SHARPEN THE PITCHFORKS!
Lindsey Graham Calls On The DOJ
To Investigate Joe Biden's Connections To Ukraine
Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman on Sunday called on the Department of Justice to
investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's relationship to Ukraine.
"You are calling for a probe, by the DOJ, into all things
Ukraine," Fox News' Maria Bartiromo said during an interview.
"Yeah, I want the Department of Justice to appoint someone
to look at the role Ukraine played, if any, in the 2016 elections," Graham
explained. "There are a lot of allegations out there about Ukraine may have
fed information to the Democrats [and the] Department of Justice against Trump
campaign managers and others. And I think it's fair after what the Trumps are
going through regarding Russia, that somebody look at the connection with the
Bidens while the vice president was a sitting vice president, the Biden
connection to the Ukraine through its son."
"Now you can't have it one way and look at one family and not the other.
And I don't trust the media to do this and I'm hoping somebody that the
Department of Justice will appoint an investigator to look at all things
Ukraine, like we looked at all things Russia," Graham said.
Graham's
call for an investigation comes after reports of President Donald Trump's calls
with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Zelenski to work with Rudy
Giuliani to investigate Biden over widely discredited allegations of
impropriety, the Wall Street
Journal reported. Giuliani has suggested that the vice
president used his power to shied a Ukrainian gas company from an
investigation. Biden's son, Hunter, is on the gas company's board of directors.
They Destroyed Our Country
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they
promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they
made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They understood
he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king,
doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”
Corruption
blinders of the media and other Democrats
Most journalists
and Democrats didn’t express any concerns when:
- VP Biden
threatened (promised) Ukraine that he would cut off a billion dollars in
aid to them if they didn't fire the prosecutor investigating a company his
son was involved with.
- Hunter
Biden got paid $50,000 a month as a board member of a corrupt Ukrainian
gas company when he had no expertise on the product of the company.
- Obama
promised the very dangerous Russia and Putin that he would be flexible if
he was reelected (somehow no one at FBI or elsewhere was ever concerned
that Russia may have tried to influence the 2012 election to elect the
flexible president.)
- Hillary,
Obama and many others violated the nation's security laws by using her
non-government computer.
- Obama
gave kickbacks to union supporters when he violated the nation's
bankruptcy law with the bailout of GM.
- Obama
used taxpayer dollars to reward political supporters like at Solyndra.
- Hillary,
through her family and foundation, got huge amounts of speech money and
donations from foreign countries. Russia, for example, got Uranium for
their generosity. (If there is any doubt about whether they were
kickbacks, that should have disappeared when the donations dried up and
speech fees dropped or dried up when she no longer could return favors)
- Obama
shipped over $1 billion in taxpayer money in unmarked bills, to Iran
tyrants, who still pledge death to America, to get a deal.
- Obama
dictatorially stopped a years’ long investigation into a billion dollar a year
drug running ring by terrorists to appease Iranian tyrants because he was
more concerned about his legacy than the safety, health and lives of the
American people.
- Hillary
and the DNC paying over $10 billion to buy a fake dossier from a foreign
national to destroy Trump. It appears they didn't think they could beat
him based on the truth or their policy proposals.
- Obama
and his administration, including the FBI, Justice Department, the
intelligence agencies and the State Department, using the fake dossier as
a source for FISA warrants and to infiltrate the Trump campaign with
informants. (they obviously didn't believe their record or policies would
win the votes). Instead of the media and other Democrats caring about this
pure corruption they have participated in perpetuating the lies about
Russian collusion for over three years.
- The
Obama Administration, at the Justice Department, EPA and CFPB using
taxpayer money for political purposes and political supporters by creating
slush funds from money confiscated from businesses that they pretended
would go to victims.
If the media and Democrats want to investigate anything, how
about a possible corrupt payback from Netflix to Obama? Obama gave the very
wealthy Netlfix, Google and others huge financial benefits with net neutrality
and Netflix gave the Obama's a huge contract even though they had no video
production expertise or experience. It is similar to paying Biden's son huge
amounts of money with no expertise.
But now when President Trump may have said something to a
foreign leader about investigating corruption by Biden's son, that is supposed
to be an impeachable offense. Shouldn't a President want political corruption
by politicians to be investigated? Shouldn't the media and other Democrats be
more concerned about the corruption itself than the phone call?
From this story, it appears that the media and other
Democrats believe that every phone call that Trump makes to a foreign leader
should become public knowledge if any bureaucrat makes a whistle blower report
when they disagree with something the president does. That would certainly be
cumbersome, and foreign leaders would no longer want to have discussions if
every discussion could be made public.
Elizabeth Warren says she wants to get rid of corruption but
not once have I heard her complain about the massive corruption during the
Obama years or at her precious CFPB, so she really doesn't care.
Isn't it odd that no bureaucrats seemed to care about the
corruption of Obama/Biden? It shows why we need to drain the swamp.
GRIFTER AND PHONY CHARITY FOUNDATION
FRAUDSTER HILLARY CLINTON’S LONG SERVICE TO AMERICA’S MOST EVIL BANKSTERS
The judge found these
releases, together with the publication of Clinton’s secret speeches to Wall
Street banks, in which she pledged to be their representative, were “matters of
the highest public concern.” They “allowed the American electorate to look
behind the curtain of one of the two major political parties in the United
States during a presidential election.”
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“Clinton also
failed to mention how he and Hillary cashed in after his
presidential tenure to make themselves multimillionaires, in
part by taking tens of millions in speaking fees from Wall Street
bankers.”
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VIDEO:
THE FRAUDULENT CLINTON FOUNDATION EXPOSED.
PAY-TO-PLAY FROM THE FIRST DAY!
Is it a signal
that she's back in the game because she's selling her president-ability to the
world's global billionaire crowd and laying the groundwork for more
funds? There are all kinds of ways for foreign billionaires to get
money to the U.S. without consequences, after all. What's more, it's
pretty much the biggest base of support she has, which is at least one reason
why she lost the 2016 election.
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“The couple
parlayed lives supposedly spent in “public service”
into admission into the upper stratosphere of American wealth, with incomes in the
top 0.1 percent bracket. The source of this vast wealth was a political
machine that might well be dubbed “Clinton, Inc.” This consists essentially of
a seedy money-laundering operation to ensure big business support for the
Clintons’ political ambitions as well as their personal fortunes.
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The basic components of the operation are lavishly paid
speeches to Wall Street and Fortune 500 audiences, corporate campaign
contributions, and donations to the ostensibly philanthropic Clinton
Foundation.”
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"But what the
Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of the
American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use it
to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and venal.
Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear to
every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy -
AMERICANTHINKER.com
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THE DEMOCRAT PARTY’S
BILLIONAIRES’ GLOBALIST EMPIRE requires someone as ruthlessly dishonest as Hillary
Clinton or Barack Obama to be puppet dictators.
1.
Globalism: Google
VP Kent Walker insists that despite its repeated rejection by electorates
around the world, “globalization” is an “incredible force for good.”
2.
Hillary Clinton’s Democratic
party: An executive nearly broke down crying because of the candidate’s loss. Not
a single executive expressed anything but dismay at her defeat.
3. Immigration: Maintaining
liberal immigration in the U.S is the policy that Google’s executives discussed the
most.
Democrats as a protection
racket? Ed Buck makes it a trifecta
The New York Times has been trying to
dismiss the arrest of Ed Buck, a Democratic fatcat who had a thing
for injecting young black men with drugs before paying them for sex, as a
"small-time Democratic donor," but the facts on the ground suggest he
was a rather big one. And maybe that's a function of the paper's desire to
protect its masters, the Democrats. They aren't known as Democratic operatives with
bylines for nothing.
While Buck once identified himself as a conservative Republican,
according to the Los Angeles Times, he became a national figure when he
spearheaded the effort to impeach Arizona’s Republican Gov. Evan Mecham in the
1980s. He later made large donations to Democrats, including more than $500,000
since 2007, according to court documents filed by Moore's mother in a wrongful
death suit pertaining to her son.
At the
federal level, those include contributions to prominent Washington lawmakers as
well as 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. At the local
level, Buck has donated more than $51,000 to Los Angeles city and county
officials,
candidates, and affiliated parties dating to 2008.
The highest
contribution was $13,000, according to the court papers, to former West
Hollywood Mayor John Duran when he ran for county supervisor in 2014.
That doesn't sound too small-time to me.
And in fact, his ideological
switcheroo sounds as though he found the Democrats a more suitable protection
racket for his perversions than the Republicans. Who needs political beliefs
when the real belief is perversion and that's what he needs protected?
It's actually part of the pattern
with these scandals. Pervert with big vices donates cash to Democrats to ensure
his protection from the cops. Harvey Weinstein knew it, that was what his
Planned Parenthood and other woke cause donations bought for him - a capacity
to prey on young actresses trying to win roles. Jeffrey Epstein knew it too,
donating to leftist Bill Clinton causes in order to buy enough influence to
enable him to prey on underage girls with impunity, spiriting them to his
pervert island for himself along with his highly connected Democrat
buddies. Both had added payoffs in that Weinstein then had the power to
threaten actresses and reporters who threatened to tell on him, while
Epstein had blackmail material on very powerful people which kept them on
his string.
Now we have the sorry case of Ed Buck, a
creep who enjoyed paying for sex with young black men while poisoning them
with drugs, and then relying on his political donations to ensure the cops
looked the other way. Note that quite a few of his donations were to Los
Angeles local officials, all of them Democrats. Assuming this tweet's images
are not manipulated, look at the range of Buck's Democrats:
Combine it with media malfeasance - the
mainstream media tried to turn down Ronan Farrow's report on Weinstein, it
tried to pin the Epstein scandal on President Trump, and now it's trying to
persuade us that Buck was just small fry, and the protection racket
seems complete.
With so many of these perverts turning up
in the Democrat donor base as well as organizations such as Planned Parenthood,
one wonders if these are the only ones out there. Is the Democratic Party held
together in no small part by freaks using politics as their 'vaccination'
from scrutiny? Are their perversions and the need to protect them at the root
of why these groups are so powerful and Democrats are so extreme and inflexible
on issues such as abortion? Might that be why they're so out of step with even
the Democratic voting public? And why are the Democrats the more hospitable
party for such a sorry scenario? Why are they the party of perverts? It actually isn't just these three, it's quite a few of
them as I noted here. A lot of such characters have turned up in a very, very
short time and the pattern is exactly the same for each. How many more are
there? What does Ted Lieu, Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats
who've benefited from Buck's bucks have to say about this? And why aren't
all of the Democrats confronting this?
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN: I got rich, really, rich, selling out
my country as my husband/pimp paid out bribes to other DEM POLS so they would
keep their mouths closed about our corruption!
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IN THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional
ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules
Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the
ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been
beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics
experts.
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“All
in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has
done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
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“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and
Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with
third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by
its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
Judicial Watch: Only Crimes in Russia Scandal Are from ‘Obama
Gang’
FOR EIGHT YEARS BARACK OBAMA AND ERIC HOLDER SABOTAGED HOMELAND
SECURITY TO EASE MORE MEXICANS OVER OUR BORDERS AND INTO OUR JOBS AND VOTING
BOOTHS.
OBAMA NEEDED THESE ILLEGALS TO FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS, WHAT WAS
LEFT OF THEM AFTER OBAMA'S CRONY BANKSTERS' PLUNDER.
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered
documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with
the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the
American dole.” Washington Times
THE
MAN WHO WOULD BE DICTATOR
Barack
Obama’s Russia Connection
If
Obama was a fully recruited agent of Moscow, tasked with giving Russia a
significant military advantage over the United States, and economically
weakening and socially dividing the nation, how would he have conducted his
presidency (or his post-presidency) any differently? TREVOR LOUDON
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We are all victims of the Obama cabal’s collusion with Russia –
President Trump’s voters and all Americans who believe in our free and fair
election process.
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Democrats Allow Communists to Infiltrate Their Party
Across the Nation
“Obama’s new home in Washington has been described
as the “nerve center” of the anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney
general Eric Holder has said that Obama is “ready to roll” and has
aligned himself with the “resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign
staffers now work with a variety of groups organizing direct action
against Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for
example, features lectures by former campaign executive
Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
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“Professor Paul Kengor has extensively researched the
Chicago communists whose progeny include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and
Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and
you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.”
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We
are all victims of the Obama cabal’s collusion with Russia – President Trump’s
voters and all Americans who believe in our free and fair election process.
DESTABILIZE AMERICA TO LAY GROUNDS FOR A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP
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“Obama’s new home in Washington has
been described as the “nerve center” of the anti-Trump opposition.
Former attorney general Eric Holder has said that Obama is “ready to roll”
and has aligned himself with the “resistance.” Former
high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with a variety of groups
organizing direct action against Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,”
for example, features lectures by former campaign executive
Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
BARACK OBAMA:
Was he America’s first closet Communist president?
Obama choose Communists and Marxists for the highest,
most powerful positions in our land, including his closest political advisors,
and his head of the CIA. These facts are not in dispute. Most are
openly admitted by the people in question, as necessary damage control.
Our press chooses not to report them.
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Professor Paul
Kengor has extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include
David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly
Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put
Obama into power.
WAS THE RUSSIAN
HOAX ONLY OBAMA’S ATTEMPT TO PUT ASIDE TRUMP FOR AN OBAMA THIRD TERM FOR
LIFE???
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They Destroyed Our Country
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they
promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they
made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They
understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made
him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”
*
These people were engaged in a massive political conspiracy. The
Democrats made a decision from the outset—beginning with the election campaign
of the favored candidate of Wall Street and the CIA, Hillary Clinton—that they
would not oppose Trump on his anti-working-class social policy or his
authoritarian hostility to democratic rights and promotion of anti-immigrant
racism, but on issues of imperialist foreign policy.
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“Obama’s
new home in Washington has been described as the “nerve center” of the
anti-Trump opposition. Former attorney general Eric Holder has said
that Obama is “ready to roll” and has aligned himself with the
“resistance.” Former high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with a
variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
Barack Obama’s plot for a third term for life
A Muslim dictatorship like his crony paymasters, the 9-11
invading Saudis who have financed him for decades.
“Obama has the totalitarian impulse.
After all, he went around saying he didn't have Constitutional authority to
legalize the illegals, and then he tried anyway. The courts stopped him.”
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What was Obama’s motive? Simple, he knew if he did that
for Hillary, he’d own the next President of the United States, and could
blackmail her with the truth till the end of time. It literally would have
given him a 3rd and 4th term.
THE OBAMA – CLINTON RUSSIAN CONNECTION
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WITH THESE
TRAITORS, JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
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How President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aided
Russia’s quest for global nuclear dominance.
Giuliani Raises
Alleged 'Corruption' by Joe Biden and Son As Whistleblower Controversy Swirls
By Susan Jones |
September 20, 2019 | 7:44 AM EDT
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
told reporters on Thursday he does not know the "specifics" of the
"urgent" whistleblower complaint that Acting Director of National
Intelligence Joseph Maguire has so far withheld from Congress.
"I don't know what the
complaint has to say in terms of its specifics," Schiff told a news
conference on Thursday after a four-hour, closed-door hearing with Intelligence
Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, who deemed the whistleblower
complaint "urgent."
"But I can tell you that the
speculation about whether this involves a presidential communication -- even if
it involved a presidential communication, and I don't know at this point --
that doesn't mean that the (executive) privilege covers it, if that communication
is about a crime or fraud," Schiff said.
Schiff has said he will go to
court, if necessary, to force the release of the complaint to Congress.
The Washington Post, which broke
the story, said the whistleblower complaint made by someone in the intelligence
community involves a "promise" President Trump supposedly made to
Ukraine. Trump held a July telephone call with the new president of Ukraine, a
few weeks before the whistleblower complaint was filed.
By Friday morning, speculation
swirled that this has something to do with the Trump administration urging the
new president of Ukraine to look into alleged corruption by former Vice
President Joe Biden, now one of Trump's potential Democrat rivals in the 2020
election.
(CNN's Alisyn Camerota framed it
this way Friday morning: "So did President Trump threaten to withhold
billions in aid from Ukraine for political gain?" Former FBI Deputy
Director Andrew McCabe, speaking hypothetically, told CNN on Friday morning:
“[I]t is unprecedented for an American president to contact a foreign
government for the purpose of initiating an investigation of a political
rival.” And Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat on the House intelligence committee,
told CNN Friday morning: "What we know is zero. So if in fact what is being
reported is true, that means that the president of the United States is using
taxpayer money to try and have opposition research for his 2020 campaign
determined by how much money he gives to a foreign country.")
Enter Trump attorney Rudy
Giuliani, who went on several cable news shows Thursday night to make the case
against Biden:
Giuliani noted that for two
years, "there have been allegations from Joe Biden's own mouth," and
Giuliani quoted Biden as saying, 'I told the president of the Ukraine you're
not going to get your $1.2 billion loan guarantee unless you fire the
prosecutor." The Ukrainian prosecutor in question was investigating
Biden's son Hunter for corruption.
Giuliani told "Fox
News," "What I was urging the Ukrainian government to do was not to
do something embarrassing to Joe Biden. I was urging the government of the
Ukraine to investigate extraordinarily serious allegations of corruption."
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew
McCabe set the speculation swirling Thursday night in an interview with CNN's
"Anderson Cooper."
McCabe was discussing why the
Acting Director of National Intelligence did not refer the whistleblower
complaint to Congress, which normally happens, but instead involved the Justice
Department:
So for instance, we don't know
this, this is speculation. But if the department and the dni made the
conclusion that the president's conduct was potentially criminal conduct, they
could then argue that's not an intelligence matter and therefore not under the
purview of the DNI.
Now a
scenario in which that might take place could be if, for instance, the
president had a conversation with a foreign leader in which he promised some
sort of assistance to that country for, let's say, return of assistance in his
re-election campaign. That, of course, would likely be criminal activity and
could be qualified by the Department of Justice as not an intelligence matter.
"Right," Anderson
Cooper replied. "We should just point out again, we do not know the nature
of this."
"We do not," McCabe
agreed.
Schiff is particularly annoyed
that the whistleblower complaint was withheld from Congress, as he told PBS
Thursday night:
We got answers to the fact that
this is, for example, the first time that a director of national intelligence
has ever withheld a complaint from Congress. Whether the inspector general
finds it credible or not credible, the practice has always been to provide it
to Congress.
Here, it was found to be
credible, it was found to be urgent. And it is unprecedented to be deprived
this way.
It was also clear from the
testimony that the Department of Justice has weighed in, in a way that it never
has before in a whistle-blower complaint. It's also clear, I think, that the
issue is not the classification of the intelligence. Many people have said,
well, other presidents have asserted that they have the right to declassify
intelligence or provide classified information to the Congress.
That's apparently not the issue
either. And so the question is, why is this being withheld from Congress? Is
this an effort to cover up impropriety? Who does the complaint involve?
And,
most seriously, if this is urgent, and they're not allowing Congress to deal
with it, and they're not allowing the inspector general to deal with it, then
it's going unaddressed and we're at risk.
"Forget Biden,"
Giuliani told Fox News's Laura Ingraham Thursday night.
"The vice president of the
United States bribed a foreign official, isn't that a matter of grave concern
to this country? Whether it's Joe Biden or not? I will tell you what Joe Biden
did out of his own mouth.
"Joe Biden said to the
president of the Ukraine, you're not going to get your $1.2 billion loan
guarantee unless you fire the prosecutor. The crime of bribery is defined in
the Ukraine, as well as all of the world, as the following: You cannot offer
something of value in exchange for official action. The something of value is
the $1.2 billion loan guarantee. The official action is telling him he's got to
fire the prosecutor. That's a crime. Prima fascia," Giuliani said.
"We have a motive. The
prosecutor was investigating Joe Biden's son for over two years, taking $5
million in money that went from Ukraine to Latvia, to Cyprus, to Joe Biden's
little crazy company that he had. Which follows $1.5 billion that went into
that same company from China. The partners of the company are Joe Biden's son,
John Kerry's son, and "Whitey" Bulger's nephew. I didn't make that
up, Laura."
Appearing with CNN's Chris Cuomo
Thursday night, an angry Giuliani said this all began as he investigated
"a tremendous amount of collusion" between the Hillary Clinton
campaign, the DNC and Ukraine: In the course of that investigation, "I
found out this incredible story about Joe Biden, that he bribed the president
of the Ukraine in order to fire a prosecutor who was investigating his son.
"That is an astounding
scandal of major proportions which all of you have covered up for about five or
six months," Giuliani told Cuomo. "You've also covered up the fact
that Biden and his son took $1.5 billion out of China. And that's why the
president thinks you're a corrupt media, because if this were President Trump
and Donald Trump Jr. and they took millions of dollars from a corrupt oligarch
in the Ukraine and they took $1.5 billion out of China while the president was
negotiating with China, you would be screaming and yelling and going crazy
about how corrupt it is.
"And because it's Joe Biden
and he's a protected Democrat, you don't cover it. This scandal is a scandal of
major proportions," Giuliani said.
Cuomo accused Giuliani of
"going after political opponents of Mr. Trump."
"I'm the president's
attorney," Giuliani explained. "Joe Biden is presumed innocent. But
somebody has got to investigate him..."
"Did you ask the Ukraine to
investigate Joe Biden?" Cuomo asked.
"No, actually I
didn't," Giuliani said. "I asked Ukraine to investigate the
allegations that there was interference in the election of 2016 by the
Ukrainians for the benefit of Hillary Clinton for which there already--"
"You never asked anything
about Hunter Biden?" Cuomo interrupted. "You never asked anything
about Joe Biden to the prosecutor?"
"The only thing I asked is to
get to the bottom of how it was that the guy (Ukrainian prosecutor) who was
appointed dismissed the case against Antac (a George Soros group).
"So you did ask Ukraine to
look into Joe Biden," Cuomo said.
"Of course I did,"
Giuliani said.
"You just said you
didn't," Cuomo noted.
"No, I asked them to look
into the allegations which related to my client, which tangentially involved
Joe Biden in a massive bribery scheme. Not unlike what he did in China. Explain
how the kid (Hunter) got $1.5 billion from China."
The two men argued about whether
Giuliani had contradicted himself, and Giuliani tried to clarify: "What I
said is this. I asked them to investigate the allegations that relate to the
false charges against the president of the United States. Those allegations
tangentially involve Biden --" Giuliani started to say.
After some insults back and
forth, Giuliani continued: "These are crimes of major proportions, and
because they're Democrats, you won't cover it...And you were standing up for
two systems of justice. Joe Biden can be involved in bribery. Joe Biden's son
can get $1.5 billion from China and you won't cover it. And you want to cover
some ridiculous charge that I urged the Ukrainian government to investigate
corruption. Well, I did and I'm proud of it."
"Did the president (Trump)
ask the president of Ukraine to do the same thing?" Cuomo asked.
Biden's eventual answer was this:
"I have no idea. I never asked him that. I don't know if he did, and I
wouldn't care if he did. He had every right to do it if he was the president of
the United States. He had every right to say to the Ukrainian president, we
have two outstanding allegations of massive corruption--"
"Did he (Trump) ask you to
do what you were doing?" Cuomo cut in.
"No," Giuliani said.
"I did what I did on my own. I told him (Trump) about it afterwards
because I'm his lawyer and know how to investigate."
House Republican Leader Kevin
McCarthy (Calif.) discouraged people from jumping to conclusions on Thursday:
"Look, I know the media
always wants to rush when they think something sensationalist, and 9 times out
of 10 we find out a lot of that is not true. I think the New York Times has
experienced that just in the last week. This is not something I'd ever see the
president doing, and I--I would instead of jumping to conclusions, actually get
the facts first," he told a news conference.