Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Tuesday asked the U.S. Secret Service to provide information about Hunter Biden's travel history following last week's apparent bombshell report regarding emails between Hunter and a Ukrainian national that suggested the former may have been selling political access to his father Joe Biden.
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That report, first published in the New York Post, cited emails obtained reportedly from one of Hunter Biden's personal laptops that had been left in a computer repair shop. Joe Biden has dismissed the controversy as a "smear campaign," though nobody in the Biden camp has yet denied the veracity of the messages.
On Tuesday, in a letter to U.S. Secret Service Director James Murray, Johnson — the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — asked for several records pertaining to Hunter Biden's travel history with Secret Service details.
In the letter — also signed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) — Johnson noted that several of the emails allegedly written by Hunter match up with records of travel history involving his Secret Service detail. One Apr. 13 email, for instance, makes reference to a trip to Houston. "Secret Service records show a travel entry for Mr. Biden from April 13, 2014 – April 14, 2014, to Houston, TX," Johnson noted in the letter.
Noting that one of the emails references an apparent Secret Service detail a year after Hunter Biden ended that arrangement in 2014, Johnson asked the agency for any records indicating that Secret Service agents accompanied Hunter after July of that year, as well as records of communications between Hunter, some of his associates and Secret Service agents during Joe Biden's vice presidential tenure.
"Please provide this information as soon as possible but no later than October 26, 2020," Johnson wrote in the letter.
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Oh, the clarity that time provides! There have been lingering questions for years as to why Barack Hussein Obama picked Joe Biden, an obscure and long-time Senate insider from Delaware, to be his vice-presidential running mate. Here is how CBS News spun the announcement on 23 August 2008.
Barack Obama [is] balancing his ticket with an older congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues.
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Across more than 30 years in the Senate, he has served at various times not only as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee but also as head of the Judiciary Committee, with its jurisdiction over anti-crime legislation, Supreme Court nominees and Constitutional issues.
But even during those salad days of the meteoric rise of Obama and the beginning of legacy media fawning over his every public appearance and spoken word, a cautionary note about Biden was buried in that CBS article:
“This is not exactly a ‘safe’ selection for Obama,” said CBSNews.com senior political editor Vaughn Ververs. “With over 30 years of baggage accumulated in the U.S. Senate, Biden is not the kind of running mate you would think of for someone who has campaigned on a pledge to change the way politics is done in Washington.”
“30 years of baggage.” Ya think? Serial plagiarist and liar. Shameful interrogation and belittling of Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearing in 1991. Author of the 1994 “super-predator” crime bill (the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act). And two prior failed presidential runs that demonstrated he had ZERO constituency outside his home state (his low turnout campaign appearances this year are a standard Biden FEATURE, not a BUG). He certainly wasn’t going to “broaden Obama’s base,” which is typically why VP selections are made (to balance the ticket regionally, demographically, and/or ideologically). Biden’s true constituency existed among the corruptocrats and insiders who infest the Democrat Party, as well as their donors and “investors.” And therein lies the tale.
The recent revelations stemming from emails and files on Hunter Biden’s laptop illuminate a Biden crime family operation that has been ongoing for decades. Incriminating emails indicate that Joe Biden received a cut off the top from every corrupt deal made. Joe was euphemistically referred to in emails disclosed to date as “the Big Guy.”
It has been speculated that Beau Biden was being groomed for a political career to replace his father Joe in the Senate (and as head of the crime family) – until his untimely death from brain cancer in 2015. But what about the younger son, Hunter? A political career wasn’t likely, given his long history of drug abuse and other hedonistic behavior, but that was probably why he briefly served as a public relations officer in the naval reserve until booted for testing positive for cocaine in 2014 – to punch a ticket as a step toward replacing his gravely ill brother. But of course, his personal demons wrecked that possibility, so he continued his “lobbying career.” Interestingly, he was serving in the naval reserve when the first of his big China deals was hatched with BHR Partners (about which we are learning more from Tony Bobulinski, one of Hunter’s partners in the deal). And both he and Bobulinski knew that their Chinese “partners” were directly connected to the ChiCom intelligence services. Did they report their contacts with ChiCom intelligence to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and/or the FBI, as they were obligated to do? Highly doubtful.
The files and emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop that have been disclosed to date paint a sordid picture of Biden family corruption connected to foreign dealings in Russia, Ukraine, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Costa Rica, and the big egg roll – China. Not quite coincidentally, Obama tagged his vice president to take the lead in foreign policy interactions with those countries, including the now-infamous squelching of the Ukrainian government investigation into Burisma Holdings and also his 2013 trip on Air Force 2 to China with son Hunter in tow. And Joe Biden got a cut on everything, according to the emails on Hunter’s laptop and disclosures by Tony Bobulinski!
In short, Hunter Biden became a bag man for the Biden crime family. Here is how the Urban Dictionary defines a bag man:
Someone who transports goods or money between two people in a criminal activity. For example, a thug that comes around to collect extortion money and then brings it to a more senior gang member. Another example would be a lawyer that collects money to bribe a judge.
Or, in Hunter’s case, someone who collects bribery money from foreign entities as a conduit for their influence-peddling with the Vice President of the United States!
Which gets us to the real reason Obama picked Biden in the first place. Obama knew that Biden had a sweet little crime family grifting operation up and running for years. As a relative political neophyte about insider dealing and corruption in Washington in 2008, he would have been happy to have the elder Biden show him the ropes – and get in on the action!
And according to newly released texts from James Biden (brother of Joe), evidence is now emerging that Obama himself was in on the Biden family grifting, which would perhaps explain where at least some of Obama’s approximately $70 million net worth originated.
James Biden writes to #HunterBiden about @JoeBiden meeting with “the O” about “outrageous acquisitions” and “the two biggest days of our business life” in an e-mail from October 1, 2017.
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The Bidens are big on abbreviations and euphemisms, aren’t they? The Big Guy. JB. The O. But they are too clever by half, as it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out to whom they refer in their emails and texts as they gleefully plot their corrupt deals. And yes, Obama and Biden were together on 29-30 September 2017 at the Invictus Games in Toronto – a perfect venue outside the US for discussing corrupt deals.
Yes, the mediocre senator from Delaware and later mediocre vice president of the United States will end his 47-plus year political career as nothing more than a glorified bag man for Barack Obama. Like father, like son (and vice versa).
No wonder Obama was lukewarm about Biden running for president from the beginning. He knew there was a high probability that the Bidens’ corruption would be exposed, and that exposure would shine unwanted klieg lights upon himself, too. This has all the makings of another instance of Trumpenfreude!
Hindsight really is 20-20.
The end.
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Ivanka as a lesbian? Please, Please NO. We have enough to deal with.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said on Saturday that she will vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday, despite objections to taking up the nomination before the Nov. 3 election.
"I have no doubt about her intellect. I have no doubt about Judge Barrett's judicial temperament. ... I have no doubt about her capability to do the job. ... I have concluded that she is the sort of person we want on the Supreme Court," Murkowski said from the Senate floor.
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Time to go out and change the oil... My hot Pizza has one more chore to do now. 
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Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik opens up about his work with ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani in investigating the possibly incriminating materials left behind by Hunter Biden and their connections to his father Joe. - with Newsmax TV's Chris Salcedo
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The body of the mother, a paediatric nurse in her 30s, was found below a bridge in the west of the city.
Officers later found the boy's body at her home in Lucan.
Gardaí have described the incident as a family tragedy.
A post-mortem examination was carried out on the child on Thursday evening.
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Police said they are still trying to establish the facts but are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.
They explained they were called after a woman was seen behaving erratically at the M50 toll bridge at about 03:45 local time.
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A court ruling on Thursday banned almost all abortions - with exceptions only for cases of rape, incest, or where the mother's health is at risk.
Abortions carried out when the foetus is malformed, which accounted for 98% of legal terminations last year, have now been outlawed.
Poland already had some of the EU's strictest abortion laws.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday hit back at President Trump after he referred to her as "AOC" during the presidential debate, saying it is an advertisement for his “disrespect of women.”
“If someone told me 3 years ago, while I was waitressing to help my family stay afloat, that in a few short years an unhinged President of the United States would be repeatedly saying my name at the 2020 debate, I would’ve brought them some water and told them to sober up,” the first-term lawmaker wrote on Twitter.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Wednesday making it easier to hire and fire certain government employees who work in important policy-making positions within the federal government and who previously were guarded from removal by civil service protections.
Under the order, which creates a new classification for federal employees, called "Schedule F," federal agencies will have more flexibility to hire and fire "employees in confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating positions" who perform poorly.
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Employees in these positions are normally not subjected to change as a result of a presidential transition and, as the Daily Signal noted, are consequently able to "make and design policy details and rules with little or no public accountability."
The Daily Signal added in its report that "the order is intended to address what Trump administration officials say is a concern about the growth of the federal bureaucracy and about an increasing willingness by Congress to delegate policymaking authority to executive branch agencies."
In a statement released along with the order, the White House noted that, previously, removing career federal employees who perform poorly, even from critical positions, was "time-consuming and difficult" — typically taking between six months and a year.
As part of an effort to hold America's bureaucratic officials accountable, the order states that "agencies need the flexibility to expeditiously remove poorly performing employees from these positions without facing extensive delays or litigation."
Federal agency heads now have until Jan. 20, 2021, to determine which staff positions they will move into Schedule F designations.
What are people saying?
Allies of the president are heralding the order as a strong move in the right direction toward reining in the burgeoning federal bureaucracy.
"President Trump is delivering on his promise to make Washington accountable again to the citizens it's meant to serve," Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told the Daily Signal. "This much-needed reform will increase accountability in essential policymaking positions within the government."
Rachel Greszler, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, called the order a "commonsense change to insert some much-needed accountability."
"Imagine if a CEO was prevented from disciplining or dismissing managers who refused to carry out her directives or who took actions to thwart her initiatives," she added. "That's the case right now within the federal government, where it's extremely difficult — sometimes seemingly impossible — to fire federal employees."
But not all are praising the new order. One prominent federal union leader told the New York Times that the order is "the most profound undermining of the Civil Service in our lifetimes."
Critics are also characterizing it as an egregious attempt by the president to fill the federal government with lackeys and yes men.
"The president has doubled down on his effort to politicize and corrupt the professional service," Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, told the Wall Street Journal in a statement. "This executive order strips due-process rights and protections from perhaps hundreds of thousands of federal employees and will enable political appointees and other officials to hire and fire these workers at will."
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Joel Daly, a news anchor for Chicago's ABC7 for almost four decades, has died at age 86, ABC7 reports. He had been in hospice care at his daughter's home after being diagnosed with vascular parkinsonism, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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I seem to spend a lot of time on Twitter trying to disabuse people of mistaken notions about how the federal legal/investigative process works in practice, and why it is often a mistake to expect instant attention or action from a process that doesn’t lend itself to such demands.
The search of a laptop obtained by means other than a search warrant is one such process about which many people jump to conclusions that are unwarranted, and aren’t informed by the requirements of the case law interpreting the Fourth Amendment.
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Yesterday Fox News reported that the laptop had been subpoenaed by the grand jury as part of a “money laundering” investigation, and that set “tongues a waggin” as they say.
The Biden campaign then issued a statement turning daytime into night by claiming that Fox’s report confirmed that the FBI was actually investigating Rudy Giuliani because — don’t ya know — if you paid for, or receive payment for, fraudulent information that’s used in an election campaign that might be “money laundering”. Since that’s why the FBI took the laptop, it can only mean that Giuliani is being investigated because he’s been targeted by the Russians to help perpetrate their fraud against the Joe Biden.
With all due sincerely, everyone needs to SHUT UP if you don’t have experience in this process. Too many idiots are making stuff up based on the way they THINK the process works and then using their made-up scenarios to spin the fact that the FBI used a grand jury subpoena to take possession of the laptop.
On the heels of those baseless comments, we have another whole corner of Twitter who is convinced the FBI took the laptop for the sole purpose of burying it and keeping its contents out of the election, and they draw a parallel with the handling of Anthony Weiner’s laptop by Peter Strzok in the fall of 2016.
Once again, fact-free scenarious being spun out on key board in a “free association” style of taking a Rorschach test, combining mixed metaphors of conspiracy theories.
Those of you engaged in these exercises are making as much sense as that last sentence of mine.
With regard to Hunter Biden’s laptop, we know it came into the possession of the FBI pursuant to a grand jury subpoena given to the computer repair shop owner on September 9, 2019.
We also know that the Agent who picked up the laptop had at least one telephone call or in-person conversation with the computer shop owner because the subpoena identifies the laptop by serial number in the description of “items to be produced”.
What we do not know is what happened with regard to the laptop after that. There is a belief being expressed across the internet that nothing was done, and that was by design. But no one knows that for sure.
I’m can’t disabuse those who have it of the notion that the FBI and federal prosecutors always act in accordance with some pre-determined political motivation. It’s ridiculous to have that belief based on a few highly “irregular episodes,” and then smear it across a workforce of 12,000+ FBI agents and 4000+ prosecutors to conclude they are all “in on it” and that explains everything that happens which you don’t agree with.
Nor am I going to try to argue that the “irregular episodes” aren’t troubling on their face, and raise questions about how much the leadership in the DOJ and FBI have internalized their own political views. I know first hand that is true in DOJ, but I also know that in 99% of the cases leadership doesn’t dictate how an individual case gets handled based on politics.
I will say this — leadership in DOJ and FBI is always acutely aware of the politics of a particular circumstance where there is a significant political angle that applies. But that awareness is almost always part of an effort to not “step on a landmine” and as a result do damage to the case or a career. SOMETIMES, the best way to avoid stepping on such a “landmine” is to not take a step. These are the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” dilemmas.
Understanding that such a backdrop always exists, regardless of what party is in control of the politics of DOJ/FBI, let’s look at what did — or did not — happen with regard to the laptop obtained from the computer shop owner.
Fox News added some details to the subpoena yesterday by including a picture of the FBI property receipt that was given to the person who delivered the laptop. That receipt has the FBI Case File number on it so we know the investigation to which it relates was listed as a “272D” matter. That is the FBI’s “Violation Code” for “Money Laundering, Unknown SUA.”
Here is where the earth shifted off its axis for some. Suddenly Twitter was on fire with scenarios in which Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Devin Nunes, Mitch McConnell, blah, blah, blah, were somehow implicated in “money laundering” and the laptop is the key to unraveling everything that has been hidden for so long. Whatever side of the political aisle you’re on dictated who the “target” of the investigation might be. I’m truly in fear of visiting EmptyWheel to see who Marcy Wheeler has positively identified as the guilty party.
But ALL THAT IS WRONG. The designation on the property receipt is — for all practical purposes — useless based on the known information.
A 272D matter is about as “generic” as the FBI can be with regard to an unknown form of white-collar crime. For practical purposes, it serves as a “placeholder” until more information is known. When the case is opened in the case file system, the Agent must include a violation code. The FBI only investigates “crimes” so unless they can describe a crime, no case is opened.
The real clue that the FBI used 272 as a placeholder in this instance is the fact that it was opened as a “D” file — “Unknown SUA” which means “Unknown Specified Unlawful Activity.” That shows the FBI had no information at the time about what underlying criminal activity might be involved.
The crime of “money laundering” may be about the least understood criminal offense that exists, yet it draws the most amateur commentary from people about what people THINK it is — and they are mostly wrong.
“Money laundering” only happens if the “money” involved is derived from criminal activity. But not all criminal activity counts — only “Specified Unlawful Activity” as set forth in a specific federal statute — 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1956(c)(7). If you hit the link, be prepared to have your eyes glaze over.
Money derived for other crimes — not listed among the “SUAs” in the statute — is not subject to the statute criminalizing the financial transaction, commonly referred to as “money laundering.”
My guess is that when they took the laptop with a grand jury subpoena, the computer shop owner didn’t give them much more information than there were financial documents and/or documents that looked like they involved foreign business activities by Hunter Biden. Not having specifics about crimes that might be involved, the Agent opened it as a generic “money laundering” investigation just to be able to take possession of the laptop.
So what happened next? No one knows, and everything you are reading elsewhere is speculation.
But when a computer is obtained via a grand jury subpoena, that does not give the FBI authority to search the hard drive. To do that the Agent needs to get a search warrant.
A federal agent can only seek a search warrant if authorized to do so by a federal prosecutor. The process for getting a search warrant begins with the question “What crime do you think Hunter Biden might have committed?” The second question is going to be “What evidence do you have that he committed that crime?”
Having a suspicion based on what the computer shop owner told the agent is not going to be enough when you are talking about a white collar crime unless the owner printed off documents from the computer, gives them to the FBI, and the documents begin to make the case that criminal activity may have taken place.
That does happen. It’s called a “private party search” and the FBI can use information learned in that fashion to justify getting a search warrant since the information didn’t come from an FBI search. That information can be sued to establish probable cause to search the compute for other evidence.
But we don’t know if that happened here. We don’t know how much detail the computer shop owner was to provide about the files he looked at. But the clue that the shop owner did not give detailed information, nor give documents to the Agent is the fact that the case was opened as a “D” file. It’s likely the fact that the shop owner didn’t copy any of the documents themselves to give to the agents, and/or he didn’t understand them well enough to be able to describe in detail what they were. Without that information, the agent and the prosecutor have a lot of questions but not many answers. That’s how investigations START.
These questions don’t answer themselves. But doing all these tasks, and dealing with the inquiries of a prosecutor, don’t all happen in one sitting and one phone call.
Until the Agent and the prosecutor could develop evidence independent of the laptop that Hunter Biden was likely engaged in criminal activity, and evidence of that criminal activity would likely be found on the computer.
Without being able to provide that information to a federal judge, the FBI was not going to get a search warrant for the laptop — unless, as has now happened, various items from the laptop have become public as a result of the shop owner keeping a copy of the hard drive for himself. The FBI can use that public information as a basis to seek a warrant if they had not obtained one up to this point.
THAT is how the process ACTUALLY works.
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We’re now counting down to the election with just 12 days left.
We’re seeing all kinds of things exploding off in the Biden scandal as more and more information keeps dropping. It’s clear Joe Biden is going to have serious problems over it.
The final debate is tonight. Biden got a gift with the biased Debate Commission canceling the second debate so Joe Biden only had to hold it together through two debates, half as many as President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had black in 2016.
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Biden has been hiding out in his basement until the debate hoping to avoid all questions about the scandal, but you can bet your bottom dollar it’s coming up tonight even if the moderator doesn’t bring it up, Trump will.
One can’t expect much better from MSNBC’s Kristen Welker who has a lot of Democratic connections and who had anti-Trump posts on her Twitter account. Republicans really need not to agree to such biased moderators ever again.
But with all that swirling around, Rasmussen is reporting that Trump just hit the ‘holy grail’ of reelection numbers, according to the Washington Examiner.
The president’s approval rating had been on an upward trend. But now it just jumped three points, from 49% to 52%. Polls have also tightened, but it’s measures like the approval level that have been more accurate over time than random polls. As Gallup has noted in the past, “all incumbents with an approval rating of 50% or higher have won reelection, and presidents with approval ratings much lower than 50% have lost.” That’s why getting over 50 right before the election is considered like reaching the ‘holy grail.’
Rasmussen isn’t the only poll which has him over 50%. As we previously reported, Zogby had him at 51% among likely voters.
It’s also interesting to compare to Barack Obama’s numbers at the same time of his reelection campaign.
Of course, Obama won reelection, 332 to 206 in the electoral college votes.
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The corrupt web woven by Joe Biden and family continues to get more intricate. We’ve now see connections to Ukraine, including a meeting brokered with a Burisma associate, and dealings in Kazakstan. Multiple pieces of evidence also connect Joe Biden directly to possible payments for allowing the use of his name to peddle influence. One of those pieces of evidence includes a name source and business associate for Hunter Biden himself.
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Yet, things continue to get worse. The latest news shows that Joe Biden and company were doing exactly what the rabid left have been accusing Trump of all these years. Namely, they were in hock to the Chinese via extremely sketchy and large loans.
That sure sounds like money laundering. The money goes to an LLC in Joe Biden’s home state where the money is then passed through to Hunter Biden. Connect that to the other emails stating that Joe Biden was getting a cut of the proceeds and this starts to look really, really bad.
Did the Biden’s pay this money back? Why were they seeking a $5M loan for anything, much less from the Chinese? If this is “middle-class” Joe, he’s certainly got an odd definition of being middle-class. This is the same guy who made around $400,000 during Trump’s first year in office and then somehow made $16M over the course of the next two years. That’s a lot of “speaking” gigs for a guy who can barely speak.
Of course, the biggest issue here aside from the loan itself is that it was interest-free. No one just gives a $5M interest-free loan to someone because they are nice. They do so because they are getting something in return. The Chinese didn’t just have trust in the Biden’s and feel like shoveling them cash. Every question about why Joe Biden has been so subservient to China is answered by this. The Bidens were benefiting financially in some way via business dealings in the country. That includes this loan. In response, Joe Biden goes out and pretends China isn’t a threat and fluffs it as a legitimate world power instead of the communist, genocidal regime it is.
Everything is falling into place and there’s more still coming. Joe Biden is going to do his best to ignore this at the debate tonight, and we know the moderator won’t bring it up. But this story is only getting bigger, and every attempt to quash it by the media is only making things worse. You hate to see it.
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A man claiming to be a former business partner of Hunter Biden has released a statement alleging that the email that the New York Post published about a "lucrative" deal with a Chinese company is "genuine." The professed business associate also claims that Joe Biden not only knew about his son's overseas dealings, but also profited from an agreement with a Chinese energy firm.
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Tony Bobulinski is the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings, which he claimed formed a partnership with the now-bankrupt Shanghai-based China Energy Fund Committee, which was run by Ye Jianming, who has been missing since 2018.
"I am the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings which was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family," Bobulinski said in the statement that was published by the New York Post on Thursday. "I was brought into the company to be the CEO by James Gilliar and Hunter Biden."
In an email allegedly obtained from Hunter Biden's laptop, it details "remuneration packages" in a business venture for six people only identified as initials and nicknames. The email, which was written by James Gilliar of the international consulting firm J2cR, names Hunter Biden as the "Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC (China Energy Co)." His pay was noted to be "850."
"In addition, the email outlined a 'provisional agreement' under which 80 percent of the 'equity,' or shares in the new company, would be split equally among four people whose initials correspond to the sender and three recipients, with 'H' apparently referring to Biden," the Post reported.
As terms of the deal, the email states, "10 held by H for the big guy?" The "big guy" was not identified in the email, but Bobulinski claims that it is a reference to Joe Biden. There is a person identified as "JB" referenced in the email; Bobulinski alleged that it references Jim Biden, Joe's brother.
"Hunter Biden called his dad 'the Big Guy' or 'my Chairman,' and frequently referenced asking him for his sign-off or advice on various potential deals that we were discussing," said Bobulinski, who is a Navy veteran. "I've seen Vice President Biden saying he never talked to Hunter about his business. I've seen firsthand that that's not true, because it wasn't just Hunter's business, they said they were putting the Biden family name and its legacy on the line."
Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, has repeatedly denied that he has never involved himself in his son's business affairs, claiming he's "never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings."
Bobulinski added that he is cooperating with an investigation into Hunter Biden's business overseas dealings led by U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
"The committee is working to validate information being revealed by multiple sources. As part of those efforts, we have reached out to several individuals named in recently revealed emails, including Tony Bobulinski. We look forward to their cooperation in helping us uncover the truth," Johnson told Just the News.
Last month, Johnson and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released a report titled "Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns."
"The Johnson Report connected some dots in a way that shocked me — it made me realize the Bidens had gone behind my back and gotten paid millions of dollars by the Chinese, even though they told me they hadn't and wouldn't do that to their partners," Bobulinski said.
Bobulinski claims that he is "not a political person," and "what few campaign contributions I have made in my life were to Democrats."
"I don't have a political axe to grind; I just saw behind the Biden curtain and I grew concerned about what I saw," he said. "The Biden family aggressively leveraged the Biden family name to make millions of dollars from foreign entities even though some were from communist controlled China."
The email was sent on May 13, 2017, when Biden was no longer vice president.
Another of Hunter Biden's alleged business associates is allegedly giving up information that could potentially be a problem for the Biden campaign.
Bevan Cooney, who is currently serving a prison sentence for fraud, reportedly provided access to his Gmail account to Breitbart investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author Peter Schweizer. "These associates sought to trade on Hunter Biden's relationship with, and access to, his father and the Obama-Biden White House in order to generate business," the report alleges.
"We're not looking at printouts. Not looking at PDFs. We're actually in his Gmail accounts themselves, sifting through these emails," Schweizer told Glenn Beck this week. "And there's a shocking amount of information about deals involving China, involving Russia, involving all sorts of things they were trying to pull off."
On Tuesday, Schweizer claimed that Cooney "has been removed from the federal facility in Oregon where he is being detained."
The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment, telling the Washington Examiner, "For safety and security reasons, we do not discuss specific inmates' conditions of confinement."
On July 31, 2019, Cooney was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison for "defrauding a Native American tribal entity and various investment advisory clients of tens of millions of dollars in connection with the issuance of bonds by the tribal entity and the subsequent sale of those bonds through fraudulent and deceptive means," the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's Office said.
On Tuesday, Joe Biden dismissed the allegations stemming from the leaked emails from his son's laptop that was reportedly left at a computer repair shop.
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson has unveiled a letter addressed to CNN host Chris Cuomo from the building superintendent of his New York City residence, scolding the brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and threatening to turn him in for repeatedly flouting the governor's mask mandate.
What the details?
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"Dear Mr. Cuomo," the letter begins. "As I am sure you know, because of the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis, on April 15, 2020 Governor Cuomo issued Executive Order 202.17, which requires anyone over the age [of] two to wear a face mask or cloth that covers their mouth and nose while in a public space."
It continues, "You have been observed entering and exiting the building and riding the elevator without the required face coverings. Even though staff members have asked you to comply with this requirement, you have refused to do so. This is a violation of the Executive Order, building policy, and places other residents and our staff at risk. There are no exceptions to this rule, and you are required to comply."
The letter reportedly goes on to threaten Cuomo with a $500 fine if he continues to violate the mask policy.
According to Carlson, his show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," was able to speak with Cuomo's building manager and verified the letter's authenticity. The Fox News host joked that the letter itself belongs "in the museum of hypocrisy."
Carlson goes on to play several clips of Chris Cuomo urging others to wear masks, and shows footage of Andrew Cuomo telling New Yorkers that they "could literally kill someone" by refusing to wear a mask in public spaces.
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The crew of the International Space Station plugged a longstanding air leak after locating the source with the help of a tea bag.
Russian space agency Roscosmos said the station had been experiencing a mysterious air leak since September 2019, but the leak was minor enough that fixing it wasn't considered a priority until the leak rate increased in August.
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Roscosmos said the source of the leak was finally found when cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin broke open a tea bag, allowing leaves to float free in the transfer chamber of the Zvezda Service Module area of the station.
The crew sealed off the area and monitored the leaves on video cameras, noting that the tiny tea fragments were floating toward a scratch in the wall that was then confirmed to be the source of the leak.
The leak was patched Monday using Kapton tape.
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