AMAC Exclusive – By Shane Harris
Conservatives looking to expose the full extent of the Biden family’s corruption have a problem: the scandal might be too big to break.
Typically, there are three main entities involved in taking down a politician over a corruption scandal. First, there is the media, which broadcasts the details of the scandal, eroding public support. Second, there is law enforcement, which investigates and, if necessary, presses criminal charges. Third, there is the party establishment, which ultimately abandons the politician as a matter of self-preservation, signaling that it’s “game over.”
But what happens when a scandal is so big that the people responsible for breaking it are implicated in it as well?
That is the situation which now faces the mainstream media, the federal intelligence bureaucracy, and the Democrat Party. For years, they have all parroted Biden’s lies and created an echo chamber of denial about wrongdoing by the president and his family. Now, with it all beginning to crumple around them, they’re seeing that the downfall of the president spells the end of their own reputations and careers as well.
Motivated by self-preservation and in a desperate effort to sustain Biden politically, then, they are doubling down on their complicity in Biden’s wrongdoing by continuing to try to cover it up. As House Republicans investigating the matter have released one bombshell report after another, the liberal media have simply refused to report it, while top intelligence officials have denied any responsibility and Democrat leaders have claimed the whole thing is a farce.
But in recent weeks, new shocking allegations have made this strategy increasingly untenable.
Earlier this month, for example, Senator Chuck Grassley unveiled new documents appearing to show evidence of $5 million payments to both Joe Biden and his son Hunter from Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company where Hunter previously held a board seat despite having no experience in the industry. That same day, two IRS whistleblowers claimed that the Department of Justice and the FBI interfered in the investigation into Hunter’s criminal wrongdoing.
This past week, Joe Biden’s repeated claims that he had “no knowledge” of his son’s business dealings while he was vice president also continued to crumble. Devon Archer, a longtime friend and former business partner of Hunter Biden, is expected to testify this week that he and Hunter repeatedly spoke with then-vice president Biden about their business activity. In another shocking turn that further shows the panic setting in for team Biden, news broke on Sunday that the Biden Justice Department is pushing for Archer to report to prison for a guilty verdict in an unrelated case, a move Archer’s lawyers say is a clear intimidation tactic.
Back in May, a House Oversight Committee report also found that the Biden family received more than $10 million in payments from foreign businesses (mostly during Biden’s time as vice president) as part of what committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) called a “scheme to peddle influence from 2015 to 2017.”
All of this has the makings of the biggest scandal in U.S. political history. Yet as AMAC Newsline reported last week, less than half of Americans even know about it. The story is virtually absent from the pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times, while outlets like CNN and MSNBC are engaged in a coordinated reporting blackout.
Although partisan loyalty to Biden likely has something to do with the silence campaign, the mainstream media also undoubtedly understands that they have played a primary role in suppressing this scandal from the start.
Ahead of the 2020 election, they engaged in a relentless effort to discredit the New York Post’s bombshell story about the infamous laptop that provided clear evidence of the Biden family’s corruption. Even once they quietly admitted the laptop was authentic over a year later, the liberal press still defended the president against any wrongdoing – again recognizing that they were now implicated in an even larger scandal.
Now, the media is desperately trying to distract from the mounting evidence against the Biden family by insisting the whole story is just about a father caring for his drug-addicted son. They know that as soon as the scandal becomes real, they will lose what little credibility they have left.
The media’s chief collaborator in discrediting the case against the Bidens was the intelligence bureaucracy and federal law enforcement officials. IRS whistleblower testimony in June revealed that the FBI had verified the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop in 2019 – meaning that the nation’s top cops knew the story was legitimate during the 2020 election cycle, but allowed the media to discredit it anyway.
Senate Republicans have also alleged that the FBI has throughout Biden’s presidency refused to turn over evidence of the First Family’s corruption, including by redacting documents showing a $5 million payout to the president from a Burisma executive.
Elected Democrats’ involvement in the cover-up runs even deeper. In 2019, they went so far as to impeach President Trump for asking questions about Biden’s corruption. Despite Biden admitting on video in 2018 that years earlier, as vice president, he forced Ukraine to fire a prosecutor investigating his son by threatening to withhold aid, House Democrats charged Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress for asking Ukraine to investigate the matter.
For Democrats, to admit that the Biden corruption case is legitimate is to admit that Trump was right and they were wrong to impeach him. It also means that they are complicit in the same crime they baselessly accused Trump of; namely, abusing their power to try and influence the outcome of the 2020 election, something they ultimately succeeded at.
With so many powerful institutions now implicated in the charges against the Bidens, it’s perhaps no surprise that the president has escaped almost all accountability despite a wealth of evidence against him.
But as with so many scandals, the cover up may ultimately prove worse than the crime, and the increasingly intricate web of lies and misdirection necessary to prop up the president may soon prove untenable.
Shane Harris is a writer and political consultant from Southwest Ohio. You can follow him on Twitter @ShaneHarris513.
The swamp is indeed deep but until the plug is pulled nothing will drain.
JACK*SS JOE BIDEN will prove to be the WORST PRESIDENT EVER! The man LIES unashamedly EVERY TIME he OPENS HIS MOUTH! And 90% of the Mainstream Media is complacent in letting him do so. What has become of morality in America? No wonder our youth are so screwed up!
Nothing will happen until the puppet masters from China decide it would be to their benefit, in the take over of America from within. Meanwhile the majority of Americans blindly follow propaganda spewed by the media, sheep with rose colored glasses.
People have forgotten that freedom is not free, and it is easily taken away by tyrants. It will be too late when one day they wake up and see our countries constitution has been destroyed.
I guess it’s beyond my comprehension why the left would want to destroy the greatest country in the world. evil is the lefts calling card.
I am a Christian conservative, so stop reading now if that offends you. There is a darkness overtaking this country. It started long ago, but it sure has accelerated in the last couple of years. The Media, the powers that be in Washington, and the supposed defenders of our laws appear to now be serving the wrong master. I don’t know why else this–all the stuff that is so wrong–is spiraling out of control. I know there are people who believe that we are facing the end times. I’m not sure I’m one of them, but there is definitely a lot of evil that has seeped into our country and it’s getting harder and harder to ignore.
The lesson to be learned here is it until this country is totally destroyed they will not stop. The Deep state the Democrats and the media are all in this together and they really don’t care if this country goes totally down the toilet, taking us with them. Apparently the only solution is going to be a true Revolution and take them out. They don’t care if we die, why should we care if they die? Apparently they’re going to need to. They have poked the bear too many times time for the bear to wake up. The Deep State the media and the forces of the federal government will take out anybody that tries to stop them. It’s going to be an uphill battle but I think we can do it this country is worth saving and they are worth destroying. God Bless America
The media is totally, completely useless and dishonest when it comes to politics. True investigating and reporting journalism is dead in the mainstream media. What we have today is nothing more than a replica of the state controlled media you find in Russia, North Korea, China, and so on.You’ll hear more accuracy coming out of the mouths of the loony late night talk show empty suites.
What can the little person do against the array that is set against us? The FBI, DOJ, mainstream media, and the power of the Presidency? We can pray to the One Who is bigger than all of them. He took down Hitler, the Soviets, and He can take down this cabal as well!
I hate cover ups. The truth is the truth. Unfortunately, Biden and his corrupt administration are a bunch of documented liars so who can believe anything they got to say now. To top it off, JB has the bootlicking Garland, FBI and Mayorkas are in his back pocket. It is evident that our legal system is beyond corrupt. I hope Grassley, Comer & Jordan keep charging ahead and unravel the JB corruption. Why it takes so long to unwrap is beside me. The Oversite Committee can also take with them all the fake news companies that spreads unrest via untruths to prison as well. It seems evident that the facts are on the table. JB and his corrupt team need to be in prison not let off the hook like Faucci. Then and only then can We regain trust in Our government.
I have never witnessed such an array of thievery, lying and depravity that defines the Biden Administration and his accolades in my entire life. We were once a great people who made a great nation. No more.
If he had any mind left, he would resign. We only can think that he keeping a lot of scandals at bay. Yet, he isn’t and it is clearer every day.
The only thing in history too big for something were the dinosaurs, they were too big to live. Unless we get over the hang up that titles, rank, or being on the government dole gives someone special status we will continue to live in this corruptocracy as serfs. It might be time we do away we our university systems titles, or government rank and titles and treat everyone the same as plumbers and electricians. We can no longer afford to put our trust in titles like President, Senator, General, Colonel, Judge, MD, Correspondent, or Special Agent. We have been lied to, sold out, and betrayed long enough. It will also solve this problem some people apparently have of treating all these folks the same as everyone else under the law. Reminds me of this joke when a farmer was asked if he thinks there should be term limits for our politicians and he replies with “No, I think they should stay in jail just as long as everyone else!”
They are in too deep — the DNC, news and entertainment media, FBI, Justice, Intel. A colossal mess. May the miscreants pay dearly for their malfeasance over the long run. Be patient. It is unfolding now. Creative destruction of bad actors and institutions. Reforms coming. Perhaps serious penalties for the worst among them.
Excellent article. It’s the big guns in congress, the MSM and judges the justice dept the FBI that will fall on their swords if Joe is found out. Finally we know why the dems on the committee are asking these inane questions and why ole Joe is still in the White House. There won’t be enough prisons to hold them all once this bursts open. And it will.
The real question is how do you take down the Justice Department and FBI? When Trump was president, there were people in Justice and the FBI who were plotting against him and his associates. Our military leadership positions have been populated with political hacks who are more concerned with DEI than they are about maintaining military superiority. When the federal criminal investigative and prosecuting bodies, the press and the military are aligned with one political party, how can freedom and justice prevail? The Russians, Chinese and others are pulling on the strings of our leaders and these elected leaders sing the happy songs of kumbaya. This is more serious than WWII and we are acting like the House of Representatives is going to save us.
The democrats have collectively succeeded in dividing the country roughly into two non-cojoined halves. What they expected to achieve by this is not really clear to me. Abe Lincoln stated clearly that a country divided among itself cannot last. He also stated that the only way the U. S. would perish was to destroy itself, never by outsiders. It is pretty obvious to many of us that America is currently in self-destruct mode. My view is this. The division is deep. The democrats and the liberal media think that since they control the urban areas of the country and thus slightly more than half the American population that they can now force the rest of us who live in rural America to conform to their anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-white, pro-woke values. I hope they are dead wrong and we conservative Americans prove it by substantially winning the 2024 elections with landslide victories for the presidency, and both houses of the Congress, as well as stronger majorities in state legislatures and state governor races. This is the only civil hope for righting the country. The democrats have dug their hole, the nation is suffering mightily, and I pray that God will grant a sufficient number of Americans the wisdom to vote the bums out in 2024.
If GOP who God and the people gave once last chance, do not act and follow through, kiss their party good-bye.
Been going for years since 1972
This isn’t about Joe, a failed President, or his families woes. This party of Democrats play this game well, for too long. They pull together to protect each other at all cost. This is about the people, defending our system of truth. Trump has shown how to fight with gloves on or off in strength like no other. All is against him but what he does have is his people. Stop whining while Democrats corrupt our institutions. We have money, strength, lawyers, education, those in Washington that can make a difference too. Rise up! Jan. 6th was a scam, in fear we do nothing. The livelihood of our lives, our children, country, and our accountability to be a powerful republic and fight. Biden will be ended by his own and we will have our President back! He will be stronger, wiser, and more dedicated to completing his task of making America great again! Support our leader with everything we got.
“the Biden family received more than $10 million in payments from foreign businesses (mostly during Biden’s time as vice president”) Question: what did Obama know and when did he know it? Was he also implicated?! Of course this is the Democrat M.O. in blatant reveal: accuse your opponent of what you are guilty nd therefore, TWO Trump impeachments both of which are the Democrat & MSM cover-up for Biden (and Obama?). AND NOT A WORD OF ANY OF THIS OB ANY ALPHABET NIGHTLY NEWS PROGRAM ANYWHERE. This perfidy is soaked in Democrat operatives and officials from Schiff, Pelosi, Garland, Wray, etc. to the very top. Will they sink in their own sewage or swim to the edge? Bigger question: Will this really truly be uncovered to expose the stink of D.C.?Will American voters open their eyes, finally?
Sooner or later the dirt comes out in the wash !!!
Just like a hoarder’s house. The job may seem too big, but just start in one corner and keep hauling out the trash until it is clean.
This bastard and his cronies should all be put in Prison. The guilty of lesser influence would already be in Prison.
Personally, I feel Biden is not the end-game as 2024 Presidential candidate. He will be declared incompetent (thus getting out of being prosecuted for his crimes), will experience a Clinton-nite Encounter of the worse kind and experience a “convenient” death at the 24th hour which will allow the Party to run Hillary or MIchelle..
Joe is just a smoke screen and mis-direction, so I would advise Conservatives and Republicans to be on your toes –don’t screw things up this time, especially the upcoming 2024 elections. If both parties each won 50% of each other’s seats, the GOP would have a net gain of 5 seats –can you all handle that? The hideous administration and weaponizing DoJ, IRS and blatant efforts to suppress conservative voices, should make Senate races almost a cake walk unless you let the Dems snooker you again.
For the 45 years i have paid attention, Dems continuously use the same playbook. They start pointing fingers at the GOP for something negative, using talking points and beating it in the ground, while they quietly go about doing what they are blaming on the GOP. What does it take –a 100 years for you all to figure it out and start fighting back?. How about starting a back-fire (back burningt) to put out the fire –YOU THINK.???
ROBERT E. REMINGTON, U.S. Navy Retired
Washington, DC. You’ll never see a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
The Dems in D.C. are utterly disgusting.
We have a judiciary branch
Headed by the The Supreme Court, which will be the judges. We have everything in place to do it, right? Nothing is too big not to be judged. If you want to put faith back into our government, our government and must show they’re willing to do what needs to be done. To prevent us from going down the road of socialism, communism, despotism and totalitarianism.
This scandal has so many layers that it will take years to unravel fully. I think a major problem is that everyone who votes blue has been led to believe since at least 2016 that doing so makes them superior to and more moral, more intelligent, and more righteous than those who vote Republican (and certainly those who voted for Trump). They are the elect, the chosen. And the chosen can never be wrong.
The media blackout works because these voters do not want to know the truth about Biden. It was those Trump people who were gullible, who were bad, who were misinformed. To admit that you are not, in fact, on the side of the angels is hard to do. Never let it be said that Democrats lack psychological acuity. This whole crowd was raised on Saul Alinsky, after all.
We are having the same problem with Fauci and the post-covid era. Getting the mainstream media and the half of the country that thinks being a Democrat and “pro science” is a mark of God’s favor will be like trying to deprogram a cult.
Concerned Vet.
How much of the dollars being sent to Ukraine are being kicked back to Biden and his cronies?
What is it about propaganda and cover-up don’t we understand?
This will never come to prosecution because then Pelosi, McConnell, Graham, Schumer, et al might have to start explaining where all their millions have come from and that ain’t gonna happen, folks. Our only hope is to get these schmucks out of there, get term limits and contribution limits ensconced in the Constitution.
In this “age of Information”, it is inconceivable only 50% of people in U.S. know about the Biden scandal and culpability. Main stream media can cover up, deny, NOT REPORT — isn’t there an independent oversight organization for news media? How can they get away with not reporting facts that affect Everyone! This is Election Interference at the very least! The only way I see to open this up to everyone is to devise a strategy that the main stream media cannot ignore — Protest in front of their Headquarters in DC, NY and local affiliates? We need to band together to reveal this in a way that cannot be ignored!!!!!! H E L P!
I find our Country has become another 3rd world cowboy gang. How does all this transpire? So many are gangsters from the media to the God dang President. I’m just shocked that this all goes down without accountability. What the hell happened to our once respected America?
“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” Round and round we go.
The bidens belong behind bars for life. They’re all filthy dirty criminals
This article is not clear and could be much simpler than this. The problem is called the Deep State and it involves the crooked DOJ, Biden crime family, most of the Congress and Senate and the media. There I said it all in 1 sentence. Did not need a full article. The answer is the military and Trump. So simple and yes, this will happen.
This sounds simplistic, but why not just take the MSM out of the equation? Exercise little, if any, care about what they say, and when the story is broken, break it to the 100s of other media outlets who have a history of more objective journalism. The MSM has to connect with the more conservative media outlets, pay for their stories, and the CMOs charge exorbitantly for them. The CMOs make lots of money, and the MSM has no basis for any story they make up because the breaking news was not reported to them.
Unfortunately almost all our political class is compromised in one way or another. Every time we get an aggressive “go getter” they seem to slowly become just bags of wind that talk talk talk and then do nothing. Trey Gowdy, Jim Jordan, to name a few. Don’t know if they are threatened or bought off but something always seems to go wrong, I have high hopes for Gaetz and I know they already tried to get him with bogus charges so we’ll see how that goes. In the end it’s trust in the Lord and hold on !
“The National Scandal That Is Too Big To Break.” I don’t see why. “I’m on the take from foreign governments1″ would seem to me to be a very good story. A story with MANY questions that should be answered – like: What is it that you’re selling besides influence to build up a off-shore bank nest-egg of $50 million or so?”
I am reminded of an old movie, “A Guide for the Married Man.” It was a comedy about philandering and consisted of a series of brief scenes featuring well-known comedians like Jack Benny and Terry Thomas, illustrating how to be adulterous while avoiding divorce. Robert Morse was tutoring Walter Matthau, and answering a specific question, “What do I do if my wife catches me actually in bed with another woman?” The comic scene showed exactly that, husband and girlfriend in bed in his home Wife comes home unexpectedly, opens the bedroom door, finds them, and is outraged, screaming. Morse’s advice was “Deny, deny, deny.” So the adulterous husband, without responding to his wife, escorted his paramour out the door, made the bed, put on his clothes, picked up the evening paper, sat down in his favorite chair, pretended nothing had happened, and asked what was for dinner.
AND AS USUAL, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN
Looks to me like even the huge bureaucracy is under control the way it is all slowly dripping out – as in breaking it all apart without destroying our government and its institutions. And for any who have been saying that Trump destroyed them, the answer is no, Trump was someone who was available to get the ball rolling. This appears to be a seriously big time take down by giants in military and intelligence.
Perhaps, conservatives NEED TO enlist HELP from sources including Republicans, green party, constitutionalists and any willing helpers in Congress. Future of America is a priority
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Every democrat and every RINO should be primaries and removed from office. Anyone who has served more than two senate terms or more than three house terms should not run for re-election. Kick the bums our! Elect normal people instead of career politicians. Enough already!
The media doesn’t cover these very credible allegations. They instead cover this stuff up to protect Biden. Unfortunately, to only way to get all this in front of all Americans is for the House to start an impeachment inquiry. It does not matter whether the Senate will convict or not. The important thing is to expose the Biden’s where they have to defend the indefensible in public and the media has to cover it.
Ya know – Joe Biden just might be innocent in all of this – it seems extremely unlikely, but possible. I hope he IS innocent; I would not want to think that he was in the business of soliciting and accepting bribes through his dolt son. Not only would that show a wretched level of corruption, but the “sound judgment” factor – trusting such a tricky enterprise to someone with all of the baggage and human frailties as Hunter has.
However, this article hits it on the head. Even if Joe B WAS as active in these schemes as it appears, even in the worst way – that’s a rather isolated “Rot” in our society. Sure it may have led to circumstances that provoked the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and that is tragic with the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives. But no – the far greater danger to our society, our democracy – is the blatant complacency of legacy media and most of our DOJ. Shane is completely correct – and I’ve pointed it out to anyone who would listen since at least the time the Mueller report came out – that the legacy media and DOJ, CIA, FBI have only two choices – double down on the lies and deception, or reach a point where it can no longer do so and admit their wrongdoings.
The first option is more likely. In order for the doubling down NOT to work, a strong plurality of news consumers would need to have open minds and not just swallow the manure that MSNBC shovels 24/7/365. We don’t have that. I live with all liberals, almost all of my family including extended are liberals and most friends and acquaintances are also liberal. Some go so far as to say that if HUNTER is guilty of a crime, justice should be served (Gee, I guess they got that talking point from MSNBC….), but almost to a person they believe that Joe Biden is a saint and not capable of ANY transgression, however slight.
So – I believe that the legacy media, CIA, DOJ, FBI will stick to their stories forever, knowing that at least 45% of the country is either too stupid or too partisan to care. We know about the “too partisan” element because of the many “it’s OK to break the rules to get Trump because he’s the embodiment of the end of civilization” quotes we’ve heard from liberals since 2016. This is just sad; there’s no coming back. Two nations with two sets of facts.
Yep, that’s what we are facing. Of the three legs propping up the Biden’s stool of corruption (media, DOJ and Democrat Party), all three know they are up there on the stool with Biden, while the GOP is attempting to catch him in the noose. They are not about to kick the stool out from under themselves.
Where there is a will there is a way.
When one comes to accept the evil that is the false religion of human intellectual arrogance Marxianity has implemented the dark strategy of what Ludwig von Mises termed “Planned Chaos” then the seeming madness that surrounds gains focus; disrupt, disturb, dislocate, distract, destroy, disorder, dislodge, demean, displace, damage, devalue, diminish and degrade every aspect of the Judeo-Christian American culture while disparaging and disappearing its history…discord until disgusted and dissatisfied Americans come to believe the Constitution is dead and in need of replacement with a social justice blank check like that of South Africa so admired by Obama and RBG.
It’s no coincidence devil, deceit, demon, diversity and democrat round out the alliteration.
The writer doesn’t mention how many other politicians have made money the same way. Wasn’t a Kerry involved with Hunter in one of these exploits? This could get messy…