I heard there was some news on Thursday night about the IRS investigation of bribery allegations against Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. And there was also news about whether Joe Biden was in the room while Hunter Biden was conducting his business deals. I’m trying to stay on top of this, so that I can know enough to discuss the details with people who ask me what it’s all about.

Here’s an article by Margot Cleveland in The Federalist.

She says:

The Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office hid an FBI report that the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden each $5 million bribes, documents released by the House Ways and Means Committee reveal. That revelation eclipses the catalog of other claims of misconduct and political favoritism levied by two IRS whistleblowers, as detailed in the transcripts the House committee released Thursday — and suggests the bribery claims were never investigated.

The information about the bribes was never provided to IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley, “nor to any of the IRS agents acting under his supervision, nor to the FBI agents working with the IRS investigators.” Even though they were the ones who would be expected to investigate it.

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Further, Shapley’s investigative team was precisely the group to investigate the allegations contained in the FD-1023, as his group is “known as the International Tax and Financial Crimes group,” and consists of “12 elite agents who were selected based on their experience and performance in the area of complex high-dollar international tax investigations.”

The FBI did their part to protect Hunter Biden by labeling the bribery charges against Joe Biden and Hunter Biden as “disinformation”:

The scandal is not limited to Delaware, however. A related scandal connects to another whistleblower who claims that in “August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by a FBI Headquarters (‘FBI HQs’) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”

Every indication suggests it was the FD-1023 that the FBI HQ’s team falsely labeled disinformation, which raises the specter that individuals in the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office were colluding with FBI HQ to protect the Biden family. It is now up to Sen. Chuck Grassley’s whistleblower to close the circle.

So, Margot thinks that the reason why the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office didn’t pass the bribery charges on for investigation, is because they were colluding with the FBI to protect the Biden family.

Another interesting story about Biden corruption came out on Thursday. Do you remember how Joe Biden claims that he didn’t know anything about his son’s business deals? That he never talked to him about it?

Well, consider this from the Washington Free Beacon.

Photographs on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop place him at his father’s Wilmington, Delaware, residence on the day he invoked President Joe Biden’s name in a text message, threatening his Chinese business partner to come down on him with their full weight if the business partner did not fulfill his “commitment.”

In that message, sent on July 30, 2017, to an official, Henry Zhao, working with a Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC Energy—linked to Chinese military intelligence—Hunter Biden said he was sitting next to his father and that “we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.”

The message became public on Thursday, when Congress made public testimony from an IRS whistleblower, Gary Shapley, who obtained the message during his investigation of Hunter Biden’s various tax crimes. Hours after the message was sent, Hunter Biden was pictured at his father’s home sitting behind the wheel of the president’s beloved 1967 Corvette Stingray with family members.

[…]If Joe Biden was sitting next to his son as he sent the message as it suggests, it would be a fatal blow to the president’s repeated claims that he never discussed overseas business deals with his son, and the photographs of Hunter Biden at what appears to be a family gathering at the Delaware home is the strongest indication that he was in close proximity to his father when he threatened the Chinese businessman.

It’s very interesting, now that we know about these things, to think about all the pious Christians who told us that voting for a President isn’t about voting for specific policies or Supreme Court judges. It’s really about voting for a good moral and spiritual leader. That’s what we were told by the pious #evangelicalsForBiden. Now we’re finding out what sort of morality they were wanting us to vote for. Just look at the underage girls on Hunter Biden’s laptop. That’s what they support as a “return to civility”.

Whenever I want to understand what’s going on with corruption in the Biden administration, I turn to The Federalist, and look directly for Margot Cleveland’s column. And she doesn’t disappoint! This is a good primer on the Hunter Biden corruption story, so if you don’t know the full story, read this post. And then we’ll both have somewhere to look if we need to debate it.

So, here’s the article from The Federalist by Margot Cleveland.

She starts with some background:

In 2018, the feds launched an investigation into Hunter Biden, which the son of the now-president publicly disclosed in December 2020, following his father’s election. On Tuesday, news broke that Hunter Biden had agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax counts and had entered a pretrial diversion agreement on a separate firearms count, unleashing outrage from the right over the absence of any money-laundering or bribery counts. But even worse is the U.S. attorney’s failure to file these charges against the Biden son in 2019, which suggests shielding Joe Biden from scandal is the operative principle of the Department of Justice and FBI.

Do federal laws apply to the son of the Democrat president?

The two tax misdemeanor charges spanned only a page-and-a-half and alleged in count one that the president’s son, during the 2017 calendar year, received taxable income exceeding $1.5 million and willfully failed to pay income taxes on that amount in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7203. Count two mirrored count one but charged Hunter with failing to pay the income taxes due on his 2018 calendar year earnings.

Wow, if you or I did that, we’d probably spend about 20 years in a federal penitentiary.

Do federal laws apply to the son of the Democrat president?

Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss filed separate information charging Hunter with violating 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(3) and 924(a)(2), for knowingly possessing a firearm, “knowing that he was an unlawful user of and addicted to a controlled substance…” Sources say, however, that under the pretrial diversion agreement, Hunter Biden will not plead guilty to that felony gun charge, with prosecutors instead dismissing the count “if he remains drug-free and doesn’t commit additional crimes for two years.”

It’s amazing. Normally in cases like this, my understanding is that the minimum sentence for a gun felony is SEVERAL years in jail, even for a first offense, and even if you plead out.

An interesting connection has emerged between American foreign policy and money received from foreign sources is emerging:

Weiss’s decision to charge Hunter with two tax misdemeanors only weeks after Americans learned that a “highly credible” confidential human source had reported that the Ukrainian owner of Burisma paid the father-son duo each $5 million in bribes looked like an obvious attempt to quell the growing scandal that threatened to engulf the president.

The interesting thing about those charges is that these payments  from foreigners were known BEFORE the 2020 election. But for some reason, federal law enforcement declined to do anything about them:

Weiss sat on those charges before the 2020 election that points to the top Delaware prosecutor protecting the Biden family.

Not just those charges, but the income tax charges too:

Why then did the Delaware U.S. attorney fail to charge the Biden son in 2019 with those crimes? The answer seems clear: politics.

And if politics drove the U.S. attorney to refrain from charging Hunter before the 2020 election, how could politics not also affect every aspect of the investigation into the now-president’s son, including evidence implicating President Joe Biden?

Now, when I look at those millions of dollars being funneled through Biden family members, it makes me wonder whether Joe Biden has been selling out our foreign policy interests to the highest bidder.

Here is what Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said, (reported by The Federalist):

“Since the FBI’s investigation into Hunter Biden began nearly five years ago, I and my colleagues in Congress have uncovered extensive government and bank records indicative of money laundering as well as foreign business schemes that, in any other circumstance, would raise serious criminal and counterintelligence concerns,” Grassley said. “Hunter’s laptop, which the FBI has had since 2019, contains records corroborating much of this evidence, as well as evidence of other serious criminal violations.”

Got that?

“extensive government and bank records indicative of money laundering as well as foreign business schemes that, in any other circumstance, would raise serious criminal and counterintelligence concerns”

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The Iowa lawmaker, who has spent half a decade investigating the first son, went on to highlight recent whistleblower reports from the DOJ and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that claim federal investigators have sabotaged any potential for a significant indictment.

In May, an IRS whistleblower spoke publicly on CBS News about efforts within the DOJ to hamper the federal tax probe.

“There were multiple steps that were slow-walked — were just completely not done — at the direction of the Department of Justice,” said Gary Shapley. “These deviations from the process,” he added, “seemed to always benefit the subject.”

More whistleblowers from within the FBI have made similar allegations that the Department of Justice is working to shield the Biden family from thorough investigations. The plea deal on Tuesday comes as President Joe Biden himself faces credible bribery allegations from his time as vice president.

SIX additional Biden family members being investigated:

House Republicans who reviewed “suspicious activity reports” housed within the Treasury Department about Hunter Biden’s finances say they’ve expanded their own investigation of the Biden family to “six additional” members.

One of the the first tasks of the next Republican president will be to clean out corruption in high places in our government. We really have to pick someone who is fearless, and punish the Democrat traitors to the maximum extent of the law. And maybe next time, think twice about electing Godless secular leftists to high positions in government. They clearly don’t have the capability for morality that we need in our political leaders.