RayR
3 years ago
You Say Juh-han-uh, I Say Jonah. Let's call the whole thing off. It's time for ice cream!

Watch: Biden Publicly Humiliates Himself as He Calls Congresswoman Wrong Name 6 Times in a Row

By Warner Todd Huston, The Western Journal Apr. 24, 2023 7:50 pm


On Monday, President Joe Biden made himself look like a fool with yet another public gaffe — this time by pronouncing the name of a Democratic congresswoman wrong, not once, but six times and right in front of her face.

The doddering Biden, first lady Jill Biden and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona were gathered at the White House to honor the Council of Chief State School Officers’ 2023 Teachers of the Year when the president began searching the audience for Democratic Rep. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut.

Hayes was elected to represent the fifth district in The Nutmeg State in 2018 when she ran for the seat once held by now-Sen. Chris Murphy. But before that, Hayes was a teacher who won the “Teacher of the Year” award in 2016.

On Monday, during the White House event, Biden brought up Jahana’s name, but unfortunately, he didn’t have the first idea how to pronounce it. (The proper pronunciation of her name can be seen in a 2022 interview seen on Youtube.)

But despite that the woman’s name, Jahana, is pronounced Juh-han-uh, Biden repeatedly called her “Jonah,” as in a man’s name as seen in the Bible story of “Jonah and the Whale.”

More...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/watch-biden-publicly-humiliates-calls-congresswoman-wrong-name-6-times-row/ 

DrMaddVibe
3 years ago
Biden Cheat Sheet Shows He Knew What Topic Reporter Would Ask Him About


A cheat sheet that President Joe Biden used to call on reporters during a joint press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday showed that he knew in advance the topics that the reporter was going to ask him about.

The notecard held by Biden, 80, stated that his first question was to come from Los Angeles Times reporter Courtney Subramanian.

“How are YOU squaring YOUR domestic priorities — like reshoring semiconductors manufacturing — with alliance-based foreign policy?” the question on the card stated.

When Biden called on her, Subramanian stated: “Your top economic priority has been to build U.S. domestic manufacturing in competition with China, but your rules against expanding chip manufacturing in China is hurting South Korean companies that rely heavily on Beijing.”

“Are you damaging a key ally in the competition with China to help your domestic politics ahead of the election?” Subramanian asked.

While the question on the cheat sheet and the question that was eventually asked were not exactly the same, they were on the same topic: How is Biden balancing his domestic priorities regarding chip manufacturing while trying to work with U.S. allies?

https://www.youtube.com/live/eoA5SJgwit8?feature=share


Biden has faced criticism in the past for using cheat sheets to help him know who to call on and to help keep him on track during public events.

In 2022, a cheat card that Biden used during a press conference instructed him how to answer “tough Putin” question.

The notecard stated in part:

If you weren’t advocating for regime change, what did you mean? Can you clarify?
I was expressing the moral outrage I felt towards the actions of this man.
I was not articulating a change in policy.

The notecard on how to deal with questions came in response to Biden stating about Putin, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

The White House was forced to quickly walk back Biden’s remarks, saying in a statement:

“A dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the people’s love for liberty,” Biden said on Saturday at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, for free people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness. For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”


https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-cheat-sheet-shows-he-knew-what-topic-reporter-would-ask-him-about 
DrMaddVibe
3 years ago
Then what followed every time "Joe was just bein' Joe" $hitshow ends...

White House Rushes To Clean Up Disastrous Remarks Biden Made About Putin During Speech



The White House was forced to once again clean up highly problematic remarks made by Democrat President Joe Biden during his trip to Poland this week.

“A dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the people’s love for liberty,” Biden said on Saturday at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. “Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, for free people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness. For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”

The White House had to quickly clean up the president’s remarks after they were widely interpreted in reports as him calling for regime change in Russia.

“The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region,” a White House official said. “He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”

The administration also had to clean up remarks that Biden made in Poland on Friday when he appeared to tell U.S. soldiers that they would be getting deployed to Ukraine, which would represent a serious escalation in the ongoing conflict, and would draw NATO into the war against Russia.

ABC News reported that Biden “raised eyebrows when he appeared to tell the group that American troops will be going into Ukraine, though he has repeatedly said that he will not send troops there.”

“You know, with the Ukrainian people, Ukrainian people have a lot of backbone, they have a lot of guts and I’m sure you’re observing it,” Biden said. “And you’re gonna see when you’re there, and some of you have been there. You’re gonna see, you’re gonna see women, young people standing, standing in the middle, in front of a damn tank, just saying I’m not leaving. I’m holding my ground. They’re incredible. But they take a lot of inspiration from us.”

The Biden administration had to swiftly clean up after the president by issuing a statement claiming that his position on deploying U.S. soldiers had not changed.

“The president has been clear we are not sending U.S. troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position,” the administration said.

The administration also had to clean up remarks that Biden made on Thursday when he said that if Russia were to use chemical weapons in Ukraine, “it would trigger a response in-kind.”

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the U.S. has “no intention” of using chemical weapons and that what Biden meant was that Russia would pay a “severe price.”

“And I won’t go beyond that other than to say the United States has no intention of using chemical weapons, period, under any circumstances,” Sullivan said. “I will just say, with respect to any use of weapons of mass destruction — nuclear, chemical, biological — Russia would pay a severe price.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-rushes-to-clean-up-disastrous-remarks-biden-made-about-putin-during-speech 



President Poopydiapers knows we're already "boots on the ground" In Ukraine. He committed the same disastrous military blunder he did in Afghanistan in Sudan. He pulled troops out of Sudan but left 16,000 Americans on the ground. Just wait, he'll blame Trump for that too!
RayR
3 years ago
Joey is itching to be a war president, a typical LEFTY thing.
It's the way they try to whitewash their disastrous regimes.
DrMaddVibe
3 years ago
Joe lost again, this time in South Korea...TWICE!

Somebody please get grandpa to the dayroom!

HE’S SHOT: Biden Asks For Directions After Delivering Remarks at State Dinner for South Korean President



Joe and Jill Biden on Wednesday evening hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Mrs. Kim for a state dinner in the East Room.

Biden mumbled through his remarks.

After mumbling through a prepared statement, Biden had to be told where to go.

WATCH: https://tinyurl.com/yc42xpsn

Biden got lost earlier Wednesday when trying to lead South Korea’s President Yoon off stage.

VIDEO: https://tinyurl.com/5x5ut5rv

He’s completely shot.

Biden had to rely on a cheat sheet in order to get through Wednesday’s joint presser with President Yoon.

Joe Biden had advance knowledge of the reporter’s question.

A photo of his cheat sheet reveals he needed help pronouncing a reporter’s last name.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/biden-asks-for-directions-after-delivering-remarks-at-state-dinner-for-south-korean-president-video/ 


This is the best Lefty can vote for. This is their leader. He is one of them.

He's in severe cognitive decline. He has a medical excuse.


Lefty doesn't.
DrMaddVibe
3 years ago
Democrats Float Bill To Allow LGBTQ Migrants To Walk Into US Unrestricted



Democrats in the House and the Senate have floated legislation that would allow undocumented migrants to effectively walk into the U.S. unrestricted if they declare they are LGBTQ+, prompting border officials to warn that suddenly “everyone is going to be LGBTQ.”

The legislation, introduced last week, would make it more difficult to detain illegal immigrants if they are catagorised as “vulnerable persons.”

The wording of the legislation, titled The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act, makes it clear that anyone who is “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex” is thereby subject to a greater risk of persecution and discrimination in their home countries, and so should not be detained or removed from the U.S. by authorities.

The legislation also asserts that migrants with “limited English language proficiency” are also more vulnerable and could qualify for the special status.

How does one go about proving that an undocumented migrant really identifies as ‘intersex’?

You can see where this is heading.

Speaking to the Daily Caller, Border Patrol agents warned that the move will lead to migrants falsely claiming to be members of the LGBTQ community as a ticket into the country.

“I’ve only seen a handful of LGBTQ [migrants], but if this is passed I guarantee everyone is going to be LGBTQ,” one agent noted, with another adding “Someone told them in essence ‘just say you’re gay.’”

A third agent asserted “I think it’s a joke. No one gets special treatment down here. They are all breaking the law and have to go through detainment and processing just like anyone else.”

A fourth agent told the outlet “It’s just another incentive or tool for them to use to get into our country, with no restrictions. They would be backed by our own government approval, which will only encourage more illegal entry and a reason to gain free entry.”

“Many of them … would think they would getter better treatment, expedited processing or complete immunity when it came down to their court date,” the agent further emphasised.

“It feels like a slap in the face to Border Patrol Agents,” the agent continued, adding “We’ve literally been wondering how much worse things can get under the Biden Administration.”

“This newest proposed legislation, is at its core, another attempt to collapse the system, one that is already collapsing under its own weight. Migrants will just now claim to be LGBT+ to further avoid removal proceedings. It will be abused, just like … ‘asylum’ is already,” the agent added.

Meanwhile, a new analysis by Princeton Policy Advisors estimates that more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens will have been encountered at the border by the end of the fiscal year.

Add that to the 2.3 million last year and the 2 million in 2021. Your magic number is 6.3 MILLION.

Yet the Biden administration laughably claims that “unlawful immigration is down”:

6.3+ million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Biden took office, but Karine Jean-Pierre thinks “unlawful immigration is down” pic.twitter.com/0huiiqFWug
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 25, 2023

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-float-bill-allow-lgbtq-migrants-walk-us-unrestricted 


They can all work at Disney held companies????
HockeyDad
3 years ago
Business idea: dress shops in Mexico 5 miles from the US border.

Problem: drug cartels control the region.

Plan B: sell Chinese made dresses to the drug cartels.
RayR
3 years ago
I heard that LEFTY's plan to make "unlawful immigration" go down was always to make unlawful immigration LEGAL step by step.

Their plan to make the claim I AM LGBTQ+ a free pass is just another step to legalize unlawful activities en masse.
Just fly the rainbow flag and come on in. 🏳️‍🌈

Those LEFTY Lizard Peeps 🦎 are a slimy sneaky bunch. They use weasel words in their proposed bills like "Dignity" to make criminality synonymous with virtue.
DrMaddVibe
3 years ago

Biden Energy Secretary Wants U.S. Military to Adopt an All-Electric Vehicle Fleet in 7 Years



Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm testified Wednesday to the Senate Armed Services Committee that she supported requiring the United States military to move to an all-electric non-vehicle fleet by 2030.

When asked by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) if she supported doing that, Granholm responded, “I do, and I think we can get there as well.”

She added, “And I do think that reducing our reliance on the volatility of globally-traded fossil fuels where we know that global events, such as the war in Ukraine, can jack up prices for people back home – it does not contribute to energy security.”

“I think energy security is achieved when we have homegrown, clean energy that is abundant, like you see in Iowa. We think we can be a leader globally in how we have become energy-independent,” she said.

Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says she supports requiring the U.S. military to adopt an ALL-electric vehicle fleet by 2030 pic.twitter.com/pw4F3jmrpo

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 26, 2023

Ernst has been a staunch critic of the Biden administration’s push for electric vehicles, which she says require lithium and cobalt, which are often mined and processed with slave labor in China or child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Last year, Ernst — a combat veteran and retired Iowa National Guard colonel — succeeded in including a provision in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act prohibiting electric vehicle component sourcing from any entity that uses child or slave labor.

The provision also requires a report detailing the costs associated with replacing the Department of Defense’s 170,000 non-tactical vehicles with electric ones, the costs of the required infrastructure to support doing so, as well as current and projected sourcing shortfalls.

On Tuesday, she tweeted, “President Biden’s new EV rule is not only unsustainable and unaffordable, it makes us more reliant on foreign adversaries and their immoral force labor practices.”

https://t.co/3V4KuTmyzd 

— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) April 25, 2023

Granholm’s testimony stirred pushback on social media.

A retired Army colonel tweeted:

.@SecGranholm knows zero about battlefield realities. There’s zero chance of our military forces being able to field an all EV fleet in a mere 7 years. More importantly such an effort would make the military almost completely dependent on China for its source of fuel.

.@SecGranholm knows zero about battlefield realities. There’s zero chance of our military forces being able to field an all EV fleet in a mere 7 years. More importantly such an effort would make the military almost completely dependent on China for its source of fuel.

— James Hutton (@JEHutton) April 26, 2023

A retired Air Force officer tweeted:

Asinine. As a former military member and Pentagon officer, this is what you get when you have political appointees appointed into these [senior civil service] positions – someone brain dead in charge of things but they are only in the position because they/family donated; fill a DEI quota; or related to a politician.

Asinine.

As a former military member and Pentagon officer, this is what you get when you have political appointees appointed into these SCS positions – someone brain dead in charge of things but they are only in the position because they/family donated; fill a DEI quota; or…

— JW (@C130GuyBNA) April 26, 2023

A former Trump administration official and combat veteran tweeted:

It’s almost like they want us to fail.

It’s almost like they want us to fail.

— Amber Smith (@AmberSmithUSA) April 26, 2023

Granholm was also queried on what she knew about the Department of Energy choosing Microvast — a lithium battery company that primarily operates out of China — for a $200 million grant. Republican senators raised alarm bells on the grant, prompting the Biden administration to say it is under review, as previously reported by Breitbart News.

Granholm claimed that selections were merely “named,” and all of the companies chosen are going through a vetting process to ensure there is “no money going to countries of concern.”

“Not a dollar has gone out the door yet,” she said.

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/04/26/biden-energy-secretary-wants-u-s-military-to-adopt-an-all-electric-vehicle-fleet-in-7-years/ 


Let's pay China for batteries so they can build up their military...what could possibly go wrong?


Roving charging stations? In a battlezone????LOL!!!!!!
DrMaddVibe
3 years ago
People furious at Joe Biden over horrible Brittney Griner trade news


Last year, the United States secured the release of WNBA superstar Brittney Griner by way of a prisoner swap that sent convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout back to Russia. Many have been angry that the United States was willing to make the trade to secure the release of Griner but not former United States Marine Paul Whelan, who was also imprisoned in Russia. But as it turns out, Whelan was supposed to be released too.

As Rep. Michael McCaul, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, explains, the United States originally had a deal that would send both Britteny Griner and Paul Whelan back to the United States in return for Bout. But Russian president Vladimir Putin backed out of the deal at the last minute.

“The deal was originally when the arms dealer from Russia was released that it was supposed to be Griner, the athlete, and Paul Whelan,” Rep. McCaul revealed this week during an appearance on CNN, according to TMZ. “When they got to the point of the handoff, they call it, the Russians only showed up with one of the hostages, and that was Griner. And unfortunately, the Marine, Paul Whelan, was left behind.”

McCaul believes that this was an intentional move from Putin to get the upper hand on United States President Joe Biden during the hostage negotiations.

“Very tricky on Putin’s part, and in my view, the Biden administration got played by releasing a very dangerous arms dealer for just one hostage, and not both,” McCaul said.

People were not happy with Joe Biden after hearing that the United States got played in this negotiation.

It’s certainly a shocking development in the case.

https://tinyurl.com/2nma72wc 


Pedo Joe...played like a fiddle by any despot in the world.

Lefty wants 4 more years of this. America doesn't.
DrafterX
3 years ago
Biden sucks balls.. 😟
RayR
3 years ago
So Diktator Biden got fooled by Dicktator Putin. 🤨

As the philosopher Georg W. Bush said, “There’s an old saying in Tennessee–I know it’s in Texas, probably Tennessee–that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me–you can’t get fooled again."
DrMaddVibe
3 years ago
Said we would never have another "Vietnam rooftop evacuation" in Afghanistan. We all watched how that went down. Numbnuts withdrew the US military and there's STILL Americans stuck inside that $hithole.



NOW...he's done the same thing with regards to Sudan. There's 16,000 Americans stranded, stuck and most likely won't get out because of his administration's efforts.


Trapped Americans In Sudan "Shocked & Disgusted" - Left By Biden To Fend For Themselves


Sudan is continuing to stare into the abyss of full-blown civil war as the battle for control of the capital of Khartoum between two rival generals - now reaching the two week mark - results in a mounting death toll. Currently, dozens of countries have for days been racing to get their citizens out via military transport planes, ships, and via cross-border land routes into Ethiopia and neighboring countries, but not the United States.

A surprisingly blunt report voicing intense criticism toward the Biden administration has been issued by CNN Friday, which writes, "As the crisis in Sudan continues to unfold, there is mounting anger among Americans who feel abandoned by the US government and left to navigate the complicated and dangerous situation on their own."

CNN further points out that robust evacuation efforts are underway by many other countries. As we detailed below, a C-130 evac flight sent by Turkey even took on small arms fire while landing outside the capital. And the Chinese government has said it has successfully evacuated at least 1,300 of its nationals thus far, with state media confirming evacuation operations ongoing by "land and sea".

"I am incredibly shocked and disgusted by the American lackluster response to the health and safety of their citizens," Muna Daoud told CNN, whose parents were forced to exit via Port Sudan to Saudi Arabia. And CNN follows with this:

Despite a number of nations evacuating their citizens, the US government has continued to say that the conditions are not conducive to a civilian evacuation. All US government personnel were evacuated in a military operation this weekend. US officials have said they are in “close communication” with US citizens and “actively facilitating” their departure from Sudan.

However, CNN spoke with multiple people whose family members are among the “dozens” of Americans who want to leave Sudan, and they said the State Department has provided “barely any assistance” since the deadly violence between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out more than a week ago.

Another American stuck in Sudan called the embassy and State Department "useless". "To be honest with you, the State Department was useless, utterly useless throughout this entire period," a man named Imad said in an interview. "We expected the Department to provide some kind of guidance, but the guidance was the template, just shelter in place, no critical information being provided."

Already two American have lost their lives. CNN further presents that more are coming close to getting shot in near-miss situations due to the lack of formal US effort to get citizens safely out:

“The might of our military and resources does not get used to save our lives in war zones,” she said.

When CNN spoke to Daoud, her 69-year-old father and 66-year-old mother – both of whom are US citizens – were making the “harrowing” nine hour bus journey from Khartoum to Port Sudan.

“They had to find a bus this morning after waiting outside on the side of the road,” she said. Daoud said that the bus had been stopped three times by RSF soldiers “and at one checkpoint they held my father at gunpoint because they believed he was in the Sudanese Army.”

“They told all the men to step off the bus and searched and questioned them,” but they kept her father at gunpoint, she described to CNN.

“My mum believed he was going to be taken or shot. Luckily they decided to let him go,” Daoud said.

Meanwhile, Chinese media pundits are mocking and gloating...

https://t.co/m3jVxdhWPP  pic.twitter.com/Vx7RCGJRJ6
— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) April 28, 2023

China's Foreign Ministry has confirmed it is sending the PLA Navy to help evacuate Chinese nationals from Sudan, defense ministry spokesman Tan Kefei on Thursday announcing that that navy ships are on their way.

Already, Chinese evac ships have already been seen in at Sudan ports in the Red Sea:

The Chinese military dispatched naval vessels to evacuate Chinese personnel in #Sudan. Chinese nationals line up for boarding the vessels, some hold Chinese national flag. This is the third time the Chinese navy takes the mission of evacuation of Chinese nationals overseas. pic.twitter.com/OuPxUGEYLb
— Qingqing_Chen (@qingqingparis) April 26, 2023

"Due to the recent continually deteriorating security situation in Sudan, the Chinese army sent naval vessels to Sudan on April 26 to evacuate and transport our citizens to protect the lives and property of Chinese personnel in Sudan," Tan said, also confirming over 1,300 Chinese citizens have already fled, and that more are exiting through land borders. "So far, more than 1,300 Chinese citizens have been safely transferred, some have left Sudan on Chinese warships and boats, and some are on their way out," Tan detailed.

Germany and other European nations too...

A German military plane with 101 citizens evacuated from #Khartoum is on its way to Jordan, the armed forces say, with two more aircraft still in #Sudan.https://t.co/qXg3cGp0Fi
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) April 24, 2023

Jordan has also been among the countries organizing military transport flights to and from the restive capital. A prime question which remains for those among the 16,000 Americans (many of them dual nationals no doubt): where's Joe Biden?

* * *

Heavy explosions and gunfire have continued to rock parts of Sudan’s capital Khartoum and its twin city Omdurman despite a ceasefire. At least 500 people have been killed, including reportedly two American citizens, as fighting reaches two weeks amid the power struggle between two rival generals representing Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces.

"Many areas that saw very active fighting at the beginning have become quieter than before. Yet, I cannot say there is a total ceasefire in those places," a Khartoum resident told Al Jazeera on Friday. "I don’t think anyone has gone to school in the last 14 days. I don’t think anyone has been to a hospital."
Via AP

A massive foreign evacuation effort involving many countries sending military transport planes has continued for the better part of a week. The United States administration, however, has said that it is not conducting a large-scale evacuation operation for the estimated 16,000 US citizens who live in Sudan, many of them dual nationals who have made the country their home.

But this international rescue effort appears to now be coming under threat, after new reports that a Turkish evacuation plane came under gunfire while landing at Wadi Seyidna airport outside Khartoum. The aircraft, a C-130, had its fuel supply system damaged by the ground gunfire.

The Turkish defense ministry confirmed the damage but without naming a culprit. "Light weapons were fired on our C-130 evacuation plane … Our plane landed safely. Although there are no injuries to our personnel, necessary repairs are being carried out on our aircraft," it said.

The national army said the Rapid Support Forces of Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo mounted the attack on the plane as it was landing, but the RSF rejected the accusation as part of the national army "spreading lies".

"Our forces have remained strictly committed to the humanitarian truce that we agreed upon since midnight, and it is not true that we targeted any aircraft in the sky of Wadi Seyidna in Omdurman," the RSF said. Fighting has been witnessed elsewhere in the country, which could signal a slide toward full-scale civil war, as the AFP is reporting 74 dead in two days of fighting in the West Darfur capital of El Geneina.

Sudan army and a rival force agree to extend an existing ceasefire even as battles rage.

rhttps://t.co/W2PQp0X2M1  pic.twitter.com/KwpzkAwkSj
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 28, 2023

The rival military factions reached an agreement to extend their ceasefire from midnight local time (22:00 GMT on Thursday) for an additional three days, but by many accounts it's barely holding, if at all.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turkish-evacuation-plane-comes-under-attack-sudan 



Remember the 13?

Wake up America. What nation falls next? Which ally of ours goes running toward the CCP and Putin next? The World needs strong leadership and America has abdicated critical thinking in the Oval Office now.
RayR
3 years ago
Ever since the last good Democrat president Grover Cleveland, they just got stupider and stupider. Eviler and eviler too.
JGKAMIN
3 years ago
At least he can have a good chuckle at the WH Correspondents Dinner about misplacing classified documents, for his opponent it sure wasn’t any laughing matter. And one of his jokes sure sounds about right…“In a lot of ways, this dinner sums up my first two years in office. I’ll talk for ten minutes, take zero questions, and cheerfully walk away.”
DrMaddVibe
3 years ago
Raise your hand if you never saw this link a comin'....


Epstein's Private Calendar Emerges: Among Prominent Names Listed Are Biden's CIA Chief, Goldman Top Lawyer



In 2014, current CIA director William Burns had three meetings with Jeffrey Epstein when Burns was Obama's deputy secretary of state, and after Epstein had been convicted of child sex exploitation, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Burns and Epstein first met in Washington prior to Burns visiting Epstein and his Manhattan townhouse, according to a trove of leaked documents that include Epstein's schedules which were not contained in Epstein's "black book" of contacts or flight logs.


Burns, who became CIA Director under Biden in 2021, met with Epstein while he was preparing to leave his position in the government, according to agency spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp.

"The director did not know anything about him, other than that he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector," she said, adding "They had no relationship."

Mr. Burns, 67 years old, a career diplomat and former ambassador to Russia, had meetings with Epstein in 2014 when Mr. Burns was deputy secretary of state.

A lunch was planned that August at the office of law firm Steptoe & Johnson in Washington. Epstein scheduled two evening appointments that September with Mr. Burns at his townhouse, the documents show. After one of the scheduled meetings, Epstein planned for his driver to take Mr. Burns to the airport.

Mr. Burns recalls being introduced in Washington by a mutual friend, and meeting Epstein once briefly in New York, said Ms. Thorp. “The director does not recall any further contact, including receiving a ride to the airport,” she said. -WSJ

One month after meeting with Epstein, in October 2014, Burns stepped down from this role at the State Department to serve as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think tank. He ran it until he was nominated by Biden to serve as CIA director in early 2021.

Epstein also had dozens of meetings with then-Obama White House attorney Kathryn Ruemmler, who went on to become Goldman Sachs' top lawyer in 2020. Epstein also planned for her to join him in 2015 on a trip to Paris, and in 2017 to visit his private island in the Caribbean.

According to a spokesman for Goldman, Ruemmler had a 'professional relationship' with Epstein tied to her role at law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, and did not travel with him.

"I regret ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein," she said.

According to the documents, however, they knew each other well enough... following Epstein's 2006 conviction for sexually abusing girls in Florida as young as 14-years-old.

He asked for avocado sushi rolls to be on hand when meeting with Ms. Ruemmler, according to the documents. He visited apartments she was considering buying. In October 2014, Epstein knew her travel plans and told an assistant to look into her flight. “See if there is a first class seat,” he wrote, “if so upgrade her.”

Kathryn Ruemmler had dozens of meetings with Epstein in the years after her White House service and before she became a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs. Photo: William B. Plowman/NBCUniversal/Getty Images

Within weeks of Ruemmler's 2014 departure from the Obama White House, Epstein planned an August lunch at his townhouse, followed by a series of meetings to introduce her to his acquaintances.

The two first met when Epstein called her to ask if she would be interested in representing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - a relationship which never panned out.

Epstein and his staff discussed whether Ms. Ruemmler, now 52, would be uncomfortable with the presence of young women who worked as assistants and staffers at the townhouse, the documents show. Women emailed Epstein on two occasions to ask if they should avoid the home while Ms. Ruemmler was there. Epstein told one of the women he didn’t want her around, and another that it wasn’t a problem, the documents show.

Ms. Ruemmler didn’t see anything that would lead her to be concerned at the townhouse and didn’t express any concern, the Goldman spokesman said. -WSJ

Epstein also connected Ruemmler with Ariane de Rothschild, current CEO of the Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild Group. Ruemmler's law firm was hired by the bank to help them with US regulatory matters, according to the bank and the Goldman spokesman.

De Rothschild, who married into the famous banking family, met with Epstein over a dozen times.

In September 2013, Epstein asked Mrs. de Rothschild in an email for help finding a new assistant, “female…multilingual, organized.”

“I’ll ask around,” Mrs. de Rothschild emailed back.

She bought nearly $1 million worth of auction items on Epstein’s behalf in 2014 and 2015, the documents show.

Mrs. de Rothschild was named chairwoman of the bank in January 2015. That October, she and Epstein negotiated a $25 million contract for Epstein’s Southern Trust Co. to provide “risk analysis and the application and use of certain algorithms” for the bank, according to a proposal reviewed by the Journal.

In 2019, after Epstein was arrested, the bank said that Mrs. de Rothschild never met with Epstein and it had no business links with him. -WSJ

The bank admitted to the Journal that it lied in its earler statement, and that Mrs. de Rothschild and Epstein met as part of her normal duties at the bank.

Other notables in the new report include;

Leon Botstein, president of Bard College

Noam Chomsky, who was scheduled to fly with Epstein to have dinner at the pedophile's Manhattan townhouse in 2015

Anthropologist Helen Fisher, who says she 'didn't have anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein, "But I remembered it because of his spectacular house and because of the six young women."

Joshua Cooper Ramo, then co-chief executive of Henry Kissinger’s corporate consulting firm.

Harvard professor Martin Nowak

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak


More on Ehud Barak, given rumors that Epstein was running a Mossad honeypot operation;

Mr. Ramo also was invited to a breakfast at the townhouse in September 2013 with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, another regular guest, the documents show.

...

Mr. Barak also met Epstein in 2015 with Mr. Chomsky, now 94, a linguistics professor and political activist who has been critical of capitalism and U.S. foreign policy.

Mr. Chomsky said Epstein arranged the meeting with Mr. Barak for them to discuss “Israel’s policies with regard to Palestinian issues and the international arena.”

Mr. Barak said he often met with Epstein on trips to New York and was introduced to people such as Mr. Ramo and Mr. Chomsky to discuss geopolitics or other topics. “He often brought other interesting persons, from art or culture, law or science, finance, diplomacy or philanthropy,” Mr. Barak said.

When asked about his relationship with Epstein, Noam Chomsky said: "First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally."

After Epstein donated $850,000 to MIT between 2002 and 2017, and $9.1 million to Harvard between 1998 and 2008, Chomsky said in a 2020 interview that people 'worse than Epstein' had donated to MIT. He didn't disclose their friendship at the time.

Chomsky said that at the time of their meetings, "what was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence. According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate."


https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-cia-chief-goldman-top-lawyer-and-noam-chomsky-knew-met-jeffrey-epstein 


Weird
DrMaddVibe
3 years ago
Why the bombshell Joe Biden bribery allegation matters



Sen. Charles Grassley's and Rep. James Comer's subpoena to the FBI to release an unclassified document it holds about a whistleblower allegation of a "criminal scheme" involving Joe Biden, is nominally about whether the FBI ever bothers to investigate allegations of crime involving Democrats.

And that's a well and worthy aim, given that Comer is the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and Republicans are casting a spotlight on the illegal politicization seen in that law enforcement agency.



"We believe the FBI possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicating the current President of the United States. What we don't know is what, if anything, the FBI has done to verify these claims or investigate further. The FBI's recent history of botching politically charged investigations demands close congressional oversight," Grassley said.

Did they do anything? Bribery, which is what Comer suggested the matter involved, is an explicitly impeachable offense. Did the bureau act on an actual bribery allegation by a whistleblower? Or did they kick back and yawn, focusing on pro-life activists, angry parents at school board meetings, Latin mass enthusiasts, and President Trump's disputes with the National Archives instead?

That's their job.

But the bribery allegation itself is worth looking at.

After all, many Americans want to know how Joe Biden accumulated a fortune worth tens of millions of dollars or perhaps hundreds of millions while in public office. The phenomenon of public officials getting rich while in office been going on for awhile, but under Joe Biden, the fortunes are getting bigger and the impunity is more shameless. The kind of money seen now is what used to be seen in public officials from places like Mexico, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, who often had traditions of running their ex presidents out of the country after leaving office.

Why aren't these people busted? We all know the answer to that one -- the politicized Department of Justice acts to protect leftist miscreants. We saw this especially vividly during the Obama administration, when official after official escaped accountability and often moved on to Big Tech jobs without consequences. Under Joe Biden, it's even worse.

Mark Wauck has some interesting thought on this, quoting Jonathan Turley who thinks that for Biden, the matter will come to nothing:

Jonathan Turley comments on all this, and throws a bit of cold water on my hopeful speculation. He strongly suspects that the Zhou regime[Biden] will attempt some legal hanky panky:

Jonathan Turley

@JonathanTurley

Sen. Grassley just confirmed that a subpoena has been issued that alleges a criminal scheme involving then Vice President Joe Biden based on "very credible" information from a whistleblower. They are seeking a specific document detailing the alleged scheme.

Chairman Comer has confirmed that the whistleblower is alleging a specific "bribery scheme with a foreign national." The document appears to lay out the alleged allegations and Grassley confirmed that he has not seen the document.

Grassley just told Fox that he is concerned that this unclassified document could be "suddenly classified." The Congress is also likely to face claims of privilege over ongoing investigations.

Now the Washington Post is … reporting that Weiss is close to a "charging decision" on Hunter Biden. The Justice Department is likely to use that ongoing investigation as a basis to withhold this document and other information.

The thing about the way we live now is this. While it’s apparent that there are highly placed people who want Zhou gone yesterday, no scandal seems to be able to gain the degree of traction necessary to bring about that result. The American people no longer seem to care about corruption in high places, and the MSM certainly doesn’t evince any concern about corruption—no matter how grotesque—when its “their guys”. The “What if Trump” standard just doesn’t apply.


Which is perfectly true. But the matter will be out there for the public, weighing its voting choices, provided the Bidenites are unsuccessful in suppressing this news.

Perhaps the public really won't care, as Wauck observed, given the kinds of problems the Biden administration has already foisted on the public -- inflation, military collapse, CRT, crime -- and it will be a matter of whether they can correctly assign the blame.

But a certain percentage will be interested -- perhaps that same percentage that said it would have changed their votes had the story about the Hunter Biden laptop allegations not been suppressed by social media, acting on pressure from Democrats. Apparently some, perhaps not all, but some, voters are influenced by this, meaning, the Republicans need to get a message across about this.

Even more important, if bribery can be shown in some kind of credible way, the other question is what were the foreign bribers purchasing from Joe, which may well have gone against our American interests, but been a fine thing for Joe's pocketbook? What did they buy? That needs to get out, because there already is heavy circumstantial evidence that bribery may well be the career hallmark of Joe Biden, who has no achievements of his own as a lawmaker over the course of 50 years in office, but has shifted his position on many things -- war, defense, abortion, fiscal discipline, green nonsense -- over the long winding course of his career. What did the foreign actors get for their money? Does that explain why Biden has changed his political colors like a chameleon>

It does matter, because Biden is the most corrupt and least punished president in history, with a full family of accomplices.

If Biden can't be touched, he will have to be worn down at the edges, in the marginal players, and the hangers on even as the Biden machine seeks to legally protect them.

It does matter even if it won't be punished. This is what impeachment is for.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/why_the_bombshell_joe_biden_bribery_allegation_matters.html 
DrMaddVibe
3 years ago

Second Biden Removal Leverage Deployed and Timed to Coincide with First – Prosecutors Near Decision on Hunter Biden Indictment



If you think about Joe Biden’s 4-year term in office as an intentionally constructed single term with no limits or consequences to the cascading damage inflicted; and if you think about the ideologues behind the plan to use cognitively challenged Biden as a tool to achieve their agenda; then everything from the way he was selected in 2020, to the disconnected and fragmented policy and Biden’s interpretation of them, just makes sense.

As our friend Lee Smith summed up in early 2021, “Joe Biden is an avatar for Barack Obama’s third term.” That is what we have been witnessing. A term in office where every policy wish list and far-left agenda item could be triggered without any care or consequence of political damage.

The people behind Biden are ideologues using this unique opportunity to further the “fundamental change.” From that perspective every single granular move during the Biden term makes sense. However, this also means there’s no term two in the design. The damage will be so great, there’s no way for a second term.

Again, if you accept that background, and ignore the puppet presentations, everything currently underway that seemingly makes Biden look vulnerable and disposable makes sense. It’s not Republicans trying to take him down, it’s Democrats – who will use republicans to assist them.

Into this landscape comes the second leverage point for the removal. The vulnerability represented by Hunter Biden. This approach also explains why the Hunter Biden investigation was completed long ago, and the Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco/Obama-minds were simply waiting for the timing of the election calendar. Earlier today a Main Justice whistleblower provided the triggering mechanism for one removal approach. Here is another:

WASHINGTON DC – Prosecutors are nearing a decision on whether to charge President Biden’s son Hunter with tax– and gun-related violations, according to people familiar with the matter, the culmination of a four-year investigation that Republicans have sought to portray as evidence the Biden family is corrupt.

Biden’s attorneys met at Justice Department headquarters in downtown Washington last week to discuss the case with U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation. Typically, that sort of meeting — in which defense lawyers urge prosecutors not to seek an indictment of their client, or to seek reduced charges — comes toward the end of an investigation.

The people familiar with the matter said Weiss is nearing the end of his decision-making process, although they offered no specific timetable. They cautioned that the probe has taken longer than some officials thought it would, frustrating some law enforcement officials, and conceivably could slow down again before a decision has been reached. (read more)

Every single conflicting point reconciles, if you accept the Biden program was a one-term disposable effort.

The timing is up, now the removal leverage is deployed with enough time to present the branding needed for the Biden replacement.

Assets like Susan Rice are pulled from the White House. The Obama embeds position to avoid damage, and the circumstances for Biden’s removal are created by the same people who control the collection of the evidence against him.

There isn’t going to be a Joe Biden DNC nominating convention in Chicago. There isn’t going to be another presidential race by Biden; it was never the intention from the outset in the 2020 plan to use him. Biden is in the process of being excommunicated from the party. His usefulness exhausted, this is the disposal phase.

The only thing left to negotiate are the terms of the exit.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/03/second-biden-removal-leverage-deployed-and-timed-to-coincide-with-first-prosecutors-near-decision-on-hunter-biden-indictment/ 


Are they prepping to whack another Kennedy???[-(
DrMaddVibe
3 years ago
Biden staffer frantically intervenes during tough MSNBC interview: “You can’t do that”…



Joe Biden recently announced his plans to run for a second term, despite the fact that a majority of Americans don’t think he’s mentally capable of doing the job.

Actually, this is right in line with Biden’s character; as he’s never shown much concern for what the American people think or need.

Politico reported that Jill Biden played a major role in Joe Biden’s “decision” to run again, which is not at all surprising. There were also rumors that his announcement was hasty and disorganized due to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joining the race and quickly gaining support from Dem voters who are looking for a “voice of reason” from the left — a rarity in today’s political climate. It’s like trying to find Bigfoot in the woods.

When Biden announced his bid for a second term with his wildly unpopular VP Kamala Harris, it was expected he’d get the usual boost in the polls. However, his announcement was such unwelcome news that instead of getting a “poll bump,” his ratings actually crashed even lower.

That’s how much the American people don’t like this guy and his sidekick.

The Hill:

President Biden’s approval rating has dipped to a new low in a poll taken in the wake of his 2024 reelection bid announcement.

The Washington Post-ABC News survey found the president’s approval rating fell 6 percentage points between February and May, with the share of those who say they approve of the way Biden’s handling his job dropping from 42 to 36 percent. Fifty-six percent of respondents in the new poll disapprove.

The news for Grandpa Joe continues to worsen as Revolver recently reported on a stunning new ABC/WAPO poll. For the first time in a mainstream media poll, President Trump is beating Joe Biden in a head-to-head competition, and is also out-performing his GOP rival Ron DeSantis against Joe.

President Trump is the undeniable 2024 frontrunner, and that’s why they’re trying to destroy him.

Revolver:

The new ABC/WAPO poll is a bloodbath for both Biden and DeSantis. The poll shows that President Trump is currently beating Joe Biden in the race for the White House in 2024. The poll says a whopping 49 percent of the people surveyed would definitely or probably vote for Trump or lean towards him, while only 42 percent of them support Biden. Considering the absolute mess that Biden has made of this country, one can’t help but wonder if those poll numbers are truly reflecting the extent of his unpopularity.

Breitbart:

In total, if Trump is the GOP nominee in 2024, the cross tabs for the poll show 36 percent say they would definitely vote for him against Biden, another nine percent say they would probably vote for Trump in that scenario, and another five percent are leaning toward voting for Trump.

In said scenario, Biden only has 32 percent who say they will definitely vote for him, just six percent who said they probably would, and another four percent who said they lean toward voting for Biden.

And while this news is devastating for Joe, it’s fantastic for Trump. Things actually get much rosier for him if you read further down the poll. The latest news is that President Trump is now beating Biden by a bigger margin than Ron DeSantis.


President Trump is about to break 50.

In addition, Richard Baris, a respected pollster, has released his latest data which confirms the recent findings from WAPO/ABC News. Baris’ data includes additional insights about the GOP primary and the base. According to his polling, a majority of Republicans are “lukewarm” about DeSantis and show much stronger support for President Trump. Here are the numbers among the GOP’s two strongest groups, the white working-class (WWC) and evangelicals:

So, in light of all this bad news, what is Joe to do?

Biden’s team is hoping to improve his sagging, negative image by having him do more friendly interviews with mainstream media. Of course someone should tell Joe the plan, because once again, he got things all mixed up and humiliated himself.

The New York Post:

“We’ve got a lot of work to do and I’m doing a major press conference this afternoon,” Biden told reporters at a White House meeting with cabinet secretaries.

“So I love you all, but I’d like to ask you to leave so we can get down to business.”

Biden’s staff later told the press corps the president misspoke, possibly thinking of an interview with MSNBC “11th Hour” host Stephanie Ruhle that is set to air at 10 p.m. Friday — when many would-be viewers will be out marking Cinco de Mayo with a tequila or Mexican beer.

The plan went even deeper off the rails when MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle grilled Joe Biden with some tough questions. The whole operation collapsed and it became apparent that Team Joe was in way over their heads. As Stephanie began listing all the nightmarish things happening under Biden’s regime, one of Joe’s staffers started flailing his arms around and frantically intervened saying, “You can’t can’t do that” and stopped her line of questioning dead in its tracks.

Biden, now sounding more confused than usual, bungled his way through with another rambling incoherent response about Trump, while looking like a tired old deer caught in the headlights.

Watch:

https://tinyurl.com/2cesfpt8

https://www.revolver.news/2023/05/biden-staffer-frantically-intervenes-during-tough-msnbc-interview-you-cant-do-that/ 


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BuckyB93
3 years ago
Well, ain't this just peachy...

Biden admin plans to order release of migrants into U.S. with no way to track them

https://tinyurl.com/yb5jvur9

After more than 11,000 migrants crossed the southern border on Tuesday, the Biden administration is now preparing a memo that will direct Customs and Border Protection to begin releasing migrants into the United States without court dates or the ability to track them, according to three sources familiar with the plans.

The Biden administration began releasing migrants without court dates to alleviate overcrowding in March 2021, but had previously enrolled those migrants in a program known as “Alternatives to Detention,” which required them to check in on a mobile app until they were eventually given a court date. The new policy would release them on “parole” with a notice to report to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office but without enrolling them in Alternatives to Detention.

The more than 11,000 border apprehensions in a single day marks a new record and surpasses expectations of 10,000 per day predicted by Department of Homeland Security officials on what could come when Covid-19 restrictions lift late Thursday.

“We’re already breaking and we haven’t hit the starting line,” one DHS official told NBC News, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Those Covid-19 restrictions known as Title 42 have turned back migrants choosing to seek asylum more than 2.5 million times since the policy was enacted in March 2020. The Biden administration is set to lift Title 42 at 11:59 p.m. ET on Thursday, allowing more migrants to enter the country and be screened for a potential asylum claim. The policy shift is expected to draw more migrants and slow down processing times for migrants in border patrol custody.

Already, CBP processing centers are holding more than 27,000 migrants, according to the two sources familiar with the numbers, far higher than the roughly 18,500 the centers are equipped to hold.

The decision to begin quickly releasing migrants in centers that are over capacity is designed to alleviate overcrowding in those centers ahead of what is expected to be a greater surge when Title 42 lifts.

“It’s a public health danger. We will start having people die,” said a DHS official about the overcrowding problem.

Customs and Border Protection did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This article was originally published on NBCNews.com


Just open the doors and let them in without screening them or ability to track them. Fear not, they are on the honor system to monitor their cell phone app for their court date (how many actually have cell phones and have the app installed with a valid phone number?). Are we giving them all cell phones too? If we did, you think they'd keep them on their person and charged up so authorities could track them via Google maps and send them a cute reminder that they need to report to court on XYZ day and time? If you believe that, you must be smoking the meth that they are bringing in with them.

How many of them are criminals in their home country? How many of them are linked to drug cartels or human trafficking? How many of them are terrorists (small time or big time)?

This current administration is an embarrassment and a cancer our country. Simply shameful and indefensible at so many levels.

If there are too many to process appropriately then you tell them to go back home until we have vacancies and able to process them. Ever try to go to a popular restaurant or a hotel or book a flight that and it was already full up. What happens? I'll tell you what happens, you get turned away. It's a pretty easy concept to understand.
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