Posted on 09/05/2023 6:10:40 AM PDT by CFW
In the final days of the Obama presidency, trusted aide Valerie Jarrett made a boast that has aged like spoiled milk.
“The president prides himself on the fact that his administration hasn’t had a scandal and he hasn’t done something to embarrass himself,” Jarrett declared on national television.
Ironically, the president that Jarrett would later to go work for – Joe Biden – has revealed a jaw-dropping pattern of secret emails with fake account names, weaponized the U.S. Department of Justice against political foes, and entanglement with tens of millions of dollars in foreign money and other ethical conflicts.
The steady stream of tawdry revelations from Biden’s vice presidential years makes clear it wasn’t just Hillary Clinton and her husband that sought to become richer through the Obama years. When elected vice president, earned roughly $230,000 a year. By the time he left the Blair House, Forbes and others estimated his current net worth as $9 million.
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Also, I suspect the only time the Obamas and Clintons worked together was when they created the plot against President Trump. But that was only to make sure no one took too close of a look at their corruption through-out the years. They could always respond to any accusations as a "right-wing" conspiracy led by Trump supporters.
Obama probably picked Biden as VP to teach him how to grift on a national scale.
No more of those limited Illinois grifts.
Obie hit the Big Time and he knew it.
Obama named VP Biden special envoy to Ukraine. Why a VP ? Have to ask yourself why…..
Maybe Obama is the real big guy getting the 10%
I’ll believe Biden’s Impeachment when I see final vote in the House.
They always protect Obama. Remember Benghazi? No consequences for Hillary as it was, but Obama was really the one to blame for the failure to help the Americans who were under attack.
Two things:
“The president prides himself on the fact that his administration hasn’t had a scandal and he hasn’t done something to embarrass himself,”
- If this scandal lands on the doorstep of Soetero’s home on the Vineyard, look for Biden to encounter a severe medical emergency or, possibly, meet his maker. If/when that happens, Hunter might not have anymore cover and he might do some time as he is/was nothing more than an errand boy. But, Comer, Jordan and the rest will let their “investigation” die on the vine, out of respect for the loss of Biden.
I suspect Obama not only knew of Biden’s corruption, but encouraged it.
- People are giving Biden entirely too much credit for his corruption scheme. Yes, he might be as dirty as the day is long when helping out credit card companies in Delaware or some other low level stuff that the rest of Congress and their Wall St puppet masters do on a regular basis, but this is a different animal. He’s not smart enough to come up with and implement an operation like this . He and his family members are losers, nothing but low level bit players in a larger scam. Low level clowns that can and will be thrown under the bus when the time is right.
Just look at that video of him at some White House event that Soetero attended. Not one person paid the least bit of attention to him. The President of the United States completely ignored by every single person in the room. Not the sign of someone that is running an international money laundering scheme.
Biden and his family are nothing but very low level mobsters that are incompetent and nasty.
Most likely a 60/40 split.
Nothing.
Did Obama pick Biden as his VP because he knew he was a crook just like him ?
Obama had his own gift going. He must have known about Joe’s, but the Bidens were careless, and it wasn’t worth getting involved in that operation for scraps and crumbs fron the Bidens’ table. As I understand it, Joe may have gotten half the money Hunter got or half of Hunter’s money, but in at least one of his son’s company’s scams, Joe got 10% of the total take.
That’s a VAST right wing conspiracy
The president that prides himself on the fact that his administration hasn’t had a
scandal and hasn’t done anything to embarrass himself has a lot to answer for.
Obama dutifully hid the burgeoning dirt of his VP, Joe Biden-—including
(1) a jaw-dropping pattern of secret emails with fake account names,
(2) weaponizing the U.S. Department of Justice against political foes,
(3) mega financial entanglements with his wastrel son,
(4) involving bribes and kickbacks of tens of millions of dollars in foreign money,
(5) and numerous other ethical conflicts surfacing by the minute.
Yawn
jonathanturley.org
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The House Oversight Committee has hit a wall in trying to get material from the Bidens and the administration on these past dealings. It has also learned that the president communicated with his son through alias accounts.
That led them to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which has resisted the release of the emails. It has been over a year since a group requested these documents, and the NARA review is expected to take years at this pace — until after the next election.
Both Biden and Obama could easily allow the release of these emails to Congress. After all, the use of aliases has been defended on the basis that these emails are trivial or personal matters. If so, transparency will put all the allegations to rest. If it is not true, it would mean that Biden was using false names to convey important information to third parties, and the question would be why.
In one email from Hunter’s laptop, Biden associate James Gilliar explained the rules to Tony Bobulinski, then a business partner of Hunter. He was not to speak of the former veep’s connection to any transactions. “Don’t mention Joe being involved,” he wrote, “it’s only when u [sic] are face to face, I know u [sic] know that but they are paranoid.” Instead, they referred to the Big Guy or Celtic.
Likewise, a trusted FBI source said that a Ukrainian businessman had said that he paid a bribe to Joe Biden, but noted that they were told to avoid using his name and to transfer the money through a complex series of accounts.
Moreover, the request of Congress followed the discovery that staffers had used Biden’s fake government account, Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov, to send a message about meeting then-Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko with a cc to Hunter Biden.
Once again, there may be innocent explanations for such emails and the use of the alias. However, given the other evidence of corruption and influence peddling, it seems obvious that the information must be reviewed.
That brings us to the confrontation with NARA. The agency could rely on the PRA statute to enforce the refusal of Biden and Obama to allow Congress to review the evidence. Biden actually is supposed to be consulted twice under the law: as the former vice president and as the current president. Both Joe Bidens are likely to have the same negative reaction to exposing his emails.
However, special access to presidential records is expressly allowed under the PRA “to…Congress” and “to the extent of matter within its jurisdiction, to any committee…if such records contain information that is needed for the conduct of its business and that is not otherwise available.” A refusal would deny Congress critical evidence into a corruption scandal and also a possible impeachment inquiry.
The added resistance to the review of the emails only adds to an already strong case for an impeachment inquiry. Such an inquiry does not mean that impeachment is inevitable. Rather, there is enough evidence to warrant an investigation into whether the Bidens were selling the illusion or the reality of influence. By acting under its impeachment authority, the power of Congress would be at its apex in forcing these disclosures and finding answers on the alleged corrupt practices.
None of this should be necessary, of course. Biden could remove these obstacles instantly to assure the public that his aliases were innocent, even playful, pseudonyms. “JRB Ware” may be a pun, but it is not necessarily the next “Carlos Danger.” We simply do not know, but there should be no reason why the president would not want to clear the record, particularly in an election year.
Otherwise, the effort to withhold this evidence could itself prove damaging, if material evidence of corruption or false statements are found. As Obama would say, one should never underestimate that prospect when it comes to his former vice president.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law for George Washington University.
Well given recent history they can impeach him along with his understudy.
Washington is a cess pool of corrupt politicians, really corrupt politicians. They are controlled by their sponsors, who want power and control of TRILLIONS in spending.
You can’t believe Biden is in charge. It’s Obama, Soros, Jarret et al.
If you discount the IRS targeting of the Tea Party, the gun running, the Iran deal, Obamacare, the stimulus payout to cronies, spying on journalists, Benghazi and the NSA spying scandal not a single Obama scandal.
We’re getting closer to uncovering Obama’s role in the Biden corruption (cue suspense music).
<><>Obama is being asked to bail Biden out from another corrupt debacle
<><>evidence goes back to corrupt Biden’s time in Obama’s admin.
<><>there’s 5,000 emails from Biden wherein he used several aliases during the Obama admin.
Under the Presidential Records Act, Obama has 30 days to bar the release of the emails and to help shield his former vice president in a growing corruption scandal over the influence-peddling operation run by Biden’s son, Hunter.
Emails obtained by America First Legal—AFL reveal the broad access Hunter Biden enjoyed to the official government channels while his father was Obama’s Vice President.
Obama/Biden clearly gave Hunter Biden free reign in directing the use of official tax-paid government resources.
<>Hunter Biden played a key role in planning high-profile White House events (but his role was never revealed).
<>Even though unelected Hunter had no official appointed role in the Obama-Biden Administration, he was intimately involved in planning high-profile tax-paid White House events.
Hunter was involved in Obama’s January 2011 China State Luncheon, the June 2011 State Arrival Ceremony for the German Chancellor, the March 2012 United Kingdom State Dinner and Visit, the May 2013 Turkey State Luncheon, and the 2014 France State Dinner.
<>Hunter and his Rosemont Seneca business partner had been planning the all-important “China Lunch” months in advance.
REALITY CHECK——Hunter Biden’s Obama/Biden WH activities were adjuncts to, and materially profited, his lucrative influence peddling business.
Hillary said if Trump gets elected we’ll all swing. Sounds like a confession to me. Once he was elected, the first thing they did was to take control of the DOJ. That’s two.
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