By Mike Huckabee
January 19, 2023
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BY MIKE HUCKABEE
Blessings on you and your family from all the Huckabee staff! Thank you for subscribing and I hope you enjoy today’s newsletter.
Mike
DAILY BIBLE VERSE
The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord , according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
Psalms 7:8
1. Why WERE lawyers going through those classified docs?
By Mike Huckabee
There’s a suspicious backstory to the Biden classified documents scandal, one for which stories about chains of custody and residence visitor logs (which reportedly aren’t kept) are likely being used to provide distraction.
Admittedly, it’s easy to get sidetracked by stories such as this strange one in the WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: We’re as curious as you to know why Hunter Biden, while he was living at his father’s house in Delaware, “ordered a number of products from the auction site Tophatter to be shipped to the home, including a night vision monocular telescope, an anti-police GPS radar detector, a 5-megawatt laser pointer, a 360-degree USB webcam, and a $51 smartphone, according to shipping receipts found on his laptop.” What was Hunter up to?
But for now, let’s stick to the emerging backstory. Dan Bongino has been hovering over the target for the past few days, and in his Wednesday podcast, he dropped the bomb. So what we’re going to talk about today sounds very much like “conspiracy theory” --- some Democrats will no doubt call it that, if they acknowledge it at all --- but it’s really not. It’s a number of interwoven stories of corruption that we know are true and in which the same names turn up over and over. Until we have more, we’ll say what we often do about such recitations of fact: make of this what you will.
By the way, we’ve noticed that when Democrats call something a “conspiracy theory,” it tends to mean we ARE over the target. So, bombs away!
Most of the larger story Bongino gets into involves Ukraine, a cash cow if there ever was one. So far, speculation about the Biden documents scandal has largely involved China and CEFC, but at least some of the top-secret documents that caused Biden’s high-priced attorneys, plus White House counsel, to drop everything and race to his home and office to sift through files (unsupervised by law enforcement personnel) apparently had to do with Ukraine.
It’s long been known that many DC swamp rats with influence to peddle were diving head-first into the corruption in Ukraine and making money as lobbyists. This started when the Soviet Union fell. The Bidens certainly had done this; note Hunter’s highly-compensated position on Burisma’s board.
Here’s the big question: Was Joe Biden funneled money, via his son, as a bribe to get money and weapons to Ukraine? Bongino cites a WASHINGTON POST story from March 2022 that says Biden, Obama’s “point man” in Ukraine, wanted to ship weapons to them but was overruled by Obama. Why was Biden given Ukraine to oversee? This didn’t just happen. Bongino believes it’s because Biden pushed heavily for it.
He brings up the name of Daria Kaleniuk, a Ukrainian activist who was pressing hard for a no-fly zone over Ukraine and also for weapons. Here she is talking about that in WAPO:
https://www.washingtonpost.
Bongino then cites a 2019 story from John Solomon that we reported on at the time, about a group headed by Kaleniuk called the Anti-Corruption Action Centre, or AntAC, which in 2016 was being investigated (for corruption, ha!) by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office. This was soon after Biden had pressured Ukraine to fire their lead prosecutor --- you know that story --- who happened to be looking into Burisma, which was paying Hunter Biden to be on their board. The new prosecutor, Yuri Lutsenko, told Solomon that when he came into office, our ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich (remember her from Trump’s first impeachment?) stunned him by presenting him with a “do-not-prosecute” list.
One person on that list was a founder of AntAC. AntAC --- and here’s where this starts sounding like some wild conspiracy theory, even though it’s not --- was co-funded by the Obama administration and (ahem) George Soros. And it was collaborating with the FBI agents who were investigating Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort over his business activities with pro-Russia associates in Ukraine.
Some meetings of these collaborators included lead FBI international fraud investigator Karen Greenaway. Greenaway, in fact, won glowing praise on social media from Daria Kaleniuk for her work --- which was to investigate Manafort and, by extension, the Trump campaign. (When Greenaway retired, she joined AntAC’s supervisory board.)
With Kaleniuk wanting so much to get weapons for Ukraine, she no doubt was thrilled that Obama’s “point man” was on board with that.
We went looking and found something on Kaleniuk that I wonder if even Bongino has seen. Given her Soros ties, I guess it should surprise no one that she’s profiled on the website for the World Economic Forum.
https://www.weforum.org/
Anyway, it was clear that the U.S. embassy supported the Soros-funded AntAC. The implied message: “Don’t target AntAC in the middle of a presidential election in which Soros was backing Hillary Clinton to succeed another Soros favorite, Barack Obama,” according to Ukrainian officials who spoke with Solomon.
In December 2015, Kaleniuk was at the White House meeting with the future alleged “whistleblower” in Trump’s first impeachment, Eric Ciaramella. After Trump was elected, she went on to promote Ciaramella's false claim that Trump had strong-armed President Zelenskyy in a phone call to investigate the Bidens. Bongino is convinced their real goal was to stop Trump from looking too closely at all the corruption going on in Ukraine.
When you have time, I hope you’ll read Solomon’s detailed article. If it starts to sound familiar, it’s because you’ll keep running into names from Trump’s manufactured impeachment. This group in Ukraine was a hotbed of anti-Trump sentiment. Also pro-Ukrainian sentiment, of course, so that might help explain the Democrats’ double-edged strategy of blaming Putin for everything and creating one Russia hoax after another. (Note: to say this is not to defend Putin, who is a monster.) The classified documents about Ukraine that were found at the Penn Biden Center likely have something to do with this rotten mess.
Bongino’s podcast goes into more detail and offers other tip-offs that the Russia Hoax and Trump’s impeachment are all part of the same effort by the same cabal, tying in Fusion GPS and the Election Integrity Project (EIP), which really needs quotation marks around the word “Integrity.” We’ve mentioned the EIP very recently in the context of “election misinformation” and the Twitter Files, but did you know that it was started by former FBI agent and Senate staffer Daniel Jones and got its start-up funding from...George Soros? Solomon reports that the EIP even hired Fusion GPS, creator of the infamous Steele “dossier” and certainly experts in election misinformation!
Solomon appeared on Sean Hannity’s TV show Wednesday to discuss other findings, about the millions of dollars, largely from China, that poured into the University of Pennsylvania with the opening of the Penn Biden Center. Recall that 160 of their professors pressured Attorney General Merrick Garland not to investigate CCP espionage at the university and, in February 2022, he agreed to end the FBI’s “China Initiative.”
So there’s a glimpse of what China got for their millions! We’re wondering if at least part of what the Biden team was worried about was exposure of payoffs from the CCP.
Right now, the House Oversight Committee wants to follow the money. Chairman Kentucky Rep. James Comer tweeted on January 17, “I am committed to following the Biden family and associates’ money trail --- consisting of many, complex international transactions worth millions of dollars --- & providing answers to the American people.”
Several months ago, Comer said the Republicans had uncovered evidence of federal crimes being committed to enrich the Biden family, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud, violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, tax evasion, money laundering, and violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. He said that more than 150 financial transactions have been flagged for suspicious activity.
Of course, they’ve also launched an investigation of Biden’s handling of classified documents from the time he was vice president. For some reason, they just don’t feel like leaving it to the DOJ...
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2. Prayers for a swift recovery
Our prayers today for a swift recovery for Florida GOP Rep. Greg Steube, who was reportedly hospitalized after sustaining several injuries at his home near Sarasota.
https://www.westernjournal.
The nature of the accident wasn’t officially disclosed, but police said he fell 25 feet to the ground while doing roof maintenance. Fortunately, a state GOP official said he’d received word that Stuebe was “doing well.” He’s a former sheriff and Army infantry officer in Iraq, so he’s definitely tough. Let’s all pray that he’s back at work very soon, so he can explain to the other politicians in Washington what it’s like to actually do your own roof maintenance.
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3. Bad news for Second Amendment defenders
The Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit by New York gun retailers for an emergency temporary injunction to block a bevy of new gun laws that they say are aimed at putting them out of business and that will create mandatory records of gun buyers that could amount to an unconstitutional gun registry.
The SCOTUS gave no explanation, but there were also no dissents among the Justices. This came one week after the SCOTUS blocked another lawsuit by gun rights activists to block what New York politicians euphemistically dubbed the “Concealed Carry Improvement Act.”
This might not be the end of it. Other lawsuits are still making their way through the courts, but the SCOTUS’ refusal to act means that the expensive litigation and burdens on lawful gun owners and retailers will continue until it’s resolved. This bill is the New York liberal politicians’ attempt to do an end-run around a SCOTUS ruling that struck down their last gun law for blatantly violating the Second Amendment. It also made it so that the only people who would face arrest in New York for walking around with a gun were law-abiding citizens who want to protect themselves from all the criminals New York liberal politicians keep setting free.
Crazy thought: maybe if they put the criminals in jail and kept them there, New Yorkers wouldn’t feel such a pressing need to carry concealed weapons.
Kurt Schlichter has more to say on this subject, and as always, it’s well worth reading:
4. Amazon Smile goes away
By Mike Huckabee
This news is going to upset a lot of people, and I hope it does. Amazon announced that it’s doing away with its Amazon Smile program that lets customers donate a small portion of their payments to their favorite charity.
The program was embroiled in controversy after Amazon banned certain recipients like the Family Research Council on the guidance of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a leftwing donation mill known for smearing conservative and Christian organizations as “hate groups.” Amazon actually claimed that it relied on the SPLC because they “don’t want to be biased whatsoever.” Sorry if that made you spit coffee on your monitor.
https://thenewamerican.com/
Amazon claims they’re ending Smile because they’re disappointed that it hasn’t had the big impact they’d hoped due to the donations being “spread too thin.” Yes, that’s what happens when thousands of worthy organizations are eligible, but the money is still important to each of them, especially the small, struggling ones.
For instance, my writers Pat and Laura give their Amazon Smile money to The Oasis Sanctuary (https://the-oasis.org/), a parrot rescue in Arizona that just thanked supporters for the desperately-needed $1,540 they received last quarter from Amazon that paid for food and vet care for the birds. Well, no more of that for them! I guess helping them doesn’t make a big enough statement for Amazon.
Amazon will instead give big donations to causes it will choose, like the “Housing Equity Fund.” You know you’re dealing with liberals when they tell you that they know how to spend your money more wisely than you do.
5. Georgia authorities recognize terrorists when they see them
By Mike Huckabe
Some Antifa thugs discovered, with tragic results, that Georgia will not indulge their violent tactics the way deep blue states do. Georgia authorities recognize terrorists when they see them, and will deal with them accordingly.
The Antifa brats are calling on their fellow cosplay anarchists to throw one of their “Nights of Rage” tomorrow. I wonder how many will actually show up, now that they know they’re pulling their revolution theater in a state where the police shoot back.
6. Greens head for 'Loony Town'
By Mike Huckabee
Just when you think the “green” movement can’t get any nuttier (“We’re saving the planet by throwing soup on priceless artworks!”), they manage to dial up the crazy another notch. Like the French dairy giant that plans to reduce methane emissions by forcing cows to wear facemasks and diapers. As a Tennessee farmer described this so eloquently, “they’ve gone to loony town.”
If they’re going to keep emitting stuff like this from their mouths, they should start wearing diapers over their own faces. Let’s hope they get into a rumble with radical animal rights activists and they wipe each other out.
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