Biden took $5mm bribe from Ukraine - Burisma - FBI

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https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-burisma-hunter-biden/2023/06/08/id/1122901/

An executive of the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings paid then-Vice President Joe Biden $5 million as part of a bribery scheme, according to the FBI document that is part of the House Oversight Committee probe into the incident, Fox News reported Thursday.

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The dude should buy a wheelchair with the money:

 

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We already know this. Nobody cares. Nothing will be done. The Republicans will yap yap yap to drum up votes, but will do nothing.

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49 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

We already know this. Nobody cares. Nothing will be done. The Republicans will yap yap yap to drum up votes, but will do nothing.

But this is fun...

 

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That would get you a top of the line wheelchair scooter.  Rims, pudding cup holder, saddle bags for extra diapers, everything.  

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9 minutes ago, RogerDodger said:

That would get you a top of the line wheelchair scooter.  Rims, pudding cup holder, saddle bags for extra diapers, everything.  

Wait, what about ice cream?

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Didn't Trump get impeached for making this truthful observation?

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Can we hear the tape of the crime, or see video of it, or see the paper trail with the deposits.

Do cultist have any standards when it comes to evidence?  There's mounds of evidence supporting their master's federal indictment and pending jail time btw...

LOVE this for you morons. 

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1 hour ago, Cdub100 said:

We already know this. Nobody cares. Nothing will be done. The Republicans will yap yap yap to drum up votes, but will do nothing.

Why would they do nothing?

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1 hour ago, seafoam1 said:

But this is fun...

 

And yet he's still too quick and slippery for the entire GOP to catch him. 

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10 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

And yet he's still too quick and slippery for the entire GOP to catch him. 

He’s a doddering geezer AND a criminal mastermind!

 

 

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34 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

Why would they do nothing?

Because they never do anything. They only care about lining their own pockets.

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1 minute ago, Cdub100 said:

Because they never do anything. They only care about lining their own pockets.

They would love to destroy Biden or any Dem and if this is true there is no way they won’t go after him. 

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2 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

They would love to destroy Biden or any Dem and if this is true there is no way they won’t go after him. 

This is just alt-right infotainment grasping as straws in reaction to their beloved Clowzo getting slapped with a federal indictment. The MAGAturds here do the same thing, deflected, gish galloping and whatever else they can do to put the focus elsewhere.

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1 minute ago, thegeneral said:

They would love to destroy Biden or any Dem and if this is true there is no way they won’t go after him. 

No, they wouldn't they want to keep the game going. 

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1 minute ago, Cdub100 said:

No, they wouldn't they want to keep the game going. 

Their game would be really good with a Dem President in a scandal and they take over the Senate. 

There is zero chance they wouldn’t go after Biden if any of this is remotely true. If they don’t this is all make believe. 

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35 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

No, they wouldn't they want to keep the game going. 

So their game depends on keeping around a dottering, old, senile fool like Biden?  Who also happens to run circles around the GOP when it comes to legislation and locking up his opponents.

Dang Obama the Great taught his padawan well...this is the way. 

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2 hours ago, Mike Honcho said:

And yet he's still too quick and slippery for the entire GOP to catch him. 

Be proud of Biden getting away with anything that makes you happy. 

It displays you being a loser even more but I don't care. 

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Brought to you by the unimpeachable bastion of investigative journalistic integrity NEWSMAX!

Show us the receipts. If Biden is guilty of this, he should be indicted. After his second term, of course. We all know by now that a sitting President can do whatever the fuk they want nowadays. Otherwise this is just garbage meant to rile up the faithful MAGAmooks even more, if that's possible.  Gonna be a lot of old white dudes dropping dead from aneurysms in the coming days.

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Finally, the mystery of how the Biden trash family got so rich is solved. 

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22 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

Be proud of Biden getting away with anything that makes you happy. 

It displays you being a loser even more but I don't care. 

What is he getting away with?

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7 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Finally, the mystery of how the Biden trash family got so rich is solved. 

HE'S INNOCENT!!!! 

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Yeah, Biden is the one outsmarting everyone.  The only thing he outsmarts once in a while are stairs.  His handlers got this. 

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22 minutes ago, Fnord said:

Brought to you by the unimpeachable bastion of investigative journalistic integrity NEWSMAX!

Show us the receipts. If Biden is guilty of this, he should be indicted. After his second term, of course. We all know by now that a sitting President can do whatever the fuk they want nowadays. Otherwise this is just garbage meant to rile up the faithful MAGAmooks even more, if that's possible.  Gonna be a lot of old white dudes dropping dead from aneurysms in the coming days.

Now cultist believe unnamed informants?

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Just now, Hardcore troubadour said:

Yeah, Biden is the one outsmarting everyone.  The only thing he outsmarts once in a while are stairs.  His handlers got this. 

If it were possible to do and verify, I would wager a sizable nut that Biden would score higher than Trump in pretty much ANY cognitive test.

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8 minutes ago, Fnord said:

If it were possible to do and verify, I would wager a sizable nut that Biden would score higher than Trump in pretty much ANY cognitive test.

Last in his class Joe? You know, the thing. 

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12 minutes ago, Fnord said:

If it were possible to do and verify, I would wager a sizable nut that Biden would score higher than Trump in pretty much ANY cognitive test.

"Look at how he steps and look at how I step. Watch how I run up ramps and he stumbles down ramps," Biden said. "Come on."

 

 

 

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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407/

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Biden Inc.

Over his decades in office, ‘Middle-Class Joe’s’ family fortunes have closely tracked his political career.

BEN SCHRECKINGER05/08/20 09:44 PM EDT

 

Politico Illustration; NBCU Photo Bank; Getty Images

Ben Schreckinger is a reporter for Politico.

The day the Bidens took over Paradigm Global Advisors was a memorable one.

In the late summer of 2006 Joe Biden’s son Hunter and Joe’s younger brother, James, purchased the firm. On their first day on the job, they showed up with Joe’s other son, Beau, and two large men and ordered the hedge fund’s chief of compliance to fire its president, according to a Paradigm executive who was present.

After the firing, the two large men escorted the fund’s president out of the firm’s midtown Manhattan office, and James Biden laid out his vision for the fund’s future. “Don’t worry about investors,” he said, according to the executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing fear of retaliation. “We've got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.”

At the time, the senator was just months away from both assuming the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and launching his second presidential bid. According to the executive, James Biden made it clear he viewed the fund as a way to take money from rich foreigners who could not legally give money to his older brother or his campaign account. “We've got investors lined up in a line of 747s filled with cash ready to invest in this company,” the executive remembers James Biden saying.

At this, the executive recalled, Beau Biden, who was then running for attorney general of Delaware, turned bright red. He told his uncle, “This can never leave this room, and if you ever say it again, I will have nothing to do with this.”

A spokesman for James and Hunter Biden said no such episode ever occurred.Beau Biden died in 2015, at 46.

But the recollection of an effort to cash in on Joe’s political ties is consistent with other accounts provided by other former executives at the fund. 

Three former Paradigm executives said James and Hunter Biden also sought to capitalize on Joe’s strong ties to labor unions in the hopes of landing investments from them; Charles Provini, who briefly served as Paradigm’s president, said both James and Hunter repeatedly cited Joe’s political ties when they recruited him to work for the fund. “I was told because of his relationships with the unions that they felt as though it would be favorably looked upon to invest in the fund as long as it was a good fund,” Provini recalled.

Documents submitted as part of a legal dispute over Paradigm’s acquisition show James Biden planned to solicit investments for it from union pension funds. A spokesman for James and Hunter said they did not end up marketing the fund to unions.

As Joe Biden runs for the Democratic presidential nomination on the argument he can strongly appeal to the party’s dwindling base of blue-collar supporters, the candidate has often made the point that he hasn’t gotten rich from his decades in politics. As recently as 2009, his net worth was less than $30,000, though in recent years he has made millions from book sales and speaking fees. He refers to himself as “Middle-Class Joe,” and presents himself as a corrective to a system rigged by financiers and networked corporate elites. 

Biden’s image as a straight-shooting man of the people, however, is clouded by the careers of his son and brother, who have lengthy track records of making, or seeking, deals that cash in on his name. There’s no evidence that Joe Biden used his power inappropriately or took action to benefit his relatives with respect to these ventures. Interviews, court records, government filings and news reports, however, reveal that some members of the Biden family have consistently mixed business and politics over nearly half a century, moving from one business to the next as Joe’s stature in Washington grew.

None of the ventures appear to have been runaway successes, and Biden’s relatives have not been accused of criminal wrongdoing in their dealings. But over the years, several of their partners and associates have ended up indicted or convicted. The dealings have brought Joe unwelcome scrutiny and threaten to distract from his presidential bid.

A spokesman for Biden’s campaign, Andrew Bates, declined to comment for this story. A spokesman for James and Hunter disputed several specific recollections of former Paradigm executives but did not address more general questions about their business dealings.

Their ventures, over nearly half a century, have regularly raised conflict-of-interest questions and brought the Biden family into potentially compromising associations. This investigation offers the most comprehensive account to date of the politically tinged business activities of Biden’s brother and son, and is the first time former associates of James and Hunter have alleged that the pair explicitly sought to make money off of Joe’s political connections.

At left: The MBNA corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Del. At right: Hunter Biden in 2010. | Politico Illustration; AP

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Within weeks of the encounter at Paradigm Global Advisors, Beau Biden won his race for Delaware attorney general, and never established any recorded ties to Paradigm. His political career kept him well clear of his brother and uncle’s business endeavors.

James and Hunter are another story. There is no indication the Bidens ever succeeded in bringing new foreign money into the fund, but their involvement with Paradigm, which spanned the final two years of Joe’s Senate career and first two years of his vice presidency, was troubled for other reasons: In James and Hunter’s five-year tenure, Paradigm became associated with a number of alleged and confirmed frauds, including Allen Stanford’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, while seeking to draw on their powerful relative’s political allies for financing.

The pattern of dubious associations and possible conflicts of interest would continue later with Hunter’s foreign dealings, which led him to a lucrative appointment to the board of a Ukrainian oil company and to deals with firms connected to the Chinese state. But it started far earlier.

James Biden, known socially as Jimmy, is seven years younger than Joe and a dead ringer for his famous older brother. He worked as a salesman and served as the finance chairman of Joe’s first Senate campaign in 1972 before embarking on a career as a serial entrepreneur.

In the 1970s, as Joe was entering the Senate and taking a seat on the Banking Committee, James obtained unusually generous loans from lenders who later faced federal regulatory issues. Joe Biden was in touch with two of those banks about his brother’s loans, once to scold a bank executive about invoking his name in attempts to collect on overdue payments. 

In the 1990s, a group of Mississippi trial lawyers enlisted James to further its interests in Washington as it sought congressional support for a tobacco megasettlement. A decade later, those Mississippi contacts supported Joe’s presidential bid — hosting a fundraiser for him and accepting an invitation to accompany Joe to a high-profile Washington dinner — while they simultaneously prepared to launch a lobbying firm with James and his wife, Sara. Plans for the firm fizzled when the Mississippians were arrested, then jailed, for an unrelated bribery scheme.

During the Obama years, several months after James joined a construction firm as an executive, the firm received a contract worth more than a billion dollars to build houses in Iraq while Joe oversaw the U.S.-led occupation of that country.

Along the way, James partnered with his nephew Hunter, the younger of Joe’s two sons. A graduate of Georgetown University and Yale Law School, Hunter, 49, has struggled with substance abuse while hopscotching between endeavors in law, business and politics.

In the early 2000s, before working with his uncle, Hunter had opened a lobbying practice that landed clients with interests that overlapped with Joe’s committee assignments and legislative priorities. Ahead of his father’s second presidential bid, he entered the hedge fund business with James.

These entanglements could pose problems for Democrats as they seek to draw a contrast with President Donald Trump, who they accuse of corruption for mixing politics with his own family’s business ventures.

“Joe Biden needs to recognize it’s a problem,” said Richard Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush era, who recently became a Democrat. Painter said Biden should pledge that if he were elected president, he would ask his relatives to refrain from business practices that could pose ethical quandaries, such as taking foreign sources of financing. 

“You can’t control your brothers. You can’t control your grown son. But you can put some firewalls in place in your own office,” Painter said.

SCANDAL-PLAGUED HEDGE FUND

Paradigm was the brainchild of James Park, a son-in-law of the billionaire Sun Myung Moon, who claimed to be the messiah and founded the Unification movement, a religious group often accused of being a cult and whose members are known as Moonies. Started by Park in 1989, Paradigm was an early entrant in the hedge fund industry and among the first funds of funds — that is, a hedge fund that invested in other hedge funds.
The Biden involvement began in January 2006. James Biden called Anthony Lotito, a New York financial adviser, and said his older brother, Joe, wanted his son Hunter to find a job outside of lobbying to avoid damaging his planned campaign for the presidency, according to a complaint Lotito later filed in a New York court, after his relationship with James and Hunter soured. 

In a court filing of their own, James and Hunter denied that such a call took place as described, but it is undisputed that Lotito, James and Hunter were soon exploring a purchase of Paradigm together.

According to court filings, James Biden and Lotito had been introduced years earlier by Tom Scotto, a former president of New York’s Detectives' Endowment Association, a union, around 2002. A year before, Scotto had been named an unindicted co-conspirator by federal prosecutors in an organized crime scheme — described at the time as the largest securities fraud bust in U.S. history — to bribe union leaders in order to access union pension funds. Scotto, who denied wrongdoing at the time, declined to comment on his relationship with James Biden and Lotito.

After their introduction, a firm owned by Lotito, Globex Financial Advisors, began doing business with one owned by James, Lion Hall Group. Lotito and Biden later co-founded a company called Americore International Security, a private security firm, according to court filings. Not much is known about Americore, though James Biden said in court filings that the business was not successful. 

Lotito did not respond to requests for comment. 

By 2006, Lotito, James and Hunter were eyeing a purchase of Paradigm. 

James and Hunter brought in Larry Rasky, a lobbyist and longtime Biden adviser, who at one point, according to court records, was going to provide $1 million in financing. Rasky did not respond to a request for comment. They also obtained $1 million in financing from SimmonsCooper, a St. Louis-area law firm with a thriving practice representing asbestos victims. Partners in the firm had befriended the Biden sons, steering business to Beau’s Delaware law firm and donations to Biden’s campaign coffers. SimmonsCooper’s interests aligned with Joe Biden’s views. He was a prominent opponent of the creation of an asbestos trust fund, a measure that would have curtailed lawsuits related to the cancer-causing fibers.

Things quickly got messy. The prospective purchasers discovered that because of an accounting trick, the fund had only a fraction of the $1.5 billion in assets under management that it claimed, according to court filings.

James and Hunter also discovered that the attorney the trio had hired on Lotito’s recommendation to explore the purchase, John Fasciana, had recently been convicted on 12 counts of fraud, according to court filings.

Fasciana declined to comment, citing attorney-client confidentiality rules. Messages left at a number listed in Lotito’s name were not returned.

Despite the problems with the fund and souring relations with Lotito, James and Hunter charged ahead with their acquisition of Paradigm. They purchased the fund without him in August 2006, not for cash, but for an $8.1 million promissory note.

Lotito later sued James and Hunter in New York state court, accusing them of fraudulently acquiring Paradigm behind his back. Lotito claimed in his complaint that Hunter had entered into an employment agreement with Paradigm that entitled Hunter to draw an annual salary of $1.2 million. 

James and Hunter counter-sued, and James stated in an affidavit that he, Hunter and a firm they had formed with Lotito had lost $1.3 million in their initial attempt to acquire Paradigm. All parties voluntarily dropped their claims in December 2008.

According to an agreement Lotito and James made with Paradigm in May 2006 that later surfaced in their court fight, they had planned to use their connections to union pension funds governed by the 1947 Taft–Hartley Act, which regulates labor unions, in order to steer new investments to Paradigm. 

The documents corroborate the recollections of the three executives who said James and Hunter sought to tap Joe’s union ties.

At one point after the Bidens purchased the fund, one of the executives recalled, groups of firefighters started trekking up in small groups to Paradigm’s offices and leaving him checks for a few thousand dollars each, about 10 in total over the course of a few days. 

Firefighters unions have been among Joe Biden’s closest political allies since the start of his political career.

The Paradigm executive said the checks were never cashed. Generally, legal restrictions and fund policies mean only the rich can invest directly in hedge funds, and only in much higher increments than a couple thousand dollars. A spokesman for James and Hunter said no such episode occurred.

Another of the former executives recalled that Paradigm abandoned plans to pursue Taft–Hartley pension funds because of the prospect of “perceived conflicts.”

As soon as James and Hunter — without Lotito — took control of Paradigm, they ordered the firing of the fund’s president, Stephane Farouze. Farouze, who had been in a dispute about equity with the fund’s previous owner, later sued James, Hunter and Lotito in New York state, accusing them of engaging in an “elaborate scheme” to defraud him out of his ownership stake in Paradigm. Farouze alleged that James and Hunter entered into a contract with him to buy out his share in the fund without ever intending to abide by it, as part of a ploy to steal his share. The case was dismissed. Farouze did not respond to requests for comment.

James and Hunter set about reorganizing the fund, installing Provini as its president in 2007. 

In the Bidens' first months at the helm, Paradigm reached an arrangement with Longship Capital Management, a New York investment firm, in which Longship would serve as an investment adviser to Paradigm, according to an Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The arrangement put James and Hunter in business with Longship partner Brian Mathis, a veteran of the Clinton Treasury Department and a Democratic bundler who was friends with Barack and Michelle Obama at Harvard Law School. In March 2011, Mathis, who declined to comment, was among the roughly 30 financiers invited to a controversialWhite House meeting to discuss the state of the economy. The meeting was arranged by the Democratic National Committee and omitted from Obama’s public schedule. There is no evidence Joe Biden was involved in the meeting.

To pay back the million dollars they had borrowed from SimmonsCooper during their first, aborted acquisition attempt, James and Hunter had taken out a loan from WashingtonFirst Bank, which had been co-founded by one of Hunter’s former lobbying partners. A former WashingtonFirst executive said James and Hunter had pledged their houses on the loan and both had paid back their debts after several years.

In the meantime, that debt was causing friction within Paradigm.

At one point, the executive said, Hunter called him and asked him to hand over $21,000 in company funds for a personal mortgage payment. When the executive refused, saying the funds were needed to cover operating expenses, he recalled that Hunter — who recently told The New Yorker he has spent most of his life living paycheck to paycheck — responded that he might lose his house.

“Hunter did take substantial dollars out of the company,” said a second former Paradigm executive, describing the withdrawals as a “semi-regular” subject of discussion and concern within the firm.

A third former executive at Paradigm claimed that at one point around 2008 or 2009, James and Hunter withdrew several million dollars from Paradigm’s coffers for their own use. By this point, “The Bidens didn’t have access to the day-to-day operation of Paradigm at all,” this executive said. “The only thing the Bidens could do was get paid or request to get money out of the hedge fund.” The executive said the Bidens had the right to withdraw the funds and that the transaction was cleared through counsel. 

A spokesman for James and Hunter said no such withdrawals occurred.

An independent audit performed on the fund in 2008 by the Philadelphia firm Briggs, Bunting & Dougherty was filed with the SEC. Though it is does not detail the basis for its findings, the audit found accounting deficiencies at Paradigm, including a “failure to timely prepare financial statements” and a “failure to reconcile Investment Advisors reimbursement of fund expenses.”

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While James and Hunter Biden were trying to succeed in the world of high finance, Joe Biden was seeking the Democratic nomination for the presidency, eventually becoming Barack Obama’s running mate after his own bid foundered. The duo would go on to victory, in part by casting themselves as reliable stewards of an economy that was careening downward as a result of financial engineering gone awry.

As Election Day neared, the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, there was a run on money market accounts, the Fed bailed out AIG, and some of the country’s largest financial institutions teetered on the brink of collapse. On September 29, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 777 points, then the largest single-day drop in history.

Dennis Tang, now an undergraduate instructor at Columbia University, was interning at Paradigm that summer. He described a business that was oddly quiet, saying its offices were a “ghost town” that summer, including on the September day Lehman Brothers collapsed. “It was just empty desks and empty Bloomberg terminals," Tang said.

Paradigm was still running and would soon attract attention for its associations with several criminal frauds.

In September 2008, with the financial system melting, an executive at Paradigm registered “Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund” with the SEC. The fund of hedge funds represented a partnership with the firm run by Allen Stanford.

In February 2009, less than a month after Joe Biden was sworn in as vice president and Hunter served as honorary co-chairman of the inaugural committee, Stanford was charged with a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, one of the largest in U.S. history. Paradigm was not accused of participating in the scheme. At the time, a spokesman for Paradigm told The Wall Street Journal that it had terminated its relationship with Stanford and offered to turn over the money it received from him to a court-appointed receiver.

Paradigm had also rented space to Francesco Rusciano, whose Ponta Negra fund shared both an office and a phone number with Paradigm. In April 2009, the SEC accused Rusciano of a multimillion-dollar fraud. He got a year in prison. There is no evidence Paradigm participated in the scheme.

 

 

 

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Shingles doesn't care.

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5 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

Can we hear the tape of the crime, or see video of it, or see the paper trail with the deposits.

Do cultist have any standards when it comes to evidence?  There's mounds of evidence supporting their master's federal indictment and pending jail time btw...

LOVE this for you morons. 

Agreed. There are photos of Trump’s classified documents, recordings of him showing them off to unauthorized people. They have recordings of him calling the GA Sec of State asking him to rig the election for him. Massive amounts of evidence, but they call it all a witch hunt.

Meanwhile, zero evidence of anything on Joe Biden, but they keep insisting he’s a criminal. This is truly insane.

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56 minutes ago, dogcows said:

Agreed. There are photos of Trump’s classified documents, recordings of him showing them off to unauthorized people. They have recordings of him calling the GA Sec of State asking him to rig the election for him. Massive amounts of evidence, but they call it all a witch hunt.

Meanwhile, zero evidence of anything on Joe Biden, but they keep insisting he’s a criminal. This is truly insane.

Why are there photos of classified material out there? Who did that? 

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8 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Why are there photos of classified material out there? Who did that? 

An aide discovered them scattered on the floor in a room in Mar-a-Lago, taken out of the boxes by someone and took photos to show to a superior. 

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23 minutes ago, squistion said:

An aide discovered them scattered on the floor in a room in Mar-a-Lago, taken out of the boxes by someone and took photos to show to a superior. 

When do they get charged? And it’s supervisor, not superior.  It’s not the Navy. 

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57 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

When do they get charged? And it’s supervisor, not superior.  It’s not the Navy. 

One's supervisor can also be called one's superior, which they are by definition. And I don't know if the person who was reported to was actually their direct supervisor, which is why I used superior, as it was someone who was above them in the hierarchy.

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FBI agent who testified for Republicans was suspended over leaked sensitive information

Garret O’Boyle, an FBI agent who was presented in a public hearing by House Republicans as a whistleblower, was suspended by the bureau because internal investigators had concluded that he leaked sensitive investigative information to the right-wing group Project Veritas, according to a bureau official.

 

Strong witness. 

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2 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

 

Strong witness. 

HAHAHAHAHA

Cultist simply take L after L after L after L

Love this for them. 

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/politics/hunter-biden-republicans-what-matters/index.html

What’s their basis for this allegation?

A suspended FBI agent, who Republicans view as a whistleblower, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill in May about the form detailing the interview and has alleged the FBI tried to bury it.

Why didn’t the FBI want to hand over the document?

It contains what the FBI calls “unverified” information.

Essentially, anything could lead to an FD-1023 form, which does nothing more than acknowledge an interview took place.

While Republicans are assuming there is a coverup, it does make some sense that if the FBI had gotten a wild claim that it could in no way substantiate, it would not want to give oxygen to that information.

After all, much of Republicans’ gripe with the Russia investigation is that it stemmed from allegations about Trump that could not be verified. For more on that, read about the recently released report from special counsel John Durham, a Trump-administration appointee.

How long has the FBI had this document?

For years. In fact, it dates back to the Trump administration.

CNN’s Evan Perez has reported that the document has origins in a tranche of documents that Giuliani provided to the Justice Department in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.

What has the FBI been doing with the information from the informant?

Barr, when he was Trump’s attorney general, directed then-Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady to oversee the FBI investigation of the Giuliani claims.

According to Perez’s reporting, Barr was worried the unsubstantiated claim could taint the work being done by the US attorney in Delaware who is overseeing a longtime and ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden on numerous fronts.

Brady’s team interviewed the confidential informant on June 30, 2020, which generated the FD-1023. Barr recently told The Federalist the information was ultimately forwarded to the US attorney in Delaware.

Republicans have questioned whether the US attorney there followed up on the allegations made in the interview.

 

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6 hours ago, Mike Honcho said:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/politics/hunter-biden-republicans-what-matters/index.html

What’s their basis for this allegation?

A suspended FBI agent, who Republicans view as a whistleblower, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill in May about the form detailing the interview and has alleged the FBI tried to bury it.

Why didn’t the FBI want to hand over the document?

It contains what the FBI calls “unverified” information.

Essentially, anything could lead to an FD-1023 form, which does nothing more than acknowledge an interview took place.

While Republicans are assuming there is a coverup, it does make some sense that if the FBI had gotten a wild claim that it could in no way substantiate, it would not want to give oxygen to that information.

After all, much of Republicans’ gripe with the Russia investigation is that it stemmed from allegations about Trump that could not be verified. For more on that, read about the recently released report from special counsel John Durham, a Trump-administration appointee.

How long has the FBI had this document?

For years. In fact, it dates back to the Trump administration.

CNN’s Evan Perez has reported that the document has origins in a tranche of documents that Giuliani provided to the Justice Department in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.

What has the FBI been doing with the information from the informant?

Barr, when he was Trump’s attorney general, directed then-Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady to oversee the FBI investigation of the Giuliani claims.

According to Perez’s reporting, Barr was worried the unsubstantiated claim could taint the work being done by the US attorney in Delaware who is overseeing a longtime and ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden on numerous fronts.

Brady’s team interviewed the confidential informant on June 30, 2020, which generated the FD-1023. Barr recently told The Federalist the information was ultimately forwarded to the US attorney in Delaware.

Republicans have questioned whether the US attorney there followed up on the allegations made in the interview.

 

CNN said what??? 

 

[Cdub100 3,850]

12 hours ago, Mike Honcho said:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/politics/hunter-biden-republicans-what-matters/index.html

What’s their basis for this allegation?

A suspended FBI agent, who Republicans view as a whistleblower, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill in May about the form detailing the interview and has alleged the FBI tried to bury it.

Why didn’t the FBI want to hand over the document?

It contains what the FBI calls “unverified” information.

Essentially, anything could lead to an FD-1023 form, which does nothing more than acknowledge an interview took place.

While Republicans are assuming there is a coverup, it does make some sense that if the FBI had gotten a wild claim that it could in no way substantiate, it would not want to give oxygen to that information.

After all, much of Republicans’ gripe with the Russia investigation is that it stemmed from allegations about Trump that could not be verified. For more on that, read about the recently released report from special counsel John Durham, a Trump-administration appointee.

How long has the FBI had this document?

For years. In fact, it dates back to the Trump administration.

CNN’s Evan Perez has reported that the document has origins in a tranche of documents that Giuliani provided to the Justice Department in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.

What has the FBI been doing with the information from the informant?

Barr, when he was Trump’s attorney general, directed then-Pittsburgh US Attorney Scott Brady to oversee the FBI investigation of the Giuliani claims.

According to Perez’s reporting, Barr was worried the unsubstantiated claim could taint the work being done by the US attorney in Delaware who is overseeing a longtime and ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden on numerous fronts.

Brady’s team interviewed the confidential informant on June 30, 2020, which generated the FD-1023. Barr recently told The Federalist the information was ultimately forwarded to the US attorney in Delaware.

Republicans have questioned whether the US attorney there followed up on the allegations made in the interview.

 

Jesus this reads like propaganda out of 1984. How could anyone read this and think this is a legitimate article?

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15 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

Jesus this reads like propaganda out of 1984. How could anyone read this and think this is a legitimate article?

Garbage news and basically state run leftist media at this point. Barr already confirmed this had nothing to do with any Giuliani claims or documents.