[BBC] US prosecutors in Hunter Biden's tax evasion case have accused him of accepting money from a Romanian oligarch who sought to "influence US government agencies".
The accusation is part of a larger case against the president's son, who is charged with evading $1.4m (£1.1m) in taxes between 2016 and 2019 while spending millions on luxury cars, drugs and escorts.
Republicans have long accused Hunter Biden, 54, of "influence peddling", although Congressional probes have yet to uncover any wrongdoing.
The tax case is scheduled to go to trial in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, in September. He has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charges.
According to a court filing made on Wednesday in a Los Angeles federal court, the Romanian national hired Biden for legal work in 2015, at a time when his father was vice-president under then-President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... While the filing only identifies the Romanian businessman by his initials, GP, US media has identified him as Gabriel Popoviciu, who at the time was facing corruption charges in Romania.
In the filing, prosecutors said they plan to introduce evidence that Hunter Biden and an associate "received compensation from a foreign principal who was attempting to influence US policy and public opinion" and prompt the US "to investigate the Romanian investigation of GP".
The document also says that Biden and his associate "were concerned that lobbying work might cause political ramifications for the defendant's father" - Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... - and wanted to conceal the "true nature" of the arrangement.
In total, prosecutors believe that Biden and two associates split $3m in payments from Popoviciu.
Popoviciu was sentenced to seven years in a Romanian prison on real estate fraud charges in 2017. He denied any wrongdoing.
Republicans in the House of Representatives - who last year opened an impeachment inquiry into the Biden family's foreign business ties - had previously raised concerns about ties between Hunter Biden and Popoviciu.
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IMO Couldn't of happened to a better deserving groups of reporters, masquerading as Global journalists... This is the stuff, which is used in Higher Education Business Classes as examples of Business Failures ...Riches to Rags - appropriate👀😮💯😂🌞
Never expect a Justice Dept, or the Rule of Law to be followed, when a Coup is in power. Because they own both and know they must suppress those exposing their unlawful acts.
It looks like everyone is throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks, in the hope of short-circuiting the nonsense.
[IsraelTimes] Missouri attorney general had filed long-shot lawsuit against New York, arguing gag order was politically motivated and wrongly limited ex-president’s ability to campaign
The US Supreme Court on Monday shut down a long-shot push from Missouri to remove a gag order in former president Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York.
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Would the TSA have us believe that Tulsi Gabbard is a suspected domestic terrorist? Why? Well, it is as you might suspect:
According to (Executive Director of the Air Marshal National Council (AMNC) Sonya) LaBosco, Gabbard’s enrollment in Quiet Skies is likely politically motivated. Air Marshals were first assigned to Gabbard on Jul. 23, a day after she criticized Kamala Harris, Biden, and the National Security State in an interview with Laura Ingraham. FAMs were mobilized on Jul. 24 and assigned to their first flight with her on Jul. 25. Gabbard posted the interview on Twitter, as shared below.
As if that weren't twisted enough, now we learn that the TSA whistleblowers who came forward with their concerns about this development are facing retaliatory investigations of their own.
On Wednesday, Tristan Leavitt, president of Empower Oversight, shared his firm's follow-up letter to Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, alerting the IG to the potential retaliation and requesting that he ensure the whistleblowers are properly protected.
@EMPOWR_us has confirmed from whistleblowers that @TulsiGabbard was under Quiet Skies surveillance on not just one, or two, or even three flights... She has had Air Marshals there to monitor her on EIGHT FLIGHTS since her July 23 interview with @IngrahamAngle.
Furthermore, TSA is mobilizing a retaliatory investigation into who made these protected whistleblower disclosures. I wrote to @DHSOIG this morning asking him to ensure these whistleblowers are protected.
Leavitt's thread lays out the thrust of the correspondence directed to Cuffari. In sum, the letter, which may be viewed in full below, sets forth the following key points:
TSA deems the surveillance of Gabbard "Sensitive Security Information" (SSI) and has initiated an investigation into the "leak" of said information.
Protected whistleblower disclosures are not leaks, and the SSI designation does not trump the Whistleblower Protection Act.
This includes disclosures to media outlets - "The Whistleblower Protection Act protects from adverse personnel actions TSA employees who disclose information they reasonably believe constitutes a violation of any law, rule, or regulation; gross mismanagement; a gross waste of funds; an abuse of authority; or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety—regardless of who they make their disclosure to, whether that be to your office, to Congress, to a professional association such as the Air Marshal National Council, or directly to the press."
As Leavitt also notes on Twitter/X, the Quiet Skies program has not even been shown to be effective at its purported aim.
The whole Quiet Skies program seems like a civil liberties nightmare anyway.
Over four years the OIG examined, the found Quiet Skies confirmed precisely zero passengers as aviation security threats. I can think of far better uses for the hundreds of thousands of dollars DHS puts into this. (Like, say, ensuring a major party's political nominee is protected from attempted assassination the day after an Iranian asset is arrested for plotting a murder-for-hire?)
So, not only has the TSA been wasting resources on an intrusive yet ineffective program and further deployed it against a high-profile political figure (and military reservist) the day after she voiced criticism of the Biden administration's involvement in Ukraine, it's apparently opened a retaliatory investigation into those who came forward with concerns over this action.
NOTE: However the PDF file passed all my AV scanners in my lab.
It only opens a PDF file detailing all the illegal Ga Voting issues noted and filed with the state and etc..
Which clearly points out and embarrasses the GA Rino's for their lack of legal actions over the 50,000+ proven Illegally counted or submitted votes in GA state. A State where Biden only showed what a win by 11,779 votes.
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Trump and many others highlighted the voting problems and election corruption early-on in Georgia. Little was done about these claims except to ignore them or aggressively go after those who made these claims. This was done by both Rinos and the left.
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^3: And that's why many think Biden et al aren't legit. If the powers that were in Nov 2020 had looked into the allegations, things would be different (at least the perceptions thereof).
Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive.
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Think Kammie and Tampon Tim are a false flag Op.
On the face of it, it looks like the dumbest pick of the 3. The choices were:
Kelly - AZ Sen
Shapiro - PA Gov
Walz - MN Gov
Mark Kelly :
-Brings gravitas as former military and NASA astronaut
-Husband of Gabby Giffords (assassination attempt) yields the sympathy vote
-Experience
Josh Shapiro:
-Gov of critical state of PA
-IDF member in his youth (The dems hate this BTW)
-Lots of experience running a mid-sized state
Tim Walz:
-Old white guy
-Gov of MN - a reliably blue state
-Farther left than Kamala
-Fled his military duty when he learned he would be deployed
-Drunk Driving arrest
-Let Minneapolis burn for 4 days
Walz brings nothing to the ticket IF....IF....IF you want to win. And there's the rub.
Here's my analysis of why Walz is there. The Dem powers and Obama (but I repeat myself), WANT Kamala to lose at the convention so it becomes open and crown a candidate of their choosing.
They know that Kammie is a losing bet. They can't risk having a viable person in the 2nd chair and potentially steal delegates and outshine Kammie. A rusty nail would outshine Kammie.
Let's look at potential outcomes:
-Kammie and Timmy survive the convention and go on as the nominees. The likely scenario is that they will be trounced and their future political viability is shot. They needed a no-name pick and who cares if they're toast. They hate Kammie anyway.
-They survive the convention and somehow (we all know how) they get elected. Kammie can be controlled, and Timmy will do as he's told, and they have puppets to continue the Light-Bringers 4th term.
My pick as a likely scenario. The delegates revolt by saying - "we never voted for her on the top of the ticket and our guy quit and stumbled away."
This is the only rationale I see for choosing Walz. He will be unceremoniously dumped along with Kamala to usher in - dare I say it - Big Mike.
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I'm hoping for Warthog's scenario. I would love to see the fur fly and the Dem convention. But fear the real plan is to steal the election in November just like they did in 2020. Then we get to listen to that cackle for the next eight years...or even more if she manages to suspend the Constitution.
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Obama didn't go for Shiparo, Kelley, or Whitmer because he knows he can cheat the vote in PA, AZ and/or MI. Harris is a stooge like Biden. Your last fair election was in 2016.
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If somebody can forbid it, it's not free. Refuting it (or even shaming it) seems to be too hard for Dems. We were established as a republic specifically to try and keep Democrats from pushing democracy.
Tim Walz set up a Covid snitch line where people can report their neighbors for violating the stay at home order.pic.twitter.com/UqtxXuMZNA
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Nazi Germany, the USSR/Russia, Communist China, and other Anti-freedom of speech dictatorships never had the level of censorship and cultural controls that the O'Biden Regime has used against America the last 3+ years.
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And he'll be all too happy to define misinformation and hate speech for us.
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I read it three times, and still cant find in our constitution where he is quoting from. How about this you POS, white hating POS. My free speech is guaranteed. As you said yourself, mind you own business...
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[BBC] US prosecutors in Hunter Biden's tax evasion case have accused him of accepting money from a Romanian oligarch who sought to "influence US government agencies".
...46th president of the U.S. 
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
[WarRoom] A Factual Response - To Georgia State Election Board
