President Joe Biden engaged in a “conspiracy to monetize” his public office as vice president and enrich his family by at least  $27 million, according to three Republican-led House committees that oversaw an impeachment inquiry. Hours before Biden was set to speak Monday night at the Democratic National Convention, the House committees released the impeachment inquiry report, which also sharply criticizes the Biden-Harris administration for obstructing an investigation by Congress.  “As described in this report, the committees have accumulated evidence demonstrating that President Biden has engaged in impeachable conduct,” says the report released by the Oversight and Accountability; Ways and Means; and Judiciary committees.  “The totality of the corrupt conduct uncovered by the committees is egregious,” the report continues. “President Joe Biden conspired to commit influence peddling and grift.” A House impeachment vote is highly unlikely after his fellow Democrats last month forced Biden out of running for a second term. It comes the morning before the president is set to give a farewell speech on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which is set to nominate his endorsed successor, Vice President Kamala Harris.  Nevertheless, the 291-page report on House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry details how various Biden family shell corporations raked in millions of dollars from foreign entities and individuals in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan. Most relevant, the report talks about the role Joe Biden played in assisting family members.  The Biden White House was dismissive of the report.  “After wasting nearly two years and millions of taxpayer dollars, House Republicans have finally given up on their wild goose chase,” White House spokesperson Sharon Yang said in response to The Daily Signal’s email inquiry.  “This failed stunt will only be remembered for how it became an embarrassment that their own members distanced themselves from as they only managed to turn up evidence that refuted their false and baseless conspiracy theories,” Yang said. “The American people deserve more from House Republicans, and perhaps now they will finally join President Biden in focusing on the real issues that American families actually care about.” Although many of the findings in the final report have been released before, the contents of the Monday report elaborates on the totality of the Biden’s role in the family business ventures.  “From 2014 to the present, as part of a conspiracy to monetize Joe Biden’s office of public trust to enrich the Biden family, Biden family members and their associates received over $27 million from foreign individuals or entities,” the report says, adding: In order to obscure the source of these funds, the Biden family and their associates set up shell companies to conceal these payments from scrutiny. The Biden family used proceeds from these business activities to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to Joe Biden—including thousands of dollars that are directly traceable to China. While [brother] Jim Biden claimed he gave this money to Joe Biden to repay personal loans, Jim Biden did not provide any evidence to support this claim. The Biden family’s receipt of millions of dollars required Joe Biden’s knowing participation in this conspiracy, including while he served as vice president. All House Republicans voted against the first impeachment of President Donald Trump, which was over his 2019 phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which he mentioned Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine.  Next month, Hunter Biden is set to go on trial on federal tax charges and for allegedly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act in connection with these activities. The new report from the Republican-controlled House states that the Democrat-controlled House set a precedent when it impeached Trump in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.  The report says the Biden-Harris administration obstructed the three House committees’ investigation. The president met with his son Hunter before the younger Biden defied a House subpoena to testify, the reports notes.  Hunter Biden eventually gave a deposition to House investigators.  The report also notes that the Biden-Harris administration obstructed the committees’ probe of the president’s retention and sharing of classified information by “refusing to make relevant witnesses available for interviews and by erroneously asserting executive privilege over audio recordings from special counsel [Robert] Hur’s interviews with President Biden.” The report quotes House Democrats’ 2019 report, which said  “the House may properly conclude that a president’s obstruction of Congress is relevant to assessing the evidentiary record in an impeachment inquiry” and that when “the president illegally seeks to obstruct such an inquiry, the House is free to infer that evidence blocked from its view is harmful to the president’s position.” House Republicans’ report released Monday says: “Applying the precedent here, the House is free to conclude that the witnesses and information currently withheld from the committees are adverse to the president.” Apart from the $27 million in foreign funds that went to the Bidens, the report notes that Biden family members scored another $8 million in loans from “Democratic benefactors.”  “Millions of dollars in loans have not been repaid and the paperwork supporting many of the loans does not exist and has not been produced to the committees,” the report concludes. “This raises serious questions about whether these funds were provided as gifts disguised as loans.” 2024.08.19-Report-of-the-Impeachment-Inquiry-of-Joseph-R.-Biden-Jr.-President-of-the-United-StatesDownload The post ‘Conspiracy to Monetize’: What Biden Impeachment Report Says About President and His Family appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The Biden administration is working to expedite widespread adoption of digital IDs, including driver’s licenses, a draft executive order indicates. Digital IDs are a contentious concept primarily because of the concentration of – eventually – the entirety of people’s sensitive private information in centralized databases controlled by the government, and on people’s phones, “client-side.” That in turn brings up the issues of technical security, but also privacy, and the potential for dystopian-style mass surveillance. Proponents, on the other hand, like to focus on the “convenience” that such a shift from physical to digital personal documents is promised to bring. In the US, some states have started this process via digital driver’s licenses, and the executive order is urging (“strongly encouraging”) both federal and state authorities to accelerate this, as well as other types of digital ID. Where this policy seems to be converging to is coming up, at long last, with a functional way to carry out online identity verification. Namely, digital ID would be combined with biometric data obtained through facial recognition, and other forms of biometrics harvesting. Centralization of data – opponents say to better control it, even if that makes it less secure – is a key component of these schemes, and so the Biden executive order speaks about making it obligatory for federal agencies to join “a single government-run identity system, Login.gov,” reports say. It is also noted that Biden initially mentioned such an executive order was coming during his 2022 State of the Union speech, but the wording reportedly became a cause of contention. Now, that seems to have been resolved, and the only question for the administration is when Biden should sign the order, the same sources who saw the text, report. At the same time, as states are launching their own (partial) digital ID programs, an increasing number are looking for ways to introduce online age verification and are enacting laws to this effect. A federal-level digital ID scheme would help in these efforts to solve the “problem” of online anonymity – and in the process forever change the internet as we know it. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Report: Biden Administration Rushes Digital ID Plans appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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A Washington Post columnist condemned a proposed inflation fix by Vice President Kamala Harris that has allowed her to attempt to shift blame for the dire economy. During an Aug. 16 CNN appearance, Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell harshly condemned Harris for proposing price controls as an answer to rising prices. Under the Biden-Harris administration, prices have risen nearly three times faster in 42 months than they did for the entirety of the Trump administration. Rampell referred to an existing proposal by Senate Democrats to institute price controls as “especially bad,” before warning that these would lead to black markets, uncertainty and corporate collusion.  “It's really hard for me to imagine any form of legislation that preserves the spirit of what she's proposing that would … at best, do nothing, at worst, cause a lot of harm,” Rampell told the anchors of CNN News Central. Rampell explained that if price controls went into effect “some bureaucrat in DC” rather than markets would micromanage grocery store prices. She added that it was “totally unworkable, first of all, for the [Federal Trade Commission] to be deciding like how much Kroger charges for eggs in Michigan. But it also would be very bad for markets. We've seen this kind of thing tried in lots of other countries before: Venezuela Argentina, the Soviet Union et cetera, it leads to shortages, it leads to black markets, plenty of uncertainty.” After presiding over a 19.4% rise in prices, Harris tried to duck responsibility for high grocery costs by proposing price controls as a fix in an Aug. 14 news release. Notably, Harris would tout one of the most expensive and inflationary pieces of legislation produced by the Biden-Harris administration, the bafflingly named “Inflation Reduction Act” only two days after trying to shift blame. In total, the federal government spent $6.1 trillion in 2023, $6.3 trillion in 2022 and $6.8 trillion in 2021 according to the Congressional Budget Office. The Congressional Budget Office also projects $6.8 trillion in spending for 2024. During these years, Americans struggled through an average of 5.3% monthly inflation. The Post columnist did not blame Biden and Harris for inflation on CNN or in her earlier Aug. 15 op-ed headlined, “When your opponent calls you ‘communist,’ maybe don’t propose price controls?” However, Rampell did admit that Harris tried  (albeit unsuccessfully) to shift blame: “It’s not hard to figure out where this proposal came from. Voters want to blame someone for high grocery bills, and the presidential candidates have apparently decided the choices are either the Biden administration or corporate greed. Harris has chosen the latter.” On the other hand, Heritage Foundation economist E. J. Antoni ripped Harris for trying to absolve the Biden-Harris administration in an Aug. 16 Fox News op-ed. “Not only did she cheerlead for trillions of dollars in inflationary deficit spending, she cast the tiebreaking vote on two of the three largest spending bills of this administration, he wrote. “Her fingerprints are all over the murder weapon that killed Americans’ finances.” Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News at (818) 460-7477, CBS News at (212) 975-3247 and NBC News at (212) 664-6192 and demand they tell the truth about the Bidenomics disaster.

Elon Musk’s X platform shut down its office in Brazil as the government attempted to coerce censorship. Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and Musk had spent months battling over online free speech, with Musk refusing the justice’s aggressive and extensive censorship demands. On Saturday, X’s Global Government Affairs announced its decision to close the Brazil office due to De Moraes’s shocking threats to X staff over alleged “disinformation” on the platform. X is still available to Brazilians, however. “The decision to close the ? office in Brazil was difficult, but, if we had agreed to @alexandre’s (illegal) secret censorship and private information handover demands, there was no way we could explain our actions without being ashamed,” Musk commented on X. As shown in several MRC Free Speech America studies, X has suppressed some free speech, but not on the scale and harshness required by De Moraes. X’s Global Government Affairs added more details. “Last night, Alexandre de Moraes threatened our legal representative in Brazil with arrest if we do not comply with his censorship orders. He did so in a secret order, which we share here to expose his actions,” X Global Government Affairs stated in an X post. It continued that numerous appeals to the Supreme Court went unheard despite Brazilian staff having no responsibility or control over content moderation. Instead, Moraes chose to “threaten” X’s staff in Brazil “rather than respect the law or due process.” This, the Global Government Affairs X account lamented, led the platform to shut down the Brazilian operation “effective immediately.”  The X Global Government Affairs account added that the justice’s actions are “incompatible with democratic government,” and concluded that the people of Brazil “have a choice to make - democracy, or Alexandre de Moraes.” Musk had previously reposted an assertion that “? is the #1 news app in Brazil on the AppStore” and “Alexandre de Moraes is demanding censorship of the only source of truth in Brazil.” Related: UPDATE: Are You Paying Attention? Brazil Escalates Major Free Speech Assault Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment and provide an equal platform for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using MRC Free Speech America’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

Axios.com founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen were dishing before Joe Biden's big speech that "Biden's friends tell us that as the president heads to his Democratic National Convention sendoff in Chicago tonight, he's somewhat relieved and pretty nostalgic — but also still stunned and pissed about the way he was pushed out of his re-election race." So he's relieved, and then he's pissed -- does it depend on which mental state he's in?  For media-watchers, this sentence is hilarious: "Some Biden stalwarts blame the press for forcing him out, and now seethe at what they see as fawning coverage of Harris." What they see as fawning? We just proved that since Biden was forced out, her network news coverage is 84 percent positive! She's all momentum and joy!  Axios added: "They know that the best thing for Biden's place in history is for her to win. But after four years of doubts about her governing chops and reliability as a politician, they see the party's instant embrace of her as an even more brutal rejection of Biden." They also pointed to the dramatic staff turnover under Kamala as a sign she's not the best candidate. But here's the beginning of the item:  President Biden hasn't had much to smile about lately. But we hear he got a huge laugh on a recent call when he was told about this encounter at Fenway Park in Boston: A former top White House official under President Obama ran into Mike Barnicle — the Morning Joe regular, and close friend and ardent defender of Biden — and said: "Isn't it great that f--king guy finally figured out he had to quit?" Barnicle was tired, and wasn't having it. "What guy?!" he replied. "Joe Biden!" the West Wing alumnus replied. "You know something? F--k you!" Barnicle replied. "And f--k all your friends with their anonymous quotes in the papers. Put your name on it next time!" And kept walking. A source familiar with Biden's reaction to the story told us: "He might still be laughing."

The chair of a DNC caucus introduced Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz as a "command sergeant major" during a DNC event, the New York Post reported, reigniting discussions about stolen valor.On Monday morning, members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Caucus gathered for a meeting as part of the 2024 Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago.Technically, Walz was promoted to command sergeant major ... . However, that promotion was conditional, and he never fulfilled the training and coursework requirements to keep it.Walz, the far-left governor of Minnesota, made an appearance at the meeting, and when AAPI Caucus chair Bel Leong-Hong introduced him to the stage, she referred to him as a "command sergeant major." "I'm going to start with the title that's very important to me: the command sergeant major, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota," Leong-Hong said stiltedly. She also garbled another line and seemingly began to call Walz a "command master sergeant," a rank which does not exist but could be an accidental portmanteau of "command sergeant major" and "master sergeant," the rank at which Walz officially retired.According to the Post, Walz never clarified to AAPI Caucus meeting attendees that he retired as a master sergeant, not command sergeant major.After Kamala Harris tapped Walz to be her running mate earlier this month, Walz faced a barrage of accusations, including from members of his former unit in the Minnesota Army National Guard, that he has engaged in stolen valor on a number of fronts.For one thing, he allegedly retired early after receiving word that his unit would be deployed to Iraq. Then, during his political career, he has also apparently repeatedly used the title command sergeant major, which could be misleading. Technically, Walz was promoted to command sergeant major in April 2005, a month before he retired. However, that promotion was conditional, and he never fulfilled the training and coursework requirements to keep it, as Blaze News previously reported.His discharge documents were later amended to say that he retired with the rank of master sergeant, not command sergeant major. National Guard leaders in Minnesota have previously stated that Walz may continue to use the title of command sergeant major but cannot say he retired with it.Leong-Hong's awkward introduction has now rekindled discussions about Walz's alleged stolen valor, especially on social media.The Trump War Room account labeled the video of Leong-Hong's introduction a "stolen valor alert.""The Democrats are DOUBLING DOWN on his stolen valor, and Walz STILL refuses to correct it," wrote independent journalist Nick Sortor."The stolen valor continues," added Libs of TikTok.During her introduction, Leong-Hong also referred to Walz as a "state championship football coach," even though he was an assistant coach and not the head coach, as well as a "joyful warrior," even though he never served in a combat zone.Walz has been caught on video falsely claiming he "carried" weapons "in war." Lauren Hitt, a spokesperson for the Harris-Walz campaign, later claimed he "misspoke."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A tearful George Santos told reporters that he was remorseful for actions that led to a guilty plea related to fraud charges on Monday. The former U.S. representative from New York admitted to lying about how he was going to use campaign donations and also charging credit cards without authorization. 'It is my recognition of the lies I told myself over these past years.' The charges carry a minimum sentence of two years in prison but he could face up to seven years. “Today, for what may seem like the first time since he started his campaign for Congress, Mr. Santos told the truth about his criminal schemes. He admitted to lying, stealing and conning people,” read a statement from U.S. Attorney Breon Peace for the Eastern District of New York. Santos had an impromptu media briefing outside of the U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York Long Island Courthouse in Islip, New York. He apologized to his former constituents in the New York's 3rd Congressional District. "It's clear to me now that I allowed ambition to cloud my judgement, leading me to make decisions that were unethical and guilty," said Santos to reporters. "Pleading guilty is a step I never imagined I'd take, but it is a necessary one because it is the right thing to do. It's not only a recognition of my misrepresentations to others, but more profoundly, it is my recognition of the lies I told myself over these past years," he added. He was expelled from Congress in 2023 and became only the sixth member to be expelled in U.S. history. He also owes at least $370,000 in restitution and agreed to forfeiting more than $200,000. Santos, who is 36 years old, is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 7. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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