Rudy W. Giuliani
@RudyGiuliani
The Hunter Biden hard drive is authenticated by:
The NY Post,
My attorney Bob Costello
A receipt SIGNED BY HUNTER BIDEN.It’s also been authenticated by Biden’s attorney who called the merchant a day before it appeared and asked for Hunter Biden’s computer.
4:08 PM · Oct 18, 2020
Adam Housley
@adamhousley
Hunter Biden’s attorney called John Paul’s shop a few days back and asked for Hunter’s computers back. FYI. You don’t ask for someone else’s computers...you ask for your own. FYI
8:53 PM · Oct 16, 2020
Adam Housley
@adamhousley
Here ya go....this is the email sent to John Paul by Hunter Biden's lawyer. It is in reference to returning the laptops. Also...the attorney said Hunter dropped em off in 2017. Nope..try April 2019. He didn't even know when he left em there. Redactions on this document are mine
As everyone knows, Joe Biden has had his cravenness and corruption publicly exposed via a series of emails residing on at least one laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. The emails show that Joe Biden was not merely a doting father who corruptly peddled his influence to create business opportunities for a ne’er-do-well son; he was a direct beneficiary of those business opportunities. READ: Person on Hunter Biden/China Email Thread Allegedly Verifies the Email and It Gets Even Worse for Joe Biden.
The emails are being attacked on two fronts. Both attacks are ridiculous. Both are pathetic in their transparency. On the one hand, we have the same people who fluffed the Steele Dossier for four years as gospel now claiming, with zero evidence, that the whole thing is a Kremlin plot. The other attack is “leave Hunter out of it because he’s an addict.” In essence, this attack says that if you use the emails, you are hurting Hunter’s recovery, and that makes you a very, very bad man.
Hunter Biden’s problems have much, much, much less to do with any drug abuse problem than they do to his massive sense of entitlement and a father who has enabled his sociopathy to become a viable lifestyle. //
Hunter Biden is not mere collateral damage here. He is a central figure in a major influence-peddling scandal involving his father and uncle and it gives every appearance that he may very well have been a willing agent of the Chinese government. //
Hunter Biden is fair game here. And if anyone should be concerned about the effect upon his sobriety it is not you or me or The New York Post. It is Joe Biden. And if he doesn’t care, there is no reason that anyone else should. //
Bigdog47
18 hours ago
Trump is not blaming Joe Biden for his son's addiction. He is blaming Joe for exploiting and profiting from the actions of his addict son.
when the news broke last September that Trump had asked Ukraine’s newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to look into the matter, the Washington Post wasted no time in pushing a funny narrative about Biden’s motive.
The reason Biden wanted Shokin fired, the newspaper kept insisting, had nothing at all to do with the more than $3.5 million his son Hunter’s consulting firm was paid by a Ukrainian company called, Burisma Holdings, that Shokin just so happened to be investigating at the time.
In the two weeks after we first learned of Trump’s request, the Washington Post ran no less than 30 stories claiming that Burisma had no reason to want Shokin ousted since his investigation had been “dormant.” Every single one used that same exact phrase. //
Do a Google search for the words “Shokin” and “dormant” from September 21 to October 5, 2019, and you’ll find over 120 articles parroting the Washington Post’s attempt to exonerate Biden, verbatim— including at least one from each of the Post’s elite media brethren such as the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NBC, Politico, AP News, Reuters, and The New Yorker. //
Bottom line: In the two weeks after news of Trump’s phone call with Zelensky broke, well over 100 news articles were published that tried to convince the American people of Biden’s innocence and, hence, Trump’s guilt by claiming that neither Burisma nor Hunter Biden had any reason whatsoever to want Viktor Shokin fired.
And every single one of those stories was a despicably deceitful insult to the intelligence of anyone unfortunate enough to be reading it.
As Thomas Jefferson said in response to the fake news of his day:
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
What if the attempt by the campaign to dismiss accusations is undone by it being a pattern?
Adam Housley
@adamhousley
2/6 This is no October surprise...this actually falls flatly on the back of the FBI that failed to address this beginning more than one year ago and came out now also due to a series of keystone cop decisions by Republican staffers to flat ignore this family for months.
Throughout this entire process JP and his family...dad is a Vietnam Vet...have done everything by the book. They were first rebuffed in September 2019 by the FBI...that’s no October surprise.
They made multiple approaches to the FBI in 2019
Sounds like the hiring of Hunter Biden and Blue Star Strategies was money well spent.
The Russian collusion hoax has fallen apart more every day. And we haven’t heard a word of comment from any of the people responsible for pushing it and helping fracture this country.
Catherine Herridge
@CBS_Herridge
SCOOP: A person familiar with the matter tells @CBSNews that Bruce Ohr is no longer working at DOJ. He resigned the day before he was going to be terminated by DOJ over his conduct cited in IG Horowitz report. Ohr was faulted for becoming a kind of backchannel linking dossier
#More Bruce Ohr departure first reported @CBSNews from DOJ Spox Kerri Kupec: “Bruce Ohr retired from the Department of Justice on September 30, 2020. As such, he is no longer an employee of the Department. Mr. Ohr retired after his counsel was informed that a final decision on a disciplinary review being conducted by Department senior career officials was imminent.” IG faulted Ohr for being a backchannel linking dossier author Christopher Steele to the FBI after Steele's termination by Bureau. Ohr’s wife worked for firm behind dossier, Fusion-GPS. //
In the end, the deep state won. The Senate stonewalled until it as too late, the DOJ has produced nothing, and those who helped perpetuate a scandal much larger than Watergate ever dreamed of being will end up with book deals and more cable news hits. Ohr should be going to jail for what he did, but we don’t live under a just system at this point. It is what it is.
The Obama administration let a Democratic p.r. company that worked for Ukrainian energy firm Burisma take part in a conference call about an upcoming visit to Ukraine by then-Vice President Joe Biden, e-mails obtained by The Post show.
An associate at Blue Star Strategies then e-mailed a memo with minutes of the conference call hosted by the White House to a top Burisma executive, Vadym Pozharskyi, as well as to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and Hunter’s business partner, Devon Archer, both of whom sat on Burisma’s board.
The trip, in December 2015, turned out to be the one during which Biden later bragged about forcing Ukrainian officials to fire a state prosecutor who was investigating Burisma by threatening to withhold a $1 billion US loan guarantee.
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post.
The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email reads.
Hunter Biden discussed leveraging his connection to his father in a bid to boost his pay from a Ukrainian natural gas company, according to an email he sent around the time he joined the firm’s corporate board.
In a lengthy memo to his then-business partner, Devon Archer, who already sat on the Burisma board, Biden repeatedly mentioned “my guy” while apparently referring to then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Under President Barack Obama, the elder Biden was the point person for US policy toward Ukraine, and he held a press conference there with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on April 22, 2014.
Hunter Biden’s email to Archer is dated a little more than a week earlier.
“The announcement of my guys [sic] upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking- but what he will say and do is out of our hands,” Hunter Biden wrote on April 13, 2014.
The email, labeled from Robert Biden — Hunter’s first name — is among a trove of messages, documents, photos and videos purportedly recovered from a MacBook Pro laptop that a Delaware computer shop owner told The Post was brought in for repair in April 2019 and never picked up.
The Steele Dossier, which formed the basis of the Trump-Russia investigation and was heavily used in the fraudulent Carter Page FISA warrant, has already been thoroughly exposed as a work of absolute trash. Christopher Steele is nothing but a world-class grifter who used third-hand Russian misinformation to put together what was simply meant to be a political hit piece. That the FBI and DOJ used it to the extent they did should be disqualifying for everyone involved.
In fact, one of the main sources for the document turned out to be a man suspected of being a foreign spy, so much so that the FBI held a multi-year investigation into him until he left the country and was no longer seen as a threat (see Bombshell: Top Steele Dossier Source Was Suspected Russian Spy). //
Not only was Steele using probable Russian spies to have bad, false information fed to him, he was also using the sister of a DNC operative as corroboration for some of the more salacious episodes. That includes the hotel room “orgy” in Moscow charge, which was absolutely not true.
That DNC operative also happened to be involved in the Ukraine operation being run by Hillary Clinton, which was seeking dirt on Donald Trump during the 2016 election. In other words, this was all very prevalent and pervasive, with the same characters continually popping up in the narrative. Chalupa had zero credibility to be used as sourcing by the FBI in this regard.
This same story played out over and over in regards to Steele’s dossier, with not a single bit of salacious information ever being confirmed.
If President Trump wins a second term, the delays by Durham will be forgotten before the champagne goes flat.
The question really is “What is the end game if Biden wins?”
My guess is that Durham will have one or more indictments returned in December or early January, ahead of the inauguration. I think Attorney General Barr will then accept Durham’s resignation as US Attorney and name Durham as a “Special Counsel” under DOJ Regulations in simultaneous actions. He might do the same thing with US Attorney Jensen in Missouri who seems to be investigating the actual cases brought by the Special Counsel’s Office.
Starting in 2017, the real role of Daniel Jones was to replace the Clinton Campaign as the “outside” operation. I think we are eventually going to learn that the campaign of leaks from the intelligence community to the media in 2017 and 2018 was engineered and run through Jones and his confederates in the same way Clinton Campaign members and surrogates had taken information from friendly IC sources and given them to the media back in the summer and fall of 2016.
The leaks kept the allegations of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax front and center in the media, justifying the continuing efforts of the FBI in 2017, and later the SCO from 2017 to 2019, to pursue every non-sensical allegation of Trump-Russia collusion down rabbit hole after rabbit hole, until William Barr arrived on the scene in January 2019 and put a halt to it all. //
An investigation of Jones and his organization will certainly lead to exposure of Jones’ communications, and all the financial transactions between Jones and his clients and partners.
THAT could go anywhere — including back to Democrat Senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Christopher Steele is perhaps one of the most successful and most duplicitous grifters of the last decade. He has managed to reach mythical status among the American left and those who ate his lies with glee in the media. Steele has been described as a “super-spy” and a patriot, a “spymaster” and someone who cares deeply for the United States. His supposed expertise and unimpeachable character were often cited as a defense of the Steele Dossier, which turned out to be abject nonsense.
In going down this path Brennan has offered up the argument that it was, IN FACT, true that the Clinton campaign was behind the leaks and whisper campaign that DROVE the Crossfire Hurricane investigation begun on the thinnest of thin reeds of the pub talk between Amb. Downer and Papadopolous.
Brennan’s “even if it was true” rationalization pins the blame for everything known as “Crossfire Hurricane” — fertilized with the bullsh*t lies purchased from Christopher Steele — on Hillary Clinton, the Democrat party establishment in Congress, and the willing and complicit mainstream press.
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Chuck M Lowe
3 hours ago
With all due respect to ROMEG, hate is a good thing.
No doubt, Charles Martel had hate in his heart in 732 when he faced 90,000 Islamic radicals at Tours and thankfully, wiped the floor with them.
I hate Andrew Weissmann and hope he goes to jail and when he dies - burns in hell. The man knowingly, with pre meditated, Mens rae, criminal intent pursued actions against a duly elected president that were created, ex nihilo, out of whole cloth in order to illegally remove him from office,
Prior to that, he and Mueller pursued and got convictions of innocent people who died in jail.
Read Sidney Powell's book, "Licensed To Lie" and weep, weep for the innocent people he has destroyed and has literally murdered. His reward for malfeasance? Promotions and a special place in the hearts and minds of Progressives who hate the Rule Of Law and see his "Ends Justify The Means", application of Star Chamber law enforcement as noble.
He suborned perjury, jailed innocent people, lied, obfuscated the truth, destroyed records and withheld "Brady Material" (As he and Christopher Wray and a legion of dishonest bureaucrats are still, at the very moment doing.) that would have exonerated the accused.
He is the existential example of an out of control, psychotic "Commander Queeg" whose power, if left unchecked annihilates the vulnerable people he is supposed to, as a prosecutor, protect.
The absolute categorical truth, is, that he should be lined up, in front a wall and executed before lunch today.
Watergate and Nuremberg — got that?
Hitler and Nixon — follow his thinking?
The inception of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was as a counterintelligence matter seeking to understand if — and how — the Russian government might seeking to interfere in the 2016 election process. The “Counter” in “Counterintelligence” is the important part of the term. The goal of the investigative effort is to “Counter” it — to stop it. To determine if it is happening, and then take steps to intervene and put a halt to it.
But that wasn’t Weissmann’s view of the SCO’s purpose. The SCO was a “Hunter-Killer” squad. They had a mission. Donald Trump won the election. He could not have done so without Russian help. As a result the outcome of the election had to be overturned. “Get Trump” was the unspoken motto, and it was the unwritten goal. //
A crusading bully handed power while untethered to any obligation beyond his personalized notion of “truth” — that it is whatever he thinks it needs to be to accomplish his purpose.
Failure is not evidence of his error at the outset — failure is evidence of others preventing him from being recognized as being right. //
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Bigsky51
2 hours ago
Readers Digest Version:
SCO was responsible for finding out if Russia was attempting to impact the election
TRUE
SCO found out that the Obama Administration, DNC, elements of DOJ and FBI were the ones pushing false information.
TRUE
SCO ignored all the evidence that they found regarding Russia disinformation and collusion.
TRUE
SCO proceeded to push known false Russia disinformation.
TRUE
Something has happened in the Durham investigation of the origins of the Russia rumor hoax, and a rumor circulating among Washington, D.C., federal criminal defense att0rneys is that a former member of Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office (SCO) has “flipped” and is providing information to the investigators regarding the work of the SCO. //
John Cardillo
@johncardillo
Can’t say why without betraying a confidence, but I just had a BIG restoration of faith moment in AG Barr and Durham.
3:42 PM · Oct 1, 2020
Cardillo is former NYPD and has 200k+ followers on Twitter. He has pretty decent connections in New York law enforcement circles.
The case made by the amicus counsel was thoroughly and resoundingly destroyed by a DOJ attorney Hassim Mooppan who was, in my opinion, far and away the best advocate in the proceeding. But he was backed up quite nicely by Assistant United States Attorney Kenneth Kohl, who has the distinction of being the longest serving AUSA in the Distict of Columbia US Attorney’s Office, and his words are going to carry special weight with Judge Sullivan as a result. There is simply no honest way to discount Kohl as making an appearance in the case and arguing for dismissal of the action as a political move. AUSA Kohl laid out his active role in the leadership of the office in reaching the conclusion that the case should be dismissed based on evidence uncovered in the investigation being conducted by US Attorney Jensen, which AUSA Kohl called — on the record — “FBI misconduct.” //
you need to understand the “equities” of Judge Sullivan in this dispute. He’s fighting against the idea that a district court judge like himself does not have the authority to “check” what he might see as “abuses” in the decision-making process of the Executive branch AFTER they bring matters into his court. On this issue, I suspect he’d have broad support from district court judges all over the country. They are the gatekeepers to the federal court system. By asserting a strong role for the trial judge under Rule 48, Judge Sullivan — aided by Judge Gleeson — is saying to DOJ:
“You brought this case, you occupied my time, you made representations and arguments on the record to me and asked me to do certain things in my role as a district court judge, and you don’t get to just walk away from all that without an explanation that is to my satisfaction.”