Biden corruption
February 26, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Miranda Devine addresses “The Smirnov turnoff” in today’s New York Post column “New election year means another Russiagate as Biden, Dems try to smear impeachment probe.” Devine is of course the invaluable historian of The Laptop From Hell and the Biden family business. Here is the opening of her column: For the 2016 election, Democrats launched Russiagate 1.0: the Trump-Russia collusion hoax proven groundless by the Mueller investigation. For the
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February 24, 2024 — Scott Johnson
We are apparently meant to take last week’s indictment of long-time FBI confidential human source Alexander Smirnov as a repudiation of what we have learned about the Biden family business. Smirnov’s indictment was sought by Biden-friendly United States Attorney David Weiss. It is linked in the related Department of Justice press release. Kim Strassel observes in her weekly Wall Street Journal column: “If th[e allegations are] true, it ought to
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February 22, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Tony Bobulinski testified before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees this past Tuesday. The transcript of his testimony and related exhibits have been posted online here. Given Bobulinski’s first-hand knowledge of the Biden family business, I take it that committee Democrats including Jamie Raskin could not deal squarely with Bobulinski’s testimony on the merits. Bobulinski’s counsel responds to Raskin’s comments at length in the 15-page letter below. Miranda Devine comments:
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February 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Via InstaPundit, re today’s absurd order from rogue judge Arthur Engoron: Between the United States and Russia, one country just arbitrarily seized the assets of an oligarch opposed to the regime, and is trying to jail him The other country is Russia — Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) February 16, 2024 There are obvious differences between our regime and Russia’s, starting with the fact that the Biden Administration has not yet actually
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February 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden has lied baldly about the corrupt Biden family business in which he was the one and only product, just as he has lied baldly about the related Hunter Biden laptop material he knows to be authentic — as reported in the New York Post. Everyone with half a brain understands that to be the case. As we all saw in 2020, Tony Bobulinkski is a powerful witness with
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January 17, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Antony Blinken instigated the public statement signed by the Deep State 51 on behalf of the 2020 Biden presidential campaign. The public statement asserted that the New York Post’s “Hunter Biden story [was] Russian disinfo” — the story based on the Post’s access to emails in the hard drive of Hunter Biden’s laptop. Reporter Natasha Bertrand was given the statement and disseminated it in the linked Politico story. Then candidate
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January 10, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The House Oversight Committee interviewed Hunter Biden’s art dealer yesterday behind closed doors. His name is Georges Bergès. Committee chairman James Comer has posted a statement (followed by key takeaways). It seems that not all was as it was cracked up to be, so to speak, by the Biden White House. Indeed, it seems that nothing was as it was cracked up to be by the Biden White House. This
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December 23, 2023 — John Hinderaker
In the wake of the Colorado Supreme Court’s outrageous ruling that bars Donald Trump from the ballot in that state, many Republicans have urged that states controlled by the GOP do the same thing to Joe Biden. My point here is not to endorse that strategy–partisan majorities banning their political opponents from participating in elections is obviously not a good thing–but rather to note that, if Republican-leaning courts in some
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December 22, 2023 — Scott Johnson
In her Devine Online newsletter yesterday, Miranda Devine foresaw “major developments from the impeachment inquiry next year.” After a brief preview of anticipated developments, she links to Paul Sperry’s RealClearInvestigations column “Who Is Sara Biden? Joe’s In-Law Emerges as Central Figure in Foreign Cash Deals.” Sperry provides a lucid account of the Biden family business, Lion Hall edition. The corruption is patent. All roads lead to Dementia Joe. We all
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December 20, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Democrats desperate to shield Joe Biden now generally characterize the issue over his corruption as whether Joe received financial benefit from Hunter’s business dealings. (E.g., USA Today, “House Republicans allege that Biden financially benefited from his family’s foreign business dealings, but they have yet to provide evidence showing Biden reaped personal benefits from his family’s overseas affairs.”) Putting aside the fact that there is indeed evidence that some of Hunter’s
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December 19, 2023 — Scott Johnson
This past weekend Washington Post reporter Michael Kranish worked up a detailed Sunday morning special on the Biden family business: “James Biden’s dealmaking caught on FBI tapes in unrelated bribery probe.” Subhead: “While Joe Biden campaigned in Mississippi, his brother planned to build a powerful consulting business — a deal that brought him to the periphery of a federal case.” Kranish’s story on the Biden family business goes back to
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December 18, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Washington Post White House reporter Tyler Pager has an unintentionally funny story reporting that President Biden is frustrated with his increasingly dismal poll numbers. He deems them humiliating for a man of his stature. He has ordered his team do something about them. Biden conceives the problem as one of marketing. His policies, as we all know, have brought us peace and prosperity. For some reason or other, however, claiming
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December 17, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Miranda Devine’s December 14 New York Post column is keyed to Hunter Biden’s public statement defying the congressional subpoena for his testimony last week. Jonathan Turley covers Biden’s illegal contempt of Congress in a column that is now posted at his site. In his statement, Hunter Biden played his “poor, poor pitiful me” card and vowed to defend his Daddy from the bad guys (“MAGA Republicans,” in case you hadn’t
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December 10, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
As John pointed out yesterday, Joe Biden is “orders of magnitude dumber than a normal president,” and John is not the first to notice. As Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden explained in 2010, Joe Biden was an “indifferent student,” a bottom-feeder who exaggerated his scholastic record and “borrowed liberally, and without attribution,” from British politician Neil Kinnock. The Delaware Democrat, “makes few references to books and learned influences,” betraying
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December 10, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Professor Jonathan Turley opens his current column in The Hill with a quote from Aldous Huxley: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” Chronicling the profusion of lies about which we have commented many times previously, as I did here on Friday, Professor Jonathan Turley observes: [T]he evidence has only mounted against President Biden. It is now clear that Biden lied when he maintained as
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December 8, 2023 — Scott Johnson
A Central District of California federal grand jury has handed up a nine-count indictment of Hunter Biden on tax charges. Three of the charged crimes are felonies. The rest are misdemeanors. The detailed 56-page indictment is posted online here and embedded in Victor Nava’s New York Post story here. The gist of the case is set forth in paragraph 4 of the indictment: “The Defendant engaged in a four-year scheme
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December 7, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday President Biden appeared to make remarks urging Congress to pass his national security supplemental funding request. The White House has posted the transcript here. New York Post reporter Steven Nelson had this exchange with Biden (video below): Q President Biden, on Ukraine and also China. President Biden, on Ukraine and also China. There’s polling by the Associated Press that shows that almost 70 percent of Americans, including 40 percent
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