Republicans Have So Little Hunter Biden Evidence They Shared His Nudes Instead
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Republicans Have So Little Hunter Biden Evidence They Shared His Nudes Instead
Marjorie Taylor Greene waved the photos around in a congressional hearing.
By Tori Otten
Republicans have yet to produce any evidence of actual wrongdoing by Hunter Biden, so they let Marjorie Taylor Greene wave his nude photos around Wednesday during a House Oversight Committee hearing on his taxes.
House Republicans have for months accused the Bidens of corruption and other forms of wrongdoing, although they have yet to produce any actual evidence. They’ve recently seized on Hunter Biden’s plea deal on his taxes, which will allow him to avoid jail time. But again, during that House hearing, Republicans and their “whistleblower” witnesses failed to show any meaningful evidence of said corruption.
So instead, Greene tried to claim that Biden engaged in sex trafficking and listed payments to sex workers as a tax writeoff. As part of her argument, she held up poster-size prints of Biden’s nude photos, which were taken off his laptop.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is currently displaying nude images of Hunter Biden during a congressional hearing pic.twitter.com/6VSht6oP36
— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) July 19, 2023
Everyone else in the room grew visibly uncomfortable as Greene displayed photo after photo. At one point, Democrats interjected, pointing out that Greene had gone over her allotted time and warning that her actions were not appropriate. But House Oversight Chair James Comer , who has spearheaded the investigation into the Bidens, did not reprimand Greene.
Not only was Greene’s decision to wave Biden’s nudes around wildly inappropriate for a congressional hearing, but it may also have violated D.C. revenge porn law . City law prohibits knowingly disclosing one or more sexual images of an identified or identifiable person when the person in the photo did not consent to the image being shared.
This isn’t the first time Republicans have shared Hunter’s nudes, but blowing them up on a poster for a congressional hearing is a new low.
Oversight Ranking Member Jamie Raskin tore into Republicans at the beginning of the hearing, noting that the majority party had no evidence. Earlier in the day, he warned that the two witnesses had already “undermined this Republican narrative” in their own previous depositions.
Representative Jamie Raskin came out swinging Wednesday at the start of the House Oversight Committee’s hearing with two IRS agents on supposed corruption in the Biden family.
House Republicans, led by Oversight Chair James Comer, have for months accused the Bidens of corruption and other forms of wrongdoing, although they have yet to produce any actual evidence. They’ve recently seized on Hunter Biden’s plea deal over his taxes, which will allow him to avoid jail time. IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler testified before the Oversight Committee about Hunter Biden’s alleged wrongdoing.
Raskin, the committee’s ranking member, tore into both Republicans and their star informants during his opening remarks. “ I thought we might be here today on the matter that the chairman declared his top priority—the crusade to find evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden—but now, the majority’s long-promised star witness turns out to be a fugitive from American justice,” he said .
Raskin was referring to Gal Luft , whom Comer has touted as a key informant. Luft was charged last week with acting as a foreign agent for China, violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, and arms trafficking.
“One thing you will not hear today is any evidence of wrongdoing by President Joe Biden or his administration,” Raskin continued . “Like every other try by our colleagues to concoct a scandal about President Biden, this one is a complete and total bust.”
“In fact, the ongoing case that the majority invites us to interfere with today is actually a striking illustration of the success of the American system of independent prosecutors operating under the rule of law and outside the realm of the kind of political influence my colleagues are trying to exercise today.”
Here's Jamie Raskin debunking the GOP's Hunter Biden conspiracy theories in sweeping fashion in under 2 minutes pic.twitter.com/P0in0yXdCY
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 19, 2023
He reminded Republicans that the investigating federal prosecutor, David Weiss, was appointed by Donald Trump and hand-picked to lead the investigation by then–Attorney General Bill Barr (also a Trump appointee). Raskin also pointed out that once Joe Biden took office, he did not call the investigation a “witch hunt”—a clear jab at Trump—but instead let the probe play out.
Raskin warned earlier Wednesday that Shapley and Ziegler had already “undermined this Republican narrative” in previous depositions.
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I wonder how many Republicans will castigate Marge for stealing thunder from their hearing. Her antics will be all anyone will remember from this thing today.
Democrats have so little morals and integrity that they aren't even bothering to argue in defense of Hunter Biden; or even Brandon.
They are arguing over Republicans using "two tier justice system". As if somehow Democrats and African Americans made the definition- and anyone that uses it when not talking about how the legal system treats minorities is committing a hate crime.
Can't address the issue at hand- that Hunter received preferential treatment due to being the President's son. That normal investigation standards were not applied. Investigators were prohibited from interviewing Hunter; his family; or his children.
Since the author didn't bother to listen to the whistleblowers testimony- any more than the Democrats, their media sycophants, and lemmings followers. Hunter misfiled his refiling 2018 tax returns. Declaring parties; hotels; his oldest daughter college tuition; and prostitutes as deductions. He also didn't pay proper taxes in 2014 and 2015; and the DOJ allowed the statues of limitations to run out on them. Those are federal crimes- he should be seeing prison time. He also gets to skate free on gun charges- which other prominent Democrat minorities have been charged and sent to prison. Instead he gets probation- his gun charge expunged- and all he has to do is stay clean. The judge should insist on Hunter taking a drug test before agreeing to the deal. Want to lay bets he fails miserably?
As for Brandon's illegal pay for play. After seven years and counting of endless investigations into all things Trump- TDS driven morons can STFU and suffer through it. Investigations into Brandon haven't even been going on for two years yet. You have at least another two years to go; maybe even longer if the Human Fuck Up Machine wins reelection- and Republicans hold the House.
Funny how Democrats would believe any whistleblower with second, third, and sometimes even fourth hand information- so long as they disparaged Trump. But won't believe an ever growing list of whistleblowers with first hand knowledge of the investigation into Hunter and the lack of one into Brandon despite the ever growing evidence.
The far right can never answer one simple question - why would prosecutors and the FBI want to protect the Bidens. The federal prosecutors involved an any and all of the Biden matters are not liberals, and in most cases were appointed by Trump. The FBI is not "liberal" or "leftist". That claim is absurd.
The sad truth for the right is that the right in congress and outside of Congress just want to drag Joe Biden down to Trumps level, and Bidens son Hunter has given them a little ammunition.
Biden was the favorite to be president and president when these decisions were made. Did you not watch the hearings?
The Republicans never retreat when they are beaten. The fact their so called "whistleblower" is a corrupt foreign agent on the run from the law and is an illegal arms dealer to foreign countries should have shut this entire fiasco down if they had an ounce of dignity or shame.
Here are the main revelations from their testimony before the House Oversight Committee.
Hunter Biden ‘should have been charged’ with tax felonies .
Ziegler, who opened the Biden probe in 2018, testified that Hunter Biden "should have been charged with a tax felony," but that federal prosecutors and the Justice Department settled only for misdemeanor charges.
Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failure to pay his taxes for 2017 and 2018. Ziegler and Shapley testified that prosecutors initially approved of felony charges for the tax years 2014 to 2019.
Shapley said that as recently as August 2022, prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware supported felony counts against Hunter Biden for the years 2017, 2018, and 2019.
The Hunter Biden tax probe began with payments to prostitutes.
Ziegler, a registered Democrat, testified that he opened a tax investigation of Hunter Biden in November 2018 after reviewing bank records that "identified Hunter Biden as paying prostitutes related to a potential prostitution ring." The records also showed Hunter Biden spent "lavishly" from his corporate bank account, a pattern that Ziegler said is a red flag for potential tax fraud.
According to Ziegler , Hunter Biden filed false tax returns that included improper deductions for "prostitutes, sex clubs, and his adult children’s tuition."
Hunter Biden deducted payments to his "West Coast assistant," who was actually a prostitute. Ziegler also said that Hunter Biden deducted a $10,000 payment he falsely described as a golf club membership.
"That was not a golf club membership—that was for a sex club payment," Ziegler said .
IRS agents were warned against interviewing Hunter Biden’s adult children.
Ziegler testified that the IRS investigators were prohibited from interviewing Hunter Biden’s adult children about suspicious payments they received from their father. Ziegler said prosecutors told him the interviews would "get us in hot water."
Ziegler said the stand-down order was "abnormal" and a "deviation from normal procedure." He testified the interviews would have helped investigators determine whether Hunter Biden’s deductions for payments to his children were for legitimate business purposes, or evidence of tax fraud.
Prosecutors blocked agents from investigating Hunter Biden’s infamous WhatsApp messages.
Ziegler said prosecutors handling the Biden probe blocked him from investigating an infamous Hunter Biden text message in which he invoked his father in a threatening text message to his partners at CEFC China Energy.
"I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father," Hunter Biden wrote in a July 30, 2017, message to a CEFC China Energy executive.
"I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction."
Ziegler said prosecutors declined to approve his request to obtain location data to see if Hunter was with his father when he sent the message. The IRS agent said the line of inquiry "simply wasn’t supported by the prosecutors."
The Washington Free Beacon reported that Hunter Biden was photographed at his father’s home in Delaware on the day of the message.
Foreign entities made seven-figure payments to Biden family.
Shapley and Ziegler revealed that foreign entities in China, Romania, and Ukraine paid the Biden family $17 million from 2014 to 2019.
CEFC China Energy, an energy conglomerate linked to the Chinese Communist Party, made a total of $6.7 million in payments to Hunter Biden and his consulting company. Ukraine’s Burisma Holdings paid $6.5 million to Hunter Biden and his associates. A Romanian businessman under investigation for bribery paid another $3.1 million to Hunter Biden and his associates.
According to Ziegler, Hunter Biden did not report any income from Ukraine’s Burisma in 2014, though he received more than $80,000 a month from the company.