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  • Every Republican accusation is a confession part a zillion

    From xyzzy@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 11 17:55:16 2023
    tl;dr: The “bombshell witness” who was going to “prove” Biden is taking
    bribes from China, was actually bribing Trump officials on behalf of China.


    Money quote:

    “Republicans have a habit of imputing all of Donald Trump’s crimes to Trump’s opponents, but this is really on the nose.”


    Gal Luft, GOP's Biden Witness, Is an Accused Crook - New York Magazine https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/gal-luft-gop-biden-witness-charged-china-justice-department-comer.html


    Back in May, James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, claimed he had a witness who would testify to Joe Biden’s involvement.
    Then, several days later, Comer said on Fox News that he had lost touch
    with the witness. “Well, unfortunately we can’t track down the informant. We are hopeful the informant is still there,” he told Maria Bartiromo.

    Last week, the New York Post identified Comer’s star witness as Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.
    And as recently as Sunday, Comer was insisting the informant was extremely credible. “He’s very credible and the people on MSNBC who made fun of me when I said we had an informant that was missing, they should feel like
    fools right now,” he boasted. “And this is their worst nightmare. Again, this is a credible witness that the FBI flew all the way to Brussels to interview.”

    Now it turns out Luft is being charged by the Justice Department with
    working as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of China, violating the
    Arms Export Control Act by trying to broker secret arms deals to multiple countries, and conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions by purchasing and
    selling Iranian oil.

    Note that none of these charges involve doing anything illegal with Joe
    Biden. The first charges involve giving payments to an advisor to Donald
    Trump. According to the Justice Department, while Luft was serving on a
    think tank, he “agreed to covertly recruit and pay, on behalf of principals based in China, a former high-ranking U.S. government official
    (Individual-1), including in 2016 while the former official was an adviser
    to the then-President-elect, to publicly support certain policies with
    respect to China without Luft or Individual-1 filing a registration
    statement as an agent of a foreign principal …”




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  • From floaterjr@21:1/5 to xyzzy on Tue Jul 11 12:03:06 2023
    On Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 1:55:20 PM UTC-4, xyzzy wrote:
    tl;dr: The “bombshell witness” who was going to “prove” Biden is taking
    bribes from China, was actually bribing Trump officials on behalf of China.


    Money quote:

    “Republicans have a habit of imputing all of Donald Trump’s crimes to Trump’s opponents, but this is really on the nose.”


    Gal Luft, GOP's Biden Witness, Is an Accused Crook - New York Magazine https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/gal-luft-gop-biden-witness-charged-china-justice-department-comer.html


    Back in May, James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, claimed he had a witness who would testify to Joe Biden’s involvement. Then, several days later, Comer said on Fox News that he had lost touch
    with the witness. “Well, unfortunately we can’t track down the informant.
    We are hopeful the informant is still there,” he told Maria Bartiromo.

    Last week, the New York Post identified Comer’s star witness as Gal Luft, executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.
    And as recently as Sunday, Comer was insisting the informant was extremely credible. “He’s very credible and the people on MSNBC who made fun of me when I said we had an informant that was missing, they should feel like fools right now,” he boasted. “And this is their worst nightmare. Again, this is a credible witness that the FBI flew all the way to Brussels to interview.”

    Now it turns out Luft is being charged by the Justice Department with working as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of China, violating the Arms Export Control Act by trying to broker secret arms deals to multiple countries, and conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions by purchasing and selling Iranian oil.

    Note that none of these charges involve doing anything illegal with Joe Biden. The first charges involve giving payments to an advisor to Donald Trump. According to the Justice Department, while Luft was serving on a think tank, he “agreed to covertly recruit and pay, on behalf of principals
    based in China, a former high-ranking U.S. government official (Individual-1), including in 2016 while the former official was an adviser to the then-President-elect, to publicly support certain policies with respect to China without Luft or Individual-1 filing a registration statement as an agent of a foreign principal …”




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    “I usually skip over your posts because of your disguistng, contrarian, liberal personality.” — Altie
    The DOJ released the february arrest in Crypus now to get Hunter out of the news cycle. Violated Fara act well Hunter didn't register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act either. False statements? That a process crime. The DOJ just wants to shut
    him up.

    https://nypost.com/2022/07/23/hunter-biden-almost-certainly-broke-foreign-lobbying-laws-experts/

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