‘I Think We’re Done Here’: Jen Psaki Snaps After Hunter Biden Laptop Question, Shuts Down Reporter

https://beckernews.com/i-think...down-reporter-44426/



“Thanks, Jen. I’ve got a quick clarification and two questions about presidential conflicts of interest in foreign affairs,” the reporter asked.

“The first brief clarification is: The New York Times reported this week that the First Son remains under criminal investigation,” he asked. “Does the President still intend to stay out of that case?”

“Yes. It’s the Department of Justice, and I would point you to them,” she responded.

“And my two questions about conflicts of interest in foreign affairs,” he continued. “First, I have a question about Russia and then one about China.”

“On Russia: You told me last year that you were unfamiliar with the Senate report that alleged that the First Son — or a company linked to the First Son received $3.5 million from the richest woman in Russia,” he said.

“Subsequent reporting indicates that President Biden, when he was Vice President, had a dinner in Georgetown with the same woman in 2015,” he added. “This — Yelena Baturina, she has not been sanctioned yet by the U.S. government. How is President Biden navigating conflicts of interest when it comes to sanctioning people who have done business with his family? And can you explain to us what this $3.5 million was for?”

“I don’t have any confirmation of the accuracy of that report, so I have no more further details,” she retorted.

“Can you say anything about the conflicts of interest, though — how he’s navigating those when deciding sanctions?” he asked.

“What would be his conflicts of interest?” she asked back.

“Well, his son’s company allegedly got $3.5 million from —”

“He — which I have no confirmation of,” Psaki replied. “And he has continued to sanction oligarchs more than we’ve ever sanctioned in the past. I’m not sure that’s a conflict of interest, though.”

“But she hasn’t been sanctioned, though.”

“Go ahead,” she said and looked away. “Thank you go ahead.”

“She hasn’t been sanctioned, though. She has —”

“I have a question about Russia now. My –”

“Thank you,” she said. “Go ahead.”

“I think we’re moving on because we got to get to more people,” she said. “Go ahead,” she added to the reporter.

“My question about the conflict of interests when it comes to China is: Last year, the First Son’s attorney said that he divested from a Chinese investment fund controlled by Chinese state-owned entities,” the reporter asked. “We have received not even basic transparency about who bought out his stake, when this happened, and how much money changed hands. Did he actually divest? And if so, can you agree to basic transparency?”

“He’s a private citizen,” she snapped. “He doesn’t work for the government. I’d point you to his representatives. ”

“Thank you,” she added.

“But there’s a blaring conflict of interest for his father’s role as President, dealing with China,” he noted.

“I think we’re done here,” she said.

This week, the New York Times provided further confirmation that the U.S. media, the Intelligence Community, and Joe Biden himself lied when they denied the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop and called it probable ‘Russian disinformation.’

“Last year, prosecutors interviewed Mr. Archer and subpoenaed him for documents and grand jury testimony, the people said. Mr. Archer, who was sentenced last month in an unrelated securities fraud case in which a decision to set aside his conviction was reversed, had served with Mr. Biden on Burisma’s board, starting in 2014,” the Times reported.

“People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity,” the report added. “Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.”

“In some of the emails, Mr. Biden displayed a familiarity with FARA, and a desire to avoid triggering it,” the report noted.

The Hunter Biden laptop has become a national security nightmare for the Biden administration and the American people. This news comes at a time when events in Russia, Ukraine, and China have become major foreign threats. The question now: How much did Joe know about his son’s shady business deals and who is the “Big Guy” who got ten percent?

Jen Psaki is wise not to want to shoot straight on such questions. The ugly truth is obviously not something she believes the American people can handle.

Michael Bloomberg worth $ 82 billion

From Bloomberg Opinion:

Inflation stings most if you earn less than $300K. Here's how to deal:

Take the bus
Don’t buy in bulk
Try lentils instead of meat
Nobody said this would be fun

thanks mike. this is about as good as your gun control advice

More Americans than ever expect their finances to worsen as inflation hits a 40-year high. Do you really need that extra car?

If your income is more than $289,000 a year, the run-up in gas prices may be alarming — but it's unlikely to hammer your overall finances. After all, Americans at that level spend no more than 1% of their take-home pay on gas and oil, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

For those earning much less, it’s a different story. Those at the median, with income of about $50,000, spend more than 3% of it on gas and motor oil.

Low-income households making between $7,000 and $19,000 spend about 9%.


and special thanks to the dipshits that voted for biden

The latest inflation numbers show gas prices jumped 6.6% in February from a month earlier — even before President Joe Biden banned U.S. imports of Russian oil.

https://twitter.com/bopinion/s...erg-opinion-n2604772

Mitch McConnell was interviewed about his interview w Supreme Court candidate Ketanji Brown Jackson.

McConnell expressed concern that she refused to say if she supports packing the Supreme Court by expanding the number of justices.

I tell ya', this broad sounds like a real piece of work. I hope the Republicans oppose her with everything they have.

Absolutely. And get her to share her (likely progressive) views about coal and fossil fuels to piss off Joe Manchin....

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
I tell ya', this broad sounds like a real piece of work. I hope the Republicans oppose her with everything they have.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
I tell ya', this broad sounds like a real piece of work. I hope the Republicans oppose her with everything they have.

Thanks Balze, I needed a good laugh today. Repub's aggressively oppose this loser....not a chance given they'd have do deal with the Dem filth attacking them as racist, and they're far too cowardly to deal with that. I see them squawking a little here or there to try and placate a few constituencies then rubber stamping this woman giving Biden his win on this matter.

When Joe's meeting with world leaders, I wonder if his handlers have him wear an earpiece, so they can tell him what they want him to say. They don't actually let this simple sack of s--t go out without adult supervision, do they?

What is both amazing and terrifying is that these people are telling us right out in the open that they are instituting a liberal global world order, and obviously have no intention to hide it anymore.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
What is both amazing and terrifying is that these people are telling us right out in the open that they are instituting a liberal global world order, and obviously have no intention to hide it anymore.

What they're doing behind our backs is probably beyond our imaginations.

quote:

They don't actually let this simple sack of s--t go out without adult supervision, do they?

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They tell him to repeat the Amtrak story. Later to impress them he talks of how he faced down Corn Pop. Then he asks for ice cream and to smell their hair.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

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They don't actually let this simple sack of s--t go out without adult supervision, do they?

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They tell him to repeat the Amtrak story. Later to impress them he talks of how he faced down Corn Pop. Then he asks for ice cream and to smell their hair.

And to bring up Beau, and finish off by saying "God bless our troops".

SEN. BLACKBURN: "Can you provide a definition of the word 'woman'?"

Ketanji Brown JACKSON: "No, I can't"

BLACKBURN: "You can't?"

JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist"

Is the Biden administration getting tough on immigration? Allowing CBP to screen out some that don't have legal asylum claims? What would happen if Trump tried the same thing? They would be burning and looting shit right now.

Biden administration to allow immigration officers, not just judges, to decide asylum cases

biden attacks Donald Trump in Brussels, Belgium. what a POS biden is

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...hoax-at-nato-summit/

biden:

"I made the commitment, when I ran this time, I wasn’t going to run again, and I mean that sincerely, I had no intention of running for president again, until I saw those folks coming out of the fields in Virginia carrying torches and carrying Nazi banners, and literally singing the same vile rhyme they used in Germany in the early twenties, or thirties I should say, and then the gentleman you mentioned [Trump] was asked what he thought and a young woman was killed, a protester, and he was asked what he thought, he said there were “very good people”‘ on both sides. And that’s when I decided I wasn’t going to be quiet any longer."

As Breitbart News and others, notably cartoonist Scott Adams and political commentator Steve Cortes, have demonstrated for years, President Trump said he condemned the neo-Nazis “totally.“ When Trump used the term “very fine people,“ he was referring explicitly to peaceful protesters on either side of a dispute about the removal of a local confederate statue.

The transcript of Trump’s remarks is clear: he said that when he referred to “very fine people,” he was talking about peaceful protesters, and “not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.”

Trump also specifically condemned the murder of protester Heather Heyer, saying it was potentially “terrorism.”

The Charlottesville “very fine people hoax” was shattered in full public view last year when former President Trump’s defense lawyers exposed it as a fraud during Trump’s second impeachment trial.

Trump is like a girlfriend that the Dems just can't get over...

Biden at the NATO conference in Belgium.

this post will be called "biden - the lying idiot"

video 1 at:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1507053303779282950

"Let's get something straight ..."

video 2 at:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1507060079882870797

Everyone else says the opposite

4 Big Takeaways From The New York Times’s Attempt To Control The Hunter Biden Narrative

https://thefederalist.com/2022...ter-biden-narrative/

A closer look at The New York Times’ reporting on Hunter Biden shows Biden’s team may be laying the groundwork ahead of an even bigger story.

Last Wednesday, The New York Times reported on the continuing criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, and in doing so finally acknowledged the emails recovered from the laptop abandoned at a Delaware repair shop were authentic. Since then, much of the media’s coverage has focused on the corrupt press’ burying of the laptop scandal The New York Post broke shortly before the 2020 election.

There is much more to be gleaned from the Times’s article, though, including these four takeaways.

1. If the Laptop Is Legit, So Are the Scandals the Laptop Exposed
The first key takeaway from The New York Times article concerns what it means for the scandals spawned by the October 2020 release of the emails and text messages contained on Hunter Biden’s MacBook. The supposed standard-bearers of journalism ignored those scandals for the last year-and-a-half by framing the material “Russian disinformation.”

Now that the Times has acknowledged that the Biden-related emails and other documents recovered from the abandoned laptop are authentic, that means the scandals they exposed are also legitimate. As summarized at The Federalist here, there are eight Joe Biden scandals that deserve investigation.

2. The Times’s Record of ‘Getting Ahead of the Story’ Suggests More Developments Are Coming
Beyond what Wednesday’s article on Hunter Biden means more broadly related to the scandals exposed by the abandoned MacBook, the substance of the Times’s coverage suggests a huge story about the president’s son is about to break. Here, it is helpful to remember that the Times is the newspaper of record for stories needed to soften the landing for Democrats embroiled in scandal. In this case, the tells are all there that the Times is offering an assist to the Bidens by getting ahead of the story to come.

Just as Press Secretary Jen Psaki smooths her copper coif before dropping a doozy, the Times alerts observant readers to the real story when it identifies its source for information harmful to a Democrat as a “person familiar with the investigation.” The Times used that technique ten times in its coverage of the Hunter Biden case.

Another sure give-away is the Times’s burying of the lede. That is an understatement of what the Old Grey Lady did when it titled its coverage of the investigation into Hunter Biden as “Hunter Biden Paid Tax Bill, but Broad Federal Investigation Continues.” The article then opened with:

In the year after he disclosed a federal investigation into his ‘tax affairs’ in late 2020, President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, paid off a significant tax liability, even as a grand jury continued to gather evidence in a wide-ranging examination of his international business dealings, according to people familiar with the case.

With a proper title, such as, “Prosecutors Find Evidence Hunter Profited by Selling Access to Vice-President Father,” serious reporting would open by alerting the audience to damning evidence accumulated by federal prosecutors that suggests Hunter Biden criminally profited from his dad’s position as Barack Obama’s vice president.

The Times’s tactic of preemptively providing defenses to hypothetical criminal charges should also alert readers to the inevitability of an indictment against Hunter. For more on the preemptive defense of Hunter see point 4 below.

3. Prosecutors are Investigating Some Serious Stuff
So, what might those inevitable charges be? Of course, it is impossible to know for sure unless and until an indictment drops, but it is inconceivable that the Times would air the Biden family’s dirty laundry unless the reporters believed the entire household hamper was soon to be dumped in the middle of town.

Revisiting the Times’s article from last week, then, with the premise that the reporting seeks to “get ahead of the story,” suggests federal prosecutors may have some serious charges in mind for the president’s son. Tax evasion seems the most likely charge Hunter will face, given that the Times reported that the president’s son paid more than $1 million in tax liability while spinning any such criminal offense as Hunter’s mere “failure to pay all his taxes.”

A second charge floated by the Times concerns violations of “the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, which requires disclosure to the Justice Department of lobbying or public relations assistance on behalf of foreign clients.” Here, the Times’ efforts to frame Hunter’s potential violations of FARA as unintentional — and thus not criminal — suggests the Delaware U.S. attorney has a solid FARA case in the works.

The Times’s coverage, however, indicates federal prosecutors are looking at much more serious charges related to payments Hunter Biden received from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, as well his financial interests in Kazakhstan and China. Publicly available evidence already suggests Hunter Biden profited from these, and potentially other foreign interests, by selling access to his father when the elder Biden was vice president, which the Times casts as possibly allowing for a “money laundering” charge against Hunter.

In last week’s article, the Times reveals that prosecutors have accumulated significantly more evidence suggesting Hunter profited from these relationships, with prosecutors allegedly investigating “payments and gifts Mr. Biden or his associates had received from foreign interests, including a vehicle paid for using funds from a company associated with a Kazakh oligarch and a diamond from a Chinese energy tycoon.” The Times also reported that prosecutors have “sought documents related to corporate entities through which Mr. Biden and his associates conducted business with interests around the world.”

The Times further revealed that federal prosecutors have “issued scores of subpoenas,” related to “Hunter Biden’s foreign work and for bank accounts linked to him and his associates.” They even traveled to Little Rock, Arkansas, according to The Times, to interview Ms. Lunden Alexis Roberts, who sued Hunter for paternity payments, questioning her about Hunter’s business dealings. As for the emails recovered from the abandoned MacBook, federal investigators have authenticated those as well.

All of these details the Times reported in its article purportedly focused on the tax case against Hunter Biden. Other than the details confirmed by Roberts’s lawyer, the information came principally from “people familiar with the investigation,” which means one of two things: someone with the prosecutor’s office talked, or someone connected with Hunter Biden did.

History provides a pretty good hint of the answer — and its reason: Hunter Biden’s team likely gave the Times the heads-up to the case being crafted against the president’s son to allow the liberal mainstay to massage a narrative before any potential charges became public. Given the details shared with the Times by people familiar with the investigation, then regurgitated by the Times for the public, it seems some pretty serious charges may be in store for Hunter.

4. Downplay the Charges, Build the Narrative, and Beta-Test the Defenses
As noted above, the Times’ preemptive countering of several hypothetical criminal charges indicates the leftist paper’s coverage of the Hunter Biden case seeks not to inform the public but to form a gentle narrative on which the president’s son can land when the expected indictment drops. Here it is not merely the many defenses the Times lays out, but the entirety of the article that also downplays the potential charges and paints the most sympathetic scenario possible for Hunter Biden.

Consider, for instance, the Times’s framing of Hunter Biden and his apparent pay-to-play scheme. “Hunter Biden is a Yale-educated lawyer,” the article notes early on, claiming that the “broader investigation” stems “from work he did around the world” that “intersected with his father’s public service.”

It seems unlikely, though, that prosecutors are investigating “work” Hunter Biden did around the world, although not as unlikely as the claim that President Biden’s lifelong political career parlayed to his family’s financial advantage is “public service.”

The Times also succeeded in presenting the Hunter Biden-Burisma scandal as one really about Trump, writing: “Hunter Biden’s work for Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company, became a flashpoint in his father’s race in 2020 against President Donald J. Trump and helped set off the events that led to Mr. Trump’s first impeachment.”

Apparently, the Times will need another year or two before it can also acknowledge Donald Trump’s concern about Biden family corruption in Ukrainian was legitimate and that Trump’s impeachment was pure politics.

Then there was the Times’s reference to Hunter’s “serious drug addiction and other problems during the period” the potentially illegal conduct took place. Add to those facts that Hunter was also “dealing with the illness and death of his brother Beau,” and the Times seems to suggest these sad circumstances mitigate the seriousness of any forthcoming charges.

The remainder of the article presents various counters to the charges, such as that Hunter repaid the back taxes by taking out a loan — oh, the horror. The Times then pretends paying the government back lessens the import of a tax evasion case.

On a potential FARA charge, the Times suggests Hunter attempted to comply with the law and that any violation was unintentional, meaning at best he should be held only civilly responsible. And on the most serious charge floated by the Times, money laundering, the paper presents that case as connected to the FARA charge, suggesting it would be inappropriate to charge the president’s son with money laundering if he is innocent of violating FARA.

Until the Delaware U.S. attorney announces charges, if any, against Hunter Biden, it is impossible to know the criminal jeopardy the president’s son may face. But, given that when the Times reports on stories harmful to Democratic interests it proves prescient, odds are good that some serious charges are in the works.

In other unrelated news, the top 700 richest Americans will soon be moving out of the US and renouncing their citizenship…

His handlers are really doubling down these days, I’ll bet they sense he’s not long for this world and will be trying to cram as much bullshit in while they can:

Biden goes after billionaires: President plans to unveil a new 20% 'minimum tax' on 700 super-rich Americans that could see Elon Musk paying up to $24b year on his 'unrealized gains‘