Dead man walking.

wcb6092, can you find some information about former obama/Biden stenographer Mike McCormick? Fox had him on a week back and he's got some skinny on the long time Biden money making deals involving fracking in Ukraine. I am trying to understand how Biden and Obama made big money off this.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...hunter-laptop-story/

An author of the now-debunked public statement from 51 intelligence officials casting doubt on the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story revealed this month to Congress that Antony Blinken, then a senior adviser to the Biden campaign, was the impetus for the statement.

Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell testified to the House Judiciary Committee on April 4 that now-Secretary of State Blinken called him about the laptop story just days after the New York Post published it and that the call “triggered” Morell to draft the statement.

Morell testified in the closed-door interview with the committee that Blinken’s call to Morell was “couched as simply gathering Morrell’s reaction to the Post story” but that “it set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement.”

Blinken, at the time, served as then-candidate Joe Biden’s “closest” foreign policy adviser, according to the New York Times.

Q: But, prior to [Secretary Blinken’s] call, you – you did not have any intent to write this statement?

A: I did not.

Q: Okay. So his call triggered –

A: It did, yes.

Q: – that intent in you?

A: Yes. Absolutely.

Twitter notoriously immediately began blocking users from sharing the story, and Facebook suppressed it as well.

Morell told the Judiciary Committee during his testimony that he also communicated with other Biden campaign officials and that the campaign sought to help coordinate the public dissemination of the statement.

The campaign, for instance, requested the intel officials release the statement through a specific reporter at the Washington Post, according to an email between Morell and another signatory on the statement.

Morell also told the committee his two motives for publishing the statement were to “share our concern with the American people that the Russians were playing on this issue” and to help Biden win the election.

“Based on Morrell’s testimony, it is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story,” the chairmen wrote, charging that the statement served to prevent “American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election.”

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Mortgage industry specialists say homebuyers with credit scores of 680 or higher will pay, for example, about $40 per month more on a home loan of $400,000. Homebuyers who make down payments of 15% to 20% will get socked with the largest fees.

The new fees will apply only to Americans buying houses or refinancing after May 1.

That motherfucker.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

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Originally posted by stoic-one:
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Mortgage industry specialists say homebuyers with credit scores of 680 or higher will pay, for example, about $40 per month more on a home loan of $400,000. Homebuyers who make down payments of 15% to 20% will get socked with the largest fees.

The new fees will apply only to Americans buying houses or refinancing after May 1.

That motherfucker.

So does this mean the millions of illegal invaders flooding into the US are included? We keep hearing that they are “Americans” even if they are nothing more than locusts for the most part.

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Originally posted by David Lee:
wcb6092, can you find some information about former obama/Biden stenographer Mike McCormick? Fox had him on a week back and he's got some skinny on the long time Biden money making deals involving fracking in Ukraine. I am trying to understand how Biden and Obama made big money off this.

Maybe this is what you are looking for:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/...a-malfeasance-office

A former Obama administration staffer is blowing the whistle on the Biden family's business dealings, accusing President Biden of being involved in a "kickback scheme" in connection with his son Hunter's overseas business dealings while he was vice president.

Mike McCormick, a stenographer for the White House for 15 years, told "Fox & Friends First" the FBI has been ignoring his alarms on the matter despite his willingness to testify under oath before the federal grand jury investigating Hunter.

"In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website. If you do that, and you're lying to them, you go to jail. I'm not lying. I'm telling the truth, and I'm not going to jail," McCormick said Thursday. "Joe Biden is a criminal. He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan is a conspirator in that, and there's more... Obama officials involved in it, I believe."

McCormick, who worked with Biden from 2011 to 2017, detailed a key dialogue involving the vice president, aide Jake Sullivan and the press on Air Force Two before a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 21, 2014.

Sullivan, who is the current national security adviser, outlined in a White House transcript Biden's priorities for his trip to the country, which included U.S. investment in the Ukrainian energy sector days after Hunter joined the board of Burisma, according to the New York Post.

Months later, and well after the trip, Congress allocated $50 million to Ukraine's energy market.

More at link

Da fuq is all this about?

Reporters grill Jean-Pierre for dodging Trump questions: Why did you talk about him before?

What is this? They're suddenly worried about the Hatch Act? Or they just don't want to give Donald Trump any exposure?

Everything surrounding this stupid administration and its stupid press secretary is stupid, and that's just stupid.

Fear that Trump will dominate the news at a time when Trump is doing well and Biden is desperately seeking an opportunity to blow everyone away by announcing that he's running again in '24?

Well, this half-wit woman talking about Trump at her useless press conferences is a mere drop in the ocean of Trump talk on the airwaves and in print.

As I said, these stupid people are stupid.

I can't god damn believe this. I bust my butt for 2 decades. Finally in a position to relocate as a way to improve my standard of living. To do that I made all the right decisions, I didn make any risky moves and I keep my credit rating high in order to get low rates. I've been paying down on this house to set myself up for a healthy down payment to reduce my loan. I set my self up to succeed through a lot of sacrifice.

NOW... because I am NOT a risk, I have to pay a penalty?!?!??!?! All of those idiots that over spent their income, couldn't make payments, got foreclosed or repossesed are getting a break!?!!?

We really are encouraging people to be absolutely stupid and useless.

How the hell did this happen and not have anyone know about it until days before it is in place???


https://www.newsweek.com/biden...ky-borrowers-1795700

How did it happen? Socialists are in power. This is a prime example of socialism, plain and simple.

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NOW... because I am NOT a risk, I have to pay a penalty?!?!??!?! All of those idiots that over spent their income, couldn't make payments, got foreclosed or repossesed are getting a break!?!!?

^^^^^^^^^^^
Yep pure socialism,just like forgiving College debt. Until we get a Republican it will not change.

I wonder if there will be a similar backlash (see Bid Lite) in the mortgage and credit industry as people realize that making on time payments or payments at all will cost them money. Therefore hold your cash drive that credit rating down and then purchase without penalty and maybe get a subsidy.

This really is a monumentally stupid decision because now there is absolutely no benefit in having a high credit rating. They're driving us to into idiocracy

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They're driving us to into idiocracy

My wife cannot stand that movie, HOWEVER, I was watching it the other day and she stuck around to watch it with me. She's starting to see the parallel between it and the morons that pass for "people" nowadays. I think she is beginning to understand...

Many from realty industry spoke against this. Did any Republicans work to stop this or were they quiet about all of it?

I just want to thank all of the Karens and Chads that voted for this imbecile vegetable because Trump is a meanie.

Bidens’ corrupt web unraveling before our eyes

https://nypost.com/2023/04/22/...ing-before-our-eyes/

It is said that history turns on small hinges, with the poem “For Want of a Nail” the classic example.

Another example is unfolding before our eyes.

The sudden flurry of evidence and allegations about the Biden family’s money-making schemes is a direct result of the GOP winning control of the House of Representatives last year.

The margin of midterm victory was very small — just five seats — but the impact is very large because the majority comes with subpoena power.

And aggressive new Republican committee leaders are eager and willing to use that power.

After a slow start, they are producing at near-daily pace documentation of serious wrongdoing.

None of this would be happening if Democrats still had control of the House.

The breakthroughs include testimony showing how a group of retired intelligence officials influenced the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, effectively proving the existence of a corrupt Deep State.

There are also claims from an IRS whistleblower that federal law enforcement agencies are giving favored treatment to President Biden’s son in a long-running probe and that Attorney General Merrick Garland lied to Congress about the case.

The implications of these developments are enormous and while there is still much to be learned, it is possible investigators are on the cusp of revealing one of the largest scandals in the history of American politics.

The probers believe the president participated in and profited from the corrupt influence-peddling schemes while he was vice president.

The arrows all point in that direction, with Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, head of the Oversight and Reform panel, producing bank records that show millions of dollars from China being divvied up among as many as nine Biden family members.

In response, the president emerged from hiding to say only, “that’s not true,” without directly refuting the evidence collected by banks and subpoenaed by Congress.

Meanwhile, two Ohio Republicans, Rep. Jim Jordan, head of the Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Mike Turner, head of Intelligence, revealed a former deputy CIA director testified that Tony Blinken, then a Joe Biden campaign adviser and now secretary of state, helped provoke the infamous 2020 letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials.

The witness, Mike Morell, said he helped organize the letter after Blinken called him about The Post’s initial laptop stories and later sent the letter to Blinken because he wanted Biden to win.

The letter falsely suggested the Post stories were a form of Russian disinformation.

It hit the media just three days before the final presidential debate, allowing Biden to cite the letter as proof the laptop stories were false.

Because of the assumed credibility of the 51 signers, the letter, along with blackouts by Big Tech and Big Media of The Post’s scoops, helped save Biden from likely defeat, polls showed.

Linking the letter to the Biden campaign is significant because the president himself had to know the laptop was legitimate because the information on it included photos of him and messages and meetings.

As a Post editorial put it, the laptop was the real thing and the intel “letter was the real disinformation.”

So a Deep State not only exists, it meddled in and tilted a presidential election.

Part of that sinister force involved the many FBI former agents working at Facebook, Twitter and other tech firms, where they helped government officials censor the laptop stories and others that would have damaged Biden.

And Blinken is not the only Biden aide up to his eyeballs in dirty tricks.

Jake Sullivan, the president’s national security adviser, worked for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and helped spread the Big Lie that the infamous Steele dossier was true.

The most recent GOP bombshell involves the IRS whistleblower, who approached Comer and leaders of both parties with claims the IRS and Department of Justice are giving Hunter favored treatment.

By accusing Garland of giving false testimony to Congress, the whistleblower, identified by his lawyer as a “criminal supervisory special agent” who has been overseeing the case for three years, dramatically ups the ante.

Media wake-up call
Comer, citing what he called “the Bidens’ tangled web of complex corporate and financial records,” reacted by saying: “We’ve been wondering all along where the heck the DOJ and the IRS have been. Now it appears the Biden Administration may have been working overtime to prevent the Bidens from facing any consequences.”

The developments are so significant that even the media outlets that usually run a protection racket for Democrats have been forced to start doing their jobs.

All three broadcast networks covered the whistleblower’s claims, as did CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Associated Press.

These are the same outlets that largely ignored the laptop stories in 2020, even as Tony Bobulinski, a former partner of Hunter’s, authenticated key messages on the device, including one that referred to “the big guy” getting a secret 10% cut of a deal with a Chinese energy company.

Bobulinski identified Joe Biden as the secret partner, yet most major media organizations ignored him.

That history and a set of iron-clad double standards that always favor Democrats raise doubts about how aggressive the media handmaidens will be as new disclosures emerge.

The Times, for instance, played the whistleblower story on page 19 in Friday’s paper under the murky headline of “I.R.S. Official Is Said to Claim Political Favoritism in Hunter Biden Investigation.”

By burying the story and using the phrase “Is Said to Claim” in the headline, the editors inject skepticism into a clear, credible accusation.

The Times had the letter to Congress from the whistleblower’s lawyer, Mark Lytle, that explicitly lays out the claims and the whistleblower role in the probe, so it was disingenuous to imply there is any doubt about how specific the charges are.

Consider also that Lytle said the agent went to Congress only after he had already made his complaints within the IRS and to the Department of Justice.

The implication is that he went to Congress because he didn’t believe either agency would act on his information.

For the media, the emerging storylines represent a new chance to cover Biden honestly and accurately.

After years of looking the other way and pretending there was little or nothing to see in the laptop and other evidence, they are going to find it hard to dodge the landslide of incriminating evidence likely to come.

Still, should reporters, editors or producers be confused about whether to report new developments, here is a foolproof guide: They should simply ask themselves what they would write or say if the same set of charges and facts involved another president, say one named Donald Trump.

That should instantly clear up their confusion.

Of course, such media fairness would require a completely new mindset, but America is long overdue for a miracle.

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NOW... because I am NOT a risk, I have to pay a penalty?!?!??!?! All of those idiots that over spent their income, couldn't make payments, got foreclosed or repossesed are getting a break!?!!?

Most voters, in particular moderate or swing voters, are casual followers of the news. This issue has been barely covered, if it all, by the MSM. I do hope that whoever the R nominee is will include this issue in their advertising to educate voters as to what is going on with this issue. This would be a winning issue for the Republicans.

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I can't god damn believe this. I bust my butt for 2 decades. Finally in a position to relocate as a way to improve my standard of living. To do that I made all the right decisions, I didn make any risky moves and I keep my credit rating high in order to get low rates. I've been paying down on this house to set myself up for a healthy down payment to reduce my loan. I set my self up to succeed through a lot of sacrifice.

NOW... because I am NOT a risk, I have to pay a penalty?!?!??!?! All of those idiots that over spent their income, couldn't make payments, got foreclosed or repossesed are getting a break!?!!?

We really are encouraging people to be absolutely stupid and useless.

How the hell did this happen and not have anyone know about it until days before it is in place???


https://www.newsweek.com/biden...ky-borrowers-1795700

Just makes you wonder what’s coming next.

Busted my ass since 1970 and cleaned up my act for all the screwing off I did in high school. Wife and I worked while raising two kids. I. Retirement still working albeit only a couple days a week but still paying taxes.

Had hoped for a small getaway house up north but this is just another “nope” in that hope.

My question was this done by Executive Order or did the FHA just decide to make these changes? From what I’ve found nobody has taken credit for this but I’ve got to be missing something.

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Just makes you wonder what’s coming next.

Going after 401k and/or other savings/investment accounts.