Posted on 07/25/2023 5:18:06 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny
OPINION:
At the House Democrats’ 2019 impeachment inquiry into then-President Donald Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff blocked Republicans from calling witnesses and obtaining documents that could have told today’s unfolding, seedy story of the Biden family in Ukraine.
Mr. Schiff, the California Democrat who proudly championed the 2016 anti-Trump hoax dossier, kept the Biden family safe so that Joe could run for president untainted by scandal.
House Democrats subsequently voted to impeach Mr. Trump because of a July 25, 2019, phone call he conducted with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He asked Mr. Zelenskyy to look into what the Biden duo, former Vice President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden, were up to in Kyiv’s corrupt environment.
But Mr. Schiff kept Republicans from telling the real story: Ukraine was a Biden scandal, not a Trump one. We now know that Mr. Trump had a good reason to ask Mr. Zelenskyy what the Biden family was up to.
Mr. Biden was America’s all-powerful point man in Kyiv when Hunter, in 2014, quickly landed a seat worth millions on the board of directors of Burisma Holdings. It’s a natural gas company owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, an oligarch tied to Moscow and viewed as corrupt by Washington.
A more thorough impeachment investigation in 2019 could have done a deep dive into the Bidens and Mr. Zlochevsky.
Today we know so much more about what the three were actually doing in Ukraine, stuff that could have come in so handy to impeachment committee Republicans had they been allowed to call specific witnesses.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Romney's vote marked the first time in American history a senator voted to convict a president of his own party.
Traitors deserve dirt naps, not prison..
Joe Biden Allegedly Interacted With Son’s Clients More Than 200 Times
Federalist ^ | JULY 25, 2023 | TRISTAN JUSTICE
Posted on 7/25/2023, 10:11:12 AM by Red Badger
Pres Joe Biden vehemently denied ever talking business with his son, “or with anyone else” in the run-up to the 2020 election. In fact, Biden even fat-shamed an Iowa voter who approached the subject during the Democratic primaries. On the debate stage with Donald Trump, the former vice president peddled conspiracies of Russian interference when emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop revealed otherwise.
On Sunday night, the New York Post reported on anticipated testimony from Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer. The 48-year-old who went golfing with the Bidens in 2014 is expected to tell the House Oversight Committee how Hunter Biden put his father in contact with foreign businessmen and potential investors at least 24 times. According to the Post, such meetings were either in person or by speakerphone, with Hunter Biden often dialing in Joe.
Beyond those meetings, there are more than 180 other episodes where the president interacted with his son’s business partners, contrary to his campaign claims of “absolute” separation.
<><>2015 Georgetown Dinner......Then-Vice President Joe Biden reportedly met with Ukrainian, Russian, and Kazakhstani business partners at a famous D.C. establishment in 2015. The meeting, arranged by Hunter, took place at one of Georgetown’s most famous restaurants, Café Milano, “where the world’s most powerful people go,” as the local catchphrase goes.
Vadym Pozharskyi, an executive at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, thanked Hunter for the introduction to his father. “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together,” Pozharskyi wrote in an email released by the New York Post weeks before the 2020 election.
Hunter Biden sat on the board of Burisma, raking in excessive compensation while his father dictated White House policy on Ukraine. Records recently made public reveal Burisma’s founder paid a $10 million bribe to the Biden family in exchange for political protection.
Others on the guest list for the 2015 dinner included Marc Holtzman, who was chairman of Kazakhstan’s largest bank at the time, Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina, and her husband, the former corrupted Mayor Yury Luzhkov of Moscow, who is now deceased. A total of 14 were invited with several left unnamed. “It is unclear if everyone on Hunter’s list attended,” the New York Post’s Miranda Devine reported.
<><>West Wing Visits.....Visitor logs show Hunter Biden’s business associates visited the White House at least 80 times while Joe Biden was vice president, according to Fox News. One such visit included a pair of Mexican businessmen who visited the West Wing on Feb. 26, 2014, and were later photographed in the press briefing room with the vice president and his son.
Another meeting with the vice president at the time included two Chinese businessmen connected to a firm that Hunter Biden was invested in.
In 2011, Vice President Biden met with three of Hunter’s associates, including one foreign national at the White House, according to emails published by Fox News in May.
<><>Naval Observatory....Hunter Biden’s diary shows more than 100 events at the vice president’s residence while living at the Naval Observatory, according to the New York Post. Photographs from the same day as one meeting on the calendar for Nov. 19, 2015, feature Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco. Hunter Biden spent years leveraging White House perks to pursue business deals with Slim.
Velasco was one of the two businessmen who were pictured in the White House press briefing room with the Bidens the previous year. The photos from the vice president’s living room at the Naval Observatory also featured Velasco’s son Miguel Aleman Magnani, the founder of budget airline Interjet, and Jeff Cooper, who was described by the Post as “a longtime Biden family benefactor.” Hunter Biden and his wife Kathleen stayed at Magnani’s mansion in March 2015.
Researcher Asks Judge To Reject Hunter Biden Plea Deal,
Saying Hunter’s Meticulously Recorded Laptop Proves Hundreds Of Crimes
FR post 7/25/2023, 9:58:48 AM
Nonprofit Marco Polo put emails from Hunter’s laptop online
and wrote a 630-page report summarizing its contents.
<><>MP famously said that judges are not obligated to accept plea deals
even if prosecutors and the defendant agree on them.
<><>that the plea deal, if accepted, makes a mockery of the phrase ‘slap on the wrist,’
<><>it will also send a sobering message that nepotism and proximity to political power determines outcomes in our criminal justice system.
MP found evidence for, at the very least, 459 violations of
state and federal laws and regulations on Hunter’s device as follows:
<><>140 business-related crimes,
<><>191 sex-related crimes,
<><>and, 128 drug-related crimes.
These instances of criminal wrongdoing are supported by primary source evidence: emails, photos, videos, text messages, audio files, et al. The plea deal for your consideration is so meager that the phrase ‘limited hangout’ does not describe the situation.”
It said a “limited hangout” is a public relations technique in which someone who wants to cover up something major admits to a very small portion in order to claim that the issue has been put to rest.
Here Are All The People Who Have Corroborated Biden Family Corruption
Federalist ^ | Jul 25, 2023 | JORDAN BOYD
Posted on 7/25/2023, 10:14:52 AM by Red Badger
Dozens of people from all political parties, industries, and walks of life, not just Republicans, have corroborated Biden family corruption.
The corporate media’s blackout on the ongoing Biden corruption investigation continued this week despite the publication of an unclassified document detailing President Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in an international bribery scheme.
The propaganda press didn’t just ignore Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s sharing of the bombshell FD-1023 and the FBI’s ongoing attempts to stonewall its debut. Some outlets actually went out of their way to downplay the years of evidence accumulated in the Biden bribery investigation.
The New York Times, which wasted no paper on the FD-1023’s publication on Thursday, alleged in a Sunday article that the IRS whistleblowers who testified to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability last week were the products of a well-crafted campaign by Grassley’s allies.
The headline, “Former Republican Aides Shepherd Whistle-Blowers Through Congress,” appears to suggest that the whistleblowers were harnessed by Republican-linked groups such as Empower Oversight in an attempt to take down the president and his family. In reality, the brave bureaucrats who had tried and failed for years to raise alarms about partisan Biden protectionism in their own agencies turned to Republicans because they appeared to be the only people who would lend them a listening ear.
In reaching out to Republicans, these whistleblowers risked their jobs and felonies. Yet, the NYT had the audacity to adopt the Biden administration’s framework in insisting that their testimonies were “orchestrated” instead of organic products of the partisan rot plaguing American agencies. In fact, the article goes so far as to claim that House Republicans “have struggled to surface proof of any misconduct by the president despite months of effort” — a claim that’s completely unfounded.
The NYT wants its “criminally misinformed” readers to believe people like a gay Democrat bureaucrat are pawns propped up by Republicans who want nothing more than to see Joe fall from power. But it’s not true.
Dozens of people from all political parties, industries, and walks of life, not just Republicans and their pals, have corroborated the Biden family corruption arc. Corporate media are obviously so frustrated they can’t find any discrepancies in the stories that sully their preferred presidential candidate’s reputation that they are turning to lies and smears.
Here is the wide-ranging list of witnesses who have confirmed the president’s participation in an international bribery scandal is legit.
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Let’s face it; this whole war was started to cover up the Biden’s criminal venture in Ukraine. Pure and simple.
Impeach the criminal Biden. Unimpeach President Trump.
Link, please.
It’s on FR......the link is posted there.
Seeking the truth is an impeachable offense. Bribery and perjury are virtuous acts. Up is sideways. Down is up. Night is day. Day is night. Cow farts will destroy the world. Masks save lives. Get another vaccine jab or else. The border is secure./s
Trump impeached for being right about Biden family’s Ukraine corruption.
Democrat democracy in action again comrades.
Many of today's older Dems thought of themselves as "merry pranksters" in the '60s and '70s. I'm sure their indoctrinated and over-medicated kids and grandkids now in power, or assuming power, think of themselves the same way.
These are acts of treason. Not pranks.
Exactly right.
Watch it -- all of it -- and pay particularly close attention when Rudy talks about gathering affidavits from the Ukranian officials that were undone (fired) by VP Biden (working with the EU) precisely so Hunter could bagman Burisma money and bring it home and split it with The Big Buy.
Click Rudy to watch that interview on Youtube, if for no other reason to watch Georgie reduced to a puddle of dissembling schoolboy caught in a lie of his own making:
GIULIANI: What the president (Trump) is talking about is, however, there is a load of evidence that the Ukrainians created false information, that they were asked by the Obama White House to do it in January of 2016, information he's never bothered to go read. There are affidavits that have been out there for five months that none of you have listened to about how there's a Ukrainian court finding that a particular individual illegally gave the Clinton campaign information. No one wants to investigate that. Nobody cared about it. It's a court opinion in the Ukraine. The Ukrainians came to me. I didn't go to them. The Ukrainians came to me and said...STEPHANOPOULOS: When did they first come to you?
GIULIANI: November of 2016, they first came to me. And they said, we have shocking evidence that the collusion that they claim happened in Russia, which didn't happen, happened in the Ukraine, and it happened with Hillary Clinton. George Soros was behind it. George Soros' company was funding it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you accept now that that's not true?
GIULIANI: I accept that it is true. I can prove it. There are affidavits to prove that they were colluding with the Ukrainians, conspiring with the Ukrainians. There is a specific person in the DNC who was designated to get this information. There are five Ukrainian witnesses under oath saying it that are online. And if you had any regard for equal justice under the law, you would be looking for those. Well, let me ask the following question to anybody at home. If I change the names of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden to Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr., $8 million from Ukraine while under an investigation, $1.5 billion from China while negotiating with China, would I be sitting here?
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, sir, sir...
(CROSSTALK)
GIULIANI: No, George, please let me finish my thought. I know it's a damaging sentence.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you made...
(CROSSTALK)
STEPHANOPOULOS: The $1.5 billion is simply not true.
GIULIANI: It is simply true.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That is -- it is not true.
GIULIANI: How do you know it's not true? Have you seen the documents?
STEPHANOPOULOS: We have seen -- the fund that you're talking about was set up. Hunter Biden was on the advisory board. He wasn't an investor until 2017. And there's no evidence that they have gotten $1.5 billion.
GIULIANI: There's evidence that they got $1 billion directly from China, specific date, 12 days after they returned from a trip to China. There's evidence that another $500 million went in. And there are three partners, Rosemont Seneca. That's Hunter Biden and the stepson of the -- of the Secretary of State. The second partner is the Bank of China. And the third partner is a company called Thornton Group. And the principal at Thornton Group is...
(CROSSTALK)
STEPHANOPOULOS: Have you ever talked to Chinese nationals -- have you ever talked to Chinese nationals about investigating Hunter Biden or Joe Biden?
GIULIANI: Let me -- let me finish the sentence before you try to figure out what I might have done wrong, and revealing there's evidence that you're telling me isn't true, which I have seen. So the principals were...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Others -- others have counterevidence. And I'm responding with that counterevidence.
GIULIANI: OK. Well, then investigate it. Maybe I'm wrong.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Have you asked the Chinese to investigate that?
GIULIANI: Can I finish what I -- what it is -- that -- I haven't finished, OK?
(CROSSTALK)
STEPHANOPOULOS: OK. Then answer the question.
GIULIANI: What I would have asked them to investigate if I did. The $1.5 billion was in a company that was specially established called Bohai Harvest Rosemont Seneca or some crazy name like that. The partners were Joe Biden's son, John Kerry's stepson, the Bank of China, one-third partner at least, and the Thornton Group. That was owned by Whitey Bulger's nephew. Now, that's all out there. You can go and look at it. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. It should be investigated.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And what Hunter Biden's lawyer has said is...
(CROSSTALK)
GIULIANI: Did I ever ask the Chinese government? No. It's not my -- if I did that, you could truly say I was investigating Joe Biden. I'm not investigating Joe Biden. I fell upon Joe Biden in investigating how the Ukrainians were conspiring with the Hillary Clinton campaign to turn over dirty information, including something for which a Ukrainian has already been convicted. So I have a very solid basis for doing it. I also support everything I say with affidavits. I have an affidavit here that's been online for six months that nobody bothered to read from the gentleman who was fired, Viktor Shokin, the so-called corrupt prosecutor. The Biden people say that he wasn't investigating Hunter Biden at the time. He says under oath that he was.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But, as you know -- I know he says that under oath.
(CROSSTALK)
GIULIANI (sarcastically): Oh, he must not be -- we don't even know him. He must not be telling the truth.
STEPHANOPOULOS: We know that Vice President Biden was part of an international effort, was part of a government-wide effort to help push the prosecutor out because of allegations of corruption.
GIULIANI: If the name here was Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr., and it said that: "The president of the Ukraine asked me to resign due to pressure from the U.S. presidential administration. The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption -- corruption -- corruption probe into Burisma Holdings and Joe Biden's son." That's under oath by the prosecutor who was handling the case, who they say is corrupt. Now, a lot of prosecutors...
STEPHANOPOULOS: It's not just they who have said he's corrupt. The European Union has said he's corrupt. The entire U.S. administration said he's corrupt.
GIULIANI: Oh, they all said it. Anybody prove it?
STEPHANOPOULOS: That's why he was removed from office.
GIULIANI: No, it wasn't. The reason he was removed from office was because the president forced him to resign. And then, just in case we want to deal with corruption thing, I have another affidavit. This time from another Ukrainian prosecutor who says that the day after Biden strong-armed the president to remove Shokin, they show up in the prosecutor’s office -- lawyers for Hunter Biden show up in the prosecutor’s office and they give an apology for dissemination of false information.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I --
GIULIANI: You know -- you know what the apology is for? For having -- having gotten out the story that this guy was corrupt. Now, if you met this guy, he's not very good at corruption because he's very poor.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well --
GIULIANI: Unlike the prosecutor who tanked the case on Biden, who’s driving around in a Bentley.
STEPHANOPOULOS: OK, you -- you've gotten those charges out there. Let’s talk about --
GIULIANI: No, no, I haven’t gotten them out there.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you have gotten them out there.
GIULIANI: No, I haven't.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You’re just --
(CROSSTALK)
STEPHANOPOULOS: -- those affidavits --
(CROSSTALK)
GIULIANI: Can I -- can I make a contrast? Can I just make a slight contrast with the so-called whistleblower? The whistleblower says I don’t have any direct knowledge, I just heard things. Up until two weeks before he did that, that wouldn't even been a complaint. Would have been dismissed.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Those are from -- he heard things from White House officials --
GIULIANI: He heard a lot of stuff.
STEPHANOPOULOS: -- and everything in that -- that he said about the phone call is basically tracks --
GIULIANI: No it isn’t.
STEPHANOPOULOS: -- the transcript that was revealed -- released by the --
GIULIANI: No -- you know what he's wrong about? He says about the phone call that my meeting with -- with Mr. Yermak was a direct result of the phone call. No it wasn't. The meeting was set up three days before the phone call. It wasn't a direct result of the phone call. He said -- he heard from numerous military people that I attempted to contact two individuals, Andre Bolden and a fellow named Kananov. Simple fact is I never did, it’s a total lie. I never would have contacted Andre Bolden because I had been told by very, very good authorities that he’s corrupt.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You said earlier --
GIULIANI: And I shouldn’t go near him. He said about five other things that are totally false.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And this -- well, this is -- this is what the investigation will be about (ph).
GIULIANI: And I’m not saying he was false, I’m saying he could have heard it wrong.
STEPHANOPOULOS: This --
GIULIANI: That’s why -- George, that's why it's hearsay. Because it's unreliable.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And that's what the investigation is about (ph) --
GIULIANI: -- unlike him --
(CROSSTALK)
GIULIANI: -- unlike him -- please, can I just make my point?
STEPHANOPOULOS: You’ve been making your point.
GIULIANI: No I haven’t. Unlike him. These are affidavits.
STEPHANOPOULOS: From individuals who are implicated and who have been -- and who --
GIULIANI: Isn’t that the way we prosecute crime? People implicated?
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, this -- that will be part of the investigation but the House --
(CROSSTALK)
GIULIANI: How about if I -- how about if I tell you over the next week four more of these will come out from four other prosecutors?
STEPHANOPOULOS: They will -- and they will all be investigated. Meantime --
GIULIANI: No, no, no, George, they won’t be because they’ve been online for six months. And the Washington press will not accept the fact that Joe Biden --
STEPHANOPOULOS: If these are --
GIULIANI: -- may have done something like this (ph).
STEPHANOPOULOS: If -- if these are so serious --
GIULIANI: If this was Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr., I wouldn’t be here having to do this.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Mr. -- Mr. Mayor --
GIULIANI: I am defending my client the best way I know how. This is not about getting Joe Biden in trouble, this is about proving --
STEPHANOPOULOS: If these charges --
GIULIANI: -- that Donald Trump was framed by the Democrats.
Trump exposed everything. That’s why they want to kill him. And still some of these posers run around asking “What did Trump do?” Stupid question of the year.
Exposing all this is such a public way, having the size of the microphone Trump has is the reason for all the “Hate Trump, destroy Trump by any means necessary” mindset. From deep state, big gov, international globalist, bankers etc. It’s historic and never seen before in America.
People get killed for telling the truth. Happens all the time. Trump made history and the best part is, Trump is still alive to see what he warned everyone years ago regarding those running corrupt weaponized government agencies being used and hired guns and muscle, is 100% correct.
Freepers on this site consider Trump the bully! Unbelievable!
There are two justice systems in America:
One demolishing the Republicans.
One strengthening the Democrats.
It’s spectacularly obvious for everyone to see. It’s a quite astonishing that we have come to such a moment.
Patriotism must be resurrected in order to make Americas Constitutional Republic work again.
Patriotism will bring all races, religions and cultural differences 100% together around one thing : the American flag. Its the only solution. Every nation on earth should become do the same and become truly patriotic. It would end all wars.
A patriotic nation has so much respect for the value of what a “Nation” truly means, that it would never invade or attack any other nation - out of respect.
This means equality must be king again. And Equity must be forever abolished - it’s in direct opposition to the value of equality.
Equity is the fuel needed for the very few to trample on the rights of the large majority. Equity is the way to tyranny.
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