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| Have we pretty much been vindicated yet once again in the mob, the media that was dismissing all the issues involving Hunter and Joe Biden? | |
| Have they been proven to be uh incompetent propagandists and liars and hypocrites to the whatever degree? | |
| Uh I I would say that these indictments kind of vindicate a lot of what we have been reporting regularly. | |
| Is that true? | |
| I mean, it's true. | |
| It's definitely not how the left is reporting it by any stretch. | |
| Yeah, of course not. | |
| Now, I will tell you this is only the beginning. | |
| I'll get to the details in a second. | |
| Now, before we get to Hunter's indictments, uh, let me just won't tell you what's happening around the world. | |
| And and this is America abdicating its role on the world stage and the consequences of it. | |
| And this is a president that doesn't do a thing when our top geopolitical foes are out there uh attacking us, threatening us, or whatever they happen to be doing. | |
| China, no no consequences for COVID, no consequences for unfair trade practices, no consequences for intellectual property theft, no consequences for a spy balloon, no consequences for threatening our ally Taiwan and flying all over their airspace and threatening them. | |
| No consequences for confronting our fighter jets in international airways, no consequences for intimidating our Navy in international waters, none at all whatsoever. | |
| Just oh I like uh I like President Chi. | |
| Um, and there's never any consequences. | |
| And of course, Joe Biden first tries to bribe the mules on a ram with six billion. | |
| He opens up the opportunity, turns a blind eye to them selling their oil all over the world, which helps them fund terror. | |
| They are still the number one state sponsor of terror, uh, which leads me to today's news, which is now that Joe Biden is removed, the Iranian-backed Hooti rebels from the U.S. designated terrorist lists. | |
| The Hootie Rebels have been funded. | |
| That is a proxy war that they have been engaged with with Saudi Arabia and others. | |
| That is being fought really by Iran, funded by Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror. | |
| What does Joe Biden do? | |
| Well, he takes them off the designated terrorist list. | |
| Does that make sense to you? | |
| Doesn't make sense to me. | |
| Well, now we have a rocket attack on the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which caused, well, thankfully only minor damage, no casualties. | |
| But this is now over a hundred attacks against our soldiers abroad in Iraq and Syria. | |
| Why is he not fighting back? | |
| The only thing we saw is Joe Biden, you know, responding with uh, you know, the pin prick, uh, let me shoot at an empty uh warehouse and we'll bomb that and we'll well call it a day. | |
| Anyway, the attack was the first on the embassy located in the heavily fortified green zone of Iraq's capital to be confirmed since the beginning of the Israeli Hamas war, and this assault today was followed by drone and and multi-rocket attacks, including on Al-Assad Air Base in Iraq and three troop locations in Syria. | |
| Thankfully, no casualties. | |
| But what is Joe going to do? | |
| Is he just going to continue to allow this to happen? | |
| Now that he's facilitated uh ten, what, billion dollars in monies to go to Iran based on oil payments that he did not have to allow to have happen. | |
| You got Iran-backed militias in Iraq. | |
| They have claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks that targeted bases that house U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria since Israel declared war on a Hamas two months ago. | |
| The U.S. says, you know, we're we're now at nearly a hundred attacks. | |
| U.S. military officials says the multi-rocket attack was launched at American and coalition forces in the vicinity of the embassy complex and the Union uh three base, which houses offices of the U.S. led coalition, the official added, no casualties, no damaged infrastructure. | |
| Somebody's about to die here. | |
| He can't have this many attacks and not have some significant serious ramifications, and that means Americans being killed. | |
| And Joe's not lifting a finger to stop it. | |
| Now Biden removed, you know, the you know this group of the Hootie rebels from the terrorist list. | |
| Why would he ever do that? | |
| Why would Joe do that? | |
| That makes no sense. | |
| U.S. forces in the Middle East have been attacked, you know, close to a hundred times. | |
| I don't get it. | |
| That makes sense. | |
| National Security Council spokesman, John Kirby evaded a reporter's question when asked about Biden's decision to unlist the Houthis in Yemen as a terrorist group. | |
| During the Daily White House briefing, Fox News reporter Jackie Heinrich asked Kirby whether Biden holds any regret for delisting the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, whether the administration will now reconsider that move. | |
| Quote, I've already said they were going to review that decision. | |
| We are. | |
| That's it, but he gave no time frame. | |
| I don't have a date certain for you or any outcome to brief you on. | |
| But we said we're already going to take a look and review that decision. | |
| Now, several of the president's Republican critics in Congress, they have been telling Biden to consider reclassifying them. | |
| They are a terror group. | |
| And Wink and Tony Blinken at the time arguing that the administration removed the designation over concerns that it might have a devastating impact on the people uh in Yemen and their access to basic commodities like food and fuel. | |
| Uh that's our top priority, not our national security, not our homeland security. | |
| You can't even make this up. | |
| Um, all right, let me get to the big issue of the day, and that of course is you know, breaking just before our TV show last night. | |
| No, this is the beauty of live television and live radio. | |
| You never know what's going to happen. | |
| Uh, but anyway, federal prosecutors now filing three felony charges, six misdemeanor counts against Hunter Biden, uh, and all related to this scheme to evade taxes on this massive amount of money. | |
| Now you got to keep this in mind. | |
| This is from 2016 to 2019. | |
| It does not include the years of Barisma, 2014 and 15. | |
| Why? | |
| Because now special counsel, then investigator of what, four years into this? | |
| Uh, this guy Weiss, well, he didn't get the job done, and he allowed the statute of limitations to pass on what would have been the biggest, easiest slam dung case of all of them. | |
| This is the guy who originally planned not to charge Hunter at all. | |
| Now, that was their original plan. | |
| They were they would never charge Hunter with anything. | |
| They would sweep all of the Biden family members, their misdeeds, all of this under the rug. | |
| And by the way, it was all going to plan, and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere comes these two whistleblowers. | |
| Whoopsie Daisy, and then they had to come up with plan B because The prosecutor, David Weiss, dragged his feet. | |
| It was a phony fake investigation for years. | |
| He was protecting the Bidens. | |
| He allowed the statute of limitations to run out on several very serious tax crimes, interestingly, in the Barisma years, and then he seemed content to just wrap up the probe without any charges. | |
| Okay, so in come Gary Shapley and this guy, Ziegler, who happens to be a Democrat. | |
| His name is Joseph Ziegler. | |
| He's and by the way, he excoriated Democrats for their treatment of whistleblowers this week before the House Ways and Means Committee and testimony they gave this week. | |
| Anyway, he then seemed content to wrap up the probe without any charges. | |
| The whistleblowers come out. | |
| Weiss and the DOJ have to go to plan B. What's plan B? | |
| Well, that was the sweetheart deal for Hunter, masquerading his justice. | |
| In other words, uh, if it wasn't for a brave judge, three things made this possible. | |
| Rudy Giuliani's attorney, guy by the name of Bob Costello, is one of the top attorneys in the country. | |
| Uh, he got a copy of the hard drive of Hunter Biden, gave it to Rudy, and this is why the FBI was pre-bunking it in the lead up to the 2020 presidential election, you know, meeting weekly with big tech organizations and telling them you might be victims of a misinformation campaign. | |
| It may be about Hunter or Joe Biden. | |
| Uh, and sure enough, the laptop story breaks in the New York Post, and then by the way, they had confirmed the authenticity of the laptop in March of 2020. | |
| They knew it was real. | |
| And when Facebook and Twitter asked the FBI, is this misinformation like you were warning us about, or is this real? | |
| They would not comment. | |
| They knew it was real. | |
| They should have commented because they created an environment where the story was censored, and that was the biggest campaign contribution Joe Biden could ever get. | |
| There was one poll I think showed about 17% of voters, you know, saying that if they had known about Hunter Biden's laptop story, they would never ever have voted for Joe Biden. | |
| Well, that would have been a game changer. | |
| Anyway, so plan B was we'll give him a sweetheart deal. | |
| Then we have the brave judge in Delaware, who actually read the plea agreement and is shocked. | |
| And remember, they buried the gun diversion charge aspect of this, you know, in one part of it where it was definitely not appropriate. | |
| And then the judge says to the prosecution, have you ever seen a deal like this before? | |
| Because I haven't. | |
| And then the prosecution had to admit, no, they'd never seen a deal like that either. | |
| That's how great a sweetheart deal that was. | |
| Uh, so that didn't work. | |
| Now, then we have the whole issue of the contradiction of David Weiss. | |
| He tells one senator one story about his authority and ability to charge in other jurisdictions, and then he tells a congressman a whole different story. | |
| And then, of course, when the whistleblowers came out, they said, Well, we took contemporaneous notes, and David Weiss was very clear that he did not have any authority at all whatsoever to charge in other jurisdictions like DC and California. | |
| These charges, by the way, yesterday out of California. | |
| And now that directly contradicted testimony before Congress of Merrick Garland that said, no, I did give him that authority. | |
| So we know that Garland didn't tell the truth. | |
| And then rather, this guy dragged his feet for four years, didn't want to charge at all, then comes up with a sweetheart deal, and then after all this comes out and is exposed, then all of a sudden he becomes a special counsel. | |
| Well, now we've got charges. | |
| We got the gun charges, now we've got the tax charges, and all of this is all evidence of what Jim Jordan's committee, judiciary, is looking into, and that is whether or not the DOJ and the FBI have been politicized and weaponized. | |
| You know, deeply humiliating for David Weiss and Merrick Garland, in my opinion, but I don't think they have any shame about this at all. | |
| Could you imagine if this was Donald Trump for getting tens of millions of dollars? | |
| I mean, just go through the list of what what the Comer Committee, what what the ways and means committee, what all this information that they have. | |
| I mean, there's so much out there that implicates Joe Biden, and this is the point that I want to get to. | |
| This is not really about Hunter Biden. | |
| This goes way beyond Hunter Biden on so many different levels, and we'll get to all of this in a minute here. | |
| But you know, you got to remember Joe Biden lied to us. | |
| He said never once did he ever talk to his son, his brother, or anybody for that matter, about their foreign business deals. | |
| We know for a fact that he did. | |
| We know that Devin Archer testified to that point, to that fact. | |
| We know that he is aware himself of over 20 meetings with Hunter and foreign business partners where they in fact discussed uh these business deals, and that Joe Biden was the brand and what they were selling is the brand, and the one thing that we don't have is you know, any services rendered for the tens of millions of dollars of money that we're talking about that these these monies were put in shell corporations, according to James Colmer. | |
| Those shell corporations just moved the money around. | |
| There weren't real businesses, there weren't real LLCs, and they moved the money around here, there, and everywhere, and then they transfer it to they've identified 10 Biden family members, including Joe and including grandchildren. | |
| I want to know what the grandchildren did to get money from China, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Kazakhstan. | |
| What did they do for the money? | |
| You know, what about the SARS report, the suspicious activity reports? | |
| What about the shell corporations? | |
| If Joe did nothing wrong, why did he lie over and over and over again, including this week on this issue? | |
| If you look at the sheer amount of money that they're talking about, it is astronomical. | |
| And we can see no services rendered. | |
| They have not identified any of it. | |
| You know, did did Joe Biden take official actions like when he leveraged the billion taxpayer dollars? | |
| That was official Obama administration policy in December of 2015, uh, by leveraging our billion dollars to get the prosecutor investigating his son and Barisma, an oil and gas giant, you know, get the prosecutor off their back five days after a call with Hunter and Barisma executives when they were in Dubai and Joe was in Washington. | |
| Five days after that, Joe leveraged the money. | |
| What was the consequence of that? | |
| Hunter continued to get paid. | |
| Why is that significant? | |
| Hunter, in his own words, admits he had no experience at all whatsoever in oil, gas, energy, coal, or Ukraine. | |
| Then of course, the WhatsApp message, another energy deal, this time with China. | |
| I'm sitting here with my father, that one. | |
| We'll get into that in a second. | |
| Um, this is a big deal, but let me just say it this way. | |
| This is the Joe Biden bribery and money laundering scandal allegations. | |
| This is way deeper than Hunter. | |
| Quick break, right back, we'll continue. | |
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| What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi. | |
| Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why. | |
| Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. | |
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| Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? | |
| Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit. | |
| We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. | |
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| Bengazi. | |
| What difference at this point does it make? | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| Locker up. | |
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| Hey there. | |
| I'm Mary Catherine Hammond. | |
| And I'm Carol Markowitz. | |
| We've been in political media for a long time. | |
| Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane. | |
| That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity. | |
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| What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. | |
| Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? | |
| Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. | |
| It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory. | |
| Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? | |
| Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit. | |
| We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. | |
| You put two and two together. | |
| Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? | |
| Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years. | |
| I'm Leon Navok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries. | |
| This is Fiasco Benghazi. | |
| What difference at this point does it make? | |
| Yeah, that's right. | |
| Locker up. | |
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| Let me jump ahead of myself just a little bit here. | |
| And let me bring up this issue if I can about you know how is this gonna impact the 2024 presidential race? | |
| I'm gonna tell you right now, we will get a sign of where this is all headed as it relates to Joe Biden. | |
| There's a reason I keep saying it is the Joe Biden bribery, money laundering scandal allegations. | |
| There's a reason. | |
| Because he's up to his eyeballs in it. | |
| That's why he lied so often. | |
| Uh that's why I guess he was able to afford that beach house and that Corvette and all the other things, and have his son pay for his uh repair bills and half his income went to Pops and all that other stuff, all those other implications. | |
| But here's the big test that'll happen next week. | |
| It's going to be a vote in the House on whether an impeachment inquiry should begin. | |
| Will Democrats join Republicans and vote for that impeachment inquiry? | |
| Because they usually circle the wagons. | |
| Republicans create circular firing squads. | |
| If they circle the wagons, that's an indication Joe is going bye-bye. | |
| All right, so much to talk to. | |
| 25 to the top of the hour, 800 941 Sean. | |
| Our number, if you want to be a part of the program, John Solomon, who really has broken every story involving the Bidens, he'll check in with us today. | |
| Uh great legal analysis on this issue from the get-go, Greg Jarrett, and then later Jay Seculo, the chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice. | |
| We got a lot of angles we got to cover here, and we'll hit them all. | |
| Uh, and some new news today. | |
| Um, but the the real issue, this is not just about Hunter. | |
| I I I know the news is what the news is, and that is federal prosecutors now filing these new felony charges and misdemeanor charger charges uh uh against Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son. | |
| And quote, rather than pay his taxes, the defendant spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle. | |
| Okay, so and by the way, doesn't the don't the Democrats always excoriate, you know, the the rich that don't pay their fair share? | |
| I would say that by definition, the amount of money we're talking about, that the Bidens were all rich and they weren't paying their fair share. | |
| I thought they hated people that cheat on their taxes. | |
| Can you imagine if if this was one of the Trump kids? | |
| God help you. | |
| Imagine if this was any conservative, any Republican. | |
| And how is it that David Weiss let the Barisma tax years uh expire in terms of the statute of limitations? | |
| You know, I never got a dime from China, another big Joe Biden lie. | |
| So when you look at it all, you know, they have botched this from the beginning. | |
| And then, you know, you have David Weiss telling these IRS whistleblowers, oh, I don't have the power and authority to go further into these other jurisdictions. | |
| Merrick Garland saying the opposite to Congress. | |
| There and and Weiss on another occasion writing one elected official saying, I do have the authority to do it. | |
| None of it makes sense. | |
| So it goes on for four or five years, whatever length of time it was. | |
| The statute of limitation runs out on the Barisma years. | |
| That was not an accident. | |
| Then the first deal is no charges at all. | |
| Then the whistleblowers come out and they say, Oh no, what are we gonna do? | |
| Okay, so they come up with a sweetheart deal, and then uh because uh that fell apart because of a Delaware judge, now all of a sudden they're being charged. | |
| I don't think this is the plan that David Weiss originally had. | |
| As a matter of fact, it was not. | |
| You know, there's always been an effort here. | |
| Let us be clear. | |
| They don't really care about Hunter Biden. | |
| This came out in the last two weeks that we wonder if Hunter is going to be the sacrificial lamb in all this. | |
| It's not about Hunter. | |
| It's always been and continues to be about protecting Joe Biden as president. | |
| As I've mentioned going to the break. | |
| You know, big test will come next week when in the House of Representatives, they will have a vote. | |
| In this vote, they will vote to decide whether the impeachment inquiry will become official. | |
| The question is not about Republicans, although I'm sure guys like Ken Buck are going to be useless and maybe some others, I don't know. | |
| But will Democrats do what they usually do and circle the wagons, or will they be following the criticism of Joe? | |
| When you have outspoken liberal voices like Maureen Dowd of the New York Times and James Carville and Van Jones and David Axelrod all speaking out pretty harshly against Joe Biden, you know, is this going to be the opportunity that Democrats have wanted to push Joe off the ticket and run somebody else in 2024? | |
| And then for those of you that were critical of me, Hannity, why do you pay attention to Newsom? | |
| Because he's right there at the top of the list. | |
| Joe Biden, I've been saying is one big fall away from being off the ticket. | |
| He has a bad fall. | |
| Forget it. | |
| He's done. | |
| That's why they have a whole team trying to protect him from falling. | |
| Anyway, and then on top of that, now they've got this big issue here in terms of his involvement, and that they're gonna they're willing to sacrifice Hunter if it means that Joe Biden gets off scot-free, but I don't think that's gonna be possible. | |
| Because without Joe, there is no Biden brand that Devin Archer talked about. | |
| There are no multi-million dollar payouts from Romania, Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and all these other, all these other countries. | |
| There is no cushy job on the border Barisma. | |
| There is no, you know, million dollar payments from the Chinese energy giant CEFC. | |
| There's no one point five billion dollar deal with the Bank of China either. | |
| You know, they there would be no mysterious shell corporations but for Joe Biden. | |
| There wouldn't be the hundred and fifty or whatever suspicious activity reports. | |
| The entire case revolves around Joe Biden. | |
| On the surface level, it's way deeper. | |
| And what they have been able to find with SARS reports, what they we've now discovered, the Lies that Joe has told. | |
| They are beyond significant. | |
| If Joe did nothing wrong, why would he lie about ever talking to his son about his foreign business deals? | |
| And yet we have photographic evidence of Joe at the Cafe Milano, for example, with the Russian oligarch, former First Lady of Moscow, Elena Baterina. | |
| That's a three and a half million dollar deal. | |
| Devin Archer mentioned over a hundred million that she invested in their real estate endeavors. | |
| That's a lot of money. | |
| Now, all of these deals are happening at a time where Hunter, admittedly, is addicted to drugs and I believe alcohol at the time. | |
| I think it's also a time when he didn't want to pay child support payments. | |
| And the sheer amount of money, tens of millions of dollars is a lot. | |
| I'd like to know what they did, what services they offered or rendered for such an exorbitant sum of money. | |
| I'd like to know what the grandkids did. | |
| But there's no real good answer for that, is there? | |
| But I'm just telling you, you know, this wouldn't have happened, but for a few a few things falling into place. | |
| One, Rudy Giuliani's attorney, Bob Costello gets a hold of the hard drive, the laptop of Hunter Biden. | |
| And by the way, the FBI, you know, they authenticated that laptop in March of 2020. | |
| Why was the FBI then warning big tech that they may be victims of a misinformation campaign? | |
| It may be about Joe and Hunter Biden. | |
| Well, they were pre-bunking the story that they knew pretty damn well was going to be leaked. | |
| And finally it got printed in the New York Post. | |
| And then it got completely censored by social media because the FBI had been prepping them the whole time that this may happen and convincing them that this was likely a misinformation campaign in the weeks leading up to the election. | |
| You see how deep this all goes. | |
| This is getting more interesting by the day. | |
| Now I got a lot of other, you know, information surrounding this. | |
| The evidence on Hunter Biden's laptop in some ways actually shows that Joe Biden unwittingly paid for these uh let's call them women of the night. | |
| Is that a nice way to put it, Linda? | |
| Women of the night. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And by, well, first of all, Hunter's lashing out against evil Republicans. | |
| He did an interview the first since his tax fraud indictments. | |
| And, you know, after being slapped with these nine tax fraud charges last night, Hunter Biden is lashing out against Republicans, describing them this morning as evil, claiming they're trying to kill him. | |
| He said in a podcast interview published today that Republicans and the right-wing media are trying to destroy him to bring down his father's presidency. | |
| Quote, what they're trying to do is they're trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle. | |
| Back to this report recognizing uh your resentments and trying to let them go. | |
| That's the way that I do it. | |
| Way that I do it is number one. | |
| I recognize that none of this isn't necessarily about me. | |
| They are trying to, in the in their most uh illegitimate way, but rational way, they're trying to destroy a presidency. | |
| And so it's not about me. | |
| And their most base way, what they're trying to do is they're trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle. | |
| And so therefore destroying a presidency in that way. | |
| And so I realized that it's not about me. | |
| I realized it's not about me. | |
| And then the second thing that I realized is that these people are just sad, very, very sick people that have most likely just faced traumas in their lives, he said. | |
| Oh, let's flip it on the people that just exposed truth. | |
| They've decided that they're going to turn into an evil that they decided that they're going to inflict on the rest of the world. | |
| Really? | |
| Uh, Hunter, you may have too high an opinion of yourself. | |
| Then he goes on to say there was a point where the advice from smart people in the room was that, you know, this was nothing more than a distraction as related to what really matters to the American people, and adding my voice to it would only add fuel to the fire. | |
| Now that thesis has Been completely blown out of the water because it's not possible that fire could be any hotter. | |
| Okay, keep talking, Hunter. | |
| I don't think it's gonna help you. | |
| Um we also have evidence that the laptop shows that, well, in a way, that Joe Biden unwittingly paid for these ladies of the night. | |
| You know, we have texts on Hunter's laptop show that Joe sent Hunter $5,000 in cash after Hunter requested uh emergency cash, a transfer for Joe from Joe to pay for one of his escorts. | |
| In one case, Joe Biden wired his son five thousand dollars less than three hours before he filmed uh a dispute with an escort over a ten thousand dollar payment at a cottage in Boston Mass. | |
| And Hunter Biden's text exchange with quote Eva, his primary point of contact for a Russian-linked escort service. | |
| That was January 18, 2019. | |
| By the way, that's that's great intel, I'm sure, for Vladimir Putin. | |
| Hunter Biden requested Eva send over one of her escorts to the cottage during the early hours of January 18th. | |
| That was 2019. | |
| A few hours after the escort arrived, he texted Eva asking how much it would cost for another eight hours of the escort's time. | |
| Eva said the total charge for 16 hours would be 9,500 bucks. | |
| At 517 p.m. that day, Eva directed that he wire the funds to a bank account linked to a woman with a Russian email address. | |
| Wow. | |
| Pretty amazing. | |
| And then if you want to take it a step further, what we're learning is, according to the indictment filed last night by the Biden DOJ against Hunter, that he spent over $600,000 on payments to various women for quote personal services. | |
| And when the women weren't available, Hunter spent nearly $200,000 on porn and strip clubs. | |
| And all of it apparently was tax free, according to what Hunter claimed on his tax returns. | |
| Hunter Biden spent his cash on drugs, escorts, girlfriends, luxury hotels, rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, other items of a personal nature, in short, pretty much everything but his taxes that the rest of us have to pay. | |
| You know, only the little people pay taxes. | |
| That was, you know, infamously linked to Leona Helmsley. | |
| Whether she said it or not, I don't know. | |
| Weiss high led that Biden used uh a business line of credit to make more than 27,000 in payment to a porn site. | |
| How do you spend 27,000 on a porn site? | |
| Linda, I you know the internet. | |
| I don't know anything about the internet. | |
| How do you do that? | |
| Did Al Gore create that? | |
| I want to say for the record that I have no idea how you do that, and I am sad that you think I know how to do that. | |
| I do not know how to facilitate any of the things that this psycho knows. | |
| Yeah, but you could afford payments for among nearly $189,000 that Hunter spent on adult entertainment while not paying taxes, including $10,000 of payment for that sex club. | |
| Remember, we talked about that more than $680,000 went to these women while Biden wasn't paying Uncle Sam. | |
| Claims as a false deduction for consulting that was in truth and in fact, payments to various women who were he was either romantically involved with or otherwise performing, quote, personal services. | |
| Now, House Republican says that charges, tax charges against Hunter, just the tip of the iceberg. | |
| Uh, this is uh Representative Carlo Jimenez telling uh Maria Barterromo, this is part of the Biden family criminal enterprise. | |
| We need to keep following this. | |
| I know we just hitting the tip of the iceberg here. | |
| I don't think we've gotten to the bottom yet. | |
| And he went on to demand that President Biden come clean about his own alleged connections to his son's business dealings. | |
| I think Joe Biden is the brand. | |
| The only reason Hunter Biden was making all this money, ball addicted to drugs, admittedly, and evading taxes was because his father was the vice president. | |
| For Joe Biden to blatantly lie to the American people, say he had no idea what his son's business interests were. | |
| We all know that's a blatant lie. | |
| Yeah. | |
| They're finally catching up with us, Linda. | |
| How often have I been talking about? | |
| You know, I said you're not getting the billion until you find the prosecutor. | |
| Like a broken record. | |
| This is what it takes to get to penetrate through a corrupt and abusively biased news media in the country. | |
| But do you think that Hunter Biden will spend one minute, one second In jail. | |
| Yes. | |
| You do. | |
| But I think the bigger issue is Joe. | |
| Joe is the bigger issue. | |
| They're not going to put Joe in prison. | |
| He's a demented old man. | |
| He's 80. | |
| It's done. | |
| He can't even spell his own name. | |
| Tony Bobolinski is spoken out spoken out, speaking out, demanding that Biden stop lying about his meeting with Biden in 2017, demanding he correct the record. | |
| Why is Joe Biden blatantly lying to the American people in the world by claiming he did not meet with me face to face? | |
| He told that to Fox News.com. | |
| He added, I call on Mr. Biden to stop lying and correct the record. | |
| Bob Olinsky, a former decorated Navy officer. | |
| Joe Biden, by the way, rushed off to Hollywood for a fundraiser without commenting at all on his son's indictment. | |
| By the way, a Trump appointed judge will preside over Hunter's tax fraud case, and banks have flagged 12 million dollars in suspicious transactions linked to Joe Biden's home address. | |
| And Ron Johnson will tell us all about that tonight on Hannity Nine Easter. | |
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