Colorado Congressman Ken Buck wants to protect us from the likely threat of corrupt foreign influence over ‘President-elect’ Joe Biden, who takes office Jan. 20. Buck wants to begin with a special counsel investigation of Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, who has reportedly leveraged his father’s influence for personal enrichment from China and other foreign government’s hostile to the United States.
Buck, a former prosecutor who serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee — and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations — last week asked Attorney General William Barr and the Department of Justice to investigate evidence of corruption involving Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
“This investigation is critical to defending the integrity of our Republic and ensuring a potential Biden Administration will not be the subject of undue foreign interference,” Buck wrote in a letter last week to Barr. “Americans have the right to know whether Mr. Biden’s reported ties to foreign governments will make him the subject of blackmail attempts or other nefarious efforts to undermine U.S. national security or otherwise improperly influence American foreign policy.”
Mounting and damning evidence, including a detailed investigative report in The New York Post, suggests a pattern of Hunter Biden contracting for big-money financial transactions with hostile foreign governments in return for access to then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Though mostly glossed over by the Democrat-loyal mainstream national press, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware, the IRS, and the FBI are investigating Hunter Biden for possible money laundering and tax fraud related to his financial dealings with foreign countries.
The Post investigation and other emerging evidence suggest Hunter Biden and associates arranged deals with foreigners and channeled money to “the big guy” — ostensibly, say critics, referring to Joe Biden.
If true, this is not a minor financial scandal involving influence-peddling for personal gain. It has enormous ramifications for national security. As Buck alluded to, financial dealings such as those under investigation could undermine the future president’s ability to deal objectively with foreign governments.
China presents an extraordinary threat to the United State economically and militarily. Yet, Biden sounds as if the communist-ruled country should be our best friend. He defended China when President Donald Trump issued a travel ban intended to protect the United States from COVID-19, which originated in China.
Biden consistently dismisses concerns that China poses a threat to the United States.
“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man … They’re not competition for us,” Biden said last year during a stump speech in Iowa.
Oh, really? China stands as a major human-rights atrocity, with the Chinese Communist Party enslaving and abusing millions of Muslim Uyghurs and other religious minorities. It is in a race to dominate the world militarily in space. It manipulates currency to undermine our economy, steals American technology and innovation, and imposes tariffs that kill American jobs.
We must know, and know for certain, that our next president has no corrupt or inordinate ties to China or other hostile nations.
The media and other elements of the Democratic establishment launched a relentless, five-year investigation into rumors of corrupt ties between President Donald Trump and Russia. The crusade rested on evidence far weaker than the documented financial transactions involving Biden’s son and foreign countries.
We hope the Joe Biden has no sinister ties to foreign governments. It’s the last thing this country needs. If he does, we cannot look the other way and hope for the best. Too much is at stake. Rep. Buck is right to demand more inquiry. We need scrutiny from the media, the public, and law enforcement no less intense than the efforts expended on the unfounded Russia collusion conspiracy theory. We can handle the truth, whatever it may be.
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Don’t hold your breath. Democraps NEVER face any consequences for their traitorous actions. We are indeed in for a “long dark winter.”
WE could waste a cool TRILLION “Investigating’, and STILL NO ONE would get jailed.. AS long as they are commucrats, THEY ARE ABOVE the law.
The clock is ticking. TODAY is the perfect time to appoint a Special Prosecutor to the Hunter Biden case; before the swamp completely banishes the truth with a coverup.
IT won’t matter if one is appointed or not. LAWS DO NOT apply to dems, as we SAW WITH EASE in regards to hillary…
The real tragedy here is that someone like Biden was even allowed to run for POTUS with all of the allegations about his corruption. I realize that they are at this point allegations, although a lot of undeniable proof has been exposed, but instead of allowing him to totally avoid and even lie when asked about it, and instead of allowing the liberal press to cover for him, this matter should have been investigated before the election. The DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA evidently are as corrupt as Biden for allowing this to happen.
Now that he has been elected (?) we are faced with having someone who is a criminal and has compromised the security of the United States to a foreign power, becoming POTUS. Now any and all evidence of corruption of him and his son will mysteriously vanish and once again a corrupt Democrat will be allowed to proceed with no repercussions for their actions. It’s just a repeat of the handling of the rape allegations that were swept under the rug and forgotten about.
The Democrats HAD TO allow him to run ,,,,and win because he knows which closet all the Obama and Hillary Skeletons are hidden, including his own. Watching Hillary get off scott free only emoblden him to believe he was untouchable. Lots of Washington politicians on BOTH sides have taken the Chinese money and vulnerable to having their strings pulled. Just follow the money and when they become 20 times richer than all the salaries they earned while employed by THE PEOPLE, you know they are guilty as sin. The Club is large and all are encouraged to join as freshmen newly elected.
That is why i wanted to see TRUMP SCORCH EARTH every damn one of those orgs, to the ground, DAY ONE of his presidency, to PURGE OUT ALL THE ROT and swampyness in them…
asked Attorney General William Barr and the Department of Justice to investigate evidence of corruption involving Hunter Biden
Barr and the JD are compromised themselves. If they are serious they need to appoint an independent investigation team outside of the swamp… if that is even possible.
If Bar had any credibility at all this would have already been addressed, not covered up as he did.
Right now, i am wondering WHAT THE HELL did trump ever see, in appointing this spineless hack as AG?
The “special counsel” will die in the Biden Administration. Anyone who thinks Hunter and Joe will be prosecuted by a “special counsel” is a fool. Thank you Bill Barr for being part of the deep state, you covered this up, because it “would have affected the election”. You betrayed Trump, by not reporting this was under a so called investigation, before the election and it cost Trump votes. Also, Barr, to say before the election, that Joe Biden was not under investigation, you helped hand the election to Biden, who is nothing but a criminal. You are a disgrace.
COVID was a test run to see how far the Fake Media and Democrats could push fear and mandates on people along with putting businesses out of business. IT WORKED
The flagrant and fraudulent election was a test run to see if judges and citizens would revolt in anger. They didn’t So IT WORKED
Harris/Biden are openly selecting the most Left Wing, Anti-American cabinet in history. No national outrage demonstrations, like Venezuela or Hong Kong, have assembled to contest their actions.
I hear Mitch McConnell is accepting Biden as president. We are a compliant nation willing to accept Socialism or is a revolution in the making? Democrats crash the economy then claim they are the only ones who can fix it. Supreme court is fine with that.
IT certainly makes me VERY FEARFUL, that so many folks, seemed to just BEND OVER and take their freedom killing restrictions, all “in the name of the greater good”…. AND even now, we only see small pockets of resistance….
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Joe Biden was just doing what many parents do… taking his child to work one day. What a treat for his child to see the Great Wall and have dinner in a Chinese restaurant. Just because his father used a billion dollar jet and many thousands for jet fuel that is owned by the taxpayers doesn’t mean he is bad man. I’m sure this innocent little sightseeing trip will help Hunter clear his head in his drug rehab and no telling gain new new subjects for his art show. As far as uncle joe investigating Hunter, the smartest man joe has ever met, would we expect John Gotti to investigate his son after Gotti was appointed head of the federal prob. Why don’t we give this great man of the people a chance to remake this country after 4 years of hate.