Friday, February 2, 2024

JOE BIDEN - FOLKS, WE'RE A GOOD CATHOLIC FAMILY - OUR MOTTO IS THE FAMILY THAT STEALS TOGETHER, STAYS TO GETHER!

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JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes.  In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK


Has there ever been a President as cold-hearted as Joe Biden?

By Patricia McCarthy

No. There never has. No previous president in US history has been as willing to sacrifice America, American lives, and American power and standing in the world solely for political purposes. Are his traitorous actions purely political? Perhaps his motives are personal as well.

Biden has been selling his soul for money for decades; to China, to Ukraine, to Pakistan. How else can he explain his massive wealth and multiple mansions on a salary of $174k? He cannot. See Peter Schweitzer’s book Profiles in Corruption. Chapter 3 is about Joe Biden:

“The Biden family partners are often foreign governments, where the deals occur in the dark corners of international finance like Kazakhstan, China, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Ukraine and Russia. Some have even involved taxpayer money.”

And later in chapter 3:

“The Biden family’s apparent self-enrichment depends on Joe Biden’s political influence and involves no less than five family members: Joe’s son Hunter, daughter Ashley, brothers James and Frank and sister Valerie.”

 

 Where there’s smoke, look for fire.  Biden came from humble means, never worked in the private sector, but somehow became wildly wealthy.  Several of Biden’s family members essentially work in the family business of apparent influence peddling.  Does Biden’s frequent refrain, “I never spoke with my son about his overseas business deals” come to mind?  It makes one wonder if “never” really means “never!”.  Biden has nine relatives receiving millions in foreign cash.  What were they talking about when Vice President Biden and his cronies met 80 times at the White House?  Veracity is everything when you solicit the public’s trust, and Biden’s persona is wrapped around his supposed trustworthiness.  However, the facts here point to a person who uses hyperbole, manipulation, and outright lying to sway public opinion. ALLAN J FEIFER

Joe Biden and Sons TOSS IN THE TWO PARASITE LAWYER BROTHERS,TOO!

Recently President Biden asked for a moment of silence for the three dead American troops killed by Iranian proxies. He mentioned no immediate action for retaliation or future acts to protect our troops. Biden has not spoken nor met with the families of these troops.

In 2021, the family of a Marine killed in Afghanistan slammed President Biden’s meeting with them as scripted. They said Biden appeared to show a "total disregard to the loss of our Marine. Biden spoke about the service of his veteran son, Beau Biden, and his death from brain cancer -- a topic Biden also brought up while both addressing the nation after the deadly Kabul suicide bombing and speaking with the new prime minister of Israel. Many parents of our dead troops sensed a disconnect with President Biden’s empathy about their grief.

President Biden's intended empathy toward the parents of the dead troops did not connect because his son Beau did not die in combat, as Joe Biden often implies. Until his battle with brain cancer, Biden’s son Beau had a career, a family, and full life. Joe Biden's unresolved and pathological grief causes him to blur his son Beau's life with our U.S. troops.

An Important and Emotion-laden Tale of Biden and Sons

As described in his 2008 memoir, Promises to Keep, Joe Biden decided to commute to D.C. and back to Delaware every day, making sure to be there when his sons woke up and went to bed. The devotion to family life helped Joe, Beau, and Hunter recover from the life-altering loss of their wife and mother and forged an unusually tight bond.

Beau, a natural leader, was elected to the Delaware Attorney General's office in 2006. He also joined the Delaware National Guard in 2003, eventually rising to the rank of major. Beau also developed into an invaluable campaign presence for Joe Biden. Shortly before being deployed to Iraq in 2008, Beau made a speech at the Democratic National Convention describing his father's impressive efforts as a single parent. Four years later, Beau delivered another speech at the Democrat convention that concluded with him citing his dad as "my hero" and calling for a vote by acclamation to renominate him for Vice President.

In 2013, Beau was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. He opted for an experimental treatment and attempted to carry on business as usual, even announcing in spring 2014 that he planned to run for Delaware governor in 2016. By early 2015, the pressure was on for Joe to announce whether he intended to run for president. Biden was already leaning toward the affirmative, but that dream turned into a nightmare as Beau's condition took a turn for the worse in April. Brief recoveries turned out to be illusions, and Beau died at Walter Reed Medical Center on May 30, 2015. Joe Biden said, “his absolute honor made him a role model for our family and was, quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known."

In his memoir, Promise Me, Dad, Biden wrote that he came to understand that, more than anything else, Beau wanted him to remain active in public service. That engagement led right back to the campaign trail with Joe's announcement that he was running for president in 2020. On the TV show Morning Joe in January 2020, Joe Biden said, "Beau should be the one running for president, not me," he told Joe Scarborough. "Every morning I get up Joe, not a joke, and I think to myself, 'Is he proud of me?'"

At the end of each speech Joe Biden almost always says, “And may God bless America and may God protect our troops.” On August 25th, 2021, after his definitive insistence about getting our troops out of Afghanistan by August 31, Joe Biden ended his short speech before turning his back on the U.S. press by saying, “And may God bless America and may God protect our diplomats.” Biden’s diplomats, U.S. citizens, and Afghan allies will certainly need God’s protection, as well as “our troops.”

Joe Biden’s Denial, Defensiveness, and Defective Empathy

Joe Biden clearly shows ambivalence and conflict about the U.S. military and the use of military power.  Joe Biden had presided with Barack Obama over the premature troop reduction in Iraq before the rise of ISIS there. Joe Biden opposed the surge of U.S. troops that helped quell ISIS in Iraq. Biden opposed the raid to get Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. He said it was too dangerous for the troops.

At an unconscious level, Joe Biden has seemed never to have fully resolved his grief over the loss of his ‘good son’ Beau Biden. Beau had urged his dad Joe to run for the presidency in 2016 but Joe declined at that time. Beau had a distinguished military career but did not die in combat. Joe Biden never served in our military. I think Joe Biden links in his mind an overprotective feeling about "our troops" with his beloved dead son Beau. For Joe Biden to leave any troops in Afghanistan would be to leave his beloved son Beau (who had served in Iraq), to symbolically die there in perpetuity.

In that sense, Joe Biden repeatedly said that he will take it on his presidential soul to be the heroic president to get us out of Afghanistan. No future president, Biden said, will have that task. To even leave a residual strategic force there would be an anathema for Joe Biden -- no more symbolic Beaus will die! -- even if it actually saved America from future Al Qaeda or ISIS-K attacks. Joe's mind, heart, and soul is invested in "protecting our troops" -- symbolically, Joe Biden’s beloved trooper Beau is protected in perpetuity in unconscious godlike fashion by Joe Biden.

Joe Biden's denial over this obsession about currently protecting the troops apparently prevents him from empathizing with troops and their families who served there over the last 20 years. Biden has not even mentioned those troops and their families in his sparse public comments about his Afghanistan debacle. The chaos and pain -- Joe Biden told Stephanopoulos -- was 'priced-in' to his lonely calculations!  Joe Biden says he has no regrets about his decision.

Joe Biden's “prodigal son” Hunter is referred to by Joe Biden as "The smartest man I have ever known." I think Joe Biden's over-protectiveness of Hunter reflects massive denial of the major character flaws of Hunter and Joe Biden himself. Joe Biden’s protectiveness of Hunter is really self-protection. Hunter’s addiction, alleged corruption, and sexual boundary problems -- even incest with his widowed sister-in-law -- are described by Hunter in his book. Like father, like prodigal son.

Joe Biden’s ambivalent but powerful psychological protective and loving merger with his beloved sons results in a tragic flaw and psychological blind spot in his political decision-making. Biden's unresolved grief causes him to blur his son Beau's life with our U.S. troops. Joe Biden’s rigidity, defective empathy, and signs of early cognitive decline render him unfit for decision-making regarding protecting our troops from real danger.


Republicans Demand Drafts of Joe Biden’s Speech on Firing Burisma Prosecutor

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The impeachment inquiry sent a demand letter to White House Counsel Edward Siskel on Wednesday requesting the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide all drafts of then-Vice President Joe Biden’s speech about firing Burisma Holdings’ prosecutor Viktor Shokin.

The inquiry is interested in the original drafts of the speech because Joe Biden bragged in 2018 about successfully pushing for Shokin’s removal — a condition for Ukraine to receive a critical $1 billion loan guarantee, Joe Biden explained himself.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) requested the original drafts of Joe Biden’s speech more than five months ago, but the White House refused to allow NARA to release them to Congress.

During the Obama administration, Joe Biden was the designated foreign policy point person to Ukraine. The House Oversight Committee argues Joe Biden threatened to withhold U.S. aid to Ukraine in 2015 until then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko fired Shokin, who had jurisdiction for an investigation into the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

Hunter Biden sat on the board of Buramia, earning $1 million a year until his monthly compensation was cut in half two months after his father ceased to be vice president.

“This White House has previously permitted NARA to provide Congress with presidential records related to the Trump Administration after only one month of White House review,” the inquiry wrote the White House. “We expect the White House to do the same in this instance.”

“Such a lengthy delay in processing a discrete and limited category of documents is unacceptable and appears to represent an attempt to obstruct the Committees’ legitimate investigation,” it wrote. “These dilatory tactics must cease, and the White House must permit NARA to release these documents forthwith.”

White House PRA Production Letter (1) by Breitbart News on Scribd

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.

REALITY SANS THE SPIN: THE BIDENS ARE A PACK OF PARASITE LAWYERS AT THE TROUGH.

Breitbart Editor-in-Chief and New York Times bestselling Breaking Biden author Alex Marlow told YouTuber Stephen Gardner the Bidens would be in “handcuffs” if the United States “had a responsible Department of Justice.”

 

“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation  (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?)  and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS AND LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK)  corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS (WANTS TO BE OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECE OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE, AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY (GAMER LAWYER) TONY BLINKENAS WELL AS CON MAN (GAMER LAWYER) ADAM SHIFF) AND HIS CORRUPTNESS (GAMER LAWYER) BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON.

    BRIAN C JOONDEPH

 

Breaking Biden’ Author—Meet Jim Biden: Nightclub Owner, International Business Mogul, Joe’s Bagman

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/22/breaking-biden-author-meet-jim-biden-nightclub-owner-international-business-mogul-joes-bagman/

Seemingly his entire life, Joe Biden’s brother James “Jim” Biden has benefitted from his brother’s political status. At various moments, he has been a campaign finance maven, a nightclub owner, and a hedge fund mastermind. Jim appears to be a man who wears many hats; but in actuality, he only wears one: Joe Biden’s brother.


Impeachment Inquiry: James Biden Set for February 21 Deposition 

Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden (L) and his brother James Biden during the Democratic National Convention in Denver. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)
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The House impeachment inquiry will depose James Biden, President Joe Biden’s brother, on February 21.

James, an often overlooked member of the Biden family, is a material witness in the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. James and Hunter Biden were business partners with CEFC China Energy Co., an organization closely aligned and linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP.)

Through the Biden family’s suspicious activity reports (SARs), the committee discovered in March that Biden associate Rob Walker received a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC. In turn, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden” — received a collective $1.3 million cut from the $3 million wire transfer.

In two instances, Joe Biden personally accepted a suspicious personal check from James, according to the Oversight Committee. The discovery of the checks justifies concerns that the Biden business compromised Joe Biden. It also lends further credence to the impeachment inquiry into the president.

In September, The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed James Biden’s Lion Hall Group and JBBSR, Inc., entities because the committee could not identify “legitimate services provided by James Biden’s companies.” Those entities received at least 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 through Hunter’s entities, according to the 2020 Senate Report by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI).

The subpoena appeared to be directed at obtaining records linked to Joe Biden’s corporation, “CelticCapri Corp,” which received nearly $10 million in 2017 without specifying revenue line items.

“There is nothing more to those transactions, and there is nothing wrong with them,” James’s lawyer Paul Fishman said in a statement in November. “And Jim Biden has never involved his brother in his business dealings.”

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.

BREAKING NEWS: GOP Lawmaker Claims 'Smoking Gun' In Biden Family's 'Unethical Business Schemes'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSmXzHqkX5k


DO YOU NEED A REMINDER THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF LAWYERS ARE SOCIOPATHS? AND NEARLY ALL ARE LYING PARASITES. 

THE BIDEN FAMILY OF PIG LAWYERS: NEVER MADE AN HONEST DOLLAR IN THEIR ENTIRE CORRUPT LIVES!

Hunter Biden’s Attorney Claims Gun Charges ‘Politically Motivated’ and ‘Instigated’ by Donald Trump

Hunter Biden
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Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell claimed on Tuesday the gun charges against him should be dismissed because they were “instigated by former President Trump and his MAGA allies.”

In September,  Special Counsel David Weiss charged Biden with gun violations: one count of false statement in the purchase of a firearm, one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance, and one count of false statement related to information required to be kept by federal firearms licensed dealer.

The Messenger pointed to a statement from Lowell, in which he said, “The filings made by the prosecutors provide more evidence that these charges result from a politically motivated attack instigated by former President Trump and his MAGA allies.”

He continued, “This pressure caused the prosecutors to violate their own non-prosecution agreement, the DOJ’s own regulations for how they should have been appointed, and the Constitution to pursue them.”

On December 13, 2023, Breitbart News reported that Biden’s attorneys were seeking to have gun charges against him dismissed in light of the Supreme Court’s Bruen (2022) decision.

Breitbart News covered the issuance of the Bruen decision, noting that it struck down New York’s proper cause requirement for concealed carry permit issuance.

Bruen also set a path for Second Amendment jurisprudence moving forward, requiring that in cases involving challenges to gun control, courts are to weigh the controls by looking for historical precedents in American history and tradition rather than in claims that the controls serve a specific purpose. It is in appealing to this aspect of Bruen that Biden’s attorneys seek a dismissal of charges.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a Turning Point USA Ambassador, and a pro-staffer for Pulsar Night Vision. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

‘Moneyman’ Biden Family Associate Who Shared Bank Accounts with Joe Biden to Sit for Deposition 

President Joe Biden attends a meeting of the Reproductive Health Task Force at the White House on January 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden met with the task force to discuss reproductive health and to mark the 51st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Eric Schwerin, the Biden family’s estranged “moneyman” who shared bank accounts with President Joe Biden, will appear on Tuesday for a House impeachment inquiry deposition, Breitbart News learned.

House investigators hope to ascertain information about Schwerin’s role within the Biden family’s foreign business dealings as well as Joe Biden’s knowledge of and participation in those dealings.

  • In December, the Committee on Ways and Means released a spreadsheet compiled by an IRS criminal investigator that included dozens of email exchanges between or among Hunter Biden, Schwerin, and pseudonyms attributable to Joe Biden between 2010 and 2019.
  • The National Archives released documents showing Schwerin had direct contact with White House employees regarding Burisma.
  • Schwerin coordinated with the White House on Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, about issues when he didn’t work for or receive payments from Burisma.

Schwerin was the president of Rosemont Seneca Partners, a fund created by Hunter and several​ associates that spawned business deals in Russia, Ukraine, China, and Romania. Many of those deals yielded the Biden family business millions over decades while Joe Biden was an elected official.

RELATED VIDEO — Hunter Biden Walks Out of House Oversight Hearing Before MTG Has Chance to Ask Him Questions:

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Schwerin visited the White House at least 27 times during Joe Biden’s vice presidency, White House visitor logs show.

In 2018, Hunter’s texts revealed a deep distrust of Schwerin and his involvement in the family’s affairs in which Hunter Biden apparently owed Schwerin money, according to text messages obtained by Breitbart News. Schwerin was his “worst enemy…And everyone knows it,” Hunter Biden announced.

Hunter Biden told his assistant Katie Dodge that Schwerin was his “worst enemy” and whined he owed him “30% of my income” for apparently ten years. The text relates to Hunter Biden’s apparent frustration about Schwerin’s continued involvement in the family business.

By 2019, their relationship deteriorated to the point that Hunter Biden hatched a plot to betray Schwerin by cutting him out of an ongoing off-the-books business arrangement.

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.


NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. MORRIS ISN'T GOING TO OPEN THE DOOR TO DISCOVER THAT MIGHT EXPOSE HIS CONNECTION TO THE HUNTER, JOE, RED CHINA GIG!

In addition, the inquiry also compelled Morris to verify that he purchased Hunter’s ten percent stake in a Chinese state-backed investment fund, BHR Partners, confirming Breitbart News’s exclusive in April. BHR Partners, an entity controlled by the Bank of China, has about $3 billion currently invested around the world, according to its website.


Kevin Morris Threatens Jonathan Turley with Legal Action

Kevin Morris and Jonathan Turley
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Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Kevin Morris, threatened legal scholar and television commentator Jonathan Turley with a defamation lawsuit for his criticism of alleged Biden corruption, Turley revealed Friday.

Following the initial “Laptop from Hell” report by the New York Post in 2020, the House launched an impeachment inquiry into the Biden family. Investigators revealed President 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.

In addition, the inquiry also compelled Morris to verify that he purchased Hunter’s ten percent stake in a Chinese state-backed investment fund, BHR Partners, confirming Breitbart News’s exclusive in April. BHR Partners, an entity controlled by the Bank of China, has about $3 billion currently invested around the world, according to its website.

The inquiry also forced Morris to admit he loaned Hunter millions of dollars to maintain his lifestyle and pay his taxes and legal fees, actions that caused America First Legal to file a bar complaint with the State Bar of California.

Turley, an outspoken critic of the Biden family business, did not back down upon Morris’s threat of legal action. Instead, he slammed Morris in a Friday essay for his arrangement with Hunter.

“The effort in such threats is to silence or chill critics in their criticism of a wealthy, powerful public figure like Mr. Morris,” he said. Turley then highlighted Morris’s recent congressional testimony and his ownership of Hunter’s stake in BHR Painters:

[T]he transcript refers to Morris investing or assuming interest in entities associated with Hunter’s foreign partners or businesses. It is not clear what financial interest Morris assumed with regard to any real property owned by Hunter. I specifically asked Sullivan [Morris’ lawyer] about such transactions. These business interests appear to have arisen after Morris delved into his client’s finances as his counsel. His client was in obvious financial distress at the time. It is important to determine if Morris assumed interest or purchased assets due to his knowledge of Hunter’s past dealings.

Again, there is a telling exchange with Morris of his ownership of 10% of Bohai Harvest RST LLC (BHR), through his acquisition of interest in Skaneateles LLC. Those are business interests associated with Hunter Biden. Note the apparent confusion of Morris in his knowledge and claims of privilege (emphasis added):

Q Did you have a written agreement with Hunter Biden regarding the sale of Skaneateles?

A I don’t know. I don’t believe so. Or — I don’t know. Probably, yeah. Probably, it was the — I would imagine I had to — okay, yeah. The answer is yes.

Mr. Liner. You had legal counsel as well.

Mr. Morris. Correct. A lot of them.

Q Does that contract allow for Hunter Biden to purchase back BHR at a certain time point?

A That I don’t — I can’t tell you, Counsel.

Mr. Liner. Meaning you don’t know?

Mr. Morris. Meaning I don’t know.

This is an exchange after Morris was told weeks in advance that he would be asked about his payments, loans, and agreements with Hunter Biden. Yet, Morris is still not clear on what agreements he had with his client or key details on those transactions. He is not even sure if he is holding an asset (that is the subject of congressional inquiry into his client’s dealings) that he might just give back to his client at some point.

Turley’s analysis raises questions about Morris’s intent for the acquisition, as related to his ongoing personal and business relationship with the first family, along with the business partnership he now has with a Chinese Community Party-linked fund. Some question whether Morris’s newly acquired stake in BHR Partners is a form of collateral to protect himself from Hunter not repaying his debts.

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.


Kevin Morris Claims ‘No Ulterior Motive’ in Giving Hunter Biden Millions

Kevin Morris and Hunter Biden
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Hunter Biden’s Hollywood lawyer, Kevin Morris, told the House impeachment inquiry on Thursday that he had “no ulterior motive” in mind when he developed a financial relationship with Hunter Biden.

Since meeting in 2019, Morris paid Hunter’s IRS debts and reportedly lent him a total of $4.9 million for housing, car payments, and legal fees.

Morris also took control of Hunter’s ten percent stake in a Chinese state-backed fund, BHR Partners, Just the News reported in October, confirming Breitbart News’s exclusive in April. BHR Partners has about $3 billion currently invested around the world, its website says.

“My only goal was and is to help my friend and client,” Morris told investigators. “In this country, there is no prohibition against helping a friend in need with no ulterior motive.”

Morris is a slick businessman. He runs a successful law firm that launched in 1996, representing A-list celebrities, such as Matthew McConaughey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Scarlett Johansson. He also wrote and produced documentaries and helped negotiate a South Park deal for $900 million.

The entertainment lawyer is also at the center of Hunter’s career of painting modern art, an occupation connected to the art market known for corruption. Morris helped Hunter forge a framework to sell art to anonymous buyers through a dealer with ties to the Chinese art market. Morris was also involved in Hunter’s 2021 controversial memoir. Both Morris and Hunter Biden are represented by the same agents, the New York Post reported.

Hunter Biden paints

Hunter Biden painting (Hunter Biden)

As a longtime Democrat donor, Morris met Hunter in 2019 after the Hollywood lawyer donated to then-candidate Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. Morris later earned the reputation of Hunter’s “sugar brother” and “fixer.”

“I did not and do not have any expectations of receiving anything from Hunter’s father or the Biden administration in exchange for helping Hunter, nor have I asked for anything from President Biden or his administration,” Morris promised investigators.

“I have loaned Hunter money to help him through his difficulties,” Morris continued. “When needed, we each have had attorneys separately advise us on these transactions. I am confident Hunter will repay these loans.”

It is unknown how Hunter will repay Morris for the alleged loans. Hunter’s career was predicated on influence peddling the “Biden brand” to foreign businessmen, according to Biden family associate Devon Archer. In turn, the Biden family members made millions, but Hunter appeared to spend all his money on illicit activities instead of paying his taxes, a Justice Department tax indictment says.

Along with legal troubles, Hunter is a material witness in the House impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. Hunter’s legal defense against both the Justice Department and congressional probes could cost more than $100,000 per month, legal experts told Breitbart News.

House investigators launched the 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 Joe Biden’s grandchildren.

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

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.

Hunter Biden to Sit for Closed-Door Deposition, Along with 5 Associates

Hunter Biden
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Hunter Biden will sit for a closed-door interview on February 28, along with five Biden family associates at various dates, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced Thursday.

The announcement came as a surprise to some Republicans. Last week, the chairmen went through procedural hurdles to prepare for a House vote to hold Hunter in contempt of Congress for failing to sit for the deposition.

Hunter proposed last week to sit for the deposition if Congress reissued a subpoena, arguing the prior subpoenas “are legally invalid” because the impeachment inquiry “did not yet exist when the subpoenas were issued.”

The Republican chairmen initially accepted the offer but warned the House would move forward with contempt proceedings for this week.

The chairmen deemed Hunter’s offer to be another delay tactic. Hunter’s offer also appeared to be a public relations ploy to provide Attorney General Merrick Garland with a reason not to prosecute him upon a successful contempt vote.

After wrangling with Hunter’s lawyers, Comer and Jordan changed their strategy. They did not schedule a vote to hold Hunter in concept of Congress and agreed to a deposition.

“Hunter Biden will appear before our committees for a deposition on February 28, 2024,” the chairmen said in a statement obtained by Breitbart News. “His deposition will come after several interviews with Biden family members and associates.”

Associates and the dates they are to speak with the impeachment inquiry are:

  • Week of January 22: Mervyn Yan — former top CEFC China Energy Co. official
  • Week of January 22: Rob Walker — acting “surrogate” for Hunter around the world
  • Week of January 29: “Moneyman” Eric Schwerin — family’s top financial lieutenant
  • Week of January 29: Joey Langston — close associate
  • Week of February 5: Tony Bobulinski — former associate who confirmed the infamous message about a stake of “10 held by H for the big guy,” as referring to Joe Biden

Hunter is a material witness in the House impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. House investigators launched the 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 Joe Biden’s grandchildren.

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

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.


Getting Biden Wrong

By Paul Gottfried

Okay, I get it! From listening to Republican TV and reading Republican publications, I have learned that Joe Biden is a sleazy, mendacious, and demented chief executive. He has weaponized the entire Justice Department and the IRS against his real and suspected political opponents, thrown open our southern border to drug cartels, and reduced our armed forces and international posture to shambles. Moreover, Joe has a gangster son with whom he has engaged in illegal business ventures; and it’s entirely possible that the cocaine recently found in the West Wing of the White House came from son Hunter, who is a drug addict as well as many other bad things. 

A LOOK AT A COUPLE OF PIG PARASITE GAMER LAWEYRS

LOL! LOL! LOL!

Which begs the question, why would a successful lawyer loan millions of dollars to a recovering drug addict, under indictment on tax and gun charges, who’s unable to support himself? Morris has stated he has done so because Hunter is a friend.

IRS whistleblower: Hunter Biden’s ‘sugar brother’ just wants to ‘help’

Despite his prior claims of being unable to pay his child support or taxes, Hunter Biden leads a lavish lifestyle of the rich and famous. He resides at Malibu beach house rental, drove a $142,000 Fisker Karma EV (before transitioning to a Porsche), travels on private jets, and stays in the swankiest hotels. He’s somehow able to afford a phalanx of the most expensive lawyers.

He maintains this standard of living, we were told, from the proceeds of a personal loan by his so-called sugar-bro, Kevin Morris—a high-flying Hollywood entertainment lawyer. Morris began lending Hunter the big bucks just one week after meeting him at a Democrat Party fundraiser. To date that loan is reported to total $4.9 million.

Which begs the question, why would a successful lawyer loan millions of dollars to a recovering drug addict, under indictment on tax and gun charges, who’s unable to support himself? Morris has stated he has done so because Hunter is a friend.

“My only goal was and is to help my friend and client,” Morris told investigators. “In this country, there is no prohibition against helping a friend in need with no ulterior motive.” That’s some kinda friendship.

Last week, Morris sat for a deposition for House Judiciary and Oversight committees investigating the Biden family influence peddling operations and we learned that he is now the proud owner of Hunter’s former stake in the Chinese Communist Party-backed investment fund, BHR Partners. You may recall that Hunter snagged this $1.5 billion dollar deal while traveling to China with then Vice President Joe Biden aboard Air Force Two.

Princling Hunter’s share in the Chinese-state controlled fund was 10 percent. Now “sugar-bro” Morris is the proud owner of that stake, which currently has about $3 billion invested in various geo-strategic enterprises around the world.

It’s still unknown how much Morris paid Hunter for Hunter’s stake in BHR, but I’d bet this is all part of an elaborate money-laundering scheme that involves the millions in sugar-bro “loans” and Hunter’s sham art sales. Morris has been a major purchaser of Hunter’s “art” and his baby-mama, Lunden Roberts, settled for a regular stream of his masterpieces in lieu of child support.

International art sales are a notorious money-laundering front and in response to reporter’s questions about Hunter’s new avocation, the White House claimed that, to avoid corruption, the identities of the buyers would be kept secret. Well, that’s convenient.

Hunter’s art dealer, Georges Berges, testified before the House Oversight and Judiciary committees that he was unaware of any agreement to keep those buyers secret and that Hunter knew their identities.

As expected, the mainstream media has shown little-to-no interest in these revelations. 

Jim Daws is long-time America First activist beginning with work on Pat Buchanan's presidential campaigns. He's a writer and itinerant talk radio / podcast host and a former fire battalion chief from Atlanta.

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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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Alex Marlow’s ‘Breaking Biden’: China-Linked University of Delaware Biden Partnership Was Hunter’s ‘Baby,’ Part of ‘Wealth Creation’ Strategy

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The following article was adapted from Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow’s new book Breaking Biden: Exposing the Hidden Forces and Secret Money Machine Behind Joe Biden, His Family, and His Administration, which is out now. 

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While media reports have focused University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center, less attention has been paid to University of Delaware’s Biden Institute, even though these two “institutes” were opened on the same day and meant to serve a shared goal of being incubators of advancing globalism and leftism. The UPenn Biden Center became a pipeline for longtime Biden allies into his administration, and, as previously reported by Peter Schweizer, preceded a suspicious influx in Chinese donations to the university.


Together with a Penn Biden office in DC, the two entities would be the public-facing “stage” for the “Biden Brand.”

The key players at the University of Delaware’s Biden Institute were either Biden family members, people with deep ties to China, or both. In fact, in my new book, Breaking Biden, on sale today, I reveal that the University of Delaware Biden operation was Hunter’s “baby” and was part of a larger strategy to replicate the Clinton Global Initiative without onerous fundraising.

Who would provide the funds to the UD Biden Institute if they weren’t going to be gathered by traditional means? That part is unclear, but the constellation of facts I present in the book certainly raises suspicion that it could be a vehicle for influence peddling that could benefit entities foreign and domestic.

Valerie Biden Celebrates Hunter’s “Baby”

On December 11, 2018, the University of Delaware announced that it was naming its public policy school after Vice President Biden. Emails show that this move was orchestrated by members of UD’s Biden Institute. It was on the day of the announcement that Hunter Biden received a text message from his aunt and former Joe Biden campaign manager, Valerie Owens (who chairs the Biden Institute), crediting him for the deepening partnership with between the Biden family and the university: “Bravo Hunter—UD was your baby and you made sure I was part of it.”

The University of Delaware Biden Institute was Hunter’s “baby.” And this was the type of baby the family most certainly was not going to ignore.

President Joe Biden, with his sister Valerie Biden (2nd L), and son Hunter Biden (L), arrives to board Air Force One on April 11, 2023. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Tied to China from the Start

Like the University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware (UD) disclosed receiving funds from China soon after forging the partnership with the Bidens.

The emails show that in March 2016, Hunter and his colleagues met with incoming UD president Dennis Assanis to discuss plans for the UD/UPenn venture months before Assanis was officially instated. Assanis has deep and long-standing ties to China. In addition to serving as the founding director of the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center—Clean Vehicle Consortium (CERC-CVC) since 2003, Assanis has been a guest professor (2003–2008) and advisory professor (2009 to present) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). This fact alone raises concern given that SJTU has signed cooperative agreements with China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). What’s more, cyberattacks on American companies such as Google have been traced to computers at SJTU.

Like UPenn, the UD Biden Institute was quickly stocked with future Biden appointees–at least twelve so far–including soon-to-be senior Biden advisor Mike Donilon and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. Assanis himself would be named to Biden’s President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

The University of Delaware had never disclosed receiving funds from China until April 2018, when it accepted over $3.2 million for a contract with an unnamed Chinese entity. This came two months after the Penn Biden Center opened its DC office. Then, in December 2018, UD received $1.9 million from an unnamed Chinese entity. In 2019, UD received another $625,000 from China. In 2020, UD initiated three contracts with the Chinese entities and received over $1 million in funds. In sum, UD has received over $6.7 million from unnamed Chinese sources, including a substantial amount from the Chinese government.

All these funds started flowing to UD after the Biden Institute was announced and increased immediately after the launch of the Penn Biden Center.

President Joe Biden delivers the commencement address at the University of Delaware graduation ceremony in Newark, Delaware, on May 28, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Supporting Chinese Military Technology

This money from China is cause for alarm given that UD has thirty-seven international partnerships with Chinese universities, including several that support the development of Chinese military technologies. The most logical reasons for the Chinese to engage in these partnerships is that they want to influence American institutions, acquire American intellectual property, or both.

On February 8 2022, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) wrote a letter to UD president Dennis Assanis urging him to terminate UD’s academic and research partnership with Xiamen University, which actively supports Beijing’s military-industrial complex and which allegedly conspired with Huawei to steal trade secrets from an American semiconductor start-up. Yet, according to the International Cyber Policy Centre’s China Defence Universities Tracker database, that partnership with Xiamen University is only a “medium” risk.

The University of Delaware has worked with at least four other universities linked to Chinese defense laboratories.

“Like the Clinton Global Initiative Without the Money Raise”

In April 2016, Hunter exchanged emails and had at least one meeting with Craig Gering, a talent agent for the legendary Creative Artists Agency, about Vice President Biden’s future after he leaves office. Gering took “confidential notes” from the meeting that describe details about the plans for the UD/UPenn operation, including the possibility of Hunter serving in the Penn Biden Center DC office. Gering fantasized about an entity that “operates like The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) without the money raise.”

CGI claims it convenes “established and emerging global leaders to create and implement solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges,” according to its website, but functionally, it was an easy way for the Clintons to reap donor funds to leverage relationships with celebrities and major corporations to boost their profiles all the while promoting their own cultural and political agenda items. Donations to CGI dried up when it came under media scrutiny from Schweizer and others for soliciting millions of dollars from foreign governments and businesses—the same governments and businesses that received favorable treatment from the Obama administration during Hillary’s tenure as secretary of state.

Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and Bill Clinton onstage during Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting on September 24, 2014, in New York City. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

The Clinton Global Initiative was shut down in 2016 and revived in 2022. In retrospect, it was always meant to be an influence-peddling operation by the Clintons. It was shuttered at the specific moment where Hillary Clinton could no longer do anything substantial for the donors.

That’s where the Bidens could step in and fill the void.

“Wealth Creation” for the Bidens

It was clear from the Laptop from Hell emails that Biden World fantasized about an entity like the CGI for Joe. It could be a means for influential figures around the world to boost the Biden brand. The UD/UPenn/Biden venture is ultimately about “wealth creation,” according to Gering.

It could be used for philanthropy, bettering the world, and advancing the Biden name. But most importantly, “wealth creation.”

A stunning admission.

The degree to which the Bidens were able to leverage these new entities to benefit themselves financially is unclear, but we do know, thanks to the Laptop from Hell, that the vision was in place to create a secret money machine that could be relevant for generations.

It was Hunter’s baby.

Breaking Biden is available now in hardcover, eBook, and audiobook read by the author.

Alex Marlow is the Editor-in-Chief of Breitbart News and a New York Times bestselling author. His new, Breaking Biden: Exposing the Hidden Forces and Secret Money Machine Behind Joe Biden, His Family, and His Administration, is available now. You can follow Alex on FacebookInstagram, and Twitter at @AlexMarlow.


 

Bob Menendez Spent Thousands To Retain Dem Super Lawyer Marc Elias and Hunter Biden's Firm

Democratic super lawyer Marc Elias and embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (Getty Images).
January 22, 2024

Many of Bob Menendez’s longtime Democratic allies have soured on the New Jersey senator amid his federal bribery case. But not Marc Elias, the controversial Democratic super lawyer whose firm took nearly $50,000 from the embattled senator’s legal fund.

Menendez’s legal defense fund paid $46,464 to Elias Law Group, according to disclosures obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Menendez, who has been charged with bribery and illegal foreign lobbying, received $195,000 in contributions to his legal fund between October 1 through December 31. The fund paid $70,000 to Winston & Strawn, a white shoe law firm that also represents Hunter Biden. The legal fund paid $128,000 to Schertler & Onorato, a firm representing Menendez’s wife, Nadine Arslanian, according to the disclosure, which Menendez filed with the Senate Ethics Committee.

Elias’s work for Menendez is the latest example of the campaign lawyer’s hypocrisy. Elias portrays himself as a staunch defender of democracy—he runs an organization called "Democracy Docket"—but has been a major player in the Democratic Party’s attempts to influence elections through propaganda and disinformation. As attorney for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, Elias commissioned the Steele dossier, which falsely accused former president Donald Trump of conspiring with Russia. Democrats peddled the dossier to journalists and the FBI in order to sway public opinion about Trump.

Last year, Elias called on former Rep. George Santos (R., N.Y.) to resign following federal campaign finance charges. Elias referred to Santos as a "crook" and asserted that Republicans who refused to force him out of office were "shameless." The House voted to remove Santos from office last month. Senate Democrats have resisted calls to do the same with Menendez.

This is not the first time Elias has represented Menendez in corruption cases. He represented the senator during a 2007 investigation into a Menendez-connected lobbyist. Elias also represented Menendez after the senator was charged in 2015 with doing favors on behalf of Democratic donor Salomon Melgen. Federal prosecutors dropped the case against Menendez in 2018 after a jury deadlocked.

While most Democrats stood by Menendez in those previous investigations, the recent case against him has stoked calls for his resignation. Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.), a longtime Menendez ally who donated to his legal fund in 2015, called on him to resign after his latest indictment over what he said were "shocking allegations of corruption."

Federal prosecutors allege Menendez did political favors for a New Jersey real estate developer and the Egyptian intelligence services in exchange for cash, gold bars, a Mercedes Benz, and other gifts. He allegedly tried to influence the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey in a case involving businessman Fred Daibes. Prosecutors charged Menendez with providing sensitive information to Egyptian spies in order to help his associate Wael Hana. Prosecutors indicted Menendez on additional charges this month for allegedly lobbying on behalf of the Qatari government.

Many longtime Menendez supporters contributed to his legal defense, filings show. New Jersey lawyer Donald Scarinci and Spanish-language media mogul Raúl Alarcón gave $10,000 each to Menendez, the maximum contribution allowed. Murray Kushner, the estranged uncle of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, also contributed $10,000 to Menendez.

Menendez raised $274,500 in the third quarter of last year and paid $55,000 in legal expenses to Schertler & Onorato.

Menendez’s office and Elias Law Group did not respond to requests for comment.

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