"That's not a racket, it's Brahms! Brahms' Third Racket!"
Posted on 05/03/2023 6:17:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
Evidence points to "another example of a privileged Democrat getting away with things that no average, working, taxpaying American could get away with," Rep. James Comer said.
PDF LINKS AT SITE........................
A letter falsely insinuating a laptop was Russian disinformation. An IRS whistleblower. Suspicious activity bank reports. Suggestions of false testimony to Congress.
The more congressional investigators dig into evidence in the Hunter Biden scandal that was kept from the public for years, the more they have become concerned the first family was protected by a political cone of silence that prevented voters from making an informed choice in the 2020 election about a family with uncomfortable foreign business deals and partners.
"We've got the onion in front of us,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), the top Republican on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, who has been investigating the Biden family's business deals since 2019. "We're painstakingly peeling back thin layer after thin layer. But the truth is being revealed. And it's pretty ugly."
Two new sensational allegations burst into public Tuesday as Johnson joined fellow Sen. Chuck Grassley to formally accuse Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a close lieutenant of President Joe Biden, of giving Congress a "patently false" account in 2020 about his earlier dealings with Hunter Biden during the Obama years.
"On December 22, 2020, you provided false testimony to Congress during your voluntary transcribed interview," the senators wrote in a letter to the secretary demanding he preserve and turn over all records of his and his wife's contacts with Hunter Biden.
You can read that letter here:
File johnson_grassley_to_blinken_-_december_2020_transcript.pdf
The current controversy deals with Blinken's testimony about contacts with Hunter Biden back when Blinken served as deputy secretary of state under Obama. When asked at the time whether he ever spoke with Hunter Biden on the phone, Blinken said, "Not that I recall."
He also said he had not spoken to Hunter Biden over email or text messages.
Emails from Hunter Biden's laptop indicate Blinken corresponded with Hunter Biden at least twice and that the secretary's wife, Evan Ryan, also communicated with the first son.
"Because your testimony is inaccurate, Congress and the public must rely on your records as the source for information about your dealings with Hunter Biden," the senator wrote in a dramatic escalation of their feud with Team Biden.
While that battle intensifies, House members are seeking answers from Blinken about his contacts with former CIA Director Mike Morell that eventually led to a letter in October 2020 signed by 51 former and current U.S. intelligence officials that suggested the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. It was not.
Last month, Morell testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees that a conversation he had with Blinken, then a Joe Biden campaign adviser, "triggered" his decision to organize the fall 2020 letter. He said while Blinken did not ask him specifically to send the letter, the future secretary did send him information that became key to the letter and the Biden campaign subsequently helped organize press coverage of the letter.
Blinken says only that the letter wasn't his idea.
Also on Tuesday, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), a high-profile conservative who played a key role in the deal that landed Kevin McCarthy the House speakership, wrote key oversight committees in both chambers of Congress urging them to investigate whether the Justice Department has let presidential son Hunter Biden off easy in its probe of alleged tax offenses by allowing the statute of limitations to expire on certain transactions a decade ago in Ukraine and elsewhere.
Perry's letter this week was prompted by a Just the News report that emails on Hunter Biden's laptop, seized by the FBI in 2019, state the presidential son had been warned in 2017 that he failed to declare $400,000 in income from his controversial Burisma Holdings job in Ukraine dating to 2014 and owed back taxes.
The letter asked the top Republicans and Democrats on House Ways and Means, Senate Finance, House Judiciary, House Oversight, Senate Homeland Security, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Senate Judiciary to demand answers of federal prosecutors, especially now that an IRS whistleblower has come forward with allegations of political interference in the probe.
Perry noted that recent news media reports on purported criminal charges being considered against Hunter Biden — who has denied any wrongdoing but acknowledged he was under FBI investigation — seem to involve smaller, more recent transactions and not those referencing the undeclared Burisma income from the 2017 email.
"That reporting has some lawmakers and tax experts concerned that the DOJ knowingly and purposefully allowed the statute of limitations to expire, or that DOJ/IRS constructed an agreement extending the legal deadline — commonly known as 'tolling agreements' — specifically to avoid indictment and/or prosecution," Perry wrote his colleagues in both chambers.
"I respectfully request your respective Committees to inquire with the individuals involved at the DOJ and the IRS on this specific matter to determine if the statute of limitations were allowed to expire or, if a particular tolling agreement in this matter were constructed, who was involved and what the justification were for such actions," he added.
You can read that letter here:
File Perry Letter re 2014 Biden.pdf
Perry declared that the "general public and Members of Congress conducting oversight into these matters must know the full details of these proceedings to ensure that the legal/tax system in our country is operating in full transparency and with an even-handed fairness."
Meanwhile, an IRS supervisory criminal agent has received whistleblower protection from both the Justice Department inspector general and Congress so he can convey evidence of what he said was political interference and preferential treatment by the Biden DOJ. If he can substantiate his allegations, it would contradict the testimony of Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has claimed prosecutors leading the case have full authority to make decisions and have not been interfered with.
Garland doubled down on his testimony Tuesday, insisting there is no evidence of interference in the Hunter Biden case.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer told Just the News last week there are growing questions in Washington about whether the DOJ probe is too narrowly focused on tax transactions from 2018 forward instead of earlier deals dating to 2014 that involved Russia, China and Ukraine.
"Look, his tax problems go back to at least 2014," Comer said. "He owes a lot more in taxes than what I've heard they're wanting to indict him on. At the end of the day, if you look at all the potential charges and all the potential wrongdoing that Hunter Biden has done over the past decade, tax evasion for one or two years is a drop in the bucket. It wouldn't even be in the top five things that I think the DOJ could charge him with.
"This is another example of a two-tier system of justice in America."
Congressional investigators for two years have had an email to Hunter Biden from close business associate Eric Schwerin, warning that the first son had failed to pay taxes on $400,000 in income he received from the controversial Ukraine energy firm Burisma Holdings all the way back to 2014. Schwerin is now cooperating with Comer's probe, according to Comer.
"In 2014 you joined the Burisma board and we still need to amend your 2014 returns to reflect the unreported Burisma income," Schwerin wrote Hunter Biden in the Jan. 16, 2017 email that appeared on a laptop turned over to the FBI and Congress. "That is approximately $400,000 extra so your income in 2014 was closer to $1,247,328."
You can read that email here:
File HBidenSchwerin1-16-17EmailTaxes [redacted].pdf
Hunter Biden has acknowledged since December 2020 that he has been under criminal investigation for tax matters, and his representative disclosed last year he paid overdue tax bills totaling $2 million. He has expressed confidence he will be cleared of criminal wrongdoing.
If the GOP can’t lay a glove on Hunter, well, they’re worthless.
Humper will be pardoned by The Big Guy.......................
BTTT
ine, that at least is legal, even if it's not ethical. As long as Hunter gets convicted. My dream which will never happen is that they trace payments to the Big Guy, then Brandan can pardon himself as well.
Verry Righr, now get FJB FOR TREASON, ELECTION RIGGING, AND GIVING US ALL THE MARK OF THE BEAST 666 IN JULY.
Biden just put out an executive order on cryptocurrencies — here’s everything that’s in it
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/heres-whats-in-bidens-executive-order-on-crypto.html
UNICOIN, MARK OF THE BEAST.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy/sell.
https://gailhonadle.substack.com/p/unicoin-mark-of-the-beast
Ultra leftists will never change.
This does, however, clearly demonstrate that centrists - including both dems and republicans - are utter dumbasses.
Everything pivots on them, yet we on the right are - ahem - always right.
Give it up folks. Nothing is going to come out of this. He is protected by the satanic cabal swamp creatures in DC. We will never make a dent because we do not have that type of power backing for supporting us. Our government is our enemy. They have become the left-wing communist protectors and doors of Eva for them They have gained the upper hand, and we shall always be under their boot. How can you fight Satan and his demonic RAT demons when God has removed his hand and blessings off America? Satan’s time is extremely short and he’s doing everything he can to destroy the God’s remnant. But greater is He who dwells in the in people then he who controls this world for a short time! You see my friend Satan’s time is very very very short. His time is running out and he’s going to take as many as he can to the lake of fire with him for eternity. He hates God’s creation, and he will do whatever it takes to destroy the human race. Please Come quickly Lord Jesus!
Ooops….not “ doors of Eva” but meant doers of evil….damn autocorrect! Always messing up!
Executive pardons should be illegal. Or only allowed by congressional approval case by case.
"That's not a racket, it's Brahms! Brahms' Third Racket!"
Nothing new. The ‘racket’ protected Zero, then turned to protect Kitzhaber...and on...and on...and on.
Wake me when somebody goes to jail (call me ‘Rip’).
A perjury conviction is a very heavy lift if all the evidence is a witness statement, "I do not recall", or, "Not that I recall".
“I have no memory of that.”..............
Two months ago.
Brandon will pardon Humper and the excuse will be “it’s a political attack.” Blinkin was already hitting that talking point hard yesterday.
That’s the slowest emergence of the most obvious protection racket on record. I hear the FBI is still analyzing the Hindenburg films for any evidence of heat.
He’s on someones payroll as a confidential informant.
His daddy in in the WH calling the shots to protect self you don’t think the swamp will object to it do you.
The democrats own the media aka chimp on a rope with a cup.
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