Biden camp speaks up to quell Senate Burisma-Hunter Biden inquiry

Joe Biden's presidential campaign is pushing back against a Senate committee investigation into work by his son, Hunter Biden, for Ukrainian gas company Burisma, through personal attacks on panel Chairman Ron Johnson. Biden deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield in a memo Tuesday suggested that the Wisconsin Republican, who heads the Homeland Security Committee, could be "party to a foreign influence operation" and accused him of "worsening the coronavirus crisis" by working on the investigation. "He's wasting taxpayer dollars on a blatantly dishonest attempt to help Donald Trump get elected," Bedingfield said, adding that "this sham is a windfall for Russian disinformation." Pro-Russian Ukrainians say that they have fed unverified, edited tapes of Joe Biden speaking to Ukrainian officials to the committee. A committee staff member told NBC News that it has not received opposition research but did not explicitly address any information coming from foreign sources. "The claims are false and the Democrats know this,” the staff member said.

Jonson's probe into Burisma was stalled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it has started to pursue subpoenas in its inquiry. In May, the committee subpoenaed documents from a lobbying firm that worked on behalf of Burisma, and it is eyeing subpoenas of advisers to the former vice president and presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Biden's presidential campaign has remained relatively quiet about the investigation. But as it starts to pick up closer to the election, the memo marks one of the strongest acknowledgments and condemnations of the probe yet. If the committee investigation gains traction, it could harm the Biden campaign in the way that FBI investigations into Hillary Clinton's emails and a hearing on how she dealt with the attack in Benghazi, Libya, contributed to the public's perception that she was corrupt when she was the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. Burisma and Hunter Biden were a key part of what sparked the impeachment of President Trump last year.

Trump and his allies have suggested that while Biden was vice president, he conditioned $1 billion in aid to Ukraine on the country firing Ukrainian official Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma. There is no evidence that Biden was acting in the interests of his son, and many international organizations at the time condemned the official for not pursuing corruption charges among Ukrainian politicians. The Tuesday Biden campaign memo also noted that the senator expressed support for the firing of Shokin less than a year ago. In a phone call with the Ukrainian president last summer, Trump asked for him to "look into" the Bidens and Burisma. The first article of impeachment approved by the House (but rejected by the Senate) said that Trump conditioned aid to Ukraine on the country launching an investigation into his political rival for no other purpose than to help Trump in the 2020 election.

While Democrats reject the notion that Hunter Biden's work was illegal, many (including several of Biden's Democratic primary competitors last year) indicated that the appearance of conflict of interest was improper. But Republicans think there is more to the Hunter Biden-Burisma arrangement that deserves investigation, arguing that the Ukrainian company made a concerted effort "to bring in well-connect[ed] Democrats during a period when the company was facing investigations backed not just by domestic Ukrainian forces but by officials in the Obama Administration," as Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan put it.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-camp-speaks-up-to-quell-senate-burisma-hunter-biden-inquiry

Biden Memo

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6999630/Biden-Memo.pdf

>>10046369

Thinking you are working in the right direction..background with the lighter green color is easier to read..

Democratic National Convention platform marks return to signaling against communism

Readers of the Democratic National Convention's policy platform could be forgiven for mistaking the 2020 version with 1980, during the depths of the Soviet era. A draft of the platform, obtained by the Washington Examiner, projects an implicit anti-communist sentiment in the first sentence. "America is an idea — one that has endured and evolved through war and depression, prevailed over fascism and communism, and radiated hope to far distant corners of the earth," the draft platform preamble states. "Just as we came together to stand up to communism and respond to global terrorism, we will come together with Europe to confront the existential challenge of climate change," reads a section about European foreign policy.

It is the first mention of communism in the Democratic Party's national platform in more than a decade and contains the most uses of the word in its platform in nearly three decades. The mentions subtly pit the party's stated principles against those of far-left activists and rioters who share some principles with Democrats, such as calling for studying slavery reparations, but who display communist symbols such as the hammer and sickle during marches and demonstrations. And it could shield Democrats from right-wing attacks on the basis of allies of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a socialist who also draws support from more radical leftists, having a hand in crafting large portions of the platform. Democratic platforms in 2016 and 2012 did not use the word "communist" or "communism," nor did those in 2004 or 2000. The new draft preamble echoes the 2008 platform preamble that also praised U.S. endurance: "We come together at a defining moment in the history of our nation — the nation that led the 20th Century, built a thriving middle class, defeated fascism and communism, and provided bountiful opportunity to many." Communism was not mentioned elsewhere in the 2008 platform, but it is in the 2020 draft.

In addition to the Europe section, the draft platform's Asia-Pacific foreign policy states that the approach to China would be "guided by" American "strengths" such as an open society and strong alliances and that undermining those "would be a gift to the Chinese Communist Party." The 1996 Democratic platform had a quick reference to "support for reform in former communist states." The 1992 version, however, took an implicit stance against communism and is the most recent Democratic platform before 2020 with more than one mention of the term. It flaunted how President Harry Truman approached "containing communism with the NATO alliance and in Korea," discussed countries "struggling to make the transition from communism to democracy," and expressed support for sheltering those escaping human rights abuses such as "Vietnamese fleeing communism."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democratic-national-convention-platform-marks-return-to-signaling-against-communism

Early voting turnout in Tennessee more than triples 2016 in first two days

A global pandemic isn’t slowing down early voting for Tennessee's primary. In fact, on Friday and Saturday, more than three times as many people voted early compared with the first two days of early voting in 2016's primary election. More than 91,000 early voters cast ballots Friday and Saturday, according to data released by the Secretary of State Division of Elections – a 234 percent increase over the same period in 2016 and a 180 percent increase over the same period in 2012.

Nearly 49,000 Republicans voted Friday and Saturday, a 179 percent increase from 2016. More than 40,000 Democratic voters cast votes in the first two days polls were open, more than five times the number of early Democratic voters in 2016. In both parties, Davidson and Shelby counties saw the highest turnout increases. Davidson saw an increase from 485 voters in 2016 to 17,765 votes cast Friday and Saturday. Shelby County saw nearly nine times as many early voters as in 2016.

Lawrence County saw eight times the number of early voters than in 2016. Loudon County had more than six times as many voters as in 2016. Crockett, Lewis, Lincoln, Montgomery, Sevier, Smith and Washington counties also at least quadrupled turnout over the first two days of early voting. County election commissions have worked with the Division of Elections to implement extensive precautions to limit the spread of the coronavirus at the polls. Polling locations will be open for in-person early voting until Aug. 1. The primary is Aug. 6.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/early-voting-turnout-in-tennessee-more-than-triples-2016-in-first-two-days

Red Bull axes directors who pushed for vocal support of Black Lives Matter organization

Austrian-based beverage company Red Bull has fired two high-level North American executives after they pressed for vocal corporate support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Stefan Kozak, who was Red Bull's chief executive in North America, and Amy Taylor, president and chief marketing officer in North America, both have left the company, the Wall Street Journal reports. Red Bull did not give a reason for the departures of the two executives, but sources knowledgeable about the matter say Taylor had pushed in the past month for the company to intensify messaging focused on racial justice.

Some Red Bull employees in the United States reportedly complained that the company was not acting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Employees also took issue with a slide included in a company presentation in February, saying it was racist, and Taylor and Kozak were reportedly pushing the company to focus more on diversity in hiring and other practices. Florian Klaass, an executive who created the slide in question, also will be leaving the company. "We reject racism in every form, we always have, and we always will," Red Bull's board of directors told the Wall Street Journal in a statement. "Red Bull has always put people and their dreams and accomplishments at its core and values the contribution of each and every person — no matter who they are. We want everyone who feels this way to be welcome in Red Bull." An opinion piece by Revolver magazine praised Red Bull's action against Taylor and Kozak as exemplifying "the way forward for all who want to prevent a total Marxist-style takeover of business and government in America."

https://disrn.com/news/red-bull-axes-diversity-directors-who-pushed-for-vocal-support-of-black-lives-matter-organization

>>10046643

>Breitbart is now the 'fight on mask hill' rag for Conservatives.

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>All assets deployed.

Nice..this needs to end..Quickly, if not sooner.

>>10046683

Respectfully disagree with you on this anon..while many think this is just about a mask, it is about so much moar. The dems will try to win by any means necessary. Their usual habit is to consistently move the goal post. So they get the mask requirement to to vote, the next move is to require temps. Can thermometers be calibrated yes, could they fake a fever where no exist..yes.. What happens when one has a "fever" the ability to vote is lost. Something to think about!

>>10046781

Simply put anon…this is about the election.. How do they win elections?

>>10046838

>given a big enough " Crisis " , elections will not matter anymore.

>that is the Kissenger / NWO parallel enterprise he spoke of in the April 3 Wall St Journal for a " post COVID world order "

Post being the operative word anon, we are not post covid..we are acutely into it. Post will be after the election.. read the drops.

>>10046911

sounds like a go order..