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now the story can be told. It's amazing how many
of these stories we can now tell with Joe Biden
out of the White House. Jonathan Turley writing for Foxnews
dot com. He also has his own website, Jonathan Turley
dot org. He is a constitutional law professor. Right, he
is a lifelong Democrat, but has been shocked at the
ill illiberalism of the modern Democrat Party and it's you know,
lurching to the left, he says. For years, some of
us have written about the Biden families multimillion dollar influence
peddling operation and the Justice Department's refusal to charge Hunter
Biden with being an unregistered foreign agent. Right, this is
Pharah fa Ra. This is the Pharah stuff. You don't
get to lobby on behalf of a foreign power or
business without registering as an agent for that foreign government
or business.
Speaker 1: That's the point. And Hunter Biden, much like he.
Speaker 2: Forgot his laptop at the shop, he apparently forgot to
ever register as a foreign agent while he was conducting
business while his father was president. Yeah, it's a yeah,
it's a bit sticky here. Years later, now, the New
York Times has found evidence suggesting that the former president's
son was acting as a foreign agent as early as
the Obama administration. No really, of course, everybody in this
audience knows that already, because we've been covering that. People
are people who follow conservative media are already well aware
of how far back the Hunter Biden stuff goes. What
he was doing, the purpose of the operation right where
Hunter gets paid tens of thousands of dollars a month
despite having no real discernible skills at anything. There's no
product being sold except what proximity to power with his father.
Last August, the New York Times ran a story about
Hunter Biden seeking help from the government for his client.
Anybody want to take a guess who the client was? Bisma,
very good, it was Bisma, a Ukrainian energy company, And
now so that was the New York Times story that
they you know, now it can be told told last
summer when but when Joe was no longer going to
be the nominee he was, and it was like, oh,
you know what, Yeah, we got something on this Joe
Biden guy. Now you've got a follow up by the
New York Times again. Hunter Biden sought assistance from the
US government for a potentially lucrative energy project in Italy
while his father was Vice president. This according to newly
released records and interviews. The records, which the Biden administration
had withheld for years, indicate that Hunter Biden wrote at
least one letter to the US Ambassador to Italy in
twenty sixteen seeking assistance for the Ukrainian gas company Bisma,
where he was a board member. The State Department did
not release the actual text of the letter, though that
is precisely what many of us, including Jonathan Turley, he says,
have been writing about in asking why Hunter Biden was
not charged with being an unregistered foreign agent, you know,
like Paul Maniford was and Bob Menendez, gold Bar Bob Right.
Why does he get to skate. The Foreign Agents Read
Registration Act Farah covers anybody acting as an agent of
a foreign principle, and that means attempting to influence federal
officials or the public on domestic or foreign policy or
the political or public interests in favor of a foreign country. Right.
But remember Joe Biden whenever he was asked about Hunter
Biden's business dealings, right, Joe would always say, and we
all knew what he meant, Right, they don't ever talk
about business. Which when he first said that, I called
bs on it immediately. There is no way, there is
no way that you never talk to your son that's
hanging around your workplace all the time, flying with you
overseas to go visit these other countries. Hey, Hunter, what
are you doing on this plane with me? Oh? I'm
going over to meet some people on business. Oh really,
what kind of business? Oh no, no, sorry, I didn't
ask that. Let's not talk about business because we never
talk about business. Special Council Robert Muller Jonathan Kelly says,
seemed to charge by the gross under the pharaoh.
Speaker 1: Right, he was going after everybody.
Speaker 2: He hit a lineup, or he hit a line of
Trump associates with such allegations, from Manifort to Michael Flynn,
to George Papadopolis to Rick Gates. The Justice Department used
Farah to conduct searches on the homes and files of
former Trump Council Rudy Giuliani and Republican Attorney Victoria Tensing,
among others. They were using Farah all over the place
when it came to Trump and Russia, but the Justice
Department and the Special Council David Weiss seemed to tie
themselves into knots to avoid tripping the wire on Farah,
even as it discussed Hunter Biden's work for foreign.
Speaker 1: Clients the government. I mean, think about that, Hunter Biden.
Speaker 2: They went after Hivite for the irs stuff, right, And
where did that money come from?
Speaker 1: Foreign business dealings? Okay?
Speaker 2: And you would put Dad on the phone, oh, just
to say hey, here's it going. You know, that should
have set off all the alarms for Pharah, which of
course it did.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all know it did. We all know
why they didn't pursue it. Because it's different.
Speaker 2: When you're a Democrat, you get the big d shield,
you see, you get the protection. This is from the
New York Times. The request was initially This is a
Foyer request that The New York Times sent to the government,
and it was initially filed in June of twenty twenty one.
After nearly eight months, the State Department had not released
any records, so The New York Times then sued the
State Department. They then slow walk that thing for eighteen
more months. The Department moved to close the case after
releasing thousands of pages of records, but none of those
records shed any light on Hunter Biden's outreach to the
US government, So The Times challenged the thoroughness of that search,
noting that the Department had failed to produce responsive records
contained in a cache of files connected to a laptop.
So they knew these things existed because they knew the
laptop was real. The New York Times did they knew
it was real. They were looking at the files and
they're like, give us these files from the State Department.
Speaker 1: We want this stuff.
Speaker 2: And they're like, you know, first they ignore you for
eight months, then you have to sue them, and then
they slow walk that for another year and a half,
and then they dumped a whole box load of documents
on you, and none of them line up with the
stuff you've got on the laptop, so you know they're
not giving you everything. And so they went back to
the State Department and said that the department resumed the search,
giving periodic productions, but had produced very few documents related
to mister Biden until the week after his father ended
his re election campaign and endorsed Harris. That's when they
got the documents they were looking for, when he was
no longer going to be president and he was probably,
you know, charging up the auto pen for all them pardons.
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Speaker 2: So the New York Times telling us the story that
we really already knew, but now they can confirm Hunter
Biden was acting on behalf of Barisma and lobbying the
government for stuff while his dad was Vice president. They
knew this because it was on the laptop. They tried
to get documents from the Biden administration, the State Department.
They were blocked from doing so up until Joe Biden
announced he was dropping out endorsing Harris. And then the
State Department gives them the confirmation documents which they had
on the laptop. But I guess they just they didn't
feel comfortable going ahead with that. But it also raises
the question why wasn't Hunter Biden ever investigated or charged
with Parah violations. That's what the Justice Department was going
after Trump World with now and everybody with Farah, and
they didn't go after Hunter Biden for it. And then
of course Joe gives the pardon, and the pardon covers
the exact time frame that Hunter Biden was doing this work,
which we knew because we've been paying attention to this
story in a way that your legacy media has not.
Jonathan Turley, writing at Foxnews dot Com, says that there's
another Yeah, the letter requested help arranged. This is the
letter from Hunter Biden to Enrico Russi, the president of
the Tuscany Regional government at the time. The letter was
a request to get help to arrange a meeting between
BEISMA officials and Rossi to quote introduce geothermal projects led
by Beisma Group, to highlight their social and economic benefits
for local communities and develop a common action plan that
would lead to further development of the Tuscany region. Very clear,
How could any Justice Department official, let alone a special
council like David Weiss? How do you read this letter?
And you know they saw the letter, you know they
had to be aware of it. How do you see
that and not see the disconnect between the handling of
the case involving Joe Biden's son and Paul Maniford. Right,
the letter references a trip on which Hunter Biden used
official travel with his father to make these business connections.
Oh no, yes, yes, We've been talking about this for years. Also,
the letter mentions meeting a key ambassador on Air Force
two as he seeks assistance for his client. Many in
the media attacked people like Turley who have been writing
about this corruption, stretching back to the Obama administration.
Speaker 1: Whose only scandal was wearing a tan suit. I just
saw that again.
Speaker 2: There are people on the left who sincerely believe that
Barack Obama's two terms had zero scandals except for the
manufactured one when he wore a tan suit in the
White House press briefing room or maybe in the Rose
Garden or something. Yeah, it was like spring or summer
and he was wearing like a light tan suit. And
I remember when I first saw this story about the
tan suit, and it was Republicans are pouncing on the
tan suit.
Speaker 1: Conservatives are outraged over the tan suit.
Speaker 2: And I remember thinking at the time like I follow
conservative media, I'd like to say pretty closely, and so
I think I would have been aware if there was
a whole bunch of outrage about the tan suit, because
I would have said, that's a pretty silly thing to
be outraged about. But there wasn't any Nobody was making
a big deal about the tan suit.
Speaker 1: Nobody even paid any attention.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden we get some story
like NBC or something like they're all outraged at the
tan suit.
Speaker 1: Who are you talking about? Nobody cared about a tan suit.
Speaker 2: And then and now to this day, you have people
on the left and I literally just saw somebody post
on social media, some big name account. I forget who
it was, but they were They put that stupid image
up of Obama with the tan suit, And like, remember
when the biggest scandal was a tan suit, It wasn't
the biggest scandal the guy. The guy blew up the
entire healthcare industry. That was a pretty big one. I
feel like one sixth of the economy right being uh
overregulated and disrupted as he did with a lie. If
you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Rated
the biggest lie of the year by the Washington Post.
That's kind of scandally, don't you think?
Speaker 1: I thought so? How about fast and furious? Remember that one.
Speaker 2: Running the guns into Mexico with straw purchasers illegal, totally illegal.
And then of course one of the firearms is used
in the murder of a border patrol agent.
Speaker 1: That seems kind of scandalous. How about the targeting of
the tea partiers through the IRS, not some low level
field officer in Cincinnati, right, I don't know. How about
police acted stupidly? Remember that one.
Speaker 2: It's kind of scandally. You had to even have the end, yeah,
to have a beer summit to try to fix that one.
People like Turley who were calling out the influence pedaling
operation that was the Biden family operation, right, they got attacked.
Turley got attacked. People said there's there's no evidence, but
then they would take no steps to find out. Right,
these media companies, these reporters, and while the media was
unrelenting in its investigating Trump's allegations of Russia collusion and
business improprieties, right, it took a largely passive stance in
pursuing the Hunter Biden story, even the New York Times,
which he says he gives them credit for pursuing this FOYA,
this freedom of information story, but it did comparably little
with the ample evidence of corruption by the Bidens in
securing millions of dollars through influence pedaling.
Speaker 1: This is why trust in media is so low. We
don't believe you, and we shouldn't because you are activists.
With the byline.
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Speaker 1: I do have some messages.
Speaker 2: Both from John but two different John's John number one says, Pete,
I always laugh at the so called conservative outrage over
Obama wearing a tan suit. These clowns have short memories.
Ronald Reagan was celebrated for stepping out of the DC
normal blue suit routine and wearing tan suits quite often.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of old videos of Reagan wearing
the tan suit. The tan suit as well. And then
John two.
Speaker 3: Says something something gun, something something killed an agent with
Eric Holder still waiting to go see about his contempt
of Congress hearing and if Gates hadn't become famous for
his beer summit, he wouldn't have a PBS program about ancestry.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, speaking of guns, this is hilarious. This is
the longest title of a bill I have ever seen
in my life. And it was filed by state Representative
Pricey Harrison is her name, Lefty. And usually you have
like a short title to a bill, and so this
short title is called Common Sense Gun Regulations. Yeah right, Okay,
so you know where this is going. Okay, but that's
the short title. But the actual title of the bill
is an act to require a permit for the purchase
of an assault weapon or long gun. To require a
seventy two hour waiting period before he purchased firearm may
be delivered or otherwise possessed. To prohibit the sale of
an assault weapon or long gun to persons under a
certain age. To prohibit the sale or possession of a
bump stock or trigger crank. To require the safe storage
of a firearm. To revise reciprocity law for a concealed
carry handgun permit. To require the reporting of a lost
or stolen firearm. To require any person who owns a
firearm to carry firearm liability insurance. To limit the size
of the ammunition mag magazines. To repeal the preemption of
local regulation of firearms. To allow the destruction of ceized firearms.
To require the Department of the Publics. This is I'm
not even halfway through.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna stop.
Speaker 2: It's literally, it's literally every single slogan of the anti
Second Amendment crowd as the title of the bill.
Speaker 1: It takes up the whole page.
Speaker 2: It is a an entire page of block text, and
that's the title of the bill. I have no idea
unless it was meant to go viral for its dumb assery.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you would do this. It's so dumb.
Speaker 2: It's not going anywhere either, because, yeah, the Republicans are
not going to entertain that, all right. A couple of
weeks ago, I saw something start moving around on the
Twitter machine, and I thought, Huh, this is weird, because
whenever you start seeing a bunch of different account saying
the same stuff, you have to wonder if there's some
sort of astroturfing going on, right, like the like it's
it's supposed to look grassroots, but it's not. It's it's
fabricated somehow. And I'm talking about the debate over uh,
whether or not soda can be purchased with your food stamps.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: According to Philip Wegman at RealClearPolitics dot com, a subversive
attempt to drive a wedge between MAGA influencers and their
new MAHA allies make America healthy again. So you got
your Trump crowd and you got your RFK junior crowd.
The RFK junior crowd are you know, much more lefty
than the MAGA crowd.
Speaker 1: So there.
Speaker 2: So what Wegman is saying is that this was an
attempt to drive a wedge between these two groups, and
it was discovered and subsequently rejected like a pathogen from
the online geobody GOP body politic. The occasion for the
war that wasn't a push to ban sugary drinks from
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. More than forty two million
Americans rely on the SNAP program. It's one hundred and
thirteen billion dollars a year.
Speaker 1: Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior, the newly minted Health and Human Services Secretary,
has pushed for excluding soda from the benefit. He said before,
it's confirmation that we shouldn't be subsidizing people to eat poison.
This is not a new idea. I've heard people talk
about not allowing certain foods to be used to be
purchased with the SNAP benefits. But unlike past efforts, the
movement to make soda ineligible for snap like alcohol. You
can't use it for that, you can't use it for tobacco.
But now it seems to be gaining momentum thanks to
RFK Junior, and apparently Trump has given RFK his blessing
on this. And then we saw a bunch of these
social media influencers with huge accounts that all started saying
the same thing. They started talking about. They were calling
it ridiculous government overreach. They mentioned New York City mayor,
former mayor Michael Bloomberg and that he had tried to
ban the soda drinks right and that failed. And remember
Donald Trump, like he's got the dyet coke button. They
were all saying these same three things. Nick Sortoor, who
is a conservative social media guy, he smelled astro turf.
The sudden defense snap for soda was not coming from
the grassroots. This is according to the conservative podcaster, It
was the result of a coordinated campaign orchestrated by the
public relations firm Influenceable. That's the name of their firm, Influenceable.
Online influencers were given a list of talking points, sent
stock images of the president drinking soda, and promised as
much as one thousand dollars for every pro soda.
Speaker 1: Post you made.
Speaker 2: Soretor concluded that the campaign was an attempt to turn
magafolks against RFK Junior and MAHA Influenceable. The public relations
firm could not be reached for comment, speaking on the
condition of anonymity. One of the influencers who participated in
the pr blitz confirmed to Real Clear Politics that they
had been paid to push the talking points. Others were
approached but declined to participate. One of those who declined,
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Speaker 1: Actually, let me read two messages that I got. First.
Speaker 2: One this was regarding the very lengthy title of that bill.
David says, I was taught in school that the purpose
of the body of a written work is to carry
the information. The title is supposed to be short and
attention grabbing. But I am jen X, so I'm probably
jaded about poor writing habits. Yeah, but Dan Russ also
points out that that bill title reminds me how older
people type their entire message in the email subject line. Huh,
that's funny because it's true. All right, So back to
this piece at Real Clear Politics. And by the way,
the headline on this is called Soda pop wars inside
pay to post campaign to pit MAGA against mahat influenceable
the name of the pr firm no comments. Online sleuths
speculated that the American Beverage Association was pushing the campaign. Well,
I mean that would be logical, right, big soda, they
would be the ones behind such a campaign that does track.
William dermod, a spokesman for the ABA, categorically denied the accusation.
His association has rejected the push to make soda ineligible
for food stamps, but they have made their arguments out
in the open and have not funded any pay to
post schemes. The ABA argues that soda is not driving obesity,
citing federal data that shows adulto bity has increased by
thirty seven percent since two thousand. Obesity has increased thirty
seven percent since the year two thousand, and pointed to
industry figures that reflect full calorie soda sales have dropped
by twenty three percent. The grocery aisle, meanwhile, has evolved,
with Seltzer water, not soda, becoming ascendant. Look, I'm not
going to say that this is all because of me,
but I was drinking sparkling water before anybody else. Nobody
was even talking about this issue until I came down
that golden escalator. Okay, I'm just saying no, like I
was drinking the just like Seltzer water because I gave
up soda. Like years ago, I quit drinking soda, and
now I can't even it's I can't. I don't like
the taste of it. But every now and again I
want something fuzzy, you know, I want the fizz, and
so the selz water would do the trick. And I
know there were all these flavors on all this stuff
now and Christy Christy has swapped out all of her
soda for the flavored water, so I'll try some of
those every now and again.
Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm a simple guy, you know. I
just like the sparkling water.
Speaker 2: And now thanks to everybody else figuring out what I
had figured out apparently, you know, way before everybody else. Again,
I'm not claiming credit here, obviously, but now I have
so many more options to choose from on the you know,
on the grocery store aisle, because it used to be
you got like two little one liter bottles and you
had to go like to the bar section, you know
where they got the mixers and all that stuff, because
that was the only place you could find the seltzer water,
because they didn't even really count it as like this
really isn't even a beverage. I don't think the only
reason you would ever want this is to mix it
into something else, right, I mean, this was this was
the degradation I had to live under, and now everybody
else is doing it, so I welcome everyone anyway. The Association,
the ABA says the MAGA faithful don't want the change anyway.
A recent poll by Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling outfit,
shows that nearly six out of ten Trump voters reported
that soda and sugary beverages should remain eligible for food stamps.
The RFK reform would treat Americans facing hard times like
second class citizens, abandoning Oh so you got to be
rich now to pay for soda abandoning a campaign promise
to empower Kennedy meanwhile, comes with its own risk. Trump
expanded the GOP coalition during the last election by bringing
non traditional voters into the fold, among them the health
conscious mahakrat quote. Right now, these Trump voters, the GOP
is just renting them. According to longtime Trump polster John McLaughlin,
speaking of the disaffected Democrats and traditionally liberal constituencies who
pulled the lever for the Republican president, he said, the
GOP needed to make a decision if they're going to
make these voters permanent. Right, MAGA is just renting the Maha.
Ryan James Goderski, a political consultant with close ties to
Trump World, said that the president is not likely to
let those voters leave the fold. The Make America Healthy
Again movement is the only part of the Trump coalition
that ever convinced him to step back on a previously
held belief.
Speaker 1: Which was the vaccines.
Speaker 2: Right, talking about the backlash over the COVID jeb that
caused Trump to suddenly moderate on the issue during the campaign,
Excluding so from snap benefits could be similar regardless. For now,
Maha and MAGA seem Simpatico on soda. All right, So
I give you that story because you need to always
kind of keep in mind when you're seeing these social
media accounts. You know, anybody me all of them, Like
I tell you, like, you know, if I'm endorsing a product,
that means I'm being paid to endorse it. But I've
used it like PhD weight laws. So always keep in
mind you start seeing people posting stuff that's identical to
some other people, like that's that's astroturfing. But speaking of
the vaccines and such, North Carolina state lawmakers have introduced
the Ivermectin Access Act to make Ivermectin available over the
counter following national controversy regarding the drug during the COVID
nineteen pandemic.
Speaker 1: We will all be able to consume the horse pace now.
Speaker 2: North Carolina lawmakers filed the legislation that would make i've
re met an accessible at pharmacies without a prescription. Jonathan
Allman from Caberis County Republican among the sponsors. He said,
it's a sixty year old Nobel Prize winning drug, and
I think it's got a lot of potential benefits that
not a lot of people know about. I think we
all saw the media apparatus and the medical industry come
out during COVID and basically try to make everyone feel
like they're going to turn into a horse. Well, that's
what happens when you eat the horse paste. Duh, it's science,
he said. I truly believe because we were under the
emergency use authorization, if there would have been another therapeutic
that would have been proven to be useful at helping
with COVID, they wouldn't have been able to move forward
with the development of a vaccine. He is precisely correct.
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