[FoxNews] Hunter Biden was instrumental in helping a Rosemont Seneca Partners client and Democratic donor secure an event at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., after networking with one of the top officials at the embassy during a January 2011 luncheon hosted by then-Vice President Biden, according to emails reviewed and verified by Fox News Digital.
Those emails show that Hunter and his former business partner, Eric Schwerin, helped Marvin Lang, the managing director of Guardian Realty in Maryland, plan a dinner with the Chinese Embassy’s minister, Deng Hongbo, on April 28, 2011, which was later touted on China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
Ted Kaufman, a longtime friend of President Biden and part of his inner circle of advisers dating back to the 1970s, was the keynote speaker at the annual investment dinner and was paid $10,000 following the dinner for his services, according to an email from Schwerin to Lang.
Planning for the event appears to have started in December 2010 after Lang, who has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democrats, emailed Hunter thanking him for meeting him for lunch and saying he was "excited" to form a "long relationship" with Rosemont, Hunter and Schwerin’s now-defunct investment firm. Guardian bills itself as a "fully integrated real estate investment company that develops, redevelops, acquires, manages, operates, and owns a portfolio A-/B+ commercial office space," according to their website.
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I am beginning to wonder if there has ever (including Grant and Harding) been a more corrupt President. And those two I am willing to accept were more-or-less honest dupes. Joe, on the other hand...
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host the Obamas to the White House next week for the long-delayed unveiling of their official portraits
If he had followed tradition, former President Donald Trump would have invited the Obamas to the White House for the ceremony during the spring of 2020
He did no such thing - meaning it's been more than a decade since a first-term president has invited his predessor for the event
Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will be at the White House next Wednesday for an East Room ceremony
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Are they going to keep having new portraits of Bath House painted until they get one with the correct number of fingers on each hand?
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They live in town. Joe has been there for almost two years. Sounds like this sacred event was a high priority for all concerned.
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'Wouldn't host' or did the O's claim scheduling conflicts unless they got a ceremonial grovel themed photo-op from Trump? ...Yes, I feel that they are that petty.
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Saw my first Midterm Political Commercial yesterday. Some 30 second bit with Brandon shaking a different sets of hands every second, bragging up the Inflation Reduction Act getting passed.
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Congress is ultimately responsible for spending. And taxing. And we are perpetually caught in the cycle of everyone voting to re-elect their local crook.
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Isn't the Fed the office responsible for pushing the computer buttons 'creating' new money that is then drawn upon by (favored) banking institutions for infusion into the economy? If the Fed were honestly (haha) independent, they could just refuse to create 'new money' and tell Congress to collect the money they want to spend.
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Tame inflation? The government is relying on high inflation to get them out of the debt hole that is too large to tax or save their way out.
A managed 10 years of 10% inflation reduces the Federal debt by 60% in real terms. That it impoverishes the working class by a similar amount is a desired outcome for our protected rulers. Bug dinners for the working class and be grateful!
"...What they're saying is that if Congress is the drunken husband who keeps drinking away the money, the the Federal Reserve is the enabling spouse who keep driving him home."
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#3 Procopius 2K is right. The Fed is the part of the government that "creates" money.
And to be fair to them, M2 (the most commonly used measure of the money supply) hasn't budged since last December. However, we are still WAY above the levels of 2019 after the Covid-overreaction binge of money printing. It will take quite a while to absorb all of that before we see any meaningful effect of monetary policy.
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[ZERO] Update (1820ET): Shortly after 1800ET, just as Californians begin to head home for the day, the California Independent System Operator issued a level-1 energy emergency alert shortly after tapping all its available power supplies.
Despite earlier warnings to reduce usage, Californians - in all their self-righteous virtue - decided to charge their EV anyway, pushing demand above capacity
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And although a false alarm, how would the empty-battery EV owners leave when that evacuation signal was sent yesterday?
California should just slide into the ocean now and spare us any more drama.
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Clearly a scape goat to protect the higher ups. Wouldn't give a plugged nickel for this guy's chances at a long and happy life. With Russian Collusion all over him, I'll bet the Hildabeast has already placed an order with the Suicide Hotline to keep him from testifying in the upcoming hearings.
[ConservativeTreehouse] During an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s television show, former house intel staff and Trump aide Kash Patel confirms the documents targeted by the DOJ/FBI raid on Trump’s home were documents of evidence showing DOJ/FBI political corruption in the Trump-Russia probe.
President Trump declassified documents that show how the institutions within the U.S. government targeted him. However, the institutions that illegally targeted President Trump are now the same institutions seeking control of the specific evidence of their unlawful targeting.
An FBI raid cannot be predicated on a document conflict between the National Archives and a former president.
The DOJ-NSD warrant, and the subsequent raid on Mar-a-Lago could only be predicated and justified on records the U.S. government deems "classified" and material vital to national security interests. That’s the Main Justice cover story to retrieve the evidence of their own wrongdoing. Hence, DOJ National Security Division involvement. more at the link
Notice that none of the document classification markings are visible. Why? The markings themselves are NOT classified. Document protectors are not classified, nor do they make the document contained therein classified.
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The scale ruler is a nice touch. Definitely sets the CSI mood.
Then flop stuff on top of the scale, ruining the scale.
I still think, if you pardon the term, the parallax is off. Could be a hatchet job by some Boomer still learning photoshop or a lighting illusion created by the cut and paste, it just looks shopp'd into a hotel room floor, especially considering the sliding glass door vertical blinds.
The open one - 2A, or not 2, eh? - is that a corner staple? Seriously?
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Sanity checking my memory, I conferred via the internets with a couple of old timers that had some SSO, Foreign Disclosure and document classification experience."SECRET//SCI" was new to them as well.
Short Memory Hole retrieval.
[YouTube] Then presidential candidate Biden talks about getting out of the Middle East. Compare and contrast these words to the actions in Afghanistan.
The 2008 presidential campaign, where Barack Obama got his brass ring.
[GatewayPundit] Ahead of the Department of Justice’s filing Tuesday night that opposed President Trump’s call for a "special master" to review White House documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, seven former federal prosecutors filed an amicus brief asking a Florida federal judge to deny his request.
Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, Donald B. Ayer, Gregory A. Brower, John J. Farmer Jr., Stuart M. Gerson, Peter D. Keisler, William F. Weld — who all served in Republican administrations — called Trump’s request a "waste of time."
The brief said Trump’s request should be denied because the appointment of a special master for a claim of executive privilege by a former president "against the same Executive Branch to which the privilege belongs" is unprecedented.
Raiding a previous president’s home to confiscate papers secured according to FBI requirements is also unprecedented. Let’s place those head to head and see who wins, shall we?
Christine Todd Whitman is a RINO who spoke at the Democrat convention in support of Joe Biden.
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These creatures will never get over how America elected a non politician to be POTUS who did not hold back telling them what people thought of them.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ZERO] Update (1820ET): Shortly after 1800ET, just as Californians begin to head home for the day, the California Independent System Operator issued a level-1 energy emergency alert shortly after tapping all its available power supplies.
[ConservativeTreehouse] During an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s television show, former house intel staff and Trump aide 
