but...but....Hunter Biden!!

[saltydog]

Even Fox knows there's nothing there but Cheezy can't break away from the KKKult!

[CHEEZY17]

So shes part of the "Nuh uh!" crowd and shes on FOX News?
I thought FOX was just full of right wing talking points 24 hours a day?

[saltydog]

So shes part of the "Nuh uh!" crowd and shes on FOX News?
I thought FOX was just full of right wing talking points 24 hours a day?

Looks like your political Viagra is drying up.

[CHEEZY17]

So shes part of the "Nuh uh!" crowd and shes on FOX News?
I thought FOX was just full of right wing talking points 24 hours a day?

Looks like your political Viagra is drying up.

OK, chief.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-busine ... =106106433

Trump's businesses received millions from foreign entities during his presidency, House report says

Former President Donald Trump's businesses received millions of dollars from foreign entities located in 20 different countries during his presidency, according to a new report released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight committee.

The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, released the report and provided documents from Trump's former accounting firm that show that 20 governments, including China and Saudi Arabia, paid at least $7.8 million during Trump's presidency to business entities that included Trump International Hotels in Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, and Trump Towers in New York.

The 156-page report by House Democrats is entitled "White House For Sale."

In the forward to the report, Raskin wrote, "By elevating his personal financial interests and the policy priorities of corrupt foreign powers over the American public interest, former President Trump violated both the clear commands of the Constitution and the careful precedent set and observed by every previous commander in chief."

The reports says that, according to "limited records" obtained by the committee, Saudi Arabia likely paid Trump-owned business at least $615,422 during Trump's first term in office.

"While the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was making these payments, President Trump chose Saudi Arabia as the destination of his first overseas trip -- a choice that was unprecedented among U.S. presidents," the report says.

The report claims that the payments violated the Constitution's foreign emoluments clause, a rule that bars the president and other federal officials from accepting money or gifts from foreign governments without Congressional approval.

"Through entities he owned and controlled, President Trump accepted, at a minimum, millions of dollars in foreign emoluments in violation of the United States Constitution," Democrats write in the report. "The documents obtained from former President Trump's accounting firm demonstrate that four Trump-owned properties together collected, at the least, millions of dollars in payments from foreign governments and officials that violated the Constitution's prohibition on emoluments 'of any kind whatever' from foreign governments."

In a statement to ABC News, Eric Trump, the former president's son who helps run the Trump Organization, said the House Democrats' "narrative is insane," citing profits that Trump voluntary donated to the Treasury Department to offset his business earnings from foreign entities.

"We do not have the ability or viability to stop someone from booking through third parties - Expedia etc - hence the voluntary donation of profits ... which has been covered ad nauseam," Eric Trump said. "That narrative is insane, especially given there is no President in United States history who was tougher on China than Donald Trump… a President who introduced billions and billions of dollars worth of tariffs on their goods and services."

ABC News reported in 2018 that Trump had voluntarily donated $151,470 to the U.S. Treasury, which a Trump Organization attorney said "fulfills our pledge to donate profits from foreign government patronage at our hotels and similar business during President Trump’s term in office."

However, government ethics watchdogs questioned the amount of the donation, saying the methodology used did not require the Trump Organization to account for revenues earned from foreign-government patrons of unprofitable Trump properties.

In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed lawsuits accusing Trump of profiting from his presidency, on the grounds that he is no longer in office.

[CHEEZY17]

So actual businesses?

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So actual businesses?

Hack sees no problems in actual corruption from his boy, instead prefers making up phantom claims against the current president with no evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Emoluments_Clause

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https://www.newsweek.com/jim-jordan-bid ... er-1858594

Jim Jordan Comes Up Empty

Jim Jordan claimed the Republican Party had secured "damning evidence" in President Joe Biden's impeachment inquiry, despite that evidence coming from a Hunter Biden associate who said he was not aware of any wrongdoing by the president.

In December, the House of Representatives voted to formalize an impeachment inquiry into the president. It followed months of investigating allegations that he intervened and benefited from his son Hunter Biden's business dealings with China and Ukraine while the elder Biden was vice president under former President Barack Obama, including accusations of taking bribes.

The allegations have been denied by the White House and Hunter Biden's lawyers, with Democrats criticizing the GOP's impeachment inquiries for failing to find any meaningful evidence against the president.

Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary, one of the panels involved in the inquiry, was asked by Fox News on Sunday about how it was progressing. He said "the most damning evidence we got thus far is what we got from Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's business partner, because he says what they were selling was the brand.

"Remember, there's no business here. They're selling access to the brand. The brand is the big guy. The brand is Joe Biden. Devon Archer said that."

Jordan added that Hunter Biden was asked by Ukrainian energy firm Burisma leaders to "weigh in with D.C. and his father to help them deal with the pressure they are under."

However Archer, who served with Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma and testified before the House Oversight Committee in July 2023, has not confirmed Republican accusations of bad practice by Joe Biden.

In a transcript of his testimony before the committee, he was asked if he was aware of any wrongdoing by the president.

"No. I'm not aware of any," Archer said.He also said he had no knowledge of Joe Biden having involvement with Burisma and rejected claims that the president and Hunter Biden each accepted a $5-million bribe from an official within the company.

Newsweek has contacted representatives of Jordan by email to comment on this story.

Archer said Hunter Biden did have phone calls with his father during business meetings. Although he said these were casual, he told Tucker Carlson in an interview after his testimony: "In the rearview, it's an abuse of soft power."

Asked by Rep. Dan Goldman, a Democrat from New York, whether it was "fair to say that Hunter Biden was selling the illusion of access to his father," Archer responded, "Yes."

In a statement from the White House when the inquiry was announced in December, Biden said: "Instead of doing their job on the urgent work that needs to be done, they are choosing to waste time on this baseless political stunt that even Republicans in Congress admit is not supported by facts."

"There is a lot of work to be done," Biden said. "But after wasting weeks trying to find a new speaker of the House and having to expel their own members, Republicans in Congress are leaving for a month without doing anything to address these pressing challenges."

[CHEEZY17]

LOLZ.

[Biker]

Yeah, but is there video of him with a bag of cash??11?!11? Didn't think so!

Hunter Biden's art dealer gives latest evidence shredding WH narrative on Biden family finances

Georges Berges tells Congress he did not communicate with the White House about an ethics agreement for Hunter art sales and that most of the first son's paintings were purchased by Democratic Party donors and at least one political appointee.

The Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, until it wasn't. Joe Biden never met any of the family's business partners or got proceeds from the ventures, until he did. And now there was an ethics agreement to govern Hunter Biden art sales during the Biden presidency until the art dealer in the middle of those sales revealed there wasn't, at least to his knowledge.

Renowned international art dealer Georges Bergès, whose galleries range from Berlin to New York, and represents Hunter Biden as an artist is the latest figure to blast a hole into the Biden White House narrative about the millions the first family has collected.

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Actual president's, now former, corruption exposed. Sycophants exposed as having zero evidence against the current president. Usual dupes are turning yet another blind eye to it. Just another day at the forum.

[Biker]

Actual president's, now former, corruption exposed. Sycophants exposed as having zero evidence against the current president. Usual dupes are turning yet another blind eye to it. Just another day at the forum.

I guess Democratic donors just have a natural affinity for HB's art, eh? That's what you're going with?

[Biker]

https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/10/repo ... ack-smoke/

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I guess Democratic donors just have a natural affinity for HB's art, eh? That's what you're going with?

I'm not the dupe that thinks Hunter Biden is somehow the president to be impeached. Feel free to address the actual corruption of an officer of the United States, now former.

[Reservoir Dog]

I guess Democratic donors just have a natural affinity for HB's art, eh? That's what you're going with?

I'm not the dupe that thinks Hunter Biden is somehow the president to be impeached. Feel free to address the actual corruption of an officer of the United States, now former.

At this point, anyone who is still supporting Donald Trump, after all the abhorrent things that he's said and done, and are still making excuses for him... have forfeited their right to complain about absolutely anything any Democrat is doing or will ever do again.
Anyone who is still supporting Donald Trump has zero credibility left. None. Nadda. Zip. Their words are now meaningless.

[Biker]

I guess Democratic donors just have a natural affinity for HB's art, eh? That's what you're going with?

I'm not the dupe that thinks Hunter Biden is somehow the president to be impeached. Feel free to address the actual corruption of an officer of the United States, now former.

Please point to where someone thinks that HB is the president

TIA

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Please point to where someone thinks that HB is the president

TIA

The impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. No evidence against him, but lots of evidence against Hunter Biden. You're welcome. Guess you still haven't learned the difference™.

[Antknot]

[CHEEZY17]

Huh, only took them 4 years to admit it. Wonder why it took so long?

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Bad news for hacks.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 619924007/

FBI informant indicted for lying about Joe and Hunter Biden alleged business dealings

An FBI informant has been indicted by a Justice Department special counsel for allegedly lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden's overseas business dealings, potentially undercutting claims made by House Republicans in their impeachment inquiry of the president.

Alexander Smirnov, 43, was charged with two counts of making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record for information he fed the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Smirnov, who is described in the indictment as an FBI informant since 2010, was arrested Wednesday at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas after a federal grand jury in the Central District of California returned the indictment.

The charges were brought by special counsel David Weiss, who has previously brought tax and gun-related charges against Hunter Biden.

Smirnov is accused of falsely claiming executives of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma admitted to him in 2015 and 2016 that they hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems." Hunter Biden was a Burisma board member at the time.

Smirnov made the claim to investigators in June 2020 when Joe Biden was a presidential candidate.

Prosecutors say Smirnov also lied about Burisma executives telling him they paid $5 million apiece to then-Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter so that Hunter "will take care of all those issues through his dad."

Smirnov's remarks were a reference to a criminal investigation into Burisma by then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. But in reality, according to Weiss, Smirnov only had contact with executives in 2017, at the end of the Obama-Biden administration and after Shokin had already been fired in February 2016.

"In other words," the 37-page indictment reads, Smirnov's involvement with Burisma came when then-Vice President Joe Biden "had no ability to influence U.S. policy and when the Prosecutor General was no longer in office."

Weiss accuses Smirnov of holding a bias against Joe Biden, alleging he "transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against" the president.

Smirnov is accused of repeating the same false claims to FBI agents in September 2023, changing his story about other claims and promoting "a new false narrative after he said he met with Russian officials."

The charges against Smirnov could deliver a damaging blow to House Republicans' efforts to impeach President Joe Biden over unproven claims that he received bribe payments through his son's work in Ukraine in exchange for steering U.S. policy.

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, which has led the investigation into Hunter Biden's business dealings, downplayed Smirnov's arrest, arguing the impeachment inquiry of President Biden is not reliant on information that Smirnov provided to the FBI.

"It is based on a large record of evidence, including bank records and witness testimony, revealing that Joe Biden knew of and participated in his family’s business dealings," Comer said.

But Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden's attorney, called the indictment of Smirnov "just another example" of House Republicans "peddling falsehoods based on dishonest, uncredible allegations and witnesses.”

“For months we have warned that Republicans have built their conspiracies about Hunter and his family on lies told by people with political agendas, not facts," Lowell said. "We were right and the air is out of their balloon."

[CHEEZY17]

Oh noes! Does that mean the Biden brand shell companies that received foreign money and then dispersed it to at least 9 Biden family members and the corroborating bank documents on the laptop are all fake?

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Poor hack's brain short circuits over yet another plank of his flimsy impeachment crusade coming up false.

[Reservoir Dog]

Poor hack's brain short circuits over yet another plank of his flimsy impeachment crusade coming up false.

The backbone of Comer's sham "investigation" gets arrested for lying about EVERYTHING, and Cheezy is going to pretend like it doesn't matter.

[CHEEZY17]

Poor hack's brain short circuits over yet another plank of his flimsy impeachment crusade coming up false.

The backbone of Comer's sham "investigation" gets arrested for lying about EVERYTHING, and Cheezy is going to pretend like it doesn't matter.

Oh Ricky.
The subpoenaed bank documents, the payments, the shell companies, the corroborating data on the laptop didn't just go away.

[Reservoir Dog]

Poor hack's brain short circuits over yet another plank of his flimsy impeachment crusade coming up false.

The backbone of Comer's sham "investigation" gets arrested for lying about EVERYTHING, and Cheezy is going to pretend like it doesn't matter.

Oh Ricky.
The subpoenaed bank documents, the payments, the shell companies, the corroborating data on the laptop didn't just go away.

OMG!!!... Did Hunter Biden make another car payment?!?!?