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The Hunter Biden's business relationships have anything to do with who should be president of the United States.
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America trapped behind enemy lines.
Day number 240.
Since Joey said he'd never leave a single American behind.
He's turned the page, never mentions it.
I don't know any other show that mentions it.
I mean, it's just a dis everything that is going on is a disaster.
By the way, the the American people see this.
I mean, every single news organization.
Now it's CBS today.
Last week it was MBC News and Quinn and Piac.
Um, everyone's now saying Biden's worst job approval rating yet.
Now we're going to get inflation numbers tomorrow.
And I'll tell you what's what's really no one's paying paying any attention to the fact they have shut down Shanghai.
You know how many products we import from Shanghai?
If you think the supply chain crisis is bad now, uh, they shut the whole thing down because of a massive COVID outbreak in Shanghai.
And of course, they're not prepared for the breakout here.
We got a new variant.
It's already in the U.S. BA2, Omicron 2.0.
Uh, but don't worry, there won't be any monoclonal available antibodies available because as soon as Joe found out about them, and he first mentioned it in his vaccine mandate speech, states like Florida and many others that were offering it free to every resident when they tested positive.
I even had hospitals all over New York I could count on to get them.
Um, Catholic hospitals in particular, they used it as a general treatment protocol for COVID.
So phenomenal results.
Why there hasn't been a study on this, I don't know.
Uh anyway, you just can't get them.
I mean, Ron DeSantis was going out buying his own, and anybody, you know, anybody in Florida got it for free.
And they centers were all over Florida.
And I think they they have some, but they just don't have enough.
Guarantee a Nancy Pelosi got it.
Um guarantee if Joe Biden tests positive, he'll get it.
But look, every single new new poll that comes out, it's a record low for that polling agency.
In this case, it's 42% approval.
Okay, the problem is it's 58% of Americans disapproving in this poll.
On average, he's polling in the 30s.
I mean, it's an unmitigated disaster.
You know, when you look at how they disapprove, the strongest number is how many 40% of respondents strongly disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president.
You know, ignore the initial uh the honeymoon, he when he first became president, he had a 62% approval rating.
It's totally flipped now.
The honeymoon period, if you want to call it that, every single thing he has done has been a disaster.
And it's not gonna get any better.
It's all preventable, starting with the borders, running out of COVID tests uh over Christmas, and not seeing we didn't see Omicron coming.
This is on the heels of Delta.
Delta was the first breakthrough Variant.
And they didn't see it, they didn't see Omicron coming.
They should have.
Now we have Omicron 2, or BA2, as they called it.
2.0.
Call it whatever you want to call it.
Doesn't matter.
Anyway, the uh the issues that should be a priority, 76% say, yeah, you're you need to get on the economy and on inflation.
76 and 73%, respectively.
And then, of course, the Democrats and their defund dismantle no bail policies.
Yeah, 60%, yeah, say crime needs to be a priority because people would actually like to be safe and secure in their own home city, neighborhood, town, wherever they happen to live, and they believe in law and order.
You know, everyone's now pretty much 60% of respondents saying that this disaster in Ukraine is is should be a top priority.
Immigration, people, he's upside down on pretty much everything.
People disapprove of his handling a crime, 61%.
Immigration, 62%.
Inflation, 69%.
The economy, 63%.
I mean, how fast the mighty have fallen.
I keep pointing out when you break these polls down demographically, as most polsters do, uh, you find that more and more in the last two weeks, first it was Hispanic Americans.
They are he's down 30%.
The same with African Americans.
Why?
Because he's doing a horrible job.
It turns out Pete Buttigudge, the genius that's out there telling you, well, you better just expect you know high gas prices uh in perpetuity until we get energy independent with renewable clean energy.
Well, the technology doesn't exist, Mayor Pete.
Anyway, so he's on, I guess the break the show The Breakfast Club.
Uh the host Charlemagne the God asks him, uh, you do realize, Pete, a lot of uh black people feel like Democrats have kept no promises since they've been in office.
Buddha Jose's and Buddha judges answered, really?
They think that?
I'm like, I mean, nobody's nobody is, I'm telling you, happy with this administration.
And their big initiative today is nominating a new ATF director.
Uh, and they're going to release the ghost gun rule, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives, uh, as the administration now unveils a formal rule to rein in ghost guns, privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly uh cropping up at crime scenes, according to people associated.
You know, Congressman Tom Massey nailed it.
Um, and people that actually believe in our constitution have nailed it as well.
And it's pretty simple.
Uh we do have co-equal branches of government.
In other words, he does not get to dictate what the laws of the country are just because he feels like it.
His constitution does not authorize the federal government to prevent you from making your own firearm.
It's a fact, it's been recognized for 200 plus years.
Article 1, section one, literally the first operative sentence in the Constitution says Congress makes law, not the president, as Massey tweeted out yesterday.
Good point, not that they care one bit about it.
Uh anyway, it's it's it's been a disaster.
Every time this guy speaks, it's an unmitigated disaster.
Last week, there was no difference.
Um things are really heating up on the Hunter Biden Joe Biden front.
And this is going to get very interesting.
One thing that we should point out, Miranda Devine did in her article in the New York Post.
You know, it's great to see that Delaware U.S. attorney is showing some interest in building the case not only against Hunter.
The question is, you know, now that they're asking who the big guy is, when is Tony Bobolinsky gonna go before this grand jury?
Because he's yet to go before the grand jury.
He's the first person that that told the world the big guy was Joe Biden.
Anyway, they finally introduced Hunter's smoking gun laptop into evidence, even though they've had it since December of 2019, they're blaming COVID for delaying the grand jury proceedings, and he could always use COVID or blame Trump.
Those are the two when you have no excuse at all.
Just go there.
And we did get the report last week.
The grand jury witness had been asked if he knew who the big guy was.
Uh, there's also, you know, Joe saying repeatedly that he never had any discussion with his son Hunter about his foreign business dealings, except we have pictures with Joe Biden and some of the foreign business partners of Hunter Biden, including one guy from Mexico, and Hunter got very angry at this guy.
How many times have I brought you to the White House?
How many times have you met my father?
Whoops, busted, and you have yet to pay me anything.
It's like, oh, so it's like you're just writing it out in detail, the quid pro quo, or complaining about uh I paid the whole family's bills.
You try paying dad's bills for everything.
And then putting aside 10% for the big guy.
Anyway, Tony Bobelinski gave a six-hour interview to the FBI last year, along with a trove of documents and emails and encrypted messages.
Sources familiar with the investigation say Bob Olinsky is yet to appear.
Uh, why would he not appear?
Is the U.S. attorney saving the best for last?
Because, you know, Bobelinski does not testify before the grand jury, I would argue something is very wrong.
But I've already said many times, equal justice and equal application of our laws do not exist in this country today.
And some of you roll your eyes.
Some of you rolled your eyes when I said that journalism was dead.
Some of you rolled your eyes when I said Trump will govern conservatively.
So I just tell it like I see it.
Um anyway, the fact that he's yet to testify, this you know, we need a special prosecutor.
The only problem is that Merrick Garland would appoint the special prosecutor, and uh, I would argue probably the the fix would be in.
The laptop text show Hunter sharing China income with Joe.
And by the way, this was in the New York Post Saturday.
It did apparently did not show up on Joey's taxes.
So now Democrats are now testing out, you know, public alibis to excuse what they know is coming.
I told you when they first acknowledged, when the Washington Post first acknowledged that, yeah, the laptop is real.
I told you big news was coming behind it.
Because there was no other reason for them to give up on what their phony narrative had been.
Anyway, the evidence has been in the public domain 18 months.
And despite recent confessions by the New York Times and Washington Post that the laptop is real, both papers then further ignored the copious emails, photographic evidence all on the laptop, which implicate Joe in Hunter's business deals.
You know, I heard uh floated one of the Democrats over the weekends, so something like, well, there's nothing illegal about Hunter sharing his foreign income with Joe as long as that sharing took place while Joe was out of office.
Oh, okay.
Is that like when he was vice president and leveraged a billion dollars to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor who happened to be investigating his zero experienced son being paid millions at the same son, by the way, 50 years old, that goes the former crack addict, and uh well, he did like women of the night or day, whenever time of day or night it might be.
But um, that was basically his experience.
He says on Good Morning America, you know any any background in oil?
No.
Energy?
No.
Gas?
No.
Ukraine?
No.
Why do you think, you know, you they paid you millions?
I don't know.
Good question.
Maybe because your dad?
Yeah, probably.
That exchange is right there.
But they they wanted to talk about Donald Trump saying to Zelensky, now you're not gonna be like all these other guys and waste our money, which is the responsible thing to that's a quid pro quo.
There are 50 people on the call.
Good grief.
And the one fact witness, no, there was no quid pro quo.
You have all the opinion witnesses, hearsay witnesses, nobody really got it right, and we had a whole impeachment over this.
Anyway, so an update on Saturday on this influence peddling profit sharing plan.
Hunter's access to this lucrative financial opportunities came with expectations, including kicking back as much as 50% of his earnings to his father, according to text messages on the old laptop.
I hope uh you all can do what I did and pay for everything for the entire family for 30 years, Hunter Biden is is saying to his daughter in 2019, it's really hard, but don't worry, unlike Pop, meaning Joey, I won't uh make you give me half of your salary.
Oh, looks like the big guy got a big cut of all of this.
Home repairs, he's complaining about the home repairs, paid about paying all his bills, uh putting aside 10%.
You know, by the way, uh now the in the tank media's finally confirmed the laptop from Hell is Real.
They seem to have accepted the fact that Joe Biden was lying through his teeth when he claimed that he knew nothing about Hunter's foreign business dealings.
But you would think they would make a big deal about that.
If Donald Trump told something they've deemed as a lie, boy, they would they would count him up.
They'd fact check them.
You know, he'd give them all the Pinocchios they can give them.
There are 50 former national intelligence people that said uh that what he's accusing me of is Russian misinformation.
Five former heads of the CIA, both parties say that what he's saying is a bunch of garbage.
Nobody believes it except his good friend Rudy Giuliani.
Uh-huh.
It was a lie.
Just like everything else that we've been telling you.
We were right, they were wrong, and they lied repeatedly, repeatedly.
How come Hunter frequently covered the family expenses, according to these texts?
This would put any one of you listening to the show in jail.
Just like any of you that ever transported an illegal immigrant to another state the way Joe Biden is doing it, you would be charged with human trafficking.
But of course, he just picks and chooses which laws he likes and wants to obey and those that he doesn't.
All right, have you ever played the game?
Would you rather, maybe you played it with your kids, would you rather be a donkey or an elephant, politically speaking?
Simple question, right?
All right.
A government watchdog group is uh demanding U.S. attorney probing Hunter Biden in the Delaware investigation, investigate tens of millions in anonymous donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania, where an academic center is named for Joe Biden.
Ivy League College raked in 54.6 million from 2014 through June of 2019 in donations from China, including 23.1 million in anonymous gifts starting in 2016.
Most of the anonymous donations came after the university announced that they would create the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.
Basically, that means kissing the ass of Mulls in Iran and murdering thug dictators in Venezuela and others.
There also is a Yahoo news piece.
It's pretty interesting.
They talk about this guy, Patrick Ho.
Anyway, Harvard trained ophthalmologist, Hong Kong government minister flies in in 2017 at JFK in New York City, arrested by the FBI, charged in a plot to dole out millions of dollars in to African leaders in exchange for major energy contracts and advance Chinese government interest.
Anyway, what emerged at his trial was a revealing portrait of influence peddling, including allegations that he arranged to broker arms deals, etc.
One noteworthy detail about this guy, you know, global wheeling and dealing uh uh trial, uh the Justice Department press release didn't really get into, but during the same period he was being pursued by the FBI for his role in a global bribery scheme, and he and his billionaire buddy Oil Tycoon uh had past ties to the People's Liberation Army and entered into a business relationship with two members of the Biden family.
Zero experience Hunter and his brother James Biden.
And the first call he made after he got arrested was to James Biden, Joey's brother.
Oh, you see what's happening?
This is why the Washington Post said, yeah, the laptop is real, because they knew this was coming.
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So I guess we expect inflation numbers tomorrow.
They're not going to be good under any set of circumstances.
Um Fed's survey Now shows inflation fears have now hit a record high according to CNBC.
Latest Fed survey shows inflation fears are getting worse.
Consumer price index is expected to jump a whopping half a percentage point in a single month.
Look, I don't like to get in a guessing game.
We'll know soon enough tomorrow.
You know, consumers now see inflation hitting 6.6% over the next year, according to the Fed.
Now, break it down using Bloomberg's numbers.
Well, that's a significant amount of money for the average American household.
They estimate 5200 per household in Biden's inflation tax.
Anyway, so the the data comes a day before the release of the March CPI, which is expected again to show prices rising at an 8.4% pace over the last 12 months, according to Dow Jones estimates.
If the forecast is even anywhere near accurate, it's the highest number since December 1981.
It's going to be the same thing.
Even if it's lower, it's look it's just awful.
Look, Wall Street Journal today points out the risk of recession is rising, according to every economist that they're talking to.
And you know, every they had they surveyed economists this month on the average, put the probability of the economy being in a recession sometime in the next 12 months, the same 28%, and risk of a recession is rising due to the supply chain shock.
The entire city of Shanghai is now shut down.
Um the Bank of America put out a warning as the Fed is now tightening their monetary policy.
And again, Goldman Sachs predicts as many as 11 rate hikes in the next two years, but uh Bank of America strategists warning in their weekly research note quote, inflation shock is worsening.
Rate shocks are just beginning.
What does that mean?
Interest rate shocks.
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Uh anyway, and they're also saying recession shock is coming.
Your chief investment strategist, guy by the name of Michael Hartnet wrote in a note to his clients, adding that in this context, cash, volatility, commodities, and cryptocurrencies could outperform bonds and stocks.
I never love the stock market, just my own personal taste.
I don't tell people how to invest their money.
Anyway, the Fed is said Wednesday that they're likely to start culling assets from its $9 trillion balance sheet at its uh meeting in early May and will do so nearly at twice the pace they did in its previous quantitative tightening exercise, as they are now are confronting this inflation at a 40-year high.
Lawrence Summers is even saying he's been out there saying when the inflation rate is above 4%.
We're at a 40-year high now, and unemployment is below 4%.
Recession absolutely follows in two years.
So, you know, all of this is real, and all of this is going to impact all of us now for a long time.
And wherever you can save money, now is the time to start doing it.
And then this guy in Pennsylvania, they actually arrested a guy for putting it, I did that Biden sticker onto gas pumps to protest higher prices.
Really?
Okay, I've seen these myself.
Build up my car yesterday, it was like 470 a gallon for gasoline where where I live.
Half of Americans, now when you read it, blame gas prices on the Democrats and their policies.
It should be more than half.
It should be the overwhelming majority.
Because you know, 79% of voters are stating they support harsher economic sanctions on Russia.
Fine, but here's the problem.
We're not going back to the energy independence policies that would work.
Later, we'll talk to Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan.
We have if you if you want oil, stop making deals with the Iranian mullahs, the number one state sponsor of terror and making them rich.
Stop talking to and sending emissaries to have discussions With the murdering dictator thug in Venezuela, stop being rejected by OPEC countries that are furious that Joe Biden is doing the Iranian deal and making them rich again.
I mean, it's all of this is madness.
Especially when you factor in that we have all the energy resources right here in this country.
It's good for national security.
We we don't have to worry about what's going on on energy wise around the world if we're energy independent.
And then we ought to outproduce in terms of natural liquefied gas and get it over to Europe so we can stop making Putin rich so he can commit more of his atrocities and war crimes that he's responsible for there.
It is evil in our time.
I don't know.
I watched the um well, first let me stick with this poll.
Most Americans blame, you know, the Democrats and their look, Americans understand that the energy policy's changed.
Americans understand that we were paying a buck fifty more a gallon on average before Ukraine was ever invaded.
It's all because of this climate alarmist religious cult that we're doing it.
It's all because of new Green Deal ism that this happened in the first place.
Uh, did it get maybe a little worse because of Russia?
Yeah, but remember, the Premier of Alberta said we'd be importing 900,000 barrels of oil from Canada at this point because the pipeline would have been finished.
That's a lot of oil.
More than makes up from the oil that Joey was buying from Putin.
And you know what the two things that we need to be doing for Ukraine is providing them more weaponry and making sure Western Europe gets other sources of energy to cut off Vladimir Putin's funding for these atrocities.
It's not that complicated.
You know, if you look at the breakdown of all this, everybody understands that the Democratic Party has gone harshly to the left.
You know, it's uh they put a lot of the blame on the Democrats, on Democratic Party policies, overwhelming majority, and Biden.
Uh and of course you have Trump haters, the 24% blame Trump.
What did Trump do here?
You notice Vladimir Putin didn't invade Ukraine when Donald Trump was president.
Donald Trump had gasoline, you know, at $2 something a gallon and handed that over to Joe Biden.
He inherited energy independence.
Uh yeah, this is great.
Environmental group is calling for deflating the tires of SUVs to combat climate change and to target wealthy areas.
Radical environmental group raised a few eyebrows on Twitter, encouraging people to let the tires out the meaning the air out of the tires of SUVs in a bid to combat climate change.
The group ad busters tweeted step-by-step instructions on how to do this on Wednesday, calling it a gentle escalation or ramping up of urgency about climate change.
Remember they used to spike those trees?
Remember the Biden nominee we were telling you about?
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Anyway, wedge gravel in the tire valves, uh, a leaflet, the SUV, and let them know the tires are flat and why it was done, and walk away.
It's that simple.
The group tweeted.
If we organize, we can hit enough SUVs in particular neighborhoods to spark reporting and spread, you know, the meta meme.
I mean, this is insane.
Group said climate change, the biggest crisis we've ever faced as a species, and we're failing the test every way.
You notice all this stupidity, and guess what they're not doing?
For example, there was an article today that they're eyeing a their answer is a quicker switch to renewables.
Now, this is the problem with their stupidity.
And this is America's problem.
Remember, we've discovered that Vladimir Putin was purposely funding environmental groups in Western Europe in the hopes that they would put political pressure on countries like Germany and Germany politicians or German politicians would cave like, you know, a cheap suit, and they did, and they turned off the nuclear power.
They stopped producing their own energy, and they became reliant on everything coming from Russia.
All the oil and gas.
This is What Donald Trump was was literally lecturing the head of NATO about how stupid they were.
We're paying the most dollars, the highest percentage of GDP to protect to protect NATO allies from Russia, and they turn around and they do multi-billion dollar deals like Germany did with Angela Merkel, which is why Trump gave her a white flag.
She goes, Well, what's this white flag?
It's a white flag of surrender.
So now the European Union's answer is rather than go back to the nuclear energy and go back to producing their own energy sources and finding alternative energy sources.
The most ideal place would be to import it from us, but environmental radicals now control the entire government.
Anyway, so they now are setting ambitious targets for transitions to renewable energy.
They're going to spend all of this money, and there's my prediction, because the technology does not exist.
The lifeblood of the world's economy today is energy from oil, gas, and coal.
Now, while they're going to make their quicker switch to renewables, which are going to be far more expensive, and the technology's not there, guess what that's going to do?
That's good that will literally realign, reconfigure the world's alliances.
Because while Western Europe is going down this dumb road just like we are, they're going to be importing all of their energy from countries that hate their guts, like Russia.
And it's going to make countries like Russia and Iran and Middle Eastern countries and Venezuela eventually.
And literally, all these other countries will be getting rich.
And Western Europe will be getting poorer and poorer the entire time.
It's so stupid.
The interview, I'll play some of it later in the program.
60 Minutes might have had its best segment in 15 years last night.
I was watching after uh I didn't watch much of the Masters.
I just didn't care.
But I watched the end and I thought, it was did you watch the end of the Masters by any chance, Linda?
I actually watched the beginning, if you can believe it.
And I watched it yesterday together.
You wanted to say Tiger Woods like everybody else.
I got it.
Well, not only that, but I felt so good for him.
It was cold.
What are we going to say?
It was cold.
I mean, you know, he's got all these problems.
It was cold.
It was much colder than they thought it was going to be, and I think it really affected him.
Listen, it what affected him is walking four straight days, and that's a hellie course.
That's the agreed.
Agreed.
God bless him for trying.
And by the way, he won what?
Four out of the last six tournaments.
What's this guy's name again?
The new guy.
Um say you could say it on the air.
You don't have to just say it about Sheffler.
Yeah.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting on the 18th hole when he missed those two short puts.
I'm like, oh no.
He's he's minus 12, minus 11, minus nine.
He's only, you know, Rory McElroy was minus seven, so they had two more misses before he was in deep trouble.
Anyway, um, Ukraine is now bracing, and I thought this interview with Scott Pelle and Zelensky were amazing.
Uh, what I didn't like about it is they gave the location of where Zelensky is.
That I didn't like at all.
Now I know there are guys defending Zelensky.
Um, but anyway, that's uh that's neither here nor there.
I I would think that Vladimir Putin, you know, being so heartless.
Here's the thing about it I took out of last night.
Is if you looked at all of these images, and we've been pretty much one of the few shows showing you all the graphic video, all of the graphic pictures, and I know there's been denial by some people of what's really going on.
But the whole plan has been to destroy Mariapol, an entire city wiped out, 95% of it gone.
You see, in Busha, which is close to Kyiv, they they did massacre of innocent men, women, and children.
I mean, this is stuff when you re when you read about World War II, these are the horrors and the evil that we talked about.
When I wrote Deliveros from Evil, I chronicled over a hundred million souls lost in the last Century.