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Friday, January 27, 2023

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John Durham Turned On Trump, Opened Criminal Investigation Into Donald Over Suspected Financial Crimes

The New York Times published a bombshell about special counsel John Durham as his four-year-long investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe comes to an end.

Durham is preparing his final report but the Times spoke “with more than a dozen current and former officials” to get a sneak peek. And Trump will be furious.

Because while Durham and Bill Barr turned over every rock to find a link between Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Russian hoax, even going to Europe to investigate claims allegedly made by foreign intelligence agencies, Durham got a tip about suspected financial crimes by Trump and opened a criminal investigation into the former President with Bill Barr’s blessing.

According to the Times:

“On one of Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham’s trips to Europe, according to people familiar with the matter, Italian officials — while denying any role in setting off the Russia investigation — unexpectedly offered a potentially explosive tip linking Mr. Trump to certain suspected financial crimes.

“Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham decided that the tip was too serious and credible to ignore.

“But rather than assign it to another prosecutor, Mr. Barr had Mr. Durham investigate the matter himself — giving him criminal prosecution powers for the first time — even though the possible wrongdoing by Mr. Trump did not fall squarely within...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday lauded House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to kick Rep. Adam Schiff off the House Intelligence Committee, accusing the California Democrat of leaking classified information when he was on the panel.

“Adam Schiff lied to the American people, and during my time as CIA director and secretary of State, I know that he leaked classified information that had been provided to him,” Pompeo alleged during an interview with Fox News.

Pompeo, who served on the Intelligence Committee with Schiff when he represented Kansas in Congress, said that McCarthy (R-Calif.) was “exactly right” to boot the California Democrat, and he argued that Schiff’s tenure as chairman on the panel “almost ruined that committee.”

Pompeo added that as secretary of state, he was troubled by Schiff’s behavior and didn’t feel comfortable providing the intel committee information.

“When we provided information to him and to his staff, it ended up in places it shouldn’t have been with alarming regularity,” Pompeo explained. “In the end, I decided, I held back information from them as a result.”

“I watched the House Intelligence Committee under the leadership of Adam Schiff. I watched him denigrate and lower its ability to actually perform its function. When he was out talking about the Russia hoax, going on to say that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, knowing that...

Visage à trois #738

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Hunter Biden laptop images capture him driving his father's Corvette that was parked next to Joe's classified documents: Female aide who fears she may be to blame for files fiasco 'got the job through HUNTER!'

Kathy Chung served as Biden's administrative assistant in VP's office
Identified as meeting with law enforcement in classified document probe

She may have 'inadvertently been involved' in documents scandal
Laptop emails reveal Hunter Biden helped connect her to the job

Hunter Biden was involved in recruiting the aide who has been publicly identified as a 'person of interest' in the Joe Biden documents probe, it was reported Thursday.

She told associates she is 'distressed' that she may have 'inadvertently been involved in moving or storing classified material' that a Biden lawyer later uncovered at the Penn Biden Center in November, the Washington Post reported.

The discovery of the documents kicked off the hunt for more classified material in Biden's possession – and ultimately led to the appointment of a special counsel, and a probe that has exasperated White House aides and forced them to explain comparisons to the raid at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

Hunter Biden is seen driving his father's classic Corvette Stingray. The car was stored in the same garage where a Biden lawyer discovered documents marked classified were being stored
Biden repeatedly ignores questions over classified documents

Chung's was the only name that appeared in the first report of multiple aides who have spoken to law enforcement.

The news comes as a former Obama White House official urged Biden to admit to sloppy handling of classified information to try to gain control over the spiraling situation.

And a newly surfaced photo from Hunter's infamous laptop appears to show the president's son driving the classic Corvette Stingray outside the same Wilmington home where the car – and documents marked 'classified' – were being stored.

Chung, who now serves as deputy director of protocol for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, was identified by sources as having helped pack up Biden's belongings when he left the White House in 2017.

About 10 documents, including some reportedly with 'top secret' markings, were discovered inside a closet in the Penn Biden Center, a DC think tank that provided a home for Biden after he left the vice presidency – along with a salary that totaled $900,000 over three years.

Chung was an assistant in the Senate Office of the Vice President, after working for a trio of influential senators, including...