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U.S. House discovers Biden bank memos with insane revelations

Joe Biden

THE WORM TURNS!

The Biden family is being implicated in a major bribery scheme. Now there’s new shocking evidence for it.

Because the U.S. House has discovered Biden bank memos with insane revelations.

While his father was vice president, Hunter Biden and his business colleagues collected millions of dollars from foreign oligarchs, according to a new bank letter published by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

The letter details the various ways in which Hunter Biden and his ex-business partner Devon Archer laundered money that they received from foreign oligarchs through their investment firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners. Hunter Biden led Rosemont Seneca Partners as its chairman. 

Just over a week after Archer gave an interview to the staff of the Oversight Committee on a Monday, their memo has finally been made public.

It verifies that in 2014, Hunter Biden and Archer received millions from Yelena Baturina, a Russian billionaire and former first lady of Moscow, and that a $140,000 car appeared to have been purchased for Hunter Biden by Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakhstani oligarch with close connections to the then-prime minister of that country. 

Baturina allegedly sent $3.5 million to a bank account belonging to Rosemont Seneca Thornton on February 14, 2014, a company with ties to Biden and Archer, as stated in the document. Archer and Rosemont Seneca Partners were named as beneficiaries of the bank account.

In the following month, Rosemont Seneca Thornton sent $750,000 to Archer and $2.7 million to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, another business owned by Archer and Biden.

Delaware’s Rosemont Seneca Bohai was officially opened on February 13, 2014, one day before Baturina’s initial $3.5 million wire payment. While testifying before the committee, Archer stated that he and Biden “had a handshake 50-50 ownership” of Rosemont Seneca Bohai. The initial funding for the Bohai account came from the $2.7 million wire transfer.

Then, on March 25, 2014, two transfers totaling $2.2 million and $200,000 were made from one Rosemont Seneca Bohai account to another. 

When the Kazakh magnate Rakishev showed up to buy a car for Hunter Biden, he used a similar method to wire money.

According to the letter, Rakishev transferred $142,300 from his Singaporean company Novatus Holdings to the Rosemont Seneca Bohai account on April 22, 2014. The following day, the exact same sum was wired from the account to a New Jersey car dealership for Hunter Biden’s vehicle.

According to Archer’s testimony before the Oversight Committee, Vice President Joe Biden arrived late but stayed for a decent amount of time at the dinner at Cafe Milano in Georgetown in Washington, D.C., after the $3.5 million wire was sent from Baturina and around the time Rakishev wired the money for the car.

According to Archer’s testimony, “Joe Biden entered the room and shook everybody’s hand.” “And, you know, the conversation — you know, again, I don’t want to be — it’s important that I’m accurate. I don’t really remember it. You know, I don’t — not really. I don’t remember the conversation. I just remember that he was — he came to dinner, and we ate, and kind of talked about the world, I guess, and the weather, and then everybody — everybody left. 

A second dinner was held at Cafe Milano in the spring of 2015, with guests including Archer, Rakishev, and the then-Vice President Joe Biden. 

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) claimed in a statement that Hunter Biden used Joe Biden as “the brand” to make millions off of billionaires in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine during his time as vice president.

The email also details the compensation that Hunter Biden received from Burisma, the Ukrainian oil business on whose board of directors Archer and Biden both served. According to the testimony of the two Burisma employees who blew the whistle to the IRS, both got roughly $3.32 million from the company between 2014 and 2015.

This is the third such memorandum the committee has disclosed this year, revealing how money from overseas was transferred to an account held by a member of the Biden family.

In March, Comer claimed in a memo that Rob Walker, a business associate of Hunter Biden’s, had received a $3 million wire transfer from a Chinese company called State Energy HK Limited. As Comer put it, “Biden family members and their companies began receiving incremental payments over a period of approximately three months” from Robinson Walker LLC.

Walker sent over a million dollars in installments “from 2015 through 2017” to Hunter Biden, James Biden, the president’s brother, and Hallie Biden, the widow of the president’s late son Beau. 

The second document, which listed contributions made to the Bidens by Romanian and Chinese nationals, was made public in May.

Ranking Member Comer also sent six letters to top Biden Administration officials and Biden family business associates requesting documents and information about suspicious activity reports (SARs), business transactions, and financial documents:


Mitch McConnell Talks Down Biden Impeachment - Demonstrates That the Uniparty Is Alive and Well

August 09, 2023

Mitch McConnell Talks Down Biden Impeachment - Demonstrates That the Uniparty Is Alive and Well
THE MEETING OF THE WORMS

As more and more evidence comes to light about first son Hunter Biden’s overseas business deals and the alleged involvement of President Joe Biden, the calls for impeachment proceedings have begun to grow louder. But with the expected push for impeachment from most House Republicans and the downplaying of the entire situation by House Democrats comes another call from the party an increasing number of average Americans believe exists. It is made up of friendly Republicans and Democrats — the Washington D.C. “uniparty.” The face of the uniparty, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). On Tuesday, McConnell attempted to play elder statesman, and issued a warning to his House GOP colleagues about moving forward with any impeachment preliminaries, saying that it was “not good for the country.”

In a recent interview with the New York Times, McConnell said of impeachment:

I said two years ago, when we had not one but two impeachments, that once we go down this path it incentivizes the other side to do the same thing. Impeachment ought to be rare. This is not good for the country.

McConnell is right. Impeachment should be rare. Seen as a last resort as a means of reining in a rogue president or one found guilty of any of the enumerated crimes expressly laid out in the Constitution as calling for impeachment. What he failed to mention is that out of a pathological hatred for one man and a severe case of being sore losers, McConnell’s Democrat friends in the House and Senate opened the impeachment-no-longer-being-a-rarity can of worms, especially for former President Donald Trump. And because Democrats have a hard time seeing the long-term consequences of their actions, impeachment may no longer have the sting the Founding Fathers intended.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) said to Fox News Channel’s Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday morning that while, ultimately, the decision to start the process was House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s, “It is long past time to start the impeachment process.” But now, Democrats are suddenly concerned about too many penalties like censure and impeachment being meted out. Former House member and now Democrat strategist Steve Israel said to the New York Times, “I think it further deteriorates everyone’s faith in the institution. Everything becomes political theater.” Then there was the squishy Republican, even uniparty response from Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who said, “I don’t think it is a healthy sign for us to be resorting to the ultimate weapon. But democracy is messy, and we are demonstrating that every day.”

Mitch McConnell’s latest statement on impeachment illustrates an interesting relationship he has with the process itself. There was no love lost between McConnell and Donald Trump. Of Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021, McConnell said he was “practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day, no question about it.” But McConnell voted to acquit Trump in his second impeachment trial. McConnell and Trump are not besties — that has been established. But could there be something else behind McConnell’s warning to House GOP members to cool impeachment talk? Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden go way back to their time as Senate colleagues. Like his buddy Joe, McConnell is no fan of MAGA Republicans. Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden could be useful enemies to each other to keep those MAGA Republicans at bay — from getting in the way of Biden’s proposals and McConnell’s desire to keep electing establishment-style Republicans who will fall in line behind him. McConnell also knows that those establishment Republicans are no longer popular with voters. With a Democrat-controlled Senate, an impeachment conviction would be unlikely, and McConnell’s warning to GOP House members, many of whom have already endorsed Trump for 2024, could be a conveniently timed nose-thumbing.

House Republicans Will Subpoena Biden Family ... and then, and then Biden will answer charges!!!

Oversight Committee investigations 'were always going to end with the Bidens,' chairman Comer says

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R., Ky.) in front of a poster about Hunter Biden's laptop / Getty Images
August 10, 2023

The House Oversight Committee will subpoena President Joe Biden and his beleaguered son Hunter as Republicans approach the conclusion of their more than year-and-a-half-long investigations into the Biden family.