America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Monday, July 12, 2021
JOE BIDEN - DOCUMENTED BRIBES SUCKING WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINAL - Over 300,000 Sign Petition Demanding a Special Counsel to Investigate Biden Family Corruption
THE BIDEN LAWYER BOYS DIDN'T JUST START SUCKING OFF BRIBES AND PERPETRATING PAY-TO-PLAY SCAMS THAT HILLARY CLINTON TAUGHT THEM WHEN JOE BECAME PRESIDENT. JOE HAS BEEN CROOKED HIS ENTIRE POLITICAL LIFE AND HAS AMASSED A VAST FORTUNE HIDDEN IN TRUSTS AND OTHER DEVICES. HUNTER BIDEN IS ONLY JOE'S DEVICE TO SIPHON OFF THE BRIBES THROUGH TO AVOID PRISON.
Peter Schweizer: Our Copy of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Confirms ‘Joe Biden Was a Direct Beneficiary’ of His Son’s Deals
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), said on Monday that his organization had confirmed that President Joe Biden “was a direct beneficiary” of Hunter Biden’s financialdeals with foreign interests.
“We do have a copy, by the way, here at GAI of [Hunter Biden’s] laptop and all the files,” Schweizer said on the Sean Hannity Show. “It confirms that Joe Biden was a direct beneficiary.”
LISTEN (interview begins at 1:05:05):
Schweizer explained how GAI cross-referenced Secret Service travel logs during Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president to corroborate the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s emails.
He remarked:
GAI asked, “How can we demonstrate whether the emails are real?” … We already have, for example, Hunter Biden’s Secret Service travel records. They were released by Senator [Ron] Johnson’s committee. These are the official records that say the Secret Service traveled with Hunter to this location, to that location, etcetera.
So we asked, “Do the emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop correspond with the travel records? If our email references that [Hunter] is in Dubai on a certain date, does that line up with the Secret Service travel records? Absolutely, 100 percent.
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So there is no question. Of course Hunter Biden hasn’t denied it. But there’s no question that the laptop emails that we have possession of are 100 percent accurate and correspond directly with existing material, and the information is devastating.
GAI is in the process of investigating its copy of files found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, Schweizer shared. He said GAI’s forthcoming reports on the laptop’s contents will expose disastrous dimensions of the Biden family.
“We’re in the middle of the investigation now, but by the end of the year it will be completed, and it will take on a far more sinister tone than it has even now in terms of what it says about the Biden family and the vulnerabilities of the Biden family,” Schweizer stated. “It’s that bad.”
Hannity asked, “On a scale of one to ten, how bad are the coming revelations from this laptop?”
He added, “The coming revelations [from our investigation] based on what we are in the middle of right now, on a scale of one to ten — and you know Sean, I’m pretty cautious about this stuff — frankly are an eleven. It’s that bad.”
Hunter Biden claimed to not know whether the laptop in question was his. Asked in April of the laptop’s authenticity, he replied, “For real, I don’t know.”
Over 300,000 Sign Petition Demanding a Special Counsel to Investigate Biden Family Corruption
Over 300,000 people have signed a Judicial Watch petition asking a special counsel to be appointed to investigate alleged Biden family corruption following years of allegations of pay-for-play schemes and questions looming around Hunter Biden’s business dealings with China and his role on the board of the Ukrainian oligarch-owned energy company Burisma, particularly as his father served as vice president at the time.
“There is substantial evidence, from documents and witness statements, that the Biden family, including President Joe Biden, may have been involved in criminal activity involving, among other issues, foreign entities tied to Ukraine and China,” the government watchdog’s petition states, noting that Hunter has “already acknowledged that he is the target” of an FBI criminal investigation.
“A special counsel should immediately be appointed because the Biden Justice Department is conflicted in investigating any matter that could implicate President Biden or his immediate family,” the petition adds.
Nearly 310,000 people signed the petition as of Monday afternoon. The petition has a goal of 500,000 signatures. “There is plenty of substantial evidence, from documents and witness statements, that the Biden family, including President Joe Biden, may have been involved in criminal activity involving, among other issues, foreign entities tied to Ukraine and China,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said:
Hunter has acknowledged that he is the target of an FBI criminal investigation, and he’s on to his next corrupt enterprise — secretly selling his ‘ink blow’ paintings, in a scheme concocted by the Biden White House. A special counsel needs to be appointed immediately because the Biden Justice Department is conflicted in investigating any matter that could implicate President Biden or his immediate family.
Breitbart News has detailed the mounting allegations of Biden family corruption extensively:
One of the most well-known examples of this centers around Hunter’s involvement on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian oligarch-owned oil and gas company, which paid him tens of thousands of dollars per month despite his lack of experience in the energy sector or Ukraine in general. At the time, Hunter’s then-vice president father was the point-person negotiating U.S. policy with Ukraine. After leaving office, Joe Biden later bragged about how he threatened to withhold U.S. assistance to Ukraine unless Ukrainian officials fired a prosecutor who had launched a corruption investigation into the company that had hired Hunter.
Hunter also came under criticism for his lucrative business dealings with state-owned entities in China, as Breitbart News senior contributor and Secret Empires author Peter Schweizer has reported in detail.
“In China, [Hunter] travels with his father in December [2013] aboard Air Force Two. While his father is meeting with Chinese officials, Hunter Biden is doing we don’t know what. But the evidence becomes clear because ten days after they return to Washington, his small boutique investment firm, Rosemont Seneca, gets a $1 billion deal,” the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) president explained during a 2019 appearance with Sean Hannity.
Now, the Biden White House is facing controversy over the scandal-plagued son’s venture into the art world, which is already shrouded in secrecy, as confirmed by last year’s bipartisan Senate investigation. Critics fear Hunter will attempt to cash in on the Biden family name through this new venture, as his art is already slated to sell at what some say are inflated prices — up to half a million dollars.
“And anybody who buys it would be guaranteed instant profit,” Alex Acevedo, owner of the Alexander Gallery in Midtown Manhattan, told the New York Post “He’s the president’s son. Everybody would want a piece of that. The provenance is impeccable.’’
Hunter is working with Soho art dealer Georges Bergès, who is expected to sell Hunter’s art this fall. The White House, meanwhile, is crafting a plan to make the buyers of his art remain anonymous, even to the artist himself.
“This is an absurd solution,” Breitbart News senior contributor and Profiles in Corruption author Peter Schweizer told Breitbart News.
“The only way to address these issues is with greater transparency–not less,” he continued. “Their proposed solution is greater secrecy, not transparency. And they are essentially saying, ‘Trust Us.’ Joe and Hunter Biden’s track record on such matters gives us no reason to trust them.”
Pinkerton: The Glaring Loopholes in Hunter Biden’s Art Deal – The White House Thinks Less Transparency Can Fix an Ethics Problem
If there’s a pipeline of big-money influence into the Biden White House, are we supposed to feel better if the exact nature of the flow within that pipeline is secret?
That’s the strange argument reportedly being made by lawyers for the 46th president, as they grapple with the fact that Hunter Biden plans to make millions as an artist even as, of course, Hunter retains his anointed status as First Son to President Joe Biden.Yes, that’s right — the Biden lawyers think that it will be best if we, the American people, don’t know who’s buying Hunter’s art and for how much.
Interestingly, this cover-up approach seemed to be too much even for the Washington Post, an outlet not normally seen as as a critic of the Biden administration.Under the quippy headline, “Deal of the art: White House grapples with ethics of Hunter Biden’s pricey paintings,” the Post reported on July 8 that Hunter will be free to sell his artwork through a New York City art dealer, so long as he, Hunter, never learns the identity of the purchaser, and so long as the dealer rejects purchasers deemed to be “suspicious.”
We can immediately see that this arrangement is completely unenforceable and in fact impossible to make work. If someone buys a Hunter Biden artwork for six figures (or maybe, who knows, even more), that purchase is not going to stay secret, even in the unlikely event that the purchaser wanted his or her buy to remain secret.After all, most art buyers are sociable enough, living, as they do, in a world of galleries and exhibitions.And of course, plenty of reporters—society gossips as well as political journos—as well as others are curious about anything concerning the First Family.
Furthermore, political influence-buyers actively want their influence to be known—especially with the person they hope to influence. In other words, the fact that big money is gushing toward Hunter Biden is sure to be known–at least to Hunter and to anyone he cares to tell about it.
Yet lest anyone think that the Post report of the unusual secrecy surrounding the First Son’s art sales was somehow fake news, White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended it the following day, declaring that Hunter Biden “has the right to pursue an artistic career.” And she added, “I can tell you that after careful consideration, a system has been established that allows for Hunter Biden to work in his profession within reasonable safeguards,”
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Perhaps this rickety arrangement is already flunking the reader’s laugh test.And yet, as this author noted back in June, the issue of art-purchasers potentially buying influence in the White House is no laughing matter.So it’s worth digging into the details of the proposed arrangement, as they have been provided to the Post:
White House officials have helped craft an agreement under which purchases of Hunter Biden’s artwork—which could be listed at prices as high as $500,000—will be kept confidential from even the artist himself, in an attempt to avoid ethical issues that could arise as a presidential family member tries to sell a product with a highly subjective value.
So again, that’s the White House’s key idea: Keep the identities of the purchasers away from Hunter lest he wish to help reward them with his presidential pull.And Hunter, of course, has had a long career as a helper for big companies and foreign countries–from Ukraine to China to Mexico–and those deals have been and can still be an embarrassment or worse for Team Biden.
On July 10, a very droll Ian Bremmer, the well-known geopolitical pundit, tweeted a picture of one of Hunter’s art works and added the joke, “I don’t hate this Hunter Biden painting. But for $500,000 I feel like I should also get some of his Ukraine energy expertise thrown in.” The joke being that Hunter has no Ukraine energy expertise.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) also weighed in about “tough” ethical questions surrounding Hunter, who is, Cotton added, “still investing in CCP [Chinese Communist Party]-linked firms.” In other words, according to Cotton, the potential exists for the People’s Republic of China to directly influence Hunter; it could be PRC money flowing through that pipeline to the White House.
Yet while Hunter is for sure a black sheep, he is also still much loved by his doting father.Thus in January 2021, even after so many disclosures about Hunter’s misdealings, the younger Biden was highly visible at his father’s inaugural.Indeed, Hunter’s showcasing sent the world an unmistakable message: The son is still in good with his father, now the 46th president.
Given this tight family bonding, perhaps we can spare some sympathy for the Biden White House lawyers, who have been called upon to cobble together something that’s un-cobble-able—a plan for insulating Joe’s Oval Office from Hunter’s new moneymaking plan.
Returning again to that Post article, we might consider the extraordinary trust being placed in a New York City art dealer, Georges Bergès; it is up to him—a man with no vetting—to make myriad high-dollar ethical decisions for Hunter, for the Biden White House, and in effect for the United States:
Under an arrangement negotiated in recent months, a New York gallery owner is planning to set prices for the art and will withhold all records, including potential bidders and final buyers. The owner, Georges Bergès, has also agreed to reject any offer that he deems suspicious or that comes in over the asking price, according to people familiar with the agreement.
Is Bergès to be trusted like this?Will he be trustworthy on such matters as the purchase price?Will crypto-currencies, which are nearly impossible to trace, be involved?We’ll have to wait and see, although, of course, maybe we won’t see. Indeed, the loopholes here so wide that it seems that they’re all hole and no loop.
In the meantime, we already know this much: Joe Biden has had a long—lifelong, of course—association with wheeler-dealers within his family, with those many relatives happy to make money off their powerful family tie.
This reality was made plain back in 2019 by Politico in a piece headlined, “Biden Inc.: Over his decades in office, ‘Middle-Class Joe’s’ family fortunes have closely tracked his political career.”The piece was a tale of familial financial opportunism, as Biden family members cashed in on their connection; for instance, the article includes a moment in 2006 when Biden’s younger brother, James, laid out his development strategy for a proposed hedge fund: “Don’t worry about investors. We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.” (At the time, Joe Biden was a U.S. Senator.)
We pause over James Biden’s words, We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.And if we do so pause, we can begin to better see the dimensions of the issue with Hunter Biden and his father.
Moreover, James Biden isn’t the only political entrepreneur in the Biden brotherhood.Here’s a CNN headline in February: “Frank Biden’s actions already testing Joe Biden’s ethics claims.”
The article continues:
Francis ‘Frank’ Biden, the President’s brother, was hired as a non-attorney, senior adviser for Berman Law Group, a Boca Raton law firm in 2018. The firm frequently touts Frank Biden’s ties to the President, featuring Frank and his family connections prominently on their website, in ads and on social media. [emphasis added]
Given all this media and social-media saturation, it’s becoming apparent that there’s no way that any purchase of Hunter’s art is going to stay secret.Not from Hunter, and probably not from anyone else in his family.
So it’s little wonder that the White House’s proposed “secret plan” raised hackles among prominent Washington legal ethicists cited by the Post.
“The whole thing is a really bad idea,” said Richard Painter, chief ethics lawyer to President George W. Bush. “The initial reaction a lot of people are going to have is that he’s capitalizing on being the son of a president and wants people to give him a lot of money. I mean, those are awfully high prices.”
And then there’s this equally stinging quote from Walter Shaub, head of the Office of Government Ethics from 2013 to 2017: “Because we don’t know who is paying for this art and we don’t know for sure that [Hunter Biden] knows, we have no way of monitoring whether people are buying access to the White House.What these people are paying for is Hunter Biden’s last name.”
Given these realities—no money secrets from Hunter and no apparent family distance between Hunter and Joe—it’s easy to see that the White House plan for Hunter’s art is not going to work as advertised.There’s no veil, no wall, no blind trust, no black box, no anything, that can fully compartmentalize the public interest from Hunter’s private interest.
In fact, there might be a lot less separation between Joe and the Biden family politics business than most Americans have realized—or that the Main Stream Media has been willing to fully explore.
In 2019, Forbes magazine estimated Joe Biden’s net worth at $9 million.Now how did Middle Class Joe come by that much money when he’d been working almost continuously on a government salary since 1970? Earlier this year, Town and Country magazine offered a photographic look at Biden’s real estate holdings, which are extensive, including a 6,850-square-foot manse on “four acres of secluded, lakefront land” in Wilmington, DE.Plus another nice home in Rehoboth DE, and yet another in McLean, VA.(On July 8, a report in Mediate brought all this back to mind, asreaders were reminded that for a mere $2.39 million, they could be a neighbor of the Bidens in Wilmington.)
Without a doubt, the Biden family has done very well.And now, here comes Hunter Biden with his latest money-making plan; he’s seemingly destined to blaze a lucrative trail in the art world.Nice work if you can get it!
Hunter Biden working on his artwork. (Hunter Biden)
In the meantime, the rest of us—those of us not blessed with Hunter’s talent as a well-born “art-preneur”—should at least demand total transparency in his dealings.That is, the only hope that we can have for any kind of accountability is if all of Hunter’s art purchases are fully publicized, including not only the identity of the purchaser but also the precisely audited dollar total paid by the purchaser.
This is a point made by Breitbart News senior contributor and Profiles in Corruption author Peter Schweizer, who earlier told Breitbart News that the Biden White House plan was “absurd.” “The only way to address these issues is with greater transparency–not less,” he added. “Their proposed solution is greater secrecy, not transparency. And they are essentially saying ‘Trust Us.’ Joe and Hunter Biden’s track record on such matters gives us no reason to trust them.”
More than a century ago, the eminent social reformer and future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” That is, the public’s right to know is what guarantees honesty and fair dealing.
Today, what’s needed is a good dose of the Brandeisian sunlight-as-the-best-disinfectant therapy. Unfortunately, the Biden White House is pursuing the exact opposite approach.
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