For folks who primarily consume right-wing media funded by billionaires, let me help on the Hunter issue and what's not been proven:
1. The committee has not found any direct evidence that President Biden personally benefited from any of his son’s biz dealings.
2. This follows a 5-years-long investigation by a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney that failed to produce such evidence andcnn.com/2023/08/09/pol…
a report released by Senate Republicans that found Hunter Biden's role on the board of Burisma "awkward" and at times "problematic" .. but provides no new evidence and found no instance of policy being altered as a result of his role."
"Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, who led the investigation as chair of the Homeland Security Committee, had openly said he hoped the election-year probe would hurt the Democratic nominee and help President Donald Trump while Democrats had decried the effort as purely political."
Also no explanation on why there's no investigation here:
Ethics experts say such a deal creates the appearance of potential payback for Kushner’s actions in the White House — or of a bid for future favor if ... Trump runs for reelection.
Mr. Kushner played a leading role inside the Trump administration defending Crown Prince Mohammed after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that he had approved the 2018 killing and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi columnist for The Washington Post and resident ..
of Virginia who had criticized the kingdom’s rulers.
Mr. Kushner had also helped broker $110 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia over 10 years. He helped protect those and other weapons deals from congressional outrage over the murder of Mr. Khashoggi and the humanitarian
catastrophe created by the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen.
The probe follows @politico's reporting that the tax-exempt "charitable" group paid his for-profit tens of millions over 2 years, with little indication of what services were rendered.
The nonprofit had been using a UPS drop box in DC's Georgetown as its mailing address.
Paperwork filed in Texas lists the address of another UPS store, this one in a strip mall next to the “Snooty Pig Cafe” Paperwork filed in Virginia lists yet a different address: a virtual office suite in Forth Worth shared by a “Two Men and a Truck” franchise.
It's a small world, a very small world -- of religious conservatives winning hugely consequential cases before the @USSupremeCourt.
Because I believe most Americans probably don't realize how small, I'll try to write about it more in this space.
Bite size for now.
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Leonard Leo is the longtime friend of Justice Thomas.
Leo helped advise and/or assist in placing Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett.
He runs a major nonprofit spending network &, after Scalia died, facilitated spending of millions of dollars on blocking Garland.
Taking today's ruling, Leo aligned groups are connected to a number of groups filing briefs. For instance, the Concerned Women for America received $440,000. Leo sits on the board of The Becket Fund, which has also received hundreds of thousands. Lawyers from 303 Creative ...
NEW: Leonard Leo, who helped to choose judicial nominees for Trump, obtained a historic $1.6 billion gift for his conservative legal network via an introduction through the Federalist Society, whose tax status forbids political activism.
“In addition to the deferral of my dream of serving my country, I’ve lost something irreplaceable: peace with my son during his first year in the world,” she says in a new video:
On Mon Rep. Jordan issued a subpoena for her to sit for a deposition
before his new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government.
On Fox shows including those hosted by Ingraham, Carlson and Hannity, she’s been called a “conspiracy theorist,” a “useful idiot,” and “insane.”
When she was eight-months pregnant, said Jankowicz, strangers
NEW: How Leonard Leo's lifestyle took a lavish turn after becoming Trump's (unpaid) judicial adviser.
👉Public records show how generous paydays now adjacent to the Supreme Court, the one U.S. institution supposed to be immune to campaign-style politics.
In 2016, Leo erected a for-profit ecosystem around his longtime nonprofit empire.
His fundraising prowess and payments to his new company, CRC, have only accelerated since:
👉1 nonprofit paid CRC $33.8 million between 2020 and 2021 for undisclosed services.
The same person managing the books for 2 leading (tax-exempt) nonprofits, Neil Corkery, is now CFO of his new company, CRC. This was not disclosed in Virginia corporate filing.
"Classic type situation the IRS looks into if it appears you (via a nonprofit) are shoveling money to