Trump Fatigue Syndrome

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It's not just Prid Quo Joe... (as if you couldn't guess)

 

Peter Schweizer Details Biden Family Corruption for Mark Levin
Posted at 12:30 pm on February 3, 2020 by Stu Cvrk

Mark Levin hosts “Life, Liberty and Levin” show on Fox News Channel on Saturday nights. Last Saturday, he interviewed Peter Schweizer, author of the new book, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite. Much of the interview provided amazing details on Biden family corruption. Here are some excerpts from that interview:

Levin: Tremendous book. Your books are important because they break news. Your books are important because they’re in-depth. You have an enormous number of end-notes in this book. … I am stunned by what you have to write about a number of these Progressives, including Biden. Biden’s been in public office since he was about 4 years old. He’s never done anything else. … And you dig this information out like you dug information out of Burisma. First of all, why is that? Why is it with all of these massive newsrooms – these conglomerates – billions of dollars, enormous research staffs – that they don’t dig this information out and you do.

Schweizer: Great question; I don’t know. I think part of it is bias; part of it is news organizations don’t have the resources to do this digging. I mean, some of these Biden stories took seven months of research and hard work. But overall, with a few exceptions, the reality is that most news organizations have zero curiosity about this. They’re not even interested in following up to see how the patterns of these transactions take place. Everything in the book is based on paper trails; there are no anonymous sources. They can replicate the information … so it’s not that hard to do. There just seems to be a lack of curiosity in doing so.


Me: Schweizer is being gracious to the news organizations because he of course would like to be invited by them to discuss his book. In fact, in his own book on page 9, he noted that Bob Woodward at the Washington Post publicly stated that they had “20 people working on Trump,” so it’s not a question of resources; it’s a question of political motivations or lack thereof when it comes to investigating Progressives. What Schweizer really meant to say is that the legacy media have a vested interest in protecting Progressive politicians, as their newsrooms are infested with Democrat operatives and political activists who are hard a work advancing progressive Democrat causes. One of their primary duties has been to bury everything about the Bidens’ corruption by claiming that “there’s no evidence of corruption,” “it’s been investigated and debunked,” and “no one has accused them of criminal conduct.” All of which are patently false statements.

Levin: You don’t just talk about Hunter Biden, who you broke the story about Burisma before your book. Five Bidens! It’s like a whole family of corrupt Bidens. What did you find?

Schweizer: There are two sides to Joe Biden. Let me begin with a small illustration that proves the point. Joe Biden has been seen as the “Amtrak senator” – a guy who is a regular guy that gets on the Amtrak train and will go home to Delaware. That’s absolutely true. But, it our research, what we found from local newspaper accounts in Delaware is, he not only did that. If he was running late, he would call Amtrak and them hold the train, so yes, he was “Regular Joe Amtrak,” but if he wanted to pull strings for his benefit, he would do so.

Levin: He knew somebody on the Amtrak board.

Schweizer: Exactly! His son was put on the board. Now we talk about the five Bidens. We know about Hunter, but there’s new material about Hunter in the book (7 pages long). Some of the other ones are very interesting. James Biden, for example, his brother. In November 2010, this old-time Biden family friend, Kevin Justice, who grew up in Delaware with Joe Biden’s kids, starts this construction company called Hillstone [Hillstone International LLC]. He goes to the White House in 2010, meets Joe Biden in Biden’s office, according to White House visitor logs. We don’t know what was discussed; it was the only time he ever visited the White House. But three weeks after that meeting, [Justice] appoints James Biden as the executive vice president of his construction company. He did not [have any construction experience]; in fact, on the company bio, which is no longer up [on the internet], they said that his skill was that he was comfortable in the corridors of political power. And of course, you’re very comfortable when your father is the second-most powerful man in the world.

But that’s just the beginning of the story. About six months after James Biden becomes the vice president, this company gets a contract from the federal government to build 100,000 homes in Iraq. It’s about a billion-and-a-half dollar contract. They get a $22M contract with the State Department; they get legions of other federal contracts. That’s the kind of thing you see repeated over and over with the Bidens, and it’s all about the timing. These things occur when Joe Biden is pulling the strings of governmental power at this time.

Me: Don’t forget that Biden was the point man on Iraq policy for Obama. He was the top decision-maker, and laundering taxpayer funded Iraqi reconstruction dollars to politically-connected companies is standard operating procedure, or as described in his book, a “business model” consisting of identifiable methods, including sweetheart deals, income generation, bending the law, legislation, and publicity, all of which are used to facilitate rampant corruption among the political class in Washington, DC.

Levin: He always says, “I don’t know anything about it … my son, my brother … I don’t know anything about these things.”

Schweizer: Let me give you an example where it’s undeniable of the role he played. In June of 2011, these two executives from a new company called StartUp Health go to the Oval Office. Joe Biden ushers them in to meet with Barack Obama. StartUp Health is a healthcare investment company; they barely have a website, they don’t have a business plan, they’ve just been launched, they’re meeting with the President of the United States, they have their pictures taken, they put it on the website. The next day, they are a centerpiece of this federal conference – this Obama Administration conference – on healthcare data. Over the next five years, Vice President Joe Biden regularly goes to StartUp Health’s private meetings and updates investors and partners on Obama Administration healthcare policies. Now the fact that I’ve left out is one of the three principals involved in the company is married to Joe Biden’s daughter, Ashley Biden. There is an absolute case where he is using government resources, government influence, government information, for the benefit of a family member’s business. If you imagine that the Trumps had done that, there would be outrage – I would be outraged. But they haven’t done that, and the Bidens have. You can look at his brother Frank. ….

Levin (interrupting): How many Bidens are there?

Schweizer: Well, we found five Bidens involved in these sweetheart deals. That is all of the siblings and his living children … so it’s all five Biden family members – nobody has been left out. So Frank Biden starts doing deals in Costa Rica shortly after Joe Biden visits the country in spring 2009. Joe Biden comes down and talks with [Costa Rican] President Óscar Arias about providing aid and cooperation. Within months, Frank Biden has a deal with the Costa Rican power company; he has meetings with the president of Costa Rica, with government ministers. He’s setting up an energy company. … He has no background in energy whatsoever. He is also involved in an energy project in Jamaica. He actually gets the power purchasing agreements on a solar project in Jamaica that is financed with $47 million of US taxpayer money in the form of guaranteed loans. Again, no background in renewable energy. Multiple examples. This is all occurring simultaneously with Hunter Biden doing his deals in China and Ukraine, and other family members are engaging in this behavior as well.

Levin: At least in part, one of the reasons why they’re jumping up and down about [allegations of President Trump] interfering in the election with Biden is to protect Biden …

Schweizer: Yeah, I think so. To me, I don’t understand how you’re interfering in an election when you’re basically showing the commercial ties and the corrupt activities of somebody who may run for president. That’s what the media is supposed to do. It’s not interfering in the election to follow the money as it relates to other candidates, so I am sort of mystified as to why the Bidens apparently are supposed to get special favor. By the way, a special favor that I don’t even quite think they gave to the Clintons. In the case of the Clintons, they were at least willing from time to time to go there. With the Bidens, there is a complete lack of interest in a lot of people in the media to even actually go there and explain to readers, “here is what we know, here is how much they were paid, here are the deals that they got, ….”

Levin: Because he’s their guy to beat Trump. So they take the victim, Trump, who has been under constant investigation, including this impeachment farce that we’re now watching. They don’t say THAT interfered with the election. They take the victim, and they turn him into the provocateur, or what have you. And when it comes to Biden, no touch.

Schweizer: Yes.

That ended the Q&A on Biden family corruption. Even just those summary details discussed in the interview are shocking and should have been publicized long ago!



Chapter 3 of Schweizer’s book provides 45 pages on Biden family corruption, the center of which is Joe Biden. Their corrupt activities would not have been possible without Joe Biden, the front-man, and his ability to leverage political power and taxpayer resources for 50 years. Yet, Iowa voters are going to caucus tonight without any idea about Biden’s personal role in this blatant nepotism. The legacy media are willfully blind – and indeed are abrogating their constitutional responsibility to speak truth to power – by obfuscating and refusing to cover the Bidens’ massive corruption.

The end

 

I wonder how many pages such a book about Trump might have about his cheating, stealing, lying, and bribery, and god knows what else. I bet it would be a really big thick, book. Maybe Like the old set of encyclopedias we had as a kid about 24 volumes.

 

Poor @Dearelliot
He thinks that somehow these books and articles about our corrupt politicians just happen to pop up at the right moment.

The reality is, these things are propaganda cranked out to embarrass, villify, and demean politicians and other celebrities.

You need to judge all of this with a cynical eye.

And try not to let your political bend effect what you choose to believe.

 

Apparently the problem with Trump supporters is They have to use a "Blind Eye"

 

ASs I've always said the only thing I've ever known about politics is left & right they're all shifty boring crooks and back and forth things go both ways, This is why I've never cared for politics. Period. But Trump came into it and not that he's any better or even worse than the rest, more shifty even, but he makes it more interesting and seems to wake people up a bit and make them realize a lot of things that defy the boundaries and push the limits of what can be done and it's taught me a lot about the parties keeping loyal to their own. Even if they realize they're wrong. So I think if for no other reason than that' is why I like him and now more interested in politics. I think even if he is not re-elected in 2020 he still going to be remembered and made me have fun with all of this and made the blah, blah. blah, shifty boring same ole same ole thieving con artist politicians fun to watch. Go, Donald.

 

New Project Veritas Video Shows Warren Campaign Staff Don’t Care About LGBT People As Advertised
Posted at 6:00 pm on February 3, 2020 by Brandon Morse



Another Project Veritas video, another exposé of 2020 Democratic campaign staffers presenting a side of themselves that many voters would be curious to know about. This time, Project Veritas turned their attention to none other than 3rd place runner Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Warren has been making quite a large deal out of the LGBT community as of late and has given them special attention during her speeches. Especially when it comes to the transgender community, and telling everyone that trans murder was an epidemic, and even going so far as to vow to read the names of each trans person killed on the lawn of the White House every year.


This was refuted and debunked by Tucker Carlson. (READ: Tucker Carlson Masterfully Debunks the Transgender Murder “Epidemic” Myth)

She also said that trans “women” need to be put into prisons with other women and not with the men they biologically are.

However, if you go behind the curtain, you’ll find that the attitudes toward the LGBT community within the Warren campaign aren’t as rosy and cheery as you might believe.


Her Iowa field organizer, Angel Alicea, had little but bad things to say about the LGBT community when Project Veritas went undercover and filmed his candid thoughts for you to witness.

Over the course of the video, Alicea expresses his disdain for the trans community and considers them a distraction to Warren, who focuses more on them and less on things her voters actually care about.

Here are a few of the greatest hits according to Project Veritas:

Iowa Field Organizer, Warren Campaign, Angel Alicea: “At the End of the Day, We’ve Become the Party That Has Prioritized That (Gender Pronouns) Rather Than Putting Food on the Table for Working Families, and it’s Like, That’s Why We Lose.”

Angel Alicea: “I Got Called Out for not Having Those (Pronouns) on My Twitter Bio…So I Threw Them in There Just to Satisfy the Folks…It’s Identity Politics, and Again, I Get Called on it for Calling it That…”

Angel Alicea Reveals Discomfort with Another Warren Staff Member More Prone to Identity Politics: “Paige Was Like: ‘You’re the Only Straight (Person) Here.’ I’m Like Who F**king Cares? I’m not Saying You’re the Only F**king Trans Here or Something…This is What the F**ing Trump People Utilize Against Us Because You (Paige) Say Dumb Sh*t Like That…Because I Like Women, You’re Going to Ostracize Me?”

Alicea: “I Had to Do a Diversity / Inclusion Training and I’m Like, ‘What Are You Going to Tell Me, You White Liberals, That I Don’t Already Know?’”

Alicea: “The Chair of the Stonewall Caucus, Which is Like the LGBTQ Caucus in the State – Which Has Very Little Credibility, Their Membership is Like Twenty or Thirty People…They Endorse Booker… Because Booker’s Team Was Like ‘Come Here’ with Open Arms Because They (Booker Campaign) Need Anything at This Point…The Main Point is They Endorsed Booker Because We Weren’t Gonna F**king Like, Lay Out a Red Carpet for Them (Stonewall Caucus)…They’re a Liability, Not an Asset in the Long-Term.”


I think LGBT voters would be very interested to hear what Alecia has to say, but more importantly, understand how Project Veritas plays the game.

Right now, they’ve only released on video and some may claim that this is an isolated event. However, PV has already teased their next video, and you can bet that you’ll see more proof that Warren’s campaign isn’t the campaign it says it is.

 

When you get inside Trump's head all you find is a putter!.........Bloomberg!

Quality

Thinskin

 

Biden Continues to Lose It, Flips Out During an Interview When Pressed On Burisma Corruption
Posted at 10:30 pm on February 3, 2020 by Bonchie



This guy is slipping big time.

Joe Biden is currently cruising to a likely 3rd or 4th place finish in Iowa tonight and it’s obviously gotten under his skin. He was asked in an interview that aired this morning on Today Show about his son Hunter’s $83K a month board gig in Ukraine. This all happened while Biden was running foreign policy there and threatened aid money in order to get a prosecutor fired.


He didn’t take it well at all.


Daily Caller

✔@DailyCaller


Joe Biden becomes agitated when Savannah Guthrie asks him about his son Hunter:

“You’re saying things you don’t know what you’re talking about!”








NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie asked the former vice president whether Burisma, a Ukrainian energy giant, paid Hunter Biden hundreds of thousands of dollars “because that company wanted access to you.”

“Well that’s not true. You’re saying things—you do not know what you’re talking about,” Biden said. “No one’s said that. Who said that? Who said that?

“No one’s found anything wrong with his dealings in Ukraine except they say it sets a bad image,” he added.

“Do you agree that it sets a bad image?” Guthrie said.

“Yeah. And my son said that,” Biden said.

You have to watch the video to get the full effect of how agitated he became. It’s also worth noting that had a Republican treated a “journalist” this way, it’d be front page news and elicit condemnations from the National Press Club. We already saw that happen with Sen. Martha McSally last month.

One thing I noticed is that Biden kept his hands tightly buried in his pockets throughout the exchange. That’s probably a good thing given his penchant to poke and push people who get him riled up. His constant defensiveness on a myriad of issues, including the questions surrounding his actions and Ukraine, paint a picture of a man who’s terrified of what might come out. Even if his son simply put him in a bad position without his knowledge, it’s a terrible, terrible look for voters.


Jesse Kelly

✔@JesseKellyDC


Somewhere in Iowa, Joe Biden is wondering if he cussed out enough voters and supporters to pull out a win.


By tomorrow morning, we’ll have the final votes in Iowa. If Biden ends up a distant afterthought and then goes on to lose New Hampshire as well, things are going to get really dicey for his chances. Nevada follows shortly after and is another caucus state that will favor Bernie Sanders.

A month ago, I’d have said Biden was the nominee. Today, I’m starting to think he’s just biding time. This is a guy who lacks the ability to survive a rigorous campaign. The more you see of him, the more obvious it is that Donald Trump would eat him alive. If he can’t even keep his cool while talking to an ideological ally like Savannah Guthrie, he’s not going to do so when the real bullets start flying

 

I wondering how the Democrats can expect to run a country if they were in the office if they can't even manage counting ballots. I think.

 

Fx

Buttigieg and Sanders leading Iowa Democratic caucuses, as party releases initial results after massive delay​

Read it yourself,
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iowa-democratic-party-caucus-results

 

Pete Buttigieg leading in Iowa? Biden in fourth place WTF?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51380686

Guess I’m a little late on this one.

 

I want to see a Sanders/Trump race in November. Let’s offer a real choice and see what Americans decide.

 

PETE BUTTIGIEG's SEEMINGLY SHREWD GROUND-GAME IN IOWA

[Buttigieg counties in yellow]​

Whether by working his ass off across the state or other factors, where he got traction is interesting!

Across Iowa's northern border with Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar's state, and then along the eastern border at the Mississippi River the quasi-industrial commercial area for Joe Biden-those two regions in particular-Buttigieg got better traction than the other two moderates. Since northern Iowa covers the rural demographic and eastern Iowa the blue collar demographic, it shows how his message had more of a substantive than a glib effect on the voters.

Let's see what the voters in New Hampshire and the AFRO-AMERICAN voters in South Carolina think of it, if Joe Biden continues to have mediocre 4th place finishes.

 

Are a majority of American voters ready for ?

 

What's a Bootigieg?

 

Anyone have thoughts to share about the State of the Union Address last night?