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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,498 posts)
Wed Jan 11, 2023, 02:47 PM Jan 2023

House Republicans Move Quickly to Ramp Up Hunter Biden Probe

Source: Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- Republicans are moving fast on long-promised investigations of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter with fresh demands that Treasury officials turn over documents tied to his foreign banking and business transactions.

Now in control of the House, they are asking Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to produce any suspicious activity reports, or SARs, used by banks to flag what they deem suspiciously large transactions involving Hunter Biden and other Biden family members. They also want former Twitter executives to testify and answer questions about alleged suppression of information about Biden’s family.

“Now that Democrats no longer have one-party rule in Washington, oversight and accountability are coming,” Representative James Comer of Kentucky, the new chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, said in a statement released Wednesday.

The investigation of Biden family business dealings is just one of the multiple inquiries that Republicans plan over the next two years. Biden has been preparing for the onslaught by bringing on a team of aides with experience dealing with such matters. His advisers are counting on federal agency staff, congressional Democrats and a revived outside group to help counter GOP-led probes.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-republicans-move-quickly-to-ramp-up-hunter-biden-probe/ar-AA16dCKK



"Nice family you have Joe. Shame if something was to happen to them."
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LaMouffette

(2,043 posts)
4. YES! All of our Dem congressmen and women need to bring this up over and over and over,
Wed Jan 11, 2023, 02:54 PM
Jan 2023

EVERY time they are mobbed by reporters who pummel them with: "What do you think about the investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop!!!!"

ancianita

(36,238 posts)
7. More from the nothingburger shitshow.
Wed Jan 11, 2023, 03:03 PM
Jan 2023

Although. One wonders if they will try in media to say there's a connection between Hunter's work in Ukraine with Joe's "found" documents. That's likely their intent.

slightlv

(2,876 posts)
9. I think turnabout is fair play.
Wed Jan 11, 2023, 07:52 PM
Jan 2023

If they want to play this game with a family member who is not now, nor has ever been a member of the federal government, let us concentrate on those family members who WERE members of the federal government. How about SARS on Ivanka and Jerrod? On Jr and Eric? I'm real interested in just how far into the U.S. government the Saudi inroads have gotten since Bush the Jr. was president. I know it was greatly expanded under tfg and his family. And I'll bet we don't have to dig very far or very deep to find all kinds of crap.

Let's really do discovery... !

 

Genki Hikari

(1,766 posts)
12. Hunter Biden has been a member of the federal government
Fri Jan 13, 2023, 05:43 AM
Jan 2023

He worked for Clinton's Commerce Department from 1998 - 2001.

He was on the federally owned Amtrak Board from 2006 to 2011.

So he does have federal government experience.

Red Mountain

(1,742 posts)
10. This is a distraction.....
Wed Jan 11, 2023, 09:31 PM
Jan 2023

and an attempt to create a false equivalency.

If they do it first then FOX can claim any subsequent investigation of Trump family corruption is just retaliation.

The Trump family is corrupt.

Jared's family is corrupt.

GenThePerservering

(1,886 posts)
11. Seems like Joe
Wed Jan 11, 2023, 10:30 PM
Jan 2023

is a step ahead of them...as usual.

This made me actually LOL: "Now that Democrats no longer have one-party rule in Washington, oversight and accountability are coming,” From a gopper.

Emile

(23,225 posts)
13. Unlike Garland who is crossing t's and dotting the i's they will
Fri Jan 13, 2023, 08:22 AM
Jan 2023

be doomed to making mistakes for their speed.

pfitz59

(10,423 posts)
14. The laptop chain-of-custody is long broken
Fri Jan 13, 2023, 04:47 PM
Jan 2023

Anybody could have put anything on there. Hunter should tell the GOP House to go 'F' themselves.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
15. Okay. Bring it on! Best case, confirms that it's yet another
Fri Jan 13, 2023, 05:45 PM
Jan 2023

Republican Smeargate for the many who wanted it checked out. It's already a national joke.

Worst case, a president's son gets convicted for his own tax evasion crime, or whatever. Overall positive for honest citizens. Scary precedent for the tRump Crime Family, and a lot of other Republican political families.

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