Keeping Up with the Biden Crime Family

Where's Hunter these days? Cramming to teach his new course on media martyrdom? Mary Chastain at LI, Hunter Biden Will Guest Host Tulane U. Class on ‘Media Polarization’ "This is not a joke. Hunter will speak to a class on fake news. You cannot make up this stuff." Across da pond at Da Mail, Hunter Biden the PROFESSOR: President's son will guest teach a class on 'fake news' at Tulane University this fall for students interested in 'media polarization. "Deep Education" takes care of the "Deep State."

Continuing the story of Hunter's disappearing and reappearing gun, Henry Rodgers at Da Caller reports Republicans Call On Biden’s ATF Director Nominee To Investigate Hunter Biden For Potential Felony. As the Victory Girls note, Biden Demands Gun Control For You, Not Hunter.

Da Caller checked, and 100 Days Into Biden’s Presidency, Hunter Still Owns Stake In Chinese Private Equity Firm, Business Records Show. So who's going going to buy a business who's value depends on being the son of the President? It's a very limited market. Eric Trump? Digging into his records Seamus Bruner and John Solomon find Hunter Biden business ambitions in China included building SeaWorld parks, memos show "Deal involved a former U.S. ambassador to China, a former top Joe Biden aide and a Chinese state-owned bank. "We have all the pieces in place in China to move on this," one email boasted."

On other links to China Natalie Winters at TNP reports Top Biden Adviser’s Brother Lobbying For Tech Firms Linked To Huawei And Chinese Military. What's the point of having a brother in high places if you can't get some of that sweet Chinese cash (pun noticed)? She also points out how Biden Chief Of Staff’s Wife Openly Collaborated With Chinese State Media. Well, somebody has to help suppress the Uyghur genocide. Not everybody has the stomach for it. And the CIA, EXPOSED: Biden’s CIA Director Claims He Cut Ties With Chinese Communists, But His Group Maintains Links. At Stephen Green's PJ Media Insanity Wrap #189: Meet Joe Biden's CCP-Connected Ambassador to China. But I'm sure Biden will talk a tough game against Beijing. 

Speaking of recent Biden appointments Da Caller notes Biden Nominee Denied Working With An Anti-Semitic Poet, But An Academic Journal Shows Otherwise, and Wa Free Bee, Biden DOJ Nominee Conceals Ties To Anti-Semitic Professor "Kristen Clarke edited a journal alongside poet who blamed Jews for 9/11" I've worked with some strange people, but never that strange. Daniel Greenfield at Front Page, Biden Picks Soros BDS Activist as Asst Secretary for Human Rights "Her idea of human rights is cheering the destruction of Israel." The Democrats are now the party of anti-Semitism. I wonder how long it will take a majority of Jews to catch on. 

Da Caller records how the  Senate Confirms Pentagon Nominee Criticized For Past Tweets Attacking Republicans. But, but, bad Tweeeeeeeeets!

Kahl apologized to senators for using “sometimes disrespectful” language in his past tweets, adding that he was “swept up” in the “pretty polarizing” social media environment during Trump’s presidency. He also pledged to take a nonpartisan approach if confirmed as Pentagon policy chief.

Breitbart finds Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Still Holds Millions in Stocks of Green Business Promoted by Joe Biden and the Wa Free Bee, ‘Worse than Solyndra’: Republicans Press for Information on Biden Admin’s Favorite Electric Battery Company "Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has up to $5 million invested in company Biden promoted."

Granholm said she will sell the Proterra stock within the 180-day window she agreed to when she took the position.

"I've signed an ethics agreement that requires me to divest of all of my individually owned stocks, like all federal appointees, within 180 days, and I certainly will do that," Granholm told Politico on Monday.

After she and Biden promoted the stock well upward. As Tom Lehrer says of the "Old Dope Peddler", doing well, by doing good.

At Bongino, Biden Admin Declares Support for DC Statehood. Of course, it's a pure Democrat power grab. I wish I had faith that the Supreme Court would really stick to the Constitution.

At Am Think, David Agusta wonders Has Joe Biden Committed Impeachable Offenses? To the extent Democrats have lowered the bar in the last two years? Absolutely. But that's a damn low bar. 

Good Bye Little Mike!

That was possibly the worst spent half a billion dollars since Solyndra.

Clinton.com: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Another batch

This is my shocked face. Hillary Clinton's Billionaire Fundraiser Host Got Sweet Deal In Solyndra Collapse

Hillary Clinton’s claim that she is not beholden to her wealthy donors will come under renewed scrutiny Friday when the Democratic front-runner raises fresh cash for her presidential bid at the home of George Kaiser, a billionaire whose firm was the biggest investor in the troubled Solyndra stimulus project — and who managed to walk away with a lucrative profit at the expense of taxpayers.

Hillary Clinton Is Whitewashing the Financial Catastrophe

. . . Candidate Clinton is essentially whitewashing the financial catastrophe. She has produced a clumsy rewrite of what caused the 2008 collapse, one that conveniently leaves her husband out of the story. He was the president who legislated the predicate for Wall Street’s meltdown. Hillary Clinton’s redefinition of the reform problem deflects the blame from Wall Street’s most powerful institutions, like JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, and instead fingers less celebrated players that failed. In roundabout fashion, Hillary Clinton sounds like she is assuring old friends and donors in the financial sector that, if she becomes president, she will not come after them. . .

From a Glass-Steagall true believer. I think his additions to the Community Reinvestment Act were more significant.

Hillary’s Wall Street Trust Gap

Hillary Clinton has an opinion piece in the New York Times on her plans to rein in Wall Street and protect the public from excessive risk-taking. And the most interesting line in it has nothing to do with tax loopholes or Wall Street or inequality or financial regulation at all. “My comprehensive plan has already won praise from progressives like Sherrod Brown and Barney Frank,” she writes, before delving into “what it would do.”

Why all the progressive shout-outs? I do not think it is because Clinton seems to be moving to the left on financial regulation. The plan that she put out in October was already pretty lefty: It imposes a “risk fee” on the largest financial institutions, creates a new high-frequency trading tax, beefs up the Volcker Rule, and on and on. All of that is on top of the existing Dodd-Frank legislation, by the way, which she promises to defend and strengthen.

Rather, it seems to be an attempt to convince the left that she is really on their side. This is a candidate who has racked up millions of dollars in speaking fees from financial firms, along with millions more in campaign contributions. That is to say nothing of the money raked in by her husband. (Or the culpability-by-osmosis many progressives assign to her for the regulatory policy decisions made by Bill’s administration.) All those dollars have left her open to skepticism from progressives and to repeated broadsides from Bernie Sanders, among others. “The truth is, you can’t change a corrupt system by taking its money,” Sanders says in one advertisement, even if he refrains from saying Clinton’s name. . . 

It was a tough choice, but: Hillary Clinton’s most repugnant lie

Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire: Hillary Clinton still insists she didn’t tell the grieving families of the Benghazi victims that an anti-Islam video was to blame.

Yet family members say she said just that, three days after the attack, at the Sept. 14, 2012, ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base.

George Stephanopoulos asked her Sunday if she’d told the victims it was about the film. Clinton gave a flat “no.”

She added: “I said very clearly there had been a terrorist group, uh, that had taken responsibility on Facebook, um . . .”

At least four family members disagree.

On the short list of accomplishments on her resume:  State Department: Libya ‘Has Struggled’ Since Clinton Push for Intervention

State Department spokesman John Kirby admitted Friday that Libya “has struggled” since 2011, when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led the charge for U.S. military intervention in the Libyan civil war.

“After the intervention in 2011 … I think we’ve all seen that Libya has struggled since 2011,” Kirby said. He pointed to the power vacuum that dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s ouster created as a source of instability, and said that since 2011, violent groups like the Islamic State have filled that vacuum.

“We know that groups like ISIL try to use ungoverned spaces there, as they have in Syria, to try to propagate their own twisted form of ideology and violence,” he said.

To be fair, Obama deserves the lion's share of the discredit.

Groups say Clinton ‘sending mixed messages’ on Islamophobia

As Hillary Clinton slams Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims, some liberal and Muslim advocacy organizations are calling on the Democratic presidential front-runner to distance herself from Wesley Clark, the retired general and longtime Clinton ally who made controversial remarks on segregating radicalized Muslims this summer.
. . .
Appearing on MSNBC in July, Clark said that radicalized people need to be separated from society. “If these people are radicalized and they don’t support the United States and they’re disloyal to the United States as a matter of principle, fine. That’s their right and it’s our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict. And I think we’re going to have to increasingly get tough on this,” he said.

How dare he suggest that people at war with our country and culture be treated as enemies. . .

And the Clinton.com email scandal continues to bear noxious fruit: State Department belatedly finds 1,300 emails on Anwar Al-Awlaki

The State Department has belatedly discovered about 1,300 emails relating to deceased Islamic cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki in official accounts belonging to top aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, more than four years after a conservative group requested all such records, a new court filing reports.

At a federal court hearing in Washington last month, Justice Department attorneys assigned to the case brought by Judicial Watch told a federal judge that State‘s “executive secretariat” — the repository of records for the secretary's office — was searched in response to the initial Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch.
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“Upon review of the initial search of S/ES, State determined to conduct targeted supplemental searches,” Justice Department attorney Stephen Elliott wrote. “Accordingly, State conducted searches of the state.gov email accounts of six individuals, including Ms. [Huma] Abedin, Ms. [Cheryl] Mills, and Mr. [Jake] Sullivan. In total, State’s searches of the state.gov email accounts for the six individuals identified 1,317 potentially responsive records, many of which are multiple-page documents.”

But, curiously, one set of emails remain untouched. The guy who handled the email: State Department can't find emails of top Clinton IT staffer

The State Department has told Senate investigators it cannot find backup copies of emails sent by Bryan Pagliano, the top Hillary Clinton IT staffer who maintained her email server but has asserted his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer questions on the matter.

State officials told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a recent closed-door meeting that they could not locate what’s known as a “.pst file” for Pagliano’s work during Clinton’s tenure, which would have included copies of the tech expert’s emails, according to a letter Chairman Chuck Grassley sent to Secretary of State John Kerry that was obtained by POLITICO.

Nothing to see here . . .

Trump on Granny Clinton: ‘She’s killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity’

It’s a day ending in “y” so of course this clown is saying something idiotic. As it becomes more clear he’ll be losing he just vomits up anything that crosses his mind. Granted, Grandma’s track record is horrendous, but to say she’s killed hundreds of thousands of people is just idiotic.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is pinning blame for the Syrian civil war and the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Hillary Clinton.
“She is the one that caused all this problem with her stupid policies,” Trump said on “Fox News Sunday.” “You look at what she did with Libya, what she did with Syria.”
“You look, she was truly, if not the, one of the worst secretary of States in the history of the country,” he added. “She talks about me being dangerous; she’s killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity.”
Fox News host Chris Wallace questioned Trump about the claim.
“What do you mean, ‘hundreds of thousands?’ ” Wallace said.
“She was secretary of State. Obama was president, the team,” Trump responded. “Two real geniuses.”

Ironically, this genius donated money to both of them. So what does that make him?

Analysis? Every bit as fair as blaming Bush for everything. 

IRS Accuses Solyndra Owners of Dodging Taxes

IRS says ‘tax avoidance’ at heart of Solyndra bankruptcy plan

The Internal Revenue Service urged a bankruptcy judge to reject solar panel maker Solyndra LLC’s bankruptcy plan Wednesday, saying it amounts to little more than an avenue for owners of an empty corporate shell to avoid paying taxes.

“The undeniable conclusion is that tax benefits drive this plan,” attorneys for the IRS wrote in a bankruptcy pleading.

Arguing that the bankruptcy court ought not confirm a plan “whose principal purpose is tax avoidance,” attorneys said in filings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware that the tax breaks would be worth more money than funds set aside for creditors.

Taxpayers are on the hook for more than a half-billion dollars after the company filed for bankruptcy last year, just two years after winning a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy.

What’s more, government attorneys said that as far back as 2010, Solyndra owners had “planned meticulously” to be able to use Solyndra’s net operating losses to offset future tax liabilities.

“The only reason for the shell corporation to exist post-confirmation is to enable its owners to exploit these tax attributes, which would be lost in liquidation,” the IRS argued in court papers.

Normally, I'd have a little sympathy for wannabe tax dodgers, at least those who dodge them by using the available tax laws.  However, given the extreme hypocrisy that the Obama administration has shown on tax policy, letting these Obama cronies get away with even one thin dimes worth of loophole without raising a fuss is simply unacceptable.  Hold them to the standards that Obama promulgates.