[FoxNews] 'I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,' Hunter Biden wrote to a Chinese associate in 2017, days before receiving $5.1 million from a Chinese firm.
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The pressure will mount on the judge to reject the plea deal. When the deal is either signed or rejected, all hell will break loose. If Hunter is immunized for the bribe and everything else, the McCarthy crowd has no conception of how strong the reaction will be from the base. If the deal does not go through, the DS will go berserk. Chaos in either case.
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Break the system to achieve an outcome that you like and then express disappointment that nobody follows the system that you broke. Commit to reestablishing the system to protect your new outcome.
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[NYPOST] FTX is seeking to claw back some $700 million from a former aide to Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... -turned Hollywood super agent who was allegedly showered with cash by disgraced fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried.
The bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange took legal action on Thursday against Michael Kives, who was an assistant to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), and his company, K5 Global, and firm co-founder Bryan Baum.
According to court papers filed in bankruptcy court in Delaware, Bankman-Fried authorized the transfer of $700 million to K5 entities in 2022, and he leaned on K5’s celebrity and business connections in his effort to obtain rescue financing in the days before FTX went bankrupt in November 2022.
As The Post reported in December, Kives — whose celebrity connections include Warren Buffett, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Katy Perry, and Kendall Jenner — stood to lose hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of K5 Global’s business relationship with FTX’s now-defunct investment arm, Alameda Research.
Bankman-Fried, who has been indicted on fraud and money laundering charges by the feds, described Kives as "probably, the most connected person I’ve ever met," and "a one-stop shop" for political relationships and celebrity partnerships, according to the complaint.
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So the effort to recover $700M from the Clinton world is contingent on the life of one guy. I think we all know where this is going.
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Bankman-Fried, who has been indicted on fraud and money laundering charges by the feds, described Kives as "probably, the most connected person I’ve ever met," and "a one-stop shop" for political relationships and celebrity partnerships, according to the complaint.
Which says it all about FTX and Scam Bankrupt-Fraud.
[Breitbart] The White House appeared Friday to have changed its story on President Joe Biden’s role in his family’s business affairs, claiming that Biden was "not in business" with his son, Hunter.
Previously, on the campaign trail in 2019-20, Joe Biden said: "I have never discussed, with my son or my brother or with anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses. Period." But that story appeared to change on Friday.
When reporters began asking the White House to respond to accusations by an IRS whistleblower that Joe and Hunter Biden were together when the latter pressured a Chinese contact to send money, the response changed:
The whistleblower, IRS supervising agent Gary Shapley, cited a WhatsApp message — one not sourced from Hunter Biden’s laptop — in which Hunter Biden allegedly told Chinese businessman Henry Zhao:
"I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father."
At the White House press briefing on Friday, Newsmax correspondent James Rosen asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre whether she stood by her own previous "reaffirmations" that Joe Biden had never discussed his family members’ business interests with them. She did not answer the question directly, but stated: "Nothing has changed."
She referred most of the other questions to the White House counsel’s office.
In 2022, it was revealed that Joe Biden had left Hunter Biden a voicemail saying he thought a New York Times article about his son’s business interests was good, suggesting Joe Biden had lied about never discussing them.
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[NYPOST] Hunter Biden got kicked out of a private sex club for "grabbing women’s asses" and acting "like a spoiled child," the founder exclusively told The Post.
The president’s troubled son is "a really bad guy — not a good person. He’s just not," said Damon Lawner, who founded the notorious SNCTM club, where membership ran as high as $75,000 a year. And Hunter’s $10,000 payment led to Lawner receiving an IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... subpoena.
Lawner claimed that the payment was made through a mystery woman in 2018 and that he was later informed of a probe by the IRS criminal division who "asked me about book-keeping and records."
Lawner said he decided to disclose Biden’s sex club membership after Biden was given a virtual slap on the wrist on Tuesday in an income tax and a gun case after a five-year federal investigation.
The whopping fee, Lawner said, was made through an LLC that hid Hunter’s name and paid by a mystery woman who accompanied the president’s son — "high as a kite and zonked out" — to the club.
Sometime in 2018, Lawner said, the woman applied for membership in the upscale sex club, which reportedly was attended by celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow ...Hollywood interchangeable blonde and Eva Braun taste-alike, who's convinced herself that it would be wonderful if Obama were given all the power that he needs. She was married to a guitar player in a rock band, but now she's becoming long in the tooth so he's moved on to somebody else... and Bill Maher. The woman told Lawner, who approved all memberships, that she would be accompanied by a handsome man.
When Lawner requested more information, she would only state that his "name was Hunter and that he was a member of a prominent political family."
On their first and only visit, Hunter acted so rude to upscale female members — "grabbing women’s asses" and other behavior that went against the club’s rules — that Lawner asked him to leave and banned him from future events.
One of the club rules at SNCTM was "always ask before you touch," Lawner said. "When I told Hunter he had to leave, that people were complaining about his behavior, he was belligerent and acted like a spoiled child. But he did leave."
Hunter’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.
At the time of Biden’s visit, Lawner said he still wasn’t certain who he was or which prominent family belonged to.
It was only when The Post broke the story last year of Hunter’s laptop — which contains, among other things, pornographic photos of the first son and women, as well as pictures of him doing drugs and even proof of payments to hookers — that Lawner saw Hunter’s photo for the first time and realized he was the stoned guy who had been banned from the club.
Lawner said that, on Nov. 1, 2021, he received a subpoena by mail from the criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service. He claimed the entities OWASCO, PC and OWASCO, LLC were listed in the subpoena as part of the investigation; according to press reports, they allegedly belong to Hunter.
Under questioning by an IRS investigator in a phone call, Lawner said that he did not keep any records about the payment, or others, "to keep my club membership anonymous."
[The agent] "told me I’m not in any trouble and that this is an ongoing investigation and I was not allowed to talk about the case."
Lawner added that he received no further contact from the IRS and gathered it did not have any interest in Biden’s sex club activities, but rather the $10,000 funding the membership.
Since SNCTM’s 2013 founding, "only five men have been ordered to leave and were blacklisted," Lawner noted.
After Hunter reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors on Tuesday — igniting a firestorm of criticism by Republicans and some Democrats that he was handed a "sweetheart deal" — Lawner took to Instagram, revealing that Biden had been a member, very briefly, of his club.
"Hunter was a member of SNCTM and I cancelled his membership after 1 party because he’s a scumbag," he wrote in the since deleted post.
Lawner sold the club just before the pandemic and is currently in the process of opening an upscale LA eatery with a sensual theme and marketing a new brand of marijuana, Sex Weed, that he claims is good for love-making.
When the new owner of SNCTM saw Lawner’s posting about Biden, he declared that Lawner had violated the club’s policy of revealing the names of members.
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Hunter Biden was Expelled from Sex Club for being too scummy The LA Times actually reported this (but their website is for pay). Must be really desperate for subscriptions.
[MSN] The founder of an elite Los Angeles-based sex club has been banned from the X-rated organization after claiming Hunter Biden was once a member and got kicked out for being a "scumbag."
And so he is. How insightful of them to notice — or is it due to vast experience with various grades of scum?
Damon Lawner, the founder of Snctm, identified the first son as an ex-member of the private club in a since-deleted Instagram post, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday.
[FoxNews] Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, counted payments to prostitutes and dues for a sex club on his tax returns as expenses for his "consulting" business, according to whistleblower testimony to Congress.
On Thursday, that House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday released testimony from two IRS whistleblowers who said the Department of Justice, FBI and IRS had interfered with the investigation of the tax evasion case against Hunter Biden.
Gary Shapley, Jr., an IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent who oversaw the IRS probe into the president's son, testified that in 2018, Hunter Biden listed payments to prostitutes on his tax returns to the company Owasco P.C., which allegedly "brought in his consulting fees."
The Hunter Biden tax investigation — codenamed "Sportsman" — was opened in November 2018 as an "offshoot" of an IRS investigation into a "foreign-based amateur online pornography platform," Shapley told Congress.
"So the worst part about 2018 is that Hunter Biden's accountants are sitting there with him at a table, and they have all the numbers in front of them, right? The bank accounts in front of them and they are saying that, you know, you need to circle what are business expenses so that we know what to deduct," Shapley testified.
"So it becomes apparent to the accountants during this interaction that he's putting things on here that aren't expenses, that aren't true business expenses," He said.
"So the accountants create a representation letter that basically they said they have never done before. And they had him sign this document, and it was basically because they didn't believe what he was saying, but they didn't — if they were going to prepare his return, they had to listen to what he was saying. I mean, I guess they could have just chosen not to prepare his tax return, would have been their only out. But that was the type of conduct in 2018," he continued.
Shapley testified that decisions in the case seemed to be "influenced by politics" and that "at every stage" of the probe were made that "had the effect of benefiting the subject of the investigation."
The revelations come on the heels of the Justice Department's announcement Tuesday that Hunter Biden will plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax.
The younger Biden also agreed to enter into a pretrial diversion agreement regarding a separate charge of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of, or addicted to, a controlled substance.
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When you get kicked out of a high price sex club for being a scumbag... might want to think about you life choices. Or eat a bullet. Either is an option.
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Looks like he will just have to settle for some of Gyneth’s candles and goop.
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I think I'm to the point where I won't read any more accounts or view video clips about Hunter and the rest of the Biden criminal syndicate. As we saw earlier in the week, there is no justice ('just-us') in the USSA, only a lot of talk. Nothing will be done.
Stock up on the popcorn. I think going into 2024, we haven't seen nuthin' yet.
As I understand, Gwyneth’s line of merchandise include poozle-scented products. If Hunter wants to get into similar merch as a way for the party faithful to show their support and refute the trumped up charges against him, may I suggest 'Taint Hunter as the brand name.
[RedState] When James Madison proposed 19 amendments to the US Constitution, his proposed Bill of Rights was based in large part on Virginia’s Declaration of Rights. Seven were rejected by the New York-based Congress. In 1791, the remaining 12 Amendments became law, none more important to our liberty than the 1st Amendment.
The Supreme Court has provided plenty of roadmaps for what is and what is not protected speech. "Fighting Words" was first discussed in In Beauharnais v. Illinois (1942) as:
[T]hose which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.
The opinion, written by Justice Frank Murphy, may have been influenced by the nation’s war footing rather than the Constitution. In any event, seven years later, in a case called Terminiello v. Chicago (1949), Justice Douglas wrote:
[Speech is] protected against censorship or punishment, unless shown likely to reduce a clear and present danger of a serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance, or unrest ... There is no room under our Constitution for a more restrictive view.
Twenty years later, in Brandenburg v Ohio (1969), Justice Warren wrote for a unanimous court and said:
The constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
Clarence Brandenburg was a hateful man. A Ku Klux Klan member who publicly advocated for the overthrow of the government, he was charged with a crime, but the Supreme Court overturned the conviction.
Then, 34 years later in a cross-burning case titled Virginia v Black, Justice O’Connor wrote:
[A] State may choose to prohibit only those forms of intimidation... "that are most likely to inspire fear of bodily harm."
O’Connor’s opinion offered that the act of cross-burning was protected, but if there was intent to intimidate (with fear of physical harm), then the act of intimidation was not protected speech.
In Snyder v. Phelps (2011), a hateful group of people belonging to the Westborough "Church" picketed at funerals, including funerals of dead soldiers like Snyder. Their signs were directed at the fallen fighters. The agitators claimed—in fact, "prayed"—that the dead soldiers would go to hell. One sign labeled Snyder a "fag" destined for damnation. The court found that although the language was awful and hateful and meant emotional harm to Snyder’s family, the agitation and signs were protected speech.
Samuel Alito wrote the opinion in a "commercial speech" case titled Matal v Tam (2017). He posited:
Speech may not be banned on the grounds that it expresses ideas that offend.
And making it harder for criminal statutes related to speech to stand, they are viewed in the light of "strict scrutiny." What does that mean? It means that if there is any ambiguity or open to interpretation, that criminal statute will not survive. Eleven years ago, Justice Souter opined, "Strict scrutiny leaves few survivors." Meaning — if the Supreme Court takes a case and evaluates it under the "strict scrutiny" standard, the law has little chance of surviving.
That brings us to Michigan, where the House just adopted HB 4474. The proposed law and an adopted amendment would criminalize, for instance, speech causing "severe mental anguish" to another person. That standard is absurdly subjective and vague. Although the proposed law would use the "reasonable person" standard, it still leaves a rogue prosecutor with the ability to criminalize words because someone’s feelings were hurt "really bad."
One local attorney correctly noted that HB4474 is impossibly vague and open to subjective standards:
Under the proposed statute, "intimidate and harass" can mean whatever the victim, or the authorities, want them to mean. The focus is on how the victim feels rather than on a clearly defined criminal act. This is a ridiculously vague and subjective standard.
Under this law, could pastors, or for that matter, a student who refuses to use "preferred" pronouns, be charged with a crime if, for instance, a boy who claims he’s a girl has his feelings bruised? Yes.
The proposed law allows for prison time or a "diversion" program for the offender. In other words, the offender can avoid a jail cell if they agree to community service.
The community service would "enhance the offender’s understanding of the impact of the offense upon the victim and wider community." If that sounds like it is out of an Orwell novel or a Mao playbook, you would be right.
In short, re-education camp for wrong speech.
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If this passes the Senate and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signs it, as expected, the law, in my opinion, will not stand constitutional review. What is most bothersome is that Democrats don’t seem to care that they are criminalizing speech they don’t like.
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This legislation ought to be shot down in the courts. Pelosi, Schiff, Biden might trigger many people and put this law in play. Stupid legislation. Good only for attorneys.
Under the proposed statute, "intimidate and harass" can mean whatever the victim, or the authorities, want them to mean.
In Michigan, Trump would have fertile grounds for legal action.
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[NYPOST] Hunter Biden got kicked out of a private sex club for "grabbing women’s asses" and acting "like a spoiled child," the founder exclusively told The Post.
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