Deadbeat Dad Hunter Biden Settles Dispute Over Daughter, 4, by Giving Her Some of His Paintings

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And the ‘President’ won’t acknowledge his own grandchild. Could the first family be depraved, immoral and disgusting? And the degenerate media applauds these low lives.

Hunter Biden Settles Dispute Over Daughter, 4, by Giving Her Some of His Paintings

Lunden Roberts, Mr. Biden’s ex-paramour, has agreed to end her effort to change the child’s last name to ‘Biden.’

By: NY Sun, June 30, 2023:

Details of first son Hunter Biden’s child support settlement with his former paramour, Lunden Roberts, have been released by an Arkansas county court which shows that he must pay monthly installments until his daughter’s high school graduation as well as give the child some of his paintings that she can choose to sell or keep.

“The parties having reached an agreement as to all pending matters before the Court, intend that this Agreed Order shall resolve all claims and counterclaims,” an Arkansas county circuit court judge, Holly Meyer, wrote in the order that ends Mr. Biden’s yearslong paternity dispute.

Mr. Biden and Ms. Roberts, through their legal representatives, came to this agreement in the “best interest of the child,” Judge Meyer wrote. Beginning on July 1, Mr. Biden will be required to pay Ms. Roberts a monthly child support payment until their daughter, Navy Roberts, graduates from high school.

During legal proceedings earlier this year, it was disclosed that Mr. Biden had been paying Ms. Roberts $20,000 per month over the course of several years, totaling $750,000 since their daughter’s paternity was confirmed in 2020.

Mr. Biden had recently sought to reduce the payments, saying he’d fallen on hard times. His request led to the embarrassing spectacle of an Arkansas judge ordering the first son to appear in an Arkansas courtroom and release to the court his financial records or be locked up in the Cleburne County Jail. The New York Post first reported last week that Mr. Biden had resolved the child support payment dispute, lowering his monthly commitment to $5,000. Thursday’s filing was heavily redacted and did not reveal the dollar amounts. It did, however, reveal a number of additional conditions which may explain the reported sharp drop in payment size.

Judge Meyer wrote in her ruling that legal representatives had come to the agreement that Mr. Biden would regularly bequeath to Navy a certain number of his paintings “with a minimum size of 24×24.”

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Pamela Geller

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‘Sound of Freedom’ with Jim Caviezel

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Brad Miner reviews a new film about human trafficking – of children. It’s one reason why we know God’s plan includes Hell.

Had this been a poorly executed film, I’d have been tempted to praise it anyway because it’s about the criminal and sinful practice of kidnapping children and selling them as sex slaves. . . and because the estimable Jim Caviezel is the star. But it’s a good thriller featuring fine performances.

So here’s the story of director Alejandro Monteverde’s movie. (Mr. Monteverde is the director of the wonderful 2006 pro-life film, Bella.)

But first, the film features Mr. Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, José Zúñiga, Eduardo Verastegui, Gerardo Taracena, and Bill Camp (who gives the film’s best performance). It’s written by Mr. Monteverde and Rod Barr and produced by Mr. Verastegui.

Tim Ballard (Mr. Caviezel) leaves his position as a Special Agent with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations to become a freelance operative in order to rescue kidnapped kids from cartels, who, in turn, sell the children to human traffickers in Latin America, who, in turn, send them all over the world (including the United States) to be raped by pedophiles.

This is, as they say, based on a true story, which raises the question: Who is the real Tim Ballard? Two U.S. agencies won’t comment on Mr. Ballard’s employment. The Atlantic’s Tiffany Kaitlin writes that “spokespeople for the CIA and DHS said they could not confirm Ballard’s employment record without his written permission, which he did not provide.”

Perhaps Mr. Ballard sees no reason to reveal agency censures for some of the methods he may have employed that resemble those we see Caviezel use in the film. He may have been insubordinate – understandable given the legal restraints placed upon law enforcement, both tactically and geographically.

What is not in dispute is that Ballard founded Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) in 2013, the purpose of which is to cross borders and rescue children held by those traffickers and pedophiles.

According to Wikipedia, O.U.R. has a “question mark rating” from a group called CharityWatch, “because the organization does not disclose financial information.” Interesting. I’ve never heard of CharityWatch, which a separate Wikipedia page notes has a staff of 5. However, the leading rating agency for non-profits is Candid, (200 employees), which operates GuideStar, the leading rater of philanthropies, 501(c)3 organizations, and other non-profits, and they have plenty of financial info on O.U.R. GuideStar rates non-profits as bronze, silver, gold, or platinum, and O.U.R. receives a silver rating. Executive salaries seem unusually high. But this isn’t the Boy Scouts. And some of O.U.R.’s staff risk their lives to accomplish the mission.

But back to the film.

As the credits roll, we see grainy black-and-white video of what appears to be actual security-camera footage of kids being snatched from streets and carried off in cars or motorcycles.

The movie’s dramatic portion begins with a scam talent agent (Cuban actress Yessica Borroto Perryman) recruiting children of various ages (but all minors) on the pretext of an audition. One unsuspecting dad (played by Mr. Zúñiga) drops off both of his excited kids at the audition: Rocio (a superb Cristal Aparicio, who must have been 15 or 16 during filming but looks pre-teen) and her younger brother.

Ballard is able to rescue the little brother in a sting at the U.S.- Mexico border, but there’s no sign of Rocio, which causes his break with DHS. He decides he simply cannot work within U.S. governmental legal restraints.

Along the way to finding where Rocio has been taken, he manages to liberate a remarkable number of kids by organizing a sting – a kind of Fantasy Island for pedophiles – with a former cartel member, Batman (Mr. Camp) and a wealthy risk-taker, Paul (Mr. Verastegui). But the search for Rocio goes on.

And it leads him into the rainforest camp of the drug lord El Alacrán (Mr. Taracena in a typically menacing performance). I won’t reveal how Ballard’s violent confrontation with El Alacrán ends.

I have only one concern about Mr. Monteverde’s direction: he wastes time on silence and faces, especially Mr. Caviezel’s.  Silence, and faces, and darkness, this last a tried-and-true technique for disguising a modest budget. Even the blows struck in a fight sequence are blacked out entirely, although that may have been a way of avoiding an R rating.

The day after I saw the film, a friend sent me a New York magazine story titled, “The Damning Details That Led JPMorgan Chase to Settle with Epstein’s Victims.” Epstein, of course, is Jeffrey Epstein, whose friendship with entrepreneur Leslie Wexner, gave him entrée into the world of international finance.

(A personal note: Mr. Wexner’s association with Epstein saddens me. He is a graduate of Ohio State University and from the department where my late father was chairman when Les Wexner was a student. Wexner denies knowledge of Epstein’s pedophilia. I hope so, because his philanthropy, aiding Ohio State, specifically, and Central Ohio, generally, has been astonishing.)

I mention Epstein because the story of sex trafficking is bigger than many suppose. Its satanic tentacles reach deep into the corridors of wealth and power.

Newsweek has noted some of the men who traveled on Epstein’s private flights to the Caribbean (dubbed the Lolita Express). I won’t list them all, but they include Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Bill Gates, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Newsweek adds that all these names (and others) have also been reported by CNN and AP.

Epstein is, in a way, a man like Theodore McCarrick. As you read about the way Epstein lived, you encounter the same postscript to his crimes as for McCarrick’s – a shrug and a wink: “Everybody knew.”

According to the Human Trafficking Institute, there are currently nearly 5,000,000 sex-trafficking victims of whom 1,000,000 are children, most of them girls.

The U.N. says human trafficking is a $32-billion business – that’s per year. Why, you might ask, would anybody engage in such criminal sin?

Well, with regard child prostitution, the answer is that a child’s pimp can make as much as $250,000 a year from one little girl, whom he will force to perform sex acts up to dozens of times a day.

I’ve been motivated by Sound of Freedom to look around at data – to think outside the box of the film. But I don’t want to wade further into that swamp, largely because the numbers from advocacy groups and law-enforcement agencies vary wildly. Cops may care about victims, but their data are mostly about arrests. Advocates may be sincere, but they’re looking for funding.

For a frightening look at the way some are attempting to normalize pedophilia, see Kimberly Ells’ book The Invincible Family.

I’m the father of sons, but I do have a granddaughter, and her precious life brings starkly to mind the unimaginable horror of this unholy. . .business. It explains why God’s plan includes Hell. And it also calls into question the Catholic Church’s move to separate itself from capital punishment.

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Sound of Freedom is rated PG-13. Angel Studios, of The Chosen fame, is the film’s distributor.

Tickets may be purchased online.

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James H. Toner’s Callused Consciences

AUTHOR

Brad Miner

Brad Miner is the Senior Editor of The Catholic Thing and a Senior Fellow of the Faith & Reason Institute. He is a former Literary Editor of National Review. His most recent book, Sons of St. Patrick, written with George J. Marlin, is now on sale. His The Compleat Gentleman is now available in a third, revised edition from Regnery Gateway and is also available in an Audible audio edition (read by Bob Souer). Mr. Miner has served as a board member of Aid to the Church In Need USA and also on the Selective Service System draft board in Westchester County, NY.

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Florida Officials Nab MS-13 Member on Terror Watch List

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Florida officials have come in contact with roughly 10,000 migrants, including an MS-13 gang member on the U.S. terror watch list, as part of Operation Lone Star, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced last week.

Florida stands as one of four states that recently deployed resources to support Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, focused on addressing the illegal immigration crisis. DeSantis provided an update, revealing that Florida officials have come into contact with roughly 10,000 illegal migrants:

Florida teams have…assisted the Texas Department of Public Safety with over 600 arrests including felony charges for human smuggling, drug paraphernalia, unlawful carrying of weapons, a suspect with a capital murder warrant, and an MS-13 gang member currently on the U.S. Terror Watch List.

“Florida teams continue to intercede [sic] human smugglers and drug traffickers with over 230 pounds of drugs worth an estimated $184,000 seized over the weekend,” the press release added.

Deployed Florida resources include over 300 service members with the Florida National Guard (FLNG), as well as Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agents, Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) troopers, and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) officers.

FHP alone has been involved in over 160 human trafficking arrests, and troopers have assisted with 2,541 traffic stops. They also assisted in “repelling over 100 undocumented migrants attempting to forcibly push towards the U.S. border at Brownsville International Bridge. All responding agencies utilized barriers to hold the line and prevent the migrants from illegally crossing,” according to the press release.

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ALAN DERSHOWITZ: The Case For Impeaching Joe Biden

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When I defended former President Trump against a Democratic effort to impeach and remove him on grounds that I believe are unconstitutional, I predicted that when the Republicans gained control of the House, they would use that precedent as a justification for trying to impeach the next Democratic president.

Sure enough, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has introduced articles of impeachment that replicated what the Democrats had done just three and a half years earlier.

In December 2019, Democrats charged Trump with “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress.” I argued, successfully, that these articles did not satisfy the constitutional criteria for impeachment: treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Nearly all the Republicans in both Houses of Congress agreed with my argument that criminal-type behavior akin to treason or bribery is required, and they voted against the articles of impeachment passed by the Democratic House.

Now some of these same Republicans are supporting Biden’s impeachment on grounds similar to the ones they rejected when they were directed against the Republican president: “Abuse of power” (Article I), and “dereliction of duty.” (Article II).

These alleged grounds do not appear in the Constitution, and the second one was implicitly rejected by the Constitutional Convention when proposals to include “malpractice for neglect of duty,” “neglect in the execution of his office” and “maladministration” were withdrawn at the insistence of James Madison, the father of our Constitution.

Once again partisanship trumps principle, and consistently is regarded as a weakness in the game of political hardball.

The irony is that there might actually be constitutionally valid grounds for impeaching President Biden under two possible circumstances: 1) if it turns out that Biden’s son, Hunter, was actually sitting next to his father and was aware that he invoked the former vice president’s name when he communicated a threat to a Chinese businessman; and 2) if a high crime committed by a former vice president and future president during his interregnum as a private citizen can satisfy the criteria for impeachment. The first is a question of fact; the second is a matter of constitutional interpretation.

I personally doubt that Joe Biden was aware that his son was invoking his name and power when and if he sent that possibly extortionate message. But if that message is real, it certainly requires that Hunter Biden be placed under oath to A) admit or deny he sent the message; B) admit or deny that he was telling the truth when he said his father was sitting next to him; C) admit or deny that his father was aware he was sending the message; D) admit or deny that his father was aware of the content of the message.

The allegation that a former vice president and current president may have been complicit in an arguable extortion plot is a serious one that requires further investigation. In the unlikely event that it were to be confirmed, it would raise a profound, difficult and unresolved question of constitutional interpretations: namely whether a president can be impeached and removed for a high crime committed before he assumed the presidency.

Extortion or attempted extortion is a high crime akin to bribery and thus – if proved – would be a constitutional ground for impeachment if it had been committed by a sitting president during his presidency. But what if it had been committed earlier?

Vice President Spiro Agnew was accused of engaging in extortion and bribery. Although the accusation was made during his vice presidency, the alleged bribery occurred while he was still governor of Maryland (though he allegedly received some of the payments while vice president).

He pleaded no contest to a tax felony as part of a plea bargain that included his resigning the vice presidency. Accordingly, we do not know whether he could have or would have been impeached for conviction while vice president of a serious felony he committed before assuming that office.

It is unlikely that this question will be presented in the Biden case, because credible evidence may not exist proving that Biden committed any impeachable offenses between the time he served as vice president and president — or at any other time. But we won’t know that unless the current allegations, which include claims of incriminating recordings, are thoroughly investigated.

If Republican House members are determined to impeach Biden, they should focus their investigative resources on specific allegations of serious crimes which, if true, may rise to the level of possibly impeachable offense, rather than on vague partisan accusations of misconduct which, even if true, they themselves recently argued would not satisfy the criteria for impeaching and removing a duly elected president.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

AUTHOR

ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, and the author most recently of The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth The Consequences. He is the Jack Roth Charitable Foundation Fellow at Gatestone Institute, and is also the host of “The Dershow” podcast. This is republished from the Alan Dershowitz Newsletter.

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Plan

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The Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan “forgiveness” plan Friday.

The nation’s highest court heard arguments in February in two cases: Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion in Biden v. Nebraska, 6-3, striking down Biden’s plan. The court unanimously denied standing in the Brown case.

Biden announced plans last August to cancel $10,000 of debt for individual student loan borrowers who make less than $125,000 per year ($250,000 for households) and to forgive $20,000 of debt for borrowers who received a Pell Grant.

Biden’s Education Department relied on a post-9/11 law known as the HEROES Act of 2003 that grants the U.S. secretary of education the authority to allow military troops to delay their student debt obligations during national emergencies. (HEROES is an acronym for the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions.)

Roberts ruled that “the HEROES Act provides no authorization for the Secretary’s plan even when examined using the ordinary tools of statutory interpretation—let alone ‘clear congressional authorization’ for such a program.”

“The Supreme Court justices halted President Biden’s abuse of executive authority by holding that his plan to cancel student loan debt for 40 million borrowers was unlawful,” Jack Fitzhenry, a Heritage Foundation legal fellow, and Lindsey Burke, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, said in a statement Friday. “They rightly found that this was an issue for Congress, not the administrative bureaucracy, to decide.” (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news outlet.)

“The astronomical cost to American taxpayers of this ill-conceived program was only surpassed by its unfairness—since it would have punished millions of Americans who dutifully paid off their student loans as well as those who never took out loans in the first place,” Fitzhenry and Burke added. “If we want to help students deal with the increasing cost of getting a degree, giving a bailout to the very colleges and universities that hike prices is not the answer.”

“Breaking up the monopoly of college accreditors and offering students more higher education options, while simultaneously cutting off the open spigot of federal higher education subsidies, is a start,” the Heritage experts added. “Ultimately, students should be equipped with the knowledge and certainty that the student loans they take out can be repaid in future employment.”

“In the [Biden v. Nebraska] case, several states argue that they have standing primarily because if Biden cancels student loan debts, state agencies that the federal government pays to service those loans will lose revenue because they are paid on a per-loan basis,” GianCarlo Canaparo and Fitzhenry of The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies wrote in a commentary for The Daily Signal, adding:

That loss of revenue, in turn, could diminish funds available for scholarships and other education programs meant to benefit citizens of those states. In response, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, representing the Biden administration, argued that those state entities are not really arms of the states that they serve, and thus, the states cannot sue on behalf of the agencies.

Canaparo and Fitzhenry also wrote:

In the [Department of Education v. Brown] case, two borrowers who did not qualify for debt cancellation argued that by creating this program in secret and pursuant to emergency powers, the administration denied them the procedural right to participate in the decision-making process.

In response, Prelogar argued that the law did not require the government to involve anyone in this process.

EJ Antoni, a research fellow for regional economics in Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis, weighed in on the implications of canceling student loan debt, especially the cost.

“The Biden administration’s estimated cost for student loan ‘forgiveness,’ which is actually transference, is laughably low. More reliable estimates, including dynamic estimates which account for incentive effects and behavioral changes, have a price tag north of $1 trillion,” Antoni told The Daily Signal in a written statement. “Not only is there an upfront cost to taxpayers of assuming current student loans, but there are future costs as well.”

“Debt transference incentivizes futures students to borrow more, in anticipation of future transference,” Antoni added. “Additionally, people who wouldn’t have borrowed at all will take out loans for the same reason. That will lead to tuition increases and higher costs of attendance, as has happened every time student loan programs were expanded and borrowing increased.”

Elaine Parker, president of the Job Creators Network Foundation, reacted to Friday’s ruling.

“JCNF’s lawsuit played an integral role in today’s victory. Our case, brought in Texas, blocked the entire program at the district level and stopped the application process, allowing the legal challenge to go to the Supreme Court,” Parker said in a written statement.

“We are all winners today now that this illegal program has been struck down. JCNF looks forward to driving the conversation around meaningful higher education reform to address the root cause of this crisis and make college affordable,” Parker added.

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Supreme Court Sides With Christian Web Designer In Compelled Speech Case

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The Supreme Court sided with a Christian graphic designer Friday, clarifying that a Colorado law cannot compel her to create websites for same-sex couples with messages that violate her religious beliefs.

In a 6-3 ruling, the Court sided with Lorie Smith in her lawsuit challenging the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA), a law that prohibits public accommodations from restricting services based on sexual orientation. Smith, owner of 303 Creative and represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), challenged the law as a violation of the First Amendment: while she wants to create websites that reflect her deeply held belief that marriage is between one man and one woman, the law would compel her to also create wedding websites for same-sex marriages.

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, that “tolerance, not coercion, is our Nation’s answer.”

“The First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands,” he wrote.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor wrote that Smith’s position is “profoundly wrong” in the dissenting opinion, which Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined, stating the Constitution “contains no right to refuse service to a disfavored group.”

“Around the country, there has been a backlash to the movement for liberty and equality for gender and sexual minorities,” Sotomayor wrote. “New forms of inclusion have been met with reactionary exclusion. This is heartbreaking.”

The ruling is also good news for Christian baker Jack Phillips, who remains in court despite his own Supreme Court victory in 2018. The limited grounds of the decision, which found the Colorado Civil Rights Commission demonstrated “impermissible hostility” in Phillips’ case but did not answer whether the law itself violated the First Amendment, allowed another activist to sue Phillips in 2021 after he declined to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.

A Colorado Court of Appeals judge ruled against Phillips in January.

Other ADF cases challenging similar public accommodation laws, like those brought by wedding photographers in Kentucky, New York and Virginia, will likely also be impacted by the Supreme Court’s decision.

“This is a win for all Americans,” said ADF President Kristen Waggoner in a statement. “The government should no more censor Lorie for speaking consistent with her beliefs about marriage than it should punish an LGBT graphic designer for declining to criticize same-sex marriage.”

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KATELYNN RICHARDSON

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Biden Family Received Over $40 MILLION in Bribes, ‘This Was Organized Crime’

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And what exactly did that $40 million buy?

Overseas payments to Biden family could exceed $40M, Comer says: ‘This was organized crime’

By Victor Nava, NY Post, June 28, 2023:

Allegations against Biden and his family are too credible to wipe away with ‘father’s love’ sob story

Members of President Biden’s family may have accepted in excess of $40 million from foreign nationals in exchange for favorable policy decisions, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer suggested Wednesday.

The Kentucky Republican said that his panel has identified “six specific policy decisions” where Biden, 80, took actions that indicate he may have been “compromised,” during an appearance on John Catsimatidis’ “Cats & Cosby Show” on WABC 770 Wednesday.

Comer noted that of the six policy decisions, four of them “were made while Joe Biden was president early on — [where] we cannot come to any other conclusion as to why these decisions were made, other than the fact that this president is compromised.”

“This was organized crime. There’s no other way to define it,” Comer alleged.

The Oversight Committee chairman explained that as recently as “in the last five days” his panel has obtained banking statements and suspicious activity reports that show “more bank accounts, more shell companies and more Bidens” being involved in the family’s overseas influence peddling scheme.

“We’re going to try to determine how much money the Bidens took, and what role Joe Biden played in all of this … It’s a huge puzzle,” Comer said of the GOP-led committee’s investigation.

“Around 30 to 40 different banks, and about that many different shell companies. This is an organized attempt by the Biden family to hide the source of money going into these shell companies, and to distract from the IRS so they wouldn’t have to pay taxes on it. And that’s exactly what the IRS whistleblowers alleged in the transcribed interview with the Ways and Means Committee — that the Biden family never paid money on any of these wires that came into these shell companies,” he added.

IRS whistleblower Gary Shapely told Fox News host Bret Baier on Wednesday that in 2017 and 2018 alone, first son Hunter Biden ducked a $1.2 million tax bill, and that there is likely hundreds of thousands of dollars more in income from previous years that he failed to report.

“I mean to this day, there’s still around $400,000 of unreported income from Burisma [Holdings] in 2014,” Shapley said. “Hunter Biden was told by his partner, Eric Schwerin, that he needed to amend his returns, and he never did.”

Keep reading.

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Pamela Geller

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Trump’s Lead Grows Over DeSantis After New Indictment: Poll

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It’s no contest. Republican voters want President Trump to be our nominee to take on the Left in 2024.

Governor DeSantis should suspend his campaign and endorse President Trump. President Trump should not participate in the primary debates. Have a Trump rally instead.

Trump’s Lead Grows Over DeSantis After New Indictment: Poll

By Daily Beast, June 28th, 2023

Donald Trump’s federal indictment doesn’t seem to be hurting him in the polls. In fact, his lead over rival Ron DeSantis is only growing, according to a new national poll from NBC News. “This is still Donald Trump’s party. The federal criminal indictment did nothing, changed absolutely nothing in this,”

Chuck Todd said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Donald Trump’s lead has nearly doubled—he had a 15-point lead over Ron DeSantis in a multi-candidate field in April.

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Geller Report Staff

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MTG Lays Out How Committees Are Working Together On Biden Family Investigation

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Three House committees are coordinating to investigate the Biden family’s alleged corruption, Republican Georgia Rep. and House Oversight Committee member Marjorie Taylor Greene told the Daily Caller.

The staffs of the Oversight Committee, Ways and Means Committee and Judiciary Committee are “talking” about the evidence on the Biden family, and beginning to “draw lines and connect our investigations,” Greene said.

Oversight has produced a report claiming that members of the Biden family received $10 million from foreign sources through a chain of LLCs while Joe Biden was vice president. The committee’s members also obtained access to a FD-1023 FBI informant report alleging that the president was directly involved in a “pay-to-play” scheme with a foreign national.

The Ways and Means Committee has released IRS whistleblower testimony accusing the Department of Justice (DOJ) of interfering in the investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes. The whistleblower also gave the committee a document that included transcript of an alleged text message in which Hunter Biden threatened a Chinese business associate by saying his father was in the room.

At the same time, the House Judiciary Committee is investigating how the FBI may have “impeded” investigations into the president’s son.

“What you’re seeing right now, is we’ve got three different committees investigating everything around Joe Biden … We can basically draw lines and connect our investigations at this point,” Greene told the Caller. “For example, with the IRS whistleblowers, bringing out all the information that Hunter Biden didn’t pay taxes on $2.2 million worth of revenue that came in from foreign countries and foreign nationals — that aligns with our work on Oversight because we produced through subpoenas — bank statements that show wire transfers to him from China, Romania, Ukraine into these fake LLCs — and then the payments get made to all these Biden family members. So we’re going to cross-reference those.”

Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, Oversight Chairman James Comer and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued a statement Wednesday about their coordination efforts.

“Our committees are pursuing a thorough investigation into this misconduct to deliver the transparency and accountability that the American people demand and deserve,” the congressmen said.

The committees are specifically looking into the alleged 2017 WhatsApp message and its connection to a possible influence peddling scheme.

The timing of the WhatsApp message “cross-references some of those wire transfers from China. So there’s beginning to be some very serious overlap that is putting Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and probably more family members in the cross hairs of prosecution,” Greene said.

Oversight’s investigation is ongoing and the committee hopes to publish a report with information on Hunter Biden’s involvement with foreign prostitutes, Greene previously told the Caller.

The president has dismissed allegations about him as “malarkey,” and the White House Counsel’s office has maintained that the president “was not in business” with his son. Biden yelled “No!” on Wednesday in response to a reporter asking whether he was sitting next to Hunter Biden when he allegedly sent the message.

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DIANA GLEBOVA

White House correspondent.

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Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action Admissions

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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday to block affirmative action in two closely watched lawsuits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC).

The cases, initially brought by a coalition of students, prospective applicants and their parents in 2014, challenged the universities’ use of racial preferences during the admissions process.

“Harvard’s and UNC’s admissions programs violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision in the UNC case and a 6-2 decision in the Harvard case, which Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

“A benefit to a student who overcame racial discrimination, for example, must be tied to that student’s courage and determination,” Roberts wrote. “In otherwords, the student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race.”

“Many universities have for too long done just the opposite,” he continued. “And in doing so, they have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”

The court overruled its 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, which held that race could be a factor in the admissions process.

Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented.

“Gulf-sized race-based gaps exist with respect to the health, wealth, and well-being of American citizens,” Jackson wrote. “They were created in the distant past, but have indisputably been passed down to the present day through the generations.”

Both lawsuits were brought by Students for Fair Admissions Inc. (SFFA), a coalition of over 20,000 prospective higher education students and parents, including one Asian American member who applied for Harvard and six other top schools but was denied admission in 2014, despite his academic record.

SFFA argued that Harvard violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by penalizing Asian American applicants, engaging in racial balancing, overemphasiz­ing race and rejecting race-neutral alter­natives. Similarly, SFFA argued UNC violated Title VI by rejecting alternative race-neutral criteria that could also ensure diversity in the admissions process.

The Supreme Court heard both cases in October. Schools have been anticipating the decision for months, searching for ways to maintain racial quotas without explicitly using racial preferences, such as eliminating standardized testing requirements and recruiting based on geographic region.

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KATELYNN RICHARDSON

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“Endowed By Their Creator”

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Soon another 4th of July will be upon us. On July 4, 1776, 56 men voted to adopt the final wording of the Declaration of Independence. This was a milestone in history.

Today there is a war on America as founded. But those who engage in that fight are attacking the very source of their freedom to so engage. If they are successful, they could well find themselves one day as the victims of their own actions—akin to proponents of cancel culture getting cancelled themselves.

Leon Trotsky was a key architect of the Soviet Union. He was right up there with Lenin and Stalin. But when Lenin suffered a stroke in 1924 and was powerless for a year before he died, Stalin consolidated his power, and Trotsky became a marked man. He eventually had to flee for his life.

I have stayed on the coastline in southern Norway near an island where Trotsky was in hiding for two months in the 1930s until Josef Stalin learned where he was and demanded that Norway give him up. That country refused Stalin’s request, but they also ordered Trotsky to leave Norway. Eventually, in 1940, Stalin’s minions caught up with him and killed him in Mexico.

Because of the depravity of man and the corruption of so many government systems that are not based on the Bible, stories are legion throughout history of one group tyrannizing another.

History is the story of men grasping for power with violent actions and violent repercussions.

But there was something different about the birth of America. Ronald Reagan once said, “Our Founding Fathers, here in this country, brought about the only true revolution that has ever taken place in man’s history. Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another set of rulers.”

The essence of the American experiment is self-rule under God. The Creator is the source of our rights. Undermine belief in the Creator, and eventually we lose those rights.

In the Declaration of Independence, the founders declared independence from Great Britain, while at the same time declaring dependence upon Almighty God. Four times that document mentions God:

  • “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”—referring to God’s natural law and to the

Holy Scriptures;

  • “all Men are created equal, they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”—referring to the Creator God of Genesis;
  • “appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions” —referring to Jesus, who will judge us all,
  • “with a firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence ” —referring to the Biblical God who superintends the affairs of men.

I have been working on several documentaries on America’s founding for Providence Forum (a division of D. James Kennedy Ministries). This 7-part series is called “The Foundation of American Liberty.” In effect, this series sets out to answer these questions: What is right about America, and how did it get that way? The answer is our nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage.

Just in time for July 4th comes the next episode, “Endowed By Their Creator.”

This film deals with the Declaration of Independence, our nation’s birth certificate. Included in this episode is the contrast between the godless French Revolution with the pro-God American War for Independence and the founders’ vision that there would be no separation of God and government.

Some of the guests in the episode make the following points:

  • Dr. Os Guinness: “What’s the basis for freedom?….Freedom comes from Genesis…we are significant and made in the image and likeness of God.”
  • Marshall Foster: “The foundations of liberty have always been the Bible.”
  • Dennis Prager: “Did the Bible play an important role in the founding of America? Do bats and gloves play an important part in the founding of baseball?….There’s no America without God.”

One guest, Dr. Daniel Dreisbach of American University, comments on the impact of our culture’s effectively banishing God from the public square today: “So, we’ve, in a sense, turned the First Amendment right on its head from limiting government to empowering government through the judiciary to decide what people of faith can say and do in the public arena.”

The clash is really between two worldviews. One says there is no creator, no creation, and no moral absolutes. The other is the worldview of the Declaration of Independence, which, as Judge Darrell White, the founder of Retired Judges of America, points out in the program, “speaks of the presuppositional self-evidence of a Creator, creation, and moral absolutes. That is the epicenter of the culture war.”

“Endowed by Their Creator” concludes with President John F. Kennedy’s ringing declaration in his 1961 Inaugural Address that “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.”

This is a point Americans need to relearn.

©2023. Dr. Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. All rights reserved.

GOP has 6 witnesses Who Can Back up Claim AG Lied about DOJ Interference in Hunter Case

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Should be sixty or six hundred FBI agents. Who knew our law enforcement agencies were home to so many cowards?

Hunter Biden prosecutor told six witnesses he couldn’t charge outside Delaware: IRS whistleblower

By  and , NY Post, June 26, 2023:

The federal prosecutor tasked with investigating Hunter Biden told at least six witnesses last year that he lacked authority to charge the first son outside Delaware and was denied special counsel status, according to an IRS whistleblower — and now the House Judiciary Committee wants to talk to them.

Delaware US Attorney David Weiss made the shocking disclosure at an Oct. 7, 2022, meeting with top IRS and FBI officials — contradicting sworn testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland, IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley told the House Ways and Means Committee last month.

“He surprised us by telling us on the charges, ‘I’m not the deciding official on whether charges are filed,’” Shapley recounted in his May 26 testimony, which the committee released Thursday.

“He then shocked us with the earth-shattering news that the Biden-appointed DC US Attorney Matthew Graves would not allow him to charge in his district,” added Shapley, who said Graves’ refusal to prosecute meant that Hunter, now 53, would not face tax charges related to “foreign income from Burisma [Holdings] and a scheme to evade his income taxes through a partnership with a convicted felon” in 2014 and 2015.

“The purposeful exclusion of the 2014 and 2015 years sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material facts,” Shapley went on.

Shapley’s legal team identified four of the six witnesses in the meeting as Baltimore FBI Special Agent in Charge Tom Sobocinski and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Ryeshia Holley, as well as Shapley and his boss, IRS Special Agent in Charge Darrell Waldon.

The IRS whistleblower also named Shawn Weede and Shannon Hanson, who work in Weiss’ office as a criminal chief prosecutor and assistant prosecutor, respectively, as attendees during his testimony.

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Beyond Dobbs: Trump, GOP Rivals Back National Pro-Life Protections

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President Donald Trump has been called many names, but he would like to add one more: abortion terminator.

“We terminated Roe v. Wade,” declared the 45th president on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision on Saturday. He and other GOP presidential hopefuls also advocated expanding protections to unborn children at all levels of government while addressing the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority policy conference.

“There of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life” in a post-Dobbs America. “Every child, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of God, and that is why I have asked Congress to prohibit late term abortion of babies,” he said. “We will defeat the radical Democrat policy of extreme, late-term abortion.”

The former president told the fired-up crowd, during his four years in office, “I got it done.” His record of life-protecting executive actions includes:

  • Trump appointed three of the six justices who handed down the Dobbs ruling, clarifying that the Constitution never contained the unalienable “right” to abortion liberal justices claimed to discover in 1973;
  • Trump introduced the HHS Protect Life Rule, which prevented Title X funds from going to offices that carry out abortions, such as Planned Parenthood — a policy supported by 60% of Americans;
  • He expanded President Reagan’s Mexico City Policy into the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy, which protected U.S. taxpayers from funding abortion or entities that promote abortion overseas — a policy supported by 78% of Americans;
  • Trump’s Justice Department sued the University of Vermont Medical Center in 2020 for forcing a woman to participate in an abortion — a policy supported by 77% of Americans; and
  • President Trump promised to “veto any legislation that weakens existing Federal protections for human life” and sign federal legislation safeguarding unborn children capable of experiencing pain from abortion.

Trump’s forward-looking agenda followed a May 8 meeting with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser, and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) after media outlets reported the president believed all future pro-life legislation should be left at the state level. “The purpose of the meeting was simply to encourage the president to stay strong on the issue of the sanctity of human life,” including the federal level, Perkins told his “Washington Watch” audience two days after the meeting. “I’m pleased to say that the president understood.”

Congress and the next president must take action at the federal level to protect life, Trump’s erstwhile partner-turned-rival Mike Pence told the conference. “Some will come up to this podium and say that the Supreme Court returned the decision back to the states, and nothing more should be done at the federal level,” said Pence during a speech on Friday. “The cause of life is the calling of our time, and we must not rest or relent until we restore the sanctity of life to the center of law in every state in this country.”

“Every Republican candidate for president should support a ban on abortion before 15 weeks as a minimum nationwide standard,” said Pence — a sentiment shared by fellow presidential candidate Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.).

“A minimum ban of 15 weeks on the federal level will help us get to a place where there are fewer late-term abortions, and fewer and fewer abortions,” said Scott. “The radical Left has lost so much faith in America that they’ve lost faith in life itself, but we are here to tell them that life is good — and we are proud to be Americans.”

National pro-life leaders have encouraged presidential hopefuls to embrace the issue of life and expose Democratic candidates who cannot name a single pro-life policy they would enact. “Any candidate who wants to qualify from our perspective of being a candidate has to at least be for the 15-week limit [on abortion]. Otherwise, we will not support you,” Dannenfelser told the Townhall for Life, organized by FRC, last Wednesday night. “You tell me: Can you win the presidency without the pro-life movement?”

Her co-panelist, Senator Graham, introduced a bill protecting children conceived after 15 weeks — the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act (H.R. 8814) — with Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) last fall. Nearly three out of four Americans (72%) believe abortion should not be allowed after 15 weeks — including 60% of Democrats, 70% of registered independents, and 75% of women — according to a Harvard/Harris poll supervised by former Clinton strategist Mark Penn.

Trump’s most significant opponent for the Republican Party presidential nomination, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, told the audience on Friday that he has spent his tenure in the governor’s mansion “promoting a culture of life. That means signing the heartbeat bill into law. That protects unborn children when there’s a detectable heartbeat,” a process that science notes begins by six weeks gestation.

Polls taken in 2017, 2019, and 2022 found a majority of all Americans support heartbeat bills.

“A 15-week ban still includes [94%] of all abortions, so it may be a starting point, but it’s not an end point,” noted Ryan Bomberger, the founder and chief creative officer of The Radiance Foundation, at the opening panel of the Pray Vote Stand Summit in Atlanta last September.

This weekend’s conference also heard from Republican presidential hopefuls such as talk show host Larry Elder, Ohio-based businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, businessman Perry Johnson, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson. Christie, who once advocated a national ban on the abortion of pain-capable babies, now says he “would not be for the federal government being involved in the issue of abortion in any way.”

After the conference, Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison slammed Trump for allegedly endorsing “a national abortion ban” during his speech. But the Democratic Party has also promised to nationalize the abortion issue.

“We are not going to stop until Roe v. Wade is the law of the land once again,” said Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) last week to commemorate the Dobbs anniversary. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) added, “Democrats will never, never stop fighting to protect” abortion-on-demand.

The pair have advanced or voted for sweeping, top-down legislation such as H.R. 8296, the so-called “Women’s Health Protection” Act, which passed the House of Representatives by a near party-line vote last July. The bill would strike down nearly all 1,381 pro-life protections enacted by state legislatures in the 50 years since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, including:

  • prohibiting sex-selective abortions;
  • barring many abortions after viability;
  • preventing abortions on babies 20 weeks or older, who are capable of feeling pain;
  • disallowing abortions undertaken without parental consent or notification;
  • prohibiting telemedicine abortion drug prescriptions, which involve no in-person medical examination;
  • banning unlicensed individuals from carrying out abortions;
  • allowing pregnant mothers to receive scientifically accurate information about their babies’ development, or to see an ultrasound or hear the child’s fetal heartbeat; and
  • allowing pro-life medical professionals the right to refuse to participate in an abortion.

The dueling approaches to abortion grow out of the two parties’ contrasting platforms. The most recent Republican Party platform endorses “state and federal efforts against the cruelest forms of abortion,” including discrimination-based abortions, due to the child’s sex or disability status, and dismemberment abortions. It also calls on Congress to adopt a Human Life Amendment to the U.S. Constitution clarifying that “the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to children before birth.”

The Democratic Party platform promotes taxpayer-funded abortion until the moment of birth, vowing to “codify the right to” abortion, which it euphemistically calls “reproductive freedom.”

Abortion motivates voters in both parties’ bases, and reclaiming the White House in 2024 will take the entire Republican Party constituency, said Trump. “Together, we’re warriors in a righteous crusade to stop the arsonists, the atheists, globalists, and the Marxists — and that’s what they are — and we will restore our republic as one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.”

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Ben Johnson

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2020 Election Rigging Was An Inside Job

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There are numerous bombshells in the congressional testimony of two IRS whistleblowers, but the most significant is that members of the Department of Justice helped to tip the 2020 election to his opponent by slow-walking the investigation into Hunter Biden.’

It’s worse than that.

It’s a lot worse than Goodwin describes – Massive jumps in vote counting in the middle of the night at 3 different locations on election night, stopping the count in key battleground states, more votes cast than registered voters according to the Census number for that day, machine hacking etc etc If the election was fair and straight, the Democrat party of treason would have gone over and above to be transparent and allow a widespread investigation. The cabal is real. But without recourse or redress, it’s just newsprint. Hardly worth the proverbial paper its printed on….

Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss was an inside job

By Michael Goodwin, NY Post, June 24, 2023:

Score half a point for Donald Trump.

It turns out he was on to something with his claim the 2020 election was rigged, though not in the way he thinks.

[….]

In fact, it was an inside job.

There are numerous bombshells in the congressional testimony of two IRS whistleblowers, but the most significant is that members of Trump’s Department of Justice helped to tip the 2020 election to his opponent by slow-walking the investigation into Hunter Biden.

The interference with the probe began as soon as it looked like Joe Biden was going to win the Democrats’ nomination.

That’s the allegation made by supervising agent Gary Shapley, who detailed steps he and other IRS investigators wanted to take to gather evidence against Hunter for massive tax fraud and other crimes.

They planned to execute search warrants in New York, California, Arkansas and Washington, DC.

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Pamela Geller

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House To Begin Impeachment Inquiry Into AG Merrick Garland by July 6th

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Is it more hot air or will anything actually come of it?

Kevin McCarthy says he’ll start impeachment of AG Merrick Garland by July 6 over bombshell IRS whistleblower testimony that he interfered in criminal investigation into Hunter Biden

  • Hunter Biden sent a WhatsApp to Communist Party official Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017, threatening him to follow his ‘orders’ and saying his dad was with him
  • ‘And if it comes true what the IRS whistleblower is saying, we’re going to start impeachment inquiries on the attorney general,’ says McCarthy

By Kelly Laco, Daily Mail,  June 26, 2023

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Republicans will begin an impeachment inquiry into Attorney General Merrick Garland by July 6 following bombshell IRS whistleblower testimony that the top Justice Department official interfered in the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden.

The Republicans plan to take this action following new allegations by IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, a 14-year veteran of the agency, claiming that Hunter Biden has been given preferential treatment by investigators looking into his tax affairs and lying on a gun permit application.

Shapley pointed to a WhatsApp message sent on July 30, 2017, by Hunter to Chinese Communist Party official Henry Zhao, threatening him to follow his ‘orders’ and saying his dad was with him. Shapley alleges he raised concerns about the WhatsApp message to DOJ prosecutors, who rebuffed his concerns.

McCarthy said on Fox & Friends Monday that U.S. Attorney David Weiss – who led the investigation into Hunter and charged the president’s son last week for violating federal tax and gun laws after a 5-year probe – must appear before the House Judiciary Committee.

In addition, the speaker said that an impeachment inquiry into Garland will begin by July 6 if the IRS whistleblower claims check out.

We need to get to the facts, and that includes reconciling these clear disparities. U.S. Attorney David Weiss must provide answers to the House Judiciary Committee.

The president’s son was staying at the guest house of Biden’s Delaware home when he wrote to Communist Party official Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017, threatening him to follow his ‘orders’

The president’s son was staying at the guest house of Biden’s Delaware home when he wrote to Communist Party official Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017, threatening him to follow his ‘orders’

‘By July 6, because of the allegations by the IRS, because of the whistleblower, and the DOJ – Garland – what he is saying and what David Weiss is saying privately are two different things,’ the speaker said.

‘And if it comes true what the IRS whistleblower is saying, we’re going to start impeachment inquiries on the attorney general,’ McCarthy pledged Monday on Fox & Friends.

He said ‘what’s interesting is the IRS whistleblower that has no political background, took copious notes, can tell you the date, can tell you the people in the meeting.’

McCarthy said the discrepancies between what U.S. Attorney Weiss has said versus what Attorney General Merrick Garland has said is the key issue at hand.

According to the whistleblower, ‘U.S. Attorney Weiss stated that he subsequently asked for special counsel authority from Main DOJ at that time and was denied that authority.’

However, Garland publicly defended himself Friday, saying that Weiss ‘was given complete authority to make all decisions on his own.’

‘I don’t know how it would be possible for anybody to block him from bringing a prosecution,’ Garland told reporters.

‘Some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department by claiming that we do not treat cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy,’ Garland continued.

The speaker had alluded that the House might move forward on impeachment articles in a tweet over the weekend.

‘We need to get to the facts, and that includes reconciling these clear disparities. U.S. Attorney David Weiss must provide answers to the House Judiciary Committee,’ McCarthy said Sunday.

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Pamela Geller

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