Obama-era staffer claims Joe Biden 'masterminded' Hunter's scandal
UPenn Raked in Over $1 Billion in Foreign Funding Since Opening Biden Think Tank
Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (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).
BRIAN C JOONDEPH
It's currently unknown whether he met with foul play or voluntarily dropped out of sight. However, what is well established is that since that fateful interview with the FBI in March 2019, Luft has made powerful enemies in both Chinese and American intelligence and, of course, in the Biden syndicate.
Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (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).
BRIAN C JOONDEPH
Old Joe Biden Stands With Hunter: ‘My Son Has Done Nothing Wrong’
Evidence? What evidence?
After claiming that he was going to be holding a “major press conference,” Old Joe Biden sat down for a scripted, carefully filmed, heavily edited softball interview with MSNBC sycophant Stephanie Ruhle on Friday, in which he addressed the allegations against his notorious son Hunter for the very first time. As you’d expect, Old Joe was no more disposed to admit any wrongdoing than he ever is, so unwary viewers would come away from the MSNBC interview with the idea that Hunter is a choirboy, as pure as the driven snow and doted on by his proud father as he goes around helping little old ladies across the street.
Federal prosecutors are considering charging Hunter with tax and firearm offenses, and there are numerous other, more serious things for which he could be charged, but Proud Papa was nevertheless adamant: “My son has done nothing wrong,” Old Joe insisted. “I trust him. I have faith in him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.” Gee, that’s touching, but it’s also even more separated from reality than the rest of the Biden “presidency.” It’s easier to accept that Old Joe himself is competent and coherent and that Rachel Levine is a woman than it is to buy the idea that Hunter Biden is an upstanding individual, as honest as the day is long.
Whatever Hunter Biden may end up being charged with or even if he is charged with nothing at all there is a massive “appearance of impropriety,” as Bill Clinton, a man who knows all about impropriety, used to call it. Back in Sept. 2020, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on Finance issued a report noting that while his father was vice president, Hunter Biden was “paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch” for his presence on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company.
Hunter’s presence on this board caused a great many problems. The report notes that “the Obama administration knew that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board was problematic and did interfere in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine.” What’s more, “in early 2015 the former Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden’s office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board. Kent’s concerns went unaddressed, and in September 2016, he emphasized in an email to his colleagues, ‘Furthermore, the presence of Hunter Biden on the Burisma board was very awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anticorruption agenda in Ukraine.’” It was more than just awkward. It was inexcusable, and it was clear evidence of corruption.
No one seems particularly concerned about Hunter’s presence on Burisma’s board now, yet it is a clear red flag. Hunter Biden had no educational background or experience in the natural gas industry. What’s more, he was a dissolute crack addict who consorted with prostitutes. If he had not been the son of the vice president of the United States, does anyone really believe that Burisma would have offered him this lucrative job? Hunter’s very presence on Burisma’s board is prima facie evidence of influence-peddling, as is his new career as an artist.
To be a struggling artist is a cultural cliché going back to Vincent Van Gogh shivering in a garret while producing world-historical masterpieces that the public wouldn’t come to appreciate until after his tragic death. Artist Hunter, however, has paid no such dues. Even though he took up painting late in life and you can find more compelling artworks on sale for a hundred bucks at the local frame store, Hunter’s paintings have commanded eye-watering prices up to $500,000, although the latest batch was positively bargain-basement stuff, going for only $85,000.
How many real artists are there out there who don’t happen to be the son of the president and who are struggling to get any attention for their artwork? How many competent artists are there on the scene today who would be grateful to be paid a tenth of what Hunter Biden gets for a painting? What are the people who buy these paintings getting? Why were the paintings in Hunter’s first exhibit so sharply divergent in style from those in his second exhibit (did he switch ghost painters)?
“My son has done nothing wrong,” says Old Joe, but it sure looks otherwise. And I haven’t even mentioned the laptop, the child support imbroglio, and all the rest. Will we ever know the full extent of the corruption of the Biden crime family?
After claiming that he was going to be holding a “major press conference,” Old Joe Biden sat down for a scripted, carefully filmed, heavily edited softball interview with MSNBC sycophant Stephanie Ruhle on Friday, in which he addressed the allegations against his notorious son Hunter for the very first time. As you’d expect, Old Joe was no more disposed to admit any wrongdoing than he ever is, so unwary viewers would come away from the MSNBC interview with the idea that Hunter is a choirboy, as pure as the driven snow and doted on by his proud father as he goes around helping little old ladies across the street.
Federal prosecutors are considering charging Hunter with tax and firearm offenses, and there are numerous other, more serious things for which he could be charged, but Proud Papa was nevertheless adamant: “My son has done nothing wrong,” Old Joe insisted. “I trust him. I have faith in him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.” Gee, that’s touching, but it’s also even more separated from reality than the rest of the Biden “presidency.” It’s easier to accept that Old Joe himself is competent and coherent and that Rachel Levine is a woman than it is to buy the idea that Hunter Biden is an upstanding individual, as honest as the day is long.
Whatever Hunter Biden may end up being charged with or even if he is charged with nothing at all there is a massive “appearance of impropriety,” as Bill Clinton, a man who knows all about impropriety, used to call it. Back in Sept. 2020, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on Finance issued a report noting that while his father was vice president, Hunter Biden was “paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch” for his presence on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company.
Hunter’s presence on this board caused a great many problems. The report notes that “the Obama administration knew that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board was problematic and did interfere in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine.” What’s more, “in early 2015 the former Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden’s office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board. Kent’s concerns went unaddressed, and in September 2016, he emphasized in an email to his colleagues, ‘Furthermore, the presence of Hunter Biden on the Burisma board was very awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anticorruption agenda in Ukraine.’” It was more than just awkward. It was inexcusable, and it was clear evidence of corruption.
No one seems particularly concerned about Hunter’s presence on Burisma’s board now, yet it is a clear red flag. Hunter Biden had no educational background or experience in the natural gas industry. What’s more, he was a dissolute crack addict who consorted with prostitutes. If he had not been the son of the vice president of the United States, does anyone really believe that Burisma would have offered him this lucrative job? Hunter’s very presence on Burisma’s board is prima facie evidence of influence-peddling, as is his new career as an artist.
To be a struggling artist is a cultural cliché going back to Vincent Van Gogh shivering in a garret while producing world-historical masterpieces that the public wouldn’t come to appreciate until after his tragic death. Artist Hunter, however, has paid no such dues. Even though he took up painting late in life and you can find more compelling artworks on sale for a hundred bucks at the local frame store, Hunter’s paintings have commanded eye-watering prices up to $500,000, although the latest batch was positively bargain-basement stuff, going for only $85,000.
How many real artists are there out there who don’t happen to be the son of the president and who are struggling to get any attention for their artwork? How many competent artists are there on the scene today who would be grateful to be paid a tenth of what Hunter Biden gets for a painting? What are the people who buy these paintings getting? Why were the paintings in Hunter’s first exhibit so sharply divergent in style from those in his second exhibit (did he switch ghost painters)?
“My son has done nothing wrong,” says Old Joe, but it sure looks otherwise. And I haven’t even mentioned the laptop, the child support imbroglio, and all the rest. Will we ever know the full extent of the corruption of the Biden crime family?
Robert Spencer
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Durham Report’s Cautionary Tale About Abuse of Power
A glimpse inside the cover-up of the Biden family influence peddling business.
[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Joseph Klein’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Special Counsel John Durham released his detailed final report following a four-year probe of the FBI’s mishandling of its investigation into former President Donald Trump’s and his 2016 presidential campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. He concluded that the FBI rushed ahead with this investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, based on “seriously flawed information” that showed up in the infamous Steele Dossier. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign funded the Steele Dossier as part of its scheme to invent ties between Trump and Russia. Driven by political bias against Mr. Trump, the FBI’s senior echelon proceeded with its investigation despite the lack of any corroborating information.
The report criticized senior FBI personnel for displaying “a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information that they received, especially information received from politically affiliated persons and entities.” The report noted their “significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump’s political opponents.”
The ex-FBI officials responsible for the bogus FBI investigation, together with the Democrat politicians and their allies in the mainstream media who perpetuated the Russia hoax lies, decided to shoot the messenger. Instead of eating humble pie and apologizing to all those whose lives were upended by their reckless actions, they attacked the Durham investigation as politically biased and characterized Mr. Durham’s findings as a “nothing-burger.”
Hillary Clinton, her accomplices in the campaign who used deceptive tactics to interfere in the 2016 election, and the senior ex-FBI officials who staged an attempted coup against the Trump administration escaped any punishment for their actions. However, that does not exonerate their gross abuses of the public trust.
The Durham report is a cautionary tale of how powerful people with malicious intent can operate to undermine America’s constitutional republic and manage to get away with it. As Daniel Greenfield noted in his May 17th FrontPage article entitled The Russiagate Players Got Rich and Escaped Consequences, “The lack of any meaningful consequences means that Russiagate will happen again.”
It is already happening, but this time it is happening to protect a president whom the deep state and mainstream media like rather than to destroy a president they hate.
Many of the same players in and out of government who are still part of what Mr. Greenfield called “the Washington D.C. network” have stepped in to cover up the Biden family’s pay-for-influence schemes.
The cover-up started in earnest with a public letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials that candidate Joe Biden used as a talking point during his presidential debate with Donald Trump. The letter was a crass attempt to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story published prior to the 2020 election by the New York Post as having “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The New York Post story, which has been proven to be entirely true, detailed how Hunter Biden used the position and influence of his father for personal gain.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has described the unseemly lead-up to the former intelligence officials’ public letter. The House committee reported that “former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell testified before the Committees that Secretary Blinken, then serving as a senior Biden campaign advisor, was the impetus of the public statement…Additionally, evidence suggests that senior Biden campaign officials, including now Secretary of State Antony Blinken, now Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates, and now Counselor to the President Steve Ricchetti, took active measures to discredit the allegations about Hunter Biden by exploiting the national security credentials of former intelligence officials and coordinated efforts to disseminate the statement with members of the media.”
Moreover, the House committee referenced testimony from a former CIA official that an employee of the CIA at the time “may have helped in the effort to solicit signatures for the statement.”
With the encouragement of FBI officials, Big Tech suppressed the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story. Mainstream media also did its part to suppress or discredit the story as Russian disinformation. They played defense for the Biden campaign. And they continue to protect President Biden from the growing evidence of the Biden family’s sprawling pay-for-influence business enterprise, which the president’s son Hunter spearheaded.
Months after the 2020 election, the left-wing New York Times and Washington Post finally acknowledged that the Hunter laptop and its contents were real. But then they switched gears and downplayed the significance of the information that the laptop has revealed.
Meanwhile, the federal law enforcement investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business dealings, which goes back to 2018, has slowed to a crawl. No charges have yet been filed. Compare this with how the Department of Justice took just a few months to indict House Republican Representative George Santos for multiple felonies.
An IRS special agent has come forward recently to provide information on why the Hunter laptop investigation has taken so long. This IRS special agent supervised the Hunter Biden tax-related investigation at the IRS since early 2020.
According to the attorney for the IRS special agent who wrote a letter to members of Congress seeking whistleblower protection for his client, the IRS special agent wants to disclose “examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected.” The “subject” is Hunter Biden.
The deep state did not take long to retaliate for the IRS special agent’s willingness to share his concerns with Congress that a cover-up was underway at his agency. The IRS removed this agent and his entire investigative team from the probe, reportedly at the direction of the Department of Justice.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is providing some checks and balances with its investigation into the Biden family influence peddling business enterprise. It has presented detailed evidence into how various foreign entities have funneled money into shell corporations that were set up as vehicles to distribute chunks of these funds to multiple Biden family accounts. Some of these distributions occurred during Joe Biden’s vice presidency. These foreign entities included companies in Communist China.
Democrat politicians and their allies in the mainstream media have used the same denialist playbook as they have done with the Durham report. They have vilified or simply dismissed the House Oversight Committee’s findings. Their party line is that Republicans are conducting a politically motivated vendetta against President Biden’s family to embarrass the president.
Moreover, Democrats and the media outlets carrying President Biden’s water say that congressional Republicans have not produced any evidence that Joe Biden himself has benefited financially from any of his family’s business dealings.
The FBI is stonewalling the House Oversight Committee’s investigation. It has refused to turn over a subpoenaed unclassified FBI generated form that a whistleblower alleged could implicate then-Vice President Joe Biden in a bribery scheme with a foreign national.
“It’s clear from the FBI’s response that the unclassified record the Oversight Committee subpoenaed exists, but they are refusing to provide it to the Committee. We’ve asked the FBI to not only provide this record, but to also inform us what it did to investigate these allegations. The FBI has failed to do both,” said the committee’s chairman Rep. James Comer.
This document itself could lead to proof that Joe Biden was directly involved in a bribery scheme relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions. If it turns out that the FBI failed to follow up on the allegations of such a bribery scheme, the most plausible explanation is that its upper echelon has been engaging in a cover-up to protect the president.
In any case, there is ample evidence that President Biden lied when he said that he knows nothing about his son’s business dealings.
While then-Vice President Biden was the Obama administration’s point man in Ukraine and his son Hunter was serving on the Ukrainian company Burisma Holdings’ board for lucrative compensation, a Ukrainian prosecutor was investigating possible corruption at that company. Biden demanded during a trip to Ukraine in 2015 that this prosecutor be fired immediately, or the United States would withhold $1B in aid. “Well, son of a bitch. He got fired,” Biden boasted a few years later.
Hunter introduced his father to a Burisma board adviser less than a year before then-Vice President Biden issued his demand to Ukraine’s leadership to get rid of the prosecutor investigating Burisma. Previously the advisor had asked Hunter to use his “influence to convey a message / signal, etc. to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions.”
Hunter traveled with his father in 2013 to China where then-Vice President Biden was conducting official government business. During the same trip, his son was seeking money from Chinese investors for a private equity fund that Hunter was forming. Joe Biden managed to find time to meet with Hunter’s business partners during the trip.
In 2014, then-Vice President Biden “hosted a White House meeting with two Chinese energy executives with ties to his son Hunter,” according to White House visitor logs referenced by the New York Post.
And let us not forget about the e-mail sent to Hunter Biden on May 13, 2017, referring to a possible business deal with CEFC China Energy Co. The e-mail outlined a potential split of equity in a business venture to be formed with CEFC that included the words “10 held by H for the big guy?”
Tony Bobulinski, one of the recipients of this e-mail, has identified Joe Biden as the “big guy” who was presumably going to receive a 10% cut from the venture. “Bobulinski gave the FBI a five-hour interview” on October 23, 2020, the New York Post reported, “as well as the contents of his three cellphones containing encrypted messages between Hunter and Jim Biden [Joe Biden’s brother] and their business partners, emails, and financial documents detailing the Biden family’s influence-peddling operation in foreign countries during Joe’s vice presidency.”
As far as we know, there have been no FBI follow-up discussions with Mr. Bobulinski nor has he been called to testify to the grand jury investigating Hunter Biden.
Just a few days ago, Fox News reported that Chinese donors to the University of Pennsylvania, which houses Joe Biden’s think tank, included donors who “have ties to previous Hunter Biden business deals” and others “linked to the Chinese Communist Party.”
The Biden administration, congressional Democrats, and their allies in the mainstream media are doing everything they can to insulate President Biden from any accountability for misconduct as he seeks reelection in 2024. The many Americans who care about preserving the principles upon which the United States was founded must know the complete truth about President Biden’s knowledge of and involvement in his family’s pay-for-influence business before the 2024 election. Otherwise, if the cover-up continues, Joe Biden may be reelected under false pretenses.
[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Joseph Klein’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Special Counsel John Durham released his detailed final report following a four-year probe of the FBI’s mishandling of its investigation into former President Donald Trump’s and his 2016 presidential campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. He concluded that the FBI rushed ahead with this investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, based on “seriously flawed information” that showed up in the infamous Steele Dossier. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign funded the Steele Dossier as part of its scheme to invent ties between Trump and Russia. Driven by political bias against Mr. Trump, the FBI’s senior echelon proceeded with its investigation despite the lack of any corroborating information.
The report criticized senior FBI personnel for displaying “a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information that they received, especially information received from politically affiliated persons and entities.” The report noted their “significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump’s political opponents.”
The ex-FBI officials responsible for the bogus FBI investigation, together with the Democrat politicians and their allies in the mainstream media who perpetuated the Russia hoax lies, decided to shoot the messenger. Instead of eating humble pie and apologizing to all those whose lives were upended by their reckless actions, they attacked the Durham investigation as politically biased and characterized Mr. Durham’s findings as a “nothing-burger.”
Hillary Clinton, her accomplices in the campaign who used deceptive tactics to interfere in the 2016 election, and the senior ex-FBI officials who staged an attempted coup against the Trump administration escaped any punishment for their actions. However, that does not exonerate their gross abuses of the public trust.
The Durham report is a cautionary tale of how powerful people with malicious intent can operate to undermine America’s constitutional republic and manage to get away with it. As Daniel Greenfield noted in his May 17th FrontPage article entitled The Russiagate Players Got Rich and Escaped Consequences, “The lack of any meaningful consequences means that Russiagate will happen again.”
It is already happening, but this time it is happening to protect a president whom the deep state and mainstream media like rather than to destroy a president they hate.
Many of the same players in and out of government who are still part of what Mr. Greenfield called “the Washington D.C. network” have stepped in to cover up the Biden family’s pay-for-influence schemes.
The cover-up started in earnest with a public letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials that candidate Joe Biden used as a talking point during his presidential debate with Donald Trump. The letter was a crass attempt to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story published prior to the 2020 election by the New York Post as having “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The New York Post story, which has been proven to be entirely true, detailed how Hunter Biden used the position and influence of his father for personal gain.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has described the unseemly lead-up to the former intelligence officials’ public letter. The House committee reported that “former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell testified before the Committees that Secretary Blinken, then serving as a senior Biden campaign advisor, was the impetus of the public statement…Additionally, evidence suggests that senior Biden campaign officials, including now Secretary of State Antony Blinken, now Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates, and now Counselor to the President Steve Ricchetti, took active measures to discredit the allegations about Hunter Biden by exploiting the national security credentials of former intelligence officials and coordinated efforts to disseminate the statement with members of the media.”
Moreover, the House committee referenced testimony from a former CIA official that an employee of the CIA at the time “may have helped in the effort to solicit signatures for the statement.”
With the encouragement of FBI officials, Big Tech suppressed the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story. Mainstream media also did its part to suppress or discredit the story as Russian disinformation. They played defense for the Biden campaign. And they continue to protect President Biden from the growing evidence of the Biden family’s sprawling pay-for-influence business enterprise, which the president’s son Hunter spearheaded.
Months after the 2020 election, the left-wing New York Times and Washington Post finally acknowledged that the Hunter laptop and its contents were real. But then they switched gears and downplayed the significance of the information that the laptop has revealed.
Meanwhile, the federal law enforcement investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business dealings, which goes back to 2018, has slowed to a crawl. No charges have yet been filed. Compare this with how the Department of Justice took just a few months to indict House Republican Representative George Santos for multiple felonies.
An IRS special agent has come forward recently to provide information on why the Hunter laptop investigation has taken so long. This IRS special agent supervised the Hunter Biden tax-related investigation at the IRS since early 2020.
According to the attorney for the IRS special agent who wrote a letter to members of Congress seeking whistleblower protection for his client, the IRS special agent wants to disclose “examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected.” The “subject” is Hunter Biden.
The deep state did not take long to retaliate for the IRS special agent’s willingness to share his concerns with Congress that a cover-up was underway at his agency. The IRS removed this agent and his entire investigative team from the probe, reportedly at the direction of the Department of Justice.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is providing some checks and balances with its investigation into the Biden family influence peddling business enterprise. It has presented detailed evidence into how various foreign entities have funneled money into shell corporations that were set up as vehicles to distribute chunks of these funds to multiple Biden family accounts. Some of these distributions occurred during Joe Biden’s vice presidency. These foreign entities included companies in Communist China.
Democrat politicians and their allies in the mainstream media have used the same denialist playbook as they have done with the Durham report. They have vilified or simply dismissed the House Oversight Committee’s findings. Their party line is that Republicans are conducting a politically motivated vendetta against President Biden’s family to embarrass the president.
Moreover, Democrats and the media outlets carrying President Biden’s water say that congressional Republicans have not produced any evidence that Joe Biden himself has benefited financially from any of his family’s business dealings.
The FBI is stonewalling the House Oversight Committee’s investigation. It has refused to turn over a subpoenaed unclassified FBI generated form that a whistleblower alleged could implicate then-Vice President Joe Biden in a bribery scheme with a foreign national.
“It’s clear from the FBI’s response that the unclassified record the Oversight Committee subpoenaed exists, but they are refusing to provide it to the Committee. We’ve asked the FBI to not only provide this record, but to also inform us what it did to investigate these allegations. The FBI has failed to do both,” said the committee’s chairman Rep. James Comer.
This document itself could lead to proof that Joe Biden was directly involved in a bribery scheme relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions. If it turns out that the FBI failed to follow up on the allegations of such a bribery scheme, the most plausible explanation is that its upper echelon has been engaging in a cover-up to protect the president.
In any case, there is ample evidence that President Biden lied when he said that he knows nothing about his son’s business dealings.
While then-Vice President Biden was the Obama administration’s point man in Ukraine and his son Hunter was serving on the Ukrainian company Burisma Holdings’ board for lucrative compensation, a Ukrainian prosecutor was investigating possible corruption at that company. Biden demanded during a trip to Ukraine in 2015 that this prosecutor be fired immediately, or the United States would withhold $1B in aid. “Well, son of a bitch. He got fired,” Biden boasted a few years later.
Hunter introduced his father to a Burisma board adviser less than a year before then-Vice President Biden issued his demand to Ukraine’s leadership to get rid of the prosecutor investigating Burisma. Previously the advisor had asked Hunter to use his “influence to convey a message / signal, etc. to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions.”
Hunter traveled with his father in 2013 to China where then-Vice President Biden was conducting official government business. During the same trip, his son was seeking money from Chinese investors for a private equity fund that Hunter was forming. Joe Biden managed to find time to meet with Hunter’s business partners during the trip.
In 2014, then-Vice President Biden “hosted a White House meeting with two Chinese energy executives with ties to his son Hunter,” according to White House visitor logs referenced by the New York Post.
And let us not forget about the e-mail sent to Hunter Biden on May 13, 2017, referring to a possible business deal with CEFC China Energy Co. The e-mail outlined a potential split of equity in a business venture to be formed with CEFC that included the words “10 held by H for the big guy?”
Tony Bobulinski, one of the recipients of this e-mail, has identified Joe Biden as the “big guy” who was presumably going to receive a 10% cut from the venture. “Bobulinski gave the FBI a five-hour interview” on October 23, 2020, the New York Post reported, “as well as the contents of his three cellphones containing encrypted messages between Hunter and Jim Biden [Joe Biden’s brother] and their business partners, emails, and financial documents detailing the Biden family’s influence-peddling operation in foreign countries during Joe’s vice presidency.”
As far as we know, there have been no FBI follow-up discussions with Mr. Bobulinski nor has he been called to testify to the grand jury investigating Hunter Biden.
Just a few days ago, Fox News reported that Chinese donors to the University of Pennsylvania, which houses Joe Biden’s think tank, included donors who “have ties to previous Hunter Biden business deals” and others “linked to the Chinese Communist Party.”
The Biden administration, congressional Democrats, and their allies in the mainstream media are doing everything they can to insulate President Biden from any accountability for misconduct as he seeks reelection in 2024. The many Americans who care about preserving the principles upon which the United States was founded must know the complete truth about President Biden’s knowledge of and involvement in his family’s pay-for-influence business before the 2024 election. Otherwise, if the cover-up continues, Joe Biden may be reelected under false pretenses.
Joseph Klein
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Joe Biden Bribery Allegations Were Flagged to DOJ in 2018
Bribery allegations were brought to the Justice Department by a whistleblower in 2018 against President Joe Biden, but the allegations were ignored, a former federal prosecutor revealed Sunday.
The second allegation of bribery against Joe Biden involves Hunter Biden’s board membership in Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, the New York Post reported:
Bud Cummins, a former federal prosecutor, first reported the bribery allegations to then-New York US Attorney Geoff Berman on Oct. 4, 2018, in an email claiming he had evidence that Joe Biden had “exercised influence to protect” his son’s Ukrainian employer “in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Joe Biden.”
In the email obtained by John Solomon’s Just The News, Cummins said that Ukraine’s then-Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko wanted to travel to the United States to meet Berman, and could produce two “John Doe” witnesses to corroborate his claims about the Bidens.
Despite Cummins’ claims, Berman did not respond.
“I can’t really imagine a legitimate reason for the DOJ not to follow up on an offer like that. I felt like it was stonewalled,” Cummins told Just the News on Sunday. “It doesn’t make much sense to investigate the guy who brings you the allegation rather than the allegation.”
According to Cummins, Berman failed to respond and instead obtained data from his iPhone via a grand jury subpoena to Apple in what appeared to feel like “retaliation.”
Cummins said it was “perverse that you report an allegation of a pretty serious crime and they don’t investigate [it] but they were investigating you.”
Congressional investigators are creating a timeline to show that federal law enforcement agencies were given information from 2016 to 2020 that raises concerns about the Biden family business, Just the News reported.
One of those red flags became public Wednesday when Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) claimed a document exists alleging details of an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions between now-President Biden and a foreign national.
Breitbart News reported that elements of a potential bribery scheme involving Joe Biden and his family members’ overseas business interests have been evident for years. Such evidence could support the impeachment of Joe Biden, according to Breitbart News’s Joel Pollak.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
Bribery allegations were brought to the Justice Department by a whistleblower in 2018 against President Joe Biden, but the allegations were ignored, a former federal prosecutor revealed Sunday.
The second allegation of bribery against Joe Biden involves Hunter Biden’s board membership in Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, the New York Post reported:
Bud Cummins, a former federal prosecutor, first reported the bribery allegations to then-New York US Attorney Geoff Berman on Oct. 4, 2018, in an email claiming he had evidence that Joe Biden had “exercised influence to protect” his son’s Ukrainian employer “in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Joe Biden.”
In the email obtained by John Solomon’s Just The News, Cummins said that Ukraine’s then-Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko wanted to travel to the United States to meet Berman, and could produce two “John Doe” witnesses to corroborate his claims about the Bidens.
Despite Cummins’ claims, Berman did not respond.
“I can’t really imagine a legitimate reason for the DOJ not to follow up on an offer like that. I felt like it was stonewalled,” Cummins told Just the News on Sunday. “It doesn’t make much sense to investigate the guy who brings you the allegation rather than the allegation.”
According to Cummins, Berman failed to respond and instead obtained data from his iPhone via a grand jury subpoena to Apple in what appeared to feel like “retaliation.”
Cummins said it was “perverse that you report an allegation of a pretty serious crime and they don’t investigate [it] but they were investigating you.”
Congressional investigators are creating a timeline to show that federal law enforcement agencies were given information from 2016 to 2020 that raises concerns about the Biden family business, Just the News reported.
One of those red flags became public Wednesday when Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) claimed a document exists alleging details of an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions between now-President Biden and a foreign national.
Breitbart News reported that elements of a potential bribery scheme involving Joe Biden and his family members’ overseas business interests have been evident for years. Such evidence could support the impeachment of Joe Biden, according to Breitbart News’s Joel Pollak.
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Where Is the Missing Biden Witness, Gal Luft?
By Mark Adams
Last February, Dr. Gal Luft, a retired Israel Defense Forces lieutenant colonel with deep intelligence ties in Washington and Beijing, was arrested as an alleged gun runner. At the time, he claimed the arrest was to stop him from revealing what he knows about the Biden crime family and FBI corruption. Now, Dr. Luft has disappeared entirely.
Instead, the Biden family name has really stood for only two things: buffoonery and corruption. For fifty years, Joe Biden has managed to hold onto some slice of power in D.C. as a senator, vice president, and Oval Office stooge not because he is renowned for his erudition or virtue but rather because his doltish behavior and venal character make him ideal for others to control. Perhaps no other Washington relic has accomplished so little for the American people over such a prolonged government career or managed to harness those defects for lucrative advancement more successfully than China Joe.
Biden is the most amoral President in US history
The President pretends to be Catholic but clearly does not live
by Catholic tenets. He supports abortion up until the moment of
birth. This past week, he sent a cease-and-desist letter to the
priests who have been ministering to Catholic patients at Walter
Reed Hospital. He intends to contract outside persons to provide
Catholic ministry. While VP, he supported the persecution of the
Little Sisters of the Poor for refusing to provide abortion services
to their employees. In short, he is about as Catholic and
Christian as Nancy Pelosi, another faux Catholic, a classic elitist
who has nothing but contempt for actual Catholics, actual
Christians.
PROFILE OF A SOCIOPATH GAMER LAWYER:
JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, a Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes. In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SKURK
Biden, long known as Delaware’s “senator from DuPont,” Biden served on committees that were most sensitive to the interests of the ruling class, including the Judiciary Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee. He supported the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999, a milestone in the deregulation of the banks, and other right-wing measures. After nearly four decades in the Senate, Biden became Obama’s vice president, helping to oversee the massive bailout of Wall Street following the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent restructuring of class relations to benefit the rich. That included the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, based on a 50 percent cut in the pay of all newly hired autoworkers.
Most of the media doesn't care about anything unless the story fits their radical leftist agenda
Most of the media care as much about Tara Reade’s credible accusations against Trump as they did about all women that Bill and Hillary physically and mentally abused. The media also has never seemed to care about all the young girls that Jeffrey Epstein abused, or the men that enjoyed hanging around with Epstein.
The Me-too movement was fake.
Plante's 'Right Squad' Torches Media for Ignoring Tara Reade, Hyping Trump Allegations
The number of supposed news stories that are fake, false, or intentionally misleading the public is massive. Here is a small sample:
Every day we hear that there have been hundreds of mass shootings in the U.S this year yet we see the details on only a few. Why don’t we ever see the details of all the mass shootings in Chicago and elsewhere that involve black gang members shooting other blacks? Why don’t we see the names of the victims, the records of the shooters, and the motives? The answer is it doesn’t fit the agenda.
We see little interest in all the subway and street crimes in New York each day, but when a white Marine hero gets involved to protect people from a mentally ill, black, career criminal and accidentally kills him, he is accused of murder and there is endless coverage and violent protests.
A Hispanic commits a mass murder in Texas, and he has magically been converted to a white supremacist and we get huge coverage.
It reminds me of when the media converted the Hispanic shooter George Zimmerman to white in order to gin up racial hate and division.
When a black teen, who had robbed a store in Ferguson, Mo, reached for a white cop’s gun, the cop defended himself and killed the teen. Instead of telling the truth, the media and others regurgitated the fake “hands up don’t shoot” narrative to gin up racial hate and violence. How many cops have been killed and injured because of that false narrative? Why aren’t the people, promoting this lie, like Al Sharpton, ever held to account for inciting violence?
Think how the media would have covered a shooting if a white male, with a manifesto, had shot up a Jewish school. Yet, when a gender confused person, with a manifesto, shot up a Christian school, there has been a great effort to bury the story. They seem to have no interest in seeing the manifesto.
The media and other Democrats have known for years about how Biden and his family have lined their pockets with money from foreign countries, yet they have little interest in analyzing tax records of all the entities where they funnel the money.
But they had a lot of interest going after Trump’s tax returns where they essentially found nothing. They also spread the lie that Trump was a Russian stooge.
Think of how the media, entertainers and other Democrats would have covered a story if under Trump’s watch 85,000 kids had been lost, and where so many kids have been used as laborers. Yet with Biden there is little interest.
One of the few times they seemed interested in covering the border disaster was when they tried to destroy the lives of border guards with the fake story that they had whipped Haitian immigrants.
The media, Dr Fauci, and teachers’ unions sought to destroy Governor DeSantis and others who opened schools by saying they wanted children to die. Now they are trying to rewrite history by saying that they too always wanted the schools to be open. Shouldn’t the people who kept schools closed and permanently harmed should be held to account?
When Trump and others wanted the Wuhan lab investigated as the source of Covid, the media, Fauci, and others spread the fake story that it was a disproven conspiracy. Who will be held accountable?
How many people and businesses have been harmed by high inflation and the intentional destruction of industries because of easily manipulated computer models, massively false predictions, and the fake narrative that the science is settled?
It is sad that so much of the purported news is opinion pieces that overwhelmingly lean one way.
A significant majority of Americans don’t trust the media because most of the media have essentially become lobbyists for radical leftist policies to remake or destroy America. They have earned the distrust.
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How Liars Wreck a Country
Last year, Forbes concluded that "only 16% of adults in the U.S. say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers, and just 11% said the same for television news." Anyone confronting these stats must conclude that our media are deeply incompetent or crooked or both.
The New York Times announced a few years ago that defeating Trump was the important thing. They gave themselves a free pass to lie all they want. How can they now reclaim their honor or their usefulness?
Real journalists, when they hear an assertion, immediately try to determine whether the assertion is true or false. This is also what scientists do. It's honest, valuable work.
Unfortunately, our liberal journalists do not care about true or false. When they hear an assertion, they try to determine whether it will help their agenda...their narrative.
If it won't help, they know they must attack the assertion, typically by declaring it debunked, fake news, or misinformation.
Let's try to recapture what the Founding Fathers imagined when they put freedom of press at a high place in the national schema. Ideally, we could always assume that major media were telling us the truth as honestly as they could. But nothing can be assumed anymore.
Novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) and Czech statesman Václav Havel (1936–2011), having lived under communist dictatorships, knew what hell on earth looks like. They ended up with the same obsession that, before all else, we must "live in truth." Conversely, they figured out that societies start to crumble when the leaders are concerned primarily with their own ambitions, their own realities.
George Orwell was also obsessed with the necessity of living in truth. His novel 1984 is full of references to truth, freedom, slavery, power, manipulation, and warping reality. Once you're separated from truth, everything becomes a cruel game; ordinary citizens don't have a chance. Lies and bad government go together. That was the point of 1984.
The USA is now sinking into near-1984 reality. Almost every day, the White House lies, the CDC lies, the FBI lies, the CIA lies, the DOJ lies, and famous media giants lie, blatantly and clumsily. At this point, doesn't the whole world know that the Biden family took lots of money from foreign governments? How is he able to run for a second term?
Indeed of a Great Reset, we watched a Great Convergence of dishonest media and disingenuous education. Schools won't teach truth, and media won't report truth. If students don't know any history, they are not surprised that our president takes millions from foreign countries. Probably it was always like that.
Václav Havel, in The Power of the Powerless, concludes, "Life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies. ... Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in The Gulag Archipelago, said, "And the lie has, in fact, led us so far away from a normal society that you cannot even orient yourself any longer; in its dense, gray fog not even one pillar can be seen."
Many people might think the distinguishing characteristic of communism is cruelty. But before you get to that point, the distinguishing trait is cynicism. Recall Lenin promising bread, peace, and land if the Russian people joined his revolution. The Russian people got none of the above, but then it was too late.
The shocking thing that Biden's presidency has given us is that more than 100 people are in jail several years after they are alleged to have committed misdemeanors, even as Democrats are letting murderers out as fast as possible. So much violates what Western civilization is supposedly devoted to: the rights of the accused.
Look how far we have fallen. Journalists should be like referees in a football game. They must not belong to political parties or factions. They must not, in effect, be secret agents working against this country. That is when the Fourth Estate (press) becomes a Fifth Column (traitors), in both media and schools.
Biden needs a crooked press to keep him and his family out of jail, even if it's going to kill the rest of us.
Orwell supposedly said that in a dishonest age, telling the truth is a revolutionary action. Many sources say this line is not by Orwell. Now that I look at it closely, I don't know why that's so important. It does not capture the essential problem with pervasive dishonesty — namely, that everything becomes soft and vague. Nobody can say what is true or real or actual. That's when the executions can begin. The Wall Street Journal calculated that communist regimes murdered 100 million people in 100 years.
Sometimes, political lies corrupt all aspects of life and infect every corner of society. This occurrence reveals that totalitarianism is winning. As the political philosopher Hannah Arendt noted, totalitarianism, at its essence, is an attempt at "transforming reality into fiction." Fiction, of course, can be written and rewritten as you please.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, towards the end of his life, expressed political salvation in these simple terms, "Our way must be: never knowingly support lies."
Perhaps it's too much to expect the Biden administration to accept this restriction. But it seems reasonable to hope that the elite media and the most prestigious universities would insist on honoring this request.
Bruce Deitrick Price's new novel is Art and Beauty, crime fiction set in Manhattan, when art galleries and model agencies are the most glamorous businesses in the world. Enjoy Chapter 1, ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY.
Image: Ramdlon via Pixabay, Pixabay License.
Obama-era staffer claims Joe Biden 'masterminded' Hunter's scandal
UPenn Raked in Over $1 Billion in Foreign Funding Since Opening Biden Think Tank
Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (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).
BRIAN C JOONDEPH
Biden's latest financial disclosures are out and he showed no gifts. What about the gifts when Hunter uses kickbacks to pay Daddy's bills? I bet those gifts have never been shown on any gift tax return. I bet IRS agents don't care.
What about all the times Joe and his family spend vacations at a billionaire's house for free? Where are the gift tax returns?
The leftist media has been spending lots of time trying to destroy Clarence Thomas for free vacations, even though that is not a violation, but they actively support Biden no matter how corrupt he is and how many ethical violations he has.
Report: Hunter Biden Claimed He Was Broke at Child Support Hearing After Flying on Private Jet
'Playing Hide the Ball': Hunter Biden's Mistress Asks Court To Jail Him Over Failure To Provide Financial Disclosures
Hunter Biden’s former mistress is asking a court to jail him for "criminal contempt" in their custody dispute, saying he has flouted the judge’s order to turn over financial information.
Biden, who is fighting in an Arkansas circuit court to reduce his child support payments and block his four-year-old daughter from taking the "Biden" last name, is "playing games with discovery" by failing to fully disclose his investment and income records, according to a new court filing from the child’s mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts. Her lawyers say it is a "willful and contemptuous violation" of the court’s orders by Biden, who aims to "disown" the preschooler he fathered with Roberts.
The call only adds to Biden’s mounting legal challenges, which include a federal tax probe and a House Oversight Committee investigation into potential influence-peddling by the Biden family. Roberts’s legal team has questioned Biden’s claims that he is financially strapped, and it is threatening to call several of his high-profile business associates to appear in court if the child support dispute goes to trial.
Roberts asked the court in April to hold Biden in civil contempt for dodging court-ordered disclosure requests. Judge Holly Meyer gave Biden a stern warning in May that there would be consequences for future failure to comply with discovery and ordered him to appear in person for all future hearings.
Roberts’s lawyer, Clint Lancaster, said in a filing last week that Biden was "playing hide the ball" and has not turned over complete information about his income, assets, and investments. Lancaster said the court should hold Biden in contempt to make him a "believer in the rule of law."
"Mr. Biden does not want to disclose his income and assets, says that he is somewhat financially destitute, while he lives on a mountain overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, has Secret Service protection, and enjoys his time abroad (which he has also lied about in discovery)," said Lancaster.
Biden’s legal team shot back that he has provided information about his investments "to the best of his knowledge with a chart of the entities he may have had a direct or indirect interest in." They said Biden "does not have access to some of the information requested for various reasons."
Roberts’s lawyer asked the court to delay a closed-door deposition on Monday of their expert witness, Republican operative Garrett Ziegler, arguing that Ziegler was denied access to information he would need to prepare his testimony. Judge Meyer, however, ordered that the deposition continue as scheduled.
But the parties agreed to cancel a scheduled in-person court hearing in Arkansas on Tuesday, saying they reached an agreement regarding Biden’s disclosure of his lawyers’ payments.
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