Open that box………………..
\n(and I figure they probably have more substantial charges…. and evidence)<\/p>\n
At least two Republican DAs want to prosecute the Bidens.<\/a><\/p>\n WASHINGTON \u2014 At least two local GOP prosecutors are looking at ways to charge President Biden and his family amid Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s prosecution of former President Donald Trump, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cI had two calls yesterday, one from a county attorney in Kentucky and one from a county attorney in Tennessee,\u201d Comer (R-Ky.) told \u201cFox & Friends.\u201d \u201cThey were Republican, obviously, both states are heavily Republican. They want to know if there are ways they can go after the Bidens now.\u201d<\/p>\n Comer is leading a House Republican investigation into Joe Biden\u2019s role in his family\u2019s international business dealings in countries such as China and Ukraine. The lawmaker\u2019s staff recently reviewed Suspicious Activity Reports filed by banks to the Treasury Department regarding possible criminal activity by the Biden family.<\/p>\n There are a number of possible legal theories under which President Biden and his relatives could face non-federal criminal charges \u2014 after Bragg, a Democrat, unfurled a novel legal theory Tuesday to charge Trump, who is the leading candidate to run against Biden in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n President Biden is already under federal investigation by special counsel Robert Hur for his alleged mishandling of classified documents dating to his vice presidency and Senate tenure. Biden also repeatedly involved himself in his son Hunter and brother James\u2019 foreign business relations during and after his eight years as vice president \u2014 which are also a focus of a federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n The first son, 53, has for years been under investigation by the US Attorney\u2019s Office in Delaware for tax fraud, money laundering, illegal foreign lobbying and lying about his drug use on a gun purchase form. Hunter wrote in communications retrieved from his former laptop that he handed over as much as \u201chalf\u201d of his income to his father. The FBI has been in possession of the laptop since December 2019.<\/p>\n Republican legal activists last week told The Post they expect Republican prosecutors to target the Bidens after Bragg made history by bringing the first-ever criminal case against a former president \u2014 perhaps by citing uncharged federal offenses, as Bragg did.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can be sure that there are prosecutors across Florida and Texas right now who are looking for a state law hook into the Biden family,\u201d said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. \u201cAnd if they\u2019re not, they\u2019re not doing their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n Mike Davis, a former chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee and president of the Article III Project, floated legal theories for possible prosecutions.<\/p>\n \u201cI think our Republican AGs and DAs should get creative,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou just need probable cause. A grand jury can indict a ham sandwich. We just saw that in New York. And the Bidens actually committed real crimes. These are real crimes that the Bidens committed. There is smoking-gun evidence that the Bidens were corruptly and illegally on Chinese and Ukrainian oligarchs\u2019 payrolls.\u201d<\/p>\n Davis pointed to Hunter and James Biden\u2019s partnership with CEFC China Energy in 2017 and 2018, which also allegedly involved Joe Biden, as potential grounds for charges.<\/p>\n An October 2017 email from first son Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop identifies Joe Biden as a participant in a call about Chinese energy company CEFC\u2019s attempt to purchase US natural gas \u2014 an effort that appears to have had corporate links to both Louisiana and Texas. A May 2017 email referred to the \u201cbig guy\u201d getting a 10% cut in the business partnership, and Joe Biden allegedly met with one of his son\u2019s partners the same month.<\/p>\n \u201cI understand the Bidens may have had some oil and gas deals that deal with Texas. I think maybe Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton should start looking at this long and hard \u2026 and Louisiana with [Republican state Attorney General Jeff] Landry,\u201d Davis told The Post. \u201cPaxton and Landry, they need to look at this. And if you can find a conspiracy and any of the overt acts of a conspiracy are committed in any of those states, you can bring charges.\u201d<\/p>\n Hunter and James Biden ultimately received at least $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018 from CEFC \u2014 a since-defunct arm of Beijing\u2019s foreign-influence \u201cBelt and Road\u201d initiative \u2014 according to a Washington Post review of laptop records.<\/p>\n Joe Biden also met as vice president with his relatives\u2019 associates from Mexico, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine \u2014 and Hunter\u2019s boss from a different Chinese business venture called BHR Partners, which was formed in 2013 within weeks of Hunter Biden joining his father aboard Air Force Two for an official trip to Beijing.<\/p>\n Davis added that Republican prosecutors should review whether their jurisdictions have \u201clong-arm\u201d corruption statutes and whether the Bidens might owe state taxes for work performed within their borders.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you are making money in a state and you\u2019re liable for state taxes, you\u2019re not paying them \u2014 sure [that\u2019s illegal],\u201d he said. \u201cThese Republican state attorneys general and Republican DAs and Republican prosecutors need to make sure that any and all allegations against the Bidens get a full and fair consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n Bragg on Tuesday charged Trump, 76, with 34 felonies for allegedly falsifying business records by not accurately describing hush-money payments to women alleging affairs in 2016. That charge ordinarily would be a misdemeanor with a two-year statute of limitations, but Bragg elevated the counts to felonies by alleging the infraction occurred to conceal federal campaign finance violations.<\/p>\n Federal candidates are allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money on their own campaigns, but then-Trump fixer Michael Cohen would have exceeded the federal contribution limit if he used his own money to pay $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels and $150,000 to Playboy model Karen McDougal, whose story was purchased by the National Enquirer in a \u201ccatch and kill\u201d contract.<\/p>\n Cohen in 2018 pleaded guilty to unrelated tax evasion charges and to making unlawful campaign contributions by brokering the payments. Trump at the time said Cohen was admitting to non-existent crimes to get lesser punishment for his other offenses.<\/p>\n Bragg said at a press conference Tuesday that he was prosecuting Trump because \u201cwe cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct\u201d \u2014 even though the progressive prosecutor has downgraded more than half of felony cases in New York to misdemeanors.<\/p>\n The Justice Department previously chose not to prosecute Trump on the campaign finance charge following its failure in 2012 to convict former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), who used more than $1 million in donor money to conceal his relationship and love child with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter.<\/p>\n Trump could face additional criminal charges in three other investigations \u2014 one in Georgia into his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and two federal probes overseen by special counsel Jack Smith: one into Trump\u2019s actions ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and another into his handling of classified records after leaving office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Open that box……………….. (and I figure they probably have more substantial charges…. and evidence) At least two Republican DAs want to prosecute the Bidens. 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