The massive coverup begins -Biden's FBI out to clear Hunter

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FBI informant charged with giving false information about Hunter Biden in 2020

The defendant met with FBI agents in 2017 and 2020

Special Counsel David Weiss has charged an FBI informant with giving false information after he alleged that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were paid millions in exchange for their help firing the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.

Alexander Smirnov, 43, is charged with making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record during FBI interviews.
Prosecutors say Smirnov was arrested at the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada Wednesday after a federal grand jury returned an indictment.

Smirnov appeared in court in Las Vegas later Thursday where he did not enter a plea, per reporting from The Associated Press. The judge ordered the courtroom cleared after federal public defender Margaret Wightman Lambrose requested a closed hearing for arguments about sealing court documents. She declined to comment on the case.

According to the indictment, Smirnov gave “false derogatory information” to the FBI despite “repeated admonishments that he must provide truthful information and that he must not fabricate evidence.”
The indictment says Smirnov told an FBI agent in March 2017 that he had a phone call with Burisma’s owner concerning the firm potentially acquiring a U.S. company and making an initial public offering (IPO) on a U.S.-based stock exchange.

In reporting this conversation to the FBI agent, Smirnov said Hunter Biden was a board member of Burisma, though this was publicly known.
In June 2020, Smirnov is accused of having told the FBI, for the first time, about two meetings he had four to five years prior, in which executives associated with Burisma supposedly admitted that they hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.”

During this meeting, the indictment alleges that Smirnov said the executives paid $5 million to each of the Bidens while Joe Biden was still in office. The indictment alleges that Smirnov falsely claimed the Bidens were paid so that Hunter Biden, with his dad’s help, could take care of a criminal investigation being conducted by the then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin, into Burisma.
The indictment alleges that this information given by Smirnov in June 2020 was a fabrication. Prosecutors say Smirnov did have contact with Burisma executives in 2017, but when Joe Biden was out of public office and had no ability to influence U.S. policy and after the Ukrainian Prosecutor General had been fired in February 2016.

The indictment alleges that Smirnov transformed his “routine and unextraordinary” business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later bribery allegations against Joe Biden after expressing bias against him and his presidential candidacy.
Smirnov is accused of repeating some of his false claims during an interview with FBI agents in September 2023, while changing other bits of information, and promoting a new false narrative after claiming to have met with Russian officials.

If convicted, Smirnov faces a maximum of 25 years in prison.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley were approached by a whistleblower last summer who alleged that the FBI was in possession of a document — an FD-1023 form, dated June 30, 2020 — which explicitly detailed information provided by a confidential human source alleging Biden, while serving as vice president, was involved in a multi-million-dollar scheme with a foreign national in exchange for influence over policy decisions.

The source told Fox News Digital that the confidential human source was used by the FBI for “at least several years” before the FD-1023 form, and was “found to be highly credible” by the FBI.

Comer said Thursday that FBI Director Christopher Wray refused a request from him and Grassley last summer for the public release of the form because the bureau “claimed it would jeopardize the safety of a confidential human source who they claimed was invaluable to the FBI.”

Comer said the bureau informed him that the source was “credible and trusted, had worked with the FBI for over a decade, and have been paid six figures.”

“The FBI’s actions in this matter are very concerning. The FBI had this form for years and it appears they did nothing to verify the troubling claims contained within the record until Congress became aware of and demanded access to them,” Comer said.

Comer said the FBI’s FD-1023 form is not being used in an impeachment inquiry against the president.

The impeachment inquiry, he said, “is based on a large record of evidence, including bank records and witness testimony, revealing that Joe Biden knew of and participated in his family’s business dealings.”

“Just this week, we had another witness confirm Joe Biden was the brand being sold by the Bidens around the world. President Biden continues to lie to the American people about this matter and the American people demand the truth and accountability for any wrongdoing. We will continue to follow the facts to propose legislation to reform federal ethics laws and to determine whether articles of impeachment are warranted.”

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Grassley told Fox News Digital that the indictment “confirms several points Senator Grassley has made repeatedly.”
The informant behind the FD-1023 was, indeed, a long-serving, trusted FBI source used by the agency for criminal investigations since the Obama administration. In fact, he was so trusted that the FBI provided him authorization ‘to engage in illegal activity for investigative purposes,'" the spokesperson said. “But, when presented with information from a source the agency so trusted, the FBI – as exposed by Senator Grassley – sat on the document for years, without performing due diligence.”

The spokesperson added: “It’s clear that only after Senator Grassley made the FD-1023 public did the FBI investigate the allegations in the document.”

Grassley has sought to “ensure the DOJ and FBI investigated the FD-1023.”

“Today’s indictment makes clear that, without Senator Grassley’s oversight and exposure of the FD-1023, the agency would have continued neglecting its duties and failing to provide the transparency the American people deserve,” the spokesperson said. “Congress shouldn’t have to threaten contempt to obtain an unclassified document.”
Grassley’s spokesperson told Fox News Digital that “after withholding information from Congress and the American people, and hiding behind the guise of protecting ‘sources and methods,’ the Department of Justice has now exposed their own source.”

“Accordingly, this indictment isn’t enough – the public has a right to see all the underlying evidence supporting the Biden Justice Department’s case,” the spokesperson said. “The Biden administration must show its work.”
What a bunch of BULLSHIT !!!
So why hasn’t Adam Schiff been charged with saying he has the evidence against Trump in the fake Russian collusion story. He was trying to influence a presidential election. Where are the arrests for those who falsely accused Trump, those that created false documents where are the charges.
If someone accuses the Bidens of wrongdoing and the Bidens deny it then of course the accuser must be lying. This guy they arrested was a reliable informant for 10 years and now suddenly they accuse him of lying. What a JUSTICE SYSTEM we have under the demoRAT dictatorship !!! And what say the GOP ???
So the moment their “highly paid and well trusted” informant goes to Congress, they show up in force at an airport to arrest him? Yet Hunter Biden – who the FBI itself admits made multiple false statements to them, gets offered a plea deal absolving him not only from these, but from 100+ counts

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Anger Erupts After Politically Corrupt Judge Orders Trump to Pay $370 million In a Case With No Victims

This is a case with zero victims, all loans were repaid, and the banks even testified in defense of Trump Hotels.

WOW JUSTICE ???

The University of California system has agreed to pay $243.6 million to settle lawsuits by more than 200 women, some of them cancer patients, who alleged they were sexually abused by a former UCLA gynecologist.

USA Gymnastics, USOPC reach $380 million settlement with victims of sexual abuse. More than 300 victims were abused by Nassar, with the remaining victims abused by individuals affiliated with USA Gymnastics in some capacity.

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Trump’s main defense in the case is his argument that banks and his insurers weren’t harmed by his business practices – a point Tur floated during the broadcast while probing the strength of Engoron’s decision.

She wondered if the use of the statute in the Trump case was truly fair to the former president, suggesting that if Trump’s argument was true, this was the first time the statute was used this way in 150 cases.

The host began by explaining Engoron’s decision here, noting that the statute does not require a prosecutor “to show that anybody was hurt by your practices – there’s nobody you defrauded specifically.” So, Engoron was within legal scope with the ruling.

However, she went on to explain that – after looking back at how the statute was used – “there was no case where there was a ban on doing business where there wasn’t harm shown.”
Consider this, if neither the Banks, nor the insurers are claiming harm (damages), just exactly where would the proceeds of the judgement go? I’m guessing to enrich the State or City coffers. Which would mean there’s a financial incentive to prosecute and a question as the the State seizing property (the judgement) without due process, because the statute doesn’t provide for due process. It’s not only politically motivated, but a money grab by NY. More money for illegals .
People are outraged at how the criminal justice system is being used to persecute political opponents. This is outrageous and we’ve not seen lawfare used to this extent in our nation’s history.

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Joe Biden, who is too mentally decrepit to be prosecuted for his blatant, unauthorized handling of classified documents, seeks to hire thousands of IRS agents. This maneuver, one might conclude, is to harass the middle class, particularly conservatives, and help pay for the unending boondoggle of multi-billion dollar expenditures that the Biden administration makes.

In an astounding three months, the U.S. federal debt has jumped by $1 trillion. Our nation’s debt is now $34 trillion. Incredibly 1981, our total debt was $1 trillion, some 198 years after the government started deficit spending.

Meanwhile, the administration has little to show for the hundreds of billions it has dished out for the endless war in Ukraine, endless skirmishes throughout the Middle East, endless Homeland Security border lapses and associated expenses, and vacuous grants, research, and studies about useless issues.

The multi-billions of dollars that U.S. defense forces abandoned in Afghanistan as a result of the poorly planned, hasty withdrawal didn’t help. The Biden administration also has dissipated $370 billion on climate projects, many of which are questionable.

The financial blunders, aided and abetted by a compliant, feckless Congress, are a negative marvel to behold. Considering all of the above, it is most upsetting that Hunter Biden, likely James Biden, and likely Joe Biden are tax cheats. Federal prosecutors say that Hunter embarked upon a “four-year scheme” to skip out on paying a minimum $1.4 million in taxes.

Last December, Hunter was charged with three felony and six misdemeanor tax avoidance charges. A typical citizen could be sentenced to as much as 17 years in prison if convicted. The charges against Hunter include filing a false or fraudulent tax return, and failure to file and pay taxes.

Coddled Beyond Hope and Reason

Hunter Biden is a walking cacophony of illegalities, shielded by his father. If ever a presidential adult offspring has been coddled beyond hope and reason and given a free pass to continue with behavior that the rest of society finds reprehensible, it is Hunter Biden. He is unique in history, and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. No need to recount the litany of his other behaviors, as virtually everyone with two brain cells is aware of them.

Hunter Biden has cheated on his taxes in so many ways, and his transgressions have made their way to a high court, so what does that say to the rest of us? Is it okay if you come from the right family and are a highly privileged individual?

Where are those on the Left to cry out about white privilege when it comes to discussing the all-time white privilege character – Hunter Biden?

Similarly, Joe’s younger brother, James Biden, is no paragon of virtue. He’s been involved in illicit deals around the globe and, like Hunter, does his best to shield Joe, who Tony Bobulinski recently exposed as Hunter’s enabler.

Corruption R Us
As of now, too much of the damning information has been exposed via bank records, emails, text messages, whistleblowers, eyewitnesses, testimony, and other means. The Biden family, quite simply, is as corrupt as a first family can be.

By contrast, for all four years of Donald Trump’s time in office, the mainstream press, which carries water for the Democrats, attempted to frame Trump and his children. Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump, Jr. are model citizens compared to Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Joe Biden. The media’s duplicity is so thick, however, you could cut it with a knife.

Recently, numerous articles have appeared about major media outlets cutting staff. These organizations haven’t figured out that, non-stop, when they publish or propagate propaganda about the Bidens and any other criminal Democrats, fewer and fewer people are interested in buying it.

Don’t shed any tears for “journalists” being let go. If they had stood their ground and didn’t capitulate to marching orders, some of them might have made headway in the profession, if not with their original company, then elsewhere. Instead, they contributed to the same corrupt press machine that has tried to pin all manner of crimes on Donald Trump and his family.

The Cat Jumped the Bag Long Ago

The Bidens are tax cheats, plain and simple, bribe takers par excellence. They are among the worst possible role models you could have as the first family. Everyone on the right knows this, and, increasingly, even hardcore Leftists know it.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Under questioning by U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate admitted the agency covered up 17 recordings of Joe and Hunter Biden with a Burisma executive who allegedly paid President Biden $5 million.

After being grilled by Senator Blackburn, Deputy Director Abbate claimed, “we often redact documents to protect sources and methods…the document was redacted.”

Senator Blackburn also highlighted the two tiers of justice being carried out by the Garland-Biden DOJ and FBI.

The FBI Is Targeting Parents, People of Faith and Conservatives – Letting Hillary and Joe Walk Free

“The American people have watched your agents target parents, people of faith, and almost anyone with conservative values and they wonder—am I next? There is only one conclusion that any serious person could draw: there is a two-tiered system of justice under this administration. The American people know that, if they aren’t loyal to Washington’s liberal political elite or if their last name doesn’t happen to be Biden or Clinton, they are at risk of being targeted.”

“FBI agents, under your leadership, drew their guns on a pro-life advocate in front of his wife and children; labeled concerned parents as “domestic terrorists;” and even conducted an unprecedented raid on the home of a former president and political opponent.” – Senator Blackburn

The FBI Did Not Raid Hillary Clinton’s Home After She Destroyed Potential Evidence

“These actions have only confirmed everyday Americans’ worst suspicions, especially considering that the FBI has refused to hold the Democratic elite to the same standard. When Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information, wiped her personal email server with a tool called BleachBit, and literally had her phone destroyed with a hammer, the FBI did nothing.”

“When President Biden mishandled classified documents, the FBI did not raid his home like they did for President Trump. Now that the Biden family has been implicated in a far-reaching bribery scheme with a foreign nation, this administration has resorted to its old playbook: distract and deflect.”

“Well, the American people will not be distracted from the left’s weaponization of our government or President Biden’s two-tiered system of justice.” – Senator Blackburn

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FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday that allegations of an FBI agent’s partisan social media posts and efforts to suppress information in the investigation into Hunter Biden’s business activities were “deeply troubling.”

Speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, Wray appeared to condemn the alleged actions of Timothy Thibault, who he said was an FBI assistant special agent in charge at the Washington field office until “relatively recently.”

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), who pursued the line of questioning with Wray, said that Thibault — who had been at the FBI for more than 25 years — is now on leave.

Kennedy grilled Wray on Thibault’s alleged partisan actions on social media over the past few years, such as “liking” a Washington Post article titled “William Barr has gone rogue” and tweeting to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) that her father — former Vice President Dick Cheney — was a “disgrace.” Kennedy also mentioned Thibault’s retweet of a Lincoln Project post saying that “Donald Trump is a psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man.”

Kennedy then pressed Wray on allegations that Thibault — who Kennedy said worked on both the investigation of links between Trump and Russia and the ongoing Hunter Biden probe — had “covered up derogatory info about Mr. Biden while working at the FBI.”

Wray gave similar answers to Kennedy’s questioning on both the social media posts and covering up of information, saying that he’d seen “descriptions to that effect” but wanted to be “careful” of not interfering with any ongoing personnel matters. But he did concede to finding the allegations about the social media posts “troubling.”
Earlier in the hearing, Wray seemed to address indirectly the claims that during the 2020 election season the FBI helped downplay or suppress information about Hunter Biden’s business ties by categorizing that as Russian disinformation.

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“Today, a former FBI supervisory special agent assigned to the FBI’s Wilmington office and the Biden criminal investigation confirmed key portions of the IRS whistleblower’s testimony. The night before the interview of Hunter Biden, both Secret Service headquarters and the Biden transition team were tipped off about the planned interview. On the day of the Hunter Biden interview, federal agents were told to stand by and could not approach Hunter Biden—they had to wait for his call. As a result of the change in plans, IRS and FBI criminal investigators never got to interview Hunter Biden as part of the investigation.

“The Justice Department’s efforts to cover up for the Bidens reveals a two-tiered system of justice that sickens the American people. The Oversight Committee, along with the Judiciary Committee and Ways and Means Committee, will continue to seek the answers, transparency, and accountability that the American people demand and deserve.”

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Gov. Hochul has no excuse for resorting to shady budget tricks

State comptroller Tom DiNapoli is warning that Gov. Hochul is up to her old tricks: keeping billions in state outlays out of the main budgeting process and protected from vital independent oversight.

In his latest report, DiNapoli cites legitimate concerns over several new proposed budget items, such as Hochul’s exclusion of $160 million in contracting from vetting rules, and an additional $3.3 billion in spending without competitive bidding.

The gov, in other words, is giving herself sole discretion to spend what amounts to a potentially $3.3 billion pay-to-play pot of money.

Thomas DiNapoli cited concerns over Hochul’s exclusion of $160 million in contracting from vetting rules. John Nacion/Shutterstock

It’s not the first time she’s done something like this.

In 2022, The Post reported that Hochul used her pandemic emergency powers to suspend state contracting rules to buy stunningly overpriced COVID test kits — from a campaign donor.

Is she planning to reward favorite donors again with lucrative state business?

And she kept extending those pandemic-era powers month-after-month, preventing the Legislature and the state comptroller from scrutinizing any of her COVID-related spending.

Hochul’s budget also severely restricts DiNapoli’s oversight of certain state bond issuances.

As the comptroller notes, that conflicts with his constitutional obligation to protect against borrowing that saddles New York taxpayers with too much debt at too-high interest costs.

Governor Kathy Hochul prevented the Legislature and the state comptroller from scrutinizing any of her COVID-related spending. Matthew McDermott

Meanwhile, the gov continues to circumvent state debt limits, mushrooming IOUs.

That’s got DiNapoli so alarmed he’s demanding a “binding constitutional state debt reform to restore accountability to state taxpayers.”

Hochul promised “transparency” and rigorous budgeting but her proposals show she never meant it.

State comptroller Tom DiNapoli is warning that Gov. Hochul is up to her old tricks: keeping billions in state outlays out of the main budgeting process and protected from vital independent oversight.

In his latest report, DiNapoli cites legitimate concerns over several new proposed budget items, such as Hochul’s exclusion of $160 million in contracting from vetting rules, and an additional $3.3 billion in spending without competitive bidding.

The gov, in other words, is giving herself sole discretion to spend what amounts to a potentially $3.3 billion pay-to-play pot of money.

Gov. Hochul has no excuse for resorting to shady budget tricks© Provided by New York Post

Thomas DiNapoli cited concerns over Hochul’s exclusion of $160 million in contracting from vetting rules. John Nacion/Shutterstock

It’s not the first time she’s done something like this.

In 2022, The Post reported that Hochul used her pandemic emergency powers to suspend state contracting rules to buy stunningly overpriced COVID test kits — from a campaign donor.

Is she planning to reward favorite donors again with lucrative state business?

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And she kept extending those pandemic-era powers month-after-month, preventing the Legislature and the state comptroller from scrutinizing any of her COVID-related spending.

Hochul’s budget also severely restricts DiNapoli’s oversight of certain state bond issuances.

As the comptroller notes, that conflicts with his constitutional obligation to protect against borrowing that saddles New York taxpayers with too much debt at too-high interest costs.

Gov. Hochul has no excuse for resorting to shady budget tricks© Provided by New York Post

Governor Kathy Hochul prevented the Legislature and the state comptroller from scrutinizing any of her COVID-related spending. Matthew McDermott

Meanwhile, the gov continues to circumvent state debt limits, mushrooming IOUs.

That’s got DiNapoli so alarmed he’s demanding a “binding constitutional state debt reform to restore accountability to state taxpayers.”

Hochul promised “transparency” and rigorous budgeting but her proposals show she never meant it.

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Good for DiNapoli for flagging such gimmicks.

If Hochul insists on them, the Legislature should heed his advice and reject any proposals that restrict his oversight or potentially harm taxpayers.

The pandemic’s long over. There’s no excuse for hiding spending and debt, handing out contracts without proper vetting or steering taxpayer dollars to friends, allies and donors.

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Kathy Hochul Does Damage Control After Trump Verdict. It Doesn’t Look Like It Will Work.

While the progressive left cheered the $355 million judgment against former President Donald Trump in the real estate fraud case, which also barred him from doing business in New York for three years, others were rightly horrified. Law professor Jonathan Turley noted that after “this type of corporate public execution, it is hard to imagine many businesses rushing to the Big Apple. Drawing new businesses to the city is going to be about as easy as selling country estates during the French Revolution.” Sensing that, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul went into damage control mode.

If the illegals don’t bankrupt NY the number of bussinesses leaving will !!

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The First Family of Tax Cheats and Sellouts

Joe Biden, who is too mentally decrepit to be prosecuted for his blatant, unauthorized handling of classified documents, seeks to hire thousands of IRS agents. This maneuver, one might conclude, is to harass the middle class, particularly conservatives, and help pay for the unending boondoggle of multi-billion dollar expenditures that the Biden administration makes.

In an astounding three months, the U.S. federal debt has jumped by $1 trillion. Our nation’s debt is now $34 trillion. Incredibly 1981, our total debt was $1 trillion, some 198 years after the government started deficit spending.

Meanwhile, the administration has little to show for the hundreds of billions it has dished out for the endless war in Ukraine, endless skirmishes throughout the Middle East, endless Homeland Security border lapses and associated expenses, and vacuous grants, research, and studies about useless issues.

The multi-billions of dollars that U.S. defense forces abandoned in Afghanistan as a result of the poorly planned, hasty withdrawal didn’t help. The Biden administration also has dissipated $370 billion on climate projects, many of which are questionable.

The financial blunders, aided and abetted by a compliant, feckless Congress, are a negative marvel to behold. Considering all of the above, it is most upsetting that Hunter Biden, likely James Biden, and likely Joe Biden are tax cheats. Federal prosecutors say that Hunter embarked upon a “four-year scheme” to skip out on paying a minimum $1.4 million in taxes.

Last December, Hunter was charged with three felony and six misdemeanor tax avoidance charges. A typical citizen could be sentenced to as much as 17 years in prison if convicted. The charges against Hunter include filing a false or fraudulent tax return, and failure to file and pay taxes.

Coddled Beyond Hope and Reason

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They arrested Trump 4 times , gave him 91 charges and fined him $350,000,000 before a SINGLE JEFFREY EPSTEIN CLIENT WAS ARRESTED !!! JUSTICE ???

1. Bill Clinton
2. Alan Dershowitz
3. Al Gore
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So, No One Finds It Fishy That the FBI All of a Sudden Threw Its Hunter Biden Source Under the Bus?

The FBI fought like hell to keep the FD-1023 hidden, even scrubbing mentions of the Biden family in the report—details that in no way imperiled aspects relating to our national security. The FBI, which has consistently run interference to protect Joe Biden and the Democrats, decided to toss their informant under the bus when legal issues for the Bidens were heating up. Hunter faces trials for gun and tax evasion charges. Joe might get impeached. He’s also dealing with voter concerns about his age and mental health, which were thrust back into the spotlight over the report filed by Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding the president’s mishandling of classified information. Hur had excerpts about Biden’s degrading memory, which was one of the reasons why the Justice Department didn’t indict Biden: they thought he was too old and senile.

he DOJ really wants us to believe that a guy who had been an FBI informant for over a decade, who they described as “credible,” accused the Biden’s of taking bribes from Ukraine and all of a sudden he’s arrested for lying to the FBI and has ties to Russian intelligence.

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Biden Associate James Galanis: Hunter’s Value ‘Was His Family Name and His Access to’ VP Joe Biden

The House Oversight Committee heard jailhouse testimony from Hunter Biden business associate Jason Galanis on Friday as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, with Townhall obtaining a copy of his opening statement. That statement contained many stunning revelations, including as it pertains to the influence of the Biden family name, but also how the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Biden administration has been weaponized

Early in his testimony, Galanis was clear that he believes the value Hunter brought to their business dealings was his name name. “The entire value-add of Hunter Biden to our business was his family name and his access to his father, Vice President Joe Biden. Because of this access, I agreed to contribute equity ownership to them – Hunter and Devon [Archer] – for no out-of-pocket cost from them in exchange for their ‘relationship capital,’” Galanis said, speaking about a fellow business partner.

This was not the first red flag Galanis mentioned, as he said he had been advised by his business partner “to stay away from Hunter,” though he still “agreed to become equity partners with Hunter and Devon in building the Burnham group,” with Hunter serving as vice chairman.

Galanis shared that he worked with Hunter and Archer from 2012-2015, during which time they acquired Burnham & Co, described as “the $1.5 surviving division of Drexel Burnham Lambert,” as he also added that “combining that with other businesses in insurance and wealth management we owned and acquired with total audited assets of over $17 billion.” Galanis said their goal “was to make billions, not millions.”

Burnham was also described as “the focal point for integrating a ‘Biden Family Office’ into a large-scale financial company with international influence.”

In 2014, Galanis, Hunter, and Archer decided that Burnham would “be significantly enhanced” by a partnership with Harvest Fund Management, described as “a $300 billion Chinese financial services company closely connected to the Chinese Communist Party.” Hunter’s contact with Harvest’s chairman, Henry Zhao, led such an effort to expand a relationship with the Chinese.

And the Biden family name played a role. “Mr. Zhao was interested in this partnership because of the game-changing value add of the Biden family, including Joe Biden, who was to be a member of the Burnham-Harvest team post-vice presidency, providing political access in the United States and around the world,” Galanis testified.

In his testimony, Galanis also spoke of an email draft provided by his attorney. Fox News, which also reported on the opening statement, has more details, providing photos of the email in question.

Galanis pointed to a draft email dated Aug. 23, 2014, from Hunter Biden, which states: “Please also remind Henry [Zhao] of our conversation about a board seat for a certain relation of mine. Devon and I golfed with that relation earlier last week and we discussed this very idea again and as always he remains very very keen on the opportunity.”

Fox News Digital obtained that draft email.

Galanis testified that email was “struck from the final version” but “was drafted with an understanding of what had transpired regarding this effort.”

Galanis said the email was forwarded to him by Devon Archer with the words: “FYI … example of lean in on Henry from Hunter … this is email drafted for him to send to Henry.”

Galanis testified that the words “lean in” were “used often by Devon and Hunter in our business dealings as a term for access to Vice President Biden’s political influence.”

“As Devon Archer is mentioned as a direct party to the conversation with the vice president on the golf course, it is clear from his email that Devon believed this was an accurate representation of that conversation,” Galanis said in his opening statement.

“I am certain that the phrase ‘a certain relation of mine’ refers to Vice President Biden, and Devon told me about this conversation on the golf course shortly after it happened,” Galanis testified. “And it was one of many conversations that I understood the vice president had expressing his willingness to join Harvest board after his vice presidency.”

The draft email does not specifically mention Joe Biden’s name or refer to the “certain relation” as Hunter Biden’s father. However, there is an infamous photo of Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer on the golf course. That photo was taken in mid-August 2014, which would have been a week or so prior to the draft email. News reports indicate the vice president was in the Hamptons at the time.

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Biden has denied anything’s wrong, blamed everyone but himself, and doubled down on his unconstitutional, country-wrecking agenda. DemoRATS have their way with top officials at the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Administration, and even the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the Federal Trade Commission, and the National Archives. In fact, scores of agencies, departments, or divisions in government are beholding to today’s Democrats in one way or another.
These agencies go after whoever the Dems want .