Smoking gun on Joe Biden

[Kidlicious]

No. They found plenty of evidence of wrongdoing. There just haven't been indictments.

Trump wanted a report to come out before the election and maybe there should have been, because the voters should know everything before they vote. On the other hand if you don't know how corrupt Biden is at this point you are just stupid.

[-Jrabbit]

The Johnson investigation literally ended with exactly what Johnson and Grassley had when they started: that Hunter Biden's Burisma gig was awkward but not illegal, and the Joe did nothing wrong.

Published Sept. 23, 2020 - Updated Sept. 28, 2020
WASHINGTON — An election-year investigation by Senate Republicans into corruption allegations against Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son, Hunter, involving Ukraine found no evidence of improper influence or wrongdoing by the former vice president, closing out an inquiry its leaders had hoped would tarnish the Democratic presidential nominee.

All 10 witnesses interviewed by investigators had testified that neither Mr. Biden nor anyone else had altered American policy because of his son. Every witness stated that Hunter Biden and his associates had no role in the formulation of U.S. policy, that Hunter Biden’s role did not influence U.S. foreign policy decisions, and that Vice President Biden carried out U.S. foreign policy in the interest of the United States.

The lack of meaningful new information and the overlap with a Russian disinformation campaign that American intelligence officials have said is designed to denigrate Mr. Biden only fed charges by Democrats and Mr. Biden’s campaign that Mr. Johnson had abused his Senate powers.

An 87-page report summing up the findings, released jointly on Wednesday by the Senate Homeland Security and Finance Committees, contained no evidence that the elder Mr. Biden improperly manipulated American policy toward Ukraine or committed any other misdeed. In fact, investigators heard witness testimony that rebutted those charges.

[Kidlicious]

"Awkward?" What a joke. You aren't even believable. You call that awkward?

[-Jrabbit]

But hey, if you want to talk about corrupt public officials, by all means, let's talk about the Trump administration's breathtaking mountain of guilt. And their inability to find a single Democrat worthy of arrest and trial, despite being the party in charge of the courts, the intelligence community, and the Justice Dept.

[Kidlicious]

You have nothing. You have nothing but lies, no evidence.

[-Jrabbit]

Dude, I have convictions. As well you know. Or rather, Team Trump has convictions.

[Kidlicious]

93% not evidence of wrongdoing, right JR? No, it's actually 100% evidence of wrongdoing. And no it isn't what they started with. They found more evidence of corruption, for example getting paid $3.5m from the Mayor of Moscow's wife.

Stop with the fake news. Stop defending corruption.

"Senate Republicans release explosive report on Hunter Biden, Burisma


By Emily Jacobs and Bruce Golding

September 23, 2020 | 8:31am | Updated

DEALINGS WITH CHINA WAS A JOB FOR HIS SON.
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Former President Barack Obama’s administration ignored “glaring warning signs” when then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son joined the board of a Ukrainian energy company owned by a corrupt oligarch, according to a report released by Republican senators on Wednesday.

Hunter Biden’s position with the Burisma natural-gas firm — which paid him “as much as $50,000 per month” — “created an immediate potential conflict of interest” because his dad, now President Trump’s Democratic opponent in the Nov. 3 election, was involved in US policy toward Ukraine, the report says.

The report, released by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), also says the younger Biden’s job “was problematic and did interfere in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine.”



“Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board negatively impacted the efforts of dedicated career service individuals who were fighting to push for anticorruption measures in Ukraine,” the report says.

The 87-page report notes that two American officials — George Kent, former acting deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Kyiv, and senior State Department official Amos Hochstein — “raised concerns” to Biden’s staff and directly to Biden, respectively.

“Despite the efforts of these individuals, their concerns appear to have fallen on deaf ears,” the report says.

“Moreover, this investigation has illustrated the extent to which officials within the Obama administration ignored the glaring warning signs when the vice president’s son joined the board of a company owned by a corrupt Ukrainian oligarch.”

The report notes that Joe Biden’s staff advised him not to publicly accuse Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky of corruption, even though he allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to avoid prosecution and former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland “testified that confronting oligarchs would send an anticorruption message in Ukraine.”


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“Biden’s unwillingness to confront a man whom State [Department] officials considered to be an ‘odious oligarch’ demonstrated a lack of leadership, but also raises a serious question about why Vice President Biden would avoid linking Zlochevsky with corruption,” the report says.

The report — which relies in part on information contained in 14 “confidential” reports — alleges that Hunter Biden and other Biden family members “cashed in” on Joe Biden’s vice presidency through a “vast financial network that connected them to foreign nationals and foreign governments across the globe.”



In addition to his Burisma board seat, the report says, Hunter Biden profited from a “financial relationship” that he and associate Devon Archer had with Russia’s richest woman, Elena Baturina, former wife of the late Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.

In 2014, Baturina wired $3.5 million to a bank account held by Rosemont Seneca Thornton, an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden, the report says.

Baturina also sent 11 wires totaling more than $390,000 to a company called BAK USA LLC, with nine transactions — amounting to about $240,000 — transferred through a Rosemont Seneca Thornton account, the report says.

BAK USA was a start-up, computer tablet manufacturing company in Buffalo that Gov. Cuomo repeatedly touted as a “success” for his “START-UP NY” development program before the company abruptly shut down in 2018, filing for bankruptcy protection the following year.
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The report alleges that Hunter Biden also had “business associations” with “Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and the People’s Liberation Army,” including energy tycoon Ye Jianming, who was jailed in 2018 on suspicions of bribery, and Ye’s associate Gongwen Dong.

“Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow,” the report says, adding that Hunter Biden and Gongwen “opened a bank account…to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with [Joe Biden’s brother] James Biden and [James’ wife] Sara Biden.”

The report notes that its findings are based on “documents and testimony from US agencies and officials, not a Russian disinformation campaign as our Democratic colleagues have falsely stated.”

It also accuses John Kerry of having “falsely claimed” to reporters last year that he didn’t know Hunter Biden had been named to the Burisma board when Kerry was secretary of state under Obama.

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“I had no knowledge about any of that. None. No,” Kerry said, according to an account posted on Twitter at the time.

The report cites an email sent to Kerry’s chief of staff on May 13, 2014 — one day after Hunter Biden joined the Burisma board — by Kerry’s stepson, Chris Heinz, to inform him of the development.
Sen. Ron JohnsonToni Sandys/Pool via Reuters
Heinz, who was Hunter Biden’s business partner, also wanted to “distance himself” from the decision, according to the report.

“Moreover, in May 2014, Secretary Kerry’s chief of staff, David Wade, briefed him about press inquiries specifically relating to Heinz, Hunter Biden, and Burisma,” the report says.

Earlier this week, Biden’s campaign said the Senate Republicans’ probe was based on “a long-disproven, hard-core right-wing conspiracy theory” and a spokesman on Wednesday accused Johnson of “diverting” attention from Trump’s “catastrophically botched” handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a competing report, Senate Democrats also accused Johnson of having “repeatedly impugned Vice President Biden in public on the basis of secret evidence he claimed to have obtained.”

“Contrary to his public insinuations, the Chairmen’s investigation found no evidence that the former vice president did anything wrong in his efforts to carry out official U.S foreign policy in Ukraine,” the Democrats added.
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A Kerry spokesman didn’t deny the report’s allegations about his remarks but said Kerry “thinks this is a fraudulent issue aimed at distracting from the fact that Donald Trump is so afraid of Joe Biden that he went and got himself impeached.”

[Kidlicious]

https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/gop-senators-release-explosive-report-on-hunter-biden-burisma/

[-Jrabbit]

LOL, Giuliani.
LOL, having nothing on Joe Biden so they attack his kid.
LOL, Trump kids being 100% silver spoon do-nothings living on nepotism.
LOL the NY Post.

[Kidlicious]

Nobody believes that Biden is innocent when his kid was doing all that. Get that out of here. Not believable.

[Kidlicious]

10 years his crackhead son was making millions of dollars in bribes and JR thinks Joe Biden knows nothing.

[-Jrabbit]

You clearly haven't even bothered to pull up Hunter Biden's actual work history. Nor his sobriety history. You're just repeating unproven accusations from your favorite sources and claiming "anything else is a lie." You are being conned again, but hey, you seem to love the experience. Enjoy!

[Kidlicious]

Here's the thing JR, you can't claim to not know anything after you've been told. He was already told what Hunter Biden was doing. He just said it's all lies. Bull****. Hunter spoke at the DNC convention. Nobody is that stupid unless they want to be.

[Jon Miller]

But hey, if you want to talk about corrupt public officials, by all means, let's talk about the Trump administration's breathtaking mountain of guilt. And their inability to find a single Democrat worthy of arrest and trial, despite being the party in charge of the courts, the intelligence community, and the Justice Dept.

Yeah, there is no evidence that this accusation is true (so it is a wild accusation). Even if we accept that this is evidence, it is still not strong evidence. Even if we the accusation were true, Biden would still be orders of magnitude less corrupt than Trump.

I guess it is my fault for engaging crazy.

JM

[-Jrabbit]

It's all just an attempt to avoid actual issues-based campaigning, not unlike refusing to debate. And ALL witnesses in the Johnson probe stated there was no influence on policy. This is great catnip for the base (like Kid), but it's not going to win votes.

[Kidlicious]

If you want to vote for corruption no one can stop you.

[-Jrabbit]

You already have, and clearly you're planning to do it again.

[Ming]

FBI probing if emails part of influence operation

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is investigating whether emails that were published by the New York Post related to Joe Biden's son, Hunter, are connected to a possible Russian influence operation to spread disinformation, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The newspaper said in its story Wednesday that it had obtained a hard drive from Rudy Giuliani containing the emails, and that the messages were found on a laptop that had been left last year at a Delaware computer repair shop for service but never retrieved.
The unlikely account of how the emails surfaced raised immediate questions about Russian involvement, particularly because U.S. officials have warned that Russia — which backed Trump’s 2016 campaign through hacking and a covert social media campaign — is interfering again this year.
The episode is being investigated as part of a possible Russian influence operation, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press to discuss an ongoing matter. It underscores the extent to which Giuliani, through his activities, is a risk to a White House that spent years shadowed by a federal investigation into whether Trump associates had coordinated with Russia.
The authenticity of the emails remained unclear as of Friday, including whether they were hacked or possibly forged or both. Giuliani did not respond to an Associated Press request for comment, but he said in a Fox News interview Friday that the material was “authentic as hell.”
An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment Friday, citing the bureau's practice of neither confirming nor denying investigations.

[Kidlicious]

Oh yeah, another deep state anonymous source. I have no doubt that they already have investigated this. Do you doubt that?

[Kidlicious]

Yeah, there is no evidence that this accusation is true (so it is a wild accusation). Even if we accept that this is evidence, it is still not strong evidence. Even if we the accusation were true, Biden would still be orders of magnitude less corrupt than Trump.

I guess it is my fault for engaging crazy.

JM

The evidence isn't authenticated yet. Don't twist it.

[-Jrabbit]

It is, however, debunked, based on serial numbers and warranty dates.

[Ming]

The evidence isn't authenticated yet.

Yep... and it's been sitting out there for a long time and NO ONE has been able to do so.

[Kidlicious]

Yep... and it's been sitting out there for a long time and NO ONE has been able to do so.

If it was fake the FBI would be all over that and you know it.

Oh and you falling for Russia Russia Russia again is hilarious.

[-Jrabbit]

Just like the US intelligence community.

[Ming]

If it was real, the FBI would have been over it a long time ago...
And I'm just posting what's in the news... just like all the hilarious crap you post from your alt right fake news sites.

[Kidlicious]

Nope. That's deep state fake news. We did this for 3 years. But you don't learn.

The FBI already checked this out. That's why they took the laptop, but the shop owner made copies.

[Ming]

Nope. That's deep state fake news. We did this for 3 years. But you don't learn.

The FBI already checked this out. That's why they took the laptop, but the shop owner made copies.

Blah blah blah... you post stuff from tabloids and alt right sites, and everything else is just fake news.
The FBI has had it for a long time... and they must not have been too impressed with your "smoking gun" because they sure as hell didn't act on it. The whole story is full of holes, and there is no proof it's even Hunters.
But yeah... deep state this, fake news that... typical response from you.