Report: Hunter Biden Threatens to ‘Flee’ America if Donald Trump Reelected - AND RED CHINA WILL PROBABLY OFFER HUNTER AND JOE, CHINA'S RENT BOYS, ASYLUM!

 WE CAN'T SAVE AMERICA UNTIL WE GET RID OF THE BIDEN MAFIA!

Report: Hunter Biden Threatens to ‘Flee’ America if Donald Trump Reelected

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WENDELL HUSEBØ

15 Dec 202359

2:10

Hunter Biden reportedly threatened to take extreme action and flee the United States of America if voters reelect former President Donald Trump.

The threat represents the often neurotic nature of the president’s son, 53, who faces 42 years in prison for tax and gun charges in an ongoing investigation.

“In recent conversations with family friends, he [Hunter] has worried that he might have to flee the country if Trump were to be elected president again,” two people who spoke with Hunter told Politico’s Jonathan Lemire.

Recent polling shows Trump leading President Joe Biden in state and nationwide polling:

• Morning Consult: Trump leads Biden in six of seven crucial swing states.
• CNN: Trump leads Biden by three points among “men of color” voters.
• NBC News: Trump leads Biden by two points.
• Morning Consult: Voters trust Trump over Joe Biden on ten key issues.

Hunter Biden’s legal chaos could “damage” the 2024 election. “Members of the president’s inner circle have expressed frustration over how the matter was all but behind them,” Lemire reported. “Some Democrats believe that the trials could damage [Joe] Biden politically.”

“This Hunter story has the legs to ruin things for Biden,” a Democrat strategist told the Messenger.

“The controversy about Hunter Biden’s financial dealings might play the same role for Republicans that Hillary Clinton’s emails did in 2016,” a second Democrat strategist, Brad Bannon, told the Messenger.

House investigators opened a probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members received payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.

More evidence against Joe Biden can be found here and here.

Follow Wendell Husebø on “X” @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.

Report: Joe Biden Triggered by Aides Who Warn of Hunter’s Legal Chaos

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WENDELL HUSEBØ

15 Dec 202331

President Joe Biden, 81, is reportedly triggered by White House aides who warn of Hunter Biden’s legal chaos during the president’s 2024 reelection bid.

Joe Biden, who many say has a short temper, appears dogmatically impacted by the House impeachment inquiry into his family’s business activities, which appear to implicate him, according to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who recently pointed to six concerns about the Bidens’ dealings:

1. Biden family members and Biden business-linked entities received more than $15 million from individuals in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, and China.
2. Joe Biden spoke with Hunter Biden’s business associates at least 22 times.
3. Joe Biden lied about his involvement in the business.
4. Joe Biden received “direct monthly payments” from Hunter Biden’s “Owasco PC” business account, which received “payments from Chinese-state linked companies and other foreign nationals and companies.”
5. Investigators flagged the Justice Department’s “deviations” in the five-year investigation into Hunter Biden.
6. An FBI FD-1023 form alleges Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe while vice president.

“Many aides now choose to avoid the subject, for fear of triggering the president’s temper,” five confidants told Politico’s Jonathan Lemire. “For example, no one raised whether it was a good idea for Hunter Biden to attend a June state dinner for India’s prime minister just days after accepting a plea deal.”

Hunter Biden attends a state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 22, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Lemire also highlighted Democrats close to Biden who are frustrated with the ongoing chaos and fear the disruption could “damage” Biden’s 2024 reelection bid. “Members of the president’s inner circle have expressed frustration over how the matter was all but behind them,” he wrote. “Some Democrats believe that the trials could damage Biden politically.”

The angst about Hunter and the ongoing political liability appears widespread among the Democrat party. “This Hunter story has the legs to ruin things for Biden,” a Democrat strategist told the Messenger.

A second Democrat strategist, Brad Bannon, told the Messenger that “the controversy about Hunter Biden’s financial dealings might play the same role for Republicans that Hillary Clinton’s emails did in 2016.”

Recent polling shows Americans are highly skeptical of Hunter and Joe Biden:

• ABC News/Ipsos: A plurality of Americans are not confident about how the Justice Department handled the investigation into Hunter Biden.
• Yahoo/YouGov: A majority of voters believe President Joe Biden committed a crime with Hunter Biden.
• TIPP: Sixty-three percent say Joe Biden violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by assisting Hunter Biden in a Ukraine deal.

House investigators opened a probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members received payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.

More evidence against Joe Biden can be found here and here.

Follow Wendell Husebø on “X” @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.

KEEP IN MIND THAT MOST LAWYERS ARE SOCIOPATHS WITH NO MORAL OR ETHICAL COMPASS. JOE BIDEN'S 50 YEARS OF GAMING THE LAWS AND FILLING HIS POCKETS IS TESTIMENT TO THIS.

After graduating from the University of Maryland School of Law, he became a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, where he led the Hate Crimes Unit. In 2012, Eric was elected to be a city councilmember in his hometown of Dublin.

The Hunter and Joe Music Collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6o7VcEr6UY

I'd still like to know what Hunter Biden did with that diamond the Chinese agents presented him with, likely to avoid bank monitoring laws.

Did Hunter Biden Sleep with a Chinese Spy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn83Uk9pX2k

Report: Alleged Spy Lover Eric Swalwell Arranged Press Conference for Hunter Biden

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KRISTINA WONG

14 Dec 2023257

2:58

When Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, delivered remarks at a press conference Wednesday outside the Capitol, only one Democrat lawmaker was there in support — Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).

In fact, according to reports, Swalwell arranged for Biden’s appearance.

Swalwell told Politico his decision to do so was personal as well as political.

“There is absolutely zero evidence Hunter or his father acted corruptly,” Swalwell said. “So I’m not going to sit quietly and let MAGA Republicans do Trump’s bidding in Congress.”

Swalwell himself has come under fire from Republicans for his association with an alleged Chinese spy named “Fang Fang.” Axios in December 2020 reported that the alleged spy, Christine Fang, also known as “Fang Fang,” targeted Swalwell, and had taken part in fundraising activity for his 2014 re-election campaign, and had helped place “at least one” intern in his office.

Axios reported that federal investigators who were conducting a counterintelligence probe alerted Swalwell around 2015 to her behavior.

Fang “left the country unexpectedly” amid the probe. Swalwell has refused to address whether his relationship with Fang was sexual.

The younger Biden claimed in his remarks he was there to answer questions from lawmakers, while defying a congressional subpoena for a closed-door deposition in front of the House Oversight Committee related to the panel’s investigation into whether his father benefitted from his shady business dealings, including with Chinese businessmen with connections to the Chinese Communist Party.

Biden reportedly did not give Republican lawmakers advance notice that he would be showing up. He did, however, tell his father ahead of time, according to Politico.

Still, Swalwell argued that Biden was being forthcoming by merely showing his face at the Capitol.

“Chairman Comer…asked for Hunter Biden to come testify. He said publicly or privately. Hunter said, ‘Well, let’s do it publicly,” Swalwell said, according to the Washington Examiner.

“Hunter’s here. And so, to Chairman Comer, I say: ‘What are you afraid of hearing from?’ It sounds like the only reason you would want to do this privately is if you don’t have the goods,” he said.

While Democrats did not show up for his press conference, they defended Biden from afar.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed there were no “witnesses” to any of Republicans’ allegations, despite the testimony of former Hunter Biden business partners Tony Bobulinski and Devon Archer and IRS whistleblowers who alleged Joe Biden was involved in his son’s business affairs.

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The paid agent behind the Oval Office desk

By Monica Showalter

Via John Hinderaker of Power Line, Andy McCarthy at National Review has a stunning piece outlining the depths of Joe Biden's involvement as China's little agent, tying together details which will make you wanting to take a shower afterward.

He writes:

Thanks to the extensive excavation of Biden financial records by Senators Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), followed by the dogged reporting of the New York Post once Hunter’s abandoned laptop was exposed, the outlines of the story were publicly available before Election Day 2020. The Biden/China scheme may not have been sufficiently known, but it was eminently knowable — so much so that I presented it in detail in “A Collusion Tale: China and the Bidens,” which we published on October 31, 2020 — the weekend before the election.

 

The story has gotten more damning with the additional evidence unearthed by the Oversight Committee under the direction of Chairman James Comer (R., Ky.). But it hasn’t changed.

 

CEFC, the Shanghai-based energy conglomerate with which Joe Biden and his family joined forces, was China. To describe it as a “thinly veiled” arm of Xi Jinping’s monstrous regime would exaggerate the camouflage. It was run by Ye Jianming, whom the Bidens deemed a protégé of Xi — as the president’s brother, Jim Biden, conceded to federal investigators.

 

How could it be otherwise? As I recounted in October 2020, CEFC’s position as a privileged “private” company was established by the regime in 2006 (when Xi was the rising star of the CCP).

The fake Chinese front company disappeared from view along with its agents, as soon as its activities got brazen enough for lawmen to start examining them -- in an instant. But the Bidens had already gotten their money, and performed their services, and it was a lot of money -- big $10,000,000 amounts. The Chinese not only used the Bidens to find out little things like what the FBI had on their agents, they also used it to muscle other countries to jump onboard with their One Belt, One Road initiative and other projects, letting them know that they already had the Bidens in their pocket so there was no protection out there for them:

 

This, of course, is why the Biden connection was so valuable — why CEFC was willing to pay millions of dollars for it. Doors were opened by the association with Joe Biden, one of America’s most prominent, influential politicians. If CEFC could brandish cordial relations and a business partnership with the Biden family, then other targets of China’s OBOR blandishments would be more willing to transact.

China is famous for getting the hooks in in a string of third world nations, all of which have become remarkably uncooperative with the U.S., and not even interested in making alliances with it any more. We've lost influence as joining in the China-led BRICS bloc has become the hot new thing.

 

Does it sound like Joe Biden has undermined our international interests with his takings from the Chinese regime, all to buy those mansions and fancy cars? Somehow, the U.S. doesn't have the influence it used to have internationally, and it's not just because of President Obama's constant apology tours. It was having Joe on their string that pretty well negated the U.S. as a global player. It also doesn't help that with Joe around, we also lose wars and sport wokester troops on hormone treatments, wearing makeup and dresses.

 

I'd still like to know what Hunter Biden did with that diamond the Chinese agents presented him with, likely to avoid bank monitoring laws.

 

Acting as an agent of a foreign regime while in public office is treason by anyone's definition. It's also an impeachable offense, as is bribery, according to the Constitution's Article II, Section 4:

 

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Where's the impeachment of this one, given the clarity of the charges?

 

Previous House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hemmed and hawed on it, believing perhaps that because past presidential impeachments have been on trivial matters and have always failed, this one wouldn't be any different.

 

But it is different, with millions of dollars changing hands and U.S. influence waning significantly. If this isn't dealt with in Congress, the stage will be set for any elected leader to do the same.  Now that the facts are known, Andy McCarthy argues, that Joe cannot escape his China scandal paper trail at the very least. One hopes that he is right because the bribery and treason here couldn't be more real.

  

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“The steps taken by Hunter to evade taxes are impressive, but not nearly as impressive as the efforts of the Justice Department to evade any reference to his father. 

Hunter Biden Chaos Could ‘Ruin Things’ for His Dad’s Reelection Bid: ‘Unwelcome Distraction’

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WENDELL HUSEBØ

14 Dec 20231,469

2:47

The continual news generated by Hunter Biden and his legal conflicts damages President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign with undue controversy and distractions, Democrats openly complain.

Hunter Biden’s chaos amid his father’s reelection campaign is just one more communications problem with which the president’s campaign staff must contend. Joe Biden’s age, mental fitness, and sluggish economy seemingly sunk his approval ratings to historic lows:

• FiveThirtyEight: Biden is the least popular president in modern U.S. history.
• CNN Poll: 67 percent disapprove of Biden’s economy, top 2024 issue.
• Redfield & Wilton Strategies: A majority of Democrats are “concerned” about Biden’s ability to perform his job due to his age.

“I have a pit in my stomach about it,” a Democrat strategist who worked on Clinton’s 2016 campaign told the Messenger about the chaos surrounding Hunter Biden. “The email controversy was silly but it was made to be a distraction and it worked.”

“This Hunter story has the legs to ruin things for Biden,” the Democrat strategist added.

Democrat strategist Brad Bannon told the Messenger Joe Biden’s son is just one more challenge facing the president’s reelection campaign: “Hunter Biden isn’t the biggest political problem that his father faces but the situation is an unwelcome distraction for an embattled president burdened by concerns about the economy and age.”

“The controversy about Hunter Biden’s financial dealings might play the same role for Republicans that Hillary Clinton’s emails did in 2016,” Bannon noted.

House Oversight Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who is leading the Democrats’ opposition to the impeachment inquiry, refused to say whether Hunter Biden hurts Joe Biden’s campaign. “I don’t know whether or not it’s hurting him,” he said. “I hope that the American people are able to see past it.”

“They figure this is their best shot, to create a dark cloud over the Biden family and hope that that affects Joe,” he added.

Recent polling shows Americans are highly skeptical of Hunter and Joe Biden:

• ABC News/Ipsos: A plurality of Americans are not confident about how the Justice Department handled the investigation into Hunter Biden.
• Yahoo/YouGov: A majority of voters believe President Joe Biden committed a crime with Hunter Biden.
• TIPP: 63 percent say Joe Biden violated FARA by assisting Hunter Biden in Ukraine deal.

Follow Wendell Husebø on “X” @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.

THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE PERPERATED BY THIS POS IS INESTIMABLE AND THAT'S HOW HIS WALL STREET CRONIES, GEOGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK WANTED IT!

JOE BIDEN IS A SOCIOPATH GAMER LAWYER. HE HAS NEVER TAKEN REPSONSIBLITY FOR ANYTHING. HE HAS SLATHERED IT ALL WITH IS LIES!

 It would only require him to accept responsibility for the crime syndicate he created.  

Head of Biden Crime Family Feels Guilty...but Doesn’t Plead Guilty

By John Green

The MSM are reporting that Joe Biden is raging at his staff because of the unfairness of Hunter being investigated.  It’s giving old Joe a guilty conscience.  I didn’t even know that was possible. According to Axios:

The 81-year-old president has suggested to close associates that if he hadn't run in 2020, Hunter wouldn't be facing criminal prosecutions or be the target of daily stories by conservative media — all while trying to stay sober and rebuild his life.

Perhaps for the first time in his 53 years of collecting bribes for selling out the public that pays his salary, our president “in name only” got something right.  Hunter certainly wouldn’t be in legal jeopardy if Joe hadn’t run for office again in 2020.  But ultimately, Joe’s greed and lust for power may turn out to be his son’s undoing.

Joe Biden certainly has much to feel guilty for — but not for the reason he claims.  He complains that his son is being politically persecuted as a grotesque act of revenge for himself being elected.  Certainly, that’s the narrative (i.e., propaganda of Joe’s cohorts in the media).  The counter-argument is quite different.  Hunter is being legally pursued because Joe

• committed his son to a life of crime as the bagman for the Biden family crime syndicate,
• selling U.S. government favors for personal enrichment
• to some of the world’s most nefarious actors,
• then ran for the office of president to enhance his earning potential from those clients,
• leaving his son exposed, because organized crime investigations always start at the bottom, where Hunter resides.

Joe could have gone quietly into retirement after his time as Barack Obama’s vice president — concluding his 46-year crime spree.  Had he done that, Congress and the conservative media would have lost interest, and Hunter would have faded into obscurity.

But the “Don” of the Biden family decided to push his luck.  He wanted a few more years of grift and sleaze, before retiring to his beach home, his classic Corvette, and his publicly funded muscle protective detail.  He expected us to grant him that opportunity without complaint.  That turned out to have been an unreasonable expectation after he stole the last election and called his citizens “fascists.”

When Joe made it necessary for himself to be investigated, it was inevitable that his underlings would be placed at risk first — including his son, the collections guy.

Joe Biden has always known that he is personally safe from facing justice.  That’s why he’s been so bold in his public displays.  As the vice president, he took Hunter Biden on Air Force Two to meet with family clients in Russia, Ukraine, and China — on full display for the news cameras.  He also boasted in a public speech about using the power of the U.S. government to shut down the investigation of his Ukrainian client.  Joe has behaved just as Al Capone once did — bragging to the public as if he were untouchable.  As the country’s chief executive, with the federal law enforcement apparatus in his pocket and his syndicate associates in Congress, he could confidently rest assured that he would never personally pay for his crimes.  That bill would come due for someone else — as it almost always does in crime families.

But now the Capo of the Biden family has seen

• his bank records seized by Congressional investigators,
• his involvement exposed by a misplaced laptop, and
• whistleblowers testifying that operatives in his syndicate corrupted federal investigations.

Boss Biden is getting scared and doing what crime bosses do: blaming his underlings.  Naturally that blaming is causing friction in the family.  As a result, Joe’s relationship with Merrick Garland, his head “button man,” has become strained.  It seems President “Ten Percent for the Big Guy” isn’t happy about Attorney General Garland appointing a special counsel to look into his son. As Axios reports,

[o]ne person close to the president unflatteringly compared Garland to former FBI Director James Comey, claiming they both have been obsessed with the appearance of having integrity rather than just trying to make the right decision — a reference to Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

The “right decision” in this instance being the continuation of the Biden family crime cover-up (i.e., taking one for the team).  One can always tell when an organized crime operation starts becoming less organized.  The finger-pointing gives it away.

All crime families eventually leave too much evidence lying about to be ignored.  It’s the nature of criminal behavior.  That inevitability is exacerbated when one of the family members has a demonstrated lack of self-control relative to drugs, women, and extravagant spending.  It attracts the wrong kind of attention.  In the end, someone must pay for the crime.  It’s usually an underling, who is expected to remain loyal to the mob, serving the time and keeping quiet, to avoid retribution or in exchange for future rewards.  However, it doesn’t always work that way.  There is frequently no honor among dishonorable men.

Now that Merrick Garland sees the end of his tenure approaching, perhaps he’s reflecting on his career.  He was once a respected judge, even considered for a position on the Supreme Court.  But under Biden’s leadership, he has become an unprincipled thug, using the full apparatus of the federal legal system to target innocent citizens and political opponents.  Will he pay the legal bill for Joe by using his Department of Justice to hide the evidence of Biden wrongdoing?  Will he trade his place in the history books from that of a judge to that of the most corrupt attorney general in history, who facilitated the crimes of the most crooked administration in history?  Will he make that sacrifice for a president who will soon have nothing to reward him with, nor anything to threaten him with?  Or will Mr. “No One Is above the Law” attempt to rehabilitate his legacy by prosecuting one of his co-conspirators — leaving Hunter without a chair when the music stops?

If the bill comes due for Hunter, will he voluntarily pick up the tab for the syndicate?  Will he have the spine to do the time — out of love for a father who cherished him just enough to include him in his crimes?

Life’s choices come with consequences.  When Joe Biden chose to introduce his son to a life of crime, he started the chain of events that are now playing out.  Whatever becomes of Hunter, it is because of Joe’s actions, not those of law enforcement or the conservative media.

Of course, if Joe Biden really feels the least bit guilty for the predicament his son is in, he can end his son’s suffering instantly.  It would only require him to accept responsibility for the crime syndicate he created.  With that simple act, his opponents would cease having any interest in Hunter whatsoever.  But I suspect that his guilt isn’t troubling enough for such an act of selflessness.  Better to let his beloved son suffer a few years of torment “while trying to stay sober and rebuild his life.”

John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho.  He is a staff writer for the American Free News Network and can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.

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Report: Joe Biden Feels ‘Guilty’ About Hunter Biden Indictments

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WENDELL HUSEBØ

12 Dec 2023240

2:45

President Joe Biden reportedly feels “guilty” for his son’s legal woes, telling aides that Hunter Biden would not be facing scrutiny for the millions of dollars he raked in from foreign business deals had he not run for president.

Hunter Biden is facing 17 years for nine tax charges and is at the center of the House impeachment inquiry into his father, in which investigators are probing how the Biden family made tens of millions of dollars in China, Ukraine, and other corrupt countries with no discernible service rendered. Special Counsel David Weiss is allegedly not done investigating the Biden scion and has yet to indicate if he looked into the nature of Biden’s work on behalf of foreign entities.

The report, published by Axios, claims the president experienced mood swings and expressed “anger” and “sadness,” believing his run for office brought attention to his family’s sketchy foreign business that otherwise would not have received attention.

“The 81-year-old president has suggested to close associates that if he hadn’t run in 2020, Hunter wouldn’t be facing criminal prosecutions or be the target of daily stories by conservative media,” Axios reported. The president appears, according to Axios, to still be denying, even in private, the obvious merits of the investigation.

Weiss charged Hunter Biden on Thursday, asserting he was “engaged in a four-year scheme” to not pay at least $1.4 million in taxes “he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns.”

Weiss referenced money that flowed from Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in the indictment. Weiss did not charge Hunter Biden for Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations. Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley believes Weiss’s tax indictment should have included FARA charges.

“The steps taken by Hunter to evade taxes are impressive, but not nearly as impressive as the efforts of the Justice Department to evade any reference to his father. In that sense, the indictment itself is a marvel of evasion,” Turley posted on X.

House investigators opened a probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James Biden and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members received payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of the president’s grandchildren.

More evidence against Joe Biden can be found here.

Follow Wendell Husebø on “X” @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.

IF YOU TOOK THE BRIBES SUCKERS OUT OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY THERE WOULDN'T BE MUCH LEFT!

THE ONLY WAY WE CAN PROTECT OURSELVES FROM RED CHINA IS TO PUT BIDEN IN TRAITORS' PRISON!

House Select Committee: U.S. Must Revoke Free Trade with China, Hike Tariffs

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JOHN BINDER

12 Dec 202323

5:09

The United States ought to hike tariffs on China and revoke its decades-long, job-killing free trade policy with the communist country, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recommends.

Over the last year, the bipartisan committee investigated the economic impact that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has had on the nation’s job market, manufacturing base, and national security since entering the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) chairs the committee alongside Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL). Reps. Andy Barr (R-KY), Jim Banks (R-IN), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), and Seth Moulton (D-MA) are among the members who sit on the committee.

In its report, issued Tuesday, the committee recommends President Joe Biden’s administration, as well as Congress, adopt nearly 150 policies to counter the CCP’s grasp on the U.S. economy.

Among the recommendations is the pivotal policy to revoke China’s permanent normal trade relations status (PNTR) with the U.S., which was approved in 2001 by Congress and backed by former President George W. Bush.

“We acknowledge that granting the PRC PNTR did not lead to the benefits expected for the United States nor did it lead to the structural reforms in the PRC that Congress expected,” the committee writes:

Instead, it has ceded critical U.S. economic leverage in our relationship with the PRC. Furthermore, the PRC’s consistent failure to meet its WTO obligations and its systemic and widespread State and Party intervention in market decisions, economic coercion, IP theft, cyber-attacks, forced labor, lack of basic transparency, and the rule of law have harmed U.S. industry, workers, and manufacturers. [Emphasis added]

Therefore, Congress should:

Move the PRC to a new tariff column that restores U.S. economic leverage to ensure that the PRC abides by its trade commitments and does not engage in coercive or other unfair trade practices and decreases U.S. reliance on PRC imports in sectors important for national and economic security. This shift should be phased in over a relatively short period of time to give our economy the time necessary to adjust without avoidable disruptions. [Emphasis added]

Likewise, the committee recommends Congress pass the COOL Online Act to require country-of-origin labeling for products purchased by American consumers online.

The bill has been introduced by Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-FL) and Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and is cosponsored by Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) as well as Sens. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Rick Scott (R-FL), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

Also, the committee wants Congress and Biden to approve a measure that would ban U.S. investment in Chinese corporations that have been flagged by the federal government for their ties to the CCP and the national security threat they pose.

Michael Stumo, CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA), praised the committee’s findings and recommendations:

Importantly, this bipartisan report recognizes that granting China permanent normal trade relations status was a serious mistake, and that Congress must revoke China’s status to counter the CCP’s economic and trade strategy that has devastated American manufacturers and workers. Additionally, we applaud the Committee for recognizing that CCP companies engaged in human rights abuses and forced labor, as well as Chinese military firms, are being funded by U.S. capital markets. While some lawmakers who are beholden to Wall Street want to allow this to continue, Members of the House China Committee recognize that funding our greatest geopolitical and military adversary through our capital markets is insanity and must be addressed. [Emphasis added]

The U.S. trade deficit with China, since 2001, has eliminated nearly four million American jobs. Almost three million of these lost jobs, or about 75 percent, were in the nation’s manufacturing sector.

Chart via the Coalition for a Prosperous America

A study from CPA, published in September, shows that ending U.S. free trade with China would create some two million American jobs and grow the nation’s economy by nearly two percent.

Another study from 2022 similarly found that imposing U.S. tariffs on all foreign imports would create a whopping ten million American jobs — three million of which would be high-paying manufacturing jobs, while 6.9 million would be jobs in supporting industries.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.

Commerce Sec’y: Made Progress with China Meeting, But It’s Harder to Do Business, Not Surprised Hacking Didn’t Let Up

IAN HANCHETT

13 Dec 202312

2:55

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo stated that there was “a little bit of progress” from President Joe Biden’s meeting with Xi Jinping, but she keeps hearing from CEOs “that it’s getting harder to do business in China,” and that she wasn’t surprised to hear that cybersecurity companies reported Chinese hacking hasn’t decreased at all after the meeting.

Host Jim Cramer said, “So, let’s discuss what happened at your dinner in San Francisco, because I was hoping that there would be a cessation of what I would regard as being ill-advised acts by the Chinese. But I’m not sure there has been.”

Raimondo responded, “Yeah, well, we weren’t hoping for magic, Jim. We were just hoping for a little bit of progress. And I think we got a little bit of progress. President Biden had, I think, a very productive, constructive, candid, direct discussion with President Xi. I was able to be part of that meeting. I spent hours with my counterpart. And we said to them, listen, action speaks louder than words. President Xi and his minister said to us they want more foreign direct investment, they want U.S. companies to do business there. We said to them, show us, don’t tell us, show us. Don’t rip off our I.P., have a regulatory environment that’s fair and not arbitrary and capricious, don’t target U.S. companies. And so, we began the dialogue, which is a good step. Nothing good will happen if we don’t even talk. We’ve seen a little progress. You saw the VMware acquisition by Broadcom approved, you see Mastercard being allowed to do business there, expand their digital business. But we have a long way to go, Jim. And I think they need to show us that they’re serious that they want us to do business there. And that means protecting I.P.”

Cramer then said “Madam Secretary, what I’m concerned about is, for instance, right after the dinner, we spoke with Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike, those are the two most sophisticated companies in terms of cybersecurity. And both of them said there is actually no let-up whatsoever in hacking after that dinner.”

Raimondo responded, “I can’t say that I’m surprised. I do hear from CEOs. I meet with a couple of CEOs every week who have either just come back from China or call me or are thinking of going, and they report similarly that it’s getting harder to do business in China, not easier. But we’re not going to let up. Jim, as you know, I’m a dog on a bone. U.S. business deserves an advocate. They deserve a fair shake. We’re not asking for any special treatment. We just want a level playing field. And we’re going to keep making the case.”

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Peter Schweizer’s ‘Red-Handed’ Hits #1 on New York Times Bestseller List for 4th Week

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Peter Schweizer’s blockbuster new book Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win has landed at number one on the New York Times bestseller list for a fourth week since its release by HarperCollins, after dropping to number two on the list last week.

 

Schweizer, whose past books have sparked an FBI investigation and exposed congressional insider trading that spearheaded groundbreaking legislation, has called the revelations in Red-Handed the “scariest” of his quarter-century career investigating corruption.

As the book’s subtitle states, Red-Handed exposes the vast complicity of elites – from politicians to diplomats to business, tech, and entertainment tycoons – who have enriched themselves by advancing the interests of China’s communist regime.

Schweizer, who is the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and a Breitbart News senior contributor, spent over a year conducting the research for Red-Handed with his team of forensic investigators at GAI, combing through a trove of financial and corporate records. The book contains 1,093 endnotes and 81 pages of source material with no off-the-record sources, making it easier for federal law enforcement and U.S. intelligence services to track down the book’s bombshell revelations.

Last month, U.S. House Republicans introduced the “Stop CCP Act” to impose sanctions on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, including Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and his family, Breitbart reported last moth. The legislative proposal comes on the heels of the shocking revelations in Schweizer’s book.

Leaders on Capitol Hill — including Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) — are also calling for Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate the revelations in Red-Handed concerning President Joe Biden’s family members’ business dealings with individuals with direct ties to the highest levels of China’s spy apparatus.

The New York Post’s editorial board echoed these calls in an op-ed headlined, “Appoint a special counsel on Hunter Biden—now.”

Breitbart’s coverage of Red-Handed’s revelations include:

· How the Biden family scored some $31 million from five deals in China, all with individuals with direct ties to the highest levels of China’s intelligence apparatus

· How a Chinese global energy company linked to a Chinese intelligence operation sent close to $6 million to Hunter Biden in 2017

· How American elites — including the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe — purposefully aid the communist regime of China

· How donations from Communist China to the University of Pennsylvania almost tripled after the university established a “Biden Center” in 2017 and gave former Vice President Joe Biden a professorship

· How Hunter Biden planned to share his family’s office space in Washington, DC, with a Chinese intelligence-linked firm that employed a man Hunter described as “the f**king spy chief of China”

· How Hunter Biden’s business deals were helpful to the Belt and Road Initiative, which is China’s colonialist scheme for buying influence across the Third World and luring poor nations into taking loans from Chinese banks they can never repay

· How 23 former U.S. senators and congressmen (most of whom are Republican) have lobbied for Chinese military or intelligence-linked companies after leaving office

· How 20 Republicans from the highest levels of our government sold out to China

· How politicians use tepid criticism of China’s human rights abuses as cover to continue doing Beijing’s bidding — a concept the CCP refers to as “big help with a little bad mouth”

· How members of the Bush family cashed in on friendship with the Chinese official involved in the Tiananmen Square massacre

· How the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee, was the part owner of a Chinese firm that allegedly sold computers with spyware chips to the U.S. military

· How House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) softened her previous criticism of the Chinese Communist Party as her husband and son scored big business deals in China

· How Pelosi reined in her criticism of the 2008 Beijing Olympics after her family members were involved in business ventures in China that would benefit from the 2008 Games

· How Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has followed in his father Pierre’s footsteps both in assuming high office and in using it to further the interests of the Chinese Communist Party

· How a CCP regime-linked company promoted Justin Trudeau’s entry into politics by publishing a Chinese language edition of Pierre Trudeau’s travelogue through Maoist China during the Cultural Revolution

· How Wall Street titan Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone launched a $100 million global education scholarship program for Americans and other students studying in China to inculcate the superiority of Chinese communism

· How Antony Blinken helped American universities “navigate problems” of legally balancing their Pentagon contracts while still accepting Chinese funding of dubious origin, and how he encouraged the U.S. government to deny political asylum to a high profile Chinese Communist Party defector who could have been a priceless intelligence asset for the United States

· How American universities have often not complied with federal laws when it comes to accepting donations linked to the Chinese Communist Party 

Schweizer’s track record investigating both Republicans and Democrats is well-established, winning him a unique mix of bipartisan praise for his investigative work from both the left and the right. After the release of Schweizer’s bestselling Clinton Cash, liberal columnist Eleanor Clift called Schweizer “an equal-opportunity investigator, snaring Republicans as well as Democrats.” Clift added: “It’s a mistake for the Clinton campaign to write off conservative author Peter Schweizer as a right-wing hack. It won’t work, and it’s not true.” Similarly, Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessing wrote that “on any fair reading, the pattern of behavior that Schweizer has charged is corruption.”

Schweizer is also the author of Throw Them All Out, which, according to left-leaning Slate, was “the book that started the STOCK Act stampede.” The bipartisan STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge) banned insider trading by members of Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 4, 2012. The legislation received overwhelming support from both parties. One of the main figures featured in Schweizer’s Throw Them All Out, then-chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Spencer Bachus (R-AL), announced he would not seek reelection after the book’s reporting. CBS’s 60 Minutes did an investigative report on Schweizer’s revelations that won them the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based journalism.

 

Bipartisan Lawmakers Call for Breaking Economic Ties With China

Warning about a decades-long Chinese economic aggression, the House Select Committee on China wants a 'reset' on the U.S. relationship with China.

Committee chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) talk over procedures with their members during a House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party meeting on "Taiwan Tabletop Exercise," a war games simulation, on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 19, 2023. (Amanda Andrade Rhoades/Reuters)

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WASHINGTON—A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress are calling for the United States to “reset” its relationship with China by raising tariffs and cutting off capital flows fueling aggression by the communist regime.

In a report incorporating nearly 150 recommendations on Dec. 12, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party warned about the regime’s “multidecade campaign of economic aggression” that has made the United States dependent on Beijing—to its peril.

Among the list of recommendations from the 53-page report are closing the loopholes that allow Beijing to steal U.S. technologies, forcing a ban or divestment of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, imposing tariffs on legacy Chinese semiconductors, and directing the Federal Reserve to stress test its resilience to a potential loss of access to the Chinese market.

Committee chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) described the report as a blueprint to “turbocharge the American economy for decades to come.”

“The status quo is not working,” he told reporters on Dec. 12. “We shouldn’t have wasted a day, let alone a decade on that old bet.”

Mr. Gallagher made clear that he wasn't asking for a complete decoupling. He has “no problems with Wisconsin farmers selling soybeans to China” or “Americans buying cheap textiles or toys in China—as long as they're not made with slave labor,” but more economic interaction won't make the Chinese regime less repressive internally and less aggressive externally.

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“The United States now has a choice: accept Beijing’s vision of America as its economic vassal or stand up for our security, values, and prosperity,” Mr. Gallagher and ranking Democratic member Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois said in the report.

Mr. Gallagher said Republicans are having a “robust discussion” with relevant stakeholders about the best path forward on restricting outbound investment toward China. A measure regarding the issue was dropped from the annual National Defense Authorization Act, but the lawmaker hopes to see some “responsible legislative activity” in the first quarter of the coming year.

"Even those major asset managers or bankers with whom we've engaged that are skeptical of any restrictions on investment in China, even in military and critical technological areas, I think would welcome the predictability that legislating the issue would provide," he said.

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The report signals a shift of bipartisan view on how to approach China that contrasts with the decades-long U.S. thinking that economic cooperation would be mutually beneficial and lead to a more open China.

Instead, since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Chinese regime has increasingly weaponized the economic reliance to undercut U.S. national security and values, according to the report.

The heavy U.S. dependence on China for pharmaceutical ingredients exposes Americans vulnerable to contamination risks, the report states, and China’s dominance on medical devices is similarly troubling in light of how it blocked exports of critically needed medical equipment during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a recent tabletop exercise in New York simulating the U.S. response to a Chinese war on Taiwan, the committee found that the financial entanglement with China could come at “tremendous costs to the United States,” the report states.

The lesson, according to the report, is that the United States must “act now to build an economic contingency plan and reduce its dependence on the PRC [People's Republic of China] in critical sectors, address the PRC’s penetration of U.S. capital markets, and build greater collective resilience with allies and partners.”

The report was lauded by a number of industry groups and those who had been advocating for a tougher stance on China.

Joseph Cella, former ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu, said it offered “a clear-eyed view of the perilous terrain we are on with China in this new Cold War, particularly when it comes to state level incursions and influence operations.”

David McCall, president of United Steelworkers International, said they appreciate the committee’s efforts to “hold the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] accountable and protect American workers” because although its members can “compete against anyone on a level playing field ... too often they instead face the CCP’s illegal trade practices.”

Kim Glas, president and CEO of the National Council of Textile Organizations, said he believes that the policy recommendations from the committee can help address the economic headwinds brought by predatory Chinese trade practices.

“The U.S. textile and apparel manufacturing sector has been on the receiving end of some of the worst predatory trade practices by China, including substantial intellectual property theft, coupled with rampant abuse of state-owned enterprises and subsidies, and horrifying labor abuses in Xinjiang, which have enabled the country to dominate world markets in this sector,” he said.

The committee isn’t alone in hoping to curb investment funds going to China.

On Dec. 12, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.), as well as Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), introduced the American Investment Accountability Act, to ensure that Congress is informed about outbound investment data into China.