VS - Political wars #123 , In Idiocracy We Trust

Tot $ 225.000 betalen voor een abstract kunstwerk van Hunter Biden? De zaken van de zoon van de president zijn de Amerikaanse Republikeinen een doorn in het oog. Ze eisen duidelijkheid over de anonieme kopers van de werken. De Trump-partij vermoedt dat er corruptie achter zit.

In het kader van hun onderzoek naar de familie van de Amerikaanse president Joe Biden willen de Amerikaanse Republikeinen nu informatie over de kunstverkopen van zijn zoon Hunter. De Republikeinse voorzitter van de 'Key Committee on Oversight and Reform', James Comer, schreef in een woensdag gepubliceerde brief aan de New Yorkse galeriehouder Georges Berges dat hij de gegevens wil van de anonieme kopers van Hunter Biden-kunstwerken die in de galerie worden tentoongesteld. Hoewel Hunter Biden een onervaren kunstenaar is, heeft hij exorbitante bedragen ontvangen voor de verkoop van zijn kunstwerken. De deal van Berges met Hunter Biden roept vragen op over de vraag of de familie Biden 'opnieuw' invloed verkoopt.

Berges schreef dat de kunstwerken van Hunter Biden tussen de $ 55.000 en $ 225.000 zouden moeten opleveren, schreef Comer. Het is volgens hem zorgwekkend dat de zoon van president Biden de ontvanger is van anonieme transacties van grote bedragen zonder verantwoording, zei hij. "De identiteit van de kopers blijft onbekend, en u schijnt de enige te zijn die van deze lucratieve transacties op de hoogte is."

Op Twitter voegde Comer eraan toe: "Waarom zou iemand Hunter Biden zoveel dollars betalen voor een kunstwerk dat waarschijnlijk waardeloos is? Hij is geen Pablo Picasso." Hunter Biden had in november 2021 zijn eerste tentoonstelling bij Georges Berges Gallery in New York. De New York Times schreef destijds dat het werk meer betekenis had dan het werk van een amateur, maar dat niemand 'groen van jaloezie' zal worden.

In de uit de hand gelopen verkiezingsstrijd van 2020 besteedde het kamp van toenmalig president Donald Trump veel aandacht aan de nevenfuncties en perikelen van Hunter Biden. Joe Biden heeft een verklaring gegeven voor de lucratieve functie van Hunter Biden in de raad van commissarissen van het Oekraïense gasbedrijf Burisma - terwijl Joe Biden vice-president was onder president Barack Obama. Trump heeft ook herhaaldelijk de drugsverslaving van Hunter Biden onder de aandacht gebracht.

Comer schreef verder dat zijn commissie 'de macht' van president Biden en zijn familie in binnen- en buitenland onderzoekt. Volgens hem profiteert de familie Biden al 10 jaar van de politieke functies van Joe Biden.

'Haiku' van Hunter Biden ( Afbeelding: Georges Berges gallery via Instagram)

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Interviews by The Times with more than a dozen current and former officials have revealed an array of previously unreported episodes that show how the Durham inquiry became roiled by internal dissent and ethical disputes as it went unsuccessfully down one path after another even as Mr. Trump and Mr. Barr promoted a misleading narrative of its progress.

- Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham never disclosed that their inquiry expanded in the fall of 2019, based on a tip from Italian officials, to include a criminal investigation into suspicious financial dealings related to Mr. Trump. The specifics of the tip and how they handled the investigation remain unclear, but Mr. Durham brought no charges over it.

- Mr. Durham used Russian intelligence memos — suspected by other U.S. officials of containing disinformation — to gain access to emails of an aide to George Soros, the financier and philanthropist who is a favorite target of the American right and Russian state media. Mr. Durham used grand jury powers to keep pursuing the emails even after a judge twice rejected his request for access to them. The emails yielded no evidence that Mr. Durham has cited in any case he pursued.

- There were deeper internal fractures on the Durham team than previously known. The publicly unexplained resignation in 2020 of his No. 2 and longtime aide, Nora R. Dannehy, was the culmination of a series of disputes between them over prosecutorial ethics. A year later, two more prosecutors strongly objected to plans to indict a lawyer with ties to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign based on evidence they warned was too flimsy, and one left the team in protest of Mr. Durham’s decision to proceed anyway. (A jury swiftly acquitted the lawyer.)

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On one of Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham's trips to Europe, according to people familiar with the matter, Italian officials -- while denying any role in setting off the Russia investigation -- unexpectedly offered a potentially explosive tip linking Mr. Trump to certain suspected financial crimes.

Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham decided that the tip was too serious and credible to ignore. But rather than assign it to another prosecutor, Mr. Barr had Mr. Durham investigate the matter himself -- giving him criminal prosecution powers for the first time -- even though the possible wrongdoing by Mr. Trump did not fall squarely within Mr. Durham's assignment to scrutinize the origins of the Russia inquiry, the people said.

Mr. Durham never filed charges, and it remains unclear what level of an investigation it was, what steps he took, what he learned and whether anyone at the White House ever found out. The extraordinary fact that Mr. Durham opened a criminal investigation that included scrutinizing Mr. Trump has remained secret.

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Op donderdag 26 januari 2023 19:52 schreef Jippie het volgende:
Er blijft toch een fascinatie voor Hunter Biden bestaan bij bepaalde Republikeinen.

Anonieme verkopen kunst Hunter Biden zet Republikeinen op scherp
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During last fall's fights in Cochise County over hand-counting ballots and rejecting the election results, county residents say they were glad there was one person standing up to defend elections.

Elections Director Lisa Marra repeatedly explained -- to the supervisors, to reporters, and, finally, to a judge -- that she would not break the law and release the ballots from her custody, as two Republican supervisors and the county recorder had ordered her to do.

"I believe that is a felony," Marra testified during a Nov. 4 court hearing challenging the full hand count. The judge later ruled that the full hand count would be illegal.

Now Marra is leaving her post. Her departure after five years running elections in the rural southern Arizona county leaves many residents there concerned about the accuracy and security of future elections. Marra, also president of the Election Officials of Arizona, is known across the nation as a fierce defender of election integrity.

County Democratic Party Chairwoman Elisabeth Tyndall said it was reassuring that a trusted person such as Marra was running elections during the controversies, as she "wasn't going to just let the election deniers have their way with our votes or our ballots."

"It is kind of scary what may happen going forward," Tyndall said, "without having someone as knowledgeable and brave as Lisa in that office."

Marra resigned through a letter to the county from her attorney, she confirmed to Votebeat on Tuesday. Marra is to be employed by the county for 15 more days.

Marra's attorney wrote in the letter that her working environment was threatening, both physically and emotionally, and she was publicly disparaged, according to the Washington Post, which first reported on her resignation and the letter.

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Op woensdag 25 januari 2023 12:18 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:

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Het is wel aandoenlijk te noemen dat je in dit soort MSM-narratieven lijkt te geloven. En waarom zou er in eten en drinken moeten worden gegeven aan mensen in rij voor het stemmen? En wie zouden dit moeten doen?

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How Harris County’s polling place distribution would change under SB 7
All but two state House districts represented by Democrats in Harris County would see a reduction in Election Day polling places under the GOP’s priority voting bill. In most cases, those districts have a far higher share of eligible voters of color than the districts that would gain voting sites.

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Op donderdag 2 februari 2023 21:16 schreef epicbeardman het volgende:
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Ja je broer trouwen is niet altijd het beste plan, doei Ilhan, moet je al die REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE's horen

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Op donderdag 2 februari 2023 21:16 schreef epicbeardman het volgende:
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Ja je broer trouwen is niet altijd het beste plan, doei Ilhan, moet je al die REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE's horen

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Being a refugee, Omar does not have an original birth certificate, but she released the first names of her six siblings in 2016 and provided a Star Tribune reporter with photographs of her and her siblings' original refugee resettlement documents and identification cards - none of which listed Elmi as one of her brothers.

"For someone like me, who left a war-torn country at the age of 8, who got refugee status to come to America, where in the world am I finding a sibling 15 years, 20 years later to seek to do what people accuse me of?" she told the Star Tribune.

The Tribune reported that Omar was the youngest of seven siblings, and Elmi is three years younger than she.

Some outlets and blogs have pointed to social-media posts from accounts supposedly linked to Elmi in which he posted photos of Omar during the period of time she said in her divorce papers that she wasn't in contact with him, where she seemingly referred to her third child as a "niece."

The accounts have since been deleted, however, and no news outlets have been able to independently verify their authenticity or make contact with Elmi or any of Omar's family members who could confirm that he and Omar are not related.

Furthermore, the fact-checking site Snopes pointed out some significant holes in the theory that Elmi is Omar's brother and that she married him to help him gain citizenship.

It noted that not only did all of Omar's six siblings also gain refugee status in the US, but siblings can sponsor one another for residency status and a green card under US immigration law - negating the need for Omar and Elmi to commit fraud by getting married if he really were her brother.

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Given that Omar and her siblings all came to live in the U.S. under identical circumstances as refugees, and that Omar herself became a naturalized U.S. citizen while still a minor, how did one of her siblings end up with such a radically different immigration status that she would have needed to marry him in order to facilitate his U.S. residency application?

Also, if Ahmed Elmi were truly Omar's brother, why would he have needed to take the drastic step of marrying her in order to secure a path to U.S. citizenship? U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) policies qualify immigrants as eligible to apply for permanent residency status (and later become naturalized citizens) if they are the "spouse of a U.S. citizen" or the "brother or sister of a U.S. citizen." Why would Omar commit a federal crime and risk a prison sentence (and possibly her own citizenship status) in order to provide her brother with the opportunity to apply for something he would already have been eligible to seek?

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Op vrijdag 3 februari 2023 00:40 schreef illusions het volgende:
Wat een kuttopic is dit geworden zeg, dé tyfus.

Hihi.

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Op vrijdag 3 februari 2023 00:43 schreef loveyoulongtime het volgende:

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Draag er dan in godsnaam weer wat aan bij....

Hihi

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Op vrijdag 3 februari 2023 00:50 schreef illusions het volgende:

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Can't polish a turd.

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Op vrijdag 3 februari 2023 00:53 schreef loveyoulongtime het volgende:

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Zet een album van U2 op en je hebt je polished turd

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Op vrijdag 3 februari 2023 00:53 schreef illusions het volgende:

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Daarom weiger ik ook naar U2 te luisteren.

Dan hoor ik nog liever Trump raaskallen.

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Op vrijdag 3 februari 2023 00:58 schreef loveyoulongtime het volgende:

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Trump. Rutte, Biden.... Zelfde ellende...

Doet me pijn dit te zeggen, maar luister nog liever naar de spice girls

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Op vrijdag 3 februari 2023 01:03 schreef illusions het volgende:

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Zelfde ellende ja, maar nog niet zo lang geleden werd Trump hier letterlijk de "anointed warrior" genoemd.

Spice Girls zijn trouwens een stuk beter dan U2.

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Op vrijdag 3 februari 2023 01:03 schreef illusions het volgende:

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Zelfde ellende ja, maar nog niet zo lang geleden werd Trump hier letterlijk de "anointed warrior" genoemd.

Spice Girls zijn trouwens een stuk beter dan U2.