Leroy N. Soetoro
2023-07-20 21:48:06 UTC
https://nypost.com/2023/06/24/donald-trumps-2020-election-loss-was-an-
inside-job/
Score half a point for Donald Trump.
It turns out he was on to something with his claim the 2020 election was
rigged, though not in the way he thinks.
The dirty deed didnt happen in offices in Arizona or Georgia, where
Republicans supposedly were banished while Democrats counted duffel bags
full of late-arriving votes.
Nor did Trump lose because computers were wired to rob him of victory.
Instead, the cheating that likely denied Trump a second term was very
close to home.
In fact, it was an inside job.
There are numerous bombshells in the congressional testimony of two IRS
whistleblowers, but the most significant is that members of Trumps
Department of Justice helped to tip the 2020 election to his opponent by
slow-walking the investigation into Hunter Biden.
The interference with the probe began as soon as it looked like Joe Biden
was going to win the Democrats nomination.
Thats the allegation made by supervising agent Gary Shapley, who detailed
steps he and other IRS investigators wanted to take to gather evidence
against Hunter for massive tax fraud and other crimes.
They planned to execute search warrants in New York, California, Arkansas
and Washington, DC.
They also wanted to search Joe Bidens Delaware guest house because Hunter
spent a lot of time there.
The probers laid out their plan in a probable cause memo, but it was
inexplicably rejected by DOJ lawyers.
After former Vice President Joseph Biden became the presumptive
Democratic nominee for president in early April 2020, career DOJ officials
dragged their feet on the IRS taking these investigative steps, Shapley
testified.
By June 2020, those same career officials were already delaying overt
investigative actions.
Noting that the rejections came long before the probes ran afoul of the
Justice Departments rule to stand down on political cases within 60 or
90 days of an election, Shapley said bluntly: It was apparent that DOJ
was purposely slow-walking investigative actions in this matter.
So the fix for both the case and the election was in from the start.
The testimony is pure dynamite, with Shapley and the other agent, who is
unidentified, documenting numerous instances where either career officials
or, later, Joe Biden appointees, stepped in to thwart the investigation.
They claim DOJ lawyers tipped off Hunters lawyers about a plan to conduct
surprise interviews, and disclosed the plan to search a storage locker,
giving Bidens team time to remove any incriminating evidence.
Shapley, who led a team of 12 IRS agents, said that unlike usual
practices, Justice lawyers selected which witnesses could be interviewed.
His team was blocked from seeing Hunter Bidens laptop, even though the
FBI had authenticated it in 2019.
The big setup
Investigators assigned to this investigation were obstructed from seeing
all the available evidence, he testified, calling the move
unprecedented.
He also said they were instructed to not look into anything related to
President Biden.
An example of their suspicions of wider crimes includes the infamous July
30, 2017, WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to Chinese businessman Henry
Zhao, where Hunter wrote: I am sitting here with my father and we would
like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.
He threatened that if he didnt get a call or text from the right people,
I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every
person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will
regret not following my direction.
As The Post reported, Senate officials in 2020 found that Hunter Bidens
checking accounts received wires totaling $5.1 million from China in
subsequent days.
Did the big guy get his cut?
Only a fool would believe its a coincidence Justice settled the Hunter
case on see-no-evil terms two days before the testimony became public.
Clearly, Attorney General Merrick Garland and his corrupt aides wanted to
head off public outrage by saying the case was over.
But Garland is in a double bind, because Shapley testified that Garland
lied to the Senate when he said Delaware US Attorney David Weiss had the
authority to bring whatever charges in any district he wanted.
Shapley said Weiss was in fact prevented by Biden appointees from bringing
charges in DC and California.
Garland, in an echo of Dr. Anthony Faucis ridiculous claim that I am
science, declared his innocence and added that allegations of corruption
against Justice were dangerous because they constitute an attack on an
institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the
safety of the American people.
Sounds like hes feeling the heat.
The IRS testimony also casts a shadow on Bill Barrs two-year tenure as
Trumps AG.
Barr did courageous work in flagging the misconduct of former FBI Director
James Comey and others for spying on Trumps 2016 campaign and in
eviscerating the medias role, too.
Barrs double role
Barr tasked John Durham with getting to the bottom of the 2016 scandal,
and Durham concluded the FBI never had enough evidence to open the Trump
probe.
Yet Barr did not pay sufficient attention to what was happening under his
nose in the 2020 campaign.
He certainly knew of the Hunter Biden probe, but, to judge from results,
never realized corrupt DOJ officials were again abusing their power to rig
the outcome of a second presidential election.
Indeed, the effort to help Joe Biden wasnt limited to restricting the
probe of his son.
FBI agents instructed Twitter, Facebook and other tech giants to block The
Posts first laptop stories, which showed Joe Biden meeting with Hunters
partners and paymasters.
The agents adopted the Russian disinformation ruse the Biden campaign
and 51 former intelligence officials also used.
How much coordination there was in those two plots remains unknown.
Unfortunately for America, the effort succeeded.
Polls taken after the election showed enough Biden voters to change the
outcome would not have voted for him if they had known about The Posts
reports.
The IRS testimony feels like a potential turning point, but House
Republicans must resist the temptation to rush toward impeachment of
Garland and the president. Release of the transcripts came during a crush
of big news, such as the loss of five people in the Titan disaster and the
move to oust Vladimir Putin by Russias mercenary leader.
As legendary GOP strategist Ed Rollins notes, the political class,
including the media, assume every voter is a news junkie.
Rollins cautions it can take two weeks for even big news to get the full
attention of most people.
That means Rep. James Comer of Kentucky and other investigative leaders
must keep putting key witnesses under oath, especially Hunter Biden
partners Devon Archer and Rob Walker.
Brick by brick, they must build a case that even honest Democrats and
their media handmaidens cant deny.
Only then should the GOP move to the end game.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
inside-job/
Score half a point for Donald Trump.
It turns out he was on to something with his claim the 2020 election was
rigged, though not in the way he thinks.
The dirty deed didnt happen in offices in Arizona or Georgia, where
Republicans supposedly were banished while Democrats counted duffel bags
full of late-arriving votes.
Nor did Trump lose because computers were wired to rob him of victory.
Instead, the cheating that likely denied Trump a second term was very
close to home.
In fact, it was an inside job.
There are numerous bombshells in the congressional testimony of two IRS
whistleblowers, but the most significant is that members of Trumps
Department of Justice helped to tip the 2020 election to his opponent by
slow-walking the investigation into Hunter Biden.
The interference with the probe began as soon as it looked like Joe Biden
was going to win the Democrats nomination.
Thats the allegation made by supervising agent Gary Shapley, who detailed
steps he and other IRS investigators wanted to take to gather evidence
against Hunter for massive tax fraud and other crimes.
They planned to execute search warrants in New York, California, Arkansas
and Washington, DC.
They also wanted to search Joe Bidens Delaware guest house because Hunter
spent a lot of time there.
The probers laid out their plan in a probable cause memo, but it was
inexplicably rejected by DOJ lawyers.
After former Vice President Joseph Biden became the presumptive
Democratic nominee for president in early April 2020, career DOJ officials
dragged their feet on the IRS taking these investigative steps, Shapley
testified.
By June 2020, those same career officials were already delaying overt
investigative actions.
Noting that the rejections came long before the probes ran afoul of the
Justice Departments rule to stand down on political cases within 60 or
90 days of an election, Shapley said bluntly: It was apparent that DOJ
was purposely slow-walking investigative actions in this matter.
So the fix for both the case and the election was in from the start.
The testimony is pure dynamite, with Shapley and the other agent, who is
unidentified, documenting numerous instances where either career officials
or, later, Joe Biden appointees, stepped in to thwart the investigation.
They claim DOJ lawyers tipped off Hunters lawyers about a plan to conduct
surprise interviews, and disclosed the plan to search a storage locker,
giving Bidens team time to remove any incriminating evidence.
Shapley, who led a team of 12 IRS agents, said that unlike usual
practices, Justice lawyers selected which witnesses could be interviewed.
His team was blocked from seeing Hunter Bidens laptop, even though the
FBI had authenticated it in 2019.
The big setup
Investigators assigned to this investigation were obstructed from seeing
all the available evidence, he testified, calling the move
unprecedented.
He also said they were instructed to not look into anything related to
President Biden.
An example of their suspicions of wider crimes includes the infamous July
30, 2017, WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to Chinese businessman Henry
Zhao, where Hunter wrote: I am sitting here with my father and we would
like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.
He threatened that if he didnt get a call or text from the right people,
I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every
person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will
regret not following my direction.
As The Post reported, Senate officials in 2020 found that Hunter Bidens
checking accounts received wires totaling $5.1 million from China in
subsequent days.
Did the big guy get his cut?
Only a fool would believe its a coincidence Justice settled the Hunter
case on see-no-evil terms two days before the testimony became public.
Clearly, Attorney General Merrick Garland and his corrupt aides wanted to
head off public outrage by saying the case was over.
But Garland is in a double bind, because Shapley testified that Garland
lied to the Senate when he said Delaware US Attorney David Weiss had the
authority to bring whatever charges in any district he wanted.
Shapley said Weiss was in fact prevented by Biden appointees from bringing
charges in DC and California.
Garland, in an echo of Dr. Anthony Faucis ridiculous claim that I am
science, declared his innocence and added that allegations of corruption
against Justice were dangerous because they constitute an attack on an
institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the
safety of the American people.
Sounds like hes feeling the heat.
The IRS testimony also casts a shadow on Bill Barrs two-year tenure as
Trumps AG.
Barr did courageous work in flagging the misconduct of former FBI Director
James Comey and others for spying on Trumps 2016 campaign and in
eviscerating the medias role, too.
Barrs double role
Barr tasked John Durham with getting to the bottom of the 2016 scandal,
and Durham concluded the FBI never had enough evidence to open the Trump
probe.
Yet Barr did not pay sufficient attention to what was happening under his
nose in the 2020 campaign.
He certainly knew of the Hunter Biden probe, but, to judge from results,
never realized corrupt DOJ officials were again abusing their power to rig
the outcome of a second presidential election.
Indeed, the effort to help Joe Biden wasnt limited to restricting the
probe of his son.
FBI agents instructed Twitter, Facebook and other tech giants to block The
Posts first laptop stories, which showed Joe Biden meeting with Hunters
partners and paymasters.
The agents adopted the Russian disinformation ruse the Biden campaign
and 51 former intelligence officials also used.
How much coordination there was in those two plots remains unknown.
Unfortunately for America, the effort succeeded.
Polls taken after the election showed enough Biden voters to change the
outcome would not have voted for him if they had known about The Posts
reports.
The IRS testimony feels like a potential turning point, but House
Republicans must resist the temptation to rush toward impeachment of
Garland and the president. Release of the transcripts came during a crush
of big news, such as the loss of five people in the Titan disaster and the
move to oust Vladimir Putin by Russias mercenary leader.
As legendary GOP strategist Ed Rollins notes, the political class,
including the media, assume every voter is a news junkie.
Rollins cautions it can take two weeks for even big news to get the full
attention of most people.
That means Rep. James Comer of Kentucky and other investigative leaders
must keep putting key witnesses under oath, especially Hunter Biden
partners Devon Archer and Rob Walker.
Brick by brick, they must build a case that even honest Democrats and
their media handmaidens cant deny.
Only then should the GOP move to the end game.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.