Posted on 12/19/2022 8:30:20 AM PST by Red Badger
Republican lawmakers will take control of the House of Representatives on Jan. 3. That means that, among many other things, they will take control of the House’s investigative committees and subcommittees. GOP leaders have already said they plan to probe the Biden administration’s disastrous policy on the U.S.-Mexico border, the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the disastrous failure to stop the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., and more.
There is clearly a lot to investigate. But the topic that will receive the most attention in the media and the political conversation will be the investigation into the business dealings of the Biden family — Joe, Hunter and Jim Biden. “Committee Republicans have spoken with multiple whistleblowers from numerous schemes involving the Biden family, reviewed Hunter Biden’s laptop, and received documents of previously unknown transactions,” House Oversight Committee chairman-to-be Rep. James Comer told a news conference on Nov. 17. “What we found are business plans aimed at targets around the world based on influence peddling, including with people closely tied to foreign governments like China and Russia.” The Bidens, Comer said, “flourished and became millionaires by simply offering access to ‘The Family.'”
Press coverage of the investigation will likely fall into two categories. The first will focus on traditional coverage of what the committee discovers, what witnesses tell investigators, what documents are involved, etc. The second will ignore those developments or attack the investigation itself.
Right now, Comer is working hard to convince the public that his probe will be a Joe Biden investigation — that is, an investigation into the actions of the president of the United States — and not a Hunter Biden investigation. “In 2019, shortly after announcing his campaign for president, Joe Biden told the American people he had nothing to do with and never had conversations with his family about their business deals,” Comer said on Nov. 17. “That was a lie. Whistleblowers describe President Biden as ‘chairman of the board’ for these businesses. He personally participated in meetings and phone calls. Documents show that he was a ‘partner’ with access to an office. To be clear: Joe Biden is the ‘Big Guy.'” That last was a reference to Hunter Biden’s repeated references to his father as the “Big Guy.” Hunter’s business partners used the phrase, too; one of them wrote that in a 2017 Chinese energy deal, 10% of the money would be “held by H for the big guy.”
Republicans know that for many years, Joe Biden, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009, described himself as “the poorest man in Congress.” “I entered as one of the poorest men in Congress, left one of the poorest men in government, in Congress and as vice president,” Biden said when he was running for president in 2019. By that, what Biden really meant was that he was one of the most ethical men in Congress — that, unlike some others, he did not use his office to cash in. Now, GOP investigators want to see if Biden benefited from his son’s shadowy income stream, which of course was made possible by Hunter Biden cashing in on his father’s name.
Comer wants to investigate all that. But the more Comer talks about substance — deals, business partners, money, bank records — the more Democrats and their allies in the political and journalism worlds accuse Republicans of beating a dead horse, or being obsessed with the pornography that the cocaine-addicted Hunter Biden made and kept on his laptop. And now, the Washington Post reports that a number of wealthy Biden supporters are planning an assault against the investigators and witnesses in the Hunter Biden probe. They are assembling what the Post calls a “sprawling infrastructure” that is “rapidly, almost frantically assembling to combat Republicans’ plans to turn Hunter Biden into a major news story when the GOP takes over the House next year.”
The pro-Hunter group includes Kevin Morris, a high-powered entertainment attorney in Hollywood who at some point became friends with Hunter Biden and is now paying Hunter’s back taxes and monthly bills. Morris reportedly paid Hunter Biden’s $2 million back taxes bill. He reportedly pays his friend’s rent, too — around $20,000 a month.
Morris reportedly is advising his friend and beneficiary to get tough with those Republicans who want to delve into the connection between Hunter Biden’s highly lucrative business deals and Hunter Biden’s father. According to the Post, Morris is advocating that Hunter file defamation suits against Fox News, against President Trump’s son Eric, and against Rudy Giuliani. Morris also, according to the Post, wants “extensive research,” which means dirt-digging, on “two potential witnesses against Hunter Biden — a spurned business partner named Tony Bobulinski and a computer repairman named John Paul Mac Isaac.” It was Mac Isaac to whom Hunter took his laptop for repair and then apparently forgot what he had done with it.
Morris is joined in advocating an aggressive strategy by David Brock, who in the 1990s styled himself a “right-wing hitman” writing articles attacking Bill and Hillary Clinton. Then Brock changed sides, trying to ingratiate himself with the very people he had earlier attacked. The right-wing hitman became a left-wing hitman, not to mention a prolific fundraiser. Now, Brock has formed a new group, Facts First USA, to fight Republicans who want to investigate Hunter Biden and other Biden administration topics.
Some Democrats disagree strongly with the aggressive strategy. After all, Hunter Biden is a former drunk and crackhead who made a huge amount of money through questionable business deals in which he sought to cash in on his father’s name and influence. He then blew the money on booze, crack and prostitutes, after which he sought new, and even shadier, ways to further cash in on his father’s name and influence. This was no youthful indiscretion; Hunter Biden is 52 years old and has only been off drugs for a couple of years.
It’s not a heartwarming American story. “No one thinks this strategy of putting Hunter Biden front and center is smart,” one Democrat involved in the larger defense effort told the Post. “No one, including the White House, thinks this is a smart strategy.” The more cautious Democrats in the Hunter Biden defense effort want to argue that he is “clearly a private citizen and an inappropriate target for Congress to investigate,” according to the Post, and that “Republicans are more concerned with pursuing conspiracies than solving the country’s problems.”
That’s where Comer’s investigation plan comes in. He appears to be focused like a laser beam on the Joe Biden angle of the Hunter Biden story. He wants to get copies of “suspicious activity reports” that banks filed about various Hunter Biden transactions. He wants to delineate what he believes are the extensive financial ties between Hunter and Joe Biden, as well as the president’s brother Jim Biden, who was also in on the business. “We are focused on the bank records,” he said on Nov. 17. “The most important thing for us, right now, is to get those bank records.”
In other words, it’s all about Joe Biden’s business. To hear Comer talk, Hunter Biden is almost a bit player in the Hunter Biden investigation. “We’re not trying to prove Hunter Biden is a bad actor,” Comer said. “He is. If anybody wants to disagree with that, then there’s nothing we have to talk about. Our investigation is about Joe Biden.”
As if anything will actually happen
Yep, and Hunter provided a roadmap.
Hunter is a punk...not doubt ..but his father is the one who needs to answer a few simple questions...under oath if he has nothing to hide.
I think this is invasion resumption day.
Note how diligently the invaders try to protect themselves against Covid.
It’s not a war over Hunter Biden.
It’s not even a war over Joe Biden.
It’s a war to decide whether criminals will be allowed to rob our treasuries in the name of governing.
It’s a war to decide if nations hostile to the United States can continue to attack us through the thieves running the Democrat party.
Would still
Like to know how the Biden fortune was made in detail. Could be a useful roadmap.
“It’s a war to decide whether criminals will be allowed to rob our treasuries in the name of governing.”
That war has already been lost.
Move to China.
“GOP leaders have already said they plan to probe the Biden administration’s disastrous policy on the U.S.-Mexico border, the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the disastrous failure to stop the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., and more...Our investigation is about Joe Biden.”
The law is a funny thing. It is created and interpreted to go both ways in a commitment to justice. The actions the GOP is complaining about and investigating has nothing to do with protecting and serving the people. It will be considered by the sheep as a “get even” rather than a purposeful action to follow the platform the GOP needs to establish the worthiness of their efforts to make us better. Nothing will happen to him as he is protected by law since he didn’t do it on purpose. And nothing will change as the GOP isn’t intereted in winning policy, just an election for one of the three parts of the decision makers, house, senate, and the potus. And until they get back to the basics of doing their job rather than protecting it, they are worthless to the country. They are just like our failing school systems, success has been pushed aside for participation which no one can win because there is no winner. Just all losers.
wy69
With no chance of passing meaningful legislation, congress may as well spend the next two years "investigating".
What good will it do for the House to “investigate” Hunter and the Biden crime family? The FBI, DOJ, and the IC will make sure that nothing comes of the investigation.
The investigation also needs to focus on the DOJ and FBI. Why did they not do anything with the laptop. The answer is not because they thought it was Russian misinformation. That leads to a focus on the intel community and former members thereof. Hunter should not be out of bounds. He is culpable in all of this along with the rest of Biden family. I want to see Jim Biden go down too. He received multi-hundred billion dollar contract to rebuild Iraq. How did get that without any experience. The list goes on.
Exactly!!!!
“Move to China.”
I am constrained by the norms of this forum to respond to you in the appropriate way.
“Like to know how the Biden fortune was made in detail.”
How much is he now worth?
You feel the need to disagree with me, but you can’t defend your disagreement.
Got it.
You’re running on emotions.
I’ll be happy when there’s some actual action taken to correct the wrongs.
Until then, it’s just hot air.
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