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  • National Archives Uncovers 82,000 Private Emails Sent by Former VP Biden Under Pseudonyms

    In response to legal pressure, the National Archives has uncovered 82,000 pages of emails sent or received by Vice President Joe Biden on three private pseudonym accounts during his tenure as vice president, according to a federal court filing reported by Just the News on Monday.

    This amount potentially dwarfs the amount that landed Hillary Clinton in ‘hot water’ a decade ago, investigative reporter John Solomon noted.

    The total number of Biden’s private email exchanges was disclosed in a little-noticed status report filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Southeastern Legal Foundation against the National Archives and Records Administration, the report adds.

    Joe Biden had used three pseudonym email accounts – robinware456@gmail.com, JRBWare@gmail.com, and Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov – while serving as President Barack Obama’s vice president. The foundation filed the lawsuit seeking access to the emails.

    The status report submitted to a federal court in Atlanta on Monday was the first to estimate the extent and scope of potential government business conducted through Joe Biden’s private email accounts.

    “NARA has completed a search for potentially responsive documents and is currently processing those documents for the purpose of producing non-exempt portions of any responsive records on a monthly rolling basis,” the status report stated. “Given the scope of Plaintiff’s FOIA request, which seeks copies of all emails in three separate accounts over an eight-year period, the volume of potentially responsive records is necessarily large.

    “NARA has identified approximately 82,000 pages of potentially responsive documents, and it is currently processing those documents and preparing any non-exempt responsive documents for production on a rolling basis,” the filing added.

    The full court filing can be found here.

    According to the court filing, the foundation and NARA are discussing methods to restrict the request for records to expedite the distribution of copies of the emails.

    The law discourages government officials from using private email for official business, and the Federal Records Act requires officials like Biden to preserve all government-related communications conducted on their private accounts. The fact that NARA has such an extensive collection of emails suggests that Biden provided them to the nation’s historical preservation agency.

    The number revealed by the National Archives, however, is staggering, even surpassing the number involved in the most infamous private email scandal in American history, which also involved government business on Obama’s watch and involved former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

    A State Department inspector general report from the summer of 2016 concluded that Mrs. Clinton inappropriately used a private email server kept in her family’s home in Chappaqua, New York, to conduct government business on a regular basis and subsequently purged many of the emails she considered private.

    The final report stated, “Secretary Clinton provided the Department with approximately 55,000 hard-copy pages from her personal email account, representing approximately 30,000 emails she believed were related to official business.” These sums are considerably less than the number of pages the National Archives claims to possess from Biden’s personal account.

    About 100 emails Clinton sent through her private server contained information that should have been classified at the time they were sent, including 65 emails with “Secret” security clearance and 22 with “Top Secret” security clearance.

    Eventually, the government recovered even Mrs. Clinton’s expunged personal emails and released all 52,000 of them under the Freedom of Information Act.

    To date, the National Archives have provided no indication that any of Biden’s emails contain classified information. However, the president is under criminal investigation by Special Counsel Robert Hur for improperly storing classified documents from his time as vice president and senator in the garage of his Delaware home and an office he maintained at a think tank in Washington, D.C.

    Recently, Hur interviewed Biden for two days as part of this investigation.

    Special Counsel Jack Smith has already indicted former President Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents that the FBI recovered from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida or that Trump returned to the National Archives late.

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  • Ga. man allegedly set wife on fire by rubbing alcohol on her and lighting a cigarette

    ALBANY, Ga. (TCD) — Police arrested a man last week who allegedly set his wife on fire and neglected to seek help for her for days.

    According to a news release from the Albany Police Department, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, EMS responded to 67-year-old Amanda Jenkins’ home in the 400 block of Bobbitt Drive and found Jenkins unresponsive with 25% burns to her lower body. They transported her to the Phoebe Putney Hospital for treatment.

    Officers went to Jenkins’ home and brought her husband, 64-year-old Henry Hardwick, to the Law Enforcement Center for questioning. Police learned during the interview that on Oct. 22, Hardwick allegedly rubbed alcohol on his wife because she was “in a lot of pain from her condition of multiple sclerosis.” Then, he allegedly lit a cigarette near her, which caused her to catch fire.

    Hardwick told police he “panicked and was scared to call for help.”

    According to the statement, Hardwick didn’t seek help for his wife until two days later. Jenkins’ daughter reportedly responded to the home and found her mother in critical condition. Jenkins was transferred to Augusta Burn Unit for additional treatment.

    Hardwick faces a charge of aggravated assault and was booked into the Dougherty County Jail. The Albany Police Department said Hardwick could face additional charges.

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  • Salt Lake City man convicted of killing teen, holding people hostage over stolen alcohol

    SALT LAKE CITY (TCD) — A 40-year-old man was convicted last week of killing an 18-year-old and holding multiple people hostage after partygoers stole a bottle of alcohol from the man’s home.

    On Friday, Oct. 27, a jury found Levon Meguerditchian guilty of first-degree murder, several counts of aggravated kidnapping, obstructing justice, and felony discharge of a firearm.

    The fatal incident occurred Aug. 28, 2021, at a party Meguerditchian hosted at his home in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House neighborhood. In the early hours of the morning, some attendees grabbed a bottle of alcohol and ran out of his home. The victim, 18-year-old Abdourazak Mouhoumed, reportedly left the home at the same time and drove off.

    The Salt Lake County district attorney’s office said Meguerditchian shot at Mouhoumed and struck him in the head. As a result, Mouhoumed crashed his car.

    According to KUTV-TV, Mouhoumed’s car rammed into two homes, but the residents reportedly were not aware of the crash. Mouhoumed died at the scene.

    Meguerditchian reportedly forced everyone else at the party to move into the laundry room and threatened them with violence. Salt Lake City Police arrived at the scene to search for signs of the shooting but did not find any evidence. Some of the hostages were reportedly freed after that.

    At approximately 6:30 a.m., one of the hostage’s friends contacted the Salt Lake City Police Department and said their friend was still being held against her will at Meguerditchian’s home. Officers went to the residence and found a juvenile female with “multiple injuries to her face.”

    Meguerditchian reportedly surmised that girl was friends with the people who took the alcohol and invited them to the party.

    He will be sentenced Jan. 10, 2024.

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  • Ill. woman convicted of helping son kill missing man and leaving his body in a trash can

    NAPERVILLE, Ill. (TCD) — A jury found a 43-year-old woman guilty last week for playing a role in the shooting death of a missing 20-year-old man and dumping his body in a trash can near a vacant home.

    On Friday, Oct. 27, the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office announced Candice Jones was convicted of first-degree murder and armed robbery in connection with the 2018 fatal shooting of Michael Armendariz. The jury reportedly came back with the verdict after 90 minutes of deliberation. Her son, Ernest Collins, was convicted of murder and armed robbery with a firearm in September for his role in Armdenariz’s killing.

    According to the state’s attorney’s office, on Jan. 18, 2018, Naperville Police went to a home on Whispering Hills Drive to take a missing person report on behalf of Armdendariz, who was last seen four days prior at around 9:30 p.m.

    Jones, Collins, and his girlfriend, Cassandra Green, reportedly “hatched a scheme to rob Armendariz with a gun.”

    On the evening of Jan. 14, 2018, Green sent Armendariz a Snapchat message. Minutes later, he got into an SUV that Green was driving. Then, Collins, who was hiding in the back seat, shot Armendariz in the head twice execution-style. Green and Collins drove Armendariz’s body to Jones’ home in Chicago and left his body in a trash can. They reportedly left the garbage bin in Jones’ garage, then moved it to a vacant residence next door.

    On Jan. 15, 2018, Green and Collins stole Armendariz’s keys and burglarized his apartment.

    According to WGN-TV, Armendariz’s body was discovered in June 2018.

    Collins and Green were arrested Feb. 4, 2019, in Rockford, while Jones was taken into custody two days later in Chicago.

    The state’s attorney’s office said Green pleaded guilty Aug. 19 to armed robbery with a firearm.

    Jones faces 75 years in prison, while her son could be sentenced to up to life in prison.

    DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said about the verdict, “The diabolical plot devised by Candice Jones, Ernest Collins, and Cassandra Green, and the execution of that plot, left a void in the lives of Michael’s surviving family and friends that will never be filled. I wish them strength as they continue their lives, having replaced Michael’s presence with just his memory.”

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  • The Clintons, Qatar, and the Israel Massacre

    Shortly after the world began learning the details of the massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7, Hillary Clinton published a note of support on X for “everyone affected by the horrific attacks by Hamas” and expressing “strong support of our ally,” Israel. The former secretary of state had nothing to say about one of Hamas’s key allies, the energy-rich kingdom of Qatar, and not surprisingly: Qatar is not only an important friend of the U.S. in the region but also for many years was a generous patron of Bill and Hillary Clinton. As JW President Tom Fitton noted on X, Qatar funneled money to the Clintons when Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state and she “hid this until disclosures from Wikileaks and pressure from Judicial Watch forced her to admit to tens of millions of previously hidden foreign cash payments to ‘Clinton Inc.’”

    Slipping money into the hands of slippery politicians—a time-honored tradition in the Middle East and elsewhere—of course is not the same as providing significant ongoing state support for a murderous terrorist organization. But the Clinton experience does provide a snapshot of the Qatari influence operation and a warning about what Qatar may be up to elsewhere, including in the United States.

    The Qatar-Clinton money trail begins around 2008, when the Clinton Foundation—under pressure due to Mrs. Clinton’s imminent ascent to State Department leadership—published a list of donors. Among them: Qatar, listed as contributing between $1 million and $5 million. A Clinton Foundation spokesman later acknowledged that Qatar had been sending the Clintons money “since 2002.”

    Pressure mounted on the Clintons in 2014 with the publication of a Judicial Watch investigative report disclosing that Bill Clinton had earned upward of $48 million in speaking fees around the globe, including from Arab countries, while Mrs. Clinton served as secretary of state. “Former President Clinton trotted the globe collecting huge speaking fees while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy,” Tom Fitton noted at the time.

    In 2016, a leaked Wikileaks email revealed that five years earlier, in 2011, the Clintons had received a $1 million gift from Qatar. That gift was never reported by the Clintons, a clear violation of the disclosure agreement the Clintons had signed with the State Department when Mrs. Clinton took the helm. Soon after the 2011 gift, a high-ranking Qatari official pressed the Clinton circle for “five minutes” with the former president.

    Judicial Watch Freedom of Information lawsuits also turned up more evidence of Clinton conflict of interests, including the courting of Qatar. A JW FOIA disclosure in late 2016 revealed a list sent by a Clinton Foundation senior adviser to a high-ranking aide to Secretary of State Clinton; the list noted more than 200 foreign leaders to be invited to the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, including the emir of Qatar, the Qatari prime minster, and the minister of foreign affairs.

    Qatar’s pursuit of influence in the United States is not limited to the Clintons and their allies. According to investigative reports, Qatar has given $1 billion to American universities since 2011. Qatar also is a major purveyor of anti-Semitism. It’s media is filled with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda. And at the UN—not exactly a bastion of pro-Israel sentiment—a high-ranking Qatari official was recently denied a senior post on the grounds of anti-Semitism. That’s useful context when considering Qatar’s role supporting Hamas.

    Here at Judicial Watch, we’re watching Qatar closely. At home, with concern rising about anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses, we won a recent lawsuit forcing disclosure of information about Qatar’s funding of American universities. Abroad, with lessons learned from our Clinton investigations, we’re following the flow of Qatari money. We’ll keep you updated.

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    Micah Morrison is chief investigative reporter for Judicial Watch. Tips: mmorrison@judicialwatch.org

    Investigative Bulletin is published by Judicial Watch. Reprints and media inquiries: jfarrell@judicialwatch.org

     

     



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  • Speaker Mike Johnson Shatters Any Illusion Republicans Will Avoid World War 3

    New House Speaker Mike Johnson is disabusing Republicans of the notion that the United States is seeking an off-ramp for regional wars in Europe and the Middle East.

    Johnson has made it clear that nothing will change in terms of the party’s support for the proxy war in Ukraine or in terms of putting boots on the ground in the Israel-Hamas war.

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

    Johnson appeared on “Hannity” and made the party’s position on these wars absolutely clear:

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    “Now we can’t allow Vladimir Putin to prevail in Ukraine because I don’t believe it would stop there and it would probably encourage and empower China to perhaps make a move on Taiwan,” Johnson claimed.

    Speaker Johnson then qualified that it is important to audit the money flowing into Ukraine.

    “We have these concerns. We’re not going to abandon them. We want to be cooperative. We need to work together on this, but we owe it to the people to know what the plan is, where the money’s going to be spent, and we need some auditing for the dollars that we’ve already sent over there. These are not tough questions, right?”

    “One thing that House Republicans are resolved on is that we must stand with our most important ally in the Middle East and that’s Israel,” he continued. “We will, we certainly hope that it doesn’t come to boots on the ground if it comes to that. And we communicated this to the White House staff as well today that we have the Article one Power in the legislative branch of government, and they have Article Two.”

    “They have very limited authority on what they can do to respond without coming to Congress to seek consent,” he added. “And even my Democrat colleagues… understand this and the Foreign Affairs Committee…”

    The White House and House Democrat allies have resisted Congressional pressure for funding transparency.

    “The measure, calling on the Pentagon and State Department to provide Congress with documents on U.S. aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February, was defeated by a 26-22 House Foreign Affairs Committee vote,” the Washington Times reported in December.

    There are also concerns that weapons meant for Ukrainian fighters will wind up in the hands of criminals and militia fighters around the world, as they have in past conflicts.

    Speaker Johnson indicated that he believes Iran is tied into the Hamas-Israel conflict, and that Russia and China are involved.

    “We know that Iran is directly tied to all this,” he said. “These are Hamas and Hezbollah are proxies of Iran and they’re tied in now with Russia and China. I mean, it is a new axis of evil. That’s how we see it. And so it has to be addressed.”

    The last time an American political leader threw around the “axis of evil” epithet, the nation was off to fight a disastrous war in Iraq that created a power vacuum in the heart of the Middle East ultimately led to the rise of ISIS.

    “The House is back in business and we’re going to stand with Israel,” he added.

    The U.S. Congress is understandably standing with Israel, but its first duty is standing with the American people.

    As the Pentagon announces another $150 million for the Ukraine proxy war, U.S. voters have to wonder when the war machine and the cash printers backing it are going to be shut off.

    The U.S. economy is broke. The American people are suffering. It is not the responsibility of this nation to go abroad ‘searching for monsters to destroy.’

    Due to our incessant foreign meddling, we are encouraging China and Russia and Iran to become more aggressive in asserting their regional hegemony, while engaging in the classic geopolitical blunder of ‘imperial overstretch.’

    The U.S. is stretching its dollar to the breaking point — due to the funding of wars, the servicing of the debt (at nearly a trillion dollars a fiscal quarter,) and the endless expansion of the bureaucratic-welfare complex.

    The nation is projected to amass over $140 trillion in debt by 2053. That is completely unsustainable, particularly in a nation whose manufacturing and energy sectors are being depleted by quixotic “green” policies.

    The United States is importing millions of illegal aliens, approximately 8 million under the Biden administration alone. This is the Democrats’ preferred underclass, a foreign-language-speaking proletariat to back its ‘revolution from above.’

    This “revolution” is actually reversing the American experiment of a limited government that constitutionally protects the life, liberty, and property of the citizenry. It is a revolution in the sense that it is restoring the absolutism of decadent pre-revolutionary Europe.

    This is creating a Tower of Babel that is culturally divided within. Due to the subversive state-education system and the colleges, even the English speakers no longer speak the same language: Traditional Americans and the Woke literati might as well be living in Two Americas.

    It is highly disturbing that the new House leadership is signaling it does not grasp the urgency of the moment. America needs a new direction — and fast. We cannot be fighting for other people’s freedom when it is at-risk in our own nation.

    If this Congress does not get this House in order, America is going to find itself in terminal national decline in an unstable multipolar world dominated by ruthless nuclear-armed powers.

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  • Two Democrats Call It Quits, Won’t Run for Re-Election As Biden Approval Craters

    President Joe Biden’s approval rating among his own party is cratering. It has dropped by double digits in the last month, according to a new Gallup poll.

    “President Joe Biden’s job approval rating among Democrats has tumbled 11 percentage points in the past month to 75%, the worst reading of his presidency from his own party,” the pollsters said. “This drop has pushed his overall approval rating down four points to 37%, matching his personal low.”

    “At the same time, Biden’s approval among independents has declined four points, to 35%, while Republicans’ rating remains unchanged, at just 5%,” the poll added.

    Now there’s more bad news for Biden’s party: Two Democrats are leaving the House of Representatives following a dramatic month in which the House ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as speaker and then ultimately elected his replacement Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA).

    Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD), 61 years old, will leave Congress in 2025 after nearly two decades of service, he announced on October 26.

    “With that in mind, I have decided not to seek re-election in 2024. While I am making this announcement today—specifically for the benefit of candidates interested in running for my seat in next year’s election—I’m not going anywhere for the next fourteen months. That’s what’s left in my term and I’m committed to finishing strong,” he added.

    Sarbanes worked for nonprofits prior to his 2007 election to the House of Representatives, and he has stated that he is “drawn back to that type of work, desiring to explore the numerous opportunities to serve that exist outside of elected office.”

    The longstanding member stated that the decision to resign was difficult, but he is optimistic about America’s future because the new Democratic leadership “is making all the right moves to bring Democrats back into the majority in January 2025.”

    Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-NC), 41, who just took office in January after nine years in the state Senate, has also announced that he will not seek reelection in 2024.

    Jackson stated in a video statement that he will compete for attorney general of North Carolina in order to “go after political corruption.”

    Jackson’s decision was prompted by the redistricting of North Carolina, which was authorized Wednesday by the GOP-controlled state legislature. The revised map redraws several districts currently held by Democrats in favor of the Republican Party.

    This comprises the 14th congressional district of North Carolina, which encompasses the majority of Charlotte.

    The new map is susceptible to legal challenge.

    Reps. Wiley Nickel (D-NC) and Kathy Manning (D-NC), both aged 47 and 66, are also confronting more difficult challenges. Mr. Nickel stated in a statement that he would not compete in any of the “gerrymandered districts” and that he would determine whether or not to run after “the courts have spoken.” Before the vote, Ms. Manning stated that the map was drawn “to ensure that Republicans win more House seats so that they can maintain control of the U.S. House of Representatives” and that she would continue to fight “to ensure that the people of North Carolina receive the representation they deserve.”

    With 221 members, Republicans currently control the House. The Democrats hold 212. There are two open positions.

    Sarbanes represents the third congressional district in Maryland. Maryland is a Democratic state, and Sarbanes won the last election with 60 percent of the vote with relative ease.

    According to political handicappers, the Democratic Party is anticipated to maintain control of the seat.

    So far, only one Democrat has entered the race: nurse Kristin Lyman Nabors. In light of Sarbanes’ impending retirement, no additional announcements have been made as of yet. Multiple state legislators have been suggested as possible candidates.

    The 14th congressional district of North Carolina, on the other hand, could be won by Republicans if the new map endures.

    According to an analysis by Politico, then-President Donald Trump received 58 percent of the vote in the redrew district, while President Joe Biden received 48 percent.

    No Democrats have yet declared their candidacy for the redrawn seat. Republican Army veteran Pat Harrigan had already declared his candidacy.

    In 2020, the districts represented by Manning and Nickel also voted for President Trump, while the district represented by Rep. Don Davis (D-NC), 52, is closer to parity.

    In light of the revised map, some political handicappers deemed Mr. Davis’s 1st Congressional District in North Carolina a toss-up.

    Davis emphasized the event via social media.

    “We need your help, now more than ever, to win this one again,” he said, requesting donations.

    The 54-year-old former North Carolina representative Mark Walker (R-NC) announced on Wednesday that he will compete for the redrawn 6th Congressional District currently held by Ms. Manning.

    Walker has been endorsed by newly-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), who was elected after roughly a month of political drama.

    Walker departed the House in 2021 and was unsuccessful in his candidacy for a Senate seat in 2022.

    In the midterm elections of 2022, Republicans outperformed Democrats and gained control of the lower chamber. The Democrats maintained control of the Senate and gained one seat.

    Eleven additional Democrats, including Representatives Katie Porter (D-CA), Andy Kim (D-CA), and Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), have already announced their plans to retire or run for another office. Five Republicans, including Representatives Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), Jim Banks (R-IN), and Dan Bishop (R-NC), are not seeking reelection.

    The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has yet to comment on the departures of Sarbanes and Jackson. National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Delanie Bomar stated that Jackson “has had one foot out the door for months, and it’s time he stepped aside to make room for a representative who truly cares about serving North Carolina in Congress.”

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  • BREAKING: Mike Pence Has Suspended His Campaign for President

    Mike Pence, former Vice President under President Donald Trump, has suspended his campaign for president.

    The 2024 presidential longshot issued a statement about his fledgling bid to prevent his one-time boss from winning the Republican nomination.

    “It’s become clear to me this is not my time,” he said.

    It is unclear when it would be Mike Pence’s “time.” The former Ohio governor’s campaign has failed to gain any significant traction on the right. Instead, he has attempted to play spoiler to Donald Trump based on his narratives about the January 6 riots.

    In June, Pence has filed the paperwork to launch his presidential campaign.

    “In 2024, I believe Conservatives have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to renew the promise of America!,” Tweeted Saturday, in a thread of campaign-style messages.

    “We can be a nation where everyone prospers, and everyone wins. We can have a government that is as good as our people. And we can be a nation where every American is free to live, to work, and to worship, according to the dictates of their faith and conscience!”

    Pence’s most notable moment of the 2024 campaign came when he was mercilessly beaten down in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

    Mike Pence, 2024 presidential candidate — we hardly knew you.



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  • Speaker Johnson States His Intention to Get to Bottom of Biden Family Corruption ‘Cover-Up’

    No, the Biden impeachment inquiry is not ‘winding down.’

    That was the unmistakable message from newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a Congressman from Louisiana.

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    “We have an ongoing cover-up of the important facts as Joseph Biden is sitting in the Oval Office,” Johnson said. “We know that he stared right into the camera as the president and lied repeatedly — I mean, multiple times — he lied directly multiple times about his involvement and knowledge of his son’s business dealings. We all know that now.”

    Hard left publication Raw Story had trumpeted the alleged news that Republicans wanted to wind down the Biden impeachment inquiry.

    “James Comer doubts he will ‘hold any more hearings’ on impeachment: report,” the outlet claimed on October 27.

    “Finally abandoning the sinking ship,” one commenter remarked.

    “In other words—it was a sham,” another said.

    “Quit while you are behind,” yet another chimed in.

    But that is not what was going on, despite the left-wing publication’s “report.”

    “The new House speaker wants to pursue impeachment charges based on baseless corruption claims against President Joe Biden but there’s just one problem: U.S. Rep James Comer (R-KY) wants to be done with the hearings,” Raw Story crowed.

    “I don’t know that I want to hold any more hearings, to be honest with you,” said Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

    But the outlet added that he said he preferred depositions, which “you can do more with.”

    Then the truth came out about the new Speaker’s intentions.

    “If in fact all the evidence leads to where we believe it will, that’s very likely impeachable offenses,” Johnson said. “I believe the documents are proving all that. The bank records don’t lie.”

    That is exactly what bank records subpoenaed have thus far shown: That Joe Biden’s bank records cannot account for paying for a Delaware home with $2.75 million in cash or a purported “loan” to his brother James Biden for $200,000.

    There are also tax discrepancies uncovered by investigators amounting to approximately $5 million. That is approximately the cut for the Big Guy, according to a trusted FBI informant’s claims.



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  • Jack Smith Quietly Retreats from One Trump Investigation

    Federal prosecutors have quietly withdrawn a subpoena seeking records from former President Donald J. Trump’s 2020 campaign as part of their investigation into whether his political and fund-raising operations committed any crimes.

    Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office this week decided to effectively kill the subpoena to the Trump campaign followed the withdrawal of a similar subpoena to Save America, the political action committee formed by Trump’s aides shortly after the dismissal of his 2020 election challenges.

    The rescinding of the subpoenas to Donald J. Trump for President Inc. and Save America indicated that Smith’s office was slowing or even ending its months-long investigation into whether Trump’s political operation violated any laws by using election fraud claims to raise funds. The retraction of the subpoena for Save America was first reported by The Washington Post last week.

    Smith’s team has been attempting to find out, for more than a year, whether Trump and his advisers violated federal wire fraud statutes in their fund-raising, following a path initially followed by the House select committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021.

    The former president’s team raised nearly $250 million with persistent claims that the election was ‘rigged.’

    Since at least November of last year, prosecutors had been investigating Save America and the Trump campaign, issuing grand jury subpoenas and examining volumes of documents. However, the financial aspect of Smith’s investigation was not mentioned in the August indictment filed in Washington, which accused Trump of conspiring to remain in office by subverting the election process.

    Donald Trump filed numerous legal challenges in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The great majority of them were dismissed on procedural grounds. The remainder of the cases were decided in favor of Trump or the Republican Party.

    Trump’s legal team has long maintained that Smith’s financial investigation would be unlikely to result in charges. There is a thin line between criminal behavior and solicitations protected by the First Amendment in political fund-raising materials, which frequently employ hyperbole.

    There is no unique case to bring against Donald Trump. If he is guilty, then nearly every political candidate for higher office would be guilty — not that this Department of Justice cares about equal justice under the law when it comes to Donald Trump.

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