$100M here. $100 Million there. Pretty soon it adds up to $2 Billion and an attempt to undermine democracy and install fascism in the U.S.
House Republicans Release Bank Records Showing Over $20 Million In Payments To Biden Family, Associates
This is becoming a repetitive clown show. Same fact-free shiat from GOP over and over again. House Republicans issue new report on Joe Biden corruption… that again offers no evidence https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...n-new-report-critics-dont-see-it/70559837007/ Republicans on the House Oversight Committee issued another report Wednesday criticizing President Joe Biden and his family for allegedly corrupt international business dealings, but critics – including the White House – said the report is a political hatchet job that offers no proof that Biden was involved. The committee, led by Chairman James Comer, said in the report that it plans to continue to investigate Biden to find evidence of corruption, even as it acknowledged that it had no evidence that he financially benefited from the myriad foreign business dealings of his son Hunter. “During Joe Biden’s vice presidency, Hunter Biden sold him as ‘the brand’ to reap millions from oligarchs in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine,” Comer said in a statement accompanying the release of committee report. “It appears no real services were provided other than access to the Biden network, including Joe Biden himself. And Hunter Biden seems to have delivered.” The 19-page report was titled, “Third Bank Records Memorandum from the Oversight Committee’s Investigationinto the Biden Family’s Influence Peddling and Business Schemes." Critics said the report, and Comer’s statement, marked a clear shift in strategy by the committee from one claiming it had the goods implicating Biden in corrupt schemes while he was vice president to one in which it says the lack of any such evidence must mean that he was involved. “This stunt from Comer is just more of the same – no evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden, no new information to tie him to Hunter Biden’s business, and another desperate attempt to keep this bogus investigation alive” said Kyle Herrig, executive director of the non-partisan Congressional Integrity Project. “Comer’s fishing expedition continues to reel in nothing in a desperate attempt to distract from Trump.” The White House said the new Comer committee report is part of a continuing effort by Republicans to smear Joe Biden without any evidence or even information suggesting wrongdoing. “Today House Republicans on the Oversight Committee released another memo full of years-old ‘news,’ innuendo, and misdirection – but notably missing, yet again, is any connection to President Biden,” said Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for Oversight and Investigations. “Perhaps that is because – as recently as last week – the House Republicans’ own self-proclaimed “hero” witness who was “going to be able to come under oath and tell us exactly what role Joe Biden played” testified that President Biden never discussed these business dealings and was not involved.” The 19-page memo released by House Oversight Republicans is based on bank records highlighting millions of dollars that Hunter Biden and his business associates received from a wide array of business arrangements overseas while his father was serving as vice president to President Barack Obama. Few of the details appear to be new. But the memo details what it describes as new and damaging information, including “payments from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan” that occurred during Biden’s vice presidency. “The Committee has now identified over $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Biden family and their business associates,” the report said. The report also rehashes prior claims of corrupt dealings related to how Hunter Biden and former business partner Devon Archer allegedly used the business development and policy advisory firm “Rosemont Seneca Entities to bring in millions from oligarchs in Europe and Asia.” And it mentions other business relationships between Hunter Biden and Archer that it claims were suspicious or corrupt, including payments by a Ukrainian oligarch while they were on the board of directors of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings LLC. More:5 takeaways from Devon Archer's testimony on Joe and Hunter Biden: 'There was no business conversation' The new report is full of references to Archer, and says his recent congressional testimony “supports the Committee’s findings,” which have repeatedly alleged that Joe Biden himself was personally involved in – and benefitted from – Archer’s and Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings. But after months of describing him as a smoking gun who would prove deep corruption within what Republicans described as the “Biden Crime Family,” Archer’s testimony July 31, if anything, appears to exonerate Joe Biden. For instance, Archer testified that Hunter Biden put his father on the phone with clients before his father was elected president, but that they did not discuss business. He also told lawmakers the vice president was not involved in their financial dealings, despite the contacts, and that he had no knowledge of wrongdoing by Joe Biden. And while Joe Biden at times has said he had no involvement with his son's business dealings at all, Archer testified that he did reach out and call his son -- but only to check up on him, especially when he was grappling with drug addiction and other problems. "But, you know, Hunter spoke to his dad every day, right? And so in certain circumstances, when you're in -- you know, if his dad calls him at dinner and he picks up the phone, then there's a conversation," Archer testified. "And the, you know, the conversation is generally about the weather and, you know, what it's like in Norway or Paris or wherever he may be. But that was -- yeah, that happened." More:'How's the fishing?' Devon Archer testifies Joe Biden never talked business when put on phone In their new report, the House Oversight Committee didn’t mention those kinds of details from Archer’s testimony. Instead, it said, “No one in the Biden Administration or in the (House Democratic) Minority has explained what services, if any, the Bidens and their associates provided in exchange for the over $20 million in foreign payments.” “The Committee plans to gather additional bank records in the near future and continue following the money trail,” it said. The White House on Wednesday jumped on that discrepancy, saying it was further evidence that House GOP members are trying to unfairly accuse Biden of wrongdoing, potentially as part of an effort to try and impeach him. “This has been a pattern: time after time, Comer hypes up self-proclaimed bombshell findings about President Biden, and time after time, he fails to provide any actual evidence,” White House spokesman Sams said. “Today’s release is yet another flop.”
Comer Slammed After Months of Unproven Attacks on Biden https://www.thenewcivilrightsmoveme...ed-after-months-of-unproven-attacks-on-biden/ House Republican Oversight Chairman Jim Comer is increasingly coming under fire after months of his committee’s investigations, including public and private hearings, have unearthed no reported factual substantiation of his allegations and attacks against President Joe Biden. CNN in January reported that Chairman Comer “has cast the president and his family in hyperbolic language – at times going beyond the evidence that’s publicly available. The Kentucky Republican has painted Biden as ‘A President Compromised,’ and excoriated what he calls ‘the entire Biden crime family.’ He’s pointed to a handful of contested or vague emails to suggest Joe Biden’s involvement with his family’s deals.” Little has changed, except charges from Democrats and even some Republicans that Chairman Comer’s claims about President Biden have never been proven. On Wednesday, The Washington Post‘s Philip Bump asked point-blank, “So where’s the bribe, James Comer?” “It has now been more than three months since House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) issued a release in which they accused President Biden of having been ‘allegedly engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national,'” he wrote. “On Wednesday, Comer released a new assessment of payments made to Hunter Biden, [Devon] Archer and others while Biden and Archer were in business together,” Bump writes, concluding: “none of the $20 million that Comer claims went to ‘the Biden family and their business associates’ — an intentionally loose description of the recipients — was shown to have gone to Joe Biden.” “There’s no alleged bribe to Hunter Biden, either,” Bump added. Even Fox News host Steve Doocy “has repeatedly expressed skepticism over Comer’s allegations that Biden accepted bribes from foreign nationals while he was vice president,” The Daily Beast reported in late June. “Back in May, for instance, Doocy confronted Comer for not including any hard proof in his report that was supposed to make ‘Watergate look like jaywalking’ and would be ‘judgment day’ for the president. “I know the Republicans said that the smoking gun were these financial records that you were able to subpoena and got your hands on,” Doocy told Comer, according to The Daily Beast. “But that’s just your suggestion—you actually don’t have any facts to that point. You’ve got some circumstantial evidence. And the other thing is, of all those names, the one person who didn’t profit is—there is no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.” CNN on Wednesday reported “it appears” that Comer’s “committee has not found any direct evidence that President Biden personally benefited from any of his son’s business dealings. Republicans are now insisting they don’t have to.” “House Oversight Republicans laid out their intention to accuse President Joe Biden of corruption even without direct evidence that he financially benefited from Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, a clear shift in their strategy that they said was launched to investigate the president,” CNN added. The White House is pushing back in a lengthy memo that was published by Mediaite on Wednesday. “Today House Republicans on the Oversight Committee released another memo full of years-old ‘news,’ innuendo, and misdirection – but notably missing, yet again, is any connection to President Biden,” it begins. “Perhaps that is because – as recently as last week – the House Republicans’ own self-proclaimed ‘hero‘ witness who was ‘going to be able to come under oath and tell us exactly what role Joe Biden played‘ testified that President Biden never discussed these business dealings and was not involved.” After citing four news reports, the White House memo adds, “This has been a pattern: time after time, Comer hypes up self-proclaimed bombshell findings about President Biden, and time after time, he fails to provide any actual evidence. Today’s release is yet another flop…So after seven months of wasting time and millions of taxpayer dollars on their evidence-free wild goose chase, Comer is making it clear that he is shamelessly moving the goal posts.” Read the full White House memo at Mediaite.
Democrats Say It’ll Take A Lot More Than Eyewitness Testimony, Bank Records, Audio, Video, Complete Confessions For Them To Believe Biden Did Anything Wrong https://babylonbee.com/news/democra...for-them-to-believe-biden-did-anything-wrong/