Here is the truth: The Biden administration is corrupt but weak. His party barely controls Congress. President Biden has a personal corruption problem, has obvious health challenges, must manage internal warfare between his party’s corrupt corporate wing and its rising Communists, and his moral claim on the presidency is rejected by a massive number of voters.
Fitton: Biden Corruption, Saving Elections, Justice for Trump, Pelosi Cover-Ups
I was honored to make a presentation at CPAC this past weekend to the thousands of conservatives gathered to hear from former President Trump and other leaders. It was wonderful to visit in person the many Judicial Watch supporters among the attendees.
It is clear to me that conservatives continue so see Judicial Watch as essential to protecting our constitutional republic. My speech, which follows, was well-received (here’s the video!) and I encourage you to share it widely:
Judicial Watch is your watchdog in Washington – Hillary Clinton knows who we are, and President Trump knows who we are. I’m not sure what Joe Biden knows, but millions of patriots across the nation know and support our heavy lifting to expose and stop government corruption.
Judicial Watch is famous for using the Freedom of Information Act to figure out what the government is up to. No one has done more to uncover government corruption — from Benghazi to Clinton emails to Obamagate to the Biden family racketeering scandal.
The rule of law protects the high and low. But the corrupt Deep State and its partisan allies subvert the rule of law. They aimed high by targeting President Trump with illicit spying and contemptible abuses of his civil rights.
President Trump is a crime victim.
Who was behind the worst corruption scandal in American history? Obama, Biden, Comey, Brennan … you know the rest.
And when Trump raised questions about this conspiracy and Biden corruption the corrupt DC Establishment was so panicked that they tried and failed to remove him from office with their first sham impeachment.
Remember the abuses of Trump are also about distraction — protecting Biden, Clinton, and other Swamp leaders from accountability for any misconduct and crimes.
Let’s talk about the new president. No other president in recent American history has been so compromised by credible corruption allegations. There is significant evidence that directly implicates President “Big Guy” Biden in criminal activity tied to Hunter Biden’s rackets in Ukraine and China and other countries.
Big Media and Big Tech, which seem to be nothing more than left wing advocacy groups, censored or covered this up for years, and the Justice Department and FBI, true to form, focused on protecting Biden while targeting Trump.
When it comes to exposing and uncovering government corruption, the DOJ and FBI are part of the problem — and have done more to undermine the confidence of the American people in the rule of law than just about anyone. Those institutions were irredeemably compromised under the Obama administration and spent most of the Trump administration either trying to destroy Trump at the behest of the Clinton/Obama/Schiff cabal or trying to cover up the real corruption that it should have pursued but never did.
The failure of the Justice Department to hold any significant person accountable for Obamagate crimes is a scandal. Gosh, Biden is giving promotions to some of his Obamagate co-conspirators!
John Durham was appointed almost two years ago and there has been little evidence of a serious criminal investigation of those implicated in Spygate abuses of Trump and other innocent Americans, such as General Flynn.
And the FBI and Justice Department had Hunter’s laptop for years but did nothing but protect the Biden clan. Why, for example, is there not yet a special counsel for Biden corruption? We had the corrupt appointment of Mueller to investigate non-crimes to harass President Trump but nothing yet for President Biden.
I call on the Justice Department to immediately appoint a special counsel to investigate Biden corruption.
And let me say this to Special Counsel Durham – reports are nice but prosecutions are better!
Judicial Watch isn’t waiting on a Biden special counsel or a Durham report.
Judicial Watch, not Congress nor the dishonest media, first uncovered that Hunter Biden flew to China at least five times while his father was vice president. A Judicial Watch federal lawsuit also uncovered that the Obama State Department noted the Russians were trolling then-Vice President Biden’s “anti-corruption” activities in Ukraine because he was compromised by Hunter’s Burisma corruption.
And then there is the Obamagate scandal. Much of what we know about this Obama/Biden scandal is a result of our unrelenting lawsuits and pressure. Heck, who needs an IG when you have Judicial Watch! And it was reconfirmed last year that targeting Trump was all about protecting Hillary over her emails!
Even as Clinton cronies and enablers are in the Biden White House, we’re supposed to forget Clinton’s email crimes. Judicial Watch remembers. America remembers and still wants justice.
By the way, it is now official. We can impeach former presidents and government officials. So, should we now impeach Obama, Hillary Clinton, Comey, Brennan, Susan Rice, and all the rest? And maybe we can have congressional impeachments! Schiff, Pelosi, Omar, and Swalwell!
The Pelosi impeachments of President Trump are about election interference. The Left, with the help of their allies in Big Tech, want to be able to interfere with our elections and smear, jail and censor anyone who objects.
The Left didn’t want to remove Trump because he incited violence. He didn’t and they don’t care about violence as they endorse and use it regularly. They wanted to abuse impeachment to undermine an effective leading opposition voice.
The Left uses the pretext of COVID to rush through, sometimes contrary to law, long-sought changes in election rules that saw tens of millions of ballots and ballot applications being mailed to voter roll lists that are notoriously inaccurate.
The tsunami of mail in ballots conveniently led to chaos in many key states on Election Day. By the way, federal law sets an Election Day, not an Election Week or an Election Month or an Election Winter.
On Election Day, President Trump had the votes to win the presidency. These vote totals were changed because of unprecedented and extraordinary counting after Election Day.
Judicial Watch has long warned of the chaos and increased risk of fraud from recklessly mailing 100 million ballots and ballot applications. Our most recent research using data from just before the election, revealed that 353 U.S. counties had 1.8 million more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens. In other words, the registration rates of those counties exceeded 100% of eligible voters.
In Pennsylvania, our litigation to clean up dirty voting rolls uncovered 800,000 “extra” names on the rolls.
This maladministration of the elections, to put it charitably, undermined American’s confidence in the fairness of our elections and has significantly weakened Biden’s presidency. Let’s be clear. The Left ruined the election.
How to fix this mess? Restore the rule of law on elections.
One thing we aim to do is “get the receipts” about the 2020 election. Judicial Watch has 105 open record and Freedom of Information Act requests pending on the election.
Another thing to do is clean up the rolls. Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections!
A Judicial Watch federal lawsuit settlement is already resulting in LA County cleaning up to 1.5 million names from the rolls! And we’re in federal court now to clean up the rolls in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and North Carolina. And more lawsuits are coming, believe you me!
And let me be clear, voting by mail should generally be ended. Vote by mail makes it nearly impossible to detect or even to pretend to prevent fraud. This security gap undermines confidence in the elections. Unless you’re putting your life on the line in Afghanistan or have some other emergency reason, the law should require you to vote in person — after your citizenship and eligibility has been verified and after you show your secure photo ID! And no ballot harvesting!
Let me say this, if elections are not secure and are conducted in violation of the Constitution, many Americans will not vote in them. Secure elections conducted according to law will increase voter turnout!
Can we have a debate on this? Not if Big Tech gets its way.
Big Tech’s ban of President Trump for his blowing the whistle on the election is all about helping the Left.
Neither Section 230 nor any other law allows Big Tech to lie to the public and shareholders about their dishonest censorship of conservative Americans. This is basic business fraud that should be investigated by law enforcement.
But at the saying goes: you can trust the Communists – to be Communists.
Sure enough, Communist and leftist partisans now seek to effectively criminalize those who advocate for free, fair, and secure elections. Big Tech’s censorship of former President Trump and other conservative leading voices provides cover to the Left’s broad and governmental attack on the God-given rights of tens of millions of Americans.
If you want an example of how the Left views your First Amendment rights — take a look at the miles-long, barbed wire fence around the U.S. Capitol.
Don’t worry, Judicial Watch has Congress covered. We sued the Pelosi Congress for Capitol riot emails and video. We want to know what Pelosi and Schumer are hiding.
Speaking of fences and walls, let’s talk about the border. Biden is seeking open-borders amnesty by hook or by crook, with zero regard for public health and safety — or rule of law.
Biden would nationalize sanctuary policies that are not only illegal but deadly dangerous. He has launched the most significant attack on immigration law in American history.
I could think of an article of impeachment or two for Biden’s outright refusal to enforce the law against illegal alien criminals and his policies that aid and abet human smuggling and child trafficking on the border! Biden is worse than Obama on lawless executive amnesty — and in just one month has caused a humanitarian and public health disaster on our Mexican border.
What should be done?
End sanctuary policies — both nationally and locally. Judicial Watch is in court in California and Maryland to challenge sanctuary policies that abuse taxpayers and harm the public safety.
And just say no to amnesty! Even talking about amnesty increases illegal immigration!
I think I’ve come up with a simple solution for the immigration crisis. President Trump knew this, too. Enforce the law!
And, again, only citizens should vote. And we should change the laws to require you to prove your citizenship in order to register to vote.
There is a way forward for conservatives.
Here is the truth: The Biden administration is corrupt but weak. His party barely controls Congress. President Biden has a personal corruption problem, has obvious health challenges, must manage internal warfare between his party’s corrupt corporate wing and its rising Communists, and his moral claim on the presidency is rejected by a massive number of voters.
But there are many loser Republicans who also have contempt for our concerns about Swamp corruption, election integrity, our borders, and accountable and constitutional government.
So, it is Judicial Watch to the rescue. We know what to do. Sue them! Demand answers! Tell the truth! Protect citizens under the law! Defend the Constitution! Expose corrupt politicians of both political parties!
As George Washington said, “Truth will ultimately prevail where pains is taken to bring it to light.”
Again, Judicial Watch is your watchdog in Washington. We go to bat for you. We represent you. We defend you. We fight for you in court against those who would deny Americans their divine birthright — the rule of law.
God bless you and God bless America!
Exclusive — Democrat Congressman Vicente Gonzalez Reports Thousands in Questionable Interest Income from Bank of China Account
Democrat Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) has on his three most recent financial disclosure forms filed with the clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives reported holdings worth more than $100,000 in the Bank of China, a state-owned bank run by the Chinese Communist Party.
On the second page of his calendar year 2017, 2018, and 2019 disclosure documents, Gonzalez reported the holdings valued at between $100,001 and $250,000 in the Bank of China. Each report includes a disclosure that Gonzalez earned between $2,501 and $5,000 in interest each year from the Bank of China account.
The congressman has, according to the disclosures, other holdings worth more that paid less in interest. His 2017 report, filed in 2018, for instance revealed he had between $250,001 and $500,000 in an “Everbank” account that he reported collected no interest. His 2018 disclosure report revealed an account with TIAA Bank worth between $250,001 and $500,000 that collected only between $201 and $1,000 in interest. There are others similar to these in all three reports, but the Bank of China holding seems to pay out the best for the congressman according to the financial disclosure forms. On all three reports—2017, 2018, and 2019—no other holding or account paid out as high a level of interest, or unearned income, for the congressman according to these disclosures—meaning his investment in a state-run bank in a nation that is hostile to the United States is particularly lucrative for him.
The arrangement is also beneficial to the Bank of China, and ultimately the Chinese Communist Party, as like with any other bank the deposit the congressman has placed in this account can be used by the Bank of China for other purposes and initiatives like perhaps possibly loans to other enterprises backing Beijing’s vision through things like the Belt and Road Initiative–China’s geopolitical push for global economic domination. What’s more, according to the Bank of China website, there are only three cities in the United States with branches–one in New York, one in Chicago, and one in Los Angeles–meaning that there is no Bank of China branch in Gonzalez’s Texas district.
The financial disclosure documents are reported by members of Congress in ranges in terms of the value of assets and the income earned from them. That means that this Bank of China account that Gonzalez has reported for his last three disclosure reports yields at least 1 percent annual interest—if the actual amount of unearned income, or interest, is at the lower end of the reported range at $2,501 and the actual account value is at the higher end of the reported range at $250,000. But if the inverse were true, that the account value is at the lower end of the reported range at $100,000 and the interest income were at the higher end of the reported range at $5,000 then that means the interest could be as high as close to 5 percent. Either way, between 1 and 5 percent in unearned annual interest income on any holding is unusually high for any account.
More about the account and interest rate is impossible to find out without more documents and cooperation from Gonzalez. Gonzalez’s congressional office has not replied to multiple requests for comment from Breitbart News about his Bank of China account, and has not responded to requests for an interview with the congressman.
While Gonzalez himself is not answering questions about this at this time, when asked about these revelations his GOP opponent in last year’s election Monica de la Cruz-Hernandez told Breitbart News she finds this disturbing.
“Vicente Gonzalez’s six-figure account with the Bank of China is shocking and disturbing,” de la Cruz-Hernandez told Breitbart News. “It’s simple: a United States Representative should never have such close financial ties to the state bank of our country’s greatest adversary. This is yet another reason why our district needs a new representative who shares our South Texas values – not China’s.”
Part of why Gonzalez’s financial arrangement with the Bank of China may have gone unnoticed until now—it has been in his financial disclosures for three years already but this is the first time it is coming to light in a political news sense—is because his district has been historically safe for Democrats. Since its inception in the early 20th century back in 1903, no Republican has ever represented the 15th congressional district of Texas. After decades of Democrat control, this district had been represented by the longtime infamous late Democrat Rep. Kika De La Garza (D-TX) for more than 30 years—from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s—until now former Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX) took it over. Gonzalez was first elected to the seat in 2016, and is currently serving his third term in office.
Oftentimes throughout history Republicans would either not run someone at all for the seat, or they would only put up a nominal challenge that ultimately failed. That changed in 2020, when De La Cruz-Hernandez ran against Gonzalez and nearly beat him in a surprisingly close race. She came within just about 6,000 votes—dropping Gonzalez’s total votes down to just 50.05 percent of the total in the district. Her 47,06 percent shocked the political world and threw a district Democrats have never lost—and pundits and prognosticators considered safe for Democrats in perpetuity—into a possible tossup column down the road. Republicans are thrilled that De La Cruz-Hernandez is running again in 2022, part of a growing trend accelerated it seems by now former President Donald Trump—seen in Florida as well as in Texas—of Republicans over-performing expectations with Hispanic voters. Gonzalez appears on a list of 47 Democrats the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC)–the campaign arm for House Republicans–is targeting in the upcoming 2022 midterm elections, hoping to beat him there. To retake the House majority, Republicans only need to flip a net five seats back from Democrats after huge gains by House Republicans in the 2020 congressional elections. A major part of the reason why Republicans are winning more so among Hispanics like in this district than they did before is because of their efforts to tie Democrats to socialists and authoritarian regimes like the socialist regimes in Cuba or Venezuela, corrupt governments in central American countries, and even more importantly the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing.
Gonzalez had signed a letter from the Blue Dog Coalition—a group of self-proclaimed “moderate” Democrats—last May claiming he wanted to be tough on China. Writing about the U.S.-China relationship, one the letter that Gonzalez signed claimed is “arguably the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world,” Gonzalez and his fellow Blue Dog Democrats advocated for standing up against the Chinese Communist Party whenever Americans are threatened by it.
“We should stand up for American lives, interests and values whenever they are threatened, while avoiding overheated rhetoric that could undermine those goals,” Gonzalez and his fellow Blue Dog Democrats wrote.
The letter also said that these Democrats “have profound concerns about the direction of Chinese policy under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), especially its foreign and defense policy, its trade policy, and its human rights record,” concerns only intensified by the CCP’s “mishandling of the COVID-19 epidemic.”
As Gonzalez and his office were uncooperative with Breitbart News for this investigation, and he has not yet filed his 2020 financial disclosure form—it is not due until May 2021—it is unclear if in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic he kept his Bank of China account in 2020.
The fact that a Democrat congressman has such a high-yielding account with the Bank of China is as such in and of itself significant. The Bank of China literally openly admits on its website that it is a “wholly state-owned commercial bank” and has been since the mid-1990s. The Bank of China website also says that the Chinese Communist Party enterprise believes in the “adoration of the nation in its soul” and that it is China’s “most globalised and integrated bank” with “a well-established global service network with institutions set up across the Chinese mainland as well as in 57 countries and regions.”
The website also pledges allegiance to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, and his Communist agenda—and says that its goal is to help implement this Chinese Communist Party worldview worldwide and in China.
“In face of the period of historic opportunities for great achievements, as a large state-owned commercial bank, the Bank will follow Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, persistently enable advancement through technology, drive development through innovation, deliver performance through transformation and enhance strength through reform, in an effort to build BOC into a world-class bank in the new era,” the Bank of China says on its website. “It will make a greater contribution to developing a modernised economy and to the efforts to realise the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation and the aspirations of the people to live a better life.”
The “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” part of that quote on the Bank of China website is a reference to a formal and official Chinese Communist Party political doctrine introduced in 2018. Known as “Xi Jinping Thought” for short, the New York Times described the vision as China’s “new official political doctrine” which Communist leaders have plastered “everywhere.”
“Schools, newspapers, television, the internet, billboards and banners all trumpet the ideas of Mr. Xi, the country’s president and Communist Party leader,” the New York Times’ Chris Buckley wrote of the ideology and doctrine in a February 2018 report. “Officially known as ‘Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,’ the ideology will soon be given an even more prominent platform: the preamble of China’s Constitution. Boiled down, the doctrine is a blueprint for consolidating and strengthening power at three levels: the nation, the party and Mr. Xi himself. The doctrine, like Mr. Xi, is not going anywhere soon. The Party on Sunday abolished the presidential term limit, meaning Mr. Xi could remain in power indefinitely.”
Despite claiming in that Blue Dog Coalition letter that he signed that he would tough on China, when it comes to actual actions in the House like votes on key legislation, Gonzalez frequently sided with the Chinese Communist Party. For instance, when Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) in May 2019 offered what is called a “Motion to Recommit” (MTR)—a procedure the minority in the House uses to force issue votes after legislation has passed—that would have blocked job transfers to China on a climate bill the Democrat majority passed, Gonzalez joined most of the rest of the House Democrats in voting against the measure.
The legislation was the Climate Action Now Act by the House Democrats—HR 9 in the last Congress—and it had passed the House in May 2019. In response, Barr offered the MTR to alter the legislation after the fact by adding an amendment that would have guaranteed if the U.S. reentered the Paris Climate Accord—which now-President Joe Biden has actually done—that there would not be a net loss of jobs from the U.S. to China as a result.
The MTR failed, with one Republican joining most Democrats in opposing it. Fourteen Democrats sided with 192 House Republicans in supporting the measure though. Gonzalez was not among those Democrats who voted with the Republicans—he voted against protecting U.S. jobs from sliding to China.
Gonzalez also later in 2019 voted against another MTR, this one from then-Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), that would have banned the U.S. Export-Import Bank from lending to Chinese-government controlled entities or to organizations that supported the CCP’s government actions. That MTR also won bipartisan support though, with 194 Republicans voting for it and nine Democrats—Gonzalez not among them—voting for it.
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