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 PJ Media: In a stunning revelation, EPA Director Lee Zeldin laid out in a new interview with Miranda Devine how Obama and Biden officials turned the Environmental Protection Agency into a slush fund for the left. Officials laundered billions of taxpayer dollars through politically connected nonprofits beyond any meaningful oversight. On Devine’s “Pod Force One” podcast, Zeldin recalled how the scandal first came to light during his confirmation hearings. A Project Veritas video had caught a Biden EPA employee bragging about the agency “tossing gold bars off the Titanic,” desperately rushing billions of dollars out the door before Donald Trump took office. “He was also talking about the desire to get themselves jobs at the recipient NGOs,” Zeldin recalled. Republican senators pressed him during confirmation hearings to make uncovering the scheme a priority. “Absolutely, was my response—with great enthusiasm and eagerness.” Once in office, Zeldin said his team quickly discovered an ...

 Sarah Palin.com: Since gaining power in Congress, Republicans have issued several subpoenas to get their hands on bank records from the Biden family. Between 2015 to 2017, the bank records show a “jaw-dropping” $1.3 million received in payments to Biden family members, including Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie Biden, and Rob Walker, who is a Biden family associate. On March 1, 2017, a Chinese company called State Energy HK Limited wired $3 million to Rob Walker’s company. On March 2, 2017, the company wired another $1,065,000 to Biden family associate James Gilliar. The Biden family received approximately $1,065,000 in payments over a three-month period in different bank accounts. It’s entirely unclear what corrupt services were provided by the Biden family for the Chinese company to spend this exorbitant amount of money. “The Oversight Committee is concerned about the national security implications resulting from President Biden’s family receiving millions of dollars from forei...

 Fox News: House Oversight Committee subpoenas banks, Biden family associates in probe of finances The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed several major banks for financial records belonging to Biden family associates The Dems seem upset about the investigation of the Biden flow of funds. 

 Don Surber: ... Republicans have duly noted these Democrat mistakes and made the proper adjustments. They are taking their two years of control of the House to introduce legislation that could later become law under a Republican president, sure. But Speaker McCarthy is also laying the groundwork for the prosecution of the Democrat regime. They won’t waste time on impeachments. Committee chairmen are holding hearings that put on record what we know in our hearts has gone on within the deep state and in the Biden regime. This is not Nancy and Nadler the Waddler looking for a scandal to create to entrap a president. This is Speaker McCarthy picking which scandal to pursue. Republican James Comer leads the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Biden family. Everyone in Washington knew for decades that Biden was on the take. Soon, all of America will know too. As Comer said , “Investigating Hunter, the Biden family is about like tracking a bleeding bear through a snowstorm...

 Jonathon Turley: I previously wrote a column on the one year anniversary of the Hunter Biden laptop story that marveled at the success of the Biden family in making the scandal vanish before that 2020 election. It was analogized to Houdini making his 10,000-pound elephant Jennie disappear in his act. The Biden trick however occurred live before an audience of millions. Now, in an encore, a new major story on Biden’s Chinese dealings has surfaced. Once again, poof! The media has made the story disappear except for a couple of the usual outlets . Even with the New York Times reporting on the story, the disclosure of Biden’s role in securing one of the world’s largest cobalt mines for China (a key component to electric battery production) has been ignored by the major networks and many other print outlets . Once again, ABC. NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and other media just cannot see the elephant. What is most amazing about this continuing trick is that the story has all of the elements th...

 Washington Examiner: T he Biden administration is trying to revive a form of thoroughly corrupt, politicized shakedowns. Thankfully, Sen. Tommy Tuberville is trying to stop them. The shakedowns were a favorite tactic of the Justice Department under the Obama-Biden administration, but they had been stopped under former President  Donald Trump . On Joe Biden’s first day as president, he ordered the department to “review” the policy with an eye toward reinstating it.  Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, on Wednesday introduced  the “Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2021” to block him. The scheme used under Obama was clever but nefarious. The Justice Department would target wealthy entities, often banks, for some sort of “enforcement action” for alleged misdeeds. With the targeted outfit facing the full weight of the government’s virtually limitless legal budget (not to mention compulsory powers), it would often calculate the situation as being less expensive to pa...

  Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr Also worth noting it doesn’t end oil transportation it just forces oil companies to spend more money shipping oil on Warren Buffets rail lines. See how that works? It’s not environmental policy it’s a kickback to democrat donors and nothing more. Quote Tweet New York Post @nypost · Jan 20 Canadian PM Trudeau 'disappointed' in Biden plan to revoke Keystone XL permit https:// trib.al/HQNqKP5 9:33 PM · Jan 21, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone 21.6K Retweets 957 Quote Tweets 62.6K Likes We should come to expect that from Biden. A guy who monetizes his office to enrich his family would also do so to enrich his donors.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/09/matt_gaetz_confronts_democratic_counsel_with_poster_of_his_tweet_at_trump.html?jwsource=cl Real Clear Politics: Rep. Matt Gaetz confronted Daniel Goldman, the Democratic counsel for the House Intelligence Committee during Monday’s impeachment hearing with a poster-board-sized cutout of a tweet he sent in August 2018 suggesting that the "pee tape" mentioned in the Steele dossier was real and would "come out." Gaeta began by asking Goldman, under oath, if he was non-partisan. Goldman replied in the affirmative. "Have you ever tweeted anything at the president?" Gaetz asked him. "I have made a number of tweets in my private capacity before I came to this job when I worked in the media," Goldman replied. "As a matter of fact, this is one of those tweets," Gaetz said gleefully displaying the posterboard. "You said, 'Nothing in the dossier has proved to be false.' ...

PJ Media: In a tweet this morning, President Donald Trump accused Democratic Reps. Veronica Escobar and Sheila Jackson Lee of "purposefully" misquoting his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Even radical-leftist news channel CNN was forced to admit: Trump is 100 percent correct. The Democratic lawmakers lied. During the debate about impeachment articles, Rep. Escobar said that Trump told Zelensky: "I want you to do me a favor though." Rep. Jackson "quoted" that same part of the phone call as follows: "I would like you to do a favor though." The problem? The actual quote is: "I want you to do us a favor though." As a result, President Trump took to Twitter to criticize the two congresswomen. "Dems Veronica Escobar and Jackson Lee purposely misquoted my call," Trump wrote about them. "I said I want you to do us (our Country!) a favor, not me a favor. They know that but decided to LIE in order to...

The Inspector General report on the abuses of the FBI and the collusion of the DNC with law enforcement and liberal reporters to push a false and fraudulent narrative known as the Russian collusion hoax should go down in history as one of the biggest scandals in history and yet too many Democrat politicians were defending the indefensible. Unfortunately, this is not the first time Democrats have abused the court system to gain power.  The trial of Sen. Stevens a few years ago flipped control of the Senate and it was later shown that the DOJ had colluded with others to falsely accuse Stevens.  A judge when he learned of the abuse overturned the verdict, but in the meantime, a Democrat had taken Stevens seat. What that case and the current one shows is that Democrats within the DOJ are willing to engage in illegal and unethical actions to reach a result that helps the Democrats.  And not any Democrat politicians seem willing to speak out against this corruption which be...

Sharyl Attkisson: Many will debate the substance of the public impeachment testimony against President Trump. To me, each of the Democrats’ witnesses of the past two weeks appeared to be well-intentioned and hard-working, and seemed genuinely to believe they know what’s best. But a picture also emerged of U.S. diplomats who appear to believe they, rather than the U.S. president, have the ultimate authority to determine our foreign policy. And if the president doesn’t go along? He clearly must be wrong — in their view. Or, even worse, he’s a traitor. He’s to be obstructed. Taken down. In an odd turnabout, they actually make the case for President Trump’s mantra that we need to “drain the swamp.” One can first look at the language witnesses used as they vented about Trump’s tutelage in ways that veered far from relevance to the impeachment allegations. They conveyed hurt feelings, bruised egos and strong differences of opinion. At times, the testimony sounded a bit like a human ...

Washington Post: Democrats to press ahead despite lack of testimony from key witnesses House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff said he would not allow the witnesses to "stall this proceeding." This is just more evidence of the bad faith of Democrats and also their refusal to hear from witnesses Republicans want to question.  Adam Schiff has operated in bad faith from the beginning saying there was evidence of Russian collusion when there was none, and now making up a case about Ukraine while covering up Biden influence pedaling for profit in Ukraine.   As it has ever since Trump was elected the media has operated as a cohort in the bogus impeachment scams put forward by Democrats.  The Democrat culture of corruption has become even more blatant.

Elizabeth Vaughn: Schiff Releases Tim Morrison Transcript, Destroys Testimony of Lt. Col. Vindman; Considers Him Unreliable, Questions His Judgement ... The House Intelligence Committee Republicans, however, saw Morrison’s testimony quite a bit differently and consider it to be favorable to the President, which may be the reason why Schiff was reluctant to release it. (Note: On Saturday, the House Intelligence Committee Republicans published a list of key points from Morrison’s closed door hearing, complete with page numbers and relevant testimony. The website also provides the key points from Vindman’s testimony here.) In summary, Morrison did not believe President Trump said anything improper on the July 25th call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He also painted an unflattering picture of his subordinate, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the director of European Affairs at the NSC. Morrison said he considers Vindman to be unreliable and told lawmakers that he question...

Washington Post: In a battleground town, sharp divisions over impeachment but few changed minds A white working-class Democratic stronghold in Pennsylvania voted for Barack Obama before flipping to Donald Trump in 2016. But don’t expect to hear a debate about impeachment. With Trump, the battle lines were drawn long ago. Trump kept his promise to create more jobs and bring back manufacturing jobs.  He brought back jobs that Obama said were never coming back.  There is no reason for these voters to go back to the corrupt Democrat party and its bogus claims of impeachable offenses.  Why should they trust the media which pushed the Russian collusion hoax for over two years?  Why defend the Democrats' corrupt effort to exonerate the Bidens for what looks like obvious corruption?  Ukraine should have cooperated with an investigation of the Bidens and the collusion with Democrats in the 2016 election.

Daily Mail: Fired-up AG Bill Barr says the Democrats are 'using every tool' to 'sabotage' President Trump in a 'scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of resistance' and slams the Left for their 'constant harassment' that is 'dangerous' to America  Attorney General William Barr (above) gave a speech to conservative lawyers who gathered in Washington, DC, on Friday. 'In waging a scorched-earth, no-holds-barred war of resistance against this administration, it is the left that is engaged in a systematic shredding of norms and undermining the rule of law,' Barr told guests of the Federalist Society convention in the capital. Barr, who was named Attorney General by Trump after the resignation of Jeff Sessions last year, accused the 'resistance' of 'dangerous' and 'incendiary' language by questioning the legitimacy of the sitting government. House Rep. Adam Schiff is seen top left inset. President Trump is seen bottom...

Real Clear Investigation: In the waning days of the Obama administration, the U.S. intelligence community produced a report saying Russian President Vladimir Putin had tried to swing the 2016 election to Donald Trump. The January 2017 report, called an Intelligence Community Assessment, followed months of leaks to the media that had falsely suggested illicit ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin while also revealing that such contacts were the subject of a federal investigation. Its release cast a pall of suspicion over Trump just days before he took office, setting the tone for the unfounded allegations of conspiracy and treason that have engulfed his first term. The ICA's blockbuster finding was presented to the public as the consensus view of the nation's intelligence community. As events have unfolded, however, it now seems apparent that the report was largely the work of one agency, the CIA, and overseen by one man, then-Director John Brennan, who closely d...