{"id":12176,"date":"2024-08-19T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12176"},"modified":"2024-08-19T19:58:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:58:36","slug":"impeachment-report-lays-out-president-bidens-alleged-offenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12176","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment Report Lays Out President Biden\u2019s Alleged Offenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A newly released report from the House Ways and Committee alleges that President Joe Biden committed impeachable offenses in his role in his family\u2019s alleged overseas business dealings.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs described in this report, the Committees have accumulated evidence demonstrating that President Biden has engaged in impeachable conduct,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

The 291-page report<\/a> lays out in detail what have at times been murky allegations against the president.<\/p>\n

House Oversight Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., has helped spearhead the investigation, uncovering and laying out evidence. He and Republicans on the impeachment committee argue that the Biden family, with the help and knowledge of the president, used the Biden family name around the world to rake in nearly $30 million from overseas entities in Ukraine, China, Romania and elsewhere in secretive influence deals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to obscure the source of these funds, the Biden family and their associates set up shell companies to conceal these payments from scrutiny,\u201d the report said. \u201cThe Biden family used proceeds from these business activities to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to Joe Biden\u2014including thousands of dollars that are directly traceable to China.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden has brushed off questions about his involvement in a scheme being highlighted in the Republicans’ report. The administration has yet to release a formal response in reaction to the report.<\/p>\n

A key question in the investigation has been, even if Hunter Biden and others monetized the \u201cBiden brand,\u201d how much did the president really know or participate?<\/p>\n

\u201cWitnesses acknowledged that Hunter Biden involved Vice President Biden in many of his business dealings with Russian, Romanian, Chinese, Kazakhstani, and Ukrainian individuals and companies,\u201d the report said. \u201cThen-Vice President Biden met or spoke with nearly every one of the Biden family\u2019s foreign business associates, including those from Ukraine, China, Russia, and Kazakhstan. As a result, the Biden family has received millions of dollars from these foreign entities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president has repeatedly brushed off these allegations, and so far Republicans have not gotten the needed votes to make impeachment a serious threat.<\/p>\n

From the report:<\/p>\n

First and foremost, overwhelming evidence demonstrates that President Biden participated in a conspiracy to monetize his office of public trust to enrich his family. Among other aspects of this conspiracy, the Biden family and their business associates received tens of millions of dollars from foreign interests by leading those interests to believe that such payments would provide them access to and influence with President Biden. As Vice President, President Biden actively participated in this conspiracy by, among other things, attending dinners with his family\u2019s foreign business partners and speaking to them by phone, often when being placed on speakerphone by Hunter Biden. For example, in 2014, Vice President Biden attended a dinner for Hunter Biden with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina.4 Following the dinner, Baturina wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton, a firm associated with Hunter Biden. Then, months later, as Hunter Biden and his business associates continued to solicit more money from Baturina, Vice President Biden participated in a phone call with Baturina and Hunter Biden where Vice President Biden told Baturina, \u201cyou be good to my boy.\u201d Moreover, President Biden knowingly participated in this conspiracy. Based on the totality of the evidence, it is inconceivable that President Biden did not understand that he was taking part in an effort to enrich his family by abusing his office of public trust.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Biden-Harris Administration has lied to the American people time and again to cover up and obstruct the investigation into tax crimes committed by a Biden family business enterprise that capitalized on political power,\u201d Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement. \u201cThe American people have been shocked to learn the magnitude of the scheme going back to the President\u2019s time as Vice President, when Biden family members were allowed to use Air Force Two as their own private business jet.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of this would have come to light had it not been for the two IRS whistleblowers who were tired of watching their investigation into the President\u2019s son become obstructed, delayed, and denied the ability to move forward as the pursuit of truth demanded,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The whistleblowers in question are Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler, two IRS employees with nearly three decades of combined federal experience.<\/p>\n

Those whistleblowers came forward and testified<\/a> before Congress about Hunter Biden\u2019s alleged tax crimes, saying that this case was unlike any other. One whistleblower testified that the Biden administration interfered in the investigation to protect Hunter and prevent a raid at the president\u2019s Delaware home.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Hunter, who still faces tax charges Biden was found guilty on federal gun charges.<\/p>\n

President Biden has said he will not pardon his son.<\/p>\n

Whether Biden falling out of favor with his own party in the presidential election will change that trajectory remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans now know Joe Biden was \u2018the brand\u2019 the Bidens sold around the world to enrich the Biden family, and Joe Biden knew of, benefitted from, and participated in his family\u2019s influence peddling schemes,\u201d Comer said in a statement. \u201cThe entire Biden influence peddling model relied on Joe Biden\u2019s presence\u2014at meetings, on the phone, or at dinners\u2014to demonstrate his family members\u2019 influence over him, and he repeatedly provided it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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