^^^^ I wonder how many appeals will be launched on this

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Are democRATs so devoid of honesty that they don’t care that the country’s freedoms are being dismantled as long as “their” side wins? Do they really think they will be protected from adverse government interference in their lives because they vote democRAT? Are they really that ignorant or do they recognize the very real danger to democracy and say nothing out of fear?

There are two types of people in this world:
1. Those who want to be left alone (free).
2. Those who want to be taken care of.

3. OK, there's a third type: Those who want to control us.

Those who want to control us take advantage of those who want to be taken care of. They promise to take care of them. They are easy marks. They mostly vote Democrat.

Those who want to control us won't leave the rest of us alone.

Yes, we seek to defend the freedoms of all, but those who want to be taken care of don't really value freedom. They just want to be provided with some minimal level of subsistence. Of course, they will always complain that it is not enough and that it isn't fair that someone else has more. The Democrats promise them more.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ar-fundraiser-report

President Biden reportedly shocked a group of U.S. officials after openly discussing sensitive information regarding the Chinese spy balloon with a room full of donors.

On Tuesday, the president told about 130 guests at a fundraiser in California that Chinese President Xi Jinping was embarrassed after the U.S. shot down the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina in February.

"The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it is he didn’t know it was there," Biden reportedly said at a private Kentfield home on Tuesday. "No, I’m serious. That’s a great embarrassment for dictators when they didn’t know what happened."

U.S. officials in attendance were surprised by the president's remarks at a campaign event, according to the New York Times, which reported that an anonymous source confirmed Biden's comments were accurate.

The president also referred to Xi as a dictator during the event, prompting anger from Chinese officials.

When asked about Biden's decision to discuss the sensitive information at a big-dollar fundraiser, the Pentagon referred Fox News Digital to the White House, which has yet to return comment.

Biden's 2024 campaign also did not respond when asked if a campaign event was an appropriate setting to share information that does not appear to have been publicly released by the intelligence community.

Hunter Biden was 'with Joe when demanding cash from Chinese associate':

IRS whistleblowers reveal DOJ refused to charge president's son TWICE and he failed to pay tax on $8.3M in bombshell testimony to Republicans

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...stleblower-says.html

The powerful House Ways and Means Committee released bombshell new whistleblower testimony claiming that Hunter Biden failed to pay taxes on $8.3 million in income and the Department of Justice denied attempts to bring charges in other states.

The testimony revealed that U.S. Attorney David Weiss - the Trump-era holdover who prosecuted the case against Hunter Biden - allegedly asked for special counsel status and was denied by the Department of Justice.

Weiss also allegedly tried to bring charges against Hunter in Washington D.C. and California in the fall of 2022 and had that request denied in January 2023.

But Weiss said in a letter to lawmakers earlier this month the DOJ granted him 'ultimate authority' on when and where to bring charges.

Attorney General Merrick Garland just Wednesday vouched for Weiss, saying he had given him 'full authority' to decide how to handle the situation. 'And that’s what he’s done,' Garland said.

The unverified testimony came from two IRS whistleblowers as news broke this week that Hunter Biden had agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax offenses while dispensing with a gun charge against him, likely allowing him to avoid prison time.

Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., revealed in a press conference that two IRS employees had claimed that the agency sought felony charges against Hunter Biden for attempting to evade taxes and making false statements.

According to Smith the whistleblowers said Hunter failed to pay $2.2 million in taxes on $8.3 million in income from foreign entities in Ukraine, China, and Romania.

Smith said the testimony also shows the DOJ sought to 'delay the investigation long enough to reach the statute of limitations' and 'divulged sensitive actions by the investigative team to Biden's attorneys.'

In one example whistleblower testimony claimed that the IRS was going to search a storage unit in Virginia belonging to Hunter Biden but tipped off his lawyers before doing so.

In one revelation a July 2017 text message from Hunter Biden to Chinese business partner Henry Zhao the president's son invoked his father to threaten Zhao for payment.

'I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,' the text message read.

'And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.'

According to Smith, the whistleblowers claimed the DOJ dragged its feet in authenticating the message. They had obtained it in August 2020 after getting the results back from an iCloud search warrant.

'The messages included material we clearly needed to follow up on,' whistleblower testimony said.

In the lead-up to the 2020 election, the IRS had 'prepared for when we could go overt' by obtaining further leads in the case.

The testimony also revealed that the investigation into Hunter Biden, code name Sportsman, was first opened in November 2018 as an offshoot of an investigation the IRS was conducting into a foreign-based amateur online pornography platform.

According to 'whistleblower 1,' believed to be former IRS agent Gary Shapley, one point it became clear to the IRS that they needed to search the guest house of Joe Biden where Hunter had been living for a time.

'Assistant United States Attorney, Lesley Wolf, told us there was more than enough probable cause for the physical search warrant there, but the question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze,' the whistleblower said.

According to his testimony, the whistleblower chafed at restrictions and limitations being imposed by DOJ as part of its internal policies on probes that might interfere with an election – although he happened that many of the interactions took place months before the November 2020 elections.

He complained to IRS leadership in June 2020 that 'DOJ Tax has made a concerned effort to drag their feet concerning conducting search warrants and interviewing key witnesses in an effort to push those actions to a time frime where they can invoke the Department of Justice rule of thumb concerning affecting elections.'

Then-President Donald Trump's election overturn effort stalled things further.

'Because the 2020 election was contested, our original plan to go overt on or around November 17th was delayed. DOJ pushed back against the day of action date because they did not want to approach Hunter Biden while he was in Delaware, potentially collocated with President Biden,' he told lawmakers.

Then, the whistleblower said, his team began preparing for a 'day of action' on December 8, 2020, with document requests and a dozen interviews, while seeking a search of Hunter Biden's residence, which he called a 'Hail Mary' idea.

The whistleblower wanted to question Hunter Biden associate Rob Walker about information from the infamous laptop, including an email that said 'Ten held by H for the big guy,' bus said the assistant U.S. Attorney in Delaware said there was no specific criminality to the line of questioning.

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Originally posted by sdy:
https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ar-fundraiser-report

President Biden reportedly shocked a group of U.S. officials after openly discussing sensitive information regarding the Chinese spy balloon with a room full of donors.....

I would laugh my butt off if this could be used in any way to help President Trump with his current sham charges. It would appear to me that either Brandon divulged classified information, or he declassified it as President's are ultimately entitled to do. So did he declassify it in his head? Or who did he notify that he declassified the information?

I know I am dreaming, but would serve that old turd right if it would help President Trump.

Edit to add: maybe was just "sensitive" info, but would be karma if it was classified in some way. Again, just playing "what if" scenarios.

from 2 posts above:

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In one revelation a July 2017 text message from Hunter Biden to Chinese business partner Henry Zhao the president's son invoked his father to threaten Zhao for payment.

'I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,' the text message read.

'And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.'

According to Smith, the whistleblowers claimed the DOJ dragged its feet in authenticating the message. They had obtained it in August 2020 after getting the results back from an iCloud search warrant.

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Originally posted by sig226fan:

I would laugh my butt off if this could be used in any way to help President Trump with his current sham charges. It would appear to me that either Brandon divulged classified information, or he declassified it as President's are ultimately entitled to do. So did he declassify it in his head? Or who did he notify that he declassified the information?

He's the President. Simply revealing the information automatically declassifies it.

A little more information in this article.


IRS whistleblower says search warrants, charges for Hunter Biden blocked, Joe met Chinese client

https://justthenews.com/accoun..._campaign=newsletter

A supervisory IRS agent divulged to Congress widespread interference in the probe of Hunter Biden, including the blockage of two search warrants and more extensive criminal charges, while also confirming the government had evidence that Joe Biden met with his son's Chinese business partners, according to testimony released Thursday,

Just the News obtained the testimony of IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley shortly after the House Ways and Means Committee voted to pierce Hunter Biden's tax privacy and make the agent's allegations of preferential treatment and political interference public.

He confirmed career prosecutors originally intended to charge Hunter Biden with numerous tax violations dating to 2014, but in the end appointees of Joe Biden nixed the plan for a more sweeping indictment. In the end, the charges were narrowed to two counts in 2017 and 2018 that most likely spared the presidential son prison time.

"I am blowing the whistle because the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office, Department of Justice Tax, and Department of Justice provided preferential treatment and unchecked conflicts of interest in an important and high-profile investigation of the President's son, Hunter Biden," he told lawmakers.

You can read the full testimony here.

File https://justthenews.com/sites/...nscript_Redacted.pdf

Shapley divulged in his testimony that federal prosecutors twice blocked search warrants seeking evidence from Hunter Biden, including one for a storage locker with corporate documents and another for Joe Biden's Delaware residence where Hunter Biden was living, even though agents had met the standards for probable cause.

Shapley recounted how an assistant U.S. Attorney working on the case in Delaware she rejected the warrant for Joe Biden's home in December 2020.

"'The decision was whether the juice was worth the squeeze.' And also a statement made here was that she said that, well, we had to consider the optics of doing a search warrant on, you know, Hunter Biden's residence and/or the guest house of President Biden," he recounted.

"She further states about the guest house of Joe Biden that there was no way we'd get that approved," he continued.

Later when agents pivoted to seek a search warrant for a storage locker where Hunter Biden stored some of his corporate records, they were thwarted again and instead prosecutors alerted the Biden legal team. Shapley said the denial was unprecedented in his many years as an IRS agent.

"So it was off the table. And that was even after the election. So there's many things. Any other case I ever worked, if they were like there's a storage unit with documents from the business and personal documents in relation to the years under investigation -- the risk was zero, because it's on a storage unit, it's not on a residence -- there's no prosecutor I've ever worked with that wouldn't say, go get those documents," he said.

Shapley also confirmed prosecutors had evidence that Joe Biden met with officials of his son's Chinese energy client called CEFC, describing an interview that family associate Rob Walker gave the FBI.

"Walker went on to describe an instance in which the former Vice President showed up at a CEFC meeting. Walker said: "We were at the Four Seasons and we were having lunch and he stopped in, just said hello to everybody. I don't even think he drank water. I think Hunter Biden said, 'I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys and could you?' And I think he was like, if I'm around and he'd show up," he recounted.

"The FBI agent asked: "So you definitely got the feeling that that was orchestrated by Hunter Biden to have like an appearance by his dad at that meeting just to kind of bolster your chances at making a deal work out? Walker answered: "Sure." The FBI agent continued: "Any times when he was in office, or did you hear Hunter Biden say that he was setting up a meeting with his dad with them while dad was still in office?"

Walker answered: "Yes."

Both whistleblowers also addressed a WhatsApp massage Hunter sent to an associate demanding he account for an unfulfilled commitment and stating that he was waiting on a call with his father.

"I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father," the message reads.

Additional testimony from Shapley and an unidentified subordinate confirmed Just the News's earlier reporting that:

1) The DOJ allowed the statute of limitations to expire on alleged tax crimes dating from before 2017 involving hundreds of thousands of dollars more in undeclared income, including some from foreign firms such as Ukrainian gas firm Burisma.

2) The IRS criminal investigation team never learned that the FBI had recovered emails from Hunter's laptop showing that the first son was aware by 2017 that he had not paid taxes on at least $400,000 in income from Burisma from 2014.

3) Neither the IRS nor the FBI agents investigating Biden ever saw the confidential human source information the FBI received and documented in a form FD-1023 outlining an alleged bribery deal in which a Burisma executive paid $5 million each to Hunter and another Biden family member.

Both Shapley and his unnamed subordinate provided statements that neither they, nor anyone of whom they were aware working on the case ever received the information relating to that alleged scheme and consequently never explored the matter. An affidavit from Shapley references comments from former Attorney General William Barr, who has publicly stated that he referred the information to an ongoing investigation in Delaware.

Barr spoke to the Federalist in early June, during which he refuted claims from Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin that he had shut down the investigation into the bribery allegation.

"It’s not true. It wasn’t closed down," he said. "On the contrary, it was sent to Delaware for further investigation."

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said justice can't be "tipped in the favor" of wealthy and politically connected individuals.

"Only the Ways and Means Committee has the ability to report this information legally to the full House of Representatives and thereby make it known to the American public," he said during a news conference on Thursday. "Doing so is an important step in preventing future misconduct, encouraging other whistleblowers to come forward and considering possible future legislative reforms."

They’ve got Plenty on Biden. I hope impeachment goes somewhere. At a minimum he won’t run for re-election.

^^^
The senate democRATS will either vote down a conviction thereby exposing their own dishonesty as there are OBVIOUS overt violations, or enough of them will jump ship to keep Biden out of another run on the oval office as his mental state and physical infirmities have gotten the point where he’s no longer desirable as a puppet.

Remember, these are the same traitors that twice voted to impeach Trump on feelings instead of facts. And they themselves are backed by half the country (also traitors) that don’t care what the Biden crime syndicate has done as long as they “win”.

I don’t think the dems are concerned about exposing their own corruption anymore.

https://hotair.com/ed-morrisse...ters-hookers-n560029

Hunter Biden illegally deducted tens of thousands of dollars in payments made to a prostitute and a sex club from his taxes, according to bombshell IRS whistleblower testimony to Congress released on Thursday.

In a June 1 interview with the House Ways and Means Committee, one whistleblower, an unnamed IRS criminal investigator, detailed how Hunter went to great lengths to underreport his income and avoid paying $106,000 in taxes – including by writing off his sex escapades as business expenses.

“So some of the items that he deducted were personal no-show employees. He deducted payments that were made to who he called his West Coast assistant, but she was essentially a prostitute,” the whistleblower, who worked on the agency’s investigation into alleged tax fraud perpetrated by President Biden’s son on his 2018 return, alleged in his testimony.

Another whistleblower, IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley, told the committee on May 26 that he found several instances of Hunter improperly expensing flights for prostitutes.

Some might be wondering how Hunter Biden could have gotten away with that. Isn’t the IRS notoriously picky about “business expenses”? Indeed they are, but those who wonder are forgetting two things. First off, it wasn’t the IRS that ignored the matter. The IRS actually subpoenaed Damon Lawner, the owner of the SNCTM Sex Club in Los Angeles, to find out why Hunter listed his membership there as a “golf club” for business purposes. (Obligatory jokes about ‘strokes’ can go here.)

Second off … come on, man. Did we mention his last name is Biden? The IRS and some at the FBI wanted to pursue all these as potential felony tax charges. They got overruled and eventually shut down by DoJ leadership. Even then, as John noted last night from IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley’s testimony to Congress, the man publicly in charge apparently wasn’t actually calling the shots:

United States Attorney Weiss was present for the meeting. He surprised us by telling us on the charges, quote: “I’m not the deciding official on whether charges are filed,” unquote.

He then shocked us with the earth-shattering news that the Biden-appointed D.C. U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves would not allow him to charge in his district.

Biden:

Let’s finish the job and close the loopholes that allow the very wealthy to avoid paying their taxes.

Instead of cutting the number of audits for wealthy taxpayers, I just signed a law to reduce the deficit by $114 billion by cracking down on wealthy tax cheats. (Applause.) That’s being fiscally responsible.

Filled his pants again it looks like.

I've seen that guy before.

Walter

Good video at link and the MSM reporters are actually asking tough questions which get no answer. Things may be changing.


Biden WH Changes Story: From ‘Never Discussed’ to ‘Not in Business’ with Hunter

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...usiness-with-hunter/

The White House appeared Friday to have changed its story on President Joe Biden’s role in his family’s business affairs, claiming that Biden was “not in business” with his son, Hunter.

Previously, on the campaign trail in 2019-20, Joe Biden said: “I have never discussed, with my son or my brother or with anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses. Period.” But that story appeared to change on Friday.

When reporters began asking the White House to respond to accusations by an IRS whistleblower that Joe and Hunter Biden were together when the latter pressured a Chinese contact to send money, the response changed:

The White House appeared Friday to have changed its story on President Joe Biden’s role in his family’s business affairs, claiming that Biden was “not in business” with his son, Hunter.

Previously, on the campaign trail in 2019-20, Joe Biden said: “I have never discussed, with my son or my brother or with anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses. Period.” But that story appeared to change on Friday.

When reporters began asking the White House to respond to accusations by an IRS whistleblower that Joe and Hunter Biden were together when the latter pressured a Chinese contact to send money, the response changed:

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Things may be changing.

Joe is done.

The change in tone amid the tamed tribe of narrative engineers doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Those in operational control of corporate media have started the process to remove Joe Biden from eligibility in 2024.

John Kirby Walks Out of Press Briefing After Question About Hunter Biden Message to China That Undermines All Prior White House Denials

White House Coordinator for National Security Council Strategic Communications, John Kirby, walks out of the press briefing room after being asked about Hunter Biden’s WhatsApp messages with China implicating President Biden

THE MESSAGE: “I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment made was not fulfilled. Tell the director I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And Zhi, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang or the Chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows, and my ability to forever hold a grudge, that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

John Kirby uncomfortably said he would not comment on the text message and refused to answer any questions.
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https://theconservativetreehou...denials/#more-248104

Karma

If you accept a job being garbage man for these crooks, you're going to have to deal with the filth they spread. Not addressing the obvious meaning of that message, so forcefully put forth by daddy's son, and then walking out- Oh, man, that is beautiful. Indescribably, sublimely beautiful.

And, uh, hey, John? Yeah, it ain't gonna get any easier. You know that's true, don't you?