Posted on 12/18/2023 8:04:21 AM PST by bitt
Out of all the topics the Joe Biden White House didn’t want to see in Sunday’s Washington Post, this had to be up there on the list.
The capital city’s newspaper of record published recordings Sunday of President Joe Biden’s brother, James, engaged in scoring off his famous last name during the late 1990s.
The fact that the recordings were made by FBI investigators couldn’t have made things easier in the Biden household either.
The Post article was headlined “James Biden’s dealmaking caught on FBI tapes in unrelated bribery probe,” and just the words alone had to be unsettling at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
According to the Post, the tapes came to light after the Post received permission to review archives at the University of Mississippi compiled by author Curtis Wilkie, who wrote a book about attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, a larger-than-life figure in the law world who engineered the landmark $248 billion 1998 legal settlement with the tobacco industry over its sales of a cancer-causing product.
Scruggs’ career didn’t end with the tobacco settlement — that took until 2007, when he was snared in an FBI sting operation trying to bribe a Mississippi judge.
And it was in that snare that James Biden’s voice recordings appear — not involved in bribery himself, but clearly as a figure whose last name meant a good deal to those trying to curry favor in Washington.
Scruggs, according to the Post, got to know the Bidens while he was trying to get a tobacco settlement through Congress. He needed Joe Biden’s support for that. And for that, he turned to James Biden.
“I probably wouldn’t have hired him if he wasn’t the senator’s brother,” Scruggs told the Post, echoing similar words that would later be spoken about Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
“Jim was never untoward about his influence,” Scruggs said, according to the Post. “He didn’t brag about it or talk about it. He didn’t have to. He was the man’s brother.”
To be clear, the conversations where James Biden was recorded by the FBI were taken down as part of an investigation of Scruggs and his associates — not James Biden.
But they did capture a flavor of James Biden’s influence peddling — and that was just when his brother was a senator, not the vice president.
Two of the tapes are in the X post below.
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The criminal state is one and one in attempts to rig elections against PDJT — working so hard to keep the criminals in power.
Enabled American Crime Family in action for a very long time.
More than a few of us out here, know the Biden corruption goes back probably to at least the late sixties or early seventies.
The way all this is portrayed in the MSM is that Hunter slightly “underpaid” his federal taxes, but is trying to make things right . . .
Joe doesn’t seem to be getting the message that TPTB want him to drop out
I hope those $($*& have an interesting Christmas dinner at the Biden table.
“working so hard to keep the criminals in power”
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Those in power want to stay in power.
And they want even more of it.
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