ET Williams

The Doctor of Common Sense

JOE BIDEN

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Pelosi Says Biden is A Strategic Thinker Who Connects With American People

Pelosi: ‘Bidenomics’ Is Working, Americans Just Don’t Know It Yet

Rep. Nancy Pelosi claimed over the weekend that President Joe Biden’s economic policies, colloquially known as “Bidenomics,” were actually working, even if ordinary Americans couldn’t tell.

But that’s only because Biden hasn’t really done enough to inform American wage-earners of how well his policies are doing, the former House speaker told CNN host Dana Bash on Sunday.

During the interview, Bash presented a range of positive economic metrics she believed reflected well on the Biden administration. She then raised the question of why these numbers did not seem to align with the sentiment of Americans as reflected in polling about the economy, the Daily Wire reported.

“Well, a lot of it’s about messaging, of course,” Pelosi said. “I’m so proud of this president.

“In the two years that we were in the majority working with him, he broke all records, on the level with a Lyndon Johnson or a Franklin Roosevelt, in terms of the caliber of legislation that he passed for the good of the people, lowering prescription drugs, again, cutting in half – as you indicate, cutting in half unemployment,” she added.

According to Pelosi, the perceived success of the administration “has to be messaged” to the American people, even if the reality does not necessarily match the messaging from the Biden administration.

“This president did such a remarkable job,” Pelosi noted. “He is a person of such knowledge, such vision for the country, such knowledge of the issues, such strategic thinking, and such a legislator, and, on top of it all, a person who connects with the American people.”

“He just has to get out there,” she claimed. “It’s a busy job being president. I can say that as a speaker. You’re doing your work. But he’s just going to have to make sure the American people know at that kitchen table what this means to them, in terms of jobs and pay, reducing inflation.”

Republicans and other critics of the administration counter that many of Biden’s policies — particularly those related to ‘green energy’ initiatives — have actually harmed average wage earners. Gasoline, for instance, climbed to record or near-record levels shortly after he took office and began implementing anti-fossil fuel industry policies. And at present, prices per gallon are, on average, still $1 or more higher than when former President Donald Trump left office.

The increased cost of energy and fuel has led to an increase in the cost of producing and transporting everything else consumers are reliant upon. Food prices are much higher than when Trump was in office, and inflation surpassed double digits under Biden and his Democratic congressional majority and is still high.

In terms of unemployment, Republicans note that the vast majority of employment gains under Biden are the result of tens of millions of Americans returning to work after being sidelined by pandemic-related business shutdowns and closures.

Finally, interest rates have more than quadrupled under Biden as the Federal Reserve was forced to raise them to counter what many critics viewed as Biden’s inflationary policies, such as mass spending at a time when the supply chain was dramatically strained due to the pandemic.

In fact, according to a Monday report by Fox Business, high home mortgage rates are liable to linger for years.

A new forecast from Moody’s Analytics predicts that property values in the U.S. are set to experience a 2.4 percent decline next year due to the continued impact of mortgage rates on the real estate market, the outlet reported.

“While maturing millennial households drive housing demand, the doubling of U.S. mortgage rates is causing notable retreats in certain markets, mainly in western states,” the analysis said.

Separately, a Fox Business poll taken in South Carolina ahead of the primary over the weekend found that the number one concern among GOP voters, by far, is the economy, with 51 percent saying so.

Pelosi: ‘Bidenomics’ Is Working, Americans Just Don’t Know It Yet

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FBI Demanded Republicans Keep Burisma-Bribery Scheme Confidential

FBI Demanded Republicans Keep Unclassified FD-1023 Form ‘Confidential’ Before Release

The FBI demanded the House Oversight Committee keep the bureau’s unclassified FD-1023 form confidential before its release by Republicans on Thursday.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said he released the form upon acquiring it by legally protected disclosures from Justice Department whistleblowers.

The form contains FBI informant allegations of wrongdoing by then-Vice President Joe Biden. Specifically, it alleges that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden each received $5 million from Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings, after Joe Biden threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine until then-President Petro Poroshenko fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma.

It also confirms Breitbart News’s reporting that the FBI’s informant conveyed that Hunter and Joe Biden allegedly “coerced” the Burisma executive into paying them $10 million in bribes, along with Grassley’s claim the FBI informant said Zlochevsky kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations with Hunter and Joe Biden as an “insurance policy.”

The FBI says the form was not corroborated by the bureau before its public release and “expressly” did “not consent to the materials’ public disclosure or further dissemination,” and that “the contents of the materials should not be discussed or shared in any form with anyone beyond Members and staff,” according to a disclaimer obtained by the Hill.

“Throughout the FBI’s engagements with Congress, we have been guided by our obligation to protect the physical safety of confidential human sources and the integrity of sensitive investigations,” the FBI said in a statement. “We have repeatedly explained to Congress, in correspondence and in briefings, how critical it is to keep this source information confidential,” the FBI said in a Thursday statement.

“The safeguards the FBI placed on the production of this information are necessary to protect the safety of confidential sources and the integrity of sensitive investigations,” the statement continued. “Today’s release of the 1023 — at a minimum — unnecessarily risks the safety of a confidential source.”

Despite the FBI’s claims, lawmakers disclosed the form with redactions, such as who the FBI informant is and additional sensitive information.

The FBI previously allowed lawmakers to review the unclassified document in June after much arm-twisting by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY). Though a select number of lawmakers reviewed the form, it remained hidden from the public, raising concerns that Joe Biden could be compromised.

Joe Biden claims he did not accept the $5 million bribe from Burisma. When a reporter questioned Joe Biden about the alleged $5 million payment, he jokingly responded, “Where’s the money?”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/21/fbi-demanded-republicans-keep-unclassified-fd-1023-form-confidential-before-release/

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FBI Evidence: Joe Biden Involved in $5 Million Bribery Scheme with Burisma

FBI Document Showing Joe Biden Was Involved in $5 Million Bribery Scheme with Burisma Executive – Biden FORCED Oligarch to Pay Up!

Senator Chuck Grassley on Thursday released the FBI document showing Joe Biden was involved in a $5 million bribery scheme with Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky.

The FD-1023 form alleged then-Vice President Joe Biden FORCED Zlochevsky, a Ukrainian oligarch, to pay himself and his son Hunter Biden a total of $10 million.

According to the document, Biden’s bribery arrangement was described as “poluchili,” which is Russian crime slang for being “forced or coerced to pay.”

Per the FD-1023:

According to the FBI’s confidential human source, executives for Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, brought Hunter Biden on the board to “protect us through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” At the time, Burisma was seeking to do business in the United States, but was facing a corruption investigation in Ukraine, led by then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Regarding that investigation’s impact on its ambitions in North America, Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky reportedly said, “Don’t worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.” Zlochevsky reportedly stated that he had to pay $5 million to Hunter Biden and $5 million to Joe Biden, an arrangement he described as ‘poluchili,’ which is Russian crime slang for being “forced or coerced to pay,” according to the document.

Also, according to the document, Zlochevsky claims to have text messages and recordings that show he was FORCED to pay the Bidens to ensure Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was fired.

Zlochevsky also retained two documents, presumably financial records, as evidence of the arrangement, according to the document.

Per the FD-1023:

Zlochevsky claimed to have many text messages and recordings that show that he was coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Shokin was fired. Specifically, he claimed to have two recordings with Joe Biden and 15 recordings with Hunter Biden. Zlochevsky also retained two documents, presumably financial records, as evidence of the arrangement, but said he didn’t send any funds directly to the “Big Guy,” a term understood to be a reference to Joe Biden. References to the “Big Guy” surfaced in communications involving other Biden family business arrangements independent of the Burisma arrangement. Zlochevsky claimed it would take investigators 10 years to uncover the illicit payments to the Bidens, according to the document.

Read the unclassified FD-1023 forms here:


Page 1 of the unclassified FBI document


Page 2 of unclassified FBI document

 

Joe Biden publicly bragged about bribing Ukraine with $1 billion to fire Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General who was investigating Burisma corruption.

I “said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. He got fired,” Biden said in 2018.

BREAKING: Grassley Releases FBI Document Showing Joe Biden Was Involved in $5 Million Bribery Scheme with Burisma Executive – Biden FORCED Oligarch to Pay Up!

 

 

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Ah oh! House Committee Releases Timeline of Biden’s Influence Peddling Scheme

House Oversight Releases 14 Year Timeline of Biden’s Illegal Influence Peddling Scheme

The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released a 14-year timeline of the Biden Crime Family’s influence peddling and selling out America to foreign regimes including Communist China.

The Oversight Committee is likely just scratching the surface of the criminal actions by Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and the extended Biden family.

The Biden family was selling out America to Ukraine, Romania, and Communist China.

Back on November 2, 2020, before the presidential election, Joe Hoft at The Gateway Pundit posted this on the Biden Crime family.

The MSM, Democrats and the Biden Campaign are complaining that the Tony Bobulinski story is a lie.  They want Americans to believe that Hunter and Joe Biden are men of character and Bobulinski is the man lacking integrity.  Unfortunately for this corrupt group, we have evidence that proves Bobulinski right.

Several MSM outlets have been challenging the validity of Tony Bobulinski’s claims regarding Joe Biden’s and his brother Jim’s involvement with Hunter’s China business activity. The latest NY Post forensic evaluation confirmed that Bobulinski’s email was legit. But apparently, this is not good enough for propaganda outlets like CNN, NYT and WaPo which continue to challenge these emails and any claim of “family” involvement.

Apelbaum claims to have a small sampling of documents and other digital evidence confirming Bobulinski’s assertions are legit.

This content has been certified via traditional computer forensic techniques and has been authenticated via these sources and methods:

  1. Hunter Biden’s official identification documents such as driver license, passport, and birth certificate

  2. A variety of Hunter Biden’s financial records

  3. Detailed records of wire transfer activity into and out of his accounts

  4. Source documents

  5. Email and messaging activity

  6. Voice recordings

  7. Imagery, video, cell phone, laptop, and geospatial linkages

Apelbaum also has evidence of payments from China.  In the below image, Hunter is pressing Mervyn Yan from CEFC for payment and the subsequent wire transfers to his account and the Chinese payment to Owasco P.C, one of Biden’s businesses

Note that last evening we reported that Hunter’s Owasco Company is where he is making recurring transfers to an individual who is a ghost with no Internet footprint, and Hunter’s company OWASCO happens to be the name of one of the Finger Lakes in New York.

In another image, Apelbaum provides a Biden family contract with the Chinese CEFC and subsequent large wire transfers to a New York bank account controlled by Hunter and his uncle Jim and aunt Sarah:

Apelbaum provides a letter between Hunter and China introducing Tony Bobulinski.  Apelbaum also provides evidence of Hunter’s earnings in 2015 which amounted to $2.5 million.  He then provides evidence that Ukrainian company Burisma payments to Hunter are not recognized as income.  Then Apelbaum produces some of the perks Hunter obtained as a result of his corrupt deals around the world.  This includes furs, diamonds and a discussion with the King of Jordan:

NO MORE TALK – START THE IMPEACHMENT: House Oversight Releases 14 Year Timeline of Biden’s Illegal Influence Peddling Scheme

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Jill Biden Tells Donors ‘Nothing’ Can Slow Joe Down

Jill Biden Tells Donors ‘Nothing’ Can Slow Her Husband Down as Polls Show Americans Worried

A recent survey reveals that the majority of people are still anxious about President Joe Biden’s ability to serve as president despite First Lady Jill Biden’s assurances to funders that “nothing” can hold him down.

“Nothing can slow him down and now he’s ready to finish the job,” Jill Biden said at fundraisers in Minnesota and Tennessee over the weekend, where donors gave millions of dollars to Biden’s re-election effort.

“The president is coming off a series of stumbles: he tumbled at the Air Force Academy and had a near fall in Hiroshima when he tripped on a set of stairs earlier this month. And a new NBC News poll shows voters remain concerned if President Biden, 80, has the stamina to complete another four years in office,” the Daily Mail reported.

“The poll found that 68 percent are concerned that Biden does not possess the ‘necessary mental and physical health to be president’ while 32 percent said that they have minor or no concerns. Additionally, it found that 60 percent are concerned about Biden ‘being re-elected and serving another four years as president’ while 40 percent are not concerned,” the outlet added.

Jill Biden has been playing an outsized role in her husband’s administration, mostly to protect him, according to a new report.

Sources claimed that Jill Biden is wielding quite a bit of influence over President Joe Biden’s decisions as she participates directly in vetting administration officials, sitting in meetings, protecting her husband from long events, and many other duties that appear to shield her husband from handling too much on his own.

“Jill Biden’s reported influence in the White House comes as Joe Biden has been scrutinized for being led off stage by the first lady, and appearing to be physically led away from reporters’ questions. Jill Biden has been appearing frequently at public events and plans to hit the campaign trail going into the 2024 election,” the Financial Times reported.

The Guardian reported similar details in a separate report, noting that Jill Biden is “running the show” behind the scenes:

Behind the scenes, First Lady Jill Biden might be running the show. In an interview with David Muir, President Biden was asked about a second run, and he joked, “I gotta call [Jill] and find out.” He was kidding, but there is some truth behind his wife’s influence. A former senior adviser told Politico, “She is always his final gut check.” As of April 2023, the president officially made his re-election bid. He released a campaign video where his wife can be spotted embracing the vice president, speaking out, and politicking on the campaign trail.

A former advisor to the Head of State shared, “She is usually in the room when senior campaign staff is presenting a strategy to her husband. She will ask questions. But she never weighs in on the decision.”

“The first lady, Jill Biden, encouraged her husband to seek a second term. According to the president’s senior advisers, he will often consider her opinion before making final decisions on official matters. She is also expected to play a large role on the campaign trail as Biden faces backlash for his family. A career educator, she offers a perspective over GOP fights about book bans and other policies in schools and has served as a connection to suburban voters, particularly women,” the outlet added.

Jill Biden has also been caught up in leaks to the media, with reports saying she rages at staffers and tries to control her husband throughout the day.

This comes as another poll last week found that President Biden’s net approval rating decreased by over four points in the first half of 2023, and the news just keeps getting worse.

An Echelon Insights survey of 472 likely Democrat voters found that a whopping one-third said they would support another candidate other than President Joe Biden in a Democratic primary ahead of the 2024 election.

Other recent polls have found similar results, with things going so badly for the Biden administration that some Democrats want someone else in 2024.

“The analysis indicates Biden has gone from a net approval rating of -8.0 on January 1 to -11.9 on June 27, a fall of 3.9 points. However, he hasn’t fallen to the level of his lowest point, when he had an approval rating of -19.7 in July 2022, according to data from the polling analysis website FiveThirtyEight,” Newsweek reported.

“In April, Biden formally announced he is seeking a second term in the White House, with polling showing he is the firm frontrunner to be the Democrats’ 2024 presidential candidate, potentially setting up a rematch against Donald Trump. Thus Biden’s personal popularity is likely to play a key role in determining who serves as president from January 2025 onwards,” the outlet added.

A separate poll found Biden’s job approval is stagnant and Vice President Kamala Harris has a low approval rating as the 2024 election creeps closer.

Jill Biden Tells Donors ‘Nothing’ Can Slow Her Husband Down as Polls Show Americans Worried