The Casual Lies of GOP Impeachment Inquiry Leader Comer

Comer's committee will help take the lead on the probe, prompting Newsmax host Rob Finnerty to ask for an update on what is likely to come next.

"Well, we're headed to court more than likely," Comer replied. "We've requested bank records from Hunter Biden and [the president's brother] Jim Biden early on, and obviously we never got a response back. We will re-request those this week."

A few hours later, Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden's attorney, sent a letter to Comer challenging that claim. According to Lowell, Comer wrote to Hunter Biden in early February seeking information. Lowell replied the following day, offering, in Lowell's telling, "to sit with you and your staff, including the ranking member and his staff, to see whether Mr. Biden has information that may inform some legitimate legislative purpose and be helpful to the Committee."

"You never responded to that offer," Lowell continued.

On Newsmax, Comer predicted that the issue would end up in court. Then he continued:

"We've already made the case that his family's taking in over $20 million from some bad people in some bad countries that are adversarial to the United States," he said. "And we don't know why. Joe Biden never has come out and said exactly what his family did to earn one penny of that $21 million."

(But two-thirds of that money actually went to Hunter Biden's business associates, not Hunter or other Biden family members, according to documents collected by Comer's committee.)

There is nothing but bad faith going on in this alleged "inquiry" but obviously the truth has never been the point. The only point of the inquiry is to continue to grab headlines with incendiary accusations untethered to any actual malfeasance, spoon fed to an already stoked base of haters willing to believe any conjecture their exposed to. And Comer had the nerve to vote for Adam Schiff's censure for telling the inconvenient truth the Republicans continue to deny regarding their homemade insurrection on 1/6.

Then ultimately, the shameless GOP will follow Der Leader's demand to hold an impeachment vote on Joe Biden to take focus away on Trump's actual criminal charges likely to exceed 100 counts in the very near future. This cake has already been baked and placed into the oven.

Host: "What do you take from his text message to his adult daughter (from Hunter) that he has to give 50% of his income to Pop?"

Where is the money? The IRS has investigated Hunter since 2018 and they haven't found that he passed a dime to his father, you realize that don't you?

Emails are not evidence of criminality. Allegations are not evidence of criminality. MONEY is evidence of bribery, not conjecture.

SHOW US THE MONEY or SFTU!

Do you read your own garbage? Nowhere within the story is anything salacious whatsoever. I posted that in 2009 Joe's net worth was less than $30,000 according to Forbes, so the fact that Hunter may have been helping his own family with expenses doesn't mean that the arrangement was anything other than a family issue.

Do you have anything tying this to Joe providing Hunter with government-provided benefits or policy that it otherwise wouldn't have?

Good gawd, you've discovered that Joe Biden was never a rich man until after he left the White House in 2016, bravo. But there's nothing salacious there. Barack Obama offered to loan Joe money while Beau was battling brain cancer after 2012 so he wouldn't have to get another loan on his house.

You cretins are pathetic.

We have Joe with $11M in income when the only explanation could be a book advance - problem is Joe only sold 300,000 copies. This is money laundering 101 - Sleepy Joe is just too stupid to do it and not get caught. He should have asked Hillary for tips.

This only confirms you're an intentionally ignorant moron. Why not actually tell the truth?

Here's How Much Joe Biden Is Worth

President Biden is worth an estimated $10 million, up from $8 million when he took office. The increase has nothing to do with family business dealings in far-flung countries. Instead, he is getting richer by doing what a lot of 80-year-old Americans are doing: sitting on real estate. The president owns two homes in Delaware that are worth an estimated $7 million combined, $1.8 million more than they were when he took office.

Cash came pouring in after Biden left the White House. The former vice president earned $11.1 million in 2017, $4.6 million in 2018, $1 million in 2019 and $630,000 in 2020, the year he was elected commander in chief. Between his time as vice president and president, his net worth shot up from an estimated $2.5 million to $8 million.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________

How Joe Biden Went from Middle-Class Joe to a Millionaire

Take a look at the president's financial documents.

As recently as November 2009, Joe Biden's net worth was less than $30,000, according to CBS, but life post-vice presidency has been quite lucrative for President Obama's former number two. When Biden released his financial disclosures in July of 2019, they showed that he and his wife Jill had earned more than $15 million in 2017 and 2018.

More specifically, the Bidens reported an adjusted gross income of roughly $11 million in 2017 and $4.6 million in 2018. The bulk of that number comes from a multi-book deal with Flatiron Books valued at $8 million per Publishers Weekly, but the Bidens also earned a sizable income from speaking engagements.

The AP reports that Biden's basic speaking fee was $100,000, but it ranged from $40,000 to $190,000. The New York Times also notes that Biden made additional unpaid speaking engagements during this time which are not listed on the disclosure, citing his campaign.

Additionally, the disclosures reveal that the former VP earned $540,000 as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Biden Center.

There are financial records for every penny Joe Biden made.

And yet again you're an ignorant rube. The $8 million wasn't for ONE book, it was for THREE.

Flatiron Books president and publisher Bob Miller has announced the acquisition of two non-fiction works by former Vice President Joe Biden, as well as a third book to be co-written with Dr. Jill Biden, his wife.

Sources say the deal is valued at $8 million; Flatiron and its parent company, Macmillan, would not comment. The Bidens were represented by CAA in the world rights deal, Flatiron Books' editorial director Colin Dickerman is set to edit.

This is why it's so important for the Biden attorneys to make the case Shokin was a bad dude, and Biden didn't lie when he stated he decided to withold the money from Ukraine until fired. That it was a US government position and decision, he didn't make on his own.

So the man who replaced Shokin is a liar just like you?

"There was no pressure from anyone from the United States" to close the case against Zlochevskiy, Vitaliy Kasko, who was a deputy prosecutor-general under Shokin and is now first deputy prosecutor-general, told Bloomberg News in May. "It was shelved by Ukrainian prosecutors in 2014 and through 2015," he added.

Activists say the case had been sabotaged by Shokin himself. As an example, they say two months before Hunter Biden joined Burisma's board, British authorities had requested information from Shokin's office as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering by Zlochevskiy. Shokin ignored them.

www.rferl.org

You are a moron's idea of a moron.

Further...

Kaleniuk and AntAC published a detailed timeline of events surrounding the Burisma case, an outline of evidence suggesting that three consecutive chief prosecutors of Ukraine -- first Shokin's predecessor, then Shokin, and then his successor -- worked to bury it.

"Ironically, Joe Biden asked Shokin to leave because the prosecutor failed [to pursue] the Burisma investigation, not because Shokin was tough and active with this case," Kaleniuk said.

Ukrainian prosecutors have described no evidence indicating that Biden sought to help his son by getting Shokin dismissed -- and have suggested that they have not discovered any such evidence.

www.rferl.org

#20

They're hypocritical morons Danforth. We can leave it at that.

but there are government memos (US and EU) that say anti-corruption was improving.

First, anyone linking to a John Solomon article is saying they don't want to be taken seriously.

Second, who knows more about how Ukraine's anti-corruption unit treated Burisma's owner, the US and EU bureaucrats or the Ukraine first deputy prosecutor-general?

"There was no pressure from anyone from the United States" to close the case against Zlochevskiy, Vitaliy Kasko, who was a deputy prosecutor-general under Shokin and is now first deputy prosecutor-general, told Bloomberg News in May. "It was shelved by Ukrainian prosecutors in 2014 and through 2015," he added.

Keep doubling down on your own idiocy. It's your superpower.

I despise posters preying upon the ignorance of readers who may not know the truth behind debunked information presented as credible evidence.

The Hill finds John Solomon failed' to identify key details of sources

John Solomon, the former opinion writer at The Hill whose columns were seen as a central part of a smear campaign against former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, failed to identify "important details" about his sources - including that they were under investigation or indictment and were even his attorneys, according to a review of his work by his former colleagues.

In its review of 14 columns, The Hill's news team said serious doubts about the credibility of Solomon's Ukrainian sources were evident even before his interviews with them. Those include, most notably, two former Ukrainian prosecutors - Yuriy Lutsenko and Victor Shokin - who were the principal sources behind unsupported allegations of corruption by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Solomon's columns were routinely amplified by Trump and featured on Fox News' prime-time opinion shows. They also formed a significant part of the rebuttal to the House's impeachment charges by Trump's allies in Congress and his legal team.

www.politico.com

Again the aide was passed, without strings it's not Biden's prerogative to add stings.

Again, you are a moron.

Republican senators echoed Biden in urging Ukrainian president to reform prosecutor general's office

A newly unearthed letter from 2016 shows that Republican senators pushed for reforms to Ukraine's prosecutor general's office and judiciary, echoing calls then-Vice President Joe Biden made at the time.

CNN's KFile found a February 2016 bipartisan letter signed by several Republican senators that urged then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to "press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General's office and judiciary."

The letter shows that addressing corruption in Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office had bipartisan support in the US and further undercuts a baseless attack made by President Donald Trump and his allies that Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire then Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin to stop investigations into a Ukrainian natural gas company that his son, Hunter Biden, sat on the board of. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden, nor is it clear whether Hunter was under investigation at all.

Aren't you embarrassed yet being shown to be such an ignorant fool over and over again?

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and a bipartisan group of senators - including Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown - sent a letter in February 2016 to then-Ukrainian President Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko urging a crackdown on corruption. They expressed dismay at the resignation of Aivaras Abromaviius, minister of economy, because of corruption that surrounded his position.

"He was known to many of us as a respected reformer and supporter of the Ukrainian cause. Minister Abromavicius's allegations raise concerns about the enormous challenges that remain in your efforts to reform the corrupt system you inherited," the senators wrote.

"Succeeding in these reforms will show Russian President Vladimir Putin that an independent, transparent and democratic Ukraine can and will succeed," the letter reads. "It also offers a stark alternative to the authoritarianism and oligarchic cronyism prevalent in Russia. As such, we respectfully ask that you address the serious concerns raised by Minister Abromaviius. We similarly urge you to press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General's Office and judiciary."

That prosecutor general whose office needed reforms was Viktor Shokin.

Two months before the senators' letter, Biden threatened to withhold a "billion-dollar loan guarantee" unless Poroshenko made a "commitment" to "take action against the state prosecutor."

Several others at the time also were calling to get rid of Shokin because he refused to probe corruption.

Portman press secretary Emmalee Kalmbach said: "Rob has long pushed for reforms in Ukraine to root out corruption, strengthen its democracy and increase ties to the United States, and this letter is one such example. He remains committed to ensuring America stands with the Ukrainian people in their struggle to reform and secure a democratic, prosperous, and independent future.

www.dispatch.com

Are you tired of having your ass handed to you again and again?