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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFaux News Breaking - Hunter Biden blah blah blah
Faux News is at it again. The submersible story is grabbing everyones attention so they had to do a Breaking News alert. I was in my car listening to Faux on the Sirius when they broke in.
They said the House Ways and Means committee released new Hunter Biden evidence. Well not exactly. They didnt release anything. Instead the released some of the testimony by the IRS Whistleblower . So the guy who claims that the Hunter case was slow-walked
. But nothing else. Noting like EVIDENCE or PROOF or VERIFIABLE FACTS
stuff like that.
But wait
there WAS something new. It was explosive!
Shapley, who oversaw the IRS probe into the president's son, said the IRS obtained a WhatsApp message dated July 30th, 2017, from Hunter Biden to Henry Zhao, who the New York Post previously reported is a Chinese Communist Party official and CEO of Harvest Fund Management.
"I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight" Biden wrote. "And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father."
OK. I mean youd have thought theyd be waving a picture around of this text. Copies of the text log from the phone company. Id assume they actually have it? Lets see it. If it exists that is. Or is it like the audio tape they talked about for a week before admitting it might not exist?
Oh wait
. They dont have it.
The Faux commentators were tripping all over themselves too. Who is lying? Hunter or Joe or Both?. Then referring to Joe saying he never discussed his sons business dealings with him (complete with cutting to the audio of Joe saying that). So Was he sitting there or not? they wondered. Of course the third option, that the Whistleblower lied, was never considered. It didnt fit their agenda.
Then they started talking about the need to subpoena Hunter and get him under oath. They complained that was the problem with plea agreements
no trial so no opportunity to cross examine. But they dont want to cross examine, they want an inquisition.
Ill give it a couple weeks or so
then itll come out there is nothing. By then the Faux News mind-control experts will have fully disseminated it to the MAGATs and theyll be citing it as gosoel on Twitter, Quora and every other online chat group.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-fbi-irs-interfered-hunter-biden-probe-according-whistleblower-testimony
mercuryblues
(16,515 posts)NowISeetheLight
(4,002 posts)Innuendo Faux excels at it. Facts not so much.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Propaganda 101.
Fox is a cancer supported by lack of hate speech laws, and a corporate mass media that never heard of them.
Yet
still in WH press corps??
Recycle_Guru
(2,973 posts)or Sirius XM?
NowISeetheLight
(4,002 posts)I take drives to relax and the trucking radio takes me back to my OTR days. I usually listen to MSNBC but flipped to Faux to hear submersible news. Thirty seconds later its the breaking news.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Mix and match as needed.
Hearsay and double hearsay is excellent fodder for lies!
NowISeetheLight
(4,002 posts)
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)👍😂
Walleye
(45,484 posts)Is this gonna be their whole way of beating us?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It reads, "Donald, you stupid motherfucker. How could you lose the popular vote twice in a row? Your bumbling is going to cause me to invade Ukraine, and I simply don't have the arms, the armies, or the money to do that and you know it. I've been in touch with Roly-Poly in North Korea, and he's almost as unhappy with you as I am. You'd better do something dramatic and fast, or you can look forward to a polonium-laced Diet Coke showing up at your elbow. I don't care how foolish and incompetent you look doing it, but get it done. Vlad"
No, you can't see the message, why are you asking? Don't you trust me?
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Double hearsay is something Republicans have heard of but dont know its useless as evidence.
or they do but the Artificially Stupid will still buy in.
Polonium laced Diet Coke
lol
gold!
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)until his father is laid in his grave.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)It may soon come back to bite them in the ass.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)It may soon come back to bite them in the ass.
choie
(7,003 posts)I.R.S. Agent Told Congress of Hunter Biden Invoking His Father in Business Deal
The lead I.R.S. agent investigating whether Hunter Biden committed tax crimes told Congress his team uncovered evidence that Mr. Biden had invoked his father, who was then out of office, while pressing a potential Chinese business partner in 2017 to move ahead with a proposed energy deal, House Republicans said.
In testimony made public on Thursday, Gary Shapley, an I.R.S. agent since 2009 who supervised the tax agencys investigation into Hunter Biden, said his team used a search warrant to obtain a July 30, 2017, WhatsApp message from Mr. Biden to Henry Zhao, a Chinese businessman.
In the message, provided to the House Ways and Means Committee by Mr. Shapley, Mr. Biden told Mr. Zhao that he was sitting with his father and that we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.
more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/us/politics/hunter-biden-joe-business-deal.html
NowISeetheLight
(4,002 posts)Well he claimed the IRS has the whatsapp message. So let's see it. Also it should be pretty easy to see if Hunter and Joe were in the same place given he cited an exact date and time.
We also don't know what the text was even about. More innuendo it's some secret Biden crime family crap.
mackdaddy
(1,991 posts)And could conduct private business, Just as Trump does now.
Well as long as it is not selling secret documents...
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