Posted on 08/31/2023 1:10:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I heard it was well over 5,000 emails.
Yeah, if have this right, they’re saying Hunter Biden can receive Executive Privilege?
- Can a VP legally assert executive privilege?
- Can a pResident legally and retroactively assert executive privilege to a time, circumstances and activities when he was not pResident?
- Aren’t lawyers involved in an illegal scheme subject to losing attorney-client privilege and criminal legal exposure all the more?
- Elsewhere it was reported that FARA was asserting this “defense” to keep from cooperating with Congress. FARA is now claiming that it’s subject to WH control, but not Congress’ oversight?
Hmm, yes, it was my understanding that “Executive Privilege” only protects certain of the President’s and Executive branch communications from the other 2 branches of the government, so, for example, Congress can’t subpoena them, and the courts can’t use them as evidence.
But the People are not a branch of the government. Executive Privilege should not keep those public records out of the reach of the public. You have to claim “national security” to do that.
“Skaneateles” is a town, lake and country club in New York state, according to my top notch google researching skillz.
VP Biden, his son Hunter, and Hunter’s daughter Finnegan, arrive in Beijing..........on an official US visit financed by taxpayers.
Throughout the tax-paid trip, Hunter Biden seemed to duck in and out, sometimes joining his father at events and red-carpet arrival ceremonies, and at other times following his own itinerary, presumably with his daughter Finnegan. As is customary, the White House did not provide details about what the vice president’s relatives were doing when they were not part of his public events.
What else Hunter Biden may have done during the tax-paid two-day stop in China is unclear. There are no indications he met with Chinese government officials. Mesires, the spokesman, said that he did not conduct any business during the tax-paid trip — including when he met with Li, the Chinese banker and his nascent business partner.
Several former White House officials who traveled with Biden on the tax-paid trip told NBC News that they didn’t know at the time that Hunter Biden had any business interests in China and were unaware of his private schedule while in Beijing.
Reporters along for the trip also indicated no one was aware of Hunter’s mega business deal in China.
SOURCE—NYPOST.com
Twelve days after Hunter stepped off Air Force Two in Beijing with his VP dad and daughter, on an official tax-paid trip, Hunter’s nascent privarcompany signed a historic deal with the Bank of China, the state-owned financial behemoth often used as a tool of the Chinese government.
The Bank of China had created a first-of-its-kind investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). According to BHR, one of its founding partners was none other than Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC.
It was an unprecedented arrangement: (A) the government of one of America’s fiercest competitors, the Chinese Communist government. going into business with the son of one of America’s most powerful decision-makers, then VP-Biden....Pres Obama’s point man in China.
Chris Heinz (John Kerry’s stepson) claims neither he nor Rosemont Seneca Partners, the firm he had part ownership of, had any role in the deal with Bohai Harvest. Nonetheless, Biden, Archer and the Rosemont name became increasingly involved with China.
Archer became the vice chairman of Bohai Harvest, helping oversee some of the fund’s investments.
Troublingly, some of those investments had major implications for US national security........including the safety and security of Americans.
<><> Ironically, Hunter Biden’s father, the vice president, met earlier with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Washington as part of the Nuclear Security Summit as Obama’s point man on all things China.
<><> In December 2014, Hunter’s company, BHR became an “anchor investor” in the IPO of China General Nuclear Power Corp. (CGN), the Communist state-owned energy company involved in the construction of nuclear reactors.
<><> In April 2016, the US Justice Department would charge CGN with stealing nuclear secrets from the United States — actions prosecutors said could cause “significant damage to our national security.”
Of particular interest to CGN were sensitive, American-made components that, according to experts, resembled components used by the US on its nuclear submarines.
Joe Biden later bragged that he did not discuss Hunter’s business interests on the 20-hour flight to China.Nor would he. The details of a mega-deal...... with larger importance to the Biden family fortunes....... were certainly worked out weeks ahead in VP Biden’s tax-paid office utilizing Biden’s tax-paid staff.
The alacrity with which Hunter seemingly sewed up the billion dollar deal shorty after arriving is significant. Because the details were already hashed out when he boarded Air Force Two. Joe and Hunter surely allowed themselves a high five. No need to discuss the deal on the trip over.....it was fait accompli....thanks to the VP’s tax-paid help.
See post 19 for the significance.
VP Biden arrives in China on an official visit w/ the Biden parasites, Hunter and his daughter Finnegan.
Finnegan stupidly waves to the Chinese delegation as if she's some kind of diplomat.
Moocher Hunter is about to score a private billion dollar business deal from the Chinese.
More white supremacy in action.
Thx.
Isn’t this where a “special master” comes in to view the accuracy of the claims?
Treason.
That’s a fantastic bribery tool. Do the bribery, claim executive privilege over all the records of it.
The future of the Presidential compensation package.
“But Hunter isn’t the President!” “Hunter is a private citizen, not the President!” say all the liberals. A private citizen that gets to live at the White House and gets executive privilege?
Delaware judge orders status report on felony gun charge against Hunter Biden
BY RANDALL CHASE, AP
August 31, 2023
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge in Delaware ordered prosecutors and defense attorneys on Thursday to provide a status report regarding a felony gun charge against Hunter Biden.
Judge Maryellen Noreika directed lawyers to provide the report by next Wednesday, including any steps they believe the court needs to take.
Attorneys for Biden have argued that a “diversion agreement” sparing him from prosecution on the gun charge is still in place, even though it was inextricably linked to a plea deal on misdemeanor tax offenses that imploded during a court appearance in July.
Noreika dismissed the tax case, and prosecutors have indicated they plan to pursue tax charges against President Joe Biden’s son in another district, perhaps California or Washington, D.C.
The two-part deal on tax and gun charges was supposed to have largely wrapped up a years-long investigation overseen by Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss. The deal fell apart after Noreika raised questions about its terms during a hearing in July.
Among other issues, prosecutors were unable to resolve the judge’s concerns about offering Biden immunity for certain crimes as part of the diversion agreement, instead of in the plea deal.
Typically, a non-prosecution agreement is not presented to a judge and requires no court input. A plea deal, on the other hand, must be presented to a judge, but prosecutors tried to structure Biden’s tax plea deal in a way that left Noreika with no discretion to accept or reject it. The judge expressed concern that attorneys were asking her to simply “rubber stamp” the deal, which she refused to do.
Pressed by Noreika, prosecutor Leo Wise said he could find no precedent for agreeing not to prosecute Biden for crimes that have nothing to do with the gun case or the charges being diverted. Wise also acknowledged that he had never seen a diversion agreement in which the agreement not to prosecute is so broad that it encompasses crimes in a different case. Nor could he offer any precedent for requiring prosecutors to first obtain court approval before prosecuting Biden for certain crimes in the future.
“These agreements are not straightforward and they contain some atypical provisions,” Noreika noted.
Prior to the hearing, Republicans denounced Biden’s plea agreement as a “sweetheart deal.” The deal called for Biden to be sentenced to probation in exchange for pleading guilty to failing to pay taxes on more than $1.5 million in income in both 2017 and 2018. According to prosecutors, Biden’s income during those two years included roughly $4 million in business and consulting fees from a company he formed with the CEO of a Chinese business conglomerate, and from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
The diversion agreement, meanwhile, was aimed at sparing Biden from prosecution on the felony crime of being a drug user in possession of a gun in 2018 if he kept out of trouble for two years. Hunter Biden’s history of drug use and financial dealings have trailed the political career of his father.
Following the collapse of the plea deal, Attorney General Merrick Garland named Weiss as special counsel, a status that confers broad powers to investigate and report out his findings.
Executive privilege cannot exist between fedgov and an outside organization involving a relative of th president or vp, IMHO.
If the White House had nothing to hide why did it call executive privilege.
Kind of like them saying Hunters businesses were on the up and up but didn’t say why he needed 20 shell companies to operate it.
Syndicate secrets in action
Nope, nope and nope. According to the Commie judge, Chutkin, President Trump and his people had no executive privilege when it came to the Commie J6 committee so neither do you, Hoe..I mean Joe.
The NY Finger lakes has associations to child trafficking. I’ve seen this before, vis-a-vis hunter.
The 5400 emails using Joe’s 3 fake name accounts ARE NOT covered by executive privilege, because by definition those were NOT “official gov’t business”.
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