The Biden Crime Family (Consolidated Thread)

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Top 5 Revelations from Biden Family Probe in 2023
WENDELL HUSEBØ
22 Dec 2023

House investigators worked overtime in 2023 to investigate the massive web of wire transfers, 20 shell companies, and associates who helped the Biden family business raked in at least $24 million from foreign nationals over the course of approximately five years.



Below are the top five 2023 revelations from the House investigation into President Joe Biden, along with James and Hunter Biden:



1) James Comer: Joe Biden Received $40,000 in China Money Again Disguised as Loan Repayment



Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered CEFC China Energy Co. money in 2017 from the account of his brother, James Biden, and sister-in-law, Sara Biden, once again in the form of a personal check labeled as a “loan repayment,” House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) uncovered in November.



The revelation is the second instance Joe Biden personally accepted a suspicious personal check from his brother James, who was involved in the Biden family’s overseas business ventures. Joe Biden has denied any involvement in Biden family business ventures at least nine times.

The discovery justifies concerns raised by Republicans that the Biden business compromised Joe Biden. It also lends further credence to the impeachment inquiry into the president.

2) James Comer: FBI Tipped off Hunter Biden to Interview, Confirming IRS Whistleblowers



FBI officials tipped off Hunter Biden in the Bureau’s criminal probe of him and told a former FBI supervisory special agent to stand by and not approach him, Comer announced in July, confirming key portions of the IRS whistle blower allegations.



Upon sitting for a transcribed interview with the committee, the former FBI agent told the committee that FBI officials in December 2020 tipped off both the Secret Service and the Biden transition team about a scheduled interview about its criminal investigation into Hunter Biden.

The FBI agent said because of the tipoff, the agent never interviewed Hunter Biden.

3) James Comer: Joe Biden Received ‘Direct Monthly Payments’ from Hunter’s ‘Owasco PC’ Business Account



Joe Biden received “direct monthly payments” from Hunter Biden’s “Owasco PC” business account, which received “payments from Chinese state-linked companies and other foreign nationals and companies,” Comer told Breitbart News in December.



Comer’s revelation amplifies concerns raised by Republicans that Joe Biden is compromised. It also provides more evidence to support an impeachment inquiry into the president.

An Oversight Committee aide told Breitbart News the committee is aware of at least three monthly payments for $1,380.

4) James Comer Names the nine Biden Family Members Who Got Business Payments



In May, Comer named the previously undisclosed Biden family members who received payments from the family’s foreign business ventures.



Comer described all nine family members as related to 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]


5) Chuck Grassley Releases FBI Record Alleging VP Joe Biden Foreign Bribery Scheme



Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released an FBI informant record in July that alleged Joe Biden and Hunter Biden each received $5 million from Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings after Joe Biden threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine until President Petro Poroshenko fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma.



Grassley said he acquired the FD-1023 form by legally protected disclosures from Justice Department whistle blowers.

The FBI previously allowed lawmakers to review the unclassified document after much arm-twisting by Comer. But it refused to make the form public.


More information about the Biden family business is here.

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[ExquisiteGerbil]

Top 5 Biden Corruption Stories the Media Ignored in 2023
WENDELL HUSEBØ
27 Dec 2023

The establishment media continued their biased reporting by selectively ignoring important storylines that contradict their grand narratives.



Americans noticed the bias. Fifty percent of Americans said the national media intend to mislead, misinform, and persuade the public, a Gallup and Knight Foundation poll found:



Just 35 percent said most news organizations could be relied upon.

Only 26 percent held a favorable opinion of the news media, the lowest level recorded in the past five years by the poll. Fifty-three percent hold an unfavorable view.

Below are five storylines the establishment media ignored in 2023:



1) Report: ABC, NBC, CBS Morning News Ignore Chinese Money Wired to Joe Biden’s Address



In September, Breitbart News reported cable morning news shows on ABC News, NBC News, and CBS News apparently ignored the bombshell revelation that President Joe Biden’s home address received two bank wires totaling $260,000 in 2019 from Biden family Chinese business partners.



2) ABC, CBS Evening Programming Ignores Bombshell Whistleblower Claims of Hunter Biden’s ‘Preferential Treatment’ from DOJ



In June, Breitbart News reported that ABC’s “World News Tonight” and “CBS Evening News” ignored the bombshell IRS whistleblower allegations that Hunter Biden received preferential treatment from the Justice Department (DOJ) regarding probes into tax violations.



3) WaPo, NYT, Politico, CNN, MSNBC’s Main Front Pages Fail to Feature IRS Whistleblower Claims Against Biden’s DOJ



In June, Breitbart News reported establishment media networks avoided posting stories on their home pages about the IRS whistleblower allegations of political interference by the DOJ on behalf of the Biden family.



4) Politico Ignores Allegations of Bribery While Praising Biden’s European Wardrobe



In July, Breitbart News reported media outlets ignored allegations against the president of receiving a $5 million bribe, focusing instead on Biden’s European wardrobe:



Politico, which frequently tries to protect the Bidens from political liabilities, such as with its infamous reporting on the “Laptop from Hell” in 2020, focused its lead story in Politico Playbook’s evening newsletter on a 724-word piece about Joe Biden’s wardrobe during his latest tour in Europe.



Nowhere in the newsletter was the biggest story of the month: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released an FBI information record that alleged Joe Biden and Hunter Biden each received $5 million from Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings, after Joe Biden threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine until President Petro Poroshenko fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma.



5) White House, Democrat, Media Claims of “No Evidence” to Support Biden Impeachment Inquiry Contradicted by Mountains of Evidence



In September, Breitbart News reported the White House, Democrats, and their allied media outlets pushed outright disinformation by claiming there is “no evidence” to support an impeachment inquiry into Biden, contradicting mounds of evidence uncovered by House Republicans and already in the public sphere.



Stories the establishment media ignored in 2022 are here.



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[maybetoday]

Ukrainian Politician Who Broke the Biden-Burisma Corruption Story – Sits for FIRST INTERVIEW in Two Years – Will Reveal BOMBSHELL Details from His Biden Crime Family Investigation – COMING SOON!

By Jim Hoft
Dec. 29, 2023 1:00 pm

This information was sent to The Gateway Pundit from our patriotic contacts in Europe.

The well-known Ukrainian politician Andriy Derkach, who was the first to provide evidence of international corruption and influence peddling by Joe Biden in Ukraine, has given his first exclusive interview after a long media pause related to security issues. Despite the pause in communication with the media, Derkach used all this time to continue his investigative work and collect new evidence.



The full version of the interview will be available at 13:00 on January 10, 2024 on the X/Twitter of American journalist Simone Mangiante (https://twitter.com/SimonaMangiante), who managed to communicate with the “Ground Zero of Biden’s corruption in Ukraine” – Andriy Derkach. Subsequently, the full text and video of the interview will also be posted on the website of the investigative Internet publication “21st Century Wire”.

Andriy Derkach became known to the world media after a number of high-profile corruption revelations concerning the “Ukrainian trail” in the activities of Joe Biden during his tenure as Vice President of the United States from 2014-2017.


Among the evidence presented by Derkach, which without the resistance of the democratic leadership of the United States could have led to the end of Joe Biden’s political career long ago, were shadowy earnings of the Biden family due to protection of the interests of the Ukrainian mining company Burisma; political cover-up of an international corruption scheme to use the developed structure of Ukrainian grant organizations that embezzled financial aid provided at the expense of American taxpayers; offshoring of billions of dollars due to Ukraine’s transfer to reverse natural gas supplies; accountability of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies to the US Embassy in the investigation of high-profile criminal cases, direct blackmailing of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for the sake of firing Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who came too close to the Bidens in the Burisma investigation.



It was also Derkach who first presented audio recordings of phone conversations between Biden and Poroshenko (known today as the “Derkach tapes”), and it was Derkach who proved the interference of the Democrat-created National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) in the 2016 presidential election on the side of Hillary Clinton.



Many American journalists, lawyers and congressmen at the time highly appreciated the evidence collected and publicized by Derkach, who proved the existence of an extensive structure of international corruption in Ukraine. Each public statement of Andriy Derkach was accompanied by indisputable documentary evidence in the form of official papers. A separate large area of Derkach’s work was the investigation of the so-called “Democorruption”, which attracted the attention of a reputable American investigator, prosecutor, lawyer and attorney – Rudy Giuliani, with whom Derkach planned to consolidate efforts on intergovernmental investigative activities.



However, after Derkach’s persecution by the U.S. and Ukrainian authorities, which included not only deprivation of citizenship and the status of people’s deputy, but also the opening of criminal cases and even an attempt to physically eliminate him by special services, the fate of Andriy Derkach remained unknown for a long time.



American journalists found out that Derkach had been forced to leave the territory of Ukraine, had not been active in public activities for almost two years and was focused on searching for and analyzing new evidence of international corruption activities, including those related to the Biden family’s activity in Ukraine.



Sensational facts presented by Andrei Derkach in an interview with the US media may become another step towards the possible impeachment of the incumbent US president.



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[schwartzie]

Report Highlights Key Findings from Congressional Investigations into Hunter Biden

Nick R. Hamilton
January 2, 2024 - 10:22 am


A new report has highlighted the key findings that have emerged from the congressional investigations into Democrat President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.



The Washington Examiner just published a year-end report that highlights some of the major discoveries about Hunter Biden that have been made by Congress.



The outlet focuses on four investigative findings in particular.



First, the Examiner calls attention to the Biden bribery scheme.



The scheme, which was exposed by a trusted FBI source, involves Hunter and President Biden.



The source claimed that Joe and Hunter Biden each received $5 million from the founder of Burisma Holdings.



Burisma is the corrupt Ukrainian energy company on whose board Hunter sat.



The large bribes were allegedly in exchange for getting the prosecutor fired who was investigating the company.



This is the same situation in which Joe Biden once was caught on camera bragging about getting the prosecutor fired after he threatened – as the U.S. vice president – to withhold funding from Ukraine.



Next up, the Examiner highlights the “whistleblower X” situation.



The whistleblower is IRS Special Agent Joseph Ziegler.



He along with another whistleblower – IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapely – were once involved in the agency’s investigation of Hunter Biden, and both individuals have made some surprising revelations about the agency’s investigation of Biden.



The Examiner reports:


Ziegler’s testimony served as evidence of how the DOJ “refused to follow evidence that implicated Joe Biden, tipped off Hunter Biden’s attorneys, allowed the clock to run out with respect to certain charges, and put Hunter Biden on the path to a sweetheart plea deal,” according to [House Oversight Committee Chairman James] Comer [R-KY].



Next up, the Examiner calls attention to the discovery of Joe Biden’s countless aliases.



The Examiner reports:



“In August, officials from the National Archives and Records Administration found nearly 5,400 records containing pseudonyms used by President Biden while he was vice president.



“The records determined that he used the email addresses [e-mail], [e-mail], and [e-mail] to communicate during his vice presidency — including with his son.”



What investigators have been trying to do is link these communications to the Biden family business to dispel the narrative that Joe Biden was not involved in his son’s international dealings.



Finally, there is the congressional testimony of Devon Archer, a former business associate of Hunter Biden.



This testimony has also been used to dispel the notion that Joe Biden was not involved in his son’s business dealings.



As the Examiner reports, Archer revealed that Hunter Biden would often put his father on the phone with the people whom he was doing business with.



These are four of many findings that have been made by congressional investigators of the Biden family business in 2023.



We’ll have to see what the investigators find in 2024 and whether Joe Biden will be able to continue to avoid accountability.

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[ExquisiteGerbil]

Hunter Biden to Sit for Closed-Door Deposition, Along with 5 Associates
WENDELL HUSEBØ
18 Jan 2024

Hunter Biden will sit for a closed-door interview on February 28, along with five Biden family associates at various dates, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced Thursday.



The announcement came as a surprise to some Republicans. Last week, the chairmen went through procedural hurdles to prepare for a House vote to hold Hunter in contempt of Congress for failing to sit for the deposition.



Hunter proposed last week to sit for the deposition if Congress reissued a subpoena, arguing the prior subpoenas “are legally invalid” because the impeachment inquiry “did not yet exist when the subpoenas were issued.”



The Republican chairmen initially accepted the offer but warned the House would move forward with contempt proceedings for this week.



The chairmen deemed Hunter’s offer to be another delay tactic. Hunter’s offer also appeared to be a public relations ploy to provide Attorney General Merrick Garland with a reason not to prosecute him upon a successful contempt vote.



After wrangling with Hunter’s lawyers, Comer and Jordan changed their strategy. They did not schedule a vote to hold Hunter in concept of Congress and agreed to a deposition.



“Hunter Biden will appear before our committees for a deposition on February 28, 2024,” the chairmen said in a statement obtained by Breitbart News. “His deposition will come after several interviews with Biden family members and associates.”



Associates and the dates they are to speak with the impeachment inquiry are:



Week of January 22: Mervyn Yan — former top CEFC China Energy Co. official

Week of January 22: Rob Walker — acting “surrogate” for Hunter around the world

Week of January 29: “Moneyman” Eric Schwerin — family’s top financial lieutenant

Week of January 29: Joey Langston — close associate

Week of February 5: Tony Bobulinski — former associate who confirmed the infamous message about a stake of “10 held by H for the big guy,” as referring to Joe Biden


Hunter is a material witness in the House impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. House investigators launched the probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James Biden and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members received payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.

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[maybetoday]

Hunter Biden Art Gallerist Transcribed Interview with House Republicans Released – Here Are the Top Biden White House Lies Surrounding Hunter Art Scam

By Cristina Laila
Jan. 22, 2024 7:00 pm


Hunter Biden and his blow art.






Hunter Biden’s art gallerist Georges Bergès earlier this month sat down for an interview with Republican lawmakers and his transcribed interview was released on Monday.



What we already knew about Hunter’s latest money laundering scam disguised as art sales:



Democrat donors – including Hunter Biden’s lawyer Kevin Morris – bought Hunter Biden’s garbage artwork.



Another Biden pay-to-play scheme was revealed over the summer.


Over the summer a major Democrat donor and Biden-appointed commissioner was revealed as a buyer of Hunter Biden’s trash pile he calls “art.”



Hunter’s artwork (photo below) ranges from $75,000 for works on paper to $500,000+ for large-scale paintings.







In July Business Insider reported that Hunter Biden learned the identity of at least two of his buyers – and one of the buyers got a favor from the Biden White House!



One buyer, identified as Los Angeles real estate investor and major Democrat donor, Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, was appointed to a prestigious commission by Joe Biden.



According to Insider, in July 2022, 8 months after Hunter Biden’s art debuted in a SoHo gallery, Joe Biden appointed Naftali to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.



Additionally, Naftali has visited the Biden White House more than a dozen times and has met with senior advisors.



Hunter Biden’s lawyer Kevin Morris, who already paid off Hunter’s delinquent taxes, bought 11 works of Hunter’s art for $875,000.



Now this…



The Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Monday released the transcribed interview with Georges Bergès, Hunter Biden’s art gallerist.



The Biden White House lied about a so-called ethics agreement in place to make sure Hunter’s art wasn’t being used in yet another influence peddling scheme.



Georges Bergès revealed the following, according to the transcript:



Hunter Biden wanted to know the identities of his art purchasers.


The White House’s “ethics” agreement regarding Hunter Biden’s art was a sham. Bergès said he was surprised at the Biden White House’s claims there was an ethics agreement in place.


Big money Democrat donors purchased the majority of Hunter Biden’s art – and Hunter Biden knew their identities.


Georges Bergès revealed Kevin Morris purchased most of Hunter Biden’s art for $875,000 in January 2023. However, Kevin Morris only paid Mr. Bergès 40 percent commission of the $875,000 purchase and Hunter Biden and Kevin Morris figured out the financial implications. Mr. Bergès admitted he has never done an art deal like that before.


In 2020, Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali did not buy Hunter Biden’s art despite Georges Bergès best efforts. Within two months of Joe Biden becoming President, in February 2021, Ms. Naftali purchased her first piece of Hunter Biden’s artwork for $42,000. Then in July 2022, President Biden announced Ms. Naftali’s appointmentto the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad – the same commission that Biden family associate, Eric Schwerin, was appointed to during the Obama-Biden Administration. In December 2022, Hirsh Naftali purchased more of Hunter Biden’s art for $52,000.

Georges Bergès confirmed Hunter Biden’s name had influence on setting the price for his art.


Georges Bergès stated that he has talked on the phone and met in-person with Joe Biden, even attending the wedding the Bidens hosted at the White House.

“Hunter Biden’s amateur art career has been an ethics nightmare, and the White House needs to explain why they misled the American people.” House Oversight Republicans said on Monday.

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Biden Family Associate Testifies Joe Met with Chinese Industry Leader - Then Hunter Was Given a $3 Million 'Thank You'



By Jack Davis

January 27, 2024 at 2:49pm


Joe Biden met with a shadowy Chinese businessman who was making deals with Hunter Biden at the time, according to information released by the House Oversight Committee.



“Today we learned that Joe Biden met with the now-missing Chairman of CEFC, Ye Jianming, as Hunter Biden and his associates received $3 million from a Chinese entity CEFC controlled,” committee chairman Rep. James Comer of Kentucky said, according to a news release from the House Oversight Committee.



Evidence continues to reveal the Bidens sold the ‘Biden Brand’ to enrich the Biden family,” he said.



The New York Post noted that the 2017 encounter was described by Biden family associate Rob Walker in an FBI interview.



Joe Biden “said hello to everybody” and then “literally sat down. I don’t even think he drank water. I think Hunter said, um … ‘I may be tryin’ to start a company,’ ah, or tried to do something with these guys and could you … and think he was like ‘if I’m around’… and he’d show up,” Walker said then.



The FBI interview, however, did not note Ye’s presence, the Post reported.



In the release, Comer said Friday’s interview with Walker “confirmed Hunter Biden and his associates’ work with the Chinese government-linked energy company began over a year before Joe Biden left the vice presidency, but the Bidens and their associates held off being paid by the Chinese while Joe Biden was in office.”



Comer noted the timing of the activity for which the Bidens were paid.



“The Chinese company paid Hunter Biden and his associates $3 million shortly after Joe Biden left office as a ‘thank you’ for the work they did while Joe Biden was in office,” he said.


“Members of the Biden family received payments from the Chinese deal even though they did not work on it. This is the type of swampy influence peddling the American people want us to end,” he said.



According to Fox News, in an FBI form outlining a 2021 interview between Walker and investigators working for Special Counsel David Weiss, Walker said the “$3 million amount was more of a ‘thank you’ from CEFC.”



Comer noted in the House panel’s release that Walker was involved in projects with the Bidens that took place during President Joe Biden’s time as vice president in the Obama administration.



“Additionally, as Joe Biden was leading anti-corruption efforts in Romania, Hunter Biden and Rob Walker began an ill-defined business relationship with Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu,” Comer said in the House panel’s release.



“Mr. Walker also confirmed that he and Hunter Biden received payments from Popoviciu beginning in 2015 that continued throughout the rest of Joe Biden’s vice presidency,” he said.


Walker was summoned by Comer and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio to address whether Joe Biden “took any official action or effected any change in government policy because of money or other things of value provided to himself or his family, including whether concerns that Chinese sources may release additional evidence about their business relationships with the Biden family have had any impact on official acts performed by President Biden or U.S. foreign policy” and other concerns, according to Fox News.



According to Axios, an opening statement from Walker supported the president’s version of events that he kept his distance from Hunter Biden’s business venture.



“To be clear, President Biden – while in office or as a private citizen – was never involved in any of the business activities we pursued,” the statement said. “Any statement to the contrary is simply false.”


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[ExquisiteGerbil]

‘Moneyman’ Biden Family Associate Who Shared Bank Accounts with Joe Biden to Sit for Deposition
WENDELL HUSEBØ
29 Jan 2024

Eric Schwerin, the Biden family’s estranged “moneyman” who shared bank accounts with President Joe Biden, will appear on Tuesday for a House impeachment inquiry deposition, Breitbart News learned.



House investigators hope to ascertain information about Schwerin’s role within the Biden family’s foreign business dealings as well as Joe Biden’s knowledge of and participation in those dealings.



In December, the Committee on Ways and Means released a spreadsheet compiled by an IRS criminal investigator that included dozens of email exchanges between or among Hunter Biden, Schwerin, and pseudonyms attributable to Joe Biden between 2010 and 2019.


The National Archives released documents showing Schwerin had direct contact with White House employees regarding Burisma.


Schwerin coordinated with the White House on Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, about issues when he didn’t work for or receive payments from Burisma.


Schwerin was the president of Rosemont Seneca Partners, a fund created by Hunter and several​ associates that spawned business deals in Russia, Ukraine, China, and Romania. Many of those deals yielded the Biden family business millions over decades while Joe Biden was an elected official.


Schwerin visited the White House at least 27 times during Joe Biden’s vice presidency, White House visitor logs show.



In 2018, Hunter’s texts revealed a deep distrust of Schwerin and his involvement in the family’s affairs in which Hunter Biden apparently owed Schwerin money, according to text messages obtained by Breitbart News. Schwerin was his “worst enemy…And everyone knows it,” Hunter Biden announced.



Hunter Biden told his assistant Katie Dodge that Schwerin was his “worst enemy” and whined he owed him “30% of my income” for apparently ten years. The text relates to Hunter Biden’s apparent frustration about Schwerin’s continued involvement in the family business.



By 2019, their relationship deteriorated to the point that Hunter Biden hatched a plot to betray Schwerin by cutting him out of an ongoing off-the-books business arrangement.

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Ex-Biden Business Partner Opens Hearing with Explosive Allegation: Joe Has Been Compromised by China



By Allison Anton

February 13, 2024 at 12:57pm


Joe Biden’s week started off badly and just keeps getting worse.



According to a New York Post report Tuesday, Anthony Bobulinskin, an ex-business business partner of Hunter Biden, has testified in an opening statement to Congress regarding the true nature of the Biden family’s shady business dealings.



Much of Bobulinski’s five-page statement stems from experience working closely with Hunter Biden and his uncle, the president’s brother James Biden, on a business venture with the CEFC China Energy.



It’s a company that, Bobulinski said, “had been identified as a known surrogate of the Chinese Communist Party by the U.S. Government and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York as far back as 2016, possibly earlier.”



Bobulinski testified behind closed doors on Tuesday before members of the House Oversight Committee and members of the House Judiciary Committee, according to Fox News.



Bobulinski’s statement left no doubt about what role Joe Biden had in the family’s business affairs:



“I want to be crystal clear: from my direct personal experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was ‘the Brand’ being sold by the Biden family,” his statement said.



In Bobulinski’s words “alarm bells should have been going off in the Obama-Biden White House,” but, apparently, no action was taken to prevent this ill-advised business venture.



Further, the statement notes, the “Chinese Communist Party through its surrogate, China Energy Company Limited, or ‘CEFC’ – a CCP-linked Chinese energy conglomerate – successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise Joe Biden and the Obama-Biden White House.”


In the statement, Bobulinski, a former Navy lieutenant, states that “Joe Biden’s immediate family members were enriched to the tune of tens of millions of dollars from some of our most dangerous adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party,” and other enemies of the United States.



Now, though by his own admission Bobulinski has worked with Democrats, in addition to entering into business ventures with the Biden’s, Bobulinski states at the outset that “I am here today out of duty to God and country in a nonpartisan manner with only one party in mind, the party I served with honor and gratitude: the United States of America.”



From beginning to end, Bobulinski gives the impression that he is motivated, not just out of a sense of personal justice, himself getting defrauded by Biden and his unscrupulous family, but out of a sincere sense of patriotism and a desire for the truth about the Bidens to be more widely known.



“I sit here before two of the premiere commitees of Congress: Oversight and Judiciary. I implore each and every one of you to remove your partisan hats today and focus on one party: the United States of America,” Bobulinski’s statement declares.



“I hope your focus will be on a thorough and extensive investigaton and exposure of all of the facts and evidence – and on answering the questin of how we as a country allowed the White House to be infiltrated by our most existential adversary, the Chinese Communist Party.



Related: Mitch McConnell's Plan to Betray Americans Exposed by GOP Senator - 'Horrible Thing to Do'

“I also hope you will hold the complicit parties, including Joe Biden, accountable for their actions, as well as enact new laws that prevent this kind of deep corruption from ever happening again.”



Those are powerful words.



Still, it’s important to remember that this is just an opening statement, and Bobulinski has not given his full testimony, nor all his evidence just yet.



That said, if Bobulinski is not misleading us, he probably has plenty of evidence, none of which will do Biden’s faltering image any favors.



Taking Bobulinski’s opening statements and special counsel Robert Hur’s report together, all this looks terribly damaging for Biden.



He’s not just, in Hur’s words, an “elderly man with memory problems,” but thoroughly corrupt, happily using his political power and influence to make shady deals with America’s enemies to line his and his family’s pockets.



In 2024 alone, Biden has had numerous embarrassing gaffes in public, abysmal poll numbers, exploded at reporters who dared reference his diminished mental capacity (while simultaneously putting all doubts to rest on that subject), and is now facing resurfaced accusations of blatant corruption and possibly treason.



Biden’s chances for re-election weren’t looking stupendous at the end of 2023, but now, with all these new developments conspiring to make him look worse than he already did, they’re looking worse than ever.



It’s getting harder and harder to imagine Biden winning in November.

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‘The Big Guy’: Hunter Biden Letter Raises More Questions about China Deals during Father’s Vice Presidency

Nick R. Hamilton
February 15, 2024 - 10:19 am



A letter dating to Joe Biden’s vice presidency has raised fresh questions regarding the Democrat president’s family business deals with Communist China.



The letter, provided to House impeachment investigators, shows Hunter Biden engaging in business with China.



The letter was shared by Rob Walker, a former Hunter Biden associate.



Walker admitted that Hunter Biden’s “interesting” last name would “open doors.”



The letter, dated March 2016, was addressed to CEFC China Energy from Hunter Biden.



CEFC is a now-defunct energy conglomerate that was controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.



The draft letter was addressed to CEFC Executive Director Jianjun Zang with Hunter Biden’s letterhead.



Biden instructed Zang to get in touch with James Gilliar, another Hunter Biden associate who sent a notorious e-mail mentioning “the big guy,” said to be an alias for Joe Biden.



“We anticipate working together on a number of opportunities in the US and abroad,” the letter from Hunter says.



“I believe we have presented a collection of projects that parallel the interests of you and your team and we look forward to discussing them in detail.”



“As we await your next visit to the United States, please continue to coordinate all matters with my confidant and trusted advisor, James Gilliar,” the letter says.



CEFC paid over $7 million to Hunter Biden and his uncle James after former Vice President Joe Biden left office in 2017.



Walker confirmed in his testimony to House impeachment investigators that he was the conduit for $1 million in CEFC cash to Biden family members in 2017 – payments he described as a “thank you” for past work.


Parts of Walker’s testimony were corroborated by Tony Bobulinski, who famously identified Biden as “the big guy.”



In testimony Tuesday, Bobulinski said the CEFC deal started forming in 2015 and that then-vice president Biden was fully aware.



“Joe Biden was aware of the CEFC transaction, enabled it, and had a constitutional responsibility and obligation to the American people to shut it down before it began,” Bobulinski said.



Walker has given a similar timeline, and he says Joe Biden met with CEFC’s chairman just weeks after leaving office.



Even still, Walker has defended Biden against accusations of wrongdoing – insisting he was “never involved” in any business dealings.



Democrats say there is no direct evidence establishing a link between Biden and his son’s business – but Republicans say a trove of records points to Joe Biden’s involvement in an elaborate and tangled financial web.



The White House has had trouble staying ahead of a steady trickle of evidence.



That includes a notorious, threatening text message from Hunter Biden to a CEFC associate that alluded to Joe Biden.



“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” Hunter wrote in the July 2017 message.



Joe Biden’s role in helping his son’s business in Ukraine has also come under close scrutiny.



Biden notoriously bragged about pressuring Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who investigated Burisma Holdings.



Burisma was a notorious corrupt energy company that paid Hunter Biden a lucrative salary for intangible services.

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Special Counsel Casts Pre-Election Doubt On Biden 'Burisma Bribe' With Dramatic Airport Arrest

BY TYLER DURDEN

THURSDAY, FEB 15, 2024 - 07:20 PM


Last June, the leaked contents of a stonewalled FBI document, form FD-1023, alleging that President Joe Biden was paid $5 million by an executive of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where his son Hunter sat on the board, and also received an alleged $5 million.


The form, dated June 30, 2020, was from a "highly credible" confidential human source (CHS) who had detailed multiple meetings and conversations they had with a top Burisma executive over the course of several years, beginning in 2015. The CHS had been working with the FBI as a regular, reliable source of information since 2010, and has been paid approximately $200,000 by the bureau.



Now, as the 2024 election heats up, that source - Alexander Smirnov, 43, has been arrested and charged with lying about the bribes by special counsel David Weiss, who is investigating Hunter Biden.



According to the NY Times, "The story Mr. Smirnov told investigators was part of a series of explosive and unsubstantiated claims by Republicans that the Bidens engaged in potentially criminal activity — allegations central to the party’s efforts to impeach the president."



Smirnov faces a two-count indictment for making false statements and obstructing the government's long-running investigation into Hunter Biden. He faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.



Smirnov was arrested in Las Vegas on Wednesday after disembarking from an international flight, and was expected to appear on Thursday before a federal judge.



According to the indictment, Smirnov lied when he said that Hunter Biden promised to protect Burisma "through his dad, from all kinds of problems," and was only in contact with Burisma executives in 2017, after Biden left office.



Smirnov is accused of exaggerating his "routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma" into "bribery allegations" against Joe Biden.



Which raises the question - if Smirnov told the FBI about the alleged bribery in confidence - and had no expectation of a 'leaked' FD-1023 becoming central to Republican investigations, what did he have to gain from lying?



And why charge him with lying now?

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[Midnight]

FBI FD-1023 Confidential Source in Biden-Burisma Alleged Bribery Scheme Indicted by Hunter Biden Special Counsel

By Kristinn Taylor
Feb. 15, 2024 6:20 pm


The confidential source, Alexander Smirnov, who made allegations of a Biden family bribery scheme with Burisma memorialized in a FBI Form FD-1023 report that Justice Department whistleblowers gave to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) last year has been indicted by Hunter Biden Special Counsel David Weiss on one count each of making a false statement to the FBI and “creating a false and fictitious record.”


The liberal media pounced on the indictment.



Sen. Grassley released the FD-1023 in July 2023 that can be read at this link. The confidential source claimed he spoke with Ukraine energy firm Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky who told him he had paid $5 million for one Biden and $5 million for another, which was taken to be Hunter Biden and then Vice President Joe Biden. The source said the Burisma executive claimed to have text messages and recordings backing up his allegations.



Rep. James Comer, co-chair of the Biden impeachment inquiry, issued a statement on the indictment saying the investigation “is not reliant” on the FD-1023, reported Fox News reporter Chad Pergram on X Twitter:



“1) Comer on arrest of FBI informant in connection with Hunter Biden probe: The impeachment inquiry is not reliant on the FBI’s FD-1023. It is based on a large record of evidence, including bank records and witness testimony. 2) Comer: Just this week, we had another witness confirm Joe Biden was the brand being sold by the Bidens around the world. President Biden continues to lie to the American people about this matter and the American people demand the truth and accountability for any wrongdoing.”

The bombshell indictment was announced on Thursday:



Grand Jury Returns Indictment Charging FBI Confidential Human Source with Felony False Statement and Obstruction Crimes



Today, a federal court unsealed a two-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the Central District of California charging Alexander Smirnov, 43, with making a false statement, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and creating a false and fictitious record, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1519, for statements he made that were recorded in an official record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) known as a Form 1023.



David C. Weiss, Special Counsel, made the announcement.



On February 14, 2024, a federal grand jury returned the indictment and Smirnov was arrested at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, after his arrival in the U.S. from overseas. Later today, Smirnov will have an initial appearance at the federal courthouse in the District of Nevada at 2:30 p.m. pacific time.



According to the indictment, Smirnov was a confidential human source (CHS) with the FBI. As alleged in the indictment, despite repeated admonishments that he must provide truthful information to the FBI and that he must not fabricate evidence, Smirnov provided false derogatory information to the FBI about Public Official 1, and Businessperson 1, the son of Public Official 1, in 2020, after Public Official 1 became a presidential candidate.



The indictment alleges that in March 2017, Smirnov reported to an FBI Agent that he had had a phone call with the owner of Ukrainian industrial conglomerate Burisma Holdings, Limited concerning Burisma’s interest in acquiring a U.S. company and making an initial public offering (IPO) on a U.S.-based stock exchange. In reporting that conversation to the FBI Agent, Smirnov also noted that Businessperson 1, Public Official 1’s son, was a member of Burisma’s Board, a fact that was publicly known. The indictment alleges that Smirnov provided no further information.



Three years later, in June 2020, the indictment alleges that Smirnov reported, for the first time, two meetings in 2015 and/or 2016. As alleged in the indictment, Smirnov falsely claimed that during these meetings, executives associated with Burisma, admitted to him that they hired Businessperson 1 to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” and later that they had specifically paid $5 million each to Public Official 1 and Businessperson 1, when Public Official 1 was still in office, so that “[Businessperson 1] will take care of all those issues through his dad,” referring to a criminal investigation being conducted by the then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General into Burisma and to “deal with [the then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General].”



As alleged in the indictment, the events that Smirnov first reported to the FBI Agent in June 2020 were fabrications. In truth and fact, the defendant had contact with executives from Burisma in 2017, after the end of the administration when Public Official 1 had no ability to influence U.S. policy and after the Ukrainian Prosecutor General had been fired in February 2016. The indictment alleges that the defendant transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against Public Official 1 after expressing bias against Public Official 1 and his presidential candidacy.



As further alleged in the indictment, when he was interviewed by FBI agents in September 2023, Smirnov repeated some of his false claims, changed his story as to other of his claims, and promoted a new false narrative after he said he met with Russian officials.



If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.



Court documents and information for this case is located on the website of the District Court for the Central District of California or on PACER by searching for Case No. 2:24-cr-00091.



An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.



The 37 page indictment can be read at this link.



The liberal media and Democrats were quick to pounce:



“Tapper: This is the guy that Grassley was insisting that this FBI report be revealed… This was the guy who basically provided hours worth of content on Fox… This was the guy who Comer was relying on as a major source… and the FBI is saying the guy is a liar”

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), “A Trump-appointed United States Attorney just indicted the source of this document for lying. The indictment alleges that salacious claims of bribery below, echoed by Chairman Comer, Senator Grassley, and numerous other Republicans, were “fabrications.””

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[Midnight]

Democrats THREATENED Biden Crime Family Whistleblower Tony Bobulinski as He Confirmed Under Oath That Joe Biden is “The Big Guy” – Here Are Key Takeaways from His Testimony

By Cristina Laila
Feb. 16, 2024 12:40 pm




On Tuesday former Hunter Biden business partner, Tony Bobulinski testified before the House Oversight Committee behind closed doors in the House impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden.



According to the transcript released on Friday, Democrat lawmakers THREATENED Tony Bobulinski as he confirmed under oath that Joe Biden is indeed “The Big Guy.”



Recall that Tony Bobulinski, a retired lieutenant in the US Navy, was the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings which was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family.



Bobulinski has repeatedly stated that he met with Joe Biden numerous times to discuss Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals.



“There are hundreds of data points that Joe Biden was acting in – in a capitalistic term, I would say the chairman,” Bobulinski told Tucker Carlson in an interview last year.



Bobulinski also accused Hunter Biden of committing fraud against his business partners by secretly funneling over $5 million into his own investment firm.



On October 22, 2020, Bobulinski held a press conference where he confirmed Joe Biden lied about his involvement with Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals.



He also revealed Joe Biden, AKA, “The Big Guy” would get a 10% cut of his deals through SinoHawk.



“In numerous communications with Hunter, Walker, Gilliar, and Jim Biden regarding the allocation of the equity ownership of SinoHawk, on May 13, 2017, I received an email concerning allocation of equity which says, ‘10% held by H for the big guy.’ In that email there’s no question that ‘H’ stands for Hunter, ‘big guy’ for his father, Joe Biden,” Bobulinski said.



Bobulinski continued, “In fact, Hunter often referred to his father as ‘the big guy,’ or ‘my chairman.’”



Tony Bobulinski said it was made clear to him not to mention Joe Biden’s involvement in writing.



Tony Bobulinski told Congress, “The only reason any of these international business transactions took place – with tens of millions of dollars flowing directly to the Biden family – was because Joe Biden was in high office. The Biden family business was Joe Bide, period.”



The Oversight Committee on Friday released the transcript of Bobulinksi’s testimony.



Here are the key takeaways from Bobulinski’s testimony per Oversight Committee Republicans:



Joe Biden was the brand being sold by the Biden family.

Joe Biden not only knew about his family’s business dealings, but he enabled them and participated in them, despite being buffered by a scheme to maintain “plausible deniability.”

Tony Bobulinski tried to get other Biden family associates to tell the truth about Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s business schemes. However, one replied, “You’re just going to bury all of us, man.”

JOE BIDEN IS “THE BIG GUY”

Joe Biden has repeatedly lied to the American people about his knowledge of and participation in his family’s business dealings.

During the transcribed interview, Democrats put on a shameful display as they yelled at Mr. Bobulinski, cut him off, belittled him, and threatened him.



Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman warned Bobulinski, “You want to be a little careful, sir.”



Bobulinski replied, “Careful of what?”



Democrat Reps. Dan Goldman and Jaime Raskin belittled Bobulinski. Raskin and another attorney also yelled at Bobulinski.



Goldman referred to Bobulinski as “this guy.”

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Marlow: ‘The Bidens Were Clearly Given Millions of Dollars from Entities All Over the World’



PAM KEY
19 Feb 2024

Breitbart Editor-in-Chief and New York Times bestselling Breaking Biden author Alex Marlow said Monday Real America’s Voice’s “Stinchfield Tonight” that President Joe Biden and his family were “clearly given millions of dollars from entities all over the world.”



While discussing FBI informant Alexander Smirnov being charged with making false statements, anchor Grant Stinchfield said, “Why should I even believe the FBI? They now have a history of lying to us about just about everything. Why do I believe them that this guy is lying?”



Marlow said, “Yeah I love this point. I don’t necessarily believe them either. It is kinda too soon to know for sure who is telling the truth here. But it is a total distraction. Remember the lawyer for the Clintons that gave false information to the FBI for Alfa Bank? He was charged with lying to the FBI and then he was acquitted. So who knows if this thing is going to get turned over.”



He continued, “All of this is a media hoax that is going on trying to make it so there is some indication there is no evidence against the Bidens. The Bidens were clearly given millions of dollars from entities all over the world. You were correct to play the Burisma example, the clearest one. Bribery on tape clear as day.”



Marlow added, “We still have a man with close ties to the Chinese government and military, sent the Biden family companies millions of dollars. He and Hunter have been frequent collaborators at the CEFC example. The energy executive also gave Hunter some ice, he gave him some diamonds. No one has explained this to us.”



He concluded, “None of these have anything to do with whether or not the FBI is telling the truth or whether or not one informant fibbed.”


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Media Admit Joe Biden Involved in Lucrative ‘Americore’ Deal with Brother James


WENDELL HUSEBØ
19 Feb 2024

Politico national political correspondent Ben Schreckinger admitted Sunday that President Joe Biden was involved with James Biden in the family’s lucrative “Americore” deal.



The article appears to contradict Politico reporting in October that no “smoking gun” exists that proves any Biden family wrongdoing. Politico, a publication that tried to dismiss the Hunter Biden laptop story, typically works to suppress the Biden business scandal.



The outlet reviewed information that shows that “Joe Biden’s name and inner circle were more involved with the company than has been understood,” Schreckinger acknowledged:



The investigation also reveals that Joe Biden’s name and inner circle were more involved with the company than has been understood: In addition to the accounts provided by former executives, investor materials described Jim Biden as an adviser to his older brother. And on top of Joe Biden’s own previously reported encounter with the firm’s CEO, at least three of Joe Biden’s relatives did work with Americore. They include Jim Biden’s wife, Sara, and his son, Jamie. The president’s son, Hunter Biden also met with its CEO, and his personal doctor — current White House physician Kevin O’Connor — joined a meeting with Jim Biden and the president of a hospital being acquired by Americore, according to a former executive and emails obtained by POLITICO.



Politico’s change in turn comes months after House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) produced findings in October about Americore and a $200,000 check landing in Joe Biden’s bank account.





House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., exits a secure facility to speak to reporters about his investigation into President Joe Biden’s family (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite).



Comer believes the $200,000 payment is suspicious because the money flowed through a distressed entity, Americore, which loaned James Biden $600,000. On March 1, 2018, Americore wired him $200,000. That same day, James Biden sent Joe Biden a $200,000 check.



James Biden denied the $200,000 check he gave Joe Biden was due to a preexisting business relationship. He insisted, instead, that the money was a return payment for money Joe Biden lent him. Comer requested the alleged “loan documents” the Biden brothers might have consummated, but the White House stonewalled the request.



In media appearances, Comer blew holes into James Biden’s claims and stated his story was contrived “out of their rear end,” Breitbart News previously reported:



Let’s say they pull something out of their rear end that says Joe Biden loaned Jim Biden money — either way, we have his [James Biden’s] personal bank records. I can say, with confidence, he had no money to pay Joe Biden back other than that 200,000-dollar wire that came from Americore Health company.


So either Joe Biden was paid $200,000 as part of the influence-peddling scheme payback, kickback, dividend, or Joe Biden actually made a loan to his brother, and because his brother influence-peddled Americore Health, he paid him back $200,000.



The outlets further reports:



In September, the Securities and Exchange Commission accused one of Jim Biden’s business partners of fraud related to loans to the company, allegations the business partner has denied.



Meanwhile, the Justice Department found that Americore’s hospital in Pennsylvania entered into sham service agreements and paid kickbacks as part of a scheme that billed the government for medically unnecessary lab tests the hospital shipped out to be performed elsewhere.



Those actions are at the center of a federal prosecution of a $100 million conspiracy to defraud Medicare that has netted a guilty plea from the recipient of the kickbacks, and, according to a person familiar with the case, remains ongoing.



Politico’s acknowledgment of the Americore money wire comes as James Biden is set to sit for a disposition with the House impeachment inquiry. In September, Comer subpoenaed James Biden’s Lion Hall Group and JBBSR, Inc., entities. The subpoena appeared directed at obtaining records linked to Joe Biden’s corporation, “CelticCapri Corp,” which received nearly $10 million in 2017 without specifying revenue line items.



James Biden is Joe Biden’s younger brother and Hunter Biden’s uncle. James and Hunter were business partners with CEFC China Energy Co., an organization closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).



Through Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), the committee discovered in March that Biden associate Rob Walker received a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC. In turn, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden” — received a collective $1.3 million cut from the $3 million wire transfer.



Breitbart News’s Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow detailed further information about the Bidens’ “Americore” deal here.

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James Biden Admits There is No Loan Documentation for the $200,000 ‘Loan Repayment’ Made to Joe Biden in 2018

By Cristina Laila
Feb. 21, 2024 8:20 pm



Joe Biden’s slimy brother James Biden on Wednesday morning arrived on Capitol Hill for his closed-door testimony in the Biden impeachment inquiry.


James Biden denied his brother Joe Biden was involved in any direct or indirect way in his businesses in his opening statement to lawmakers.



In other words, James Biden expects us to believe he’s just a brilliant businessman who happens to know Chinese billionaire tycoons with ties to the CCP, high-profile healthcare executives and other oligarchs.



James Biden told lawmakers on Wednesday that there is no loan documentation for the “interest-free” loans provided by Joe Biden.



Joe Biden previously refused to hand over loan documents to the House Oversight Committee proving any ‘loans’ he provided to his brother James Biden.



The House Oversight Committee has no IRS records or loan documents confirming the $200,000 check Jim Biden wrote to his brother Joe Biden in 2018 was a ‘loan repayment.’



House Oversight Chairman James Comer demanded IRS records and applicable loan documents proving Joe Biden loaned his brother James money.



The Bidens often structure their income as ‘loans’ to avoid paying taxes. We saw this with a $5 million wire described as an ‘interest-free loan’ (a way for Hunter to avoid paying taxes) from a Chinese firm. The Bidens then shuffle the dirty money around to each other as ‘loan repayments.’ This is classic tax evasion, money laundering, and influence-peddling.



James Comer recently uncovered a $200,000 direct payment to Joe Biden.



In 2018, Jim Biden received $600,000 in ‘loans’ from Americore Health LLC, a failing/bankrupt rural hospital operator. According to bankruptcy documents, Jim Biden received the loans “based upon representations that his last name Biden could open doors and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”



On March 1, 2018, Americore Health LLC wired a $200,000 payment to Jim and Sara Biden’s personal bank account. On that very same day, Jim Biden then wrote a $200,000 check to Joe Biden, AKA, “The Big Guy.”


Biden won’t hand over the loan documentation because they don’t exist, according to James Biden.



The Daily Mail reported:



James described the payments to investigators: ‘They were short-term loans that I received from Joe when he was a private citizen, and I repaid them within weeks. He had no information at all about the source of the funds I used to repay him. The complete explanation is that Joe lent me money, and I repaid him as soon as I had the funds to do so.’



Bank records seen by DailyMail.com indicate wires from Joe to James weeks before the repayments were made.



James went on: ‘I never asked my brother to take any official action on behalf of me, my business associates, or anyone else.’



But according to a source, James admitted that there was no documentation for the loans and he did not charge his brother any interest.



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[Midnight]

James Biden Testifies Brother Joe Had ‘No Role’ in His Businesses in Opening Statement to Lawmakers – Here is Evidence to the Contrary

By Cristina Laila
Feb. 21, 2024 3:00 pm



Joe Biden’s slimy brother James Biden on Wednesday morning arrived on Capitol Hill for his closed-door testimony in the Biden impeachment inquiry.



James Biden, flanked by his attorneys, made his way into the House building as reporters shouted questions about the Biden crime family.



One reporter trolled James Biden and asked him if Hunter Biden smoked crack at the White House.



“Did Hunter smoke crack at the White House?” one reporter shouted as James Biden walked by.


James Biden denied his brother Joe Biden was involved in any direct or indirect way in his businesses in his opening statement to lawmakers.



In other words, James Biden expects us to believe he’s just a brilliant businessman who happens to know Chinese billionaire tycoons with ties to the CCP, high-profile healthcare executives and other oligarchs.



From James Biden’s opening statement to lawmakers:



As my interview will make clear, there are four critical points:



1. I have had a 50-year career in a variety of business ventures. Joe Biden has never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest in those activities. None.



2. Because of my intimate knowledge of my brother’s personal integrity and character, as well as my own strong ethics, I have always kept my professional life separate from our close personal relationship.



3. I never asked my brother to take any official action on behalf of me, my business associates, or anyone else.



4. In every business venture in which I have been involved, I have relied on my own talent, judgment, skill, and personal relationships—and never my status as Joe Biden’s brother. Those who have said or thought otherwise were either mistaken, ill informed, or flat-out lying.



James Biden absurdly claimed no one ever asked him to engage in illegal activity related to suspicious interest-free ‘loans’ he received:



Because of the episodic nature of the income from my consulting work, there have been a number of occasions when my personal financial obligations have exceeded our available funds. Some of those large expenditures have been predictable. For example, I have three children for whom we had large tuition payments. Other expenses were not as foreseeable, such as medical expenses for family members and the hurricane damage to our home in Florida.



In those instances, we have turned to financial institutions, friends, business partners, or family for loans. Some of those obligations were reduced to writing; others were not. On each occasion, we did our best to repay the debts in full. Some individuals forgave the outstanding obligations.



In no instance did anyone ever ask me or my wife to engage in any inappropriate, unethical, or illegal activity as consideration for, or in connection with, any of those loans. And except for the ones from my brother Joe, I have no reason to believe that he had information or even knew about any of the other loans.



The Committees have asked about those loans from my brother. They were short-term loans that I received from Joe when he was a private citizen, and I repaid them within weeks. He had no information at all about the source of the funds I used to repay him. The complete explanation is that Joe lent me money, and I repaid him as soon as I had the funds to do so.



James Biden made a fortune off the Biden family name and received a lot of money from companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).



James Comer recently uncovered a $200,000 direct payment to Joe Biden after he received James and Hunter’s subpoenaed documents.



In 2018, Jim Biden received $600,000 in ‘loans’ from Americore Health LLC, a failing/bankrupt rural hospital operator. According to bankruptcy documents, Jim Biden received the loans “based upon representations that his last name Biden could open doors and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”



On March 1, 2018, Americore Health LLC wired a $200,000 payment to Jim and Sara Biden’s personal bank account. On that very same day, Jim Biden then wrote a $200,000 check to Joe Biden, AKA, “The Big Guy.”



Joe Biden just happened to have a “chance” meeting with the Americore CEO.



Nothing to see here. Move along.

James Biden claimed Joe Biden was sitting next to him while he was on a call pitching business ideas to Americore.

Jim Biden brought up Joe Biden’s campaign to an Americore executive and also used Joe’s name to woo potential partners and investors.

Read James Biden’s full opening statement here.

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[Honoria]

FBI Informant Who Blew the Whistle on Biden-Burisma Bribery Scheme Arrested AGAIN on Same Charges – His Lawyers Ask Judge For Emergency Hearing

By Cristina Laila
Feb. 22, 2024 7:40 pm


*Biden’s revenge*



Alexander Smirnov, the FBI’s Confidential Human Source who blew the whistle on the Biden-Burisma bribery scheme, was arrested again on the same charges on Thursday after the federal prosecutors deemed him a flight risk.



Smirnov, a dual citizen of Israel and the US, was previously released from pre-trial detention by Las Vegas-based magistrate judge Daniel Albregts. Prosecutors urged Albregts to keep Smirnov behind bars because he has ‘ties to Russian intel officials’ who could help him flee. They also claimed Smirnov had access to millions of dollars and could flee on an Israeli passport.



Albregts refused to detain Smirnov. He just wasn’t buying what the federal prosecutors were alleging.



“I understand the concern about foreign intelligence agencies potentially resettling Mr. Smirnov outside of the United States, his connections to them, but I think on some level that’s speculative as well,” Albregts said, according to Politico. “Because, as Mr. Chesnoff points out, I don’t know what Mr. Smirnov will be thought of in Russia, but my guess is at this stage he probably thinks that’s not the most attractive place to go either if he was in fact inclined to go hide somewhere.”



Prosecutors filed additional charges against Smirnov in California since the Vegas-based magistrate judge refused to detain him.



Smirnov was arrested on Thursday while he was meeting with his lawyers which shows he was likely not a flight risk.



“On the morning of February 22, 2024, Mr. Smirnov was arrested for a second time — on the same charges and based on the same indictment,” his attorney David Chesnoff wrote in a court filing.



Biden’s DOJ is now alleging the FBI informant who was arrested and charged “is actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections after meeting with Russian intelligence officials in November.”



Alexander Smirnov was indicted for the first time last week by Hunter Biden Special Counsel David Weiss on one count each of making a false statement to the FBI and “creating a false and fictitious record.”



Smirnov was the underlying source of the Biden-Burisma bribery allegations. According to Smirnov, Burisma Holdings founder and Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky told him he paid a total of $10 million in bribes to Hunter and Joe Biden. There are text messages and audio recordings to back up these claims.



Recall that Senator Chuck Grassley last July released the FBI document showing Joe Biden was involved in a $10 million bribery scheme with Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky.



The FD-1023 form alleged then-Vice President Joe Biden FORCED Zlochevsky, a Ukrainian oligarch, to pay himself and his son Hunter Biden a total of $10 million.



Alexander Smirnov NEVER ‘spread Russian disinformation.’ He was a credible Confidential Human Source (CHS) that the FBI relied on for 10 years and they paid him more than $100,000 for information.



Democrats are using the arrest of Smirnov to torpedo the Biden impeachment inquiry since House Republicans relied on the Burisma whistleblower documents released by Senator Grassley for their probe.



Smirnov was rearrested on Thursday morning and his lawyers are now asking a federal judge in California for an emergency hearing.



Excerpt from Politico:



Lawyers for Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant charged with feeding the bureau false corruption allegations against Joe Biden, say he’s been re-arrested just days after a magistrate judge in Las Vegas ordered him released from pretrial custody.



Chesnoff said that Smirnov — who prosecutors had warned had extensive ties to Russian intelligence and was a risk of fleeing — had been meeting with his lawyers at the time of his second arrest, which was based on a warrant signed earlier Thursday. They described the development as “bizarre” and urged a federal judge in California — where Smirnov’s charges were filed — to quickly call a hearing on the matter.



“It should further be noted that the fact that the Defendant was attending a legal consultation meeting at his attorneys’ office contradicts the notion that he is a risk of flight,” Chesnoff wrote.



Prosecutors have asked Los Angeles-based U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II to reverse Albregts’ decision, but Wright has yet to set a hearing. Smirnov’s attorneys are asking Wright to immediately call a hearing date in light of their client’s new arrest.

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Robert Hur Couldn’t Determine Who Had Access to Biden’s Stolen Classified Docs Because Security at Penn Biden Center DELETED All Visitor Logs From 2017-2021

By Cristina Laila
Feb. 25, 2024 5:40 pm



Special Counsel Robert Hur could not determine who had access to Joe Biden’s stolen classified documents stored at Penn Biden Center because security deleted all the visitor logs from 2017-2021.



According to Hur, Joe Biden kept more than 600 pages of classified documents in unlocked drawers/closets at the Penn Biden Center and stored some of them in dilapidated boxes in his Delaware garage and other unsecured locations.



The FBI identified numerous folders, including many labeled “EYES ONLY VPOTUS” which contained highly classified material related to intelligence sources and methods.







However, Biden was still not charged and none of his aides, handlers or gatekeepers were charged with obstruction or conspiracy (unlike Trump’s aides).



Via RealClearInvestigations reporter Paul Sperry: Hur couldn’t determine who had access to Biden’s unsecured classified docs or whether they passed thru foreign hands b/c the Penn Biden Center’s security deleted all the visitor logs, 2017-2021: “We cannot account for all visitors to the Center”

Joe Biden STOLE SCIF-designated classified documents and improperly stored them at the Penn Biden Center, his Delaware garage, his Virginia rental home, and his lawyer’s Boston office.



Some of the most highly sensitive documents were stored at Penn Biden Center in an unlocked office and closet.



The ‘executive assistant’ referred to in Hur’s report was none other than Biden’s gatekeeper Kathy Chung.



Chung (pictured below with Biden) mishandled the classified documents yet she still was not charged. Biden appointed her to a cushy job at the Pentagon as Lloyd Austin’s assistant where she has access to the nation’s most highly sensitive military materials.


“[In] October 2017, Chung relocated the 15 boxes a few blocks away to the newly built Penn Biden Center on the sixth floor of another D.C. office building, where she unpacked Biden’s White House documents – including some marked “top secret” – and placed them into a three-drawer filing cabinet in her outer office adjoining Biden’s office, which was designed to resemble his old West Wing suite. Other documents were left in boxes stacked in an unlocked storage closet, refuting initial White House claims they were stored in a “locked closet.” Remarkably, the entire office suite was never locked up, which meant virtually anybody who got past the security guard in the lobby of the building had access to the classified files stored there.” Paul Sperry wrote.







“Mr. Biden’s office did not lock,” Hur said in his 345-page report, “and the adjoining outer office where Mr. Biden’s executive assistant maintained his files was always accessible through Mr. Biden’s office.” In a footnote, Hur added that “the Vice President’s office could only be locked from the inside using a panic button.”



Visitors from all walks of life, including dangerous actors from China and Ukraine had access to the classified documents stored at Penn Biden Center.


There was virtually no real security at the Penn Biden Center and in 2019 visitors no longer needed a key fob or security escort to access the floor where all of the stolen classified documents were stored, according to Hur’s report reviewed by this reporter.



As Paul Sperry noted, the Penn Biden Center received millions of dollars from Chinese donors and even hosted a symposium with Chinese Communist Party officials.



This is a glaring example of a two-tiered justice system.



President Trump was charged with 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information lawfully stored at his Mar-a-Lago estate protected by Secret Service.



Sleep well, America.
 
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Judge Orders FBI Informant Who Blew the Whistle on Biden-Burisma Bribery Scheme to Remain Jailed Pending Trial

By Cristina Laila Feb. 26, 2024 4:20 pm


*Biden’s revenge*



A federal judge on Monday ordered the FBI informant indicted by Biden’s DOJ for blowing the whistle on the Biden-Burisma bribery scheme to remain behind bars pending trial.



Alexander Smirnov, the FBI’s Confidential Human Source who blew the whistle on the Biden-Burisma bribery scheme, was arrested again on the same charges last Thursday after the federal prosecutors deemed him a flight risk.



Smirnov, a dual citizen of Israel and the US, was previously released from pre-trial detention by Las Vegas-based magistrate judge Daniel Albregts. Prosecutors urged Albregts to keep Smirnov behind bars because he has ‘ties to Russian intel officials’ who could help him flee. They also claimed Smirnov had access to millions of dollars and could flee on an Israeli passport.



Albregts refused to detain Smirnov. He just wasn’t buying what the federal prosecutors were alleging.



“I understand the concern about foreign intelligence agencies potentially resettling Mr. Smirnov outside of the United States, his connections to them, but I think on some level that’s speculative as well,” Albregts said, according to Politico. “Because, as Mr. Chesnoff points out, I don’t know what Mr. Smirnov will be thought of in Russia, but my guess is at this stage he probably thinks that’s not the most attractive place to go either if he was in fact inclined to go hide somewhere.”



Prosecutors filed additional charges against Smirnov in California since the Vegas-based magistrate judge refused to detain him.



Smirnov was arrested last Thursday while he was meeting with his lawyers which shows he was likely not a flight risk.



US District Judge Otis Wright, a Bush appointee, denied Smirnov bail.



Fox News reported:



A California federal judge on Monday denied a bail release to ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who stands accused of lying about the Biden family’s business ties.



U.S. District Judge Otis Wright ordered that Smirnov would remain in detention ahead of his trial, concurring with prosecutors who argued he presented a high flight risk. Lawyers for Smirnov argued that he had already invested significant funds into his efforts to defeat the charges, indicating he had no intention to flee.



“He didn’t try to run. He didn’t try to move money,” defense lawyer David Chesnoff said of Smirnov’s conduct in recent days.



Wright was unconvinced, however, telling Smirnov that he was “not satisfied there are conditions … that will satisfy my concern whether you will flee the jurisdiction.”

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‘Blood Money’: Biden Family Lawyer Abbe Lowell Served as Legal Representative for Member of Chinese Criminal Gang Involved in Drug Trade

WENDELL HUSEBØ
27 Feb 2024

Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell served as a legal representative for a member of a Chinese criminal gang involved in the international drug trade, Peter Schweizer reports in his new book, Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.



Lowell was a legal representative for Ng Lap Seng, who is believed to be a member of the Shui Fong triad which is reportedly involved in the international drug trade, Schweizer reports in Blood Money.



The revelation is significant because Lowell’s ties to an alleged member of a criminal gang involved in the drug trade provides a possibly embarrassing entanglement for President Biden in light of his administration’s weak policy on fentanyl, Schweizer, the president of the Government Accountability Institute and a Breitbart News senior contributor, argues in his book.



These “conflicting personal ties” could pose a problem for Joe Biden’s drug policies with regards to China, Schweizer writes in Blood Money:



Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, has represented a variety of well-known American clients from New Jersey senator Bob Menendez to members of the Trump family. But he was also a legal representative for Ng Lap Seng. Lowell has also represented Qin Fei, who is accused of being a Chinese intelligence officer, and Lum Davis, who pled guilty to illegally lobbying for the Chinese government. The problem of conflicting personal ties when it comes to confronting China on fentanyl extends beyond the Biden family to members of his administration. And so does the silence.


The Bidens have additional ties to China. In addition to Lowell, Hunter’s Hollywood lawyer, Kevin Morris, still controls Hunter’s ten percent stake in BHR Partners, a multi-billion dollar fund with investments throughout the globe and close ties to the Bank of China, a state-owned bank, Breitbart News exclusively reported.


Joe Biden’s international drug trade policies have not effectively held China accountable for the supply of precursor chemicals used by drug cartels to manufacture fentanyl, Schweizer asserts in Blood Money:



according to officially released notes of the conversations he [Biden] has had with President Xi, he has not raised the subject with the Chinese president as of this writing. When the so-called monkeypox virus emerged in 2022, the virus received “czar” status in the White House, even though, at the time, it had not claimed a single American life. Fentanyl gets no “czar” status at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And China has not been called to account.



In late 2022, the Biden administration named twenty-two countries as being transit points for drugs or producers of drugs. One country not on the list? China. In announcing his administration’s drug strategy, Biden could only promise, “We will look to expand cooperation with China . . . to disrupt the global flow of synthetic drugs and their precursor chemicals.”



Biden’s secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has made excuses for Beijing, absurdly arguing that some of the precursors arriving in Mexico from China have been shipped by accident. He cautiously added that mentioning precursor shipments from China was “not about pointing fingers.”


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Their father, Satan, must be proud! They lie as much as he does. 



Hunter Biden Testifies He ‘Did Not Involve’ Dad in Family Business Deals, Blasts Impeachment Inquiry as ‘Baseless’

Frank Bergman
February 28, 2024 - 2:31 pm


Hunter Biden testified on Capitol Hill that he “did not involve” his Democrat president father in their family’s shady foreign business deals.



On Wednesday, Hunter Biden appeared before congressional lawmakers for a closed-door deposition at the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees.



During his testimony, Hunter also blasted House Republicans for having “hunted” him in their “partisan political pursuit” of President Joe Biden.



Hunter also slammed the impeachment inquiry into his father as “baseless.”



He claimed in his opening statement that Republicans have “no evidence” against his father “because there isn’t any.”



“I am here today to provide the Committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business,” Hunter Biden testified Wednesday morning.



“Not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an artist. Never.”



“You read this fact in the many letters that have been sent to you over the last year as part of your so-called impeachment investigation.



“You heard this fact when I said it weeks ago, standing outside of this building,” he continued in his opening statement.



“You heard this fact from a parade of other witnesses – former colleagues and business partners of mine, including my uncle – who have testified before you in similar proceedings.



“And now, today, you hear this fact directly from me.”



However, despite Hunter’s denials, his statement may have, yet again, proved theories about his father’s business deals to be correct.



Hunter insisted in his statement that his father was not involved “in my business.”



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Evidence, including witness statements, has suggested that Hunter is just a face for the deals and it is, in fact, Joe Biden who secretly runs the family business.



The first son said that for more than a year, the committees “have hunted me in your partisan political pursuit of my dad.



“You have trafficked in innuendo, distortion, and sensationalism — all the while ignoring the clear and convincing evidence staring you in the face. ”



“You do not have evidence to support the baseless and MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father because there isn’t any,” he testified.



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The first son said House Republicans “have built your entire partisan house of cards on lies told by” past witnesses.



Hunter Biden blasted his ex-business associates Tony Bobulinski and Jason Galanis who provided whistleblowing testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry.



He also slammed former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who has now become a target of President Biden’s Justice Department after providing information on the family’s alleged bribery scheme.



“Rather than follow the facts as they have been laid out before you in bank records, financial statements, correspondence, and other witness testimony, you continue your frantic search to prove the lies you, and those you rely on, keep peddling. Yes, they are lies,” he insisted.



Reflecting on “mistakes” he has made in his life, Hunter said he has “squandered opportunities and privileges that were afforded to me.



“I know that. I am responsible for that. And I am making amends for that.”



“But my mistakes and shortcomings are my own and not my father’s, who has done nothing but devote his entire life to public service and trying to make this country a better place to live,” he said.



And reflecting on his “battle with addiction,” Hunter Biden said his father was there for him.



“He helped save my life,” Hunter said in his carefully worded pre-prepared statement.



“His love and support made it possible for me to get sober, stay sober, and rebuild my life as a father, husband, son, and brother,” he testified.



“What he got in return for being a loving and supportive parent is a barrage of hate-filled conspiracy theories that hatched this sham impeachment inquiry and continue to fuel unrelenting personal attacks against him and me.”



Hunter Biden went on to point to records of his text messages, emails, and other communications that the committees have obtained.



“Republicans have taken my communications out of context, relied on documents that have been altered, and cherry-picked snippets of financial or other records to misrepresent what really happened,” he claimed.



“Examples of this include a few references to my family in emails or texts that I sent when I was in the darkest days of my addiction.”



He added: “If you try to do that again today, my answers will reveal your tactics and demonstrate the truth that my father was never involved in any of my businesses.”



The first son said he hopes his testimony will “put an end to this baseless and destructive political charade.”



“You have wasted valuable time and resources attacking me and my family for your own political gain when you should be fixing the real problems in this country that desperately need your attention,” he testified.



Hunter Biden’s testimony comes after his uncle, the president’s younger brother James Biden, testified last week as part of the impeachment inquiry.



James Biden testified that President Biden “has never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest” in his business ventures.



House Republicans have heard testimony from a number of the first son’s former business associates, like Tony Bobulinski.



As Slay News reported, Bobulinski testified before the committees earlier this month that Joe Biden was involved in the family’s business ventures.



He also testified that he personally met with the president and warned that the Bidens have been selling “access” to the White House to the highest foreign bidder, including “America’s most dangerous adversaries” such as China and Russia.



Days before Bobulinski’s testimony, another former business associate, Rob Walker, testified that Joe Biden met with the chairman of the Chinese energy firm CEFC that his brother and son did business with.



After Walker’s testimony, the House Oversight Committee said it was able to “now confirm Joe Biden met with nearly every foreign national who funneled money to his son.”



House Democrats and the White House have criticized the inquiry as baseless as they attempt to discredit the mounting evidence against the Bidens.



However, Republicans warn they have only just scratched the surface of the investigation into the Biden family’s foreign influence peddling businesses.



“The House Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means Committees have unearthed a record of evidence revealing Joe Biden was ‘the brand’ his family sold to enrich the Bidens,” House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) said in a statement Tuesday.



“Joe Biden knew of, participated in, and benefited from these schemes.



“Joe Biden attended dinners, spoke on speakerphone, showed up to meetings, and had coffee with his son’s foreign business associates.



“In fact, we’ve documented how Joe Biden has met with nearly all of his son’s foreign business associates as they were collectively funneling millions to the Bidens.



“Our committees have the opportunity to depose Hunter Biden, a key witness in our impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, about this record of evidence.



“This deposition is not the conclusion of the impeachment inquiry.



“There are more subpoenas and witness interviews to come.”



He added that the committee will continue to investigate to “determine whether articles of impeachment are warranted.”


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House Oversight Releases Hunter Biden Transcript – Hunter Admits Joe Biden Is the “Big Guy”

By Jim Hoft
Feb. 29, 2024 6:40 pm

The House Oversight Committee on Thursday released the full transcript of Hunter Biden’s closed door deposition from Wednesday behind closed doors.



The complete transcript is downloaded here,

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Rep. Andy Biggs: Hunter Biden Has Leverage in that His Father ‘Controls the U.S. Attorney General’


HANNAH BLEAU KNUDSEN
29 Feb 2024

Hunter Biden has leverage in that his father, President Joe Biden, “controls the U.S. Attorney General,” who is ultimately going “to make the decision whether to prosecute for contempt or not,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said during an appearance Thursday on Breitbart News Daily.



Speaking to Breitbart News Daily one day after Hunter Biden’s closed-door deposition, Biggs explained that he believes Biden’s son “was selling access to his father,” which is bribery.



“I mean, that’s when you — when you look at the federal laws that bribery, you know, a family member that’s receiving benefits in exchange for — that’s, that’s a crime,” he explained, delving into the deposition connected to the House impeachment inquiry.



Biggs described it as “frustrating,” because lawmakers were so limited on time.



“The scope of what we could talk about was somewhat limited because he’s under indictment investigation in a lot of areas. So we couldn’t get into some of that stuff,” he said, explaining that there were only eight minutes left in the entire day by the time Biggs got to question Hunter Biden, who believes the speculation over Biden being involved in Hunter’s business dealings is a “MAGA-motivated conspiracy” despite a trove of evidence pointing to the contrary.



The chairman, Biggs said, controlled the time, although he said he does not know the backstory as to why there were such great time restraints. And at the end of the day, he said, Hunter Biden has leverage.



“Here’s his leverage. His leverage was ‘Okay, so you don’t come in,’ you hold him in contempt, and his leverage is that his dad controls the U.S. Attorney General, who can, [who] is going to make the decision whether to prosecute for contempt or not,” he explained.



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Further, Biggs said he does not buy Hunter’s excuses that he cannot remember key details, as Hunter often claims he was drunk or high.



“He always, almost always, qualifies it by saying, ‘Well, you know, I can’t recall it. But if something happened, even if,’ he says — ‘I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I have no recollection,’ he says, ‘I was drunk or high as it was an addiction, but even if I — even if that did happen, my dad knew nothing about the business.’ That’s the answer on everything,” he explained.



“He says, ‘Well, you can’t find a bank account.’ And that’s what he keeps talking about, is, you know, basically, ‘You’re not going to see an envelope of cash going to my dad noted in a bank account transaction somewhere,’ and that’s their deal. But all of them, the whole family’s getting these massive benefits. They were rolling through — I view their banking situation as money laundering,” Biggs said, pointing back to the bribery scandal.



“Bribery is something completely different” than lobbying, he said. “It’s a direct quid pro quo.”



“And so we know that there’s a direct quid pro quo. They’ve never even contested this on the Ukraine Shokin firing,” he said, referring to the firing of Ukraine’s top prosecutor investigating the company Hunter was involved with at the time.



“Joe Biden basically himself admitted he did the quid pro quo in the infamous video where he says, look, I wasn’t going to give them that billion dollars of foreign aid unless they fired Shokin,” he said.



Ultimately, Biggs said he wishes there had been more time to delve into things during the deposition. The next step is a few more depositions next week, he said, after which they will be able to put the report together and forward it to the Speaker and “see what he wants to do.”


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James Biden Admits Joe Biden Received $40,000 From Hunter Biden’s Laundered China Money

By Cristina Laila
Mar. 1, 2024 7:20 pm


The House Oversight Committee on Friday released a transcript of James Biden’s February 21 closed-door impeachment inquiry interview.



Joe Biden’s slimy brother and ‘family fixer’ James Biden worked with Hunter Biden on various overseas business ventures.



One of their more notable ventures included CEFC, an energy company linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).



James Biden admitted to lawmakers that Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered Chinese funds.



Joe Biden has repeatedly claimed he never took a dime from China and was never involved with his son Hunter’s overseas business dealings.



A demonstrable lie.



Biden, in a ‘catch me if you can’ moment, taunted reporters last June inquiring about his family’s corruption and asked, “Where’s the money?”



WATCH:

In November, House Oversight Chairman James Comer revealed Joe Biden received $40,000 of Hunter Biden’s laundered China money.



Here’s how it went down:



On August 8, 2017, Northern International Capital, a Chinese firm affiliated with CEFC, transferred $5 million to Hudson West III. This venture was co-established by Hunter Biden and Gongwen Dong, an associate of CEFC. On the same day, Hudson West III transferred $400,000 to Owasco, P.C., an entity owned by Hunter. Within a span of a few weeks, a series of transfers took place, culminating in Sara Biden, sister-in-law to the President, writing a $40,000 check to Joe Biden, labeled as a “loan repayment.”






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Hunter Biden’s firm Owasco took money from CEFC, an energy company that is effectively an arm of the Chinese Communist Party.



Hunter Biden worked with Gongwen Dong and Ye Jianming, both men are linked to the Chinese Communist Party.



James Biden admitted the money going into Hunter’s investment vehicle Owasco came from CEFC – the CEFC-China money then went to James Biden – and James Biden used that China money to ‘repay’ Joe Biden.



“I’m asking him where he believed — James Biden was receiving money in Lion Hall Group from Owasco, PC, around this timeframe. Where did you believe the source of the money that was going into Owasco, prior to being sent to you, was coming from?” an investigator asked James Biden according to the transcript reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.



“CEFC,” James Biden replied.



James Biden also told GOP lawmakers that there was no interest charged on any of the loans he received from his brother Joe Biden.


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