HBO late-night talk show host John Oliver offered to pay Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas a million dollars per year and give him a loaded tour bus if he retires from the nation&#8217;s highest court.
The leftist comedian, who was <a href="https://twitter.com/Arightside/status/1759898331445096712">accused</a> online of trying to &#8220;bribe&#8221; Thomas, made the offer on Sunday night: &#8220;One million dollars a year for the rest of your life, if you simply agree to leave the Supreme Court immediately and never come back.&#8221;
&#8220;Clarence Thomas is arguably the most consequential justice on the court right now, and he’s never really seemed to like the job. He said, ‘It’s not worth doing for the grief.’ So, what if he can keep the luxury perks he clearly enjoys without having to endure all of that grief,&#8221; Oliver continued. &#8220;If you watch our show, you know jokes aren’t really our thing. This is real. A million dollars a year until you or I die.&#8221;
Oliver said that Thomas deserved a &#8220;break&#8221; from &#8220;the meanness of Washington so you can be surrounded by the regular folks whose lives you made demonstrably worse for decades.&#8221;
&#8220;The good news is, I think we can help you with that because since your favorite mode of travel might be in need of an upgrade, we are excited to offer you this brand new top-of-the-line cray boat marathon motor coach!&#8221; Oliver said of a multimillion-dollar tour bus that offered to give Thomas.
&#8220;So that’s the offer. $1 million a year, Clarence,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And a brand new condo on wheels. And all you have to do to return is sign the contract and get the f*** off the Supreme Court. Talk it over with your totally best friend in the whole world. Because the clock starts now. Thirty days, Clarence. Let’s do this!”
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“Get the f*ck off the Supreme Court!” John Oliver offers Clarence Thomas a luxury motor coach, and $1 million a year, to resign from the Supreme Court. (Video: HBO) <a href="https://t.co/LUVD6zC5o3">pic.twitter.com/LUVD6zC5o3</a>
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Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, posted a clip to X of remarks that Thomas made roughly a year and a half ago where he addressed his critics in left-wing media.
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“One of the things I&#8217;d say in response to the media … especially early on, about the way I did my job, I said, ‘I will absolutely leave the court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours — and that was meant as a compliment, really,” Thomas laughed. “It really is getting to be mean.”
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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-navy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Navy</a> service member was sentenced to just over two years in prison after he pled guilty to being bribed to send sensitive military information to a Chinese intelligence officer. 
Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, a 26-year-old from Monterey Park, California, was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-navy-sailor-sentenced-27-months-prison-transmitting-sensitive-us-military-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> to just 27 months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,500 fine after his guilty plea for one count of conspiring with an intelligence officer and one count of receiving a bribe. Zhao <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-navy-service-member-pleads-guilty-transmitting-sensitive-us-military-information-chinese" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could</a> have faced up to 20 years in prison, 15 years for the conspiracy charge and 5 years for the bribery charge.
“Mr. Zhao betrayed his solemn oath to defend his country and endangered those who serve in the U.S. military,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “Today, he is being held to account for those crimes. The Justice Department is committed to combating the Chinese government’s efforts to undermine our nation’s security and holding accountable those who violate our laws as part of those efforts.” 
He was paid at least $14,866 by a Chinese intelligence officer for sending information on the U.S. Navy operational security, military trainings and exercises, and critical infrastructure, according to the DOJ. 
Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at Hudson Institute and the director of its Keystone Defense Initiative, slammed the “slap on the wrist” that Zhao received.
“He stole secrets about things that could get Americans killed, things related to operational security, military training, and key facilities” Heinrichs told The Daily Wire. “He did it over and over and sold it to our chief enemy. His slap on the wrist sentence is shocking and sends the wrong message at a tense time when China is relentlessly trying to recruit agents.”
The Navy service member, who had a security clearance, worked at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, California. The DOJ said that the bribery took place from August 2021 to May 2023 during which Zhao went into restricted locations to obtain information. 
The DOJ said that the information given to the Chinese intelligence officer included the plans of a large-scale training exercise in the Pacific and operational orders and documents on Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar system in Okinawa, Japan.
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“Zhao betrayed his country and disgraced himself when he accepted bribes from an intelligence officer with the People’s Republic of China,” said U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada for the Central District of California. “As a result, he has now been removed from the military and will serve time in federal prison. Today’s sentence shows that my office will swiftly act to root out and punish those who seek to undermine our nation’s security.”
The investigation was led by the FBI Los Angeles Field Office’s Counterintelligence and Cyber Division, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the IRS-Criminal Investigation unit.

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Navy Service Member Who Sold Secrets To China Sentenced To Just 27 Months In Prison

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A Tuesday segment on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/msnbc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSNBC&#8217;s</a> &#8220;Deadline White House&#8221; got awkward when new allegations surfaced against embattled Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) — and his daughter was guest-hosting the show.
Alicia Menendez was sitting in for regular host Nicolle Wallace, and just before the show went to a commercial break, she announced that a breaking news update was imminent. &#8220;We have to take a quick break. And we’ll be back with some breaking news right after this,&#8221; she said.
When they returned, however, MSNBC host Ari Melber was in the anchor&#8217;s chair to deliver the news.
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Towards the end of today&#39;s broadcast of MSNBC&#39;s Deadline: White House, anchor Alicia Menendez &#8212; filling in for Nicolle Wallace &#8212; hands off to Ari Melber to report Sen. Bob Menendez&#39;s latest corruption charges.
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&#8220;Hello, I’m Ari Melber with some breaking legal news,&#8221; Melber said. &#8220;New Jersey United States Sen. Robert Menendez now facing new allegations in a second superseding indictment which was filed by a federal grand jury from his DOJ prosecution.&#8221;
<a href="https://abc7ny.com/bob-menendez-superseding-indictment-senator-new-jersey/14261380/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As reported</a> on Tuesday by New York ABC News affiliate WABC, a second superseding indictment against the New Jersey senator alleges that he took &#8220;luxury watches&#8221; and other &#8220;things of value&#8221; in exchange for speaking positively about Qatar.
Co-defendant Fred Daibes is quoted in the indictment as asking Menendez, &#8220;How about one of these?&#8221; — after which he sent the senator a photo of the watches in question, which ranged in value from $10,000-$24,000.
On September 29, 2021 — just two days later — Daibes sent Menendez another message. This one addressed a Senate resolution that would show support for Qatar — and at the time, Daibes was also working to secure a real estate deal with the Qatari Investment Company.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-menendez-charged-with-acting-as-a-foreign-agent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Menendez</a> has already been charged with bribery and &#8220;acting as a foreign agent&#8221; in regard to his dealings with Egypt.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-alicia-menendez-addresses-the-scandal-involving-her-father-bob-menendez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alicia Menendez</a> previously addressed the unfolding scandal involving her father, saying that while her network would certainly continue to cover the news as it happened, she would not be the one to deliver it.
&#8220;I will not be reporting on the legal case. That said, my colleagues across MSNBC and NBC News, they have aggressively covered this story, and they’ll continue to do so, as they should,&#8221; she said at the time.

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MSNBC Segment Goes Sideways: New Menendez Allegations Surface While His Daughter Is Guest-Hosting

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At least four gold bars that federal investigators recovered during their search of Sen. Bob Menendez&#8217;s (D-NJ) home are directly linked to one of the men accused of bribing Menendez.
In 2013, businessman Fred Daibes filed a police report stating that he was the victim of an armed robbery and that the assailants took $500,000 in cash from him and nearly two dozen gold bars.
Police later caught the suspects and Daibes&#8217; property was returned to him, including the gold bars. According to Daibes, who had to sign a document certifying that the property was his, the gold bars all had unique serial numbers that would never be duplicated onto another gold bar.
&#8220;Each gold bar has its own serial number,&#8221; he told investigators at the time. &#8220;They’re all stamped … you’ll never see two stamped the same way.&#8221;
Four of the gold bars that investigators recovered from Menendez&#8217;s home have the same serial numbers as four of the 22 gold bars that were stolen and later returned to Daibes.
Daibes was charged in the federal indictment for allegedly conspiring to bribe Menendez and conspiring to commit fraud.
The <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23989441/us_v_menendez_et_al_indictment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment says</a> that Menendez and his wife had a corrupt relationship with New Jersey businessmen Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes, who allegedly gave the senator bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to the DOJ, the bribes were intended to protect the businessmen and to benefit Egypt.
NBC legal analyst Danny Cevallas said, &#8220;All of this spells bad news for Senator Menendez because the chain of custody – it appears – is going to be really easy to prove up.&#8221;
Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-fetterman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) called for Menendez to be expelled from the Senate last week after the U.S. House of Representatives expelled now-former Rep. George Santos (R-NY).
“Senator Menendez, he needs to go,” Fetterman said. “And if you are going to expel Santos, how can you allow somebody like Menendez to remain in the Senate? And, you know, Santos is kind of, lies were almost, you know, funny. And like, you know, he, you know, landed on the moon and that kind of stuff.”
“Whereas, you know, I think, you know, Menendez, I think is really a senator for Egypt. You know, not New Jersey. So I really think he needs to go,” Fetterman said. “He has the right for his day in court and all that, but he doesn’t have the right to have those kinds of votes and things that — that’s not a right. And I think we need to make that kind of decision to send him out.”

Gold Bars Recovered In Menendez Bribery Case Linked To 2013 Robbery: Report

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Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called on Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to resign from the U.S. Senate on Monday after Menendez was charged with multiple federal felonies last week in connection with an alleged bribery scheme.
“Senator Menendez has broken the public trust and should resign from the U.S. Senate,” <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/09/us-sen-sherrod-brown-calls-on-indicted-sen-bob-menendez-to-resign.html">said</a> Brown, who chairs the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
Brown is only the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-fetterman-calls-on-bob-menendez-to-resign-from-u-s-senate">second</a> U.S. Senator to call on Menendez to resign after Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) did so on Saturday.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) said that the allegations in the indictment were “deeply disturbing” because they “implicate national security and the integrity of our criminal justice system.”
“The alleged facts are so serious that they compromise the ability of Senator Menendez to effectively represent the people of our state,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-democrats-begin-pushing-menendez-to-resign-as-he-steps-down-from-chairmanship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Therefore, I am calling for his immediate resignation.”
The federal indictment against Menendez and his wife was unsealed on Friday and accused the senator and his wife of accepting bribes from three business people in exchange for actions that he took as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. According to the DOJ, the bribes were intended to protect the businessmen and to benefit Egypt.
Menendez faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted of the charges, which include conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.
Menendez was forced to step down as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee because of Senate Democrat bylaws but he has insisted that he is innocent and suggested that the charges stem from a vast conspiracy of people who are trying to take him down.
Menendez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bob-menendez-explains-why-he-had-480000-in-cash-at-his-home">offered</a> an explanation at a press conference on Monday for why he had $480,000 in cash at his home when investigators executed a search warrant.
“For 30 years, I have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which I have kept for emergencies, and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba,” he said. “Now, this may seem old-fashioned, but these were monies drawn from my personal savings account based on the income that I have lawfully derived over those 30 years. I look forward to addressing other issues at trial.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-calls-on-sen-menendez-to-resign-bucks-his-defense-that-hes-being-racially-targeted">AOC Calls On Sen. Menendez To Resign, Bucks His Defense That He’s Being Racially Targeted</a>

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Top Democrat Senator Calls On Menendez To Resign Over Bribery Scandal

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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has hired the lawyer representing President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, after Menendez was indicted last week on federal corruption charges.
CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/24/menendez-hires-hunter-biden-lawyer-for-bribery-case.html">reported</a> that Menendez hired Abbe Lowell to represent him in the case — the same lawyer that he hired in 2015 to represent him in a similar corruption case, although legal experts have said that the evidence in the current case is much stronger.
Lowell was hired by Hunter Biden after his plea deal fell apart in federal court last month which eventually led to prosecutors charging Hunter Biden on firearm-related charges.
The federal indictment was unsealed against Menendez on Friday, and it accused the senator and his wife of accepting bribes from three business people in exchange for actions that he took as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. According to the DOJ, the bribes were intended to protect the businessmen and to benefit Egypt.
Menendez faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted of the charges, which include conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.
“Those bribes included cash, gold, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value,” the indictment said. Federal authorities reportedly found gold bars and nearly $500,000 in cash stuffed throughout the senator’s home that they traced back to the businessmen Menendez allegedly worked with.
Several top Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), have called on Menendez to resign over the scandal, while many others, especially in the U.S. Senate, have remained silent on the issue.
Menendez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-sen-bob-menendez-suggests-vast-conspiracy-is-after-him-after-hes-hit-with-federal-charges">responded</a> to the indictment by suggesting that he was the victim of a vast conspiracy that was plotting against him, in-part because he was Latino.
“It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat,&#8221; he later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/menendez-addresses-growing-calls-to-resign-after-corruption-charges">added</a>. &#8220;I am not going anywhere.”

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Former President Donald Trump called on all Senate Democrats to resign following the federal indictment against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) last week, claiming that they all knew about the alleged bribes he took.
The indictment, unsealed on Friday, says that Menendez and his wife had a corrupt relationship with New Jersey businessmen Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes, who allegedly gave the senator bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to the DOJ, the bribes were intended to protect the businessmen and to benefit Egypt.
Menendez faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted of the charges, which include conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.
&#8220;Senate Democrats should all resign based on Senator Bob Menendez!&#8221; Trump wrote on social media. &#8220;They all knew what was going on, and the way he lived.&#8221;
Trump then asked why the FBI did not raid Senate Democrats&#8217; homes, though agents did raid Menendez&#8217;s home.
During the raid, FBI agents recovered &#8220;cash, gold, [a] luxury vehicle, and home furnishings&#8221; that were part of the alleged bribery scheme, according to the indictment.
Trump then said that what President Joe Biden had in &#8220;some of his many homes&#8221; was likely worse than what Menendez had in his home. Biden and his son Hunter have been accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from a Ukrainian energy executive in exchange taking action as then-vice president in the Obama administration.
&#8220;I wonder how much they got paid for Rigging the Election? Menendez is one of many, a small timer at that,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD RESIGN FROM THE SENATE! Our Border’s are Broken, our Election’s are Rigged.&#8221;
Menendez was previously indicted by the DOJ under the Obama administration in a case that alleged that he took bribes from Dr. Salomon Melgen, a wealthy Florida doctor, in exchange for political favors. Menendez was never convicted due to a hung jury — while a judge acquitted him of some charges — and the DOJ under Trump dropped the case.
Melgen was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/south-florida-doctor-sentenced-medicare-fraud-scheme">sentenced</a> to 17 years in prison for after being convicted on 67 counts of health care fraud that totaled $42 million.
Trump later commuted Melgen&#8217;s prison sentence after &#8220;Menendez urged him to grant clemency to his old friend,&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/22/sen-bob-menendez-beat-corruption-case-with-nude-brazilian/">reported</a>.

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-grassley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Grassley</a> (R-IA) said Tuesday that most media outlets were not asking crucial questions on whether the FBI and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice Department</a> followed normal procedures when investigating Biden family bribery allegations or brushed the information “under the rug.”
Grassley made the comments from the Senate floor when discussing the FBI-generated FD-1023 form he released last week. The form <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-biden-bribery-file-released-burisma-head-says-he-was-coerced-into-paying-bidens-10-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured allegations</a> that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter pressured Burisma co-founder and CEO Mykola Zlochevsky into paying them millions of dollars each in exchange for pressuring the Ukrainian government to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin.
&#8220;Much of the media&#8217;s reporting has missed the essential question,&#8221; Grassley <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/grassley-demands-answers-fbi-doj-response-biden-bribery-allegations?utm_source=daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;That essential question is this: Did the Justice Department and the FBI follow normal investigative process and procedures to run the information down or did they sweep this information under the rug?&#8221;
Grassley said that the government engaged in “obstructive conduct” by making key redactions from the FD-1023 when it provided a copy of the document to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, including “references to the alleged audio recordings between then-Vice President Biden, Hunter Biden, and the foreign national.&#8221;
&#8220;It also redacted references to text messages and financial records that allegedly existed to prove the criminal act was done. Those redactions are an obstructive conduct by the United States. Why? Because this was an unclassified document. It&#8217;s not even marked law enforcement sensitive,&#8221; Grassley added. 
The longtime senator said that his main goal was to hold the DOJ and the FBI accountable. 
According to the FD-1023, Zlochevsky allegedly <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fd_1023_obtained_by_senator_grassley_-_biden.pdf">told</a> the FBI’s confidential human source (CHS) that during a meeting in August 2016, it cost him “5 (million) to pay one Biden, and 5 (million) to another.”
Zlochevsky allegedly said that it was “too late to change his decision,” which CHS understood as meaning that Zlochevsky “already had paid the Bidens, presumably to ‘deal with Shokin.’”
An addendum to the report from June 2020 says that Zlochevsky told CHS that he had “17 recordings” involving his interactions, including two with Joe Biden. The other 15 were with Hunter Biden.
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In reaction to this and other pieces of evidence obtained by lawmakers, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy indicated that the House could be moving closer toward an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden over the bribery allegations.
McCarthy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-mccarthy-indicates-republicans-are-moving-toward-impeachment-inquiry-of-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a Monday interview</a> that other alleged bribes to the Biden family have come from countries like Ukraine, Russia, Romania, and China.

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Grassley Asks The One Question ‘Missed’ By Media On Biden Family Bribery Allegations

Grassley Asks The One Question 'Missed' By Media On Biden Family Bribery Allegations

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Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for an investigation into President Joe Biden during an interview over the weekend inlight of an FBI form that was released this week that outlined allegations of corruption against Biden.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-biden-bribery-file-released-burisma-head-says-he-was-coerced-into-paying-bidens-10-million">FBI-generated FD-1023 form</a>, released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), alleges that Burisma co-founder and CEO Mykola Zlochevsky told a highly credible FBI confidential human source that he was &#8220;coerced&#8221; into paying Biden and his son Hunter each $5 million to get a Ukrainian investigation into his company shut down.
&#8220;I have avoided criticizing the President because I, you know, I&#8217;m trying to bring people together and and some of the vitriol, the poison that&#8217;s made politics so poisonous,&#8221; Kennedy told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures.&#8221;
&#8220;I think though the issues that are now coming up are worrying enough that we really need a real investigation of what happened,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, these revelations about the, you know, where you have Burisma — which is a notoriously corrupt company that paid out apparently $10 million to Hunter and his dad — if that&#8217;s true, then it is really troubling.&#8221;
Kennedy said that in addition to the need for the allegation to be thoroughly investigated, Americans need to be worried about the politicization from federal law enforcement agencies.
&#8220;I think that that&#8217;s something that every American needs to worry about and our federal agencies, which used to be above politics, and now become weaponized as political instruments, and that, again, is another really damaging trend for our democracy,&#8221; he said.
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RFK Jr. Calls For Investigation Into Biden Over Bribery Allegations

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Damning new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-threatened-chinese-business-partner-for-payment-i-am-sitting-here-with-my-father" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revelations</a> about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter from IRS whistleblowers are “the worst emerging corruption scandals” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> has ever seen, the Daily Wire editor emeritus said Friday.
Shapiro, a co-founder of The Daily Wire, made the comments on his daily <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1753-submersible-imploded-and-the-navy-knew-all-along-member-exclusive-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> while discussing new claims from a whistleblower who released texts that appear to show Hunter Biden threatening a Chinese businessman named Henry Zhao.
&#8220;The most significant allegation is that there is a WhatsApp message that&#8217;s actually included in the records here in which Hunter Biden is openly telling people at a Chinese company that they need to pay him money, and in this message, Hunter Biden literally says, &#8216;My dad is sitting next to me and he wants you to pay the money,'&#8221; Shapiro said. 
On Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee released a text from Hunter to Zhao. The message, from July 30, 2017 on WhatsApp, appears to show Hunter throwing around his father’s influence to get some kind of deal done. 
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,” a copy of the text provided by the committee reads. 
Shapiro said that the text was “insane” and showed that Biden had been dishonest the whole time. 
“That text from Hunter Biden saying, ‘I&#8217;m sitting next to daddy pay up or or my daddy is going to do something to you.’ That&#8217;s insane. And it means that Joe&#8217;s been lying this whole time,” Shapiro said. 
In response, The Daily Wire host said Republicans in Congress should lean even harder into their investigations of the Bidens. Aside from his dealings in China, the Bidens are also implicated in an alleged multi-million dollar bribery scheme involving Ukraine. 
“Well, if the congressional Republicans don&#8217;t now subpoena pretty much everyone in law enforcement. I don&#8217;t know what the hell they&#8217;re doing or what they think their role is in Congress,” Shapiro said.
Hours after the damning message was revealed, and following an announcement of a plea deal on tax crimes, Hunter Biden was a prominent figure hours later at the White House India State Dinner Thursday evening.

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Legacy media appears to have no interest in an alleged bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and an as-yet unidentified foreign national.
When Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. James Comer (R-KY) came forward with information about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-alleges-fbi-has-evidence-of-biden-engaging-in-bribery-scheme-with-foreign-national">alleged scheme</a>, legacy media outlets should have been all over the story — but they were not.
Then more information began to trickle out: namely that the alleged bribery scheme likely was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mtg-says-bribery-allegations-against-biden-linked-to-burisma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tied to Burisma</a>, and that Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-puts-dollar-amount-on-alleged-biden-bribery-scheme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could have profited</a> by as much as $5 million for a certain policy outcome requested by the unnamed foreign national — the timing of which aligned with an alleged $5 million payment aimed at killing an investigation into Burisma Holdings&#8217; founder.
Still, legacy media coverage of the whole situation remained minimal — even as Comer threatened to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt over the bureau&#8217;s refusal to comply with a subpoena and provide Congress with an FD-1023 form related to the alleged scheme.
Grassley gave <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/remarks/grassley-fbi-redacted-references-to-recordings-in-biden-allegation-shared-with-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several updates</a> in recent days as well, noting that the FBI did allow some members of Congress to review the FD-1023 – but despite it already being unclassified, the bureau had insisted that they view the document in a classified facility and had reportedly made additional redactions to it prior to allowing those viewings.
Grassley, who has read the unredacted version of the FD-1023, announced on the Senate floor that one of the redactions included the claim that the unnamed foreign national had reportedly kept a number of recordings of conversations related to the bribery scheme — 15 conversations with Hunter Biden and two with then Vice President Joe Biden – as a sort of &#8220;insurance policy&#8221; if things should go wrong.
WATCH:
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GRASSLEY: &quot;The foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recording of his conversation with them. 17 such recordings&#8230;15 audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden&#8230;two audio recordings of phone calls between him and… <a href="https://t.co/0QdUMEKhOR">pic.twitter.com/0QdUMEKhOR</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1668375398164447233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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And still, legacy media outlets appeared disinterested.
The Media Research Center&#8217;s <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2023/06/13/nets-spend-291-minutes-trump-indictment-0-seconds-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsbusters</a> laid out a stark comparison following the two major stories that broke on June 8 — one involving the alleged Biden bribery scheme and the other involving another indictment of former President Donald Trump.
&#8220;On June 8, former President Donald Trump was indicted by the Special Counsel in the classified documents case. That very same day it was reported that President Joe Biden had allegedly received $5 million dollars from an executive of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, the same company in which his son Hunter was involved,&#8221; according to Geoffry Dickens of Newsbusters.
During the four days that followed, Newsbusters determined that the three major networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — devoted nearly five hours (291 minutes) of coverage to Trump&#8217;s indictment. Those same networks opted not to cover the Biden story at all.

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Rick Johnson, who led Michigan House Republicans from 2001-2004, pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting bribes from businesses seeking marijuana licenses in the Great Lakes State. 
From 2017-2019, Johnson chaired the Medical Marijuana Licensing Board, a state board that had the authority to decide which businesses could get into the marijuana business. During that time, Johnson received cash payments totaling at least $110,200 and other benefits from businesses and lobbyists seeking medical marijuana licenses, according to prosecutors, The Detroit News <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2023/04/25/rick-johnson-ex-michigan-house-speaker-to-plead-guilty-to-bribery/70136545007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.   
Johnson faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. He is expected to be sentenced within three to four months, according to Magistrate Judge Phillip Green. The former Michigan lawmaker was released Tuesday on an unsecured bond of $25,000, which means he was allowed to leave without making a deposit. Johnson&#8217;s guilty plea comes as investigators continue to look into how money has influenced marijuana policymaking in Michigan. 
&#8220;This investigation is ongoing, which is to say we may or may not bring future charges in this case,&#8221; U.S. Attorney Mark Totten said. &#8220;But what I can say is that the investigation and prosecution of public corruption is a priority for our office. We will follow it wherever we find it.&#8221;
Last week, businessman John Dawood Dalaly <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2023/04/21/oakland-county-businessman-pleads-guilty-bribing-michigan-medical-marijuana-regulator-rick-johnson/70135402007/">pleaded guilty</a> to bribing Johnson. Dalaly said he <a href="https://wwmt.com/news/local/rick-johnson-speaker-house-federal-court-grand-rapids-bribery-scheme-michigan-marijuana-regulation-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> Johnson at least $68,200 and provided two flights for him to Canada. Dalaly also told a federal judge that he hired Johnson’s wife Janice as a consultant and paid her $4,000 a month. Janice Johnson helped Dalaly fill out paperwork that would go before the board that Johnson chaired. As part of Johnson’s plea deal, she <a href="https://wwmt.com/news/local/rick-johnson-speaker-house-federal-court-grand-rapids-bribery-scheme-michigan-marijuana-regulation-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cannot be charged</a>, the judge said Tuesday. 
Lobbyists Brian Pierce and Vincent Brown, who allegedly gave Johnson $42,000 in cash and benefits, have also agreed to plead guilty and cooperate with investigators. 
Medical marijuana became legal in Michigan in 2008 and recreational marijuana use was approved by voters in 2018. The Medical Marijuana Licensing Board was disbanded by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2019 after she took office. 
Michigan’s marijuana business raked in $2.3 billion in 2022, <a href="https://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/news/michigan-2022-cannabis-sales-record-price-flower/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the state’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency, making Michigan the second-largest cannabis market in the U.S. behind California. 
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