Posted on 11/02/2020 8:16:44 AM PST by Red Badger
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign refuses to say whether the candidate will cooperate with an FBI criminal investigation into his son Hunter Biden.
On Thursday, Sinclair investigative reporter James Rosen reported the FBI in 2019 opened a criminal investigation of Hunter Biden and his associates focused on money laundering that remains open and active.
Breitbart News sent a query to the Biden campaign on Thursday but did not receive a response.
The query asked:
In light of Sinclair TV’s James Rosen’s reporting on Thursday evening that the FBI opened a criminal investigation in 2019 into “Hunter Biden and his associates” focused on allegations of money-laundering and that it remains open and active today, I would like to ask the following:
1) Do former VP Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and brother James Biden intend to cooperate with the FBI investigation?
2) If elected president, will Joe Biden commit to not pardoning Hunter if the FBI charges him with a crime that he may be convicted of?
The FBI reportedly seized a laptop and hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden, after it was abandoned at a computer repair shop and in possession of the shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac.
Fox News previously reported on FBI documents, including an FBI “Receipt for Property” form, detailing the FBI’s interactions with Isaac, the owner of “The Mac Shop” who reported the laptop’s contents to authorities.
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Joe Biden cannot cooperate w/ any probe of Hunter. That would violate the 5th amendment, the right to NOT self incriminate.
Finally, a Democrat who honestly cannot recall.
If it were my child, I’d not cooperate, even if I thought the child was guilty.
I can’t blame Joe for this.
The FBI doesn’t want to investigate...they have shown that clearly enough. If Trump wins they will drag it out as long as possible. If Biden wins, the investigation will stop and the whole thing will disappear (with Biden pardoning his son if necessary).
Whether is was my child or not, I wouldn’t cooperate with the FBI..The FBI has proven it cannot be trusted and ranks at the top of the list of partisan agencies in our government
Bannon: FBI director Wray to be fired after polls close tomorrow night. Sydney Powell (Flynn’s Lawyer) to be nominated as permanent replacement. Interim replacement will be Genezz (sp)
That is a very revealing statement.
Bannon usually knows about such insider information.
The plan may indeed be true.
Isn’t noncooperation Mueller’s definition of obstruction of justice?
Only applies to Republican Conservatives.................
Sloe Joe does not know.
Let the police make the case.
I didn’t say I’d hide evidence, or impede the investigation in any way. I wouldn’t go on TV saying “He was a good boy just about to turn his life around. An aspiring rapper!”
There are things that parents shouldn’t have to do. This is one of them. If the crime was against me, or my wife personally that changes things.
He knows the FBI isn’t going to go after Hunter.
Anyone in the FBI who causes trouble for the next director should be sent to the FBI branch office in Greenland. And their security clearance should be revoked. It’s hard to fire a federal employee, but you can move them out of the way.
This would be the headline 24/7 on Fake News were this POTUS and Don Jr.
Joe Biden’s Donors and Boosters Wrote His Prodigal Son’s Entire Resume
Hunter pocketing on daddy’s influence and connections raises legal questions WRT influence-peddling
Real Clear Investigations ^ | October 16, 2020 | Paul Sperry
FR Posted by billorites
Hunter Biden profited from his father’s political connections long before he struck questionable deals in countries where Joe Biden was undertaking diplomatic missions as vice president. In fact, virtually all the jobs listed on his resume going back to his first position out of college, which paid a six-figure salary, came courtesy of the former six-term senator’s donors, lobbyists and allies, a RealClearInvestigations examination has found.
One document reviewed by RCI reveals that a Biden associate admitted “finding employment” for Hunter Biden specifically as a special favor to his father, then a Senate leader running for president. He secured a $1.2 million gig on Wall Street for his young son, even though it was understood he had no experience in high finance. Many of his generous patrons, in turn, ended up with legislation and policies favorable to their businesses or investments, an RCI review of lobbying records and legislative actions taken by the elder Biden confirms.
That the 50-year-old Hunter has been trading on his Democratic father’s political influence his entire adult life raises legal questions about possible influence-peddling, government watchdogs and former federal investigators say. In addition, the more than two-decades-long pattern of nepotism casts fresh doubt on Joe Biden’s recent statements that he “never discussed” business with his son, and that his activities posed “no conflicts of interest.”
No fewer than three committees in the Republican-controlled Senate have opened probes into potential Biden family conflicts. Investigators are also poring over Treasury Department records that have flagged suspicious activities involving Hunter’s banking transactions and business deals that may be connected to his father’s political influence.
U.S. ethics rules require all government officials to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest in taking official actions. The Bidens have denied any wrongdoing.
While most of the attention on Hunter has focused on his dealings in Ukraine and China when his father was in the White House, he also cashed in on cushy jobs and sweetheart deals throughout his dad’s long Senate career, records reveal.
“Hunter Biden’s Ukraine-China connections are just one element of the Biden corruption story,” said Tom Fitton, president of the Washington-based watchdog group Judicial Watch, who contends Biden used both the Office of the Vice President and the Senate to advance his son’s personal interests.
In each case, Hunter Biden appeared under-qualified for the positions he obtained. All the while, he was a chronic abuser of alcohol and drugs, including crack cocaine, and has cycled in and out of no fewer than six drug-rehab treatment programs, according to published reports. He’s also been the subject of at least two drug-related investigations by police, one in 1988 and another in 2016, according to federal records and reports. A third drug investigation resulted in his discharge from the U.S. Navy Reserve in 2014.
This comprehensive account of Hunter Biden’s “unique career trajectory,” as one former family friend gently put it, was pieced together through interviews with more than a dozen people, several of whom insisted on anonymity to describe private conversations, and after an in-depth examination of public records, including Securities and Exchange Commission filings, court papers, campaign filings, federal lobbying disclosures, and congressional documents.
Hunter Biden’s resume begins 24 years ago. Here is a rundown of the plum positions he has managed to land since 1996, thanks to his politically connected father and his boosters:
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I heard that and thought, wow!! She’s going to need a lot of prayers and strength if this is true.
Not with Wray at the helm, anyways.................
This should be the lead on every news network.
Trump should be mentioning it more, in my opinion, just like he constantly warned that a Hillary Clinton presidency would be mired in endless investigations.
Forget those that say it’s not a winning issue, they probably have skeletons of their own.
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