Hedge Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 ย Full text: ๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ โ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ฒ, ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ, ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ Between 2014 and April 25, 2019, the day Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President, Biden family members received approximately $15 million from foreign entities. It was done through a complex series of transactions involving over 20 different companies. What did the Bidens do? What services did Hunter Biden and his associates provide? What was worth the receipt of $15 million? Devon Archer, Hunter Bidenโs business partner, gave us the answer. In his transcribed interview before Congress, he said they were selling โthe Brand.โ And โthe Brandโ was Joe Biden. As another one of Hunter Bidenโs business partners, Jason Galanis, put it, the Bidens provided the โrelationship capitalโโthe โpolitical accessโ the brand provided โin the United States and around the world.โ The deal with the Chinese energy company, CEFC, is one example of how the Bidensโ influence peddling operation worked. For months, Hunter Biden and his associates had been working to close a deal with CEFC. However, it wasnโt until โthe Brandโ himself stopped by a lunch at the Four Seasons in Washington, D.C. in mid-February 2017 that the agreement was finalized. At the lunch were Hunter Biden, his business partners, and eight Chinese executives with CEFC. Joe Bidenโthe โbig guyโโโdrop[ped] byโ and gave remarks to the group. Just a few weeks later, Hunter Biden and his partners received $3 million from CEFC. Four months after the $3 million was wired to Hunter Biden, he sent a WhatsApp message to a CEFC official: โI am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not be fulfilled. I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.โ Later he reiterated, โI am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.โ Nine days later, another $5 million was wired to an entity jointly controlled by Hunter Biden. Later that same day, $400,000 was moved from the joint entityโs account to a personal account of Hunter Biden. A few weeks later, Joe Biden received a $40,000 check. ย ๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ โ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ฌ, ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ ๐ง, ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง Joe Biden had forty thousand reasons to be aware of Hunter Bidenโs foreign business dealings. But as Mr. Biden began to run for President in 2020, these foreign entanglements became a political liability. And so Joe Biden and his campaign attempted to mislead the American people. On October 22, 2020, Joe Biden declared that Hunter Biden โhas not made money in terms of this thing about . . . China.โ But the facts of the CEFC deal plainly contradict his statement. Joe Biden also stated that he โnever discussed a single thing with [his] son about anything having to do with Ukraine.โ Devon Archerโs testimony to Congress contradicts this statement. But the lie with the greatest impact was one Joe Biden made about his sonโs laptop. On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published the story on the contents of Hunter Bidenโs laptop, including evidence of Biden family influence peddling. Testimony given to Congress by current and former FBI officials confirm that the FBI took possession of the laptop in December of 2019, and that they had authenticated it by the date the New York Post ran its story. Yet the FBI said nothing when the story was censored by Big Tech. Even as Twitter locked the New York Post out of its account, the FBI remained silent. The silence continued when 51 former Intelligence Community officials published a statement that the Hunter Biden laptop story โhas all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.โ A subsequent investigation later showed, the catalyst for this letter was the Biden campaign itself. Three days after the Postโs story ran, Antony Blinken, then a Biden campaign official and now President Bidenโs Secretary of State, emailed former Acting Director of National Intelligence Michael Morell about the story. Morell, who longed to be the CIA Director in a Biden Administration, told Congress it was Blinkenโs email that prompted him to organize the letter and gather the signatures. On October 19, 2020, the letter went public. Three days later, Joe Biden cited it in the final presidential debate, claimingโfalsely, we now knowโthat โ50 former national intelligence folksโ said the laptop story was โa Russian planโ Just hours after the debate, the Biden campaign chair, Steve Richetti called Morell to thank him for the statement. The move worked exactly as planned. The only problemโit was a lie. The FBI knew it was a lie! Joe Biden knew it was a lie. And his campaign knew it was a lie. Polling, not to mention common sense, strongly suggest that if Americans had been given the truth about the laptop and the Biden family influence peddling operation, the outcome of the 2020 presidential election would have been different. ย ๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ โ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ-๐ฎ๐ฉ, ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ญ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ฅ As with most lies, the story from the Bidens and the White House has changed over time. On September 21, 2019, Joe Biden unequivocally said he had โnever spokenโ to his son about his business dealings. Then, on July 24, 2023, the White House walked it back, stating that President Biden had never been โin business with his son.โ On December 13, 2023, Hunter Biden hedged even further, saying his father was โnot financially involvedโ in his business. โNever spokenโ became โnever in business with,โ which then became โnot financially involved.โ The President and the White House arenโt the only ones who have changed their statements. Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who ran the Justice Departmentโs Hunter Biden investigation and is now the Special Counsel conducting the investigation, also couldnโt keep his story straight. For months, many in Congress had been urging Attorney General Garland to appoint a special counsel due to the obvious conflicts of interest in investigating the Presidentโs son. In a letter to the Judiciary Committee on June 7, 2023, however, Weiss told us: โI have been granted ultimate authority over this matter, including responsibility for deciding where, when, and whether to file chargesโ against Hunter Biden. In other words, Weiss, vowed, heโs got all the authority he needs, and no special counsel designation is needed. But then, on June 30, 2023, we received a second letter from Weiss. In it he now stated, โI stand by what I wrote and wish to expand on what this means. . . . [M]y charging authority is geographically limited to my home district.โ Wow. In 23 days, David Weiss went from pounding his chest about his โultimate authorityโ to, well, actually my authority is โlimited.โ Why? What happened between June 7 and June 30? Hereโs what happened: the testimony of two IRS whistleblowers, Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Special Agent Joseph Ziegler, was published on June 22. Shapley and Ziegler were the agents who had worked on the Hunter Biden investigation. In the whistleblowersโ testimony, they told Congress that the Delaware U.S. Attorneyโs Office slow-walked the entire investigation and prohibited standard investigative actions. Shapley and Ziegler were not allowed to interview certain witnesses. In the interviews they were allowed to conduct, they were prohibited from referencing the term โdadโ or โthe big guy.โ The prosecutors notified Hunter Bidenโs attorney about a pending search warrant, and they allowed the statute of limitations to lapse for the most serious criminal conduct. All of this culminated in a proposed sweetheart plea deal with just two misdemeanor tax charges and a diversion agreement for a gun charge in Delaware. The sweetheart deal was so sweet that a federal judge refused to accept it. During the court proceedings, the judge asked the prosecutors, โ[D]o you have any precedent for agreeing not to prosecute crimes that have nothing to do with the case or the charges being diverted?โ Their response: โIโm not aware of any[.]โ The judge then asked, โ[H]ave you ever seen a Diversion Agreement where the agreement not to prosecute is so broad that it encompasses crimes in a different case?โ โNoโ was the response from Weissโs prosecutors. This type of plea agreement had never been done beforeโit was unprecedented and the judge was having none of it. The sweetheart plea deal blew up, but the Biden-Garland Justice Department was not going to be deterred in its cover-up effort. It turned to plan B. After months of insisting that Weiss had full authority and that no special counsel was needed, the Justice Department named a special counsel. And the man they chose for that important role was none other than David Weiss. The same David Weiss who couldnโt get his story straight. The same David Weiss who put together the sweetheart plea deal. The same David Weiss whose deal was laughed out of court. The end result: Weiss can take his sweet time in completing the investigation. And, more importantly, Garland, Weiss, and the Biden-Garland Justice Department now maintain that they cannot answer Congressโs questions because there is an โongoing investigation.โ How convenient. ย ๐๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ โ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ If thereโs one case that best shows the Biden family influence operation, itโs Hunter Bidenโs role with Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. There are four key facts to this case studyโfour facts that will never change. Fact #1: Hunter Biden gets put on the Board of Burisma and gets paid $1 million a year. Fact #2: Hunter Biden is not qualified to be on the Board. He said so himself. In an ABC news interview in 2019, he was asked, โIf your last name wasnโt Biden, do you think you wouldโve been asked to be on the board of Burisma?โ Mr. Biden responded, โI donโt know. Probably not, in retrospect. . . . I donโt think that thereโs a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasnโt Biden.โ Fact #3: Executives at Burisma asked Hunter Biden to alleviate the pressure coming from the Ukrainian government. Devon Archer, Hunter Bidenโs business partner, gave Congress details. On December 4, 2015, Burisma executives Mykola Zlochevsky and Vadym Pozharsky asked Hunter Biden if he could help them with the pressure they faced from the Ukrainian Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin. What did Mr. Biden do after receiving the request from the Burisma executives? Mr. Archer replied, โI did not hear this phone call but heโhe called his dad.โ Fact #4 โ Three days later, on December 7, 2015, Vice President Joe Biden went to Kyiv and conditioned the release of the $1 billion loan guarantee to Ukraine on the firing of Shokin, the same prosecutor who was applying the pressure to the company on whose board Hunter Biden sat. Donโt take our word for itโJoe Biden said it himself. In a now infamous clip, he boasted about telling the Ukrainian President: โYou are not getting the billion dollars. Iโm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you are not getting the money.โ And what do you know, Shokin got fired. There was just one problem. Withholding the loan guarantee was contrary to the overwhelming consensus of the Obama-Biden State Department. Six months before Vice President Bidenโs trip to Ukraine, State Department Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland had written Prosecutor General Shokin, โWe have been impressed with the ambitious reform and anti-corruption agenda of your government.โ On October 1, 2015, two months before the Vice Presidentโs trip, the Interagency Policy Committee in the Obama-Biden Administration announced, โUkraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third [loan] guarantee.โ Even the preparation documents for Vice President Bidenโs trip to Ukraine, dated November 22, 2015 stated, โYou will sign our third billion-dollar loan guarantee . . . .โ So what happened with the loan guarantee? As the Washington Post explained, Vice President Biden โcalled an audible.โ Instead of just pushing for the firing of Prosecutor General Shokinโthe same Prosecutor who a few months earlier the State Department and IPC said was doing a good jobโJoe Biden decided on the plane ride to Ukraine that he would condition the release of American tax dollars on the firing of Shokin. Why the sudden change? What caused the audible? Could it have been the phone call Hunter Biden made to D.C. two days earlier with Mr. Zlochevsky and Mr. Pozharsky by his side? Might the sudden change of U.S. policy have something to do with the fact that Hunter Biden was being paid $1 million a year, by the very company under investigation by the prosecutor who Vice President Biden bragged about getting fired? Itโs also worth noting the prosecutor general before Shokin had permitted the release of $23 million in seized assets back to Burisma executive Zlochevsky. The prosecutor general who followed Shokin, Yuriy Lutsenkoโwho had already been removed from office before for corruptionโclosed the case against Zlochevsky. The one prosecutor it seems who was actually investigating Zlochevsky, is the one who Vice President Joe Biden pushed to get fired. Also in the background, leading up to Vice President Bidenโs trip to Ukraine, Hunter Biden and his associates connected Burisma with Blue Star Strategies, a Democrat public relations firm in Washington. In a November 2015 communication to Burisma Executive Vadym Pozharsky, Hunter Biden wrote, โDevon and I do feel comfortable with [Blue Star Strategies] and the ability of [executives] Sally [Painter] & Karen [Tramontano] to deliver.โ What were they going to deliver? Three days earlier, Pozharsky had told Hunter Biden and his business partners that Blue Star and Burisma needed to develop a โconcrete course of actionsโ that included meetings with โUS officials in Ukraine . . . and in [the] US . . . expressing their . . . support of [Zlochevsky]/Burisma to the highest level decision makersโ with the โultimate purpose to close down for any cases/pursuits against [Zlochevsky] in Ukraine.โ Were they successful? In October 2016, Painter forwarded an article to Hunter Bidenโs business partners Eric Schwerin and Devon Archer. The articleโs title was โThe Interior Ministry confirmed that Zlochevskiy is no longer wanted.โ Ms. Painter wrote simply: โWe won and in less than a year.โ Simply put, the Bidens were successful in firing the Prosecutor General investigating Zlochevsky and in getting the next Prosecutor General to take him off the wanted list. The Burisma case study shows the interconnected web of Joe Bidenโs power, his familyโs foreign business dealings, and foreign companies paying for access and influence. ย Itโs really a story as old as time. The question isโwill Americans let the Bidens get away with it. 2 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Foxx Posted February 29 Author Share Posted February 29 8 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said: ย Wait... Hunter is actually testifying before Congress? I thought it was supposed to be a closed hearing? Did they release his opening statement, or did Hunters team? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 After years of denials, Hunter Biden FINALLY acknowledged Joe was โthe big guyโ in $5M China deal ย ย First son Hunter Biden affirmed during hisย Wednesday impeachment inquiry depositionย that his father, Joe,ย was โthe big guyโ referenced in an emailย about a business deal with a Chinese state-linked energy firm that yielded millions for Biden family members and other associates โ but rejected the notion that the president was ever penciled in for a 10% stake. ย โAt one point, we asked Hunter about the 10% for the โbig guy,โโ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a member of the House Oversight Committee,ย told Breitbartย following Hunterโs six-hour, closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill. โWe showed him the email โฆ And he said, โOh, that was after my father left office.โโ ย The statement represents the first time the 54-year-old Hunter has admitted that his former business partner James Gilliar was referring to Joe Biden when he raised theย prospect on May 13, 2017, of the first son holding a 10% stake in the lucrative joint venture involving CEFC China Energy โfor the big guy.โย ย </snip> 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Clavin Posted February 29 Share Posted February 29 10 minutes ago, Ann said: After years of denials, Hunter Biden FINALLY acknowledged Joe was โthe big guyโ in $5M China deal ย ย First son Hunter Biden affirmed during hisย Wednesday impeachment inquiry depositionย that his father, Joe,ย was โthe big guyโ referenced in an emailย about a business deal with a Chinese state-linked energy firm that yielded millions for Biden family members and other associates โ but rejected the notion that the president was ever penciled in for a 10% stake. ย โAt one point, we asked Hunter about the 10% for the โbig guy,โโ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a member of the House Oversight Committee,ย told Breitbartย following Hunterโs six-hour, closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill. โWe showed him the email โฆ And he said, โOh, that was after my father left office.โโ ย The statement represents the first time the 54-year-old Hunter has admitted that his former business partner James Gilliar was referring to Joe Biden when he raised theย prospect on May 13, 2017, of the first son holding a 10% stake in the lucrative joint venture involving CEFC China Energy โfor the big guy.โย ย </snip> ย Deny it long enough that your supporters accept it as fact. ย Then when you admit it, your supporters will deny it for you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hedge Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 Big thread ย and the of it with the transcript link: ย ย ย 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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IDBillzFan Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Raskin makes me wish for more Nadler. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 ย ย Biden special counsel Robert Hurโs resignation from DOJ makes his testimony โeven more problematicโ Igor Derysh ย ย Special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated and declined to charge former President Joe Biden over classified materials found in his home and office, resigned from the Justice Department and will appear as a private citizen in his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, according toย The Independentโs Andrew Feinberg. ย Hur, a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney who was tapped to lead the Biden probe by Attorney General Merrick Garland, formally stepped down one day before his Tuesday appearance at the request of Republicans led by Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. He drew criticism from Biden and the Democrats forย criticizing the presidentโs memoryย in the report even as he declined to charge him. ย Former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmannย explainedย that the Justice Department โcannot give instructionsโ to a former employee about what he โcan and cannot testify to.โ ย โThat makes it even more problematic from our perspective ... if he was still a federal employee, DOJ would have to approve his testimony and theyโd be involved in his appearance tomorrow,โ a Democratic Judiciary Committee source told The Independent. ย https://news.yahoo.com/biden-special-counsel-robert-hur-125446942.html ย ย Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ann Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Classified documents were found... At the Penn Biden Center? "That's correct." In President Biden's garage? "Yes." And in his basement den? "Yes." And his main floor office? "Correct." And his third floor den? "Correct." At the University of Delaware? "Correct." And at the Biden Institute? ย "Correct." ย ย 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Clavin Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 37 minutes ago, B-Man said: ย ย Former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmannย explainedย that the Justice Department โcannot give instructionsโ to a former employee about what he โcan and cannot testify to.โ ย โThat makes it even more problematic from our perspective ... if he was still a federal employee, DOJ would have to approve his testimony and theyโd be involved in his appearance tomorrow,โ a Democratic Judiciary Committee source told The Independent. ย ย Actually, they probably can indirectly.ย If he's testifying about information he collected as part of a DOJ investigation, DOJ could argue that it's a breach of some confidentiality or another, a private citizen sharing internal details of DOJ investigations and deliberations. ย I've never seen it done - hell, if I were in that situation (and I've been pretty close, when the OPM shit hit the fan ten years ago), I have a hard time imagining it being done to me.ย But then, I've never been involved in a highly politicized DOJ investigation where the DOJ was likely to get vindictive on me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinga Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ann said: ... ย ย That Biden cooperated and Trump didn't narrative is bull shi (double hockey sticks). Biden had some of those documents for over a decade, how the hell is that cooperating? Is it only because he let them search all those places after the fact?ย Edited March 12 by Cinga 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crap Throwing Clavin Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 15 minutes ago, Ann said: ย ย You get to that executive level, it's almostย impossibleย to "mishandle" classified info.ย ย ย This argument is as big a pile of bullshit as it is when used against Trump.ย The only real result of this - and I think it's a very good result, mind you - is that it's going to highlight the hypocrisy of the Democrats, when they apply the "But that's different...shut up!" argument to this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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