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“Judgment Day for the Biden Administration” – Rep. James Comer Teases What to Expect on Wednesday’s Press Conference (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft May. 10, 2023 1:28 am3


House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) joined Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo where he sent a message to the DOJ saying not to indict Hunter Biden before Wednesday.


During the interview, Rep. Comer announced that he will hold a press conference on Wednesday, May 10 at 9:00 a.m. ET, along with lawmakers from the panel including Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) “to provide an update on the investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling to enrich themselves and announce next investigative actions.”


Comer said he will disclose specific Biden family bank records during the press conference which could indicate alleged bribery from foreign adversaries.


“Senator Grassley and I received a tip on a whistleblower. Senator Grassley was the lead in this. We reviewed documents from the legally protected whistleblower, a highly credible whistleblower that would implicate Joe Biden in a pay-per-play scheme in trying to set up a deal to receive funds [for him] and his family in exchange for foreign policy decisions,” Comer told Bartiromo.

“Now that fits a pattern Maria, of what we’ve seen with these bank records. And on Wednesday we’re going to present to the American people all the information that we’ve received thus far pertaining to bank records. We’re going to disclose many of the different LLCs, many of the different transactions that all these different biden family members have gotten from our adversaries around the world.”

Representative Comer appeared on Fox News’s Primetime Tomorrow with Jesse Watters on Tuesday, saying we will see hard evidence of the Biden family’s organized crime unit.

“Well, tomorrow [Wednesday], for the first time, the American people are going to see actual bank records that show wire transfers from adversaries around the world into a web of LLCs that were owned or controlled by the Bidens. And then those transfers were made back into the Biden family account,” said Comer.

“So this was one reason the Biden family received so many bank violations that are known as suspicious activity reports because the banks knew that this wasn’t normal business activity.”

“But we’re going to see whether or not, Joe Biden was telling the truth when he said that his family never received any money from China. We’re going to see tomorrow whether or not Joe Biden knew about his family’s business dealings, which we know that he said several times that he didn’t. So I think tomorrow is going to be judgment day for the Biden administration,” Comer added.

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Oversight Committee: Biden Family Business Received over $10 Million from Romania, China for Unknown Work


WENDELL HUSEBØ
10 May 2023

The Biden family business over the course of several years received over $10 million from business schemes in Romania and China in return for what appears to be influence peddling, bank documents obtained Wednesday by Breitbart News from the House Oversight Committee show.



In total, Biden family members and business associates designed a web of over 20 companies, many of which were formed during Joe Biden’s vice presidency, the committee revealed. In total, the Biden family, business associates, and companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals’ companies, the committee found.



The funds appear to contradict President Joe Biden’s claims that his family received no money from China. The funds also raise questions about what the Biden family returned in terms of services or products for the money received.



Romanian Transactions



From November 2015 to May 2017, Bladon Enterprises paid Robinson Walker, LLC over $3 million. Bladon Enterprises is reported to be Gabriel Popoviciu’s Cypriot company that he used to conduct business in Romania. Robinson Walker is the Biden family business partner who collectedly sent the Biden family $1.3 million to the family.



The Biden family accounts received approximately $1.038 million from the Robinson Walker, LLC account after Bladon Enterprises deposits, the committee revealed based upon wire transfers. In total, 16 of the 17 payments from Bladon Enterprises to Robinson Walker, LLC were made while Joe Biden was vice president.



According to the committee, the payments began to flow to Robinson Walker, LLC just after Vice President Biden welcomed Romanian President Klaus Iohannis to the White House on September 28, 2015.



A readout of the meeting stated that the “Vice President welcomed President Iohannis’ focus on anti-corruption efforts and rule of law as a means to strengthen national security and promote greater investment and economic growth.” Iohannis said Joe Biden “voiced satisfaction over Romania’s progress with the fight against corruption.”



One year prior, on May 21, 2014, then-vice president Joe Biden visited Romania and delivered a speech addressed to the Romanian Prime Minister, judges, prosecutors, and leaders of the parliament. At the time of the speech, Romanian prosecutors were investigating Popoviciu, who was later charged and convicted with bribery-related offenses.



As Breitbart News previously reported, Hunter Biden began working for Popoviciu in the spring of 2015. According to Hunter Biden’s calendar, he met with Joe Biden three times from July 2015 to March 2016 about helping Popoviciu with a “conviction stemming from his purchase of a 550-acre parcel of government-owned land for a steep discount,” the New York Post reported.



Chinese Transactions



Bank records from the committee show that between August 2017 and October 2018, Hudson West III, a company co-managed by Hunter Biden, sent over $4 million to Hunter Biden related companies and over $75,000 to James Biden related companies. Gongwen Dong and Hunter Biden were each 50 percent owners of Hudson West II, bank records obtained by the committee show. According to an email verified by the Washington Post and Hunter Biden, Gongwen Dong served as “Chairman Ye[’s] CEFC emissary” in the United States.



Closely connected to the Chinese Communist Party, CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming also paid Hunter a $1 million retainer fee for legal services in 2017. Hunter also received a large diamond from Ye worth an estimated $80,000 in February 2017.



In addition, the committee revealed that Hunter Biden received an additional $100,000 that was sent from Shanghai Huaxin in China. The money was apparently a part of a CEFC deal with Ye and Dong.



According to the committee, on May 11, 2017, Dong formed CEFC Infrastructure in Delaware. Hudson West V, a company that formed a partnership with Hunter Biden, was the sole equity member of CEFC Infrastructure. Dong identified himself as the Director of Hudson West V and listed its address as Xicheng District Beijing, China, banking documents show.



One week later, Hudson West V assigned 100 percent of its interest to Shanghai Huaxin Group Limited (Shanghai Huaxin), a company incorporated in China. On June 30, 2017, Shanghai Huaxin funded the CEFC Infrastructure bank account with an injection of $10 million.



About one month later, CEFC Infrastructure wired $100,000 to Owasco P.C, Hunter Biden’s law firm.



The above payments are in addition to what the committee already revealed. On April 17, Comer announced a total of nine Biden family members may have profited from the family’s international business schemes, six more than previously disclosed. Those currently identified on the payroll are Hunter, James, Hallie Biden — and a fourth unidentified Biden. On April 25, the committee teased releasing the identities it has so far concealed. A spokesperson for the committee declined to reveal the identities at that time.



Collectively, the identified family members received $1.3 million from a Biden associate, who was wired $3 million dollars from a Chinese energy company two months after President Joe Biden left the vice presidency.



In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China, less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism.



Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’s investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing to have a ten percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.

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James Comer Names the 9 Biden Family Members Who Got Business Payments
WENDELL HUSEBØ
10 May 2023

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday named the previously undisclosed Biden family members who received payments from the family’s foreign business ventures.



On April 17, Comer announced a total of nine Biden family members profited from the family’s international business schemes, six more than disclosed. Those identified on the payroll were Hunter, James, Hallie Biden — and a fourth unidentified Biden.



During Wednesday’s press conference, Comer described all nine family members as related to President Joe Biden:



Hunter Biden

James Biden, Joe Biden’s Brother

Sara Jones Biden, Joe Biden’s Brother’s Wife

Hallie Biden, Beau Biden’s Widow and Hunter Biden’s Ex-Lover

Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden’s Ex-Wife

Melissa Cohen, Hunter Biden’s Current Wife

Two Children of Joe Biden’s Son [Names Unknown]

Joe Biden’s Brother’s Child [Names Unknown]

“The inclusion of Biden grandchildren in the list of family Biden members has not been previously disclosed,” Jonathan Turley posted on Twitter. “The spread of transfers to nine family members and the use of a complex array of LLC companies raise obvious concerns over an effort to conceal influence peddling.”



It is unknown exactly how much money each of the individuals received. But Comer previously detailed that Hunter, James, and Hallie Biden received a collective $1.3 million from entities linked to the Chinese Communist Party.

On Wednesday, Comer also showed that over $75,000 was sent to James Biden-related companies from China.



Moreover, Comer disclosed that Hunter Biden received $100,000 that was sent from Shanghai Huaxin in China. The money was apparently a part of a CEFC deal with Chairman Ye Jianming, who also paid Hunter a $1 million retainer fee for legal services in 2017. Hunter also received a large diamond from Ye worth an estimated $80,000 in February 2017.



CEFC Infrastructure, a company affiliated with Ye, wired $100,000 to Owasco P.C., Hunter Biden’s law firm, Comer stated Wednesday.



In addition, Comer revealed that Biden family members’ accounts received approximately $1.038 million from schemes in Romania.



In total, Comer said the Biden family business — over the course of several years — received over $10 million from schemes in Romania and China. The Biden family business received some of that money, totaling $179,836.86, when Joe Biden was vice president, Comer revealed in March.



In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China, less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism. Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’s investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing to have a ten percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.


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Highlights of the GOP House Oversight Press Briefing

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FULL PRESS CONFERENCE: House Oversight Committee on President Joe Biden's Family Financial Crimes


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Some of this is repetitive, but there's also additional information:


House Committee Unleashes Big Dirt on Biden: Pages of Bank Records and 2 Devastating Charts



By Richard Moorhead

May 10, 2023 at 11:53am


A new report from the House Oversight Committee shines a light on the Biden family’s wide-ranging international business deals.



The Wednesday memorandum was released after the GOP-led committee subpoenaed four different banks — receiving thousands of records in response, according to the document.



Bank records indicate that Biden-controlled businesses raked in more than $10 million from companies controlled by foreign nationals.

Some payments took place while  Joe Biden served as vice president, and others were made after he left office in 2017.



The payments from foreign companies were distributed in incremental amounts to Biden family bank accounts — a tactic that could’ve been used to disguise their ultimate source.



Chinese Communist Party-controlled entities took lengthy steps to funnel payments into entities controlled by Hunter Biden — disguising their ultimate origin in doing so, according to the committee.

The House Oversight Committee identifies Hunter Biden, James and Sara Biden, and Hallie Biden as recipients of funds funneled through agents of the Chinese government.

No fewer than nine Biden family members are identified as recipients of foreign funds in the report — outlining a scheme to profit off of the vice president’s international influence.

Romanian national Gabriel Popoviciu — convicted of corruption in the country — also made payments to a Biden family-connected corporation, according to the memorandum.

Biden family accounts were allegedly sent $1.038 million from the corporation in question — after Popoviciu’s Cyprus-registered company paid Biden firm Robinson Walker LLC more than $3 million.



A White House spokesman described the Oversight Committee report as “evidence-free” in a statement provided to Fox News, accusing its chairman Rep. James Comer of engaging in “absurd innuendo.”



Hunter Biden is currently under federal investigation, with prosecutors eyeing potential tax and gun charges.

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FBI Hiding Key Document Detailing Bribery Scheme Involving Joe Biden and Foreign National

By Cristina Laila
May. 10, 2023 5:15 pm


The FBI and DOJ are hiding a key document from the GOP House Oversight Committee.

The House Oversight Committee said the FBI is failing to comply with a subpoena deadline.



Chairman Comer and Senator Grassley said the FBI is withholding an unclassified FD-1023 form that describes the criminal scheme involving Joe Biden and a foreign national.



“Based on whistleblower disclosures, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation possess an unclassified FD-1023 form that describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions. It has been alleged that the document includes a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose.” the Oversight Committee said.



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“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. The FBI’s position is ‘trust, but you aren’t allowed to verify.’ That is unacceptable. We plan to follow up with the FBI and expect compliance with the subpoena,” said Chairman Comer.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Wednesday held a press conference on the Biden Crime Family.



House Republicans announced they now have reviewed 170 suspicious activity reports linked to the Biden Crime Family.



Comer identified the NINE Bidens implicated in corruption.



“Joe Biden’s son. Joe Biden’s brother. Joe Biden’s brother’s wife. Hunter Biden’s girlfriend/Beau Biden’s widow, Hunter Biden’s ex-wife. Hunter Biden’s current wife. And 3 children of the president’s son and the president’s brother. So we’re talking about grandchildren – a grandchild. That’s odd. Most people that work hard every day a grandchild doesn’t get a wire from a foreign national,” Comer said.



James Comer said the Biden family received over $10 million from foreign nationals while Joe Biden was Vice President.



The countries involved directly correlated with Joe Biden’s work as Vice President.

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Senator Ron Johnson: 'We Have Evidence Hunter Biden Paid Sex-Trafficked Prostitutes And The Media Isn't Even Looking Into It'


THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2023 - 07:40 PM

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,



During a Tuesday interview, Senator Ron Johnson asserted that Congressional Republicans have unequivocal proof that Hunter Biden paid tens of thousands of dollars to an international sex trafficking ring for prostitutes with money given to him by his father.


“Senator Grassley and I, in our September 2020 report, laid out as much evidence as anybody would need to lay out that the Biden family is corrupt,” Johnson told Fox News, adding that it was well known “that President Biden would be highly compromised, but the corrupt media ignored it and censored it.”



Johnson continued, “One thing we don’t talk enough about. I know President Biden is so proud of his son. We have the evidence that Hunter Biden paid for — paid tens of thousands of dollars for prostitutes that were sex trafficked through an international sex trafficking ring. Yes, ick.”



“And President Biden during a four or five month period offered to pay for $100,000 of Hunter Biden’s bills when he was spending tens of thousands of dollars on these women who are sex trafficked,” the Senator further asserted.



“Now, that is at a minimum morally reprehensible and wrong. And the president is defending that and the media isn’t even looking into it?” an exasperated Johnson urged.



“It is grotesque but the media doesn’t concentrate on it. We had that in our report. We had the financial transactions proving it. James Comer does the same thing. But it is so icky and reprehensible that people don’t want to talk about it,” Johnson emphasised.



“It is galling to hear the president talk about how proud he is of Hunter. He enables this. He enables it by propping up his son both in term of those types of words as well as financially. It is really pretty sick,” the Senator concluded.



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In a further interview on Fox Business, Johnson predicted the media will continue to ignore the overwhelming evidence of shady criminal dealings with foreign nationals.

In an interview with The Washington Examiner, Johnson said that he fears the Department of Justice will allow Hunter Biden to engage in a plea agreement and have his case records sealed.



“The Justice Department will do whatever it can get away with doing in terms of covering up for Hunter Biden or minimizing any charges,” the Wisconsin senator said, adding “I’ve been concerned about this, almost predicting it, for quite some time.”



“Part of that plea agreement would be a seal of all records so that the American public will never know the full extent of what Hunter Biden and possibly Joe Biden did,” Johnson added.



On Wednesday, during a press conference by House GOP lawmakers, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan announced that GOP lawmakers have reviewed 170 suspicious activity reports linked to the Biden Family’s dealings.




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Republicans revealed that they believe the Biden family attempted to conceal more than $10 Million in foreign payments, and that “Biden family members and business associates created a web of over 20 companies—most were limited liability companies formed during Joe Biden’s vice presidency.”



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Hunter Biden’s Divorce Lawyers Knew About ‘Romania Deal’ Payments

By Cristina Laila
May. 11, 2023 8:30 pm


Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle’s divorce lawyers knew about the ‘Romania deal’ payments, according to 2016 and 2017 emails found on Hunter’s laptop from hell.



House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Wednesday said the Biden family received over $10 million from foreign nationals while Joe Biden was Vice President.



“Joe Biden’s son. Joe Biden’s brother. Joe Biden’s brother’s wife. Hunter Biden’s girlfriend/Beau Biden’s widow, Hunter Biden’s ex-wife. Hunter Biden’s current wife. And 3 children of the president’s son and the president’s brother. So we’re talking about grandchildren – a grandchild. That’s odd. Most people that work hard every day a grandchild doesn’t get a wire from a foreign national,” Comer said.



Hunter Biden and his associates received $1 million from a Romanian national, according to Comer.



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“First instance, while Vice President Biden was lecturing Romania on anti-corruption policies, in reality, he was a walking billboard for his son and family to collect money. Hunter Biden and his associates capitalized on a lucrative financial relationship with a Romanian national who was under investigation for and later convicted of corruption in Romania. The Bidens received over $1 million for the deal,” Comer said at Wednesday’s press conference on the Biden Crime Family.



“16 of the 17 payments occurred while Joe Biden was vice president,” Comer added. “In fact, the stop flowing from the Romanian national soon after Joe Biden leaves the vice presidency. This is a pattern of influence peddling.”



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Hunter’s divorce lawyers knew about the ‘Romania deal’ payments, according to emails.



“Hunter’s office confirmed to Kathleen a deposit of more that $120,000 into Hunter’s TD account as funds from the “Romania deal.” according to a December 2016 email from Kathleen Buhle’s lawyer to Hunter’s lawyer.







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Fox News reported:



Divorce lawyers for Hunter Biden and his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle were aware of money hitting Hunter’s bank account from a “Romania deal,” emails show, appearing to contradict Buhle’s previous claims she had her “head buried in the sand” when it came to Hunter’s finances.



According to 2016 and 2017 emails reviewed by Fox News Digital from Hunter’s abandoned laptop, divorce lawyers for Hunter and Buhle were aware of payments from a “Romania deal” and discussed how it should be divided among the two parties.



Rebekah Sullivan, who was representing Buhle during the divorce proceedings, appeared frustrated in a Dec. 15, 2016, email to Sarah Mancinelli, Hunter’s lawyer.



“On the disclosures, help me understand why it is taking so long to get this basic information. Hunter’s office confirmed to Kathleen a deposit of more than $120,000 into Hunter’s TD account, as funds from the ‘Romania deal,'” Sullivan wrote.



“There is no reason to continue to delay providing us the TD account statements and all expenses since the end of the last statement,” Sullivan added. “It is more than fair to ask for Hunter immediately to provide Kathleen with half of the $120,000, and immediate disclosure with respect to his TD account.”




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BOMBSHELL REPORT: Barack Obama linked to Joe Biden’s elaborate influence peddling and money laundering scheme via CCP operatives

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‘We Produced More Evidence Yesterday than Adam Schiff Did in 4 Years with Donald Trump” – James Comer with Lou Dobbs – Reveals Biden Deals with Congo, Qatar, Middle East and More…

By Jim Hoft
May. 12, 2023 2:15 pm




The House Oversight Committee this week held a press conference to show the American public and the DOJ what the Biden family has been involved in, just in case the DOJ was about to give Hunter Biden a plea deal on mere tax evasion or lying on a gun application.



Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced the Committee has discovered a dozen more LLC’s involved in money laundering and another country, Romania, involved in influence peddling. And there are several more countries. James Comer told Lou Dobbs on Friday that the Biden Crime family was also making deals in Congo, Qatar, the Middle East and more!



The House Oversight Chairman told Lou Dobbs on The Great America Podcast that he has proof that Joe Biden received payments while serving as VP of the United States.



Comer says Speaker McCarthy is going to call FBI Director Chris Wray and demand the document Comer requested. The FBI this week refused to turn over this document to Congress. This is the same FBI that arrested Trump supporters for not fulfilling the wishes of Congressional investigators. Comey added, “It’s pretty discouraging to see our own federal government obstruct or even worse cover up this major investigation… We produced more evidence yesterday than Adam Schiff did in 4 years with Donald Trump and they impeached him.”



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Comer was surprised when the mainstream media didn’t report on the evidence the Committee presented: that Biden lied, that Biden did receive money from China, and 9 family members received money from China as well.



Listen to the Comer-Dobbs interview here at the Great America Show.


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NYT: Actually, the Biden Family Enrichment Scheme Exonerates Biden, Or Something

Guy Benson


May 12, 2023 10:35 AM



Real Clear Politics founder Tom Bevan was so astounded by this New York Times headline that he experienced a 'holy [bleep]' moment. Literally. We wrote about the House Oversight Committee unveiling new evidence -- and raising new questions -- about the Biden family's wide-ranging enrichment scheme, featuring serious allegations of influence peddling. Based on bank records, it appears as though at least nine members of the family received payments totaling approximately $10 million from foreign sources, which were routed through various banks and LLC's, a labyrinth Republicans say was designed to make the money difficult to track. We also noted in our previous analysis that President Biden has made demonstrably false statements about his family's foreign business dealings, including provably inaccurate denials of basic facts supported by evidence. The New York Times evidently listened to what Oversight Committee members presented yesterday and concluded that the real story was an exoneration of Biden (language warning):

Here's a succinct, partial reminder what Chairman James Comer and his colleagues laid out:



Many payments were routed from foreign companies to the Biden family’s business associates’ companies which then doled out payments to the Bidens in incremental payments to different bank accounts in an alleged attempt to hide the source of the funds...Much of the money came from Chinese nationals and companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Multiple Biden family members received money after it passed through an associate’s account. Comer said of the countries the Biden family was influence peddling in, China is “the most reputable.” The committee revealed Wednesday that records suggest the Biden family and its associates’ business dealings in Romania “bear clear indication of a scheme to peddle influence” from 2015 to 2017.



To reiterate a point I made yesterday, I'm not equipped to know whether any of this constitutes criminal activity. Given the ability of the DOJ to bootstrap any number of shady global transactions and relationships into charges against politically-connected people connected to the opposite party in recent years, I wouldn't be shocked if there could be some criminal liability in this. But that's not my area of expertise, nor is it my decision to make -- even if the whole thing looks deeply suspicious and appalling, and reeks of influence-purchasing corruption. Let's say this evidence does point to unlawful behavior. Would the public have confidence that the Biden DOJ -- which is currently being accused by a whistleblower of improperly mishandling a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden -- will snap into action to pursue accountability? Fat chance, many people would reply, especially if the 'news' media is either studiously avoiding the story, or openly fortifying pro-Biden spin. It's both astonishing and indicative of the collapse in media trust that America's supposed paper of record had all of this rotten-smelling information placed in front of its nose and decided to prominently declare that it somehow amounts to a vindication of the president.


Is there smoking gun proof of personal corruption or bribe-taking by the president himself? No, or at least not yet. Do the new details look better for the Biden family than what we previously knew? As someone might say, c'mon man. One might think that enterprising journalists would look at the lengths to which these payments were disguised and hidden and consider that a red flag worth pursuing. Add to the mix some glaring questions about why all these people with the last name 'Biden' saw cash shoveled at them (in exchange for what, exactly?) through foreign nationals and entities -- alongside Biden's debunked, categorical denials -- and that seems like a strong basis for a potentially explosive story. Let's see more evidence, please. Perhaps some people at the Times and elsewhere are now digging away, eager to unearth additional information (are Pulitzers awarded for hurting Democrats?), but the publication's opening effort is embarrassing partisan propaganda. On that subject, here's another glimpse into the 2020 laptop/"disinformation" operation by the Biden campaign:

Hunter Biden laptop letter signers embraced Politico’s headline alleging the emails belonging to President Joe Biden’s son were “Russian disinfo” while the letter’s co-author and main organizer said the outlet did a “nice job" with its story. The 51 ex-intelligence officials quickly signed the October 2020 laptop letter, which was published on Oct. 19 and aimed to give Joe Biden a "talking point" to use at the debate with President Donald Trump. The letter contributed to the baseless narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop stories were nothing but a product of Russian disinformation — a narrative happily seized upon by Biden's 2020 campaign and spread by some of the laptop letter signers. The Politico report about the letter was published Oct. 19 and titled “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.” While several letter writers and signers have since tried to distinguish the nuance of their document from the headline that gave Biden a critical boost in shutting down questions about the salacious contents of his son's abandoned laptop, a new report by the GOP-led Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government revealed that certain intelligence officials were content with adopting the narrative...



"Contemporaneous documents show that some of the signatories adopted Politico’s framing that the laptop was Russian disinformation," the Republican-led report said. The report added, "Notwithstanding these recent protestations, there is no evidence that the statement’s signers attempted to correct Politico’s misleading headline." In a newly unearthed email, Thomas Fingar, a former deputy director of national intelligence for analysis who signed the letter, shared a link to the “Politico story” in an Oct. 20 email to his colleagues at Stanford University the day after it was published. Fingar told them, “The letter conveys our judgment that the Hunter Biden emails story published by the NY Post and seemingly endorsed by Trump’s Director of National Intelligence is actually Russian disinformation.” Fingar recently apparently tried to rewrite his own history during a February interview with the Washington Post, gliding past the then-unknown fact that he himself embraced the “Russian disinfo” framing by Politico.



The laptop was not 'Russian disinformation.' It was real. The Biden campaign reached out to allied former intelligence officials and effectively asked them to leverage their prestige and expertise to furnish their candidate with a "talking point" to dismiss the scandal. These officials obliged, with the ringleaders keeping the campaign posted on their efforts to get their incorrect conclusions hyped in the media. This was an easy task, of course, as most of the media was primed to crush and bury the Biden-endangering story. When the press framed the story exactly the way Team Biden wanted it framed, Biden cited it in a nationally-televised debate, which was the whole point of the operation.



Only when it became clear that the laptop was authentic and the initial reporting into it was justified -- safely after the election, of course -- did some of the signatories start running around talking about the nuances of the letter they'd endorsed. Nuance was not the purpose of the letter. And the letter served its purpose. Here we are, once again, with most of the 'news' media averting their eyes from a problematic story about the Bidens -- if not running active interference on their behalf. Imagine that.



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James Comer Believes Barack Obama Knew of Biden Family’s Foreign Deals


WENDELL HUSEBØ
13 May 2023

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) suggested Friday that former President Barack Obama knew of the Biden family’s foreign deals with adversaries of the United States.



Speaking with Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show, Comer said Obama must have known about the Biden family business.



“I believe, Lou, that it’s because he knew what Joe Biden was doing the last year of his vice presidency,” Comer said in reference to payments worth millions the family’s business collected.



Comer revealed Wednesday that over the course of several years the family business received over $10 million from schemes in Romania and China in return for what appears to be influence peddling.



“He knew his son [Hunter Biden] was no good, and he knew this was nothing but a political liability not just for our country, not just for the democrat party, but for Obama’s legacy,” Comer added. “Because a lot of this happened during the Obama administration.”





U.S. President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden attend the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 10, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)



Comer also believes Obama’s knowledge of the family’s business informed his opposition to Joe Biden’s 2020 candidacy.



“So, I think that’s why Obama didn’t want Joe Biden to run for president. I think they knew about this,” Comer said about the business. “And remember, a lot of these coverups would have happened during the Obama administration with Obama appointees in these deep state bureaucracies.”



Comer said an establishment media journalist should ask Obama if Comer’s hunch is true: “This would be a great question for Obama: Were you aware of what was going on with Joe Biden with respect to foreign policy and some of these ragtag countries around the world?”

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Comer: Biden Whistleblower Has Vanished

Frank Bergman
May 14, 2023 - 6:41 pm


House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has revealed that a key whistleblower in the congressional investigations into Democrat President Joe Biden’s family business dealings has vanished.



Comer says investigators have been unable to find the informant who was the source for the investigation into the alleged corruption of the Biden family.



The whistleblower is the source who informed Comer about an alleged bribery scheme.



Appearing on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News, Comer said at least nine of the ten whistleblowers with knowledge of the situation are “either currently in court, they’re currently in jail, or they’re currently missing.”



“Well, unfortunately, we can’t track down the informant,” Comer told host Maria Bartiromo.



“We’re hopeful that the informant is still there.”



“The whistleblower is very credible,” Comer added.



“Hold on a second, Congressman,” Bartiromo interjected.



“Did you just say that the informant is now missing?”



“Well we’re hopeful that we can find the informant,” Comer repeated.



“Now remember, these informants are kind of in the spy business, so they don’t make a habit of being seen a lot or being high-profile or anything like that.



“We have basic information with respect to what the informant has alleged, and it’s very serious.”



“Are there whistleblowers or informants missing right now?” asked Bartiromo.



“Well, with what we’ve investigated, and the people that we’ve tracked down, going back to the (CEFC China Energy), the two main players in that business, as well as all the Americans that were involved in the different Biden influence peddling schemes, as well as the Serbian national, nine of the ten people that we’ve identified that have knowledge with respect to the Biden’s, they’re one of three things, Maria.



“They’re either currently in court, they’re currently in jail, or they’re currently missing.”


“So it’s of the utmost importance that the FBI work with us to be able to try to identify what investigations they’ve done, because we have people that want to come forward, but honestly Maria, they fear for their lives.



“Not only are the Biden lawyers and the Biden White House intimidating them, the media is trying to intimidate and discredit them.”



“Who in the White House is intimidating them, do you know?” asked Bartiromo.



“I do know,” said Comer.



“We’re saving that for a later time.”

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[Shoshanna]

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Sex Trafficking Victims May Testify against Hunter Biden before Congress

Frank Bergman
May 14, 2023 - 11:53 am


Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has revealed that House Oversight Committee is planning to call several sex trafficking victims to testify before Congress against Democrat President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.



Greene revealed that the Committee is in the process of tracking down foreign and American women who were allegedly trafficked to Hunter Biden for sex.



“We’re going to track down these women and talk to them and if there is a credible reason that we need to bring them in front of the Oversight Committee then absolutely we will do that,” Greene asserted.



“Especially when it involves our national security.



“I’ve been talking about it with [Committee] Chairman [James] Comer and we’re already working in that direction.”



Greene, as a committee member, is one of a handful of people authorized to view banks’ Suspicious Activity Reports relating to Hunter Biden and other family members.



Many of the SARS concerned Hunter Biden’s alleged payments to hookers — often from Ukraine and Russia.



Many of the summary pages contain the terms, “this is a known prostitution ring” and “human sex trafficking,” Greene recalled of the reports she viewed.



“There was an entire stack of papers and it was each transaction, each person, each LLC, Hunter Biden’s law firm, Hunter Biden himself, and multiple Biden family members — then it was all these prostitutes,” Greene said.



“And you can go through and it gives all the prostitutes’ names, addresses, birthdates, telephone numbers, their passports.



“We need to talk to them, especially the ones from Russia and Ukraine. …



“We need to find out where they were with Hunter Biden.



“Did they go in the White House when [Joe Biden] was vice president?



“We just need to know these things.



“Where they’ve been, what they know, what they’ve seen, what they’ve heard.”


Additionally, Greene warned there was “an extreme danger” that some of the foreign women Hunter caroused with could have been spies and that sensitive information could be compromised, “especially given the fact that our country is funding a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.”



Hunter Biden’s lurid relationships with prostitutes are well-documented on his infamous abandoned laptop.



He would often pay thousands of dollars a night to high-end escorts in drug and alcohol-fueled romps at lux locations around the country.



In May 2018, Hunter Biden paid $8,000 to a woman named Gulnora, a registered agent for the escort service Emerald Fantasy Girls, using a credit reportedly linked to President Biden’s own account.



A snafu resulting in more than $25,000 in charges to the account in less than an hour triggered a response from the Secret Service.



In October 2018, a naked Hunter Biden filmed himself at a swank hotel toting a pistol while gallivanting with a naked sex worker.



When a New York Post reporter asked if Comer would comment on Greene’s investigative focus on sex trafficking, the committee issued this statement:



“Congresswoman Greene is very concerned about the possibility that the women being paid for prostitution by the president’s son who were foreign nationals were human trafficked.



“She plans to lead a probe to determine if, in fact, they were human trafficked and if the Biden family has tried to intimidate them or cover the story up.”



The committee also suggested that Owasco P.C., a corporation formed by Hunter Biden, may have been involved in the payments.



“The Committee is also concerned that Hunter Biden used his professional corporation for non-business related expenditures and did not maintain proper books and records,” the statement continued.



“We are looking into all aspects of how Owasco P.C. was used to conceal payments to and from foreign nationals.”



Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop contain hundreds of emails relating to Owasco and the company was often used to distribute cash payouts to him and his family.



On Wednesday, Comer revealed that Hunter and his family had operated more than 20 LLCs and taken in at least $10 million in foreign money, citing subpoenaed bank records he outlined in a 36-page memo.



Greene said the criminal activity seen in the reports was stunning.



“I am rarely ever speechless. I was literally speechless,” Greene told The Post.



“I didn’t know what to say.



“I was so shocked at the depth of crimes that this family has committed.



“It’s like looking at the blueprint of how money laundering works and how pay-to-play schemes are had and literally how they are carried out.



“There were dozens of LLCs and they’re fake companies, they’re shell companies, they would be set up with a name, a fancy name, and the money would be wire transferred from different countries, and a lot of times the source of the wire transfer had no description,” she said, elaborating on disclosures from the committee on Wednesday.



“We just knew which country it came from and that’s part of what triggered . . . these SAR reports.”



After a protracted fight, the Biden administration in March finally allowed members of the Oversight Committee to view the more than 150 Suspicious Activity reports generated by banks in response to Hunter Biden’s financial transactions.



The documents can only be viewed at the Treasury.



Members cannot remove them or even take photographs, but they can take notes — which Greene said she did.



“There were more SARS on Burisma, Rosemont Seneca. BHR was also in there,” Greene said, referring to the Ukrainian energy company that paid Hunter $83,333 a month to serve on its board while his father was vice president, along with two other companies Hunter was deeply involved in.



Greene declined to elaborate on the specifics she saw.



Reports were generated from “all over the world,” Greene noted.



“A lot were from China,” she added.



“There were some from UAE and some from other former Soviet Union countries, African countries — I just couldn’t believe it. It was never-ending.”



Greene has emerged as one of Hunter Biden’s fiercest critics.



Her public denunciations of the first son are so sharp they prompted a letter last month from Hunter’s attorney Abbe Lowell to the Office of Congressional Ethics requesting an independent review, as Slay News reported.



“Representative Greene’s unethical conduct arises from her continuous verbal attacks, defamatory statements, publication of personal photos and data, and promotion of conspiracy theories about and against Robert Hunter Biden,” Lowell said.



“None of these could possibly be deemed to be part of any legitimate legislative activity, as is clear from both the content of her statements and actions and the forums she uses to spew her often unhinged rhetoric.”



Greene is unfazed, however.



“The very attorney who wrote that letter is also involved in a lot of this stuff too,” she warned.



“So he should be careful.



“He shouldn’t be running his mouth either.”



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[Shoshanna]

Hopefully he's being guarded in a safe place! 


UPDATE: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Says “Whistleblower for Joe Biden is Not Missing”

By Jim Hoft
May. 14, 2023 7:04 pm


Earlier Sunday, The Gateway Pundit reported that Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures that an informant on Biden family crimes might have gone missing.



During their discussion, Comer told Maria that NINE Biden family members received foreign payments totaling more than $10 million. Comer then dropped this bomb — The informant on the Biden family has gone missing.



Chairman Comer then added, “We have evidence that Joe Biden when he was Vice President was involved in a quid pro quo with a foreign country in exchange for foreign aid. This is a very serious accusation. All the FBI has to do is say, ‘Yeah, we looked into it and it wasn’t a credible informant.’ But they won’t answer our questions.”



Maria Bartiromo: Are their whistleblowers missing right now?



Rep. James Comer: Well, we investigated and the people we tracked down going back to the CEFC, the two main players in that business as well as all the Americans that were involved in the different Biden influence peddling schemes as well as the Serbian national. Nine of ten people that we’ve identified, they we very good knowledge with respect to the Bidens, they’re one of three things. They’re either currently in court, they’re currently in jail, or they’re currently missing.




On Sunday night, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) confirmed that a whistleblower for Joe Biden is not missing.



“Just to be clear. Our whistle blower for Joe Biden is not missing,” Greene tweeted.

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[J.J.Gibbs]

The Latest Development in the Biden Family Corruption Investigation Is Not Good





By Matt Vespa
May 14, 2023 8:15 PM





We have a shocking development in the Biden corruption probe regarding a key witness, but let’s recap here. The evidence of corruption is for all to see, thanks to his cracked-out son, Hunter, leaving the roadmap of their nefarious deeds on his laptop, which the liberal media and their allies in the intelligence committee dismissed as Russian disinformation in October of 2020. That was the real October surprise which was obviously dismissed for political reasons. The device is authentic—and we all knew it. The CIA and the FBI interfered in presidential elections, but you’ve known that for some time. The latest update involved cash payments to the family from Romania, which was funneled into a host of shell companies linked to the Biden clan. Spencer wrote about it last week:



The House Oversight Committee released a detailed memo outlining its latest findings, but here's the gist:



Five weeks after Romania's president visited Washington and met with then-Vice President Biden, an entity called Bladon Enterprises Limited — reportedly Gabriel Popoviciu’s Cypriot company used to do business in Romania — started depositing funds, eventually totaling more than $3 million, into the Robinson Walker, LLC account — one of at least 15 companies created by Biden associates after Joe Biden became vice president.



After the transfers from Bladon to Robinson Walker, bank accounts owned by members of Biden's family "received approximately $1.038 million from the Robinson Walker, LLC account...while Joe Biden was Vice President." Those family members include Hunter Biden, Hallie Biden, and a still-unknown Biden bank account.



The House Oversight Committee's memo points to a previous NBC News report that explained "Hunter Biden’s work for Popoviciu in 2016 went unreported at the time, but Joe Biden’s involvement in Romania was very much public."

We have the China connections, thanks to former associate Tony Bobulinski who gave all the alleged incriminating documents to the FBI, which unsurprising feels as if they were tossed into the bureau’s Bermuda Triangle section of the evidence room. The Burisma dealings, where Hunter was paid tens of thousands a month to sit on the board of that Ukrainian energy company in return for access to Obama officials, is also widely documented. There’s a tax evasion investigation, along with how Hunter, a prohibited person, obtained a handgun. Well, he lied on the latter. The mountain of evidence could scale Everest, but are we confident that charges will be filed as long as Joe Biden and the Democrats control the Justice Department? In the meantime, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Oversight Committee, revealed that a top witness in his investigation has gone missing. No, I’m not joking; this person is lost (via Newsweek):



Representative James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, admitted on Sunday that his fellow Republicans lost track of a key witness in an investigation about the Biden family being involved in an alleged bribery scheme.



[…]



The Kentucky Republican and Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, wrote in a letter sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier this month that they received "legally protected and highly credible unclassified" information from the whistleblower. They also wrote that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI would have enough information to determine the accuracy and the credibility of the information in the document.



Meanwhile, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo asked Comer during an interview on Sunday Morning Futures about the current whereabouts of the informant.



"Well, unfortunately, we can't track down the informant," Comer responded on Sunday. "We're hopeful that the informant is still there. The whistleblower knows the informant. The whistleblower is very credible."



Comer also criticized the FBI's efforts to investigate the allegation, before Bartiromo asked him again about the informant, "Did you just say that the whistleblower or the informant is now missing?"



Comer is optimistic that they can locate this person but added that the Biden White House could be engaging in a campaign of intimidation against his witnesses. And he knows who this person is but is saving that update for another time (via Fox News):



MARIA BARTIROMO: Are there whistleblowers or informants missing right now?



REP. JAMES COMER: Well with with with what we've investigated and the people that we've tracked down going back to the CFC. The two main players in that business, as well as all of the Americans that were involved in the different buying influence peddling schemes, as well as the Serbian national, the nine of the ten people that we've identified that have very good knowledge with respect to the Bidens. They're one of three things, Maria. They're either currently in court, they're currently in jail, or they're currently missing. So it's of the utmost importance that the FBI work with us to be able to try to identify what research they've done, what investigations they've done, because we have people that want to come forward. But honestly, they fear for their lives. Not only are the Biden lawyers and the Biden White House intimidating them, the media is trying to intimidate and discredit them. And I think if you look at the Rasmussen poll, you know, seven in ten Americans are very concerned that Joe Biden's involved in a public corruption scheme and they want to know more information. Seven in ten Americans strongly support the work that our House oversight committees do in investigating the Biden influence peddling. And we just need to get some cooperation from these different deep state bureaucracies that are standing in our way.



MARIA BARTIROMO: This is absolutely extraordinary and it is stunning that some people are missing that you need to prove this. Who in the White House is intimidating these people? Do you know?



REP. JAMES COMER: I do know we're saving that for a later time.



Stay tuned.

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[maybetoday]

House Oversight Committee Subpoenas Biden’s Secret Cell Phone Records

David Hawkins
May 18, 2023 - 10:02 am


The House Oversight Committee dealt a massive blow to Democrat President Joe Biden and has subpoenaed phone records for his secret cell phone.



The device belongs to the president and was paid for by Hunter Biden’s business, investigators revealed.



Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer revealed the subpoena in a recent interview.



Republicans discovered the secret phone by looking through Hunter’s notorious “Laptop from Hell.”



Schweizer said: “We obtained that phone number and we’ve shared it with individuals and the Oversight Committee in Congress is going to subpoena those phone records.



“And what’s important here is that’s not a government phone, this is not Joe Biden’s private phone that he’s paying for himself.



“It’s actually [Hunter] Biden’s business that paid for it.



“I think it’s going to yield a lot of interesting information as to who Joe Biden was talking to on this phone that was being paid for by his son.”



“It’s very troubling — the pattern that we’re seeing here,” Schweizer said about the IRS whistleblowers getting taken off the Hunter Biden case.



“You have these whistleblower complaints filed by people in the IRS that were looking at Hunter Biden’s failure to pay taxes.



“They issued a whistleblower complaint to Congress — the report is that those individuals had been removed from the case, which is contrary to the Whistleblower Law — you’re not allowed to remove somebody from their position just because they filed a whistleblower complaint.



“What happened in 2018 was the IRS looked into the fact that Hunter Biden had taken in all this foreign income, we exposed it in Secret Empires in 2018.



“That sort of launched the grand jury and you had this IRS investigation.



“And they basically concluded that Hunter Biden had taken in millions of dollars from foreign sources, had not paid taxes on it.


“You have this friend, this lawyer in Los Angeles that paid two million to the IRS to pay some of the back taxes, but the IRS was looking into charges of tax evasion.



“They went to congressional committees and complained that they believe there had been political interference from DOJ. I haven’t seen the details, but this was the claim.



“And now lo and behold, the IRS says we’re going to remove the team from investigating Hunter Biden, who had been on it now for what, five years, and we’re going to start apparently gonna have to start the whole thing over, so what does that mean to the investigation?



“What does that mean?” Schweizer asked.



“I think it’s massive, but first of all.



“I think it’s illegal by the whistleblower statute.



“You cannot remove somebody from their position, simply because they made a whistleblower complaint.”



LISTEN:
 


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[J.J.Gibbs]

Speaker McCarthy Says FBI Is Ready to Turn Over Damning Document Alleging Criminal Bribery Scheme Involving Joe Biden – Then FBI Tells Him to Pound Sand

By Jim Hoft
May. 21, 2023 7:40



On Friday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) wrote the FBI demanding they turn over a document alleging a bribery scheme involving then Vice President Joe Biden.



The document in question is not classified.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Sunday said the FBI is poised to turn the damning document over to the Oversight Committee


Kevin McCarthy Expects FBI’s Cooperation in Releasing Crucial FD-1023 Form to Congress that Outlines Joe Biden and Foreign National Bribery Scheme (VIDEO).



But later today the FBI told Republicans to pound sand – the agency penned a letter to Comer they will not be turning over the document.



In case you haven’t noticed, the FBI is a completely lawless organization.



The Daily Mail reported



Speaker Kevin McCarthy has declared the FBI is poised to hand over a potentially damning document involving President Joe Biden – after an impassioned phone call with the bureau’s director.



Appearing for a televised interview Sunday, the California rep offered some insight as to what transpired between him and director Christopher Wray on the Friday call, which came a day after feds rebuffed a subpoena requesting the still unseen report.



The official request was sent by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, and pertained to a prospective financial form that several GOP lawmakers claim lays out an ‘alleged criminal scheme’ involving Biden and an unnamed foreign national.



However, almost immediately afterward, the bureau’s acting assistant director of congressional affair penned a letter to Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, informing him the agency would not immediately provide the form in question.

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[maybetoday]

Second IRS Whistleblower Surfaces in Hunter Biden Probe After Purge of Case Investigators
WENDELL HUSEBØ
23 May 2023

A second IRS whistleblower in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) probe of Hunter Biden for tax fraud surfaced after the expulsion of the whole IRS team investigating the president’s son, documents sent to Congress revealed Monday.

The whistleblower, a special agent in the IRS’s international tax and financial crimes group, joins his supervisor who alleged in April that two Biden administration political appointees within the Justice Department politically interfered in the probe to block charges against Hunter Biden for tax violations against recommendations. The first whistleblower also claimed Attorney General Merrick Garland refused to appoint a special prosecutor in the case to provide a degree of separation between the probe and Joe Biden.

Both whistleblowers intend to participate in a blockbuster hearing on Friday before the House Ways and Means Committee. They will share concerns about the DOJ’s alleged corruption within the department.
The second IRS whistleblower alerted Congress after the DOJ allegedly ordered his removal from the case, along with his entire team. The new whistleblower oversaw the probe since January 2020 and led 12 colleagues in the investigation.

The new whistleblower alleged on May 17 leadership excluded his team from the case after leadership learned of “longstanding concerns” about the handling of the probe. The concerns allegedly angered a redacted “U.S. Attorney for the District…”

U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss, a Trump administration appointee, is the lead prosecutor in the case. Garland told Congress in March that Weiss has the autonomy to recommend changes, but Biden’s attorney general has also admitted he has to sign off on the charges.

“In a charged meeting on October 7, 2022, U.S. Attorney for the District of [redacted] became aware that both the IRS and the FBI had longstanding concerns about the handling of the case … After [redacted] continued to communicate concerns to the [redacted] USAO in a prosecutorial team call on October 17, 2022, he and his IRS team were no longer invited to any further prosecutorial team calls and meetings on the case, effectively excluding them from the case,” a document sent to Congress reads.

The president's son is reportedly under investigation for tax fraud, money laundering, and gun and foreign lobbying violations by Trump-appointed United States Attorney David C. Weiss.

“For the last couple years, my [supervisor] and I have tried to gain the attention of our senior leadership about certain issues prevalent regarding the investigation. I have asked for countless … meetings with our chief and deputy chief, often to be left out on an island and not heard from,” the agent emailed IRS officials:

The lack of IRS-[Criminal Investigation] senior leadership involvement in this investigation is deeply troubling and unacceptable. Rather than recognizing the need to ensure close engagement and full support of the investigatory team in this extraordinarily sensitive case, the response too often had been that we were isolated (even when I said on multiple occasions that I wasn’t being heard and that I thought I wasn’t able to perform my job adequately because of the actions of the USAO and DOJ, my concerns were ignored by senior leadership).

The whistleblower also wrote that the DOJ and the U.S. Attorney’s office are responsible for his team’s removal from the case.

“The ultimate decision to remove the investigatory team from [redacted] without actually talking with that investigatory team, in my opinion was a decision made not to side with the investigators but to side with the US Attorney’s office and Department of Justice who we have been saying for some time has been acting inappropriately,” the person wrote.

Biden: Hunter Has “Done Nothing Wrong” and His Situation Impacts My Presidency “By Making Me Feel Proud of Him”:

In turn, IRS assistant special agent in charge of the DC field office Lola Watson reportedly told the whistleblower on Friday to stand down:

You have been told several times that you need to follow your chain of command. IRS-CI maintains a chain of command for numerous reasons to include trying to stop unauthorized disclosures. Your email yesterday may have included potential grand jury (aka 6e material) in the subject line and contents of the email, and you included recipients that are not on the 6e list.

Attorneys for the whistleblower, Mark Lytle and Tristian Leavitt, wrote the IRS on Monday fearing “reprisals” for the special agent that are “unacceptable and contrary to the law.”

The first whistleblower supports much of the new whistleblower’s claims. According to the first whistleblower, “an assistant US attorney and an attorney for the DOJ’s tax division on Oct. 24, 2022, demanded from the IRS ‘all his emails related to the case’ and ‘made a similar request of the FBI,'” the New York Post reported.

The IRS whistleblowers come as the probe into Hunter Biden could implicate Joe Biden. A witness who testified before the grand jury was reportedly asked to identify the “big guy.”

RELATED: Grassley: Whistleblowers Allegedly Have Evidence of Hunter’s Criminal Conduct, Joe Biden’s Knowledge:





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[Midnight]

“Multiple Steps – Slow Walked at Direction of Department of Justice” – IRS Whistleblower in Hunter Biden Probe Goes Public, Speaks to CBS News (UPDATE: Full Video of Interview)

By Kristinn Taylor
May. 24, 2023 6:52 pm

The IRS whistleblower who went to Congress with claims the Justice Department interfered with a years-long high profile tax investigation–reported to involve Hunter Biden–has gone public, granting an interview with CBS News that aired Wednesday evening. (Update: Full video added at end of article.)


Supervisory Criminal Investigative Agent Gary Shapley, a 14-year IRS veteran, spoke to CBS two days before he is scheduled to give closed door testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday. Shapley, a registered Republican, says he is non-partisan in his work and does not make political contributions, telling CBS, “I’m just simply not a political person. This is a job, and my oath of office is to treat everybody fairly that we investigate.”



Shapley had fruitlessly gone to multiple in-house whistleblower channels at the IRS and DOJ before turning to Congress in frustration.



A second IRS whistleblower, a member of Shapley’s team, contacted Congress last week with similar concerns of DOJ interference.



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Shapley’s attorney Mark Lytle informed Congress last week that Shaplry and his team of investigators had been abruptly pulled off the investigation on orders of the Justice Department.



CBS posted a brief clip of Shapley saying, “There was multiple steps that were slow walked at the direction of the Department of Justice.”

Excerpt from the CBS report online:



“There were multiple steps that were slow-walked — were just completely not done — at the direction of the Department of Justice,” said Gary Shapley, a 14-year veteran of the agency, who spoke exclusively to CBS News chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod on Tuesday. “When I took control of this particular investigation, I immediately saw deviations from the normal process. It was way outside the norm of what I’ve experienced in the past.”



…Shapley told CBS News he became increasingly concerned about measures being taken that he said appeared to shield the target of the investigation — which CBS News independently confirmed is Hunter Biden.



“Each and every time, it seemed to always benefit the subject,” Shapley said. “It just got to that point where that switch was turned on. And I just couldn’t silence my conscience anymore.”



…”For a couple years, we’d been noticing these deviations in the investigative process. And I just couldn’t, you know, fathom that DOJ might be acting unethically on this,” he said.



CBS News obtained a letter Shapley’s attorneys sent last week to the Office of the Special Counsel, a federal agency dedicated to assisting government whistleblowers. The letter alleges “irregularities” in the Department of Justice’s handling of the case, and cites a “charged meeting” Shapley’s team had with Justice Department prosecutors last October. According to the letter, following that meeting, Shapley’s team was effectively excluded from the investigation. Shapley would not say if he made prosecutors aware of his concerns but did acknowledge the incident prompted him to blow the whistle.



“It was my red-line meeting,” Shapley said. “It just got to that point where that switch was turned on, and I just couldn’t silence my conscience anymore.”



End excerpt. Please read the complete CBS report at this link.



Breitbart reported earlier Wednesday that IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel sent a letter to Congress last week blaming the DOJ for the removal of the whistleblower (excerpt):



IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel told Congress the Justice Department (DOJ) made the decision to purge an IRS whistleblower from the DOJ’s probe into Hunter Biden, according to a letter sent to House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO).



Werfel’s letter on May 17 responded to Smith’s May 16 inquiry about concerns that a high-ranking IRS agent faced retaliation for raising red flags about alleged political interference in the tax probe of Hunter Biden.



Werfel said the decision to remove a whistleblower from the tax investigation was at the DOJ’s direction, confirming what a second IRS whistleblower alleged Monday.



“The IRS whistleblower you reference alleges that the change in their work assignment came at the direction of the Department of Justice,” reads the letter, obtained by Fox News. “As a general matter and not in reference to any specific case, I believe it is important to emphasize that in any matter involving federal judicial proceedings, the IRS follows the direction of the Justice Department.”



Werfel disavowed any potential role he allegedly had in removing the IRS whistleblowers from the case.



“I want to state unequivocally that I have not intervened – and will not intervene – in any way that would impact the status of any whistleblower,” Werfel said.



Featured Image via Kevin Tober with the Media Research Center.

UPDATE: Brief report on Gary Shapley by John Solomon:

UPDATE: Complete CBS interview:





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[schwartzie]

Hunter Received ‘Pay-for-Play’ Contract Days before VP Joe Biden Withheld U.S Aid from Ukraine in 2015, Emails Show

Frank Bergman
May 25, 2023 - 12:44 pm


Smoking gun emails have emerged that show Hunter Biden received a lucrative contract just days before his then-vice president father traveled to Ukraine and withheld U.S. aid from the government in 2015.



Joe Biden infamously bragged about his “$1 billion loan guarantee” quid-pro-quo meeting that took place in December 2015 in Ukraine.



Years later, during a Council on Foreign Relations panel, Biden boasted to an audience about getting the prosecutor investigating Burisma, Viktor Shokin, fired.



Shokin was fired shortly after Hunter Biden joined Burisma, a notoriously corrupt Ukraine energy company, as a member of the board.



The company paid Hunter $50,000 a month to sit on the board, despite having no experience in the sector and not even being able to speak Ukrainian.



In his boastings, Biden also implicated then-President Barack Obama in that exchange:



“You have no authority…you’re not the President…” Biden said Ukraine government officials responded.



To which Biden smugly replied, “Call him.”



WATCH:







But more shocking than this admission are emails that strongly suggest Hunter Biden’s involvement in this effort to “close down for [sic] any cases/pursuits against Nikolay [Zlochevsky] in Ukraine.”



The following outlines a thorough investigation by Badlands Media co-founder Jon Herold:

Sally Painter, a former Clinton administration senior advisor from 1993-1995 and co-founder/COO of Blue Star Strategies, reached out to Hunter Biden in a February 2011 email asking if Hunter would consider a position on the board of the Truman National Security Project.








A month later, Painter emailed Hunter back and said “U were a big hit as expected…I think you will get the actual offer in the next three weeks.”



Jake Sullivan, the current National Security Advisor, would later join the Truman National board in 2017.



This email string and the subsequent offer lay the foundation of Painter’s relationship with Hunter predating this incredible discovery.



Fast forward to October 2015.



“Joan Mayer” of Rosemont Seneca emailed Hunter and Eric Schwerin a schedule for the next week that included the line “*HOLD- Breakfast with Devon, Vadym & Sally Painter- TBD”.



“Vadym” refers to Vadym Pozharskyi, the “fixer” for shady oligarchs, according to a New York Post article in October 2020.



Vadym had previously asked Hunter “how you could use your influence to convey a message…to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions” regarding Burisma’s leader and ongoing investigations.



About a week later on October 31, 2015, Hunter’s former partner, Devon Archer, would forward an email from Blue Star Strategies to Vadym, Hunter, and Schwerin.



Sally Painter was Cc’d on the original email.



The subject reads “Revised Burisma Proposal, Contract, and Invoice.”



While the contract itself is not available for download, the context of the follow-up emails strongly suggests a “pay for play” operation immediately before Joe Biden’s famous “Son-of-a-bitch was fired” trip to Ukraine.



Within days, Vadym replied back to Archer, Schwerin, and Hunter with the following:







Notice in this email that Vadym claims the contract lacks “tangible results” and “doesn’t offer any names of top U.S. officials here in Ukraine” such as a US Ambassador as “key targets for improving Nikolay’s case and his situation in Ukraine.”



Nikolay is how Vadym refers to the owner of Burisma Holdings, Mykola Zlochevsky.



In the next paragraph, Vadym says “If, however, this is done deliberately to be on the safe and cautious side, [he] can understand the rationale.”



He then asserts that “we should proceed immediately” as long as “…all parties in fact understand the true purpose of the BS engagement and all our joint efforts.”



BS refers to the contractor, Blue Star Strategies.



While initially erring on the side of caution, Vadym then lets out the most damning evidence of a “pay for play” between Hunter Biden’s associates at Rosemont Seneca, Burisma, and US officials under the Obama administration:



My only concern is for us to be on the same page re our final goals.



With this in mind, I would like us to formulate a list of deliverables, including, but not limited to: a concrete course of actions, incl. meetings/communications resulting in high-ranking US officials in Ukraine (US Ambassador) and in US publicly or in private communication/comment expressing their “positive opinion” and support of Nikolay/Burisma to the highest level of decision makers here in Ukraine: President of Ukraine, president Chief of staff, Prosecutor General, etc



The scope of work should also include organization of a visit of a number of widely recognized and influential current and/or former US policy-makers to Ukraine in November aiming to conduct meetings with and bring positive signal/message and support on Nikolay’s issue to the Ukrainian top officials above with the ultimate purpose to close down for any cases/pursuits against Nikolay in Ukraine.



Schwerin writes back within 9 minutes that “this is definitely done deliberately to [sic] be on the safe and cautious side and that Sally [Painter] and company understand the scope and deliverables.”



Archer then emails back “Hunter, You need to deliver that message.”



Vadym thanks Hunter after he emails Vadym the following:



Let me have one final call with them and verify once more that they understand the scope so we can all feel that the retainer is in line with the work required.



I trust Sally and Karen implicitly so I believe we are all aligned but I want to have one last conversation with them to confirm before we proceed.



Vadym signed the agreement and emailed it back to Hunter, Schwerin, and Archer with the following message:



Dear Colleagues, Please, find attached the signed agreement with BS from our side. Could you kindly have BS countersign it and forward back to me? I would appreciate it. Also, the 60 ths [sic] retainer is being wired today. I am kindly asking you to schedule either a conf call or advise us as to the foreseen action plan for November – December 2015, and if anything has been already done by BS, could kindly you ask them to share with us this information?



Thank you, Vadym



On December 2nd, 2015, Sean Keeley of Blue Star Strategies sent an email to several Rosemont email addresses, including Hunter, Archer, and Schwerin, as well as several Blue Star emails including Sally Painter and co-founder Karen Tramontano with a memo of the minutes from a White House conference call regarding Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to Ukraine.



This is the very trip that Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees.



According to Biden, he withheld the aid unless the prosecutor (Viktor Shokin) was not fired, with President Obama’s blessing.



Shokin was reported to have been fired in April 2016.



The investigation into Burisma and “Nikolay” was eventually closed by Shokin’s successor, Yuriy Lutsenko.



Blue Star Strategies would come under investigation for “illegal lobbying” in 2021, according to Fox News.



While the Fox News article does mention “access” to “high levels” of the Clinton campaign in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election, there is no reference to the 2015 contract between Blue Star Strategies, Rosemont Seneca, and Vadym Pozharskyi in 2015, just a week or two before Joe Biden’s now-infamous Ukraine trip.



In May 2022, the Biden DOJ closed the probe into the organization with no findings of wrongdoing.


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James Comer Finally Puts Dollar Figure on Alleged Bribe Paid to Joe Biden

David Hawkins
May 25, 2023 - 9:47am


House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has dropped explosive new information that puts a staggering seven-figure sum on an alleged bribe Democrat President Joe Biden took while serving as Obama’s VP.



Comer sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday.



The letter threatens Wray with being held in contempt of Congress if he doesn’t hand over a subpoenaed document a whistleblower says shows that then-Vice President Biden took a cash bribe from a foreign national in exchange for policy considerations.



In the letter, Comer drops a bombshell and finally puts a dollar figure to the alleged bribe.



Comer says Biden took a whopping $5 million bribe. Wow.



He wrote:



“…to narrow the breadth of the subpoena, we are providing additional terms based on unclassified and legally protected whistleblower disclosures that may be referenced in the FD-1023 form: ‘June 30, 2020’ and ‘five million.’



“These terms relate to the date on the FD-1023 form and its reference to the amount of money the foreign national allegedly paid to receive the desired policy outcome.”



Comer’s full letter is below:



“On May 3, 2023, the Committee sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding legally protected and highly credible unclassified whistleblower disclosures.



“As previously stated, the whistleblower disclosures indicated that the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) are in possession of an FD-1023 form describing an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.



“That same day, the Committee also issued a subpoena requiring the production of: ll FD-1023 forms, including within any open, closed, or restricted access case files, created or modified in June 2020, containing the term ‘Biden,’ including all accompanying attachments and documents to those FD-1023 forms.



“The subpoena return date was May 10, 2023.



“On May 15, 2023, Committee counsel attended an in-person meeting at FBI Headquarters.



“During that meeting, FBI staff failed to produce the FD-1023 form or offer any reasonable accommodation that would allow the Committee to review the document.

“Instead, FBI requested a second briefing. I expressed disappointment with the substance of that meeting in a May 19, 2023, letter to you.



“On May 16, 2023, Senator Grassley and I, through our staff, requested a phone call with you to discuss the FD-1023 form.



“Despite repeated requests, the FBI has failed to schedule a phone call. Senator Grassley and I remain open to speaking with you about the FD-1023 form.



“On May 22, 2023, FBI staff and Committee counsel met for a second time, where FBI staff provided general information regarding its confidential human source (CHS) program.



“Similar to the May 15 meeting, FBI staff was not authorized to even acknowledge the existence of the FD-1023 form.



“There was only one substantive comment regarding the subpoena.



“Despite the Committee’s subpoena being narrowly tailored to June 2020, FBI staff indicated that the search terms were broad because there were many responsive documents containing the term ‘Biden’ in its CHS database for that month.



“While that new information was alarming, Committee counsel offered to limit the subpoena to be even more precise.



“FBI staff responded that such limitation was unnecessary because they knew which document was responsive to the subpoena, yet simultaneously would not acknowledge that document’s existence.



“The FBI’s gamesmanship in holding a meeting about general CHS confidentiality issues—instead of addressing the specific FD-1023 form the Committee subpoenaed—is unacceptable.



“The Committee is not seeking the identity of the CHS who provided the information to the FBI.



“Furthermore, there are reasonable accommodations that would alleviate the FBI’s concerns about exposing CHS information, including appropriate redactions.



“Instead of working with the Committee, the FBI has refused to even acknowledge whether the FD-1023 form exists.



“And the agency has made no attempts to engage in a reasonable accommodation process.



“The FBI’s refusal to produce this single document is obstructionist.



“Nevertheless, to narrow the breadth of the subpoena, we are providing additional terms based on unclassified and legally protected whistleblower disclosures that may be referenced in the FD-1023 form: ‘June 30, 2020’ and ‘five million.’



“These terms relate to the date on the FD-1023 form and its reference to the amount of money the foreign national allegedly paid to receive the desired policy outcome.



“Given the large number of FD-1023 forms with the word ‘Biden’ in June 2020, these terms should assist the FBI in identifying the specific FD-1023 form at issue.



“Despite the FBI’s unreasonable delay, the Committee will allow FBI six more days to produce the FD-1023 form.



“To the extent there are numerous documents referencing ‘Biden’ and ‘five million’ dollar payments, please let us know promptly.



“As explained in both previous letters, the Committee’s independent and objective review of this matter will inform potential legislative solutions that the Committee is exploring.



“Specifically, the Committee is considering legislation aimed at deficiencies in the current legal framework regarding disclosure of financial interests related to Vice Presidents and Presidents (and the family members thereof)—deficiencies that may place American national security at risk.



“The Committee is seeking meaningful reforms to government ethics and disclosure laws that will provide necessary transparency into a Vice President’s or a President’s (and their immediate family members’) income, assets, and financial relationship with foreign and domestic companies.



“Public corruption, influence peddling, federal ethics/financial disclosures regulations, and national security matters are directly within the purview of the Committee’s oversight authorities.



“Your response to the subpoena is due May 30, 2023.



“If the FD-1023 form is not produced by that date, the Committee will initiate contempt of Congress proceedings.



“To ask any follow-up or related questions, please contact Committee staff at [phone],” the letter says.



“The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate ‘any matter’ at ‘any time’ under House Rule X.



“The subpoena was issued pursuant to my authority as the Chairman of the Committee pursuant to both Rule XI.2(m)(1)(B) of the Rules of the House of Representatives and Rule 12(g) of the Committee’s rules. Thank you for your prompt attention to this important investigation.”



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Comer: FBI Confirmed the Document Alleging Biden Engaged in $5 Million Bribery Scheme is From Highly Credible Informant

By Cristina Laila
Jun. 5, 2023 2:13 pm




House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Monday said the FBI AGAIN refused to hand over the Biden bribery document.



Over the weekend it was reported Chris Wray caved to Comer and agreed to turn over the unclassified document detailing a $5 million criminal plot involving Joe Biden.

Chairman Comer has reviewed the key document and asked the FBI to hand over the record to the custody of the House Oversight so others can review it as he continues his investigation into the Biden crime family.



The FBI confirmed the unclassified document alleging Joe Biden engaged in a $5 million bribery scheme is from a highly credible informant.



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“Today, FBI officials confirmed that the unclassified , FBI-generated record has not been disproven and stated several times the information contained within it is currently being used in an ongoing investigation. The confidential human source who provided information about then-Vice President Biden being involved in a criminal bribery scheme is a trusted, highly credible informant who has been used by the FBI for years,” Comer said.



“These are facts and no amount of spin, and frankly lies, from the White House of Congressional Democrats can change this information,” he added.



“We believe there are multiple documents,” Comer told reporters.



The FBI’s CHS goes back to the Obama Administration!



WATCH:

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Congresswoman Makes Shocking Claim About Biden Informant After Leaving House Oversight Meeting
By Jack Davis

June 6, 2023 at 6:15am

A Republican U.S. representative said Monday that information possessed by an FBI informant who made an allegation against President Joe Biden could cost him his life.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida is a member of the House Oversight Committee. On Monday, Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who chairs the panel, was briefed on a document held by the FBI that makes allegations of a criminal scheme involving Biden while he was vice president and a foreign national. The scheme Comer’s panel has been investigating centers around payments made in exchange for certain policies.

Comer has demanded full access to the document, which has been subpoenaed by the panel, and said the briefing was not enough. After the briefing, the Oversight Committee met.

Luna was rocked by what she heard.

“Just left meeting for House Oversight. The @fbi is afraid their informant will be killed if unmasked, based on the info he has brought forward about the Biden family,” she tweeted.

She later told Fox News the FBI’s concerns were “alarming and scary.”

Luna noted that the committee will begin hearings Thursday to consider contempt of Congress charges against FBI Director Christopher Wray.

“We are going to be bringing the FBI Director in before Congress for contempt of Congress proceedings as he is still conniving to shelter the Biden administration from its own sickening corruption,” she said.

Comer called the informant who sent the tip to the FBI one of its “most highly credible human sources,” who was paid a “substantial amount of money” by the FBI, according to the New York Post, citing an interview Comer had with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday’s “Hannity.”

“He had been a part of the bureau for 13 years, dating back to the Obama administration,” Comer said.

Comer said the form detailing allegations about foreign money trying to influence policies was from 2020, but contained information the FBI had been aware of as early as 2017.

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“This particular document was dated in 2020. But there are notes in the document that date back to 2017. We believe that this human source initially informed the FBI of the bribery scheme back in 2017. So my question to the FBI was, ‘What exactly have you done with this accusation?’” Comer said.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, told Hannity on the same program that the form Comer is seeking “just isn’t a document that’s in the possession of the FBI … this is a document they created.”

“They had a credible source, one of their good sources, who they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, bring this information to them, and then they create this document,” Jordan said. “We want to see it.”

The Ohio Republican argued that the informant alleging the Biden bribery scheme is likely far more credible than British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who authored the infamous dossier against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 which the FBI used as the basis to launch an investigation into the Trump 2016 presidential campaign.

The Steele dossier was also key to the FBI’s “Russia collusion” investigation that dogged years of of the Trump presidency.

“How much you want to bet this source is a lot more credible than Christopher Steele, the guy who created the dossier that they used to go after President Trump? I bet you this source has a lot more credibility. But they will not let us see this document. I hope they do. I hope they let the American people see it,” Jordan said.


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