In other words, Time using her as a tool just like the rest of them.

Biden Lies About 'Finding Republican Votes' For Obamacare

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...r-obamacare-n2558008

oe Biden brought his circus of a campaign to Texas on Friday. He didn't do anything super creepy, make some embarrassing gaffe or lose his cool during a question about Burisma. This time he lied.

"We need somebody with a proven ability to bring people together, and do the hard work of getting legislation passed," Biden told a crowd of his supporters. "I've done that," Biden insisted. "I've done that before. Finding Republican votes for the Recovery Act, Obamacare -- helping us from falling into a great depression."

Not a single Republican member of Congress voted for Obamacare, so Joe Biden is lying about "finding Republican votes" for the much-hated legislation. For the record, Republicans did find 34 House Democrats to join with them in voting against Obamacare.

Biden has managed, however, to bring people together when it comes to lingering questions about his son's lucrative salary from a Ukranian energy company while Joe Biden oversaw Ukraine affairs as vice president. Biden's response to his Ukraine scandal has been a mix of finger-waving indignation and personal attacks. When an Iowa voter asked Biden about his son profiting off his father's political career, Biden responded by calling the voter a "damned liar" and making fun of his weight. As of last week, Joe Biden was still unable to explain what his son was doing for the Ukrainian energy company to justify his son's more than $80,000-a-month salary. That kind of money buys you access to the vice president.

The candidate's increasing number of lies, creepy moments and gaffes have also fueled concerns over the candidate's age and fitness for the highest political office in the land. If Biden wins in 2020, he will become the oldest president ever elected in our nation's history.

Biden: Hero Who Stopped Texas Church Shooter Was Wrong To Have A Gun

https://thefederalist.com/2017...h-shooter-wrong-gun/

"The kind of gun being carried he shouldn't be carrying."

During a question and answer session on NBC’s “Today” show, former vice president and rumored presidential 2020 contender Joe Biden said the hero who stopped the Texas church shooter earlier this month should not have been allowed to carry an AR-15.

“With the tragedy that just happened in Texas, how do you justify the Democratic view on gun control when the shooter was stopped by a man who was legally licensed to carry a gun?” a young woman in the audience asked Biden.


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Joe Biden says that the man who stopped the Texas church shooter should not have been armed.

“Well first of all, the kind of gun being carried he shouldn’t be carrying,” Biden said. “I wrote the last serious gun control law . . and it outlawed assault weapons and outlawed weapons with magazines that held a whole lotta bullets so you could kill a lot of people a whole lot more quickly.”

“Assault weapon” is a nonsense term not usable in legislation, since it could apply to any object used to attack another person. An assault rifle generally means a select-fire or automatic rifle with an intermediate cartridge designed for military use. The AR-15 is not an assault rifle, most clearly because it is semiautomatic. Civilians are already banned from owning automatic weapons.

The Texas man who stopped the shooter from killing more people used an AR-15 to confront the alleged murderer, who wore a ballistic vest and was armed with tactical gear and a rifle of equal firepower.

“If I had run out of the house with a pistol and faced a bulletproof vest and kevlar and helmets, it might have been futile,” Stephen Willeford told CRTV in an interview last week. “I ran out with an AR-15 and that’s what he was shooting the place up with.”

Biden apparently doesn’t think guns are useful for self-defense and protecting others, even though police and soldiers can’t stop bad guys without guns, and neither can private citizens. Public records are replete with instances of private citizens enjoying protection against evil when armed.

“It’s just rational to say certain people shouldn’t have guns,” Biden insisted, however. “The fact that some people with guns are legally able to acquire a gun and they turn out to be crazy after the fact, that’s life. There’s nothing you can do about that, but we can save a lot of lives and we’ve stopped tens of thousands of people from getting guns who shouldn’t have guns.”

Keep bangin' that drum, Joe.

wcb, your article needs a link, please.

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wcb, your article needs a link, please.

Got it. Thanks for the reminder.

Biden is one of Bidens greatest admirers.

If I recall correctly the hero who engaged the shooter had to get his AR out of the safe

minor clarification - the article and incident of Stephen Willeford was from Nov 2017.

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“If I had run out of the house with a pistol and faced a bulletproof vest and kevlar and helmets, it might have been futile,” Stephen Willeford told CRTV in an interview last week.

As I recall, that’s exactly what happened in another Texas (?) incident some years ago at a courthouse. An experienced competition shooter engaged the armored killer with a handgun and was killed himself.

(If anyone remembers that as I do and can provide more details or a link to a story, I would appreciate it.)

But to return to Biden, keep this in mind as an example of what a "moderate" Democrat wants to do to our gun rights.

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But to return to Biden, keep this in mind as an example of what a "moderate" Democrat wants to do to our gun rights.

Seems to me, the "moderate" Democrat wants to be able to decide what everyone's rights are in total, not just gun rights. They are authoritarian to the core and will "grant" you your "rights", good and hard, once they are in control.

Latvian government says it flagged ‘suspicious’ Hunter Biden payments in 2016

https://johnsolomonreports.com...en-payments-in-2016/

As the U.S. presidential race began roaring to life in 2016, authorities in the former Soviet republic of Latvia flagged a series of “ suspicious” financial transactions to Hunter Biden and other colleagues at a Ukrainian natural gas company and sought Kiev’s help investigating, according to documents and interviews.

The Feb. 18, 2016 alert to Ukraine came from the Latvian prosecutorial agency responsible for investigating money laundering, and it specifically questioned whether Vice President Joe Biden’s younger son and three other officials at Burisma Holdings were the potential beneficiaries of suspect funds.

“The Office for Prevention of Laundering of Proceeds Derived from Criminal Activity … is currently investigating suspicious activity of Burisma Holdings Limited,” the Latvian agency also known as the FIU wrote Ukraine’s financial authorities.

The memo was released to me by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office and confirmed by the Latvian embassy to the United States.

Latvian authorities said they did not get any incriminating information back from Ukraine to warrant further investigation and did not take additional action in 2016.

But the memo adds to the mounting evidence that there was ongoing investigative activity surrounding Burisma Holdings and Hunter Biden’s compensation as a board member in the weeks just before Joe Biden forced the firing of the Ukraine prosecutor overseeing the Burisma investigation in spring 2016.

The Latvian law enforcement memo identified a series of loan payments totaling about $16.6 million that were routed from companies in Beliz and the United Kingdom to Burisma through Ukraine’s PrivatBank between 2012 and 2015.

The flagged funds were “partially transferred” to Hunter Biden, a board member at Burisma since May 2014, and three other officials working for the Ukrainian natural gas company, the Latvian memo said.

The letter asked Ukrainian officials for any evidence about whether the funds were involved in corruption and whether Ukrainian officials were investigating Burisma and the recipients of the money.

“On the grounds of possible legalization of proceeds derived from criminal activity and corruption, please grant us permission to share the information included in the reply to this request with Latvian law enforcement entities for intelligence purposes only,” the letter said.

Arturs Saburovs, the Third Secretary at the Latvian embassy in Washington, confirmed his country flagged the transactions in February 2016 after seeing public reports that Burisma was under investigation in Ukraine and that Hunter Biden served on the company’s board. He said Latvia did not receive any evidence back from Ukraine to further its investigation.

“The Latvian FIU (Financial Intelligence Unit) is the institution which receives, processes, and analyses reports on banking transactions as well as conducts information exchange with foreign FIUs,” he explained. “If a matter comes to public attention as it did here, the FIU processes that information.

“In this case, the Latvian FIU reached out to its Ukrainian counterpart seeking additional clarifications,” he added. “Information was received, yet no incriminatory evidence for further analysis was provided by the Ukrainian authorities.”

Saburovs said authorities in his country could find no evidence they flagged the same transactions to U.S. authorities even though Hunter Biden and two others named in the letter were Americans and the U.S. firm, Rosemont Seneca Bohais that was connected to Hunter Biden, routinely received monthly payments totaling more than $166,600 from Burisma.

“We do not possess such information,” he said when asked about contacts with U.S. officials.

A lawyer for Hunter Biden and Joe Biden’s campaign did not respond to requests Monday seeking comment.

The Latvian correspondence adds to a growing body of evidence that questions and investigations of Burisma were swirling in early 2016 just before Joe Biden used his authority as vice president to force the firing of Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in March 2016 by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid.

Shokin was overseeing a wide-ranging Ukrainian investigation of Burisma and has said he was making plans to interview Hunter Biden when he was fired by Ukraine’s president and parliament in March 2016 under pressure from Joe Biden.

Biden and his defenders have said he forced the firing of Shokin because the Ukraine prosecutor was an ineffective corruption fighter; Shokin alleges he was dismissed because he wouldn’t end the Burisma probe.

The Biden family has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, with Jill Biden offering the latest defense of her son this past weekend. “I know my son. I know my son’s character. Hunter did nothing wrong. And that’s the bottom line,” she told MSNBC.

But recently, multiple State Department witnesses testified during the impeachment hearings against President Trump that Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma while his father oversaw U.S.-Ukraine policy as vice president created the appearance of a conflict of interest. One testified e even blocked a project with Burisma because State was concerned about allegations of corruption.

When I first divulged Joe Biden’s role in Shokin’s firing last year, Democrats and their allies in the media and Ukrainian civil society organizations claimed it was no big deal because the Burisma investigation in Ukraine was dormant at the time Biden took action.

But since that time, significant evidence has emerged that the investigation was, in fact, active and that Burisma itself had concerns about the corruption allegations swirling around it.

For instance, Ukrainian prosecutors confirmed in December 2015 they transferred their investigative files to detectives at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine to pursue several leads.

On Feb. 2, 2016, the Ukraine prosecutor general’s office secured a court order to re-seize the assets of Burisma Holdings founder Mykola Zlochevsky. Officers went to the home, placed seizure notices and took items from the home that included a luxury car, officials said.

About two weeks later, the Latvian suspicious financial transactions memo was transmitted to Ukrainian authorities.

And then in late February, according to U.S. documents recently released under the Freedom of Information Act, Burisma’s American representatives pressed the U.S. State Department to try to help end the corruption allegations against the company. You can read those documents here.

By mid-March 2016, State’s top official for Ukraine policy publicly called for Shokin’s ouster, and less than three weeks later Joe Biden managed to force Ukraine’s president to fire Shokin by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees.

Almost immediately, Burisma’s American legal team was in Ukraine seeking to meet with Shokin’s replacement at the Ukraine prosecutor general’s office.

A summary of an April 6, 2016 meeting between Burisma representatives and Ukraine prosecutors – released by the Prosecutor General’s Office – states “false information” was used to justify Shokin’s firing.

Whatever the case, the corruption investigations were dropped in late 2016 and early 2017, and Burisma paid a penalty for tax issues.

But early in 2019, NABU and the Ukraine prosecutor general’s office announced they were reopening the investigation into Burisma, specifically to revisit the allegations about money laundering, according to the notice of suspicion released by prosecutors in that country. You can read NABU’s request to reopen the probe here.

That probe is ongoing and recently was expanded to look at other issues. And the entire Burisma episode is now part of the larger impeachment proceedings playing out in America against President Donald Trump.

Joe just wows himself sometimes.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...for-greener-economy/

Biden was questioned by moderator Tim Alberta during the PBS/Politico Democrat Presidential debate on Thursday about his clean energy proposals.

“As President, would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands or hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers in the interest of transitioning to the greener economy?” Alberta asked.

The answer is yes,” Biden said. “The answer is yes because the opportunity for those workers to transition to high paying jobs is real.”

Biden argued that the government could invest dramatically in making homes more energy-efficient and produce batteries to store energy.

Biden said that Washington would have to explain to workers losing their jobs about the transition.

“We have to make sure that we explain it to those people who are displaced that their skills are going to be needed for the new opportunities,” he said.

^^^Wow. What an idiot. That guarantees Biden won't win Pennsylvania. And most likely all of the rust belt as well. Who the hell is coaching this buffoon?

‘Burisma is hiring’: Cruz mocks Biden for saying he’d cut thousands of jobs to fight climate change

https://www.washingtonexaminer...fight-climate-change

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ripped Joe Biden after he claimed that he would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of jobs to fight climate change.

During the PBS/Politico primary debate on Thursday, Biden, 77, said he would be willing to cut hundreds of thousands of jobs in the natural gas and oil industries to combat climate change.

"The answer is yes," Biden said. "We should, in fact, be making sure right now that every new building built is energy contained, that it doesn’t leak energy, that in fact, we should be providing tax credits for people to be able to make their homes turn to solar power. They’re all kinds of folks — right here in California, we're now on the verge of having batteries that are about the size of the top of this podium that you can store energy when, in fact, the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. We have enormous opportunities."

Cruz, 48, was disgusted by Biden’s answer. In a tweet, the senator trashed Biden for being willing to kill hundreds of thousands of American jobs in the natural gas industry while his son, Hunter Biden, raked in piles of money while working for the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma.

“Silly workers. They shouldn’t be concerned. Burisma is hiring,” Cruz wrote.

Burisma forked over $50,000 per month to Hunter Biden while his father was leading diplomatic efforts in the region while working under President Barack Obama. The younger Biden had no experience in the energy sector and had recently been cut by the Navy over his drug abuse issues, but Burisma added him to the company’s board.

Cruz has criticized the former vice president over his son’s position at Burisma, saying, “The reason Hunter Biden got that position is because his daddy was vice president of the United States.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...g-embarrass-him.html

Hunter Biden complains his stripper baby mama is trying to 'embarrass' him because he is Joe's son by demanding details of his cash from Ukraine during bitter paternity dispute

Hunter Biden grumbled about having his financial information 'open to the world's media' and not being available on the night before Christmas Eve for a deposition in his paternity case, according to newly unsealed court papers obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.

Biden is embroiled in a high profile legal battle with his stripper baby mama Lunden Roberts, who filed papers in May saying Biden is the father of her 16-month-old child. A DNA test from last month proved Biden to be the father of the unnamed toddler.

Roberts, 28, is seeking child support from Biden, 49, and is demanding for him to turn over his financial details so the court can establish how much he should pay.

Biden has been trying to keep the case under wraps but an Independence County, Arkansas judge ruled on Thursday to unseal Biden's filing from last week, saying he didn't consider it to contain confidential information.

It reveals Biden's legal team had tried to use Biden's famous dad Joe to get the deposition sealed, arguing that information that came from his deposition scheduled for December 23 could 'unreasonably annoy, embarrass or oppress' Hunter - and his family.

His lawyers went a step further and asked the judge to quash the deposition, saying by handing over an affidavit of his financial means should provide Roberts with 'all relevant information for any argument of temporary child support.'

On Wednesday, Roberts accused Biden of refusing to hand over his financial records and demanded him to turn over all documents pertaining to his accounts from the past five years.

She filed papers asking the court to compel him to turn over the records.

The two met while Roberts worked as a stripper at Mpire in Washington D.C. She gave birth to their child last August.

She wants Biden's financial records to establish how much he should pay in child support, as well as proving he can afford to foot her $11k legal bill.

Roberts' lawyers said in legal papers that Biden has objected to answering any of their discovery questions, which included confirming the state in which he lives, his phone number and if he worked for Ukrainian oil company Burisma.

Her lawyers said: 'It should, by now, be abundantly clear to the Court that the defendant is not going to answer or provide any of his discoverable financial information unless the Court forces him to do so.

'The defendant has provided no support for this child for over a year .

'The Court should not let the defendant continue to avoid his natural and legal duty to support his child by failing to provide basic information about his income, finances and lifestyle.

'This Court should compel the defendant to answer the interrogatories and requests for production documents in time for the January 7, 2020 hearing in this case.'

Shoulda kept it in your pants, man. You've only yourself to blame.

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The Biden’s don’t want their financial dealings made public but the left demands the same thing done with Trump’s tax returns...typical leftist hypocrisy. I cannot wait for what is found with Daddy’s fingerprints on it.

Hunter Biden allegedly linked to multiple criminal probes

https://nypost.com/2019/12/23/...ple-criminal-probes/

Hunter Biden is the subject of multiple criminal investigations related to “fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme,” it’s claimed in court documents filed Monday in his Arkansas paternity case.

The claims were put forward by a Florida-based private-eye firm, D&A Investigations, in Biden’s ongoing case against alleged baby mama Lunden Alexis Roberts, a former Washington, DC, stripper who went by “Dallas.”

Soon after the claims were filed, a judge struck the allegations down because they were filed by an “intervener,” according to court papers.

Biden filed a motion to strike down the claims, arguing “the notice is filed by a non-party simply to make scandalous allegations in the pending suit to gain some media attention.”

Biden, 49, “is the subject of more than one criminal investigation involving fraud, money laundering and a counterfeiting scheme,” the filing alleges.

One of those purported investigations relates to Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company with which Biden held a lucrative board post while his father, Joe, was vice president — drawing allegations of impropriety from Republicans including President Trump.

Biden and a group of business associates “established bank and financial accounts with Morgan Stanley … for Burisma Holdings Limited … for the money laundering scheme,” D&A claims, further alleging that the accounts showed an average account value of nearly $6.8 million between March 2014 and December 2015.

Biden and the others — including Devon Archer, John Galanis and Bevan Cooney — allegedly “utilized a counterfeiting scheme to conceal the Morgan Stanley et al Average Account Value,” D&A claims in the papers filed at the Circuit Court of Independence County, Arkansas.
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The filing additionally alleges that Biden had a hand in a plot including Galanis, Cooney and Archer to rip off Sioux Native Americans to the tune of $60 million through the shady sale of tribal bonds.

Galanis, Archer and Cooney were found guilty for their roles in June 2018, following a lengthy trial in Manhattan federal court. In November, Archer’s conviction was overturned by a Manhattan federal judge.

Biden “did drum up business for the scheme,” D&A claims in its filing, without elaborating.

The three-page document does not name the agencies behind the purported criminal probes of Biden in either case.

Lawyers for Biden and Roberts did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Reached by phone, Dominic Casey, the D&A investigator who filed the papers, refused to say whether his group had been retained by Roberts, or sent the information to the court of its own volition.

He also declined to elaborate on the claims laid out in the papers, repeatedly saying, “I believe this is self-explanatory.”