to the Supreme Court from Archer was rejected in late 2021.
Archer has been linked with Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, for years.
Archer and the others involved in the scheme used Hunter Biden’s name in convincing the Native American tribe to invest assets, and emails show Hunter Biden was involved with Archer’s company. Hunter Biden was never charged in the defrauding operation, and his lawyer has told news outlets that those who were “invoked and used Hunter’s name—without his knowledge—to lend their business venture more credibility.”
Hunter Biden is currently under investigation by federal prosecutors.
All but one other defendant in the fraud scheme has been sentenced. Jason Galanis, who authorities said orchestrated the scheme, was sentenced to 189 months in prison; John Galanis was sentenced to 10 years in prison; Gary Hirst was sentenced to 8 years; and Michelle Morton was sentenced to 15 months. Abrams sentenced all of them, and Cooney.
High Dunkerley, the other defendant, recently successfully pushed his sentencing back to later this year.
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More coverage, 7 email revelations. Joe's mortgage and finances intertwined?
https://thedrilldown.com/hunter-biden-laptop-revealed
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GM:
Can you track down the Gateway citation(s) for this assertion?
https://hannity.com/media-room/where-theres-smoke-theres-hunter-biden-firm-rosemont-seneca-invested-in-ukrainian-biolabs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-theres-smoke-theres-hunter-biden-firm-rosemont-seneca-invested-in-ukrainian-biolabs&fbclid=IwAR0_z-1kdIzj9imApooinPQZ9dMhCfaNQsIE3JWR6uPTotDABGfklRJKtY8
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"More coverage, 7 email revelations. Joe's mortgage and finances intertwined?
https://thedrilldown.com/hunter-biden-laptop-revealed"
MSM response =>>> **THE BIG LIE** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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GM:
Can you track down the Gateway citation(s) for this assertion?
https://hannity.com/media-room/where-theres-smoke-theres-hunter-biden-firm-rosemont-seneca-invested-in-ukrainian-biolabs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-theres-smoke-theres-hunter-biden-firm-rosemont-seneca-invested-in-ukrainian-biolabs&fbclid=IwAR0_z-1kdIzj9imApooinPQZ9dMhCfaNQsIE3JWR6uPTotDABGfklRJKtY8
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/much-bidens-make-ukraine-biolabs/
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Thank you.
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near bankrupt
compare his treatment to those used to call out about Trump or his family:
https://nypost.com/2022/03/12/hunter-bidens-laptop-repairman-harassed-nearly-bankrupt/
they are heroes, they are given whistle sucker protection, they get gigs in CNN
publishers rush to offer them big money for their story
but if it is a Democrat you get destroyed in every way except death
I know first hand how well connected funded people can effect your life.
Or the opposite if it is in their interest.
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Must!
Vote!
Harder!
near bankrupt
compare his treatment to those used to call out about Trump or his family:
https://nypost.com/2022/03/12/hunter-bidens-laptop-repairman-harassed-nearly-bankrupt/
they are heroes, they are given whistle sucker protection, they get gigs in CNN
publishers rush to offer them big money for their story
but if it is a Democrat you get destroyed in every way except death
I know first hand how well connected funded people can effect your life.
Or the opposite if it is in their interest.
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https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/17/hunter-biden-laptop-new-york-post-psaki-ukraine-business/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2680&pnespid=qag9DH9Laq9Di6TRojTvDp3S4BuzU8ZwIbW8m_h48gJmiPA.qQ9sU_WU5SRzswUl4nIJv_fF
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that's it?
what about the obvious Joe Biden connection
no independent counsels
to prove the connection to the PREZ like
dems deep state did to Trump ?
https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/lawyer-for-mother-of-hunter-bidens-child-lunden-roberts-says-he-expects-presidents-son-to-be-indicted/
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/87026-this-just-in-hunter-bidens-laptop-authenticated-2022-03-18?mailing_id=6543&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.6543&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body
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https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/18/done-here-psaki-reporter-hunter-biden-business-dealings-russian-oligarch/?utm_medium=email&pnespid=u7Q2DTgZKrwf2PzBom7vSZLRshSyUpEoKrSjmep5tgRmLfz_keHgE4MHy.cAFMcEMWS_ivht
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10629817/Psaki-claims-WH-no-confirmation-Hunter-Biden-got-3-5M-Russia.html?fbclid=IwAR1DX3BSnEAgkrb7dFEFl5PH2W4OStiNQ2jUYUy6lO3ZoGCM4mnHxMwLutI
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Mother of Hunter Biden’s Child Testified to Federal Investigators: Lawyer
By Zachary Stieber March 21, 2022 Updated: March 21, 2022biggersmaller Print
The mother of one of Hunter Biden’s children answered questions from federal investigators probing Biden’s financial dealings, according to her lawyer.
Clint Lancaster, representing Lunden Roberts, told The Epoch Times in an email that Roberts “testified pursuant to a subpoena.”
Biden, one of President Joe Biden’s sons, had a child with Roberts in 2018.
Several former romantic partners of Biden were reported to have testified to federal investigators in the probe, which Biden has described as exploring potential tax crimes and includes looking at records of transactions with a bank in China, according to a grand jury subpoena obtained by The Epoch Times.
Lancaster, Roberts’s lawyer, told CNBC recently that he gave “a significant amount of Hunter’s financial records” to investigators and that both he and Roberts were interviewed by a U.S. prosecutor, an FBI agent, and an agent with the Internal Revenue Service.
“I expect him to be indicted,” Lancaster said. “Just based on what I saw in his financial records, I would be surprised if he’s not indicted.”
The testimony took place in Arkansas, where Roberts lives, more than one year ago, he added.
Lancaster declined to share more details, saying Roberts has not authorized him to make further comments or engage in additional interviews.
Another former girlfriend, Zoe Kestan, reportedly testified to the grand jury in Delaware. Kestan has not responded to a request for comment. A lawyer for Biden has not returned queries.
Biden, 52, engaged in numerous financial deals while his father was vice president, including doing business with firms in China and Russia, a congressional report released in 2020 concluded.
The report said there were concerns about potential criminal activity related to the transactions. Lawmakers also said the millions of dollars in transactions raised extortion concerns.
Biden and his father have said the younger Biden didn’t do anything wrong.
The White House has repeatedly declined to comment on developments on Biden, noting he is not part of the federal government.
Republicans in Congress have vowed to investigate Biden if they gain control of either or both chambers of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. One aspect would be probing how social media firms blocked access to stories about emails from a laptop purportedly belonging to Biden just before the 2020 election.
“We know for a fact that Big Tech, the mainstream media, and allies of the Democrat Party worked together in the last days of the 2020 election to censor fact-based journalism and shut down social media platforms to ensure that the public did not have access to the truth about the scandals involving Hunter Biden and the Biden family,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said in a statement on March 18. “This is the most consequential political scandal since Watergate, and it deserves an investigation no less robust and no less bipartisan.”
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Has the deep state decided to switch figureheads?
Mother of Hunter Biden’s Child Testified to Federal Investigators: Lawyer
By Zachary Stieber March 21, 2022 Updated: March 21, 2022biggersmaller Print
The mother of one of Hunter Biden’s children answered questions from federal investigators probing Biden’s financial dealings, according to her lawyer.
Clint Lancaster, representing Lunden Roberts, told The Epoch Times in an email that Roberts “testified pursuant to a subpoena.”
Biden, one of President Joe Biden’s sons, had a child with Roberts in 2018.
Several former romantic partners of Biden were reported to have testified to federal investigators in the probe, which Biden has described as exploring potential tax crimes and includes looking at records of transactions with a bank in China, according to a grand jury subpoena obtained by The Epoch Times.
Lancaster, Roberts’s lawyer, told CNBC recently that he gave “a significant amount of Hunter’s financial records” to investigators and that both he and Roberts were interviewed by a U.S. prosecutor, an FBI agent, and an agent with the Internal Revenue Service.
“I expect him to be indicted,” Lancaster said. “Just based on what I saw in his financial records, I would be surprised if he’s not indicted.”
The testimony took place in Arkansas, where Roberts lives, more than one year ago, he added.
Lancaster declined to share more details, saying Roberts has not authorized him to make further comments or engage in additional interviews.
Another former girlfriend, Zoe Kestan, reportedly testified to the grand jury in Delaware. Kestan has not responded to a request for comment. A lawyer for Biden has not returned queries.
Biden, 52, engaged in numerous financial deals while his father was vice president, including doing business with firms in China and Russia, a congressional report released in 2020 concluded.
The report said there were concerns about potential criminal activity related to the transactions. Lawmakers also said the millions of dollars in transactions raised extortion concerns.
Biden and his father have said the younger Biden didn’t do anything wrong.
The White House has repeatedly declined to comment on developments on Biden, noting he is not part of the federal government.
Republicans in Congress have vowed to investigate Biden if they gain control of either or both chambers of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. One aspect would be probing how social media firms blocked access to stories about emails from a laptop purportedly belonging to Biden just before the 2020 election.
“We know for a fact that Big Tech, the mainstream media, and allies of the Democrat Party worked together in the last days of the 2020 election to censor fact-based journalism and shut down social media platforms to ensure that the public did not have access to the truth about the scandals involving Hunter Biden and the Biden family,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said in a statement on March 18. “This is the most consequential political scandal since Watergate, and it deserves an investigation no less robust and no less bipartisan.”
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https://michaelyon.locals.com/upost/1882306/biden-crime-family-the-laptop-from-hell
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https://michaelyon.locals.com/upost/1904656/biden-laptop-from-hell-new-document-dump
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https://nypost.com/2022/03/29/gaetz-tries-to-get-hunter-biden-laptop-into-congressional-record/?fbclid=IwAR3wm5Y5WG8dUJr4iV5KwxivRGY59Pjo9mk7K4vuxBOosF6_5VRkjQbHL-A
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/truth-about-hunter-biden-ukrainian-bio-labs/?fbclid=IwAR3wm5Y5WG8dUJr4iV5KwxivRGY59Pjo9mk7K4vuxBOosF6_5VRkjQbHL-A
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1507741253349355520.html
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/29/gop-senators-explore-chinese-companys-1-million-pa/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=IDk27w40WJyEW9YRzJah46smuUqzM5WiZsMkaMOkSDQ1s9I7cv%2ByUAEtlsy7ggQc&bt_ts=1648635156089
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/fbi-cyber-chief-says-doesnt-know-hunter-bidens-laptop-video/
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https://michaelyon.locals.com/upost/1924122/fbi-where-is-the-laptop
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https://patriotpost.us/alexander/87331-big-guy-bidens-family-chicom-bucks-bonanza-2022-03-31?mailing_id=6569&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.6569&utm_campaign=digest&utm_content=body
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Lawmakers Demand Hunter Biden’s Communications With Obama White House
By Jack Phillips April 1, 2022 Updated: April 1, 2022
Several GOP lawmakers sent more letters to the Biden administration demanding records of any communication between Hunter Biden and the White House.
“Hunter Biden’s connections throughout the Russian sphere of influence have now become especially relevant in the fast-moving and developing Russian war in Ukraine,” the Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said in their letters to the White House, dated Thursday, March 31.
They argued that “if the Russian government is attempting to influence American policy in Ukraine by exploiting Hunter Biden’s connection with his father—the President of the United States—the American people deserve to know it,” according to their letter.
The Republicans are seeking “documents and communications” between the White House and “members or associates of the Biden family” from Jan. 20, 2021, to now, the letter said. They’re also seeking a list of “past and ongoing foreign business interests and past and ongoing foreign relations for members of the Biden family.”
Starting about a year ago, the younger Biden started producing artwork, which has been shown during an exhibition in New York. Some of the paintings are reportedly being sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, which has led to speculation that he’s using his name and influence to sell the paintings for a higher price, although Biden told outlets that his art is “literally keeping me sane” and dismissed such allegations.
Now, Republicans also are seeking seeking “all documents and communications” from Jan. 20, 2021, to now about Biden’s artwork, while demanding “all policies and procedures in place to ensure the Biden family does not profit from the presidency of Joe Biden.”
House Oversight Republicans said they’re seeking all records between Obama administration officials and “members or associates” of Biden’s family relating to Russia or Ukraine as well as all documents and records relating to Yelena Baturina, one of the richest women in Russia and the wife of a former Moscow mayor, Yuri Luzhkov. There have been allegations that Hunter Biden received millions of dollars from Baturina, which Joe Biden has denied.
Republicans also allege the Biden family made a significant amount of money by leveraging Biden’s political influence when he was a senator from Delaware and when he served as vice president.
“The Biden family has for decades profited from Joe Biden’s positions of public trust. Hunter Biden has particularly benefitted from his father’s success in politics, from managing a Ukrainian energy conglomerate, to selling cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to connecting his father to Kazakhstani oil oligarchs, and preventing a Romanian real estate tycoon’s conviction for bribery charges,” their letter states.
The letters are addressed to Dana Remus, counsel to President Joe Biden, as well as David Ferriero, who heads the National Archives and Records Administration.
White House communications director Kate Bedingfield on Thursday said that Biden was telling the truth in a late 2020 presidential debate that Hunter Biden didn’t make money in China or in other overseas business deals.
“We absolutely stand by the president’s comment,” Bedingfield told reporters. “And I would point you to the reporting on this, which referenced statements that we made at the time, that we gave to The Washington Post, who worked on this story. But as you know, I don’t speak for Hunter Biden so there’s not more I can say on that.”
The Epoch Times has contacted the White House for comment. Hunter Biden’s lawyer has not responded to requests by The Epoch Times for comment.
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My thinking
is
that after a few in the MSM were brought kicking and screaming to admit this was the kid's laptop
it is only after the lawyerlisters have made clear to them the "bid guy"
is safe from this
I don't think the Dem machine is throwing the big guy under the bus as some have suggested (bongino)
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Right. They (NYT etc) are not fully throwing him under the bus, only admitting what can no longer can be denied. They are (years too late) admitting something happened, 'that old story' , as part of the Clinton-like protocol. Then minimize, no one or at least not the big guy gets indicted. For Hunter it gets limited to tax evasion, not treason, no jail, and then the denial shifts to, it was just a relative with a tax issue, no connection (hardly) to Joe. Then Trump gets indicted or we all get pointed to some other new shiny object.
Both sides need new leaders and candidates anyway. It's a pretty big stretch to believe what's left of Joe Biden will be the nominee in '24. 36% approval and all policies failed, it's not what the Warren AOC wing want to see. Fool me once...
If HRC is really the next nominee, God forbid, our focus is on the wrong scandals anyway.
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"If HRC is really the next nominee, God forbid, our focus is on the wrong scandals anyway."
did you see her on Todd yesterday
boasting about Dem accomplishments
talking touch on Putin (more sanctions keep him off committee assignments - after I presume
"meeting with our friends and allies ")
nothing about the disaster of the Dem party which she is trying to ingratiate into choosing her again ....
Bunker " hill " to the rescue "to save democracy". oh vey
OTOH she may good for Repubs to whip her ass again. Not sure
since she is so corrupt .......
as is the whole Dem machine....
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"Biden’s son was in business with John Kerry’s stepson, Chris Heinz. So, that’s two relations of Democrats who had run for president and occupied high government office coincidentally doing buckraking together."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/04/what-did-joe-biden-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/
this tidbit I did not know
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(https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/ct3bGJxjpX2Ah_Rf9BMl63nzGeAv1yobJ6SyW6ej2gO7y_FaYa5-h9aMoMDmiNlLXfM6294N52Jfq6V2_AaPAxYFqlUwkB35GPaLp4fVWT9vDbhzaFo3T8heyeezbxkxP5Xq3Wu6coj-LUR2NGAMyIPVKRRCjw=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/dc8d30edd7976d2ddf9c2bf96/images/190da687-ed60-0b5b-fd43-8ab2d074744c.jpg)
Hat tip CTUP Steve Moore
To point out the obvious, who invites himself to someone else's office for "coffee"? Coffee?
Same day? Wouldn't he have already had his coffee? Is this a special coffee? If people know anything about treason, organized crime, secret dealings, the purpose must be something so bad, secret or incriminating they can't put it in writing, money obviously, and that of value which is being exchanged for the millions, the quid pro quo.
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I keep thinking this scandal isn't going anywhere because Biden is a Democrat and there are two systems of justice, and then more bombshells keep coming in.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10689445/Whistleblower-handed-Hunter-Bidens-laptop-congressmen-fled-Switzerland.html
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Let me know when Hunter is in cuffs, getting perp-walked into court.
Meanwhile, people who didn't even enter the Capitol building on 1/6 are still sitting in Garland's Gulag awaiting trial.
I keep thinking this scandal isn't going anywhere because Biden is a Democrat and there are two systems of justice, and then more bombshells keep coming in.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10689445/Whistleblower-handed-Hunter-Bidens-laptop-congressmen-fled-Switzerland.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10689445/Whistleblower-handed-Hunter-Bidens-laptop-congressmen-fled-Switzerland.html
Let me know when Hunter is in cuffs, getting perp-walked into court.
Meanwhile, people who didn't even enter the Capitol building on 1/6 are still sitting in Garland's Gulag awaiting trial.
I keep thinking this scandal isn't going anywhere because Biden is a Democrat and there are two systems of justice, and then more bombshells keep coming in.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10689445/Whistleblower-handed-Hunter-Bidens-laptop-congressmen-fled-Switzerland.html
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https://nypost.com/2022/04/06/heres-a-dozen-times-joe-biden-played-a-role-in-hunters-deals/?fbclid=IwAR303nR2KFHn6L9XSU7pkR_E6VSZ2mZAGTNQLAFvxqprcCUy_2smGYL-VpQ
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second
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10694447/Joe-Bidens-BROTHER-James-dragged-Chinese-payments-scandal.html
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Have not had a chance to read this closely yet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/08/unraveling-tale-hunter-biden-35-million-russia/?fbclid=IwAR0fwWvTMqQpw2dCFKP9n25Apm8OMZdqEQIjem7PcwwDwvvt4a7hLcyeBNw
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https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/13/hunter-biden-pushed-chinese-natural-gas-sale-laptop/?utm_medium=email&pnespid=raZrUiZDJv4H1_XfrCiqEs6erxCuWMNzP.a3xe1s8gRmXViwfVxnd9fhtYRyxv59xUwzQQib
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Hunter Biden gets pass on niece concerns
Agencies hand off laptop data
BY KERRY PICKET THE WASHINGTON TIMES
When Hunter Biden’s laptop emerged with evidence of drug use and accusations of nudity in the presence of a teenage girl in his household, law enforcement agencies punted rather than aggressively investigate the state’s most powerful political family.
As soon as the police department in President Biden’s home county received the laptop in October 2020, police officials turned it over to Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, who promptly handed it off to the FBI’s Baltimore field office.
Two years later, there is still no evidence that Delaware law enforcement or child welfare offi cials took action to determine whether Hunter Biden’s household had a child endangerment situation. The hard drive contained photographs of Hunter Biden puffing on a crack pipe and walking around naked inside the Delaware home he shared with his girlfriend and her teenage daughter. It also revealed text messages in which Hunter Biden protested complaints by relatives about his “sexually inappropriate” behavior in front of the teenage girl.
The Washington Times obtained a copy of the laptop hard drive and reviewed Hunter Biden’s text messages, photographs and other documents.
It is another example of President Biden’s family getting a pass, said Rep. Dan Bishop, a North Carolina Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.
“Departments of social services, local prosecutors exist in significant part to address exactly those kinds of harm,” he said when The Times presented him with details of the Delaware law enforcement response.
“Americans have been aware of all of the tales concerning Hunter Biden, whether they be handling of weapons, the inexplicable payments of massive sums of money from abroad, and then these lurid allegations … of grossly irresponsible personal conduct extending over a period of many years, and yet he seems
to defy gravity,” he said. “People who have a certain status or certain advantages seem never to come under scrutiny from law enforcement as others would.”
When The Times asked the FBI whether it investigated potential child endangerment involving Hunter Biden, the FBI said it was agency policy to neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation. The FBI declined to provide additional comments.
Under Delaware’s mandatory reporting law related to child endangerment, “Any person, agency, organization or entity who knows or in good faith suspects child abuse or neglect shall make a report.” The law specifies Delaware law enforcement agencies as mandatory reporters.
State law also stipulates that the “investigation and disposition of cases involving child abuse or neglect shall be conducted in a comprehensive, integrated, multidisciplinary manner.”
The attorney general and the New Castle County Police Department did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The Delaware Division of Family Services should receive confidential reports from police, medical professionals or civilians when child abuse or neglect is suspected. The department would not confirm nor deny whether it had received an inquiry involving Hunter Biden.
Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik came into possession of the laptop, which had been abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop. As soon as they saw evidence of what they viewed as child endangerment, they said, they turned over the laptop on Oct. 20, 2020, to law enforcement authorities in New Castle County, Delaware.
In a recent interview, Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Kerik said they were confounded that neither the police nor the state attorney general looked into the activities of Hunter Biden, a known drug addict, while he lived with a girlfriend and her teenage daughter and son.
Mr. Kerik said they felt compelled to turn over the evidence and expected police to conduct a child welfare investigation.
“Why would you not, at least, conduct a minimal inquiry?” Mr. Kerik said. “Why would you not interview the child [or] the child’s mother? Nobody was interviewed. Under state law, they should have conducted an investigation, period. It’s their jurisdiction.”
In a text message to his father, Hunter Biden complained that his girlfriend Hallie Biden, his brother’s widow, kept him away from her daughter, who is also his niece. Hunter Biden wrote that Hallie Biden accused him of doing drugs and talking to “girls” in front of the child.
In several text messages with family members, Hunter Biden talked about troubling accusations made by Hallie Biden while she was his live-in girlfriend beginning in 2017.
As his relationship with Hallie Biden fell apart, Hunter Biden texted members of his family about it. He said Hallie Biden told his therapist that he was “sexually inappropriate” with her underage daughter and “walking around naked, watching porn, masturbating and doing drugs” in front of the child, as first reported by the New York Post’s Miranda Devine.
The Times redacted the name of the teenage girl for this article.
In a March 13, 2019, text to Ashley Biden, his half sister, Hunter Biden said Hallie Biden “told my therapist that I had been sexually inappropriate with [REDACTED] … my therapist had to question her for close to 10 minutes to make certain that she did not have an obligation to report me to the police.”
Hunter Biden insisted that the accusation was false.
“So she told my therapist that I was sexually inappropriate with [REDACTED] when she says that I face time naked with her and the reason I can’t have her out to see me is because I’ll walk around naked smoking crack [talking to] girls on face time,” he wrote in another text to his father. “When she was pressed she said [REDACTED] never said anything like that but the bottom line is that I create and caused [a] very unsafe environment for the kids.”
The Times could not verify the accusations referenced in Hunter Biden’s text messages. The Times also reached out to Hallie Biden and Hunter Biden for comment but did not hear back from them.
Hunter Biden’s uncle, James Biden, responded to his complaints in a text dated Aug. 10, 2018. “Hunter, it is imperative you call me or your father. Your father is getting, as I am, barraged by Hallie,” James Biden said.
James Biden said: “He has not responded. We both agree with you and trust you. She is spreading what you told me and I believe you !!!! Are lies. Once again we both need you side of the story so we can shove it down her f---ing throat!!!!
“I implore you to call. Please I/ we are on you side. I believe you, this is nothing short of character assassination. Love, U Jim,” he wrote.
Although Hunter Biden and Hallie Biden were reported to have broken up in the spring of 2019, Mr. Kerik said law enforcement was obliged to determine the frequency of Hunter Biden’s contacts with Hallie Biden and her underage daughter when they received the laptop evidence.
The Biden family has been firmly entwined in Delaware’s business and politics for half a century since Mr. Biden was first elected to serve on the New Castle County Council in 1970. Two years later, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he would serve until 2009 when he was sworn in as President Obama’s vice president.
His son Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in May 2015, served as Delaware attorney general from 2007 to 2015 and launched the state’s child predator task force.
The information that Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Kerik red-flagged to New Castle County law enforcement authorities, Mr. Kerik said, was treated like a hot potato. He said he and Mr. Giuliani were viewed as “suspects” when officials attempted to question each in separate rooms.
“So, they wound up talking to us in one room, and we told them what we believed. We told them what we found on the machine. We told them what should be investigated,” he said.
The New Castle County Police and the Delaware attorney general were primed to hand off the laptop’s contents to the FBI, Mr. Kerik said.
“They knew we were coming the day before, so they must have notified the FBI and told them,” he said. “They had them waiting, and they just turned it over to them.”
The bureau launched an earlier investigation into how the laptop arrived in Mr. Giuliani’s hands and was reviewing the authenticity of its contents at the time.
Mr. Giuliani said he and Mr. Kerik acted responsibly by delivering the laptop and reporting on Hunter Biden’s behavior to Delaware law enforcement, but he wonders why the authorities did not follow through with an inquiry.
He added, “As far as I know, nothing was ever done with it. When this gets investigated, somebody’s got to figure out who violated Delaware law by not acting on that,” Mr. Giuliani said. “I gave it to them directly, and then they just passed it on to the FBI.”
Mr. Kerik said the police never opened an inquiry to his knowledge.
“Given the fact that they immediately handed over the hard drive to the FBI, they didn’t do any local investigation,” he said. “Nobody interviewed the kid or interviewed the mom.”
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10728521/Financial-records-reveal-Joe-Biden-5-2million-unexplained-income.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10757307/Hunter-Bidens-business-partner-27-VISITS-White-House-Joe-VP.html
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"Hunter's business partner made 27 visits to the White House"
"I HAVE NEVER HAD SEX WITH THAT WOMAN!"
"I HAVE NEVER MET WITH ANY OF HIS BUSINESS PARTNERS"
I guess it was possible they met with the President actually, and not the VP.
Is 27 more than JAYZEEEE?
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Still less than Al Sharpton.
"Hunter's business partner made 27 visits to the White House"
"I HAVE NEVER HAD SEX WITH THAT WOMAN!"
"I HAVE NEVER MET WITH ANY OF HIS BUSINESS PARTNERS"
I guess it was possible they met with the President actually, and not the VP.
Is 27 more than JAYZEEEE?
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https://nypost.com/2022/04/26/joe-biden-paid-hunters-bills-tied-to-chinese-firm-deal-email/?fbclid=IwAR0met7ny5sI7a8KkQkEi1gMe-cKf4pJpR3tepFwWreZ-vqGfvaFgTVjiZs
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10728521/Financial-records-reveal-Joe-Biden-5-2million-unexplained-income.html
While they all call for release of Trump's heavily audited returns, we come to know THIS. The treasonous spy crook was the other guy.
Hard tind this when all the IRS Targeting was aimed at the right.
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Joe Biden agreed to pay Hunter’s legal bills tied to Chinese firm deal: email
800 K legal bills
that is one hell of an amount for lawyers
Joe just had an extra 800K lying around
(he knew he would get paid back from some foreign national thru his family members)
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https://www.iwv.org/2022/04/shocking-harvard-poll-67-of-americans-say-biden-should-be-impeached-if-hunter-biden-corruption-proves-true/
one key operative term is if PROVES to be true
I don't know how much proof one needs
he ain't going to admit it
Dems might agree with this because they don't want this loser anymore
OTOH we get just as bad in Kamala
though she would be managed like Biden is .
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https://thehill.com/news/administration/3474170-biden-bill-clinton-have-lunch-together-at-white-house/
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https://ace.mu.nu/archives/398905.php
I wonder why...
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https://ace.mu.nu/archives/398905.php
I wonder why...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10767957/Hunter-Biden-flew-Moscow-meeting-sanctioned-Russian-oligarch-Vladimir-Yevtushenkov.html
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https://ace.mu.nu/archives/399062.php
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10825801/Former-Trump-aide-posts-huge-trove-120-000-Hunter-Biden-emails-abandoned-laptop.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10825801/Former-Trump-aide-posts-huge-trove-120-000-Hunter-Biden-emails-abandoned-laptop.html
I am very leery of touching it with the potential for CP to be contained within.
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CP?
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CP?
Child P*** AKA Child exploitation images
He won't be prosecuted, you will be.
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Had not thought of that, but now that you mention it I remember it being brought up by the guy who played a major role in all this discussing what he did to protect himself.
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"Child P***"
you mean ATM:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/johns-hopkins-hires-professor-who-said-attraction-to-minors-isnt-immoral
:wink: :roll: :x
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10834373/Hunter-Biden-firm-raked-11-MILLION-2013-2018-work-Burisma-Chinese.html
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https://nypost.com/2022/05/29/new-bid-to-spin-hunters-laptop/
what is in for this guy ?
something going on here.
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https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/james-biden-hunter-biden-emails/2022/05/31/id/1072251/
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10846603/Hunter-Bidens-search-history-reveals-obsession-porn.html?ito=push-notification&ci=gHgD1lIajT&cri=0LhpdBApXS&si=b6KRqhqCLpA7&xi=d0d1d470-de73-42b5-9403-48b90a1417a9&ai=10846603&fbclid=IwAR1Ob97sYn2RNCH6SDNkygKNJIwz8a6Z9IZjzO4JSkECS8ibFAYao0qsqeQ
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10846603/Hunter-Bidens-search-history-reveals-obsession-porn.html?ito=push-notification&ci=gHgD1lIajT&cri=0LhpdBApXS&si=b6KRqhqCLpA7&xi=d0d1d470-de73-42b5-9403-48b90a1417a9&ai=10846603&fbclid=IwAR1Ob97sYn2RNCH6SDNkygKNJIwz8a6Z9IZjzO4JSkECS8ibFAYao0qsqeQ
Is this getting coverage over here in the MSM?
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Of course not.
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look at the 4th image down
it appears to bruise on woman's (?) thigh
https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/naked-hunter-biden-cavorts-with-hooker-and-illegal-gun-photos/
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-biden-prostitute-scored-20000-ppp-loan?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=716
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https://www.ammoland.com/2022/06/hunter-bidens-naked-gun-suggests-2nd-felony-firearm-transfer-violation/
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https://www.ammoland.com/2022/06/hunter-bidens-naked-gun-suggests-2nd-felony-firearm-transfer-violation/#axzz7VfAjiWzM
It's almost like we have a multi-tiered criminal justice system...
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/texts-reveal-hunter-biden-meltdown-discarded-gun-incident
Hunter would be in jail right now.
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https://nypost.com/2022/06/25/hunter-biden-met-with-russian-oligarch-now-wanted-for-murder/?fbclid=IwAR10zxm2rXtCZVt2AQB7-b1xsJ3KRWRVfLwv1__vnlWIUPUh5dICClCWcjY
Hunter Biden met with Russian oligarch now wanted for murder
By Jon Levine
June 25, 2022 8:49am Updated
Hunter Biden took the meetings with several oligarchs while his father, Joe Biden, was the Vice President.
When his father was the second most powerful man in the world, Hunter Biden met in Russia with at least four oligarchs closely aligned with Vladimir Putin — including one who is now wanted for murder in the country, The Post has learned.
The meeting with Telman Ismailov took place on Feb. 17, 2012 at the Moscow headquarters of AST Group, his vast holding company which once owned a publishing house, a tour company, and had a telecom division, according to the Moscow Times.
Ismailov was accused in 2017 by Russian authorities of paying $2 million for the murder of two entrepreneurs a year earlier, Agence France-Presse reported. Vladimir Savkin, a shopping mall magnate and Yury Brilev, founder of Lyublino Motors, were both bumped off on the Novorizhskoye highway in Moscow, allegedly over a business dispute with Ismailov, according to the Investigative Committee of Russia, the country’s primary federal investigations agency.
Telman Ismailov is accused to paying for the murders of two entrepreneurs.
Telman Ismailov is accused to paying for the murders of two entrepreneurs.
PA Images via Getty Images
Biden also met with Vladimir Yevtushenkov, pictured here with Vladimir Putin In 2006.
Biden also met with Vladimir Yevtushenkov, pictured here with Vladimir Putin In 2006.
Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
A lawyer for Ismailov did not respond to request for comment from The Post about either the alleged murders or the Hunter Biden meeting, but told Radio Free Europe that the charges were bogus and “a result of political and economic persecution by the Russian Federation.” In February he was granted asylum by Montenegro.
It’s unclear what Hunter Biden wanted with Ismailov, but the trip was part of a two-day meet and greet between Hunter and wealthy oligarchs in the country — which at least in part focused on seeking foreign cash for Rosemont Realty, an offshoot of Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca Partners. The investment company was co-founded by Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and Chris Heinz.
The flurry of meetings raise questions about what matters were discussed and whether the oligarchs sought any untoward access to Hunter Biden’s father. On Feb. 22, 2012 — just days after returning from Russia — Hunter Biden met with Vice President Biden at his home in the Naval Observatory, his calendar shows.
“The only reason someone — other than a crack dealer or a hooker — would want to meet Hunter Biden is to get to his dad,” said Jim Hanson, president of the Security Studies Group. “They were selling access, it was their business model. The Biden family was involved in capitalizing on Joe’s political career.”
Ironically, it was Joe Biden who lambasted President Trump over his ties to Russia.
“Donald Trump’s entire presidency has been a gift to Putin,” then-candidate Biden said in a June 2020 tweet. “Unlike Trump, I’ll defend our democratic values and stand up to autocrats like Putin,” he added in August.
The other billionaire oligarchs penciled into Hunter Biden’s calendar — which The Post found on a hard drive Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer repair store in April 2019 — included Sergey Chemezov, the CEO of the Russian state owned conglomerate Rostec (formerly Rostekhnologii); Vladimir Yevtushenkov, President of the Russian Holding company Sistema; and Samuel S. Karapetyan, a Russian real estate baron.
Hunter’s trips to Russia came before their aggression in Ukraine and at a time when the Obama administration was looking to “reset” relations between the two countries.
“When Republicans take back the House in January, the Biden family’s shady association with Russia and China must be investigated. Perhaps Hunter’s relationships with foreign nationals explain why the Biden Administration has an ‘America Last’ foreign policy,” Congresswoman Nicolle Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) told The Post.
Chemezov has been close friends with Russian President Vladimir Putin since the 1980s, when they were both young KGB agents working in East Germany. He was sanctioned by the United States in 2014 after Russia’s invasion of Crimea and again in 2022 over their subsequent attempt to overrun the rest of the country. His super yacht was seized by Spain in March.
Karapetyan — who Forbes has dubbed a “king of Russian real estate” — is known to be close to Putin and the owner of a 285-foot super yacht called Ace, has not been sanctioned by the United States.
Yevtushenkov has been sanctioned by both England and Australia over the current war in Ukraine — though has also not faced punishment from the U.S. He is married to the sister of Russian billionaire Elena Baturina, the widow of ousted Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
Baturina wired $3.5 million for a “consultancy agreement” with an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden in 2014, a report released by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in 2020 alleges. Hunter Biden has denied that he was a co-founder of the company.
Yevtushenkov followed up with a breakfast with Hunter in New York City at the Ritz-Carlton off Central Park on March 14, 2012. A rep for Yevtushenkov previously told The Post the meeting was “part of a routine business trip to the US to scout potential investment opportunities.”
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/joe-biden-covered-hunters-russian-hooker-tab-while-leaked-voicemail-proves-joe-spoke
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https://michaelyon.locals.com/upost/2351483/a-criminal-occupies-the-white-house
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https://ace.mu.nu/archives/399937.php
This is fine!
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https://thenationalpulse.com/2020/10/23/exc-is-peter-henderson-joe-bidens-e-mail-pseudonym/
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https://thenationalpulse.com/2020/10/23/exc-is-peter-henderson-joe-bidens-e-mail-pseudonym/
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/399977.php
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Just a reminder that some of these other First Ladies might not be ready to be the headline act.
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2022/07/12/jill-biden-has-her-press-secretary-apologize-for-her-over-comparing-latinos-to-tacos-n593393
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seems like the first VP "gentlemen"
is keeping a low profile
haven't seen him in the news at all.
probably smart on his part......... :wink:
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https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/07/11/youll-never-believe-the-contacts-on-hunters-iphone-n1611901
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is it routine for family members of a VP to have a direct contact number to the FBI?
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/12/jill-biden-staff-apologizes-for-first-lady-remarks-comparing-latinos-to-tacos/
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is it routine for family members of a VP to have a direct contact number to the FBI?
Under normal circumstances, ANY employee of the FBI would face serious scrutiny for having anything to do with a crackhead involved in global criminality.
Hunter has been saved multiple times by federal law enforcement covering up things that would put you or me in federal prison.
The FBI cyber guys probably keep Hunter protected from the FBI's ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) task forces. Probably Pedo Peter as well.
https://www.justice.gov/jmd/ethics-handbook
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Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix]
—Open Blogger
Recklessness Born of Contempt
Another week, another Laptop From Hell story. Unable to control the problem, they've moved apparently to seeding in falsehoods with the main event (see the sidebar) - but the story cannot be stopped and it is essentially Hunter Biden's fault. He is an example of a phenomenon we've seen before, although his case is much more obvious: these people have no respect - for themselves or for others - and behave as if there are no consequences.
The Laptop from Hell itself came from a repair shop because of an unpaid bill, but even that breakdown in reasonable behavior isn't the worst of it. Hunter - though he is merely the biggest example - sends things in plain language via E-Mail. He syncs his illicit photos and non-email communications to public cloud storage. Revelation after revelation has exposed an appalling absence of both common sense and very simple security practices.
The disregard of even simple security protocols is shocking for what it reveals about his mindset. Nobody even remotely worried about getting caught would ever behave this way. Non-connected criminal networks don't do this. Your average mafia don or even street-level dope slinger is much more careful than our ruling-class elites. The continuing evidence of total security failure can only be explained, in my opinion, as a "right of power" kind of attitude. They have the power and they know it, they are unconstrained and they know it, they are free of consequences and they know it, so they behave with the cavalier attitude of men afraid of nothing.
Nobody with a modicum (or is it emoticon) of shame or fear or consideration of consequences would ever behave so recklessly. This degree of disregard for security requires a level of entitlement so great that it speaks to breathtaking levels of contempt. Contempt for the law, contempt for integrity, contempt for ethics, contempt for honesty and, most importantly, contempt for the people and for the country as a whole. Anyone without the requisite contempt would behave carefully. He would use burner phones and local encryption and careful document control. He'd keep track of his things but he would also ensure that his things were useless if he lost them.
The IT departments at major corporations do this. Even Hillary Clinton did this to some degree. The Bidens simply can't be bothered to do so at all. They don't care. They're immune and they know it and no security principles or practices are necessary. It's all just so much overhead in a consequence-free environment. Why bother being constrained by security when nothing bad will happen to you regardless? Who cares about encryption or secure communications or device management or even being careful when you can always just ring up FBI assistant directors and Secret Service agents to run interference and cover for you?
But for me, the real question is "where does it end?" If they were this reckless with their own criminal enterprise, how reckless are they with the big stuff they're running now?
is it routine for family members of a VP to have a direct contact number to the FBI?
Under normal circumstances, ANY employee of the FBI would face serious scrutiny for having anything to do with a crackhead involved in global criminality.
Hunter has been saved multiple times by federal law enforcement covering up things that would put you or me in federal prison.
The FBI cyber guys probably keep Hunter protected from the FBI's ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) task forces. Probably Pedo Peter as well.
https://www.justice.gov/jmd/ethics-handbook
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https://www.conservativereview.com/biden-lashes-out-at-reporter-asking-about-democrats-opposed-to-him-running-again-read-the-polls-jack-2657657775.html
[especially the NYT or WP or Harvard polls :wink:]
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https://twitter.com/RealBrysonGray/status/1546979288666218498
Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix]
—Open Blogger
Recklessness Born of Contempt
Another week, another Laptop From Hell story. Unable to control the problem, they've moved apparently to seeding in falsehoods with the main event (see the sidebar) - but the story cannot be stopped and it is essentially Hunter Biden's fault. He is an example of a phenomenon we've seen before, although his case is much more obvious: these people have no respect - for themselves or for others - and behave as if there are no consequences.
The Laptop from Hell itself came from a repair shop because of an unpaid bill, but even that breakdown in reasonable behavior isn't the worst of it. Hunter - though he is merely the biggest example - sends things in plain language via E-Mail. He syncs his illicit photos and non-email communications to public cloud storage. Revelation after revelation has exposed an appalling absence of both common sense and very simple security practices.
The disregard of even simple security protocols is shocking for what it reveals about his mindset. Nobody even remotely worried about getting caught would ever behave this way. Non-connected criminal networks don't do this. Your average mafia don or even street-level dope slinger is much more careful than our ruling-class elites. The continuing evidence of total security failure can only be explained, in my opinion, as a "right of power" kind of attitude. They have the power and they know it, they are unconstrained and they know it, they are free of consequences and they know it, so they behave with the cavalier attitude of men afraid of nothing.
Nobody with a modicum (or is it emoticon) of shame or fear or consideration of consequences would ever behave so recklessly. This degree of disregard for security requires a level of entitlement so great that it speaks to breathtaking levels of contempt. Contempt for the law, contempt for integrity, contempt for ethics, contempt for honesty and, most importantly, contempt for the people and for the country as a whole. Anyone without the requisite contempt would behave carefully. He would use burner phones and local encryption and careful document control. He'd keep track of his things but he would also ensure that his things were useless if he lost them.
The IT departments at major corporations do this. Even Hillary Clinton did this to some degree. The Bidens simply can't be bothered to do so at all. They don't care. They're immune and they know it and no security principles or practices are necessary. It's all just so much overhead in a consequence-free environment. Why bother being constrained by security when nothing bad will happen to you regardless? Who cares about encryption or secure communications or device management or even being careful when you can always just ring up FBI assistant directors and Secret Service agents to run interference and cover for you?
But for me, the real question is "where does it end?" If they were this reckless with their own criminal enterprise, how reckless are they with the big stuff they're running now?
is it routine for family members of a VP to have a direct contact number to the FBI?
Under normal circumstances, ANY employee of the FBI would face serious scrutiny for having anything to do with a crackhead involved in global criminality.
Hunter has been saved multiple times by federal law enforcement covering up things that would put you or me in federal prison.
The FBI cyber guys probably keep Hunter protected from the FBI's ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) task forces. Probably Pedo Peter as well.
https://www.justice.gov/jmd/ethics-handbook
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https://twitter.com/RealBrysonGray/status/1546979288666218498
Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix]
—Open Blogger
Recklessness Born of Contempt
Another week, another Laptop From Hell story. Unable to control the problem, they've moved apparently to seeding in falsehoods with the main event (see the sidebar) - but the story cannot be stopped and it is essentially Hunter Biden's fault. He is an example of a phenomenon we've seen before, although his case is much more obvious: these people have no respect - for themselves or for others - and behave as if there are no consequences.
The Laptop from Hell itself came from a repair shop because of an unpaid bill, but even that breakdown in reasonable behavior isn't the worst of it. Hunter - though he is merely the biggest example - sends things in plain language via E-Mail. He syncs his illicit photos and non-email communications to public cloud storage. Revelation after revelation has exposed an appalling absence of both common sense and very simple security practices.
The disregard of even simple security protocols is shocking for what it reveals about his mindset. Nobody even remotely worried about getting caught would ever behave this way. Non-connected criminal networks don't do this. Your average mafia don or even street-level dope slinger is much more careful than our ruling-class elites. The continuing evidence of total security failure can only be explained, in my opinion, as a "right of power" kind of attitude. They have the power and they know it, they are unconstrained and they know it, they are free of consequences and they know it, so they behave with the cavalier attitude of men afraid of nothing.
Nobody with a modicum (or is it emoticon) of shame or fear or consideration of consequences would ever behave so recklessly. This degree of disregard for security requires a level of entitlement so great that it speaks to breathtaking levels of contempt. Contempt for the law, contempt for integrity, contempt for ethics, contempt for honesty and, most importantly, contempt for the people and for the country as a whole. Anyone without the requisite contempt would behave carefully. He would use burner phones and local encryption and careful document control. He'd keep track of his things but he would also ensure that his things were useless if he lost them.
The IT departments at major corporations do this. Even Hillary Clinton did this to some degree. The Bidens simply can't be bothered to do so at all. They don't care. They're immune and they know it and no security principles or practices are necessary. It's all just so much overhead in a consequence-free environment. Why bother being constrained by security when nothing bad will happen to you regardless? Who cares about encryption or secure communications or device management or even being careful when you can always just ring up FBI assistant directors and Secret Service agents to run interference and cover for you?
But for me, the real question is "where does it end?" If they were this reckless with their own criminal enterprise, how reckless are they with the big stuff they're running now?
is it routine for family members of a VP to have a direct contact number to the FBI?
Under normal circumstances, ANY employee of the FBI would face serious scrutiny for having anything to do with a crackhead involved in global criminality.
Hunter has been saved multiple times by federal law enforcement covering up things that would put you or me in federal prison.
The FBI cyber guys probably keep Hunter protected from the FBI's ICAC (Internet Crimes Against Children) task forces. Probably Pedo Peter as well.
https://www.justice.gov/jmd/ethics-handbook
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of course , by blaming external events :
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11022021/Jill-Biden-voices-frustration-Joes-lack-progress-White-House.html
while being second lady she could work on cancer community colleges military families ( :roll:)
but now she has to be a baby sitter.......
How could she have known a cognitively impaired man would become , well, more cognitively impaired :wink:
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/hunter-and-joe-biden-often-met-after-first-son-traveled-abroad-report_4603203.html?utm_source=China&utm_campaign=uschina-2022-07-18&utm_medium=email&est=MCfw7dKWT6W5XBaOteucuB5Wy6rTPauBzF2zcETkYmpilevt3isSaOkd1xL6uqJefKJG
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By THE EDITORS
July 18, 2022 6:30 AM
In December 2020, once it was clear his father had been elected president, Hunter Biden grudgingly admitted that the Justice Department had advised that he was the subject of a criminal investigation. Biden fils said the probe was limited to his “tax affairs.”
Hunter Biden’s taxes are the least important “affair” the Justice Department should be scrutinizing. For that matter, Hunter Biden is the least important person who should be under the microscope. The major question is whether Hunter is a vehicle by which his father, the now-president of the United States, indirectly cashed in on his political influence.
It’s certainly true that Hunter Biden has major tax problems. His ex-wife acknowledged in divorce proceedings that they owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the IRS, the revenue agency slapped a $112,805.09 lien on the formerly married couple in 2019, and the District of Columbia added a $453,900 lien in July 2020. Kevin Morris, a wealthy Hollywood lawyer and Joe Biden booster, has reportedly extended a $2 million loan to Hunter, in order to pay his back taxes and other debts — obligations he can apparently not yet cover through his latest new career as an artist (or, rather, his newest shady arrangement for huge paydays with no disclosure of where the money comes from and where it goes).
The issue is much bigger than taxes, though. In just the past few weeks, there have been tawdry new revelations about the troubled Hunter’s misadventures with crack cocaine and prostitutes. These include indications that Joe Biden, apparently inadvertently, provided the funds for Hunter’s $30,000 spending spree on “escort” services from November 2018 into March 2019. Joe Biden reportedly provided his son with $100,000 just for the months of December and January.
Where did this money come from? Hunter Biden is known to have stated that his father took half of his salary. There are emails between Hunter and longtime Biden family confidant Eric Schwerin showing that Hunter was expected to pay a number of his father’s household expenses. These disclosures trace to the laptop computer that Hunter abandoned at a Delaware repair shop.
The laptop yielded information about a 2017–18 Biden family venture with a conglomerate known as CEFC, which was patently a Chinese intelligence operation. But it’s not just the laptop. After the New York Post broke the story, a witness came forward: Tony Bobulinski, an entrepreneur the Bidens and their associates recruited to build the corporate structure for a joint liquified-natural-gas venture with CEFC. Bobulinski has publicly stated that he had two face-to-face meetings with Joe Biden about the CEFC negotiations, as well as numerous meetings with Hunter and with Jim Biden, the now-president’s brother.
Hunter admits he was enticed into the transaction by the “gift” of a 2.8-karat diamond by Ye Jianming, the CEFC chairman and protégé of Chinese president Xi Jinping. In the course of negotiations, Hunter (in the accompanying paper trail) said Ye offered him a three-year consulting contract, at $10 million per annum “for introductions alone.” The deal then evolved into a joint venture that Hunter described as “so much more interesting to me and my family,” in which CEFC and the Bidens would be partners. The documentation memorializing the arrangement indicates that Jim Biden was to get 10 percent of the Biden side’s haul, while Hunter was not only to get 20 percent for himself but was to hold 10 percent “for the big guy.” Bobulinski, who was also to get 20 percent, has confirmed that this was the anticipated split, and that “the big guy” was Joe Biden — whose name Bobulinski was admonished not to mention if it could be avoided.
The LNG transaction never materialized, but the money flowed. An investigation (still ongoing) by Republican senators Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) established that CEFC paid nearly $6 million into accounts controlled by Hunter Biden, from 2017 into 2018. About $1.4 million of this was diverted into accounts controlled by Jim Biden and his wife. And Ye paid $1 million of the CEFC funds to Hunter for legal representation of Patrick Ho, a suspected Chinese spy (as even Hunter acknowledges in a laptop recording) who was under U.S. FISA surveillance and ultimately convicted by the Justice Department on corruption charges.
President Biden continues to insist that he knew nothing of any of this and never discussed his son’s foreign business dealings. Even without Bobulinski’s contradictory account, that assertion was already risible given the mounting evidence that, while vice president, Biden met with some of Hunter’s associates from China, Ukraine, Mexico, and elsewhere. It is even more ridiculous now, given the recent revelation — reportedly due to the hacking of an encrypted back-up of a Hunter cellphone — that Biden left a voicemail for his son on the evening of December 18, 2018, after the New York Times published an article about the CEFC debacle. “I thought the article released online, it’s going to be published tomorrow in the Times, was good,” Biden said. “I think you’re clear.” Joe Biden knew CEFC was a big problem, and he was worried about it.
That, and not Hunter’s taxes, is why the Biden investigation matters. And there’s still more beyond CEFC. Hunter and his longtime partner Devon Archer (who was convicted in a federal fraud case in June 2018) were paid a combined $4 million to sit on the board of the shady Ukrainian energy company Burisma, beginning in 2014. The State Department raised the obvious problem with then-Vice President Biden that the arrangement was frustrating the administration’s anti-corruption message, but Biden took no action and Hunter kept getting paid.
In 2013, Hunter hitched a ride to Beijing with his father on Air Force Two to strike an investment partnership deal with another group of Chinese regime–connected financiers, including the Bank of China, an arm of the communist government whose investments are guided by its objectives. Hunter introduced the then-vice president to Jonathan Li, the point man on the China side of what would become Bohai Harvest RST. China licensed the venture days later, and suddenly Hunter had access to $3 billion in funds and investment opportunities in China unavailable to the unconnected.
This venture worked against American interests. It enabled an arm of the Chinese military to purchase Henniges, a world leader in manufacturing dual-use anti-vibration technologies. Because of the national-defense implications, the deal had to be approved by the Obama/Biden administration. It was, of course. Meantime, Hunter and his Xi regime partners also colluded to help China acquire a coveted Cobalt mine in Congo for a cool $3.8 billion. Cobalt is a key component in batteries that power electric cars, which the Obama and Biden administrations have tried to steer Americans into. But they’re very expensive, in part due to high battery costs. Later, it emerged that Joe Biden had been so busy “not” discussing Hunter’s China business that he wrote a letter of recommendation, at Hunter’s request, to try to help Jonathan Li’s son score admission into Brown University.
But after raking in what NBC News estimates is $11 million in revenue from his foreign partners in just the period from 2013 to 2018, Hunter Biden still apparently could not pay his bills. Lucky for him that his influential father was flush enough to extend thousands of dollars here and there when he was in a bind.
The yeoman’s work of Grassley and Johnson notwithstanding, there are severe limits on what Republicans can do to investigate unless and until they take control of at least one congressional chamber after the midterms. The Justice Department has been at the investigation for over two years, yet nothing has happened. Attorney General Merrick Garland owes the nation an explanation of the probe’s status, of why he has not appointed a special counsel despite federal regulations that would seem to call for one, and why Americans should have any confidence that there will be no political interference in the probe, no matter how high the suspect list goes.
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:roll:
Like we have a rule of law anymore...
By THE EDITORS
July 18, 2022 6:30 AM
In December 2020, once it was clear his father had been elected president, Hunter Biden grudgingly admitted that the Justice Department had advised that he was the subject of a criminal investigation. Biden fils said the probe was limited to his “tax affairs.”
Hunter Biden’s taxes are the least important “affair” the Justice Department should be scrutinizing. For that matter, Hunter Biden is the least important person who should be under the microscope. The major question is whether Hunter is a vehicle by which his father, the now-president of the United States, indirectly cashed in on his political influence.
It’s certainly true that Hunter Biden has major tax problems. His ex-wife acknowledged in divorce proceedings that they owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the IRS, the revenue agency slapped a $112,805.09 lien on the formerly married couple in 2019, and the District of Columbia added a $453,900 lien in July 2020. Kevin Morris, a wealthy Hollywood lawyer and Joe Biden booster, has reportedly extended a $2 million loan to Hunter, in order to pay his back taxes and other debts — obligations he can apparently not yet cover through his latest new career as an artist (or, rather, his newest shady arrangement for huge paydays with no disclosure of where the money comes from and where it goes).
The issue is much bigger than taxes, though. In just the past few weeks, there have been tawdry new revelations about the troubled Hunter’s misadventures with crack cocaine and prostitutes. These include indications that Joe Biden, apparently inadvertently, provided the funds for Hunter’s $30,000 spending spree on “escort” services from November 2018 into March 2019. Joe Biden reportedly provided his son with $100,000 just for the months of December and January.
Where did this money come from? Hunter Biden is known to have stated that his father took half of his salary. There are emails between Hunter and longtime Biden family confidant Eric Schwerin showing that Hunter was expected to pay a number of his father’s household expenses. These disclosures trace to the laptop computer that Hunter abandoned at a Delaware repair shop.
The laptop yielded information about a 2017–18 Biden family venture with a conglomerate known as CEFC, which was patently a Chinese intelligence operation. But it’s not just the laptop. After the New York Post broke the story, a witness came forward: Tony Bobulinski, an entrepreneur the Bidens and their associates recruited to build the corporate structure for a joint liquified-natural-gas venture with CEFC. Bobulinski has publicly stated that he had two face-to-face meetings with Joe Biden about the CEFC negotiations, as well as numerous meetings with Hunter and with Jim Biden, the now-president’s brother.
Hunter admits he was enticed into the transaction by the “gift” of a 2.8-karat diamond by Ye Jianming, the CEFC chairman and protégé of Chinese president Xi Jinping. In the course of negotiations, Hunter (in the accompanying paper trail) said Ye offered him a three-year consulting contract, at $10 million per annum “for introductions alone.” The deal then evolved into a joint venture that Hunter described as “so much more interesting to me and my family,” in which CEFC and the Bidens would be partners. The documentation memorializing the arrangement indicates that Jim Biden was to get 10 percent of the Biden side’s haul, while Hunter was not only to get 20 percent for himself but was to hold 10 percent “for the big guy.” Bobulinski, who was also to get 20 percent, has confirmed that this was the anticipated split, and that “the big guy” was Joe Biden — whose name Bobulinski was admonished not to mention if it could be avoided.
The LNG transaction never materialized, but the money flowed. An investigation (still ongoing) by Republican senators Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) established that CEFC paid nearly $6 million into accounts controlled by Hunter Biden, from 2017 into 2018. About $1.4 million of this was diverted into accounts controlled by Jim Biden and his wife. And Ye paid $1 million of the CEFC funds to Hunter for legal representation of Patrick Ho, a suspected Chinese spy (as even Hunter acknowledges in a laptop recording) who was under U.S. FISA surveillance and ultimately convicted by the Justice Department on corruption charges.
President Biden continues to insist that he knew nothing of any of this and never discussed his son’s foreign business dealings. Even without Bobulinski’s contradictory account, that assertion was already risible given the mounting evidence that, while vice president, Biden met with some of Hunter’s associates from China, Ukraine, Mexico, and elsewhere. It is even more ridiculous now, given the recent revelation — reportedly due to the hacking of an encrypted back-up of a Hunter cellphone — that Biden left a voicemail for his son on the evening of December 18, 2018, after the New York Times published an article about the CEFC debacle. “I thought the article released online, it’s going to be published tomorrow in the Times, was good,” Biden said. “I think you’re clear.” Joe Biden knew CEFC was a big problem, and he was worried about it.
That, and not Hunter’s taxes, is why the Biden investigation matters. And there’s still more beyond CEFC. Hunter and his longtime partner Devon Archer (who was convicted in a federal fraud case in June 2018) were paid a combined $4 million to sit on the board of the shady Ukrainian energy company Burisma, beginning in 2014. The State Department raised the obvious problem with then-Vice President Biden that the arrangement was frustrating the administration’s anti-corruption message, but Biden took no action and Hunter kept getting paid.
In 2013, Hunter hitched a ride to Beijing with his father on Air Force Two to strike an investment partnership deal with another group of Chinese regime–connected financiers, including the Bank of China, an arm of the communist government whose investments are guided by its objectives. Hunter introduced the then-vice president to Jonathan Li, the point man on the China side of what would become Bohai Harvest RST. China licensed the venture days later, and suddenly Hunter had access to $3 billion in funds and investment opportunities in China unavailable to the unconnected.
This venture worked against American interests. It enabled an arm of the Chinese military to purchase Henniges, a world leader in manufacturing dual-use anti-vibration technologies. Because of the national-defense implications, the deal had to be approved by the Obama/Biden administration. It was, of course. Meantime, Hunter and his Xi regime partners also colluded to help China acquire a coveted Cobalt mine in Congo for a cool $3.8 billion. Cobalt is a key component in batteries that power electric cars, which the Obama and Biden administrations have tried to steer Americans into. But they’re very expensive, in part due to high battery costs. Later, it emerged that Joe Biden had been so busy “not” discussing Hunter’s China business that he wrote a letter of recommendation, at Hunter’s request, to try to help Jonathan Li’s son score admission into Brown University.
But after raking in what NBC News estimates is $11 million in revenue from his foreign partners in just the period from 2013 to 2018, Hunter Biden still apparently could not pay his bills. Lucky for him that his influential father was flush enough to extend thousands of dollars here and there when he was in a bind.
The yeoman’s work of Grassley and Johnson notwithstanding, there are severe limits on what Republicans can do to investigate unless and until they take control of at least one congressional chamber after the midterms. The Justice Department has been at the investigation for over two years, yet nothing has happened. Attorney General Merrick Garland owes the nation an explanation of the probe’s status, of why he has not appointed a special counsel despite federal regulations that would seem to call for one, and why Americans should have any confidence that there will be no political interference in the probe, no matter how high the suspect list goes.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/kanekoa-hits-paydirt-recovered-text-message-lead-joe-bidens-impeachment-hunter-bidens-immediate-arrest/
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-probe-critical-stage-officials-weigh-possible-charges-source
Tax charges? What about corruption, organized crime, prostitution, drugs, guns?
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Alex, I'd like "things that will never see the inside of a courtroom" for a thousand dollars.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-probe-critical-stage-officials-weigh-possible-charges-source
Tax charges? What about corruption, organized crime, prostitution, drugs, guns?
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fbi-sabotaged-hunter-biden-probe-derail-investigation-whistleblower
Anyone surprised to read this?
Alex, I'd like "things that will never see the inside of a courtroom" for a thousand dollars.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-probe-critical-stage-officials-weigh-possible-charges-source
Tax charges? What about corruption, organized crime, prostitution, drugs, guns?
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"FBI Sabotaged Hunter Biden Evidence To Derail Investigation: Whistleblowers"
funny , I hadn't heard this anywhere else.
this is second presidential election in row
that rogues in FBI suppressed evidence in favor of crats
remember Comey:
‘no reasonable prosecutor’ would bring a case against Clinton for emails'
he forgot to qualify :
no Democrat prosecutor ...........
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/hunter-biden-gun-delaware-police-victim-hallie-biden?utm_source=browser_push&utm_medium=onesignal&utm_campaign=push_notifications
Where is the ATF? Hunter is prohibited from the possession of firearms due to his well documented history of illegal drug use/addiction.
Alex, I'd like "things that will never see the inside of a courtroom" for a thousand dollars.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-probe-critical-stage-officials-weigh-possible-charges-source
Tax charges? What about corruption, organized crime, prostitution, drugs, guns?
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https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/26/fbi-jeopardized-national-security-by-calling-verified-hunter-biden-evidence-disinformation-whistleblowers-say/
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fbi-sabotaged-hunter-biden-probe-derail-investigation-whistleblower
Anyone surprised to read this?
Alex, I'd like "things that will never see the inside of a courtroom" for a thousand dollars.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-probe-critical-stage-officials-weigh-possible-charges-source
Tax charges? What about corruption, organized crime, prostitution, drugs, guns?
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A very clear-headed point.
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"FBI Sabotaged Hunter Biden Evidence To Derail Investigation: Whistleblowers"
funny , I hadn't heard this anywhere else.
this is second presidential election in row
that rogues in FBI suppressed evidence in favor of crats
remember Comey:
‘no reasonable prosecutor’ would bring a case against Clinton for emails'
he forgot to qualify :
no Democrat prosecutor ...........
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/27/the-fbi-keeps-interfering-in-presidential-elections-time-to-disband-it/
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-met-14-hunters-business-associates-vice-president?fbclid=IwAR0oQSt75ObU8sFJAE_sW-63Mp__x3eUjBj9S3eGL3RLyGoVPt2tfo-n-lU
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Barr Calls for Special Counsel in Probe of Bidens
Then-A.G. William Barr participates in a roundtable discussion in Atlanta, Ga., September 21, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters)
By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
July 29, 2022 11:05 AM
It's time.
Former Trump attorney general Bill Barr is publicly urging incumbent Biden attorney general Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel in the ongoing Biden investigation, which is said to focus on the president’s son Hunter.
The investigation has been ongoing since 2018 and has scrutinized shady foreign financial transactions that stretch back to at least 2014 (when Joe Biden was vice president and steering Obama administration policy in Ukraine, where Burisma, a corrupt energy company tied to the corrupt government, suddenly decided it was a fine idea to put Biden’s drug-addled son with no relevant experience on its board of directors and pay him a king’s ransom). As we observed in a recent NR editorial, Hunter is the least important Biden in the investigation, the central question of which must be “whether Hunter is a vehicle by which his father . . . indirectly cashed in on his political influence.”
Although I despise the pernicious institution of special counsel, I argued back in early December 2020, when it was clear that Biden had won the election and would be the next president, that the Biden investigation was primed for the appointment of one. That’s because there is no getting around two problems: (1) The Justice Department has a profound conflict of interest if it is in the position of having to investigate the president and/or his close family members, and (2) federal regulations instruct the attorney general that when the department is conflicted in this way, a special counsel (i.e., a scrupulous, experienced attorney from outside the government) is to be appointed.
Barr elected not to appoint a special counsel before leaving office right before Christmas 2020. In his position at that time, it was the right call and a prudent one.
It was right because there was no conflict in the Trump Justice Department’s conducting of the Biden investigation. Clearly, if Barr had made the appointment in anticipation of Biden appointees taking over the Justice Department, the move would have been seen as political — exactly the opposite of what Barr was trying to do in depoliticizing the DOJ.
It was prudently deferential of Barr to trust his successor, who turned out to be Merrick Garland, to make the call on whether there should be a special counsel. The case appeared to be in capable hands, led by David Weiss, the highly regarded U.S. attorney in Delaware (although, as I’ve warily pointed out, there are other cooks in the kitchen, principally including Tax Division at Main Justice). Garland did not displace Weiss, and that no doubt has a lot to do with Barr’s having handled things the right way.
But as Barr now points out, things have changed. The clearest recent indication of this is Senator Chuck Grassley’s letter this week to Garland and FBI director Chris Wray, raising disturbing whistleblower reports from within the bureau that, in the run-up to the 2020 election, high-ranking FBI officials colluded with Senate Democrats to portray credible, derogatory information about the Bidens as “disinformation” from foreign-intelligence services.
I will have more to say about those allegations over the weekend. (With Jack Butler ably pinch-hitting for Rich Lowry, we discussed the allegations in recording The McCarthy Report podcast yesterday.)
Meantime, Barr told the Federalist, “Intervening events, especially recent reports about FBI whistleblowers and the possible reach of the investigation, warrant adding the protections of special counsel status to assure that key decisions are made independently without political ‘favor.’”
To be sure, the regs give the AG leeway, in some situations, to avoid a special counsel appointment. But not in a situation like this. The idea is that an investigation may be retained within “the normal processes of the Department” if the conflict can be mitigated by recusing particular officials. When the president and his close family members are implicated, however, it is the Department of Justice, not just the AG or particular officials, that is conflicted. That’s when a special counsel is required.
Attorney General Garland should appoint a special counsel: a reputable former prosecutor who will have credibility with Republicans as well as Democrats, and who is appropriately skeptical of the institution of special counsel, and therefore won’t exploit the appointment to grandstand or unduly compromise the administration’s capacity to govern. There are such lawyers, and they would do a good job — no doubt beginning by maintaining Weiss and his staff so that the wheel needn’t be reinvented; and continuing by avoiding the Robert Mueller mistake of recruiting partisan critics of the administration to conduct the investigation. A good special counsel would avoid zealots, instead bringing in solid former prosecutors acceptable to both parties.
Garland also knows that, if the shoe were on the other foot, he would be calling on a Republican attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor for an investigation potentially implicating a Republican president — or at least such a president’s son — in criminal activity. Moreover, an outsider with rectitude would be more likely than the Justice Department to scrutinize the FBI’s behavior, which is among the most alarming aspects of this misadventure.
It’s time.
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https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/hunter-biden-linked-to-2018-deal-sending-grain-from-ukraine-to-china/?fbclid=IwAR1e_OGSqRvo0k6Rd7pX7oO-EDpMvEkkJiN7S562zq5QRsErI7MP5vc6asI
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https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/hunter-biden-linked-to-2018-deal-sending-grain-from-ukraine-to-china/?fbclid=IwAR1e_OGSqRvo0k6Rd7pX7oO-EDpMvEkkJiN7S562zq5QRsErI7MP5vc6asI
Keep in mind China has a massive amount of blackmail material on the Biden Crime Family.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11084655/VP-Joe-Biden-met-two-Chinese-energy-execs-West-Wing.html
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The Remarkable Apathy about Biden-Family Corruption
President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden depart from Holy Spirit Catholic Church after attending Mass on St. Johns Island, S.C., August 13, 2022. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
NRO
By JIM GERAGHTY
August 19, 2022 9:29 AM
On the menu today: President Biden and China’s Xi Jinping are expected to have their first in-person meeting in Indonesia this November, leading some to argue that the administration should set preconditions for Xi before granting him a face-to-face meeting with the American president. (This is a little tougher for a president to do once he’s chosen to fist-bump Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.) Of course, Biden’s renewed engagement with China’s leaders also brings us back to an infamous, mysterious, wildly underexamined phrase in our national life: “ten percent for the big guy.”
‘Ten Percent for the Big Guy’
Ira Stoll, writing in the New York Sun a few days ago:
America may not realize it, but it has the upper hand. Even China’s own bogus economic data show high unemployment and slowing economic growth there. It turns out that communism doesn’t work. Goldwater was correct.
A weaker American position will only fuel suspicions of corruption — “10 percent for the big guy.” Why are the Chinese Communists so desperate to buy off American elites? Because on some basic level, deep down, they know the truth is Goldwater was right. Communism is beyond hope. The Communist Party in China, like the Soviet one before it, is just buying time until the eventual ineluctable reckoning with freedom.
There is a remarkable national lack of curiosity about that message, “10 percent for the big guy.” If I said to you that a company that was effectively controlled by the Chinese government paid Hunter Biden almost $5 million for vaguely defined “consulting” and legal work, wouldn’t that bother you? Even if you’re a loyal Democrat — even if you were so progressive you’re to the left of Bernie Sanders — do you want members of president’s family to get in bed with the Chinese government*?
There is no argument on any part of the American political spectrum that it is good for the kids of politicians to cash in on their parents’ connections by accepting fortunes from hostile foreign states.
Back in 2017, one of Hunter Biden’s business associates, James Gilliar, emailed him to discuss the equity stakes that the key players in their newly created firm would get from a joint venture with CEFC China Energy Co. “10 held by H for the big guy?” he asked, suggesting that some unnamed male person of importance would get 10 percent of the deal. (“H” is Hunter Biden.)
President Biden has insisted that he was never involved in his son’s business dealings.
The first point to keep in mind is that there is no longer any doubt that these particular emails on the infamous Hunter Biden laptop are real. Back in March, the Washington Post developed a long-delayed curiosity about the emails and commissioned an investigation by tech-security experts. Those experts concluded that:
Thousands of emails purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, are authentic communications that can be verified through cryptographic signatures from Google and other technology companies, say two security experts. . . . In particular, there are verified emails illuminating a deal Hunter Biden developed with a fast-growing Chinese energy conglomerate, CEFC China Energy, for which he was paid nearly $5 million, and other business relationships.
The veracity of the emails does not depend upon what you think of the New York Post. They nailed the story. Those 51 former intelligence officials who contended that the story was Russian misinformation were wrong, and insisted something that was true could not possibly be true to the American public. To the best of my knowledge, not even one of those former intelligence officials has ever retracted or apologized for jumping to conclusions. As of this March, all of them either declined to comment or insisted that their assessment was reasonable at the time.
The question now is: What were the consequences of Hunter Biden’s effort to go into business with a Chinese energy company? And did that ten percent end up getting held for “the big guy”? And did that deal influence President Biden’s perspective and actions regarding China?
Because the Chinese money ended up going to Hunter Biden. As the Post separately elaborated:
Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden.
Back in 2017, CEFC China Energy Company was one of the largest companies in the world, ranking 222nd globally in the Fortune 500. As with all entities in China, its independence from the whims of the state and the Chinese Communist Party is — or I should say, was — highly conditional. As CNN would later describe it:
At its height, Ye’s company, CEFC China Energy, aligned itself so closely with the Chinese government that it was often hard to distinguish between the two. . . . Two thirds of the company’s financing came from the state-owned China Development Bank.” The Jamestown Foundation summarized the company “epitomizes the close party-state-military-market nexus of the political system in China, wherein corporate interests serve the political agenda of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). CEFC China Energy has been involved in energy investments with the military’s ‘princeling’ elite, and its affiliate China Energy Fund Committee is a pro-CCP think tank with ties to retired military intelligence officer.
It is reasonable to contend that Hunter Biden was going into business with the Chinese government, or at minimum, with a company that was effectively controlled by the Chinese government.
By February 2018, the company’s CEO was being investigated by the Chinese government for “financial crimes.” By December of that year, per CNN, “A Chinese state-owned company taking control of many of its international assets.” By March 2020, the company had declared bankruptcy. Any pretense that it was an independent, private company had been abandoned as its assets came under full state control.
Once again, it seems fair to ask just what Hunter Biden offered a de facto Chinese government entity that would justify paying him nearly $5 million. For those who want to say it was his expertise and insight, keep in mind, according to Hunter Biden’s own memoir, “From 2016 to 2019, Hunter Biden’s life was a mess. He and his wife divorced, and he drank and smoked crack just about every day.” The president’s son characterizes this time as “I was smoking crack every 15 minutes.”
The only value that Hunter Biden could possibly have to the Chinese government was as a conduit to his father. No one in their right mind saw Hunter Biden as a financial genius or an astute analyst. He was the former vice president and potential future president’s severely screwed-up man-child who was desperate for cash — exactly the sort of target that Chinese foreign-influence operations desired.
And as the Post reported, the Chinese reached out to Hunter Biden when everyone could see he was in dire straits:
During divorce proceedings with his wife Kathleen, a court filing in the case described “outstanding debts [that] are shocking and overwhelming,” with the couple carrying maxed-out credit cards, double mortgages on both properties they owned and a tax debt of $313,970. Three checks to their housekeeper had bounced, and they owed money to medical providers and therapists, according to a February 2017 filing in D.C. Superior Court.
An intermediary from CEFC initially reached out to Hunter Biden in December 2015 to set up a meeting between the then-vice president’s son and Ye Jianming, the founder and chairman of the Chinese firm, according to verified emails from a purported copy of the laptop hard drive reviewed by the outside experts for The Post.
What do you think the Chinese government wanted from Hunter Biden that was worth millions of dollars?
Fast forward about two years to the first months of his 2020 presidential campaign, and we see Joe Biden contending that the notion of China as a threat was wildly overstated.
Back in May 2019, Biden declared:
“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man. They can’t even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the east, I mean in the west. They can’t figure out how they are going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system. I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what, they’re not competition for us (emphasis added).” Then, a few days later, Biden said, “What are we doing? We’re walking around with our heads down, ‘Woe is me.’ No other nation can catch us, including China. I got criticized for saying that. I’ve spent as much time with [Chinese President] Xi Jinping as any world leader has.”
Was Biden’s soft-on-China perspective a result of “10 percent for the big guy”? Or was it just the reflection of a calcified geopolitical mind that had trouble moving on from the discredited notion that Beijing was America’s “partner in prosperity” and that greater engagement would make China more like the U.S., instead of making the U.S. more like China?
Biden doesn’t talk about how harmless China is anymore; the past few years have brought the Covid-19 pandemic, the crackdown in Hong Kong, even more evidence of the genocide of the Uyghurs, increasing threats against Taiwan, and all kinds of other CCP abuses and crimes.
In November, Xi Jinping will travel to the G-20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, and is expected to have his first in-person meeting with Joe Biden since Biden was elected president. What kind of thoughts will go through Xi’s mind, when he sits across the table from the American president?
“I can roll this guy”? “I can buy this guy”? “I’ve got leverage over this guy”?
*I know, I know: Insert an Eric Swalwell joke here.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCvb6TfBXFk&t=132s
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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLTVw_3y4Nan8Qoq6LOWifDEwzXZB4VtjY-ZKnxuJpznIzhbo5d_YWZlplkY6bfbn0HdW9vm5aF31rUAZaGUoggrlxYEiZUYqp5Xbg-oYDzB4fwyzZmGdOx2SIOfYz__pbcAyHZd-2ewCr6ndbGgXSnXxC13rzDgWCOsW3dWf0GxIW2Uhu7y_x96zZ/s300/hunter1.png
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLTVw_3y4Nan8Qoq6LOWifDEwzXZB4VtjY-ZKnxuJpznIzhbo5d_YWZlplkY6bfbn0HdW9vm5aF31rUAZaGUoggrlxYEiZUYqp5Xbg-oYDzB4fwyzZmGdOx2SIOfYz__pbcAyHZd-2ewCr6ndbGgXSnXxC13rzDgWCOsW3dWf0GxIW2Uhu7y_x96zZ/s300/hunter1.png)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/joe-biden-worried-1977-certain-182631643.html
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/two-plead-guilty-stealing-ashley-bidens-inappropriate-showers-dad-diary?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=873
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/two-plead-guilty-stealing-ashley-bidens-inappropriate-showers-dad-diary?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=873
Just a few bad apples! Totally not the DNC-Stasi!
I do appreciate them validating the diary.
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. !
source widipedia
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. !
source widipedia
Joseph Ashleyraper Biden
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from now on i will call him Joe R. Biden jr.
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https://nypost.com/2022/09/03/top-doj-lawyer-is-ex-partner-of-hunter-bidens-attorney/?fbclid=IwAR2F_Nz8LeicYOGsn_HCynGBD2n1kSjdAoPq15Xww0x3i4YBAchYR0iXAf4
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https://nypost.com/2022/09/03/top-doj-lawyer-is-ex-partner-of-hunter-bidens-attorney/?fbclid=IwAR2F_Nz8LeicYOGsn_HCynGBD2n1kSjdAoPq15Xww0x3i4YBAchYR0iXAf4
Imagine all the crimes Hunter has committed that only the Deep State knows about.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/oh-changes-everything-biden-family-whistleblower-tony-bobulinski-says-top-fbi-official-tim-thibault-buried-info-gave-bureau-biden-family-criminal-acts/?
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No proof that anything was done, but still , , ,
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-said-happy-introduce-business-associates-top-ccp-official?fbclid=IwAR3vu--d1CUx73fv0ZDuZqV646afxbXQjs9En40jIT62Qi1BxBf9kYnFNy0
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/10/07/exclusive-letter-on-hunter-bidens-laptop-shows-2017-deal-with-qatar-undermining-trump-administration/
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Tony Bobulinski Exposes the Corrupt Legacy Media and the FBI
Despite shocking revelations from Bobulinski, Hunter Biden continues to be protected by the legacy media
Stu Cvrk
October 12, 2022
Commentary
In an hour-long interview with Tucker Carlson on Oct. 4, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, ripped the scab off a festering wound that the Biden family (and their many enablers) hoped had long been healed (and forgotten) forever.
Two years ago, the New York Post broke a bombshell story about a laptop abandoned by Hunter at a computer repair shop in Delaware. The shocking revelations from emails and files on that laptop illuminated a Biden crime family operation that has been ongoing for decades.
For example, several of the emails retrieved included “a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month,” the Post reported. Pozharskyi thanked Hunter for his assistance in arranging a meeting with his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, in Washington.
Enter Bobulinski, who confirmed the Biden family’s corrupt dealings with communist Chinese-linked companies in a Tucker Carlson interview on Oct. 27, 2020. He also stated in that interview that Joe Biden received a cut from every corrupt deal. Biden was euphemistically referred to in some emails as “the Big Guy.”
As the laptop emails and Bobulinski interview directly contradicted Biden’s frequent claims that he had “never spoken to his son” about his overseas business initiatives, the Biden presidential campaign went to battle stations in orchestrating a complete cover-up consisting of immediate public denials by Biden and campaign operatives, the FBI burying the laptop and preventing access to it by anyone outside of the Department of Justice, and the orchestration of a public letter signed by 50 former intelligence officials who claimed that the emails from the laptop “showed signs of a Russian disinformation operation.”
Most important, given the explosive nature of the story, was the construction of a legacy media narrative that echoed the Russian disinformation nonsense, with zero investigative follow-up reporting conducted and the bombshell revelations quickly dropped down the media memory hole to minimize political damage to Biden.
And thereby, their blatant collective interference in the 2020 election pulled it off for Biden.
All Roads Lead to Hunter
Biden’s elder son Beau was being groomed for a political career to replace his father in the Senate until his untimely death from brain cancer in 2015. Grooming younger son Hunter for politics wasn’t an option, given his long history of drug abuse and other hedonistic behavior, but that could have been why he briefly served as a public relations officer in the naval reserve until booted for testing positive for cocaine in 2014—to punch a ticket as a step toward replacing his gravely ill brother. But of course, his personal demons wrecked that possibility, so he continued his “lobbying career” and service as his family’s “bagman.”
Interestingly, Hunter was still serving in the naval reserve when the first of his big China deals was hatched with BHR Partners in 2013. Enter Bobulinski, one of Hunter’s partners in the deal. Hunter and Bobulinski knew that the Chinese “partners” involved in that deal were directly connected to the Chinese intelligence services. Did they report their contacts with Chinese intelligence operatives to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the FBI, as they were obligated to do? This was yet another troubling aspect in Hunter’s infamous career that has been filed down the memory hole—and indeed never even mentioned—by the Democrat media complex.
Hunter is reportedly under investigation by the FBI for tax evasion—at least, that’s something.
Tony Bobulinski
Except for an occasional article from independent media, there has been near-total legacy media silence about Hunter’s laptop and especially Bobulinski to this very day. A simple web search of the name “Bobulinski” evinces zero articles by CNN, zero by CBS News, six by NBC News, with reporting ended on Oct. 30, 2020 (including three disparaging mentions in MSNBC show transcripts in October 2020), and eight by ABC News ending in a typical AP article on Oct. 28 that spun the story into a nothing-burger by claiming the emails and Bobulinski’s allegations “couldn’t be verified.”
What happened to the vaunted legacy media investigative reporting that can somehow dig and spin dirt on Donald Trump incessantly for years but somehow can’t be bothered to investigate the authenticity of Hunter’s laptop? Not a single mention of Bobulinski has been made by any of these legacy media outlets since Oct. 30, 2020!
In the meantime:
A poll conducted by Newsbusters on Nov. 24, 2020, found that “full awareness of the Hunter Biden scandal would have led 9.4% of Biden voters to abandon the Democratic candidate, flipping all six of the swing states he won to Trump.” And nary a peep from the legacy media about that poll!
After more than a year of denial, The New York Times finally admitted that the laptop is, in fact, legitimate, which the Times buried in a March 2022 story summarizing Hunter’s tax evasion investigation.
Conservative commentators like Cal Thomas have called out The New York Times and others for their “dereliction of duty,” as reported by The Washington Times: “Not only did the Times and other major and social media ignore the story, in some cases the story was deemed fraudulent and blocked on several platforms.” Perhaps most insightful was this comment: “The tardy tacit admission by the Times that the New York Post was right will add to the view of many that today’s journalism is driven mostly by agendas and not facts.”
A July 2022 Rasmussen poll reported that “fifty-two percent believed the [laptop] story was buried so as to not damage Joe Biden’s presidential aspirations [while] 32% say it was ignored because it was a ‘partisan hit job.’”
Bobulinski apparently grew tired of the FBI’s apparent inaction in investigating and charging Hunter, as well as the lack of media reporting on the subject. To call attention to that malfeasance, he dropped some incredible bombs during his interview with Tucker Carlson on Oct. 4.
He reiterated Joe Biden’s complicity in and knowledge of Hunter’s various overseas business dealings. Silence from the legacy media!
Bobulinski confirmed again that Hunter committed fraud by diverting money from a Chinese company, of which he owned 20 percent, to an American LLC, of which he owned 100 percent. This was disclosed to the FBI in 2020. Where’s the indictment for fraud and tax evasion?
He stated that he voluntarily gave an interview to the FBI in October 2020, disclosing damning evidence, including emails, that confirmed all of his allegations made in the 2020 Tucker Carlson interview (and more).
While that five-hour FBI interview was being conducted, Bobulinski stated that he received a phone call from James Biden’s number but that no one spoke when he answered his cell phone. Who but someone at the FBI could have possibly tipped James Biden et al. that Bobulinski just happened to be in the middle of an FBI interview at that particular moment? Where are the legacy media investigative reporters beating down the doors of the FBI for the details on this bombshell?
Bobulinski confirmed that the FBI assigned Timothy Thibault as the agent to manage the Bobulinski whistleblower investigation but that neither Thibault nor anyone else at the FBI has followed up with him after the FBI interview on Oct. 23, 2020. No follow-up with a key material witness in the FBI’s supposed investigation of Hunter’s laptop? How do you spell “sham investigation”? (Note: Thibault “resigned”—or perhaps was forced out—in August after allegations surfaced that he “shielded Hunter Biden from criminal investigations into his laptop and business dealing,” the New York Post reported.
Concluding Thoughts
The legacy media have yet to report on the Bobulinski interview with Tucker Carlson despite the damning allegations made of criminal conduct by the Biden family, as well as the apparent complicity of the FBI in continuing to cover up that criminality. It’s as if the Bidens, the corrupt FBI, and the equally corrupt legacy media have no play left other than to maintain the fiction that the Bidens are “innocent” of any crimes of fraud, corruption, or obstruction of justice, and that any allegations and evidence “simply can’t be confirmed.”
The wound that Bobulinski reopened may not be healed without some serious indictments. And we should all thank him for exposing the legacy media’s continuing political corruption in service of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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https://nypost.com/2022/10/17/hunter-bidens-real-estate-firm-received-over-100m-from-russian-oligarch/?fbclid=IwAR28aSNCTDDBJ1JnIn6noWnwIeYqUL-uxW0ikApkEFbV4YLXBbaQe89XI3o
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https://nypost.com/2022/10/17/hunter-bidens-real-estate-firm-received-over-100m-from-russian-oligarch/?fbclid=IwAR28aSNCTDDBJ1JnIn6noWnwIeYqUL-uxW0ikApkEFbV4YLXBbaQe89XI3o
This will never be investigated by the DOJ/FBI or IRS.
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https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/10/18/former-fbi-agent-refuses-cooperation-with-gops-probe-into-bureaus-handing-of-hunters-laptop/
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11336417/Joe-Biden-complicit-six-alleged-white-collar-crimes-634-page-watchdog-report-claims.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11336417/Joe-Biden-complicit-six-alleged-white-collar-crimes-634-page-watchdog-report-claims.html
response from Nadler Schiff Raskin Garland and Tribe and the rest of deep state =>>>> YAWN
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/grassley-johnson-share-hunter-biden-s-china-linked-bank-records-with-us-attorney-leading-criminal-probe/ar-AA13pmrm?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7b4e08890d964077963e693f013c8f0c
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11361141/Hunter-Biden-uncle-pocketed-huge-sums-11M-venture-Chinese-oil-giant-docs-show.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11361141/Hunter-Biden-uncle-pocketed-huge-sums-11M-venture-Chinese-oil-giant-docs-show.html
"Corruption, straight off the bat." - Jon Stewart, Oct 26, 2022
Like Bill Maher starting to speak truth, even Jon Stewart can see this, although two years too late.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/jon-stewart-says-hunter-bidens-burisma-role-was-corruption-straight-off-the-bat/ar-AA13pDwa
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Indeed.
I sense we could be seeing the beginning of the log jam on this breaking loose. The desire to get rid of Biden helps of course.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11378223/Hunter-Bidens-ex-business-partner-set-testify-explosive-trove-documents.html
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https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/21/cbs-hunter-biden-laptop-digital-investigators-cybersecurity/?utm_medium=email&pnespid=qrZ5CD1eL70dweXC_D2kGIiH4RKpTZhlLfC9mrFxshtmgIHi2uMDMpiWAGr88xS3OnPzm20n
No surprise it was Katherine Herridge, formerly of FOX's Bret Baier Report.
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"CBS News has verified the contents reportedly belonging to Hunter Biden’s laptop after conducting an independent forensic review, the network shared Monday."
funny , when it is about a Republican only an anonymous source making a claim seems to be enough
verified it being in NYT or WP
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"verified it being in NYT or WP"
- Those two won Pulitzer Prizes for unverified "Russian Collusion" coverage that all turned out to be false.
No correction. No contrition. No remorse. Just lie, lie, lie, lie.
And for this, they are two elections too late to be of any news value.
Yet they keep their good name, Washington Slimes and New York Compost or something like that. Expensive bird cage liner.
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Hunter Biden Laptop Repairman Reveals ‘Chilling’ Warning From FBI Agent
By Jack Phillips November 21, 2022 Updated: November 21, 2022biggersmaller Print
John Paul Mac Isaac, the laptop repairman who allegedly obtained Hunter Biden’s laptop, revealed Monday that he is working with Republican lawmakers as they prepare to investigate the younger Biden after taking the House majority during this month’s midterms.
Mac Isaac alleged in a Monday interview with Fox News that an FBI agent gave him a “chilling” warning when he first interacted with the bureau after finding the laptop. The Delaware-based laptop repairman said he recalled telling one agent that he would change their names when he published his book.
“That’s when Agent Mike turned around and told me that, in their experience, nothing ever happens to people that don’t talk about these things,” Mac Isaac said, claiming that it was a veiled threat to keep silent.
“I have been dealing with retaliation from multiple fronts for the past two years when what I did was leaked to the country. I’m expecting it, and I’m going to expect it to continue,” he added to Fox News while promoting his book.
Republicans, he said, should hold “the FBI accountable for colluding with our mainstream and social media to block a story, a real story with real consequence,” and they should “get to the bottom of what the Biden family was up to when Joe Biden was vice president.”
On Monday, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, Chris Clark, told CBS News that Mac Isaac did not have Hunter’s “consent to access his computer data or share it with others.” Some analysts said that it may have been the first time one of Hunter Biden’s lawyers confirmed that he left the laptop at the Delaware computer repair shop.
Earlier this year, Mac Isaac recalled to the New York Post about how Hunter Biden arrived at his shop in Wilmington, Delaware, in April 2019.
“I’m glad you’re still open,” Hunter Biden allegedly told him. “I just came from the cigar bar, and they told me about your shop, but I had to hurry because you close at seven.”
“I need the data recovered off these, but they all have liquid damage and won’t turn on,” Mac Isaac recalled him saying.
Other Details
It came as CBS cited an independent expert as saying that the data sourced from Hunter Biden’s laptop is genuine, coming about two years after the NY Post and other news outlets, including The Epoch Times, reported on it. It’s not clear why CBS decided to publish its report Monday.
The Epoch Times has contacted the FBI’s press office for comment.
After Republicans recaptured the majority in the House, top GOP lawmakers indicated that they will investigate bank records and claims by whistleblowers that show connections between Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden.
With weeks to go before the 2020 General Election, the New York Post published information sourced from the laptop, showing what Republicans and other critics say are shady business deals between the Biden family and individuals linked to the Chinese Communist Party and Ukrainian energy firms. The younger Biden, in a 2019 interview, has denied that he did anything wrong but acknowledged that such deals created a negative outward impression.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), who is expected to chair the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told reporters last week that the committee will investigate not just Hunter Biden but also President Biden.
“I want to be clear. This is an investigation of Joe Biden. That’s where the committee will focus in this next Congress,” Comer told reporters.
“This committee will evaluate the status of Joe Biden’s relationship with his family’s foreign partners and whether he is a president who is compromised or swayed by foreign dollars and influence,” Comer said, adding that his committee has acquired suspicious activity reports filed by major banks.
In response, the White House said in a statement last week House Republicans are engaging in partisan attacks against Biden’s family members. The administration accused the GOP of trafficking in “long-debunked conspiracy theories,” without elaborating.
“President Biden is not going to let these political attacks distract him from focusing on Americans’ priorities,” Ian Sams, a spokesman for the White House Counsel’s office, told news outlets.
Weeks after the 2020 election, the younger Biden said that Delaware prosecutors were investigating his tax affairs, although he hasn’t been charged with a crime. Since then, few details have been publicly disclosed about that investigation.
As Republicans conduct their investigation, it’s not clear how many Americans will consider it a top priority.
Fewer than 30 percent of voters said in a recent poll that Hunter Biden should be a top priority for the next Congress, with about 52 percent of Republicans expressing an interest in investigating him. For months, other polls showed that President Biden’s approval rating has remained largely underwater amid high inflation, fears of a recession, and a surge of violent crime nationwide.
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/27/hunter-bidens-dubious-business-dealings-raise-spec/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=morning&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=morning&bt_ee=fHp%2BZto858KvkfnotrhjMEV0D%2FXFh479FA4wXOvcY1cNdmyDy7wAog8UK%2F2HoXrJ&bt_ts=1669632335116
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/28/democrat-allied-groups-release-opposition-research/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=eAsmbWMomMWUCz3OKlkut4AlD72YeKK3W8znRjihOoOCERkQboTPzr%2BkT4pNAAFk&bt_ts=1669729590690
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https://nypost.com/2022/12/02/hunter-bidens-old-firm-got-10m-in-forgiven-covid-loans-while-donating-to-dems/
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/some-hunter-biden-allies-making-plans-to-go-after-his-accusers/ar-AA1571ie
might as well call them by what they are
partners in criminal activity
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-family-disowns-hunters-4-year-old-daughter-remains-estranged-child?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1153
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in typical biden cowardly fashion
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https://bidenlaptopreport.marcopolousa.org/report_viewer/index.html#p=1
644 pages of exhaustive detail. Sent to me by GM.
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if you email GM please
send him my best &
happy new year.
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Will do.
He and I are in regular comms.
I am working on luring him back, but he thinks I censor him.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11585719/DoJ-concealing-documents-lay-bare-Hunter-Jim-Bidens-payoffs-China-Russia.html?fbclid=IwAR33_AhPgDRfzgg2yypFPGSeuxmdXU1UYA1G-5_s4hna01Jtfy9Xbf78gF4
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New York Times Confirms Another Key Detail Of Censored Hunter Biden Bombshell
Story by Harold Hutchison • Yesterday 2:40 PM
New York Times Confirms Another Key Detail Of Censored Hunter Biden Bombshell
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-york-times-confirms-another-key-detail-of-censored-hunter-biden-bombshell/ar-AA16kefh?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=db67c7ec9bba468ea2f1047260f0fb78
The New York Times on Wednesday confirmed another detail about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings and President Joe Biden’s meetings with Hunter Biden’s business partners that were initially reported by the New York Post.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden attended a 2015 charity dinner for the World Food Program USA with his son, Hunter Biden, and Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi, one of his son’s business associates, The New York Times confirmed. The confirmation echoes a revelation first reported by the New York Post in a bombshell story later censored by social media companies, while Joe Biden has denied knowledge of Hunter Biden’s business activities.
Pozharskyi, who served as Hunter Biden’s primary point of contact at Burisma, later emailed Biden to express his gratitude for “giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent some time together,” though five of the 14 guests at the dinner told the NYT they heard no business discussions.
“I remember the vice president coming in, and he did not go around the table. He just simply waved at everybody,” Father Alex Karloutsos of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America told the New York Times.
The New York Post initially reported on an email from Pozharskyi on Oct, 14, 2020, in an article based on a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden at a computer repair shop that was later censored by Twitter and other social media sites, who claimed the material was hacked. Contents from the laptop’s hard drive were authenticated by a cybersecurity expert consulted by the Daily Caller News Foundation later in October 2020.
Journalist Michael Schellenberger reported that the FBI paid Twitter almost $3.5 million to reimburse the company for time spent responding to requests from the agency. The documents also revealed that the FBI contacted Twitter about potential leaks involving Hunter Biden prior to the New York Post reporting on the contents of the abandoned laptop.
The New York Times also confirmed that Joe Biden met with some of Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partners, as initially reported by the New York Post. Biden wrote letters of recommendation to Georgetown University and Brown University for the children of one of Hunter Biden’s Chinese business associates.
The Washington Post and New York Times confirmed the laptop and its contents were authentic in March 2022 reports discussing an IRS investigation into Hunter Biden’s financial dealings.
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I already said it about these people, but you can't make this stuff up.
Nothing says 'we love you' to this innocent child like ...
They've already had a paternity test (because of trying to deny paternity). Parentage was proven and adjudicated, Hunter is paying massive child support, but Joe (President Biden), also with no moral code, still denies this girl's existence, and Hunter is actively trying to have the court block her from using the family name.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/14/hunter-biden-asks-court-to-stop-love-child-from-taking-his-sullied-surname/
https://people.com/politics/all-about-joe-biden-grandchildren/
What a couple of scumbags, Joe and Hunter, but what about Jill? How many grandchildren does she have. Has she reached out to the girl? Not even a birthday card? What is her PhD in?
"Meeting Students' Needs"??
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Biden#:~:text=In%20January%202007%2C%20at%20age,the%20name%20Jill%20Jacobs%2DBiden.
How's that going?
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I see this morning that Gateway Pundit published same story two hours after my post. Happy to help them out.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/hunter-asks-judge-stop-estranged-lovechild-born-former-stripper-taking-biden-name/
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BTW a '67 Corvette
has HP of >400
value in "excess " of $75,000
according to this :
https://www.hotcars.com/chevy-corvette-1967-worth-now/#the-key-feature-makes-a-difference
I wonder if Hunter bought this for the big guy .
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/20/biden-named-2017-email-discussing-natural-gas-deal/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=SvdsjJ4G6ieV5Sjw0d%2B%2BpJ8%2BTDQsvXanFCy0ZJKpyZFLatRCkLyTT4MVnjytexB4&bt_ts=1674242780017
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11646417/Joe-Biden-named-2017-email-discussing-multi-million-dollar-gas-deal-China.html
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https://nypost.com/2023/01/29/forget-classified-docs-show-us-the-real-haul-of-bidens-records-in-delaware/
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https://nypost.com/2023/01/31/fbi-searched-penn-biden-center-for-classified-docs-in-mid-november/
but we only here about it now
Biden and China via U of P
then China $ to U of P
and $ to Hunter ..... then Hunter $ to Joe and uncle
interesting Antony Blinks was a director of the center in 2018:
https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/54m-in-chinese-gifts-donated-to-upenn-home-of-biden-center/
funny he is named Sec of S in 2020. :wink:
professor emeritus of international corruption (woops ) , I mean International Relations urged Hunters daughter to go to all exp. paid to trip to open doors for her in China .
https://nypost.com/2023/01/21/upenn-teacher-urged-hunter-bidens-kid-to-cash-in-on-name/
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/zelensky-sent-government-decree-destroy-information-hunter-bidens-metabiota-company-day-russian-invasion-including-hunter-documents-metabiota/
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zelensky
ordered bioweapons docs to be destroyed
and hunter had connection to this bioweapons company
metabiota
and the Pentagon was all in on this company's research
1) I thought biowarfare is internally banned
did we not invade Iraq for the given reason they had bio or chem warfare stocks
2) did documents get destroyed to cover up for J Biden who Zelensky needed
3) or were they destroyed simply to keep Ukrainian military info out of Russian
hands
4) odd Hunter would have interest in a Ukranian company like this
5) and of course what is the connections between all these parties
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I suppose one could argue that with the considerable plausibility of Russian conquest that there was reason independent of corrupt skullduggery , , ,
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https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/disgraced-former-fbi-leader-and-hunter-biden/
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https://newrepublic.com/article/170562/joe-biden-ivy-league-upenn
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https://newrepublic.com/article/170562/joe-biden-ivy-league-upenn
That is nothing. Imagine committing state and federal crimes and having feds actively clean those up for you. Imagine what we don't know about Hunter Biden.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/15/court-docs-james-biden-secretly-negotiated-140m-deal-saudis-due-relationship-joe-biden/
but isn't Jarod guilty of same thing?
of course, Saudis know how to bribes
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The Kushner-Saudi deal is sure to be brought up by Biden and the Pravdas as the House pursues the Biden Crime Family.
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The Kushner-Saudi deal is sure to be brought up by Biden and the Pravdas as the House pursues the Biden Crime Family.
Jamie Raskin with the handkerchief on his head taking a break from chemo long enough to appear on Chris Hayes MSPCP last night doing exactly this
ad nauseum..
sorry I do not wish him well
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Biden falls again
https://twitter.com/i/status/1628144517202288640 (https://twitter.com/i/status/1628144517202288640)
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sorry Ya
looks like the page was removed by the censors
now state page not found
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YA: What did it show?
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https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1050,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/128/139/025/original/c246423670fa1da6.jpg
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/heres-the-question-the-51-spies-who-dismissed-the-hunter-biden-laptop-should-be-asked-under-oath
What is the Biden family connection with China the "hallmark" of?
Under oath, same criteria, professional opinion.
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https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1050,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/128/695/858/original/dbdd44e73ccf173f.png
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/whoops-wh-deputy-press-secretary-accidently-reminds-everyone-joe-biden-showered-with-his-daughter/
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That is very funny.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/hunter-biden-business-partner-cooperating-with-house-gop-investigators-comer-says_5081975.html?utm_source=China&src_src=China&utm_campaign=uschina-2023-02-25&src_cmp=uschina-2023-02-25&utm_medium=email&est=nnMZF8y9ikdkeT%2FbPGnr9Ha7RC6jgCpoD8RqIgT%2FwMIaqwwY9uQEHipa66toeHZr85X%2F
Hunter Biden Business Partner Cooperating With House GOP Investigators, Comer Says
By Ryan Morgan
February 24, 2023Updated: February 25, 2023
One of Hunter Biden’s business partners is cooperating with congressional investigators, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.)
In an interview with Just The News, Comer said attorneys for Eric Schwerin—a business associate of President Joe Biden’s son—have been in communication with the congressional committee about turning over information about his business dealings. This comes as Comer and the Republican-led committee have sought records pertaining to the Biden family’s foreign business dealings and tax affairs.
“He is cooperating with us. His attorneys and my counsel are communicating on a regular basis,” Comer said. “Now, I feel confident that he’s going to work with us, and provide us with the information that we have requested.”
Comer predicted Schwerin “is going to be a very valuable witness for us in this investigation.”
On Feb. 8, Comer asked Schwerin in a letter (pdf) to provide records of any communications he had with members of the Biden family or other known Biden family business partners. Comer sent similar letters (pdf) to Hunter Biden and James Biden, one of Joe Biden’s brothers. Comer asked all three of the recipients to respond by Wednesday, Feb. 22.
Schwerin’s Connection to the Biden Family
In November, Comer and other House Oversight Committee Republicans published a report (pdf) laying out allegations of foreign influence peddling involving members of the Biden family. According to the report, Schwerin and Hunter Biden “made increasing references to Joe Biden” in the course of their business communications and Schwerin had frequent access to the White House when Joe Biden was the vice president during Barack Obama’s administration.
Schwerin allegedly visited the White House at least 27 times between 2009 and 2016. In 2015, Obama named Schwerin to serve on the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.
Hunter Biden’s ex-wife said Schwerin “managed almost every aspect of our financial lives.”
The GOP investigative report raised allegations Schwerin also had access to then-Vice President Joe Biden’s bank accounts while Schwerin also served as president of Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC, a company founded by Hunter Biden. Communications on a laptop Hunter Biden allegedly abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019 included an email in which Schwerin alluded to Joe Biden owing his son money and Schwerin transferring funds from Joe Biden’s bank account to Hunter Biden.
Republicans have repeatedly questioned the level of involvement Joe Biden had in his family’s business dealings. Joe Biden had claimed throughout the 2020 campaign cycle that “I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”
Comer and other Republican lawmakers have sought a range of business records from the Biden family for months, including so-called “suspicious activity reports” (SARs) which are generated by banking institutions to flag potentially criminal financial activity. According to the November Republican report, there are at least 150 SARs associated with Biden family members’ financial transactions. Comer has requested the U.S. Treasury Department to hand over those SARs on multiple occasions, including most recently in January.
Biden Claims GOP ‘Conspiracy Theories’
Hunter Biden has been under investigation for at least two years. In December 2020, the president’s son revealed the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware were investigating his taxes but said he is confident that the review will show he handled his “affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors.”
To date, no charges have been filed against the president’s son.
Following the release of the November Republican investigative report, the Biden White House claimed Republicans were investigating debunked claims.
“Instead of working with President Biden to address issues important to the American people, like lower costs, congressional Republicans’ top priority is to go after President Biden with politically-motivated attacks chock full of long-debunked conspiracy theories,” said White House spokesman Ian Sams.
NTD Television reached out to an attorney for Hunter Biden but did not receive a response before this article was published.
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YA: What did it show?
Apparently Biden fell again while boarding the plane.
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https://www.ndtv.com/feature/video-joe-biden-stumbles-falls-on-planes-stairs-while-leaving-poland-3806707
doctor statement :
"healthy vigorous 80 yo male":
full report here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Health-Summary-2.16.pdf
HE HAS AFIB AND IS ON ELIQUIS ! :-o
like fetterman
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11763421/Joe-Bidens-brother-Jim-touted-connections-groveling-letter-Qatari-prince.html
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-bad-we-thought-ccp-money-flowed-biden-family-according-bank-records-documents
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-bad-we-thought-ccp-money-flowed-biden-family-according-bank-records-documents
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It is profoundly to be hoped that the Reps can back it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/treasury-to-provide-house-oversight-with-suspicious-activity-reports-for-biden-family-associates/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=30827890
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/its-possible-the-fbi-has-been-working-with-hunter-biden-tucker-carlson-discusses-fbi-mole-named-one-eye-video/
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just reading Miranda Devine wikipedia page
she is a conservative from Australia .
there is zero positive mention of her reporting
and only snide negative remarks throughout the whole piece
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Devine
only passing short mention of her journolism on Hunter with of course mention of some "fact checker" found this isolated part of her reporting to be "False"
also only mentions of *criticism* of being a Trump supporter
*criticized* as a white supremacist
*homophobe*
as typical for the LEFT absolutely no discussion of anything about her that is true
only endless making points by her political enemies
including the obvious contributors to her wikipedia page
Why cannot conservatives go on Wikipedia and fix this biased hit piece up ?
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just reading Miranda Devine wikipedia page
she is a conservative from Australia .
there is zero positive mention of her reporting
and only snide negative remarks throughout the whole piece
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Devine
only passing short mention of her journolism on Hunter with of course mention of some "fact checker" found this isolated part of her reporting to be "False"
also only mentions of *criticism* of being a Trump supporter
*criticized* as a white supremacist
*homophobe*
as typical for the LEFT absolutely no discussion of anything about her that is true
only endless making points by her political enemies
including the obvious contributors to her wikipedia page
Why cannot conservatives go on Wikipedia and fix this biased hit piece up ?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/04/27/wikipedias-left-wing-bias/
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/national-archives-just-torpedoed-joe-biden-s-i-know-nothing-defense/ar-AA18ZWV5?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c3aa59990c6f4c5da570d0b03c4847df&ei=45
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11934485/Hunter-Bidens-hotshot-attorney-DoJ-investigation.html
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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19539/does-this-compromise-biden
"Does This Compromise President Biden?"
by Peter Schweizer
April 9, 2023 at 5:00 am
The notion that a declining power like Russia, which has domestic problems, a shrinking economy, a shrinking demographic base, is somehow a bigger threat than China is laughable. It is indicative of a larger issue, which is that Biden essentially has a soft spot for Beijing. The question, of course, is why?
This is a commercial relationship that not only has made the Bidens money. It has advanced the strategic and military interests of the Chinese government itself.
The first one is a private equity arrangement or deal that Hunter Biden has with the Chinese government itself. This is a deal that began and was finalized in December of 2013. It led to the creation of something called Bohai Harvest RST or BHR Partners.... the Chinese government poured in a billion dollars. They later expanded that to a-billion-and-a-half dollars.... One of the partnering firms that created BHR was Hunter Biden's firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners.
Hunter Biden was put on the board of directors of BHR Partners.... What is astonishing about this is, first of all, that the Chinese government funded this venture. Again, these are not individual Chinese companies. This is Chinese government money.
In 2017, his lawyers admitted that he [Hunter Biden] also took a personal stake. In addition to the firm that he owned part of, he took a personal stake in these deals. That is deal number one. Then there is deal number two with the Chinese government. This involves a real estate firm called Rosemont Real Estate, of which Hunter Biden was a co‑founder.
Rosemont then becomes Gemini Rosemont Realty. The Chinese government is later to put in more than $100 million in cash. They publicly say that they are going to put billions of dollars of equity into this entity to make it even more successful. Here you have two large deals.
When you look at what that private equity firm does, the first thing they do is they become an anchor investor in a Chinese firm called China General Nuclear (CGN). Why is this interesting? This is a nuclear energy firm that about eight months after Hunter Biden's BHR becomes an anchor investor, they are charged by the FBI in the United States. That firm was stealing nuclear secrets in the United States.
In particular, CGN is trying to gain technologies related to the small nuclear reactors that are put on submarines, which provide a huge military advantage to the United States.
Another acquisition they make is that Hunter Biden's BHR firm buys half of a company called Henniges in Michigan -- and another Chinese entity buys the other half. That other half is bought by AVIC, which is the Chinese state‑owned aviation military contractor. AVIC builds all the military aircraft for the Chinese military.
What I think is important about the Biden story is not simply the fact that the Biden family made money because of the Chinese military and that Joe Biden speaks very kindly about the Chinese since those deals have gone down, but also that the Biden family involving the son of the vice president directly benefit the Chinese military.
China is a power that has demonstrated over the last decade that they want, by 2025, to supplant the United States as the major economic power in the world. Then by 2030, they want to match the United States militarily.
The Chinese government has also spoken openly about their desire to upturn and change the global order for their benefit. What we have in the Biden family is a family that has become wealthy by enabling, helping, aiding and abetting the Chinese in doing exactly that.
In terms of Hunter Biden doing nothing wrong, it does not seem that there has been anything illegal. I have always contended that the problem in Washington DC is that some of the worst crimes or worst acts of corruption are done by people who engage in legal behavior. In Washington DC, the political class gets to make their own rules. They get to rig the game, as it were, to ensure that the real lucrative stuff that is corrupt -- and should be illegal -- is the very stuff that they engage in.
Hunter Biden has stepped off the board of directors of BHR. Here is the problem: he still retains his equity stake with this Chinese firm. He still has other deals that he conducted with the Chinese from which he benefited.
The Biden team has lied repeatedly. I can go into greater detail.... It has been subterfuge from the beginning. They need to be called out on it..... The American people understand if somebody's giving you a sweetheart deal, particularly an actor like China... without getting something in return. They are not that stupid.
The problem is the way that rules are written in Washington DC, they are written by the political class themselves. They carve out certain things.... If [Biden] gets a $250 campaign contribution from a GE executive, it is disclosed by the FEC.... If his adult son flying on Air Force Two, clearly close with the vice president, strikes a series of deals with a foreign government that are lucrative and beneficial to him, there is no requirement for disclosure -- which, to me, is shocking. One of the things that has to change is that we need greater transparency.
The great gold mine that they have discovered are these foreign entities. With Hunter Biden, you have these deals in China. You also have the deal in Ukraine that everybody's familiar with.... [Hunter Biden] is given a million dollars a year by a company even though he has no background in Ukraine and no background in energy. Everybody knows what is going on. Unfortunately, it is legal.
There ought to at minimum be a requirement that you disclose any foreign dealings involving the family members of politicians, Republican, Democrat, executive branch, legislative branch. That would be very, very helpful. The way you discuss this and you explain this to people is: It is not a question about what is legal. There are lots of things that are legal in Washington that are highly corrupt. The key thing is, does this compromise Joe Biden?... Has he done favors for that foreign power?
One of the things that the great Roger Robinson has been working on.... He is looking into the fact that in 2013, the Obama administration signed a letter which said that the Chinese companies listed in the New York Stock Exchange did not have to conform to Sarbanes‑Oxley auditing and some of the other requirements that US and other foreign firms do. It is quite a cutout for the Chinese.
The question about blackmail, to be blunt about it, is, are they going to need to blackmail Joe Biden? Joe Biden's posture towards China is incredibly soft.
[T]here has been a complete lack of curiosity by the media, and even, as we have seen, suppression.
Something may emerge but I am not sure there is something that they want that he is not already prepared to give them.
The Chinese government has spoken openly about their desire to upturn and change the global order for their benefit. What we have in the Biden family is a family that has become wealthy by enabling, helping, aiding and abetting the Chinese in doing exactly that. Pictured: US President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, NY on February 4, 2023. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
China is a rival power. They are supplanting the United States on the global stage, both in terms of their economic capability and in terms of their military capability.
They also talk openly about wanting to reorient the world -- to move it away from an American‑led Western coalition. They want to create something very different, and everybody essentially recognizes that, with the exception, it seems, of President Joe Biden.
Now, that is a pretty bold statement. If you look at Biden, what he has said publicly and some of the actions he has taken, he is on an island by himself.
Biden repeatedly says, "China is not a threat. We should welcome the rise of China. It is good not only for China but good for the United States that China is becoming more powerful. The fact is that they are not a threat to us."
This has been Biden's consistent position over the last decade. When he chose to set up the Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania, very interesting, there is a list of threats that they list.
This is a Biden Center that is focused on foreign policy, national security. They say the three biggest threats that the United States faces in the world today are global terrorism, climate change and Russia.
To put that in the context of what we know is going on in the world stage today. We have had the Chinese government, and Chinese government entities, that have hacked numerous databases in the United States, including those of the US Office of Personnel Management.
There have been reports that the Chinese were hacking into our research centers that were studying information related to COVID. We know that the way that China handled COVID was certainly poor and damaging to the United States. We know that they challenged US military actions in the South China Sea.
It is a glaring omission for the Biden Center, focused on foreign policy diplomacy, to exclude China as one of the three major threats. When you compare it to, for example, Russia...
I'm not suggesting that Russia is not a world power that needs to be watched. But the notion that a declining power like Russia, which has domestic problems, a shrinking economy, a shrinking demographic base, is somehow a bigger threat than China is laughable. It is indicative of a larger issue, which is that Biden essentially has a soft spot for Beijing. The question, of course, is why?
It is impossible to answer that question without looking at the commercial ties that Biden has with China. They are extensive. They are lucrative. They are unique. They speak to one of the oldest realities in American politics, which has followed him.
It seems that in American media -- which focuses on Wall Street firms holding fundraisers that focus on the role that big oil plays on Capitol Hill because of their lobbying but also because of their campaign contributions --we ought to have room to discuss, not campaign contributions to the Biden family, but money going into the Biden family's pockets, in this instance, from China.
When I say money going to the Bidens' pockets from China, do I mean an American company in China? No. Do I mean a Chinese company in China? No. What I mean directly and clearly is the Chinese government itself, which is run, of course, by the Chinese Communist Party.
That is what makes what the Bidens have done commercially with Beijing unique compared to anything that relates to corruption. I've been covering corruption for more than a decade. I've called out Republicans and Democrats. The Biden case, to me, is unique because it is not just rank‑and‑file corruption where somebody gets a paving contract for their business.
We are not just talking about some American company giving a sweetheart job to a politician's relative. We are talking about a foreign government, which happens to be our chief rival on the global stage, engaging in lucrative commerce with the family of the then‑vice president, now the president of the United States, Joe Biden.
This is different and unique in the realm of this kind of stuff I've seen before. What are these relationships? How do they work? What is the relationship between the Biden family and China? What are the details? Why is it a concern?
Let me break this out in a couple of phases. First of all, what is the actual commercial relationship between the Biden family and the Chinese? Second of all, what are the implications of it? This is a commercial relationship that not only has made the Bidens money. It has advanced the strategic and military interests of the Chinese government itself.
What are the relationships? The first one is a private equity arrangement or deal that Hunter Biden has with the Chinese government itself. This is a deal that began and was finalized in December of 2013. It led to the creation of something called Bohai Harvest RST or BHR Partners.
Essentially, the Chinese government poured in a billion dollars. They later expanded that to a-billion-and-a-half dollars for BHR, a private equity investment firm. One of the partnering firms that created BHR was Hunter Biden's firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners.
Hunter Biden was put on the board of directors of BHR Partners. His partner Devon Archer became the vice chairman and sat on the investment committee. What is astonishing about this is, first of all, that the Chinese government funded this venture. Again, these are not individual Chinese companies. This is Chinese government money.
Second of all, it is astonishing that Hunter Biden joined the board of directors of this firm. His firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, got an equity stake of 20 percent in this firm even though Hunter Biden had zero background in private equity and zero background in China. It begs the question, why did they choose to do business with Hunter Biden? It is pretty clear why.
Only a few months before this deal was finalized, then Vice President Joe Biden became the point person on Obama administration policy towards China. The timing here is also quite astonishing. That is the first tie you have, this billion-and-a-half dollar, now more than two‑billion‑dollar private equity firm, BHR. Hunter Biden gets an equity stake in the firm and joins the board of directors.
In 2017, his lawyers admitted that he also took a personal stake. In addition to the firm that he owned part of, he took a personal stake in these deals. That is deal number one. Then there is deal number two with the Chinese government. This involves a real estate firm called Rosemont Real Estate, of which Hunter Biden was a co‑founder.
Again, Hunter Biden has no background in commercial real estate. He has no background in China. What happens is, in 2013, a Chinese firm called Gemini, which is registered on the Hong Kong stock exchange ‑‑ it is closely linked to the Chinese military, specifically the People's Liberation Army – shows up and becomes a partner with Hunter Biden's real estate firm.
Rosemont then becomes Gemini Rosemont Realty. The Chinese government is later to put in more than $100 million in cash. They publicly say that they are going to put billions of dollars of equity into this entity to make it even more successful. Here you have two large deals.
There are several others we could talk about that relate to the Chinese government doing business with the son of the sitting vice president, who clearly has no experience and has no reason even to be at the table with the Chinese government. Alas, here he is. Those are the deals.
We do not know how much money Hunter Biden made. We can assume, based on the private equity deal, that it is probably in the tens of millions of dollars. There is no requirement for them to disclose any of these deals.
That is part of the problem, and I think it needs to be changed. Those two are the nature of the deals. Here is why these deals are even more troubling and why this is not just a case of corruption.
Hunter Biden is a willing participant. He is on the board of directors of this private equity firm. When you look at what that private equity firm does, the first thing they do is they become an anchor investor in a Chinese firm called China General Nuclear (CGN).
Why is this interesting? This is a nuclear energy firm that about eight months after Hunter Biden's BHR becomes an anchor investor, they are charged by the FBI in the United States.
That firm was stealing nuclear secrets in the United States. In particular, CGN is trying to gain technologies related to the small nuclear reactors that are put on submarines, which provide a huge military advantage to the United States.
Already you have this remarkable fact that the son of the sitting vice president is on the board of directors of a Chinese government‑funded firm that buys into another Chinese firm that is engaged in nuclear espionage in the United States. It goes further.
Another acquisition they make is that Hunter Biden's BHR firm buys half of a company called Henniges in Michigan -- and another Chinese entity buys the other half. That other half is bought by AVIC, which is the Chinese state‑owned aviation military contractor.
AVIC builds all the military aircraft for the Chinese military. These two entities, Hunter Biden's BHR and AVIC, buy Henniges in Michigan, which produces machine‑tool‑related systems. They are dual‑use technologies, which means the anti‑vibration technologies they make can be used for civilian purposes and also for military application.
You have a case the son of the sitting vice president on the board of directors of a firm that has bought American precision machine tool company whose acquisition is going to literally benefit the Chinese military.
What I think is important about the Biden story is not simply the fact that the Biden family made money because of the Chinese military and that Joe Biden speaks very kindly about the Chinese since those deals have gone down, but also that the Biden family involving the son of the vice president directly benefit the Chinese military.
It is said that by 2030, the Chinese Communist Party's goal is to achieve military parity with the United States with the goal, eventually, according to President Xi Jinping, of achieving superiority over the United States.
To me, this is a central issue of concern that we should have in this country. China is a power that has demonstrated over the last decade that they want, by 2025, to supplant the United States as the major economic power in the world. Then by 2030, they want to match the United States militarily.
The Chinese government has also spoken openly about their desire to upturn and change the global order for their benefit. What we have in the Biden family is a family that has become wealthy by enabling, helping, aiding and abetting the Chinese in doing exactly that.
In terms of Hunter Biden doing nothing wrong, it does not seem that there has been anything illegal. I have always contended that the problem in Washington DC is that some of the worst crimes or worst acts of corruption are done by people who engage in legal behavior. In Washington DC, the political class gets to make their own rules.
They get to rig the game, as it were, to ensure that the real lucrative stuff that is corrupt -- and should be illegal -- is the very stuff that they engage in. To me, they did something profoundly wrong, which is set up a business enterprise with our chief rival on the global stage and make money with them.
Hunter Biden has stepped off the board of directors of BHR. Here is the problem: he still retains his equity stake with this Chinese firm. He still has other deals that he conducted with the Chinese from which he benefited.
The fact is: he got caught, not necessarily with his hand in the cookie jar but with an empty cookie jar and a pile of cookies on the table.
The manner in which the Bidens have handled this scandal speaks to me to the fact that there is something here that needs to be explored. Joe Biden has not answered questions related to this very well.
The Biden team has lied repeatedly. I can go into greater detail if people want me to. They have lied repeatedly about what the nature of this relationship has been. They have had to correct the record later. They have had to modify their answers later. This is and should be a central part of the national conversation we are having in the country.
A couple of examples: The first is a December 2013 trip that Joe Biden took on Air Force Two to Beijing, and Hunter Biden tagged along with him.
The Bidens' response was that Hunter Biden was there purely as a private citizen and did not engage in any business activity while he was there. That was the first position. Then, lo and behold, it turned out that a reporter with The New Yorker talked to a Chinese business executive that was involved in setting up BHR.
That Chinese executive told The New Yorker, "Well, actually, Hunter came and got me, and we went and met with the vice president. I shook the vice president's hand on that trip." Already you have the fact that they were claiming that there was no commercial side to this trip, that Hunter Biden engaged in no commercial behavior.
We now know that his Chinese partner was introduced to the vice president of the United States and they discussed whatever they discussed on that trip. Here is the second lie that they made. We highlighted the fact that December 2013, Joe Biden and his son go to Beijing on Air Force Two. About 10 days later, the BHR, the private equity deal is finalized.
They responded by saying, "Well, no. This is a coincidence. They are not connected. Hunter was not really involved in setting up BHR. That took place in June of 2013. It did not take place during this December 2013 trip with the vice president." That was their position. Then our friends at Judicial Watch got a hold of all his travel logs.
The Secret Service has the travel logs of where Hunter Biden went. Remember, they said BHR was set up in June of 2013? Where was Hunter Biden in June of 2013? He was in Beijing, China.
The point is, they have lied about this repeatedly. They have tried to downplay it and say, "Well, he was not really that heavily involved in BHR," and then had to admit that he was on the board of directors.
It has been subterfuge from the beginning. They need to be called out on it. They seem quite concerned and nervous about this. The American people understand if somebody's giving you a sweetheart deal, particularly an actor like China, they are not doing it without getting something in return. They are not that stupid.
This is the problem we have had in Washington for quite some time. We have issues with people on both sides of the aisle. It is not just one side of the aisle.
This sort of effort by foreign governments and foreign entities to strike bargains with members of the American political elite and members of the political elite, first and foremost, the Bidens, their willingness to strike these deals ought to appall people. Generally, when they learn about them, they do.
The problem is the way that rules are written in Washington DC, they are written by the political class themselves. They carve out certain things. Think about this for a second. If Joe Biden owns $2,500 in General Electric stock, he is required to disclose that based on the disclosure rules that were passed by Congress.
If he gets a $250 campaign contribution from a GE executive, it is disclosed by the FEC. If his adult son flying on Air Force Two, clearly close with the vice president, strikes a series of deals with a foreign government that are lucrative and beneficial to him, there is no requirement for disclosure -- which, to me, is shocking.
One of the things that has to change is that we need greater transparency. The political class in Washington is very corrupt. They are very creative. It is like water running downhill. You put up a barrier and it finds a way around it.
That is what they often do with these rules and laws. If you create a ban on certain types of commercial activities involving members of the political class' family, they find a way around it.
The great gold mine that they have discovered are these foreign entities. With Hunter Biden, you have these deals in China. You also have the deal in Ukraine that everybody's familiar with. Again, where he gets a million dollars a year from a foreign, corrupt energy company in Ukraine right after his father is appointed point person on Ukraine policy.
He is given a million dollars a year by a company even though he has no background in Ukraine and no background in energy. Everybody knows what is going on. Unfortunately, it is legal.
There ought to at minimum be a requirement that you disclose any foreign dealings involving the family members of politicians, Republican, Democrat, executive branch, legislative branch. That would be very, very helpful. The way you discuss this and you explain this to people is: It is not a question about what is legal.
There are lots of things that are legal in Washington that are highly corrupt. The key thing is, does this compromise Joe Biden? The fact that his son has a series of deals that they tried to cover up, and that they have lied about, with a foreign government, our chief rival on the global stage, does that put the president of the United States in a compromised position?
Has he done favors for that foreign power? One of the things that the great Roger Robinson has been working on. He does a lot of work in the equities markets. He is looking into the fact that in 2013, the Obama administration signed a letter which said that the Chinese companies listed in the New York Stock Exchange did not have to conform to Sarbanes‑Oxley auditing and some of the other requirements that US and other foreign firms do.
It is quite a cutout for the Chinese. They are still trying to figure out who is at the bottom of it. There are indications that there are Biden fingerprints.
In addition, President Biden talks very favorably towards China, he does not challenge them in the South China Sea and elsewhere, you have something very tangible of benefit to China that Joe Biden has done while his son was given these sweetheart deals by the Chinese government.
The Chinese Communist Party wanted Joe Biden elected. They did not want President Donald Trump. In the words of, I think, the Global Times publication from Beijing, they think that Biden is smoother than Donald Trump, which is probably the understatement of the week.
Clearly, they do not like Trump's posture towards them. Trump continued to send ships to navigate the South China Sea much to their consternation. He strengthened our ties with Taiwan. He strengthened our ties with other allies in Asia. He took aggressive postures related to trade, technology transfer.
He was very clear and outspoken about the fact that COVID‑19 has origins in China and that China certainly did not act as an international partner in the way that they alerted or failed to alert us regarding that virus. The question about blackmail, to be blunt about it, is, are they going to need to blackmail Joe Biden? Joe Biden's posture towards China is incredibly soft.
Something may emerge but I am not sure there is something that they want that he is not already prepared to give them. He certainly has a very different attitude towards trade with China than President Trump did.
He has been far less outspoken on the South China Sea. He continues to insist, "Oh, they are friends, we've got nothing to worry about."
I'm not sure that the Chinese would have to blackmail the Bidens to get a lot of what they want. China has flexed its muscles with politicians in Australia, in New Zealand. This is the way they work. They are very shrewd.
They do not strike partnerships or collaborate on commercial relationships with political elites in the West unless they are getting something in return. They are not running a charity. President Xi is not running a Biden charity. He is running a country that wants to surpass the United States strategically. They are going to pull those levers if they need to. Generally, Biden's posture towards them is the posture they want.
There is no question that the Obama White House would have to know about that, and that President Biden would have to know about that. CGN, you can google it now and it will give you the case information. They had engineer executives that pled guilty in the case.
Joe Biden is well aware of what is going on. He clearly understands what is going on. What we need is on Capitol Hill for the Senate committees, where the Republicans are in control, to look seriously at this stuff.
It is like a lot of other countries that are highly dependent on the United States. In this particular case, they very aggressively struck a deal with the vice president's son to make money, but it is far more important in my mind to look at what is our chief rival China done.
The VAT Committee is spending a lot of time on China. The China stuff demands further attention. There has been zero curiosity by the mainstream media.
On Capitol Hill, there have been far too many people sitting on their hands, not wanting to discuss it, either because perhaps they are looking for similar types of deals themselves, or they do not have the stomach to go there because they are concerned about issues that might reflect poorly on them.
I think with the Chinese funding of over $20 million of the Biden Center of the University of Pennsylvania is deeply troubling. This has been the strategy that China has adopted. We need to remember that China is a Leninist State. They do not have the Marxism Leninism that the Soviet Union had in some respects. They have a more vibrant private sector than the Soviet Union ever did even under Gorbachev.
There is no question that the Communist Party of China runs China, and commercial ventures in China need to be approved by the party. All major companies have party committees that are embedded in them.
If I understand the ruling correctly, the Chinese Communist Party, just recently, a couple of years ago required the CEO of any company to be on that Chinese Communist Party committee that is embedded within their own company.
It should not surprise us that they are going to employ Leninist strategies for their strategic advantage. Not only for the Bidens. You see people on Wall Street. You see some of the big firms.
I would put Goldman Sachs and Blackstone in that category; they are entities that have been willing to turn a blind eye, and to say wonderful things about China that are simply not true -- given the way that the Chinese Communist rule -- in exchange for access and making money in the Chinese market.
It is a huge problem. The Bidens are complicit in it. The Bidens cashed in while he was vice president of the United States. He did not have any of these deals until he became vice president.
I think at that point, the Chinese realized, "This is a guy we want to do deals with. This is a guy that will be helpful to us in advancing our interest. Let's strike a bargain," and that is why they struck a bargain with the Biden family.
Let's be honest about it. If Donald Trump Jr. flew over on Air Force One to Beijing, China with his father and got a billion‑and‑a‑half‑dollar deal, let's say in the energy sector, where he has no experience, the mainstream media would be all over that story.
I would be all over that story for good reason, but there has been a complete lack of curiosity by the media, and even, as we have seen, suppression.
My hope is that people will start paying attention to this issue. We will start being a lot more aware that members of our political class are doing these kinds of deals overseas, and they are being paid by the foreign government. It should not be tolerated. Even if it is legal, it should not be tolerated just because they have written the rules in such a way to benefit themselves.
Peter Schweizer, President of the Governmental Accountability Institute, is a Gatestone Institute Distinguished Senior Fellow and author of the new book, Red Handed: How American Elites are Helping China Win.
This article is an updated version of an address by Peter Schweizer to Gatestone Institute
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has also represented JarODD.
of course he is a Democrat :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbe_Lowell
didn't trump ask him to represent him and he refused
didn't want to kicked out of the party, synagogue, legal, and Columbia U alum circuit I suppose
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Just four years before me at Columbia Law.
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https://nypost.com/2023/04/08/george-soros-son-has-easy-access-to-white-house-honchos/
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Biden brushes aside Rishi Sunak, to shake hands with military guy. make your own conclusions
https://twitter.com/i/status/1646250972686045189 (https://twitter.com/i/status/1646250972686045189)
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/12/china-sent-not-so-subtle-threat-joe-biden-revealin/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=ZDgLmrjpV4ep0vN6gE7kzr1cNyG0hFYFSJB4C5hl1yh3%2FXGa5dNd6F0Q2Q5ztAS1&bt_ts=1681389470704
China sent not-so-subtle threat to Joe Biden by revealing Hunter’s bank records, says senator
By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times - Wednesday, April 12, 2023
China fired a warning shot at President Biden when a Chinese-American bank supplied Senate Republicans with records showing millions of dollars flowing from Chinese companies to Mr. Biden’s son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden, said a lawmaker spearheading an investigation of the first family.
Cathay Bank, which is based in Los Angeles but has offices in China, voluntarily turned over bank records requested by Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Charles E. Grassley of Iowa. Every other American bank denied the two Republicans’ requests for financial records.
“In my mind, it’s the Chinese government telling Joe Biden, ‘We got the goods on you, buddy, and we’re willing to dish it up,’” Mr. Johnson told The Washington Times.
Cathay Bank spokesman Ian Campbell said the allegations are false.
“Cathay Bank, a NASDAQ-listed, U.S. financial institution for over 60 years, has cooperated with the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability’s request for information. The bank intends to continue to cooperate with the committee,” he said in a statement to The Times. “Cathay Bank was founded more than sixty years ago by a United States citizen, and serves American communities as a bank with over $20 billion in assets and more than 60 branches in 9 states. Cathay Bank is neither owned by nor affiliated with the Chinese government in any way.”
The records the bank handed over showed deep financial ties between the president’s son and brother and the now-defunct CEFC China Energy, which had ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The energy giant wired $1 million to Hudson West III, a joint venture owned by Hunter Biden and Gongwen Dong, a business associate of CEFC’s founder and chairman, Ye Jianming.
A second Chinese energy company, Northern International Capital Holdings, which is associated with the communist-backed CEFC, wired $5 million to Hudson West III, the Cathay Bank records show. The money sent from the two companies funded a $4.8 million wire transfer from Hudson West III to Hunter Biden’s companies Owasco P.C. and Owasco LLC, and Lion Hall Group, owned by the president’s brother James Biden.
The Cathay records show Owasco P.C. sent 20 wire transfers totaling nearly $1.4 million to the Lion Hall Group. Hudson West III paid Hunter Biden a $500,000 retainer fee plus $100,000 per month. James Biden was paid $65,000 per month.
The transactions were made from August 2017 through October 2018, after Mr. Biden left the Obama White House. At that time, Mr. Biden was considered a top contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
“This is $5 million from a company connected to Ye Jianming and CEFC and its affiliates, which are essentially arms of the communist Chinese regime,” Mr. Grassley said during a Senate floor speech.
The Cathay Bank records provide a detailed look at just one segment of the Biden family foreign business network, which has yielded millions of dollars from deals with Russia, Ukraine and other countries that date back to Mr. Biden’s term as vice president.
Mr. Biden has denied having any involvement with or knowledge about his family’s business entanglements, but House and Senate Republicans are investigating potential influence peddling and how the transactions might pose threats to national security.
They said the Chinese business deals and Cathay Bank’s willingness to make them public raise red flags about Mr. Biden’s involvement and vulnerability.
“We just requested the records, and no questions asked; they just turned them over to us,” Mr. Johnson said. “That’s not by accident.”
The bank records reveal that Hunter Biden and Gongwen Dong opened a $99,000 line of credit for Hunter Biden to use, along with James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden. The credit cards were used to make purchases from airlines, Apple stores, hotels and restaurants, according to an investigative report by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Grassley.
The bank records showed other payments from Hudson West III. The company sent CEFC Infrastructure, an affiliate of CEFC Energy, payments totaling more than $381,000. Gongwen Dong received roughly $123,000, and Hunter Biden’s Chinese American assistant, JiaQi Bao, was paid nearly $30,000. Coldharbour Capital LLC, a company associated with Hunter Biden’s business partner Mervyn Yan, received $318,000.
Republicans said the business deals could be softening the president’s stance against China’s creeping threats to the U.S.
Mr. Johnson pointed to the Justice Department’s decision in February 2022 to disband the China Initiative. The program was implemented under President Trump to combat China’s efforts to steal cutting-edge technology and other U.S. innovations. The Justice Department said it dropped the program because of concerns from civil rights groups.
Mr. Biden also suspended tariffs on Chinese solar panels.
The president’s supporters say he has been tough on China and point to his decision to limit the export of some semiconductor chips, which are critical to national security.
Republicans want the Cathay Bank records to be included in an ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden’s tax filings.
Mr. Johnson and Mr. Grassley sent the bank records to U.S. Attorney David Weiss, Delaware’s top prosecutor. Mr. Weiss oversees a team investigating Hunter Biden on suspicion of tax crimes and false statements regarding a gun purchase.
“If you are conducting a full and complete investigation, you should already possess these records,” Mr. Johnson and Mr. Grassley wrote to Mr. Weiss in October. “In the case that you are not and do not possess these records, we suggest that you review them in detail.”
House Republicans, meanwhile, are following a trail of suspicious activity reports at the Treasury Department to gain access to bank accounts related to the Biden business deals that other financial institutions have declined to provide voluntarily.
Republicans hold the House majority, which gives the Oversight and Accountability Committee greater access to Treasury Department records and the power to subpoena bank records.
The committee chairman, Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, began seeking bank records nearly a year ago. He wrote to Cathay Bank President Chang M. Liu, “The American people deserve to know the president’s connections to his son’s business deals, which have occurred at the expense of American interests and may represent a national security threat.”
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MAN WHO WROTE DOWN BIDEN’S EVERY WORD SAYS HE DEFINITELY KNEW ABOUT BURISMA… Joe Biden ‘Knew’ Hunter Was On Burisma Board While Pushing For Natural Gas In Ukraine, Former Obama Stenographer Says (VIDEO)
A former stenographer who worked for the Obama administration said Wednesday that then-Vice President Joe Biden “knew” his son Hunter was on the board of directors for Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas company, while embarking on a trip to the country in an effort to bolster its natural gas industry.
“What happened on that trip was, Joe Biden was in the front of the plane. My job as the White House stenographer was to be in the back of the plane in the press cabin and if Joe or a senior administration official came back and did a briefing, then I would record it and make a transcript. Well, that’s exactly what happened,” Mike McCormick told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “That senior administration official was Jake Sullivan who is now our national security adviser. So, I didn’t see anything wrong with it at the time.”
Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of Burisma in 2014, stepping down in 2019 when his father launched his 2020 presidential campaign. Biden boasted of getting a prosecutor investigating allegations of the corruption within the company fired during a 2018 appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations.
McCormick said that he witnessed now-National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, explaining to members of the press on the trip how the United States would assist Ukraine in developing its natural gas industry, according to the New York Post.
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third
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ex-obama-staffer-blows-whistle-biden-kickback-scheme-hunter-joined-burisma-malfeasance-office
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/12/obama-stenographer-joe-biden-hunter-burisma-ukraine/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rundown&pnespid=v7dlU3hCZaQH0PvRoSvrEZOIuk__XZFndLey3ft49w9mDc7edhM5LAUt95P7.LLzWAUQm9SB
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/17/house-oversight-committee-james-comer-biden-family-transactions/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rundown&pnespid=sbp6GTUWM.wV1.nQryiqD8ORokurU5smPPWnwuZxvEFmBN3lTjrTsxr6kMYnNmURyc.X00XP
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/21/irs-commissioner-dumbfounded-hunter-biden-whistleblower-accusations-no-answer-senator-closed-door-meeting/
to blow whistle [on Democrats] :wink:
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/04/23/hunter-bidens-lawyers-to-meet-prosecutor-weiss-as-special-counsel-remains-unnamed-by-garland/
a flicker of good news here :
https://www.justice.gov/usao-de/meet-us-attorney
David Weiss appointed to be District
Attorney of Delaware by. ------- DJT !
So maybe just maybe Garland can't easily shyster his way out of this.
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My suspicion is that tax charges against Hunter will be used as a shiny object to distract from his father, who after the election will pardon him.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blinken-wife-emailed-frequently-hunter-biden-raising-questions-role-laptop-cover-story?fbclid=IwAR1g-HO34pryHVjmcs2vDEl6XgzuSgnUSvG1CLwO95cGgSWRI4kJchJveJI
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we here all know how this is going to turn out ; a slap on the wrist by Garland's DOJ
and cover for the Joe:
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3978970-hunters-collapsing-world-why-a-criminal-plea-could-now-be-the-best-option-for-the-bidens/
rule of law
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yup fix is in
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/larryoconnor/2023/05/01/bidens-backdoor-pardon-for-hunter-n2622637
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https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/01/rep-james-comer-hunter-bidens-lawyers-testing-the-limits-of-witness-intimidation-by-contacting-potential-whistelblowers/
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https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/03/comer-and-grassley-issue-subpoena-to-fbi-director-wray-demanding-document-alleging-a-very-detailed-criminal-scheme-involving-joe-biden/
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https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/05/israeli-whistleblower-with-info-on-biden-corruption-disappears-in-cyprus-after-saying-biden-regime-wants-to-bury-him/
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12068135/Republicans-dig-10-MILLION-foreign-money-linked-payments-Biden-family-members.html
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Bidens Used Web of Shell Companies to Conceal Foreign Cash, Bank Records Obtained by House GOP Reveal
House Committee on Oversight Chairman James Comer and fellow Oversight Committee Republicans hold a press conference to discuss their investigation into the business dealings of President Joe Biden's family members at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
By BRITTANY BERNSTEIN
May 10, 2023 9:51 AM
The Biden family and its business associates created a complicated web of more than 20 companies, according to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee — a system, GOP lawmakers say, that was meant to conceal money received from foreign nationals.
Sixteen of the companies were limited liability companies formed during Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president, the committee said in a press conference on Wednesday. The Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received more than $10 million from foreign nationals’ and their related companies, the records show. These payments occurred both while Biden was in office as vice president and after his time in office ended.
In what Representative Nancy Mace called an act of “financial gymnastics,” many payments were routed from foreign companies to the Biden family’s business associates’ companies which then doled out payments to the Bidens in incremental payments to different bank accounts in an alleged attempt to hide the source of the funds.
At least nine Biden family members received payments, according to committee chairman James Comer. That includes Hunter Biden; James Biden; James Biden’s wife, Sara Jones Biden; the late Beau Biden’s wife, Hallie Biden; Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle; Hunter Biden’s wife, Melissa Cohen; and “three children of the president’s son and the president’s brother.”
Much of the money came from Chinese nationals and companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Multiple Biden family members received money after it passed through an associate’s account. Comer said of the countries the Biden family was influence peddling in, China is “the most reputable.”
The committee revealed Wednesday that records suggest the Biden family and its associates’ business dealings in Romania “bear clear indication of a scheme to peddle influence” from 2015 to 2017.
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House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden
After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct.
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James R. Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, stands behind a lectern and speaks alongside the Republican members of the committee.
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released their first report on an investigation into President Biden and his family on Wednesday.Credit...Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times
Luke Broadwater
By Luke Broadwater
Reporting from Washington
May 10, 2023
After four months of investigation, House Republicans who promised to use their new majority to unearth evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden acknowledged on Wednesday that they had yet to uncover incriminating material about him, despite their frequent insinuations that he and his family have been involved in criminal conduct and corruption.
At a much-publicized news conference on Capitol Hill to show the preliminary findings of their premier investigation into Mr. Biden and his family, leading Republicans released financial documents detailing how some of the president’s relatives were paid more than $10 million from foreign sources between 2015 and 2017.
Republicans described the transactions as proof of “influence peddling” by Mr. Biden’s family, including his son Hunter Biden, and referenced some previously known, if unflattering, details of the younger Mr. Biden’s business dealings. Those included an episode in which he accepted a 2.8-carat diamond from a Chinese businessman. G.O.P. lawmakers also produced material suggesting that President Biden and his allies had at times made misleading statements in their efforts to push back aggressively against accusations of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden.
But on Wednesday, the Republicans conceded that they had yet to find evidence of a specific corrupt action Mr. Biden took in office in connection with any of the business deals his son entered into. Instead, their presentation underscored how little headway top G.O.P. lawmakers have made in finding clear evidence of questionable transactions they can tie to Mr. Biden, their chief political rival.
It has not stopped them from accusing the president of serious misconduct.
“I want to be clear: This committee is investigating President Biden and his family’s shady business dealings to capitalize on Joe Biden’s public office that risks our country’s national security,” said Representative James R. Comer, Republican of Kentucky and the chairman of the Oversight Committee. He emphasized that the president — not just his son — would be the target of his investigation, which he said would now “enter a new phase,” in which he would subpoena specific financial information based on material learned through bank records.
Federal prosecutors have examined Hunter Biden’s international business activities as part of a criminal investigation. But the only charges they are considering, according to people familiar with the case, are unrelated to his work abroad. They include tax charges related to his failure to file his tax returns over several years, and a charge of lying about his drug use on a federal form he filled out to purchase a handgun.
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To date, Mr. Comer’s committee has issued four bank subpoenas, obtained thousands of financial records and spoken with several people he describes as whistle-blowers. Mr. Comer has also hired James Mandolfo, a former federal prosecutor who has experience investigating foreign corruption, to oversee the inquiry.
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Abbe Lowell looks at his watch while standing atop a set of stairs outside of a courthouse.
Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, said the report revealed nothing new.Credit...Getty Images
Businesses connected to Hunter Biden received more than $10 million from foreign companies, some with criminal ties.
The House Oversight Committee report focused on payments made to companies connected to Hunter Biden from businesses and individuals in Romania and China. Bank records obtained by the committee show the receipt of money from a foreign company connected to Gabriel Popoviciu, who was the subject of a criminal investigation and prosecution for corruption in Romania.
In 2015, Mr. Popoviciu retained Hunter Biden, who is a lawyer, while his father was vice president, to help try to fend off charges. That effort was unsuccessful and, in 2016, Mr. Popoviciu was convicted on charges related to a land deal in northern Bucharest, the Romanian capital.
The Biden Presidency
Immigration Policies: Surges of migrants have shaped President Biden’s policies at the border in ways that few of his allies imagined when he was running for president.
William Burns: The C.I.A. director, a key figure in bolstering the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine, has amassed influence that goes well beyond that of most previous spy chiefs.
Neera Tanden: Biden’s staff secretary will serve as the director of the Domestic Policy Council, replacing Susan Rice in the role.
2024 Presidential Race: The president, who formally announced that he would seek a second term, has downplayed concerns over his age, saying he has a “job to finish” in bolstering the economy and reasserting U.S. leadership abroad.
Mr. Comer has also focused on John R. Walker, an associate of Hunter Biden who was involved in a joint venture with executives of CEFC China Energy, a now-bankrupt Chinese conglomerate.
A Shanghai-based company, State Energy HK Limited, that was affiliated with CEFC China Energy sent millions to Robinson Walker LLC, a company associated with Mr. Walker, who then made payments to Hunter Biden and other Biden family members.
Hunter Biden had cultivated a business relationship with Ye Jianming, the founder of CEFC, who has been investigated by the Chinese authorities on suspicion of economic crimes. In 2017, Mr. Ye gave Hunter Biden a 2.8-carat diamond as a thank-you for a meeting.
“What would they be bribing me for? My dad wasn’t in office,” Hunter Biden told The New Yorker in 2019, adding that he gave the diamond to his associates. “I knew it wasn’t a good idea to take it. I just felt like it was weird.”
CEFC had hoped to invest in a liquefied natural gas venture in Louisiana, but that deal ultimately flopped.
Representatives of Hunter Biden characterize his business offerings at the time as providing legal and consulting services.
The payments came at a time when Hunter Biden’s life and finances were spiraling amid his drug addiction, and after the death of his brother, Beau Biden, from brain cancer. Hunter Biden had begun a romantic relationship with his brother’s widow. His business partner, Mr. Walker, and his uncle James Biden were pursuing international business work.
Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, said in a statement that House Republicans had revealed nothing new in their report.
“Today’s so-called ‘revelations' are retread, repackaged misstatements of perfectly proper meetings and business by private citizens.” Mr. Lowell said.
President Biden has falsely denied his son had ties to Chinese businesses.
None of the payments detailed in the report went to President Biden himself, nor has Mr. Comer’s investigation produced any evidence that Mr. Biden ever took a corrupt action in connection with his son’s business dealings.
But Mr. Biden has made several false or misleading statements about the matter.
During the 2020 presidential debate, Mr. Biden claimed that no one in his family had received money from China.
“My son has not made money in terms of this thing about — what are you talking about, China,” Mr. Biden said, turning the charge on his opponent, President Donald J. Trump. “The only guy who made money from China is this guy. He’s the only one. Nobody else has made money from China.”
This year, Mr. Biden also claimed that it was “not true” that family members received more than $1 million from a Chinese firm.
Aides to Mr. Biden said he was speaking colloquially and was pushing back generally on claims that his administration had been corrupted by Chinese money.
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Hunter Biden greets crowds of people and shakes hands in Ireland.
The House Republicans’ report highlighted some previously known, if unflattering, details of the Hunter Biden’s business dealings.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times
Presidents’ families have long made money off the family name.
During his news conference, Mr. Comer acknowledged that Hunter Biden would have been far from the first relative of a president or vice president to try to make money off the family name.
He invoked Billy Carter, the brother of former President Jimmy Carter, who visited Libya and received a $220,000 loan; and Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law whose firm has received hundreds of millions from Persian Gulf nations.
“This has been a pattern for a long time,” Mr. Comer said. “Republicans and Democrats have both complained about presidents’ families receiving money.”
However, Mr. Comer has conceded that he has no interest in investigating Mr. Kushner’s conduct.
Officials allied with Mr. Biden played a role in wrongly discrediting Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The report from Mr. Comer came as a second Republican-led House committee is investigating a related issue. The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday released a report about a letter from 51 former intelligence and security officials in 2020 that questioned materials — substantial portions of which were later verified as authentic — from a laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware repair shop and suggested they might be part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
The Republicans argue that the letter influenced the public to discount the materials on the laptop, which contained evidence of Hunter Biden’s drug use and sex life, which they believed would harm his father’s electoral chances against Mr. Trump.
The Judiciary Committee report detailed the role played by Antony J. Blinken, now the secretary of state and then a Biden campaign official, in spearheading the letter, and said a C.I.A. employee had been involved in soliciting at least one signature for it.
The intelligence officials maintain their letter stated they had no evidence of a Russian disinformation campaign, and that they were merely stating an opinion.
Mark Zaid, a lawyer who represents seven signatories to the letter, said on Twitter that the report merely proved that “private citizens lawfully exercised 1st Amendment rights” and added that there was not “even one falsehood” in the letter.
“I know of no signatory who retracts a single word,” Mr. Zaid wrote.
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I was watching newsnation for short time
and it was being discussed
that ties to "big guy" Biden are not iron clad.
actually the report is basically a disappointment.
hopefully will not be as bogus as the "kraken" with all sorts of claims that do not prove Joe was taking money for favors
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It doesn't matter. Nothing will be done.
I was watching newsnation for short time
and it was being discussed
that ties to "big guy" Biden are not iron clad.
actually the report is basically a disappointment.
hopefully will not be as bogus as the "kraken" with all sorts of claims that do not prove Joe was taking money for favors
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/breaking-fbi-hiding-key-document-detailing-bribery-scheme-involving-joe-biden-and-foreign-national/
It doesn't matter. Nothing will be done.
I was watching newsnation for short time
and it was being discussed
that ties to "big guy" Biden are not iron clad.
actually the report is basically a disappointment.
hopefully will not be as bogus as the "kraken" with all sorts of claims that do not prove Joe was taking money for favors
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https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-smell-of-goose-cooking/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/breaking-fbi-hiding-key-document-detailing-bribery-scheme-involving-joe-biden-and-foreign-national/
It doesn't matter. Nothing will be done.
I was watching newsnation for short time
and it was being discussed
that ties to "big guy" Biden are not iron clad.
actually the report is basically a disappointment.
hopefully will not be as bogus as the "kraken" with all sorts of claims that do not prove Joe was taking money for favors
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/12/ccp-hunter-biden-shanghai-transfers/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking&pnespid=s7JhDS0Wb64ThejJpWmmCsyAsRPwVsB3NfWs3btr9B9mEgy3rhvd8LqnkzEcqgPbOpoeDkri
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/05/15/irs-axes-investigative-team-probing-hunter-biden-on-doj-orders-report-n2623295
woops, already posted on deep state thread I see now
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Sometimes an article falls solidly in more than one thread and is worth being findable down the road in either thread. This would be an example of that. In short, no worries. Indeed it can be proper practice to purposefully post in more than one thread. I have done this on numerous occasions.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/irs-whistleblower-removed-from-hunter-biden-criminal-investigation-at-request-of-doj-attorneys_5267785.html?utm_source=News&src_src=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2023-05-16-1&src_cmp=breaking-2023-05-16-1&utm_medium=email&est=4I2t3jSCwjoIw9NoO9eP2d5jQEFvG5mnGervnksnZAd%2BcCnwVOx1iAGz8l82dbTebx8B
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https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/03/15/feds_foreign-agent_double_standard_protective_of_bidens_even_as_they_bore_down_on_trumpworld_885544.html
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/may/18/house-probe-digs-more-foreign-deals-suggest-joe-bi/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=morning&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=morning&bt_ee=ysajQX7JfoGwliyWvqYqkFy1KEJEV6Fy0fOvsGUE3CeviaeMvuhEkNrbLz4WY5Gt&bt_ts=1684500038476
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The Biden Family Business
A House report shows how Hunter and relatives profited while Joe was Vice President.
By The Editorial BoardFollow
May 10, 2023 6:53 pm ET
House Republicans on Wednesday released their latest report on the Biden family’s business ties, and one conclusion is that it’s good to be related to Joseph Robinette Biden. Hunter Biden and his relatives traded profitably off the Biden name with transactions that suggest the main family business is influence peddling.
House Oversight Chair James Comer’s staff report shows in detail that Hunter had extensive dealings with unsavory foreign actors. This yielded millions of dollars for Biden family members via a web of shell companies that would be hard to untangle without subpoena power. Why so much complexity?
The 36-page report shows Biden family members and business associates created nearly 20 separate entities shortly before and during Joe Biden’s Vice Presidency. The entities with obscure names—Hudson West III, Hudson West V, Owascu, JBB SR INC—transferred cash from foreign entities. Bank records show that more than $10 million was delivered to Biden family members, associates and companies from these foreign entities, and in curious ways.
In some cases “Biden associates would receive significant deposits from foreign sources,” then “transfer smaller, incremental payments to Biden bank accounts,” the report says. These “complicated and seemingly unnecessary” transactions appeared to be an “effort to conceal the source and total amount received from the foreign companies.”
Some payments came from such shady characters as Chinese national Ye Jianming, his associates, and his company CEFC. Mr. Ye had a background in Chinese military intelligence and used CEFC to promote President Xi Jinping’s agenda globally. One of Mr. Ye’s deputies, Patrick Ho, was convicted in the U.S. in 2018 on international bribery and money laundering.
Mr. Ye’s emissary to the U.S., Gongwen Dong, in 2017 established a corporate entity with Hunter—each with 50% ownership. Over 14 months the entity dispersed more than $4 million to Hunter-related companies and another $75,000 to companies related to the President’s brother, James Biden. Mr. Dong used a separate set of complex corporate entities and transfers to send Hunter another $100,000 payment.
In 2017 another Ye-related company—State Energy HK—paid some $3 million to Hunter’s business associates. At least $1 million was then funneled in 16 separate payments over three months to five different bank accounts, all related to the Biden name. They included companies associated with Hunter and James Biden, an unknown bank account identified simply as “Biden” and a payment to Hallie Biden—the widow of Hunter’s deceased brother Beau and later Hunter’s girlfriend.
The report lays out a similarly complex web of payments to Hunter and associates from an entity that appears to be connected to a Romanian businessman who has been convicted of bribery. In total, Mr. Comer says the committee has identified at least nine Biden family members that received foreign income, including Hunter, James, James’s wife Sara, Hallie, Hunter’s ex-wife (Kathleen Buhle), Hunter’s current wife (Melissa Cohen), and three children or grandchildren of Joe or James.
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The Bidens have a right to make a living, but one important question is what Hunter did to earn these payments. Hunter’s spokespersons aren’t saying, and his attorney scorned the Comer report as “repackaged misstatements of perfectly proper meetings and business by private citizens.” But a fair conclusion is that these foreigners were buying influence with a powerful family.
Emails and text messages made public in 2020 by former Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski—related to a separate attempted deal with CEFC—quote Hunter demanding more because CEFC is “coming to be MY partner to be partners with the Bidens,” and noting that “I’m the only one putting an entire family legacy on the line.” In another email reported by the New York Post, Hunter boasted that Mr. Ye would pay him millions for “introductions alone.”
The press is mostly dismissing the report because it reveals no evidence that President Biden received any money. But the committee has already exposed that Joe Biden dissembled in 2020 when he claimed that “my son has not made money in terms of this thing about—what are you talking about—China. I have not had it. The only guy that made money from China is this guy,” referring to Donald Trump. Mr. Comer isn’t done, and we shall see where the money trail leads.
The report shows the Biden family profiting from Joe Biden’s political power. Payments from Chinese nationals are also a familiar way that the Communist Party has tried to compromise America’s political class. There may not be a smoking gun, but there’s plenty of suspicious smoke worth investigating.
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The Biden Family Business
Then-vice president Joe Biden speaks as his son Hunter Biden looks on at the World Food Program USA's Annual McGovern-Dole Leadership Award Ceremony in Washington, D.C., April 12, 2016.(Paul Morigi/Getty Images for World Food Program USA)
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By THE EDITORS
May 17, 2023 6:30 AM
On May 21, 2014, then–Vice President Joe Biden, in his role as Obama administration point-man for American policy with respect to several countries, including Romania, delivered a speech in Bucharest, admonishing the prime minister and other Romanian officials that “corruption is a cancer.” He warned that allowing public corruption to fester “can represent a clear and present danger not only to a nation’s economy, but to its very national security.”
Investigations currently being pressed by House Republicans raise worrisome indications that Biden may have failed to heed his own advice.
That is the upshot of a 36-page interim report issued by the House Oversight Committee led by Chairman James Comer (R., Ky.). Thanks to Biden administration stonewalling, the committee’s probe is still at an early stage. In the president’s first two years, for example, Treasury Department practices were altered to deny the GOP minority access to over 150 Suspicious Activity Reports filed by banks in connection with Biden family transactions. Until Republicans took control of the House and its subpoena power in January, House GOP efforts stalled, with investigators left to rely on the yeoman’s work of Senators Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), relying on information derived from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop and whistleblowers.
Still, as the interim report details, after a perusal of just a fraction of the relevant data, his family members and their associates have hauled in over $10 million from foreign nationals and their related companies since Biden’s days as Obama administration vice president. These include Gabriel Popoviciu, a businessman convicted of bribery in Romania and relatedly investigated by British authorities. He poured over $1 million into Biden family accounts even as the then–vice president lectured Bucharest about corruption.
The Romanian payments to the Bidens fit a disturbing pattern replicated in Ukraine, China, and elsewhere. The source of the funds was a corrupt foreigner, in some cases likely a tool of a foreign state. Vast sums of money were first transferred from a company controlled by the source to a corporate shell controlled by a Biden crony, such as James Gilliar or, in the Romanian transactions, Robinson Walker. Over time, and after taking a cut, the crony would transfer funds to accounts controlled by Biden family members.
Often, those family members were the now-president’s famously erratic son Hunter and Joe’s brother, Jim, a consultant-of-all-trades. House investigators have identified as many as nine Bidens on the receiving end of money transfers, including minor children and such figures as Hallie Biden (a school counselor, who is the widow of the president’s late son Beau and was later the paramour of Hunter), who can have performed no conceivable services in exchange for these payments. Given the pattern of how public corruption works around the globe, the people making the payments must have expected that they were investing in official favor.
That is the most alarming fact in the pattern. It is easy to see large sums of foreign-source money coming the Bidens’ way. The bank records don’t lie. What’s not apparent is any legitimate value received in exchange. There are no obvious assets, commodities, or services as one would expect to find when legitimate transfers of exorbitant sums are exchanged in business transactions. The only apparent item of value is potential access to Joe Biden and his influence over American policy.
As a result, the payments resemble what investigators frequently find in examining criminal enterprises: conspirators forever grappling with the challenge of concealing where the money is coming from, how much of it there is, and who is getting it. By receiving big foreign payments — such as millions from Popoviciu and entities closely connected to the Xi regime and the Chinese Communist Party — the Biden cronies conceal the source from view. Meantime, the Biden family used at least 20 corporate shells — mainly limited liability companies (LLCs), 15 of which Hunter Biden set up while his father was vice president. These entities establish bank accounts. With the use of numerous accounts, the big payments are divided and staggered into smaller, less conspicuous transfers doled out over time. The labyrinthine structure and payout complexities — the kind you don’t tend to see in even big-dollar transactions that are on the up and up — raise colorable suspicion of money laundering.
Of course, whether criminal laws have been violated is a second-order issue. As then–Vice President Biden told the Romanians, public corruption can become a profound national-security problem. The question is what shady foreigners and corrupt regimes, some of them hostile to the United States, believe they were buying.
It has long been known that the Biden family did its most lucrative wheeler-dealing with China. In just the year between 2017 and 2018, the Bidens received $6 million from CEFC, a Chinese conglomerate — or, better, an agent of China dressed up as a conglomerate. Again, there was no apparent exchange of value other than potential access to Joe Biden — unless you count the $1 million paid to Hunter to serve as a defense lawyer (not his area of legal practice) to represent Patrick Ho, whom he famously referred to in a laptop recording as the “f***ing spy chief of China.” When the Justice Department prosecuted and convicted Ho for foreign corruption, it disclosed that there had been relevant national-security surveillance under FISA. Not long after that, China apprehended Hunter’s main CEFC partner, Ye Jianming, formerly a globally renowned tycoon and Xi protégé but one who has not been seen publicly since.
CEFC bore all the classic earmarks of a Chinese influence operation.
Predictably, the media–Democratic complex is doing its best to bury the House Republican findings. They deserve more attention and further investigation.
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Judicial Watch Sues National Archives for Biden Family Business Records
Joe Biden is hiding his shady business dealings abroad behind his National Archives. So we’ve filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit against the agency for Biden family’s records and communications regarding travel and finance transactions, as well as communications between the Bidens and several known business associates (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. National Archives (No. 1:23-cv-01432).
We had to sue because the National Archives has yet to produce any records in response to our February 2023 FOIA request for:
Records and/or communications from former Vice President Joseph R. Biden regarding:
Any communication with Robert Hunter Biden, James Brian Biden, Francis William “Frank” Biden or Sara Jones Biden between January 20, 2009, and January 20, 2017, regarding:
a) any international or domestic travel
b) any international or domestic financial activity, including but not limited to banking and financial institutions, overseas bank accounts, credit card companies, bills, invoices, fees, agreements, financial arrangements, payments, wire transfers, contracts, QuickBooks, financial spreadsheets, business proposals, office or residential leases, rent payments, real estate transactions
Any communication with Robert Hunter Bid en, James Brian Biden, Francis William "Frank" Biden or Sara Jones Biden between January 20, 2009, and January 20, 2017, regarding the following individuals or companies:
a) Devon Archer;
b) JiaQi Bao;
c) Tony Bobulinski;
d) Jeffrey Cooper;
e) Catherine Dodge;
f) Gongwen Dong;
g) James Gilliar;
h) Patrick Ho Chi-ping;
i) Vuk Jeremie;
j) Zang Jianjun;
k) Ye Jianming;
l) Jonathan Li;
m) Joan Mayer or Joan Peugh;
n) Francis Person;
o) Vadim Pozharskyi;
p) Eric Schwerin;
q) Robert Walker;
r) Mervyn Yan;
s) Nita Madhav;
t) Maiy Guttieri
u) Any Metabiota entity or company;
v) Any Rosemont Seneca entity or company;
w) Any Hudson West entity or company;
x) Any Owasco entity or company;
y) Any Bohai Harvest entity or company;
z) Skaneateles LLC;
aa) Eudora Global LLC;
bb) Coldharbour Capital LLC;
cc) Lion Hall Group LLC;
dd) Any CEFC entity or company; and
ee) Burisma.
Any communication, between January 20, 2009, and January 20, 2017, between or among former Vice President Joseph R. Biden and the individuals or entities set forth in Items 2(a)-(ee) above.
All records and documents including paper or electronic calendars such as (Outlook or Gmail) regarding former Vice President Joseph R. Biden and the individuals or entities set forth in Items 2(a)-(ee) above.
We explained to the court that in a March letter the National Archives acknowledged receiving the FOIA request, assigned it a case number and claimed it had identified “approximately 1,567 emails, 2,501 electronic files, and 445 pages of potentially responsive records that must be processed in order to respond to your request.”
The Archives also stated that, according to the Code of Federal Regulations, it is required to “notify representatives of the former President and the incumbent President and the former Vice President prior to the release of any Vice Presidential records.” The letter did not say when or even whether any such notice had been given or would be given. On information and belief, no such notice has been given.
On May 10, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY.) released financial records of the Biden family’s business dealings showing that millions of dollars flowed from China and other foreign sources through a labyrinth of Biden family companies:
[The] financial records reveal the Biden family and associates’ complicated network of companies set up during Joe Biden’s vice presidency and the millions the Bidens received from foreign sources. The financial records also reveal how the Bidens used complicated transactions to hide payments from foreign nationals, including CCP-linked associates, and provide clear indications of influence-peddling schemes during then-Vice President Biden’s tenure.
Clearly, the Biden National Archives agency is stonewalling the release of thousands of records that could go to the heart of Biden family corruption allegations.
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https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/comer-wray-contempt/2023/06/07/id/1122695/
the informant from was 6/20. - while Barr was AG
and then information not followed up
of course Biden was private citizen
I am guessing Barr was too concerned to the deep state and media he would look partisan if he pursued against the Dem nominee,
Compare this to the Dems who now control DOJ....
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just saw this update on the Bong report
that Barr calls Raskin as speaking un truths
:-o
https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/07/exclusive-bill-barr-confirms-rep-jamie-raskin-lied-about-biden-family-corruption-investigation/
I am sick of the lying shysters
nothing ever happens to them
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/President-Biden-Current-Health-Summary-November-2021.pdf
the report lists Biden as having "chronic Atrial Fibrillation "
not on rate control medicine
but NO MENTION OF BLOOD THINNERS!!!
typically people with this are ON BLOOD THINNERS to prevent catastrophic embolic stroke which statistically is ~ 5 - 8% per yr
the blood thinner will reduce the risk to I think if memory serves me to ~ 2 % per annum
the main reason to not use blood thinners
is if the risk of bleeding or other problems outweighs the benefit .
one risk would be frequent falling !
if an 82 yo would fall and hit head the risk of intracranial bleeding is much higher on blood thinners
so the risk of the blood thinner might be higher than the risk of not using it.
Dr Marc Siegal mentioned this on Tucker about the liklihood biden is on blood thinners
though I have not heard or read a peep about this
or mention of it by Leftist doctors
but this is very important
not sure why not mentioned one way or the other
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Ummm , , , because doing so would remind the American people who is one heart beat away?
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/08/exclusive-marjorie-taylor-greene-joe-biden-doc-pay-to-play/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking&pnespid=5717UCZbKL1FhPaZrCupAp2csh6rXpdxIOW6xOZtqg9mqdJ8EQ_7oTVisEVTLMMBv2jx9God
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Former AG Barr was on Martha McCallum today speaking with lawyerly precision on matters of interest to us. GM, can you track this down for us?
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Former AG Barr was on Martha McCallum today speaking with lawyerly precision on matters of interest to us. GM, can you track this down for us?
This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt2LMYIzN1M
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The effort is appreciated but if I not mistaken that is from three years ago.
Laura Ingraham was in fine form tonight on the Trump indictiment with intelligent guests. Trump's attorney, (forget his name) was very strong.
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https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/09/fbi-informant-biden-paid-5-million-by-burisma-executive-as-vice-president/
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https://www.dictionary.com/browse/malarkey#:~:text=malarky,slang%20nonsense%3B%20rubbish
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https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/rep-jim-jordan-blasts-garlands-refusal-to-appoint-special-counsel-over-hunter-biden/
Biden classified doc special counsel:
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/13/1148934429/robert-hur-doj-special-counsel-biden-classified-documents
the SC for Biden docs only appointed ~ 6 mo ago
but nonetheless this is what we hear from that or from MSM on Hunter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpGtBnVZLSk
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https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/rep-jim-jordan-blasts-garlands-refusal-to-appoint-special-counsel-over-hunter-biden/
Biden classified doc special counsel:
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/13/1148934429/robert-hur-doj-special-counsel-biden-classified-documents
the SC for Biden docs only appointed ~ 6 mo ago
but nonetheless this is what we hear from that or from MSM on Hunter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpGtBnVZLSk
Hunter will be prosecuted right after Bill and Hillary.
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https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/12/grassley-bombshell-burisma-exec-secretly-recorded-conversations-with-joe-and-hunter-biden-regarding-bribery-scheme/
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If he had something to lose, they had something to use.
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Remember When Biden Said He Was Cooperating With the Classified Documents Probe?
He and his lawyers seem to be doing a good job preventing disclosure.
James Freeman hedcutBy James FreemanFollow
June 14, 2023 3:52 pm ET
Only 39% of registered voters think President Joe Biden is honest and trustworthy, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. So perhaps it won’t come as a great shock that Mr. Biden’s claim to be cooperating with the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents is looking like malarkey—unless one defines cooperation as avoiding discussion with investigators.
There’s no reason Mr. Biden couldn’t have opted for full and complete disclosure when the existence of classified materials improperly stored on his property came to light last year. Now the calendar is nearly halfway through 2023 and Mr. Biden is prosecuting his chief rival while also defending his own legal position. Carol Lee, Monica Alba and Michael Kosnar reported recently for NBC News:
The federal investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents shows few signs of an imminent conclusion even as the probes into former Vice President Mike Pence and former President Donald Trump have reached or appear to be reaching the end, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Biden’s advisers, for instance, have determined he would provide an interview to the special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents once Biden’s legal team and the Justice Department agree on the conditions, these people said.
Perhaps the Justice Department’s special counsel Robert Hur is a pushover, and one certainly can’t fault Mr. Biden’s attorneys for negotiating aggressively on behalf of their client. But if Mr. Biden—who claimed to be unaware of how all the documents that shouldn’t have been in his office, home and garage ended up in his office, home and garage—was sincere in claiming how seriously he took such issues, he could be much more helpful in bringing the facts to light.
Disclosing the truth really doesn’t have to take this long. In another recent NBC report Laura Jarrett noted:
Former Vice President Mike Pence will not be charged in the discovery of classified documents at his Indiana home, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.
On Thursday, the Justice Department’s national security division informed Pence’s attorney that it had closed its investigation and that based on the “results” of that probe, no charges will be filed against the former vice president. Pence was interviewed as part of the DOJ’s investigation, along with several aides, according to a source familiar with the matter.
If Mr. Biden wants to argue that he wasn’t at fault for the mishandling of documents during his Senate and vice presidential days, when is he going to reveal which of his aides were at fault?
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley writes in the Messenger that the special prosecutor, Mr. Hur, has already been on the job for six months and argues that a Biden interview should already have happened:
The question today is whether Hur has asked to speak to Biden or asked for a statement from Biden. The best time for such a demand was six months ago, before Biden might learn of countervailing evidence.
Biden has repeatedly insisted that he would fully cooperate with the investigation. That would seem like an invitation for an interview or a written statement back in January.
Both for the sake of the country and for himself, why wouldn’t Mr. Biden make it a priority to resolve this issue? Perhaps resolution would not be kind to the President. Mr. Turley writes that “what President Biden has said publicly on the matter makes no sense” and adds:
Classified documents have been discovered in Biden’s possession at several locations, hundreds of miles apart, ranging from a prior office in Washington, D.C., to his home and his garage in Delaware. We also have learned that Biden may have removed documents from a [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] while he was a senator and kept those documents.
Biden has publicly declared that he has “no regrets” and assured Americans that the special counsel investigation would soon peter out when it determined that “there is no ‘there’ there.”
Yet, his claim that these documents were inadvertently removed from the Senate and the White House strain credulity. You do not just inadvertently remove classified documents from a SCIF and then retain them for almost two decades.
Moreover, the documents from the period of the Obama administration were not just removed but were then divided and repeatedly moved to different locations. One document reportedly ended up in Biden’s personal library. The movement and division of the documents suggest purpose and knowledge.
And who hires lawyers to serve as movers unless one knows that the items being moved are not just typical office supplies?
In January this column explored the holes in a popular media defense of Mr. Biden’s conduct as vice president based on an Obama-era executive order. It was clear then and is clear now that Mr. Biden’s senatorial conduct is even harder to defend:
Whatever presidential authorities exist and may or may not extend to vice presidents, they surely do not protect Mr. Biden’s actions during his career as a senator. “He’s completely naked,” says Journal contributor David Rivkin.
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Mr. Biden can hardly claim that he didn’t understand the rules on classified information while he served as a senator. As early as the 1970s he was working on legislation to prevent others from disclosing government secrets. Throughout his career working on foreign policy and legal issues he was involved in numerous disputes over the handling of classified information.
In 1977 Spencer Rich reported for the Washington Post:
The nomination of Theodore C. Sorensen as Central Intelligence Agency director appeared in grave danger yesterday, amid reports that several members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have asked President-elect Jimmy Carter to withdraw Sorensen’s name or face the possibility he will not be confirmed.
The Intelligence Committee begins hearings Monday on Sorensen. His problems result from sworn affidavits, which he submitted in the 1971 Pentagon papers case and the 1972 trial of Daniel Ellsberg, that he had taken classified materials from the White House when he left it in 1964 after being a top aide to the late President Kennedy...
The affidavits were called to the committee’s attention by Sen. Joe Biden Jr. (D-Del.), a member... In his affidavits, according to several members of the Intelligence Committee, Sorensen admitted that when he left the White House in 1964, he took with him 67 boxes of the material accumulated during his years as President Kennedy’s top White House staff aide, including seven boxes of classified documents, such as copies of Kennedy-Khruchev materials, materials on the Congo, Bay of Pigs, Laos and Berlin crises, and a transcript of the Kennedy-Khruschev meetings in Vienna.
The affidavits also indicates [sic] he donated some of the material to the National Archives and received a tax break.
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“One of the leakiest buildings in the nation’s capital is the Capitol building,” reported Charles Osgood on his eponymous CBS News program in October of 2001. Here’s an excerpt from the transcript:
OSGOOD: Members of Congress, especially those on key committees, have been getting briefings on the war against terrorism, but from now on, President Bush is not going to tell them everything.
Pres. BUSH: And there may be some heartburn on Capitol Hill. But I suggest if they want to relieve that heartburn, that they take their positions very seriously.
OSGOOD: He sent members a memo telling them as much. Senator Joe Biden, Democrat of Delaware.
Senator JOE BIDEN: He said he was angry. He was angry as the devil. If I were the president, I would have probably sent... the same darned memo.
OSGOOD: What got Mr. Bush so mad, apparently, was that after a supposedly secret briefing of Biden’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, word got out that the assessed probability of new terrorist attacks was 100 percent.
Pres. BUSH: Classified information must be held dear, that there’s a responsibility that if you receive a briefing of classified information, you have a responsibility, and some members did not accept that responsibility. Somebody didn’t.
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James Freeman is the co-author of “Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts and Bailouts at Citi” and also the co-author of “The Cost: Trump, China and American Revival.”
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12203003/Biden-business-partner-Devon-Archer-COOPERATING-Republicans-alleged-10-million-payment.html
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Scroll down the page a bit to find the clip.
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The Intentionally Provocative Hunter Biden Plea Deal
President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, attend the White House Easter Egg Roll in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2023. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
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By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
June 20, 2023 3:08 PM
Well, I had the wrong solstice. In the many times we’ve discussed today’s scenario on the podcast and in print, I predicted the Biden Justice Department would give Hunter a sweetheart plea deal right before Christmas, when Washington traditionally does its worst as people tune out the news.
Turns out it was just as summer was about to begin . . . when people are paying attention to the news, when the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel has just charged Donald Trump with 37 felony counts, and when Democrats are trying every way they can think of, without a scintilla of embarrassment, to rile up the Trump-friendly GOP base in hopes of getting Republicans to nominate Trump for the presidency.
Gotta love it when a plan comes together.
Here’s what I wrote six weeks ago:
In a friendly interview on MSNBC on Friday, [President Biden] made it clear to his subordinates at the Biden Justice Department that he has determined his son Hunter should not be charged with a crime. “My son has done nothing wrong,” said the president. “I trust him. I have faith in him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.”
This was blatant interference in the moribund investigation. The Justice Department and its assigned prosecutor, Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss, have recently come under significant pressure due to whistleblower allegations from law-enforcement agents that there has been significant political interference in the probe and that the FBI has supposedly been sitting on evidence that implicates the president in a bribery scheme.
This has led to speculation that the scam I’ve been predicting for a couple of years is imminent: The Justice Department could soon give Hunter a sweetheart plea deal in which he would admit guilt to the undeniable — a minor tax charge or two, plus, perhaps, a false statement on a required federal firearms form, concealing his drug abuse. Swept under the rug would be the part of the investigation that really matters: The gross monetization of Joe Biden’s political influence and what foreign adversaries like China believed they were buying.
Yup.
Under Justice Department policy, even with a plea agreement, the government is supposed to seek a plea to the “most serious,” readily provable “offense that is consistent with the nature and full extent of the defendant’s conduct.” Hunter Biden committed tax offenses that could have been charged as evasion, which is punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment for each count. Furthermore, he made a false statement that enabled him to obtain a firearm; that’s a ten-year felony under legislation pushed through by then-senator Joe Biden to show how very serious Democrats are about gun crime.
Biden apologists have tried to minimize that transaction as a “lie and try” case, which they say is often not prosecuted. But such non-prosecution (though it shouldn’t happen) occurs because of what you’d infer from the “try” part — i.e., the liar got caught and failed to obtain the gun. Hunter’s case, to the contrary, is a lie and succeed case. He got the gun. What’s more, he was then seen playing with it while cavorting with an “escort” (see the New York Post’s pictorial, if you’ve got the stomach for it). Shortly afterwards, he and his then-paramour — Hallie Biden, the widow of his older brother — managed to lose the gun near a school (it was later found by someone else).
Those are the kinds of gun cases that get charged by the Justice Department even if the suspect hasn’t, in addition, committed tax felonies by dodging taxes on the millions of dollars he was paid, apparently for being named Biden. Yet after refusing for years to appoint a special counsel despite the five-alarm conflict of interest attendant to investigating the president’s son ( . . . and family . . . and the president himself), the Biden Justice Department is permitting Hunter Biden to dispose of the case with misdemeanor tax charges that will allow for a probation sentence, and diversion — essentially, no prosecution — on the gun felony that would result in imprisonment for most Americans who engaged in similar conduct.
Quite a deal.
Last week, Trump was flirting with 60 percent in GOP primary polling after being indicted, with a 45-point lead in some surveys. Democrats seem bound and determined to get him to 70.
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The Intentionally Provocative Hunter Biden Plea Deal
President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, attend the White House Easter Egg Roll in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2023. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
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By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
June 20, 2023 3:08 PM
Well, I had the wrong solstice. In the many times we’ve discussed today’s scenario on the podcast and in print, I predicted the Biden Justice Department would give Hunter a sweetheart plea deal right before Christmas, when Washington traditionally does its worst as people tune out the news.
Turns out it was just as summer was about to begin . . . when people are paying attention to the news, when the Biden Justice Department’s special counsel has just charged Donald Trump with 37 felony counts, and when Democrats are trying every way they can think of, without a scintilla of embarrassment, to rile up the Trump-friendly GOP base in hopes of getting Republicans to nominate Trump for the presidency.
Gotta love it when a plan comes together.
Here’s what I wrote six weeks ago:
In a friendly interview on MSNBC on Friday, [President Biden] made it clear to his subordinates at the Biden Justice Department that he has determined his son Hunter should not be charged with a crime. “My son has done nothing wrong,” said the president. “I trust him. I have faith in him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.”
This was blatant interference in the moribund investigation. The Justice Department and its assigned prosecutor, Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss, have recently come under significant pressure due to whistleblower allegations from law-enforcement agents that there has been significant political interference in the probe and that the FBI has supposedly been sitting on evidence that implicates the president in a bribery scheme.
This has led to speculation that the scam I’ve been predicting for a couple of years is imminent: The Justice Department could soon give Hunter a sweetheart plea deal in which he would admit guilt to the undeniable — a minor tax charge or two, plus, perhaps, a false statement on a required federal firearms form, concealing his drug abuse. Swept under the rug would be the part of the investigation that really matters: The gross monetization of Joe Biden’s political influence and what foreign adversaries like China believed they were buying.
Yup.
Under Justice Department policy, even with a plea agreement, the government is supposed to seek a plea to the “most serious,” readily provable “offense that is consistent with the nature and full extent of the defendant’s conduct.” Hunter Biden committed tax offenses that could have been charged as evasion, which is punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment for each count. Furthermore, he made a false statement that enabled him to obtain a firearm; that’s a ten-year felony under legislation pushed through by then-senator Joe Biden to show how very serious Democrats are about gun crime.
Biden apologists have tried to minimize that transaction as a “lie and try” case, which they say is often not prosecuted. But such non-prosecution (though it shouldn’t happen) occurs because of what you’d infer from the “try” part — i.e., the liar got caught and failed to obtain the gun. Hunter’s case, to the contrary, is a lie and succeed case. He got the gun. What’s more, he was then seen playing with it while cavorting with an “escort” (see the New York Post’s pictorial, if you’ve got the stomach for it). Shortly afterwards, he and his then-paramour — Hallie Biden, the widow of his older brother — managed to lose the gun near a school (it was later found by someone else).
Those are the kinds of gun cases that get charged by the Justice Department even if the suspect hasn’t, in addition, committed tax felonies by dodging taxes on the millions of dollars he was paid, apparently for being named Biden. Yet after refusing for years to appoint a special counsel despite the five-alarm conflict of interest attendant to investigating the president’s son ( . . . and family . . . and the president himself), the Biden Justice Department is permitting Hunter Biden to dispose of the case with misdemeanor tax charges that will allow for a probation sentence, and diversion — essentially, no prosecution — on the gun felony that would result in imprisonment for most Americans who engaged in similar conduct.
Quite a deal.
Last week, Trump was flirting with 60 percent in GOP primary polling after being indicted, with a 45-point lead in some surveys. Democrats seem bound and determined to get him to 70.
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C'mon GM-- you can do it! Say that AMcC was on target with that particular one!
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C'mon GM-- you can do it! Say that AMcC was on target with that particular one!
He was correct, and his lack of outrage is typical.
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C'mon GM-- you can do it! Say that AMcC was on target with that particular one!
He was correct, and his lack of outrage is typical.
https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=852,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/140/956/728/original/4a1c5179a17c2879.jpg
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C'mon GM-- you can do it! Say that AMcC was on target with that particular one!
He was correct, and his lack of outrage is typical.
https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=852,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/140/956/728/original/4a1c5179a17c2879.jpg
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/american-justice-69-year-old-grandma-cancer-given/
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https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/all-the-crimes-that-hunters-ridiculous-plea-deal-missed/
The truth - DOJ did nothing for 5 yrs claiming they are investigating
when in reality they were only trying to find out how to get out of it .
the LEFT : THEY INVESTIGATED FOR 5 YRS AND COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING - JUSTICE IS SERVED AND THE CRAZY REPUBLICANS LOOKING FOR CRIMES THAT MUST NOT EXIST (since Justice said so) WILL NOT LET GO OF THIS CAMPAIGN RALLYING CRY
the LEFT : POOR HUNTER AND HIS FAMILY WHO SUFFERED FROM HIS CRACK ADDICTION .
the LEFT : A ***TRUMP *** APPOINTED DELAWARE DA . never mind two dem senators recommended him to be appointed and he was obviously in on the deal
to protect Hunter since nothing happened all this time.
me : do we know this was not a quid pro quo ?
lay off my son and we will keep you on as the Delaware DA !!
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C'mon GM-- you can do it! Say that AMcC was on target with that particular one!
He was correct, and his lack of outrage is typical.
https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=852,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/140/956/728/original/4a1c5179a17c2879.jpg
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/american-justice-69-year-old-grandma-cancer-given/
https://www.theburningplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FzEjzIqacAMsY8z.jpg
(https://www.theburningplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/FzEjzIqacAMsY8z.jpg)
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/22/irs-whistleblower-hunter-joe-biden-chinese-partner/?pnespid=uL5lF3geNrMEgqjS_i2oEJGI7x.0XosoLvGuwPQwrEJmJ2CvnpH_RMGQ7hmJfRTw0_zgnxgM
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/22/irs-whistleblower-hunter-joe-biden-chinese-partner/?pnespid=uL5lF3geNrMEgqjS_i2oEJGI7x.0XosoLvGuwPQwrEJmJ2CvnpH_RMGQ7hmJfRTw0_zgnxgM
I bet Deep State Andy is writing a barn-burner of a article for NRO on this!
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https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/hunter-biden-whatsapp
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https://www.revolver.news/2023/06/merrick-garland-criticizing-the-hunter-biden-plea-deal-is-an-attack-on-our-democracy/
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In response to the above post showing Garland criticizing those who call the DOJ biased is an attack on democracy
I say the following
like Marc Levin said recently on his radio show
this is a prime example of why so many people hate lawyers
the legal world according to garland:
justice applying and enforcing laws equally and thoroughly
is really justice being applied at the discretion of lawyers to whom they want and to not apply to whom they want.
just keeping twisting and bending "legal arguments" in all directions at will and at convenience and to fit personal agendas
I recall an attorney who upon retiring was lauded in the Palm Beach Post newspaper in the early 90's when I lived in WBP across from Mar a Lago.
He was given a verbal standing ovation for upholding justice having a stellar reputation for honesty integrity and fairness.
He was asked about the decline in ethical legal standards and his response was, I always remembered was
something to the effect that unethical legal behavior used to be the exception to the rule (of law[yers]) but had become prevalent to about half only at that time.
That was 30 yrs ago.......
There are many unethical doctors too so do not get me wrong as though I am just picking on lawyers
We need lawyers and some are very good ; but they certainly do not seem to be honest in DC or the ones in the political profession .....
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https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4065497-who-is-lying-merrick-garland-or-the-whistleblowers/
is it not obvious Garland is a filthy lying shyster
full of s..t?
he brings shame to DOJ
which already is filled with bureaucratic shame.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-faces-backlash-camp-david-guest-irs-whistleblower-allegations-business-discuss
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WSJ excerpt:
Hunter Biden’s ‘Fair’ Tax Share
IRS agents reveal details of the son’s scheming that mock the President’s tax moralizing.
Editorial Board
June 26, 2023
President Biden has campaigned far and wide that America’s rich should pay their “fair” share of taxes, and he’s giving the Internal Revenue Service billions more to enforce it. Does he include his son Hunter among the rich who should pay what they owe?
The question is highly relevant after last week’s under-reported testimony from two IRS whistleblowers about their investigation of Hunter’s taxes. Hunter agreed to plead guilty last week to two misdemeanor charges of “willful failure” to pay some $200,000 in tax for years 2017 and 2018. But the two whistleblowers, testifying under oath before the House Ways and Means Committee, revealed details of Hunter’s tax maneuvering that make a mockery of his father’s tax moralizing.
The agents reported that an IRS team in January 2022 finalized a document of some 80 pages recommending that Hunter be charged with tax violations for each of his six tax returns from 2014 through 2019.
IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley said Hunter’s 2014 and 2015 returns involved a “scheme to evade his income taxes through a partnership with a convicted felon.” At issue was the $83,000 a month Hunter received to sit on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company. The second (anonymous) whistleblower explained that in 2014 Hunter arranged a series of “sham” transactions so he “didn’t report any of the money he earned from Burisma”—about $400,000 in 2014.
The whistleblowers say Hunter directed Burisma to pay his money to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, or RSB, an entity owned by his business partner Devon Archer, who was convicted of fraud in 2018. They say RSB would send the money to Hunter, who then “booked it as a loan.” One obvious tax problem, explains the second whistleblower, is that “you can’t loan yourself your own money.”
Mr. Shapley says this loan ruse is a “textbook” evasion scheme, something “I learned at basic training.” When someone claims a payment is a loan for tax purposes, the IRS looks for three things: You’ve “got to have a promissory note, you got to have defined interest, and you got to have repayments,” Mr. Shapley says. In Hunter’s case, “none of those were included.” RSB also booked the payment as an “expense”—meaning that “even the two parties didn’t treat it the same way.”
The committee also released an email showing that another Hunter business partner, Eric Schwerin, told Hunter in 2017 that Hunter had “unreported Burisma income” and needed to “amend your 2014 returns.” Hunter ignored the warning and later that year ended his relationship with Mr. Schwerin.
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The second whistleblower says 2014 records show RSB paid more than $10,000 in Hunter medical bills, and purchased a $142,000 Porsche for Hunter’s benefit via other money from a Kazakhstan businessman. The whistleblower says Hunter didn’t report this as income.
The IRS team recommended that Hunter be prosecuted on felony charges of tax evasion for 2014 and false tax filings and a misdemeanor charge for 2015 of failure to pay tax. Yet because the U.S. Attorney waited so long to make a prosecutorial decision, the six-year statute of limitations expired. Hunter thus won’t pay taxes on more than $400,000 in unreported income for these years. Mr. Shapley says: “The purposeful exclusion of the 2014 and 2015 years sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material facts.”
Also notable are Hunter’s filings in 2018 and 2019, for which the IRS team also recommended felony charges of tax evasion and false returns. The second whistleblower testified that Hunter underreported his income for 2018 by anywhere from $267,000 to $500,000—depending on how conservatively the IRS counted. He did this, claims the whistleblower, by falsifying “business” deductions.
The whistleblower says this included deducting thousands paid to “no-show employees”—including “a prostitute” that Hunter claimed was a “West Coast assistant.” He deducted $10,000 for a “golf club member deposit,” money that IRS agents say “went to pay for a sex club.” He deducted $30,000 for a child’s Columbia University tuition. He also deducted a hotel room for who agents believed to be “one of his drug dealers,” hotel rooms for his girlfriend at the time, and two nights for “a hotel room for his dad, Joe Biden.”
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The IRS agents say they also saw correspondence showing Hunter in that year attempting to describe income as a “loan”—though this time his accountants rejected the request. All told, the IRS team recommended that Hunter face felony charges for 2014, 2018 and 2019. They also recommended misdemeanor charges for “failure to file or pay” for five of the six years.
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Democrats defend Hunter by saying that he ended up paying much of his back taxes prior to this plea deal, thanks to a $2 million loan from a Hollywood lawyer. But the second whistleblower explained the IRS view of after-the-fact efforts to get straight with tax authorities. He was asked during testimony: “If someone meets all the elements for a crime of willful evasion and are found to, in conjunction with that, owe a liability, and they pay off that liability years later when they’ve been caught, has a crime still been committed?”
The whistleblower’s response: “Yes.”
The next time President Biden says too many people don’t pay enough taxes, refer him to the moral authority of Hunter.
More at WSJ.com
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".Does he include his son Hunter among the rich who should pay what they owe?"
Joe : " I love my son , he has done nothing wrong"
Official DNC : " he had this very sad crack addiction so we should be forgiving "
:wink:
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Some stunning details here:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/stuff-hunter-biden-didnt-get-indicted?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rundown&pnespid=r712FD9LMKIK0f6R_jO2T8OVvxmyVYd4NuOnyuxoogxmyoZfs5VaQXkH9lW1uPD1KV0_CWlG
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If the media and DOJ ignore it, did it even happen?
Some stunning details here:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/stuff-hunter-biden-didnt-get-indicted?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rundown&pnespid=r712FD9LMKIK0f6R_jO2T8OVvxmyVYd4NuOnyuxoogxmyoZfs5VaQXkH9lW1uPD1KV0_CWlG
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Actually with the IRS whistleblowers, the story is beginning to get a bit of traction in the Pravdas-- perhaps because it suits Dem convenience as a way to get rid of Joe and replace with Newsom.
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used to be Secret Service agents
now it is DNC shysters
with Merrick as the head of the hydra
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Actually with the IRS whistleblowers, the story is beginning to get a bit of traction in the Pravdas-- perhaps because it suits Dem convenience as a way to get rid of Joe and replace with Newsom.
Isn't it sad that this is the reason anything resembling justice might happen?
The current puppets are problematic, so let's switch them up while the DC Uniparty/Deep State continues on without so much as a minor hiccup.
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Agreed!
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/26/somebodys-lying-jonathan-turley-says-congress-should-start-bringing-people-in-for-answers-in-biden-probe/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rundown&pnespid=tuJ4FyJJMKgFxPWa_DmoEJ2CuB2iDodoMLGn0bR3o0Zm7rbbi7k9SjOaSAv0Lc92me3UKvmr
https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/26/irs-whistleblower-emails-suggest-david-weiss-misled-congress-in-letter-claiming-charging-authority/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rundown&pnespid=6atqAiVBbKEawaKcuWnlSJCBuhejSIl6NLmnmely8UZmFil8gdTMpjnMhmHRuKgaK_W0Ix0V
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‘Somebody’s Lying’: Jonathan Turley Says Congress Should Start ‘Bringing People In’ For Answers In Biden Probe
but wait,
Andrew Weismann keeps telling on MSPCP there is *no there there* !!!
he would never lie . :roll:
the script to lie has been
sent to all the jornolisters from leaking shysters in DC .
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Actually with the IRS whistleblowers, the story is beginning to get a bit of traction in the Pravdas-- perhaps because it suits Dem convenience as a way to get rid of Joe and replace with Newsom.
Isn't it sad that this is the reason anything resembling justice might happen?
The current puppets are problematic, so let's switch them up while the DC Uniparty/Deep State continues on without so much as a minor hiccup.
Had drag in "UNIPARTY" when it is clear as day that one party gets away with this shit and the other does not.
WHY DON'T YOU SEE THAT?
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The Byron York piece is excellent.
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One party gets away with it because the other party acts an accessory.
Why isn’t Biden being impeached right now?
Actually with the IRS whistleblowers, the story is beginning to get a bit of traction in the Pravdas-- perhaps because it suits Dem convenience as a way to get rid of Joe and replace with Newsom.
Isn't it sad that this is the reason anything resembling justice might happen?
The current puppets are problematic, so let's switch them up while the DC Uniparty/Deep State continues on without so much as a minor hiccup.
Had drag in "UNIPARTY" when it is clear as day that one party gets away with this shit and the other does not.
WHY DON'T YOU SEE THAT?
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The Byron York piece is excellent.
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"Why isn’t Biden being impeached right now?"
not enforcing immigration law and indeed flouting the law is grounds if you ask me
( of course I am a world class Constitutional scholar
:-D )
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Throw Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal in the Trash
The IRS whistleblowers say Justice sabotaged the investigation, so how can the agreement stand?
By Eileen J. O’Connor
June 27, 2023 6:31 pm ET
Supervisory Special Agent Gary A. Shapley Jr., a 14-year veteran of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division, sat on May 26 for hours of sworn and transcribed testimony with members of the majority and minority staffs of the House Ways and Means Committee. On June 1, an IRS criminal investigator who chose to remain anonymous did the same. These whistleblowers came forward because they believe that Attorney General Merrick Garland gave false assurances to Congress when he testified that he had empowered U.S. Attorney David Weiss with full authority to investigate Hunter Biden’s alleged criminal activity and bring any resulting charges.
The plea agreement reportedly reached between Mr. Weiss and the president’s son gives credence to the whistleblowers’ statements. The judge to whom that agreement is presented on July 26 ought to consider rejecting it.
IRS special agents are the agency’s criminal investigators. They are the best in the world at tracking down the proceeds of crime. Because of this, they are frequently invited by other federal law-enforcement agencies to participate in matters far removed from tax crimes. They work hand-in-glove with assistant U.S. attorneys and Justice Department tax prosecutors to obtain search warrants and other authorizations necessary to explore leads.
The IRS opened its investigation into Hunter Biden in November 2018 as an offshoot of an investigation it was conducting of a foreign-based amateur online pornography platform. In October 2019 the Federal Bureau of Investigation learned of certain devices, including laptops, that had been abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop. According to Mr. Shapley, FBI agents had confirmed within weeks that the devices belonged to Mr. Biden and that their contents were authentic. After taking possession of the devices in December 2019, FBI agents notified the IRS that they likely contained evidence of tax crimes. Notwithstanding this notification and that the FBI had legitimate possession of the devices and unfettered access to their contents, Mr. Shapley’s testimony describes how prosecutors never permitted the IRS special agents to examine them.
This is only one of the roadblocks the whistleblowers claim prosecutors threw in the way of their investigation into Mr. Biden’s financial dealings. The IRS special agents testified that they requested and were denied permission to search the guest house at Joe Biden’s Delaware mansion and the storage locker Hunter Biden maintained in Northern Virginia. The whistleblowers claim they had reason to believe they would find records in those locations of at least some of the numerous pass-through entities that reportedly served as conduits for illicit and likely unreported payments to Hunter Biden and possibly other members of his family.
Federal rules provide that the government generally must prosecute an offense in the district in which it was committed. Charges brought in an improper venue can be dismissed. U.S. attorneys are the chief federal law enforcement officers for their districts. When a U.S. attorney discovers crimes that need to be charged in another district, he generally transfers the case and, if necessary, details some of his own staff to handle it.
By June 2021, Mr. Weiss’s prosecution team had gathered enough evidence to understand that Delaware wasn’t the proper venue in which to prosecute Hunter Biden’s tax crimes. Crimes allegedly committed in 2014 and 2015 would have to be charged in the District of Columbia and those allegedly committed 2016-19 would have to be charged in the Central District of California.
According to the whistleblowers’ testimony, the U.S. attorneys in the capital and Central California refused Mr. Weiss’s requests to charge Hunter Biden in their districts. Mr. Shapley testified that Mr. Weiss then asked “Main DOJ” to name him special counsel and was denied—possibly not for the first time. In March testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee the attorney general said that although he hadn’t made Mr. Weiss special counsel, he had given Mr. Weiss all the authority he needed to bring charges in any district he deemed appropriate.
But on Oct. 7, 2022, Mr. Shapley claims, Mr. Weiss declared in a meeting of the prosecution team that in fact he wasn’t the final decision maker with respect to charges that might be brought against Hunter Biden. It was this statement that shocked and troubled Mr. Shapley such that he braved the consequences of becoming a whistleblower and sought legal counsel on how to do so.
The Justice Department’s alleged foot-dragging and refusal to permit IRS special agents to follow the evidence allowed the statutes of limitations for 2014 and 2015 to expire, notwithstanding that Mr. Biden’s defense counsel had, according to Mr. Shapley, agreed to more than one extension. Far worse, Mr. Garland’s failure to designate Mr. Weiss a special counsel essentially guaranteed that Mr. Biden wouldn’t be prosecuted for any of his alleged tax crimes.
The “criminal information”—the charging document in the absence of an indictment—prepared by Mr. Weiss’s office, to which Hunter Biden will reportedly plead on July 26, states that Mr. Biden received but didn’t pay federal taxes on “taxable income in excess of $1,500,000.00” in 2017 and in 2018. House Oversight Committee Republicans claim to have seen Treasury Department suspicious-activity reports suggesting that Mr. Biden received vastly more than that during the years the IRS was investigating.
Judges can reject plea agreements. That would be an appropriate disposition here. And Congress, in fulfillment of its oversight obligation, must learn and share with the American public what evidence the IRS gathered, what evidence its agents weren’t permitted to obtain, and what charges might have been brought if they had.
Ms. O’Connor, a Washington lawyer, headed the U.S. Justice Department’s tax division, 2001-07. Jay Starkman contributed to this article.
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Second:
several articles of interest at
https://api-esp.piano.io/story/estored/233/2906/-1/4707277/588105/vib-cljfsk7ew003i01ja391q6ote?sig=82c04055199c96cea3ed89507ae22dfd79f442e39a3b82fc1e8f00083ca67771
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One last(?) try at this...
Previously:
Doug: "(You) drag in "UNIPARTY" when it is clear as day that one party gets away with this shit and the other does not."
(see Byron York post)
Response (non-response) :
"Why isn’t Biden being impeached right now?"
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Your question is easy to answer but the point is, that response is a non answer to my point.
That you can always post a shortcoming of the R party does not make the parties equal, same, "uniparty". It is the absence of logic, and it is self defeating unless your aim is to lose more elections and prove the all-is-lost outlook right.
Possible reasons to not impeach could be many (I actually answer your question),
1. Republicans have a four vote majority in the House and likely more than four members don't support that action as the best remedy.
2. Maybe impeachments ARE coming.
3. Impeachment works when the official's own party turns against him or her. While we fight amongst ourselves no one pressures Democrats to turn against this failure and corruption.
4. Impeachment vote is part of the removal from office process and with fewer than 50 Senators, we also have fewer than the 67 needed to convict and remove, making the action, in a way, moot.
5. Impeach, convict, remove Biden gets us Kamala.
6. If (when) they do impeach, you can (and will) endlessly argue some other lacking or failing. Impeachment is one possible path, perhaps a good one because it forces a trial, but not in itself the solution.
Back to my point, "uniparty" means two things are the same, pulling in the same direction, no real difference. It's a math equation and it's wrong. Pointing out similarities, flaws or shortcomings one one side does not negate the differences, especially in the context of this thread and topic.
You make so many other great posts and insights. Why settle for such sloppiness here, with infinitely counterproductive consequences?
If the parties are the same and elections don't matter, why is Neil Gorsuch sitting in Merrick Garland's seat? It makes no difference? How is Row v Wade doing? Why did one party make us energy independent and the other canceled the gains and crippled the grid? That doesn't affect you or the voter or the country? Bullshit. Why did one one party's policies give people record wage growth and the other reversed it? Why does one party want math and reading taught in schools and the other wants first graders to know how bad this country is and to question their gender? Same? Nonsense.
In one post you mock voting and in another (the same morning) you (rightly) tell how important choosing the right local Sheriff is. But a major factor bringing people out to vote for local officials is the choice on the national ticket, divided on party lines. That might not move much in a 70-30 district, but it does in 50-50 contests.
Don't like either candidate? Too many RINOs? Well that's why we try to get involved earlier in the process, judge the candidates - to your mocking.
The parties aren't the same. You know that, I know that and the American people know that. Why dilute all the good on the board with such nonsense?
Again, pease don't quote me here or on any post if you have no interest in answering the substance. I answered yours.
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Over to you GM for a substantive response.
In the meantime I would note that IMHO there is good argument for impeachment as a means of developing and putting evidence in front of the American people-- thus not sufficient to say there would not be conviction unless the Dems fold.
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Over to you GM for a substantive response.
In the meantime I would note that IMHO there is good argument for impeachment as a means of developing and putting evidence in front of the American people-- thus not sufficient to say there would not be conviction unless the Dems fold.
Yeah, I am waiting to reply when I have the time to respond properly. I was going to point out the investigative opportunities impeachment would offer.
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8-)
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-deposed-lawsuit-laptop-repair-shop-owner?fbclid=IwAR2OdOrUbReVNrHV8st_j7Qeqrup_xRmumeCwC2LxYnpDTGn6Rk5PMYk6fM
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https://rumble.com/v2wu04v-john-solomon-reveals-he-called-hunters-phone-and-joe-biden-picked-up.html?mref=22lbp&mc=56yab&fbclid=IwAR3a2B0hRVPfsqMNnYbDHI5O1qsCI6_RZglljRAMCZFd2dg32rLZ3GxHSZ4
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https://rumble.com/v2wu04v-john-solomon-reveals-he-called-hunters-phone-and-joe-biden-picked-up.html?mref=22lbp&mc=56yab&fbclid=IwAR3a2B0hRVPfsqMNnYbDHI5O1qsCI6_RZglljRAMCZFd2dg32rLZ3GxHSZ4
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-picks-after-journalist-calls-secret-burner-phone-revealed-hunter-scandal
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One last(?) try at this...
Previously:
Doug: "(You) drag in "UNIPARTY" when it is clear as day that one party gets away with this shit and the other does not."
(see Byron York post)
Response (non-response) :
"Why isn’t Biden being impeached right now?"
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Your question is easy to answer but the point is, that response is a non answer to my point.
That you can always post a shortcoming of the R party does not make the parties equal, same, "uniparty". It is the absence of logic, and it is self defeating unless your aim is to lose more elections and prove the all-is-lost outlook right.
Possible reasons to not impeach could be many (I actually answer your question),
1. Republicans have a four vote majority in the House and likely more than four members don't support that action as the best remedy.
*Endless excuses. The republican't are always going to fight tomorrow, never today. What's the other options available?*
2. Maybe impeachments ARE coming.
*Maybe. Tick-tock, the time until the next sElection is running out. People actually trying to accomplish something move with purpose. All we get foot-dragging and excuse making.*
3. Impeachment works when the official's own party turns against him or her. While we fight amongst ourselves no one pressures Democrats to turn against this failure and corruption.
*What pressure? Dems NEVER turn on each other. They know exactly how corrupt the party is. They don't care. As long as they get their beak wet, it's all good.*
4. Impeachment vote is part of the removal from office process and with fewer than 50 Senators, we also have fewer than the 67 needed to convict and remove, making the action, in a way, moot.
*Did that stop the dems with Trump? Of course not. Why? They play to win. Republican't just give us endless excuses and failure theater. "Gosh guys, we tried" should be the official motto of the RNC.*
5. Impeach, convict, remove Biden gets us Kamala.
*So? At this point, what difference does it make? She won't be in charge anymore than the stumbling meat puppet alleged president we have at the moment.*
6. If (when) they do impeach, you can (and will) endlessly argue some other lacking or failing. Impeachment is one possible path, perhaps a good one because it forces a trial, but not in itself the solution.
*Wrong. It gathers evidence. It puts people on record. It forces things they want hidden into the light. It actually pushes back in a potentially meaningful way. This is exactly why it hasn't happened yet and probably won't happen.*
Back to my point, "uniparty" means two things are the same, pulling in the same direction, no real difference. It's a math equation and it's wrong. Pointing out similarities, flaws or shortcomings one one side does not negate the differences, especially in the context of this thread and topic.
You make so many other great posts and insights. Why settle for such sloppiness here, with infinitely counterproductive consequences?
If the parties are the same and elections don't matter, why is Neil Gorsuch sitting in Merrick Garland's seat?
*Don't confuse the gamesmanship between the factions for the reality of how things really work. The heel wins against the good guy every so often to keep things interesting, what they don't do is anything that actually threatens the power of the one true branch. Remember when I first told you all that J6 was a FEDsurrection? Tinfoil hat stuff, right? Tucker was going to show us and then that suddenly stopped and then Fox cuts it's own throat by firing him. The power of the memory hole, once again.
When do we see Ray Epps questioned under oath?
Ted Cruz inflicting sick burns on FBI talking heads is meaningless as the repubs then vote to fund the FBI's new headquarters.
Talk is cheap, actions matter.*
It makes no difference? How is Row v Wade doing?
*Abortion isn't doing very well in those RED States where we have our numbers concentrated, but it's doing quite well elsewhere, isn't it?*
Why did one party make us energy independent and the other canceled the gains and crippled the grid? That doesn't affect you or the voter or the country? Bullshit. Why did one one party's policies give people record wage growth and the other reversed it? Why does one party want math and reading taught in schools and the other wants first graders to know how bad this country is and to question their gender? Same? Nonsense.
*Want to see the RNC wing of the DC Uniparty in action? Read this:
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-north-america-donald-trump-ap-top-news-border-security-0f920239070c44549dfb66405f60800c
Trump was a fluke. He was never supposed to win against Hillary. The Uniparty worked together to make sure we couldn't secure our border. Funny enough, the Uniparty was willing to fund Israel's border wall. That AIPAC money goes to both sides of the Uniparty.*
In one post you mock voting and in another (the same morning) you (rightly) tell how important choosing the right local Sheriff is.
*I mock national voting because the 2020 playbook is how it will happen EVERY election from now until they've flooded the FUSA with enough aliens that they don't have to worry about cheating anymore. Local is all we have left.*
But a major factor bringing people out to vote for local officials is the choice on the national ticket, divided on party lines. That might not move much in a 70-30 district, but it does in 50-50 contests.
*Which is why the Uniparty scuttled any real attempt to secure the border. Which is why the money taken from us at federal gunpoint is being used to deploy future dems voters to red states. We are nearing the endgame and despite your intelligence, your normalcy bias leads to to think you are going to vote your way out of what is coming.*
Don't like either candidate? Too many RINOs? Well that's why we try to get involved earlier in the process, judge the candidates - to your mocking.
The parties aren't the same. You know that, I know that and the American people know that. Why dilute all the good on the board with such nonsense?
Again, pease don't quote me here or on any post if you have no interest in answering the substance. I answered yours.
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"5. Impeach, convict, remove Biden gets us Kamala.
*So? At this point, what difference does it make? She won't be in charge anymore than the stumbling meat puppet alleged president we have at the moment.*
MARC: There is a third way-- impeach BOTH Joe and Kommiela for failure to enforce Art 4 Section 4 (protect from invasion).
6. If (when) they do impeach, you can (and will) endlessly argue some other lacking or failing. Impeachment is one possible path, perhaps a good one because it forces a trial, but not in itself the solution.
*Wrong. It gathers evidence. It puts people on record. It forces things they want hidden into the light. It actually pushes back in a potentially meaningful way. This is exactly why it hasn't happened yet and probably won't happen.*
MARC: Agree with GM here.
"In one post you mock voting and in another (the same morning) you (rightly) tell how important choosing the right local Sheriff is."
*I mock national voting because the 2020 playbook is how it will happen EVERY election from now until they've flooded the FUSA with enough aliens that they don't have to worry about cheating anymore. Local is all we have left.*
MARC: Disagree with GM here. Not only has there has been improvement in procedures for some states but as the saying goes "A shot not fired is always a miss." In my opinion, GM would have us miss for sure by failing to shoot.
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"5. Impeach, convict, remove Biden gets us Kamala.
*So? At this point, what difference does it make? She won't be in charge anymore than the stumbling meat puppet alleged president we have at the moment.*
MARC: There is a third way-- impeach BOTH Joe and Kommiela for failure to enforce Art 4 Section 4 (protect from invasion).
6. If (when) they do impeach, you can (and will) endlessly argue some other lacking or failing. Impeachment is one possible path, perhaps a good one because it forces a trial, but not in itself the solution.
*Wrong. It gathers evidence. It puts people on record. It forces things they want hidden into the light. It actually pushes back in a potentially meaningful way. This is exactly why it hasn't happened yet and probably won't happen.*
MARC: Agree with GM here.
"In one post you mock voting and in another (the same morning) you (rightly) tell how important choosing the right local Sheriff is."
*I mock national voting because the 2020 playbook is how it will happen EVERY election from now until they've flooded the FUSA with enough aliens that they don't have to worry about cheating anymore. Local is all we have left.*
MARC: Disagree with GM here. Not only has there has been improvement in procedures for some states but as the saying goes "A shot not fired is always a miss." In my opinion, GM would have us miss for sure by failing to shoot.
"Some states" isn't enough. Key swing states will find enough ballots mysteriously at 4am, just like in 2020.
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Of course, it could be, but a shot not fired is always a miss. Were we to follow your suggested course of action, we would be guaranteed to lose.
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Of course, it could be, but a shot not fired is always a miss. Were we to follow your suggested course of action, we would be guaranteed to lose.
Again, I still vote, I am just realistic about the actual effectiveness of doing so.
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Good!
So, stop giving us shit about our efforts at winning the vote!
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Good!
So, stop giving us shit about our efforts at winning the vote!
I will just as soon as I see the viable scenario where you vote so hard the deep state dutifully lines up and readies themselves for prison.
They'll get us into a nuclear exchange first.
They will NEVER willingly give up power. They have literally everything to lose and they know it.
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Jesus G M, Do you ever get tired of your own negativity?
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Jesus G M, Do you ever get tired of your own negativity?
Yeah. I envy those who can ignore what I can't.
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Of course there will be resistance to losing power!!! Duh!!!
Giving up without a fight is not the answer.
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apply
even it evidence shows the prosecution corruptly blocked investigation
till the time limits were met?
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/29/doj-prosecutors-charge-hunter-donate-biden-harris/
I heard Prof. Dershowitz point out the plea deal could be thrown out by the judge if evidence demonstrates the whole process was corrupted.
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If I understand the logic correctly, the Statute of Limitations is for the protection of the accused. Thus, fukkups by the prosecution would not be a reason to extend the SOL.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/organized-crime-comer-claims-then-vp-biden-made-six-policy-decisions-in-exchange-for-foreign-cash/
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/29/biden-reportedly-lashes-out-top-aides-worried-hunter-scandals/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rundown&pnespid=raRpFihVL7oFx6KQqD7qAYyBvk.2XoJ3Nurl0.RrpxlmohjQBn6bzWDmsYJUL9TL.8Wbc7Td
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How would they have known to do that?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/3/obama-white-house-looped-in-hunter-biden-in-email-/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=j%2FIqmMDduZgiK5pl%2Bu2pRtsRZuCyP3Ahq32VxEguJSgrGsJVUvdtT91ds58OTjS1&bt_ts=1688387861327
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https://nypost.com/2023/07/05/missing-biden-corruption-case-witness-dr-gal-luft-details-allegations-against-presidents-family-in-extraordinary-video/?&utm_campaign=devineonline&utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20230706&lctg=649c637ec7c6527b1b0fe213&utm_term=NYP%20-%20Devine%20Online
‘Missing’ Biden corruption case witness Dr. Gal Luft details allegations against president’s family in extraordinary video
By Miranda Devine
July 5, 2023 10:52pm Updated
MIRANDA DEVINE
Heroic IRS whistleblower testimony ensnarls Hunter and Joe Biden in bribery scheme
This businessman — who went to prison for 2 years for corrupt donations to Biden — received jail time from the feds because he had wrong last name
The “missing witness” from the Biden corruption investigation, Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft, has laid out his bribery allegations against the president’s family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he’s on the run.
In the 14-minute recording, obtained exclusively by The Post, the fugitive former Israeli army officer claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.
The self-proclaimed fall guy says he provided the incriminating evidence to six officials from the FBI and the Department of Justice in a secret meeting in Brussels in March 2019 — but alleges that it was covered up.
“I, who volunteered to inform the US government about a potential security breach and about compromising information about a man vying to be the next president, am now being hunted by the very same people who I informed — and may have to live on the run for the rest of my life on the run …”
“I’m not a Republican. I’m not a Democrat. I have no political motive or agenda … I did it out of deep concern that if the Bidens were to come to power, the country would be facing the same traumatic Russia collusion scandal — only this time with China. Sadly, because of the DOJ’s cover-up, this is exactly what happened …”
Dr. Gal Luft
Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft laid out his bribery allegations against President Biden’s family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he’s on the run.
Luft claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence.
AP
“I warned the government about potential risk to the integrity of the 2020 elections … Ask yourself, who is the real criminal in this story?”
The House Oversight chairman, Republican James Comer, who was preparing to interview Luft before Luft disappeared, says the Israeli remains a “potential witness” in the Biden family probe, despite his fugitive status.
It remains to be seen whether Luft is the man who will bring down the Bidens, but he is not going quietly into the sunset.
He is determined to tell the American public his version of the truth.
Calling himself “patient zero of the Biden family investigation,” Luft, 57, says he is innocent of charges of conspiring to sell Chinese weapons to Kenya, Libya and the UAE, of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and of making a false statement.
He says he was forced to skip bail in Cyprus in April while awaiting extradition “because I did not believe I will receive a fair trial in a New York court.”
Hunter Biden
The self-proclaimed fall guy says he provided the incriminating evidence to six officials from the FBI and the Department of Justice in a secret meeting in Brussels in March 2019 but alleges that it was covered up.
CNP / Polaris
‘Make evidence public’
Now he is challenging the government to release the minutes of the Brussels meeting and make public the evidence against him.
“Why did the DOJ choose to unseal the indictment on Nov. 1, 2022, the very same week of the midterm elections?” he asks.
“Could this have anything to do with the fear that once Republicans gain control over Congress and begin to investigate, [the DOJ] cover-up would be on full display?”
Luft says he told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Joe Biden, soon after his vice presidential term ended, had attended a meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, DC, with his son Hunter and officials from CEFC.
Luft’s account of the former VP’s presence at that meeting was corroborated 21 months later when the FBI interviewed another attendee, Biden family associate Rob Walker, according to recent testimony before Congress.
Luft disclosed during the Brussels interview that CEFC was paying $100,000 a month to Hunter and $65,000 to his uncle Jim Biden, in exchange for their FBI connections and use of the Biden name to promote China’s Belt and Road Initiative around the world — and that the money was being funneled through Walker.
The Oversight Committee has written to Walker demanding he submit to questioning about his role in distributing more than $1 million from China to at least three of President Biden’s relatives.
The DOJ sent a delegation of six people to meet Luft in Brussels, he alleges: four FBI agents and two prosecutors from the Southern District of New York, Daniel Richenthal and Catherine Ghosh.
Among the FBI contingent was Special Agent Joshua Wilson from the Baltimore field office, who would go on to sign a subpoena later that year to seize Hunter’s abandoned laptop from a Delaware repair shop.
“Why did the government dispatch to Europe so many people?” asks Luft.
“They knew very well I’m a credible witness and I have insider knowledge about the group and individuals that enriched the Biden family.
“Over an intensive two-day meeting, I shared my information about the Biden family’s financial transactions with CEFC, including specific dollar figures. I also provided the name of Rob Walker, who later became known as Hunter Biden’s bagman.”
James Comer
Rep. James Comer, who was preparing to interview Luft before he disappeared, says the Israeli remains a “potential witness” in the Biden family probe, despite his fugitive status.
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Think-tank ties
He also told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had an FBI mole named “One Eye” who had tipped off his CEFC associates, Dr. Patrick Ho and Chairman Ye Jianming, that they were under investigation.
Luft is well connected in intelligence circles in Washington, DC, where he ran a think tank, the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, with former CIA Director James Woolsey and former national security adviser Robert McFarlane as advisers.
He learned in 2017 that Hunter and Jim Biden were being paid by CEFC because Luft was in partnership at the time with a nonprofit think tank associated with the Chinese company.
When Ho was arrested in 2017 in New York on bribery charges, the first person he tried to call was Hunter Biden, whom he had paid $1 million as a “legal retainer.”
But at his trial, Ho was blocked by prosecutors from mentioning the Bidens, according to Luft.
Ho “paid Hunter Biden a million dollars for God-knows-what [but] was not allowed to mention the word Biden before the jury,” says Luft.
Joe Biden, Hunter Biden
Luft also told the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had an FBI mole named “One Eye” who had tipped off his CEFC associates, Dr. Patrick Ho and Chairman Ye Jianming, that they were under investigation.
WireImage
“Prosecutor Daniel Richenthal told the judge at the time that mentioning the name Biden would ‘add a political dimension’ to the case, and the judge agreed. Which means if I was brought before a New York court, I would not be allowed to utter the word Brussels or Biden.”
Luft denies the charge that he is an arms dealer: “I was asked by a bona fide arms dealer, an Israeli friend, to inquire with a company I knew if they had an item and what would be the price of an item. This is where the conspiracy ended. No follow-up, no money, no brokering activity.”
He also faces FARA charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent of CEFC.
“The DOJ says I caused a payment of $6,000 a month to former CIA Director James Woolsey in order to put his name on an article I had ghostwritten for the China Daily newspaper … Woolsey had been an adviser to my think tank since 2002 and nothing in the article represented Chinese interests.”
“Why am I being indicted … for ghostwriting an innocuous article for which I received no payment, let alone from a foreign government, when the mother of all FARA cases, the Bidens’ systemic influence-peddling on behalf of foreign governments, for which they raked [in] millions, goes unpunished?”
Attorney met with government
A curious addendum to Luft’s tale comes in October 2020, days after The Post’s bombshell revelations from Hunter’s laptop.
Luft dispatched his attorney, Robert Henoch, to Washington to meet the Trump administration’s acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue to repeat the allegations he had made in Brussels.
Donoghue also had been assigned by Attorney General Bill Barr in February 2020 to coordinate federal investigations into all Ukraine-related corruption allegations against Joe Biden.
Unbeknownst to Luft, on Sept. 4, Donoghue had ordered the Delaware US attorney to pause the criminal investigation into Hunter to avoid leaks in the two months before the election, according to testimony before Congress.
Donoghue agreed to meet Henoch at a Starbucks near DOJ headquarters and corresponded on his private email, says Luft, who showed The Post the emails between his attorney and the senior official.
“The story is about corruption at the very highest levels of government/politics and I think it can all be corroborated,” Henoch wrote.
Nothing ever came of the meeting — until February of this year, when Luft was arrested in Cyprus.
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second
https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/06/delaware-court-biden-senate-records/?pnespid=uuY9ED9KKbIdgOGaqDG6F52GvxK2XoJ0M_6kyu9otwNmDrSck0n2Df4gNdAj8QkNj8ftGwtv
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third
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/5/will-hunter-biden-face-prostitution-related-charge/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=cMT1IoX28lhAtNXwOh7NyctfaNFYHLODsHavTiQ82BOgxazlU1%2Btjo%2Bn0dSFNUzV&bt_ts=1688638274670
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on. how to play word games and behind scenes legal maneuvering
on how to get out of this with MSM waiting for marching orders on what to send to all propaganda outlets the BS :
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/deadline-looms-us-attorney-charge-hunter-biden-probe-hand-materials-congress
I might add they are doing this at probably $600 per hr +
in defense of democracy
and because they are the most righteous humans on Earth :wink:
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/06/hunter-bidens-prosecutor-worked-former-business-partner/
"Assistant United States Attorney Derek Hines, who previously worked for Hunter Biden’s business partner, signed off on the charges, along with U.S. Attorney David Weiss, against the president’s son for two federal tax violations and one violation of gun laws."
" In April 2016, Louis Freeh gave $100,000 to 2 of then-VP Joe Biden's grandkids' trust."
" One month prior to the donation, Freeh inquired with Hunter about pursuing “future work options” together, with Joe Biden."
Me:
WHAT the heck is this ?
:x
"WELCOME TO DC!"
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https://www.dailywire.com/news/congressman-believes-secret-service-has-identified-white-house-cocaine-suspect
we will only know who it is depending on who it is.
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Exactly so.
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It takes 1 hour (really 1 minute) to determine it does or does not have fingerprints on it. If it didn't have fingerprints on it we would know that, therefore - it does.
I thought at first, not Hunter. Could be anyone. What are the odds?
Then we find out Hunter was there that day, carrying a backpack of unknown contents. It may be that he lives in the White House - to avoid service from baby mama.
Then we realize that this discovery tied to Hunter could screw up his plea deal in his plea deal is what makes the case against the Biden crime family go away.
I thought this was a small matter. It's a big matter.
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"Then we find out Hunter was there that day, carrying a backpack of unknown contents."
Not finding this , , ,
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Ex-Trump adviser targeted in plot to push pro-China policies
BY BILL GERTZ THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A dual U.S.-Israeli citizen who once lived in Maryland has been indicted for serving as a Chinese agent and working with Beijing in a 2016 plot to recruit a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump to push pro-China policies.
Gal Luft, a critic of President Biden and co-director of the Institute for Analysis of Global Security in Gaithersburg, was charged in a November indictment unsealed Monday with eight criminal counts, including failure to register as an agent of another country. He was also charged with arms traffi cking, violating Iranian sanctions laws and making false statements to federal agents.
Mr. Luft was arrested Feb. 17 in the Republic of Cyprus based on the charges in the indictment. However, he fled after being released on bond and is a fugitive, prosecutors said in announcing the case. Mr.Luftdid not respond to an email request for comment.
The accused has also emerged as a figure in the controversy surrounding President Biden’s son Hunter Biden. Mr. Luft has accused Mr. Biden’s family of receiving millions of dollars from a Chinese energy interest in exchange for access and promoting its business lines.
The 58-page federal indictment details what prosecutors say was a plot by Chinese agents working with Mr. Luft to recruit an unnamed aide to Mr. Trump when he was president-elect in 2016.
The New York Post identified the aide on Twitter as former CIA Director R. James Woolsey. Mr. Woolsey, who was an adviser to Mr. Trump for a short period, did not respond to a request for comment. He and former Reagan security aide Robert McFarlane helped found Mr. Luft’s research group, and Mr. Woolsey resigned from the Trump transition team shortly before Mr. Trump took office in January 2017.
According to the indictment, Mr. Luft worked “to advance the interests of the People’s Republic of China” in the United States without registering as required under U.S. law.
“Specifically, Luft agreed with others to and did … covertly recruit and pay, on behalf of principals based in China, a former highranking U.S. government official, including while the former official was an adviser to the then-president- elect, to publicly support certain policies with respect to China,” the indictment said.
Among other charges, Mr. Luft allegedly worked with a Chinese national who was formerly home affairs secretary in Hong Kong and head of a non-governmental organization funded by a Chinese state-run energy company. The New York Post identified the Chinese national as Patrick Ho, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2019 on bribery charges linked to CEFC China Energy Co. Ltd.
The person identified in the indictment as “Co-conspirator 1” was said to enjoy “very close relations with [Chinese] President Xi Jinping.”
The unnamed Chinese national reportedly made annual payments of $350,000 to Mr. Gal’s think tank. In exchange, a Chinese national was to be appointed to the group called the China Energy Fund Committee.
Mr. Luft is also charged with brokering deals with Chinese nationals, including “illicit arms deals involving Libya, United Arab Emirates and Kenya.” The arms deals violated the Arms Export Control Act, the indictment said.
Mr.Luftalso was charged with brokering exports of Iranian oil to China.
Details of the plot to recruit a Trump adviser who could infl uence policy in favor of China began in September 2016, around the time when Mr. Woolsey was named as an adviser on China policy to Mr. Trump. Mr.Luftthat same month notified the Chinese he had recruited an aide who would be paid by China.
The Chinese national then replied that Beijing is ready to pay the person and stated, “Our side is more than happy to have someone we know to be the channel with [first letter of then-presidential candidate’s last name].”
Mr. Luft then responded that the recruited aide “needs to be better educated and versed in our narrative so the other side doesn’t shape his views.”
Other communications indicated the Trump aide would be invited to China “undercover” after the Nov. 8, 2016, election. An email said the Trump aide was to lead the presidential transition team for international security, China and Iran policy.
China agreed to pay the Trump aide $6,000 a month to write articles for Chinese propaganda outlets before the 2016 presidential election, the indictment says, promoting “a grand bargain in which the U.S. accepts China’s political and social structure and commits not to disrupt it in any way in exchange for China’s commitment not to challenge the status quo in Asia.”
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https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/the-deceit-behind-hunter-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal-gets-even-more-audacious-by-the-day/
"it was Garland’s duty to appoint a special counsel.
There can be no greater conflict of interest than that posed by the president’s Justice Department’s having to investigate the president himself and/or a close family member of the president.
It is the textbook case for a special counsel.
The Biden Justice Department could not credibly investigate the Biden family. Garland knows that, yet he refused to appoint a special counsel.
Garland is the culprit in this disgraceful saga."
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https://apnews.com/article/cocaine-white-house-biden-drugs-west-wing-e6bf17a4bfe7d450aa66005ad6feeec6
who would have guessed?
of course
"no PROOF of coverup" will shysters tell us .....
McCabe will be on CNN
telling us why this would not be unusual ..........
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(Doug) Either defund the FBI or keep cutting the head off until the fish doesn't stink. FBI redacted the Bribe doc. Senator Grassley has seen the unredacted document and the FBI's filthy work.. It is unclassified. Stop covering up for criminals in power. Accomplice after the fact should be charged with the underlying crime.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-pee-tape-vs-the-bribe-tape
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/17/fbi-agent-confirms-irs-agents-testimony-interferen/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=MVss1dusjUJMFZtookxWsCjpaKK7Qep9W2Z%2FVS78EBHlXKRnKds7EDZ7R8bn6zk6&bt_ts=1689638634816
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Whistleblowers testifying in committee today.
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https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/07/18/biden-crime-family-had-over-20-shell-companies-laundering-foreign-payments-n1711478
Because that's what honest, hard-working, public servants do.
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and the media and their guests play dumbfounded
when anyone points out the obvious hypocrisy on how the justice system is
weaponized, and always in the favor of the Democrat Party .
:x
and the progressively more and more senile President is the denying jerk he has always been
and the media yawns ......
but are breathless with excitement and exhilaration when it is anything Trump
or Republican to bash about
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/18/donald-trump-what-how-many-criminal-charges
zero charges against Hunter or Joe
just "investigation is ongoing so we are not able to comment"
and the media
not only ignores this
but then pretends we have no reason to be outraged
but only will say "Republicans claim this" or "conspiracy theory"
and pretend we are being simply political and they are not
thank you
I will get off my soap box
and give it a rest
till I read media headlines tomorrow
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Right, the story is that Republicans are attacking America's great institutions like the FBI, don't trust elections and need so much investigating because of their immoral criminal behavior, not that these institutions have broken down into purely partisan political actors. Imagine if the IRS, the FBI and the like were political actors aligned with Trump or Bush or Nixon, how would that go?
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"Trump infamously instructed the Georgia secretary of state, Republican Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to rob Joe Biden of his win in the battleground state."
- I wonder if the words "rob Joe Biden of his win" are not in the transcript? Or is that just nakedly hyper-partisan msm reporting?
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https://rumble.com/v310nso-rep.-mtg-pulls-out-graphic-hunter-biden-receipts-triggers-panicked-dems.html?mref=22lbp&mc=56yab&fbclid=IwAR3dCFNJXgXIc8ivvYAxS9k7qiinsJwNTNUU_ISd1e_TJhLAoLwwQQ4GIso
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Representative Goldman's exploding cigar:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/19/joe-biden-hit-hard-in-whistleblower-hearing-by-democrat-dan-goldman/
From the article:
... Goldman was trying to get the witnesses to say there is no evidence that President Biden was personally involved in the alleged felonies of his son.
He raised the shocking WhatsApp message that Hunter had allegedly sent to a Chinese official with foreign intelligence contacts.
In the message, Hunter wrote: “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
Most Democrats have avoided the message, which is incredibly damaging and seems to contradict the president’s long denial of any knowledge or involvement in his son’s dealings.
Goldman pressed veteran IRS investigator Gary Shapley about his suggestion that Joe Biden discussed the foreign dealing with his son.
Shapley eagerly said he would be happy to explain, but Goldman cut him off and said he did not have time for such explanations.
At this point, most lawyers would have reversed engines out of troubled waters, but Goldman plowed full speed ahead.
He said the references to Joe sitting next to his son do not mean that they actually discussed his business.
Goldman then went even further and raised a “lunch where Joe Biden came to say hello at the Four Seasons hotel to a lunch that he was having with CEFC executives.”
He then reads from the record in how Biden associate Rob Walker described the origins of the meeting with the Chinese officials to get his dad to stop by: “Hunter told his Dad that ‘I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys.’ “
Goldman then pounced and said slyly, “Now let me ask you something, that doesn’t sound much like Joe Biden was involved in whatever Hunter was doing with the CEFC if Hunter Biden is telling him that he is trying to do business with them, does it?”
That is when Shapley stated the obvious: “No, but it does show that he told his father that he was trying to do business and …”
Goldman finally heard the train whistle and tried to get off the track: “OK, well, that is true that Hunter Biden does try to do business, that is correct.”
Too late.
Goldman was citing the testimony of Walker that Joe Biden not only came to lunch on Hunter’s foreign dealings but did so after being told that Hunter wanted to lay the foundation for such a deal.
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More here, they were protecting Joe, not Hunter.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/20/its-increasingly-clear-the-feds-were-protecting-joe-biden-not-hunter/
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Watergate was child's play compared Biden and Obama's scandals.
https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1682081403742068746
More:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/biden-bribe-file-released-burisma-chief-said-both-joe-and-hunter-involved/
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/20/joe-biden-hunter-both-told-ukrainian-oligarch-burisma-board/?pnespid=u_U_CTxZL6Abg_KfqibpF5_Brw6tTsBxdrm50bs38UJm7ALQfPz8Ljb98wz9_53VBYA7nQkh
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https://rumble.com/v3157oy-oops-clueless-democrat-rep.-accidentally-confirms-joe-biden-discussed-busin.html?mref=22lbp&mc=56yab&fbclid=IwAR3nrdQxUkXt4mKKypBEE2Dl1CQxHn2k8oqSnzh4Yd592OrKY8oGVYtOEXs
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/07/the-biden-familys-history-of-influence-peddling-explained/?bypass_key=Q2xtU0t6aXFTY2tDYytmdkNpbjQ4UT09OjpiRloyVDBJd1F6bDFUbEpNTjI4clVtNWxaV04wWnowOQ%3D%3D
The Biden Family’s History of Influence-Peddling, Explained
Then-vice president Joe Biden arrives for a meeting with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv, Ukraine, November 21, 2014.(Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)
By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
July 22, 2023 6:30 AM
Before Ukraine, the president’s playbook seems to have worked like a charm in Romania.
It was the spring of 2014, and Kyiv was in tumult. For all its talk about democracy, the Obama administration had enthusiastically supported the mass protests in western Ukraine that, on February 21, had ousted the democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych.
Progressives have memory-holed much of this history. The Obama State Department and its European counterparts had an embarrassingly notorious hands-on role in the Maidan revolution and the new Ukrainian government that emerged in its aftermath. Predictably, this meddling in another nation’s domestic politics, to the point of toppling the elected government, was exploited by Vladimir Putin to rationalize Russia’s responsive aggression in eastern Ukraine — the annexation of Crimea and the border war that exploded into today’s full-out war when Moscow launched its February 2022 invasion.
Though more Euroskeptic than his political rivals in Kyiv, Yanukovych had leaned toward entering Ukraine into a political association and trade agreement with the European Union. As I detailed in Ball of Collusion, this prompted a furious reaction from the Kremlin, which was always in a natural position to leverage its neighbor’s dependence on Russian goodwill for energy supplies, safe commerce, and domestic tranquility. Putin thus threatened that if Yanukovych made his bed with the West, he would block Ukraine’s imports, slash its exports, cut off its energy lines, bleed its economy, and drive it into collapse. Yanukovych succumbed, ditching the European deal in favor of an alternative Russian pact. This accommodation, to fend off the bear on the border, triggered the internal strife that led inexorably to Yanukovych’s abdication and flight to safety in Moscow.
The post-Soviet history of Eastern Europe teaches that chaos is good for the profiteers.
Already one of the developed world’s most corrupt countries, Ukraine was in utter chaos when President Obama made his vice president, Joe Biden, an infamous hack with the pretensions of a geopolitical strategist, his point man for American policy there. Not exactly a boon for America, but it was a windfall for the Biden family business of cashing in on “the big guy’s” political influence.
In these badlands, standing up a new government — basically consisting of the people who were besieged by the ousted government — looks more like a battle of competing mafia protection rackets than an exercise in spontaneous democracy. For a corrupt company such as Burisma, it would mean new regulators demanding payoffs, in conjunction with the government’s existing extortionate demands.
As a confidential informant explained to the FBI (an explanation recorded in a Form 1023 report controversially made public this week), bribery is such a deep-seated part of business culture in Ukraine and Russia that businesses customarily account for it in budgeting — the Russian word for the line item is podmazat, which literally means to “oil, lubricate, or make things run smoothly.” Indeed, when Biden took the point on U.S. policy toward Kyiv, our close allies in Britain were about to pounce on Burisma’s well-heeled founder and CEO Mykola “Nikolay” Zlochevsky — in their ongoing bribery probe, the Brits would soon seize $23 million he’d squirreled away in London bank accounts, as Eastern European oligarchs were then wont to do.
The Left Isn’t Even Pretending to Work within the American System of Government Anymore
Zlochevsky, then 48, had been a minister in Yanukovych’s government. He knew the long knives would be out for him — and not just from the new regime. The new Poroshenko government’s U.S. State Department patrons had put Zlochevsky on a “ban list,” preventing him from traveling to America. With his Ukrainian allies out of power, Zlochevsky would need new, potent allies to protect him and Burisma from his suddenly empowered Ukrainian rivals.
Joe Biden may not know much, but he knew that.
He also knew that the anti-corruption racket is a profitable one for people in power. The game works like this: You inveigh against corruption, ostensibly to encourage a corrupt but supposedly reforming regime to clean up its act; that, of course, increases the pressure on the regime’s corruption targets (e.g., those who’ve bribed their way to fortune); those targets, already no strangers to paying off whomever must be paid off, become more willing to pay the anti-corruption poseurs.
As the House Oversight Committee has shown (see preliminary report, pp. 11–17), Biden appears to have made this work like a charm in Romania.
In 2014 and 2015, when not railing at officials in Kyiv about corruption, he was railing at officials in Bucharest about corruption. At the time, one of their most high-profile corruption targets was Gabriel Popoviciu, a real-estate tycoon ultimately convicted of paying a bribe to acquire a highly desirable lot at a bargain price. While Vice President Biden pressured Romania to ratchet up anti-corruption prosecutions, Popoviciu paid Hunter Biden to use his connections to fend off the Romanian prosecutors.
As the committee documents, the payments were structured to conceal the fact that they were coming from Popoviciu: multiple payments over time by the Romanian tycoon’s business (Bladon Enterprises Limited) to the Bidens’ business partner, Rob Walker. Because smaller money transfers draw less regulatory attention, Walker parceled out Popoviciu’s transfers into smaller payments and doled them out, over time, to various Hunter Biden accounts and accounts of business associates, and even sent $10,000 to an account of Hallie Biden — Beau Biden’s widow with whom Hunter was romantically involved. All in the family.
Amazing how this works: After the vice president congratulated President Klaus Iohannis on the strides Romania was making to crack down on corruption, Hunter stepped up efforts for Popoviciu — the incumbent vice president’s son using his contacts to beseech State Department officials to help a Romanian corruption target’s lawyers get a meeting with Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors. In the midst of the payments from Popoviciu detailed by the committee (which stretched from November 2015 through the end of his father’s term in office), Hunter wrote in one email on behalf of his Romanian client, “He is in my estimation a very good man that’s being very badly treated by a suspect Romanian justice system” (emphasis added). I’m sure you’ll be shocked to hear that the Romanian courts didn’t see it that way, upholding Popoviciu’s nine-year prison sentence.
With Romania and the committee report as background, should we really be all that surprised about the allegations that emerged this week implicating Joe Biden in Ukrainian bribery schemes?
On April 16, 2014, with Kyiv still in upheaval, Vice President Biden was visited at the White House by Hunter and Devon Archer, Hunter’s longtime chum and business partner (who is now looking at prison time, in addition to tens of millions of dollars in fines and restitution costs, after recently losing the appeal of his 2022 federal fraud conviction over a $60 million fraud scheme). Just five days later, Vice President Biden was in Ukraine to conduct various meetings and — well, wouldn’t you know it — the very next day (April 22) it was announced that Archer had been named to the Burisma board of directors, with Hunter’s installation to that board already quietly in the works.
The press lauded Joe Biden as the face of American policy in Ukraine. We don’t know everyone he met with on his visit to Ukraine, nor everyone he spoke with about it. We do know, however, that Zlochevsky told the FBI’s informant he had spoken with both Joe and Hunter Biden about placing Hunter in a lucrative position on Burisma’s board — though the younger Biden, who’d just been ousted from a cushy Navy appointment over his cocaine use, had no experience in the energy sector.
Burisma’s chief financial officer was Vadim Pozharsky. That’s a name you want to remember. The FBI’s informant attended a business meeting with Burisma executives in late 2015 or early 2016, during which Pozharsky explained that the company had hired Hunter to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” As we shall see, this is completely consistent with statements we know Pozharsky has made.
Hunter did not formally join his partner Archer on the Burisma board until May 12, 2014. In the intervening three weeks, two important things happened. First, the aforementioned British seizure of Zlochevsky’s accounts in London on April 28. Second, well, Burisma started paying up.
As related in a report compiled by Senators Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), the funds started rolling in with a quarter-million-dollar transfer on May 7 to the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, where Hunter (who went to law school) was “of counsel” (see report, pp. 66–68). Not coincidentally, Boies Schiller is the same firm used by Hunter in the Popoviciu caper. In all, Burisma paid Hunter Biden and Archer over $4 million combined. A big chunk of it came during Joe Biden’s vice presidency. And — mirabile dictu — it seems, for some unfathomable reason, that Hunter’s salary was halved once his father was out of office.
The day Hunter formally joined Burisma’s board, he and Archer were sent an “urgent issue” email by Pozharsky. After alluding to their recent meetings together in Lake Como in Lombardy, Pozharsky reminded his new partners about the new Ukrainian regime’s tormenting of Zlochevsky, which he referred to alternatively as “blackmailing” and as efforts to extort him for money. Because these tactics had been unsuccessful, the regime had now moved on to “concrete” legal actions aimed at “intimidating” Burisma’s commercial contacts and “destabilizing” its business. Consequently, Pozharsky stressed, “we urgently need your advice on how you could use your influence to convey a message/signal, etc., to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions.”
Hunter responded that he was with Archer in Doha, Qatar, and asked for more information about “the formal (if any) accusations being made against Burisma.” “Who,” he asked, was “ultimately behind these attacks on the company? Who in the current interim government could put an end to such attacks?” Meantime, Hunter and Archer immediately began work on trying to get Zlochevsky removed from the State Department’s ban list in hopes of helping him obtain a visa — a project for which they enlisted Boies Schiller’s help.
By December, however, even with the U.S. vice president’s son on his board, Zlochevsky apparently decided to deal with his troubles the old-fashioned way: by paying a $7 million bribe to officials at the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Vitaly Yarema. State Department official George Kent learned about the bribe, reporting it to his superiors and the FBI. He also raised the concern with the vice president’s office that Hunter Biden’s association with Zlochevsky was compromising the Obama administration’s anti-corruption efforts.
I know you’ll be stunned to hear this, but Vice President Biden took no action.
Hunter and Archer, of course, continued working for Burisma and Zlochevsky. In early 2015, they began planning a dinner party in Washington at which Vice President Biden would stop by and meet a number of their business associates. The dinner was held in the private Garden Room of Café Milano in Georgetown on April 16, 2015. Notwithstanding the mounting bribery allegations against Zlochevsky, Hunter invited Pozharsky. Thus did the Burisma CFO get a coveted meeting with the sitting U.S. vice president. Pozharsky gushed in an email the following day, “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.” Pozharsky was soon headed to the airport but asked Hunter to meet for coffee before he departed.
Alas, Pozharsky was not gushing when he emailed Hunter, Archer, and their partner Eric Schwerin nearly six months later, on November 2. Instead, he was bemoaning the lack of “concrete tangible results that we set out to achieve in the first place” — referring, obviously, to Burisma’s installation of Hunter and Archer on its board in order to help Zlochevsky. Having looked at planning documents Hunter and his associates had just provided, Pozharsky complained that they failed to
offer any names of top US officials here in Ukraine (for instance, the US Ambassador) or Ukrainian officials (the President of Ukraine, chief of staff, Prosecutor General) as key targets for improving Nicolay’s [i.e., Zlochevsky’s] case and his situation in Ukraine.
Of course, Pozharsky conceded, maybe this was intentional. After all, one should avoid naming names in such documents. That said, what was written was unimportant only as long as “all parties in fact understand the true purpose of the [Burisma] engagement and all our joint efforts.” It was critical, he asserted, for everyone to “be on the same page re our final goals.” Pozharsky thus demanded a list of “concrete deliverables,” including “meetings/communications resulting in high-ranking US officials in Ukraine (US ambassador) and in US publicly or in private communication/comment expressing their ‘positive opinion’ and support of [Zlochevsky]/Burisma to the highest level of decision makers” — repeating that this meant Ukraine’s president, chief of staff, and prosecutor general.
Pozharsky concluded this remarkably blunt email with the hope that “widely recognized and influential current and/or former US policy-makers” would come to Ukraine in the coming weeks to help achieve this “ultimate purpose to close down for any cases/pursuits against [Zlochevsky] in Ukraine.”
These are not the demands, and this is not the tone, of friends who are seeking a favor but of hard men who are paying dearly for a service and who are running out of patience — wondering whether it’s worth continuing to pay.
In a few short weeks, Burisma appears to have gotten what Pozharsky was demanding. Vice President Joe Biden came to Kyiv in early December and met with Ukraine’s president and other top officials. He threatened to withhold $1 billion of U.S. funding unless, within six hours, the regime fired Viktor Shokin — the prosecutor who was investigating Zlochevsky and Burisma.
Mind you, at the time, Ukraine was under siege by Russia. Perhaps you recall Donald Trump’s being impeached by Democrats for withholding aid from Kyiv while it was struggling to fight off Putin’s aggression in the east. But Biden was going to withhold $1 billion . . . over a prosecutor?
We know Biden did this because he bragged about it in a 2018 interview at the Council on Foreign Relations. Never having been the sharpest tool in the shed, he thought this helped him by showing his toughness as he prepared for his presidential run. He claimed it was all about — all together now — fighting corruption! In character, moreover, Biden exaggerated his role in getting the prosecutor axed. Shokin was not fired in six hours; it took four months of arm-twisting, and the threat by Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund, to withhold $40 billion of Ukrainian aid — again, to fight corruption, it was said — had more to do with it than did Biden’s gambit.
That said, here we have Biden beating his chest about how he strong-armed Kyiv to fire the prosecutor who was then investigating Zlochevsky’s company — which we now know was then beseeching Biden’s son to persuade top U.S. officials to weigh in on Burisma’s behalf with top Ukrainian officials. If Biden’s very clear admission was not on video, does anyone doubt that he would now deny having said any such thing, just like he vehemently denies ever discussing the business dealings he risibly continues to claim were his son’s and not his own?
In early 2016, when the FBI informant met with Zlochevsky in Vienna, he asked about Shokin’s investigation of Burisma, which had gone public. “Don’t worry,” the informant recalled Zlochevsky responding, “Hunter will take care of all those issues through his dad.” Subsequently, he elaborated that he’d paid $10 million in bribes to the Bidens — half for the then–vice president, half for his son.
Mind you, that wasn’t going to be enough. Though Zlochevsky said he found Hunter useless (his dog, he said, was smarter), Burisma still needed to keep the vice president’s son on the board “so everything will be okay.” If that’s true, then the already obvious is explicit: Hunter’s lucrative sinecure was part of the bribe. And we know Hunter was on the board and was paid millions.
In a later phone call, Zlochevsky told the FBI informant that he wasn’t worried about law-enforcement heat over the bribes he said he had been forced to pay the Bidens. He claimed to have saved texts and recordings that would prove the coercion. Did he really? We can’t say . . . but is it really that hard to believe? Not if you’ve read the WhatsApp message in which Hunter makes extortionate demands of a Chinese business partner with, he claims, his father sitting right there beside him and ready to make the partner’s life miserable.
And Zlochevsky says his payments to the Bidens were structured in such a labyrinthine manner, using multiple companies and bank accounts, that it would take investigators “ten years” to trace the bribe dollars to Joe Biden. Does that really sound so unbelievable once one has studied the House Oversight Committee’s preliminary report? Bear in mind the Popoviciu payment scheme and the dozens of others like it with Chinese and other “business partners”: transaction after transaction in which millions of dollars come the Bidens’ way in exchange for no apparent comparable value.
Nothing, that is, except Joe Biden’s political influence.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-transition-team-was-tipped-off-the-night-before-planned-fbi-interview-with-hunter-whistleblower-testifies/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=32112295
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-biden-expected-face-6-10-criminal-referrals-here-are-top-bombshells-last-week?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1678
BTW, remember how the Dems went after Gaitz on Mann Act type stuff?
MTG can be a stupid twat, but I must say her in the hearing putting the pix up of Hunter banging the hookers was hysterical.
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especially obnoxious is Hunter is seen all the time at important events , dinners, overseas trips
with Joe
going around shaking hands and waving to the crowd.
no one is above the law
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ccp: "especially obnoxious is Hunter is seen all the time at important events , dinners, overseas trips
with Joe
going around shaking hands and waving to the crowd."
Perhaps the boldest move of Joe's presidency:
ABC News:
"Just days after agreeing to plead guilty to tax-related misdemeanors, Hunter Biden on Thursday night attended a White House state dinner hosted for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi."
(Doug). Why?! Anyway it proves Hunter has father Joe by the short hairs.
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"Savor the irony. In an effort to counter Russian disinformation, the FBI actively allowed American disinformation to spread."
https://www.thefp.com/p/hunter-biden-and-the-deep-state
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Buys the paintings from Hunter but gets appointed by Joe. That's not very many degrees of separation.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hunter-biden-gallery-sold-art-to-dem-donor-appointed-to-special-commission-by-president-biden/
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It's Hunter plea deal day today in court. A judge has her reputation on the line. Justice is ready to be made a mockery.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/hunter-biden-plea-judge-overseeing-deal-threatens-sanction
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Update, plea deal falls apart:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/hunter-biden-plea-deal-collapse-judge-charges
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conservative outlets point out how Biden attorney
impersonated someone else to falsely get information.
not a peep about it on MSM sites
except for our ~ 5% outlets we would never know about the Democrat's corruption .
what was attorney's excuse - "miscommunication"
remarkable what lawyers can get away with
equal justice under the law except Democratic partisan attorneys
where are the state bars who are supposed to take action
is anyone sending in complaints to them?
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/27/hunter-biden-plea-deal-foreign-earnings-ukraine-china-romania/?pnespid=7bJhVDtHNb9GyubF.CnrFs3UsAKoCJxuJ_y9yrowpRZmUy9_DySKlCh_aqrewrwH4z2DX9sp
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in unprecedented actions
both US attorney:
E Martin Estrada US attorney for California ( a Biden appointee !!! and Kamal donor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Martin_Estrada
And
Matthew Graves US attorney for DC ( a Biden appointee !!! and dem and biden donor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_M._Graves
refused to assist
Delaware US attorney David Weiss in Hunter investigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_C._Weiss#:~:text=David%20Charles%20Weiss%20(born%201956,office%20since%20February%2022%2C%202018.&text=Philadelphia%2C%20Pennsylvania%2C%20U.S.
What is pointed out in O'Reilly podcast on July 19 th with guest Senator Cruz
is that Matthew Graves wife, Fatima Graves https://www.equaljusticeworks.org/about/bios/fatima-goss-graves/
VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE 28 TIMES!!!
Bill suspects she IS THE LIASON between Justice so called "investigation" of Hunter.
Of course since there would a paper trial if communications by any other means to the President and DOJ , she goes to the WH to do it without leaving any kind of recorded trail.
This is how the Biden ( so did BROCK !) communicates with Justice is alleged
it is plainly obvious they do it - could this be the way?
Certainly same concept along with the Soros klan.
One of them goes to WH and asks Biden team - where can we help you with money .........
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The game runs deep and dirty in Rome.
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/president-biden-speaks-hunter-daughter-210215835.html
Let's see.
Hunter pays the stripper partly with paintings that she turns around and sells to a apparently rich lawyer named Morris or perhaps some Chinese art lover whose name Hunter cannot spell
this all about the child :roll:
now that is "off the table" we can all move on ......
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/hunter-biden-plea-deal-a-scam-from-the-start
"This is from Sol Wisenberg, a former prosecutor for independent counsel Kenneth Starr: "A broad immunity provision (arguably covering every crime Hunter may have committed during the relevant time frame) was hidden in Paragraph 15 of the Pre-Trial Diversion Agreement and this was done by the parties in order that the judge could not accept or reject the broad immunity portion of the overall deal. Totally unprecedented."
Paragraph 15 said the government "agrees not to criminally prosecute Biden ... for any federal crimes" involving the behavior covered by both the tax charge agreement and the gun charge agreement. So if prosecutors, for example, decided that Biden was representing a foreign government in the course of his shady overseas financial dealings, he might be charged with violating the law requiring him to register as a foreign agent. But Paragraph 15, buried in the gun charge agreement, would have forbidden that.
Why was it done this way, "totally unprecedented," in Wisenberg's words? It seems entirely possible that the DOJ and the Biden defense team were trying to pull a fast one on the judge. Indeed, Wisenberg noted the transcript of the hearing "shows that the judge didn't even see the key paragraph until shortly before the hearing." Whatever the case, it didn't work. Noreika put a stop to the proceedings and ordered both sides to work something else out.
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reminds of a NJ attorney we were going to hire for copyrights. We explicitly made it clear in the contract that we had total control and he was only to act with our express consent.
then when we received the contract - hidden on page 37 was a sentence that he could act without our knowledge of consent or something like that.
a single line - showed up on page 37
same bullshit shysterism........
needless to say he was out immediately; and
he was recommended as a long time friend of my relative........
like they say , anyone can be bribed. or nearly anyone....
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https://redstate.com/mccabe/2023/07/29/hunters-power-lawyer-abbe-lowell-threatened-weiss-team-now-i-am-involved-n784083
Abbe Lowell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbe_Lowell
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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-publicly-acknowledges-7th-grandchild-1st-time-daughter/story?id=101796034
One of the Left wing NYT columnists called him out on this. Not useful idiots anymore, the puppet strings run the other way.
They say success by 6 for a child, and they just missed 4 1/2 years of that. Don't act like some caring grandparents now. Where was moral-less Jill on this, hates kids. Who shuns their grandkids for the behavior of the parents? My parents didn't. Given the broken 'family', doesn't the grandchild need the support even more?
Her grandfather is President of the United States. In some other time that might be the greatest man in the world. She's never met him, hidden in Arkansas in shame, with denied existence. Raised by former stripper mom; happens to be the person in the family with the most integrity.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doj-trying-jail-star-witness-against-hunter-biden-eve-congressional-testimony?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1701
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second
https://nypost.com/2023/07/29/hunter-bidens-laptop-full-of-secret-agreements-and-contracts/?fbclid=IwAR1JapG3-4DENC5O5m56maAOCa-fBWzdibHLrkx-XMHxGFgukVhQF1-vfVA
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If you are an honest liberal, serious term, no matter how much you hate trump, how do you read the whole Biden story with anything short of complete outrage?! They were corrupt. Big money changed hands. Real quid pro quo. Plenty of evidence. And he denied it to our faces!
Just like Nixon saying, I'm not a crook, Biden said, "I knew nothing about my son's business dealings.". "My son did nothing wrong". What about multiple felonies under FARA, the foreign agent registration act they prosecuted Paul manafort under?
WSJ
Devon Archer Throws a Curve
Joe Biden’s denials about Hunter and his laptop are now disproven. What will he say in the 2024 presidential debates?
By William McGurn
July 31, 2023 6:22 pm ET
Hunter Biden's former business partner, Devon Archer, has testified behind closed doors to the House Oversight Committee about the President's ties to his son's foreign business dealings, which included more than 20 calls on speaker phone with business associates.
Up to now the big question about Joe Biden and 2024 has been whether he’ll be physically up for the debates. But former Hunter Biden business associate Devon Archer’s closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee on Monday, on the heels of Hunter’s failed plea, raises another question: Will the president have to apologize for misleading the public during the 2020 debates, when he categorically denied his son’s influence-peddling overseas?
All this would have gone away if Hunter’s plea agreement hadn’t blown up in federal court. Prosecutors told the court that Hunter might still be charged with failing to register as a foreign agent.
Then came Mr. Archer’s Monday testimony. According to a statement by Chairman James Comer, Mr. Archer testified that Joe Biden joined phone conversations with Ukrainian energy giant Burisma, a Hunter client, to “sell the brand.” Mr. Archer further said that Burisma pressured Hunter to get help from “D.C.” regarding prosecutor Viktor Shokin, for whose firing Vice President Biden pushed.
This doesn’t prove Joe Biden discussed business terms or shared in any profits. But at the very least, it exposes Mr. Biden’s gaslighting of the American people in 2020.
Hunter featured prominently in both presidential debates because Donald Trump kept bringing him up. The first mention came in the Sept. 29 debate in Cleveland. After Mr. Biden criticized President Trump’s China policy, the incumbent said:
“China ate your lunch, Joe. And no wonder your son goes in and, wha—he takes out billions of dollars. He takes out billions of dollars to manage. He makes millions of dollars. And also, while we’re at it, why is it just out of curiosity, the mayor of Moscow’s wife gave your son 3½ million dollars?”
He then asked: “What did he do with Burisma?”
Altogether Mr. Biden declared “that is not true” or words to that effect eight times. He said seven times that Mr. Trump’s assertions were “discredited,” sometimes “totally discredited.” Near the end he added, “My son did nothing wrong at Burisma.”
Mr. Trump wouldn’t let it rest: Hunter “made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow and various other places.” Mr. Biden again denied it: “That is simply not true.”
Mr. Biden counted on a compliant press to move on, and it largely did. But then the Bidens came up against Judge Maryellen Noreika. She confirmed with Hunter Biden himself that, contrary to his father’s assertions, he did receive a small fortune from Ukrainian and Chinese firms.
Then there’s the $3.5 million 2014 wire transfer from Elena Baturina, widow of the former Moscow mayor, that Mr. Trump harped on. Hunter’s lawyer has said his client had no interest in and wasn’t a co-founder of the recipient firm. But Mr. Archer is linked to the firm—and he also knows how Hunter’s deals were structured. Maybe we’ll learn more from the transcript.
Mr. Biden continued issuing absolute denials in the second debate, on Oct. 22. Again Mr. Trump wouldn’t let it rest. “If this stuff is true about Russia, Ukraine, China, other countries, Iraq—if this is true, then he’s a corrupt politician,” he said. Mr. Trump then brought up the “laptop from hell,” prompting Mr. Biden to imply it wasn’t Hunter’s.
“Look,” he said, “there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, he’s accusing me of, is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics—four—five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage.”
This was also untrue. The “50 former national intelligence folks” Mr. Biden invoked did suggest the laptop could be Russian disinformation. But we now know the laptop was Hunter’s—and the former intel officials were the ones spreading disinformation.
In short Mr. Biden wasn’t telling the truth about Hunter during the debates, and there is no way to defend those answers today. In the runup to next year’s election, we are likely to learn even more as the congressional investigations continue.
Even the Biden White House recognizes that the president’s blanket denials are no longer credible. No doubt it’s why press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre recently switched the official party line from “the president never discussed his son’s business with him” to “the president has never been in business with him.”
The real danger for Mr. Biden in the 2024 debates is if the Republican candidate asks him the obvious: “Mr. President, we have learned since 2020 that almost everything you claimed about your son’s business overseas the last time you were on this debate stage was untrue. Why should the American people believe anything you say now?”
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/08/the-innocent-explanation.php
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https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/devon-archer-reveals-exactly-what-hunter-was-selling-joe-biden/
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This is outrageous:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/09/27/oh-so-thats-why-the-trumpukraine-whistleblower-complaint-is-loaded-with-errors-n2553847
Now all whistleblower reports are ignored.........by the LEFT
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https://rumble.com/v345htv-tucker-carlson-sits-down-with-ex-hunter-biden-biz-partner-devon-archer-for-.html?mref=22lbp&mc=56yab&fbclid=IwAR1k4x9vckSFHVTE94AEGutMMB1ef3vT1KK6o7tzErBd8y-PouuJQ9fQJ5U
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I agree with Greg Kelly
Tucker sounds a bit like a doofus here
He asks Archer some questions with minimal follow up questions or pressing for more explicit answers from a guy who sleazed his why through the Congressional oversight committee testimony (from what it sounds to me)
Kelly also asks , why is Tucker laughing - I agree THIS IS NO LAUGHING MATTER - Tucker get rid of the laugh PLEASE
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/04/devon-archer-joe-biden-knew-hunter-business-dealings-ukraine-burisma/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=29912&pnespid=veM4UCFHZfNHi6PY.GW5FImVuRarXYF7P7Oy0PNwrkBmw1BwzoYvjm.OTurF5S8gIvGHQ74.
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but he stopped short of actually naming Biden as participating or taking the bribe
the calls were only about Beau according to shyster mobster Goldman.
that is where they set up the wall around Biden
and following Weissmann's cue, I hear the media parrot "there is no there there!"
I cannot think of a more stupid line but I have been hearing more and more.
I think Hillary's "there is no controlling authority" more nearly applies.
It should be there is no controlling authority that will do the control.
(except a slim majority in Congress)
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/06/viktor-shaken-speaks-out-burisma-hunter-joe-biden-video/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=29912&pnespid=6rw_FjxKKKNF3_eRoTOtQsiLsEjwXcpqM7W9mfNpqhRmls2l4MiUtDenWXP1nIfBoJw4bE2b
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second
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/the-miraculously-changing-narrative-around-bidens-involvement-in-hunter-inc/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIR%20-%20Sunday%202023-08-06&utm_term=WIR-Smart
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/us/court-records-show-hunter-biden-received-millions-from-china-ccp-affiliates-5448816?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2023-08-09&src_cmp=mb-2023-08-09&utm_medium=email&est=OKfTPxEIJVWj7RmD81PnWBMycjjDX%2FOTI50dG8UyVTqmxTYo4SNUfAO2RH%2FIMVUGltrv
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second
https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/08/burisma-remove-picture-joe-biden-devon-archer-emails/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=29912&pnespid=tqdtViZZP7wby6DBojm_Sp.W5gusDIN3Lu7n3O1tsQVmJcgWamtsMuNcnPrhH7rw3R1JZL1i
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third
https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/08/burisma-lobbyists-hunter-biden-prosecutor-burisma/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=29912&pnespid=tKU7EjpaMLIZwOXNpD__GcyPtA2.TYAtM7Gknvcz9xNmdGAaEdJZvql7QLCxdvoZf.pjgoLR
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Fourth
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-family-received-millions-from-foreign-oligarchs-who-had-dinners-with-then-vp-joe-biden/?bypass_key=SWFhUHA4RHZ4d3JXc1NURVZNa0tVZz09OjpkUzlHTTBkVFMyWTBSVVZ3UVdaM1FscGxWSE0wUVQwOQ%3D%3D?utm_source%3Demail&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=32343642&utm_source=Sailthru
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the oligarchs were providing grievance counseling for Joe who had lost Beau.
days Dan Goldman and Jamie Raskin
and the entire media...... :roll:
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https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/hldforeign-oligarchs-moved-millions-biden-tied-firms-meeting-joe
wondering if the Dems will use THIS as reason to announce Trump indictment in GA
or are they waiting for more opportune time.
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Special Counsel *finally" appointed -> me -> glad
but the attorney is David Weiss - > me -> bad and mad
I smell a rat
this guy is certainly not "independent"
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/08/megyn_kelly_im_just_now_understanding_that_joe_was_using_hunter_not_the_other_way_around.html
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A simple but insightful point that needs to be the center of analysis.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTi09YSC26w
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Now they are saying an amount over $50 million, and these people have the bank records. They admit the laptop is real and no Democrat has asked who the "Big Guy" is.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/14/north-of-50-million-gop-rep-mace-says-biden-payouts-even-higher-than-reported/
If my son (daughter) took in 50 million, I think I would notice.
It's the anniversary of the horrible Afghanistan departure, our president is proven corrupt, and we're talking about what did or didn't happen 2020 in Georgia.
If someone could hit the right notes right now, they should be able to win 49 states.
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https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/08/17/bombshell-biden-used-n2386363#google_vignette
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https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-8-24-the-bidens-stone-cold-crooked-8-this-is-getting-ridiculous
There are people in prison right now where the bribery payments only went to their children. But with the bidens, all the prosecutors are doing is letting the statute of limitations expire on various illegal acts.
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Haven't noticed Andrew Weissmann on MSPCP claiming there is "no there there" to smiling nodding hosts lately.
Of course I don't watch MSPCP much at all.
Maybe for a minute or two while changing stations.
The commercials are most informative for information while the MSPCP programs are really the commercials - advertising for the DNC .
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/burismas-devon-archer-met-secretary-state-kerry-weeks-before-shokin-fired
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https://nypost.com/2023/08/28/national-archives-admits-it-has-5400-biden-pseudonym-emails/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rundown&pnespid=vLN3Fz1WK.0Xg..bv26oS8vQu0inXpd3cvXl2vl5qQZmQUvQw4QXovL.l3K1DCzRMtFBzZ1y
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https://nypost.com/2023/08/28/national-archives-admits-it-has-5400-biden-pseudonym-emails/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rundown&pnespid=vLN3Fz1WK.0Xg..bv26oS8vQu0inXpd3cvXl2vl5qQZmQUvQw4QXovL.l3K1DCzRMtFBzZ1y
"Pedo Pete", his now favorite son called him. 5400 emails makes me think he had staff working on the family corruption as well.
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/aug/29/joe-biden-barack-obama-must-approve-release-alias-/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=xsYPYBt0olK7%2BNONSJ5gPrERRLMPi7w5DZWQRnl5fWXbNPdpkRMDLAqQn94ZHFEb&bt_ts=1693336491804
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/house-republicans-seek-records-of-then-vp-bidens-foreign-travel-with-hunter/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=32555044
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2023/08/17/heres-how-much-joe-biden-is-worth/?sh=7f44ec638ea0
[FWIW]
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12488901/Federal-prosecutors-plan-indict-Hunter-Biden-gun-charges-end-month.html
hmmm.
Dems never do anything without contemplating if would or would not hurt their cause
something suggests:
this is to deflect away from Joe being involved with the influence peddling
perhaps to throw Joe under the bus since his poll numbers are bad
or other?
not sure , but sure that politcal calculations are behind this - as always with Dems
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/09/yes-joe-biden-is-corrupt/?bypass_key=dUhlcmcrTkJlYzJkNjl0UDVmMU43dz09OjpWaTlrYm5kUGQxVm1RMmRhYlhZMFdXUTJjako0ZHowOQ%3D%3D
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12519595/Hunter-Biden-INDICTED-lying-drugs-bought-gun.html
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As you watch today's Kabuki theater of the Chattering Class about Hunter's gun charges, ask yourself:
What happened to the tax charges?
Where are the FARA charges?
Not familiar with FARA? Here, I'll help you:
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/paul-manafort-guilty-plea-highlights-increased-enforcement-foreign-agents-registration-act
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"What happened to the tax charges?
Where are the FARA charges?"
For Hunter yes, but more importantly for slow Joe. Wasn't he involved and benefited from all the same relationships and transactions?
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Yup.
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https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4207098-surgical-charges-against-hunter-suggest-a-willful-blindness-at-doj/
the rule of law
the rules of Democrat lawyers...
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I like Turley a lot, but this strikes me as a bit on the tepid side and he utterly misses pointing out that Weiss, as a DOJ employee, does not meet the DOJ requirements that a special counsel NOT be a DOJ employee.
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second
https://resistthemainstream.com/dems-make-an-admission-about-bidens-relationship-with-hunter-business-partner/?utm_source=newsletter2
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"I like Turley a lot, but this strikes me as a bit on the tepid side and he utterly misses pointing out that Weiss, as a DOJ employee, does not meet the DOJ requirements that a special counsel NOT be a DOJ employee."
I have heard him say on air that Weiss should NOT be appointed a SC as per DOJ policy.
He has claimed he did not vote for Trump.
Lamenting him in a SLATE article is to me a badge of honesty and objectivity and gives him credibility :
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/what-happened-to-jonathan-turley-really.html
The only prominent attorney like him, previously liberal who is coming out against the lib lawfare onslaught (with definite personal sacrifice) is of course Dershowitz.
That I can think of .
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https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-759423
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Biden’s Document Story
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President Joe Biden’s Justice Department is aggressively prosecuting his predecessor Donald Trump over the handling of classified documents. Meanwhile recent press reports suggest that Mr. Biden has been untruthful about a Justice investigation into his own handling of classified materials.
The Journal’s Aruna Viswanatha and Sadie Gurman report:
... special counsel Robert Hur has been negotiating with President Biden’s lawyers for weeks over the contours of an interview with the president, according to people familiar with the matter. Hur was appointed by [Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland] in January to investigate why classified documents ended up at a Washington think-tank office used by Biden after he left the vice presidency, and at his Wilmington, Del., home.
The two sides are still discussing many details of the interview, including what the scope of questions would be, the people said.
On Aug. 25, Steven Nelson reported for the New York Post:
President Biden on Friday denied a report that special counsel Robert Hur is seeking to interview him as part of an investigation into Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.
“There’s no such request and no such interest,” Biden told reporters after emerging from a Pilates class in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., near where he is vacationing at billionaire Tom Steyer’s lakefront home.
While it’s possible that the discussions reported by the Journal began right after Mr. Biden’s denial, his story doesn’t square with this Aug. 11 report from Monica Alba and Carol Lee of NBC News:
Attorneys for President Joe Biden and the special counsel appointed to investigate his handling of classified documents have been negotiating for about a month over the terms under which he would be interviewed, two people familiar with the matter said.
Discussions between Biden’s lawyers and special counsel Robert Hur’s office are focused on how, when and where the interview might take place, as well as the scope of the questions, these people said. They stressed that the negotiations are ongoing and that no agreement has been reached.
More than three weeks after the president’s denial, NBC hasn’t corrected or retracted its story. While NBC is far from perfect, it’s perhaps sad to say that the network has far more credibility on this issue than our president does.
Mr. Biden maintains that he’s deeply concerned about the appropriate handling of classified information. He claimed to be surprised by last year’s revelations of classified material improperly stored at his home and office. Since at least January the White House has been claiming that the president is “fully cooperating” with the investigation. But of course if all of this were true then by now the investigation might already have been concluded, as in the case of former Vice President Mike Pence. Way back in January this column noted:
Nearly three months after the discovery of classified government documents in Joe Biden’s former private office at the Penn Biden Center, the government maintains that the president is fully cooperating in investigating this matter. Yet as the weeks have turned into months, no one has yet disclosed how classified documents ended up in the Penn Biden office, the Biden home and the Biden garage. This naturally raises the question of who on the Biden staff is not being cooperative.
As for the recent reporting on the investigation, if Mr. Biden really was telling the truth in August when he claimed the special counsel had no interest in interviewing him, then the investigation has even less credibility. What serious investigator wouldn’t want to interview the person who had access to government secrets and on whose property the documents were stashed?
The Journal report of negotiations suggests that Joe Biden’s lawyers have been working long and hard to protect their client from potential legal jeopardy. That’s his right and that’s their job. But this episode underlines that “fully cooperating” is among the Beltway’s most egregious examples of the abuse of language in a town chock full of them.
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Speaking of Biden legal challenges, the president’s son Hunter Biden is suing the Internal Revenue Service and alleging that IRS whistleblowers have violated his privacy in the course of alleging that the government has not appropriately pursued the case against him.
“Mr. Biden has cooperated fully with the IRS investigation,” claims Hunter Biden’s legal filing.
Some may wonder why Hunter Biden is suing the IRS, rather than the whistleblowers who are by definition not acting as spokesmen for the government and are in fact criticizing the government.
Perhaps Hunter Biden is confident that his father’s IRS would never punch back at him with a so-called Rule 11 letter and then a motion to the court to impose sanctions for a frivolous claim.
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James Freeman is the co-author of “The Cost: Trump, China and American Revival” and also the co-author of “Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts and Bailouts at Citi.”
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vp-bidens-niece-updated-hunters-company-chinese-sovereign-wealth-fund-treasury-emails?fbclid=IwAR2d_3dF7tfmWKMMJRtgfDAiiDFohKVq5gaRpio67s3NFqeZdz_DE_zhyrY
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/09/how-hunter-bidens-lawyers-snatched-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory/?bypass_key=TEtQRndCUFlZMThlS2RWV2x5U1I4QT09OjpiR3ByY1ZKVlZXUllaVkJoZEM5dWNHTjFXRWhOZHowOQ%3D%3D
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12563957/Hunter-Biden-got-two-payments-China-Joes-Delaware-HOME-listed-address-Republican-says-obtaining-bank-records.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12563957/Hunter-Biden-got-two-payments-China-Joes-Delaware-HOME-listed-address-Republican-says-obtaining-bank-records.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12578515/Hunter-Bidens-spending-ONE-MILLION-dollars-month-lawyers-fights-gun-indictment-files-four-lawsuits-notorious-laptop-expert-says.html
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https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4231226-biden-impeachment-what-the-house-may-charge-and-what-it-needs-to-show/
Not sure I follow all his logic
in one sense he says Biden clearly lied and family benefitted which is enough
then he also states it must be shown Biden himself benefitted
Trey Gowdy pointed out that it is good to have the Congressional inquiry since they have subpoena power
but it will still take long time because Congress does not have enforcement power over the subpoenas.
Has to go through Courts or Federal Marshalls office which of course takes time.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gopers-ready-to-give-impeachment-lead-to-jim-jordan-after-failed-james-comer-hearing/ar-AA1huWNB?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b935fa4fa394414b88bc9e4185197847&ei=20
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/white-house-spokesperson-explains-why-hunter-bidens-checks-from-china-were-sent-to-fathers-house-5499624?utm_source=China&src_src=China&utm_campaign=uschina-2023-10-01&src_cmp=uschina-2023-10-01&utm_medium=email&cta_utm_source=China&est=t778wwOX%2FKFI2Ex%2BDkC0rwGs7jtXW0DxFhHfTmiGuixrDqODgWE7U%2F%2BQ%2BREoeLzm2YJL
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yes - total Abbe Lowell BS !
and we don't need a quantum computer to figure this out!
Abbe : thank you! and that will be 1 million dollars please !
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hunter-bidens-daughter-was-living-white-house-while-representing-peruvian-government?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1868
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https://americanwirenews.com/us-treasury-docs-connect-hunter-biden-to-sex-trafficking-ring-suspected-of-falsifying-checks-to-pay-prostitutes/?utm_campaign=james&utm_content=10-3-23%20Daily%20am&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=Get%20response&utm_term=email
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https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/hunter-biden-sold-1-3m-in-art-and-buyers-include-dads-appointee/
real estate investor and "philanthropist"
Nancy Hirsch Naftali
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-biden-nominates-hunter-biden-s-former-legal-colleague-to-lead-special-counsel-office/ar-AA1hI2C7?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=2b45837dc0f149ba834cc0e731476a82&ei=11
I'll give you 2 guesses as to which law school this guy went to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Dellinger
if one only learned about which American law schools exist in the nation from the DC news circuit
one would think there were no more than half a dozen.
And almost all lawyers went to Harvard, Yale Columbia, Georgetown, NYU, Stamford
Number of Law Schools in the US There are 205 ABA-approved law schools and about 32 Non-ABA approved law schools. ...
ABA-Approved Law Schools /”ABA-approved law schools offer a legal education that meets certain ABA standards set forth by the Council and Accreditation Committee of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.” ..
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Alex on O'Reilly radio show recently and even longer better interview with Mark Levin .
He claims Biden is far more aware and scheming then one would think. He has huge "rolodex" from 50 yrs he can count on.
His main goal according to Alex is to establish that he is one of the greatest Presidents of all time.
Probably seduced by lib historians advising him to stay the course and be transformative, with the war on fossil fuel, immigration, woke etc that he will be judged well in the future by the libs.
He was always gaff prone , forgetful , and ferociously loyal to his family.
His goal was for a dynasty. Beau was to be the son who would carry the torch.
Marlow does seem to think Joe will run , and is more astute then he appears and making more decisions then it seems ( Afghanistan was "all him")
Biden is one evil SOB .
FWIW :
I beg to differ. He may want to run but I doubt he will get a nod just because he is still breathing .
Marlow also points out the rigging of the election(s) will be on steroids from his vantage point. Every human being that normally would not vote will have mail in ballot filled for them by the Dem mob.
This for sure I agree.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12610551/Joe-Biden-brother-Frank-naked-selfie-GuysWithiPhones.html
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https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/10/as-vp-biden-emailed-with-his-brother-son-and-their-firms-about-foreign-business-more-than-29000-times/
'I had No communication ever with my son about his business.'
- Really?
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/oct/11/house-investigators-cast-doubt-joe-bidens-classifi/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=g7uGxBmrzMcIPh8TdN66oalXtPCo%2BLB8rT%2FD62dURFyzICZXx0eMOBuVTSQoxjv9&bt_ts=1697130534136
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against Menendez but not Hunter
another example of the political weaponization of the rule of law invalidating the LEFTist cry "no one is above the law":
https://nypost.com/2023/10/13/bob-menendez-charged-as-a-foreign-agent-but-not-hunter-biden/
I was only thinking prior to the election thinking Joe would not want to chance the risk he would lose, but you are probably right. He could do a month after the election (assuming it will take that long to count the late mail in ballots ( :roll: ) and prior to his leaving office.
So, I think CD is right - after the election .
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https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4254963-new-evidence-may-destroy-bidens-defense-in-his-classified-documents-case/
TRIVIA QUESTION:
WHO IS ROBERT HUR?
no, not Ben's brother.
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Very interesting!
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12623627/Joe-Bidens-brother-Jim-tied-fraud-scheme-allegedly-used-125-000-business-loans-personal-expenses-including-Philadelphia-Eagles-season-tickets.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12649277/Joe-Biden-paid-nearly-2-75million-CASH-Rehoboth-Beach-house-weeks-Hunter-sending-threatening-text-Chinese-business-partner-demanding-close-10million-deal.html
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So what?
Raskin replies on MSLSD, MSDNC, MSPCP:
"Where's the proof?"
There is "no proof!"
Weismann comes on to repeat:
"There is no there there" then proceeds to discuss Trump "crimes"
Nicolle Wallace grins.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-sean-hannity-slammed-for-reporting-on-james-comer-s-finding-that-joe-biden-received-200k-from-brother/ar-AA1iBnAo?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=1e71a3d5be1b4d2fa6b311e5a9e8ae42&ei=9
no proof of crime
simply as noted on check "loan repayment"
thus, all good.
:roll:
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Joe buys the beach house where he spends a great deal of time as his handlers let him pretend to be President for cash soon after Hunter closes a $10 million/year deal with China. Funny how American media never details stuff like this:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12649277/Joe-Biden-paid-nearly-2-75million-CASH-Rehoboth-Beach-house-weeks-Hunter-sending-threatening-text-Chinese-business-partner-demanding-close-10million-deal.html
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https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-received-criminal-information-from-40-confidential-sources-on-the-biden-family-u-s-senator
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has reportedly obtained information indicating that more than 40 confidential human sources have provided information to federal law enforcement about “criminal” activity involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and his brother James.
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(Doug) 40 Criminal referrals?! And nothing happened?!
Strange that they think Trump is the guy in legal jeopardy.
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Fox’s take on the story noted above.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-received-criminal-information-40-confidential-sources-joe-biden-hunter-jim-grassley?fbclid=IwAR1UISmzlFAOYSx8dEpK6hDZxQY4SEeyq4AlaijwXVLoVIj41g-Ur1lJyVg
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/10/29/what_must_the_president_have_known_149980.html
Given all this, what does it say about the guy if you believe he didn't know what was going on?
And that was before all the cognitive deterioration.
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Every time I read yet another piece about the abject inequity embraced when investigating Biden as opposed to Trump I become furious all over again:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/29/opinion/anatomy-of-a-biden-family-coverup-executed-by-our-own-fbi-and-doj/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons&fbclid=IwAR32u1zDWVorNmzVSu1JD_6ZzpPvq1SZS_5ChFElTlRPuZy5J60At4zMG9c
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Every time I read yet another piece about the abject inequity embraced when investigating Biden as opposed to Trump I become furious all over again:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/29/opinion/anatomy-of-a-biden-family-coverup-executed-by-our-own-fbi-and-doj/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons&fbclid=IwAR32u1zDWVorNmzVSu1JD_6ZzpPvq1SZS_5ChFElTlRPuZy5J60At4zMG9c
What's most strange is that it's not even subtle.
Much as I don't like Dean Phillips, he's part of the political and policy deception but not part of the corruption. Everybody tell your Dem friends to vote for someone else. Anyone else.
Now this, 82,000 pseudonym email pages of Biden Crime Family corruption, to and from a guy who had "no idea", "no knowledge", "no contact", "no dealings", "never even asked his son about his business". What kind of mindless, gullible voter believes that?
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/step-aside-hillary-joe-biden-may-become-king-email-scandals-new
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https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/archives-locates-82000-pages-joe-biden-pseudonym-emails-possibly
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second
More on the Stifled Hunter Biden Probe
A U.S. Attorney says his team was blocked from its vetting work.
By The Editorial Board
Oct. 30, 2023 6:16 pm ET
House Republicans continue to unpack the Justice Department’s botched Hunter Biden probe, and evidence is mounting of interference from the top. The latest testimony comes from an Oct. 23 Judiciary Committee interview with former U.S. Attorney Scott Brady.
In January 2020, then Attorney General Bill Barr tapped Mr. Brady to vet information related to Ukrainian corruption, and to pass along credible material to offices with ongoing investigations. That included Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who for five years has been probing Hunter’s foreign business operations, including his work for the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma. Mr. Brady says in the transcript we’ve reviewed that FBI headquarters and Mr. Weiss’s office made this very difficult.
Mr. Brady and four assistant U.S. attorneys worked to check the allegations they received against government records and open-source documents. His team lacked grand-jury authority to compel interviews or subpoena records, so it worked with the FBI to run names, bank accounts, emails and the like. Yet Mr. Brady said he came to understand that his main contact—the FBI office in Pittsburgh—couldn’t take “any steps” without “the review and the approval of FBI Headquarters, not just the leadership of FBI Pittsburgh.”
Mr. Brady describes a “reluctance on the part of the FBI to really do any tasking” related to “allegations of Ukrainian corruption broadly and then specifically anything that intersected with Hunter Biden and his role in Burisma.” He says “FBI Headquarters had to sign off on every assignment, no matter how small or routine,” and that this sometimes required “17 different people,” mostly at the headquarters level.
Local agents had to “go pens down sometimes for 2 or 3 weeks at a time before they could re-engage,” he says. He’d “never in [his DOJ] career” seen anything like it, and on a “fairly regular” basis had to go to the deputy AG’s office for help.
Mr. Brady says his office was informed by “members of the Pittsburgh FBI team” that they had been instructed by headquarters not to “affirmatively share information” with the Brady team. He says he was “surprised” to learn from public reporting in October 2020 that the FBI had possessed Hunter’s laptop since 2019, since his team had asked the FBI for anything it had on Hunter and Burisma, and the laptop would have been “helpful.” No kidding.
Mr. Brady says officials in Mr. Weiss’s office broadcast “a skepticism of the information that we were developing . . . and then weariness of that information.” Mr. Brady had to call in the deputy AG and Mr. Weiss. “At one point, the communication between our offices was so constricted that we had to provide written questions to the investigative team in Delaware” and receive “written answers back,” he says.
Mr. Brady’s interview also sets the record straight on the now infamous FBI 1023 form, in which a confidential informant claimed a Burisma executive told him of a bribery scheme involving Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter. House Judiciary ranking Democrat Jamie Raskin in June said the FBI had briefed Congress that Mr. Brady had “signed off on closing the assessment” of the 1023, “having found no evidence to corroborate” its contents.
Mr. Brady says that isn’t true. He says his team was “able to corroborate certain information that was represented by” the informant, and that there “were sufficient indicia of credibility in this 1023 to pass it on” to the Weiss team. This doesn’t mean the 1023 claims are true, but it does raise questions about what the Weiss team has done to investigate them.
The Brady transcript reinforces the claims of two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers who say that they were also blocked from fully investigating the Hunter case. Attorney General Merrick Garland insists the Hunter case is being run by the book, but whose book?
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https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/01/follow-40000-from-communist-china-directly-to-joe-bidens-bank-account/
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outrageous - yes.
" The quid pro quo allegations spread like Ebola and the Democrats are now moving forward with their three-year-long project"
love the analogy but am thinking spread like a "Chinese spyware virus" might be more apropo
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/chinese-funds-moved-through-biden-family-accounts-to-joe-biden-bank-records-and-documents-suggest-5521244?utm_source=News&src_src=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2023-11-02-2&src_cmp=breaking-2023-11-02-2&utm_medium=email&est=W2Hh2msj6g4Ij6uw9O05RfeAMV6PbIW8r0dr49AGafrkcBYMSTyjv6%2FbxkyPnMoyuQP%2F
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/chinese-funds-moved-through-biden-family-accounts-to-joe-biden-bank-records-and-documents-suggest-5521244?utm_source=News&src_src=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2023-11-02-2&src_cmp=breaking-2023-11-02-2&utm_medium=email&est=W2Hh2msj6g4Ij6uw9O05RfeAMV6PbIW8r0dr49AGafrkcBYMSTyjv6%2FbxkyPnMoyuQP%2F
I heard Rep James Comer on the radio today, he sees it exactly the way you say. The money comes directly from the Chinese client broken into pieces, moved through brief stops only to "launder" it and exactly 10% goes through to the Big Guy just like the emails say.
It took them this long to get to James Biden’s Bank account and they still don't access to Joe's.
Under the law, the favor or benefit only has to go through to family. The direct tie to Joe is just icing on the cake.
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(Doug) Haven't the investigators already scored a touchdown, a knockout punch, a grand slam home run?
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/moving-the-goal-posts-on-the-hunter-biden-investigation/ar-AA1jilWe?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4186a0f2c5e04ee2aea630161c2dfc32&ei=66
Kim Strassel, WSJ
Moving the Goal Posts on the Hunter Biden Investigation
© Provided by The Wall Street Journal
The speed at which the White House and press corps are moving the goal posts for what counts as shameful Biden family business is remarkable, though it doesn’t change the facts. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s release of evidence of family payments to Joe Biden are a problem for the White House, no matter the spin.
Mr. Comer has produced images of two checks made out to Joe Biden, both drawn from an account held by his brother James and sister-in-law Sara. Both entangle Joe in his family’s sordid financial dealings and undercut his claims that he knew nothing. It’s a far cry from Candidate Biden’s claim in 2019 that there was an “absolute wall” between himself and the Biden family business.
The committee’s account is as follows: The first check to Joe was written on Sept. 3, 2017, although the money trail begins earlier with his son Hunter. In the first half of 2017, Hunter and business associates negotiated a joint company with CEFC, a Shanghai-based energy company linked to the Chinese government. One email from a Hunter associate that discussed equity stakes suggested 10% of the joint venture be held by Hunter for “the big guy.”
CEFC was asked to commit $10 million in capital. When the money didn’t come, a frustrated Hunter sent a July 30, 2017, WhatsApp message to Raymond Zhao, a CEFC associate. It said he was sitting with his dad, demanded payment and warned: “I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.”
A week later, a Chinese company affiliated with CEFC sent $5 million to a joint venture between Hunter and a CEFC associate. The same day, that joint venture sent $400,000 to an entity controlled by Hunter. Less than a week later, Hunter wired $150,000 from his entity to a company owned by James and Sara Biden. On Aug. 28, 2017, Sara withdrew $50,000 from said company. The same day, she deposited it into a personal bank account that belonged to her and her husband. Prior to this deposit, the balance on that personal account was $46.88. On Sept. 3, she cut a $40,000 check from that account to Joe Biden. Graduates of elementary-school math will note that $40,000 is 10% of $400,000.
The second check to Joe Biden was written on March 1, 2018, again from James and Sara. In 2018 James convinced a hospital operator, Americore Health, to lend him $600,000, which according to a later corporate bankruptcy filing was “based upon representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.” On March 1, 2018, Americore wired $200,000 to James and Sara Biden’s personal account. That same day, James wrote the $200,000 check to Joe.
House Democrats have a ready answer for all this, with records showing an attorney trust account maintained by Joe’s attorneys wired $40,000 to James and Sara in July 2017 and $200,000 to the couple in January 2018. The transfers, the Democratic lawmakers say, were “short-term loans,” and James and Sara’s checks back to Joe were simply repayments and in fact read “loan repayment” on the memo lines. The White House adds that the loans were made when Joe was out of office, and asserts that because the checks merely repay Joe “his own money,” there is no bribery or financial gain.
Maybe, maybe not. Mr. Comer’s committee has asked the White House for records related to the loan—purpose, interest, repayment plan? So far, none have come. The committee is also still receiving records from its subpoenas for certain Hunter and James accounts.
The bigger point is that this destroys the president’s longtime claim that he was walled off from the family business. Even if James’s $40,000 check to Joe was a repayment, that transfer was underwritten by Hunter’s Chinese dealings. It was Hunter’s “work”—taking advantage of his dad’s name—that enabled Joe to be “repaid.”
Similarly, it’s highly likely that Joe’s “loans” were enabling James to engage in business deals. Hunter’s and James’s shenanigans were a headache even when Joe was vice president. Does the White House really expect Americans to believe that Joe didn’t ask for any information as to his brother’s request of nearly a quarter-million dollars, or naive enough to think that float wasn’t in aid of the Biden family cash register?
As House Republicans have dug in, Team Biden’s explanations have shifted. First, Joe had “never spoken” to Hunter about business. Then, the president was “not in business” with his son. Now, as per ranking Oversight Democrat Jamie Raskin, Joe “did not profit from his family members’ business ventures.” The goal posts are now on another field altogether. Yet the evidence—ranging from proof that Joe was on Hunter’s business calls to these latest checks—is that Joe knew about the family cash-in on his name and lent both his presence and his money to that cause.
That’s the line any Republican opponent will go with in the 2024 presidential race, and Democrats had best be honest about Joe’s liabilities.
Write to kim@wsj.com.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/biden-cant-escape-his-china-scandal-paper-trail/
Very strong!
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/17/fox-news-legal-analyst-hunter-biden-grand-jury-farce/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=29912&pnespid=q7dmCzlfbK4X2fifu22mSYyFrgKwRsBsNvnt3_xypA1mbWjyfgzX6XNNlMJTNtH0y2w.AVFA
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https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/hldhunter-kept-afloat-millions-fathers-democrat-donors-after
$5 million in "Loans" (from a big donor of his father) makes sense because, umm, an unemployed drug addict might hit the jackpot in the lottery?
Imagine if the Trump or DeSantis family was caught up in this.
If it was a gift, it would be taxable. The federal tax alone on $5 million is 40%. That's a lot of prosecutable tax evasion.
https://smartasset.com/estate-planning/gift-tax-explained-2021-exemption-and-rates
Of course it's a gift and the phony loan documents are evidence.
Unless you happen to be a prominent Democrat. Then you may have the HRC defense available. What difference - at this point - does it make?
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/20/hunter-biden-lashed-out-mexican-business-magnate-ignoring-meetings/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=29912&pnespid=qKhnGisbNroTguDKqyy2DILUsAupDoVoN_qykOFtqgBmyn6n8BfypIYu8XOWrr.hSu1xAbiS
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https://nypost.com/2023/11/29/opinion/hunter-biden-finally-going-to-face-hard-questions-from-those-who-wont-ask-nicely/
Me : suggest first question :
Who is the "big guy"
Is it sugar daddy Joe?
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https://nypost.com/2023/11/29/opinion/hunter-biden-finally-going-to-face-hard-questions-from-those-who-wont-ask-nicely/
Me : suggest first question :
Who is the "big guy"
Is it sugar daddy Joe?
Second question, put one of his paintings up on the jumbotron and ask, how much is this worth?
Remember you are under oath.
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Second question, put one of his paintings up on the jumbotron and ask, how much is this worth?
Remember you are under oath.
Shyster response:
"beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
:wink:
honest response - $100 but for the frame
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National Archives clings to Biden's email aliases: It's strange, isn't it, how the National Archives was so eager to rat out Donald Trump for his failure to return some of his White House documents and yet has been so tenacious in its defense of Joe Biden for his use of multiple fake email addresses to conceal his affairs and to thereby evade congressional oversight while serving as Barack Obama's vice president. Why, it's almost as if the archivist had a political agenda. As The Daily Signal reports, "Getting to the truth of Joe Biden's use of multiple alias email accounts while he was vice president could take years if Congress waits on the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration to release all of the relevant records it is requesting." But there's hope for getting to the bottom of Biden's surreptitious emails and thereby the secret lives of Robert Peters, Robin Ware, and JRB Ware. As the Signal continues, a narrowly targeted Freedom of Information Act request shows that the National Archives has "731 documents relevant to the creation of these alias email accounts and potentially who authorized their use." This would greatly streamline the congressional investigation by narrowing the focus to a small tranche of emails rather than painstakingly poring over all 82,000 of them. Now if we can only get the Archives to cough them up, and preferably prior to next year's election.
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/bank-investigator-flagged-unusual-chinese-payments-behind-40k-check-to-biden-raised-possibility-of-influence-peddling-operation/
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Hunter Biden’s Missing ‘Services’
A bank examiner raised concerns about the president’s son’s account in 2018.
Kimberley A. Strassel
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Kimberley A. Strassel
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Nov. 30, 2023 6:14 pm ET
One of the oldest games in Washington is setting the bar, and this week Rep. Jamie Raskin played it like a pro. Mr. Raskin, ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, gloated that Republicans are failing miserably to demonstrate a “vast unproven family conspiracy” in their investigation of Joe Biden and his kin.
This is called raising expectations, and Mr. Raskin is betting that GOP efforts to get to the bottom of the Biden family business will leave the impression of being mired in the fever swamps. But the questions at play are neither vast nor at this point entirely unproven. They are simple: Did Biden family members cash in solely on the basis of Joe Biden’s political name, and did Joe in any way benefit?
A red-flag document released this week from Oversight Chairman James Comer provides more evidence on the cashing-in point—and it comes from an impartial source. The document is a June 2018 email from an internal bank investigator—someone trained to look for money laundering—that flags suspicious activity within a Hunter Biden joint venture’s account. In his email to an executive at the bank, the investigator says he’s been monitoring Hunter given his designation as a PEP—an acronym for “politically exposed person,” a class of client that poses a risk of bribery or corruption. The investigator then explains “account activity” and “negative news” indicate Hunter to be “high risk.”
The investigator was specifically concerned with the description of a $5 million deposit in August 2017 from Northern International Capital Holdings, a company affiliated with Chinese-government-linked energy firm CEFC. The investigator notes the money was listed as a “business loan,” yet “there was no loan agreement document submitted.”
Instead, the email says, the money had to that date funded 16 wire transfers totaling more than $2.9 million, a portion of which went to an entity controlled by Hunter. “These payments were indicated as management fees and reimbursements,” the email says, noting that “we find it unusual that approximately 58% of the funds were transferred to the law firm in a few months and the frequency of payments appear erratic.” Especially because the joint venture that initially received the so-called loan “does not currently have any investment projects at this time.” The investigator queried why anyone was getting paid “millions in fees” when “it does not appear” there were “services rendered.”
Exactly. A federal investigation and Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers have forced some coverage of whether Hunter paid appropriate taxes on his overseas earnings. Yet Oversight Committee investigators are probing the actual transactions, asking what Hunter did exactly to earn the payouts. The bank investigator was concerned that the Chinese money flowing into Hunter’s account was unrelated to actual business and suggested the bank re-evaluate its “relationship with the customer.” The email cites media reporting that Hunter’s “extravagant spending” might have “put his family in a deep financial hole,” and that there are reports of “China targeting children of politicians and purchase of political influence through ‘sweetheart deals.’ ” This email was written years before Hunter’s laptop went public and he became the target of a congressional investigation.
But the laptop and investigations only added to the concerns outlined in the bank email. What exactly did Hunter provide Ukrainian energy company Burisma in return for a significant monthly payment? Devon Archer, Hunter’s former business partner, told GOP investigators that Hunter’s value-add was “the brand”—Joe Biden’s name—and that “Burisma would have gone out of business if it didn’t have the brand attached to it.” In an email to Mr. Archer in 2011, addressing some of his fledgling dealings with Chinese investors, Hunter admitted: “It has nothing to do with me and everything to do with my last name.”
Bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee, meanwhile, show that at least $40,000 of that $5 million quickly ended up in a Joe Biden bank account—via his brother James, who recorded it as repayment of a loan. Democrats and media allies are pressing the point that it was a loan, obfuscating the larger picture, which is damning. The evidence all points to Joe being well aware of Hunter’s business forays—getting on the phone with Hunter during his son’s business meetings, entertaining prospective Hunter business clients, allowing his son to tag along on Air Force Two for business meetings. Hunter and James had also been in business together.
That put an obligation on Joe Biden—as a senator, vice president and a potential presidential candidate—to keep his finances completely separate. He might not have proved able to stop his son or brother from cashing in on the family name, and he might never have taken an “official act” on Hunter’s behalf. But he did aid Hunter in his brand selling, and money from that selling ended up in his account.
That information is highly relevant to voters, and why the GOP probe is a public service. Even if the Biden family business doesn’t prove to be some vast conspiracy, it is certainly a sordid affair.
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” The investigator queried why anyone was getting paid “millions in fees” when “it does not appear” there were “services rendered.”
- And the defense for that would be detailed records with staff names and hours and expenses associated with specific projects, are there aren't. If your law firmed billed you $2.9 million in this case, what documentation of work done would you expect with that bill?
Absent that, in this situation, it is presumed corruption and influence for sale.
BTW, we're the asking prices for Hunters paintings accurate fair market value, not overvalued? Isn't that exactly the case going on in NY with the Trump family business.
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/12/01/the_biden_family_grift_and_hunters_fake_offer_to_testify_150133.html
*. Buyer beware. Crafty had a problem with a previous
realclearpolitics.com link.
I find it to be a very reputable site. .
A bit long to post the whole thing.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12824051/Bank-records-Joe-Biden-received-MONTHLY-payments-Hunters-company-received-millions-China-Republicans-zero-firm-presidents-son-used-tax-evasion.html
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" in 2018, after Joe Biden had left the vice presidency and before he had launched his presidential campaign, he took in three payments of $1,380 each"
OK this is a start -> now dig deeper
I can imagine the libs rolling their eyes over $4 K
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It's hard for me to believe we don't have enough evidence right now to know: these are very large amounts of money received by selling influence and Joe was central to it, cooperating and benefiting.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hunter-biden-saga-continues-impeachment-inquiry-politics-c38ccce8
The Hunter Biden Saga Continues
The House will vote on whether to open an impeachment inquiry into the president.
House Republicans just took two big steps toward impeaching President Biden.
The first came on Saturday, when Speaker Mike Johnson said he has the votes to approve a impeachment inquiry into the president, which would make official then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s declaration of one back in September. The second came Monday, when Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer made public a subpoenaed bank record showing that Joe Biden received in 2018 at least three direct monthly payments of $1,380 from Hunter Biden’s firm, Owasco PC. This comes on the heels of last week’s news that a bank investigator raised red flags in June 2018 about what Oversight says was “money from China that ultimately funded the $40,000 check” to Joe Biden from his sister-in-law.
Ever since the public learned of Hunter Biden’s influence peddling abroad, his father’s defenders have insisted there’s no there there. In 2019, when Joe Biden was running for his party’s nomination for president, he put it this way during a campaign stop in South Carolina:
“There will be an absolute wall between the personal and private, and the government. There wasn’t any hint of scandal at all when we were there, and I will impose the same kind of strict, strict rules. That’s why I never talk with my son or my brother or anyone else in the distant family about their business interests, period.”
Mr. Biden was equally categorical during the 2020 debates with Donald Trump. He dismissed Hunter’s laptop as Russian disinformation, citing a statement by 51 intelligence experts ginned up by then-campaign aide and now Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
In the two debates, when Mr. Trump brought up Hunter’s sleazy overseas business dealings, Mr. Biden responded that it wasn’t true, or that Mr. Trump’s assertion had been discredited.
At one point Mr. Trump brought up payments from China. Mr. Biden said, “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China.” But in federal court in July, Hunter Biden himself refuted his father’s claim. He admitted to Judge Maryellen Noreika that he received $664,000 from CEFC, a Chinese company with connections to the Communist Party.
The president and his defenders continue to insist there is no evidence of wrongdoing. But while there may not be absolute proof, there is plenty of evidence—and it’s growing.
After Mr. Comer’s news of the monthly payments broke, the Washington Post reported that they were for a Ford Raptor truck owned by Joe Biden and used by Hunter. Asked if this was true, a Comer spokesperson says: “Unclear but doesn’t matter from our perspective. There is now a pattern of members of the Biden family using their bank accounts that have been funded by Chinese and other foreign entities to send money to Joe Biden.” And it raises a question: Why was Hunter paying his father out of his company bank account?
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The three monthly payments apparently began immediately after Trump took office i.e. during the interregnum when Biden was out of office. Honest people would draw the logical inference from the timing, but we are not dealing with honest people here; so Clintonesque evasions are the order of the day.
Frankly, IMHO the we/the Reps have been drawn to the shiny object of Biden's treasonous corruption. Rightly so!
This however leaves us with two problems.
1) the legal-political gamesmanship based around "Well, you haven't proven it to a legal certainty/conviction"; and
2) Kommiela Harris.
IMHO it would be far , , , ahem , , , craftier to go after BOTH of them for violation of Article Four, Section Four of our C.
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From Red State via Bongino report:
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/12/06/hunter-biden-received-49-from-sugar-brother-hollywood-lawyer-who-paid-his-taxes-bought-his-art-n2167225
trying to figure this out:
Joe is Hunter's daddy
but Morris is Hunter's "sugar daddy"
and Hunter is Joe's "sugar daddy"
and who is Morris' sugar daddy or is he just a wealthy partisan?
what is in it for him?
:-o
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PS trying to find Yiddish to fit the Biden corruption
but not finding exact word
closest I can come up with is *finagle*.
a family and friends are finaglers.
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House investigators keep digging into the Biden family business, and this week comes new evidence of the ways Joe Biden helped his son using alias email accounts.
Internal Revenue Service agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler provided to the House Ways and Means Committee more information from their multiyear investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and business.
The documents include an 11-page log showing a list of 327 emails that Joe Biden sent or received from 2010 to 2019 under pseudonyms that included “robinware456” and “robert.l.peters.” Mr. Biden was a big user of these shadow accounts, with the National Archives and Records Administration disclosing that it has up to 82,000 pages of emails and documents sent or received under Biden aliases while he was Vice President.
The 327 emails listed in the log are exchanges between Joe Biden and Hunter or Eric Schwerin, a former Hunter business partner who handled Biden family finances. The committee says 54 of the exchanges are between Joe Biden and Mr. Schwerin.
Five emails were exchanged within five days of Mr. Biden’s June 2014 trip to Ukraine, while another 27 were exchanged prior to his return trip to Ukraine in November 2014. Those trips coincided with Hunter’s lucrative board position at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
The trips preceded then Vice President’s Biden’s 2015 role in forcing the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma and its CEO, Nikolai Zlochevsky, for corruption. Another 38 emails originated from within the White House and were sent to Joe Biden aliases, with Hunter Biden copied.
The committee doesn’t know the contents of the emails, but further evidence provided to Congress raises questions about Hunter’s role at Burisma, the political access he was peddling, and Joe Biden’s knowledge of that work. Hunter’s former partner, Devon Archer, previously told Congress that “Burisma would have gone out of business if it didn’t have the [Biden] brand attached to it.”
Ways and Means also received new emails from Mr. Ziegler that are revealing about what Burisma wanted from Hunter. One email is from Vadym Pozharsky, an adviser to Burisma, to Hunter in April 2015. The Ukrainian thanked Hunter for “the opportunity to meet your father and spent (sp) some time together.”
Another Pozharsky email to Hunter (which copies Mr. Schwerin) in November 2015 asks Hunter for thoughts on a proposal for a contract for a U.S. lobbying firm, Blue Star Strategies. Mr. Pozharsky worries about the lack of “concrete, tangible results” listed in the proposal, including how the firm will improve Mr. Zlochevky’s “case.”
Mr. Pozharsky says it’s okay if the omission was to be on “the safe and cautious side,” so long as “all parties in fact understand the true purpose” of the contract. He then spells that out, saying the Blue Star work needs to include arranging a visit of “widely recognized and influential current and/or former US policy-makers to Ukraine . . . to close down for any cases/pursuits against [Zlochevsky] in Ukraine.”
An October 2016 email between a Blue Star employee and Mr. Schwerin includes the news that the Ukrainian government had ended its probe into Mr. Zlochevsky (about eight months after the Ukrainian prosecutor was fired). Mr. Schwerin congratulates the team on its “awesome work.” The Blue Star employee writes: “Thanks. U brought us in so take a victory lap.”
All of this suggests Joe Biden was fully aware that Hunter was selling the family “brand,” and that the Vice President was helping with the sale. It also raises new questions about the connection between Hunter’s job at Burisma and Joe’s work getting the Ukrainian prosecutor of Mr. Zlochevsky fired. None of it looks good.
https://apple.news/ACah_DpU_Rh-MLzpxh1hbpA
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https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/joe-biden-vowed-crack-down-tax-cheats-his-doj-just-charged-his-son
He wrote off a sex club as a business expense, and they weren't going to charge him?
Looks (to me) like Joe won't be the nominee.
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https://nypost.com/2023/12/08/opinion/hunter-indictment-designed-specifically-to-avoid-joe-biden
1. He let the statute of limitations expire on charisma.
2. He completely ignored the foreign agent f a r a violations.
3. The indictments have nothing to do with how the money was earned, only that taxes weren't paid on it. No unindicted co-conspirator etc.
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Let's say Hunter gets his slap in the wrist.
I would place my bet Joe will pardon him.
Even before the election in case he loses.
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My guess it will be in the interregnum abter the election and before , , , departure from office?
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and one more point.
Turley makes it clear (and Dershowitz agrees, but he recommends a special counsel) why an impeachment inquiry is needed.
If the DOJ is not going to pursue a mountain of circumstantial evidence then Congress should.
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typical for psychopathic naricssistic lying con artist:
his woes are always blamed on someone or something else
never really takes responsibility for his actions
it is the GOP hit mob
it is his poor addiction disease
etc.
this is classic stuff.
Trump has this too but he has legitimate complaints as well for sure from the lawfare media DNC shysters
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-casts-himself-victim-claiming-republicans-trying-kill-me
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A survey of Biden’s criminal activity:
https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1734394329852936353?fbclid=IwAR0QrVhxX5M8UWePNXX4ZwcL5v-rk-MqdffCX3xN7BdWab5BbZJVJflb0UI
Hey. Everybody needs 20 shell companies to handle their finances, right?
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2ndish post:
Imagine the MSM response if her last name was instead Trump.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/12/11/who_is_sara_biden_joes_in-law_emerges_as_central_figure_in_foreign_cash_deals_996942.html
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good morning BBG,
I can't see the list in the first post perhaps because it is on X which I do not subscribe to.
" Here were some of our biggest revelations 👇"
for me the rest of the page is a white blank.
if Biden was Trump we would be seeing things like this:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/exclusive-former-mar-a-lago-employee-turned-witness-repeatedly-contacted-by-trump-and-associates-before-documents-charges/ar-AA1lm1Ia
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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/12/cell-phone-records-expose-hunter-bidens-web-of-power-1419378/?utm_campaign=bizpac&utm_content=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_source=Get%20Response&utm_term=EMAIL
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https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/12/11/who_is_sara_biden_joes_in-law_emerges_as_central_figure_in_foreign_cash_deals_996942.html
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... the MSM would have kittens. Hunter just blew off his Congressional subpoena.
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So, does AG Garland enforce the subpoena? One suspects not. No doubt the Reps will bring up some self-righteous quotes from when Steve Bannon resisted a congressional subpoena.
Will Hunter's failure to appear today not iadd to the justifications for the impeachment inquiry vote today?
BTW, why does no one seem to be mentioning that it is not necessary to show payments to Joe, that under the bribery statute payments to family members are a sufficient basis for conviction? Do I not have this right?
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If Joe or his surrogates advised or influenced Hunter not to testify, and of course they did, evidence of that adds an obstruction charge to the impeachment.
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Once again I hear "no credible evidence linking Joe to Hunter's business dealings". Fox News Sunday Dem legal analyst.
I think they mean no credible evidence other than photos, dinners, flights, emails, payments, obvious cover up and sworn testimony
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" I think they mean no credible evidence other than photos, dinners, flights, emails, payments, obvious cover up and sworn testimony "
exactly
they always seem to bring on Republican lacky's who seems incapable of rattling all this off as "PLENTY OF EVIDENCE" fast enough -
before they get cut off with a very loud and stern: "LET ME BE CLEAR THERE IS NO PROOF OR EVIDENCE JOE BIDEN HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HUNTER'S BUSINESS DEALINGS"
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PS
this is essentially what CNN or MSPCP or PBS would do when anyone mentions Joe's corruption
they press this emergency button and yell what I posted above:
https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/buzzer-89244/
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https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/21/hunter-biden-creditor-rudy-giuliani-bankruptcy-filing/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=29912&pnespid=u_NuFH5JPvhAw6PEviy9FYqW4x70UolnLeK2xLF4.wBmYMFHzMtNtXADtwTZ.e.BbfSKJWKe
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listened to Rudy on Greg Kelly then his own radio show WABC yesterday and Rudy pointed out the two women who sued him for defamation and were awarded 148 million
He stated his net worth around 10 million and he owes 1 mill to creditors. He only mentioned Hunter by saying one of the 8 high priced lawyers these women had on their team worked as colleague with Hunter Biden's work at a law firm and said easy to connect the dots.
Perhaps that is somehow a connection to one of Hunter's previous law firm lawyers is owed money.
Rudy said the only thing he can do is declare bankruptcy since he does not have the additional 138 million.
I assume his assets will be frozen and the grifters, shysters will go after what he does have.
I am wondering if the jury awarded 9 million would that have made more sense and more ability to get at least that much money.
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Just bumped into this:
@mirandadevine
BREAKING 🚨 Georges Bergès, Hunter Biden’s art gallerist has told @GOPoversight that he never had any communication with the White House about a so-called “ethics agreement” governing the sale of Hunter Biden’s art. It was a sham.
“The Biden White House appears to have deceived the American people,” says Chairman James Comer. “Hunter Biden’s amateur art career is an ethics nightmare. The vast majority of Hunter Biden’s art has been purchased by Democrat donors, one of whom was appointed by President Biden to a prestigious commission after she purchased Hunter Biden’s art for tens of thousands of dollars shortly after Joe Biden’s inauguration.”
Far from the blind purchases promised by the White House, Hunter Biden “knew the identities of the individuals who purchased roughly 70% of the value of his art, including Democrat donors Kevin Morris and Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali.”
Sugar brother Kevin Morris bought most of Hunter Biden’s art for $875,000 in January 2023.
“However, Kevin Morris only paid Mr. Bergès 40% commission of the $875,000 purchase and Hunter Biden and Kevin Morris figured out the financial implications. Mr. Bergès admitted he has never done an art deal like that before.”
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obviously,
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/10/gop-lawmakers-confront-hunter-biden-at-contempt-hearing-you-have-no-balls/
the big middle finger
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/10/gop-lawmakers-confront-hunter-biden-at-contempt-hearing-you-have-no-balls/
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https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/01/16/heres-what-fbi-agents-found-when-they-removed-hunter-bidens-gun-from-the-evidence-vault-in-2023-n2168817
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was wondering if the cocaine on the gun could be compared to gas chromatography of the coke found at the WH.
But thinking this would not work after a quick search:
https://analyticalscience.wiley.com/content/article-do/chemical-profiling-cocaine-powerful-tool-drug-enforcement
Of course the WH sample was thrown out we are told but the results of the chemical analysis I would think is still somewhere in the records (buried deep)
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https://www.judicialwatch.org/biden-classified-materials/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_content=&utm_campaign=corruption+chronicles&utm_term=members
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WSJ
Hunter Biden, Kevin Morris and Lawyers’ Ethics
The attorney’s ‘loans’ to the president’s son raise questions the California Bar should take seriously.
By Darin R. Bartram
Jan. 29, 2024 12:57 pm ET
Whether or not Hunter Biden’s business dealings end up implicating President Biden, they encompass a skein of disreputable and allegedly even unlawful conduct. The latest problem is a possible violation of the ethically acceptable attorney-client relationship.
America First Legal filed a complaint with the California State Bar against Kevin Morris, a lawyer who represented Hunter Biden. It seeks professional sanctions against Mr. Morris for providing a variety of financial support to Hunter. According to news reports, Mr. Morris’s support of Hunter Biden totaled some $6.5 million. He funded outstanding debts such as housing, child support and car payments on Mr. Biden’s Porsche, provided him with flights on Mr. Morris’s private jet, and purchased 13 of Mr. Biden’s paintings for more than $900,000. Mr. Morris has defended his financial entanglements with Hunter, including the payment of tax debts, by characterizing them as loans, which Mr. Morris says were negotiated by lawyers at 5% interest.
Mr. Morris and his lawyers acknowledged all this in closed-door testimony to the lawmakers conducting the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry and a letter to the House Oversight Committee. Chairman James Comer said in a statement that “Kevin Morris obtained access to Biden White House after ‘lending’ money to Hunter Biden.” Mr. Morris replied by telling ABC News: “My ‘access’ to the White House’ consisted of a tour, attending a wedding, and the especially heinous crime of attending last year’s Fourth of July picnic with hundreds of other people.”
At play here is a sensible rule of the California Bar. It deserves respect, not only as a legal requirement for bar members, but also as a standard of conduct balancing different imperatives that ought to structure the attorney-client relationship. One imperative is for lawyers to maintain a professional distance from their clients. Bar rules of professional conduct are infused with measures designed to ensure the lawyer’s professional independence of judgment and his ability to function as a disinterested adviser.
State bar rules also are designed to reconcile an attorney’s duty to advocate for his client with the attorney’s obligation as an officer of the court. The American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct note this blended role: “A lawyer, as a member of the legal profession, is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice.” Attorneys are expected to act with professional decorum. Their dealings with clients must be conducted with fairness, reasonableness and full disclosure.
An attorney’s ability to provide personal financial assistance to his clients varies by the jurisdiction. Most state bars permit a lawyer to enter into fair and reasonable business transactions with clients, provided the transactions are documented and the result of informed consent by the client.
Mr. Morris has acknowledged acquiring a financial interest in one of Hunter Biden’s business entities, Skaneateles LLC. When a lawmaker asked what Skaneateles did, Mr. Morris said, “I’m not to the point sure.” This doesn’t support a conclusion that this business transaction was fair, reasonable, or the result of informed consent.
The gist of the complaint against Mr. Morris is that his payment of expenses on behalf of Hunter Biden violates a provision of the California Bar rules, to which each attorney admitted to practice in California must adhere. Rule 1.8.5 reads in part: “A lawyer shall not directly or indirectly pay . . . the personal or business expenses of a prospective or existing client.” Commentary to Rule 1.8.5 explains that “permitting gifts to existing clients was excluded from the proposed rule due to the potential of unintended expectations and confusion between the personal and professional relationship between the lawyer and client.”
Rule 1.8.5 does permit a lawyer to lend money to a client, but Mr. Morris almost certainly didn’t comply with the rule’s requirement to ensure Hunter Biden’s informed consent in writing before making the loans. He testified that he didn’t document the loans until “a little later,” perhaps six months to a year after making them. In addition, no reasonable review would conclude that Mr. Morris’s purchase of Mr. Biden’s art was merely a loan for which the paintings served as collateral. He testified that he has yet to pay for 11 of the paintings because “I’m discussing with my tax advisers and business people, and I haven’t elected how to characterize that yet.”
Other jurisdictions permit a lawyer representing a client to advance financial assistance to a client that is “reasonably necessary to permit the client to institute or maintain the litigation or administrative proceedings,” as the District of Columbia’s rule puts it. Financial assistance in this regard is very limited, and is intended to avoid a client’s feeling pressured to settle a claim on unfavorable circumstances to receive proceeds immediately. Mr. Morris’s payment of some of Hunter Biden’s bills and back taxes, or the purchase of Hunter’s art on terms that he didn’t appear to make available to other buyers, wouldn’t qualify as financial assistance.
In Maryland, attorneys aren’t permitted to advance to their clients any funds other than the court costs and expenses of litigation. A commentary to the Maryland rule emphasizes that providing financial assistance to clients, such as living expenses, “would encourage clients to pursue lawsuits that might not otherwise be brought” and that “such assistance gives attorneys too great a financial stake in the litigation.”
Mr. Morris’s dealings with Hunter Biden appear not to comply with the California Bar’s rules and to be inconsistent with the rules of other state bars. His assistance to the president’s son is most plausibly explained by political or ideological considerations. Mr. Morris has a right to his political or ideological views, but it doesn’t free him from his obligations as a lawyer. The case presents the California Bar with an opportunity to affirm that the attorney-client relationship is a professional one that mustn’t be blurred by other considerations.
Mr. Bartram practices appellate and constitutional law in Washington.
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/02/01/why-is-the-white-house-hiding-bidens-2014-ukraine-speech-n2634481https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/02/01/why-is-the-white-house-hiding-bidens-2014-ukraine-speech-n2634481
Committee wants the drafts of the 2014 Ukraine speech where Joe admits getting the prosecutor fired.
Most scandal free administration ever, sold arms to Mexican crime cartels, guilty of IRS targeting ofvopponents, got prosecutors fired 5000 miles away and bragged about it on video.
Maybe a raid on the documents center by the jackbooted thugs at dawn with arms drawn is in order.
What would Democrats do?
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/02/01/why-is-the-white-house-hiding-bidens-2014-ukraine-speech-n2634481https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/02/01/why-is-the-white-house-hiding-bidens-2014-ukraine-speech-n2634481
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/02/01/why-is-the-white-house-hiding-bidens-2014-ukraine-speech-n2634481https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/02/01/why-is-the-white-house-hiding-bidens-2014-ukraine-speech-n2634481
I’m getting a dead link, and when I go to Town Hall and search all of Palvich’s storied, this isn’t listed. Wonder if it was disappeared?
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2024/02/01/why-is-the-white-house-hiding-bidens-2014-ukraine-speech-n2634481
While I searched.I noticed she wrote a book about Obama's Fast and Furious.
https://www.amazon.com/Fast-Furious-Bloodiest-Shameless-Cover-Up/dp/1596983213/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=M5AJXXE3Z8MAM7ESKHW2
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Nice find on the Pavlich book!
IIRC we covered OP F&F quite a bit here, especially the work of Sharyl Attkinson (sp?) on the Well Armed People thread.
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Nice find on the Pavlich book!
IIRC we covered OP F&F quite a bit here, especially the work of Sharyl Attkinson (sp?) on the Well Armed People thread.
People should buy her book, speaking of not letting things fall into the memory hole, for a table piece or gift giving to the liberal who has everything. Worst case $20 goes to a young, smart, pretty female journalist with her head on straight.
I would like to see Katie write the book on IRS Targeting before that slips away too.
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/13/in-business-messages-hunter-biden-called-dad-the-c/
This article has a pretty good recap. I can't figure out what evidence they are waiting for. I can only guess they don't have all the votes needed for impeachment. Who is holding out and why?
Joe met with Burisma before he got the prosecutor fired? He witheld US money to get the prosecutor fired? Said he had the President (Obama) behind him on it.
Did all this happen before Joe was President? No corruption since?
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Informant Who Alleged Biden Corruption Made Up Claims, Prosecutors Say
The allegations had been central to a GOP impeachment inquiry into President Biden
By Aruna Viswanatha and C. Ryan Barber
Updated Feb. 15, 2024 6:45 pm ET
An informant who alleged that Joe Biden engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national during his vice presidency was arrested on charges of lying to the FBI, a twist that appears to undermine a push by House Republicans to impeach the president.
The informant, Alexander Smirnov, who had been a confidential source for the FBI since 2010, provided “false derogatory information” about Biden and his son Hunter, authorities said Thursday.
Smirnov’s allegations were memorialized in an official FBI record that House Republicans have touted in their investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings. That record was at the heart of a standoff last year between the FBI and GOP lawmakers who subpoenaed the document in their inquiry.
Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, threatened to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt over the bureau’s initial reluctance to turn over the record, but the two sides later reached a deal that allowed lawmakers to review the document. Republicans made it public last summer.
An FBI official cautioned at the time that investigative reports only “include leads and suspicions, not conclusions of investigators based on fuller context.”
In response to the indictment of Smirnov, Comer said the impeachment inquiry into Biden doesn’t rely on the FBI document and is based on “a large record of evidence,” including bank records and witness testimony
“We will continue to follow the facts to propose legislation to reform federal ethics laws and to determine whether articles of impeachment are warranted,” Comer said.
Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, said, “For months we have warned that Republicans have built their conspiracies about Hunter and his family on lies told by people with political agendas, not facts. We were right and the air is out of their balloon.”
Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.) at the Capitol on Thursday. PHOTO: AMANDA ANDRADE-RHOADES/REUTERS
The case was brought by Special Counsel David Weiss, who is separately prosecuting Hunter Biden on gun and tax charges. The younger Biden has pleaded not guilty.
Smirnov had allegedly provided the FBI with tips related to Burisma, a Ukrainian gas producer that had Hunter Biden on its board for around five years starting in 2014, when Joe Biden was vice president. That relationship has been the subject of criminal and congressional investigations for years into Hunter Biden.
In June 2020, while Joe Biden was running for president, Smirnov told the FBI that in two meetings in 2015 or 2016, executives associated with Burisma admitted they hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” and that they had paid $5 million each to Joe Biden and Hunter Biden when Joe Biden was still in office, in part to help end a criminal investigation by the then-Ukrainian prosecutor general into Burisma.
Smirnov also claimed that there had been two phone calls between himself and a Burisma official in which the official purportedly said that he had been forced to pay both Bidens and it would take investigators 10 years to find records of the payments to the president.
Those allegations were fabrications, prosecutors said. Smirnov hadn’t actually met with officials from Burisma until 2017, according to the indictment.
Earlier in 2020, Smirnov texted harsh criticism of Joe Biden to his FBI handler multiple times, including that Biden was “going to jail,” and that Democrats had “tried to impeach [Trump] for same,” according to the indictment.
FBI agents interviewed Smirnov in September. He then changed his story on some claims and made up new ones, prosecutors alleged.
Smirnov was arrested in Las Vegas upon arriving on an international flight. A lawyer for Smirnov couldn’t immediately be identified for comment.
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I read that his claims are true but the time it occurred was really 2017 when Joe was no longer VP
not 2014 as he claimed. !!
How could our people not have figured that out ahead of time? Like election fraud claims. We can't prove it so we look silly.
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The timing is too perfect. What I'm seeing so far is that in order to protect Biden yet again, the FBI is throwing under the bus a guy they have been paying as an informant since 2010.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13098115/joe-biden-president-jim-biden-americore-fraud.html
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https://api-esp.piano.io/story/estored/233/2906/-1/4707277/701743/vib-clst5l3rb009g01x3e7g0dkos?sig=03ae3b0920db97aa8ca53d4d350f89a49ed40bc95979a46e3fe3054782c09954
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/james-comer-resignation-calls-grow-after-russian-intel-bombshell/ar-BB1iDOzr?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=31fa43576cc142e29253895f58263620&ei=15
To me it is a tossup.
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They have been paying this guy big bucks for fourteen years and now, with exquisitely convenient timing , , ,
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I'm thinking there's plenty of other bases to proceed apart from this formerly trusted informer of 14 years, AND his indictment sure is politically convenient , , , That said, we do need to take a look at this:
The arrest of the Biden informant.
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Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who is leading the impeachment inquiry into Biden, had elevated the informant's claims. Image: Wikicommons
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Quick hits.
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Today's topic.
Alexander Smirnov. Last week, the FBI arrested Alexander Smirnov, an informant the FBI had used as a confidential source since 2010. Smirnov was charged with lying to the FBI that President Biden and his son Hunter were involved in a bribery scheme with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
Back up: In the summer of 2020, Smirnov told his FBI handler that he had a series of meetings and phone calls with executives from the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma in 2015 and 2016. In those meetings, Smirnov said Burisma executives admitted that Hunter Biden was added to the board so his dad Joe could protect them from problems they may have with U.S. officials. Smirnov also said that the executives told him Hunter and Joe Biden forced Burisma to pay them each $5 million in bribes to ensure Ukraine's Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was fired, and he claimed that he possessed 17 recordings, text messages, and financial documents as proof of the entire scheme.
Smirnov's claims were memorialized at the FBI in a four-page reporting document known as an FD-1023, which was eventually subpoenaed by Republicans in Congress and then leaked to the press.
The report had not been fact-checked before it was leaked, and the FBI warned that such source material includes leads and suspicions, not conclusions made by investigators. However, it became instant political fodder when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) publicly released a copy of the record and described the claims as "very significant allegations from a trusted F.B.I. informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme," though he never named Smirnov.
Republicans in Congress, most notably Rep. James Comer (R-KY), have since used those documents as the backbone of their impeachment inquiry into Biden.
Now what? The Justice Department has indicted Smirnov on charges that he fabricated his allegations. On Tuesday, prosecutors also alleged in a 28-page filing that Smirnov had "extensive and extremely recent" contacts with foreign intelligence services, including Russia’s, and described him as an incessant liar who continues to make up misinformation and pass it to his FBI handlers.
“The Defendant’s story to the FBI was a fabrication,” prosecutors alleged. Smirnov “transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against [President Biden].”
According to prosecutors, Smirnov hadn't met with officials from Burisma until 2017. He never delivered the documents, recordings, or records he promised. During a "custodial interview" in February, Smirnov conceded that Russian officials were involved in passing along some of the stories he shared about Hunter. However, prosecutors stopped short of saying that the claims about the Biden family bribery scheme were lies coming from his contacts in Russia.
When prosecutors interviewed Smirnov again in September, he changed his story on some claims and made up new ones, they said. Included in his new false allegations were claims that he saw footage of Hunter Biden entering a hotel in Kyiv, Ukraine, that the hotel was "wired," and Hunter was recorded while he was inside.
“Investigators know that Smirnov’s new story is false because [Hunter Biden] has never traveled to Ukraine,” prosecutors said.
In a bizarre twist, the prosecutors who brought the case forward are operating under David Weiss, the special counsel who is separately prosecuting Hunter Biden on gun and tax charges.
Today, we're going to explore some reactions to this indictment from the right and left, then my take.
What the right is saying.
The right takes Smirnov’s indictment seriously but doesn’t think it clears the Bidens of all wrongdoing.
Some criticize House Republicans for staking their investigation on such flimsy evidence.
Others suggest Special Counsel Weiss should be removed from the case for negligence.
In The New York Post, Jonathan Turley argued “this lying witness does not exonerate the Bidens.”
“The allegation has produced a stampede of Democrats who view his indictment as a much-needed talking point as the House continues to build the case of influence-peddling by the Biden family,” Turley wrote. “However, there are a couple of aspects to the filing that undermine the claims of a ‘bombshell’ revelation of a Russian disinformation campaign. First, these disclosures were not the result of surveillance or interceptions by American intelligence. Smirnov appears to have been cooperating with the United States and told his US ‘handler’ about all of these contacts.
“Second, Smirnov’s contacts were described as ‘recent’ and did not apparently precede 2020. They have nothing to do with the laptop or the evidence of influence-peddling found in emails on that computer… Third, the Justice Department states that Smirnov had expressed ‘bias’ against Joe Biden and used ‘his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma’ to make the bribery allegations,” Turley said. “In relation to the influence-peddling investigation, this filing does not change the evidence that the Biden family made millions in shaking down foreign companies and business figures.”
In The Bulwark, William Kristol and Andrew Egger wrote “the Alexander Smirnov farce takes a sinister turn.”
“The farcical implosion of Smirnov’s claims—that he’d heard executives at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma discuss paying $5 million bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden while the latter sat on their board and the former was vice president—has been an enormous embarrassment to the congressional Republicans who had made his allegations a tentpole of their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.”
“Smirnov’s claims were full of holes, so much so that catching him in lies was almost comically easy for special counsel David Weiss’ investigators,” Kristol and Egger added. “But if Smirnov’s buffoonish allegations and Republicans’ credulousness toward them initially seemed comical, the revelation that they may have been planted by Russian agents makes the whole thing far more sinister. Russia has had enough success meddling in our elections on their own—do they really need the help of the entire congressional GOP?”
In The Federalist, Margot Cleveland said the indictment “looks just as bad for David Weiss as the charged FBI informant.”
“The harm here is not merely that investigators wasted time chasing apparently false leads, or that Hunter and Joe Biden suffered from Smirnov’s allegedly false accusations, but also that Smirnov’s lies may overshadow the other unrelated — and substantial — evidence implicating the Bidens in a pay-to-play scandal, rendering it more difficult to obtain justice,” Cleveland wrote. “Assuming the allegations against Smirnov are true, charges are eminently justified. Also justified? Impeaching David Weiss.”
“Special Counsel Weiss clearly knows how bad this looks because, in the indictment, he tried to spin the assessment into the FD-1023 as being closed out by the Pittsburgh FBI office, implying that is why his office did not conduct any further investigative steps,” Cleveland said. “That alone should justify Weiss’s removal — and not merely for what he failed to do, but also because the country can’t trust that his special counsel team will follow all the leads, including the ones we don’t know about.”
What the left is saying.
The left derides House Republicans for their increasingly chaotic and baseless investigation into the Bidens.
Some say Smirnov’s indictment should end the impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
Others wonder whether Republicans knowingly espoused false information to bolster their case with the public.
In MSNBC, Hayes Brown wrote “the GOP keeps winning in its Biden investigation — and hating the results.”
“Rather than hurt Biden, House Republicans have more often than not found that having the power to lead investigations has backfired on them tremendously. Alexander Smirnov, who’s now been charged with lying to the FBI, was charged by the same special counsel that Republicans insisted be appointed to investigate the president and his family,” Brown said. “Smirnov’s indictment is just the latest GOP self-inflicted wound. The party rushed to launch an impeachment inquiry against Biden which drew attention to the negligible evidence it had gathered.”
“The sensible thing to do at this point would be to call it quits and admit that there’s nothing more to be gained from going down this rabbit hole. But that would involve Republicans admitting to their voters that there was nothing to their promises to prove Biden is a criminal and satiate their base’s call for his arrest. More likely, though, they’ll double down and insist that Smirnov is being silenced for his bold truth-telling.”
In CNN, Dennis Aftergut said the indictment “pushes [the] GOP impeachment probe of Biden off the edge.”
“With Smirnov’s indictment for fabricating claims, the air is out of the House inquiry’s tires. For those in the fact-based world, the oversight committee’s impeachment car, driven by Comer, is stuck on the edge of a cliff with two wheels hanging in thin air,” Aftergut wrote. “The Smirnov episode is Exhibit A in what happens when politicians grinding partisan axes make serious public charges without evidence against elected officials. That shameless behavior erodes citizens’ precious trust in government.”
“Unfortunately, the MAGA committee chairs seem to have neither time nor interest in thought, care, competence or real evidence. All that seems to matter to them is repeating the charges enough times for them to sink into the public consciousness,” Aftergut said. “From Comer and Jordan, we’ve seen plenty of spectacle but an absence of light. These point men for Trump and truthlessness are dangers to democracy.”
In his Substack, The Status Kuo, Jay Kuo discussed how “investigations and disinformation have been weaponized.”
“The same guy Reps. Comer and Jordan and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) pumped as a reason to go after Biden for bribery turned out to be a Russian intelligence tool,” Kuo wrote. “Now the question is, were GOP leaders just useful idiots for Russian election interference, or did they know, like Bill Barr and his cronies apparently did, that Smirnov’s claims were false, but amplified them anyway to dirty up Biden?"
“How amazed the Russians must have been to discover that they could easily mainline disinformation to the American public, not just through social media, but through the very people who are supposed to work to stop it,” Kuo said. “These GOP leaders are at best hapless dupes. They should have known and understood the games Russia was playing with them. But we shouldn’t discount the possibility that they were well aware that the Smirnov claims were false and may have originated from Russian intelligence… and then went along with them anyway.”
My take.
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As keen Tangle readers know, the informant’s report was always unsubstantiated, and now we know it wasn’t real at all.
This latest flop could be the beginning of the end of Republicans’ attempts to impeach Joe Biden.
There are a lot of Russia hysterics out there, but let’s not understate the reality of what is happening right now, either.
I'm going to take a brief victory lap, and then I’ll explain where this leaves us.
First, as eye-grabbing as this bit of news is, it should not be that surprising if you’ve been reading Tangle closely.
When we initially covered this in September, we were careful to note that the source behind the FD-1023 document was passing along "secondhand allegations" through "unverified documents." In "My take," I contrasted that evidence to what Democrats put forward in their first impeachment inquiry of Trump, including a recording of a phone call and a whistleblower from inside the U.S. government. Then I said:
Republicans don't have any of that. They have one form detailing an uncorroborated claim from an anonymous source that past investigators didn't seem to find particularly reliable. Even in conservative media, there has not been any blockbuster story proving that President Biden corruptly benefited from or aided in his son’s dealings. And to be clear, this is not some partisan take on this — Republicans themselves concede they are still on the hunt for evidence. As Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said, “The inquiry would give us another tool in the toolbox specifically to look at Joe Biden’s bank records… Everyone’s screaming about the evidence, ‘Where’s the evidence?’ The bank records hold all of the evidence.”
All of this stunk from the beginning. The impeachment inquiry has not had any real, decisive focus. Some Republicans say it is about Hunter Biden's shady business dealings and his dad's involvement in them. Others were talking about Biden's mishandling of classified documents, or his handling of the border. Some have pointed to the IRS whistleblowers accusing Biden's Justice Department of obstructing the investigation into Hunter (this, to me, is still by far the most damning accusation). But there remains no single clear narrative about what they have uncovered or what crime they are pursuing.
This document, though, was supposed to be at the center of it. Some Republicans were willing to admit it was not something to take to the bank, but many others went the opposite direction.
"The most corroborating evidence we have is that 1023 form from this highly credible confidential human source according to U.S. attorney Scott Brady," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said.
Just like it was important to remember the hysteria that came from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and other Democrats when Trump was in office, it's important to remember the people who blew this into as big of a deal as possible and the people who talked in measured, reasonable ways about it. As Politico pointed out, Sean Hannity aired 85 segments about this. Kevin McCarthy used this form as justification for launching the impeachment inquiry. The New York Post ran a headline that read "Biden $10M bribe file released: Burisma chief said he was ‘coerced’ to pay Joe, ‘stupid’ Hunter in bombshell allegations."
All of that looks like total nonsense. It’s bad enough that the Republican impeachment inquiry looks to be losing steam already, and Comer is conceding there may not even be a vote (he blames the GOP’s thin majority, but it’s more likely that Hunter’s laptop and other purported leads haven’t turned up enough evidence to justify an impeachment).
And finally, it's worth saying this: There have been a lot of Russia hysterics over the last eight years in America. That has often looked like Democrats pursuing overblown claims about Donald Trump’s collusion. Now, it’s looking like Republicans pursuing wild claims about Biden in Ukraine. Russia’s government thrives on fear domestically and chaos abroad. Domestically, in the last week alone, Putin's government has killed his most prominent political opponent, arrested a dual Russian and U.S. citizen for donating $51 to Ukraine's war effort, and was likely behind the assassination of a defected pilot in Spain. It has also made significant gains in its war with Ukraine while division in Congress has stalled further military aid.
Here in the states, Russia’s strategy is to muddy the waters with disinformation to sow political discord. It’s not about one candidate or one person being some secret Russian agent — it’s about shifting the focus among politicians and voters. Now we have credible accusations that Russian officials may have been behind one of the most prominent stories from the last three years in U.S. media, one that got so much traction that Republicans in Congress actually pushed forward impeaching the president because of it.
It is not hyperventilating and it is not Red Scare nonsense to point out how serious that is. As we continue to get bombarded with innuendo and rumors about the most prominent politicians in America, all of this is worth considering — just as it was in 2016 with the “Trump-Russia” narratives. The lesson — as it so often has been — is to proceed with caution, and to keep a sharp eye on where stories are percolating and how reliable they really are.
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https://nypost.com/2024/02/21/opinion/despite-media-spin-theres-still-overwhelming-evidence-joe-biden-knew-of-familys-business-dealings/
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Smirnov is supposed to be the only source on Biden corruption, except for emails, photos, laptop, copies of checks, bank records, travel records, other testimony etc, but the first mention of him on the pages is after he was outed as a trusted liar.
How does he blow up the Congressional investigation if he was an FBI informant, not a congressional informant, and the FBI was hiding its investigation from congress? Did he ever testify to the committee under oath?
Democrats have resurrected the Dan Rather, false but true, defense for the 81 officials who called the Biden laptop Russian disinformation. The laptop was real. The FBI had verified that. The content incriminated both Hunter and Joe. But the whole thing fits a pattern of Russian disinformation?
Meanwhile, the same media outlets never acknowledged that the steel dossier and the entire Russian collusion story was complete, utter fiction.
Calling them Pravda isn't an insult to our legacy media, it's just a description.
Most pathetic are the people that run with the false narrative, Biden vindicated for example, once it is published in a reliable source like msnbc, sorry to say.
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Smirnov is supposed to be the only source on Biden corruption, except for emails, photos, laptop, copies of checks, bank records, travel records, other testimony etc, but the first mention of him on the pages is after he was outed as a trusted liar.
How does he blow up the Congressional investigation if he was an FBI informant, not a congressional informant, and the FBI was hiding its investigation from congress? Did he ever testify to the committee under oath?
Democrats have resurrected the Dan Rather, false but true, defense for the 81 officials who called the Biden laptop Russian disinformation. The laptop was real. The FBI had verified that. The content incriminated both Hunter and Joe. But the whole thing fits a pattern of Russian disinformation?
Meanwhile, the same media outlets never acknowledged that the steel dossier and the entire Russian collusion story was complete, utter fiction.
Calling them Pravda isn't an insult to our legacy media, it's just a description.
Most pathetic are the people that run with the false narrative, Biden vindicated for example, once it is published in a reliable source like msnbc, sorry to say.
The degree of shameless embrace of an utterly false narrative demonstrates just how far gone the Democratic Party and their shills are:they don't even attempt to address all the contradictions you note, Doug, as they know full well there will be little in the way of consequences for their utter chutzpah and unmitigated detachment from the truth.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hunter-biden-linked-russian-oligarchs-spared-in-latest-500-name-sanctions-list/ar-BB1iMkAh?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=9f52b6d07b574e6abc471fff9ba47394&ei=20
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Quelle surprise.
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Sundry funds to James Biden with shady origins and connections emerged today:
https://nypost.com/2024/03/01/us-news/joe-biden-got-40k-in-china-funds-brother-james-admits-in-bombshell-impeachment-interview/
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https://washingtontimes-dc.newsmemory.com/?token=a352e7aec37a1d4b278cb4826a047f27_65e5e2b2_6d25b5f&selDate=20240304
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Pay no attention to the "Big Guy" behind the curtain:
What We Learned From the Biden Family Depositions
What we learned from 450 pages of testimony with Hunter and James.
House Republicans have released transcripts of their depositions with Hunter and James Biden, and we’ve read them so you don’t have to trust what other papers don’t want to report. Far from Democratic claims that they show nothing wrong, the testimony confirms the story of political influence peddling and family profiteering. Even if he didn’t get a dime himself, Joe Biden willingly assisted his son Hunter and brother James in schemes to cash in on the Biden family name.
Under hours of questioning, Hunter and James acknowledged unsavory facts revealed by prior witnesses. Hunter finally admitted that former partner James Gilliar was indeed referring to Joe when he envisioned an equity partnership that included “10 held by H for the big guy” as part of a 2017 deal with Chinese energy company CEFC. This is notable after years of Democratic claims that the laptop on which this email was found was “Russian disinformation.”
Hunter also confirmed former business partner Tony Bobulinski’s testimony of a meeting that same year in Los Angeles with Hunter, James, Tony and Joe—in the midst of the CEFC deal-making talks. He didn’t “contest” former partner Rob Walker’s testimony that Hunter introduced Joe to the CEFC chairman at the Four Seasons hotel in New York.
He conceded former partner Devon Archer’s testimony that Joe showed up at business dinners that Hunter hosted in Washington’s Café Milano with Kazakhstan and Russian oligarchs, and that he put his father on speakerphone during other meetings.
Several witnesses have explained Hunter’s role as selling the Biden family “brand”—that is, his father’s influence in Washington. Mr. Archer, who sat on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma with Hunter, told the committee: “Burisma would have gone out of business if it didn’t have the brand attached to it.”
Mr. Bobulinski said Hunter’s speakerphone calls were engineered so Joe could impress would-be clients, “enabling the transaction.” A recent Politico piece about James Biden’s ill-fated venture with a hospital operator cited executives who said James invoked Joe while “wooing potential business partners.”
Yet even as the duo confirmed all this, they want the public to believe that testimony by the same witnesses about influence peddling is dishonest. Hunter said his father’s calls were merely coincidental bonding moments—doesn’t everyone put dad on speakerphone during business meetings? He said the “big guy” email was Mr. Gilliar engaging in “pie in the sky” dreams of working with a “former Vice President,” and that Hunter “shut it down.” He explained that Joe sojourning to Café Milano to say hi and order spaghetti was different than Joe coming “for” dinner.
Hunter didn’t claim his Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions, but he did reveal a conveniently spotty memory. Hunter couldn’t recall reading the famous “big guy” email, or writing threatening texts, and he disclaimed knowledge of the origins of the $142,000 used to buy him a luxury car. (Mr. Archer said it came from a Kazakhstan oligarch.)
James claimed not to recall his specific interactions with Mr. Bobulinski during the CEFC deal, even as he insisted Mr. Bobulinski never met Joe—a claim contradicted by Hunter. Hunter blamed his faulty memory and bad behavior on being “out of his mind” at times on alcohol and drugs, yet he suggests his substance abuse never caused him to cross ethical lines when it came to his father.
Joe’s involvement with CEFC and the “big guy” email occurred shortly after he left the Vice Presidency. This suggests Joe thought his political career might be over and was out to make money in the Beltway habit. That was his right, but then why didn’t he say that in 2020? The facts from the House investigation show he lied to the public about the extent of his knowledge and involvement with the Hunter-James businesses.
The interviews verified that Hunter and James made a bundle from their overseas work, though both struggled to describe what they provided in return. Both men failed to provide compelling explanations for their Escher-like financial accounts, which often involved odd payments, wires and entities. The committee has found more than $20 million from foreign sources that went to Hunter, James and business associates.
Republicans plan to invite Hunter for a public hearing, and they may move to impeach President Biden. The latter won’t go anywhere in the Senate, and it could backfire politically by mobilizing Democrats in the President’s defense. They’d accomplish more by educating the public about the Biden family’s influence peddling, and letting voters decide if they want to reward it with a second term.
https://apple.news/ASD4nDbNpRlmcFc2sCW0eHA
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https://nypost.com/2024/03/04/us-news/hunter-biden-helped-hire-aides-who-mishandled-joes-classified-documents/
Hunter Biden helped hire aides who mishandled Joe’s classified documents
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People understand that Joe loves his son. But what do they think about Joe trusting his son to handle sensitive government affairs?
Crack addict, sex addict, slept with his dead brother's wife, kicked out of the military, made millions (on Joe's name), paid no taxes, sold "art" to political contributors - while Joe was President: Trusted to handle sensitive government documents and staffing??
When I went to my Dad's dental office on take your kid to work day, he didn't have me drilling in people's mouths. I wasn't qualified.
Hunter has "VIP access" to the documents area at Penn. That's where the classified documents were. That's also where the Tara Reade personnel file is was.
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Break a bunch of laws and get away with it, what do you do? Promote the staff that assisted in the effort. Imagine if word got out Trump did the same….
https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/us-news/president-biden-promotes-top-staffers-involved-in-mishandling-classified-documents/
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Tony Bobulinski: Joe Biden Was ‘the Brand’
Excerpts from the written testimony of Hunter Biden’s business partner.
March 19, 2024 5:04 pm ET
Review and Outlook: Hunter and James Biden's closed door testimony to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees verified that they made a lot of money from their overseas work, but struggled to describe what they provided in return. Images: AFP/Getty Images/CQ Roll Call via ZUMA Press Composite: Mark Kelly
These are excerpts from the written testimony of Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, submitted to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Tuesday. Mr. Bobulinski is scheduled to testify before the committee Wednesday. Joe, Hunter and Jim Biden have disputed some of Mr. Bobulinski’s allegations.
I want to be crystal clear: From my direct personal experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was “the Brand” being sold by the Biden family. His family’s foreign influence peddling operation—from China to Ukraine and elsewhere—sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government.
Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family’s business; he was an active, aware enabler who met with business associates such as myself to further the business, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability.
If there is no evidence of corruption—if Joe’s conduct and the conduct of his family were fully legal and proper—then why are they so dishonest about it? Not just slight misrepresentations of fact but deep untruths about the entire corrupt enterprise.
Hunter Biden gave his transcribed interview to the House Oversight Committee on February 28 and lied throughout his testimony. Here are just three key examples of his perjury:
1. In Hunter’s transcript (Page 42), he states, “I officially began to do work for CEFC when the—when I received a retainer from CEFC in early—or spring of 2017.”
Why, then, did Hunter yell at CEFC Executive Director Zang in front of his entourage as I sat right next to him in New York City on Sunday May 7th, 2017? Hunter was adamant that he was owed the rest of the $20 Million CEFC had committed to paying for the work he had claimed he had done in prior years.
2. On Page 48 of his transcript, Hunter is asked, “He’s never interacted with any of your business associates. Is that correct?” The “He’s” is a reference to Joe Biden.
Hunter responds, “Yes.”
Hunter arranged the meeting between his father and me at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on May 2, 2017. The sole reason Hunter wanted me to meet his father was because I was the CEO of Sinohawk, the Bidens’ partnership with CEFC. I was a business associate. In his transcript, Hunter confirms that that meeting with Joe took place and incriminates his Uncle Jim for perjury by confirming it.
3. Hunter also lied to the Committee about important details concerning his money demands and threats to CEFC on July 30 and July 31, 2017. He leveraged his father’s presence next to him in that infamous text in order to strong-arm CEFC into paying Hunter immediately, and in the process defrauded the partners of Sinohawk Holdings LLC and Oneida Holdings LLC. The threat worked, as a few days later the Chinese wired $5 million dollars into a company of which Hunter owned 50%. It’s important to remember that the CEFC considered this money an interest-free loan to the “Biden family,” and planned to send more. I have the email from CEFC to prove it.
Jim Biden also lied extensively throughout his transcribed interview before the Oversight Committee on February 21, and ironically, Hunter Biden—in his own testimony as outlined above—confirmed that Jim Biden perjured himself:
1. Jim has been selling “plausible deniability” for so many years he can’t tell truth from the lies. On Page 100 of his transcript, he is asked: “Do you recall having a meeting with Hunter Biden, and Tony Bobulinski and Joe Biden?”
Jim’s response: “Absolutely not.”
The Committee was so shocked by his perjury they tried to ask the question again in a slightly different way:
“It’s your testimony here today that meeting never took place?”
Jim responds, “Yes sir,” “that I was present for.”
The Committee tried again: “Do you recall whether you were at the bar with Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski and Joe Biden?”
Jim responds: “That I know did not happen.”
Jim adds further, “But my brother was never there.”
On Page 134, delusional Jim Biden reiterates his untruthful answer again after the Committee showed him messages confirming I met with Joe Biden.
Jim Biden states, “Joe Biden never met with Tony Bobulinski.”
That is just a flat-out lie.
2. On Page 124 of his transcript, Jim Biden states, “It was Hunter Biden, myself, Gilliar. I don’t know. It was the five. Okay? And everybody was 20 percent. Okay? You know what was never executed. It was never signed.”
Jim was then presented with a fully executed copy of the Oneida Holdings operating agreement that he and I had both signed along with Hunter Biden, Mr. James Gilliar and Mr. Robert Walker. On Page 132, Jim tries to claim he was not a member of Oneida Holdings.
Jim is so dedicated to his lies that he describes the Oneida document, a large legal document signed by the Biden business partners, as something that I might have come up with after drinking a “quart of gin” (Page 124). It’s absurd.
3. Jim Biden further lies by claiming “Bobulinski was trying to usurp and replace Hunter Biden.” (Page 123)
Hunter Biden, Robert Walker, James Gilliar and Jim Biden asked me to step in as CEO of the business. I did not ask them. I tried to walk away from Sinohawk multiple times only to be convinced to stay on, including on one occasion by Jim Biden himself. The company was controlled by a Board of which the 4 of them could out-vote me on anything. They had control of the company. . . .
Why is Joe Biden blatantly lying to the American people? . . . If he were doing nothing wrong, why go through this insane exercise of obstructing and denying obvious facts? . . .
The reason is because the Biden family’s profiting of tens of millions of dollars from our strategic opponents and corrupt individuals and entities around the world—without delivering any goods or services and while putting in minimal effort and work—causes Americans to rightly question any policies from this administration that apparently benefit those same strategic opponents and corrupt individuals and entities. Just read the latest motion by the Department of Justice related to Hunter Biden’s criminal indictments in California; the DOJ states that he made large sums of money for very little work.
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a wonderful 2 minutes !
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/03/20/tony-bobulinskis-epic-burn-of-jamie-raskin-had-me-on-the-floor-n4927485
Tony B. ! - has guts to tell the truth
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what the heck is the CIA involvement ?
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/03/22/whistleblower-the-cia-allegedly-told-the-doj-to-stay-away-from-kevin-morris-in-the-hunter-biden-investigation/#more-217011
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Remember too that it was Blinken who organized the 51 intel guys asserting that the laptop was Russian misintel.
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https://nypost.com/2024/03/03/opinion/hunter-bidens-chinese-legal-client-threatens-to-sue-unless-first-son-pays-back-1-million/
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https://nypost.com/2024/03/03/opinion/hunter-bidens-chinese-legal-client-threatens-to-sue-unless-first-son-pays-back-1-million/
"...because he claims Hunter did no legal work for him."
If everyone foreign entity who gave Hunter a million dollars and got not work in return for it sued him, he wouldn't be a very rich man...
If he refunds the income, does he get a rebate on the taxes he paid - oh wait - he didn't pay taxes. Some kind of little known first family (Dem) exemption IIRC.
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I am hoping we can find out more about his sugar brother.
Very not Kosher and likely illegal activity between the two.
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Trump "whistleblower" who worked for then VP Biden and expressed shock when Biden threatened to withhold aid unless prosecutor investigating Bursima, a company paying Hunter millions, yet same employee blew no whistles:
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/17/impeachment_whistleblower_was_in_the_loop_of_biden-ukraine_affairs_that_trump_wanted_probed_1024937.html
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https://nypost.com/2024/04/20/opinion/eric-ciaramella-a-venal-biden-hack-is-no-democracy-defender/
Many important implications here, if any undecided voter or prosecutor cared.