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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
$20 MILLION to the Biden Family & Associates from Foreign Countries...WHILE JOE BIDEN WAS VICE PRESIDENT
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Ted Cruz
Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And Senator, we've got more bank records, but you and I knew about this weeks ago when we had James Comer on the show for that two part series. We now know where the money is coming from. The House Oversight Committee released payments coming in from Russia, from Kazakhstan and Ukraine. And the most important point is this. They came in during Joe Biden's vice presidency. The committee has now identified over 20 million payments from foreign sources directly to the Biden family and their business associates. You and I are not shocked by the money coming in. I am shocked by how much of it was coming in while he was the acting Vice President, United States of America.
- [00:47]
Ben Ferguson
Well, look, that's exactly right. This is breaking news all over the place. And we do have to point out at the outset for regular Verdict listeners, it's not particularly breaking news here. Three weeks ago we had James Comer for a two part exclusive interview on Verdict where he previewed this. And so we have known this was coming. What the oversight Committee released this week are a series of memorandums summarizing the bank records. So this is not just allegations. This is evidence that is backed up by bank records showing the wires hitting the accounts. And what did they release? They released, number one, that more than $20 million in payments from foreign sources went to the Biden family and their business associates while Joe Biden was vice president. That's something very few people have picked up on. Joe Biden was vice president for eight years. Those were a very profitable eight years. And that more than $20 million comes from three places, Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. And we'll break that out in further detail in a moment. On top of that, the House Oversight Committee detailed that an additional $8 million came from China, from communist China, not while Biden was president, but shortly thereafter, just a few months after he was vice president, millions more came in from communist China. This was a business and it was not a business selling access. I want to say to everyone in the conservative ecosphere, to everyone talking about this scandal, to everyone, whether you're on media, whether you're an elected official, whether you're an influencer, stop using the Democrat phrase selling access. Because when they say selling access, that's something CNN says. Why? Because you've got all of Washington, that is a town built on selling access. You've got every lobbyist in Washington who makes a living selling access. And so when they say Hunter was selling access, you need to understand that term is meant to be a defense of Hunter. And Joe Biden. No, Hunter's just being a lobbyist. It may be a little creepy, but it's what happens in Washington. No. When you're looking at $28 million paid while Biden was president and shortly thereafter from Russia, from Kazakhstan, from Ukraine and from communist China, what you are looking at and what the sum total of these allegations is that Hunter was selling official favors from Joe Biden. And, and to be clear, you know, we've had lots of questions about, well, gosh, was Joe involved in Hunter's business dealings? These aren't Hunter's business dealings. These are Joe's business dealings. Joe's the one making the official favors. Joe's the one getting on more than 20 phone calls with these foreign business partners. Joe's the one showing up at dinners at Cafe Milano. Joe is the one flying to Ukraine over and over and over again. Joe is the one holding over a billion dollars in federal loan guarantees hostage until the Ukrainian government fires Victor Shokin, the prosecutor that is investigating Burisma and the oligarch that own them. It is Joe's business. Listen, Hunter is a guy who strung out on drugs, who's been a screw up his whole life. Ain't nobody paying A Hunter Biden $28 million for anything. This is Joe Biden. And Hunter is just the salesman. Hunter's the front man. Hunter's the guy that goes out and says, hey, you want a favor from Daddy? I got Daddy right here. I got daddy on the phone. You know what I need? I need a Porsche. You know what I need? I need a really expensive watch. This was Joe Biden. And the corporate media does not want to even acknowledge that possibility.
- [04:59]
Ted Cruz
Yeah, and I think this is, as you mentioned a moment ago, this is something that we really need to start focusing on. That, that there, there's no business that Hunter Biden actually had. He was working for his dad. He was working for daddy and, and he was selling Daddy's influence and selling out the United States of America. That's why all this money was coming in while he was the Vice President. Now there's also another part of this. How did this go unnoticed? And there's a lot that now I think more questions about this timeline. Do you think the Obama White House didn't know that this was happening under their watch during the eight years that the Vice President selling out America to the highest bidder? I mean, do you believe that the FBI and those that were around the present that were taking him to these meetings at Cafe Milano, he was able to sit down with Russian oligarchs, in essence adversaries to us, and have these dinners and meet with these people from Ukraine and Kazakhstan that had ties to Chinese communists and these payments coming through. Do you think that the government didn't catch any of that?
- [06:01]
Ben Ferguson
Of course they knew about it and we know they knew about it. We know, for example, and we've covered on verdict before, how a senior official in the Biden National Security Council, or rather the Obama National Security Council, raised the obvious conflict of interest, raised it in the Obama White House. And he was dismissed. His concerns were dismissed. We know that people were concerned about Devin Archer being on the board of Burisma. We know that people were concerned about Hunter Biden being on the board of Burisma, both of them getting paid a million dollars a year. And to be clear, look, your point about Hunter Biden doesn't add anything. Let's take Burisma. He doesn't speak Ukrainian. He doesn't know anything about oil. He doesn't know anything about natural gas. He has no expertise whatsoever that would qualify him to be on the board of a natural gas company. What he does have is a father who's the sitting vice president, who is able to hold a billion dollars in federal loan guarantees hostage until the prosecutor investigating Burisma is fired. And boy, you know what? For a million bucks a year or even for 5 million to Hunter and 5 million to Joe, which is what the FD 1023 alleges the oligarch had to pay, that's a great deal to get the prosecutor fired, who could destroy the entire company, who could seize the assets, who could take the company down, who could lock up the Ukraine? 10, 11, $12 million. That's quite the bargain. But let's be clear, it's not Hunter selling anything. It's Joe selling favors. And Hunter is just the salesman.
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Ted Cruz
Let's go over some of this timeline. And this is, I think an important part about all of this is the fact that we are now kind of seeing when the payments came in and who they were coming in from. You look at the overview of the financial records related to Robinson Walker llc. This was established as a limited liability company in Delaware in 08. We fast forward to 2015 through 17. Biden family members and their companies received at least 1.3 million in payments from Rob Walker related accounts. The Biden family members who received money from this account included Hallie Biden. She received two separate payments we now know about. In 2017, we had James Biden senior. They also got a Payment we have Robert Hunter Biden. That's again Hunter Biden and bank account identified an unknown Biden. The committee is continuing to investigate the identity of that account holder. But these records prove that the Biden family use at least three family members and they were taking money and these lucrative payments were coming in from from people all over the world. Robinson Walker LLC also center paid Biden family members over a million dollars after receiving the State Energy HK limited wire that is a company owned by the Chinese communist government. That money came in we now know on March 1, 2017. That was less than two months after Joe Biden left public life and the State Energy Co. HK Ltd. This Chinese communist company wired 3 million to Robinson Walker LLC. At the time of the wire, Rob Walker's business account had a balance of 159,000. And guess what happened the next day. The walker wired 1,065,000 to European Energy and Infrastructure Group in Abu Dhabi, a company associated with James Galar, another one of the Biden crime family members. Galar was a business partner of Hunter Biden and involved in foreign transactions with the Biden family. When you see these transactions, this was not the first time they'd done this. This was a well orchestrated, finely tuned money laundering operation going all over the world from anyone that was willing to write them a check.
- [09:57]
Ben Ferguson
Well, and what we've seen is that Joe Biden and the Biden White House's defenses, each one of them has collapsed and has been demonstrated to be an utter and complete lie for years. During the 2020 campaign and afterwards, Joe Biden and the Biden White House said Joe Biden had never talked with Hunter, never talked with his business associates, has never had any conversations about any of Hunter's business, that's now obviously a lie. Devin Archer's testimony demonstrates it's a lie. And even the Biden White House has been forced to retreat from that. And so they shifted their narrative not to he never talked to the business associates or never talked about business, but instead, and we're the ones who really broke this connection. On verdict, Karine Jean Pierre shifted to saying Joe Biden has never been in business with Hunter. And in fact she gave the enormous tell, the enormous reveal where she said I'm going to give you the same answer I've said every time. It's always going to be the same. And then she tells a totally different answer which he's never been in business with Hunter. But not only that. So their next line of defenses, when Devin Archer testifies that Joe Biden got on the phone at least 20 times and went to multiple meetings at Cafe Milano. The next line of defense from Democrats and their media cheerleaders are, well, the conversation was just about niceties. It was just about the weather. You know what the weather was they were talking about? It was raining bs. That's the only weather you don't put daddy, the vice President on to say, oh, pretty sunny outside. Yep. Okay, good talking to you. Bye. Yeah, this was. Let me ask you this, let me ask you this. Is there a weather service you know of that you pay $28 million to?
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Ted Cruz
No.
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Ben Ferguson
I mean, you have an app on your iPhone that can tell you the weather. It doesn't cost you $28 million. That's the next line they're saying is, it's just the weather. The next line they're saying, and this was Dan Goldman's lie, is, well, Hunter was selling the appearance of access. No, no, it's not the appearance of access. Number one, it was objectively real access. If you're on the phone 20 times with the vice president, if you're meeting in person with the vice president, it's not the appearance of access that is access. But to be clear, the allegations here are not even that he was selling access, it's that he was selling official favors. And then there's another spin that the media and the Democrats are trying to pitch. As these bank records come out, they say, well, yes, but it's not proven that any of these payments went directly to Joe Biden, just to every member of the Biden family could find. But it's not proven that it went into Joe's personal bank account. Now, number one, for bribery, the payment doesn't have to go to you directly. Look, Joe Biden is 80 years old. At this point in his life, most 80 year olds are well into the process of transferring assets to their kids and their grandkids. And under the tax laws, particularly for someone as rich as Joe Biden, they're trying to get money to their family. So if Joe Biden's business was selling official favors as vice president and using Hunter to do is still bribery. If the $20 million go to his kids and grandkids and his family members and Joe doesn't take it himself, it's still bribery. And it is not materially different than if Joe deposited the whole $20 million in his bank account and then sent it to his kids and grandkids. You're not allowed to sell official favors for millions of dollars to your kids. You're not allowed to sell Official favors for millions of dollars to your brother, to your grandkids, to all your relatives. And so that defense from the Democrats in the media may be the dumbest of all because they're saying, no, no, it's not a felony. It's just a felony.
- [13:54]
Ted Cruz
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Peter Doocy
And here you have the sitting President of the United States answering like a jilted teenager who, who just got caught cheating on a test. I mean, every reporter that covers Joe Biden should be following up with questions like these every time he provides the opportunity to do so, which is rare. I mean, this is the President who has not held a solo press conference on U.S. soil since November. He simply cannot answer anything outside of a teleprompter and especially as it pertains to the Biden bribery scandal, which are not going away as long as the GOP controls the House.
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Ted Cruz
He's right, by the way. But he simply cannot answer the question, is the other problem with this White House? And now they're contradicting each other. Joe Biden saying, I never talk business. The White House is saying, well, he was never in business with Hunter Biden. Okay, so my question is, then which one is it? White House? Because now you are literally contradicting the President. The White House press secretary is.
- [16:33]
Ben Ferguson
Well, it's neither. And you gotta understand that Joe Biden is angry. He's angry that anyone would dare ask him about this. He's angry that he got caught. He's outraged that anyone questions him. That there is a sense of entitlement. Listen, for a Vice President of the United States or a President of the United States to endeavor on a business where you're selling official favors for tens of millions of dollars. And it's worth noting, if this were just influence peddling. Let me ask you something. Why didn't Hunter get paid by France? Why didn't he get paid by England? Why didn't he get paid by Canada? Why didn't he get paid by their. There are a lot of countries that are our friends, that are our allies. The Italians. Look, you could. You could get paid by the Italians. You could go have good Italian meals, some good wine. You could have a Ferrari. He likes fancy sports cars. No, it was none of our friends. They realized where the money is, is selling favors from daddy to our enemies. Selling favors from Daddy to the Chinese Communists. Selling favors from daddy to Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs. It was bad guys. If you're the Vice President of the United States and you concoct a scheme to make tens of millions of dollars by having your druggie son sell favors from you, that reflects an incredible level of cynicism and entitlement. And what you see now when people ask Joe, he gets angry. How dare you ask me that? But what is also amazing is there's not a single elected Democrat who seems to care. They don't care if the President of the United States has taken millions of dollars of bribes from foreign nationals who are enemies. It doesn't matter to them. For most of the corporate media, they do not care. No matter what the facts are, they don't care. Bribery for them is okay. And you may think, well, gosh, don't care is too strong. If they cared, they do something about it. If they cared, they'd say something about it. Name a single Democrat senator who said anything. For example, take a listen to Jake Tapper. Interviewing Elizabeth Warren.
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Jake Tapper
Ask you, this is not the kind of child you want to talk about, but the adult child, the adult son of President Biden, Hunter Biden. Republicans on the House Oversight Committee say that they have identified more than $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Biden family, including Hunter Biden and their business associates. So far we haven't seen any direct evidence pointing to Joe Biden, President Biden doing anything illegal. And I don't necessarily know what's everything that's in this, but I do wonder on a broader level, the 30,000 foot view of this, people close to Donald, I mean people close to Joe Biden or people close to Donald Trump, but I'm talking about Joe Biden making tens of millions of dollars because of their closeness to him. That can't be something that you like. That can't be something that you're comfortable with as a phenomenon.
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Elizabeth Warren
Look, I always worry about the influence peddlers in Washington, regardless of party affiliation. One of the things, as you know, I've spent a lot of my time in Congress working on is how we bring just more ethics and more oversight in general to everything that we do in government.
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Ted Cruz
I mean, Senator, that's not answering the question, right? Like saying more oversight. That's her response to that. Give me a break.
- [20:32]
Ben Ferguson
So let's break that down on multiple fronts. Number one, you finally have CNN mentioning it. That's actually seismic that they even acknowledge that this scandal exists.
- [20:41]
Ted Cruz
Can you and I just laugh at a moment about how Jake Tapper, like he's stumbling all over himself, I was dying laughing. It's like he can't even believe he's mentioning any.
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Ben Ferguson
Right, well, and then what does he say? He says, well, number one, this isn't a child that anyone wants to talk about. Hunter Biden is not a child. He is not a teenager. He is not a kid in trouble. Hunter Biden is a grown ass man who is a repeat felon who breaks the law. And you listen to how Jake says it. Well, there's no evidence that Joe Biden did anything wrong. No direct evidence. Really? What do you think Devin Archer's testimony was? That's called direct evidence. Evidence. What do you think the confidential human source who says that Joe Biden solicited and received a $5 million bribe from the Ukrainian oligarch? That's called direct evidence. Testimony of a witness is in fact direct evidence. And that's not circumstantial. Now, the evidence may be false, the testimony may be false, but that is direct evidence. You look at what the House Oversight Committee put out, they put out the actual records of the wires of more than $20 million. Notice something else Jake Tapper admitted when he said more than $20 million. You know what Frazee didn't say while he was vice president? He omits that. Doesn't mention the timeframe at all. This is while he was vice president from foreign shady sources. He omits that too. And you know, Tapper says, well, there's no evidence of wrongdoing from. No direct evidence of wrongdoing from Joe Biden. Well, what did the Biden brother, kid, grandkid dog. I'm gonna start with a crazy proposition. People don't give you $28 million for the heck of it. They don't say, gosh, you know, Ben, I think you're a charming guy. Here's 28 mil. Just, just cause I like your teeth. Like, that's not. That's not planet Earth. So there are two potential hypotheses. Number one, the core hypothesis that you and I both believe is true, which is that Joe Biden was selling favors, government favors, and that's what they were paid $28 million to the family for. Or number two, Hunter performed some service which nobody knows and nobody understands, and James and the kids and everybody else. And the obvious question is, okay, what, what did they do that was worth $28 million? Because if you can't point to anything, then you go back to hypothesis number one, that the only thing possibly worth $28 million were the official favors. And notice how Elizabeth Warren answers it. She doesn't say, gosh, if Joe Biden took bribes from a foreign national, that's bribery. That's a felony. He should be removed from office, he should be prosecuted, he should go to jail. All of which is unquestionably true. If a government official takes bribes, multimillion dollar bribes from a foreign national, they should go to jail. That did not used to be a debatable proposition. But what does she say? She self righteously says, well, I've always been concerned with influence peddlers. No, no, Hunter is not selling influence. He's selling favors. And I always think we need more oversight. No, no, she doesn't point to me one time in the last two and a half years in which Elizabeth Warren has asked a single witness a single question about the mounting evidence that the President of the United States took bribes. She doesn't Want oversight. She wants to attack Donald Trump. She wants no oversight of Joe Biden. She wants no oversight of the corruption and criminality. And that exchange is a perfect example of how Democrats don't care and Jake Tapper doesn't care. Contrast that to his rabid questioning about Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, where he'd get Adam Schiff on there and they'd foam at the mouth about, oh, we've got so much proof. And by the way, all of his proof was nonsense. It was ridiculous things like the Steele dossier that were completely made up. But they devoted every waking moment to this. Here Jake Tapper is sheepishly, well, I guess it doesn't look great to be getting tens of millions from shady oligarchs.
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Ted Cruz
But he's a kid, remember, he's a kid. So therefore it makes sense, right? It's not a real crime if it's a kid. That's why I use that term.
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Ben Ferguson
And he does say no one wants to ask this question, right? Yeah, Yep, yep. And he says none of us want to ask this question. Well, no, if you were a journalist, you would. Serious evidence that the President of the United States is taking multimillion dollar bribes. A real journalist actually wants to ask that question and actually has a follow up and another follow up and another follow up. You know what would have happened if Jake Tapper said, Senator Warren, if Joe Biden in fact solicited and received millions of dollars of bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch in exchange for official favors when he was Vice President of the United States, should he be impeached? Yes or no? That's actually what a journalist would ask.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah.
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Ben Ferguson
Should he be removed from office? Yes or no? If it's proven that he took bribes, would you vote to convict? If it's proven that he solicited and received bribes from a foreign. Yes or no, Would you vote to convict? The Constitution says the president can be impeached for treason, bribery, other high crimes or misdemeanors. If it's proven that he took a bribe, took a big bribe for official action, would you vote to remove him? Yes or no? Should he be prosecuted? Should he go to jail? Those are actually the questions a journalist would ask. The gosh, no one wants to talk about this. And it kind of feels icky, doesn't it? That's not a journalist. That's an apologist and propagandist for the regime.
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Ted Cruz
Yeah, it's great, great point. I want to ask you one other thing about these. The possibility now we're being told that Biden Family members are going to be subpoenaed by the House. We'll have more on that in a second. But first let me tell you about Patriot Mobile. If you are sick and tired of giving your money to woke companies that actually fight against your values, well then you need to make the switch. The only Christian conservative cell phone provider in the country, a company that gives you amazing coverage, nationwide coverage on all three major networks so you get the best possible service in your area. Period. Without the woke propaganda being pushed by leftists working hard to destroy this country, you may not realize that the cell phone provider you have right now is actually could be giving massive donations to Planned Parenthood. Yes, that happens. Big Mobile gives big money to leftist causes all the time. So if you're ready to stand with a company that stands with your values, a company that actually takes a portion of your bill every month and they give it back to organizations that support free speech, that support religious freedom, that support the sanctity of Life, support the Second Amendment, support our military veterans and first responders. Switch to Patriot Mobile. Call them 878-PATRIOT. You can keep your same cell phone number, keep your same cell phone you have right now or you can upgrade to a newer phone phone. 878 Patriot. That's 878 Patriot. 878 Patriot. Use a promo code. Verdict. You get free activation. The best deals of the year or online@patriot mobile.com verdict. That's patriot mobile.com verdict. Senator Maria Bartiromo had this to say about this, this new plan from James Comer. Subpoena Joe and Hunter Biden and documents. Take a listen.
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Elizabeth Warren
Welcome back. Moments ago Kentucky Congressman and chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer told me that the House Oversight Committee is planning to subpoena President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden in the influence peddling case.
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Ted Cruz
How significant is that going to be?
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Ben Ferguson
Well, I assume Hunter Biden will plead the Fifth and so they'll subpoena him and he may or may not show up. He might defy the subpoena. If he defies the subpoena, I expect the House will vote to hold him in contempt. If the House votes to hold him in contempt, I am certain that the Biden Justice Department will refuse to prosecute the contempt finding. So he will either refuse to show up and have the Biden DOJ cover for him or he'll show up and say I plead the fifth. I plead the fifth. I plead the fifth. I think the chances that Hunter Biden actually answers questions in front of the house are 0.0%. And given the massive criminal liability Hunter Biden faces, that's actually probably what any decent criminal lawyer would tell him, is you cannot testify under oath when you're facing an ongoing criminal investigation. Joe Biden, I think the chances again, are 100% that he would refuse to comply with a subpoena, that they would fight it. They would say he's not testifying and he's not going to answer questions. So both of those, I think, are not going to succeed. It's fine to do it. It's fine to have that battle. But in terms of actually getting evidence and testimony, I think Eric Schwerin we talked about in the last podcast, if you didn't listen to Wednesday's podcast, you should. It lays out he was the other business partner along with Hunter and Devin Archer. He was Joe Biden's money guy. That I think could be a very fruitful witness. I think we need to have a hearing, a public hearing under oath. By the way, Devon Archer needs to testify publicly at this point. He's only testified behind closed doors at a deposition, but nobody's actually seen him. Nobody's actually heard him among the public. That needs to happen. David Weiss, the U.S. attorney who is accused of covering up and obstructing the investigation into Hunter Biden and protecting Joe Biden, he needs to testify. I think Merrick Garland needs to testify. And the allegations from the IRS whistleblowers pause for a second and think we had just a few weeks ago, two senior career officials at the IRS testify to multiple felonies from the, from the attorney General of the United States. There have been so many other accusations and so much more evidence that's come out that people have almost forgotten that that's how much crap is coming out on a daily basis. And yet all reporters want to talk about is Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. And by the way, when we see next week, when we see in Atlanta them indict the Atlanta prosecutor indict Trump yet a fourth time. And I think that is very likely to happen. That again will be the excuse for all the Democrats and all the corrupt corporate media to talk even less about the allegations against Joe Biden, because the only topic they want to discuss is Trump, Trump, Trump. And the latest indictment.
- [31:20]
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Ben Ferguson
So I'm very concerned. We have a pattern that we know Joe Biden has been willing to engage in questionable official activity. And I believe the evidence is more and more compelling every day, that he was selling official favors. We know, for example, because Joe Biden has admitted it in a televised interview that he held over a billion dollars in federal loan guarantees to the government of Ukraine hostage in order to force the government of Ukraine to fire Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma and the oligarch that owned it. We know that because Biden's admitted to. We also know that as President, Biden sold over a million barrels of oil from America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, designed to protect our national security in times of crisis, sold it to China, and in particular sold oil to a Chinese company that his son, Hunter Biden, had been in business with. We know that he did that. And as we've talked about in this podcast, just two weeks ago, I passed legislation on the floor of the Senate to prohibit the federal government from selling any oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China or Russia or North Korea or Iran. That passed with a big bipartisan vote. But we know Joe Biden has already done it and already sold it to China. And we also know what was in Hunter Biden's WhatsApp text where he again threatened official conduct. And I, and I want to revisit that text for a second. This was sent to a prominent Chinese businessman and Communist Party official. Here's what Hunter allegedly sent in the text. Quote, I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand. And now means tonight. And Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this, other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me, I. E. Joe Biden, and every person he knows, and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father. Now, once again, Hunter is threatening official retribution. He's saying, dad will punish you if you don't pay me millions of dollars. Given that pattern, I think there is a lot of reason to be concerned that Joe's official conduct towards China, towards Ukraine, towards Russia, towards. Towards enemies of America has been significantly compromised by this bribery scheme which is what the evidence is building towards. I think this is an issue that should concern anyone worried about America's national security.
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Ted Cruz
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