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Biden Family Business Headlines
The US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has very belatedly released its report on Hunter Biden and, by implication, Joe Biden. This matters because it shows how Joe Biden and his people operate when it comes to family business. The report is available directly at “Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns.”
This family is deeply compromised, for real, by its greed, entangled with Putin’s and Xi’s agents. Then again, that has been a “dog bites man” story for the Democrats since at least Teddy Kennedy. To whet your appetite, here is the table of contents:
III. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
IV. THE VICE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE AND STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS WERE AWARE OF BUT IGNORED CONCERNS RELATING TO HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.
V. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY FALSELY CLAIMED HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.
VI. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS VIEWED MYKOLA ZLOCHEVSKY AS A CORRUPT, “ODIOUS OLIGARCH,” BUT VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS ADVISED NOT TO ACCUSE ZLOCHEVSKY OF CORRUPTION.
VII. WHILE HUNTER BIDEN SERVED ON BURISMA’S BOARD, BURISMA’S OWNER, ZLOCHEVSKY, ALLEGEDLY PAID A $7 MILLION BRIBE TO UKRAINE’S PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE TO CLOSE THE CASE.
VIII. HUNTER BIDEN: A SECRET SERVICE PROTECTEE WHILE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.
IX. OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS AND A DEMOCRAT LOBBYING FIRM HAD CONSISTENT AND SIGNIFICANT CONTACT WITH FORMER UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL ANDRII TELIZHENKO.
X. THE MINORITY FALSELY ACCUSED THE CHAIRMEN OF ENGAGING IN A RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AND USED OTHER TACTICS TO INTERFERE IN THE INVESTIGATION.
XI. HUNTER BIDEN’S AND HIS FAMILY’S FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS WITH UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN, KAZAKH AND CHINESE NATIONALS RAISE CRIMINAL CONCERNS AND EXTORTION THREATS.
Each of these chapter titles would make a great news headline, grabbing eyeballs and driving clicks. For some weird reason, I am not seeing any such headlines from the alphabet soup networks.
Published in Politics
Scott Adams the other day was opining that if the Russian oligarch wired $3.5 million to Hunter to invest then there was not something necessarily wrong unless the fees were excessive. The report states that the money was wired to the company account for “consulting services”. Well, OK then.
Most Americans are unaware that the entire ordeal that descended on the citizens of The Ukraine was an American initiated Civil War/Conflict with Russia that our CIA and government officials like VP Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and Obama brought about, largely for the purpose of having a company whom they could control and that had property rights over the massive shale oil resources of the Ukraine. That company was the one in which Hunter Biden had been given so much power and control.
For the Ukrainian people themselves, this was a catastrophic meltdown of their society, resulting in close to 200,000 people becoming refugees.
Skin headed Nazis were utilized to sow discord, and it was rumored that American oligarchs (perhaps the Bidenfamily?) utilized their positions of power inside the US government to promote this discord.
This 14 minute video explains the entire mess from one of the few objective viewpoints that I still can find up regarding the coup that overthrew Yanukovich and the resulting months of conflict. It even mentions the $ 5 billion dollars leaked by the USA to political and militant elements inside Ukraine to cause division and war.
https://yandex.com/video/preview/?filmId=13635883002904667456&reqid=1601085502559814-180921271915678030100102-man2-6064&text=ukraine+%2B+conflict+%2B+russia+today
I find certain parallels between events in Ukraine to what is going on in the USA today. For one thing, Yanukovich was wary of trade agreements due to the harm he realized would occur to his nation’s middle class. (Hmm who does that sound like?) That approach caused him to be held with disdain and hatred by the oligarchs in both that nation and ours, which eventually brought about his ouster.
Even the overthrow of Yanukovich did not end the problems that the nation faced. After a referendum in the south eastern area of Ukraine required negotiation, the government in Kiev did not wish to conduct any meetings for such negotiation and instead began bombarding that area with heavy duty military equipment. Moral of the tale: do not ever stand up to the corrupt elements in the nation of the Ukraine, or to the “liberals” controlling Washington DC.
Archive this , the memory holes are firing up like the California hills.
This must really be getting some traction – the New York Times finally dropped their story about Trump’s taxes. We all knew it would be coming soon, but they’re trying to get out ahead of what they know is going to be a disastrous debate performance and Biden’s obvious corruption.
Plus anyone who has ever known an accountant knows that someone like Donald Trump, who has always paid his legal people and his accounting people big bucks, is not even going to be held liable for any matters that are revealed about his past tax situation.
Once the accountant hands the multi millionaire the tax work, the multi millionaire hands a statement the accountant needs to sign, to the effect that any and all mistakes in the reporting of the monies to the IRS are the responsibility of the accountant or accounting firm. The client, in this case Trump, is off the hook.
The only exception to this that would occur is if some element in fraud occurred: for instance, the multi millionaire had a fraudulent method of accounting that resulted in his or her under reporting their income.
The New York Times just reported that Trump paid no federal income taxes in 11 of 18 years, and only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017.
Fake news source.
All I want to know is did Hunter pay taxes.
Seriously, Harry Reid attacked Trump over this years ago and demanded he release his tax returns. I suspected then that Reid had info he shouldn’t have had, and not being a newspaper, he couldn’t hide behind the 1st and leak it himself.[ignore. Senior moment. Confused Reid attack on Romney and Schumer attacks on Trump]All those Dems have had this information for years. That is why they have screamed to have them released for years. It was probably leaked by someone in the Obama administration. They must really be desperate to leak this now, to insult a business owner who loses money some years, when so many business owners are hurting now. It is a nonsensical blunder of epic proportions.
Of course, the NYT also claimed, in previous stories, that he paid millions of dollars in taxes for those years, so which of those stories is a lie? One, the other, or both?
In other words, he paid what he was required to pay. (If we hadn’t, that would be the news.)