Posted on 09/29/2023 7:55:28 AM PDT by Heartlander
The corporate news media all but refused to cover the opening hearing of the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Thursday, and to the extent they did, it was only to repeat, at the behest of the White House, the exhausted mantra that there’s “no evidence” connecting Biden to his son Hunter’s international bribery scheme.
(The New York Times ran with a cursory and misleadingly headlined article, “First Impeachment Hearing Yields No New Information on Biden,” that boasted “even their [Republicans’] witnesses said the case for impeachment hadn’t been made.” Which, of course the case hasn’t been made yet. That’s why you launch an inquiry, of which Thursday was day one.)
But if the media had actually covered it, the American public might have heard more about the mounds of damning evidence now piling up by the day, including the release on Wednesday by the House Ways and Means Committee of reams of text messages and emails between Hunter Biden, his uncle James Biden, and a colorful array of foreign oligarchs, business associates, and bagmen. All told, House Republicans presented more than two dozen pieces of evidence on Thursday linking Joe Biden to his son’s overseas business dealings.
This evidence was the centerpiece of the hearing Thursday, which served to lay the groundwork for the impeachment inquiry. So far, the evidence suggests the Biden family “business” is exactly what it appears to be: an influence-peddling scheme on a scale never before seen in American history. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, who testified at the hearing, said that even though Washington, D.C., is “awash” in influence-peddling, he’s never seen “anything of this size and complexity,” and that Congress has a “duty to determine if the president is involved in what is a known form of corruption.”
Based on what we already know, it’s hard to see how Joe Biden couldn’t have been involved or couldn’t have benefited from his son’s corrupt dealings. Consider just a few items of evidence mentioned during Thursday’s hearing. In one text exchange with his uncle in June 2017, Hunter refers to his father as his “family’s brand” and “only asset.” That echoes something Devon Archer, Hunter’s former business partner, said in his July testimony to the House Oversight Committee, that the value of adding Hunter to the board of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma was “the brand” — clearly a reference to then-Vice President Joe Biden. (Hunter had no experience in the energy sector and brought no value to the company other than access to his father.)
Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina brought up an FBI memo released Wednesday by the House Ways and Means Committee about another former business partner of Hunter’s, Tony Bobulinksi. In an FBI interview, Bobulinksi said that in 2015-16 Hunter and Hunter’s uncle James did business with CEFC, a Chinese company with close ties to the Chinese government. But because Biden was still vice president, Hunter and James weren’t paid right away. “There was a concern it would be improper,” Bobulinksi said, because of the company’s affiliation with the Chinese Communist Party.
But Hunter and James wanted to get paid. According to Bobulinksi, “they believed CEFC owed them money for the benefits that accrued to CEFC through its use of the Biden family name to advance their business dealings.” Once Biden left office, Hunter and James were paid more than a million dollars by CEFC. “Now we know why,” said Mace. “Because it was back-pay.”
Later in the hearing, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida showed organizational charts of Hunter Biden’s businesses created by the IRS team investigating the president’s son, including from 2014, when Joe Biden was vice president, and 2018, when he was a private citizen. The charts show a dizzying array of interrelated companies — none of which involved real estate or any other industry where you would typically see this kind of complex matrix of different business entities and shell companies. Donalds then shared a text message between Hunter and James Biden in which Hunter, discussing a business deal, tells his uncle, “You’ve been drawn into something purely for the purpose of protecting Dad.”
This is just a sample, but you get the idea. Hunter was engaged in a patently corrupt scheme that involved selling access to his father, one of the most powerful politicians on the planet. The question the impeachment inquiry has to answer is whether Joe Biden knew about the scheme, whether he profited from it, whether he intentionally helped Hunter, and whether he changed U.S. policy as part of rendering that help. On every count, there is mounting evidence that the answer is “yes.”
But don’t expect Democrats to take any of this more seriously than the corporate media are. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, never one to miss an opportunity for self-parody, gravely asked all three Republican witnesses whether they were “presenting any firsthand witness account of crimes committed by the president of the United States,” as if the only evidence that counts is video footage of Joe Biden stuffing cash into a duffel bag marked “$$$ from China.”
Not to be outdone in performative stupidity, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat from Texas, went on a bizarre, emotional rant claiming President Biden is only “guilty of loving his child unconditionally,” which is the only evidence Republicans have brought forward. She added, “And honestly, I hope and pray that my parents love me half as much as he loves his child.” Ah yes, Joe Biden loved his son so much that he made him the frontman of an international bribery scheme and money-laundering operation.
So much for the opposition (including the corporate press). They aren’t going to take this seriously, even if the impeachment inquiry turns up audio recordings of Joe Biden saying, “Why yes, I did fire that Ukrainian prosecutor for $5 million from Burisma.” Democrats and the media don’t care about Biden’s corruption and won’t tell the truth about it, no matter what evidence comes to light. After Thursday’s hearing, at least that much is clear.
The greatest power the Media has is the “Power To Ignore” - Chris Plante...................
This will have Jo Jo’s toadies in the “media” scrambling like a bunch of barnyard chickens trying to pull Joey’s chestnuts out of the fire.
I like the lady from the IRS. Her facial expressions to Democrat antics was priceless.
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) was developed just for situations like the Xiden crime family.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, who testified at the hearing, said that even though Washington, D.C., is “awash” in influence-peddling, he’s never seen “anything of this size and complexity.”
Congress has a “duty to determine if the president is involved in what is a known form of corruption,” Turley said
Yes, All of the Biden’s are corrupt and should be in jail. Yes, the evidence is overwhelming. What’s even worse, Biden committed treason.
You can show these people mountains of evidence, but it means nothing to them, because you have no evidence.
Do you really need a translator to understand the Democrat Party response to all this? “Hey, tell us something we don’t already know.”
Republicans need to scrutinize whether Hunter and his business partners were piggybacking on Obama/Biden’s foreign and domestic policies, colluding WRT Obama’s obsession w/ his green agenda, and Chinese and Ukrainian oligarchs eagerness to do business in America.
“He gets 10%? What’s my cut?”
James Biden, the younger brother of Joe Biden, told the FBI last year
<><>the Biden family, including himself and Hunter Biden
<><>unsuccessfully tried to help a Chinese company buy U.S. energy assets
<><>including a liquid natural gas port in Louisiana
<><>the Bidens believed the company was tied to Communist Chinese Pres Xi.
Cong Scott said the documents prove that, “its even worse than he thought,”
<><>that the Biden’s would go that far
<><>the Bidens would help the Chinese acquire US energy assets,
<><>the Bidens would give an adversary the ability to control the energy supply inside the US
<><>China controlling the flow of US energy to American citizens and American industry?
<><>how much more of a traitor could you be to do such a thing?
Yup! The branDUHn crime cabal is done for sure now. Over at merit less garland’s office....😴😴😴😴😴😴😴
The wily Zelensky has Biden by the cojones, as he knows exactly what father and son were up to w/ Burisma, from whence came much of their illicit millions. Biden, being subject to blackmail, probably has a hidden deal with Zelensky that brings untold graft.
Probably large chunks of tax dollars to Ukraine are being funneled back to the US as campaign donations, deposited in off-shore accounts.
ITEM We, the people are financing a pointless Ukraine war w/ a reasonable chance it could escalate due to Biden’s ineptness, serving as a convenient distraction to cover up his corrupt activities.
ITEM On June 7, 2015, Kathy Chung, a government-paid assistant of then-VP Biden, sent a covert email to his secret government alias cc’ed to Hunter w/ cell phone numbers of top Obama/Biden govt officials.
ITEM: Biden’s niece Casey Owens, an Obama Treasury employee, spilled sensitive info to the opportunistic Hunter which aided and abetted Hunter’s influence peddling schemes to benefit the Biden family’s wealth accumulation.
But wait-—all of it converges on national security...... endangering the safety and security of American families.....otherwise classified as espionage.
Much of the data was transferred on un-encrypted transmission lines wherein “an interested party” is ideally positioned to view a high govt official’s network traffic.......
Since Hunter complained about giving half of his salary to hid dad, maybe the 10% for the big guy was Obama. Barry had to know about it.
Very possible.
"Yes, The Biden Impeachment Hearing Presented Evidence Of Corruption — Lots Of It"
If I understand correctly, Congress levered Nixon to resign based partly on a partially erased audio tape.
“The greatest power the Media has is the “Power To Ignore” - Chris Plante...................”
I would say their greatest power is to skew/rig elections via censorship and outright propaganda spewing.
When they spout something, you can choose to believe it or not depending on you point of view.
But, if they refuse to even report on something, it’s as if it never happened at all....................
“When they spout something, you can choose to believe it or not depending on you point of view.
But, if they refuse to even report on something, it’s as if it never happened at all....................”
Oh, trust me... when the left spouts something, I know immediately that the exact opposite is probably the truth. Been knowing that for decades. I’ve been comparing rhetoric and narratives of the Democrats to the CPUSA for decades, as well.
I have a friend whose family are all Democrat voters. They don’t watch anything but lamestream news, if at all. Head in sand would be a step up from what they are. He has gotten to the point where he doesn’t even attempt to enlighten or inform them of the truth. It’s hopeless.
MANY banks worldwide are coming forward & giving up forms FD-1023-—The suspicious transactions form-—Moving more than $10,000 in funds.
IMO, these banks do NOT wish to be caught NOT sending this data to officials in Congress.
They wish to continue business.
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