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CNN Fact Check Hilariously Proves Case for Biden Impeachment Inquiry
PJ Media ^ | 9/14/2023 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 09/14/2023 8:59:46 AM PDT by Signalman

I recently wrote that the White House is terrified of the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.

Well, here’s more proof. CNN, which pretty much always has Biden’s back, attempted to fact-check House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s announcement launching the impeachment inquiry.

To start, CNN claims that McCarthy made “several unproven claims” during his announcement and then attempts to disprove them.

First, CNN attempts to debunk the claim that the Biden family and associates got $20 million through shell companies.

CNN’s response:

Facts First: This is true about Joe Biden’s family and associates, but there is no public evidence to date that the president personally received any money.

So, to clear this up, CNN doesn’t even attempt to deny that the Biden family got millions from foreign sources or to come up with an explanation for the use of the shell companies. In fact, the lack of journalistic curiosity about these shell companies is quite alarming. We’ve been pointing out that these companies had no apparent purpose but to launder foreign money before distributing it to members of the Biden family. Does having 20 shell companies to filter millions of dollars through sound like legitimate business to CNN? What were these companies selling, if not the product of Joe Biden’s influence?

The next allegation CNN attempts to dispute is that an FBI informant said the Bidens received a bribe.

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Facts First: It’s true that an informant gave a tip of this nature to the FBI in 2020, and that the bureau had viewed him as a credible informant. But the underlying allegation that the Biden family was given a bribe is totally unproven; the informant was merely reporting something he said he had been told by a Ukrainian businessman.

Facts First: It’s true that an informant gave a tip of this nature to the FBI in 2020, and that the bureau had viewed him as a credible informant. But the underlying allegation that the Biden family was given a bribe is totally unproven; the informant was merely reporting something he said he had been told by a Ukrainian businessman.

Missing from the fact check is that the source of this claim is a longtime FBI informant who has a history of providing the FBI with reliable information.

CNN: "but there is no public evidence to date that the president personally received any money."

Doesn't matter. Even if Biden, personally, did not receive bribe money, if his family did, the the Bribery charge is valid.

1 posted on 09/14/2023 8:59:46 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

In a court of law, having your money filter through 20 shell companies with no actual business activity is called “prima facie” evidence of money laundering.


2 posted on 09/14/2023 9:04:32 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Signalman

Filtering bribe money through family members is an age-old method of delivering bribes.


3 posted on 09/14/2023 9:05:57 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Signalman

These people are so retarded. If you go on reddit, they are hellbent on denying every single allegation against Biden as if it never existed and no one had ever alleged Biden of impropriety.

The media’s in the same boat, and by doing this active denial, they’re making the expulsion of Biden as candidate later and later until filing times become an issue.

If he’s they’re candidate next year and the corruption becomes clear, they’re going to spaz out even more, and Trump’s going to walk into the White House.


4 posted on 09/14/2023 9:08:14 AM PDT by struggle
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To: Signalman

“In fact, the lack of journalistic curiosity about these shell companies is quite alarming. “

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It’s not alarming. It’s completely predictable based on several decades of proven track record.

For one side (particularly for Trump), it’s not just curiosity, it is obsession. It’s the seriousness of the charge!

For the other side, like Biden, but other democrats as well, it’s obliviousness. These things wont even get covered, until it’s right in everyone’s faces, and then they spin spin spin.

It used to be the politicians who spun, but now the media does it all.


5 posted on 09/14/2023 9:10:16 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Signalman
The Inquiry will dig deeper. If nothing there, nothing to worry about.

Media once advocated for Americans to have ALL information and allowed them to decide.

Now they hide facts. Ignore facts. And tell Americans what to think.

So few digging for truth. So many sit home and tap out stories leading with “a Facebook poster wrote” or “Twitter users were upset”

It's worse than lazy. It's negligent.

Get out of bed and go speak to real people.

6 posted on 09/14/2023 9:10:30 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Signalman
My favorite is the recent line that Biden was never selling actual influence, but rather only the ‘appearance’ of influence.

To put it another way: He was scamming these guys like a three card Monty huckster.

7 posted on 09/14/2023 9:11:23 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ( Biden-Fetterman in ‘24: It's a no brainer)
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To: Signalman

So how did he get so wealthy?


8 posted on 09/14/2023 9:11:52 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Signalman

Without Biden, Hunter and family would not have received any of the bribe money. Biden was ‘the business’. Hunter was simply an employee in charge of collecting the money. No head of a company (Joe Biden) is going to accept not getting any of he money.

But, I can’t blame Biden and son and family for getting theirs.

Hunter and Biden noticed how the Clinton got very wealthy after leaving government. Obama was making the moves towards becoming wealthy after leaving office. So, Hunter wanted his father to do the same for ‘the family’, and started preparing for that coming wealth before Joe left his vice-presidency. The evidence for those plans are everywhere, and in many countries.

The Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens. Wealthy all, after leaving office. Something stinks in all of those families.


9 posted on 09/14/2023 9:12:23 AM PDT by adorno
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To: AppyPappy

Biden got rich by saving most of his government salary. He only ate leftover food from senate dining room. He used bicycle to go to work in DC. He hitch hiked from DC to Delaware on weekends. That is why he is worth 30 million.


10 posted on 09/14/2023 9:17:50 AM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians like Desantis build wealth. Trump sacrificed his wealth to serve people. GO TRUMP)
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To: Signalman

CNN is a co-conspirator.

They will be dismantled in the Great Cleansing.


11 posted on 09/14/2023 9:17:52 AM PDT by SpaceBar ( )
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To: z3n
It used to be the politicians who spun, but now the media does it all.

The media has spun the truth for quite some time in our nation's history. The extent of the spinning is what has gotten out of hand. Watergate was the beginning of the end for any real journalism.

Those I knew who were in a journalism major in college a decade later were being taught two things: (a) creating "gotcha" moments, like Watergate, and (b) creating "news" based on personal opinion and political leanings (nearly all leftist). Freedom of the press has been completely neutered.

12 posted on 09/14/2023 9:18:19 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Signalman

I went to prison a very long time ago, AND while there learned that all my fellow prisoners were, like me, innocent.

AND, we could all prove it, too.

Know what else? All of our prisons are full of innocent people, too.


13 posted on 09/14/2023 9:22:51 AM PDT by egfowler3 (Kung Flu, today's Hypochondriacal psychosis (aka: Delusional parasitosis))
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To: entropy12

That’s a better answer than the one they are going to use

“People just like to give him money for no reason”


14 posted on 09/14/2023 9:23:57 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Signalman
"But the underlying allegation that the Biden family was given a bribe is totally unproven; the informant was merely reporting something he said he had been told by a Ukrainian businessman."

Didn't they launch a $40 million dollar Mueller investigation over something similar?

15 posted on 09/14/2023 9:26:56 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: Signalman

None of these foreigners would have given a penny to Hunter or to any other of Joe’s relatives if it were not for Joe’s political influence as Vice President, Presidential candidate or President. It’s all about Joe.


16 posted on 09/14/2023 9:34:38 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Signalman

It’s Good to see CNN and USSR Today “Fart Checking” their own lies. LOL!


17 posted on 09/14/2023 9:36:26 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Try That In A Small Town" - Jason Aldean rules!)
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To: Signalman

there are 1000X more evidence of Joe Bidens corruption than there ever was of the imaginary Trump Russian collusion


18 posted on 09/14/2023 9:56:17 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Signalman

Because it’s totally plausible that his family received millions of dollars from foreign sources and NONE of it found its way into Joe’s pocket, he’d obviously let them keep it all even though he’s the reason the money was coming in.

/s

...we’re supposed to believe that? It’s just so insulting, the duplicity of the media. If the last name was ‘Trump’ we all know what we’d be hearing. They, pathetically, tried to assert that because foreign nationals visiting the White House used a Trump hotel it was a violation of the “Emoluments Clause”. FOR USING A HOTEL!!??!? And here we have 10’s of millions coming in ...but it’s worse than crickets, they’re deliberately deflecting.

If we don’t have a free press that actually holds all of government accountable, as intended, then corruption will rule - as it is. So we have a corrupt government by default as the press is behaving this way, along with “taxation without representation” - because we’re not represented, only by name, not function. They’re immorally and unethically spending future generations’ money (and ours).

This cannot continue. If PDJT doesn’t win...I don’t see this country surviving.


19 posted on 09/14/2023 10:02:45 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: AppyPappy

Joe Bride’em has and maintains 4 Mansions with nowhere near sufficient visible income to support it. That plus the whole clan lives like Royalty…somehow. Meanwhile millions of Americans choose between food and gas. Yet the MSM Biden protection fortress holds strong as ever.


20 posted on 09/14/2023 10:14:51 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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