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The Broadside | Nobody Trusted “My Word as a Biden” Except the Left. And Now He’s Burned Them

The main topic of conversation since Sunday is Joe Biden’s blanket pardon of his son, Hunter, after telling us all several times over the last year that he wouldn’t. It’s a fitting end to his entire mendacious career of deceit and grift, pardoning himself and his family for the criminal enterprise they’ve run for his 50-plus years in office.

The Right never believed Biden’s claim while the Left swallowed it hook, line and sinker in order to seize the moral high ground. “See, this is what a law-and-order president is like.”

“It’s all about the contrast.” Sure.

Now the MSDNCNNBCBS mouthpieces are clutching their pearls in horror and have no good answers.

You can bet that there are a lot more pardons to come. The Left is already calling for him to issue pre-emptive pardons, in the spirit of what he did for Huntie, to men like Merrick Garland and Alejandro Mayorkas and Anthony Fauci. For what, we can only imagine.

“Persecute.” The irony. Why do they all need pardons, Keith?

The bigger question I have is, how can a president “pardon” a conviction that hasn’t yet been made? If such a “pardon” is legal, can Biden issue a blanket “pardon” for all 40 million illegals in the country going back to 1980 and forward to January 19, 2025?

This site explains the power of pardons.

Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

The Constitution establishes the President’s authority to grant clemency, encompassing not only pardons of individuals but several other forms of relief from criminal punishment as well. The power, which has historical roots in early English law, has been recognized by the Supreme Court as quite broad. In the 1886 case Ex parte Garland, the Court referred to the President’s authority to pardon as unlimited except in cases of impeachment, extending to every offence known to the law and able to be exercised either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment. Much later, the Court wrote that the broad power conferred in the Constitution gives the President plenary authority to ‘forgive’ [a] convicted person in part or entirely, to reduce a penalty in terms of a specified number of years, or to alter it with certain conditions.

So, a president is granted the power to pardon anyone, for anything, at any time, as long as it is a federal matter and is not a matter of impeachment.

Trump will most certainly pardon all J6 prisoners. But here’s the difference: Biden is pardoning Hunter for what are clear violations of established law, including gun charges, use of drugs, possible sexual offenses with underage girls, and acting as bagman for his influence-peddling father. Trump, on the other hand, will pardon J6ers for trumped-up charges and disproportional sentences that clearly abuse the legal code and their rights as American citizens.

I can’t wait until Brandon, the senile corrupt moron, is out of office.

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Daily Broadside | On Brand: Devon Archer Testifies That Joe Biden Was On 20+ ‘Business Calls’

He also testified that Burisma wanted Hunter Biden on their board because Biden’s “brand” would help them be successful.

Former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer told Congress Monday that Hunter referred to President Biden as “my guy” while connecting his dad to foreign associates nearly two dozen times — as Republicans move closer to starting an impeachment inquiry.

Archer said during a four-hour House Oversight Committee interview that Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings paid Hunter up to $1 million per year to serve on its board because of his family’s “brand.”

Archer met with then-Vice President Joe Biden in April 2014, within days of joining Burisma’s board alongside Hunter, and told lawmakers that “Burisma would have gone out of business if ‘the brand’ had not been attached to it,” according to a readout from panel Republicans.

You know what a “brand” is? Most people think of it as a logo, but a brand encompasses the entire experience that a consumer has with a company or a product or, in some cases, a person. It’s essentially the personality of the product or business with a distinct identity and its own unique attributes, all from the consumer’s perspective.

Now, when it comes to Joe Biden, I can’t imagine that’s the definition of “brand” they’re using. If that were the definition, it wouldn’t be a benefit to have him associated with a company like Burisma.

Joe Biden’s “brand” is smarmy moron and stair-tripping fool. Or in the words of B. Hussein Obama, “don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.” That’s Biden’s brand.

What the founder of Burisma was after wasn’t so much brand, but name recognition and power. If the vice-president of the United States, Joe Biden, was associated with Burisma, it would lend an air of credibility (and intimidation) that might advance their business. They could boast that they had a Biden on board.

Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer told Congress in bombshell testimony the ‘Biden brand’ helped keep Ukrainian firm Burisma from going bankrupt and revealed Joe was on the phone or present in-person at least 20 times while his son who called him ‘my guy’ was talking with foreign associates.

Republicans claim Archer’s testimony added to mounting evidence that the then-Vice President was involved in Hunter’s overseas deals that raked in millions from nations including China and Romania. Democrats claimed the phone calls were innocent and did not involve business.  

Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., confirmed Archer told the House Oversight Committee that Joe had been on speakerphone multiple times while his son was talking with business partners – but insisted they were talking about ‘niceties’ like talking about ‘the weather, “what’s going on?”‘

Yeah, see, Hunter just included his dad — the “big guy” — on his business calls just to say “Hi.”

These people are BIG FAT HAIRY LIARS.

Goldman also contended that Joe Biden’s interactions with his son’s partners were innocent.

“He described what the weather was,” Goldman said of the president’s role in foreign business relationships. “It’s kind of a preposterous premise to think that a father should not say hello to people that the son is at dinner with, and that’s literally all the evidence is.”

But former FBI official Chris Swecker, who led the bureau’s criminal investigations division from 2004 to 2006, said that things didn’t look good for President Biden, noting the many alleged speakerphone calls.

“As head of the criminal division, we saw this quite a bit in bribery cases, it’s called stream of services,” Swecker told Fox News as Archer left Capitol Hill.

“You sell access or something of value and you get something back in return, but it’s not an express quid pro quo. It’s just an understanding, but if you can match up the services within a reasonable period of time — with the thing of benefit, in this case, $10 million, or whatever it is — then you then you have bribery,” Swecker said.

It’s about time that the Biden’s were scrutinized over their malfeasance. If all goes well, their will be an impeachment inquiry. Of course, that leaves us with the prospect of that cackling nightmare, Kamala Harris.

The Marxist-infused America haters have really put us in a great position to thrive as a nation, haven’t they?

Norms: restored.

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Daily Broadside | Archer Will Testify If He Isn’t Suicided Or Arrested Before Monday

It’s hard to even pretend to be shocked by anything the Resident and his team of mobsters do these days, especially when it comes the Department of Just Us, where any reference to the rule of law and the constitution have been scrubbed when it comes to blindfolded application.

On Monday, Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer is set to testify before the House Oversight Committee to expose Joe Biden’s involvement in Hunter’s foreign business dealings. The Biden administration is doing everything possible to prevent that from happening.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to arrest Archer on unrelated charges mere hours before his scheduled testimony. On Saturday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York issued a request to trial judge Ronnie Abrams to compel Archer to surrender to authorities.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer was asked about this development on Sunday, during an appearance on Fox News.

“I have in my hand a letter from the Department of Justice that was sent to the Southern District of New York on Saturday,” host Maria Bartiromo began. “By the way, Devon Archer is testifying on Monday — do you ever see … the DOJ send letters like this out on a Saturday?”

“Never, never,” Comer replied. “This is the first time I’ve ever heard of the Department of Justice doing anything on a Saturday.”

When it comes to protecting the Regime, Saturdays are a must. And you must respect the Regime.

“We are aware of speculation that the Department of Justice’s weekend request to have Mr. Archer report to prison is an attempt by the Biden administration to intimidate him in advance of his meeting with the House Oversight Committee,” Schwartz said in a statement, per Politico.

“To be clear, Mr. Archer does not agree with that speculation,” Schwartz added. “In any case, Mr. Archer will do what he has planned to do all along, which is to show up on Monday and to honestly answer the questions that are put to him by the Congressional investigators.”

No sense in getting Epsteined if you don’t need to. Assuming he lives to testify, what will Archer say?

Hunter Biden would dial in his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on speakerphone into meetings with his overseas business partners, according to testimony expected before Congress this week from Devon Archer, the first son’s former best friend. 

Archer, 48, who is facing jail for his role in a $60 million bond fraud, is scheduled to testify to the House Oversight Committee about meetings he witnessed that were attended by Joe Biden either in person or via speakerphone when Hunter would call his father and introduce him to foreign business partners or prospective investors. 

“We are looking forward very much to hearing from Devon Archer about all the times he has witnessed Joe Biden meeting with Hunter Biden’s overseas business partners when he was vice president, including on speakerphone,” said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the committee chairman. 

Trying to have a hostile witness arrested and jailed before testifying is sheer intimidation tactics used by communist governments the world over. And now by our government here, in the former United States of America. I don’t know what it is now, but it’s not the America that I grew up in.

The walls may be closing in on Brandon, but I’m not confident that he’ll suffer any consequences. As John Kass, the former Chicago Tribune columnist put it,

Remember that for years the Democrats and their media lickspittles have insisted–and Joe Biden has himself stated emphatically and publicly before the last presidential election, that he knew nothing of his son Hunter’s shady overseas business deals. Of course he knew.

He was the muscle. And Hunter, like his Uncle Jim before him, was the bagman. The guy who carried the treasure to “The Big Guy” or “President Ten Percent.”

Those of you who know Chicago know how this works–The Delaware Way is the American Way is the Chicago Way. And how do you keep the suckers from ‘beefing’ or ‘complaining?’ You control the media to suppress problematic facts. And do they ever control it.

Now you understand why the Democrat Media Complex was so furious with voters after the mid-term elections. They would be exposed. All the rocks would be turned over. There were no moist corners in which to hide.

The great heavyweight champion Joe Louis had a saying, “They can run but they can’t hide.” Eventually they’d be trapped and take a public beating.

I’d like to think that  is true, but the difference being that there is a great political machine between Biden and his opposition. They protect Biden and take the punches for him and then counter-attack with deadly vengeance, and as long as there are low-information voters out there (i.e. stupid, easily manipulated voters) who don’t read and don’t pay attention. These are the true chumbolones who steadily consume corrupt media the way diabetics guzzle soda-pop. And it is through this stupidity–most of it demonstrated by Democrats during big-city elections, that guys like Joe and Hunter Biden are protected and saved.

A thoroughly corrupt “president” presiding over a thoroughly corrupt administrative state, with a thoroughly corrupt son who took money to fuel his drug and whoring habits with “ten percent to the Big Guy.”

They deserve to be taken down, and hard.

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Daily Broadside | A Confidential Source Says the Bidens Were Bribed to Protect Burisma

I feel like a truant high schooler when I miss more than a day of posting, but the truth is that my life is just packed this summer with all kinds of projects and a wedding in the fall. I really want the Daily Broadside to live up to its name, so I’ll keep pushing to figure out how to do better.

Thanks to those of you commenting, and hello to some new suscribers. Glad to have you.

Did you see that Sen. Chuck Grassley released a document today in which a confidential human source (CHS) says that the Ukrainian oligarch who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden, was “coerced” into sending them money?

Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian oligarch who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden, was “coerced” into sending them money, according to an FBI FD-1023 form released Thursday by Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.

Zlochevsky and the confidential human source (CHS) allegedly participated in a phone call after the 2016 presidential election, in which Zlochevsky said he was “pushed to pay” the Bidens and did not want to send the money, according to the form.

“CHS asked Zlochevsky whether he was concerned about Burisma’s involvement with the Bidens. Zlochevsky stated he didn’t want to pay the Bidens and he was ‘pushed to pay’ them,” the FD-1023 form reads.

“(CHS explained the Russian term Zlochevsky used to explain the payments was ‘poluchili’ (transliterated by the CHS), which literally translates to ‘got it’ or ‘received it,’ but is also used in Russian-criminal-slang for being ‘forced or coerced to pay’,” the form continues.

“CHS then stated, ‘l hope you have some back-up (proof) for your words (namely, that Zlochevsky was ‘forced’ to pay the Bidens). Zlochevsky replied he has many text messages and ‘recordings’ that show that he was coerced to make such payments,” the form adds.

“Zlochevsky asked whether it would make any (legal) difference whether he voluntarily made such payments, or if he was ‘forced’ to make them,” the form continues.

The Ukrainian oligarch said he had a total of “17 recordings” involving the Bidens including two featuring Joe Biden, according to the form. The other 15 recordings allegedly only feature Hunter Biden, who served on Burisma’s board beginning in April 2014 until he left the position in 2019.

The FBI sat on this information to protect “the Big Guy.” Replace the name “Biden” with “Trump” and the ink wouldn’t even be dry on the leak to the press before the articles of impeachment were drafted. Yet this scummy agency and Merrick Garland’s DOJ do NOTHING about this clear threat to national security.

Congress and Granny Box Wine impeached Trump twice with little more than hearsay, yet the evidence is overwhelming that the Biden family has been involved in criminal, if not treasonous, activity to enrich themselves and to hell with what it means to the country.

CHS was made aware of Hunter Biden’s position on the Burisma board of directors during the initial meeting, where he was told Hunter Biden was hired to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” while Joe Biden was serving as vice president, according to the FBI form. Burisma wanted additional assistance with the U.S. acquisition because they did not believe Hunter Biden was smart, the FBI form continues.

But Joe considers Hunter the smartest guy he knows.

At the Austria meeting, the CHS allegedly told Burisma it would be difficult for the IPO to take place while then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General (PGO) Viktor Shokin was investigating the firm. Zlochevsky told the source, “Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad,” according to the FBI form.

Oh. So a protection racket. But the Resident swears he never discussed business dealings with his son backed by his word as a Biden.

How much money did the Ukrainian pay the Bidens?

After an investigation of Burisma by Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was disclosed in 2016, the source told Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma, that the disclosure would have a negative effect on the prospective initial public offering. Mr. Zlochevsky replied that Mr. Hunter Biden “will take care of all of those issues through his dad,” according to the document.

Mr. Zlochevsky was also cited as saying that it cost $5 million to pay one Biden and $5 million to pay another Biden.

The source replied that payments to the Bidens would complicate matters and that the Bidens didn’t have experience with the oil and gas sector, according to the document. Mr. Zlochevsky said that despite his low opinion of Mr. Hunter Biden’s intelligence, Mr. Zlochevsky needed to keep him on the board “so everything will be okay.” He also said both Bidens had told him that Mr. Hunter Biden needed to remain on the board.

At about the same time, Mr. Joe Biden, U.S. vice president at the time, was pressuring Ukrainian officials to fire Mr. Shokin.

“‘We’re leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Mr. Joe Biden said at a public event about the interaction, referring to a $1 billion loan guarantee he threatened to withhold. “Well, son of a [expletive]. He got fired.”

Mr. Shokin has said that the threat was cited when he was ousted. He said in a sworn statement that then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked him to resign because of “pressure from the U.S. presidential administration, in particular from Joe Biden.”

The FBI source told the bureau that he gleaned from the conversation that payments had already been made to the Bidens, presumably to deal with Mr. Shokin.

The Bidens are a corrupt, malicious, self-gratifying crime family. While they use their positions of power and proximity to power to enrich themselves and lie about everything to maintain their grift, they destroy the country they swore to serve. Well, only Brandon swore, but he and his family are suckling at the teats of the great American sow.

If our government now protects the corrupt and prosecutes the innocent, looking for a crime that fits the man, we no longer have a “democracy” or a “republic.” We have an unaccountable, lawless criminal enterprise that is hellbent on keeping its power and protecting itself.

The colonies of the 1700s rebelled over much less.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | A Short Post On A Long Day About Biden’s Son’s Plea Deals

It’s June 21—the first day of summer and the longest day of the year. All the days get shorter from here on out. If I was in charge of things, I’d make every day the longest of the year and sentence Hunter Biden to serve 12 years of them for his federal tax evasion and gun charges.

Chris Clark, an attorney who represented Hunter Biden in a recent criminal investigation, is insisting that prosecutors were thorough and that the case against the Democratic president’s son didn’t end with an overly lenient plea deal.

On Tuesday, Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss notified the U.S. District Court that Biden intended to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts for willful failure to pay his taxes for two years. Weiss said Biden also agreed to enter a pretrial diversion agreement for obtaining a firearm at a time that he was actively using or addicted to a controlled substance, which is illegal.

The tax charges each carry a maximum penalty of 12 months in prison. The firearm charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, but the pretrial diversion agreement could allow him to avoid a criminal conviction and a related criminal punishment.

A couple of thoughts about this development. First, this is merely a slap on the wrist. It’s not even really a slap, more of a light finger tap on his arm saying, “Look, we can’t let you get away with what you’ve done because it’s too obvious that we’re prosecuting Trump on every and any possible charge we can dream up while ignoring the fact that your dad has done most of, if not more, of what we’re accusing Trump of doing. You can help us out by taking a small hit so that we can then say we are even-handed in our application of justice. Waddaya think?”

Tucker Carlson, who is now posting his commentary on Twitter, has thoughts that you should listen to.

“Above all there was no felony. Hunter Biden, who broke federal gun laws, can still carry a gun. It’s like it all never happened. In fact, the Justice Department just baptized Hunter Biden. A lifetime of sins washed away in an instant. It was a secular miracle.”

Second, these charges don’t even touch Hunter’s deals with the Ukrainians, the Russians, and the Chinese. The younger Biden was selling access to his father, who was vice-president of the United States. He was laundering money on behalf of his family. He was taking bribes on behalf of his father. These are the much more serious crimes that seem to have been committed by Hunter, and it doesn’t take a genius to see that by taking the fall for some misdemeanors, the DOJ can wipe its hands of the whole mess and say, “case closed.”

Speaker Kevin McCarthy thinks the “case closed” position makes the House’s investigation into the Biden’s self-dealings stronger.

Talking to reporters after the news that the president’s son plans to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and one felony gun possession charge, McCarthy said the investigation by the House Oversight Committee wouldn’t be swayed by the “sweetheart deal” Hunter Biden received from the Department of Justice, rather, it might help the investigation gather more information.

The Oversight Committee is investigating unverified information that came from a paid FBI informant through an FBI-generated FD-1023 tip sheet. The document alleges that Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden each took $5 million bribes from an executive at the Ukrainian energy giant Burisma, where Hunter sat on the board.

“This does nothing to our investigation,” McCarthy said. “It actually should enhance our investigation because the DOJ should not be able to withhold any information now saying that there’s a pending investigation. They should be able to provide Chairman Comer with any information that he requires.”

David Weiss, the U.S. attorney leading the Hunter Biden investigation, said: “The investigation is ongoing.” So, it will likely still be difficult for Comer to get the information he requests.

When asked about the DOJ saying the investigation is still ongoing, McCarthy said it was a ploy for them to continue withholding information from the House of Representatives under the pretext of an ongoing investigation.

“How can Hunter Biden plead guilty, no jail time, and the DOJ say there’s still an investigation, try to withhold information to the House? That’s unacceptable and will not stand,” McCarthy said. “You cannot plead guilty, say you’re not going to do jail time, and then say you can’t give papers to the U.S. House of Representatives. That’s not going to stand. That’s not going to work.”

Bless your heart. Of course the DOJ will continue stonewalling. Who’s going to make them give up the information? The FBI?

LOL.

Well, maybe Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) knows something we don’t.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) vowed action from her side of the aisle on the matter, saying in a statement: “It’s no coincidence that less than a week after President Trump is arraigned, Hunter Biden is pleading guilty to a sweetheart deal with no jail time. The DOJ is going for the low-hanging fruit by charging Hunter Biden with a gun felony and two tax misdemeanors, after years of slow walking their investigation.”

“For AG Garland to maintain his mantra that there is one standard of justice is pathetic,” she continued. “If the DOJ thinks this dismisses the $5 million alleged bribery scheme or the years of reported Biden family corruption, they are mistaken. We will not allow full accountability to fall by the wayside.”

Maybe. We are watching a two-tiered system of justice being applied in real time.

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Daily Broadside | Will One of the Bidens Finally Go to Prison?

On Fox News’s program Sunday Morning Futures, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky), the Chair of the House Oversight Committee, declared that today, Wednesday, he and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) will hold a press conference to announce the results of their investigation into the Biden Crime Family.

“When you have the opportunity to see the evidence that the House Oversight Committee will produce with respect to the web of LLCs, with respect to the number of adversarial countries that this family influence-peddled in, and this is not just about the president’s son,” the lawmaker said.

“This is about the entire Biden family, including the president of the United States. So we believe there are a whole lot of tips that the IRS and the DOJ don’t know about because we don’t believe they’ve done a whole lot of digging in this, and we have.”

Comer said he and other lawmakers had heard reports that the Department of Justice might charge Hunter Biden in a way that would amount to a “slap on the wrist,” which the lawmaker asserted would be a “drop in the bucket” compared to what his committee uncovered on proof of wrongdoing.

“Wednesday will be a very big day for the American people in getting the facts presented to them so that they can know the truth, and then the Department of Justice can finally do what they should have done years ago,” Comer said.

So you should be watching for that presser today. I’m not going to get my hopes up, though. No matter what the Republicans come up with, I have zero confidence that either 1) they have the intestinal fortitude to press their case all the way to a conviction or 2) the DOJ will do what they should’ve been doing all along, which is prosecuting Hunter Biden and his morally vacuous father, Brandon, for their obvious crimes.

Matt Margolis over at PJ Media also reports on Comer:

“My message to the Department of Justice is very loud and clear. Do not indict Hunter Biden before Wednesday,” Comer told Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures.

“We know exactly what this family was doing,” he said. “We’re going to present to the American people all the information that we’ve received thus far pertaining to bank records. We’re going to disclose many of the different LLCs, many of the different transactions that all these different Biden family members have gotten from our adversaries around the world. We don’t believe this was just a coincidence that all these Biden family members were receiving money from these this Web of LLC into their personal bag.”

Comer added, “We believe this was done in exchange for something that then-Vice President Biden and now President Biden would have done. So this whistleblower is going to provide some very crucial information to our investigation. And we’ve given the FBI until May the 10th to produce this document, so the ball is in the FBI’s court with respect to this whistleblower.”

As The Epoch Times reports, “Comer subpoenaed FBI Director Christopher Wray to testify and to produce a whistleblower document that describes an alleged criminal scheme in which Biden, as vice president, received money from a foreign national in exchange for certain policy decisions.” The “exchange” of money for certain policy decisions? Apparently there’s a whistleblower who can provide some of the missing pieces — if the whistleblower doesn’t end up with missing pieces after being suicided.

What galls me is that the very thing the Left, the media, NeverTrump and the Democrats (but I repeat myself incessantly) accused Trump of being — a Russian stooge, a corrupt official offering quid pro quo to foreign leaders — is exactly what we knew Joe Biden is and was while the allegations against Trump were all false. And NOBODY HAS GONE TO PRISON FOR THEIR LIES.

The government has violated the social contract, the Constitution, and many of the laws supposedly governing the government. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and the Constitution was ratified by we, the people. The Constitution was written to limit the reach of the federal government. The officials inhabiting Washington D.C. are subject to the Constitution, which means that they’re subject to us. But that’s not the way it’s working now, is it?

In fact, the way it works is that those in charge ignore reports of corruption when it’s their side that does it or when there’s an election to win.

Explosive bribery allegations involving Joe Biden and foreign nationals were brought to the Department of Justice as early as 2018, two years before similar allegations against the president were made by the whistleblower now talking to the House Oversight Committee.

Bud Cummins, a former federal prosecutor, first reported the bribery allegations to then-New York US Attorney Geoff Berman on Oct. 4, 2018, in an email claiming he had evidence that Joe Biden had “exercised influence to protect” his son’s Ukrainian employer “in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Joe Biden.”

In the email obtained by John Solomon’s Just The News, Cummins said that Ukraine’s then-Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko wanted to travel to the United States to meet Berman, and could produce two “John Doe” witnesses to corroborate his claims about the Bidens.

But Berman never responded to the email.

An inconvenient truth, I suppose.

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Daily Broadside | Did Ol’ Joe Sell Us Down the River?

It’s seems like an open secret that Brandon has been on the take for years and there is compelling evidence that he sold access to himself and other influential executives in Washington for millions. Or, as Hunter Biden’s laptop coughed up, “10% for the Big Guy.”

Well, now there’s a possible smoking gun.

“A highly credible whistleblower says the Justice Department and FBI have a form that “describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-president (sic) Biden and a former (sic) national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions. It’s been alleged that the document includes a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose.”

More from JustTheNews.

House and Senate GOP investigators said Wednesday they have learned the FBI possesses a document alleging a pay-to-play bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and have subpoenaed it in an explosive new twist in their long running corruption probe of the first family.

Senate Budget Committee ranking member and long-time whistleblower advocate Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said they learned of the document, known as FD-1023, from a whistleblower.

“We believe the FBI possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicating the current President of the United States,” Grassley said. “What we don’t know is what, if anything, the FBI has done to verify these claims or investigate further. The FBI’s recent history of botching politically charged investigations demands close congressional oversight.”

“Botching politically charged investigations.” LOL. That makes it sound like they had good intentions but, darn it!, they just weren’t on their A-game that day.

Said Comer: “The information provided by a whistleblower raises concerns that then-Vice President Biden allegedly engaged in a bribery scheme with a foreign national. The American people need to know if President Biden sold out the United States of America to make money for himself. Senator Grassley and I will seek the truth to ensure accountability for the American people.”

Nobody has actually seen the document. I mean, besides the corrupt members of the FBI and DOJ who created and hid the document along with Biden’s laptop, the motive for the Las Vagas shooting, Epstein’s client list and the Nashville Covenant School shooter’s manifesto.

All we have is a whistleblower allegation that a document exists that allegedly proves Brandon took foreign bribes. You know, I don’t find that too much of a stretch for my imagination. You?

On top of that breaking news, there’s this:

Joe Biden and his deputy chief of staff held a meeting with three business associates of Hunter Biden, one of whom was a foreign national, at the White House during the summer of 2011 when Biden was serving as vice president. This information was obtained through a review of emails and White House visitor logs by Fox News Digital.

During a July 2011 meeting, Hunter was reportedly attempting to negotiate a deal worth billions of dollars with these associates, one of whom was likely a foreign national, with then-Vice President Joe Biden and his deputy chief of staff Alan Hoffman. The individuals present were energy executive David Gamperl and two relatively unknown businessmen named Xi Wang and Andre Lasserre. The meeting was arranged after the trio had previously pitched a lucrative Brazilian bond deal to Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden. Two intermediaries, including Sean Conlon — who would later become the co-host of CNBC’s “The Deed” and the founder of Conlon & Co. — facilitated the meeting with the aim of helping Conlon and Hunter’s Rosemont Seneca investment firm “get more bonds to move.”

Fox News also had this:

Later that morning, Ghawi emailed Conlon an “RSP – Mercantile Oil & Gas Corporation Proposal” and appeared to suggest that a meeting with the vice president or his chief of staff would have to occur “ASAP” in order to access additional bonds worth billions of dollars through their “Andre Lasserre connection.”

“I would like to confirm that I accept this letter of engagement based on 7% fees + 3% fees as a bonus if the first structured instrument (LTN) is executed within 60 days,” Ghawi wrote to Conlon. “This fee should cover all intermediaries’ fee and any additional fee should come out from this one. We have access through Andre Lasserre connection to at least 10 LTN’s but if we do not perform on the said meeting ASAP, we may not be in a position to have those LTN’s at our disposal.”

Later on in the article, it seems that the three businessmen did meet with VP Biden.

A little more than three weeks later on July 27, 2011, Hoffman met with Gamperl, Wang and Lasserre at the Old Executive Office Building (OEOB), according to White House visitor logs. The three business associates were at OEOB for about 30 minutes, arriving shortly before 5 p.m. and leaving shortly before 5:30 p.m., according to the logs, despite Conlon saying they only needed a “5 min introduction.”

Despite emphasizing the importance of the White House meeting in emails, Ghawi said the “discussion that occurred in the White House I was not informed nor I was briefed.” He also said, “No business and no transaction was done with Mr. Hunter Biden, nor the VP Biden” even though the emails talk about “substantial profit” and how a brief meeting with then-Vice President Biden and his top aide could help them move bonds.

About a year later, on July 30, 2012, Conor McKay, then-special assistant to Biden’s chief of staff, appeared to reference the meeting in an email to Hoffman and White House intern Sam Cohen, saying he received a call from Ghawi seeking a follow-up.

“This guy just called back – his name is Nagi Ghawi, and he is the assistant for Mr. Andre Lasserre and a Mr. Wang,” McKay wrote. “You and the VP met with them at the White House last year? He said he has a message for you as a follow up (sic) to that meeting, and would like to talk to you about it.”

Seems pretty clear that Hunter Biden was leveraging access to his father to financially profit for himself and his company. It also appears that these email about meeting with then-Vice President Biden torpedoes Brandon’s oft-repeated declaration that he never knew anything about his son’s business dealings. In other words, he is lying about it.

Hey, NeverTrump, are our norms restored yet? It’s so much better to have a corrupt criminal family running things than to endure MoAR mEAn TwEEtS, isn’t it?

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Daily Broadside | Skeevy Son’s Honey Trap Lust Is a National Security Threat

Daily Verse | Haggai 1:9
“What you brought home I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with his own house.”

Thursday’s Reading: Zechariah 1-7

Remember that time Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.) was banging a Chinese spy and was forced to resign? O wait, my bad. He wasn’t forced to resign from Congress or give up his position on the House intelligence panel after it was revealed that he’d been having sex with an officer of China’s premier Ministry of State Security intelligence service.

Nor was Sen. Diane Feinstein when she was discovered to have a Chinese spy as her driver for 20 years.

It’s good to be the nomenklatura.

Turns out Feinstein and Swalwell weren’t the only ones who were national security threats because of their relationship with a Chinese spy. The skeevy, whoring, drug-addicted, grifting offspring of Resident Brandon was in a close personal relationship with a Chinese-American woman named JiaQi Bao who served as his secretary when he went into business with Patrick Ho, secretary general of Chinese oil giant CEFC.

And she may have been a spy.

‘National Security Nightmare’: GOP Rep Says Hunter Biden Had An ‘Eric Swalwell Situation’

Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky called new revelations about Hunter Biden a “national security nightmare” during a Monday evening Fox News appearance.

“Have you ever wanted to see a spy movie? You don’t even have to go to the theaters. Go to Washington, D.C., where Chinese spies just bait and hook gullible people in power. Sometimes all it takes is a honey trap. We saw it with Eric Swalwell who got caught sleeping with Fang Fang, the spy who stole his heart,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said in introducing Comer, the ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee. “Swalwell wasn’t the only person to have a Fang Fang in D.C. Turns out Hunter Biden may have dabbled with a Chinese spy, too. Her name is JiaQi Bao.”

As Victoria Taft writes:

JiaQi directed the then-vice president’s son to a scheme to “sell natural gas to China in 2017”–you know, as your secretary does. Bao reportedly told him “where the Chinese wanted to purchase the gas from,” according to The Daily Caller.  

JiaQi also gave Hunter pointers on oppo-research for the “big guy’s” White House run. Sure, homegirl offered “opposition research for Joe’s White House run and encouraged him to draw funds from the company’s accounts when the joint venture collapsed and even ended up with Hunter’s military dog tags.”

The Daily Mail reported in May of 2021 that “flirty messages” on Hunter’s laptop — you know, the one those crack 50 national security experts said was “likely Russian disinformation” — confirmed that Hunter was holding his special “dog tags” for his “secretary” in his CEFC deal with his contact, a “spy chief of China.”

Just like any secretary (I thought we were to call them “administrative assistants” now, like calling stewardesses “flight attendants”?), Bao told Biden where to make the purchases of gas and then offered oppo research to GET TRUMP when his father ran for president after she encouraged Hunter to get “Uncle Joe” to run. Don’t all business secretaries do that?

Where do you suppose that oppo research came from?

Here’s Jesse Watters discussing this national security embarrassment threat with Lee Smith.

WATTERS: “Is the whole government compromised by China? Is this what we’re dealing with?”

SMITH: “Absolutely. The whole government has been compromised by China. Actually, the political elite as well as the corporate establishment has been compromised by the Chinese Communist Party for decades now. Joe and Hunter Biden are just a manifestation.”

The Bidens are EVERYTHING (and more) that the Left claims Trump was. They are the national security threat. They are on the payroll of one of our greatest enemies. They are the compromised. They are the grifters. They are the fascists. They are the anti-American threat that is running amok in our country today.

They are the ones who present the greatest threat to our safety and security.

But where are the DOJ and the FBI? Busy squashing the Biden laptop story, running entrapment schemes to kidnap the Michigan governor, arresting Catholic dads who oppose abortion, ‘tagging’ parents they consider threatening at school board meetings, “padding” domestic terrorism data, “altering its categorization of Jan. 6 defendant cases to create the illusion that domestic terrorism is far more prevalent than it actually is,” stealing lock box treasures, raiding a former president’s home based on false premises, and harassing “normal” Americans as though they’re jihadists plotting the next terror attack.

Normal Americans are looking at the complete dissolution of their constitutional government into a law unto itself. There’s only a couple of ways this can end, and one of them involves a lot of innocent citizens in gulags.

The other is worse but only by degree.

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Daily Broadside | Bombshell Email Reveals Who the “Big Guy” Really Is

Daily Verse | Isaiah 22:16
What are you doing here and who gave you permission to cut out a grave for yourself here, hewing your grave on the height and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

Friday’s Reading: Isaiah 24-27
Saturday’s Reading: Isaiah 28-30

Happy Friday and welcome to my last post for July 2022.

As I’ve written before, one of the biggest challenges writing this blog is that I run into limitations on my time when I’m required to be away and that’s happening again. I will be without access to the Internet next week, so the Daily Broadside will be on hiatus until August 8. I’m working on a solution to that dilemma, but not sure how it will eventually work out.

Before I sign off for the next week, I need to point out that we no longer have a fair and impartial system of justice but have rather a two-tiered system; one for the ruling elites and their people, and another for the peasants.

It’s not hard to find examples: how about Hillary Clinton’s home-brew server that she used to illegally bypass our governmental system, potentially exposing classified information or top-secret documents to our enemies, especially China? Instead of being punished, James Comey let her skate with nothing more than a harsh rebuke. Anyone lesser—a Republican, maybe—who had done something like that would have faced criminal charges and been fined or imprisoned, or both.

How about Adam Schiff-for-Brains and his outright lies about the “evidence” he claimed to have that proved Trump colluded with Russia? Or Anthony Fauci’s claims that NIH never funded gain-of-function research?

If you or I lied to Congress we’d face the consequences, including jail time. Our dear leaders, however, continue to draw paychecks and lead institutions that investigate fake insurrections or demand universal compliance with virus protocols that destroy people’s lives.

Enter Hunter Biden.

On Thursday, Miranda Devine reported that the same day the New York Post broke the story about Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop (in 2020), including an email “from an executive at the corrupt Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, thanking Hunter for introducing him to Hunter’s then-VP ­father in Washington” …

… panicked phone calls and messages started flying between Hunter’s business partners and their advisers, even as social media giants Facebook and Twitter moved to censor the story and lock The Post’s account, while candidate Biden went into hiding.

That was because the email undermined Brandon’s claim that he didn’t know anything about Hunter’s overseas business dealings, which put his presidential campaign in jeopardy.

But whistleblowers have now shared emails with congressional investigators in which one of Hunter’s business associates, James Gilliar, unambiguously calls Joe Biden “the Big Guy.”

“It would be crazy to do that with all the information and all the facts we have [but what happens if] they try to make it ‘Oh, we were never involved. That was [Joe Biden’s brother] James’ idea . . . and try to basically make us collateral damage?” the person asks Gilliar in a message provided by a whistleblower to Republican congressional investigators and obtained by The Post.

Gilliar is unconcerned about potential backlash from the Biden family and Joe’s campaign: “I don’t see how that would work for them,” he replies.

“I think in the scenario that he wins they would just leave sleeping dogs lie.

“If they lose, honestly, I don’t think that the Big Guy really cares about that because he’ll be too busy focusing on all the other s–t he is doing.”

The communication, obtained by The Post Wednesday, is significant because it bolsters the claim by ex-Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski that the Big Guy was a code name for Joe Biden.

The only person positioned to “win” or “lose” a campaign at that moment was Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

The reason the identity of the “Big Guy” is important is because it adds to the weight of evidence suggesting that Joe Biden not only knew about Hunter’s international influence-peddling scheme, but allegedly was cut in for a slice of the profits.

In an email written by Gilliar to Hunter on May 13, 2017, the “Big Guy” was allocated a 10% stake in a lucrative joint venture with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC.

“10 [percent] held by H[unter] for the Big Guy,” Gilliar wrote.

The evidence that Hunter Biden and his father are corrupt, grifting leaches on the body politic has been building for years. Now we’ve got strong evidence that the “Big Guy” is, in fact, Joe Brandon.

Hello?

Where is the DOJ? The FBI?

Why hasn’t Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the overwhelming evidence we now have?

Didn’t “whistleblowers” cause the whole of Washington, D.C. to jump all over President Donald J. Trump on the thinnest of pretexts? Didn’t a whistleblower lead to his impeachment?

Where is the urgency to root out the corruption and self-dealing of U.S. presidents that Congress and the DOJ showed during the last administration? Aren’t they still concerned about our precious (*spit*) democracy?

No, they’re not concerned about any of that because Hunter Biden and Joe Biden are the right people. Donald J. Trump is the wrong people.

Imagine if the situation was reversed: Donald J. Trump is still in the White House but the evidence the Post has concerns Donald J. Trump, Jr. Do you have any doubt that Congress, the FBI, the DOJ and every other alphabet agency would be all over it like white on rice?

I don’t.

If any of what we now know about the Biden’s is true (and there’s very little reason to doubt it is) then it raises all kinds of questions about just how beholden Biden and his son are to the Chinese or to the Ukrainians. Is Biden making policy decisions based on the money he got or is still getting? How much money did Biden make off Hunter’s deals with the Ukrainians or the Chinese while Vice President of the United States? What do the Chinese or the Ukrainians hold over him or Hunter?

The answers to these questions potentially rise to the level of treason and betrayal—certainly to an abuse of office—and there’s a lot more evidence that Biden personally profited from the corruption than what was cited as an excuse to impeach Trump.

No, the system of justice has been weaponized by the progressive elites—especially the Democrats—to punish their political enemies, while they themselves get away with crimes that under a fair and impartial system would remove them from power.

It’s part of the corruption that has moved our country away from a government of the people, by the people and for the people. And that has a lot of normal Americans wondering what it’s going to take to restore our rightful form of government.

Have a good week. I’ll see you August 8.

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Daily Broadside | Your Fast Approaching Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Destiny Courtesy of Brandon

Daily Verse | 2 Samuel 3:36
All the people took note and were pleased; indeed, everything the king did pleased them.

Monday’s Reading: 2 Samuel 5-7

Monday and here’s a few tidbits to be aware of.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-Not Conservative) will vote to confirm Non-Biologist and Radical Jurist Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

“Just as I have with previous Supreme Court nominees, I met with Judge Jackson and evaluated her qualifications to be a Supreme Court Justice. After meeting with her, considering her record, and closely monitoring her testimony and questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, I have determined I intend to vote for her nomination to serve on the Supreme Court.”

When Manchin opposed the Build Better Bolsheviks plan under Brandon, there was talk of him joining the Republican Party. But someone who would vote for a woman who can’t say what a woman is to the highest court in the land after “closely monitoring her testimony and questioning” should remain a pariah in his own party while we occasionally welcome his help.

The enemy of my enemy isn’t necessarily my friend.

It’s unfortunate that SCOTUS is being radicalized with picks like KBJ, because in the not-too-distant-future there are going to be court challenges to things like this: The coming federal weaponization of banking.

A digital version of the dollar has been in the works for over a year now. Earlier this month, [so-called president] Biden signed an executive order both curtailing existing cryptocurrencies and laying the groundwork for a federal digital currency. Crypto regulations have been a favorite topic of Democrats on Capitol Hill and regulators in the federal bureaucracy. Biden deployed numerous excuses, including the risks of money laundering and the carbon emissions needed to produce crypto, to justify cracking down on these currencies. But the kicker of the statement is the regulatory groundwork for the coming “digital dollar.” The United States will be the second major power to foster such a move, after China, where efforts to create a digital currency as part of its social credit system are a sign of what might be coming here soon.

Physical currency likely will be phased out entirely over time, in favor of a digital format controlled by the Federal Reserve. The ubiquity of cell phones and scannable codes will make integration of a digital currency, under some form of the blockchain, relatively easy to implement. This soft-nationalization of the banking sector would leave the United States in uncharted waters. Nearly every transaction, from political donations to purchases as seemingly insignificant as a pack of gum, would be visible to the government and subject to scrutiny. Government regulations could block or track certain transactions with no trial or public recourse. Even worse, if you were placed on a list by a federal bureaucrat — not a judge — your access to banking and credit cards potentially could be shut off without a warrant or trial.

Buy what you need now—like a generator for when the electrical grid eventually breaks—before your purchasing freedom is verboten by non-descript womyn like KBJ.

Of course, the other thing you should buy is seeds for things like lettuce, tomatoes, onions, corn, cucumbers, carrots, celery, strawberries, blueberries and other fruits and vegetables. That’s so when Brandon’s disastrous economic policies and international political failures finally catch up with food prices here in the U.S., you can blunt the impact on your personal grocery bill.

[So-called president] Biden on Thursday warned of global food shortages as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine — predicting that the war would upend global wheat supplies.

Russia and Ukraine jointly supply about a fourth of the world’s wheat exports.

“With regard to food shortages, yes we did talk about food shortages. And it’s going to be real,” Biden said at a press conference in Belgium after attending meetings of NATO and G7 leaders.

“The price of these sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia, it’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country,” Biden said.

When your sanctions on another country badly hurt your country, you’re doing it wrong.

Brandon says we don’t expect food shortages in the U.S., but neither did we expect the never-ending surge in gas prices, the supply chain bottle-neck, the empty store shelves, the scarcity of used and new cars, the failure in Afghanistan, the worst inflation in 40 years, the Chinese Bat Flu, or the severe lockdowns imposed on us by our betters in Washington, D.C. and across the nation.

I don’t trust a single thing these people say and even less what they do.

From the “Department of Pure Speculation But Not Really”: imagine a scenario in which Hunter Biden is indicted on federal charges of influence peddling, but then, because his daddy is the Resident, he is PARDONED.

Friday, FNC host Jesse Watters told his viewers he heard Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, would be indicted.

In addition to that, Watters speculated the President would pardon his son and announce he was not seeking reelection in 2024.

If Trump tried that he’d be impeached. Of course, Trump would never have to try that because he’s not a life-long grifter who hasn’t worked a day in his life like career criminal politician “the Big Guy.”