As summer comes to an end, it is growing more difficult for reluctant Republicans on Capitol Hill to ignore the scandal after their own members presented damning evidence back in May after obtaining bank records Democrats had sat on for months.
Heritage fights legal maneuver over Hunter plea dealChad Groening, AFN.net Alarmed by Hunter Biden’s suspcious plea deal to escape justice, a watchdog at The Heritage Foundation filed an amicus brief ripping the backroom deal only to witness attorneys for the president’s son attempt to try to exclude the concerns. Kyle Brosnan, chief counsel of the Oversight Project, tells AFN the documents the Biden attorneys seek to seal have been public for months. “This is sort of gamesmanship," he says , "and an attempt to silence the whistleblower, and this is unacceptable.” Attorneys for Heritage and Oversight Project filed a motion August 1 asking the federal court in Delaware to reject the motion to seal the amicus brief. The motion cites Mike Howell, an investigative journalist who leads the Oversight Project and dug into details of the plea deal. If allowed, the plea deal grants Hunter “global immunity for all other conduct,” Howell has said. Brosnan says he was present in the courtroom in late July when Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected the plea deal between Hunter Biden and the federal prosecutors who answer to his father. Judge Noreika was “very skeptical” about the deal, he says, and has “very significant, legitimate questions” to ask Biden’s attorneys and prosecutors. |
“The bank records show the Biden family, their associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals and their companies,” Rep. James Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, told reporters in a bombshell news conference (pictured below) that went ignored by most of the liberal media.
In late July, about 10 weeks after that GOP press conference, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was pressed by Fox News to state a political red line for impeachment. That question came after an FBI informant alleged Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were paid $5 million each by a Ukrainian businessman.
"What I've said is, if they withhold information, the impeachment inquiry allows Congress to have the apex of power to get all the information they need,” McCarthy told Fox News.
In a separate Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, McCarthy himself stated Biden family members received payments from a Romanian businessman that passed through “shell companies” while Joe Biden was vice president.
A “shell company” is a fake corporation set up to move illicit money around to hide the source, the transfer, and the eventual destination.
Late last week, Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla) upped the ante when he introduced four articles of impeachment: abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and fraud and financial involvement in drugs and prostitution.
“The evidence continues to mount by the day – the Biden Crime Family has personally profited off Joe’s government positions through bribery, threats and fraud,” Steube said in a statement. “Joe Biden must not be allowed to continue to sit in the White House, selling out our country.”
Watching this political showdown inch closer to impeachment, Washington Times columnist Robert Knight says he knows what is going on among Republican leaders on Capitol Hill: politics.
Republicans fear how they will be portrayed in the national media, he says, and also how Democrats will use impeachment to hurt them.
“One thing the Republicans fear,” says Knight, “is that no matter how valid the charges are in any impeachment proceeding against Joe Biden, the media will spin it as, ‘Oh, this is just revenge for the impeachments of President Trump.’”
There is good reason Republicans are concerned about the left-wing media’s spin machine. Despite the mounting evidence against President Biden, the national media is stubbornly ignoring or even twisting allegations the Biden family engaged in bribery and a money laundering operation or else questioning Joe Biden’s role in it.
“There’s been no evidence whatsoever that Joe Biden is, in any way, implicated in the mistakes that Hunter Biden has made,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a Massachusetts Democrat, told Fox News last week.
Referring to phone calls in which then-Vice President Joe Biden reportedly said “hello” to Hunter’s business partners, the son of the vice president was selling the “illusion of access” to his father, the Democrat lawmaker claimed in the cable news interview.
The subtle finger-pointing at Hunter Biden, such as the mention of unnamed “mistakes” he made, has become a talking point from Democrats over the summer, which could set him up to conveniently become the political fall guy for his ailing father.
“They are going to try to indict a father for loving his son, who has been addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, without evidence of the father doing anything other than loving that son," Claire McCaskill, the former congresswoman, told MSNBC regarding the growing allegations.
Knight, meanwhile, says Republicans must ignore the political calculations and punish a president who used his public office to enrich himself and his family.
“It’s their duty,” he says, “to remove a leader who has violated the Constitution so blatantly as Joe Biden has."
