The agents ostentatiously refused to seize copies of Hunter Biden’s hard drives, which Giuliani possessed, even though they were obvious electronic devices. Giuliani contends that the hard drives’ contents establish not only that Hunter and Joe Biden acted as unregistered foreign agents, but also that Joe Biden and his family took millions in bribes over the years and that Hunter Biden was engaged in child pornography.
The dark night of fascism has finally landed in the United States
Tom Wolfe famously quipped, “The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.” Certainly, that was the case during the Trump presidency, when leftists insisted he was Hitler, yet were unable to point to a single instance in which he’d engaged in conduct actually associated with fascists. However, in the topsy-turvy world that is 2021, Wolfe’s saying has been turned on its head. With the advent of the Biden administration, America is heading into a purely fascist future. Meanwhile, Europeans are insistently demanding freedom, whether it’s generals and other civil servants pushing back against Critical Race Theory and Islam, or ordinary people singing and dancing in the streets.
In America, people who committed a misdemeanor by entering the Capitol without permission are still rotting in jail in solitary confinement without ever having had a hearing. The situation is so dire and un-American that Senators Elizabeth Warren and Dick Durbin, both proponents of total government, protested:
Most of the 300-plus people charged with participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have been released while they await trial, but dozens of those deemed to be dangerous, flight risks or at high risk of obstructing justice were ordered held without bond. D.C. jail officials later determined that all Capitol detainees would be placed in so-called restrictive housing — a move billed as necessary to keep the defendants safe, as well as guards and other inmates. But that means 23-hour-a-day isolation for the accused, even before their trials begin.
And such treatment doesn't sit well with Warren or Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), two of the chamber's fiercest critics of solitary confinement.
“Solitary confinement is a form of punishment that is cruel and psychologically damaging,” Warren said in an interview. “And we’re talking about people who haven’t been convicted of anything yet.”
(So far as I know, no Republicans have done the same, and shame on them if I’m correct.)
On Wednesday, Federal agents flashing open-ended warrants conducted a 6 a.m. raid on former New York mayor current Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to seize his electronics. The ostensible reason was that Giuliani violated a law requiring Americans who represent foreign nationals to register as foreign agents. This is a law that is enforced only against Republicans close to Trump – and Giuliani is adamant that he’s never represented foreign nationals.
The agents ostentatiously refused to seize copies of Hunter Biden’s hard drives, which Giuliani possessed, even though they were obvious electronic devices. Giuliani contends that the hard drives’ contents establish not only that Hunter and Joe Biden acted as unregistered foreign agents, but also that Joe Biden and his family took millions in bribes over the years and that Hunter Biden was engaged in child pornography. Since Giuliani still has the hard drives, perhaps he should make all the information on the drives public.
Giuliani told some of his story to Tucker Carlson:
On the evidence available, what’s happening to Giuliani looks like typical fascism: an incoming regime uses unequally applied law and a complete absence of due process to purge all political opposition.
And in the perfect public-private partnership that makes fascism a different kind of socialism from communism, the tech tyrants continue to act as the federal government’s censorship arm. Just today, YouTube censored an interview that Dan Bongino conducted with former President Trump, calling it “spam” and a “scam.” You can see the interview on Rumble.
Meanwhile, in Europe, over 1,000 French military personnel, including 20 former generals and 100 officers published an amazing open letter:
It accused the French government of kowtowing to destructive ideologies such as anti-racism and Islamism, which it said were being leveraged for the purposes of sowing unrest in French communities and risking a descent into full-blown civil war.
The signatories expressed grave concern with the government’s push to deconstruct and decolonize its own history in an attempt to placate a growing Islamism that has wracked the nation with violence and argued that radical Islam is being used to subject neighborhoods to dogmatic rules that go against the French Constitution, creating an unconstitutional parallel Islamic state.
“Perils are mounting, violence is increasing day by day,” the letter warned. “Who would have predicted ten years ago that a teacher would one day be beheaded when he left school?”
The signatories also attacked Critical Race Theory, which is making headway in France.
Meanwhile, Basel, Switzerland, was the latest European city to have a flash mob demanding freedom from masks and lockdowns. You can read all about this Insurrection of Joy here. Then, spend a few minutes watching this video from a Swiss train station, as people in the station go from bewildered to celebratory:
We need a non-partisan song for Americans to do the same.
At the end of the day, unless we want the dark night of fascism to become a permanent fixture in America, we’d better act to stop the Democrats from using the unequal application of our laws and the manufactured fear of COVID (a virus that more than 99% of us will have survived) to gain total power.
Giuliani: FBI Refused Hunter Biden’s Hard Drives During ‘Illegal, Unconstitutional’ Raid
Thursday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who formerly served as former President Donald Trump’s legal counsel, criticized the FBI raid on his Manhattan apartment during an interview with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson.
According to Giuliani, the agents were “very professional and very gentlemanly,” however they refused to accept hard drives that Giuliani claimed contained incriminating evidence on Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden.
Partial transcript as follows:
CARLSON: Mr. Mayor, thanks so much for coming on.
Now, if you had been reading the Twitter feed of The Lincoln Project, the Democratic hacks who got Joe Biden elected, you would have known that federal agents were about to raid your home. They knew before you did. But, apparently, you weren’t.
Tell us what happened yesterday.
RUDY GIULIANI, ATTORNEY FOR FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, about 6 o’clock in the morning, there was a big bang, bang, bang on the door, and outside were seven — seven — FBI agents with a warrant for electronics.
And I looked at the warrant, and I said, this is extraordinary, because I have offered to give these to the government and talk it over with them for two years. I don’t know why they have to do this.
The agents seemed somewhat apologetic, I might say. They were very, very professional and very gentlemanly. The only time they got perturbed is at the end of the search, when they had taken about, I would say, seven or eight electronic items of mine, which is what they took, and two of someone else’s.
I — they weren’t taking the three hard drives, which, of course, are electronic devices. They just mimic the computer. I said, Well, don’t you want these? And they said, What are they?
I said, Those are Hunter Biden’s hard drives.
And they said. No, no, no, no, no.
I said, Are you sure you don’t want them?
The warrant required them to take it. And they said, No, no.
And I — one last time, I said, Don’t you think you should take it to – and they said, No.
Now, Hunter Biden’s hard drives fall within the scope of the subpoena. The subpoena required them to take all electronics. But they decided to leave that behind. And they also were completely content to rely on my word that these were Hunter Biden’s hard drives.
I mean, they could have been Donald Trump’s. They could have been Vladimir Putin’s. They could have been anybody’s. But they relied on me, the man who had to be raided in the morning, because I’m — what, I’m going to destroy the evidence? I have known this for two years, Tucker.
I could have destroyed the evidence years ago. I didn’t destroy the evidence because the evidence is exculpatory. It proves that the president and I and all of us are innocent. They are the ones who are committing — it’s like projection. They are committing the crimes.
Yes, go ahead.
CARLSON: Well, may I just interject to say it’s, I think, literally projection.
So, from what we have read in the press, the Department of Justice wants to know whether you violated FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, in representing foreign nationals, Ukrainians, for pay. You didn’t register. They are saying that may have been a crime.
We know for a fact that Hunter Biden did that. He didn’t register under FARA. He represented Ukrainians. He probably made a lot more than you did. He also represented Chinese nationals, lobbying his dad.
And he’s not been charged with a FARA violation. Am I missing something here?
GIULIANI: Yes, you are missing the equal administration of justice, which is what we don’t have anymore.
The reality is, the hard drive contains somewhere between a dozen or more violations of FARA that are spelled out completely, failure to register. The fact is, it also spells out, as we now know, a clear violation of the Gun Act. The application is a straight-out fraud. He says, I’m not an addict.
We have a picture of him five days before smoking a crack pipe behind the wheel of a car, and then saying under oath that he is not an addict. And it is the left that gets all perturbed about people who are mentally unstable having guns. Well, he was unstable.
He has been — unfortunately and tragically. I feel sorry for that part of Hunter Biden. I think his father exploited him. But the reality is, he is still a danger to the public if he is driving an automobile or holding a gun. But they don’t care about that.
CARLSON: Yes.
(CROSSTALK)
GIULIANI: They come instead into my apartment, when I am willing to talk to them civilly myself.
And, second, I can tell you, I never, ever represented a foreign national. I — in fact, I have in my contracts a refusal to do it, because, from the time I got out of being mayor, I didn’t want to lobby. Never did it to Bush. Never did it to Obama. Never did it with Trump.
And I can prove it. Just give me an opportunity. But they wouldn’t.
CARLSON: So–
GIULIANI: Instead, they had to break down — well, I wouldn’t say break down, but smash on my doors in a frightening way.
Lucky I don’t get frightened very easily. I handled them very professionally, and they handled me very professionally. I want to make that point.
Also, Hunter (sic), I am a lawyer who has prosecuted a lot more serious cases than have been prosecuted in the U.S. attorney’s office since I left. And the reality is that that warrant is completely illegal.
The only way you can get a search warrant is if you can show that there is some evidence that the person is going to destroy the evidence or is going to — or is going to run away with the evidence.
Well, I have had it for two years and I haven’t destroyed it. And they also got it from the iCloud. So, there was no — there was no justification for that warrant. It is an illegal, unconstitutional warrant, one of many that this department of injustice tragically has done. And it breaks my heart, because I belonged to the Justice Department.
And I think I had a record that is a hell of a lot better than theirs.
CARLSON: Joe Biden said he didn’t know. The Lincoln Project knew, the guys who covered up child molestation.
But Joe Biden says he didn’t know that this raid was coming. Do you take that at face value?
GIULIANI: Maybe he doesn’t remember. I’m not sure if he can retain anything for more than about the time it takes to read it.
But, in any event, who cares if he knew or not? And the reality is how — The Lincoln Project knowing means that they have a serious leak in a very important investigation. We have been warning them of that for two years.
My lawyer, Bob Costello, has written to them four times to plug up the leaks. They have done nothing to do that.
(CROSSTALK)
CARLSON: So, just to frame this — may I interrupt you?
I just — I should have done this at the outset.
GIULIANI: No, please.
CARLSON: I just want to make absolutely certain that we understand, our viewers understand what it is the Justice Department says they’re investigating.
We have read it’s a FARA violation. Is there something else? What have they said to you about what they’re looking into?
GIULIANI: They haven’t said anything. They won’t explain to me what they’re looking into for two years.
We have called them five, six occasions, said, tell us what you’re investigating. We will come in and address it.
No, just come in and talk to us. Tell us about your whole life.
Of course, that’s ridiculous. And so I have to go — I have to go, as a lawyer, on the search warrant. The search warrant is purportedly based on one single failure to file for representing a Ukrainian national or official that I never represented.
I have never represented a Ukrainian national or official before the United States government. I have declined it several times. I have had contracts in countries like Ukraine. In the contract is a clause that says I will not engage in lobbying or foreign representation.
I don’t do it because I felt it would be too compromising.
CARLSON: Right.
GIULIANI: Here I am in the middle of representing the president of the United States on a charge of that I believe he was innocent of. I had great passion about that.
If you are a lawyer and you’re representing an innocent man, there is no greater burden you can have. And my sole concentration — and I am so offended by the things they have said about me — my sole concentration from the beginning here, Tucker, was to find evidence that would prove what I knew, that he was innocent of Russian collusion and that he was innocent of doing anything improper.
He did exactly what a president should do with the president of Ukraine. He asked him to investigate–
CARLSON: Right.
GIULIANI: — a vice president who violated our laws over and over again, 30 years of the Biden crime family violating our laws.
That is what is on the hard drive that they have censored. And that is why they want to put me in jail.
CARLSON: One of the great ironies is, the Democratic Party is hysterical on the subject of Russia, in part because they have taken so much money from Ukraine, which, of course, fears Russia and has for an awful long time. They are being paid to hate Russia.
But let me just ask you. So, now they have taken your phone. They have taken — they have got all your texts. They have got all your digital communications.
So, unless you have been in mass 12 hours a day for the last five years, like, is there anybody who could–
(LAUGHTER)
CARLSON: No, it’s a sincere question. I’m not — I mean, is there anybody–
GIULIANI: No, I understand–
(CROSSTALK)
CARLSON: The Justice Department–
(CROSSTALK)
CARLSON: — out for you. And they have got every text you have ever sent and every e-mail — that they couldn’t find something to charge you with?
Do you think this is going to remain a FARA investigation? Or could it get much bigger quickly?
GIULIANI: Well, I think it should get much bigger.
I think they should be investigated for blatantly violating my constitutional rights, the president’s constitutional rights. In the middle of the impeachment defense–
CARLSON: Yes.
GIULIANI: — they invaded, without telling me, my iCloud.
They took documents that are privileged, and then they unilaterally decided what they could read and not read. So, the prosecutors at the Justice Department spied on me.
And that is — if that is not taken seriously, if that doesn’t result in their being sanctioned and the case being dismissed and it stopping, this is no longer a free country. We might as well be in East Berlin before the wall fell.
CARLSON: Yes.
GIULIANI: This is tactics only known in a dictatorship, where you seize a lawyer’s records right in the middle of his representation of his client.
They — I mean, you should be prosecuted and disbarred for that.
CARLSON: Yes.
GIULIANI: You shouldn’t be prosecuting somebody else.
CARLSON: I agree. I agree with that. I agree with that uncritically.
(CROSSTALK)
GIULIANI: They are a disgrace. They are a disgrace to a great department. They are a disgrace to a great department–
CARLSON: The former mayor of–
GIULIANI: — that I served honorably and well.
CARLSON: It’s shocking.
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24 GOP Reps. Seek ATF Investigation Into Hunter Biden’s Alleged Gun-Purchase Crime
Twenty-four Republican House members are asking ATF nominee David Chipman to pledge an investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged false answers on background check form 4473.
Breitbart News noted that Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, allegedly gave a false answer regarding drug use when purchasing a gun in 2018.
The Daily Wire reports twenty-four House Republicans sent a letter to Chipman on Monday asking whether he will investigate Hunter’s actions if confirmed to head the ATF.
A pertinent portion of the letter says:
Many Americans are rightfully alarmed by these reports considering Mr. Biden’s history of drug use…In the past, the Biden family has been open about Mr. Biden’s struggle with substance abuse, and Navy records indicate his discharge from service following a positive drug test. Since lying on a background check form is a felony, this allegation merits investigation.
ATF form 4473, which Hunter allegedly lied on, asks:
Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside.
The penalties for lying on the ATF form include fines up to $250,000 and/or ten years of imprisonment.
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. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
Biden from the Beginning
Right from the start, the Delaware Democrat was all about power and money.
White House resident Joe Biden was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, at the age of 29. Two years later, in 1974, the Delaware Democrat was the subject of a 4,000-plus-word Washingtonian profile, but not for anything he had accomplished in office.
“I have no illusions about why I am such a hot commodity,” Biden told Kitty Kelley. “I am the youngest man in the Senate and I am also the victim of a tragic fate which makes me very newsworthy.” Biden’s wife Neilia and the couple’s infant daughter were killed in a car accident shortly after Biden’s election in 1972. Biden wanted to resign, but Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield promised him prestigious committee assignments. The grieving newcomer had higher goals in mind.
“I know I can be a good Senator, and I know I can be a good President,” Biden told Kelley. “I know I could have easily made the White House with Neilia. And my family still expects me to be there one of these days. With them behind me anything can happen.” As Biden’s sister Valerie explained, “Joey is going to be president someday. He was made to be in the White House. Just you wait and see.”
Biden proclaimed “there is no other walk of life which can do more good for mankind than politics,” but money was also part of it. “I am worth a lot more than my salary of $42,500 a year in this body,” Biden explained in the Senate. “It seems to me that we should flat out tell the American people we are worth our salt.” That brought a response from William Loeb, editor of the “right wing” Manchester Union Leader.
“Can you imagine the conceit and stupidity of a young man of 30 who would say that? The voters of Delaware who elected this stupid, conceited jackass to the Senate should kick him in the rear to knock some sense into him, and then kick themselves for voting for such an idiot.”
As Kelley noted, Biden framed Loeb’s editorial and hung it in his office. “When you get a blast like that you really know you’re worth something.” Kelley had reason for doubt.
In the course of the interview, Biden leaned over his desk, shook his finger and said, “And whether you like it or not, young lady, us cruddy politicians can take away that First Amendment of yours if we want to.” Kelley took the threat as confirmation that Joe Biden “defines politics as power.”
In 2010, Mark Bowen cited Kelley’s “notoriously revealing” profile in his 9,000-plus word Atlantic piece on the Delaware Democrat. As Bowden recalled, when Biden ran for president in 1988 he was “discovered passing off as his own passages from a speech by a British Labour politician.” In 2008, Biden finished the Iowa caucuses with less than one percent of the vote, and Bowden wondered if the Delaware Democrat might be seeking something else.
“I would not be anybody’s secretary of state in any circumstance I could think of,” Biden said at the time, “and I absolutely can say with certainty I would not be anybody’s vice president. Period. End of story. Guaranteed. Will not do it.” Biden did do it, and Bowden recalled his statement to Kelley that he would be a good president. Bowden wasn’t sure.
“Though plenty smart, Biden is not an intellectual,” Bowden explained. Biden was an “indifferent student” in college and law school, and “he makes few references to books and learned influences in his speeches and autobiography.” Bowden named no books that someone aspiring to be president of the United States might want to read, perhaps landmark works by Solzhenitsyn, Orwell, F.A. Hayek and many others. As Mark Twain said, the man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
In a 1987 campaign speech, Joe Biden “borrowed liberally, and without attribution, from the British Labour politician Neil Kinnock.” At the time Kinnock and his party were heavily embedded with the Soviets, so Kinnock was perhaps the worst choice Biden could have made. On the other hand, Biden credits his humiliating plagiarism with “saving his life.” If he had stayed in the campaign, “he likely would have ignored the warning signs that sent him to the doctor.” What, exactly, the doctor needed to treat is not explained, but it is possible to guess.
Mark Bowden is the author of Black Hawk Down, Huế 1968, and The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden. With Joe Biden the serious writer took a softer approach.
“Joe Biden doesn’t just meet you, he engulfs you. There’s the direct contact with his blue eyes, the firm handshake while his other hand grasps your arm, the flash of those famously perfect white teeth, and an immediate frontal assault on your personal space. He shoulders right through the aura of fame and high office. Forget the Secret Service, the ever-present battery of aides and advisers, the photographers clicking away: the vice president of the United States moves in like an old pal with something urgent to tell you—just you. If he’s in a chair, he’ll scoot it closer; when the furniture’s not portable, he’ll lean forward, planting his elbows on his knees, gesturing with both hands while he speaks, occasionally reaching over to touch your arm or leg for emphasis.”
Joe Biden is also a “virtuoso talker. That fluency is not a gift but an accomplishment.” Biden’s “occasional well-publicized gaffes have served to humanize a leadership team that all too often seems aloof, cerebral, and elitist.” Readers might think Biden’s gaffes are a positive accomplishment, and his politics largely a matter of style.
Contrast this highly promotional account with Kitty Kelley, known for unauthorized biographies of Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra and the Bush Family. Biden’s threats to take away First Amendment rights convinced Kelley that the Delaware Democrat “defines politics as power.”
Jump ahead to 2021 and the First Amendment is under attack as Joe Biden seems determined to take away the Second Amendment rights of every American. In the White House, Victor Davis Hanson notes, Biden is “as he always was,” as incompetent as Jimmy Carter, as corrupt as Bill Clinton and “a greater racial divider than Barack Obama.”
This is what happens when a cruddy politician taps the “most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”