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In their exclusive story, the Daily Mail reported that US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) told them: ‘Hunter is a grifter!’ as he totally slammed Joe Biden’s son for running up Secret Service costs after DailyMail.com revealed agents’ $30k-a-month Malibu mansion and trip with his wife to Brazil in earlier reporting.
Johnson, a member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, that day had a main focus on how Hunter Biden escalated the cost of his Secret Service detail on what appeared to be luxurious accommodations and exotic vacations- all on the American people’s tab.
DailyMail.com revealed exclusive photos this week of the $30,000-per-month Malibu mansion his security detail is renting.
The agents also followed Hunter’s wife, Melissa Cohen, on a solo trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last month, costing taxpayers thousands.
‘Malibu and Ipanema Beach in Rio are nice places for grifters like Hunter, but very expensive for his security detail,’ Johnson tells DailyMail.com.
Johnson, along with US Senator Chuck Grassley, is currently investigating Hunter for his allegedly corrupt deals with a Chinese oil giant, exposing bank statements and receipts from the verified contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop.
The two have uncovered so much more than just the Secret Service overspending; they have exposed a lifestyle of greed and corruption by the Bidens.
A recent press release from Johnson’s office about the Bidens delivers another blistering rebuke on the first family- in a long string of painful acknowledgments- by Johnson- that the American people are being taken for a ride.
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on the Senate floor for the third time to discuss their investigation into the vast web of financial entanglements of the Biden family. The senators found that the Bidens not only have ties with the Chinese regime, but Russian oligarchs as well. The senators will continue their investigation until the truth about these corrupt business dealings is uncovered, and the American people have answers.
Go to 16:54 in the video to hear Senator Johnson.
What Senator Grassley and I have shown over the course of six speeches are the actual bank records of financial transactions tying President Biden’s son, Hunter, and his brother, James, to businesses that are essentially arms of the communist Chinese regime. But the Biden business ventures include activities in many more countries than just China.
In our September and November, 2020 reports, we showed a vast web of the Biden family’s foreign financial entanglements that were largely ignored by the media and falsely labeled Russian disinformation by our Democrat colleagues. As outrageous as the suppression of our reports and the false attacks were, perhaps the most egregious behavior came from 51 former Intelligence Agency officials who lent their names and reputations to an effort designed to convince the American public that Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
Without any evidence backing their assertion, they engaged in their own “information operation” by signing a public letter right before the election. Their letter was actual disinformation, coming from what is supposed to be trusted former members of our U.S. intelligence agencies.
By casting doubt on evidence of the Bidens’ corrupt practices, these former intelligence officials interfered in the 2020 election to a far greater extent than Russia could have ever hoped to achieve. Their willing accomplices in the press amplified this disinformation letter and by doing so were equally guilty of egregious election interference.
It should come to no surprise that the corporate media was completely uninterested and failed to conduct any investigative journalism.
After a long-overdue analysis, the New York Times and Washington Post have finally admitted that records from Hunter’s laptop are authentic, which means – although they will NEVER admit this – that Senator Grassley and I were right and they were wrong.
It is interesting to read how limited and muted their mea culpas are. My guess is that they learned a lot from their coverage of Nixon’s Watergate scandal cover-up. They learned that when you’ve been caught in a cover-up – and that is what has happened here – you try to limit the damage by telling a little bit of the truth. In the Intelligence world, this strategy is called a “limited hang out.” The Watergate conspirators called it a “modified limited hang out.”
Regardless of what it’s called, what the New York Times and Washington Post are doing is not telling the whole truth. I doubt they ever will. But just in case they decide to pursue the truth with a bit more rigor, they can use this list of relevant questions as a good starting point for what they should be asking President Biden.
For our part, Senator Grassley and I will continue to ask tough questions, review more information and records and transparently provide that information to the American public.
We intend to pursue and uncover the truth.
Source: The Republic Brief