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Anonymous ID: b2eb09 Nov. 20, 2024, 5:17 p.m. No.22027387   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1650250/confidential-banking-records-related-to-hunter-biden-in-senate-hands-report/

Confidential banking records related to Hunter Biden in Senate hands

The U.S. Treasury Department has started turning over confidential banking records related to Hunter Biden in response to requests from Senate investigative committees.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson asked the Treasury in November for “suspicious activity reports,” banking alerts involving money laundering or fraud, related to Biden and his associates.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, told Yahoo News that the department has already started turning over records. The Wyden spokeswoman criticized the Treasury Department for “rapidly complying” with the requests, calling the Republican-led Senate investigation of Biden a “sideshow.”

“Applying a blatant double standard, Trump administration agencies like the Treasury Department are rapidly complying with Senate Republican requests — no subpoenas necessary — and producing ‘evidence’ of questionable origin,” said Wyden spokeswoman Ashley Schapitl.

A spokesman for Grassley said he could not elaborate on what the records contained at this time but criticized Democrats for “recklessly” seeking to interfere with the investigation.

“As a matter of routine, we don’t discuss sensitive third-party material during ongoing investigations. It’s unfortunate that Democrats whom we’ve kept in the loop on our investigations would recklessly seek to interfere with legitimate government oversight,” Grassley’s spokesman, Taylor Foy, told the Washington Examiner.

Grassley’s and Johnson’s committees have been investigating whether the Obama administration took official action to help the business interests of Biden while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president. The Republican senators asked the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for suspicious activity reports involving Hunter Biden, his business partner Devon Archer, their firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, the Ukrainian oil company Burisma Holdings, and other related companies and individuals. In the letter, they asked the department to turn over the records by Dec. 5, 2019.

Banks and financial institutions are required to file “suspicious activity reports” when they notice unusual transactions that could indicate illegal activities such as money laundering, financing of terrorism, or fraud.

A spokesperson for Johnson did not respond to a request for comment. On Wednesday, Grassley and Johnson also requested Hunter Biden’s official travel records from the U.S. Secret Service.

 

https://x.com/DanScavino/status/1859378408284639347

https://qalerts.app/?n=3835

Anonymous ID: b2eb09 Nov. 20, 2024, 5:25 p.m. No.22027443   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7545 >>7622

https://freedom.press/issues/trump-will-try-to-destroy-press-freedom-we-wont-let-him/

Trump will try to destroy press freedom. We won’t let him

The last time Donald Trump won the presidency, we were alarmed by the prospect that he’d file frivolous defamation suits and insult journalists from the White House podium. Those fears almost seem quaint now — the lawsuits and verbal attacks haven’t ended, but there is so much more at stake in Trump’s second term.

Since his first term ended, Trump has repeatedly called for journalists to be imprisoned and raped for not revealing their sources. Just days ago, he publicly fantasized about a mass shooting of journalists at one of his rallies. He wants to sic federal agencies from the Federal Election Commission to the Federal Communications Commission to the Department of Justice on his perceived enemies, including reporters he doesn’t like.

In his second term, Trump will make good on these anti-press threats to try to destroy any news outlet, journalist, or whistleblower who criticizes or opposes him.

Trump will almost certainly repeal protections against federal surveillance of journalists, which were prompted by his spying on them last time around (to be fair, so did his predecessor). He may even take advantage of the opening created by the case he started and the Biden administration finished — the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — to prosecute journalists directly for publishing classified information.

Republicans are already seeking to abuse anti-terrorism laws against media outlets that criticize Israel; it’s hard to imagine Trump reining them in. He’s certainly not going to lift a finger to protect Palestinian journalists from getting killed while reporting on the war. Who knows how he’ll respond if Russia or other authoritarian regimes he wants to be buddies with imprison more American journalists?

Just like his last term, Trump is likely to try to censor social media outlets and interfere with the editorial discretion of publishers. His campaign against free speech online will be even worse this time around, especially if he gives the world’s biggest free speech hypocrite, Elon Musk, a prominent role in his administration.

At the local level, Trump’s anti-press rhetoric has already emboldened everyone from governors to county-level politicians to retaliate against the media. With their leader back in the White House, Trump wannabes nationwide will feel even more empowered to harass the press — and they’ve spent Trump’s years in exile priming their base to tolerate it.

Suffice it to say, we’ve got some hard work ahead of us at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF). But we’ve been here before. During the first Trump term, we fought him every step of the way, from launching the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, the first comprehensive database of press freedom violations in the United States, to expanding the availability of SecureDrop to enable whistleblowers to communicate securely with journalists. And we’re now better equipped than ever to hold Trump accountable.

We’ve got an expanded advocacy team to draw the attention of both the public and policymakers to press freedom issues, whether at the local or national level. We operate a coalition that fosters strong partnerships between press rights groups across the political spectrum. Our new Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy furthers our late co-founder’s legacy by leading the fight to fix the country’s overclassification problem — something that Trump, strangely enough, actually has reason to support.

When the law isn’t enough, our digital security team steps in to educate reporters about how they can protect themselves and their sources, and our open source software tools like SecureDrop and Dangerzone help whistleblowers and journalists collaborate, and expose malfeasance, safely and confidentially.

Whatever press freedom violations we can’t prevent, we document. The Tracker is relied on by journalists and rights organizations everywhere to spot concerning trends and measure the state of press freedom in the United States. Just look at its work in 2020, the last year we had a President Trump, documenting hundreds of attacks on press rights during the civil unrest that swept the nation that year.

We’re going to need your help as the demand for our work likely grows, in both foreseeable and unforeseeable ways. If you agree that a strong Fourth Estate is essential to preserve democracy and check abuses of power, from Trump or whoever’s next, please donate today.

Anonymous ID: b2eb09 Nov. 20, 2024, 5:41 p.m. No.22027541   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7622

They’re not boys! I am not going to listen to transphobia at this table! I am not going to listen to you call a trans girl a boy.

When you use a word that‘s a slur, I‘m going to interrupt. That’s not how it is. They’re not boys. They’re not boys!

Anonymous ID: b2eb09 Nov. 20, 2024, 5:53 p.m. No.22027648   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7658 >>7675 >>7719

https://www.salon.com/2011/06/02/donald_trump_responds_pizza/

Donald Trump responds to Pizzagate 2011

Does eating a pepperoni slice with a fork and knife make you un-American? Probably

You see, President Obama? This is how a real leader deals with rumors and accusations when they arise from the public's yammering maw: You squash them like a bug in a public address (vlog).

As many of you have heard by now, King Donald Trump was recently seen eating pizza with Sarah Palin in New York City. Nothing wrong with that, right? Just a couple of buddies hanging out, probably have loads in common for conversation fodder, like how great it is to be very American. But the story turned sour when Trump and Palin began to masticate their delicious NYC-style slices … with forks and knives!

Who does that? Certainly not Joe the Plumber. British people, maybe. But here in the U.S. of A. we eat pizza (and most other things) with our hands. Well, Donald wants you to know he's taking these accusations very seriously.

And by the way, he doesn't even know if Sarah Palin is running in 2012. They didn't talk about that. Because that's what you were asking about, right? Not "Does Donald Trump carry forks and knives on his person?" Because the answer to that, as we now know, is, "No, he does not."

Also, Donald Trump doesn't like crusts. ISSUE RESOLVED.

Anonymous ID: b2eb09 Nov. 20, 2024, 6:16 p.m. No.22027866   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>22027396

>if leaked to NY Times, why are they doing this now?

damage control before they reveal who the leaker was

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-leaks-twitter/

Anonymous ID: b2eb09 Nov. 20, 2024, 6:37 p.m. No.22027999   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCVPM9BJbho/

"It would have been the 'end-of-story,' OPRAH, if you had told the truth up front"