Politico crafting a narrative... culminating in the final story. Throw Hunter the bus... and maybe it's time to dump Joe as well.
Politico has been aware of Biden's corruption for years.
he day the Bidens took over Paradigm Global Advisors was a memorable one.
In the late summer of 2006 Joe Biden’s son Hunter and Joe’s younger brother, James, purchased the firm. On their first day on the job, they showed up with Joe’s other son, Beau, and two large men and ordered the hedge fund’s chief of compliance to fire its president, according to a Paradigm executive who was present.
After the firing, the two large men escorted the fund’s president out of the firm’s midtown Manhattan office, and James Biden laid out his vision for the fund’s future. “Don’t worry about investors,” he said, according to the executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing fear of retaliation. “We've got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.”
Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota is placing blame on Hunter Biden and backing President Joe Biden in light of Speaker Kevin McCarthy directing the House to open an impeachment inquiry into the president.
“The evidence suggests Hunter Biden is guilty of unethical and/or illegal behavior,” Phillips said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “The evidence suggests Joe Biden is guilty of absolutely nothing more than being a father.”
Phillips’ comments display an indication that Democrats aren’t interested in defending Hunter Biden even as they back the president. McCarthy said Tuesday that he would be “directing” committees “to open a formal impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden” without a vote on the floor.
However... There's issues with the possibility that the DOJ under Garland attempted to shove Hunter's issue under the rug.
An FBI agent involved in the Hunter Biden probe said the prosecutor leading it sought, but was denied, help from a key fellow U.S. attorney.
The lack of cooperation did not prevent charges from being brought against the president’s son, the agent told congressional investigators. But it did make the prosecutor’s job harder.
The testimony, delivered behind closed doors, is consistent in part with an IRS whistleblower’s description of the probe and comes at a critical juncture in the investigations into the Biden family. Republicans have pointed to that whistleblower description when making the case for opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Handwritten notes from an IRS agent who worked on the Hunter Biden probe appear to bolster his prior claims that the U.S. Attorney handling the case felt politically hamstrung.
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notes from IRS agent-turned-whistleblower Gary Shapley were taken during a meeting on Oct. 7, 2022 with participants from the FBI and the IRS, according to Shapley’s lawyers. In them, Shapley writes that David Weiss, the Donald Trump-appointed Delaware U.S. Attorney who is leading the Hunter Biden investigation, told law enforcement officials he was “not the deciding person” regarding the investigation.
Shapley, an IRS supervisory special agent who has worked for the agency for 14 years, told lawmakers this summer that Weiss said he did not have ultimate authority in making key decisions about his criminal investigation of the president’s son. It was a dramatic allegation, contradicting Attorney General Merrick Garland, who testified to Congress that Weiss could handle the case however he saw fit.
In June, Hunter Biden and his lawyers reached a plea deal with the Justice Department in which he would plead guilty to willfully failing to pay his taxes in 2017 and 2018. Biden later paid those taxes, along with penalties and interest. After a judge raised questions about the plea deal, it collapsed.
In the End... At least from the Outside... It appears Democrats are sick of Hunter and his garbage behavior tainting the party.
“You can’t impeach Hunter Biden, but he will be prosecuted,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin(REP-D), the party’s top member on the Oversight Committee.
As the House barrels closer to an impeachment vote, Democrats are vowing to defend Biden to the end — Joe Biden, that is, and not Hunter.
Top Democrats are coalescing around a strategy to oppose the GOP’s impeachment inquiry: cleaving off the son’s conduct from his father’s. They think they have the facts to back them up, since the probe has yet to find any evidence directly linking Hunter Biden’s business dealings to Joe.
“Our job, or my job, will be to remind the American people of that over and over again — that Hunter Biden is not the administration,” said Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.), the party’s top member on the subpanel tasked with investigating GOP claims of federal government bias.
Democrats don’t plan to even try to defend Hunter Biden’s conduct during his time serving on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. That arrangement, Republicans say, allowed him to trade on his father’s influence at the time as vice president.
Instead, the president’s party is keen to keep Joe as far away as possible from the drip-drip of damaging information coming out about his son.
“Hunter Biden may have very well done some improper things. He’s a disturbed man. Almost every president has had problematic family members,” said Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), the party’s top member on the Judiciary Committee.