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NowISeetheLight

(4,002 posts)
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 05:09 PM Jun 2023

Faux News Breaking - Hunter Biden blah blah blah

Faux News is at it again. The submersible story is grabbing everyone’s 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 didn’t 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 you’d have thought they’d be waving a picture around of this text. Copies of the text log from the phone company. I’d assume they actually have it? Let’s 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 don’t 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 didn’t 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 don’t want to cross examine, they want an inquisition.

I’ll give it a couple weeks or so… then it’ll come out there is nothing. By then the Faux News mind-control experts will have fully disseminated it to the MAGATs and they’ll 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












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Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
5. Yes. Now Anatomy of a Big Lie on life support...and how vital it is such Lies be resurrected.
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 05:43 PM
Jun 2023

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??

NowISeetheLight

(4,002 posts)
4. I Like Sirius
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 05:41 PM
Jun 2023

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 it’s the breaking news.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
7. Propaganda 101, Chapter 2...grab attention with facts...cut quickly to the lies while eyeballs awake!
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 05:45 PM
Jun 2023

Mix and match as needed.

Hearsay and double hearsay is excellent fodder for lies!

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
10. Yes, apparently very effective...wonder if that's flashed into the broadcasts? Explain a lot!
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 05:55 PM
Jun 2023

👍😂

Walleye

(45,484 posts)
6. Sounds like bullshit to me, did they get this off the so-called laptop?
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 05:44 PM
Jun 2023

Is this gonna be their whole way of beating us?

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
9. Oooh, I have a WhatsApp message, too!
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 05:51 PM
Jun 2023

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)
11. 👍😂🍻
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 05:57 PM
Jun 2023

Double hearsay is something Republicans have heard of but don’t know it’s useless as evidence. …or they do but the Artificially Stupid will still buy in.

Polonium laced Diet Coke…lol…gold!

 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
13. I am glad that the right-wingers are getting all high and mighty about law and order issues.
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 06:01 PM
Jun 2023

It may soon come back to bite them in the ass.

 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
14. I am glad that the right-wingers are getting all high and mighty about law and order issues.
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 06:01 PM
Jun 2023

It may soon come back to bite them in the ass.

choie

(7,003 posts)
15. The "liberal" NY Times just published an article with the following headline as if it's fact:
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 08:25 PM
Jun 2023


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 agency’s 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)
16. Evidence
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 08:34 PM
Jun 2023

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)
17. Even in true (yea right) on July 30, 2017 Joe Biden was a Private Citizen...
Thu Jun 22, 2023, 08:42 PM
Jun 2023

And could conduct private business, Just as Trump does now.

Well as long as it is not selling secret documents...

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