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  1. astros123

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    How can you be so stupid to say this. Like seriously what's wrong with the right ? Is anyone in the Republican party capable of having half a brain?

    The FD complaint was investigated by the trump us attorney and the guy who made the allegations failed to provide the audio records he claimed in the allegations. He failed to provide a single lick of evidence the us attorney had requested.

    What ever happened to the smart Republicans? Where did they disappear to
     
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    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archi...mily-business-is-becoming-too-big-to-hide.php

    The truth about the Biden family business is becoming too big to hide
    by Elizabeth Stauffer
    POSTED ON JULY 22, 2023

    At a Jan. 26, 1998 White House event, with wife Hillary by his side, then-President Bill Clinton wagged his finger at reporters and said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”

    If not for the stains on Monica Lewinsky’s infamous “blue dress,” he would have been happy to leave it at that. But called upon to provide a blood sample for DNA testing that summer, Clinton was forced to admit to a grand jury that yes, actually, he did have “inappropriate intimate contact” with Miss Lewinsky.

    In a televised address to the nation on Aug. 17, 1998, he confessed: “Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.”

    Likewise, President Joe Biden has repeatedly denied having any knowledge of his son’s overseas business adventures, let alone the idea that he may have benefited financially from these deals. His emphatic denial in an October 2020 presidential debate was bolstered by a letter signed by 51 former high-ranking intelligence community officials that claimed the New York Post’s devastating story about Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

    In April, House Republicans revealed that current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then an adviser to Biden’s campaign, allegedly served as the “impetus” behind the letter.

    Since then, solid evidence of Biden’s involvement in the family influence peddling business has continued to mount.

    House Republicans have revealed bank records showing millions of dollars flowing through an elaborate maze of shell corporations set up by Hunter Biden and his associates and winding up in the accounts of at least nine Biden family members, including a grandchild.

    Other evidence includes damning emails and text messages, the testimony of several highly credible federal whistleblowers, and an FBI 1023 report that alleges both Joe Biden and Hunter Biden received $5 million dollars each from Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder and then-CEO of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, in return for alleged political favors such as getting the prosecutor general who was investigating the company fired. We know Biden delivered on that promise because he boasted about it at a 2018 Council on Foreign Relations event.

    Like Bill Clinton, Biden needs to answer the following questions (and so many more) under oath:

    • Were you involved in your son’s foreign business dealings?
    • Did you accept a $5 million bribe from Mykola Zlochevsky? What did you discuss during the alleged phone calls with him?
    • Did you pay taxes on the money you received?
    • Are you the “big guy” alluded to in the infamous email from your son’s laptop?
    • Your son’s former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, has gone on the record to say he met with you in May 2017 at a Beverly Hills hotel ahead of a planned joint venture with Chinese energy company CEFC? Is he lying? Or are you?
    Just as Clinton had no choice but to admit his improper relationship to Miss Lewinsky following the DNA match, it’s becoming more difficult for Biden’s denials to continue.

    Biden has been protected by his Justice Department, the FBI, and a complicit media, advantages Clinton didn’t have in 1998. That was long before President Barack Obama and his “wingman” Eric Holder had begun their infiltration of the DOJ with progressive hirees, a campaign that spread to other government agencies during his tenure. It was also before the legacy media utterly abandoned the practice of actual journalism.

    But, despite the incessant stonewalling of top-ranking DOJ, FBI, and Treasury Department officials, House Republicans have managed to put together a substantial case against Biden and they are far from done.

    The truth about the Biden family business is that it’s becoming too big to hide. Although Congress lacks the authority to charge the president with a crime, lawmakers must continue to make their case to the American people who will reach a verdict of their own on Nov. 5, 2024.


     
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    Why do you do this to yourself? Like why? masochist?
     
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    They do this every week. @Salvy @bigtexxx come running to the message boards to post their big conspiracy that day thinking its the smoking gun. Then they realize after a few minutes it's just another braindead conspiracy after you shame them.

    It's so funny honestly how dumb the MAGA folks are
     
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    Uh oh! Weiss is about to testify and completely shatter the braindead low iq conspiracies these MAGAts were spewing @Salvy @bigtexxx

    Well soon be able to laugh at @Os Trigonum properly for his 96+ pages of braindead conspiracies. It's going be hilarious.

    @StupidMoniker you're going look so illiterate after your conspiracies
     
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    Oh I’m sure the GOP won’t move on from Hunter Biden. They feel this is their chance
    To get revenge, or distract, from Trump’s legal
    Problems and their base wants them to pursue
    It.

    Also going after Hunter Biden is easier than trying to confront Biden on his record. They know the economy isn’t in the toilet like they claim and when many Republicans themselves are touting infrastructure projects from the infrastructure bills it’s hard to confront Biden and Dems.

    The issues they motivate their base and are wokeness, immigration and Hunter Biden.
     
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    even the times is doing journalism:

     
  12. Os Trigonum

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    "Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MSNBC analyst." impressive
     
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    what's it all about @sam, what's it all about?

    opera joke

     
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    LOL.... any day now....... you'll get 'em!!!

    Would you say you are on the 1 yard line.... after 5 years?
     
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    Hey remember how your media coordinated those election lies? Why do you think you have credibility?

    Why didn't the Trump admin do anything with the Hunter info?
     
  16. astros123

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    How does it feel knowing Weiss is about to testify and shatter all your conspiracies? You sweating ? Enjoy the last days of your hunter biden conspiracies
     
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    https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter...y-burisma-5f891342?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s

    Hunter Biden’s Bargain Plea
    Does anyone still believe Joe’s claim he never discussed his son’s business?
    By William McGurn
    July 24, 2023 at 6:13 pm ET

    “Gradually, then suddenly.”

    That’s how a character in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” describes how he went bankrupt, but it could easily be Hunter Biden’s explanation for how his habit of trading on the family name blew up on him at the moment a plea deal was supposed to bury it all for good. Now the plea deal itself—scheduled to be approved Wednesday in Delaware by U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika—has become an issue.

    The federal investigation into the young Mr. Biden’s taxes and financial dealings began in 2018. It’s been punctuated by the surfacing of lurid laptop photos of Hunter taking drugs and cavorting with women in the nude. There have also been occasional teases about Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in Hunter’s business, including the never explained email from a business partner saying 10% of a deal with a Chinese company would be “held by H for the big guy.”

    That was the gradual part.

    Suddenly came last week. First was the testimony before Congress—under oath and in public—by whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler. These career Internal Revenue Service investigators proffered details about how the president’s political appointees sabotaged their investigation, tipping off Hunter’s lawyers about searches and interviews, forbidding questions about “the big guy,” and running out the clock on the statute of limitations for the more-serious tax issues involving Burisma payments.

    Then, just a day after the whistleblowers testified, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) dropped another bombshell: A Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-1023 form memorializing a trusted source’s claim that Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevskyalleged he’d been “coerced” into paying Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each. News outlets dutifully reported that the form was “unverified” (a qualifier absent from most reporting on the infamous Steele dossier).

    But saying the information is unverified raises the key question: What steps, if any, did the FBI take to verify these allegations?

    Think about it. As recently as two months ago, the bureau wouldn’t even admit to Congress that the FD-1023 existed. Not until FBI Director Christopher Wrayrealized some people had already seen a copy, and he was threatened with contempt, did the FBI fess up and give members of Congress a limited look.

    Even more disturbing, though the form is dated June 30, 2020, Messrs. Shapley and Ziegler said their team never saw it. By releasing the document, Mr. Grassley has given the American people more detailed information about the bribery allegation than Justice and the FBI ever gave the IRS team. The same goes for the laptop, which the IRS whistleblowers say they never saw.

    On top of all this, U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the federal prosecutor handling Hunter’s case, has a credibility problem. Attorney General Merrick Garland was unequivocal in asserting that Mr. Weiss had “complete authority” to bring charges wherever he wanted—and never asked for special-counsel status. But Mr. Shapley testified (under oath, remember) that Mr. Weiss told him and other investigators that he wasn’t the “deciding person on whether charges were filed.”

    Mr. Weiss, who could clear this up, has made a series of public statements that instead only add to the confusion. He has said that he had “ultimate authority,” that he never sought special-counsel status, and that if he had asked he would have been granted it.

    Someone isn’t telling the truth here.

    The Heritage Foundation is suing for answers. It wants to know if Mr. Garland lied when he said Mr. Weiss hadn’t asked for special-counsel status. And it wants the answer before Wednesday, when Hunter’s plea is to be approved.

    So Heritage is asking a court to force the Justice Department to release internal communications relating to Mr. Weiss and the special-counsel question. It may not win. But Heritage is right to say that there are too many questions about the fairness and integrity of the whole Hunter Biden investigation to let it all be swept under the carpet with a plea deal.

    Meanwhile, the burden of proof has shifted. With each hearing, Congress has unearthed troubling allegations that are increasingly specific and backed up by witnesses. Now we learn that Devon Archer, Hunter’s former best friend and business associate, will tell the House Oversight Committee about client meetings that Joe Biden either attended in person or via speakerphone while he was vice president.

    The New York Post reports that Mr. Archer will testify that there were at least 24 such conversations. The more we know, the harder it is to believe Joe Biden’s assertion that he never discussed business with Hunter.

    It’s rare for a judge to rip up a plea arrangement. But it is well within Judge Noreika’s discretion to do so. The issue now goes well beyond what Hunter Biden did, or even his father’s involvement. It’s whether the two powerful institutions that handled this investigation and came up with this sweetheart deal—the FBI and the Justice Department—can be trusted.

    Appeared in the July 25, 2023, print edition as 'Hunter Biden’s Bargain Plea'.
     
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    no one believes it, but many will deny it.
     
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    hahaha somehow biden spoke about business but theres not one shred of evidence that backs that claim. Not one audio recording, not one text or anything. Its just funny how the MAGATs bought themselves into the hunter conspiracies only to have egg on your face.

    When weiss shreds the braindead MAGAT conspiracies in a few weeks you folks will literally have nothing left. You folks will have to go back to solving crossword puzzles and stop reading QNON forums.
     
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    You keep posting the same damn thing expecting people to be dumb enough to believe it’s something different.

    Joe Biden was put on speakerphone when he was with his dipsh$t son. He said hi because normally people just say hi when someone asks them to say hi to a friend or colleague.

    That does not equal being “in business” with someone. This was all investigated BY THE TRUMP admin and no TRUMP prosecutors had evidence to indict or even really seriously investigate Joe Biden.

    You keep trying here and in your process of looking for idiots to buy into whatever you are selling end up looking more and more nutty.

    If the GOP thinks this is going to be a winner for them in 2024 they truly are a band of morons. Impeachment over this will only help Joe Biden.
     

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