That's what Luntzberace calls Sweet Kevin.
Posted on 01/15/2023 4:49:24 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
I repsect what you’re saying, but I have been doing the opposite with McCarthy.
I listen to him VERY carefully, as I’m hyper aware he will try to go back on his word or double-cross us somehow.
Some may say not, and to trust his recent conversion (or he was always a conservative), but in this case I am from Missouri—Show me!
I know I’m a broken record here, but I still think they should live in their districts and avoid the “DC disease” that they all contract when they arrive there.
That’s an excellent point.
Career politician was not something our founding fathers expected themselves to be creating.
tIME FOR HER TO GO. I been saying this for a couple years.
The debt ceiling must be increased regardless. The game of chicken is played as leverage. How long can the USG be shutdown and who pays the political price? Rush used to say that the data show that the Reps are not hurt by shutting the government down.
Another subject: Have you seen this? If true, this is a BFD.
Background Check Form Claims Hunter Biden Paid $50,000 a Month in Rent for Biden Home Where Classified Docs Were Stored
According to a “Background Screening Request” form that was filled out by Hunter Biden in 2018, the president’s son claimed he owned the Delaware residence where the classified documents were found.
“The now-52-year-old began listing the Wilmington home as his address following his 2017 divorce from ex-wife Kathleen Buhle — even falsely claiming he owned the property on a July 2018 background check form as part of a rental application,” the New York Post reported.
On the “Monthly Rent” portion of the form, Hunter Biden claimed he paid $49,910 in rent each month.
“In 2018 Hunter Biden claimed he owned the house where Joe Biden kept classified documents alongside his Corvette in the garage ,” reported journalist Miranda Devine.
Was this Hunter Biden’s way of funneling the money he earned with his father’s political connections back to his father?
That's what Luntzberace calls Sweet Kevin.
Senator Ron Johnson SOP. He’s the best!
P.S. Incidentally, who is that ‘faboo’ to whom you refer?
On the “Monthly Rent” portion of the form, Hunter Biden claimed he paid $49,910 in rent each month.
Town and Country magazine estimates the Delaware home is worth about $2 million which would suggest that if Hunter Biden is truly paying nearly $600,000 a year in rent, he is overpaying by a lot.
“In 2018 Hunter Biden claimed he owned the house where Joe Biden kept classified documents alongside his Corvette in the garage ,” reported journalist Miranda Devine.
Was this Hunter Biden's way of funneling the money he earned with his father's political connections back to his father?
After Hunter's divorce was finalized in May of 2017, he was included in an email from his business partner James Gilliar about a venture with Chinese state-funded energy company CEFC China Energy. The email stated that Hunter and his partners would receive 20% of the shares in the new business, with 10% going to Hunter's uncle James Biden and the other 10% being “held by H for the big guy.”
Tony Bobulinski, another one of Hunter's former business partners, claims that he had a meeting with Joe Biden regarding the CEFC venture on May 2, 2017, and that the president was the individual referred to as the “big guy” in Gilliar’s email. Additionally, Gilliar himself confirmed that Joe Biden was the “big guy” mentioned in a message found on the laptop.
The New York Post reports: “The following year, federal investigators began looking into whether Hunter and his business associates violated tax and money laundering laws during their dealings in China and other countries. Emails and other records related to the deals were found on the laptop, which Hunter dropped off at a Delaware repair shop in 2019 and never reclaimed.”
According to text messages found on Hunter Biden's laptop, the president's son was on the hook for 50% of family expenses. How did Hunter Biden get this money back to his father?
“I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years,” a furious Hunter Biden said to his daughter Naomi in January of 2019. “It's really hard. But don't worry, unlike pop, I won't make you give me half your salary.”
The New York Post continues:
The laptop doesn't contain any direct evidence of such money transfers but shows Hunter was routinely on the hook for household expenses — including repairs to the Wilmington home.
In December 2020, weeks after his father was elected president, Hunter Biden announced that his “tax affairs” were being investigated by federal authorities in Delaware, and said he was “confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately.”
Recent reports have indicated investigators believe they have enough evidence to charge the first son with tax crimes — as well as with lying about his drug abuse on a federal form so he could buy a gun in 2018.
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It's very likely this is what happened a pretty significant payoff to dear old dad.but in the scope of just how big these criminals are this is really chump change. there are billion dollar deals i have read about so this pales to what is really going on and could easily be a diversion.
They're covering this with the assertion that they notified the proper authorities IMMEDIATELY!!!, so the entire matter was out of their hands, but they took it VERY SERIOUSLY and are cooperating fully.
The DOJ attorney in Delaware may be looking into this scam prompting the Biden Team lawyers to scour all of Joe’s files for incriminating evidence. The classified material issue is a distraction. The Biden Crime Family must have received some heads up about the investigation.
Biden’s trips to Ukraine and elsewhere a week before he left office in 2017 must be scrutinized.
It's the aids doing the packing not brandon
Third time i heard it this moring its a DNC talking point: Gotcha!
That is Luntzberace's pet name for his roomie the Speaker.
Fish!!! How the heck are you doing????????
When you deal with criminals who lie constantly there is no telling what the real truth is. We are always trying to put it all together and decide what is what.
When all is said and done, when the whole process is examined in detail and projected, it is the House and Senate members who must determine where they will live.
The congress has determined that barracks like living is not for them. They prefer to live on the existing economy. If there were a will to manage the population of the District Of Columbia, the Congress would have done so.
There is no Constitutional guidance on the subject so far as I know
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EXCLUSIVE CIA chief told Bolsonaro government not to mess with Brazil election, sources say
By Gabriel Stargardter and Matt Spetalnick
Brazilian President Bolsonaro meets supporters during a demonstration “For Freedom and for Brazil”, in Brasilia
[1/3] Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro meets supporters during a demonstration “For Freedom and for Brazil”, in Brasilia, Brazil May 1, 2022. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
RIO DE JANEIRO/WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director last year told senior Brazilian officials that President Jair Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country's voting system ahead of the October election, sources told Reuters.
The previously unreported comments by CIA Director William Burns came in an intimate, closed-door meeting in July, according to two people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Burns was, and remains, the most senior U.S. official to meet in Brasilia with Bolsonaro’s right-wing government since the election of U.S. President Joe Biden.
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A third person in Washington familiar with the matter confirmed that a delegation led by Burns had told top Bolsonaro aides the president should stop undermining confidence in Brazil's voting system. That source was not certain whether the CIA director himself had voiced the message.
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The CIA declined to comment. Brazil's Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI), which is part of the president's office and led by National Security Adviser Augusto Heleno, said in a statement that the Burns meeting had been publicly announced.
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“The matters dealt with in intelligence meetings are confidential,” it said. “The GSI does not receive messages from any country in the world, nor does it transmit them.”
Later, in a weekly social media address, Bolsonaro and Heleno denied such a message had been delivered.
“That conversation about elections never happened,” Heleno said.
Burns arrived in Brasilia six months after the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol following former U.S. President Donald Trump's election loss.
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Bolsonaro, a far-right nationalist who idolizes Trump, has echoed the former U.S. leader's baseless allegations of fraud in the 2020 U.S. election. He has also cast similar doubts about Brazil's electronic voting system, calling it liable to fraud, without providing evidence. read more
That has raised fears among his opponents that Bolsonaro, who is trailing leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in opinion polls, is sowing doubts so he can follow Trump's example, rejecting any loss in the Oct. 2 vote.
On multiple occasions, Bolsonaro has floated the idea of not accepting the results, and has repeatedly attacked the country's federal electoral court. Last week, in his latest broadside, Bolsonaro, a former army captain, suggested the military should conduct its own parallel ballot count alongside the court.
Two of the sources warned of a potential institutional crisis if Bolsonaro were to lose by a narrow margin, with scrutiny focused on the role of Brazil's armed forces, which ruled the country during a 1964-85 military government that Bolsonaro celebrates.
During his unannounced trip, Burns, a career diplomat nominated by Biden last year, met at the presidential palace with Bolsonaro and two senior intelligence aides - Heleno and Alexandre Ramagem, then-head of Brazilian intelligence agency Abin. Both were Bolsonaro appointees.
Burns also dined at the U.S. ambassador's residence with Heleno and Bolsonaro’s then-Chief of Staff Luiz Eduardo Ramos, both former generals. Brazil's military has historically enjoyed close ties with the CIA and other U.S. intelligence services.
At the dinner, according to one of the sources, Heleno and Ramos sought to dismiss the significance of Bolsonaro’s repeated allegations of voter fraud. In response, the source said, Burns told them that the democratic process was sacred, and that Bolsonaro should not be talking in that way.
“Burns was making it clear that elections were not an issue that they should mess with,” said the source, who was not authorized to speak publicly. “It wasn't a lecture, it was a conversation.”
In a letter dated Sept. 2, sent by Heleno to Brazilian lawmaker Luciano Bivar, the national security adviser said he was present at the dinner hosted by the U.S. ambassador. In the letter, posted on the website of the lower house of Congress, Heleno said it was a “courtesy event and, naturally, took place with informal conversations on topics of mutual interest between Brazil and the United States of America.”
BIDEN ENVOY
It is unusual for CIA directors to deliver political messages, the sources said. But Biden has empowered Burns, one of the most experienced U.S. diplomats, to be a low-profile mouthpiece for the White House.
Last month, for example, Burns said in a public address that in November, four months after visiting Brasilia, Biden dispatched him to Moscow “to convey directly to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and several of his closest advisers the depths of our concern about his planning for war, and the consequences for Russia” if they proceeded. read more
The tenor of his comments in Brasilia was reinforced the month after his trip, when U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan visited Bolsonaro and raised similar concerns about undermining trust in elections. However, the Burns delegation's message was stronger than Sullivan's, the Washington-based source said, without elaborating. read more
“It is important that Brazilians have confidence in their electoral systems,” a U.S. State Department official said in a statement when asked for comment, adding that the United States is confident of Brazil's institutions, including free, fair and transparent elections.
On Saturday, however, in a fresh sign of disquiet among some of Washington's foreign policy establishment, the most recent U.S. consul in Rio wrote in a Brazilian newspaper that the United States should make it clear to Bolsonaro that any effort to undermine elections would trigger multilateral sanctions. read more
Biden and Bolsonaro have yet to speak.
During the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign, the two clashed over Bolsonaro’s environmental record, and he was one of the last world leaders to recognize Biden's victory over Trump.
Officials in Washington have sought to improve ties with Brasilia in recent weeks, and the presidents of the two largest nations in the Western Hemisphere may soon meet in person if Bolsonaro attends June's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.
Writing by Gabriel Stargardter Additional reporting by Jonathan Landay and Ricardo Brito Editing by Brad Haynes and Rosalba O'Brien
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