Legacy Media&#8217;s lack of interest in stories that damage the Democratic brand is never surprising, but it is always illuminating.
The latest example can be found in the lapdog press&#8217;s utter disinterest in a bombshell memo naming and shaming Biden family members who allegedly took huge chunks of cash from a Chinese Communist Party-linked energy company isn&#8217;t surprising. That report was released by Representative James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, earlier this week.
Comer and others alleged that the energy company in question funneled more than $1 million in payments to Biden family members, including Hunter Biden (son), James Biden (brother), Hallie Biden (daughter-in-law), and a fourth “unknown Biden” from 2015 to 2017, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-communist-party-linked-company-funneled-over-1-million-to-biden-family-members-house-republicans-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The alleged evidence was found thanks to a recent subpoena of John Robinson Walker, a Biden family associate, and his company Robinson Walker, LLC. House Republicans alleged that Walker used his business to transfer money from the Chinese State Energy HK Limited, a firm affiliated with CEFC China Energy, to Biden family members.
For what purposes? That remains unclear, but, as Comer has reminded us, this is only one transaction pointing to possible corruption.
A story like that, especially in light of the &#8220;laptop from hell,&#8221; is explosive and has national consequences. And yet, Thursday evening, CBS, ABC, and NBC simply couldn&#8217;t find time for it in their evening TV newscasts, <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2023/03/16/nets-ignore-bidens-daughter-law-receiving-chinese-wire-transfer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NewsBusters. NBC News did cover it online late Thursday evening, but the story hardly made &#8220;front page news&#8221; for the outlet.
This &#8220;bias by omission,&#8221; as described by the media watchdog, is the norm for those sorts of outlets.
It is part of the longstanding, unspoken agreement between legacy media and the government. Whether intentionally or as a by-product of their own political inclinations, it has become a cornerstone of American politics that traditional media simply won&#8217;t report, or do the minimum coverage possible, on that which harms the Democratic agenda.
Most Americans <a href="https://fortune.com/2023/02/15/trust-in-media-low-misinform-mislead-biased-republicans-democrats-poll-gallup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seem to believe that</a>, which is why trust in the press is at record lows.
Perhaps it would be better if these outlets simply admitted their Leftist biases. It certainly would be a lot more honest than claiming to be &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; and objective.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Hunter Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-accuses-delaware-computer-repairman-of-invading-his-privacy-in-countersuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a countersuit</a> Friday against the Delaware computer repairman, John Paul Mac Isaac, who claimed to have worked on Hunter&#8217;s personal computer way back in 2019. The president&#8217;s latchkey son is alleging that Mac Isaac illegally obtained and distributed his &#8220;electronically stored data,&#8221; thereby invading his privacy.
Yet, his attorneys insist that the legal action in no way should be taken as proof that the &#8220;laptop from hell&#8221; is real.
&#8220;This is not an admission by Mr. Biden that Mac Isaac (or others) in fact possessed any particular laptop containing electronically stored data belonging to Mr. Biden,&#8221; the first footnote in the 42-page <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-files-countersuit-laptop-repairman-john-paul-mac-isaac-alleging-privacy-violations">countersuit</a> filed in Delaware states. &#8220;Rather, Mr. Biden simply acknowledges that at some point, Mac Isaac obtained electronically stored data, some of which belonged to Mr. Biden.&#8221;
Oddly enough, despite not admitting that Hunter&#8217;s laptop existed, they claim that if it did exist, Mac Isaac broke the law by accessing the data instead of taking measures to properly secure it.
As readers well know, Mac Isaac has claimed that Hunter dropped off his laptop and never returned. Mac Isaac has also claimed that Biden signed a contract stating that any equipment left after 90 days would become Mac Isaac&#8217;s possession.
Hunter&#8217;s attorney denies that and argues that Delaware state law would overrule such an agreement. Furthermore, they claim that the &#8220;Repair Authorization Form&#8221; still wouldn&#8217;t give Mac Isaac access to any stored personal data on a laptop that they won&#8217;t admit exists.
&#8220;At no time did Mr. Biden grant Mac Isaac any permission to access, review, copy, or disseminate for his own purposes any electronically stored data that ever was created or received or maintained by Mr. Biden (regardless of how Mac Isaac came into possession of such material),&#8221; the countersuit claims. (emphasis added)
So how did Mac Isaac get Hunter&#8217;s personal data? His attorneys have no idea how. They can&#8217;t even say which personal data they are talking about.
&#8220;In or before April 2019, Counterclaim Defendant Mac Isaac, by whatever means, came into possession of certain electronically stored data, at least some of which belonged to Counterclaim Plaintiff Biden,&#8221; his attorneys wrote. (emphasis added)
Now, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/collections/the-hunter-biden-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">audience knows</a> that conservative news outlets have verified that the laptop belongs to Hunter. It appears that The New York Post, the first to report this bombshell story that got them <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/24/elon-musk-says-full-disclosure-is-needed-on-twitters-censorship-of-the-posts-hunter-biden-laptop-story/">censored</a> on Twitter in 2020, has been fully vindicated.
After the 2020 election, once Biden was inaugurated and the story could do less damage to the Democratic Party, legacy media outlets finally began looking into whether they exist or not. Politico, The New York Times, and The Washington Post all confirmed it was Hunter&#8217;s laptop. Here&#8217;s how Hunter&#8217;s attorneys responded to that reporting:
<blockquote>Mr. Biden denies that any Politico story confirmed the validity of the New York Post exposé.
Mr. Biden denies that any New York Times story confirmed the validity of the New York Post exposé. 
Mr. Biden denies that any Washington Post story confirmed the validity of the New York Post exposé.</blockquote>
We already know that Hunter <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-bidens-lawyers-demand-criminal-investigation-laptop-leakers-rudy-giuliani">requested</a> that his dad&#8217;s Department of Justice investigate Mac Isaac and others associated with the story. Since that didn&#8217;t work, it appears Hunter is not content to throw up a lawsuit, chillingly accuse Mac Isaac of consorting with &#8220;political enemies of Joseph Biden,&#8221; and neither confirm nor deny the existence of said laptop.
As attorney Jonathan Turley put it, it&#8217;s a &#8220;rather a curious countersuit.&#8221;
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&#8230;This is rather a curious countersuit. Hunter left his his computer with a third party, refused repeated request to retrieve them, and agreed that he would lose all claim to the files if abandoned. Now, years later, he is objecting vehemently that his privacy was not protected.
&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1636734436984143872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 12: WFP USA Board Chair Hunter Biden speaks during the World Food Program USA’s 2016 McGovern-Dole Leadership Award Ceremony at the Organization of American States on April 12, 2016 in Washington, DC. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – MARCH 09: U.S. President Joe Biden pauses to cough while talking about his proposed FY2024 federal budget during an event at the Finishing Trades Institute on March 09, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Seen as a preview to his re-election platform, Biden’s proposed budget is projected to cut the deficit by $3 trillion over the next 10 years but will find no support in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

‘This Is Not An Admission’ About ‘Any Particular Laptop’: Hunter’s ‘Curious Countersuit’

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> has countersued a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/delaware" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Delaware</a>-based computer repairman, alleging that John Paul Mac Isaac violated his privacy by accessing and disseminating data held in Biden’s laptop.
Biden’s attorneys filed the suit in response to a lawsuit Mac Isaac filed against Biden in late January, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/hunter-biden-files-counter-claims-computer-repairman-handling/story?id=97918174" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a>. Mac Isaac sued Biden for defamation, claiming that the son of the U.S. president unfairly and illegally targeted Mac Isaac and damaged his reputation for years with repeated claims that a laptop Biden left at Mac Isaac’s repair store could have been stolen or hacked.
Biden’s 42-page suit, filed on Friday, describes how the laptop became the center of a series of stories beginning in October 2020 about Biden’s life and overseas business dealings in countries such as Ukraine and China. The laptop is now a key component of House Republicans’ investigations into President Joe Biden.
“[Hunter] Biden had more than a reasonable expectation of privacy that any data that he created or maintained &#8230; would not be accessed, copied, disseminated, or posted on the Internet for others to use against him or his family or for the public to view,” Biden’s suit says.
“As a result of Mac Isaac’s unlawful agreement and his conspiracy with others, Mr. Biden’s personal data was made available to third parties and then ultimately to the public at large, which is highly offensive, causing harm to Mr. Biden and his reputation,” the suit says, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/17/hunter-biden-lawsuit-computer-repairman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. “The object of invading Mr. Biden’s privacy and disseminating his data was not for any legitimate purpose but to cause harm and embarrassment to Mr. Biden.”
Mac Isaac has challenged Biden’s claims, saying that after Biden failed to retrieve the laptop from the repair shop he forfeited possession of it and all its contents. Biden had agreed to terms that if he failed to return in 90 days to retrieve the laptop, the computer would be considered abandoned.
“Contrary to Mac Isaac’s Repair Authorization form, Delaware law provides that tangible personal property is deemed abandoned” only when the owner has failed to “assert or declare property rights to the property for a period of 1 year,” Biden’s suit states, according to the ABC News.
Biden’s lawsuit shows an increasingly adversarial legal strategy his legal team has taken in the wake of the data from that laptop, left at Mac Isaac’s computer repair store in 2019 and never recovered, being released to the public. On February 1, one of Biden’s attorneys <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-steve-bannon-politics-united-states-government-robert-hunter-d20948db8967e21024059f38cde5e94c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> the Justice Department to consider criminal investigations of allies of former President Donald Trump who shared the laptop’s data.

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This article is adapted from today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Yellen Testifies
Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen testified before the U.S. Senate today regarding the state of the banking system. She tried to reassure lawmakers and the public that there’s no cause for concern.
&#8220;I can reassure the members of the committee that our banking system remains sound, and that Americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them,&#8221; she said.
Yellen also stated that inflation remains America’s number one economic issue. &#8220;I consider high inflation the number one economic problem that all of us need to face and address … I was very supportive of the American Rescue Plan.&#8221;
TikTok Updates
The <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> has demanded that TikTok parent company ByteDance sell the video application or face a possible ban in the United States. 
Lawmakers from both parties are concerned over reports that the Chinese Communist Party has access to user data through TikTok, a hugely popular social media app among young Americans. 
Those concerns drove the Biden administration to reportedly issue an ultimatum to TikTok’s parent company ByteDance: either sell TikTok to a company not linked to China, or risk a nationwide ban. ByteDance pledged in August of last year to spend $1.5 billion on building safeguards to protect American data from the Chinese government. 
But that pledge doesn’t appear to have been enough for U.S. officials. President Joe Biden and dozens of state governors have banned the app from government devices. Officials in the European Union took a similar step last month.
DOD Releases Drone Crash Footage
The Department of Defense released video footage Thursday morning of the incident in which two Russian fighter jets harassed a U.S. military drone over international waters — leading to a collision and the complete loss of the U.S. drone. The U.S. European Command said in a statement that the two Russian aircraft conducted “an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” on March 14. One retired Brigadier General and former U.S. Military deputy representative to NATO, Blaine Holt, told Newsmax that the video looked more like an accident due to an unskilled pilot.
“What I just saw in that video was a pretty crappy Russian fighter pilot looking to get a close look at that drone and he clipped it. He just absolutely stinks at his job,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There’s no mastermind here. This is just a guy who needs to go back to pilot training and bring back a messed-up jet.&#8221;
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&quot;This is just a guy who needs to go back to pilot training and brought back a messed-up jet.&quot; 
Brigadier Gen. Blaine Holt (Ret.) reacts to the released video showing a Russian fighter jet colliding with a U.S. drone. <a href="https://twitter.com/RobFinnertyUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RobFinnertyUSA</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AlisonMaloni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AlisonMaloni</a>
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Some intelligence sources, however, told NBC that the Kremlin approved the fighter jets’ actions.
Biden Crime Family?
A new report from the House Oversight Committee claims that another Biden family member — this time Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau — profited off the president’s political connections by taking payouts from people associated with the Chinese Communist Party. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky alleged Thursday that, “Over the course of several years, members of the Biden family and their companies received over $1.3 million in payments from accounts related to their associate, Rob Walker. Most of this money came as a result of a wire from a Chinese energy company and went not only to Hunter and James Biden, but also to Hallie Biden and an unknown ‘Biden.’” 
Here he is on Fox News discussing the matter:
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOPoversight</a> is going to continue to use Biden family bank records &amp; suspicious activity reports to follow the money trail to determine the extent of the Biden family’s business schemes.
I will continue to be transparent and provide the American people our findings. <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/BDKCo7ALIU">pic.twitter.com/BDKCo7ALIU</a>
&mdash; Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1636372282007252992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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FBI Raids Home Of  Ex-Maryland Governor Larry Hogan&#8217;s Former Chief  Of Staff
The FBI raided the Florida home of the former chief of staff to ex-Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, on Wednesday. Roy McGrath was scheduled to appear in court on Monday for a criminal trial, but never showed up — prompting officials to launch a manhunt. McGrath has pleaded not guilty to an eight-count federal indictment on charges including wire fraud, as well as fraud and embezzlement charges relating to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
 McGrath’s attorney says that he has no idea where his client is, noting that this decision to not appear at court on Monday is “out of the ordinary” behavior.
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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: U.S. President Joe Biden embraces his family First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, son Hunter Biden and daughter Ashley after being sworn in during his inauguation on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today’s inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States.

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House Republicans pushed a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Bank-Records-Memo-3.16.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> Wednesday alleging an energy company linked to the Chinese Communist Party previously funneled more than $1 million in payments to at least three family members of President Joe Biden.
Investigations from the House Oversight Committee claim a recent subpoena of bank records from John Robinson Walker, a Biden family associate, and his company Robinson Walker, LLC used his business to transfer money from the Chinese State Energy HK Limited, a firm affiliated with CEFC China Energy, to Biden family members, including the Hunter Biden (son), James Biden (brother), Hallie Biden (daughter-in-law), and a fourth “unknown Biden” from 2015 to 2017.
According to the New York Post bombshell <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/16/comer-reveals-new-biden-family-member-who-got-china-cash-prez-dined-with-her-friday/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, he and the president&#8217;s brother James earned at least $4.8 million from the CEFC China Energy between 2017 and 2018.
“The Committee is concerned about the national security implications of a President’s or Vice President’s immediate family members receiving millions of dollars from foreign nationals or companies without any oversight,” the memo reads from the office of committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY). “Current financial disclosure laws and regulations do not require non-dependent family members to provide any information to the public.”
Comer’s office published the memo amid the chairman making rounds in the media circuit, saying the new evidence of influence peddling runs deep into President Biden’s family tree.
“At the end of this, I think we’re gonna see there are probably six or seven Biden family members that were involved in various business schemes around the world,” Comer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-believes-6-or-7-biden-family-members-involved-in-foreign-business-schemes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night.
According to the memo, less than two months after then-Vice President Biden left office under the Obama administration in 2017, the Chinese state energy company wired $3 million to Robinson Walker, LLC. However, Walker’s business allegedly only had a balance of $159,000 at the time of the transfer.
Following the wire, the committee memo says Walker’s company transferred on March 1, 2017, $1,065,000 to European Energy and Infrastructure Group (EEIG) in Abu Dhabi, which is affiliated with James Gilliar, a business partner of Hunter Biden that has been previously involved in other foreign transactions dealing with the Biden family. Gilliar’s affiliated company allegedly received roughly the same $1,065,000 on March 2, 2017.
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Less than a week later, Biden family members and their companies began receiving incremental payments over a period of approximately three months, the memo claims.
On November 5, 2015, the memo says that Walker’s LLC received nearly $180,000 from an unknown company with an overseas bank account. It adds that Walker transferred $59,900 from the business account to his personal checking account the next day, which went to a bank account for “Robert Biden” three days later.
Committee members say the new evidence involving Walker’s company and Biden family financial records raises concerns about the timing of the Chinese energy company wiring $3 million after Biden left office in 2017.
It is unclear if Biden family members provided services to the Chinese energy company, however, the questions of why an unknown holder for the “Biden” bank account received $70 million in payments or Hallie Biden received nearly $25,000 from the LLC while she worked as a school counselor remains.
Hallie Biden is the widow of the president&#8217;s late son Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015. She began dating Hunter Biden from around 2016 to 2019.
“The American people deserve transparency into the extent of the Biden family’s influence peddling, and we intend to deliver legislation that will preclude family members from capitalizing on their relatives’ public office,” the memo reads.
<div id="attachment_513947" style="width: 465px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-513947" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-513947" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-16-at-2.27.47-PM-300x261.png" alt="" width="455" height="396" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-16-at-2.27.47-PM-300x261.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-16-at-2.27.47-PM-662x576.png 662w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-16-at-2.27.47-PM.png 685w" sizes="(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px" />Courtesy: House Oversight Committee</div>
White House spokesman Ian Sams dismissed the committee&#8217;s findings as an &#8220;attack&#8221; on the president&#8217;s family members.
“After a disgusting attack lamenting that the President’s deceased son Beau was never prosecuted while he was alive, Congressman Comer has now decided to go after Beau’s widow,” Sams said, according to The New York Post. “Instead of bizarrely attacking the President’s family, perhaps House Republicans should focus on working with the President to deliver results for American families on important priorities like lowering costs and strengthening health care.”
President Biden has denied having involvement in the business dealings of his son Hunter and brother James. Federal prosecutors are investigating Hunter Biden over his foreign business dealings in countries such as China and Ukraine, tax affairs, and more.
Though Hunter Biden has said he expects to be cleared of wrongdoing, Republicans have raised concerns about influence peddling, especially any that may include the president, spurred in part by findings on an abandoned laptop.
“What we’re finding out . . . is this Biden family business scheme involved a lot of members of the Biden family, none of whom had any experience in Chinese energy or Ukrainian energy deals,” Comer told Fox Business on Thursday morning.
Comer said he is so far familiar with about 12 or 13 transactions, and his team plans to request more bank records. “We’re making a lot of progress in this investigation, and it doesn’t look good for the Biden family,” he added.
Hunter Biden&#8217;s legal team defended the pay-outs in a statement to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0WDSaX-uSA">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;Hunter Biden, a private citizen with every right to pursue his own business endeavors, joined several business partners in seeking a joint venture with a privately-owned, legitimate energy company in China,&#8221; a spokesperson for Biden&#8217;s legal team said.
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

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A lead Republican investigator now claims several members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-the-nightmare-scenario-facing-the-biden-family-in-hunters-criminal-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden family are involved in shady business ventures</a> abroad, sharing in the past 24 hours a larger headcount than previously known.
House Oversight Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Comer</a> (R-KY) hit the media circuit Wednesday evening and Thursday morning to provide an update after his committee received access to bank records and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-family-probe-reaches-breakthrough-with-treasury-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspicious activity reports.</a>
In an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night, Comer said evidence of influence peddling runs deep into President Joe Biden&#8217;s family tree.
“At the end of this I think we’re gonna see there are probably six or seven Biden family members that were involved in various business schemes around the world,” Comer said.
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOPoversight</a> is going to continue to use Biden family bank records &amp; suspicious activity reports to follow the money trail to determine the extent of the Biden family’s business schemes.
I will continue to be transparent and provide the American people our findings. <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/BDKCo7ALIU">pic.twitter.com/BDKCo7ALIU</a>
&mdash; Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer/status/1636372282007252992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The chairman said he knows their identities but declined to name them.
When Comer appeared for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzvWGLPX89g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another interview</a> on Thursday morning with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo, her show displayed a graphic showing Hunter Biden, the president&#8217;s brother James, and five blacked-out frames, each adorned with a big question mark.
President Biden has denied having involvement in the business dealings of his son Hunter and brother James. Federal prosecutors are investigating Hunter Biden over his foreign business dealings in countries such as China and Ukraine, tax affairs, and more. Though Hunter Biden has said he expects to be cleared of wrongdoing, Republicans have raised concerns about influence peddling, especially any that may include the president, spurred in part by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-family-sought-to-make-money-by-giving-china-preferential-access-to-us-energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">findings on an abandoned laptop</a>.
Democrats have raised concerns that their GOP colleagues are focused on digging up &#8220;political opposition research&#8221; to benefit former President Donald Trump, but Comer told Bartiromo his team has gathered evidence showing a &#8220;concerning pattern to get suspicious amounts of money from our adversaries around the world.&#8221;
Earlier this week, Comer announced the Treasury Department gave his panel access to <a href="https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination/bank-operations/financial-crime/suspicious-activity-reports/index-suspicious-activity-reports.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspicious activity reports</a>, which financial institutions can use to flag possible criminal behavior, for the Biden family and their associates’ business transactions.
House investigators also received access to bank records that Comer says revealed John “Rob” Walker, who has been identified as a business associate of Hunter Biden in a venture with executives from CEFC China Energy, received a $3 million wire from two individuals associated with the Chinese Communist Party about two months after Joe Biden left the office of vice president in 2017.
Comer said Walker&#8217;s account started transferring money within a day to accounts for three different Biden family members, including one &#8220;new&#8221; member who had not previously been tied to suspected influence schemes.
&#8220;What we&#8217;re finding out, Maria, is this Biden family business scheme involved a lot of members of the Biden family, none of whom had any experience in Chinese energy or Ukrainian energy deals,&#8221; he said.
Comer said he is so far familiar with about 12 or 13 transactions, and his team plans to request more bank records. &#8220;We&#8217;re making a lot of progress in this investigation, and it doesn&#8217;t look good for the Biden family,&#8221; he added.

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Comer Believes 6 Or 7 Biden Family Members Involved In Foreign Business ‘Schemes’

GOP Investigator Believes 6 Or 7 Bidens Involved In Foreign Business 'Schemes'

Fox News regular <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/thats-so-wrong-dana-perino-gives-geraldo-rivera-an-earful-over-dhs-plans-to-punish-border-agents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Geraldo Rivera</a> voiced his frustration on Tuesday with Republicans who are continuing to investigate President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter, telling them to &#8220;put up or shut up.&#8221;
Rivera tweeted his demand along with the assertion that, in spite of near-constant scrutiny, no one had managed to dig up anything more damaging to the president&#8217;s son than a number of ill-advised selfies and some drug use.
&#8220;Hunter Biden has been investigated for almost five years,&#8221; Rivera said. &#8220;Aside from fact he&#8217;s been a junkie dirtbag nothing remotely criminal has been uncovered. Put up or shut up.&#8221;
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Hunter Biden has been investigated for almost five years. Aside from fact he’s been a junkie dirtbag nothing remotely criminal has been uncovered. Put up or shut up.
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&#8220;Geraldo still doesn’t get it — after 50 years in journalism you have to assume he simply doesn’t want to get it,&#8221; Michael Caputo responded, and a number of others quickly followed suit.
They pointed to the 2020 presidential election — and the fact that multiple outlets and social media platforms had actively suppressed The New York Post&#8217;s bombshell report on Hunter Biden&#8217;s now-infamous laptop. Many of them argued that he hadn&#8217;t really been investigated until after the election was over, when other outlets slowly began to concede that the laptop was real and did, in fact, belong to the younger Biden.
But it was The Federalist&#8217;s Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway who did exactly as Rivera asked — she &#8220;put up&#8221; multiple crimes that may have occurred — and she may have given him more than he bargained for.
&#8220;Setting aside the gun crimes, prostitution crimes, drug crimes, tax crimes, bribery receipts, foreign agent shenanigans, money laundering, pay-for-play, and kid-glove treatment from the corrupt and politicized FBI and DOJ, this is a really astute observation,&#8221; Hemingway tweeted.
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Setting aside the gun crimes, prostitution crimes, drug crimes, tax crimes, bribery receipts, foreign agent shenanigans, money laundering, pay-for-play, and kid-glove treatment from the corrupt and politicized FBI and DOJ, this is a really astute observation. <a href="https://t.co/mU76xrqqT2">https://t.co/mU76xrqqT2</a>
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House Republicans recently <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-family-probe-reaches-breakthrough-with-treasury-department/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scored a win</a> in the ongoing investigation, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced earlier this week.
&#8220;After two months of dragging their feet, the Treasury Department is finally providing us with access to the suspicious activity reports for the Biden family and their associates’ business transactions,&#8221; he said.

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Geraldo Rivera Demands Hunter Biden Critics ‘Put Up Or Shut Up’ — Gets More Than He Bargained For

Geraldo Rivera Demands Hunter Biden Critics 'Put Up Or Shut Up' — Gets More Than He Bargained For

Geraldo Rivera

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced a breakthrough on Tuesday in his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-comer-says-hunter-biden-probe-critical-for-legislative-fix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation into the Biden family&#8217;s business dealings</a>.
&#8220;After two months of dragging their feet, the Treasury Department is finally providing us with access to the suspicious activity reports for the Biden family and their associates’ business transactions,&#8221; Comer said in a statement.
House Republicans hope the <a href="https://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/supervision-and-examination/bank-operations/financial-crime/suspicious-activity-reports/index-suspicious-activity-reports.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspicious activity reports</a>, which financial institutions can use to flag possible criminal behavior, will help root out any evidence of international influence peddling schemes that may involve President Joe Biden.
&#8220;We are going to continue to use bank documents and suspicious activity reports to follow the money trail to determine the extent of the Biden family’s business schemes, if Joe Biden is compromised by these deals, and if there is a national security threat,&#8221; Comer said.
In recent weeks, Comer accused the Treasury Department of making <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-02-24-Letter-Treasury.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;several excuses&#8221;</a> for delaying compliance with his demands for information and began to increase pressure by seeking a transcribed interview with the agency official tasked with communicating with Congress. Now with the Treasury Department providing an &#8220;in camera&#8221; review of the suspicious activity reports, Comer said plans for an interview had been postponed.
The Daily Wire reached out to the Treasury Department for comment.
The White House has painted Republican probes into the Biden family, including Hunter&#8217;s art sales, as being steeped in politics. &#8220;Instead of working with President Biden to address issues important to the American people, like lower costs, congressional Republicans&#8217; top priority is to go after President Biden with politically motivated attacks chock-full of long-debunked conspiracy theories,&#8221; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63665351" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said White House spokesman Ian Sams</a>.
Democrats in Congress vociferously oppose the probes run by Republicans into the Biden family, including the president&#8217;s brothers and his son, Hunter Biden, whose financial dealings are also being scrutinized by federal prosecutors.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to Comer over the weekend <a href="https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/FINAL%202023.03.12.%20JBR%20to%20Comer%20re%20Mazars%20BofA%20Subpoena.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raising concerns</a> that a subpoena the chairman sent to Bank of America seeking 14 years of records involving people linked to Hunter Biden was geared toward giving former President Donald Trump an edge in a possible 2024 election rematch.
&#8220;I fear this wildly overbroad subpoena suggests that your interest in this investigation is not in pursuing defined facts or informing public legislation but conducting a dragnet of political opposition research on behalf of former President Trump,&#8221; Raskin wrote.
Comer defended his subpoena this week, saying that his committee learned John “Rob” Walker, who has been identified as a business associate of Hunter Biden in a venture with executives from CEFC China Energy, received a $3 million wire from two individuals associated with the Chinese Communist Party about two months after Joe Biden left the office of vice president.
Within a day, Walker&#8217;s account started transferring money into three different Biden family members&#8217; accounts, including a &#8220;new&#8221; member who has not yet been part of the GOP investigations, Comer said during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EScaBsWMJz4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview on Fox News</a> on Tuesday. Although Comer did not reveal the identity of that &#8220;new&#8221; Biden family member, he stressed that this discovery &#8220;really changes things.&#8221;

Biden Family Probe Reaches Breakthrough With Treasury Department

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Jill Biden said in a new <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/jill-biden-declares-her-love-for-hunter-biden-amid-gop-probe-i-ll-support-him-any-way-i-can/ar-AA18kccM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that she responds to criticism of the materials on stepson Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop by having &#8220;a different perspective,&#8221; saying &#8220;I love Hunter and I&#8217;ll support him in any way I can.&#8221;
That profession of support comes despite Hunter Biden saying on that laptop that &#8220;my mom tells [President Joe Biden] things like I’m <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-reveals-disturbing-information-about-presidents-son-underage-relative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sexually inappropriate</a> with the children&#8221; &#8212; as well as talking about Jill in ways that are decidedly more negative.
In December 2018, Hunter Biden told his sister-in-law-turned-girlfriend, Hallie Biden, that Jill was a &#8220;f&#8212;ing idiot.&#8221;
&#8220;F&#8212; my step mother for always being as much of a selfish silly entitled c&#8212; as you,&#8221; he added the next day, according to a Daily Wire review of messages on the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware repair shop.
He told Hallie: &#8220;This is what my therapist like every therapist I’ve seen has said: &#8230; &#8216;You’re avoiding being the chosen one, because you were not the chosen one, by your step-mother.&#8217;”
In other texts, one of Hunter Biden&#8217;s therapists, Keith Ablow, paints Jill Biden as the source of the erratic addict&#8217;s troubles. &#8220;Have you ever wondered whether teetering on the edge of oblivion is your subconscious way of asking for the love you lost when you lost your mom and when you were distanced from your aunts and grandmother and, instead, left to effort love from your less-than-loving step-mother?&#8221; Ablow wrote.
Hunter Biden was two years old when his mother died in a car accident, and seven when Jill Biden became his stepmother.
The British paper <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/5733242/hunter-biden-jill-biden-vindictive-moron-argument-rehab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Sun</a> previously reported that some of the outbursts against Jill Biden were explained by her desire for him to get sober.
&#8220;You do know the drunkest I&#8217;ve ever been is still smarter than you could ever even comprehend and you&#8217;re a shut (sic) grammar teacher that wouldn&#8217;t survive one class in a ivy graduate program,&#8221; he wrote.
&#8220;So go f&#8212; yourself Jill let&#8217;s all agree I don&#8217;t like you anymore than you like me,” he added.
But messages also suggest that Jill Biden took seriously&#8211;though seemingly did not report to authorities&#8211;concerns raised by Hallie that Hunter was being sexually inappropriate with a minor relative.
On July 15, 2018, Hunter Biden indicated in a text with his dad that it was Joe’s idea that Hunter should not be around the minor relative (who The Daily Wire is not naming) without the now-president’s personal supervision. “While [Hallie] tells people I’m m gettin off sexually with [the relative] then there is no family and there never was,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-reveals-disturbing-information-about-presidents-son-underage-relative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter wrote</a>, The Daily Wire previously reported.
On March 16, 2019, Hunter Biden told Hallie&#8217;s sister Liz that he himself “started to believe” Hallie because he craved the approval of her and Jill Biden, who he worried also believed the allegations. He wrote: “Why wouldn’t they believe exactly what Hallie tells them. Or my mom tells him things like I’m sexually inappropriate with the children.”<a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"></a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-sought-job-for-wuhan-lab-linked-scientist-studying-herpes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden Sought Job For Wuhan Lab-Linked Scientist Studying Herpes</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-bidens-laptop-repairman-explains-how-the-fbi-buried-a-bombshell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden’s Laptop Repairman Explains How The FBI Buried A Bombshell</a>

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Jill Biden Praised Hunter. His Take On The First Lady Is Different

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At this year&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cpac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CPAC</a>), House Judiciary Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) shared how, in a few short months, he is setting the pace in regard to subpoenas during this session of Congress.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve actually done several,&#8221; Jordan said on Thursday. &#8220;I think maybe more than &#8230; I think the rest of the Congress combined.&#8221;
Jordan, who has sent subpoenas for investigations into a <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/exclusive-jim-jordan-subpoenas-doj-documents-school-boards-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school board issue</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-subpoenas-big-tech-executives-in-collusion-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Big Tech</a>, did not divulge who may be targeted next, but his comments came a day after he sent a <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairmen-jordan-and-turner-send-final-batch-letters-intelligence-officials-who" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;final&#8221; batch of letters</a> to a group of U.S. intelligence veterans for an investigation related to President Joe Biden&#8217;s adult son Hunter Biden.
These 51 former officials signed a statement in October 2020 that &#8220;falsely implied&#8221; reporting about Hunter Biden — in particular a laptop that allegedly contained information about his shady business dealings and personal life — was &#8220;the product of Russian disinformation&#8221; weeks before the presidential election, Jordan and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Michael Turner (R-OH) wrote.
GOP leaders <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-gop-demand-records-from-ex-intel-officials-about-hunter-biden-laptop-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reached out</a> to these former spy officials before Republicans took over the House. Now that they are armed with subpoena power, Jordan and Turner are demanding &#8220;full&#8221; compliance &#8220;immediately&#8221; with their requests for documents and testimony.
While the letters do not indicate a specific deadline, Jordan upped the ante in his remarks at CPAC, taking aim at security clearances the signees may still hold, which the congressman described as a lucrative arrangement.
&#8220;I would bet every one of those 51 former intel officials who signed that letter — that now-famous letter,&#8221; Jordan said. &#8220;I would bet every one of them still has a security clearance. Why?&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s for their personal benefit,&#8221; Jordan continued. &#8220;I think that that&#8217;s something that has value, and frankly they probably make money off the idea that they can get information. And many of them are contributors on various TV networks. So, why should they have a security clearance? That&#8217;s maybe one of the things we propose as legislation to help remedy some of the problems.&#8221;
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Though the letters to the intelligence officials stress how documents and testimony &#8220;are necessary to further our oversight,&#8221; Jordan&#8217;s focus on legislation could become a critical sticking point in the months ahead as the Republicans push for cooperation.
Hunter Biden&#8217;s attorney recently denied the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s request for information, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3851602-hunter-biden-attorney-rejects-house-oversight-request-for-records/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming it had &#8220;no legislative purpose.&#8221;</a> The panel&#8217;s chairman, James Comer (R-KY), followed up in an interview by repeatedly stressing his investigation into Hunter Biden is essential to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-comer-says-hunter-biden-probe-critical-for-legislative-fix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">creating a &#8220;legislative fix&#8221;</a> to prevent unsavory financial entanglements involving the President of the United States.
The 2020 election took place more than two years ago, but it was not until after Jordan and Turner began sending out the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-puts-a-dozen-intel-veterans-on-notice-over-hunter-biden-laptop-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new batch of letters last month</a> that one of the statement&#8217;s most prominent signees, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-spy-chief-accuses-politico-of-distorting-letter-on-hunter-biden-laptop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared to break ranks</a>. Clapper accused POLITICO, the news outlet that first reported the statement, of &#8220;deliberately&#8221; misrepresenting their message by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publishing a headline</a> that said the former intelligence officials were claiming the story was &#8220;Russian disinfo.&#8221;
The 2020 statement itself said the laptop&#8217;s alleged contents &#8220;has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,&#8221; but it stressed the signees did not know if emails being reported at the time were genuine and insisted they had no evidence of Russian involvement. POLITICO defended its reporting about the statement.
Other signees have shown less of an appetite to speak publicly about the 2020 statement. During a counterintelligence-focused event last week, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/fbi-counterintel-leader-wont-say-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-harmed-trust-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Washington Examiner reporter asked</a> whether the statement could harm the public&#8217;s trust in the intelligence community, and by extension, damage its ability to warn about foreign influence operations.
“That’s not related to the counterintelligence of foreign actors,&#8221; said the discussion moderator David Priess, a former CIA analyst and manager who signed the Hunter Biden laptop statement. When the other speakers, two current government counterintelligence officials, declined to answer, Priess added, &#8220;We’re good,” before moving on to another question.
Over the past two years, many of the laptop&#8217;s contents have been <a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">analyzed and shown to be authentic</a>. Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyers recently began to send letters to state and federal officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-demands-criminal-investigation-into-several-figures-after-admitting-infamous-laptop-is-his" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanding investigations into individuals</a> involved in disseminating the contents of the laptop, including to the media. His attorney, Abbe Lowell, insisted the letters <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/hunter-bidens-lawyer-says-letters-dont-mean-laptop-is-his/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">do not &#8220;confirm&#8221;</a> the laptop was his client&#8217;s device.
Beyond the inquiries of Congress, Hunter Biden is under investigation by federal prosecutors, including over his foreign business dealings and tax affairs. Hunter Biden, who <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/hunter-biden-under-federal-investigation/2020/12/09/3b7361be-3a64-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed the existence</a> of that years-long inquiry only after the 2020 election, has said he expects to be <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/big-footing-house-investigation-into-hunter-biden-could-hit-firewall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cleared of wrongdoing</a>.

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Hunter Biden Probe Revs Up With ‘Final’ Notice, Warning Shot Over Security Clearances

Hunter Biden Probe Revs Up With 'Final' Notice, Warning Shot Over Security Clearances

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) divulged to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday the breadth of potentially criminal evidence against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> that has been shared with Congress.
&#8220;Recent lawfully protected whistleblower disclosures to my office indicate that the Justice Department and the FBI had at one time over a dozen sources who provided potentially criminal information relating to Hunter Biden,&#8221; Grassley said.
&#8220;The alleged volume and similarity of the information would demand that the Justice Department investigate the truth and accuracy of the information,&#8221; he added.
Grassley made the revelation during a hearing with Garland held by the Senate Judiciary Committee after asking hypothetical questions about protections for whistleblowers who match the description of the people who came forward to his office.
The senator asked Garland what steps the Justice Department has taken to determine the truth and accuracy of the information given to Grassley&#8217;s team.
&#8220;Congress and the American people I think have a right to know,&#8221; Grassley said.
Garland largely refused to give detailed answers about the active investigation into President Joe Biden&#8217;s adult son, deferring to Delaware&#8217;s U.S. Attorney David Weiss.
The attorney general said any information about Hunter Biden should have gone to Weiss and the &#8220;FBI squad&#8221; assisting him.
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&#8220;I pledged not to interfere with that investigation and I have carried through on my pledge,&#8221; Garland said.
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While Grassley probed the possible need for a special counsel, Garland also insisted that if Weiss needed to go to another jurisdiction to bring a case, he would &#8220;assure&#8221; that the U.S. attorney would be able to do so.
Hunter Biden is under investigation over his foreign business dealings, tax affairs, and more.
Though Hunter Biden has said he expects to be cleared of wrongdoing, Republicans have raised concerns about influence peddling, particularly regarding his Chinese business dealings and access to areas where classified documents have been located.
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James Clapper never meant to say <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-sought-job-for-wuhan-lab-linked-scientist-studying-herpes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden’s laptop</a> was a Russian op, it was apparently just the “least untruthful” thing he and 50 other Trump-hating deep state creeps could think of.
Clapper, the director of national intelligence – or chief spy – under President Obama, is trying to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-spy-chief-accuses-politico-of-distorting-letter-on-hunter-biden-laptop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walk back that infamous letter</a> he and dozens of other former intel operatives signed more than three years ago. It claimed that the discovery of Hunter Biden’s laptop, with its lurid images of the president’s degenerate son and troubling messages referring to the family’s international influence peddling operation, bore the &#8220;earmarks” of a Russian misinformation operation.
That letter, once reported by Politico, was all the cover the liberal press and social media platforms needed to bury the New York Post’s October 2020 bombshell, lest it affect the presidential election. Mission accomplished: The Post was silenced, marginalized, and ridiculed and the laptop story was put on ice.
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Meanwhile, here&#39;s what James Clapper said about the story when it first came out in 2020:
“To me, this is just classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft at work.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/yJ9b3W8h5J">https://t.co/yJ9b3W8h5J</a> <a href="https://t.co/91enmdU3nW">pic.twitter.com/91enmdU3nW</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1625314986078740482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Except over the ensuing years, once it no longer mattered, Big Media admitted the laptop was legit. And if the laptop is real, then we know Hunter Biden is a venal dirtbag and his father may have facilitated and profited from his schemes. Not even Clapper can pretend the laptop was a trick now. The best he can do is pretend he never said it was.
“All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation,” Clapper told The Washington Post this week. “Politico deliberately distorted what we said.”
Sure, the letter, also signed by former CIA directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta, and Michael Hayden, and written by former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, never said the laptop caper WAS a Russian operation. It just said it sure SEEMED like one. Thomas Finger, a onetime chairman of the National Intelligence Council and co-signer of the letter, helpfully explained this week that they took great pains to try to make sure no one jumped to any conclusions. Wouldn’t want that!
“The statement we signed was carefully written to minimize the likelihood that what was said would be misconstrued, and to provide a clear written record that could be used to identify and disprove distortions.”
Finger and Clapper must’ve been furious after <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276">Politico published its article</a> about the letter under the headline, “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.” Surely they demanded a correction, especially after realizing that this gross mischaracterization of the letter could influence an election just weeks away. And imagine the horror an intel legend like Clapper must have felt ever since, knowing all his expertise in spycraft had betrayed him into a disastrous reading of events that may have changed the course of history.
Well, if Clapper did feel anger at Politico or shame at himself and his intel peers, he kept it under wraps until now. He never said anything until this week, when it apparently became too embarrassing to stand by the claims in the letter he signed. After all, at this point you can’t defend Hunter Biden and keep the word “intelligence” on your resume. Plus, Rep. Jim Jordan, (R-OH), says he plans to call Clapper and his pen pals <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-puts-a-dozen-intel-veterans-on-notice-over-hunter-biden-laptop-letter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to testify before his new panel</a> probing the weaponization of the federal government.
Here’s the truth: Clapper is lying now, was lying in 2020, and even admitted he was lying way back in 2013, when he told a Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee that the National Security Agency doesn’t purposely collect data on millions of Americans. The difference is, back then, Clapper admitted he was a liar.
“I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying, ‘No,’” Clapper said afterward.
Least untruthful indeed.
There was a dirty, downright un-American intel operation designed to throw the 2020 presidential election, but it wasn’t pulled off by the Russians. It was conducted by a band of 51 deeply unpatriotic spooks, and spymaster James Clapper was one of them.

James Clapper, Hunter Biden

Who, Me? Election Meddler James Clapper Tries Out New Laptop Lie

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