Posted on 09/21/2019 4:49:33 AM PDT by mplc51
Former Vice President Joe Biden called for President Trump to release a transcript of his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, amid reports that Ukraine is at the center of a whistleblower's complaint over Trump's contacts with a foreign leader.
"If these reports are true, then ... It means that he [Trump] used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation—a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia—pushing Ukraine to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor." — Biden's statement on Friday Catch up quick: Three House committees — Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight and Reform — are investigating whether Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, "were misappropriating the American foreign policy apparatus for political gain," the New York Times reports.
These investigations are in response to reports that the Trump administration "delayed a package of military assistance to the new government in Ukraine," as reported by the NYT. The committees say they will investigate whether that lack of military aid is part of an alleged effort by Trump "to coerce the Ukrainian government into pursuing politically-motivated investigations, including of former Vice President Joe Biden and his family." What else Biden is saying:
"Such clear-cut corruption damages and diminishes our institutions of government by making them tools of a personal political vendetta. At minimum, Donald Trump should immediately release the transcript of the call in question, so that the American people can judge for themselves, and direct the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to stop stonewalling and release the whistleblower notification to the Congress."
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
Hey Joey...demand all you want...”$hit in one hand and demand in the other and see which one fill up first”
When the transcript is released it will be about his son. Democrats pull a whistleblower out of the Acme box and this is what they get.
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Joe Biden’s younger brother James received a series of “unusually generous” bank loans during the 1970s, while the former vice president served on the Senate Banking Committee. Politico reported on Friday that James Biden, who has a history of murky financial dealings, was able to parlay his role as the chief fundraiser for his brother’s 1972 Senate run into the startup capital required to open a nightclub.
The loans were considered “unusually generous” given that the younger Biden was a salesman without any business experience and purportedly had a net worth of less than $10,000 at the outset of the venture in 1973. Another key component of the story, which was widely covered by local media in Delaware and Pennsylvania at the time, is that the loans appeared to draw concerns over influence peddling, as Joe Biden had just been appointed to the Senate Banking Committee. (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com …
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Here's the James Biden windfall ----- billions awarded for Iraq reconstruction.
CIRCA 2012 Crony capitalism & Joe Biden’s brother
SOURCE https://nypost.com/2012/10/23/crony-capitalism-joe-bidens-brother/
By Charles Gasparino, NY POST, October 23, 2012
James Biden isn’t a big name in the business of residential housing development, so what exactly qualifies him to work at a construction company and share in the winnings of a $1.5 billion project to build affordable homes in Iraq? If you said it has something to do with his last name, the one shared by his older brother Vice President Joe Biden, you wouldn’t be far off. At least that’s the guess of some Wall Street analysts who cover the Marlton, NJ-based company Hill International and think they’ve seen yet another sordid tale of crony capitalism.
Hill has been around for decades; its main business is managing construction projects in the Middle East and here in America. It’s built a good reputation over the years, as has the father-son team who run it, Irv and David Richter. But the bursting of the real-estate bubble took its toll; Hill shares are down 80 percent since 2008. Since 2011, the company has reported losses. Its Middle East business has also been stymied by the Arab Spring uprisings; in Libya alone, Hill is out $60 million in payments that it’s still trying to recover.
But it got some good news not long after its housing subsidiary hired James Biden as an executive vice president in late 2010. Just six months later, Hill won one of its biggest contracts ever, a $1.5 billion deal to build at least 100,000 affordable homes in Iraq. A good deal for Hill, a relative newcomer to building homes — and for James Biden, who as one partner will get a good share of that $1.5 billion.
The deal is contingent on the Iraqi government providing financing, which it has yet to do, but Hill execs tell analysts the money could start flowing by the end of the year. That’s when everyone involved, James Biden included, will start collecting on tens of millions of dollars in profits.
One friend of James Biden’s estimates his net worth at around $7 million, yet he seems to have a remarkable lack of concrete business experience. An attorney who’s done work for him called him a “serial entrepreneur,” but didn’t name the startups he was responsible for.
Hill chief Irv Richter called Biden a “good salesman” and the firm’s Web site describes “40 years of experience dealing with principals in business, political, legal and financial circles across the nation and internationally.”
(James Biden also had a relatively short and somewhat controversial run as a co-owner of a hedge-fund company with Joe’s son Hunter. The company, as it turns out, was marketed by companies controlled by now convicted Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford. Neither Biden was charged, but the fund company is now winding down its operations.)
No, James Biden’s obvious value comes from his connection to the Obama administration. Richter assures me that James’ ties to Joe played no part in landing the plum assignment in Iraq or any of the other government-related jobs Hill has received recently.
Really? Connect these dots: Both the Iraqi government and the Obama State Department played roles in helping Hill win the assignment, Richter concedes. And Joe Biden is President Obama’s point man on Iraq — a country where people expect politicians’ families to be “taken care of.”
Also key is TRAC Development, a South Korean firm that won the master contract for the Iraq work. And — huh! — James Biden and his wife were guests of President Obama and Michelle for last October’s state dinner honoring the president of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak. All one big coincidence?
Well, Richter insists that, while Biden’s name and connections might open doors when government business is on the line, that doesn’t guarantee success. “If he had the name Obama, he would get in the door easier,” Richter joked. During this month’s vice-presidential debate, Joe Biden told Americans to just ignore all that stimulus money that went to administration-connected failures like Solyndra. Crony capitalism, he insisted, hardly exists with Joe Biden and Barack Obama watching the store.
Maybe that’s why the veep, after making that dopey statement, was laughing so much that night.
Charles Gasparino is a Fox Business Network senior correspondent.
Be careful what you ask for Joe......
......you might step on a rake.....
.....or a Copperhead!
This is why there has been such a concerted effort to silence conservative and independent voices on Mainstream and social media outlets. The big story here is that Joe Biden used his position as Vice President to extract millions of dollars for himself and his son from Ukraine and China. The only way to trick the American public to instead think that the story is about Donald Trump talking on the phone to someone in the Ukraine is to make sure no other points of view on the issue are readily available.
This is the same trick they tried to pull after the Wikileaks DNC revelations in 2016 - the story wasn’t about Hillary Clinton stealing the nomination from Bernie, it was about “Russians hacking their servers”...
We have Slow Joe on video proudly boasting of successfully doing what he is accusing Trump of. I pretty much thought Biden’s Ukrainian corruption was going to continue to be covered up, until Joe uncovered it.
<><> Biden’s son Hunter once worked with a Romanian businessman who was convicted and imprisoned following an investigation over his real estate dealings.
<><> The NYT reported Hunter increased his intl business efforts during his father’s second term as vice president.
<><> In the VP's second term, his son Hunter began associating with intl figures about whom the US or its ally nations were suspicious.
<><> Hunter Biden reportedly began advising Gabriel Popoviciu, a Romanian businessman (said to have opened the
country's first Pizza Hut), who was under scrutiny over his real estate dealings.
<><> Other reports WRT Hunter's $50,000 per month job in the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings indicate
Obama was fully aware of the situation and crafted US foreign policy around it.
<><>Burisma appointed Hunter as a board member AT THE SAME TIME
the Obama administration was mulling a course of action amid Russia's invasion in Eastern Ukraine.
<><> VP Joe Biden told Ukraine officials to "call Obama" to confirm the billion dollar aid cancellation
if they didnt can the guy investigating his son.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I expected this article to be from the Onion.
” “If these reports are true, then ... It means that he [FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN] used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation—a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia—pushing Ukraine to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor.” — Biden’s statement on Friday Catch up quick: Three House committees — Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight and Reform — are investigating whether Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, “were misappropriating the American foreign policy apparatus for political gain,” the New York Times reports. “
THERE. FIXED IT.
” “If these reports are true, then ... It means that he [FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN] used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation—a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia—pushing Ukraine to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor.” — Biden’s statement on Friday Catch up quick: Three House committees — Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight and Reform — are investigating whether Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, “were misappropriating the American foreign policy apparatus for political gain,” the New York Times reports. “
THERE. FIXED IT.
You really want to go there Joe?
All of a sudden the Democrats are concerned about a sitting president spying on a presidential candidate. Clown World!
The president’s conversation with a foreign leader does not seem to fall under this whistleblower definition.
(More like an insider spying on the president——maybe bugging the president’s phone hoping to get dirt on the president.)
Greggarrett.com
3. Article II of the Constitution gives the president sweeping power to conduct foreign affairs, negotiate with leaders of other nations, make demands or offer promises. The Constitution does not grant the power of review, approval or disapproval to spies or other unelected officials in the executive branch.
4. The ICWPA law defines the parameters of an “urgent concern” complaint as an abuse or violation of law “relating to the funding, administration, or operations of an intelligence activity involving classified information, but does not include differences of opinions concerning public policy matters.”
So if the Chinese, Ukrainians, or Russians, are bribing someone with no power, they did so with the knowledge that some
of the bribe leaks back into the responsible person’s pockets. Or, more likely, another pot of money goes to the responsible party.
(Uranium One isn’t really Hillary’s deal, its Obama’s deal. Burisma isn’t really the Bidens’ deal, its Obama’s deal.)
And China’s billions aren’t really buying Biden’s good graces (Kerry’s son was also involved...) its Obama’s good graces they were after.
Joe may have just provided an invitation for someone to call attention to any number of Ukrainian cans o' worms. Sure would be a shame if this kerfuffle ended up causing certain "foundations," "philanthropies" and NGOs to get a little heartburn.
What’s Manafort in prison for, again?
Joe...you’ll find out what’s in the transcript...during the discovery phase of your trial.
Go get ‘im, Mr. President!
You have to wonder who counsels these idiots. Biden and his sons, it would appear, are neck deep in alligators with the country. If what I read earlier about this whole thing, the Ukranians are/were trying to hand over some legit intel about the clinton machine and the 2016 election. Information that, miraculously, never made it to its intended audience. Imagine that.
And that so called “whistle blower” hasn’t been given, whistle blower status, as there was nothing to blow the whistle on. So, now all he/she did was set themselves up for leaking classified information. Wonder if their puppet handler will step up and take the blame for it. Nope. This “whistle blower” is going to be hung out to dry and possibly Epstein’d, if they are detained anywhere.
Add in the Left/MSM trying to rope Giuliani in, as doing something crooked, and we find that he was asked to meet w/ the Ukranians, by the State Dept. The very same organization that obstructed getting the information to the DOJ and White House....Hmmmmmmm!!!!
John Solomon did some work on it and it ain’t looking good for the Dem’s on this one...
AND he was stupid enough to brag about it on video tape. All Trump has to do is replay that video every time Biden opens his mouth. I cannot believe Biden is THAT stupid, but he really is .... walking-into-rakes-on-purpose stupid.
Gregg Jarrett wrote a really good piece (already posted on FR):
The Whistleblower May Not Be A Whistleblower At All
https://thegreggjarrett.com/the-whistleblower-may-not-be-a-whistleblower-at-all/
4. The ICWPA law defines the parameters of an “urgent concern” complaint as an abuse or violation of law “relating to the funding, administration, or operations of an intelligence activity involving classified information, but does not include differences of opinions concerning public policy matters.” The president’s conversation with a foreign leader does not seem to fall under this whistleblower definition.
5. It appears the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) agrees with this assessment. His agency’s general counsel wrote a letter stating the complaint did not meet the ICWPA definition because it involved conduct “from someone outside the intel community and did not relate to intelligence activity”, according to a report by Fox News. This is why the DNI refused to forward the complaint to congress.
To put this in plain language, a spy who allegedly spied on the president does not have a legitimate whistleblower complaint against that president under the law. The ICWPA is a mechanism to report alleged misconduct by members within the intelligence community, of which the president is not. Yes, the alphabet soup of intel agencies ultimately report to the president, but that does not make Trump a member of that community and subject to its rules of conduct.
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Whoever leaked the President’s conversation needs to be prosecuted/punished, IMO.
“he [Trump] used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nation—a partner that is still under direct assault from Russia—pushing Ukraine to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor.”
Uh, hey stupid, old man, no, you did.
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