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?

The Bidens are up to their asses in alligators! It is about time things caught up with them and put out in the open.!

Senate Report: Hunter Biden Received $5.1 Million Days after Threatening Chinese Associate with ‘My Father’

https://slaynews.com/news/sena...?utm_source=mailpoet

Democrat President Joe Biden’s son Hunter received over $5 million in two payments from a Chinese Communist Party-linked energy company just days after he sent a threatening text message demanding payment from an associate in China.

As Slay News reported, the July 30, 2017 text message emerged earlier this week and shows Hunter Biden threatening his Chinese business associate Henry Zhao.

In the WhatsApp message, Hunter specifically identifies Joe Biden and uses his father’s name to turn the screws on Zhao.

However, a Senate report from September 2020 shows that two of Hunter Biden’s firms received $5.1 million from Chinese firm CEFC in early August 2017.

CEFC is controlled by China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Huner’s threatening text message was revealed Thursday as part of a package of IRS whistleblower statements and evidence released by the House Ways and Means Committee.

“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” Hunter Biden wrote to Zhao.

“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 directions.

“I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

As Slay News reported Friday, photos found on the notorious “Laptop from Hell” show Hunter sitting in Joe Biden’s Corvette.

The images were taken at the Biden family home in Wilmington, Delaware on the same day as the WhatsApp text was sent.

New York Times reporter Ken Vogel noted the timing of the CEFC payments with the WhatsApp text.

“Within 10 days of Hunter Biden’s WhatsApp message to the Chinese official associated with CEFC, a CEFC subsidiary sent 2 payments totaling $5.1M to accounts linked to Hunter, according to records cited in the Senate GOP investigation,” Vogel tweeted.



According to the New York Post, Zhao is a Communist Party official.

He invested in Hunter’s firm Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Co., also known as BHR Partners.

Hunter co-founded BHR with other Chinese entities in 2013.

The company was formed 12 days after Hunter joined then-Vice President Biden for a trip aboard Air Force Two to Beijing.

more at link

New Email Contradicts Garland on Hunter Biden Probe as Impeachment Talk Heats Up

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...6-2&utm_medium=email

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is talking of impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland as a new email contradicts Garland’s testimony regarding the Hunter Biden investigation.

U.S. Attorney David Weiss recently brought several tax charges against Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, resulting in Hunter Biden admitting guilt.

But Weiss told top officials during a meeting in 2022 that he was not the person deciding whether charges would be filed, and that requests for charges to be brought in Washington and California were rejected, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley has alleged in testimony to Congress.

The allegations were made public on June 22.

Garland, who appointed Weiss, told reporters afterward that the allegations were not true.

Weiss was “permitted to … make a decision to prosecute any way in which he wanted to, and in any district in which he wanted to,” Garland said. “He was given complete authority to make all decisions on his own.”

Following Garland’s comments, an email corroborating Shapley’s testimony was released by the whistleblower’s lawyers.

The email shows IRS official Darrell Waldon, who was also in the 2022 meeting, responding to a summary of the meeting by Shapley.

Shapley wrote that Weiss said he was not the ultimate authority on charging decisions, that Weiss said his request for charges to be brought in Washington was rejected, and that Weiss said his request to receive special counsel authority was turned down by Department of Justice leadership.

“You covered it all,” Waldon wrote. He said he was making a referral to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Garland told Congress in April that Weiss was in charge of the Hunter Biden investigation and that “there will not be interference of any political or improper kind.”

Garland also said more recently that Weiss never asked him to be made special counsel.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Waldon did not respond to requests for comment.

“Either Merrick Garland was not informed and didn’t know what the people under him were doing or he knew about it and lied to Congress about it,” Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, told The Epoch Times.

McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that the disparities between the accounts mean Weiss “must provide answers” to Congress. Garland has said he supports Weiss testifying on the investigation.

“If it comes true what the IRS whistleblower is saying, we’re going to start impeachment inquiries on the attorney general,” McCarthy said on Fox & Friends on Monday.

If Garland lied to Congress, that would be potential grounds for impeachment, Spakovsky said.

The email also contradicts Weiss, who recently told the House Judiciary Committee that he was granted “ultimate authority over this matter, including responsibility for deciding where, when, and whether to file charges.”

“Gary told the truth, it’s verifiable, and no one has offered a shred of evidence contradicting any of it,” Jason Foster with Empower Oversight, one of the lawyers representing Shapley, said.

Foster and the rest of Shapley’s legal team said that it’s up to Weiss and the Department of Justice to “reconcile the evidence” with the statements from Weiss and Garland.

Weiss, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, is the U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware.

A spokesperson for that office declined to comment.

Weiss charged Hunter Biden on June 20 with two misdemeanor tax charges and a felony firearm charge. Hunter Biden plans to plead guilty to the tax charges and is being allowed to enter a diversion process for the felony charge that could lead to it being dismissed.

Probe Took Five Years

The probe into Hunter Biden started in November 2018, according to Shapley.

The IRS agent says he came forward “to shine a light on conduct that I believed was improper and outside the norm of what I have come to know during my 14 years of experience as an IRS criminal investigation agent.”

“Now that the committee has taken the step of releasing my transcript, I believe Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate should come together to examine these facts by interviewing other witnesses and reviewing documents to fully understand what happened during this five-year long investigation,” he added.

The House Ways and Means Committee released transcripts of interviews with Shapley and another IRS whistleblower after a 25–18 vote.

All Republicans on the panel voted to release the transcripts. All Democrats on the panel voted against the release.

Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.), a former prosecutor, said the transcripts show “a level of criminality” and that Hunter Biden receiving a plea deal before investigators reviewed all the evidence was “very unusual.”

Weiss told the federal court in Delaware this month that Hunter Biden planned to plead guilty to two violations of a law that forbids intentionally failing to pay taxes.

According to charging documents, Hunter Biden made more than $3 million in 2017 and 2018 and failed to pay more than $200,000 owed in taxes for those years.

Each misdemeanor count carries a penalty of up to one year in prison.

The government is also allowing Hunter Biden to enter a pretrial diversion agreement for the third charge, illegal possession of a gun while being addicted to a controlled substance. A person convicted of the charge can receive up to 10 years in prison.

Christopher Clark, a lawyer representing Hunter Biden, declined to comment.

“The president and first lady love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life,” Ian Sams, a White House spokesperson, told news outlets in a statement. “We will have no further comment.”

The Biden's are going down. It only remains to be seen whether it implodes spectacularly or whether he is just quietly kept from running for re-election in 2024.

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Chris Clark, Hunter Biden’s attorney, admitted the 2017 WhatsApp text demanding money from a CCP-linked businessman while “sitting” next to his dad was indeed Hunter’s message.

On Friday, one day after the House Ways and Means Committee released IRS whistleblower testimony that alleged Hunter Biden demanded payment using proximity to his father as a cudgel, Clark released a statement acknowledging the whistleblower’s revelation.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...atsapp-text-hunters/

Hunter Biden’s ‘Fair’ Tax Share

IRS agents reveal details of the son’s scheming that mock the President’s tax moralizing.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/h...3?st=5xn34ieegwh0srg

President Biden has campaigned far and wide that America’s rich should pay their “fair” share of taxes, and he’s giving the Internal Revenue Service billions more to enforce it. Does he include his son Hunter among the rich who should pay what they owe?

The question is highly relevant after last week’s under-reported testimony from two IRS whistleblowers about their investigation of Hunter’s taxes. Hunter agreed to plead guilty last week to two misdemeanor charges of “willful failure” to pay some $200,000 in tax for years 2017 and 2018. But the two whistleblowers, testifying under oath before the House Ways and Means Committee, revealed details of Hunter’s tax maneuvering that make a mockery of his father’s tax moralizing.

The agents reported that an IRS team in January 2022 finalized a document of some 80 pages recommending that Hunter be charged with tax violations for each of his six tax returns from 2014 through 2019.

IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley said Hunter’s 2014 and 2015 returns involved a “scheme to evade his income taxes through a partnership with a convicted felon.” At issue was the $83,000 a month Hunter received to sit on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company. The second (anonymous) whistleblower explained that in 2014 Hunter arranged a series of “sham” transactions so he “didn’t report any of the money he earned from Burisma”—about $400,000 in 2014.

The whistleblowers say Hunter directed Burisma to pay his money to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, or RSB, an entity owned by his business partner Devon Archer, who was convicted of fraud in 2018. They say RSB would send the money to Hunter, who then “booked it as a loan.” One obvious tax problem, explains the second whistleblower, is that “you can’t loan yourself your own money.”

Mr. Shapley says this loan ruse is a “textbook” evasion scheme, something “I learned at basic training.” When someone claims a payment is a loan for tax purposes, the IRS looks for three things: You’ve “got to have a promissory note, you got to have defined interest, and you got to have repayments,” Mr. Shapley says. In Hunter’s case, “none of those were included.” RSB also booked the payment as an “expense”—meaning that “even the two parties didn’t treat it the same way.”

The committee also released an email showing that another Hunter business partner, Eric Schwerin, told Hunter in 2017 that Hunter had “unreported Burisma income” and needed to “amend your 2014 returns.” Hunter ignored the warning and later that year ended his relationship with Mr. Schwerin.

The second whistleblower says 2014 records show RSB paid more than $10,000 in Hunter medical bills, and purchased a $142,000 Porsche for Hunter’s benefit via other money from a Kazakhstan businessman. The whistleblower says Hunter didn’t report this as income.

The IRS team recommended that Hunter be prosecuted on felony charges of tax evasion for 2014 and false tax filings and a misdemeanor charge for 2015 of failure to pay tax. Yet because the U.S. Attorney waited so long to make a prosecutorial decision, the six-year statute of limitations expired. Hunter thus won’t pay taxes on more than $400,000 in unreported income for these years. Mr. Shapley says: “The purposeful exclusion of the 2014 and 2015 years sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material facts.”

Also notable are Hunter’s filings in 2018 and 2019, for which the IRS team also recommended felony charges of tax evasion and false returns. The second whistleblower testified that Hunter underreported his income for 2018 by anywhere from $267,000 to $500,000—depending on how conservatively the IRS counted. He did this, claims the whistleblower, by falsifying “business” deductions.

The whistleblower says this included deducting thousands paid to “no-show employees”—including “a prostitute” that Hunter claimed was a “West Coast assistant.” He deducted $10,000 for a “golf club member deposit,” money that IRS agents say “went to pay for a sex club.” He deducted $30,000 for a child’s Columbia University tuition. He also deducted a hotel room for who agents believed to be “one of his drug dealers,” hotel rooms for his girlfriend at the time, and two nights for “a hotel room for his dad, Joe Biden.”

The IRS agents say they also saw correspondence showing Hunter in that year attempting to describe income as a “loan”—though this time his accountants rejected the request. All told, the IRS team recommended that Hunter face felony charges for 2014, 2018 and 2019. They also recommended misdemeanor charges for “failure to file or pay” for five of the six years.

Democrats defend Hunter by saying that he ended up paying much of his back taxes prior to this plea deal, thanks to a $2 million loan from a Hollywood lawyer. But the second whistleblower explained the IRS view of after-the-fact efforts to get straight with tax authorities. He was asked during testimony: “If someone meets all the elements for a crime of willful evasion and are found to, in conjunction with that, owe a liability, and they pay off that liability years later when they’ve been caught, has a crime still been committed?”

The whistleblower’s response: “Yes.”

The next time President Biden says too many people don’t pay enough taxes, refer him to the moral authority of Hunter.

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The next time President Biden says too many people don’t pay enough taxes, refer him to the moral authority of Hunter.

And the next time he wants to blowhard about gun control, remind him of the billions of dollars' worth of hardware left in Afghanistan following his clumsy retreat.

How Can the Dems Get Rid of Joe?
By John Green

The Biden hits just keep coming. Trust in government is collapsing. Americans are starting to wonder what passes for "normal" in Washington, if this is a return to normalcy. According to Pew Research, only about 20 percent of Americans trust the government to do what's right. That leaves 80 percent who expect government to do what is wrong — as in morally and ethically wrong.

Joe's fundraising is also lackluster. Politico reports that the Dems are concerned that Joe isn't inspiring their donor class anymore. If this keeps up, the party isn't going to have the money it needs to steal the next election. Democrats are finding out that donors don't spend as much on influence when it looks as though influence is going to be in short supply.

That brings me to Joe's polling. The cost of living is up, wages are down, and personal savings are evaporating. An NBC poll found that 71 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong path — and they know who the trail boss is. So Joe's numbers are down. Pew Research reports that his approval has fallen to 37 percent. Unless Joe finds a way to spend us out of economic collapse, or buys a Men in Black neuralyzer to wipe the last three years of our memory, public opinion is not likely to improve much.

Then there are the congressional investigations. The Dems should have watched a few of those forensic crime shows. Apparently, they didn't know that moving money around leaves an audit trail. But the Republicans knew it, and they're using their shiny new subpoena powers to follow it. And if bank records aren't enough, it turns out there are still a few ethical people working in government. The whistleblowers are coming forward. They may have been able to stomach a bit of Washington's shenanigans, but what they're seeing now is causing too much nausea to bear. They're letting the House investigators know where to send the subpoenas. The money for influence scandal is growing by the day.

As my grandmother would say, the Dems are in a pickle. Panic is beginning to set in. They're looking forward to 2024 with no successes, inadequate money, voter pessimism, and a candidate who can't walk across a stage without falling or shaking hands with Harvey the invisible rabbit.

Three years into the mess they created, the Dems are coming to the realization that they didn't hitch their wagon to a weak horse; they hitched it to a dying horse. They need to do something — fast. They need Joe off the 2024 ticket.

For that reason, the Biden corruption news blackout has been lifted — but they forgot to copy Karine Jean-Pierre on the memo. Last week, she entered the White House briefing room for her daily therapy session with her fawning propaganda ministry. But she was shocked to be asked actual journalistic questions — proving that reporters know how to be journalists but just mostly choose not to be.

They peppered the press secretary for four whole minutes with questions about her boss's involvement in selling influence to the Chinese — otherwise known as soliciting bribes. It would have lasted longer, but she left — presumably to check her inbox for that missing memo.

Jean-Pierre's face said it all. There's Biden blood in the water, the sharks are circling, and whoever is calling the shots has cleared them for a meal.

The Nixon gambit is coming. The Dems plan to tenderize Joe for a few months with the realization that his life's dream, to be America's first emperor, is over. Then a somber contingent of party elders (which is all they've got) will make a trek to the White House to explain the political realities to Joe Biden. They'll help him see that it would be heroic and selfless for him to bow out of the 2024 race — for the good of his beloved Democrat party.

But they will have fundamentally misjudged the situation and the man. Does beating the odds in the midterm election make Joe more or less likely to step down? He thinks he's a winner, because they've told him so.

Then there's also the matter of Joe Biden's character. Joe Biden is no Richard Nixon — and I don't mean that in the good way. He isn't going to do anything for the good of the party or the nation, because Joe doesn't love anything but Joe. He has never done anything to selflessly benefit anyone whose last name isn't Biden. He hasn't even acknowledged his youngest granddaughter, because she's not a Biden — at least not in name.

The monster that the Democrats created has a say in this matter of stepping down. The way Biden snaps at reporters and citizens shows that he is emotionally stunted. He never learned self-control. Is calling a voter, whose vote he needs, a "lying dog-faced pony soldier" an act of maturity? He's a man-child who has been coddled by the sycophants who maintain a protective perimeter around him, for his entire 50-year career.

If you give a child unlimited power, no moral compass, and then tell him he has to share his toys, how would you expect him to react? He's not going to make a selfless act in service to others. He's going to throw a tantrum.

The Dems may be thinking they can use Joe's son to ease him aside. Use the same strategy that they used against Michael Flynn — threaten his son with more legal jeopardy if he doesn't step aside. But Joe Biden is no Michael Flynn, either — and I still don't mean it in a good way. This strategy depends on Joe actually caring about the welfare of his son, Hunter. That would be the son whom Joe used to facilitate criminal activity for decades, because he loves him so much (snark intended).

Rather than stepping aside, it's more likely that Joe Biden will give the party elders a good scolding, threaten them with a few F16s for "working against the government," and send them back to Capitol hill with their tails tucked properly between their legs.

That's when the Dems will realize that the only way to keep Joe off of the 2024 ticket is to get him out of office before their convention. That would require them to do the unthinkable: work with Republicans to impeach Biden, clearing the field for "Kackles" Harris.

Whatever they do, the Dems need to work fast. We're quickly moving back into the presidential campaign season — which starts earlier with every election. The longer they let this drag out, the more of their precious donor money Joe will waste. They are finding themselves between the rock of political reality and the hard place of a stubborn old fool who has never learned any limitations. Their panic will turn into depression any minute now — and I have no sympathy.

https://www.americanthinker.co..._get_rid_of_joe.html

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Joe's fundraising is also lackluster.[Quote]

Bullshit. Joe's fundraising is the greatest (illegal) one of all time. It's called the Ukraine scheme, not to mention the Chinese payoffs.