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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg discusses indictment charging Trump with 34 felony counts




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Unsealed Trump Indictment Reveals SHOCKING New Crimes


CUT AND PASTE YOUTUBE VIDEO OF THE CRIME FAMILIES

HOW MANY OF THESE ARE PARASITE GAMER LAWYERS?...............EVERY SINGLE ONE BUT PELOSI AND TRUMP. 

The Blame Game 

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 “Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton

Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS)  and the Obama (TWO

GAMER LAWYERS) book and television deals. Then there is the

Biden family (THE CHINESE - BIDEN - PENN INSTITUTE)

(FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES &

FRANK) 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 AND

HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY,

LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER).  


Good morning. The case against Trump is about more than Stormy Daniels.

Donald Trump at the Manhattan Criminal Courts Building yesterday.Dave Sanders for The New York Times

Trump’s day in court

Yesterday, Donald Trump became the first president, current or former, to be charged with a crime.

Prosecutors accused him of coordinating a scheme during the 2016 presidential campaign to cover up potential sex scandals and of committing fraud to keep them quiet. Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges in a Manhattan court.

Court filings detailed several instances in which Trump allegedly bought the silence of others during the campaign to bury damaging stories. By pointing to those examples, prosecutors described a pattern of behavior that could help convince a judge and jury that Trump is guilty.

You might be wondering why Trump’s sex life, falsehoods and campaign dealings from years ago are worthy of criminal charges. After all, most of us are used to politicians, particularly Trump, misleading the public. And Trump routinely bragged about his sexual endeavors when he was a celebrity real estate developer.

The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, argued that Trump had gone above embellishing or misleading the public and, through the hush money scheme, had violated a number of laws to deceive voters. “That payment was to hide damaging information from the voting public,” Bragg said.

Trump continued to portray the charges against him as politically motivated and unfair when he spoke last night at his home in Florida, where he flew after he appeared in court in New York. “This fake case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election, and it should be dropped immediately,” he said.

Trump’s unhappiness about the indictment came through in his speech. “He’s angry and vengeful, soaked in grievance,” my colleague Jonathan Swan wrote. “Nothing boisterous or celebratory about it, as some predicted.”

Today’s newsletter will explain the charges, the scandals behind the case and other details we learned from Trump’s arraignment.

Three scandals

All of the criminal charges are related to a $130,000 hush payment to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Trump. Bragg suggested that he would try to demonstrate in court that the payout to her was how Trump did business, not a one-off mistake. “It’s not just about one payment,” he said.

Court documents laid out three instances in which prosecutors said Trump had suppressed information during the presidential race. All were already public. “It is still extraordinary to hear the district attorney telling this story in the context of a criminal arraignment,” my colleague Jonah Bromwich wrote.

First, Daniels. During the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, she tried to sell her story of a decade-old affair with Trump, which he denies. Daniels’s representatives approached The National Enquirer. But its publisher, David Pecker, was a longtime ally of Trump’s who had agreed to look out for potentially damaging stories about him. Eventually, he helped arrange a deal in which Trump’s lawyer at the time, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels $130,000 to stay quiet about the affair.

Later, when he was president, Trump reimbursed Cohen, and prosecutors say that’s where the fraud began. Trump’s company classified the repayment as legal expenses, citing a retainer agreement. Prosecutors say there were no such expenses, and that the retainer was nonexistent. The felony counts related to invoices Cohen submitted, checks Trump wrote to reimburse Cohen and Trump Organization ledger entries that recorded the reimbursements.

Prosecutors also raised the account of another woman, Karen McDougal, who says she had an affair with Trump, which he denies as well. McDougal, a former Playboy playmate of the year, had similarly tried to sell her story during the campaign and reached a $150,000 agreement with The National Enquirer. Rather than publish her account, the tabloid suppressed it in cooperation with Trump and Cohen, prosecutors say.

Finally, prosecutors invoked a payment to a former Trump Tower doorman. He claimed that Trump had fathered a child out of wedlock. The National Enquirer paid $30,000 for the rights to his story, although it eventually concluded that his claim was false.

The charges

The charges against Trump are all counts of falsifying business records. Typically, those charges are misdemeanors in New York; prosecutors elevated them to felonies by alleging they were linked to violations of election and tax laws. They suggested that the Daniels payment amounted to an illegal campaign contribution, as covering up Trump’s affairs might have benefited his 2016 campaign. And by disguising the payments as legal expenses, Trump also tried to misrepresent the payments to the tax authorities, Bragg said.

New York prosecutors have never brought an election-law case involving a federal election before. The unique charges and circumstances of charging a former president could make the case harder to win, because courts often rely on past cases to issue rulings, as this newsletter has explained.

But the connection between falsifying business records and potential tax law violations could put the case on firmer ground, as my colleague Charlie Savage wrote. Compared with the election-related allegations, the tax claim is “a much simpler charge that avoids the potential pitfalls,” said Rebecca Roiphe, a New York Law School professor and former prosecutor.

Trump’s supporters, and even some of his critics, have argued that the charges stretch the limits of the law. They point out that other prosecutors didn’t file charges over the hush payments and claim that Bragg himself at one point gave up on the case. “Alvin Bragg is picking up the trash that the U.S. attorney’s office wouldn’t touch, that his predecessor wouldn’t touch, that he wouldn’t even touch the first time,” said Jim Trusty, a lawyer who is representing Trump for federal investigations.

What’s next? The case is expected to last awhile. The next in-person hearing is scheduled for Dec. 4. By then, the 2024 Republican primary campaign will be in full swing.

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Rasmussen Poll: Donald Trump Takes Biggest 2024 Lead so Far over Joe Biden

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Former President Donald Trump shows the most significant lead yet over President Joe Biden in Rasmussen Reports’ most recent national 2024 presidential election poll, conducted right before the former president’s arraignment earlier this week.

While it is still unknown if Biden will run for another term or when he will announce his decision, the president is trailing his predecessor in the poll by the largest amount to date. In the hypothetical showdown between the two, Trump leads 47 to 40 percent of likely voters, with 11 percent saying someone else and two percent not sure.

The most recent poll is a reversal from February, the last time Rasmussen Reports conducted a 2024 head-to-head national poll, which showed Biden leading in the hypothetical matchup 45 to 42 percent.

Just after the poll was conducted earlier this week, Trump appeared in New York on Tuesday for his arraignment, where he pleaded not guilty to 34 felonies before State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan. This accused after a Manhattan grand jury voted the previous week to indict Trump for his alleged role in paying “hush money” to porn star Stormy Daniels. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has reportedly asked Judge Merchan to hold the trial in January 2024 — in the middle of the presidential primary season — when Trump is running for another term in office.

The poll further found that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a likely 2024 presidential candidate, also led Biden in a hypothetical matchup. The potential 2024 opponent led Biden 46 percent to 38 percent, while another 12 percent said someone else and four percent was unsure.

The poll found a significant difference in support between Trump and DeSantis when up against Biden. The poll indicated an “Only Trump” fraction of the Republican voters, as ten percent of the respondents preferred someone else if DeSantis was the nominee in 2024 compared to only five percent who wanted someone else if Trump was the nominee in 2024.

The poll was conducted on March 30 and April 2 and 3, with 971 likely voters in the United States. The poll saw a three percent margin of error and a 95 percent confidence level.

Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.

ABC’s Hostin: Trump Will Likely Serve Time in Jail for Manhattan Case

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ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that former President Donald Trump will likely serve time in prison as a result of the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Hostin said, “What I am also kind of offended by is people are saying, ‘But they are only misdemeanors’. There are  34 of them and a year in prison is what a misdemeanor gets you.”

She continued, “People are always complaining about crime in this city, especially petty larceny, like shoplifting, that’s a misdemeanor. We go after people for possession of controlled substances. You got little marijuana in your pocket, you got a little cocaine in your pocket, they put you in jail for that.”

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said, “Yesterday was a bad day for Donald Trump, the first indicted former president. I want to see this guy held accountable. This case is not taking Donald Trump down.”

Hostin asked, “How do you know that?”

Griffin said, “The felony charges, the max sentence is four years but this is a first time offender, it’s a non-violent crime, it is a Class E felony. Every legal expert I talked to has said most likely a fine and probation.”

Hostin said, “I’ll tell you why you’re wrong as this legal expert. I will tell you why you’re wrong.”

Griffin said, “He’s not going to jail over this. He’s not going to jail over this.”

Hostin said, “I will tell you why you are wrong. Prosecutors are not only in the business of prosecuting crimes, we’re in the business of sending out a message. If you let the president of the United States be found guilty of one to 34 counts, even if they are misdemeanors, he gets to go home scot-free, you’re sending a message to the country.”

Griffin said, “It’s not scot-free. We’re just saying it’s going to be a fine and probation. It won’t be serving time necessarily.”

Hostin said, “That’s not going to happen.”

Griffin said, “I’m not suggesting he didn’t do it. I’m saying anyone who thinks he will serve jail time, that is the most extreme sentence.”

Hostin said, “I don’t agree with that.”

Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN

The indictment of Donald Trump: A politically bankrupt diversion

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Former President Donald Trump departs Trump Tower, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in New York, on his way to the New York attorney general's office for a deposition in a civil investigation. [AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson]

Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in on Tuesday for arraignment on indictments handed down by a New York grand jury, reportedly in connection to payouts made on Trump’s behalf to a former porn star. The first-ever charges against a former president of the United States mark a new stage in the degradation of American politics.

There are no issues of democratic import in the indictment. Rather, the Democratic Party has chosen to focus on the flimsiest and most inconsequential matter possible. Trump is being accused of falsifying the nature of payments to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, made in 2016 before he was president, which were channeled through Trump’s longtime “fixer”-turned-government witness, Michael Cohen.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is reportedly planning on leveraging this charge, which is a misdemeanor that has exceeded the statute of limitations, into a felony by arguing that the business records were falsified to cover up an illegal donation to Trump’s campaign, namely the money from Cohen to pay off Daniels.

The tenuous and convoluted character of the charges has promoted concern within sections of the Democratic Party itself. The Washington Post in its editorial on Friday worried that “of the long list of alleged violations, the likely charges on which a grand jury in New York state voted to indict [Trump] are perhaps the least compelling.”

The Democrats’ decision to focus on this issue will serve to strengthen the fascistic wing of the Republican Party and even provide Trump with the opportunity to posture as a martyr. Trump is already denouncing the “political witch-hunt,” while Republicans are rallying around the former president. Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, whom the Democrats have upheld as a paragon of democracy, denounced the indictment as an “outrage.”

The indictment has nothing to do with the many grave crimes of which Trump is clearly guilty—above all, the January 6, 2021 fascistic insurrection that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 elections and establish a presidential dictatorship. The Post notes that “a failed prosecution over the hush-money payment could put” all other investigations into Trump’s actions “in jeopardy.”

Indeed, this may be the intention on the part of a section of the Democratic Party establishment. It would certainly conform with the stated aim of the Biden administration to “look forward” rather than backward, as part of Biden’s efforts to establish a bipartisan consensus for the escalation of the US-NATO war against Russia and preparations for war against China.

During Trump’s presidency, the entire approach of the Democratic Party was a combination of subservience and complicity. Its opposition to Trump was centered almost entirely on matters of foreign policy, in particular on Ukraine and the demand for a more aggressive policy against Russia—the focus of the first impeachment of Trump in 2019.

The Democrats responded to the January 6 coup with fecklessness and cover-up. After the coup failed, not through any action on their part, the immediate response of the Biden administration was to exculpate the Republican Party and its leaders and to ignore entirely the role of sections of the military and police in the coup.

The second impeachment of Trump in February 2021, based on the charge of incitement of insurrection, was a pro forma affair held over four days, with the Democrats not even bothering to call witnesses. The various congressional hearings into the fascistic coup, whatever facts and details they have revealed, have gone nowhere. In the end, only minor bit players have been prosecuted.

The Democrats turned the focus first on “state secrets,” in relation to allegations that Trump took classified documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago resort, and now on charges of hush money paid out to suppress a sex scandal. These issues appeal to two of the main components of the base of the Democratic Party: the military-intelligence-state apparatus and affluent layers of the middle class that are relentlessly focused on issues of racial and gender identity.

The indictment of Trump for the payout to Daniels has nothing to do with educating the population about the real dangers posed by the fascistic transformation of the Republican Party. Rather, it diverts attention from issues of deadly seriousness into a political circus. The “national debate” is now to be focused, with the assistance of the media, on whether or not Trump paid off an actress to cover up an affair.

While a trial of Trump on this basis may energize the upper-middle class base of the Democratic Party, the working class will view it with indifference. The Republicans will exploit the obvious hypocrisy on such matters by the Democrats, whose own leaders, including Clinton, were involved in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

While the Democrats have sought to maintain “bipartisan” unity on the basis of war, behind the indictment are ongoing and intense divisions within the ruling class, accelerated by a series of crises facing American capitalism—economic, geopolitical and internal.

The American presidency has been wracked by crisis for more than half a century, extending back at least to the assassination of John F. Kennedy 60 years ago. As the White House is the cockpit of the capitalist national security state and imperialist war planning, it has been the focal point of conspiracies against democratic rights (i.e., the Watergate crisis of 1972-74 and the Iran-Contra scandal of 1986-87) and bitter conflicts within the ruling class itself. The Republicans made use of a sex scandal in their failed attempt to remove Clinton from the White House.

Both the Watergate crisis and the Iran-Contra scandal were followed by extensive public hearings and even the criminal indictments of high-ranking figures in the Nixon and Reagan administrations, even though the presidents were exempted from the legal consequences of their crimes. There has been no comparable investigation into the January 6 coup, which was at a far higher level of criminality than Nixon’s involvement in the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters and Reagan’s sanctioning of the violation of a law passed by Congress.

Issues raised in the January 6 coup have the potential to expose not only the criminality of Trump but the extent of a far broader anti-democratic conspiracy, which reached into the highest echelons of the military. The Democrats have been opposed to this because they are far more fearful of the development of popular opposition from below than the conspiracies of fascists that dominate the Republican Party.

The working class should not be misled by this politically bankrupt diversion from the central issues of war, social inequality and the growth of political reaction. Regardless of the outcome of the indictment, the fascistic conspiracies will continue.

The antidote to the filth and rot of the entire political system is the development of the class struggle, which is emerging powerfully in the United States and throughout the world. The Biden administration, wracked by crisis, leans on the Republicans for support in the prosecution of war abroad and the suppression of the class struggle at home.

The Socialist Equality Party opposes the fascistic policies of Trump and the Republican Party on the basis of the independent organization of the working class, in opposition to both the Democrats and the Republicans, and the fight for a socialist alternative to capitalism.



Alvin Bragg, Soros-Linked District Attorney Behind Trump Charges, Builds Record Refusing to Prosecute Felonies

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New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), the prosecutor behind charges against former President Donald Trump, has built a record of dropping felony charges, decreasing felony convictions, downgrading felonies to mere misdemeanors, and not bothering to request bail for suspects accused of felonies.

Bragg has only been in office since the beginning of 2022 — running on a promise to not prosecute suspects for marijuana misdemeanors, turnstile jumping, trespassing, driving with a suspended license, prostitution, resisting arrest for non-criminal offenses, and obstructing the work of the New York City Police Department (NYPD).

Though the establishment media has sought to distance Bragg from billionaire George Soros, the far-left prosecutor enjoyed major support from the Color of Change PAC in his 2021 bid. Soros gave the PAC some $1 million at the time and Soros’s relatives donated directly to Bragg.

In his short tenure as District Attorney of Manhattan, Bragg has helped weigh the city’s justice system overwhelmingly toward suspects over victims and law enforcement.

Downgrading Felony Charges

Data published last year revealed that Bragg’s office downgraded the majority, 52 percent, of felony cases to misdemeanors ensuring that suspects faced minor charges despite initially being accused of felonious crimes.

For comparison, just 39 percent of felony cases in Manhattan were downgraded to misdemeanors in 2019. Even as former District Attorney Cyrus Vance (D) advanced a far-left agenda, the number of felony cases downgraded to misdemeanors never exceeded 40 percent under his watch.

The skyrocketing number of felony charges downgraded to misdemeanors is in line with Bragg’s campaign promises.

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Immediately after taking office, Bragg sent a memo to Manhattan District Attorney staff urging them to downgrade felony charges like armed robberies to misdemeanor petty larceny so that suspects will not spend more than a year in prison if convicted.

In one example from June 2022, Bragg offered a sweetheart deal to Marcus Wright who was initially charged with grand larceny after robbing almost $1,400 worth of merchandise from a boutique in downtown Manhattan.

Wright, who had 36 arrests on his criminal record at the time, was allowed to plead down to misdemeanor petty larceny and subsequently freed from police custody. Less than a month later, Wright was arrested for randomly punching a woman in the face. For the assault, Wright was freed without bail thanks to New York state’s bail reform law which Bragg supports.

Declining to Prosecute Felonies

In 2022, Bragg’s office refused to prosecute more than 1,100 felony cases in Manhattan.

This represents a 35 percent increase in felony cases that the District Attorney’s office has declined to prosecute compared to 2019 when prosecutors declined to prosecute fewer than 830 felony cases.

Even in felony cases where Bragg’s office did prosecute suspects, only about half were convicted and just 1,210 suspects convicted received a prison sentence.

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In comparison, in 2019, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office saw suspects convicted 68 percent of the time in felony cases with nearly 1,700 receiving a prison sentence. This means that under Bragg, felony convictions are down almost 30 percent and convicted felons going to prison were down 34 percent.

Bragg’s office has also slashed the conviction rate for suspects accused of misdemeanors. Last year, only 29 percent of suspects charged with misdemeanors were convicted compared to 53 percent in 2019 — an almost 60 percent drop.

Likewise, just 522 suspects convicted of misdemeanors were sentenced to prison as opposed to more than 2,400 sentenced to prison time after a misdemeanor conviction in 2019.

Springing Suspects from Jail 

Bragg has relied on New York state’s bail reform law to spring suspects from jail without them ever having to pay bail.

As part of Bragg’s agenda, he asked his office to only seek pre-trial detention and prison sentences for crimes like homicide, public corruption, sex crimes, domestic violence felonies, or causing physical harm using a deadly weapon.

The result has been a dramatic increase in suspects getting released from jail almost immediately after allegedly committing felonies.

In 2022, for instance, Bragg’s office requested bail for felony suspects in only 49 percent of cases. Compare that to three years prior when bail was requested in 69 percent of felony cases.
Last July, Bragg defended his decision to spring from jail without bail a 15-year-old suspect accused of violently attacking an NYPD officer. The officer was dragged, put in a chokehold, and repeatedly punched, all caught on camera, by the teenage boy.

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Bragg, in November 2022, took extensive measures to throw out convictions for cases linked to NYPD misconduct. The move saw nearly 200 convictions from 2001 to 2016 thrown out with some suspects getting sprung from prison as a result.

Thanks to the state’s bail reform law, those charged with misdemeanors are released from jail in the majority of circumstances.

Also last year, Bragg’s office charged two Mexican drug cartel smugglers with misdemeanors after they were found with $1.2 million worth of crystal meth. The charges meant that both suspects were freed from jail without bail.

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

Report: Donald Trump Hires Top White-Collar Criminal Defense Lawyer Todd Blanche

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Former President Donald Trump has hired top white-collar criminal defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor, Todd Blanche, as his lead counsel to defend him against the district attorney of New York Alvin Bragg’s criminal indictment, according to a report.

Politico‘s Erica Orden reported that Blanche is resigning as a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft after being asked by Trump to represent him, according to an email. The law firm is New York City’s oldest and one of its most elite.

“I have been asked to represent Trump in the recently charged DA case, and after much thought/consideration, I have decided it is the best thing for me to do and an opportunity I should not pass up,” the email reportedly said.

“Obviously, doing this as a partner at Cadwalader was not an option, so I have had to make the difficult choice to leave the firm,” he reportedly wrote.

Trump is also represented by attorneys Susan Necheles and Joe Tacopina, the latter of whom has defended Trump on the airwaves in recent days.

Blanche is a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office and has previously represented Trump associate Paul Manafort.

Blanche successfully got charges dropped that were brought by the Manhattan district attorney’s office against Manafort for mortgage fraud and other crimes, Politico noted.

News of the hire came as Trump headed to New York City for an arraignment on Tuesday. He is expected to surrender to the district attorney’s office, have a mug shot taken, be fingerprinted, and then formally charged.

He is then expected to fly back to his Mar-a-Lago estate and hold remarks in the evening in his first scheduled public address responding to the indictment.

While charges are not yet unsealed, they are expected to involve a so-called hush-money payment to adult actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 concerning an alleged affair in 2006.

Federal prosecutors and authorities have declined to pursue any charges related to the payment, but Bragg—a Democrat-elected politician—has decided to pursue charges, which are widely expected to be a state crime of falsifying business records to hide an alleged federal campaign violation.

Legal analysts on the right and left, as well as the Washington Post editorial board, have cast doubt on whether Bragg can cobble a case together based on those charges.

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Rep. Comer: 'We'll Have More to Report Very Soon'; The Bank Records Are Coming In'

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Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) chairs the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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(CNSNews.com) - "I don't think anyone believes that Donald Trump would be in Manhattan District Court right now, were he not a candidate for president of the United States," Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, told "Mornings With Maria" on Monday morning.

Comer also questioned why the Department of Justice hasn't done anything about the Biden family "shenanigans" involving U.S. adversaries, including China -- a reference to the Biden family's alleged influence-peddling scheme.

Just wait, Comer promised:

"Stay tuned, Maria, we'll have more to report very soon," Comer said, noting that the Oversight Committee is "working with several banks right now," including Cathay Bank, to get records of payments made to the Biden family.

"The bank records are coming in," Comer said.

"I think something else that's very important to note, we're in communication with four former Biden family business associates, if you want to call it that. They're cooperating with our investigation. And I will tell you, it's very concerning.

"I think that everyone realizes that with our success in getting bank records, there's nothing to hide. There's nowhere to hide They're going to have to explain what all these different LLCs were, and why the banks had all those bank violations suggesting that they were laundering money from China, through all these different LLCs.

"So I think that we're making significant progress. I know the American people that are keeping up with this wish that we were going faster, but I don't think anyone thought we would ever have bank records from multiple banks. I don't think anyone thought treasury would let us have those bank violations.

“We have both now, and the records we have are leading to us getting more bank records from more banks. So this is a concerning trend.

“And again, Maria, I close with this: why hasn't the Department of Justice done anything about shenanigans that the Biden family's been doing with adversaries yet but yet Donald Trump's in court over a campaign -- a misdemeanor campaign finance violation? It makes no sense."

Maria Bartiromo asked Comer about an art show opening this week at the Georges Bergès Gallery in New York, featuring works by Hunter Biden alongside more famous abstract painters

Bartiromo asked Comer if he knows who is buying Biden's paintings:

"No, we don't," Comer said. "And I think that the most important question is, who bought that first artwork?"

In October 2021, a White House spokesman said the buyers of Hunter Biden's first artworks to be sold at the Bergès Gallery would remain anonymous.

"They may have some legitimate buyers, who knows, for this newest art show," Comer said on Monday, "but what we're concerned about is that very first sale of art. We know that the Georges Bergès art gallery owner bragged about being the new link to Chinese buyers of American art, so you know there's some suspicion here.

"And the fact that the White House won't disclose who bought that art at those (exorbitant) prices says a lot about who really bought the art." 

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