On Monday night, Kyle Kulinski, host and producer of the YouTube show &#8220;Secular Talk&#8221; and no fan of Donald Trump Jr. or his father, issued a tweet insinuating that Trump Jr. was backstage at the Republican National Convention snorting cocaine, using an image of Kermit the Frog from The Muppets to represent Trump Jr.
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Trump Jr. Backstage <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNC2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RNC2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/guzi5D0yES">pic.twitter.com/guzi5D0yES</a>
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Trump Jr. fired back, “You must have me confused with Hunter Biden.”
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You must have me confused with Hunter Biden. <a href="https://t.co/dUeshfmYs0">https://t.co/dUeshfmYs0</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1298341734112428032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump Jr. was likely referring to the fact that Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy Reserve in 2014 after testing positive for cocaine.
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-son-hunter-discharged-from-navy-reserve-after-failing-cocaine-test-1413499657">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported at the time:
<blockquote>Mr. Biden, 44 years old, decided to pursue military service relatively late, beginning the direct-commission process to become a public-affairs officer in the Navy Reserve in 2012. Because of his age—43 when he was to be commissioned—he needed a waiver to join the Navy. He received a second Navy waiver because of a drug-related incident when he was a young man, according to people familiar with the matter. …
In June 2013, after reporting to his unit in Norfolk, he was given a drug test, which turned up positive for cocaine, according to people familiar with the situation. Mr. Biden was discharged in February, the Navy said.</blockquote>
Hunter Biden stated that it had been “the honor of my life to serve in the U.S. Navy, and I deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge. I respect the Navy’s decision. With the love and support of my family, I’m moving forward.”
Even in 2014, the Journal reported there were questions about Hunter Biden’s appointment to the board of Burisma; the Journal stated:
<blockquote>In May, he joined the board of the Ukrainian gas producer, Burisma Holdings Ltd., which is controlled by a former security and energy official for Ukraine’s ousted former president. The announcement that Mr. Biden would be responsible for Burisma’s legal unit raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest, because his father, the vice president, was engaged in diplomatic efforts involving Ukraine.</blockquote>
On Monday night, Donald Trump Jr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-jr-nails-biden-the-loch-ness-monster-of-the-swamp-hes-been-lurking-around-in-there">hit Joe Biden</a> hard in his speech at the RNC, stating:
<blockquote>Joe Biden’s entire economic platform seems designed to crush the working man and woman. He supported the worst trade deals in the history of the planet. He voted for the NAFTA nightmare, down the tubes went our auto industry.
He pushed for TPP, goodbye manufacturing jobs. Beijing Biden is so weak on China that the intelligence community recently assessed that the Chinese Communist Party favors Biden. They know he’ll weaken us both economically and on a world stage. Biden also wants to bring in more illegal immigrants to take jobs from American citizens. His open border policies would drive wages down for Americans at a time when low income workers were getting real wage increases for the first time in modern history. He’s pledged to repeal the Trump tax cuts, which were the biggest in our country. After eight years of Obama and Biden’s slow growth, Trump’s policies have been like rocket fuel to the economy and especially to the middle class. Biden has promised to take that money back out of your pocket and keep it in the swamp. That makes sense though, considering Joe Biden is basically the Loch Ness monster of the swamp.
For the past half century, he’s been lurking around in there. He sticks his head up every now and then to run for president. Then he disappears and doesn’t do much in between.</blockquote>
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Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was reportedly hit with a $450,000 tax lien last month, and paid it off within just a few days despite having “no discernible income.”
The report from The Washington Free Beacon notes that Hunter Biden told a judge in a paternity case that he was broke and unemployed.
Hunter &#8220;Biden owed $238,562.76 in state income taxes from 2017 and $215,328.16 in state income taxes from 2018, according to records from the District of Columbia’s Office of Tax and Revenue. The District of Columbia filed a $453,890 lien against him on July 9,&#8221; Free Beacon Investigative Reporter Alana Goodman <a href="https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/for-biden-family-a-history-of-tax-problems/">reported</a> Saturday. &#8220;The lien is the latest in a series of substantial tax problems members of the Biden family have faced over the years, from Joe&#8217;s brother James’s six-figure tax debt in 2015 to multiple liens filed against Joe&#8217;s sister Valerie and her husband.&#8221;
Goodman notes that the revelation raises questions about Hunter Biden’s finances, which have been under the microscope throughout this current election cycle as his father is now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
&#8220;Harvey Bezozi, a tax expert who specializes in large-scale tax debt negotiations, said the only way to get a lien released is to pay the settlement in full—often through a payment plan, penalty abatement, or other compromise with the government—or to prove the lien was filed in error,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;He said liens can take months or years to resolve.&#8221;
Bezozi said that for the issue to be resolved in just six days indicates that there &#8220;had to be some kind of expeditious kind of process for this.&#8221; Bezozi also told the Free Beacon that the government rarely files a lien in error.
&#8220;The Biden campaign did not respond to questions about how Hunter Biden settled the debt in less than a week and whether he has found gainful employment,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;The Biden family has been hit with several tax liens over the past few decades.&#8221;
This latest story involving Hunter Biden is likely to frustrate the Biden campaign as Joe Biden is seeing his lead in the polls over President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-data-finds-bidens-lead-shrinking-significantly-trump-within-striking-range">rapidly diminish</a> in recent weeks.
In a paternity case last year, Hunter Biden wrote in an affidavit on November 27, &#8220;I attest that I am unemployed and have had no monthly income since May 2019. I currently have significant debts (in part as a result of obligations arising from my divorce which was final in April 2017).&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-hunter-biden-claimed-he-did-not-impregnate-woman-test-results-say-thats-not-true">case</a> stems from a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-is-the-father-of-d-c-s-stripper-child-judge-rules">stripper</a> who Hunter Biden allegedly got pregnant while he was living with his deceased brother&#8217;s widow, who he was reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beau-bidens-widow-now-involved-his-married-brother-robert-kraychik">dating</a>.
Hunter Biden took a DNA test in an apparent attempt to prove that he was not the father of the child, but the test proved the opposite.
“DNA testing has established, ‘with scientific certainty,’ that Hunter Biden is the father of an Arkansas baby, according to a motion filed Wednesday in Independence County on behalf of the child’s mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts,” The Arkansas Democrat Gazette <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/nov/20/dna-test-shows-hunter-biden-father-arkansas-womans/">reported</a>. “Hunter Biden, who initially denied having sexual relations with Roberts, eventually agreed to take a DNA test, according to documents filed by Roberts’ attorney, Clint Lancaster.”
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On Tuesday, Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) fired off a <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07-28%20RHJ-CEG%20Letter%20to%20Peters-Wyden%20%28Defensive%20Briefing%29.pdf">blistering letter</a> to the Democratic Ranking Members of the House Committee on Finance and House Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs in which they accuse Democrats of conducting a “disinformation campaign” in order to hinder their investigation into the possibility of the Biden family having conflicts of interest.
Grassley and Johnson <a href="https://www.axios.com/chuck-grassley-ron-johnson-hunter-biden-burisma-ukraine-4b0cd790-af3b-4102-a6e3-d8295992d559.html">announced</a> a <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020-02-05%20CEG%20RHJ%20to%20Secret%20Service%20%28Biden%20Travel%29.pdf" data-vars-link-text="review" data-vars-click-url="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2020-02-05%20CEG%20RHJ%20to%20Secret%20Service%20%28Biden%20Travel%29.pdf" data-vars-content-id="4b0cd790-af3b-4102-a6e3-d8295992d559" data-vars-headline="Treasury Department complying with GOP requests for Hunter Biden review" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link">review</a> in February of &#8220;potential conflicts of interest posed by the business activities of Hunter Biden and his associates during the Obama administration, particularly with respect to his business activities in Ukraine and China.&#8221;
The senators&#8217; letter, sent Tuesday to Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), begins by asserting that a July 16 letter asking once more for a member briefing from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and relevant members of the Intelligence Community (IC) flew in the face of the FBI advising &#8220;all of us during a March 2020 staff briefing that there was nothing to preclude the continuation of our investigation.&#8221; Johnson and Grassley note that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee had heard months ago that the FBI and intelligence agencies &#8220;did not have any additional information to provide.&#8221;
Grassley and Johnson then point out that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) also wrote a letter asking for an FBI briefing; Grassley and Johnson assert that news reports regarding the classified part of that letter indicated that it falsely accused the GOP senators of obtaining information from foreign nationals about former Vice President Joe Biden.
Johnson and Grassley write:
<blockquote>Not only is that an apparent classified leak, but that allegation is false and you know it because we told you it was false right after those reports were published. Yet, as with your repeated public requests for a member briefing that seem designed to suggest that we are somehow denying members access to briefings and relevant intelligence, Democrats and Mr. Biden’s campaign prefer to knowingly repeat false information so the liberal media will keep reporting on it. Continuing to repeat false information, including apparently classified information, will not make the allegations true. In fact, it is the very definition of a disinformation campaign—the same conduct you are falsely accusing us of participating in.</blockquote>
Biden’s camp has been assiduously attacking Johnson. “Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said Wednesday that Johnson is ‘not only diverting’ the committee from oversight … ‘but he has also revealed his complicity in a foreign attack on the very sovereignty of our elections,’” <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1234536#blogHeader">NBC News</a> reported in mid-July.
The two GOP senators state that “during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and its focus on the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, Democrats never once asked for briefings before interviewing Russian nationals, some of whom were allegedly linked to Russian Intelligence Services.&#8221;
&#8220;In contrast to that investigation, our investigation is focused on records from the State Department, National Archives, Department of Justice, other federal agencies, and the U.S. consulting firm Blue Star Strategies, as well as speaking with current and former U.S. government officials,&#8221; the senators write. &#8220;How, exactly, could this be foreign or Russian disinformation? If it is, that means that the Obama administration peddled it regularly.&#8221;
They then cite the role of the infamous Steele dossier, which relied in part on Russian sources, in the investigation of the Trump campaign:
<blockquote>Your misguided efforts that actually assist Russian disinformation were further confirmed when our investigative work recently revealed now-declassified intelligence reporting that parts of the Steele dossier—foreign opposition research paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign, and used during and after the 2016 election—were ‘part of a Russian disinformation campaign.’ We are not aware that you or any of your colleagues have commented publicly on this disturbing revelation. Where is your outrage regarding actual Russian disinformation contained in the Steele Dossier and Russian disinformation paid for by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign? The Steele Dossier is the very definition of election interference, yet we hear no objections from you.</blockquote>
“Finally, we want to reiterate that we have taken every precaution to protect the integrity of our investigation and keep your staffs involved in our work,&#8221; Johnson and Grassley conclude. &#8220;Yet at every turn, we have seen leaks of sensitive information and attempts to smear and undermine our investigation—and us, personally—in the press. These attempts to discredit our investigation only serve to increase our curiosity: what are the Democrats and many in the media so afraid of us finding?&#8221;
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Days after the mother of Hunter Biden&#8217;s out-of-wedlock baby demanded he be held in contempt of court for refusing to disclose his income for child support purposes, Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyers announced that he will be skipping a scheduled deposition on Wednesday, March 11, due to coronavirus concerns and his pregnant wife&#8217;s approaching due date.
&#8220;Defendant requests continuance of the hearing as he is unavailable to attend due to his wife&#8217;s due date in 2 and a half weeks or less and risks involved with travel,&#8221; Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyers said in the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/continuance-motion.pdf">new filing, as reported by Washington Free Beacon. </a>&#8220;It is unsafe for the Defendant to travel, as travel restrictions have been implemented both domestically and internationally, particularly on airlines, due to the coronavirus. Setting aside personal endangerment, the Defendant reasonably believes that such travel unnecessarily exposes his wife and unborn child to this virus. California, in particular, has been the site of numerous reported cases of exposure.&#8221;
Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyers further argued that the &#8220;elevated media scrutiny&#8221; due to Joe Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign puts him at risk.
&#8220;The tremendously elevated media scrutiny creates some physical risks and logistics difficulties with travel to Arkansas, invades the privacy of the Defendant and his 8 and a half month pregnant wife, threatens to complicate the Court&#8217;s ability to conduct a public hearing, creates a highly prejudicial environment from Defendant, and cannot be in the child&#8217;s or his mother&#8217;s interest in any way,&#8221; the lawyers said.
As The Daily Wire reported on Sunday, ex-stripper Lunden Alexis Roberts, the mother of Hunter&#8217;s child, told the court last week that Hunter Biden has shown no respect for the legal proceeding and demanded that the court “take some action that will make the defendant follow court orders and a believer in the rule of law.”
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-defying-court-order-to-turn-over-financial-docs-lacks-respect-for-legal-process-contempt-motion-says">detailed the charges</a> brought forth by Roberts and her attorneys:
<blockquote>Specifically, Biden has not turned over information concerning his address, financial institutions he or his businesses use, a list of all the companies he “currently owns or in which he has an ownership interest and the state in which those companies are incorporated,” or a list of “all sources of income for the past five years.”
Additionally, Biden has failed to produce a list of all “employers for the past five years,” an unredacted copy of his tax returns, deeds for properties he owns, and tax documents for companies in which he has any ownership interest.
The previous judge in the case, Don McSpadden, said in December that Biden was “going to have to provide at least the last three years of tax returns.” A Dec. 4 court order required Biden to turn over at a minimum “five most recent paystubs or five previous years” of tax returns; and a later order mandated both sides provide “their personal tax returns for the past five years; and … any and all financial documents and information showing money or monies they received in the past five years.”</blockquote>
The filing comes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mother-of-hunter-bidens-love-child-demands-to-know-how-much-money-he-earned-with-burisma">several months after</a> Roberts filed court documents demanding that Hunter Biden reveal the amount of money earned while working with Burisma – the Ukrainian energy firm where he allegedly earned as much as $50,000 a month between April 2014 and April 2019.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has largely ducked the controversy regarding his grandchild and even expressed hostility to a reporter who dared ask him about it.
“Do you have a comment on this report and court filing out of Arkansas that your son Hunter just made you a grandfather?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-biden-gets-upset-after-being-asked-about-revelation-that-his-son-fathered-child-with-arkansas-woman-while-he-was-dating-his-brothers-widow">asked Biden previously</a>.
“No, that’s a private matter, I have no comment,” Biden responded. “But only you would ask that. You’re a good man. You’re a good man. Classy.”

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Donald Trump Jr. challenged Hunter Biden during an interview on Sunday to a debate before the upcoming 2020 presidential election.
Trump made the remarks in an interview with Axios on what the line of attack would be on Joe Biden if Joe Biden became the Democratic nominee for president.
&#8220;Off the top of my head, it&#8217;s multiple fold, right,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;First of all, you have sort of just a guy that&#8217;s telling us he&#8217;s going to do all these things, he&#8217;s gonna do them. But he&#8217;s been in politics for 50 years. Why hasn&#8217;t he done them then?&#8221;
&#8220;The second part of that is, you know, if Donald Trump mixed up Iowa and Ohio – once – the media, and you know where I&#8217;m going on this one, right guys?&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;The media would be on TV, every tele-psychologist would say, &#8216;Donald Trump has lost his mind. Donald, he&#8217;s in the later stages of dementia and a combination of Alzheimer&#8217;s. He&#8217;s not fit to run.&#8217; Joe Biden doesn&#8217;t know what state he&#8217;s in 50% of the time. If Donald Trump did the equivalent, you would not hear anything other than that.&#8221;
&#8220;How much will his son be a part of that, Hunter? It&#8217;s obviously been a big part,” Axios&#8217; Jim VandeHei asked Trump.
&#8220;Listen, I think it&#8217;s got to be a big part,&#8221; Trump responded. &#8220;I was an international business person before my father got into politics. That&#8217;s what we did. I&#8217;m not going to say I haven&#8217;t benefited from my father&#8217;s last name, just like Hunter Biden did. I&#8217;d be foolish to say that. But I haven&#8217;t benefited from my father&#8217;s taxpayer-funded office, okay?”
&#8220;Hunter Biden, his father becomes VP, all of a sudden he goes over to the Ukraine,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;And he&#8217;s making $83 grand a month. So, you know, the media likes to do this sort of false equivalence. &#8216;You you&#8217;re doing this, you&#8217;re doing that.&#8217; We stopped doing any new international business deals when my father won the presidency. So, you know what would be great? I&#8217;ll let you host it. You moderate a debate between Hunter Biden and myself. C&#8217;mon. Let&#8217;s do it. No, no, seriously. We can go full transparency. We show everything and we can talk about all of the places where I&#8217;m supposedly grifting, but Hunter Biden isn&#8217;t. I would love to do it.&#8221;
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The MSM loves making a false equivalency between us, so lets settle it:
I challenge Hunter Biden to man up &amp; debate me<a href="https://twitter.com/JimVandeHei?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JimVandeHei</a> moderates. Hunter releases his tax returns &amp; I release mine. Let&#39;s have an open convo about who really profited from their father&#39;s public office! <a href="https://t.co/6N6MObhGhb">pic.twitter.com/6N6MObhGhb</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1236782330360053761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>Jim VandeHei: Let&#8217;s talk 2020 for a second. When you think about Joe Biden, like, give me — like synthesize the attack that&#8217;s going to come.
Donald Trump Jr.: Off the top of my head, it&#8217;s multiple fold, right. First of all, you have sort of just a guy that&#8217;s telling us he&#8217;s going to do all these things, he&#8217;s gonna do them. But he&#8217;s been in politics for 50 years. Why hasn&#8217;t he done them then? The second part of that is, you know, if Donald Trump mixed up Iowa and Ohio — once — the media, and you know where I&#8217;m going on this one, right guys? The media would be on TV, every tele-psychologist would say, “Donald Trump has lost his mind. Donald, he&#8217;s in the later stages of dementia and a combination of Alzheimer&#8217;s. He&#8217;s not fit to run.” Joe Biden doesn&#8217;t know what state he&#8217;s in 50% of the time. If Donald Trump did the equivalent, you would not hear anything other than that.
VandeHei: How much will his son be a part of that, Hunter? It&#8217;s obviously been a big part—
Trump: Listen, I think it&#8217;s got to be a big part. I was an international business person before my father got into politics. That&#8217;s what we did. I&#8217;m not going to say I haven&#8217;t benefited from my father&#8217;s last name, just like Hunter Biden did. I&#8217;d be foolish to say that. But I haven&#8217;t benefited from my father&#8217;s taxpayer-funded office. OK? Hunter Biden, his father becomes VP, all of a sudden he goes over to the Ukraine. And he&#8217;s making $83 grand a month. So, you know, the media likes to do this sort of false equivalence. “You you&#8217;re doing this, you&#8217;re doing that.” We stopped doing any new international business deals when my father won the presidency. So, you know what would be great? I&#8217;ll let you host it. You moderate a debate between Hunter Biden and myself. C&#8217;mon. Let&#8217;s do it. No, no, seriously. We can go full transparency. We show everything and we can talk about all of the places where I&#8217;m supposedly grifting, but Hunter Biden isn&#8217;t. I would love to do it.
VandeHei: Would it be like the great “who made more off of dad” debate?
Trump: No, no, no. Talk about — hey, as it relates to the grifting, they&#8217;re saying we&#8217;re profiting off of the presidency. Let&#8217;s talk about it.
VandeHei: But you profited, don&#8217;t you?
Trump: I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve profited off of the presidency. We had—
VandeHei: You have a best-selling book. You do paid speeches. Don’t you co-own a—
Trump: I&#8217;ve — I&#8217;ve done paid speeches for over a decade. I do a lot. I don&#8217;t even do the international ones anymore.
VandeHei: But you make some. But you make some money off it. Right? You’re—
Trump: Nothing that I haven&#8217;t done before. And again, if you looked at my tax returns—
VandeHei: Right.
Trump: Which maybe we could talk about in this debate.
VandeHei: So you&#8217;ll release your tax return. You would release your tax returns and he would debate you. You would really debate him?
Trump: I&#8217;d 100% debate him. Let&#8217;s talk about who profited off of whose public service. Happy to do it. Let&#8217;s make it happen.</blockquote>

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The woman who bore Hunter Biden’s child out-of-wedlock, ex-stripper Lunden Alexis Roberts, has demanded the former vice president&#8217;s son be held in contempt for continuing to defy court orders and failing to care for his child.
&#8220;[Hunter Biden] continues to act as though he has no respect for this Court, its orders, the legal process in this state, or the needs of his child for support,&#8221; argues Roberts&#8217; legal team in the court filing before demanding that the court &#8220;take some action that will make the defendant follow court orders and a believer in the rule of law.&#8221;
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-defying-court-order-to-turn-over-financial-docs-lacks-respect-for-legal-process-contempt-motion-says">detailed the charges</a> brought forth by Roberts and her attorneys:
<blockquote>Specifically, Biden has not turned over information concerning his address, financial institutions he or his businesses use, a list of all the companies he &#8220;currently owns or in which he has an ownership interest and the state in which those companies are incorporated,&#8221; or a list of &#8220;all sources of income for the past five years.&#8221;
Additionally, Biden has failed to produce a list of all &#8220;employers for the past five years,&#8221; an unredacted copy of his tax returns, deeds for properties he owns, and tax documents for companies in which he has any ownership interest.
The previous judge in the case, Don McSpadden, said in December that Biden was &#8220;going to have to provide at least the last three years of tax returns.&#8221; A Dec. 4 court order required Biden to turn over at a minimum &#8220;five most recent paystubs or five previous years&#8221; of tax returns; and a later order mandated both sides provide &#8220;their personal tax returns for the past five years; and &#8230; any and all financial documents and information showing money or monies they received in the past five years.&#8221;</blockquote>
Though Hunter Biden has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount in monthly child support, Independence County Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer, who now oversees the case, said that she cannot accurately determine the proper dollar amount without &#8220;sufficient information&#8221; regarding Hunter Biden&#8217;s finances. He will be appearing for a deposition on March 11.
The filing comes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mother-of-hunter-bidens-love-child-demands-to-know-how-much-money-he-earned-with-burisma">several months after</a> Roberts filed court documents demanding that Hunter Biden reveal the amount of money earned while working with Burisma – the Ukrainian energy firm where he allegedly earned as much as $50,000 a month between April 2014 and April 2019. Should Hunter Biden reveal his exact earnings, it could shed some serious light on former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s personal involvement in his son&#8217;s dealings, according to Republican National Committee (RNC) spokesman Steve Guest.
&#8220;After months of hiding, one has to wonder if the reason Hunter Biden continues to defy the court is because there are financial documents that could shed light on his father’s massive conflicts of interest as vice president,&#8221; Guest said on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-defying-court-order-to-turn-over-financial-docs-lacks-respect-for-legal-process-contempt-motion-says">Fox News Sunday</a>.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has largely ducked the controversy regarding his grandchild and even expressed hostility to a reporter who dared ask him about it.
“Do you have a comment on this report and court filing out of Arkansas that your son Hunter just made you a grandfather?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-biden-gets-upset-after-being-asked-about-revelation-that-his-son-fathered-child-with-arkansas-woman-while-he-was-dating-his-brothers-widow">asked Biden previously</a>.
“No, that’s a private matter, I have no comment,” Biden responded. “But only you would ask that. You’re a good man. You’re a good man. Classy.”

Mother Of Hunter Biden’s Son: He’s Refusing To Step Up And Follow Court Orders

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After signaling otherwise earlier in the week, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) — a frequent critic of President Trump and the lone Republican to vote guilty on one of the Democrats&#8217; articles of impeachment — is going to vote in favor of subpoenaing a consultant connected to Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company that paid Hunter Biden tens of thousands of dollars a month to serve on its board while his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, headed up U.S.-Ukraine relations.
On Thursday, Romney indicated that he was leaning toward once again breaking with his fellow Republicans to reject the measure, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/486130-romney-biden-burisma-probe-appears-political">telling</a> reporters, &#8220;There&#8217;s no question but that the appearance of looking into Burisma and Hunter Biden appears political, and I think people are tired of these kind of political investigations.&#8221; The senator added that he &#8220;would prefer that investigations are done by an independent, nonpolitical body.&#8221;
But, as <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/486311-romney-to-vote-for-burisma-subpoena">The Hill</a> reports, Romney&#8217;s spokeswoman Liz Johnson said Friday that after meeting with the senator who&#8217;s leading the investigation, Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Ron Johnson (R-WI), Romney has decided to support the subpoena of former Blue Star Strategies consultant Andrii Telizhenko.
&#8220;Senator Romney has expressed his concerns to Chairman Johnson, who has confirmed that any interview of the witness would occur in a closed setting without a hearing or public spectacle,&#8221; said Johnson. &#8220;He will therefore vote to let the Chairman proceed to obtain the documents that have been offered.&#8221;
With Romney agreeing to vote for the subpoena, Johnson has the simple majority necessary to issue the subpoena requiring Telizhenko to potentially provide relevant documents to and speak with the panel as part of its investigation into potential corruption involving Burisma and the Bidens.
<div dir="ltr">Romney&#8217;s decision, which gives the Republican-led panel an 8-6 majority, is &#8220;a blow to Democrats, who have warned that Johnson could inadvertently help spread Russian misinformation or use the investigation to target former Vice President Joe Biden as his presidential campaign has a burst of new momentum,&#8221; The Hill notes. </div>
The subpoena the panel is now poised to pass involves Washington-based consulting firm Blue Star Strategies, which worked with Burisma and which referenced Hunter Biden in its communications with the State Department on Burisma&#8217;s behalf, as reported by the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/firm-hired-by-ukraines-burisma-tried-to-use-hunter-biden-as-leverage-documents-show-11573009615?mod=article_inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wall Street Journal</a>.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-gives-updates-on-biden-burisma-investigation-biden-trump-respond">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Johnson provided some updates to the press this week on his panel’s investigation into potential Ukrainian corruption involving Burisma. The Senate Homeland Security Committee chair told reporters Wednesday that he expects to release an interim report on the investigation within one to two months.
Referencing then-Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s successful pressuring of Ukraine&#8217;s president to remove Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was pushing to investigate potential corruption involving Burisma, Johnson told reporters Wednesday, “[I]f I were a Democrat primary voter, I’d want these questions satisfactorily answered before I cast my final vote.&#8221;
&#8220;My investigations are not focused on the Bidens. They’re just not,” Johnson said. “But I can’t ignore them because they’re part of the story. They made themselves part of the story. If there’s wrongdoing, the American people need to know it. If there is no wrongdoing or nothing significant, the American people need to understand that as well.&#8221;
In an appearance on Fox News Wednesday, Johnson <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ron-johnson-works-to-verify-document-about-apology-by-burisma-tied-firm-to-fired-top-ukraine-prosecutor-for-misinformation-campaign">said</a>, &#8220;I know it was a big explanation that everybody wanted him fired, but there is a document, we have to verify it, but there is a document supposedly contemporaneous that said that the contact by Blue Star to the prosecutor general’s office was all about apologizing for the misinformation campaign conducted against Shokin. Kind of raises some eyebrows, some questions that need to be answered.&#8221;
Biden has consistently denied any wrongdoing, portraying the Republicans&#8217; interest in Burisma and the removal of Shokin as conspiratorial and politically motivated. On Wednesday, Biden’s campaign <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-gives-updates-on-biden-burisma-investigation-biden-trump-respond">responded</a> to Johnson’s statements to the press by saying the committee chair just did the Democratic frontrunner &#8220;an enormous favor.&#8221; &#8220;Senator Johnson just accidentally did us an enormous favor by explicitly admitting that he is abusing congressional authority in a manner that would make the founding fathers spin in their graves,&#8221; said campaign spokesman Andrew Bates.
Trump also responded to Johnson&#8217;s announcement about the release of the interim report, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-gives-updates-on-biden-burisma-investigation-biden-trump-respond">telling</a> Fox News Wednesday night, that Burisma remains &#8220;a major issue&#8221; for Biden and vowing to &#8220;bring that up all the time because I don’t see any way out&#8221; for Biden.

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In Blow To Democrats, Mitt Romney To Back Burisma Subpoena Connected To Bidens

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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is preparing to issue a number of initial subpoenas in the panel&#8217;s probe into Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian oil and gas company that once employed Hunter Biden as a member of its board of directors, and the organization at the center of a Democratic effort to impeach President Donald Trump.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a letter to members of the Committee late Sunday, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/485469-gop-chairman-plans-first-subpoena-in-burisma-biden-probe">according to The Hill</a>, declaring his &#8220;intention to schedule a business meeting to consider a committee subpoena.&#8221;
That subpoena would reportedly go to Andrii Telizhenko, an individual who worked for Blue Star Strategies, a consulting organization that represented Burisma after it was accused of corruption, <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/02/senate-subpoena-burisma-biden/">per the Daily Caller</a>.
&#8220;Telizhenko, who was a consultant for Blue Star from July 2016 to June 2017, has provided some documents to the committee, according to Johnson,&#8221; the DC reported Monday. &#8220;But he says that he cannot turn over others without a subpoena because they are protected by a non-disclosure agreement.&#8221;
&#8220;As part of the committee&#8217;s ongoing investigation, [the Committee] has received U.S. government records indicating that Blue Star sought to leverage Hunter Biden&#8217;s role as a board member of Burisma to gain access to, and potentially influence matters at, the State Department,&#8221; Johnson wrote.
“[Telizhenko] cannot provide this responsible information unless he is compelled to do so by subpoena,” the Wisconsin Senator added.
Johnson&#8217;s committee is looking into whether Hunter Biden &#8220;leveraged his father’s position as vice president to help Burisma, which has long been dogged by allegations of corruption,&#8221; according to the DC, but will eventually focus on Burisma&#8217;s larger story, including whether the elder Biden leveraged his own relationship with the Obama administration to secure a position with Burisma for his son, Hunter, and whether Burisma ultimately dodged corruption investigations.
The Committee will also look into whether Burisma hired strategists with direct connections to the Biden family and to other powerful Democrats, and whether some of those strategists are still peddling influence in Democratic circles, including within the former Vice President&#8217;s current presidential campaign.
&#8220;Republicans have homed in on Hunter Biden&#8217;s position on the board of Burisma, including seeking to tie then-Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s push in 2016 for the dismissal of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin to Hunter Biden&#8217;s business interests,&#8221; The Hill said. &#8220;They&#8217;ve also argued that allowing Joe Biden to work on Ukraine policy while his son was on the board of Burisma was a conflict of interest.&#8221;
This investigation may eventually connect to other Senate investigations involving the Biden family. The Senate Judiciary Committee will reportedly be taking a look into whether Democrats used connections in the Ukraine to undermine the 2016 presidential election, something President Donald Trump&#8217;s chief counsel, Rudy Giuliani, says he found evidence of during a trip there late last year.
Other Senate panels will be investigating the origins of House Democrats&#8217; allegations against the president, and whether Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and his staff coordinated with a whistleblower who alleged Trump inked a &#8220;quid pro quo&#8221; agreement with Ukrainian officials over the issue of Hunter Biden&#8217;s work within the country.

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Senate Panel Prepares To Issue First Subpoenas In Burisma, Hunter Biden Investigation

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According to CBS News&#8217; sources, Department of Justice officials, at the direction of Attorney General William Barr, have been &#8220;quietly&#8221; reviewing over the past &#8220;several weeks&#8221; records and documents related to the &#8220;Ukraine matter,&#8221; including documents provided by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
Citing a source familiar with the matter, CBS News&#8217; Catherine Herridge and Clare Hymes <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-has-been-reviewing-ukraine-material-for-several-weeks-source-says/">reported</a> Tuesday that &#8220;staff outside of Main Justice in Washington have been assigned by Attorney General William Barr to review the Ukraine matter, adding that the review is being handled by the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in Pittsburgh and is separate from U.S. Attorney John Durham&#8217;s probe into the origins of the FBI&#8217;s Russia probe.&#8221;
Among the materials reportedly being reviewed by Justice Department officials at Barr&#8217;s behest are some provided by Giuliani, who was specifically mentioned by President Trump in his famous July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and who appears to have served as point man for the pursuit of investigations into allegations of corruption involving former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
Herridge and Hymes note that that investigation also &#8220;goes beyond&#8221; matters related to the Bidens, according to the source.
In the call which sparked the Democrats&#8217; impeachment campaign, President Trump asked Zelensky to &#8220;look into&#8221; the allegations involving the Bidens and Burisma. After a whistleblower complaint accused Trump of attempting to pressure Ukraine into investigating his political rival, Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry resulting in two articles of impeachment, which passed in the House but for which Trump was acquitted by the Senate.
As Herridge and Hymes reports, the allegations involving the Bidens and Ukraine &#8220;have gained new life&#8221; since Trump&#8217;s acquittal, with Barr stating Monday that the department has established an &#8220;intake process in the field&#8221; for material concerning Ukraine.
During the impeachment trial in the Senate, Trump&#8217;s lawyers repeatedly brought up the issue of corruption in Ukraine, around which Trump&#8217;s request to Zelensky centered. At one point, President Trump’s deputy counsel Patrick Philbin connected the &#8220;Ukraine matter&#8221; to the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the impeachment.
“If the whistleblower, as is alleged in some public reports, actually did work for then-Vice President Biden on Ukraine issues, exactly what was his role?” asked Philbin. “What was his involvement when issues were raised — we know from testimony that questions were raised — about the potential conflict of interest that the vice president then had when his son was sitting on the board of Burisma. Was the alleged whistleblower involved in any of that and in making decisions to not do anything related to that? Did he have some reason to want to put the deep-six on any question raising any issue about what went on with the Bidens and Burisma and firing Shokin and withholding a billion dollars in loan guarantees and enforcing a very explicit quid pro quo — you won’t get this billion dollars until you fire him? We don’t know. And because Manager [Rep. Adam] Schiff was guiding this whole process, because he was the chairman in charge of directing the inquiry and directing it away from any of those questions, that creates a real due process defect in the record that has been presented here.”
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Report: Justice Department Has Been ‘Quietly’ Reviewing Ukraine Materials For Several Weeks, Separate From Durham Probe

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United States Attorney General William Barr confirmed on Monday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has established an intake process to review information on 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, regarding their dealings in Ukraine.
&#8220;General Barr, Senator Graham says that Rudy Giuliani will be providing the Department information related to the Ukraine and the Bidens,&#8221; a reporter said to Barr during a news conference. &#8220;What is the process for receiving this information? Who will evaluate it? And is this something that you feel you need to recuse yourself from?&#8221;
“As I’ve previously said, the DOJ has the obligation to have an open door to anybody who wishes to provide us information that they think is relevant, but as I did say to Senator Graham, we have to be very careful with respect to any information coming from Ukraine,&#8221; Barr responded. &#8220;There are a lot of agendas in Ukraine, there are a lot of cross currents, and we can’t take anything we receive from Ukraine at face value.&#8221;
Barr added, &#8220;And for that reason, we had established an intake process in the field so that any information coming in about Ukraine could be carefully scrutinized by the department and its intelligence community partners so that we could asses its provenance and its credibility and that is true for all information that comes to the department relating to Ukraine, including anything Mr. Giuliani might provide.&#8221;
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The reporter&#8217;s question was based on remarks that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made on Sunday during an interview with CBS host Margaret Brennan.
&#8220;Has the Department of Justice been ordered to investigate the Bidens?&#8221; Brennan asked.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Graham responded. &#8220;The Department of Justice is receiving information coming out of the Ukraine from Rudy. &#8230; He told me that they&#8217;ve created a process that Rudy could give information and they would see if it&#8217;s verified. Rudy Giuliani is a well-known man. He&#8217;s a crime fighter. He&#8217;s loyal to the president. He&#8217;s a good lawyer.&#8221;
&#8220;But what I&#8217;m trying to say — to the president and anybody else, that the Russians are still up to it,&#8221; Graham continued. &#8220;Deterrence is not working. So, let&#8217;s look at Hunter Biden&#8217;s conflict. Let&#8217;s look at Joe Biden. Vice President Biden, what did you do when they told you your son was on Burisma&#8217;s board? It undercuts your ability to fight corruption. Did you take it seriously? Obviously he didn&#8217;t.&#8221;
The news comes after Yahoo News reported last week that the U.S. Senate has received “highly sensitive” financial records on Hunter Biden from the U.S. Treasury Department.
“Sens. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Finance Committee; Ron Johnson, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; and Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, have focused their efforts in Washington, seeking to extract politically useful information from agencies of the U.S. government,” Yahoo News <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/treasury-department-sent-information-on-hunter-biden-to-expanding-gop-senate-inquiry-161846826.html">reported</a>. “They’ve issued letters requesting records from Cabinet departments and agencies, including the State Department, the Treasury, the Justice Department, the FBI, the National Archives and the Secret Service.”
“Grassley and Johnson have sought to obtain some of the most sensitive and closely held documents in all of federal law enforcement — highly confidential suspicious activity reports (SARs) filed by financial institutions with FinCEN, an agency of the Treasury that helps to police money laundering,” Yahoo News added. “A source familiar with the matter said the Treasury began turning over materials less than two months after Grassley and Johnson wrote to FinCEN on Nov. 15, 2019, requesting any SARs and related documents filed by financial institutions regarding Hunter Biden, his associates, their businesses and clients.”

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DOJ Has ‘Established An Intake Process’ To Review Biden-Ukraine Info From Giuliani

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says there are three witnesses who are ready to &#8220;name names&#8221; in an investigation into Hunter Biden and corruption in Ukraine, where the former vice president&#8217;s son once held a lucrative job on the board of national energy company, Burisma.
In an interview with Jesse Watters on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Watters&#8217; World,&#8221; President Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer said he&#8217;s found &#8220;the smoking gun.&#8221;
Giuliani said he wants to make sure Trump &#8212; who was impeached by the Democrat-controlled House and charged with abuse of power and obstruction of justice &#8212; is &#8220;totally vindicated.&#8221; Trump was acquitted on those charges by the Senate last week
&#8220;I want to prove what happened,&#8221; Giuliani said, &#8220;because I believe if we prove what happened, he will be totally vindicated.&#8221;
Watters asked Giuliani &#8220;if he had any documentation regarding Hunter Biden&#8217;s business dealings in Ukraine&#8221; before adding that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) &#8220;will be investigating that,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/rudy-giuliani-tells-sen-graham-to-get-started-on-the-hunter-biden-investigation">Fox</a> reported.
&#8220;Lindsey, get started,&#8221; Giuliani said, laughing, before declaring he had &#8220;what I used to call when I was U.S. attorney, the smoking gun.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got the documents, Lindsey,&#8221; Giuliani declared. “This is a money laundering transaction. &#8230; It’s about $14.6 million. It’s a notice from the Latvian government to the Ukrainian government that Hunter Biden is under investigation for corruption.”
&#8220;I’ll simplify it. $14.8 million goes from Ukraine to a company in Latvia, disguised as a loan. Then it goes from Latvia to another company disguised as another loan, in Cyprus. And then it goes to the U.S. where we lose track of it because when [former Ukraine prosecutor Viktor] Shokin gets it, just about the day he’s fired, there’s no money in here for Devon Archer and Hunter Biden. Everybody else, their money is listed,&#8221; Giuliani said.
Hunter Biden was paid more than $80,000 a month to serve as a “ceremonial figure” by the Ukrainian company Burisma, which hired him “as a helpful non-executive director with a powerful name,” according to a report published in October.
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hunter-biden-ukraine-idUSKBN1WX1P7">Reuters News Agency</a> interviewed more than a dozen people for the report, including executives and former prosecutors in Ukraine, to “paint a picture of a director who provided advice on legal issues, corporate finance and strategy during a five-year term on the board, which ended in April of this year.”
Burisma Holdings is one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies. By the end of Biden’s term, the company had paid $3.4 million to Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC, a company headed by Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer. From Reuters:
<blockquote>Specifically, the records show 18 months in which two payments of $83,333 per month were paid to Rosemont Seneca Bohai for &#8216;consulting services.&#8217; The two sources said that one of those monthly payments was intended for Biden and one for Archer. Reuters was not able to independently verify the authenticity of the documents or how much money Hunter Biden received.</blockquote>
Giuliani said he also has information on former Trump campaign head Paul Manafort.
“I could take it back to January of 2016,” Giuliani said. “A possibility the whistle-blower was there, NSC meeting – NSC, Obama, and Biden representatives tell Ukrainian officials, ‘Get me dirt on [former Trump campaign head Paul] Manafort.’ I have three witnesses there.”
Giuliani named three people: “Andrei Teleschenko, Constantine Kulyuk, Nazar Kholodnitskiy … three witnesses are willing to get on the witness stand and say that in January 2016, members of Obama’s NSC violated the law Mueller was investigating Trump for violating. They asked foreigners for dirty information on an American citizen who was going to be involved in a political campaign.”
&#8220;There’s no doubt who was at that meeting,” Giuliani said, adding, “The ‘Manafort black book’ was intended to blow the Trump campaign up.”
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Rudy Giuliani Claims He’s Found ‘Smoking Gun’ On Hunter Biden

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani says there are three witnesses who are ready to &quot;name names&quot; in an investigation into Hunter Biden and corruption

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The United States Treasury Department has reportedly handed over &#8220;highly sensitive&#8221; financial records from Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, to the U.S. Senate amid the Senate&#8217;s investigation into Hunter Biden&#8217;s business activity while his father was vice president.
&#8220;Sens. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Finance Committee; Ron Johnson, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; and Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, have focused their efforts in Washington, seeking to extract politically useful information from agencies of the U.S. government,&#8221; Yahoo News <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/treasury-department-sent-information-on-hunter-biden-to-expanding-gop-senate-inquiry-161846826.html">reported</a>. &#8220;They’ve issued letters requesting records from Cabinet departments and agencies, including the State Department, the Treasury, the Justice Department, the FBI, the National Archives and the Secret Service.&#8221;
&#8220;Grassley and Johnson have sought to obtain some of the most sensitive and closely held documents in all of federal law enforcement — highly confidential suspicious activity reports (SARs) filed by financial institutions with FinCEN, an agency of the Treasury that helps to police money laundering,&#8221; Yahoo News added. &#8220;A source familiar with the matter said the Treasury began turning over materials less than two months after Grassley and Johnson wrote to FinCEN on Nov. 15, 2019, requesting any SARs and related documents filed by financial institutions regarding Hunter Biden, his associates, their businesses and clients.&#8221;
A spokesperson for Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), ranking member on the Finance Committee, complained the federal agencies were complying with the Senate&#8217;s requests amid its ongoing investigation.
Yahoo News noted that Wyden’s statement did not state whether the evidence that had been received by the Senate included SARs.
&#8220;The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 mandates that banks generate SARs to report to FinCEN any transactions that they know or have reason to suspect violate federal criminal laws or are connected to money laundering,&#8221; Yahoo News added. &#8220;SARs are among the most confidential, closely held documents in federal law enforcement. They are forbidden to be disclosed or have their existence disclosed by banks or government authorities, are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and are privileged in most cases from discovery by civil litigants.&#8221;
Yahoo News noted that the results from Senate&#8217;s investigation come at a damaging time for Democrats as their presidential primaries are underway.
Yesterday, Johnson and Grassley <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-gop-senators-take-new-action-in-investigating-hunter-biden-after-impeachment-vote">sent</a> a letter to the Secret Service immediately following President Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate which requested information on Hunter Biden’s travel records while his father was vice president.
&#8220;We write to request information about whether Hunter Biden used government-sponsored travel to help conduct private business, to include his work for Rosemont Seneca and related entities in China and Ukraine,&#8221; the letter stated. &#8220;In December of 2013, one month after Rosemont Seneca’s joint venture with Bohai Capital to form BHR, Hunter Biden reportedly flew aboard Air Force Two with then-Vice President Biden to China. While in China, he helped arrange for Jonathan Li, CEO of Bohai Capital, to &#8216;shake hands&#8217; with Vice President Biden. Afterward, Hunter Biden met with Li for reportedly a &#8216;social meeting.&#8217; After the China trip, BHR’s business license was approved. Then, in 2015, BHR joined with Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) to acquire Henniges, which was the &#8216;biggest Chinese investment into US automotive manufacturing assets to date.'&#8221;
&#8220;In addition to business dealings in China, Hunter Biden also served as a board member for Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company,&#8221; the letter added. &#8220;In April 2014, around the time Hunter Biden joined Burisma, Vice President Biden reportedly became the &#8216;public face of the administration’s handling of Ukraine.&#8217; It is unclear whether Hunter Biden received government sponsored travel or a protective detail for these endeavors.&#8221;
The Senators instructed the Secret Service to turn over the following records within the next two weeks:
<ul>
<li>Please describe the protective detail that Hunter Biden received while his father was Vice President.</li>
<li>Please provide a list of all dates and locations of travel, international and domestic, for Hunter Biden while he received a protective detail. In your response, please note whether his travel was on Air Force One or Two, or other government aircraft, as applicable and whether additional family members were present for each trip.</li>
</ul>
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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A top Mitt Romney adviser in 2011, Joseph Cofer Black, joined Burisma’s board of directors while Hunter Biden was serving on Burisma’s board.
As Erielle Davidson of <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/26/top-romney-adviser-worked-with-hunter-biden-on-board-of-ukrainian-energy-company/">The Federalist</a> notes:
<blockquote>According to The New Yorker, Hunter joined Burisma’s board in April of 2014 and remained on it until he declined to renew his position this past May. Meanwhile, according to Burisma’s website, Black was appointed in February of 2017 and continues to serve on its board. The timelines would indicate that Black and Biden worked together at Burisma.</blockquote>
Additionally, as Davidson points out, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171107043544/https:/burisma-group.com/eng/">web archives</a> from late 2017 picture Black and Biden as directors on Burisma’s board.
Black’s resume includes serving as director of the National Counterterrorism Center.  George W. Bush later appointed him ambassador at large and coordinator for counterterrorism, then Black served as a “special adviser” on Romney’s Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team in October of 2011.
When it was announced that Black had joined Burisma’s board, he stated, according to <a href="https://ukranews.com/en/interview/1603-joseph-cofer-black-i-am-excited-to-join-burismas-board-of-directors-and-to-focus-on-strategic">Ukrainian News</a>:
<blockquote>I was impressed to learn that Burisma Group is the fastest-growing private gas producer in Central Europe. International projects where the Group is involved require a more thorough analysis and risk assessment, not only in terms of conventional risks &#8211; financial or political but also in terms of security. Additionally, in view of rapidly developing digital and information technologies, the Group needs to effectively deal with potential cyber-attacks and informational risks that may come about as a result of its work.  My role will be to advise the Group with respect to its security practices and protocols, including on the most effective protections and programs to guard against cyber-attacks. Unfortunately, today many international companies are subject to data and other cyber-attacks that result in exposing and manipulating information; in particular false information that brings harm to global companies. I also believe my international experience in numerous countries around the world will be of use in shaping the Group’s international expansion strategy.</blockquote>
Ukrainian News asked, “In Ukraine, there have been some rumors surrounding Burisma Group, due to the comments from certain politicians and activists. What can you say? How do you plan to deal with this?”
Black replied:
<blockquote>Ukraine remains the Burisma Group’s strategic market and is a key element of its business strategy. It is here in Ukraine where Burisma plans to deepen its investment bringing more jobs, increased economic strength and more revenue to the state. I believe Burisma’s economic expansion will help Ukraine’s economy and improve Ukraine’s energy security. I will do all that I can to work with leaders and decision-makers and those trying to influence them of the positive impact a privately held energy company like Burisma can have on Ukraine.
In the U.S., privately held energy companies play an important and positive role in economic development in key states like Louisiana, Texas, and North and South Dakota.  While elements of civil society may question the growth of some energy companies, I believe they should do so in a lawful manner and ensuring accusations are based on facts and evidence rather than rumor or innuendo.</blockquote>

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Two top Republican Senators sent a letter to the Secret Service immediately following President Donald Trump&#8217;s acquittal in the Senate on Wednesday requesting information on Hunter Biden&#8217;s travel records while his father Joe Biden was Vice President.
Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson said in the letter that they were &#8220;reviewing potential conflicts of interest posed by the business activities of Hunter Biden and his associates during the Obama administration, particularly with respect to his business activities in Ukraine and China.&#8221;
The Senators told the Secret Service that it had two weeks to provide the following information:
<ul>
<li>Please describe the protective detail that Hunter Biden received while his father was Vice President.</li>
<li>Please provide a list of all dates and locations of travel, international and domestic, for Hunter Biden while he received a protective detail. In your response, please note whether his travel was on Air Force One or Two, or other government aircraft, as applicable and whether additional family members were present for each trip.</li>
</ul>
&#8220;In addition to several letters that the committees have sent to other agencies as part of that inquiry, the Committee on Finance also has written to the Department of Treasury regarding potential conflicts of interest in the Obama-era CFIUS approved transaction which gave control of Henniges, an American maker of anti-vibration technologies with military applications, to a Chinese government-owned aviation company and China-based investment firm with established ties to the Chinese government,&#8221; the letter stated. &#8220;That transaction included Rosemont Seneca Partners, a company formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, Christopher Heinz, and others.&#8221;
The Senators said that they were specifically requesting information &#8220;about whether Hunter Biden used government-sponsored travel to help conduct private business, to include his work for Rosemont Seneca and related entities in China and Ukraine.&#8221;
Hunter Biden&#8217;s activities in Ukraine were at the center of House Democrats&#8217; articles of impeachments against Trump, which he was acquitted from on Wednesday, specifically, his work at Ukrainian gas company Burisma while his father was vice president.
&#8220;In addition to business dealings in China, Hunter Biden also served as a board member for Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;In April 2014, around the time Hunter Biden joined Burisma, Vice President Biden reportedly became the &#8216;public face of the administration&#8217;s handling of Ukraine.&#8217; It is unclear whether Hunter Biden received government sponsored travel or a protective detail for these endeavors.&#8221;
The letter came immediately following the Senate acquitting Trump from both of Democrats&#8217; partisan articles of impeachment on Tuesday.
“President Trump has been totally vindicated and it’s now time to get back to the business of the American people,” Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-republican-kevin-mccarthy-rips-up-articles-of-impeachment">said</a> in a statement. “The do-nothing Democrats know they can’t beat him, so they had to impeach him.”
“This terrible ordeal was always a campaign tactic to invalidate the 2016 votes of 63 million Americans and was a transparent effort to interfere with the 2020 election only nine months away,” Parscale continued. “And since the President’s campaign only got bigger and stronger as a result of this nonsense, this impeachment hoax will go down as the worst miscalculation in American political history.”
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GOP Senators Take New Action In Investigating Hunter Biden After Impeachment Vote

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Donald Trump Jr. slammed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, as well as the biased way that the media has treated the Trump family, during a Fox News interview on Monday morning.
&#8220;Well listen, obviously, there&#8217;s the part where you&#8217;re watching this stuff go down to your father. But, look at me, for example, I mean, I&#8217;ve done 30 hours of testimony regarding a 20-minute unsolicited meeting, right?&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Meanwhile, Hunter Biden is taking millions, is literally the start of the entire Ukraine hoax and they don&#8217;t even consider calling him. I mean, think about it, 30 hours in front of the House and Senate. I had senators on TV saying that this man committed treason, he must go to jail for life.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, this isn&#8217;t even hyperbole anymore. The impeachment hoax started the day my father won the election, OK? It started — the articles were written before — during the inauguration, they were typing them, right,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;The Washington Post made the case for impeachment literally 20 minutes after the inauguration. This is what the Democrats have been doing from moment one, OK? When they were pushing the Russia hoax, my father was renegotiating NAFTA and he got that done.&#8221;
Later in the interview, Trump slammed Joe Biden over his struggles on the campaign trail, saying that if he can&#8217;t handle small crowds, then he will get steam rolled by his father, President Donald Trump.
&#8220;I mean, I sort of want to have Donald Trump go up against Joe Biden one-on-one for five months,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I mean, I see Joe Biden in front of a teleprompter speaking to 20 people. He confuses which state he is in at least 50% of the time.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, this is not a one-time anomaly that they would destroy Trump for,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;This is a recurring theme that’s happening over and over again. So I mean, one-on-one with Trump, you can’t hide the same way. So I’d sort of love to go up against him.&#8221;
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>STEVE DOOCY, FOX NEWS HOST: Very unfair to his family. You know what? We&#8217;ve got a member of his family right here.
AINSLEY EARHARDT, FOX NEWS HOST: We do. Let&#8217;s bring in Donald Trump, Jr., Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization and the son of our president. Good morning to you.
DONALD TRUMP, JR., EXECUTIVE VP OF TRUMP ORGANIZATION: Good morning, guys, how are you?
EARHARDT: We&#8217;re good.
DOOCY: Good.
EARHARDT: So, can you elaborate on that? In what way did you &#8212; was your family affected?
TRUMP JR.: Well listen, obviously, there&#8217;s the part where you&#8217;re watching this stuff go down to your father. But, look at me for example, I mean, I&#8217;ve done 30 hours of testimony regarding a 20-minute unsolicited meeting, right?
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden is taking millions, is literally the start of the entire Ukraine hoax and they don&#8217;t even consider calling him. I mean, think about it, 30 hours in front of the House and Senate. I had senators on TV saying that, this man committed treason, he must go to jail for life.
I mean, this isn&#8217;t even hyperbole anymore. The impeachment hoax started the day my father won the election, OK? It started — the articles were written before — during the inauguration, they were typing them, right.
“The Washington Post&#8221; made the case for impeachment literally 20 minutes after the inauguration. This is what the Democrats have been doing from moment one, OK? When they were pushing the Russia hoax, my father was renegotiating NAFTA and he got that done.
When they&#8217;re signing the articles of impeachment, my father signs a historic trade deal with China. That&#8217;s the difference between the do-nothing Democrats and my father. He’s actually getting things done, but he’s getting things done despite their unprecedented incoming, despite their unprecedented obstruction.
BRIAN KILMEADE, FOX NEWS HOST: Right.
TRUMP JR.: They’re not doing anything for the American people, and he’s getting it done and he’s going through his checklist one-by-one.
DOOCY: Well, you know how it works. Because the Democrats — Nancy Pelosi didn’t want to do it, but she had her super progressive —
(CROSSTALK)
TRUMP JR.: Yes.
DOOCY: — left flank demanding an impeachment. She delivered on that, otherwise, you know, all sorts of members of her caucus would have been primaried by much more progressive people.
Now fast forward, she’s going to say he’s been impeached forever, but the reality is he’s going to be acquitted at four o’clock on Wednesday.
TRUMP JR.: Well, 100%, and that was it. You could see in the press conference — no, no, no, impeachment, it’s forever, it’s forever — because that’s all they got, guys. That’s literally all they got. That’s their little consolation prize because they needed that to do the things.
You know, you talk about Schiff earlier. I have no regrets. Oh really, you have no regrets? You were trying to call witnesses three days ago. What are you talking about? You blew it when you had it because you never had a case. You just had a media that was willing to accentuate your talking points, that was willing to do this as they’ve done with Adam Schiff for the last few years.
Again, I was a part of three or four of those major outrage cycles over the last three years where a CNN type, look, we got him this time because Donald Trump Jr. did this, because they got a leak from Schiff’s office as I was testifying, right?
These things were happening time and time again. There’s never a correction for the record. The intent is not to actually win. The intent is just try to manipulate the news cycle in hopes that the average American won’t do the research, in hopes that the average American won’t see through the lies. But honestly after three years of lies, you know, it’s a little bit of the boy who cried wolf with them at this point.
I’d like to see them start working with my father, get infrastructure done, lower healthcare costs, lower, you know, prescription drug pricing. All of these things that my father continues to try to work on despite their obstruction.
But I don’t think they’re capable of it, guys, because they’ve seen that Donald Trump, an outsider, can come in, can deliver, can go through the checklist of promises and deliver for the American people, and that scares these establishment-side people because they’ve never done that. They’ve had decades to do that.
That’s Joe Biden’s whole career talking about I’ve been doing this for 50 years. And what have you done? The average American can’t name a single accomplishment, but they can go through Trump’s checklist very easily.
KILMEADE: So it’s going — finally it’s going to be official. We’re going to get a result instead of speculation about reelection. 2020 begins officially today, Iowa caucus.
TRUMP JR.: Correct.
KILMEADE: The president speaking to Sean Hannity last night on the Democrats. Watch.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS HOST: I’m just going to throw out a name. Whatever comes to your mind.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: OK.
HANNITY: We’ll start with Joe Biden.
TRUMP: I just think of sleepy.
HANNITY: Hunter Biden.
TRUMP: Where’s Hunter?
HANNITY: Bernie Sanders.
TRUMP: Well, I think he’s a communist. You mentioned now Elizabeth Warren. She’s not true to it. I call her fairytale because everything’s a fairytale. That’s how Pocahontas got started. Everything’s a fairytale. This woman can’t tell the truth.
HANNITY: Michael Bloomberg.
TRUMP: Very little. I just think of little.
HANNITY: Hillary.
TRUMP: I think of email.
HANNITY: Pelosi.
TRUMP: I think she’s a very confused, very nervous woman. It’s — her worst nightmare has happened. I don’t think she’s going to be there too long either.
I think the radical left is going to take over.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KILMEADE: Well, the Pelosi aside, the others, let’s just look at the field. The word is that the &#8212; that the Trump team wants Bernie Sanders. Is that true?
TRUMP JR.: You know, honestly, guys, I don’t know that it matters. I can think of plusses or minuses —
(CROSSTALK)
KILMEADE: But he’s so different.
TRUMP JR.: — for all of them. I mean, you know, I think — I — look — I kind of want to run against a communist in Bernie, but he’s also got a very, you know, motivated base. He’s got people that are showing up —
(CROSSTALK)
DOOCY: Very.
TRUMP JR.: — for his rallies, right? There’s a viral effect sort of like what Trump had when they said we couldn’t win, so I don’t base things on that.
I mean, I sort of want to have Donald Trump go up against Joe Biden one-on-one for five months. I mean, I see Joe Biden in front of a teleprompter speaking to 20 people. He confuses which state he is in at least 50% of the time.
You know, this is not a one-time anomaly that they would destroy Trump for. This is a recurring theme that’s happening over and over again. So I mean, one-on-one with Trump, you can’t hide the same way. So I’d sort of love to go up against him.
DOOCY: Sure.
TRUMP JR.: You know and &#8212; you know, Elizabeth Warren, he’s right. I mean, her entire career, her entire life is based on a lie, whether that was school, tenure, law, you know, the universities where she’s making half a million dollars to teach a class, I mean, all based on a lie. I mean, I’d sort of like to run against that, and I’d say most of the rest of them are probably irrelevant.
DOOCY: Well, you were right about Bernie’s crowd, because they are very motivated. And again, he had the biggest crowd this weekend. They had Vampire Weekend performing and there was beer, which always brings out a crowd.
Donald Trump, Jr., we thank you very much for joining us live from West Palm Beach.
EARHARDT: Thank you.
TRUMP JR.: Thank you, guys. See you in Iowa.
DOOCY: You bet.</blockquote>

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Donald Trump Jr. slammed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, as well as the biased way that the media has treated the

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During an interview Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden lost it on &#8220;Today&#8221; co-host Savannah Guthrie for asking about his son Hunter Biden&#8217;s controversial high-paying position at Burisma, a large Ukrainian natural gas firm, during Biden&#8217;s tenure as Vice President.
Mr. Biden, who&#8217;s been dogged by questions surrounding Hunter, reacted as he&#8217;s typically reacted to such inquiries: with palpable anger.
&#8220;You don&#8217;t know what your&#8217;e talking about!&#8221; the former VP shouted at Guthrie, when the co-host suggested Hunter&#8217;s position was improper, and only a way for the company to gain access to the Obama administration.
Here&#8217;s the exchange:
<blockquote>Guthrie: Has it occurred to you that there&#8217;s a certain irony here that, here the president is accused of, and has acknowledged, wanting to get information about your son Hunter and his dealings with Ukraine? And this process of impeachment has ensured that everyone knows about Hunter&#8217;s dealings with Ukraine.
Biden: Thats a good thing! And no one has found anything wrong with his dealing with Ukraine, expect that they say that it set a &#8220;bad image.&#8221;
Guthrie: Would you agree that it sets a bad image?
Biden: Yeah, and my son said that!
Guthrie: Do you think it was wrong for him to take that position, knowing that it was really because that company wanted access to you.
Biden: Well, that&#8217;s not true. You&#8217;re saying things that you do not know what you&#8217;re talking about! No one said that! Who said that?
Guthrie: Well &#8212;
Biden: Who said that?
Guthrie: Don&#8217;t you think that it&#8217;s just one of those things where people think, Well, that&#8217;s kind of sleazy. Why would he (Hunter) have that job if not for who his father is?
Biden: Because he&#8217;s a very bright guy.
Guthrie: Well, I guess the question I&#8217;m kind of asking is, was it right?
Biden: Well, he said he (Hunter) regretted having done it. Speaks for himself. He&#8217;s a grown man. </blockquote>
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-caught-making-new-apparent-false-claim-about-sons-ukraine-work-at-burisma">The Daily Wire</a> in December, Biden was pressed by NPR about Hunter&#8217;s position on the board of Burisma, too.
&#8220;You know it didn’t look good for Hunter Biden to be on that board, even if he did nothing wrong,&#8221; NPR&#8217;s “Morning Edition&#8221; host Rachel Martin said to the former VP. &#8220;The optics weren’t good. And you talk a lot about what it means to be a Biden and the integrity that is imbued in that family name. But there were former White House aides of yours who tried to warn you about the potential conflicts of interest.&#8221;
Biden claimed he was never warned about a &#8220;potential conflict of interest.&#8221;
Martin challenged Biden, noting, &#8220;George Kent, the State Department official, testified that he raised&#8221; the issue to the then-VP&#8217;s staff.
&#8220;I never, never heard that once at all,&#8221; Biden claimed. &#8220;Well, my son was dying, so I guess that’s why he said it, because my son was on his deathbed. But that, that’s not the reason why – they should have told me.&#8221;
&#8220;And the fact of the matter is, my son testified and did an interview saying if he, looking back on it, made a mistake, he made a mistake although he did nothing wrong,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The appearance looked bad and it gave folks like Rudy Giuliani an excuse to come up with a Trumpian kind of defense, why they were violating the Constitution. His, his words speak for themselves.&#8221;
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During an interview Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden lost it on &quot;Today&quot; co-host Savannah Guthrie for asking about his son Hunter

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On Sunday, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Jake Tapper.
At the beginning of the segment, Tapper played two clips.
The first clip featured Ernst saying, “Iowa caucuses are this next Monday evening, and I&#8217;m really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the Iowa caucus voters. Those Democratic caucus-goers, will they be supporting Vice President Biden at this point?”
The second clip featured former Vice President Joe Biden claiming that Ernst gave away the game: “She spilled the beans. She just came out and flat said it. You know, the whole impeachment trial, for Trump, is just a political hit job to try to smear me because he is scared to death to run against me. And he has good reason to be concerned.”
Tapper asked Ernst if she is “focused on Biden because” she believes he is the “greatest threat to Trump.”
Ernst replied:
<blockquote>No, I think that in that conversation we were having with reporters the other day, it was quite evident the House managers brought up Vice President Biden and his son, Hunter, and Burisma over 400 times in their opening argument.</blockquote>
When the senator repeated the alleged number of times the Democrats brought up the Bidens and Burisma, Tapper pressed her: “The Democrats did that?”
“The Democrats did that,” Ernst stated.
<blockquote>And then the president&#8217;s White House counsel spent a number of hours laying out the situation with Burisma. So, I was just pointing out that Iowa has very smart voters, very educated caucus-goers, and if they&#8217;re paying attention to all the dynamics with the candidates, that might be something that they would take into consideration.</blockquote>
Tapper then asked Ernst if she thinks that by “linking” the Ukraine issue with the election, she is “undermining” Republican defenses of President Trump and Ukraine.
Ernst said she doesn’t think that she’s undermining it “at all.”
<blockquote>I think that, again, what we have seen is the Democrats presenting their case. And I think it just really did show that there was something of concern with Burisma. And so I think that the Democrats can follow that. They’ll make that decision as they go to the caucuses tonight.</blockquote>
As the segment continued, Ernst again pondered how the president’s focus on Ukraine corruption would impact caucus participants on Monday.
Taper pressed Ernst, putting forward the possibility that she is undermining “the argument that this wasn&#8217;t about electoral politics.” He then asked her if her prior comments suggest that she believes “this will have an effect” on voting.
“I think this does,” Ernst responded. “Whether that was the intention or not, now everything is tied together.”
The senator concluded:
<blockquote>So, the information about the Bidens is out there. And so now it is up to the American people to decide, you know, was that a good choice for Hunter Biden to be on that board, especially at a time when his father was trying to ferret out corruption in Ukraine, having his son working for the most corrupt oligarch in Ukraine?</blockquote>
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WATCH: Joni Ernst Wonders How The Biden/Burisma Issue Will Impact Iowa Voters

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On Sunday, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Jake Tapper. At the beginning of the segment, Tapper played two clips.

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On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe,” Democrat West Virginia senator Joe Manchin broke with the rest of his party, which has been stonewalling the possibility of the Senate calling Hunter Biden as a witness in the impeachment trial of President Trump. Asked by host Willie Geist if Hunter Biden was a “relevant witness,” Manchin answered “I think so. I really do. I don’t have a problem there because this is why we are where we are.” He continued, “Now I think he can clear himself, what I know and what I’ve heard, but being afraid to put anybody that might have pertinent information is wrong, no matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, and not go home and say &#8216;Well, I protected one who was afraid—&#8217; No. If it’s relevant, then it should be there,” as <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/480447-manchin-says-hunter-biden-is-a-relevant-witness-in-impeachment-trial">The Hill</a> reported.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/WillieGeist?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WillieGeist</a> asks <a href="https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sen_JoeManchin</a> if Hunter Biden is a &#39;relevant witness.&#39; Sen. Manchin responds: &quot;I think so; I really do.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ZESiUMWTWc">pic.twitter.com/ZESiUMWTWc</a>
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When Kasie Hunt followed by asking him if he would call Hunter Biden as a witness, Manchin reportedly answered, “If the judge or whoever rules that it is pertinent, absolutely.”
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Follow up Q from <a href="https://twitter.com/kasie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kasie</a>: would you vote to call Hunter in as witness: &quot;If the judge or whoever rules that it is pertinent, absolutely.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Morning_Joe</a>
&mdash; Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1222514693157408769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Washington Post reporter Robert Costa contacted Manchin to ask if he stood by his comments; Coast reported that Manchin said he did, but when Costa asked if Manchin would consider calling former Vice President Joe Biden as a witness, Manchin replied he was against the idea, calling it a “bridge too far.”
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Just spoke with Sen. Manchin. He stood by his comments on <a href="https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Morning_Joe</a> about supporting possibly calling Hunter Biden. Asked him if he’d be open to calling VP Biden. He said no, called that a “bridge too far.”
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As The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/479393-democrats-shoot-down-talk-of-bolton-hunter-biden-witness-swap">reported last week</a>, Democrats have been adamantly opposed to calling Hunter Biden as a witness:
<blockquote>Senate Democrats are dismissing chatter about attempts at an agreement that would guarantee former national security adviser John Bolton testifies in President Trump’s impeachment trial in exchange for former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden also testifying … Charles Schumer (D-NY) asked about a potential swap, argued that &#8220;witnesses should have something to do with and direct knowledge of the charges against the president. You know, we don’t need to have witnesses that have nothing to do with this that are trying to distract Americans from the truth,&#8221; Schumer said.</blockquote>
Schumer was asked again about the possibility of calling Hunter Biden; he answered, &#8220;That&#8217;s off the table.&#8221;  Lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff echoed that Hunter Biden was &#8220;irrelevant and immaterial,” adding, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t like some fantasy football trade. &#8230; This isn&#8217;t we&#8217;ll offer you this, if you give us that.”
Democratic Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen chimed in, calling a Bolton for Hunter Biden swap a &#8220;total sideshow … Focusing on Hunter Biden just furthers the entire scheme &#8230; Trump put forward.”
Democratic Delaware senator Chris Coons told CNN&#8217;s &#8220;New Day&#8221; that such a deal &#8220;would mean trading a relevant witness who should be testifying for a witness who has nothing to do with the charges against the president. There was some mistake in reporting in another news outlet that suggested somehow, I was part of a group that was trying to cut some deal &#8230; I&#8217;m not involved in a conversation like that,&#8221; adding later on Twitter, that witnesses &#8220;have to be relevant to the case … It isn’t complicated. The President is on trial here, not anyone with the last name Biden. VP Biden and Hunter Biden are not relevant witnesses.”

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BREAKING: Dem Senator Breaks With Party: Says He’d Consider Calling Hunter Biden

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On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe,” Democrat West Virginia senator Joe Manchin broke with the rest of his party, which has been stonewalling the possibility of

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Earlier this week, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer joined &#8220;The Chad Prather Show&#8221; on BlazeTV for a wide-ranging (and oftentimes humorous) discussion with the eponymous host and Blaze Media resident cowboy, Chad Prather. The conversation ran the gamut of topics, covering such diverse terrain as impeachment, recent rumors and revelations pertaining to former National Security Advisor John Bolton, the debate over transgender pronouns, and &#8230; Chad&#8217;s traveling crew getting kicked out of a bar in Bakersfield, California.
The conversation kicked off around impeachment, with Prather asking Hammer why Republicans seem so opposed to calling witnesses in the current Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Hammer said he wasn&#8217;t sure why Republicans are so opposed — a skepticism that the podcast host shared:
<blockquote>I don&#8217;t really understand why Republicans and the president are so opposed to witnesses. I mean, look, in theory, here&#8217;s how this is supposed to work. Okay, the House and Senate are supposed to &#8230; actually do what they&#8217;re &#8230; supposed to do and write bills and pass laws and all that stuff that the Constitution talks about.
It ain&#8217;t gonna happen this year because it&#8217;s very simple: The Democrats control the House, Republicans control the Senate, [and] it&#8217;s also an election year, everyone&#8217;s risk-averse, no one&#8217;s trying to stick his or her neck out, put their foot on the line. So in that context, I don&#8217;t really understand this Republican resistance to calling witnesses. Drag this thing out. How is Hunter Biden getting up there not going to help with the president and Republicans come November? I don&#8217;t see it.</blockquote>
The conversation quickly shifted to the news surrounding Bolton, with Hammer offering his take on what we know so far:
<blockquote>So the worst part is &#8230; The New York Times got a copy of his book before anyone in the administration did. You know, I&#8217;m not gonna say John Bolton had anything to do with that, but it&#8217;s pretty unforeseeable that John Bolton had nothing to do with that. That&#8217;s just not a good look.
And like you, I&#8217;m a longtime defender of John Bolton&#8217;s. &#8230; He&#8217;s a lifelong conservative, he really is. I mean, he went to Yale for both undergrad and law school. At Yale undergrad, he was a member of what the nerds of Yale call the Yale Political Union&#8217;s Party of the Right, which in their kind of nerdy political club is the most right-wing party possible. So he&#8217;s a lifelong Barry Goldwater-, Ronald Reagan-like conservative, so it&#8217;s a little weird to see what&#8217;s happening now.</blockquote>
Later in the conversation, the topic shifted to transgender pronouns in the federal courts — a topic that Hammer, a former judicial law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, wrote about earlier this week for <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/transgender-pronouns-fifth-circuit-rejects-them-and-lie-they-stand-on/">National Review</a>. Hammer explained the three reasons why he thinks conservatives must not cave on this issue:
<blockquote>There are &#8230; three reasons why I think we really should care. One is the truth, inherently, is worth defending. Truth should be defended for the sake of truth. I mean, that&#8217;s kind of historically speaking, the entire purpose of debate in the academy, going back to Socrates, Aristotle, going back to all the ancients. They literally engaged in this Socratic dialogue in order to reach the truth. So if we feel like we have the truth, then it&#8217;s worth defending for its own sake.
Second, language cannot change this much, and this drastically, and remain viable. Now, some words can change meaning over time, of course. And plenty of words do change meaning over time. Like, for example, &#8220;decimate&#8221; — the word &#8220;decimate&#8221; — back in the day, the letters &#8220;dec&#8221; mean 10, so it was literally to take out one out of ten of the opposing military. Today, it just means more generally to kind of wipe out. So words can change their meaning, but words as basic as pronouns, the building blocks of distinguishing, as you quite aptly put it, between male and female genitalia — that cannot change. Words like that just cannot change for the English language to be viable.
Third, and probably the most important reason &#8230; is because there are actually really bad side effects to the transgender movement. We saw it here in Texas with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-father-of-7-year-old-trans-child-james-younger-speaks-out-before-gag-order/">James Younger</a>. We are encouraging the premature, preteen sexualization of children. We are encouraging children to choose their own gender and engaging in oftentimes-irreversible hormonal tampering — chemical castration, frankly, is really what&#8217;s going on here. There are really corrosive, actual real-life effects of this.</blockquote>
The whole lengthy conversation is available on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj804eZqF_M">YouTube</a>.
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WATCH: Hammer Breaks Down Impeachment, Bolton, Transgenderism On ‘The Chad Prather Show’

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Earlier this week, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer joined &quot;The Chad Prather Show&quot; on BlazeTV for a wide-ranging (and oftentimes humorous)

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On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), runner-up for the 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination and a widely respected national conservative movement leader, remained defiant amidst the much-ballyhooed Sunday evening New York Times report about former National Security Advisor John Bolton&#8217;s allegedly explosive forthcoming tell-all book — and the possible effects of that book on Democrats&#8217; current partisan impeachment inquiry.
&#8220;Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Monday that &#8216;additional witnesses are not necessary&#8217; for the ongoing impeachment trial — even in light of revelations from President Trump&#8217;s former national security advisor John Bolton in a leaked manuscript of an upcoming book that claims Trump explicitly linked a hold on military aid for Ukraine to an investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden — and instead insisted that the Senate call Hunter Biden to testify,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ted-cruz-bidens-trump-senate-impeachment-trial">reported</a>.
&#8220;Look in my view, additional witnesses are not necessary,&#8221; Cruz said, according to the outlet. &#8220;The House managers have presented their case. They haven&#8217;t come remotely close to meeting their burden of proof. Now that being said, if the Senate later this week when we vote, decides to go down that road to additional witnesses, I think at a minimum, the most important witness for the Senate to hear from, is now Hunter Biden. &#8230; In the entire proceeding, we have heard just the beginning of the serious evidence of corruption involving Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company that paid Hunter Biden, Joe Biden&#8217;s son, a million dollars a year.&#8221;
&#8220;I get that the press loves to obsess over the latest [Bolton] bombshell,&#8221; Cruz continued, as reported by Fox News. &#8220;Listen, I don&#8217;t know what John Bolton&#8217;s book says or doesn&#8217;t say. I&#8217;ve seen the New York Times coverage but at the end of the day, it doesn&#8217;t impact the legal issue before this Senate. The legal issue before this Senate is whether a president has the authority to investigate corruption. So the House managers built their entire case on the proposition that investigating Burisma corruption, investigating the Bidens for corruption, was baseless and a sham. The proposition is absurd.&#8221;
Today, on the U.S. Senate floor, prominent Trump impeachment defense attorney Jay Sekulow similarly argued that any testimony from Bolton should properly be considered &#8220;inadmissible.&#8221;
“You can’t impeach the president on an unsourced allegation,” Sekulow <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-dismissed-bolton-allegations-its-inadmissible">said</a>, as reported by National Review. &#8220;That was what was said in response to an unpublished manuscript, that maybe some reporters have an idea of, maybe, what it says. If you want to call that evidence, I don’t know what you’d call that. I’d call it inadmissible. But that’s what it is.”
Yesterday, The Daily Wire&#8217;s Paul Bois <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-boltons-former-chief-of-staff-slams-him-withdraw-your-book-sets-a-dangerous-precedent">reported</a> how Bolton&#8217;s former chief of staff, Fred Fleitz, took to Fox  News to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ambassador-bolton-withdraw-your-book-fred-fleitz">slam his former boss</a> over the timing and alleged leaking of his new book.
“Presidents must be able to candidly consult with their advisers without worrying they will leak these discussions to the press or obtain high-dollar book contracts to publish them,” Fleitz wrote. “A book by a former national security advisor ahead of a president’s reelection bid may set a dangerous precedent since it could discourage future presidents from seeking advice from expert advisers on sensitive national security matters.”

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Ted Cruz: ‘Additional Witnesses’ In Senate Still ‘Not Necessary’

On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), runner-up for the 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination and a widely respected national conservative movement

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