With a bombshell new release from the House Oversight Committee revealing the tens of millions paid out to the Bidens by Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs, Northeastern University Professor Max Abrahms asks an important question in a recent Newsweek Article: "Does Ukraine Have Kompromat on Joe Biden?" Well...does it?? Also today...Biden to send more money to...Ukraine.
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With us today is Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Good, good.
Good.
Ready to go.
That's work.
Went to bed last night listening to a little bit of news.
Heard news about war and corruption.
Yep, that's it.
Woke up this morning, and there was a new report.
A new report on more corruption.
I thought we knew everything we had to know and found out in these last couple months with the Republicans in charge on really what's going on.
But they're still investigating, and that's good.
Maybe we'll get some real reforms done sometime.
But James Comer is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, and he's doing a good job.
Happens to be from Kentucky.
So he has released more of this information about the corruption in the Biden family.
Do you think every one of those members should go to jail?
What about if there was an 18-year-old and he didn't know these people and they used his name and opened up an account for him?
I wouldn't be surprised.
Even the dog probably has an account.
Yeah, they might find one guy that they can pin it on and he can become the scapegoat.
And the guys who orchestrated that and walked away with these thousands of dollars.
Oh, no, thousands are wrong.
What happened?
What's the news this morning?
$20 million?
You know, pretty soon that's going to add up to be a bit of money, too.
But you know what?
If they've already know there's 20 million, you know, the ramifications of it, how long has it been going on and what haven't they discovered?
Who knows how much has been involved?
But the whole thing is, I think the big issue is all the corruption over Russia Gate and what went on with Hillary and doing all those horrible, horrible things.
They were able to, now this shows they are very capable people.
They were able to take all these sins and convert them into charges by Trump.
And the American people said Trump was guilty of all the things that they have been doing.
Exactly.
They might not have used that corruption and the money, but the corruption, like he was going to take over the government, insurrections and everything else.
So it's such a gross distortion of the truth.
And I think this is good.
But right now, every time they find out something about the Bidens, it's canceled in a way.
At least the attempt is made to find something bigger and worse that Trump did.
And when you compare the 10% coverage of what Trump, you know, what Biden is doing, 10% of that is revealed.
But 110% of what Trump is involved in, and they make up the stories, they blamed him for all the things that they were doing.
So it is sad.
But these are hints that on the long run, you know, I think these people can't go down in history as honorable citizens.
Well, this is the pattern in the Biden family.
And it really is a mafia family.
There's no question about it.
If you remember back, Trump's first impeachment was he got on the horn with Zelensky and said, hey, can you look into some of these dirty dealings of Biden?
Well, it turns out now, and we'll talk about it in a second, that there was plenty, plenty to ask about that.
So what did Biden do?
He pushes people to impeach Trump over asking about the dirty deals, which is exactly what they did about that prosecutor in Ukraine.
He started looking into Hunter Biden's dirty deals.
Boom, they got him fired.
Biden himself bragged about getting him fired.
So this is what they do.
It's like the godfather.
You go against them, they knock you off, and that's what they're doing.
So here's the breaking news from this morning.
If you put that first one up, which is a Comer, as you pointed out, has done a lot of, has done us all a favor.
House GOP release bank records on Hunter Biden payments from Russian and Kazakh oligarchs.
Total clears $20 million, $20 million.
Here's how the Daily Caller put it, if you do the next one.
House Oversight releases bank records showing Hunter Biden took millions from Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.
They were for sale and the money came flowing.
And as we know from other releases, they had all these shell companies.
And, you know, I was reading some Democrats said, well, they never proved that Biden got a check.
Well, of course not.
That's why you have a shell company here and a shell company there.
It's not like, dear Joe, here's some money.
But you know, this whole thing about Biden doing these things.
But when he was on the air and he was doing this interview and he was, you know, getting them to send over more money, more money.
But he was interviewed to say that if you don't do this, I'm calling my dad.
And, you know, and we're going to, you have to fire him.
You have to fire him.
And then, you know, it was so blatantly evil.
But he bragged about it.
So that's where their mentality is.
I mean, it's so open-ended there, and you can see what they're doing.
But then they think they're arrogant.
They think they can get away with it.
And I don't know what year that was, but they do get away with it for a little bit.
And look, they were flying high.
And they say, well, we have Trump on the ropes.
I guess they could have done that to weaker souls than Trump.
You know, Trump has positives of the negatives.
But one thing is, they don't push him around too much.
The average person would have said, I've had it.
This is just too much.
And how can the amount of money that Trump had to spend, raise the money, his money, spend just to keep these cases, answer all the charges made.
It's really criminal.
And how come they can't file suit against these unreasonable charges?
There's supposed to be rules against that on what they can charge.
But if they're all lies, that some days they ought to be punished.
For the crime family.
Well, let's look.
Here's the memo.
If you turn on that next one, it was a 19-page memo outlining all of the details of the records that were being sent.
As you can see now, it was released just this morning.
Third bank records memorandum from oversight committee investigation into the Biden family influence peddling and business schemes.
Now, here is a, if you go to the next one, here is a Fox News write-up of it.
And, you know, we're not going to go into the weeds here too much, Dr. Paul.
That's not really what we do on the program.
But here's a couple of things.
This is from the Fox write-up.
19-page memo provides screenshots of redacted bank records.
It says millions in payments came from Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
We know that.
As well as Russian oligarch Yelena Batarina and Kazakhstani oligarch Kenesh Rakishev.
And that then Vice President Biden attended dinners with Baturnia, Rakashev, and a representative from Barissa.
And it says the memo states, the vice president met in person for significant periods of time with those individuals or the representatives.
The VP Biden joined approximately 20 phone calls on speakerphone with Hunter Biden's foreign business associates and attended dinners with foreign oligarchs who paid huge sums of money to Hunter Biden.
This is from the memo.
Joe Biden, quote, the brand was the only product the Bidens sold.
20 million bucks.
Easy money.
So easy money, hopefully it'll lead to hard times.
But that's not likely to happen, you know.
It just seems like so far, you know, how many dollars worth of positive lying on the media circles in the last 10 years.
Can you imagine how much if you had to pay for that amount of information to put out there to advertise a position?
It has to be into the hundreds of millions of dollars because there's a lot of people.
I still think the 20 million is big and corrupt and leads you into really suspicious what's going on.
But I bet you overall the cost of this, how much was the cost on lying about Trump's campaign?
That had to be millions and millions of dollars.
But they've been able to get away with it.
That's why the ideas and the control of media are so important.
That is also the reason why we've emphasized this thing when governments and big businesses get together, they can control the freedom of speech of individuals.
And that's still a mess.
But I think that we've made some progress there where people are starting to wake up and not trust social media and a few others.
But that is a big problem.
And that's another reason why none of these releases ever make the mainstream media.
They just act as if it didn't exist.
They don't even bother to debunk it.
just ignore it.
Pardon me, but if you go one more, I just want to do, this is Comer himself, the chairman of the oversight committee.
And here's what he says when he's reflecting on this memo.
He says, it appears no real services were provided other than access to the Biden network, including Joe himself.
And Hunter Biden seems to have delivered.
This is made clear by the meals at Cafe Milano, where then Vice President Joe Biden dined with oligarchs from around the world who had sent money to his son.
He said the committee would continue to seek witness testimony.
Here's that Democrat that I mentioned.
He said a spokesman from the minority staff on the committee called the third memo empty and said it doesn't implicate President Biden in any wrongdoing.
Can you imagine if it was Trump who had done a fraction of it?
He's going having a meeting with someone who is doing business with Donald Trump Jr.
I mean, he'd already be in jail.
Oh, yeah.
It's a sad story.
And you talk about the Department of Justice.
There is none.
And I think there has been a significant change systematically over 100 years of shifting from a republic to this authoritarian system that we have.
If you don't have a justice system, there is no republic.
You can't have it because they control things.
Of course, my decade of becoming more alert to what was going on was in the 60s.
That was when the deep state really showed their muscle.
And now that has progressed, and bits and pieces of people are starting to resist.
And it has to be, you know, competing them with, if they're telling a lie, you have to refute them and you have to stick to your guns.
You have to tell the truth and you have to have principles behind it.
And you can't use force.
What they do, force and intimidations and, you know, the authoritarian approach.
You're like the freedom of speech.
What do they do?
If you don't do what we tell you, you've lost your job.
It'll ruin your life.
And they were capable of doing that.
They did that to a lot.
Well, here's an article that I wanted to bring up, Dr. Paul.
And it's written by someone who I follow on Twitter and I have a lot of respect for, Max Abrams.
He's a professor at Northeastern University.
And he did a piece in Newsweek that I think particularly, I think he published it yesterday, but particularly in light of what we've seen this morning with the new release, the headline is appropriate.
Does Ukraine have compromised on Joe Biden is a question that Professor Abrams asks.
Now, he goes through the beginning of the article talking about how many years they talked about how the Russians have compromised on Trump.
You know, there was that tape that apparently, supposedly that he was involved in and he was on record with prostitutes and what have you.
All of it lies made up by Hillary Clinton's feverish mind.
None of it was true.
But Professor Adrams is saying, well, in light of all that being absolutely fake, why don't we look at that same idea with the Bidens and with Ukraine?
Do they have something on Biden?
And I think the question, I think, can be answered in the affirmative.
At least it appears that way.
Let's look at this next clip.
This is from Abrams Peace.
He's talking about the testimony of Devin Archer.
And he's talking about Shokin.
Now, Shokin, we were just talking about him.
He was the prosecutor who was fired when Joe told Ukraine to fire him.
So here's what Abrams writes.
Archer also testified that Shokin was fired by Joe for not for being a corrupt prosecutor, but for investigating the millions of dollars Burisma was paying Hunter, whom the company owner, Mikola Zhokesky, said was, quote, stupider than my dog.
In subsequent interviews, Archer has even more clearly confirmed that Shokin was fired for pursuing Burisma's enormous payoffs to the Biden family.
And he said, all of this is well known to Ukrainian officials.
Shokin himself released a video, and I watched part of that video, Dr. Paul, directly rebutting Biden loyalists in the American media, in which he explains in detail why Vice President Biden threatened Ukraine's president with holding back critical American aid if Shokin was not immediately fired.
If we put the next one on, sorry to belabor this, Dr. Paul, but I think it's a good question.
And here's what Shokin said in a video he made just recently.
He said, the depiction of these investigations as dormant has nothing to do with the reality of the facts.
Mr. Biden was told we were going to start questioning his son and others, Archer and others, all involved in the Burisma case.
And everyone understood very well that this fight was going to end badly for them.
Biden had understood what was looming.
We were about to reach the outcome of the case.
Having understood all this, Biden used all the unofficial means at his disposal.
Biden was acting on behalf of his own interests for his family.
Joe Biden had reason to fear all of this would eventually fall on his son.
And for that, he was fired at the demand of Biden.
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I find this fascinating, interesting, and an evil that what a dishonest Department of Justice can do within our country.
But this is international.
All of a sudden, you know, they're talking about not a problem here in the United States, but in a foreign country.
But that confirms the fact that I think the deep state is very powerful.
I do believe we have an empire, and I don't believe we have national security if they can take and be corrupt over there just as casually as they do the corruption here.
It's all one and the same.
And it's either bribe them or shoot them.
And that to me, you know, has developed over a period of time.
But it's also something that if it's not attacked, it's not going to go away easily.
And to me, I think it's surprising that they work so hard to get all this money.
And everybody likes to have body.
People should look at people who have been successful, and I'd like to do that.
I'd like to have a car and a house and take care of my family and have a vacation.
But what about all this stuff that they go through and they pick up, you know, a few million bucks here and there.
But you say, well, isn't it pretty neat?
Joe can go to the beach and lounge on the beach.
What does he really do with it?
Eventually, this stuff weighs you down and you become a prisoner of your operation instead of being a participant in a free society and getting along with people and working on ways of getting along with people and preventing it.
One of the things that bothers me the most is the advertisements to help the people who have been injured in the wars that we precipitated.
It just tears me up because they really are victimized.
But we should be doing a lot more to not only being compassionate about helping people like that, I believe in that, but I also believe in the compassion that pressures us to say, why don't we look at the cause and why don't we work to prevent it and steer from this?
Because right now we're talking about a symptom of a corrupt system, a corrupt justice system, a corrupt monetary system, a corrupt military and military industrial complex.
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It's all that.
But if we don't go back that one step and look at what is the precipitating cause, and it is dishonesty and not having a belief in what a higher law is all about, even if it is good.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I mean, speaking of Biden and Ukraine, you say, what do they have on him?
What's going on?
What's the deal here?
Well, here we go.
Here's a little bit of foreign news.
Ukraine declares war on Russian shipping in the Black Sea.
This is from our friends at anti-war.com.
And this comes out of a couple of hits that the Ukrainians did on Russian military ships and a Russian flagship in the Black Sea.
They caused some damage to a military ship and they caused some damage to an empty tanker.
From that, Zelensky told Political that everything the Russians are moving on the Black Sea are valid military targets.
It sounds like a pretty hollow threat.
However, it does carry with it.
I think you have some thoughts on it.
It might not actually be war with Russia.
Well, you know, it's so generalized, and you could almost substitute it.
In my mind, I was substituting, even though that was not literal.
Who's declaring war?
So when we think about, you know, our PATS, the people who do our bidding, and it's not us, oh, it's just NATO, just NATO.
Oh, we're part of that.
But it's NATO doing it.
No, no, it's Ukraine.
They're fighting for their survival.
And when I look at that, I just want to change that.
Ukraine.
Ukraine is probably the most irrelevant part of the whole system.
They're irrelevant.
And now I keep thinking, you have trouble keeping up with how many more additional payments are we going to send.
This one's just new.
We just read about it today.
$10 billion they want.
And they've already started receiving some tanks that they've been waiting for.
But you know, the one thing here that I find interesting is that, you know, the escalation of the war has been going on.
And they say, oh, it looks like the Ukrainians are doing a little bit better because they have the cluster bombs.
They say they're bragging now.
See, we got them their cluster bombs and now they're starting to win.
And what are we doing?
Expanding the war to inviting every country that has made or nearby the Black Sea to be involved in the next war, which looks like that area is getting more dangerous than ever.
Yeah, and as you point out, I mean, these ships in the Black Sea, these are U.S. weapons and it's U.S. targeting.
You can say it's NATO, whatever, but it's U.S. stuff.
So you're right.
I think it is the U.S. is trying to declare war, trying to ramp it up.
But, you know, we go back to the what is Biden and Ukraine?
What's their relationship?
Well, go to the next one now because this is from anti-war as well.
As you just said, Dr. Paul, Biden is expected to ask Congress for more Ukraine funding this week.
$150 billion wasn't enough.
The White House is expected to formally ask Congress to authorize additional funding for the Ukraine war as soon as this week.
Now, this is the part that's interesting.
The funding would be in the form of an emergency supplemental that would also include money for domestic disaster relief and potential military aid for Taiwan.
You know how this works, Dr. Paul.
They put all of this bitter medicine in a pill that's going to advertise free money.
You've got a climate disaster.
You've got this disaster, that disaster.
Oh, you don't want to be bailed out?
Well, then too bad.
You've got to have to give money for Ukraine and for Taiwan.
All this money is off the books.
And we talked about this last week.
I think we talked about the military spending bill.
This is all off the books because they were constricted as to how much the budget could be.
They said, oh, don't worry.
We just do some supplementary emergency funding and you'll get as much as you want.
Sorry, I'm just going to say, I think there's a rush to do this because the tide, as we talked about yesterday, is turning.
It's changing.
And then when the Treasury runs better, they're going to have to slow up too.
And I see Russia got a little bit annoyed by all this activity, and they're even starting to attack the ports on the Danube River.
I mean, you talk about spreading it out, but it's all Russia.
It's all Russia.
So that's the reason why, when they were talking about these appropriations, I thought it was sort of interesting that the Congress right now are more in favor of bashing Russia and helping Ukraine and all that stuff.
But they also like China.
So they're having this appropriation that they just are getting ready to pass.
Well, the deal is, okay, we'll make a deal with you.
Power we can peace snakes.
What we'll do is you can vote for money for Ukraine, and we'll vote money for China.
That's that bipartisanship that usually just totally backfires on people.
But if you have a principle of war or peace, you don't have to do this Mickey Mouse in Iran.
Oh, sometimes we're for war, and sometimes we're for peace, and sometimes we'll do this, and we'll work at a, you know, maybe if we bribe this guy, they can change their mind.
So it's nonsense.
And it isn't that hard to figure out what is right and what is wrong.
And we could at least have a guide of our Constitution to tell us what we should be doing.
But I still think that people should be more aware of what a higher law is all about.
And it doesn't mean that you should kill as many people as you can to get away with more effort to gain power and money.
Yeah.
Excuse me.
Well, I think what's really the most cynical and disgusting thing is that even the mainstream media is starting to admit what people like Doug McGregor have been saying from the beginning, which is Ukraine is losing and will lose the war.
But despite admitting this, still egging them on, you guys, more of you need to die.
You need to be slaughtered because we need to attack Russia.
Here's a CNN article, one in the latest in a long series of recent articles admitting that Ukraine is losing.
This title is Western Allies Receive Increasingly Sobering Updates on Ukraine's Counteroffensive.
Quote, this is the most difficult time of the war.
And let's go forward because this is one quote from this.
And remember, this is CNN, the most pro-war probably network there is.
Here is a senior Western diplomat quoted by CNN, quote, I think they're still going to see for the next couple weeks if there's a chance of making some progress.
But for them to really make progress that would change the balance of the conflict, I think it's extremely, highly unlikely.
They know that they're not winning.
And let's fast forward one more.
Mike Quigley, U.S. Representative and Illinois Democrat, he also knows that.
Our briefings are sobering.
We're reminded of the changes they face, he said.
This is the most difficult time of the war.
Yet he still urges more money to be spent and for the war to go on, even seeing as they do that there is no counteroffensive gains whatsoever.
You know, Doug's had the experience, had military experience, and now he's a historian and he understands this.
But I'm still anxious to get people to think about these things sooner.
You know, how long are we going to be there?
When's the war over?
What do we do?
Who is the enemy?
And why is that country the enemy today, but not yesterday?
And that's the whole problem, I think, is they just won't.
I remember one time when the committees were, the Foreign Policy Committee was debating this acceleration of the war in the Middle East.
And there was one of the experts on there says, okay, how long do you think it's going to last?
What is it?
Do you think you're going to be there?
Six months, six years, or how many?
How many casualties do you think you have?
And if you recall, there was zero answer.
Oh, we don't know.
Dr. Paul, we can hardly hear.
We can't mess around with those details.
And then I think I was really brash.
I said, you know, this war could last for 10 years.
Board it.
I understand that, huh?
Who was it?
That was the famous neoconstrict.
Come on in a second.
Richard Pearl.
Your friend.
Dr. Paul.
I'm afraid we can't, Rob.
It's not going to last longer than a couple of days, honest.
Yeah, we'll be home next week.
Yeah.
So I'm going to, if you think we've managed things, I'm going to ask if we can go to the very last clip.
It's a picture because we are talking about Colonel Doug McGregor.
Put up that very last clip.
We're going to skip ahead a few if we can and put on that final clip.
One more after that, please.
The final clip.
There we go.
We've been talking about Doug McGregor.
All of you have seen Doug McGregor on Tucker Carlson's show over and over and over.
Everything he has said from the beginning has been vindicated.
Everything Colonel McGregor has said has been vindicated.
You've seen him over and over on Tucker's show.
Well, we have him at our conference.
I've mentioned it before, but anyone out there watching who wants to hear the person who was right from the beginning, he's going to give a great talk on the four horsemen of the apocalypse at the Ron Paul Institute September 2nd conference.
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I've pinned a link in the comments.
It's also in the description.
To get your tickets today, listen to Doug McGregor in person, as well as a lot of other great speakers.
But you're not going to want to miss the opportunity to hear what he has to say.
Over to you, Dr. Very good.
And I, of course, would urge as many people as possible to come because we think it's very important that we do our best to spread a message.
And I think this is interesting that news comes quickly.
I mentioned at the be opening of this program that we're reporting on a release today.
And just think how many things could happen between now and when our conference starts.
Think of what could happen during the conference for that matter.
You know, on the very day our conference would have been started today, you know, we get these major announcements.
But these are important, but they're not the big one.
One of these days, one of these exaggerations of the reactions to what's going on can be much more, you know, breathtaking and sinister and costly.
And it'll be readily apparent that it's not just Ukraine being attacked unfairly by Russia because it's a lot more complicated than that.
But it is not hard to understand if people want to just open up their minds and look at this.
The information is there, but it's not going to be on your evening news on the major networks.
They're not going to give you that information.
And that's one of the things that we're dedicated to: to get the information the best we can from the people we know and trust and present it because that's the only real tool we have: information spread.
In a way, you know, during the revolutionary time for our country, they had pamphleteering.
And I'll tell you what, if they could accomplish what they did against the greatest army at that time ever to overcome and demand their independence and their liberty, it's pretty amazing.
They didn't have a computer and televisions and radios.
They didn't have an army.
They didn't have anything.
But they had their voices.
They had a pamphleteering movement.
And the information got there.
And that is the way things change.
People's attitudes have to change because I believe in the adage that says that the government one a country has is a reflection of the attitude of the people.
Even though at times it gets out of hand, because some of the times the government is so authoritarian and so vicious that the attitude of the people takes a while to get up the ability to resist.
So right now, we still have enough of our freedoms that we can have a conference.
And I'd like to make the conference very successful and spread a message that I consider very important.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.