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GOP plots onslaught of Biden probes in the run-up to 2024
CNN ^ | 1/13/22 | Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju

Posted on 01/15/2022 4:39:23 AM PST by Libloather

(CNN) Members of the far right are already agitating to launch impeachment proceedings against resident Joe Biden if the GOP is in power in Congress next year. Some leading Republicans want to spotlight former President Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud. And key House and Senate Republicans are vowing to probe the security failures surrounding last year's January 6 attack on the US Capitol -- and turn the attention to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

With Republicans on the cusp of taking back the House and Senate, the GOP is plotting an onslaught of investigations into the Biden administration and promising to make the final two years of Biden's first term in office as painful as possible for Democrats in the run-up to 2024. Those headaches could come in the form of subpoenas, the possible creation of select committees and high-profile hearings on issues ranging from the origins of the coronavirus pandemic to hearing from the resident's son, Hunter. Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, said he fully anticipates that Hunter Biden will testify before the committee if Republicans are in charge.

"We have a lot of questions about where he gets his money, from his artwork, and from his consulting deals," Comer told CNN. The probes won't stop there.

Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois, the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, pledged to subpoena communications from the sergeant-at-arms about security decisions in the lead-up to the deadly Capitol riot should he be in charge of the panel next year.

"We'll find out what went wrong leading up to January 6 with security posture, and most importantly, we'll exercise oversight responsibility to make sure that we are in a better position," Davis told CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2024; biden; gop; probes
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Ew, a plot. I like it. Pain would be even better.
1 posted on 01/15/2022 4:39:23 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

It’s a target rich environment.


2 posted on 01/15/2022 4:44:25 AM PST by jimfree (My 19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: Libloather

Rep. James Comer, top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, said
he fully anticipates that Hunter Biden will testify if Republicans are in charge.

“We have a lot of questions about
<><>where he gets his money,
<><>from his artwork,
<><>and from his consulting deals.”


3 posted on 01/15/2022 4:48:02 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: jimfree

Over the last five years, where do you even start? It’s a complex problem.


4 posted on 01/15/2022 4:48:06 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: Libloather

“Members of the far right...”

Stop reading right there ... I have more important things to do that to allow far leftists thoughts reduced to writing to occupy my brain this morning.


5 posted on 01/15/2022 4:50:28 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: Liz
Undated photo of Joe Biden with Kazakhstan’s former prime minister, Karim Massimov, his wheeler-dealer son Hunter, flanked by Rakishev, who paid the Biden scion to broker US investments. Credit: Kazhakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery

In the shadowy world of global dealmaking, having your pic taken w/ a corrupt American pol is worth gazillions. None of which the greedy Bidens saw a Penny of......just the paltry millions they sold their souls for.

6 posted on 01/15/2022 4:53:30 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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XI and then VP JOE....(BFF, as long as the checks to the Biden Crime Family clear)

7 posted on 01/15/2022 4:56:33 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Libloather

Turnabout is fair play. Except in our case we actually have legitimate reasons to impeach the MF.


8 posted on 01/15/2022 4:57:11 AM PST by jersey117
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To: jimfree

It is indeed a target rich environment. You are prescient and accurate in the statement. Every time I read/hear it I think back to a conversation I had 42 years ago. I was in a rural county far removed from Oklahoma City. One of my former legal interns was then the elected District Attorney of that county.

Meeting him in the courtroom, I asked, “how’s crime in McCurtain County?”

He said, “It’s like going quail hunting and walking through a field. Then you unexpectedly kick up a covey and all take flight. It is an instant cloud blocking the sunlight. You never know which to shoot first. Crime is plentiful. It is all around us.”

When the Congress changes party, there will be so many targets from which to choose. I hope there will be no shortage of ammunition expended.

Gwjack

P.S. Thanks for jogging my memories.


9 posted on 01/15/2022 4:57:45 AM PST by gwjack (May God give America His richest blessings.)
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LAUGH BREAK. Biden releases his tax forms, showing that
he and his wife, Jill Biden, earned just over $600,000 in 2020.

By Jim Tankersley, May 17, 2021, NY Times

President Biden released tax forms on Monday showing that he and his wife, Jill Biden, earned just over $600,000 in 2020.

The Bidens paid an effective federal income tax rate of 25.9 percent after donating about 5 percent of their income to charity, the documents showed. Their total federal income tax bill was just over $157,000. For 2019, the Bidens had an adjusted gross income of $985,000 and paid federal income taxes of nearly $288,000.

Both the presidential and the vice-presidential households appear to fall safely in the top 1 percent of American income earners, based on statistics from the Internal Revenue Service. And both would face tax increases this year if Mr. Biden succeeds in pushing Congress to raise a variety of taxes on high earners, as he is proposing to help fund nearly $2 trillion in new spending and incentives meant to strengthen education, child care, paid leave and other social programs.

Much of the Bidens’ income came from pensions, including Mr. Biden’s government pension from his years as a senator and vice president. That disbursement will pause now that Mr. Biden has re-entered the government, White House officials say.

Jill Biden received nearly $300,000 in income — including income from business profits — from an S corporation controlled by the Bidens, which received money in 2020 from two publishing houses, Simon & Schuster and Flatiron.

An S corporation is a small business designation that allows business income, credits and deductions to pass through to shareholders.


10 posted on 01/15/2022 4:58:16 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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BUY THIS BOOK about the Biden Crime Family’s corrupt business dealings with China,

“Laptop from Hell” by Miranda Devine.

Currently Amazon’s #1 Best Seller in the U.S. Government category.

https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President/dp/163758105X/ref=sr_1_2


11 posted on 01/15/2022 4:59:08 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Libloather

This is an attempt to energize an otherwise dejected democrat base to come out and vote. I predict the opposite affect. It gives republican voters even more incentive to vote.


12 posted on 01/15/2022 5:00:51 AM PST by MNnice
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To: Libloather

Nothing will come of any of these probes except to waste time and money.


13 posted on 01/15/2022 5:01:06 AM PST by The Louiswu (Peace to you and may God Bless you all)
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To: Libloather

Impeachment? Try TREASON!


14 posted on 01/15/2022 5:03:15 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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Biden pick for German ambassador is U of Penn president
U of Pennsylvania paid Biden $1M for no-show job

Posted by Kid Shelleen · NY Post ^ | 07/02/2021 | Samuel Chamberlain

President Biden’s nominee to be the next ambassador to Germany is an Ivy League president whose university paid him nearly $1 million for an honorary professor gig where he was seldom seen, it was revealed Friday. University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, who has headed the Philadelphia-based institution since 2004, is the first envoy to a G-7 nation to be nominated by Biden.


Why did China’s donations to the U of Pennsylvania
triple.... to $72M...... after Univ’s Biden Center formed ?

Posted by SeekAndFind · NOQ Report ^ | 01/28/2021 | Scott Boyd

A week and a day into a Biden administration and there is already more evidence of Chinese influence being revealed than the entire body of “evidence” presented in the Russia probe against President Trump. The latest very questionable circumstance happened in 2017 when the University of Pennsylvania formed the Penn Biden Center.In the 37 months prior to the center’s formation, the university received $21,187,333 from China. In the 39 months after the formation of the Penn Biden Center, donations from China more than tripled to $71,274,675. Republican Representatives James Comer, Jim Jordan, and Virginia Foxx sent a follow-up letter to...


15 posted on 01/15/2022 5:13:22 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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The U of Delaware’s Joseph R. Biden School of Public Policy and Administration
Hosted CCP Officials & COVID Cover-Up Chief Peter Daszak For Collaborators Event.

Posted by CheshireTheCat ·The National Pulse ^ | June 1, 2021 | Natalie Winters

The University of Delaware’s Joseph R. Biden School of Public Policy and Administration hosted an event defending the COVID-19 “natural origins” cover-up, as well as the scientific collaboration between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party, The National Pulse can today reveal.

Featured speakers included the discredited EcoHealth Alliance chief Peter Daszak alongside Chinese Communist Party officials. The May 2021 event was hosted by the Biden-linked university center in partnership with the offices of Senator Chris Coons – the Senate successor to President Biden dubbed the “Biden whisperer” – and Senator Lisa Murkowski. Named after the former veep, the institute...


16 posted on 01/15/2022 5:20:44 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Libloather

Fake news.

The Republicans ought to do some of this, but they wont. They didn’t defend Trump or push back at what was done to him for the four years he was in office.

Why should they wait until they have the majorities. The Dems didn’t and it didn’t stop them.


17 posted on 01/15/2022 5:26:03 AM PST by xenia ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
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To: Libloather

The former Senatoress from Arizona was right to diss Manu Raju in that Capitol Hallway a couple years ago.


18 posted on 01/15/2022 5:36:12 AM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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To: Liz
But the news story didn't close the loop.

Why are they interested? Because what Hunter did is a national security concern (selling access to the resident).

19 posted on 01/15/2022 5:37:38 AM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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The hill.com
BY JULIEGRACE BRUFKE - 06/02/20

GOP wants probe of UPenn’s Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement
Biden Center got $33 million from China
UPenn recently “donated” $100 million too local schools
Getting rid of evidence to protect Biden?

Repub calling on the US Education Department to launch an investigation into the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, citing concerns about accusations of undisclosed donations from Chinese sources..........“extreme concern” about potential foreign influence over American colleges and universities and the impact it could have on elections.

“The widespread threat of foreign influence in American universities is well-known to Congress. These threats are deeply worrisome on their own — and even more so when they risk impacting the integrity of America’s elections.”

A complaint filed with the Education Department by The National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative group, alleging that the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, named after presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, failed to disclose millions in foreign donations, including some from anonymous donors.

The University of Pennsylvania has denied any wrongdoing, telling The Daily Pennsylvanian the accusations are “completely untrue.”

The Higher Education Act requires institutions to disclose gifts and donations from foreign sources valued at $250,0000 or more.

It is unclear whether the Department of Education has the name of the donor matching the number, but whether it does or not, the law requires the disclosure of donors’ names..

The Education Department launched investigations into two other Ivy League schools earlier this year — Harvard and Yale — following similar accusations that they failed to report billions of dollars in foreign funding.

There has been a spotlight on preventing foreign interference in elections, he believes it’s possible adversaries could be using the donations to U.S. institutions to influence American politics.

The possibility that China may be using ‘anonymous donations’ in order to impact presidential politics should alarm all Americans, regardless of political affiliation.


20 posted on 01/15/2022 5:37:45 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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