Hunter Biden Tinfoil issues

[NattyBohChamps04]

This is just some food for thought. If the trump DOJ had prosecuted Hunter in an aggressive manner with no leniency would there be folks on this forum screaming bloody murder that it was all a political witch hunt to discredit then candidate Joe Biden?

What do you think Trump & Co were trying their hardest to do?

[jhu72]

Well, he did bring peace to the Middle East so perhaps we ought to cut him some slack.

Sure.

[old salt]

Kushner's business activities are all matters of public record & appear to be totally legal, above board, & far from unprecedented.
They were investigated by the Dem lead House Oversight Committee in 2022 without significant findings reported.
There's been significant reporting on them by media such as Bloomberg, WSJ & NYT.
Trump, Jared & Ivanka have all publicly stated that Jared & Ivanka will not serve again if Trump is elected.
LIV Golf, the Trump OMAN Project, & Affinity Partners are all subject to govt & media scrutiny.
Similar media & govt scrutiny of Biden family financial dealings would not be an unreasonable expectation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/us/p ... rates.html

Kushner Firm Got Hundreds of Millions From 2 Persian Gulf Nations

The infusion of money from interests in the two Persian Gulf monarchies reflects the close ties to Middle Eastern countries established by Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law.

By Jonathan Swan, Kate Kelly, Maggie Haberman and Mark Mazzetti
March 30, 2023

Wealth funds in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar have invested hundreds of millions of dollars with Jared Kushner’s private equity firm, according to people with knowledge of the transactions, joining Saudi Arabia in backing the venture launched by former President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law as he left the White House.

The infusion of money from interests in the two rival Persian Gulf monarchies reflects the continued efforts by Mr. Trump and his aides and allies to profit from the close ties they built to the Arab world during his presidency and the desire of leaders in the region to remain on good terms with Mr. Kushner as his father-in-law seeks the presidency again.

The Emiratis invested more than $200 million with Mr. Kushner’s firm, Affinity Partners, two people told about the transactions said. The U.A.E.’s embassy in Washington declined to comment. A Qatari entity invested a similar sum, according to two people with knowledge of that deal. A spokesman for the Qatari embassy in Washington declined to comment.

The investment from the U.A.E. came through a sovereign wealth fund, but the identity of the Qatari investor is unclear. An Affinity Partners official did not respond to an email seeking comment.

Top Emirati officials have a close relationship with Mr. Kushner, forged during the Trump administration. And the Kushner family has previously benefited from Qatari funds. A Qatar-linked company helped bail out the Kushners’ debt-ridden tower in midtown Manhattan, 666 Fifth Avenue, during the Trump presidency.

But despite these relationships, Emirati and Qatari officials were at first reluctant to invest in Mr. Kushner’s private equity fund, at least in part because of the political risks involved, according to people familiar with both governments’ internal deliberations. The Times previously reported that Qatari officials feared they would face unfavorable treatment if they turned down Mr. Kushner’s invitation to invest and Mr. Trump returned to power.

It is not unusual for insiders from both parties to benefit financially from deals abroad after leaving government service, particularly in the Middle East. There is a long history of firms populated by former officials from Democratic administrations signing lucrative contracts with Gulf nations, and there are few laws or ethics guidelines prohibiting it.

But the scale of the investments Mr. Kushner’s venture has received from the Gulf countries — in the range of $2.5 billion — and the timing, coming relatively soon after his leaving the White House, are striking and have drawn criticism from Democrats and ethics experts.

The newly disclosed investments are not especially large coming from energy-rich nations whose sovereign wealth funds manage hundreds of billions of dollars in assets. And they are far smaller than the commitment made earlier by the main Saudi sovereign wealth fund, a $650 billion entity known as the Public Investment Fund, which, as The New York Times has reported, invested $2 billion with Mr. Kushner in 2021. Affinity Partners has confirmed that the Public Investment Fund was backing it without giving details on the amount.

Both the U.A.E. and Qatar have a history of hedging their bets on U.S. politics. The investments appear to be the latest indication that they want to maintain warm relations with prominent officials from the Trump administration — especially if Mr. Trump were to become president again — even as they work with the Biden administration.

But the investments reflect not just an eye toward the future in the U.S., but also an acknowledgment of their relationship with Mr. Kushner, who left the White House with an expansive network of contacts, and with whom they worked closely.

Affinity Partners makes only limited public disclosures, but the branch of the firm that handles money from Mr. Kushner’s overseas backers held $2.5 billion in capital on behalf of three different foreign investors, according to a financial filing dated last March. Updated disclosures, which are expected to be filed by Friday, are likely to show that Affinity Partners now manages roughly $3 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

As a top White House adviser to Mr. Trump while he was in office, Mr. Kushner was an active participant in American diplomacy in the Middle East and helped orchestrate a regional pact, the Abraham Accords, that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab countries, including the United Arab Emirates, in 2020.

During the final days of the Trump presidency, he played a role in discussions that helped lift an economic and diplomatic blockade of Qatar by its neighbors. The blockade, led by Saudi Arabia, had been imposed in 2017 at a time when Mr. Kushner was cultivating a relationship with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman — who was about to become next in line to the throne in the kingdom.

John R. Bolton, who served as Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, said he never heard Mr. Kushner directly address the opportunities that his contacts in the Middle East could bring him after leaving government.

“But certainly the way in which he’s approached it upon leaving the White House has been very systematic and very effective,” Mr. Bolton said.

Mr. Kushner is not the only former Trump administration official to benefit from connections in the Middle East since Mr. Trump’s term ended. Steven T. Mnuchin, the former Treasury secretary, also runs an investment firm with backing from sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf. On Thursday, both he and Mr. Kushner appeared at an investment conference in Miami Beach sponsored by a nonprofit led by the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Yasir al-Rumayyan.

Since leaving office, Mr. Trump, like his son-in-law, has chased Middle East deals. He announced one with a Saudi real estate company, which intends to build a Trump-branded hotel, villas and a golf course as part of a $4 billion real estate project in Oman that is backed by Oman’s government. And he is promoting the Saudi-backed LIV Golf tour at his golf courses.

But in Mr. Kushner’s case, investors in the region had raised questions about his lack of investment experience, and Democrats have criticized the speed with which he secured financial commitments from countries he had only recently been dealing with in an official capacity. Mr. Kushner locked in the $2 billion investment from the Saudis only months after he left the White House.

Last year, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, who at the time was chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, opened an investigation into whether Mr. Kushner traded on his government position to secure the Saudi investment.

“Your close relationship with Crown Prince bin Salman, your pro-Saudi positions during the Trump administration, and PIF’s decision to fund the lion’s share of your new business venture — only six months after the end of your White House tenure,” Ms. Maloney wrote in a letter to Mr. Kushner, “create the appearance of a quid pro quo for your foreign policy work.”

A spokesman for Mr. Kushner replied at the time that “Mr. Kushner fully abided by all legal and ethical guidelines both during and after his government service.” Republicans closed the investigation into Mr. Kushner when they took control of the House this year.

Mr. Kushner and Mr. Mnuchin spent some of the final days of the Trump presidency in the Middle East. Mr. Kushner was focused on expanding the Abraham Accords, and both men were pushing a new initiative called the “Abraham Fund” — a U.S. government program they said would raise billions of dollars for Middle East projects but which never got off the ground and ended after Mr. Trump left office.

Shortly after leaving government, both Mr. Kushner and Mr. Mnuchin established their respective private equity firms, and they soon began courting some of the very same governments that had been their official counterparts just weeks before. Both recruited into their firms members of the Trump administration who had strong relationships with the Gulf countries they were now pursuing for investments.

Mr. Kushner brought on as a partner his former White House colleague Avi Berkowitz, a young aide who was later elevated to play a key role in Middle East negotiations. Among other former Trump officials with trade and diplomatic experience, Mr. Kushner also hired retired Army Maj. Gen. Miguel Correa — a former defense attaché at the U.S. embassy in Abu Dhabi — whose strong high-level relationships with the Emiratis helped cement the Abraham Accords.

By June 2021, the Saudi Public Investment Fund was considering backing Mr. Kushner’s Affinity Partners with $2 billion in what Mr. al-Rumayyan described as a “strategic” investment, even as a fund investment advisory panel recommended against providing capital because of Mr. Kushner’s lack of an investment track record and the public relations risks involved, according to internal documents disclosed last year by The Times.

Ultimately, the Public Investment Fund’s full board, whose chairman is Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, voted to reject the advisers’ warnings and approved the Affinity Partners investment.

The Saudi arrangement alone stands to earn Mr. Kushner and his partners more than $20 million a year in fees, regardless of the performance of their investments.

The Saudi Public Investment Fund also put $1 billion into Mr. Mnuchin’s fund, Liberty Strategic Capital, though on less generous terms than it had agreed to with Affinity Partners, the documents reviewed by The Times show.

Mr. Kushner’s role as a Gulf power player was evident in February, at the wedding in Abu Dhabi of Mr. Berkowitz, his colleague at Affinity and in the White House.

Among those who attended the event under glass chandeliers in the sweeping royal ballroom of the St. Regis hotel on Saadiyat Island: Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a brother of the United Arab Emirates’ leader, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Sheikh Tahnoon, who is also the national security adviser and oversees major Emirati investments, sat for a time next to Mr. Berkowitz at the head table, according to two attendees.

The Republican donor Miriam Adelson; Yousef al-Otaiba, the Emirati ambassador to the United States; and Richard Attias, a close adviser to Mr. al-Rumayyan of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, were also at the reception, where an attendee said guests dined on lamb chops and kosher chocolate mousse and danced to Israeli and American music.

Even the ceremony that preceded it made a statement about regional diplomacy: It was held at a synagogue in the Abrahamic Family House, a newly established interfaith center in Abu Dhabi not far from the hotel.

Mr. Kushner’s Qatari connections were on public display in December, when he was spotted, alongside the Tesla founder Elon Musk, in a V.I.P. suite at the World Cup final match in Doha.

Mr. Kushner has told several people he does not want to be part of another presidential campaign. Yet he has maintained some public proximity to Mr. Trump’s latest run for the presidency. In November, he took a conspicuous seat in the front row at Mr. Trump’s campaign kickoff event at the former president’s private club, Mar-a-Lago.

[cradleandshoot]

This is just some food for thought. If the trump DOJ had prosecuted Hunter in an aggressive manner with no leniency would there be folks on this forum screaming bloody murder that it was all a political witch hunt to discredit then candidate Joe Biden?

What do you think Trump & Co were trying their hardest to do?

That is not my point. Why are you dragging the trump crime syndicate into the conversation? My point was that if trumps DOJ had prosecuted Hunter full bore it would have been purely political to embarrass candidate Joe. That assumption would be spot on. The flip side is the Biden DOJ sees the Hunter case as NBFD. The Republicans are tinkling down their pantlegs claiming Hunter is getting a sweetheart deal. To an extent they are probably correct. That old political cliche is proven correct again.. " elections have consequences" What bothers me about this deal is the serious felony gun charge is going to go away like a fart in the wind. That whole arrangement sounds pretty hinky to me. It is what it is, time to keep it moving.

[cradleandshoot]

Keep sucking in those conspiracy theories.

$10 million buys a lot of Biden family books.
Give us another rant about grifters.
Even the Wash Post is now publishing those conspiracy theories.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... y-members/

Opinion : Millions flowed to Biden family members. Don’t pretend it doesn’t matter.

By Jim Geraghty, Contributing columnist, May 18, 2023

Let’s assume that, as President Biden’s fans insist, there’s no evidence of lawbreaking in the deals that had foreign companies paying more than $10 million to Biden family members during and after Biden’s years as vice president.

And no doubt, the House Oversight Committee led by Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has its own preconceived narrative that Biden is on the take from all kinds of shady characters. An indictment of bribery or corruption would require proof that, at some point while in office, Biden acted or influenced a U.S. government policy decision to benefit one of those companies, and the House Oversight Committee, so far, does not have that proof.

Yet we’re still left with a motley collection of odd and unsavory figures sending a lot of money through a lot of companies to a lot of members of the Biden family, with little explanation why. Comer contends that bank records confirm more than $10 million in payments, run through at least 20 businesses, mostly limited liability companies, to the president’s son Hunter Biden; the president’s brother, James Biden; James’s wife, Sara Jones Biden; Hallie Biden (widow of Joe Biden’s son Beau, who died in 2015); Hunter’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle; Hunter’s current wife, Melissa Cohen; and, as Comer noted, “three children of the president’s son and the president’s brother.”

Just what goods or services did all those Biden family members provide to those companies?

Why did Gabriel Popoviciu, a businessman convicted of bribery in Romania and relatedly investigated by British authorities pay as much as $1 million that ended up in Biden family accounts? Does anyone believe that Chinese energy tycoon Ye Jianming in 2017 gave Hunter Biden a 2.8-carat diamond, estimated to be worth up to $80,000, as a gift out of the pure goodness of his heart? Ye disappeared from public view in 2018 amid a Chinese corruption crackdown.

President Biden voluntarily releases his tax returns and other financial disclosure reports that are required by law. But members of elected officials’ families are not required to disclose anything, leaving a very easy way for any deep-pocketed individual or institution to purchase a friendship with someone who has the politician’s ear.

Maybe it’s entirely coincidental that so many foreign entities just happened to give large amounts of money and gifts to Biden family members, and no one involved ever believed, promised, insinuated or suggested that Joe Biden would ever return the favor.

What the House Oversight Committee report reveals is a larger and more complicated version of Hunter Biden’s ludicrously remunerative “work” for Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian oil and natural gas company from 2014 to 2019. Hunter Biden had never worked in the oil or natural gas industry, and yet Burisma reportedly paid him up to $83,000 per month until his father left office, all without Hunter ever needing to travel to Ukraine. One Burisma official told Reuters in 2019 that Hunter Biden was a “ceremonial figure” at the company.

Why would Burisma so lucratively reward a ceremonial figure? What could Hunter Biden possibly offer the company beyond a connection to his father?

Confronted with the Comer committee’s report, Democrats scream, “What about Ivanka Trump’s trademarks in China, or Donald Trump and Jared Kushner profiting from Saudi investors?” And they’re right to object. We don’t elect leaders to the presidency — or the vice presidency — so that their relatives can cash in with foreign business executives. The sordid intermingling of personal financial interests with U.S. government policy is absolutely fair game in the 2024 presidential election.

With great power comes great responsibility, and few jobs are more powerful than the presidency or vice presidency. That means presidents and vice presidents have a responsibility to make sure their relatives aren’t making new “friends” from overseas who just happen to want to give them lots of money. Even if an elected official never returns the favor, the U.S. government’s lecturing other countries about corruption looks laughable when presidential offspring seem to be shilling access like a guy on the corner selling fake Rolexes.

Most of Washington is used to elected officials finding a sweet, low-responsibility, well-paying job for some otherwise unemployable son or niece. In 2012, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington went through the employment records of members of the House and determined that 82 members paid family members through their congressional offices, campaign committees or political action committees. (It came out to 42 Republicans and 40 Democrats; apparently Washington really did have more areas of bipartisan agreement back then.)

And in the grand scheme of things, giving your low-wattage relative a job answering phones in your congressional office is a small enough potential conflict that everyone can live with it.

The problem is the Biden family’s unspecified gigs with foreign companies appear never to have developed a limiting principle while he was vice president. Now, in the White House, variations on Biden’s reflexive “My son has done nothing wrong” response aren’t going to cut it this time. Comer promises more, and he’s taking direct aim at the not-all-that-plausible excuse that the president is entirely disconnected from the financial arrangements of his family members.

Comer, speaking with a Fox News radio program, noted that Biden’s media defenders act as though the revelations have nothing to do with Biden himself. “That is ridiculous,” Comer said. “Of course it has everything to do with Joe Biden.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/bidens- ... 2019-7?amp

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/fac ... 981003002/

And he may have invested in some of the things you invested in too.

Nah, easier to believe that Joe made his money dirty.

Apparently, Joe’s net worth is $9 million now. Heck of a lot less than his books and speeches brought in.

If I’m not mistaken, a big chunk of the reduction was charitable giving, but maybe he invested poorly!

I'm more interested in what you're ignoring. What did all the Biden family members do to earn payments from the shell corps. No show jobs ?

Did Joe have "show jobs"?
Did anyone doing so have an official position in the White House or a job in the Administration that could affect policy?
What's the exact allegation?

I've been really clear, I think the currently LEGAL grift of making money off of presumed access is gross.

But I think the speculation that Joe profited from any such, without clear proof, or even a clear allegation of HIS wrongdoing, is blatant partisan BS.

Entirely about an attempt to dirty up a presumed opponent, regardless of truth, and without a shred of evidence of wrongdoing.

Why??? Well, it's clearly more than trying to have an election advantage, rather it's a pathetically desperate attempt to blunt the overwhelming evidence of actual wrongdoing, massive corruption and dishonesty, by his opponent and those around him.

And that's what you're doing on here.

Impeach Joe Biden!

Put the Biden Crime Family on barge off GITMO!

Durham can prosecute.

Pathetic.

Or maybe the Biden crime syndicate is very good at laundering all the moolah? Maybe Joe has bags of cash in his Vette parked in the locked garage?? Anybody check to see if Joe has any Swiss bank accounts?? MD your correct here for a change. If the allegations of dirty money are unprovable then the issue should be left alone.

I'll believe the House Oversight Committee is legitimate and not a political witch hunt when they bring in Jared to talk about the Saudi's $2BILLION investment in his first ever investment firm.

I'll bet the IRS would be interested as well. I guess I did a very poor job of getting the point across that my post was facetious.

You were clear on your agreement with MDLax. I was agreeing with you both. I never said not to investigate the Bidens, just that if they're questioning seven and eight figure payments they should also being investigating ten figure ones. They're not, which makes this all B. S.

That is a great point, why are they not investigating the big fish the same way they go after the little fish? Maybe it is because they already know what they might find?

[cradleandshoot]

The information I looked up on line says Hunter was paid 50 thousand a month for sitting on the Burisma board. I don't know what he did or what advice he gave but by my math that is 600 thousand a year. Not bad money if you can get it. A cynical person might think that had a lot to do with who his dad was.

[youthathletics]

This time, CBS news is talking about: https://twitter.com/cbs_herridge/status ... a82I2GssRg

[Typical Lax Dad]

This time, CBS news is talking about: https://twitter.com/cbs_herridge/status ... a82I2GssRg

sad

[ggait]

The information I looked up on line says Hunter was paid 50 thousand a month for sitting on the Burisma board. I don't know what he did or what advice he gave but by my math that is 600 thousand a year. Not bad money if you can get it. A cynical person might think that had a lot to do with who his dad was.

Hunter got about a million a year from burismsa.

As posted dozens of times above, that is complete sleazy bs. But not illegal as far as any investigators can tell.

Jared receives $40 million in annual fees from the two billion smackers the saudis invested in his lame pe fund. Jared gets that even if every company Jared invests in goes bankrupt .

That is preposterously corrupt.

Should the house committee investigate that too? So far, not a peep on n that.

[cradleandshoot]

The information I looked up on line says Hunter was paid 50 thousand a month for sitting on the Burisma board. I don't know what he did or what advice he gave but by my math that is 600 thousand a year. Not bad money if you can get it. A cynical person might think that had a lot to do with who his dad was.

Hunter got about a million a year from burismsa.

As posted dozens of times above, that is complete sleazy bs. But not illegal as far as any investigators can tell.

Jared receives $40 million in annual fees from the two billion smackers the saudis invested in his lame pe fund. Jared gets that even if every company Jared invests in goes bankrupt .

That is preposterously corrupt.

Should the house committee investigate that too? So far, not a peep on n that.

The information I looked up said Hunter was paid "up to" 50 thousand a month and that amount has been verified. The obvious question is why was he being paid this money? What expertise did he bring to the table? He was being paid very well for a position on the Burisma board. What was his purpose for being there? There are a lot of things in Washington DC that are preposterously corrupt. To open another can of worms should they investigate the 2 IRS agents who claim that their efforts to investigate Hunters tax returns were hampered by the DOJ. What little I saw today was typical DC. The Democrats claim the agents charges are bogus and the Republicans want to do a deep dive into the matter. There is an old phrase that the Democrats use to use a few years back... The serious of the allegations require that they be investigated thoroughly. Should these allegations from these 2 IRS agents be taken seriously and investigated? Option B says they should simply be ignored? The solution is fairly strait forward, they involves certain people testifying under oath then see how it shakes out.

[old salt]

I'll believe the House Oversight Committee is legitimate and not a political witch hunt when they bring in Jared to talk about the Saudi's $2BILLION investment in his first ever investment firm.

The Dem lead House Oversight Comm investigated it in 2022. What did you hear from that, other than innuendo ?

[old salt]

Jared receives $40 million in annual fees from the two billion smackers the saudis invested in his lame pe fund. Jared gets that even if every company Jared invests in goes bankrupt .

How they doing so far ? LIV Golf came out ok ? How's the Trump Oman project coming along ?
The Saudi's tend to do ok with their Private Investment Fund ventures. Less overhead than dealing with Ukrainian companies like Burisma.
Did the funds go directly into the private equity firm or was it filtered through a maze of LLC shell corps ?

[NattyBohChamps04]

I'll believe the House Oversight Committee is legitimate and not a political witch hunt when they bring in Jared to talk about the Saudi's $2BILLION investment in his first ever investment firm.

The Dem lead House Oversight Comm investigated it in 2022. What did you hear from that, other than innuendo ?

They're still investigating, though limited in power after losing the house. Kushner is stonewalling.

Kushner was also improperly given security clearances. Probably legal, but totally inappropriate. More fun stuff.

[old salt]

I'll believe the House Oversight Committee is legitimate and not a political witch hunt when they bring in Jared to talk about the Saudi's $2BILLION investment in his first ever investment firm.

The Dem lead House Oversight Comm investigated it in 2022. What did you hear from that, other than innuendo ?

They're still investigating, though limited in power after losing the house. Kushner is stonewalling.

Kushner was also improperly given security clearances. Probably legal, but totally inappropriate. More fun stuff.

They don't need Kushner. What did their investigation yield ? There's required filings & public info about the firm's holdings ?

What disclosure or improper handling of classified material did Kushner do ?

Do you disapprove of the Abraham Accords, settling the impasse between Qatar & their Arab neighbors & better relations between Israel & the Gulf Arab nations ?

Kushner returned to the same business sector he left before his brief time in govt service.

[NattyBohChamps04]

They don't need Kushner. What did their investigation yield ? There's required filings & public info about the firm's holdings ?

What disclosure or improper handling of classified material did Kushner do ?

Do you disapprove of the Abraham Accords, settling the impasse between Qatar & their Arab neighbors & better relations between Israel & the Gulf Arab nations ?

Kushner returned to the same business sector he left before his brief time in govt service.

They're a congressional oversight committee without a majority. Good luck getting anything approved now, and limited powers even with a majority.

Probably a lot, we'll probably never know. Fun stuff about his use of private emails and private encrypted apps for official communications too. You seem to be very up in arms about that stuff, I'm sure you're really upset about that and want him nailed to the wall for it.

I haven't looked into the Abraham Accords a lot, but I'm not impressed with the minimal progress and major set backs in other areas in the middle east.

Same business sector? LMAO.

You're another one great at jokes. Lots of jokes around here. Not a lot of serious chatter though.

[old salt]

They don't need Kushner. What did their investigation yield ? There's required filings & public info about the firm's holdings ?

What disclosure or improper handling of classified material did Kushner do ?

Do you disapprove of the Abraham Accords, settling the impasse between Qatar & their Arab neighbors & better relations between Israel & the Gulf Arab nations ?

Kushner returned to the same business sector he left before his brief time in govt service.

They're a congressional oversight committee without a majority. Good luck getting anything approved now, and limited powers even with a majority.

Probably a lot, we'll probably never know. Fun stuff about his use of private emails and private encrypted apps for official communications too. You seem to be very up in arms about that stuff, I'm sure you're really upset about that and want him nailed to the wall for it.

I haven't looked into the Abraham Accords a lot, but I'm not impressed with the minimal progress and major set backs in other areas in the middle east.

Same business sector? LMAO.

You're another one great at jokes. Lots of jokes around here. Not a lot of serious chatter though.

The Dems still held the majority in '21 & '22 with Carolyn Maloney as chairwoman. They had plenty of time.

"Probably a lot" is not good enough.

Things were going well in the ME until Biden took office, diissed the Saudis & tried to revive the nuc deal with Iran.

[Typical Lax Dad]

They don't need Kushner. What did their investigation yield ? There's required filings & public info about the firm's holdings ?

What disclosure or improper handling of classified material did Kushner do ?

Do you disapprove of the Abraham Accords, settling the impasse between Qatar & their Arab neighbors & better relations between Israel & the Gulf Arab nations ?

Kushner returned to the same business sector he left before his brief time in govt service.

They're a congressional oversight committee without a majority. Good luck getting anything approved now, and limited powers even with a majority.

Probably a lot, we'll probably never know. Fun stuff about his use of private emails and private encrypted apps for official communications too. You seem to be very up in arms about that stuff, I'm sure you're really upset about that and want him nailed to the wall for it.

I haven't looked into the Abraham Accords a lot, but I'm not impressed with the minimal progress and major set backs in other areas in the middle east.

Same business sector? LMAO.

You're another one great at jokes. Lots of jokes around here. Not a lot of serious chatter though.

The Dems still held the majority in '21 & '22 with Carolyn Maloney as chairwoman. They had plenty of time.

"Probably a lot" is not good enough.

Things were going well in the ME until Biden took office, diissed the Saudis & tried to revive the nuc deal with Iran.

When you are on the payroll, things go well.

[kramerica.inc]

The "tinfoil" part of this thread name can officially be changed:

IRS whistleblowers report sweeping political interference in Hunter Biden case. The conduct of prosecutors on the case “has honestly been appalling,” said whistleblower:

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/2 ... e-00103252

Ways and Means Committee Testimony of IRS Employees Reveals Biden IRS, DOJ Interfered in Tax Investigation of Hunter Biden, Revealing Preferential Treatment for Wealthy and Politically Connected

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/smith-te ... connected/

[Typical Lax Dad]

The "tinfoil" part of this thread name can officially be changed:

IRS whistleblowers report sweeping political interference in Hunter Biden case. The conduct of prosecutors on the case “has honestly been appalling,” said whistleblower:

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/2 ... e-00103252

Ways and Means Committee Testimony of IRS Employees Reveals Biden IRS, DOJ Interfered in Tax Investigation of Hunter Biden, Revealing Preferential Treatment for Wealthy and Politically Connected

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/smith-te ... connected/

[youthathletics]

The "tinfoil" part of this thread name can officially be changed:

IRS whistleblowers report sweeping political interference in Hunter Biden case. The conduct of prosecutors on the case “has honestly been appalling,” said whistleblower:

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/2 ... e-00103252

Ways and Means Committee Testimony of IRS Employees Reveals Biden IRS, DOJ Interfered in Tax Investigation of Hunter Biden, Revealing Preferential Treatment for Wealthy and Politically Connected

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/smith-te ... connected/

'My Father, sitting next to me'. Seems JOE, is the 'lying dog-faced pony soldier':

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/ ... 50464?s=20