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Trump waited until after he left office to disclose trademarks he owns in China and Russia
Jacob Shamsian
Fri, November 3, 2023 at 10:38 AM MDT·6 min read
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Donald Trump in an elevator of Trump Tower.DOMINICK REUTER/AFP via Getty Images

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  Donald Trump disclosed that he owns hundreds of foreign trademarks in his ethics filings this year.
  
  
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• Trump owns 114 trademarks in China — more than any other country by far, including the US.
  

Donald Trump's financial disclosures neglected to include hundreds of trademarks he owns — including over 100 in China and six in Russia — until after he left the office of the presidency.

The hundreds of trademarks include the rights for business opportunities expected for someone with Trump's business record, like real estate, golf, beauty pageant, and hotel branding in dozens of countries.

The list also includes more unexpected business opportunities for the former president, like video games, lash extensions, deodorant, and nautical instruments.


Trump's complete list of trademarks was first disclosed in a document known as OGE Form 278e, which the US Office of Governmental Ethics requires for US presidents and vice presidents and candidates for president and vice president.

Until this year, the former US president's ethics forms didn't disclose his trademarks in foreign countries, which can provide him revenue and are issued and can be revoked by foreign governments. He didn't disclose them at all while in office, and he first disclosed the long list in July of this year and amended it in August.

The belated disclosures mean that Americans had little insight into the scope of Trump's foreign asset holdings during his presidency, and are only learning about them as he runs for a second term in the 2024 election.

The list of countries where the former president owns trademarks includes China, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Belarus, and other countries heavily sanctioned by the United States, as Forbes previously reported.


Former President Donald Trump steps off his plane as he arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The final form Trump submitted during his presidency, dated January 15, 2021, disclosed Trump's financial interests in numerous overseas companies. The only indication of trademark holdings noted is his ownership of a company called "CHINA TRADEMARK LLC." That filing noted the company is "dormant/inactive."

In his following OGE Form 278e form, filed on April 2023, as a presidential candidate, Trump disclosed a long list of foreign trademarks. The April form was made public in July. It notes, without explanation, that he received two extensions totaling 90 days to submit the document.

The updated August version lists numerous corporate entities that were dissolved in December 2022, including an LLC called "Trump Marks Menswear" and another called "Trump Drinks Israel."

The 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner — who frequently complains China is "ripping us off" and has falsely claimed President Joe Biden received more than $1 billion from the country — disclosed more trademarks in China than in any other country by far.

In his latest disclosure, he said he has 114 trademarks in the country. The runner-up is the United States, with 57 (including three for "Make America Great Again"), followed by the United Kingdom, with 26.

An Insider review of the two forms shows the August update includes several more previously undisclosed trademarks, and no longer includes others that were first noted in the April disclosure.

One trademark Trump held in Ukraine is no longer included in the August financial disclosure. The April form said the trademark was related to real estate development, gambling, and video games. Trump still maintains two other trademarks in the country, related to hotel and real estate management.

Trademarks for menswear lines initially disclosed in El Salvador, Mexico, and Venezuela were also removed in the August disclosure form.

In France, a trademark for furniture and "crest design" was also removed. And in Saudi Arabia, trademarks for a home cooking line are absent in the latest disclosure.

Among his trademarks in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, the newest form no longer includes registrations for perfumery and deodorant products.

Newly disclosed in the Trump trademarks, however, is one in Albania, related to advertising, construction, and entertainment.

We don't know how much money Trump made with the foreign trademarks
The disclosures do not include information about how the trademarks are used in each country and what revenue Trump may receive from them. It's not clear why Trump waited so long to disclose the trademarks and why he asked for extensions to file his disclosures.

Representatives for Trump's 2024 presidential campaign didn't respond to Insider's request for comment.

Richard Painter, the White House's chief ethics lawyer during part of the George W. Bush administration, told Insider that the forms may not even capture all of the trademarks Trump owns. Even more, he said, may be owned by LLCs, the assets of which don't need to be disclosed in detail.

The forms also don't expound upon how much money each trademark generates for Trump and where the funds are coming from.

"You only disclose that you own these different entities," Painter said. "You don't have to disclose who's put money into these entities."


Donald Trump in the White House.Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Some of Trump's trademarks have been the subject of previous reporting.

According to The New York Times, he first obtained a trademark for Trump Tower in Russia in 1996 and obtained additional trademarks for Trump-branded hotels and other opportunities in 2006 and 2007. Trump sought renewals for those trademarks while he was a candidate during the 2016 election and received some of them on election day, the Times reported.

In China, Trump had 77 trademarks registered before he became president, the Associated Press reported, many of which were renewed during his four-year term. Also during his presidency, China granted several new trademarks linked to corporate entities owned by Trump and more than a dozen more to his daughter Ivanka.



Trump's assets in other countries raise the possibility that he could violate the emoluments clause of the US Constitution, which is designed to limit foreign influence on federal officers.

(Painter was part of a lawsuit against Trump over the clause by the ethics watchdog organization CREW, which was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds.)

Without more insight into his holdings, Painter said, it's impossible to know if Trump used a trade war with China as a chip in a fight over his personal business interests or dictated foreign policy in the Middle East to sweeten a deal between his golf courses and Saudi Arabia's investments in the sport.

"If a foreign government is sending money to Donald Trump to put his name on a hotel from a corporation controlled by, say, the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund, that's a violation of the emoluments clause," Painter said.

Trump's disclosures as a 2024 presidential candidate include his assets since November 2021, a year before he officially announced he was running for a second term.

That leaves a dark period between January and November of that year, where his holdings are unknown.

"If you had big infusions of cash coming in between January 2021 and November 2021, that might escape detection," Painter said.

Read the original article on Business Insider


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-waited-until-left-office-163850061.html

 

Hunter Biden's ex-partner Bobulinski calls on Bidens to join him for testimony after claim he lied to FBI
Hunter's lawyer requested the US attorney for DC investigate Bobulinski for making false statements about business to FBI
November 3, 2023



Hunter Biden’s ex-business associate, Tony Bobulinski, suggested he and the Biden family appear together for public testimony before Congress after lawyers for the president's son alleged Bobulinski lied to the FBI about the nature of his business relationship.

Fox News obtained a copy of a 10-page letter Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, sent to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, claiming Bobulinski lied to the FBI during an interview Oct. 23, 2020, about his business dealings with the president’s son.

Lowell called for Graves to investigate Bobulinski for "false" statements regarding his work. Bobulinski worked with Hunter Biden to create the joint venture SinoHawk Holdings with Chinese energy company CEFC.

An attorney for Bobulinski provided Fox News Digital a statement on behalf of his client, denying Lowell’s allegations.


Tony Bobulinski, who claims to have been an associate of Hunter Biden, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Nashville Oct. 22, 2020, ahead of the final presidential debate. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

"All of the allegations contained in Mr. Lowell’s 10-page letter to U.S. Attorney Graves are patently false, and I look forward to exposing these lies and laying out the facts in a public forum in short order," Bobulinski said in the statement.

"The sad thing for our country is that Hunter, Jim and Joe Biden along with Abbe Lowell know they are all false and are trying to weaponize the DOJ against me.

"If Hunter Biden and the Biden family are so determined to ensure that the full truth is put before the American people, Hunter, Jim, Joe and I should all appear together before Congress, publicly and under oath," he continued. "They can name the date, time and place, and I would certainly be willing to do that for the American people."

Lowell, in the letter, claimed Bobulinski "lied about the business discussions among the partners involved" in the joint venture.


President Biden's son Hunter Biden exits J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Delaware July 26, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

"The materials reveal the extraordinary lengths Mr. Bobulinski and other individuals were willing to go to implicate Mr. Biden or members of his family in some false and meritless allegations of wrongdoing," Lowell wrote.

"Even in an era in which people peddle knowing lies with the goal of their falsehoods being repeated and disseminated for their political advantage, these statements by Mr. Bobulinski cannot and must not go unchecked."

Lowell also alleged Bobulinski was never in Miami in 2017 for initial discussions with Hunter Biden, CEFC chairman Ye Jianming and other associates.

Lowell references an infamous May 13, 2017, email that includes a breakdown of the "financial capitalization of the joint venture with CEFC."

The email, first reported by Fox News Digital in October 2020, shows a proposed equity split with references "20" for "H" and "10 held by H for the big guy?" with no further details.


President Biden and son Hunter Biden (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Bobulinski has repeatedly said "the big guy" was Joe Biden. IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who claimed politics influenced the years-long federal investigation into Hunter Biden, also said "the big guy" was known to be Joe Biden.

Lowell, in the letter, claimed Bobulinski was "making things up" and claimed Bobulinski "has no basis in fact by which to assert that there was a reference to the ‘big guy’ or that it was not his own musing or that it was a reference to Vice President Joe Biden."


James Biden, brother of President Biden (AP)

Lowell said Bobulinski’s "false statements are obviously made to greatly exaggerate Mr. Bobulinski’s short-lived business relationship" with Hunter Biden "in order to create a false narrative that Mr. Biden and Jim Biden were somehow involved in off-the-books business with CEFC Chairman Ye while Joseph Biden was still Vice President."

Lowell said Bobulinski’s "lie" is the "same false narrative that serves as the improper and illusory basis of an impeachment inquiry by House Republicans and the justification for Mr. Bobulinski’s testimony."

The House Oversight Committee, which is jointly leading the investigation with the House Judiciary and House Ways & Means Committees, reacted to Lowell’s request on "X," formerly Twitter, Friday afternoon.


James Comer, R-Ky. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"Hunter Biden and his legal team are once again attacking anyone who speaks out against the Bidens," the Oversight Committee wrote. "This time, their target is Tony Bobulinski, a potential witness in our investigation.

"We will not tolerate witness intimidation. The truth will come out soon enough despite the Biden team’s threatening tactics. We will give Hunter the opportunity to clear the air and speak with us soon."

 

Biden's will probably show up. But they could follow the precedence of Trump and treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans who proved you can just ignore Congressional subpoenas. Or they can challenge them in court which would only take a couple of years to get settled.



Hunter and James Biden get subpoenas in James Comer's 'impeachment inquiry'

Sarah K. Burris
November 8, 2023 2:21PM ET



Hunter Biden attends a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony honoring 17 recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, July 7, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP)


Rep. James Comer (R-KY) issued two subpoenas for his House Oversight Committee hearings for the impeachment inquiry he has been promoting to fellow Republicans, and they're for Hunter Biden and James Biden. The proceedings are referred to as an inquiry and not an investigation because there was not a full House vote to authorize a full impeachment investigation.

New Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) indicated upon being elected that Republicans would "follow the evidence" around the Biden impeachment. He claimed that it was likely that the Bidens would be subpoenaed because "desperate times call for desperate measures and that perhaps is overdue."

The move was announced in the middle of Ivanka Trump's testimony in the New York fraud suit against the Trump Organization and after the MAGA movement suffered losses in elections for Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and several smaller communities around the country.



https://www.rawstory.com/james-comer-hunter-biden-2666189297/

 

James Comer may have conflicts of interest involving his own brother: report

Travis Gettys
November 9, 2023 7:02AM ET



U.S. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, attends a media event at the National Press Club on January 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. Comer outlined his committee's agenda for the upcoming Congress including his plan to investigate President Biden's son Hunter Biden and his overseas business deals. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)


House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) has been investigating the allegedly "shady business practices" of President Joe Biden and his family, but he's engaged in similar practices with his own relatives.

The Kentucky Republican subpoenaed the president's brother James Biden and son Hunter Biden, and will no doubt ask about two personal loan payments between the siblings in 2017 and 2018 – when Joe Biden was neither in office or a candidate – but The Daily Beast reported that Comer may have conflicts of interest involving his brother.

"According to Kentucky property records, Comer and his own brother have engaged in land swaps related to their family farming business," the website reported. "In one deal — also involving $200,000, as well as a shell company — the more powerful and influential Comer channeled extra money to his brother, seemingly from nothing. Other recent land swaps were quickly followed with new applications for special tax breaks, state records show. All of this, perplexingly, related to the dealings of a family company that appears to have never existed on paper."

The House GOP investigation has so far failed to turn up evidence the president's loans are connected to any family business dealings, and none of them occurred while holding elected office, but Comer has exercised government influence over his family's agriculture business for nearly two decades.

"Comer has held important positions in agriculture oversight since 2003, while running a family farming business, and those roles overlapped in 2019, the year of the land swaps," reported The Daily Beast. "He only stepped back from an agriculture oversight role recently, in 2020 — one year after the family business pivoted away from farming."

The land swaps between the congressman and his brother Chad Comer occurred months after their father died in January 2019 without leaving a will, and the siblings set about dividing up his properties in Kentucky and Tennessee in a series of complicated transactions sometimes involving a shell company they set up.

"For instance, on July 8, Chad Comer bought out his brother’s half of a piece of inherited Kentucky property, paying $100,000, according to deed records in Monroe County," reported The Daily Beast. "Five months later, James and his wife Tamara 'TJ' Comer, bought the property out in full, this time paying Chad Comer $218,000. The buyout netted Chad Comer an unexplained $18,000 above the total value in July."

That purchase involved Farm Team Properties, LLC, which Comer's financial disclosures described as a “land management and real estate speculation company” with a range of value between $200,000 and $500,000 – but in two years had jumped into the $1 million range.

"In another swap — this one in April, 2019 — James Comer gifted his brother, via a $1 transaction, his share of two inherited tracts in Clay County, Tennessee, with a share value being $175,000, according to the deed of sale," the website reported. "The value of James Comer’s share matches the value of the full property in 1994, when the brothers and their father first acquired it for $175,000, according to the deed."

A spokesman for the lawmaker did not respond to a request for comment, but ethics experts say Comer's overlapping public and private roles raise serious questions.

“Conflicts of interest can occur when members serve on committees overseeing industries in which they are heavily invested or in which their business interests are intertwined,” said Delaney Marsco, senior counsel for ethics at nonpartisan watchdog Campaign Legal Center. “Voters have a right to know that lawmakers are using their considerable power in the interest of the public, not to game a personal business advantage.”



https://www.rawstory.com/james-comer-impeachment-2666195536/

 

Trying to impeach President Biden for revenge of impeaching Trump twice will be about as popular as trying to outlaw abortion with no exceptions for rape and incest.


Comer’s impeachment pursuit runs out of steam: New Biden subpoenas are a dead end
Norman Eisen
Fri, November 10, 2023 at 3:30 AM MST·6 min read
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Jim Jordan; James Comer; Hunter Biden Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images

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House impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden have reached a boil with new subpoenas against his brother James, his son Hunter, and one of Hunter’s business associates. As a scholar and practitioner of impeachment, I believe these subpoenas and the underlying proceedings they reflect are flawed, both legally and factually. If tested in court, the subpoenas will likely be struck down and the impeachment itself is doomed when it reaches the Senate — if it even makes it that far.

The most basic problem with the subpoenas is that you need to have a House vote formally authorizing an impeachment inquiry to issue impeachment-related subpoenas. In the first impeachment of Donald Trump, where I served as special counsel to House Democrats, we went to great lengths to secure such authorization for just that reason. Such a House vote has not happened here, meaning that enforcement of these subpoenas may prove problematic, to say the least.

Indeed, the whole impeachment process is unsound. That is because it does not meet the constitutional standard of “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” That standard is so strict that when I was representing House Democrats, they initially chose not to impeach the former president, notwithstanding powerful evidence developed by then-special counsel Robert Mueller that Trump had committed 10 possible acts of obstruction of justice. Any other American besides a sitting president would have been indicted on multiple counts for this conduct. Yet despite that, and their political adversity to then-President Trump, House Democrats did not feel the case was strong enough. It was only when a whistleblower emerged with proof positive that Trump had attempted to bribe the president of Ukraine to attack as leading political opponent with hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid that we finally proceeded.


Compare that with the evidence that Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chair of the House Oversight Committee, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, have been pushing to support impeachment in recent weeks. The latest supposed smoking gun involves two payments James Biden made to his brother, Joe Biden. Republicans and their allies are pointing to this as evidence of a crime that rises to the level of warranting impeachment. The problem? The payments prove no such thing. The investigators surely know it—and yet they seem determined to use the payments to advance their vendetta against President Biden anyway.

At first, they claimed that the payments Biden received from his brother were evidence of bribery from China. However, when the Oversight Committee released images of two checks, showing that they were loan repayments made during a time when President Biden was neither in office nor running for one, the investigators scrambled. They then quickly pivoted, suggesting instead that they had no evidence of the initial loans made to James Biden by the president.

However, that was debunked almost as quickly as the first theory. It has been widely reported, and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin disclosed, that the House Oversight Committee Republicans are actually in possession of financial records showing the initial loans.

So after spending weeks on sympathetic media echoing false claims, House Republicans leading these investigations have been forced to pivot once more. Now, they are claiming that there’s no way President Biden could have afforded the loan payments in the first place.

That makes no sense either. At that time, Biden was out of office and earning significant income from a book deal and speaking engagements. We know so much about how Biden earned his money because, unlike Donald Trump and Comer, the president has released a quarter century of his tax returns, providing unprecedented transparency into his finances. If Comer and Jordan want to know how President Biden made his money, all they need to do is look there.

Thus this impeachment inquiry is a farce. It is the very weaponization of government that Comer, Jordan, and their ilk decry at any opportunity. Their desperation to smear President Biden based on this record only allows one conclusion: that this is a political adventure designed to benefit their favorite candidate, former President Trump. And that, of course, falls far short of the legal standard for impeachment.

The Ukraine-related impeachment was backed by compelling evidence including that elaborately-documented whistleblower statement. Trump’s conduct amounted not only to powerful evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors but also possible ordinary crimes of bribery as we detailed in our impeachment report.



The second Trump impeachment presented, if anything, an even more compelling case. It is focused on Trump’s behavior leading up to and on January 6. His actions then actions constituted a quintessential abuse of power while in office as well as apparent actual crimes. Indeed, Trump is now being criminally prosecuted for them.

Notably, despite the compelling nature of the facts and the law in both of these cases, when the articles of impeachment were sent to the GOP-led Senate, even they failed to garner the requisite majority. The unfounded Biden impeachment will be doomed there from the start.

When, as here, legislative oversight fails to unearth wrongdoing, and a contemplated impeachment is baseless, the right thing to do is to pull the plug. That is exactly what Jordan and Comer’s GOP peers in the Wisconsin legislature did with their threatened impeachment of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz. The Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly, Robin Vos, was reportedly determined to impeach the newly-elected Protasiewicz because she had spoken out against unfair gerrymandering during her just-concluded campaign for the high court and was declining to recuse from a redistricting case before that panel.

But then an uproar ensued as it became clear that the campaign remarks were protected by the First Amendment and the applicable judicial ethics rules, as well as unrelated to the specific issues in the redistricting case before the judge. The result: the notoriously stubborn Vos reversed course (at least for now). Constitutional experts had explained that there was no basis for impeachment and to the pleasant surprise of many in the state, Vos listened and backed down.

That is what the Biden impeachers should do here, starting with withdrawing these flawed subpoenas. There’s no evidentiary or legal basis to impeach President Biden or to issue harassing legal papers targeting his family or their associates. Proceeding on this record would make a mockery of the Congressional and constitutional oversight process. Jordan, Comer, and their ilk should not proceed, but if they do they should be exposed to the derision they deserve.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/comer-impeachment-pursuit-runs-steam-103001530.html

 

Naw. Lets hear once and for all how Biden explains his shell game businesses, the bank accounts, the sketchy foreign payments.
After all, for 8 years we been hearing; "If he has nothing to hide, why is he hiding it?"
So lets give the biden crime family the opportunity to explain themselves, you know, under oath.

 

The Washington Post
Momentum behind impeachment inquiry slows under new speaker
The inquiry stagnated during the 3-week fight to elect a new speaker. Now, James Comer has sent out new subpoenas as Speaker Mike Johnson strikes a more reserved tone.
November 10, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), a constitutional lawyer by training, has taken a more reserved tone, both publicly and privately, urging members to conduct a thorough and fair investigation with no predetermined outcome. In a closed-door meeting with House GOP moderates this week, he indicated that there is insufficient evidence at the moment to initiate formal impeachment proceedings, according to people who attended the meeting.

So far, House Republicans have not put forth any direct evidence that Biden profited from his son Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine and elsewhere, nor has the president been linked to any potential wrongdoing in the probe of the Justice Department’s investigation of his son — the two issues Republicans identified when announcing the inquiry. Republicans identified two IRS agents who alleged the administration hamstrung the DOJ’s investigation into the president’s son’s finances. But the special counsel in charge of that investigation has flatly rejected that theory, as have other investigators and witnesses involved with the case.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/10/biden-impeachment-inquiry-speaker-johnson/

 

Comer, Jordan subpoena former White House counsel for testimony related to Biden's classified docs
Comer and Jordan subpoenaed Dana Remus and requested transcribed interviews from others
November 13, 2023


House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan subpoenaed former White House Counsel Dana Remus to appear for a deposition and requested transcribed interviews from several other officials with knowledge of President Biden’s alleged improper retention of classified records, Fox News Digital has learned.

Comer and Jordan subpoenaed Remus Monday.

Comer first requested she appear for a transcribed interview before the House Oversight Committee in May. That request came after the panel obtained information that they said "contradicts important details from the White House’s and President Biden’s personal attorney’s statements about the discovery of documents at the Penn Biden Center, including the location and security of the classified documents."


WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 13: White House Counsel Dana Remus (L) and Deputy Chief of Staff Jennifer O'Malley Dillon depart the White House on July 13, 2021 in Washington, DC. Remus and Dillion are accompanying U.S. President Joe Biden as he travels to Philadelphia where he will deliver a speech about protecting the right to vote at the National Constitution Center. ((Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images))

Comer has described Remus as a "central figure in the early stages of coordinating the packing and moving of boxes that were later found to contain classified materials." Comer, in May. Said Remus could be a witness "with potentially unique knowledge" about the matter.

Comer and Jordan also requested an interview with Annie Tomasini, a senior Biden aide and director of Oval Office Operations who took "inventory" of Biden's documents at the Penn Biden Center over a year before they were said to be found. Tomasini is a close friend of the Biden family, and Hunter Biden.

They also requested an interview with Anthony Bernal, a senior advisor in First Lady Jill Biden’s office and Ashley Williams, a special assistant to the president and deputy director of Oval Office Operations; and Katharine


Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

House Republicans identified Remus, Bernal, Williams, Tomasini and an unknown staffer, in addition to Kathy Chung, a top aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, as individuals who made multiple visits to the Penn Biden Center and were involved with the retrieval of boxes of documents and materials ahead of early November 2022, which was when Biden's personal attorneys "unexpectedly discovered Obama-Biden documents" in a locked closet at the Biden think tank.

Biden attorneys claim that classified documents were first discovered at the Penn Biden Center on Nov. 2, 2022, but Comer has pointed to contact between Remus and Cheung dating back to May 2022.

Comer has questioned Remus’ timing of first contacting Chung, flagging that the first contact on May 24, 2022, was "notably" the same day the Justice Department had dated a subpoena return date for former President Donald Trump to turn over any classified records being held at Mar-a-Lago.

Remus left the Biden administration last year and joined Covington & Burling LLP as a partner.

"Facts continue to emerge showing that the White House’s narrative of President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents doesn’t add up," Comer, R-Ky., said. "It is imperative to learn whether President Biden retained sensitive documents related to any countries involving his family’s foreign business dealings that brought in millions for the Biden family."


Chairman James Comer, R-Ky. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"The Oversight Committee looks forward to hearing directly from Dana Remus and other central figures to further our investigation into President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and determine whether our national security has been compromised," Comer continued.

And Jordan, R-Ohio said the subpoenas and interview requests is part of the House's effort to hold the Justice Department and the president accountable.

"President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, including the apparently unauthorized possession of classified material at a Washington, D.C. private office and in the garage of his Delaware residence, raise serious concerns about his mishandling of sensitive intelligence information and his Department of Justice’s double standard of justice," Jordan said. "Today’s subpoena and transcribed interview requests represent another step in holding President Biden and the DOJ accountable."

Comer, Jordan and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., are leading the House impeachment inquiry against President Biden.

"This is just the latest example of President Biden's willingness to skirt the law in order to hide the truth," Smith told Fox News Digital. "If the President himself was illegally holding classified material for some purpose, the American people deserve to know what that purpose is--and whether it constitutes an abuse of office."

Smith added that the Biden administration "hasn't hesitated to scrutinize political opponents' use of classified materials, and he should be held to the same standard."

Meanwhile, the subpoenas also come after Comer, last month, demanded answers from Special Counsel Robert Hur, who is investigating Biden’s alleged improper retention of classified records, on whether the sensitive, classified documents Biden retained were related to specific countries— countries that were involved in his family’s lucrative foreign business deals.

Comer is investigating the Biden family’s foreign business dealings as part of the House impeachment inquiry, as well as Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.


President Joe Biden on Feb. 24, 2023 (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Comer also requested from Hur a list of the countries named in any documents with classification markings recovered from Penn Biden Center, Biden’s residence, including the garage, in Wilmington, Delaware, or elsewhere; and a list of all individuals named in those documents with classification markings; and all documents found with classified markings.

Biden sat down for an interview with Hur last month.

"As we have said from the beginning, the president and the White House are cooperating with this investigation, and as it has been appropriate, we have provided relevant updates publicly, being as transparent as we can, consistent with protecting and preserving the integrity of the investigation," White House spokesperson for investigations Ian Sams said after the president's interview with the special counsel.

Hur’s investigation comes after a batch of records from President Biden's time as vice president, including a "small number of documents with classified markings," were discovered at the Penn Biden Center by the president's personal attorneys on Nov. 2, 2022.

Additional classified records were discovered at President Biden’s Wilmington home in January. After that discovery, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur as special counsel to investigate the matter.

 

The treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are so frustrated by their failures and so well played by the progressive/liberal/Democrats they have literally sunk to the level of middle schoolers fighting on the playground.

And one thing I personally enjoy are the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans constantly proving they are really nothing more than cowardly bullies who can dish it out by the ton but can't take it by the ounce.

Also it looks to me like Comer should be the last one to say someone else looks like a Smurf. That seems like pure psychological projection to me.


'You look like a Smurf!' James Comer erupts after he's called out on dealings with brother

Travis Gettys
November 14, 2023 2:14PM ET



(Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)


Rep. James Comer (R-KY) angrily rejected questions during a House Oversight Committee meeting Tuesday about his business dealings involving his brother.

Reporting earlier this month showed the Kentucky Republican and his brother had engaged in land swaps involving their family farming business, which Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) mockingly compared to Comer's allegations last week about business transactions involving President Joe Biden and his brother.

Comer angrily denied his transactions involved shell companies or questionable practices – which on Tuesday he called "bulls--t" written by "financial illiterate people."

"You look like a Smurf in here, going around in all this stuff," Comer said.

The two lawmakers then sparred back and forth, angrily interrupting one another.

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"Mr. Chairman, you have gone on TV and said the president did something illegal," Moskowitz said, as Comer talked over him. "You're doing stuff with your brother, the American people have the same questions. Why should they believe you? Is there a different rule for the president, is there a different rule for you? Why should they believe what you're saying, Mr. Chairman? You go on Fox News and say loans and deals are ways to evade taxes, we don't know what you're doing."

"You go on Fox News," Comer countered.

Moskowitz again said the public deserved to know the truth about Comer's business dealings, saying the reports had raised troubling questions, and Comer attacked his credibility.

"You've already been proven a liar," Comer said.

"Who's proven me a liar, you?" Moskowitz replied, and Comer said yes.

Comer said an opposition research team was recording video back in his hometown, and he invited Moskowitz to join them.

"This seems to have gotten under your skin," Moskowitz said. "I think the American people have questions, and you should maybe sit for a deposition."

Watch the video below or at this link.






https://www.rawstory.com/james-comer-brother/

 

Uh-Oh: Giuliani’s Top Ukraine Allies Charged With Being Putin Agents
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Tue, November 14, 2023 at 3:03 PM MST·2 min read
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Ukraine’s Security Service notified Rudy Giuliani’s top Ukrainian allies on Monday that they are suspects of treason, citing evidence that the officials participated in activities aiding Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A Ukrainian member of parliament, Oleksandr Dubinsky, ex-Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach, and ex-prosecutor Kostyantyn Kulyk are suspected of joining an organization founded by chief members of Russia’s Military Intelligence while Giuliani worked to dig up dirt on President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden in 2019, according to a statement.

The organization received more than $10 million from the Russian Federation to “discredit” Ukraine on the international stage.


“It is established that on the instructions of the Russian special services, it organized events to discredit the image of Ukraine in the international arena in order to worsen diplomatic relations with the United States and complicate Ukraine’s accession to the European Union and NATO,” the State Investigative Bureau said in a statement.

Dubinsky, who is also suspected of spreading misinformation about Ukraine’s political leadership, will be detained for 60 days, or until January 12, 2024, reported Reuters. Dubinsky was not named in the charging document but was identified as the subject of the remand by other lawmakers, according to the outlet.

Giuliani met with Dubinsky and Derkach in Kyiv in December 2019 as part of his “documentary series” with One America News Network on election meddling, hoping to discredit the presidential election results.

A former Ukrainian presidential advisor, Igor Novikov, told Time in 2021 that he believed “Mayor Giuliani’s actions in Ukraine threatened our national security” and that the country should not allow efforts to “drag our country into our allies’ domestic politics” to go “unpunished.”

Giuliani and Trump have both pleaded not guilty in the criminal trial charging them and 16 others with attempting to overturn the 2020 election.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/uh-oh-giuliani-top-ukraine-220310554.html

 

House Speaker Mike Johnson Gives Critical Update on Joe Biden Impeachment Inquiry
November 15, 2023




House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday gave an update about the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The announcement came after he met with Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Jason Smith (R-MO), and James Comer (R-KY), the chairmen of the House Judiciary, Ways and Means, and Oversight and Accountability Committees, respectively.

The speaker indicated that the inquiry has already yielded fruit when it comes to showing wrongdoing on the part of the Biden family.

At this stage, our impeachment inquiry has already shown the corrupt conduct of the President’s family, and that he and White House officials have repeatedly lied about his knowledge and involvement in his family’s business activities. It has also exposed the tens of millions of dollars from foreign adversaries being paid to shell companies controlled by the President’s son, brother, and their business associates.

Johnson explained that the next step is to begin interviewing “key witnesses” as House Republicans build their case against Biden.

Now, the appropriate step is to place key witnesses under oath and question them under the penalty of perjury, to fill gaps in the record.”

https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/s...ate-on-joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-n2166403

The first hearing in the impeachment inquiry was held in late September. Lawmakers interviewed a series of witnesses and established that there was enough evidence to warrant the inquiry.

The president and his team have repeatedly denied that he was involved with his family’s shady foreign business dealings. Nevertheless, there is evidence suggesting that Biden was far more involved in these endeavors than he has indicated.

It is not yet clear exactly which witnesses House Republicans will call to testify before Congress about the Biden family. In September, Rep. Comer did give a glimpse into who the nation can expect to see in the lower chamber.

The first impeachment inquiry hearing targeting President Joe Biden has been scheduled in the House of Representatives. According to Rep. James Comer, Thursday will be the day, and he's already revealing who the witnesses will be.

On Monday night, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced the witnesses for the first hearing on the Biden impeachment inquiry.

The witnesses include Bruce Dubinsky, the founder of Dubinsky Consulting and a forensic accountant; Eileen O'Connor, who formerly served as the assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) tax division; and Professor Johnathon Turley of George Washington University Law School, who has offered analysis and insight about the Biden family corruption and impeachment inquiries.

A poll conducted in the same month showed that more Americans support the inquiry than those who do not, which seems to indicate the public is curious as to what the effort will turn up.

An Economist/YouGov survey showed that 45 percent of Americans support the impeachment inquiry while 40 percent are opposed. While this is not a huge margin, it still suggests that the idea isn’t as unpopular as the left would have people believe.

Of course, the results fell along partisan lines, with 77 percent of Republicans favoring the inquiry and only 25 percent of Democrats doing the same. Conversely, about 65 percent of Democrats oppose the move, while only 25 percent of Republicans feel the same.

 

Stand by. Despicables are going to trigger.

 

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