Eventually brandons handlers will have to realize that the coverup always, but always carries 10 times the blowback of the original sin.

 

'Bad News for the Biden Admin': House Reveals Impeachment Inquiry Resolution.

After months of mulling over impeaching President Joe Biden, with then Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announcing an inquiry in September, House Republicans on Thursday released a resolution formalizing as much. The resolution came from Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), with The Spectator's Matthew Foldi noting it's "Bad news for the Biden admin."

The resolution notes that it is "Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Joseph Biden, President of the United States of America."

The House Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee, and House House Ways and Means Committee have been investigating the Biden family for months, including but not only the president. Those specific committees are further authorized per the resolution.

The investigations so far have related to Joe Biden's connections with his son, Hunter Biden, and his business dealings. Just Wednesday, the president snapped that any such narratives were "lies," though former associates of Hunter, including Devon Archer, have testified that Joe Biden was "the brand" when serving as vice president, and that Joe and Hunter had contact with one another.

The Hill reported that a markup is scheduled for Tuesday, with a vote expected to come next week.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) appeared on "Fox & Friends" earlier on Thursday morning about moving ahead with impeachment, which touched upon that claim from Biden that such claims were "lies." Jordan spoke to the evidence, which came from Archer, offering the president's claims "makes absolutely no sense." Jordan reminded throughout that Archer testified under oath.

Jordan also credited IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler with coming forward about their concerns to do with the Department of Justice's (DOJ) investigation into Hunter Biden, noting the Bidens "might have gotten away with it."

"Their story has held up," Jordan said about the whistleblowers. "Joe Biden's story and the White House's story keeps changing. [Special Counsel] David Weiss and the Justice Department's story keeps changing, but Mr. Shapley and Mr. Ziegler, their testimony has not wavered, because they're telling the truth.'

As the reporter who asked Biden about such connections highlighted on Wednesday, an AP-NORC poll from October found that 68 percent of Americans believe that the president did something "unethical" or "illegal" when it comes to Hunter's business dealings, with 40 percent of Democrats holding that view as well.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and House House Ways and Means Committee Chairman (R-MO) addressed those findings during their Wednesday night appearance on Fox News' "Hannity."

Comer also confirmed that the Committees are willing to hold Hunter Biden in contempt as they threatened on Wednesday to do, if he does not show up for the closed-door testimony on December 13 that he received a subpoena for last month. He also had strong words for Democrats on the Committee, charging that by encouraging Hunter not to show up, they "have obstructed this credible investigation just as much as the Biden legal team, just as much as the mainstream media, and all these government agencies they were supposed to be investigating."

The chairman also promised that Hunter Biden's "going to be there or we're going to hold him accountable."

 

Hunter Biden's ex-business associate Tony Bobulinski demands Biden 'stop lying' about 2017 meeting
Text messages indicate Bobulinski met with Joe Biden in May 2017
December 7, 2023


Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski is demanding President Biden "stop lying" about his meeting with Biden in 2017 and called on him to "correct the record."

"Why is Joe Biden blatantly lying to the American people and the world by claiming that he did not meet with me face to face?" Bobulinski told Fox News Digital in a statement. "He should call his son Hunter and brother Jim as they can remind him of the facts. The American people deserve the truth!"

He added: "I call on Mr. Biden to stop lying and correct the record."

Bobulinski said he is a "former decorated Naval Officer who was willing to die for this great country and held the highest security clearance issued by the Department of Energy."


Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, on Oct. 22, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Bobulinski worked with Hunter Biden to create the joint venture SinoHawk Holdings with Chinese energy company CEFC.

Despite Biden’s recent denials of involvement with his son’s business dealings, text messages dating back to May 2017 reveal that Biden met with Bobulinski months after he left the vice president's office. Fox News Digital first reported on the text messages and that meeting in October 2020.

"Mrng plse let me knw if we will do early dinner w your Uncle & dad and where, also for document translation do you want it simple Chinese or traditional?" Bobulinski texted Hunter Biden on May 2, 2017.


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"Not sure on dinner yet and whatever is the most common for a Chinese legal DOC," Hunter Biden replied.


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"Chinese legal docs can be both, i’ll make it traditional," Bobulinski said.

Hunter replied: "Dad not in now until 11- let’s me I and Jim meet at 10 at Beverly Hilton where he’s staying."

Later, Bobulinski sent a text to Jim Biden, Joe Biden's brother, on the same day, May 2, 2017, saying: "Great to meet u and spend some time together, please thank Joe for his time, was great to talk thx Tony b."


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The following day, May 3, 2017, Bobulinski sent another text to Jim Biden, saying: "Morning, please let me know all set for things this mrng. I don't have credentials to get into Milken so just want to make sure not an issue to get me in, where should we meet this mrng?"

"Milken" was in reference to the 2017 Global Conference, which, in part, was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, according to the program directory.

Joe Biden, on May 3, 2017, spoke at the conference, hosting "A Conversation with the 47th Vice President of the United States Joe Biden."


President Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 4. (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The meeting on May 2, 2017, would have taken place just 11 days before the now-infamous May 13, 2017, email, which included a discussion of "remuneration packages" for six people in a business deal with a Chinese energy firm. The email appeared to identify Biden as "Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC," in a reference to now-bankrupt CEFC China Energy Co.

The email includes a note that "Hunter has some office expectations he will elaborate." A proposed equity split references "20" for "H" and "10 held by H for the big guy?" with no further details.


President Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, step off Air Force One at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 4. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Bobulinski has repeatedly said "the big guy" was Joe Biden. IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who claimed that politics had influenced the yearslong federal investigation into Hunter Biden, also said "the big guy" was known to be Joe Biden.

The president this week was asked whether he had communicated with his son's business partners. The question came after Fox News Digital first reported that IRS whistleblowers turned over metadata to the House Ways & Means Committee revealing that he had used an email alias to communicate hundreds of times with Hunter Biden and his business associate Eric Schwerin during his time as vice president.

"I did not, they’re lies. It’s a bunch of lies," Biden said Wednesday at the White House.

Meanwhile, Bobulinski last month suggested that he and President Biden, Hunter Biden and James Biden "appear together" before Congress for a public hearing.

His suggestion came after Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell sent a letter to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, claiming that Bobulinski lied to the FBI during an interview Oct. 23, 2020, about his business dealings with the president’s son.

 

Fox News host pops GOP probe: 'They have not shown Joe Biden did anything illegally'

David Edwards
December 11, 2023 10:54AM ET



L-R Lawrence Jones, Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian KilmeadeFox News/screen grab


Fox News host Steve Doocy shot down the Republican narrative that President Joe Biden violated the law by participating in his son's business dealings.

During a Monday discussion on Fox & Friends, co-host Ainsley Earhardt suggested Biden voters would re-think their choice if Republicans could prove Biden broke the law.

"But don't you think if they do this [impeachment] inquiry, which we all are supportive of, and if they find enough evidence, don't you think the voters are smart enough in those districts to say, you know what, we did vote for Biden, but this looks really bad?" Earhardt wondered.



Doocy had another perspective.

"If they have the stuff, I mean, the Republicans at this point don't have, they've got a lot of ledgers and spreadsheets, but they have not connected the dots," Doocy said. "They've connected the dots. The Department of Justice did on Hunter, but they have not shown where Joe Biden did anything illegally."

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House Oversight Democrat quietly meeting with GOP lawmakers in effort to quash impeachment inquiry: sources
Raskin's efforts come ahead of a House meeting to consider a resolution to formalize the impeachment inquiry.

EXCLUSIVE: The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has been informally meeting with Republicans behind closed doors in an effort to persuade them to abandon the impeachment effort against President Biden, as GOP lawmakers prepare to vote to formalize the inquiry, Fox News Digital has learned.

Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., has been quietly discussing impeachment with House Republicans with whom he has close relationships, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the conversations told Fox News Digital.

Sources said Raskin has been meeting with "right-wing to more moderate members" in an effort to counter GOP arguments, investigative steps, and evidence collected throughout the investigation.

Those sources told Fox News Digital that some Republicans, in recent days, have been "especially receptive to seeing the Administration’s record of cooperation with investigators."

Meanwhile, Fox News Digital has obtained "fact sheets" House Oversight Democrats plan to share with both Democrats and Republicans to support their efforts to quash the impeachment inquiry.

"These fact sheets are a hat in hand, fact-based appeal to House Republicans," a senior House Democratic aide told Fox News Digital. "Republicans may not be getting all of the facts from Mr. Comer, so we are making sure that they have the full picture as they decide whether to endorse this impeachment effort."

One memo, obtained by Fox News Digital, is focused on obstruction in an effort to defend the Biden administration, as well as banks and private citizens, for providing "extraordinary cooperation" with the committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings and whether President Biden, himself, was involved.

Another memo defends the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin. Joe Biden, as vice president, boasted that he successfully pressured Ukraine to fire Shokin. The then-vice president threatened to withhold $1 billion of critical U.S. aid if Shokin was not fired.

Shokin, at the time, was investigating Burisma Holdings — a Ukrainian natural gas firm where Hunter Biden sat on the board and collected highly-lucrative monthly payments.

But Democrats on the committee echoed past statements from the White House and the president, that Shokin’s firing was actually the "culmination of a years-long effort by a bipartisan, international coalition to address and root out corruption in Ukraine."

Republicans, as part of the impeachment inquiry, have been investigating an FBI-generated FD-1023 form, which alleged a bribery scheme between Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky.

That FD-1023 — a confidential human source (CHS) reporting document — reflects the FBI's interview with a "highly credible" confidential source who detailed multiple meetings and conversations he or she had with a top executive of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings over the course of several years starting in 2015.

The document includes allegations from Zlochevsky that he was "coerced" into paying Joe Biden and Hunter Biden millions of dollars to get Shokin fired.

That document has been passed to Special Counsel David Weiss, who has been investigating Hunter Biden since 2018. When tapped as special counsel in August, Attorney General Merrick Garland expanded Weiss's scope to include any other issues that have come up, or may come up, related to that investigation.

But House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital it is "ironic Democrats continue to say there is no evidence and then at every turn seek to prevent the Oversight Committee from gathering evidence."

"Despite Democrats' best efforts, the House Oversight Committee has produced evidence revealing Joe Biden knew about, participated in, and benefited from his family cashing in on the Biden last name," Comer told Fox News Digital. "We will continue to follow the facts and hold this president accountable for his corruption."

Meanwhile, the Democrats also prepared a memo focused on the funds Joe Biden received from his brother, James Biden, in 2017 and 2018. Both checks, one for $200,000 and one for $40,000, were both labeled as a "loan repayment" in the memo section.

Democrats stress that Joe Biden, as a private citizen, did, in fact, make "short-term, interest-free loans to his brother, James, who later repaid him."

But House Oversight Republicans are demanding documentation from the White House to prove that there were, in fact, loans, to be repaid.

Republicans have also pointed to the timing of those payments to Biden—specifically the 2018 $40,000 check—as it came just days after James Biden was wired funds from Hunter Biden, after he received a $5 million wire from a Chinese energy company. Republicans say this is an example of how Joe Biden benefited from his family’s foreign business dealings.

Hunter Biden received a $5 million wire from the Chinese company in August 2018 to his bank account, Hudson West III.

Hunter Biden then transferred $400,000 to his Owasco PC account. Funds were then transferred to a business account belonging to James Biden and later transferred to a personal account belonging to James Biden and Sara Biden.

Comer claims they used those funds to then cut a check to Joe Biden for $40,000. That check was labeled as a "loan repayment."

President Biden has maintained that he was never in business with his son, and never discussed his son's foreign business dealings.

Fox News Digital first reported last week metadata revealing that Biden communicated with his son and his son's business partner Eric Schwerin hundreds of times using an email alias while serving as vice president. Schwerin, though, at the time, served as Biden's bookkeeper.

Biden, last week, from the White House, said: "I did not, they’re lies. It’s a bunch of lies."

Raskin's efforts come ahead of a House Rules Committee meeting Tuesday, where lawmakers will consider a resolution to formalize the impeachment inquiry framework against President Biden.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky.; House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., are leading the impeachment inquiry against President Biden.

The chairmen are investigating any foreign money received by the Biden family, whether President Biden was involved in his family’s foreign business dealings, and steps allegedly taken by the Biden administration to "slow, hamper, or otherwise impede the criminal investigation into the President’s son, Hunter Biden, which involves funds received by the Biden family from foreign sources."

 

Mitt Romney says he doesn't see 'any evidence' to authorize Joe Biden impeachment inquiry
Ken Tran, USA TODAY
Sun, December 10, 2023 at 8:59 AM MST·2 min read
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, threw cold water on House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, saying he does not “see any evidence” that the president's actions warrant his removal from office.

Romney, who has long criticized the GOP's direction, said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that House Republicans “ought to have some evidence” of wrongdoing before opening an impeachment inquiry.

“So far, there’s nothing of that nature that’s been provided,” Romney said. Were he a member in the House, he added, he would vote against the inquiry.

Romney’s comments come as House Republicans are slated to vote to formally authorize their impeachment inquiry on Tuesday in a bid to bolster the probe’s legal standing in court.

House Republicans allege that Biden financially benefited from his family’s foreign business dealings, but they have yet to provide evidence showing Biden reaped personal benefits from his family’s overseas affairs.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., opened the inquiry in September without a vote on the House floor, citing precedent that House Democrats created in 2019 when they opened an impeachment inquiry into former President Donald Trump without a vote.

The White House has scoffed at the impeachment inquiry and has cited a Trump-era Justice Department opinion against House Republicans. The opinion declares any impeachment inquiry opened without a vote on the House floor invalid.

The hope from House Republicans is that − if they can formally authorize the inquiry with a green-light from the lower chamber − GOP investigators’ requests for information from the White House will hold water in court.

Republicans have taken specific aim at the president’s son, Hunter Biden. Their inquiry has shown Hunter Biden made millions from his overseas business affairs, and, apart from the inquiry, a federal grand jury indicted him on charges he failed to pay his income taxes. It is not clear how the charges will affect the inquiry.

“We are not responsible for the misdeeds of our kids and grandkids and great grandkids,” Romney said.

“President Biden’s son, Hunter, has obviously been a very unsavory person and has had some extremely damaging personal foibles," Romney added, referencing Hunter Biden's substance use disorder. ”“That’s not President Biden and we’re not gonna impeach someone because of the sins of their kids.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/mitt-romney-says-doesnt-see-155940291.html

 

Remember this guy at the hearing......

JONATHAN TURLEY

COLUMNS, CONGRESS, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, MEDIA, POLITICSDecember 11, 2023
With the Indictment and Inquiry, Democrats Now Face a Moment of Maddening Truth

U.S. House of Representatives
Below is my column in The Hill on the expected formal vote this week on the impeachment inquiry. The vote is only to continue to look into the allegations that President Joe Biden knew of the influence peddling operation of his family and fostered those efforts. The final line of defense is to acknowledge that this was influence peddling but that Biden was only trying to support his son. The question for this vote is: how do you know? We have millions raised in what most view as corrupt influence peddling. Many of those payments are now confirmed by the Justice Department in the second Hunter Biden indictment. Only an investigation will establish the truth on the President’s knowledge and involvement. Yet, for years, Democratic members have opposed any investigation. They now face a moment of truth.

Here is the column:


Author Aldous Huxley once said, “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”

Such a moment of madness has arrived in Congress as members prepare to vote on the formal approval of an impeachment inquiry. The second indictment of Hunter Biden shattered long-standing denials and narratives repeated by the White House and members of Congress. What is left in its wake is now plain to the public: corruption.

The vote is not whether to impeach President Biden, but whether members support the investigation into these growing allegations of corruption by the Biden family. According to recent polling, nearly 70 percent of voters (and 40 percent of Democrats) believe that Biden has acted unlawfully or unethically or both. Yet with almost half of the Democratic Party viewing Biden’s conduct as worthy of investigation, it is not clear whether a single Democratic member will vote to look into these allegations.

In September, I testified at the first impeachment inquiry hearing and stated that the evidence had clearly passed the threshold for such an inquiry. While there was no requirement to hold a formal vote to start this process (as the Democrats did with Trump), I encouraged the members to hold such a vote.

Since that hearing, the evidence has only mounted against President Biden. It is now clear that Biden lied when he maintained as a candidate, and later as president, that he had no knowledge of his son’s business dealings with foreign interests. Even Hunter himself contradicted the president on this claim.

It is also now clear that he lied in denying that his son never made money in China. The indictment confirms massive transfers from Chinese sources.

It is also clear that Hunter was engaged in raw influence peddling. This included threatening at least one Chinese businessman that his father was sitting next to him and would retaliate against him if he did not send millions to the Bidens.

President Biden also lied when he claimed this week that he had not had any “interactions” with his son’s business associates. There are emails, audiotapes and testimony now disproving that claim.

Millions of dollars flowed to Biden family members through a labyrinth of shell companies and accounts. Hunter Biden sent emails saying that up to half of his income went to his father while they used shared accounts and credit cards for expenses.

Even Biden associates now admit that they were selling “the Biden brand” and influence with Joe Biden. Advocates simply argue that they were merely selling the “illusion” of influence.

It is now time to see if a single Democratic member will stand against corruption and support an inquiry into the president’s role and later cover-up of this corruption. That includes the use of White House staff to spread false claims and attack critics.

I have previously discussed four possible articles of impeachment that warrant investigation.

One of the false narratives being bandied about is that there is no proof that the influence peddling of Biden’s son and brothers benefited the president himself. Thus, the argument goes, even though he was the subject of the influence peddling, Joe Biden did not legally or constitutionally benefit from the payments to constitute bribery or other crimes.

That is utter nonsense. The courts have repeatedly found that benefits to family members (far more modest than the millions in this case) can constitute bribery for a politician. That has also been the position of the Justice Department in past cases. Regardless of whether Hunter or his associates were speaking truthfully about handing over percentages of these funds to Joe Biden, he practically and legally benefited from the millions going to his family.

Even if members insist that they are not yet convinced, it makes no sense to insist that there is no direct evidence while opposing efforts to establish such evidence. These members have opposed any investigation into the allegations from the start.

Polling suggests most people believe there was a massive influence peddling operation built around Joe Biden, and that the president lied about not knowing about these deals. It is now time to get answers directly from the key players, from Hunter Biden to the president himself.

There is more at stake for the members than a Democratic president. The Democratic Party has already embraced censorship and abandoned its long advocacy of free speech. Democrats are now running on the pledge to expand censorship on social media. The question is whether, as a party, it will now vote to shield corruption, even with almost half of Democratic voters calling for answers.

The Democratic Party that I was raised in and supported was more than the party of censorship and corruption. It fought for free speech and good government. There were principles that came before personalities.

That is why we have reached a point of inescapable clarity. There is no principled basis to oppose an investigation into these chilling allegations. Stripped of the false narratives and faux constitutional claims, what remains are raw politics and utter madness.

The only question is, who will step forward on the Democratic side to demand not impeachment but answers?

So let’s call the vote.

Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

 

No you Americans who the fuck do you think you are? Citizens with a right to know? Get fucked. If we do our impeachment inquiry out in the open we will look like fools. So you just be good little mushrooms and sit there in the dark and believe the lies we tell you.


GOP votes down making impeachment inquiry ‘transparent’

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
December 12, 2023 1:42PM ET



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House Republicans moving quickly to finalize legislation for Wednesday's expected vote on opening a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Tuesday voted against an amendment requiring the inquiry to be "open and transparent," despite Speaker Mike Johnson's pledge earlier Tuesday "to undertake this process methodically and transparently."

Speaker Johnson, pushing for the vote on an impeachment inquiry despite even some House Republicans admitting there is a complete lack of proof of impeachable offenses, published an op-ed in USA Today Tuesday morning.

"Evidence against Biden can't be ignored. We're pursuing impeachment inquiry," the Speaker wrote. "House Republicans understand that to begin to rebuild Americans’ trust in the Congress, we owe it to the people to undertake this process methodically and transparently."

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On Tuesday in the House Rules Committee meeting drafting the impeachment inquiry, Ranking Member Jim McGovern (D-MA) said, "all we're asking for is the gentleman to put back in the words 'open and transparent.' For some reason Republicans deliberately removed it. None of us can figure out why."

At that point, Rules Committee Chair Tom Cole (R-OK) called the vote, and Republicans, who have the majority, voted down the amendment to require the impeachment inquiry to be "open and transparent."

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Just as soon as they make january 6 an open and transparent investigation, eh?

 

And when will we see a repuke investigation into Jan 6th, eh

Oh and shooter, what was Trump protesting about on Jan 6th?

Enlighten us

 

Trump — not Biden — got cash from 12 countries: Dem fact-checks GOP at impeachment hearing

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
December 12, 2023 3:18PM ET



President Donald Trump (MSNBC screengrab)


As House Republicans race to cobble together legislation to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, Democrats are pointing to ex-President Donald Trump — who appears to have engaged in the same activity the GOP is accusing the current president of.

Republicans, who are pushing to hold an impeachment inquiry vote, claim that Biden took money from foreign countries via his son Hunter’s business dealings. They have, as some Republicans admit, found no direct proof of their allegations.

But as U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM) told House Republicans during the Rules Committee markup of the legislation on Tuesday, Trump actually did take money from foreign countries during his time as President – a claim even Republicans have not made against Biden.

Referring to Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer, who testified in a closed-door session before the House Oversight Committee, Congresswoman Fernandez explained, “If you actually look at that transcript, Mr. Archer was very clear that while the father [Joe Biden] may have talked to his son, they never ever talked about business.”

READ MORE: GOP Votes Down Making Impeachment Inquiry ‘Transparent’ After Speaker Pledges ‘Transparency’

“They never ever talked about financial matters,” she continued. “And in contrast, when we were looking at issues about family business, I would like to enter into the record. Mr. Chairman, I seek consent to enter into the record, a [unrecognizable] that says Trump taxes show foreign income for more than a dozen countries.”

Rep. Fernandez appeared to be referring to a Politico article from December of 2022 that says: “Donald Trump’s tax returns show the former president received income from more than a dozen countries during his time in office, highlighting a string of potential conflicts of interest.”

“Trump’s returns,” Politico had added, “disclosed income from 2015 to 2020 from a wide range of foreign countries, including Canada, Panama, the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, among others.”

Fernandez explained, “I think this is our objection. I think that it is important you are making a big deal of the fact that Joe, that Joe Biden, as a private citizen, a lot of these things that you’re talking about happened when Joe Biden was a private citizen, but more importantly, that his brother and his son were separate.”

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“They did not have, their businesses were not commingled. It’s very clear from the evidence that they were separate. They were not the same. In contrast, we know from this article that says, Trump’s tax show foreign income, ‘Donald Trump’s tax returns show the former president received income from more than a dozen countries during his time in office,'” she said, emphasizing the fact that some of that income came while Trump was President.



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House Speaker Mike Johnson pursues impeachment strategy he once said could cause ‘irreparable damage’ to the country
Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN
Mon, December 11, 2023 at 9:06 AM MST·5 min read
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House Speaker Mike Johnson is pursuing an impeachment strategy against President Joe Biden that he once said could cause “irreparable damage” to the country when Democrats sought to oust then-President Donald Trump, according to a CNN KFile review of his past public comments.

Just four years ago, Johnson blasted Democrats for opening an impeachment inquiry into Trump largely along party lines less than a year before the next presidential election — the exact circumstances Johnson finds himself in now.

In radio interviews reviewed by CNN, Johnson criticized Democrats for using what he called “gerrymandered facts” in their 2019 impeachment inquiry for the sole and “predetermined” purpose of impeaching Trump to undermine his political standing. He argued the Democrats’ grievances against Trump should be settled by voters and not through such an extreme remedy as impeachment.


“If you don’t like the president, he goes on a ballot again after four years,” Johnson said in a December 2019 interview. “We have an election in 11 months. Let the people decide this.”


House Speaker Mike Johnson attends a news conference about a range of issues, including the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, at the US Capitol on November 29 in Washington, DC. - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Somewhat prophetically, he warned Democrats that what they were doing was “short-sighted” and said that impeaching Trump opened a “Pandora’s box” in which every opposition party in control of the House could impeach the president, an outcome he asserted the Founding Fathers feared. He also complained that the effort derailed Congress from its real work of legislating.

“What happens a few years from now, 10 years from now, 20 years from now? You have a Democrat in the White House and you have a Republican majority in the House. Do you think the Republican base in the country is gonna be satisfied…?” Johnson asked in the interview. “They’re gonna demand that they be impeached because you’ve now set the bar so low that we’re going into tribal politics now. I mean, if you think politics were divided before this, heaven help us.”

Now Johnson, as the speaker of the House, seems to have abandoned his previous concerns about impeachment, and — with Republicans in control of the House — has said he fully supports such an inquiry along party lines and so close to a presidential election.

In response to questions from CNN, Johnson’s office said: “The Speaker’s commentary on the House Democrat impeachment effort was true then and is true now. The 2019 impeachment of President Trump remains infamous for using the thinnest evidentiary record and narrowest grounds ever to impeach a President. Today, the House is taking a decidedly different approach. The House will depose witnesses, gather evidence, establish a record, and only present Articles if the evidentiary record supports such action.”

House Republicans have been investigating Biden and his family for months. They are examining possible allegations of bribery, abuse of power and obstruction against the president, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan told reporters last week.

The allegations primarily stem from already discredited claims regarding Biden’s actions in Ukraine, which surfaced during Trump’s initial impeachment proceedings in 2019, before Biden held the office of president.

The White House has vehemently denied any wrongdoing by Biden.

“Speaker Johnson’s blatant hypocrisy reveals just how nakedly partisan this smear campaign against President Biden is,” said Sharon Yang, a White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations. “Instead of turning up any evidence of wrongdoing by the President, they have instead proven that they are far more interested in peddling recycled conspiracy theories in order to satisfy the most extreme members of their party, rather than anything that would address the issues the American people actually care about like lowering costs, creating jobs, and strengthening our health care.”

Johnson, however, has called the case compelling.

“The evidence and the allegations against President Biden are the worst in the history of the country — it’s not even close,” Johnson said on the podcast he co-hosted with his wife in August. “This makes Watergate look like a walk in the park.”

He announced he would likely hold a vote in the House to open a formal impeachment inquiry this week.

Even some impeachment experts cited by Johnson during the impeachment of Trump suggest weakness in the case against Biden.

For example, during one radio interview in 2019, Johnson cited conservative law professor Jonathan Turley, who testified for Republicans that Trump’s impeachment was unwarranted. In September, Turley testified that the evidence against Biden also did not yet meet the standard for impeachment – though it warranted opening an inquiry.

Five legal experts CNN spoke with characterized Johnson’s support for impeachment as a political weapon, with some calling the case for impeachment against Biden legally baseless.

“Politicians in this context always are using impeachment for political purposes, and they’re unabashed in their willingness to use it against their opponents while previously having defended against its use for their allies,” said Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, in a phone interview.

While the 2019 inquiry into Trump had “tangible, direct evidence of wrongdoing” at this point in the process, said Elie Honig, a former state and federal prosecutor and senior CNN legal analyst, Republicans have yet to produce evidence to sustain their allegations.

“We have disjointed theories based on scraps of evidence that don’t directly implicate the president,” he told CNN in an email.

Zeldin added, “If you look at prior impeachments, they all relate to conduct undertaken by the office holder while in office. Whereas in the Biden case, there doesn’t seem to be any indication that President Biden has done anything to trigger the language of impeachment.

“Instead, they’re using a period of time prior to his presidency. That would seem not a legal basis for an impeachment,” he said.

Some legal experts criticized attempts to use impeachment proceedings for purely political means, saying it wasn’t what the Founding Fathers intended.

Much as Johnson pointed out four years ago: “They openly said and wrote about, spoke about, how it might be irreparable damage to the country.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-speaker-mike-johnson-pursues-160649070.html

 

Biden is a scumbag American traitor that needs to be prosecuted for his crimes against America. From his foreign deals to the open border! Regardless of the outcome, he will be known as the worst president in American history!!!

 

Fox News Host Goes on Rant About Idiotic Biden Impeachment Efforts
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Mon, December 11, 2023 at 8:41 AM MST·2 min read
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This week’s GOP-led impeachment effort against the President is so extreme that even a Fox & Friends host had a hard time getting on board.

Fox anchor Steve Doocy appeared taken aback and apprehensive to participate in a Monday morning segment on the show in which his co-hosts misrepresented outdated polling data to allege that Hunter Biden’s dealings were shady “enough” to warrant unseating his father from the presidency.

“The Republicans at this point don’t have—they’ve got a lot of ledgers and spreadsheets—but they have not connected the dots,” Doocy said while his co-hosts squirmed.


“They’ve connected the dots, the Department of Justice did, on Hunter, but they have not shown where Joe Biden, you know, did anything illegally,” he added.

The segment reached back to a September poll by CNN that found the majority of Americans—61 percent—felt that the president was involved in his son’s business dealings, while 38 percent felt that Biden didn’t have any involvement in his son’s business during his vice presidency.

But a lot has happened since September, including a shallow House impeachment inquiry—the first in U.S. history to move forward without a vote—that failed to present solid evidence of corruption or bribery and included witnesses and members publicly admitting that they did not have any evidence that rose to the level of impeaching Biden, reported Mediaite.

Doocy then redirected attention toward Hunter Biden’s closed-door deposition scheduled for Wednesday, announcing that Republicans are threatening contempt of Congress if the president’s son is a no-show.

“Ultimately, on this show, we’ve been calling for Hunter to go and sit in a chair on Capitol Hill in front of the TV cameras for the last year,” Doocy said. “Now Hunter’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, says he will do that, but Comer and Jim Jordan say, no, it’s not negotiable, he’s got to be in private. According to Hunter Biden’s team, they don’t want to do it because of leaks and stuff like that.”

 

It's funny how stumbler all of sudden loves Fox News and Liz Cheney! Oh my God what is this thread coming to.... LMAO at the hypocrisy he continues to demonstrate

 

Now I am literally laughing. Hunter Biden shows up at the Capitol and gives the best defense of himself and President Biden I have seen. He really did a great job of defending himself, President Biden, and attacking the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans for their. phony lies and scam impeachment inquiry ahead of the vote.

And then of course it was the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican's turn to respond. And it was literally hilarious because the press was asking them questions about justifying their impeachment inquiry and Jordan and Comer ended up yelling at the press because they could not answer their questions. And then they just stormed off


That contrast is going to make great sound bites that will get played over and over.

 

OUCH!!!! Now this one is going to leave a mark. You can bet with an "impeachment inquiry" vote on the table this will get covered and noticed.



Republican Senator Admits There’s “No Evidence”on Biden Impeachment
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Wed, December 13, 2023 at 10:29 AM MST·1 min read
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Senator Chuck Grassley admitted on Wednesday that House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden hasn’t produced any facts pointing to wrongdoing on the president’s part.

“I have no evidence of it,” Grassley told CNN, just hours before House Republicans were set to vote to formalize the Biden impeachment inquiry. “I’m just going to follow the facts where they are, and the facts haven’t taken me to that point where I can say the president is guilty of anything.”


Amazing. Chuck Grassley admits "I have no evidence ... the fact haven't taken me to that point where I can say the president is guilty of anything." pic.twitter.com/fCuVcNLTB0

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 13, 2023

The probe into Biden, which was sparked by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy in September and based on debunked claims, initially went ahead without a floor vote and failed to produce even one witness who could say Joe Biden did anything illegal. Republicans repeatedly tried and failed to tie the president to the business dealings of his son Hunter Biden.


The House is slated to cast a floor vote sometime on Wednesday to formalize the impeachment proceedings into Joe Biden, though it’s expected to be close. The lower chamber’s already slim conservative majority was squeezed even tighter earlier this month after New York Representative George Santos was expelled from the chamber. The disgraced politician’s absence means that the party can only afford to lose three Republicans on any given vote


https://www.yahoo.com/news/yet-another-veteran-gop-senator-172924086.html

 

Unfortunately the worst has yet to come, senile lame duck biden has one more year in his reign of terror....