Wednesday has certainly not been a dull news day, and there’s still about half of it left as of this writing.
To start, we got the bombshell press conference by the House Oversight Committee detailing an alleged pay-to-play scheme run by the Biden Family. Millions of dollars changed hands through a network of mysterious companies, enriching a long list of the president’s relatives. That investigation will now move into its next phase, which will include subpoenaing bank records to try to track down where all the money ended up.
The thread begins here, but some highlights include the fact that “a network of over 20 companies” was formed by the Bidens and their associates, many during Joe Biden’s vice presidency, at least $10 million from foreign nationals was paid to Biden family members, their companies, and business associates, that in addition to money from China, there were payments from Romania, as well, and that there were steps taken to conceal these transactions.
Of course, right on time, the DOJ decided to change the subject. As RedState reported, troubled GOP representative George Santos was arrested on charges of wire fraud just after House Republicans took the podium. Guess what everyone is now talking about?
Are we really supposed to believe that’s a coincidence? Out of all the days that the DOJ could have executed an arrest of Santos, it just so happened to be on the one day that Biden and his corrupt family needed political cover. I mean come on. It’s ridiculous to keep thinking the DOJ’s partisan actions over the last few years are just happening by sheer chance.
But let’s look at the situation from another angle. The DOJ managed to whip up a case involving multiple counts of wire fraud against Santos in what appears to be less than a year. Yet, the same DOJ still refuses to make a decision on whether to charge Hunter Biden or not, even as the 2024 election approaches. Keep in mind, the Hunter Biden investigation has been going on for about half a decade.
When a Republican is involved, the DOJ is a highly efficient, well-oiled machine. They can start an investigation and have charges filed in the blink of an eye. When Democrats are involved, though, things slow to a snail’s pace which just so happens to protect high-ranking party members from the political fallout of their actions.
Remember, there’s not even any argument that the DOJ just needs more time in the case of Hunter Biden. Multiple law enforcement sources have revealed that the evidence to charge has long existed and that the investigation itself has been essentially done for the last year. Yet, the US Attorney in Delaware continues to sit on his hands. But when it comes to Santos, the DOJ is Johnny on the spot, ready to rock and roll at a moment’s notice if it helps narrow the power dynamics in the House.
Sorry, I simply don’t believe any of this is coincidental at this point.
Politicians lie all of the time. If lying your way to office were illegal, then Joe Biden would be in jail.
As voters cast their ballots in the 2020 presidential election, former Vice President Biden sought to dismiss evidence of his family’s global influence-peddling scheme as Russian disinformation. Days before the second and final presidential debate, an abandoned Delaware laptop surfaced, implicating now-President Biden in his son’s potentially criminal overseas business activities. When pressed over the scandal on the prime-time debate stage by President Donald Trump, Biden told the nation that allegations from the laptop stemmed from a campaign of Kremlin interference.
Biden’s campaign even apparently convinced dozens of former intelligence officials to pen a letter to Politico informing the public the laptop was planted by Moscow. The Democrats’ claims came despite the FBI, the Department of Justice, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, and then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo debunking the laptop’s connection to Russia.
But on Tuesday, freshman Republican Rep. George Santos joined Biden’s chief political opponent to face charges in a New York courtroom. Santos pled not guilty to a 13-count indictment from the Department of Justice, the same department simultaneously slow-walking investigations into Biden family business practices after agents worked to suppress the laptop story. The Republican’s arrest also just so happened to take place on the same day House GOP Oversight Chairman James Comer of Kentucky gave a press conference presenting blockbuster evidence of presidential corruption.
This is just another instance in which DOJ officials give Americans reason to believe they are subject to a two-tiered justice system. Eighty percent of Americans already believe this.
Even after his election, the president hasn’t stopped lying. From weird tales of Amtrak to black church membership, The Federalist has been chronicling Biden’s made-up stories since inauguration day, which can be found here, here, and here.
Santos also made it to Congress on a cascade of apparent lies. He claimed to be a descendant of Holocaust survivors. He claimed he lost colleagues in the Pulse nightclub shooting, and he claimed to run an animal charity which turned out to be false. Clearly, Democrats embarrassingly messed up on opposition research. Santos flipped a competitive district that became one of few seats picked up by Republicans last year. In other words, the DNC and its affiliated campaign committees dropped the ball. The Democrats let Santos run on a fabricated resumé.
By January, Santos became a fresh face in an institution that the iconic political satirist P.J. O’Rourke referred to as a Parliament of Whores. If Santos were a Democrat and not the first homosexual GOPer to win a seat in the lower chamber, liberals might have embraced his election as the triumphant celebration of a minority, gay man. Biden’s Justice Department, however, wastes no time prosecuting the president’s political opponents.
Federal charges unveiled against Santos include seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of stealing public funds, and two counts of false statements to Congress. Is he guilty? That’s for the judge or jury to decide. But one of the charges include merely exaggerating income. Santos sounds like quite the criminal.