'Let’s Clear That Issue Up Right Now': Arkansas Judge Orders Hunter Biden to Court To Answer Laptop Questions
Judge demands Hunter Biden make public appearance in custody hearing
An Arkansas judge ordered Hunter Biden on Monday to personally show up in court in May to address questions about his laptop, including whether financial records on it belong to him.
Circuit Court judge Holly Meyer gave the order as part of Hunter Biden’s drawn-out custody battle with Lunden Alexis Roberts over their four-year-old daughter. It would be his first public appearance in the case—the Bidens have steadfastly refused to acknowledge the child’s existence, and Hunter denied that he was the father until a court-ordered DNA test proved otherwise.
"I want both of your clients at every hearing that I conduct," Meyer told the attorneys for Biden and Roberts during a virtual hearing on Monday. "I will no longer allow us to dismiss clients from these hearings, because it is interfering with the progress of this litigation which is taking way too long to get over simple points."
Meyer issued the order after Biden's attorney was unable to answer whether Biden owned the abandoned laptop that became a subject of controversy during the 2020 election. Financial records discovered on the laptop have become an issue in the custody dispute.
Hunter Biden's presence at the Arkansas court could create a political headache for the White House and the Biden family. He has reportedly gone to great lengths to avoid getting served with legal papers from Roberts.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Brent Langdon, asked the judge on Monday to block an expert witness from discussing the financial records on the laptop, saying "there has never been an acknowledgment" from Biden that the laptop belongs to him.
"Well let’s clear that issue up right now," said Meyer. "Is it your client’s laptop or not?"
Langdon said it was "not my client’s laptop as far as I know. He’s never accepted that that’s his laptop."
The judge responded that Biden and Roberts needed to show up to all future court dates so questions like this could be addressed. The next hearing will take place on May 1.
At the May hearing, the judge is expected to rule on outstanding motions, including a name change request from Roberts asking to change their daughter’s last name to "Biden." Biden has demanded that the court block the name change, claiming the move would be damaging to the child due to the "scorn in the community for the Biden name."
Family law attorney Peter M. Walzer told the Washington Free Beacon that Biden’s objection to the name change was "very uncommon" and unlikely to succeed in court.
"I’ve never seen a litigation where a father didn’t want the [child] to take his name," said Walzer. "This is pretty unique."
Walzer said Biden’s motion sounded like it was motivated by personal interest rather than concern for the child’s well-being.
"He doesn’t want the child to have his name because it’s embarrassing to him, [but he] couches his legal briefing in terms of the child’s interest," said Walzer. "From his paper’s it’s ‘all about me.’"
"From his papers, it’s ‘all about me.’"
Marshall H. Moore, an Arkansas-based custody attorney with Moore, Giles and Matteson, agreed.
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Ex-Spy Who Discredited Hunter Biden's Emails Used WaPo Column to Boost Joe Biden
Michael Morell pushed lies about Trump days before organizing effort to smear Hunter's laptop as 'disinformation'
The former spy who pushed the false notion that Russia was behind the release of Hunter Biden’s emails at the behest of President Joe Biden’s adviser also used his perch at the Washington Post to help the Democrat’s presidential campaign.
As a contributing columnist for the Post, former CIA deputy director Michael Morell published numerous articles before the election attacking former president Donald Trump and pushing various claims about Russian disinformation. Morell called on Trump’s intelligence chief, John Ratcliffe, to resign in his final Post column on Oct. 12, 2020, a week before he concocted the Hunter letter. In an Oct. 11 piece, Morell said Trump’s financial debt raises national security concerns. In August 2020, Morell made the disputed claim that "the Russians infiltrated Trump’s 2016 campaign."
Morell was carrying water for the Biden campaign behind the scenes, too. The former intel official admitted in a recent congressional interview that he was behind an Oct. 19, 2020, letter that cast the release of Hunter Biden’s laptop days earlier as a probable Russian disinformation campaign. Morell said he organized the letter, which was signed by 50 other former intelligence officials, after a conversation with Biden adviser Tony Blinken, now the secretary of state. Morell told lawmakers he undertook the initiative to help Biden "win the election."
The Post has penalized columnists for campaign connections more tenuous than Morell’s. In 2011, conservative columnist George Will came under scrutiny after his wife began advising Rick Perry’s presidential campaign. The Post’s ombudsman found that Will did not use his column to improperly boost his wife’s client, but said the columnist should have disclosed his wife’s work. The ombudsman wrote that "readers need to be able to judge for themselves if any conflict of interest could bias a journalist, even an opinion columnist."
"A cynic would say none of this is surprising," Tim Graham, the Media Research Center’s director of media analysis, said of Morell and the Post. He noted that the Post describes Morell’s CIA service in the George W. Bush administration to make Morell look bipartisan. "It's that ‘career official’ spin that helps them present people like Morell as less partisan."
A spokesman for the Post noted Morell’s final column for the paper was Oct. 12, 2020, several days before he orchestrated the Hunter Biden letter, but did not provide additional comment. Morell had contact with Blinken before he published his final columns. He interviewed Blinken on his podcast on Sept. 22, 2020, and told lawmakers that he had a "fairly close" relationship with the Biden aide.
Morell, who was at one point under consideration for Biden’s CIA chief, said he got the idea to write the Hunter Biden letter after an email or phone call with Blinken on Oct. 17, 2020, three days after the New York Post published its first story on emails from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop. Morell said that call "triggered" him to write a letter that portrayed the laptop release as a Russian ruse. That theory has largely been discredited. Biden abandoned his laptop at a computer shop in April 2019. The shop owner provided it to the FBI, Trump allies, and journalists.
According to Morell, Blinken sent him a USA Today article that said the FBI was investigating whether the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign. Morell said he then contacted former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos before starting the letter, according to a transcript reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Morell testified that the Biden campaign helped strategize the release of the letter. The retired spymaster told an aide to former CIA director John Brennan, another signatory, that the campaign wanted the letter to go to a Washington Post reporter. It eventually appeared at Politico, which published the letter under the headline, "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say."
Biden cited the letter during a debate with Trump on Oct. 22, 2020, but made no mention of his campaign’s hidden hand. Morell said Biden aide Steve Ricchetti, who now serves in the White House, thanked him for the letter after the first debate.
Morell, who did not respond to multiple requests for comment, leaned on a deep network of former spies to gather signatures for the letter. Many of those were from his consulting firm, Beacon Global Strategies, including former CIA director Leon Panetta, former CIA official Jeremy Bash, and former Defense Department official Mike Vickers.
Morell wrote some of his Post columns with signatories to the letter, including Vickers and former CIA officer David Priess. An Oct. 11, 2020, column with Priess asserted that Trump’s financial debt posed a national security risk. His Oct. 12, 2020, article with Vickers asserted that Trump intelligence director John Ratcliffe should resign. Democrats would later assail Ratcliffe after he disputed Biden campaign claims that Russia was involved in the release of Hunter’s emails.
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HOW MUCH IN TAXES DID JOE PAY ON THE 150 FOREIGN WIRE TRANSFERS OF DIRTY MONEY???
Biden says anyone ‘earning less than $400,000’ won’t see a tax increase ‘by one penny’ — he lied
Peter Schweizer: Americans Have Gone to Jail for Doing Far Less Than What Hunter Biden Has Done
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/08/protecting-biden-crime-family-gamer.html
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation and the Obama book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/08/protecting-biden-crime-family-gamer.html
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation and the Obama book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption.
IRS Whistleblower: Merrick Garland Denied Naming Special Counsel in Hunter Tax Probe
First Son Hunter Biden Ramps Up Legal Attacks on Critics
Hunter Biden’s legal team is going on the offensive after a week of damaging revelations about the federal investigation into the troubled first son.
Biden’s legal team is calling on the Treasury Department to investigate a leak of his bank records that show alleged payments to Russian prostitutes and millions of dollars in suspicious foreign bank wires. They are also seeking an ethics review of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R., Ga.) for her "attacks" on the Biden family.
Hunter Biden’s latest attack on critics comes
amid renewed scrutiny of a federal
investigation into his taxes. Last week, Hunter
Biden lawyer Chris Clark accused an IRS
whistleblower of breaking the law by offering to
provide Congress with information about the
Justice Department’s investigation of Hunter
Biden’s tax dealings. The IRS agent claims the
Biden Justice Department has gone easy on
Hunter for political reasons. The agent has
already filed complaints with the Treasury
Department inspector general and Justice
Department inspector general, his lawyers
said.
Abbe Lowell, another Biden lawyer, alleges in a letter to the Treasury Department inspector general that J.P. Morgan, where Hunter Biden banked, illegally leaked "suspicious activity reports" to a group that has investigated the first family’s business dealings. The reports show that J.P. Morgan flagged as suspicious more than $2.4 million in foreign wire transfers to Biden and his business partners and other payments that Biden made to an escort service linked to Russia. The bank said the reports were filed because Biden is a "politically exposed person" accused of "possible political corruption."
Lowell also urged the House Ethics Committee to investigate Greene for "unmoored verbal abuses and ad hominem attacks" against Hunter Biden, citing the GOP firebrand’s social media posts about his client’s predilection for prostitutes.
In March, Hunter Biden called on the Justice Department to investigate the handling of his infamous laptop, which reveals details about his business deals and struggles with drug addiction. Biden accused Trump allies and a computer shop owner who worked on the laptop of violating his privacy by providing his emails to reporters.
In the latest letter, Lowell calls on the Treasury Department inspector general to investigate Garrett Ziegler, whose nonprofit group has published the contents of Biden’s emails and five J.P. Morgan suspicious activity reports. Lowell alleges that Ziegler engaged in an illegal conspiracy with a J.P. Morgan banker to release Biden’s bank records.
"Just another bait and switch attempt by Hunter Biden," said Ziegler’s nonprofit, Marco Polo. The organization said the Bidens are "try[ing] to imprison us" for publishing information damaging to the first family.
Lowell also attacked a former Hunter Biden associate who has released evidence that President Joe Biden was aware of his son’s Chinese business dealings. Lowell asserted that Tony Bobulinski has "become an antagonist to the Biden family" and has engaged in "political warfare against the President."
Bobulinski worked with Hunter Biden on a deal with CEFC China Energy. He has released text messages showing that he met with Hunter and Joe Biden in 2017 to discuss the Chinese deal. That contradicts the president’s claim that he had nothing to do with his son’s business activities.
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