BUT ISN'T JOE BIDEN A LOBBYIEST FOR UKRAINE AND RED CHINA? CHINA SENDS HIS CHECKS DIRECTLY TO HIS DELAWARE MANSION!
Biden’s influence-peddling is consistent with what I wrote in my book, 'Capitol Hills Criminal Underground'
More than three years ago, MedLaw publishing released my book, “Capitol Hills Criminal Underground” in which I, the book's author, describe a long-running “protection racket” being run by then-Vice President Joe Biden, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder and New York Senator, Chuck Schumer.
Hunter Biden, as the bag man for his father, has the goods on Joe and he, Hunter, likely is not going to spend years in jail for bribery and fraud without threatening to take Joe down with him. As their respective careers have underlined, both men are devoid of decency or scruples. Hunter also knows, thanks to Joe being President, that pre-emptive pardons would be uniquely available for him and the other members of the Biden Crime Family. STEVE McCANN
Brody Mullins: ‘Another Branch of Government’ Has ‘More Power than the Presidency’
While voters in America argue about which political party is the “problem” in Washington, D.C., there is another branch of government that nobody talks about, which “sometimes holds more power than the presidency,” Brody Mullins, a veteran investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the co-author of the upcoming book, The Wolves of K Street, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.
Mullins discussed his book, which is set to be released on May 7, and explained that the “Wolves of K Street” refers to the “corporate lobbyists” in America who really run the show behind the scenes.
“People talk about how, you know, the Democrats are the problem, or the Republicans are the problem in Washington. And, you know, presidencies come and go and the swamp still remains the same,” Mullins explained. “So, we wanted to dig deeper and say, ‘What’s really at the core of the problems in Washington?’ and we look at the lobbying community.”
“Corporate lobbyists spend so much money on Washington, they have both parties in their pockets and they really get passed, whatever they want for the last 40 or 50 years. And, that’s really what we tried to expose,” Mullins continued. “How much money corporations are spending to change public policy in ways that help companies, but hurts the rest of us.”
Mullins explained that college students majoring in “political science” end up learning “how Washington works,” and that there are “three branches of government, and there’s checks and balances.”
“These branches of government are constantly in tension trying to create and pass laws that are constitutional,” Mullins explained. “What no one talks about is that there is another branch of government, and that is the corporate America and corporate lobbyists, and they have sometimes more power than the presidency. We have a bunch of examples in the story of presidents of the United States trying to pass legislation that they thought was good for the country, Republicans and Democrats, and being blocked by corporate America because corporations have so much influence in Washington to block things.”
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One example of how lobbyists tend of have so much influence in Washington is House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) top policy adviser, Dan Ziegler. Prior to joining Johnson’s office as his top policy adviser, Ziegler had been a lobbyist with the firm Williams & Jensen.
While serving as a lobbyist, Ziegler accumulated a client list, which includes several companies that are interested in Congress sending aid to Ukraine. Prior to Johnson pushing forward a $95 billion foreign package, which sent $61 billion in aid to Ukraine, he had been an opponent of sending more aid to Ukraine.
Mullins continued to explain that the job of a lobbyist is to serve as a “translator, “guide,” and a “sherpa for a company.”
“Let’s say you’ve got some company in Minnesota and there’s some clean air regulation that’s hurting their business, and they say, ‘Hey, you know, how do I get around this regulation?’ or, ‘How do I push back this regulation?’ or, ‘How do I comply with this regulation?’ And, the federal bureaucracy is so complicated. The rules themselves, they are written by lawyers. They are incredibly difficult to understand, so you need someone in Washington who can help you understand what the regulation is.”
“And, then, who is the right person to even talk to about this regulation? That’s where a lobbyist comes in. A lobbyist will, for a company say, ‘Okay, you need to talk to someone, not at the Environmental Protection Agency, but which division or subdivision at the EPA you need to talk to,’ and which of these five hundred thirty-five members of Congress cares about this regulation or legislation, and which committees or subcommittees are they on.”
“The other part of the lobbyist’s job is to have the relationship with the member of Congress, and the way you do that, unfortunately, is through money,” Mullins explained. “Lobbyists spend a lot of money on campaign donations and you know, taking members of Congress to dinner, or to lunch, or sometimes playing golf at fundraising trips, or going skiing on fundraising trips in order to create that relationship, so when the lobbyist calls and says, ‘Hey member of Congress Johnson, I’ve got this client of mine from Minnesota who’s got a problem with the clean air regulation. Can I have him come to your office and explain his problem to you, and maybe you can help him?'”
“So, I think that’s basically what a lobbyist does. Making the connection to the important people on Capitol Hill, and then getting the clients and sort of introducing them for a conversation. There’s nothing wrong with any of that. It’s all protected by the First Amendment,” Mullins said. “The problem is that companies these days have all the money to hire a lobbyist to try to change the legislation. The rest of us, the little guy, we don’t have lobbyists. So, very few people are looking out for our interests and that’s really the problem. Companies have their thumb on the scale, they’re pushing for legislation that helps them and no one’s pushing for us.”
Blinken: There’s Evidence China Is Trying to ‘Influence and Arguably Interfere’ in Our Elections Despite Biden’s Warning
During a portion of an interview with CNN National Security Correspondent Kylie Atwood on Friday that was aired on Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that “we have seen, generally speaking, evidence of attempts to influence and arguably interfere” in the 2024 election by China despite warnings from President Joe Biden to not interfere.
Atwood asked, “I want to ask you about a commitment that CNN has reported President Xi made to President Biden when they met in November. We reported that he told President Biden that China would not interfere in the upcoming presidential elections in the United States. But, since then, there have been reports of online Chinese accounts that have falsely mimicked Trump supporters. Do you believe that these accounts violate President Xi’s commitment?”
Blinken answered, “What I can tell you is this: President Biden was very clear about that with President Xi, and I repeated that today, in my meetings. That any interference by China in our election is something that we’re looking very carefully at and is totally unacceptable to us.”
He also stated, “Look, it’s something we’re tracking very carefully. I can’t speak to these specific reports. I can say that, as a general matter, we’ve been very clear with China, don’t do it.”
Atwood then asked, “But they’re not violating the commitment yet, as far as you can tell?”
Blinken responded, “Well, again, I’d have to look at the specific reports that you’re referring to, but we have seen, generally speaking, evidence of attempts to influence and arguably interfere, and we want to make sure that that’s cut off as quickly as possible.”
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