Saturday, August 12, 2023

Links - 12th August 2023 (2 - Joe Biden)

Meme - Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze: "Politico deleted their tweet. Give this comms shop credit for how fast they work."
Kate Berner @KateBerner: "The memo doesn't show a direct payment to Joe Biden."

🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸 on Twitter - "Happening Now:  Devon Archer released a letter form Joe Biden while he was Vice President in which he thanks him for his business partnership with Hunter, even though Joe has claimed he had no contact with Hunters partners.    The letter is referring to foreign business deals that Hunter and Archer were working on.  As Vice President Biden shouldn’t have had any involvement in this, but it’s clear now that he was selling his influence for profit.    Why hasn’t the DOJ done anything substantial about this?"

House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden - The New York Times - "Mr. Biden has made several false or misleading statements about the matter.  During the 2020 presidential debate, Mr. Biden claimed that no one in his family had received money from China.  “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about — what are you talking about, China,” Mr. Biden said, turning the charge on his opponent, President Donald J. Trump. “The only guy who made money from China is this guy. He’s the only one. Nobody else has made money from China.”  This year, Mr. Biden also claimed that it was “not true” that family members received more than $1 million from a Chinese firm."
Hunter Biden admits he got $664K from China backed company - "Hunter Biden admitted in court that he received thousands of dollars from a Chinese Communist Party-backed company, contradicting his father's claims. President Biden’s son Hunter Biden confessed to a federal judge that he got hundreds of thousands of dollars from a company backed by the Chinese Communist Party, going against his father’s claims that his family never “made money from China.”... Emails obtained by The Post in 2020 showed messages with Yi, an oil mogul who vanished after being arrested by Chinese authorities in early 2018, in which Hunter Biden sent “best wishes from the entire Biden family” before laying out his plans for their joint venture... President Biden has kept denying any wrongdoing by his family even after the House Oversight Committee revealed financial documents showing members of the Biden family getting payments of more than $1 million from shady deals in China and Romania. Hunter Biden agreed last month to plead guilty to failing to pay at least $100,000 on more than $1.5 million in income in both 2017 and 2018. He also agreed to admit to lying about his crack cocaine use on a federal firearm purchase form in 2018. His plea deal collapsed after prosecutors told the judge that he was still being investigated for failing to register as a foreign agent in other foreign business deals. As part of the deal, Hunter Biden would have dodged jail time, sparking anger from congressional Republicans.  After denying guilt on Wednesday, jail time may be back on the table."

@amuse on Twitter - "Democrats now claim Joe Biden’s cognitive decline prevented him from understanding who Hunter put on the phone with him."

🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸 on Twitter - "The DOJ gives Hunter a slap on the wrist and future immunity for serious crimes, meanwhile:   Trump gets indicted for a paperwork error  Douglass Mackey faces 10 years for a meme  Countless Americans are being mentally tortured in prison for protesting an obviously rigged election   The IRS targeted conservatives regularly and “accidentally” lost the emails proving it  Roger Stone had his home raided for BS Russian collusion claims  This is the most corrupt DOJ in American history, and it’s obvious who they’re protecting"

Stephen L. Miller on Twitter - "Hunter Biden's attorneys demanded blanket future immunity. Why would they do that?"

Meme - "THE REAL RACIST IS A DEMOCRAT
“If my opponent wins, they’re going to put y’all back in chains.”
"You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking"
"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle."
“I do not buy the concept, popular in the '60s, which said, 'We have suppressed the black man for 300 years"
"If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
"poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
"We (Delawareans) Were on the South's Side in the Civil War"

Collin Rugg on Twitter - "NEW: A confused Biden walks in front of King Charles during his visit to the UK.  The media doesn’t seem to have an issue with this. Let’s see what they had to say when Trump walked in front of the queen.
CNN: Trump's walk with the Queen: Like 'wandering up and down a golf course'
TIME: Trump Committed a Royal Faux Pas During His Visit With the Queen
Yahoo: Trump made some major missteps when meeting the queen
Slate: Trump meets Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, briefly forgets how to walk
Global News: Trump breaks royal etiquette, walks in front of Queen
Independent: Trump immediately breaches royal protocol twice after meeting Queen
I wonder if they will give Biden the same treatment."

Tom Fitton on Twitter - "Breaking: Federal judge issues injunction shutting down Biden's regime censorship op with Big Tech and left-wing front groups. Restricts Key Biden WH gov't censors, HHS, DOJ, FBI, DHS, etc from:
(1) meeting with social-media companies for the purpose of urging, encouraging , pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion , suppression , or reduction of content containing protected free speech posted on social-media platforms
(2) specifically flagging content or posts on social-media platforms and/or forwarding such to social-media companies urging, encouraging , pressuring, or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion , suppression , or reduction of content containing protected free speech;
(3) urging, encouraging , pressuring, or inducing in any manner social-media companies to change their guidelines for removing, deleting, suppressing , or reducing content containing protected free speech
(4) emailing, calling, sending letters ,texting, or engaging in any communication of any kind with social-media companies urging, encouraging ,pressuring, or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion, suppression ,or reduction of content containing protected free speech;
(5) collaborating, coordinating, partnering, switchboarding, and/or jointly working with the Election Integrity Partnership, the Virality Project, the Stanford Internet Observatory, or any like project or group for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content posted with social-media companies containing protected free speech;
(6) threatening , pressuring, or coercing social-media companies in any manner to remove, delete, suppress , or reduce posted content of postings containing protected free speech (Protected free speech means speech that is protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution in accordance with jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal and District Courts).
7) taking any action such as urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress , or reduce posted content protected by the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution;
(8) following up with social-media companies to determine whether the social-media companies removed , deleted , suppressed , or reduced previous social-media postings containing protected free speech ;
(9) requesting content reports from social-media companies detailing actions taken to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce content containing protected free speech; and (10)notifying social-media companies to Be on The Lookout ( BOLO ) for postings containing protected free speech.
This Preliminary Injunction precludes said named Defendants , their agents , officers ,employees , contractors ,and all acting in concert with them from the aforementioned conduct. This Preliminary Injunction also precludes said named Defendants , their agents , officers , employees , and contractors from acting in concert with others who are engaged in said conduct."

Meme - "He's had enough coke
Share Coke with Hunter #ShareaCoke"

Sean Davis on Twitter - "So far this week, law enforcement was alerted to cocaine in the White House (where Hunter Biden reportedly lives for some reason), and a federal judge banned White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by name from colluding with Big Tech to censor speech. It's only Wednesday."

Meme - Fred rubino: "If they found donut crumbs in Chris Christie's house you can bet it was his . If you found vodka in pelosi's house bet it's hers. And when you find coke in the most famous coke heads house we have no idea who it belongs"

Tom Fitton on Twitter - "Weird how WH leaks on where the cocaine was found keep on changing. From the library, to a "work area" to now "near" where "guests leave their cell phones.""
@amuse on Twitter - "There were SEVERAL people who saw Hunter Biden working in the White House Library with his laptop. When the fire department reported the cocaine was found in the Library they put 2+2 together. Once the White House realized this the location of the cocaine was updated to a West Wing 'work area' which could be ANYWHERE in the West Wing. Now the White House is claiming the cocaine was found in an area where guests leave their cell phones. I'm somewhat convinced they're lying..."

Meme - Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank: "If you ever find yourself literally arguing in public that questioning the government is a crime, rethink all of your life choices, and especially the choice to comment on law & politics in public."
Andrew Weissmann: ""Misprision of a felony" is the crime of aiding after-the-fact a person who committed a crime. That came to mind watching the conduct of certain congressional leaders questioning FBI Dir Chris Wray today. (Speech & Debate clause is th..."

Collin Rugg on Twitter - "JUST IN: The FBI tipped off the Biden team to help Hunter Biden evade punishment from the criminal investigation into his finances according to a former FBI supervisory agent.  Instead of approaching Hunter Biden like the FBI would do with any other person under investigation, agents were told to *not* approach Hunter and instead wait for his call.  Conveniently, Hunter Biden never called meaning he was never interviewed.  In an interview with the @GOPoversight , the former agent said he has never been told to "wait outside to be contacted by the subject of an investigation."  While being questioned last week, Rep. Matt Gaetz asked FBI director Wray why he was so "uncurious" about getting to the bottom of Hunter Biden's crimes.  Wray is more than just "uncurious."  He is an active working asset of the Biden family to protect them from facing punishment.  Dismantle the FBI."

Meme - Definitely Not Commie Gibberish of the Day: "We have a two-tier justice system, and they flaunt it in your face. Look at his smug smile as he explains how one of "the beautiful ones" will get off admitting to minor tax penalties, while dodging FELONY gun charges. Meanwhile, an ex-President (not in the club) is being hit with 34 felony charges for... paying someone money as part of an NDA. (Yes, all 34 "felonies" are from that.) This country has ZERO leg to stand on when tut-tutting "authoritarian" regimes across the world."
"HUNTER BIDEN EXPECTED TO AVOID JAIL TIME BY PLEADING GUILTY TO TAX OFFENSES, CUTTING DEAL ON GUN CHARGE"

ABC, CBS and NBC newscasts ignore alleged Biden bribery scheme, spend hours on Trump: Report - "The analysis revealed that ABC, CBS and NBC devoted a total of 291 minutes to the Trump indictment between June 8 and June 12. In the same period of time, those same networks gave zero coverage to news that Fox News Digital broke on the Biden family.   President Joe Biden was allegedly paid $5 million by an executive of the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, a confidential human source told the FBI during a June 2020 interview"
As of 3 July I found some NBC articles (even dating to mid June) but nothing from the other 2

Joey Mannarino on Twitter - "“I don’t care about Hunter speeding down the highway high on crack because it was 5 years ago” say the same Leftists trying to throw Trump in jail for the flimsiest rape accusation back some time in the 1990s.  I'd say the year, but the "accuser" doesn't even remember it.  Give me a break.  And no, Hunter shouldn't be in jail for smoking crack and speeding down the highway. That's the LEAST of the criminality on that laptop.  I want to know about THOSE PAYMENTS."

🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸 on Twitter - "BREAKING:  One of the Prosecutors who signed off on the Hunter Biden charges and oversaw the investigation worked for a former business partner of Hunter Biden.    US Assistant attorney Derek Hines, who signed off on the minimal charges, worked for former FBI Director Louis Freeh.  The former FBI director started a consulting firm and worked with Hunter Biden and even donated $100,000 to Joe Bidens grand children.    How much more corrupt can the DOJ be?"

James Lynch on Twitter - "NEW: The U.S. Attorneys who apparently refused to charge Hunter Biden in D.C. and California for alleged tax fraud donated to Joe Biden's presidential campaign and Kamala Harris' senate campaign respectively, FEC records show @DailyCaller"
Stephen L. Miller on Twitter - "It would appear some people are above the law."

@amuse on Twitter - "SHOCK: The New York Times has confirmed that Biden's Attorney General lied under oath to Congress. America's paper of record confirmed that Weiss was blocked from bringing additional charges against Hunter and his father. This is bigger than WaterGate."

Meme - Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "It's about time the super-wealthy start paying their fair share."
"Hunter Biden deducted payments to prostitute, sex club from his taxes: whistleblower"

Mollie on Twitter - "The Biden family could take care of all of this so easily if they would just explain why every single member of the family, except for the unacknowledged granddaughter, was receiving millions of dollars in their bank accounts from oligarchs all over the world."

Meme - End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "One is a guy who made memes
The other is a group of intelligence agents who colluded with the Biden campaign to discredit a scandal before an election
Guess which one will spend up to 10 years in prison for "election interference"?"

'Intelligence' experts refuse to apologize for smearing Hunter Biden story - "the 51 former “intelligence” officials who cast doubt on The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop stories in a public letter really were just desperate to get Joe Biden elected president. And more than a year later, even after their Deep State sabotage has been shown again and again to be a lie, they refuse to own up to how they undermined an election... though the letter was advertised as being signed by people who worked “for presidents of both political parties,” a majority of the officials were Democrats. Politico picked up the letter and ran the false headline “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.” That headline is still online today, even though the letter clearly says they don’t know if it’s Russian disinformation... Thus, Big Tech, former government officials, and the media conspired together to bury a story.  No, not just bury — create a false narrative that flipped the script to make Joe Biden the victim of a conspiracy. In short, they peddled online disinformation to sway an election...   There have been no consequences. Twitter and Facebook still censor information based on political bias, and Congress takes no action. Many of the letter signers continue to be used as “experts” by the media. Clapper, for instance, spent years on CNN calling Donald Trump a “Russian asset,” a lie invented and fed by political operatives of Hillary Clinton. He’s still there. Guess accuracy is not a condition of employment."

Biden campaign, Blinken orchestrated intel letter to discredit Hunter Biden laptop story, ex-CIA official says | House Judiciary Committee Republicans - "A former CIA official testified that then-Biden   campaign senior adviser, now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken "played a role in the inception" of the public statement signed by current and past intelligence officials that claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.  Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, and revealed that Blinken was "the impetus" of the public statement signed in October 2020 that implied the laptop belonging to Hunter Biden was disinformation."

Simon Ateba on Twitter - "Imagine being @JoeBiden . Your son makes millions of dollars from foreign entities but does not pay taxes because that would mean disclosing that he is engaged in foreign lobbying. With the millions of dollars and no serious job, he becomes a drug addict and illegally obtains a gun. All he tells them is that he is the son of the US Vice President, and he claims that part of the money will go to the "Big Guy." He promises them access to his dad and top US officials. They hire him without any qualifications and pay him millions of dollars.  Eventually, the information comes out, and the Justice Department has to investigate. The investigation drags on for five years, and eventually, they strike a deal  with him to plead guilty to two misdemeanors of tax evasion so that the government would not prosecute him for illegally possessing a gun as a drug addict, a serious crime that has sent tens of thousands of Americans to prison for years.  Imagine being the same father who, as a senator, drafted a draconian anti-drug law that sent tens of thousands of black people and others to prison, confiscated all their belongings, and gave a big speech boasting that the drug addicts should all be taken off the streets. Now that your son is one of them, when you're asked about his case, you say you're proud of him and he has done nothing wrong.  Imagine journalists and commentators like @joenbc  justifying it on television, singing your praises when their own child would have been in prison long ago for the same crimes. Imagine the people who believed in the rule of law watching the two-tiered justice system so brazenly displayed.   America is in crisis. May God help us all!"

Benny Johnson on Twitter - "JOE BIDEN: “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”
ALSO JOE BIDEN: Coersing a Chinese national to wire millions through his son, by letting him know he’s “in the room”"
Hunter Biden used dad Joe as leverage in China business dispute: text message - "First son Hunter Biden warned a Chinese business associate in a 2017 text message that dad Joe and his political allies would “make certain … that you will regret not following my direction” while negotiating a six-figure business deal.  The July 30, 2017 WhatsApp missive from Hunter to Henry Zhao was revealed to the House Ways and Means Committee last month by IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley and made public Thursday.  “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” Hunter Biden wrote Zhao, the director of Harvest Fund Management, according to Shapley.  “Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,” the now-53-year-old went on. “And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.”  “I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,” Hunter reiterated to conclude the stunning message. An August 2020 search warrant revealed the exchange between Hunter and Zhao, which resulted in $100,000 payment to the 53-year-old’s firm Owasco P.C., the whistleblowers said.  The IRS investigators alleged Justice Department prosecutors denied their requests to look further into Hunter’s texts or obtain their location data — and that DOJ attorneys suggested the first son may have been lying about his father being in the room with him.  Shapley singled out Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf as one of the prosecutors who shut down their probe of a multimillion-dollar deal Hunter, first brother James Biden and their associate Rob Walker cashed in on with China’s CEFC Energy, saying “she did not want to ask questions about ‘dad.’”...   Hunter and James Biden received $4.8 million from CEFC Energy in 2017 and 2018, The Washington Post confirmed when reviewing the contents of the first son’s abandoned laptop"
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Miranda Devine on Twitter - "The Biden administration knew the Titan submarine imploded Sunday. But waited until today to make it public. Convenient smokescreen for today’s House Ways & Means release of IRS whistleblower testimony of DOJ sabotage of the Hunter Biden investigation."

Sean Davis on Twitter - "BREAKING: According to IRS whistleblowers, DOJ tipped off Hunter Biden about a search of his storage unit, prohibited investigators from executing a warrant on Joe Biden's guest house, and repeatedly prohibited charges from being brought against Hunter Biden."

BREAKING: IRS Whistleblower Reports 'Stand Down Order' Was Given on Hunter Biden Investigation - "IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley states in testimony that a ‘stand down order’ was given to the Department of Justice in the Hunter Biden investigation prior to the 2020 election.  “I am blowing the whistle because the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office, Department of Justice Tax, and Department of Justice provided preferential treatment and unchecked conflicts of interest in an important and high-profile investigation of the President’s son, Hunter Biden,” Shapley said in redacted testimony.  Despite probable cause affidavits for Hunter Biden search warrants in three states and Washington, D.C. drafted in early 2020, they were put on ice by the Department of Justice as soon as Joe Biden became the presumptive Democrat nominee...   This favorable treatment towards Joe Biden contrasts strikingly with the actions the Department of Justice took in regards to the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump in 2016, when discredited political opposition research from rival candidate Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee was illegally weaponized to conduct a sweeping campaign surveillance operation against the Trump campaign as well as an ensuing Special Counsel investigation that hindered the Trump presidency for years."

IRS whistleblower speaks: DOJ "slow-walked" tax probe said to involve Hunter Biden - "He said he became so concerned about prosecutors' handling of "a high profile, controversial" investigation that he felt duty-bound to sound alarms.  "There were multiple steps that were slow-walked — were just completely not done — at the direction of the Department of Justice," said Gary Shapley, a 14-year veteran of the agency, who spoke exclusively to CBS News chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod on Tuesday. "When I took control of this particular investigation, I immediately saw deviations from the normal process. It was way outside the norm of what I've experienced in the past." The accusations come more than three years into an investigation into Hunter Biden that's being conducted in Delaware by a U.S. Attorney appointed by then-President Trump and held over by President Biden to avoid any appearance of political bias. The investigation focuses on potential crimes related to outstanding tax debts connected to income earned from a controversial stint as a board member for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma while his father was vice president, and a potential false statement related to a gun purchase. Last year CBS News reported that the past-due taxes were paid off with a loan from high-powered Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris, who provided Hunter Biden with financial backing.   Six months ago, a leak from the FBI revealed that agents there believed they had provided prosecutors with enough evidence to support criminal tax charges. No such charges have been brought as of this publication.  Shapley told CBS News he became increasingly concerned about measures being taken that he said appeared to shield the target of the investigation — which CBS News independently confirmed is Hunter Biden.  "Each and every time, it seemed to always benefit the subject," Shapley said. "It just got to that point where that switch was turned on. And I just couldn't silence my conscience anymore."  Shapley is a supervisory special agent with the IRS's criminal investigations department, currently overseeing a team of 12 agents who specialize in international tax and financial crimes. Previously, he was an officer with the National Security Agency's Office of the Inspector General. He was assigned to a "sensitive" investigation in January 2020, and within months, he said he grew concerned about how the Justice Department was handling the investigation. CBS News has learned that was the Hunter Biden probe. Shapley says he began documenting his concerns around June 2020... Shapley may already be paying a price for his decision to speak out. Last week, his attorneys informed Congress that he and his staff had been removed from the investigation "at the request of the Department of Justice." He claims he's faced retaliation from IRS leadership. In addition, Hunter Biden's legal team has already accused him of breaking the law... Shapley said he finds this new role — as a whistleblower — to be well outside his comfort zone, and is not something he wants to do. But he said he felt an obligation to come forward and report what he views as a violation of his oath of office.  "When I saw the egregiousness of some of these things, it no longer became a choice for me," he said. "It's not something that I want to do. It's something I feel like I have to do."  He said his ultimate motivation is what drove him to pursue the work of criminal tax investigations in the first place.  "When taxpayers are treated differently — and subjects of investigations are treated differently," he said, "I don't see how it doesn't affect the fairness of the system.""

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