DOJ Covers Up $5M Biden Bribe From Burisma While Indicting Trump
"$5 million for one Biden, $5 million for the other Biden"
The Biden Justice Department and its various arms were fighting to keep a document alleging that Biden had accepted a $5 million bribe hidden from the public. That’s the same DOJ that is ordinarily more than happy to leak materials involving Trump and conservative targets to the media. The DOJ and the FBI ignored a congressional subpoena and only contempt charges provided limited access to the Biden bribe document.
The FBI claimed that it was following DOJ policy to protect confidential sources. Except that the supposed concern for the confidential source would suggest that Biden is not only guilty, but that the money trail leads to some dangerous people. And yet little follow-up work appears to have been done on the investigation.
The apparent contents of the bribe document leaked once members of Congress were given access to it.
President Joe Biden was allegedly paid $5 million by an executive of the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where his son Hunter Biden sat on the board, a confidential human source told the FBI during a June 2020 interview, sources familiar told Fox News Digital.
The FD-1023 form, dated June 30, 2020, is the FBI’s interview with a “highly credible” confidential source who detailed multiple meetings and conversations he or she had with a top Burisma executive over the course of several years, starting in 2015. Fox News Digital has not seen the form, but it was described by several sources who are aware of its contents.
The Burisma executive sought the advice of the confidential source, a business professional, on gaining U.S. oil rights and getting involved with a U.S. oil company, the sources familiar with the document said. The Burisma executive was speaking with the confidential source to “get advice on the best way to go forward” in 2015 and 2016.
According to the FD-1023 form, the confidential human source said the Burisma executive discussed Hunter’s role on the board. The confidential human source questioned why the Burisma executive needed his or her advice in acquiring access to U.S. oil if he had Hunter Biden on the board. The Burisma executive answered by referring to Hunter Biden as “dumb.”
The Burisma executive explained to the confidential source that Burisma had to “pay the Bidens” because Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma, and explained how difficult it would be to enter the U.S. market in the midst of that investigation.
The confidential source further detailed that conversation, suggesting to the Burisma executive that he “pay the Bidens $50,000 each,” to which the Burisma executive replied, it is “not $50,000,” it is “$5 million.”
“$5 million for one Biden, $5 million for the other Biden,” the Burisma executive told the confidential human source, according to a source familiar with the document.
A source familiar said according to the document, the $5 million payments appeared to reference a kind of “retainer” Burisma intended to pay the Bidens to deal with a number of issues, including the investigation led by Shokin. Another source referred to the arrangement as a “pay-to-play” scheme.
We already have clear evidence of a pattern of corruption in which a large complicated network of shell companies were used to funnel money to members of the Biden family. We already know Hunter Biden got a major pay cut after daddy left the room. Nobody seriously believes that Hunter’s board membership at Burisma was anything other than an influence-buying operation with a guy whose chief asset was his last name.
Biden is denying everything.
Congressional Republicans who read an FBI informant file accusing President Biden of a role in a $5 million bribery scheme said Thursday that it involved the Ukrainian company Burisma — but Biden tauntingly retorted, “Where’s the money?”
“It’s a bunch of malarkey,” Biden told a Post reporter when asked about the bribery claim hours after FBI Director Christopher Wray agreed to let rank-and-file House Oversight Committee members read a June 2020 document in a bid to avoid being held in contempt.
That’s a good question.
If Biden is hiding income, that’s an actual crime. Not just a process crime.
The DOJ has shrugged this off, meanwhile, Trump is being indicted on what appears to amount to a process crime. After 8 years of false allegations and claims of foreign payments that failed to show a single cent actually being paid to Trump for political influence from abroad (remember the failed Alfa Bank smear?), he’s being indicted for something that every high-profile politician has done, retain classified documents, not on the act itself, but as a process crime emerging from the witch hunt over it.
Much as in 2016, when Hillary Clinton got a pass over mishandling classified documents, there’s a glaring double standard here that is at the heart of the weaponization of the DOJ against political opponents of the Left.
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7 reasons to be highly skeptical of the legitimacy of the indictments of Trump
One
The timing of the announcement – controlled by the Justice Department’s decision to inform President Trump – coincides with evidence of serious allegations of a $5 million bribe of then-Vice President Biden by a foreign national reaching Congress. A perfect way to crowd out news coverage.
The decision to inform Trump of charges came on the same day that members of the House Oversight Committee were granted access to a FBI report into an allegation of bribery, while Biden was vice president.
Two
In marked contrast to the special counsel investigation of President Biden, there have been multiple leaks to, among others, ABC News and the UK Independent, and many others.
Three
As Julie Kelly put it, “The indictment represents the first time in U.S. history a former president will face criminal charges.”
Four
The indictments are the product of an unprecedented raid on the residence of a president, at Mar-a-Lago.
Five
The seizure that resulted from the raid was overly broad, otherwise known as a fishing expedition:
Prosecutors admitted in court filings that agents absconded with roughly 13,000 items including apparel, books, and the president’s passports—but only found “one hundred unique documents with classification markings.”
Six
The media circus was immediate and intense, part of the joint effort of the deep state. The legacy media, and the Democrats, want to weaken President Trump’s candidacy in the general election, while solidifying his support among Republicans, so as to nominate a weaker (in the eyes of his opponents) candidate.
Seven
The indictment, as leaked, appears to be deliberately drawn up to excuse the violations of confidential document riles by Joe Biden. As Andrew McCarthy of National Review wrote, the use of the term “willful violations” is key:
...prosecutors are relying on a provision that criminalizes willful violations of the rules that government officials are required to follow in handling national-defense intelligence. This seems like an obvious effort to distinguish Trump’s alleged crime from President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, which the White House and the media-Democratic complex have described as inadvertent (snip)
The strategy of the Biden administration and its special counsel, then, seems to be (1) to allege that Trump committed a willful offense that puts him in a different, more egregious category from Biden’s conduct; and (2) to pretend in connection with Biden — as the Obama-Biden Justice Department pretended in connection with Hillary Clinton’s email scandal — that it is not a felony for government officials to be grossly negligent in mishandling classified information (i.e., to pretend that willfulness, or some intent to harm the United States, is an essential element of the offense).
Kevin McCarthy, the highest-ranking Republican elected official, nailed it, calling Thursday, “A dark day for the United States of America” on Twitter.
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As Trump indicted for questionable crimes, real crimes uncovered by Durham Report remain unprosecuted
The DOJ just indicted former President Trump for what is a non-crime involving alleged possession of classified documents from the Mar-a-Lago raid last year (see analysis). Yet real crimes documented in the Durham Report remain unprosecuted. How is this not banana republic behavior?
John Durham released his report on the alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election. Durham concluded there was no Russian collusion. He confirms that the Russian narrative was a disinformation operation run by the unelected Deep State, including the FBI and others on behalf of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. Durham did not pursue Hillary Clinton's involvement or the source of the damaging DNC hack. If it wasn't the Russians, who was it? Seth Rich, perhaps? The FBI has deep-sixed Rich's laptop, too. Was Rich murdered to protect the false Russian Collusion narrative?
Durham did not recommend filing any criminal charges as the FBI implemented policies and procedures to prevent future occurrences. I'm not that naïve. Without individual accountability, there can be no reform. In my opinion, Durham did document well the failures of the FBI and others but did not follow the evidence where it led to its logical conclusion to prosecute the crimes committed by the FBI, DOJ, and others.
Was this unintentional by Durham because he couldn't see the forest for the trees, or was this intentional? In my opinion, these failures by the FBI and others were intentional — part of the effort that Professor Alan Dershowitz titled his recent book about: Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process and Our Constitutional Rule of Law.
Most likely, Durham, who had the power and authority to do so, deferred to protect the federal agencies rather than holding those who committed the crimes accountable, as former FBI director James Comey did with Hillary Clinton's possession of classified documents in her pay-to-play scheme. The crimes committed by the FBI and others are well known to the readers of the American Thinker and extend back to at least the Obama administration (here).
Many conspirators acting alone or in concert with others, including the FBI, CIA, and DNI, committed many crimes to attempt to secure Clinton's election as president. When Clinton lost the election, the conspiracy continued as a soft coup to undermine and sabotage the presidency of a duly elected president. The conspirators interfered with the 2016 election with the false Russian narrative and the 2020 election by suppressing the information on Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation.
Our federal agencies are no longer politically neutral and intentionally violate the Constitution with impunity — dogs that will hunt only for "right-wing extremists" to the exclusion of the Marxist left.
I believe that the Biden and Clinton families are criminal enterprises as defined in the RICO Act. Both families conspired with others, both foreign advisories and domestic operatives, to undermine, sabotage, and implement policies counter to the best interest and national security of the United States in return for their benefit — a cabal.
This cabal is a vast alliance that extends beyond the Biden and Clinton families and has corrupted our government through and through:
the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Globalists, the radical Marxist left, self-dealing and corrupt politicians, the Deep State, the ruling elite, the leftist media complex, big tech, multinational corporations, and foreign adversaries [China]. "These actors have robbed the public treasury of billions of dollars in broad daylight." These actors seek and are driven by control of the people, to retain and gain more power and money [my emphasis].
I emailed Durham several times that this cabal is an ongoing criminal conspiracy under RICO. RICO would allow individual criminal acts to be tied together under the RICO umbrella, extending the statute of limitations.
In my last email, I wrote:
The Russian Collusion narrative is within your mandate to investigate. I would challenge you to investigate all aspects of this false narrative as it will expose the perpetrators and those who aided or abetted in the commission of these crimes. ...
The DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, and others intentionally violated the civil rights of citizens, including the right of free speech, unreasonable search and seizure [Illegal wiretapping], ignored the rule of law and equal justice for all. Instead, all engaged in or covered up for politically based selective prosecutions by entrapment, lying, the abuse of power, and unlawful use of force under the color of authority.
You, Sir, have the authority and power to do so.
The fate of our Country is in your hands.
Kash Patel is a former federal prosecutor who worked national security cases and was the lead investigator for Congressman Devin Nunes in the investigation of the Russian Collusion narrative.
Patel castigated Durham:
There is no justification for Durham's alleged inability to utilize the grand jury process and subpoena individuals, according to Patel . . . There's no way he doesn't know how to use the grand jury process and subpoena individuals . . .
Moreover, Patel accused high-ranking officials, including former Attorney General Bill Barr, former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, and former FBI Director James Comey as well as current officials like FBI Director Chris Ray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, of prioritizing the protection of their institutions over affecting necessary reforms.
The two-tier system of justice today continues because John Durham failed.
The case in chief to impeach Joe Biden is simply stated. Congress should impeach Biden, but this is not likely to happen:
Biden's policies are detrimental to the United States' strategic interests and outright violations of federal law and the Constitution. Joe Biden is a puppet of the Chinese and Ukraine (source). ...
Biden abdicated his constitutional duty to defend the border [An invasion]. The Chinese exploited this opportunity to flood the country with Fentanyl — supplying the Mexican cartels with the precursors to manufacture and distribute the Fentanyl. The Fentanyl is killing about one hundred thousand yearly to wreak havoc and chaos in our communities. The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan directly benefited the Chinese. In his pursuit of green energy, Biden also immensely rewards the Chinese and others in this scam (here), which is a massive redistribution of wealth (source).
Victor Davis Hanson calls it Our French Revolution. Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. calls it "The Fascist Threat." I can't entirely agree with Rockwell calling the local police thugs, but I agree on our federal Stasi:
Fascism is the system of government that cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers, exalts the police state as the source of order, denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals, and makes the executive state the unlimited master of society.
This describes mainstream politics in America today. And not just in America. It's true in Europe, too. It is so much part of the mainstream that it is hardly noticed any more. ...
In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrant's feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters.
The constitutional checks and balances have failed to prevent the abuse of power and law violations because of systemic corruption. Our sheepdogs have gone rogue and no longer protect the flock from evil. The Judiciary, the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, and others have gone full Stasi, supporting the authoritarian state (here and here).
These conspirators must be held accountable "to restore faith in the government we empower to govern. It is up to us, We the People, to do so."
The House Oversight Committee can, through the power of the purse, revise policies and procedures or reorganize or dismantle these agencies. Unfortunately, the committee can't prosecute individual conspirators.
I'm at a loss of how to hold those accountable who failed to uphold their oaths to defend the Constitution and committed crimes with Durham's failure to prosecute or recommend prosecution. The DOJ and FBI do the prosecution, but many of the high-level officials of these agencies are principals in these crimes — a Catch-22. Such accountability may have to wait for a new administration to clean house.
In the meantime, become involved. Do seek out alternative sources of information, don't be sheeple mindlessly trusting the government, don't succumb to state propaganda, and don't be afraid to raise your voice and ensure free and uncorrupted elections.
Exposing the truth is all-powerful!
Ron Wright is a retired detective, having served thirty-five years with Riverside P.D., Calif. Ron earned a B.A. in political science from Cal State University, Fullerton, and a Master of Administration from the University of California, Riverside. Facebook at Ron T. Cop.
Unofficial banana republic flag by Federico Zenith (public domain).
Hillary Clinton Promotes ‘But Her Emails’ Hat in Wake of Trump Indictment
Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton decided to mock former President Donald Trump on Friday following news of the federal prosecutors indicting him, promoting “But Her Emails” merchandise on social media.
“Bringing this back in light of recent news: Get a limited-edition But Her Emails hat and support @onwardtogether groups working to strengthen our democracy,” Clinton wrote, sharing a link and a photoshopped image of her wearing the hat.
The phrase stems from the controversy around Clinton’s past email scandal.
Clinton, who served as Secretary of State under former President Barack Obama, mishandled classified information on a private server “likely used to hide efforts to use her office to raise money for her family’s foundation,” as Breitbart News reported. She scrubbed 33,000 emails, but FBI Director James Comey infamously recommended against charges against Clinton in the summer of 2016. That statement was also reportedly watered down to soften the gravity of Clinton’s actions.
Her social media post follows Trump revealing that federal prosecutors are indicting him as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into handling of White House documents.
This is not the first time Clinton has promoted the merchandise as a means to mock her former challenger, doing so after the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last year.
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Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton decided to mock former President Donald Trump on Friday following news of the federal prosecutors indicting him, promoting “But Her Emails” merchandise on social media.
“Bringing this back in light of recent news: Get a limited-edition But Her Emails hat and support @onwardtogether groups working to strengthen our democracy,” Clinton wrote, sharing a link and a photoshopped image of her wearing the hat.
The phrase stems from the controversy around Clinton’s past email scandal.
Clinton, who served as Secretary of State under former President Barack Obama, mishandled classified information on a private server “likely used to hide efforts to use her office to raise money for her family’s foundation,” as Breitbart News reported. She scrubbed 33,000 emails, but FBI Director James Comey infamously recommended against charges against Clinton in the summer of 2016. That statement was also reportedly watered down to soften the gravity of Clinton’s actions.
Her social media post follows Trump revealing that federal prosecutors are indicting him as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into handling of White House documents.
This is not the first time Clinton has promoted the merchandise as a means to mock her former challenger, doing so after the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last year.
RELATED– Hillary Clinton: ‘Dangerous Hypocrisy’ Republicans Enthralled to ‘Fraud’ Trump
Tim Scott on Trump Indictment: We Are Seeing ‘Weaponization’ of DOJ Against a Former President
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said Thursday on FNC’s “Fox News Tonight” that we were seeing “weaponization of the Department of Justice against a former president” when responding to reports the former president Donald Trump will be indicted in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe.
Anchor Harris Faulkner said, “We turn now to Senator Tim Scott, running in the Republican field for the nomination of the Republican Party for the White House against Donald Trump. Senator, it’s an awkward position to be in, but the bottom line is you’re a Republican. This was a Republican president. Look what’s happened. Your reaction.”
Scott said, “Well, Harris, more importantly I’m an American. Let’s look at what’s happening to an American. More importantly then the Republicans and Democrats, red or blue, black or white, is this notion that our nation is the greatest nation on earth because Lady Justice has a blindfold on. That means Republicans are not hunted and Democrats are not protected. It means that we look at every single case based on the evidence. In America, every single person is presumed innocent, not guilty. What we’ve seen over the last several years is the weaponization of the Department of Justice against a former president. You don’t have to be a Republican to see injustice and want to fix it. You don’t have to be a Democrat to see injustice and want to fix it. You just have to be an American and stand up for the right thing.”
He added, “I don’t care whether you’re in my party or not in my party. I don’t care if you look like me or not. The one thing that makes America the city on the hill is confidence in our justice system, and today what we see is a justice system where the scales are weighted.”
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J.D. Vance: Biden ‘Using the Justice System to Preemptively Steal the 2024 Election’
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) described the most recent indictment of former President Donald Trump as a “moral and constitutional joke,” blasting Attorney General Merrick Garland as a “disgrace” and asserting that President Biden is “using the justice system to preemptively steal the 2024 election.”
“The former president will be indicted for ‘mishandling’ his own government’s classified info. Yet everyone agrees the president has the authority to declassify anything,” Vance said.
“This is a moral and constitutional joke. Merrick Garland has disgraced this country,” the senator continued, asserting that “Biden is attacking his most likely 2024 opponent.”
“He’s using the justice system to preemptively steal the 2024 election. This is what’s happening, plain and simple,” he added.
Vance’s remarks follow Trump revealing on Truth Social that U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors notified his attorneys of the indictment, associated with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into his handling of White House documents.
Trump wrote in part:
The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1850 Boxes at the University of Delaware, additional Boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more Boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette, and which is “secured” by only a garage door that is paper thin, and open much of the time.
“I am an innocent man,” Trump said. “The Biden administration is totally corrupt.”
The GOP frontrunner concluded that these actions are those of “election interference” and described them as a “continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.”
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