Jason Galanis‚ a former business associate of Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden‚ told Congress that Hunter routinely called his dad from meetings where foreign deals were discussed‚ and that a Chinese firm was interested in a partnership because it believed Joe Biden himself would join the board after leaving the vice presidency. “The entire value add of Hunter Biden to our business was his family name and his access to his father‚ Vice President Joe Biden‚” Galanis told the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees on February 23‚ according to a transcript released Monday. “Because of this access‚ I agreed to contribute equity ownership to them‚ Hunter and Devon [Archer]‚ for no out-of-pocket cost to them in exchange for their‚ quote‚ relationship capital.” Galanis was interviewed from prison‚ where he is serving time for fraud involving bilking a pension fund. Galanis said that Hunter was involved in that scheme but that prosecutors did not charge him and kept the evidence out of court. He said that after he agreed to testify to Congress‚ a decision to release him early from prison was reversed. His testimony was in regards to Hunter Biden and his close friend Devon Archer‚ who were partners in various businesses. “In 2014‚ I agreed with Hunter and Devon that the Burnham and Company enterprise would be significantly enhanced by forming a partnership with Harvest Fund Management‚ a $300 billion Chinese financial services company closely connected to the Chinese Communist Party‚” Galanis said. Materials relating to the Burnham deal list both men as being involved. Archer was convicted of charges related to Burnham and his attorney said that Hunter was also part of the deal‚ but Hunter was never charged and his attorney said he was listed without his consent. Galanis said what Hunter and Archer brought to the table was political connections. “The words ‘lean-in’ were used often by Devon and Hunter in our business dealings as a term for access to Vice President Biden’s political influence‚” he said. The leader of Harvest was Chairman Henry Zhao‚ who “wanted continual reassurance that the father was going to be‚ the father‚ Joe Biden‚ was going to be involved with Harvest.” Galanis said of Zhao: “I recall being with Hunter Biden and Devon Archer at the Peninsula Bar in New York where Hunter took a call from his father. He told his father things were going well with Henry and Harvest and that he might need a little help getting across the finish line. In another instance‚ Hunter called his father for the benefit of business associates at an elaborate Russian party with four-foot high stacks of lobster‚ he said. “I was present when Hunter called his father on a cell phone and put the call on speaker. Present for the call were Yelena Baturina‚ an investor in Rosemont projects; her husband Yuri‚ and the former mayor of Moscow; and Devon Archer. This call took place on May 4‚ 2014‚ during a gathering hosted by Ukrainian associate of Ms. Baturina and a business partner of ours at Romanoff‚ a restaurant in Brooklyn‚” he said. “We were told to go to an area of the restaurant to gather because Hunter was going to call his father. Hunter called his father‚ said‚ ‘Hello‚’ and ‘Hold on‚ Pops‚’ then put the call on speaker phone and said‚ ‘I’m here with our friends I told you were coming to town‚ and we wanted to say hello.’ The Vice President said‚ ‘Hello‚’ and some pleasantries… Hunter responded by saying‚ ‘Everything is good‚ and we’re moving ahead.’” Galanis said there were “many conversations that I understood the Vice President had been expressing his willingness to join the Harvest board after his Vice Presidency.” In exchange‚ Harvest would “become an investor in Burnham. So it was to receive money. The original proposal was $18 million.” Galanis said the group had a rule to keep Joe Biden’s name out of written materials: “say it‚ forget it; write it‚ regret it.” But it did not always follow it. In one email‚ Archer wrote to Saudi prince that his Ukranian business ventures‚ including Hunter sitting on the board of Burisma‚ were linked to the fact that Joe Biden was tasked by then-president Obama with dealing with the country. Archer wrote to Khaled bin Alwaleed: “Ukraine‚ where I sit on the board of the largest independent gas producer‚ 9 and it sits within the VPOTUS‚ Biden’s‚ portfolio.” Galanis said‚ “This was a conversation about the VP’s portfolio that was had privately on a regular basis. This is just an example where that private conversation came out in the open.” One business associate named Michael Leonard wrote a draft email for Hunter to send that said “please also remind Henry of our conversation about a board seat for a certain relation of mine. Devon and I golfed with that relation earlier last week‚ and we discussed this very idea again. And‚ as always‚ he remains very‚ very keen on the opportunity.” Hunter removed the mention before he actually sent the email‚ but “a first party witness to it‚ Devon‚ who was there golfing‚ didn’t suggest that that paragraph was inaccurate‚” Galanis said. Congressional Democrats pressed Galanis on his history of fraud‚ and Galanis said he was guilty but had nothing to gain by falsely implicating Hunter‚ because Hunter also being guilty would not exculpate him. He said he requested a pardon from President Trump but was unsuccessful‚ and with Biden in the White House‚ providing testimony would only hurt his position. “As I reviewed the facts‚ I realized the prosecutors in the SDNY‚ Southern District of New York‚ had gone lightly on Devon Archer and had not indicted Hunter Biden at all‚ despite the then available documentations that we were partners; we were involved in the decision-making that involved illegal self-dealing; and that all of us had financially benefited from these schemes‚” he said. “In fact‚ Hunter Biden and Devon’s company‚ Rosemont Seneca Bohai‚ received $15 million of the Tribal bond fraudulent scheme to be invested in the Burnham Group.” “I believe the SDNY’s prosecution strategy was intended to protect Hunter Biden and‚ ultimately‚ Vice President Biden‚” he added. Galanis‚ who has been in prison for eight years‚ said that the Bureau of Prisons had agreed to release him to home confinement‚ but reversed after it became clear that Congress was subpoenaing people involved with Burnham in the Biden impeachment inquiry. “I understand from a former high-ranking Bureau of Prisons official that the SDNY prosecutors aggressively weighed in with the Bureau of Prisons staff to oppose my release. As a result of this DOJ intervention‚ I was denied home confinement‚” he said. Related: Joe Biden’s Brother Told The IRS That Hunter Was In Business With ‘Protege’ Of Chinese President

Mount Holyoke College’s anti-Israel student group posted various pro-violence graphics to social media‚ referring to themselves as militants and stating that “armed struggle” is the only way to “liberate Palestine.” Last week‚ the 1837SJP club at the Massachusetts college posted a graphic with five points to its Instagram‚ one of which called for the destruction of Israel by stating that “Palestine” must be Arab and that “armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.” The Mount Holyoke SJP group posted a graphic claiming “armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.” The group claims to be the official Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Mount Holyoke on its social media page. The group‚ which uses “1837” in its name to refer to the year the college was founded‚ is not a registered student organization‚ according to the student paper. Schools around the country have been embroiled in controversy over their handling of anti-Israel demonstrations and many documented anti-Semitic incidents since the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israeli citizens. The students at Mount Holyoke‚ like radical student groups at other American universities‚ appear to be embracing terrorism against Jews.  In a January post‚ the Mount Holyoke group called itself a “militant community 4 good.” It also advocated for students to let them know if they are “down for arrest” and encouraged students to “not be a cop” with the text “oink‚” referring to police officers as pigs. The group has referred to the U.S.-designated terror group Hamas as “Palestinian resistance brigades.” The anti-Israel student group at Mount Holyoke called themselves a “militant community 4 good” in a graphic on their Instagram. On Christmas‚ the group shared a graphic of a masked man with the text “May Israel fall Inshallah.” The club also called for the college to sever ties with Costa Coffee‚ Coca-Cola‚ and study abroad programs in Israel and demanded the school to provide “support services” for Palestinian and Arab students that are facilitated by Palestinians and Arabs‚ according to a November letter. Mount Holyoke’s SJP group posted an image calling for Israel to fall. Since Hamas’s brutal attack‚ the campus has faced a few incidents regarding anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activism. This includes the school launching an investigation after an alumni found a poster of a Star of David being thrown in the trash and a chalkboard with “Zionists are not welcome here” and “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free” written on it. VIDEO: Anti-Israel Mob At Harvard Chants Outside Israeli Popstar Ishay Ribo’s Concert “When made aware‚ the College responded immediately‚ and the chalking that violated College policy was removed‚” the college president‚ Danielle R. Holley said in a statement adding they could not find the posters. “Public Safety and Service began an investigation right away‚” Holley added. “With investigations of this sort‚ we are constrained in what and when we can communicate.” In November‚ the group led a sit-in at a building with the office of the college’s president overnight leading to two of its members having a disciplinary meeting for scaling scaffolding to bring food to protestors. Seen at Mount Holyoke College pic.twitter.com/ITmCZ63hhe — Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) November 14‚ 2023 Shortly after‚ the group posted that the college met some of their demands‚ including establishing the support services and hosting a College-organized “vigil for the martyrs.” The group hosted their own “vigil for the martyrs” just weeks before. On Wednesday‚ the group hosted University of Michigan assistant professor Umayyah Cable‚ who called Hamas’s attack on Israel “Palestinian’s liberation” two days after the attack. On October 13‚ Cable berated her colleagues for not signing onto an open-letter accusing Israel of genocide.  University of Virginia Students Vote To Divest From Israel‚ Condemn Its War Against Hamas “I need every UM faculty member handwringing over this statement to know that A) screenshots of your nasty emails &; mental gymnastic screeds travel far &; wide‚ &; B) your Palestinian colleagues &; students will never forget this moment when you chose to stay “neutral” on genocide‚” Cable tweeted. In November‚ more than 78 Mount Holyoke faculty members signed a letter that accused Israel of genocide and urged the school to divest from companies that “support the Israeli military.” Mount Holyoke and student leaders of the SJP group did not respond to a request for comment.

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro‚ referring to English singer Sam Smith‚ who has described himself as non-binary‚ said after Smith’s lates public foray‚ that Smith “wins votes for Donald Trump.” On “The Ben Shapiro Show” Monday‚ Shapiro began‚ “I don’t know the hell is going on with Sam Smith‚ but it’s something that doesn’t need to be happening publicly. Smith was somehow invited to walk the runway at something called the Vivienne Westwood Fall 2024 show.” “I don’t know who designed this outfit; it looks like a refugee from a cross between Mad Max and Braveheart who is gender confused‚” Shapiro quipped. “He wore a wig that covers half his head. He is wearing a what looks like almost a Speedo onesie that is plaid and a sort of Scottish female jacket‚ plaid socks that are like knee highs and some lady boots.” Sam Smith makes a mockery of Scotland as the British nů-male. pic.twitter.com/co1JSNuPVo — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 2‚ 2024 “It’s really quite horrifying‚” he continued. “From the chrysalis of Western culture‚ final version of Leftist man has now emerged. This leftist butterfly has now emerged. Sam Smith used to be a normal looking gay dude. And then it turns out that he was gender nonbinary or gender queer or whatever it is that he calls himself now. And he actually just looks like a freak show at this point. There’s no other way to put it. Again‚ he looks like if if Braveheart had a baby with Mad Max had a baby with a with a Judith Butler book‚ that’s what Sam Smith looks like.” Shapiro then turned to popular culture: “And yet somehow this is considered high fashion in high art. We’re living in The Hunger Games at this point. Why this person is considered a pop cultural icon is beyond me. But again‚ the people who define our culture are not people who have any interest in the normal American. Sam Smith wins votes for Donald Trump‚ because people look at this sort of stuff and they see the pop cultural arbiters being like‚ ‘Oh my God‚ isn’t that beautiful? Isn’t that what true beauty looks like.” “This is ugly and bad and stupid‚” Shapiro said. “But again‚ what we’re all supposed to believe that when a man dresses as a woman‚ this is some act of courage that is shattering gender barriers. Now‚ what this really is an attack on is the sex binary … Now we know here in the real world that actually sex is binary‚ but you know who apparently does not know that? A huge percentage of scientists.” He quoted the UK Telegraph referencing a poll of 200 scientists at UK universities‚ in which only 58% said they believed sex was binary. “Those people are not scientists‚ they’re propagandists and fools‚” he declared. “This means that 42% of scientists in the UK are not actual scientists. …  People who have genetic issues‚ intersex people‚ does not invalidate the sex binary any more than people who are born with eight toes invalidates the general notion that people have ten toes. “Gender is a crap term that means nothing‚” he continued. “That’s the actual answer. If we just mean people behave in certain ways and that there are categories like masculine and feminine‚ then of course it’s binary because otherwise there would be no poles within which to work. You say that people have characteristics that seem like the other sex? That does not again invalidate the fact that there is masculine and feminine‚ because once you obliterate those categories‚ there is no purpose to the term at all. Then everybody has their own gender. You don’t actually need to define the term gender at all. There’s no internal logic to it.” “Scientists can be pressured into anything‚ as we found out during COVID‚ as we’ve found out repeatedly with regard to transgenderism‚” he stated. “No other community has done itself more damage than the scientific community over the course of the last 20 years. The one thing we used to all agree on in about 2004 was that the scientists kind of knew what they were doing‚ and that’s been completely destroyed. So thanks for that‚ guys.”

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was mocked online late on Monday after video of her yelling at pro-Palestinian activists went viral. AOC‚ who was walking with her spouse‚ was confronted by a masked man inside of a building who said‚ “You refuse to call it a genocide —” AOC aggressively turned around and got in the man’s face and said: “I need you to understand that this is not okay.” She and her spouse then turned around and walked down the escalators. “It’s not that there’s a genocide happening and you’re not actively against it‚” the man said as she walked away. “You’re lying!” she yelled back. Another woman confronted AOC over the issue and AOC again lost her cool and got up in the woman’s face. After a while‚ the man she was with finally decided to try to protect her by getting in between her and the activists as they walked outside onto the street. “You’re gonna cut this and you’re gonna clip this so that it’s completely out of context‚” AOC raged at the activists. “I already said that it was! And y’all are just going to pretend that it wasn’t over and over again!” “It’s f***ed up man!” AOC seethed. “You’re not helping these people!” #NYC "You refuse to call it a genocide" – handful of protesters chase after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a Brooklyn movie theater‚ "You gonna cut it and take it out of context‚ I already said that it was" – AOC responded to protesters claims on refusing word "Genocide" ‚ "This is… pic.twitter.com/mipmA5EHu9 — FreedomNews.Tv FNTV (@FreedomNTV) March 5‚ 2024 Online‚ many were quick to point out that AOC has in the past encouraged activists to harass politicians. “The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable‚” AOC tweeted back in 2020. “Activists take that discomfort w/ the status quo &; advocate for concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small &; grows. To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable… that’s the point.” Some notable responses included:  AOC has spent years encouraging young liberals to get in lawmakers faces and demand absurd things. https://t.co/XgYwogcRqm pic.twitter.com/gLRxXYtwEm — Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) March 5‚ 2024 AOC supports the same activists harassing other people with their delusional and abusive behavior so can't say I am too bothered by her getting a taste of the same medicine. https://t.co/pAgaKR1DUF — AG (@AGHamilton29) March 5‚ 2024 Ah‚ the memories… https://t.co/W6mpiyTRdF pic.twitter.com/v891ly17sL — Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) March 5‚ 2024 She hates her job so much. https://t.co/7lGSetidhD — Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 5‚ 2024 The monster she joyfully helped build – turns on her https://t.co/nxL2bnNZxP — Rob Schmitt (@SchmittNYC) March 5‚ 2024 tfw you object to the kind of politics that brought you to power https://t.co/OBs6ZJMU8m — Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) March 5‚ 2024 Oh my god this is fantastic. AOC can't handle someone demagoguing her in exactly the same way she demagogues everyone else every single day. Beautiful. https://t.co/jWzy7UsJGk — Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) March 5‚ 2024 ROFL. I have zero sympathy. She has supported this kind of nonsense when the shoe is on the other foot. Well‚ these are the rules you want to live by. Enjoy‚ @AOC. https://t.co/CDEHTjaGDs — Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) March 5‚ 2024

Former President Donald Trump dominated the North Dakota Republican Caucus on Monday as he continues to inch closer to officially securing the party’s presidential nomination. The Associated Press called the race with roughly 38% of the votes counted as Trump led former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley 84.4% to 14.6%. Candidates are eligible to win delegates if they finish with at least 20% of the vote. However‚ if a candidate wins at least 60% of the vote then that candidate collects all of the state’s 29 delegates. The win‚ assuming Trump stays over 60%‚ will put the former president at 273 delegates while Haley lags far behind with only 43 delegates. Haley secured her first and only win of the GOP nomination process over the weekend when she won Washington‚ D.C. Trump on the other hand has had blowout victories in Iowa‚ New Hampshire‚ South Carolina‚ Nevada‚ Wyoming‚ Idaho‚ Michigan‚ and Missouri. The former president is heavily favored in the Super Tuesday states that vote tomorrow‚ which include Alabama‚ Alaska‚ Arkansas‚ California‚ Colorado‚ Maine‚ Massachusetts‚ Minnesota‚ North Carolina‚ Oklahoma‚ Tennessee‚ Texas‚ Utah‚ Vermont‚ and Virginia. This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.

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