Latest / The Ben Ferguson Podcast / Pres. Biden REFUSES to SANCTION Russian Oligarchs connected to Hunter plus Michelle Obama in 2024?!
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- 0:01Speaker 1: White House Press secretary has refused to say whether Biden
- 0:05Speaker 1: why he has not sanctioned Russian billionaires connected to Hunter
- 0:10Speaker 1: Biden and Joe Biden and their corrupt business dealings. She says, oh,
- 0:13Speaker 1: you got to ask the family about that. I'm the
- 0:14Speaker 1: White House now, the President to America has a power
- 0:17Speaker 1: to sanction. He's not sanctioned specifically two different Russian oligarchs,
- 0:23Speaker 1: billionaires that have done business with Hunter Biden. Regarding Russia's sanctions,
- 0:27Speaker 1: I'm wondering if you could share the reason why President
- 0:30Speaker 1: Biden hasn't sanctioned the Russian billionaires Vladimir yet to Shankov
- 0:35Speaker 1: and to Gilda about to Arena. How is he handling
- 0:38Speaker 1: the conflict of interests they're giving. His son was a
- 0:40Speaker 1: business associated these two people, and can you confirm that,
- 0:43Speaker 1: as sitting vice president he dined with Batterina into or shouts.
- 0:46Speaker 1: I'm just not speaking to anything that's related to his
- 0:49Speaker 1: son from here. If you want to have if you
- 0:51Speaker 1: want to ask questions about Hunter Biden specifically, I would
- 0:54Speaker 1: refer you to his family and as it relates to
- 0:56Speaker 1: any sanctions, I'm not speaking to individual individual person's life
- 1:01Speaker 1: from Russian all right, so Russian billionaires who shopped for
- 1:06Speaker 1: US property with Hunter Biden, we now know dined also
- 1:10Speaker 1: with Joe Biden in Georgetown, it is official, have dodged
- 1:15Speaker 1: these sanctions. These two Russian billionaires who managed to dodge
- 1:20Speaker 1: every round of view sanctions over Moscow's year old invasion
- 1:23Speaker 1: of Ukraine. They even went property shopping, we are now told,
- 1:27Speaker 1: with Hunter Biden, and then dined with a then sitting
- 1:31Speaker 1: Vice President Joe Biden and discussed favors they might swap.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Sources are now confirming to The New York Post new
- 1:38Speaker 1: details of Joe and Hunter Biden's association with these two billionaires,
- 1:43Speaker 1: fleshed out tantalizing clues from the first son's abandoned laptop.
- 1:49Speaker 1: The sources that spoke with The New York Post this
- 1:51Speaker 1: week confirmed after the duo was yet again spared and
- 1:56Speaker 1: a fresh batch of sanctions announced by the Treasury Department
- 1:59Speaker 1: on Friday that did not include these two oligarchs. Quote.
- 2:04Speaker 1: I think it's very fish, he said one source who
- 2:06Speaker 1: had firsthand knowledge of the business relationship between Hunter Biden
- 2:10Speaker 1: and the billionaires, who is sanctioned by the way by
- 2:14Speaker 1: the UK and Australian governments, but not by the US.
- 2:17Speaker 1: So these two individuals have been sanctioned already by the
- 2:20Speaker 1: UK and by Australia because they're that high up on
- 2:23Speaker 1: the list of Russian oligarchs and then that closely tied
- 2:26Speaker 1: to the Kremlin and to Vladimir Putin. I think it
- 2:29Speaker 1: should be said, I think he should be sanctioned. Is
- 2:32Speaker 1: when a former US ambassador to Russia under President Barack
- 2:35Speaker 1: Obama actually said in an interview this past week to
- 2:40Speaker 1: The New York Post. Estimated worth by Forbes to be
- 2:45Speaker 1: at one point seven billion, the former ambassador Russia under
- 2:49Speaker 1: President Barack Obama said, quote, I don't understand why he
- 2:51Speaker 1: has not been sanctioned. I can tell exactly why, because
- 2:55Speaker 1: they were doing business with the Biden crime family. One
- 2:58Speaker 1: of these Russian billionaires has an empire until recently included
- 3:02Speaker 1: Russian rocket and radar maker RTI, as well as a
- 3:07Speaker 1: drone maker, and even admitted last year that he met
- 3:11Speaker 1: with Hunter Biden for breakfast at the Rich Carlton in
- 3:14Speaker 1: Manhattan on March fourteenth of twenty twelve, but quote denied
- 3:18Speaker 1: any further contact. However, we know that to lie, because
- 3:22Speaker 1: there are emails and multiple calendar entries from Hunter Biden's
- 3:27Speaker 1: former laptop that showed that they were set to meet
- 3:29Speaker 1: again on January the twenty seventh, twenty thirteen, for dinner
- 3:34Speaker 1: at DC's Cafe Milano, before looking at a commercial real
- 3:38Speaker 1: estate development the next day near Dulles International Airport in
- 3:41Speaker 1: Northern Virginia. I asked, why are you doing this on
- 3:45Speaker 1: the front end before I understood what they were going
- 3:47Speaker 1: that they were going to buy some real estate, the
- 3:49Speaker 1: source says to the Post, why are you even doing this?
- 3:52Speaker 1: Why would you be paying the son of the vice
- 3:55Speaker 1: president to meet at a public restaurant in New York City?
- 3:58Speaker 1: Question mark a minute very clear to me that you know,
- 4:02Speaker 1: I think it would be good to have a good
- 4:03Speaker 1: relationship with this guy. Maybe he can do a favor
- 4:06Speaker 1: for us, and we can do a favor for him.
- 4:08Speaker 1: The source continued. It was a complete quid pro quo
- 4:12Speaker 1: that he was going for. I told him that it's
- 4:15Speaker 1: not the way it works in America, the source says,
- 4:18Speaker 1: but he basically laughed at me and told me I
- 4:21Speaker 1: was so naive. The source recalled the Russian oligarch, whose
- 4:25Speaker 1: holdings also include Russia's largest cell phone provider, MTS, which
- 4:29Speaker 1: faced a long running investigation to nearly one billion in
- 4:33Speaker 1: bribes paid to Uzbekistani officials between two thousand and four
- 4:38Speaker 1: and two and twelve MTS, which was listened on the
- 4:42Speaker 1: New York Soccer has Change before trading it in its shares,
- 4:46Speaker 1: was suspended in July of last year. Ultimately settled the
- 4:49Speaker 1: case with a Trump Justice Department in twenty nineteen, agreen
- 4:51Speaker 1: to pay an eight hundred and fifty million dollars fine.
- 4:55Speaker 1: A different source meanwhile told the Post he vividly recalled Batterina,
- 5:01Speaker 1: this is the other Russian olig oligark number two and
- 5:04Speaker 1: her husband ex Moscow Mayer, who doesn't get that job
- 5:09Speaker 1: unless Vladimir Putin gives it to you, looking like quote
- 5:12Speaker 1: an odd couple at a now infamous intimate dinner with
- 5:15Speaker 1: Hunter and his father, the then Vice president. We know
- 5:19Speaker 1: that meal actually happened. It's long been uncertain whether Batterina,
- 5:25Speaker 1: estimated by Forbes to be worth one point four million,
- 5:29Speaker 1: and her husband attended a dinner in twenty fifteen, also
- 5:33Speaker 1: at Cafe Milano, the same Georgetown restaurant where Hunter and
- 5:36Speaker 1: the other Russian oligarch set a date more than two
- 5:39Speaker 1: years prior. They could have played themselves on Saturday Night Live,
- 5:42Speaker 1: said the source who attended the dinner and was able
- 5:45Speaker 1: to identify the couple in part because he met with
- 5:49Speaker 1: that one Russian oligarch who died in twenty nineteen on
- 5:52Speaker 1: several other occasions. Another source previously told the Post that
- 5:56Speaker 1: a pairing matching Batterina and her husband's general appears were
- 6:00Speaker 1: in the restaurant meeting with Hunter Biden. The husband, who
- 6:04Speaker 1: was Moscow's mayor for eighteen years until twenty ten, looked
- 6:09Speaker 1: a lot older than bat Arena, twenty seven years her
- 6:11Speaker 1: husband's junior, who went overboard on her appearance and ended
- 6:16Speaker 1: up resembling resembling Jennifer Coolidge's comic portrayal of an insecure
- 6:22Speaker 1: woman and HBO's The White Lotus. By the way, amazing,
- 6:25Speaker 1: isn't it that this all comes down to like that
- 6:29Speaker 1: it was an odd dinner because there was then the
- 6:32Speaker 1: Prime Minister and then the mayor and then his wife,
- 6:37Speaker 1: and it was not a big table, and then there
- 6:38Speaker 1: was somebody there from some food charity making a pitch
- 6:41Speaker 1: for support. They added, I mean it was. It was
- 6:43Speaker 1: a little odd, the whole thing. Nevertheless, get the deal
- 6:48Speaker 1: done at all costs, right. Nevertheless, get the deal done
- 6:52Speaker 1: no matter what. In an email at the time from
- 6:56Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's laptop, Hunter wrote that the meal would be ostentagious.
- 7:02Speaker 1: It would be about his role as chairman of the
- 7:05Speaker 1: World Food Program. Would be the alibi. His father, who
- 7:11Speaker 1: was then the sitting Vice President, arrived at the dinner
- 7:14Speaker 1: and state for about forty minutes, the second source told
- 7:17Speaker 1: the Post, even sitting down to eat and then posing
- 7:20Speaker 1: for a photo with the entire group. The gathering also
- 7:25Speaker 1: featured an executive at Ukrainian energy company Listen Carefully Barisma,
- 7:31Speaker 1: which as you know, paid Hunter up to one million
- 7:34Speaker 1: per year beginning in twenty fourteen while his VP dad
- 7:37Speaker 1: controlled the Obama administration's Ukrainian policy. After the dinner, Hunter
- 7:43Speaker 1: Biden received an email the next day to thank him
- 7:45Speaker 1: for giving an opportunity to meet your father, forming the
- 7:49Speaker 1: basis of the post. First October twenty twenty bombshell from
- 7:52Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's laptop, Joe Biden called the report a false
- 7:56Speaker 1: Russian plant at the time, and social media platforms and
- 8:00Speaker 1: Twitter of it as you know, and Facebook censored it.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Bad Arena would have been familiar with Hunter Biden, having
- 8:07Speaker 1: met him and then in his then business partner Devin
- 8:10Speaker 1: Archer for a drink. We know in April of twenty
- 8:13Speaker 1: fourteen at a well known place that Russian oligarch's hang
- 8:19Speaker 1: out overlooking Italy's Lake Como. On the same trip, Hunter
- 8:23Speaker 1: also met with a Ukrainian Russian oligarch, owner of Barisma
- 8:28Speaker 1: and now you know how much money he was making
- 8:30Speaker 1: two months earlier. Just so you know, on February of
- 8:33Speaker 1: the fourteenth, twenty fourteen, we know for a fact that
- 8:38Speaker 1: bad Arena wired three point five million to the bank
- 8:41Speaker 1: account of Rosemont Seneca Thornton, an investment fund associated with
- 8:45Speaker 1: Archer and with Hunter Biden. Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican
- 8:49Speaker 1: from Wisconsin who co authored a September twenty twenty report
- 8:53Speaker 1: by gop led Senate committees revealed the Wire, told the
- 8:58Speaker 1: Post quote, it's clear that Hunter Biden's questionable business dealings
- 9:01Speaker 1: with individuals from Russian and China have compromised President Biden
- 9:05Speaker 1: and continue to raise conflicts of interest concerns. That is here,
- 9:10Speaker 1: it is but with Hunter Biden and Russian oligarchs, it
- 9:14Speaker 1: is truly shocking here that this is happening, and the
- 9:18Speaker 1: fact that no one seems to be caring about it,
- 9:21Speaker 1: which is pretty absurd. And the Russian oligar garks that
- 9:26Speaker 1: have been financially doing business with the Biden crime family
- 9:30Speaker 1: no problems here, none at all, like zero. I am
- 9:38Speaker 1: shocked that, let me rephrase this, I'm not shocked that
- 9:44Speaker 1: they were doing this. I am shocked that they're refusing
- 9:47Speaker 1: to silence, are refusing to put sanctions on these individuals
- 9:53Speaker 1: at this point. And it goes back to the point
- 9:55Speaker 1: I was saying before. It is very clear that the
- 9:58Speaker 1: Biden crime family is completely compromised. I mean, it is
- 10:02Speaker 1: abundantly clear that they are compromised right now. Why would
- 10:06Speaker 1: you not sanction these individuals? Senator Johnson, Republican Wisconsin, who
- 10:13Speaker 1: co authored that September twenty twenty report by gop led
- 10:16Speaker 1: Senate committees revealing the wire transfer between the Russian oligarch
- 10:22Speaker 1: and Hunter Biden's company, told the Post it's clear that
- 10:26Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's questionable business dealings with individuals from Russian trying
- 10:29Speaker 1: to have compromised President Biden. Our work on this matter
- 10:33Speaker 1: remains ongoing, and we will continue to provide the American
- 10:36Speaker 1: people with transparency and evidence of the Biden's extensive financial
- 10:40Speaker 1: connections with four nationals with questionable backgrounds. Senator Marsha Blackburn
- 10:45Speaker 1: said yesterday, quote, it's extremely concerning that Biden linked Russian
- 10:49Speaker 1: nationals are avoiding sanctions. If this happened under a Republican
- 10:54Speaker 1: White House of mainstream media would be up in arms.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Added Blackburn, the latest report is further proof of the
- 10:59Speaker 1: deep level of corruption occurring within the Hunter Biden and
- 11:03Speaker 1: Biden inc. And this White House House Oversight Committee Chairman
- 11:08Speaker 1: Representive James Comer, Republican from Kentucky, said this it's alarming
- 11:12Speaker 1: that Hunter Biden's Russian oligarch pals are missing from the
- 11:15Speaker 1: Treasury Department's public sanctions list of Russian in season oligarchs.
- 11:20Speaker 1: What we do know is one of the two Russian
- 11:22Speaker 1: oligarchs contacted by The Post through the Press Department, declined
- 11:28Speaker 1: to comment, including about whether he bought property and cooperation
- 11:33Speaker 1: with Hunter Biden. The Post first source said he had
- 11:36Speaker 1: heard second hand that three properties may have been purchased
- 11:39Speaker 1: in the US as part of the partnership. Bat Arena,
- 11:43Speaker 1: whose US investments may have reached an eye popping nine figures,
- 11:48Speaker 1: was contacted through her be Open think tank, but did
- 11:51Speaker 1: not immediately respond to questions nor did an attorney for Hunter,
- 11:55Speaker 1: Biden or spokesperson for the White House respond. Yesterday, a
- 12:00Speaker 1: Post reporter asked Biden on the White House lawn for
- 12:03Speaker 1: an explanation of the non sanctions the non sanctioning of
- 12:06Speaker 1: his son's Russian Oligard associates, but Biden didn't reply, and
- 12:10Speaker 1: it's unclear if he heard the question as he walked
- 12:13Speaker 1: to Marine one helicopter by now, Allies previously sought to
- 12:16Speaker 1: downplay his association, by the way, with Bad Arena and
- 12:20Speaker 1: the three point five million dollar wire transfer. An anonymous
- 12:23Speaker 1: source told The Washington Post last year that Devin Archer
- 12:27Speaker 1: was supposed to dissolve the corporate entity that received the funds,
- 12:29Speaker 1: but secretly kept it in existence for his own use. However,
- 12:35Speaker 1: emails from Hunter's laptop show he was actively engaged in
- 12:40Speaker 1: courting Bad Arena. About a month after the wire transfer,
- 12:43Speaker 1: Archer wrote to Hunter to say he was with Yelena,
- 12:48Speaker 1: and in April twenty six, twenty fourteen, email from Hunter
- 12:51Speaker 1: to Archer also said, quote, we should ask Yelena to
- 12:55Speaker 1: fund a short term development team to scope projects. After
- 13:00Speaker 1: an attempted real estate deal in Manhattan fell through. The
- 13:04Speaker 1: Biden campaign just say, you know. In twenty twenty, vaguely
- 13:08Speaker 1: denied that the April twenty fifteen Cafe Milano meet up
- 13:13Speaker 1: even occurred, saying, quote, we have received Joe Biden's official
- 13:17Speaker 1: schedules from the time, and no meeting, as alleged by
- 13:20Speaker 1: the New York Posts ever took place after Biden won
- 13:23Speaker 1: the presidency. That's what the WFP's usay's former president, Rick
- 13:29Speaker 1: Leach told The Washington Post that Joe Biden did attend,
- 13:32Speaker 1: but only briefly to meet with Greek Orthodox leaders. So
- 13:37Speaker 1: he wasn't there than he was there, but he wasn't
- 13:38Speaker 1: there to meet with the Russian oligark. But he did
- 13:40Speaker 1: dine with the Russian oligark, but it wasn't for the
- 13:42Speaker 1: Russian oligark. That's the story you're supposed to believe, all right.
- 13:46Speaker 1: So there is a new possible front runner in the
- 13:50Speaker 1: Democratic Party for the presidency, and his name is not
- 13:53Speaker 1: Joe Biden. It's not even a dude. It's a check.
- 13:57Speaker 1: Who am I talking about? Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama has
- 14:02Speaker 1: done something that was very interesting. She has stopped short
- 14:07Speaker 1: of endorsing President Biden and his reelection bid. Why I
- 14:13Speaker 1: think it's pretty clear. Actually, I think it's really clear
- 14:18Speaker 1: she's now thinking about running for president. Otherwise, why would
- 14:22Speaker 1: a former first ladies stop short of endorsing the current president?
- 14:29Speaker 1: Nights it's America and a guy that helped them win
- 14:32Speaker 1: not one, but two elections. This was talked about last
- 14:36Speaker 1: night and Fox News Channel with Jesse Waters talking about
- 14:41Speaker 1: the fact that Michelle literally stopped short of endorsing President
- 14:44Speaker 1: Biden for reelection. Take a listen that with China's president
- 14:48Speaker 1: is Jijing ping for the first time since taking office,
- 14:50Speaker 1: and it was a chance for Biden to confront Gie
- 14:53Speaker 1: on what he's done to us. The fentanyl flooding into
- 14:56Speaker 1: our towns, the virus unreleased onto our shores, the those
- 15:00Speaker 1: things don't really seem important to the president. Joe was
- 15:02Speaker 1: there for one thing, and one thing only, to talk
- 15:06Speaker 1: about the climate. The world expects. I believe China and
- 15:10Speaker 1: the United States to play key roles in addressing global challenges,
- 15:15Speaker 1: from climate changes to food insecurity, food insecurity, what happened
- 15:22Speaker 1: to COVID and fentanyl? Biden camp Pandel and being tough
- 15:25Speaker 1: on China right. I spent more time with Shijip than
- 15:28Speaker 1: any world leader had by the time we left office.
- 15:31Speaker 1: This is a guy who has doesn't have a democratic
- 15:33Speaker 1: with a small d bone in his body. This is
- 15:37Speaker 1: a guy who was a thug. We got to make
- 15:38Speaker 1: it clear they must play by the rules period. Pumping
- 15:44Speaker 1: millions of dollars in fentnyl pills into the country isn't
- 15:47Speaker 1: playing by the rules. Unleashing a virus and then covering
- 15:50Speaker 1: it up isn't playing by the rules. Biden forgot his promise.
- 15:53Speaker 1: He always does, but the press isn't even allowed to
- 15:55Speaker 1: ask him about it. Dozens of reporters traveled with him
- 15:59Speaker 1: halfway around the world, and only four were allowed to
- 16:02Speaker 1: ask questions. I'm told there are going to be four questioners,
- 16:06Speaker 1: but I'm not going to do ten questions from each questioner.
- 16:08Speaker 1: All right, let's make that clear to the outset here.
- 16:12Speaker 1: Biden was given a prepared list of approved questioners. Somehow,
- 16:16Speaker 1: our very own stupid son of a bitch, Peter Ducey,
- 16:18Speaker 1: didn't make the cut. But when it came time for
- 16:21Speaker 1: Joe to read from the note card, he had a
- 16:23Speaker 1: little trouble. I can't how Joe reading this Reuters and
- 16:32Speaker 1: the tangent about both. The whole world was watching, and
- 16:37Speaker 1: he can't read from a piece of paper. This is
- 16:40Speaker 1: why we're nervous. This guy's supposed to be president for
- 16:42Speaker 1: the next two years, and some Democrats want to see
- 16:45Speaker 1: another four. I mean, I don't see how that's possible,
- 16:48Speaker 1: but I mean, even Joe's old friend Michelle Obama isn't
- 16:52Speaker 1: ready to enduse Biden just yet. Do you hope that
- 16:55Speaker 1: President Biden will run again in twenty twenty four? You know,
- 16:59Speaker 1: I I will have to see. Monica Crowley is a
- 17:08Speaker 1: former Assistant Treasury Secretary and host of the Monica Crowley
- 17:11Speaker 1: pol Have you ever seen Michelle that tongue touch? I've
- 17:14Speaker 1: never seen her speechless like that before. Jesse, Look, I
- 17:19Speaker 1: think after the mid term election results, here a lot
- 17:21Speaker 1: of Democrats who have come out publicly, like Missus Pelosi
- 17:24Speaker 1: and said, oh, sure, Joe's gonna run again in twenty
- 17:28Speaker 1: twenty four. We're all behind him. They're placating him. Okay.
- 17:32Speaker 1: The only person who thinks Joe Biden is going to
- 17:34Speaker 1: run for reelection is Joe Biden, Okay, because he's not
- 17:38Speaker 1: all there, right, he can't even read Missus Obama. And
- 17:41Speaker 1: you and I've talked about this before. You know, there
- 17:44Speaker 1: might be some other Democratic challengers Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom,
- 17:47Speaker 1: Missus Clinton. But the one that really the dog that
- 17:51Speaker 1: hasn't barked is Missus Obama. She's got this new book out.
- 17:55Speaker 1: She is like everywhere. There's a great new documentary out
- 17:58Speaker 1: called Michelle Obama twenty twenty four that lays all of
- 18:01Speaker 1: this out. She is actually following the path of her husband.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Stop Clinton, You're not serious. I don't know what I'm
- 18:09Speaker 1: saying is nobody has really focused on her as a
- 18:13Speaker 1: potential Democratic candidate. But I think you know she's sort
- 18:17Speaker 1: of laying the groundwork with this book tour. She's stargeting women. Well,
- 18:22Speaker 1: I don't know about this. She's got a voting rights
- 18:25Speaker 1: group that she was running with Stacey Abrams. I'm telling
- 18:28Speaker 1: you she could. Could she confront on Fentnol and COVID?
- 18:34Speaker 1: Could she do that? Because Joe is just out to lunch. Well, look,
- 18:38Speaker 1: Joe Biden is really compromised by the CCP. He and
- 18:42Speaker 1: his family, including Hunter and his brother and Joe Biden
- 18:45Speaker 1: have gotten tens of millions of dollars from the CCP
- 18:48Speaker 1: and related enterprises. So the idea that the American commander
- 18:52Speaker 1: in chief is going to be tough on China when
- 18:55Speaker 1: the Chinese essentially own him, literally own him. Forget it.
- 19:01Speaker 1: A million Americans dead from COVID, hundreds of thousands dead
- 19:05Speaker 1: from fentnol. And you remember how seriously he took COVID
- 19:09Speaker 1: every death. I mean he mourned every death. He carried
- 19:11Speaker 1: the piece of paper. Remember the little piece of paper
- 19:14Speaker 1: he used to come out and read how many deaths
- 19:15Speaker 1: there were at the time. You're saying that thing came
- 19:19Speaker 1: from China. And he doesn't care anymore because he's gotten
- 19:23Speaker 1: money from Beijing. He doesn't raise it with them. And
- 19:26Speaker 1: the question every American needs to ask is is the
- 19:29Speaker 1: President of the United States serving America's interests or his own?
- 19:33Speaker 1: And isn't Because the Chinese have so much compromat on
- 19:37Speaker 1: Joe Biden and because they have paid the Biden family
- 19:40Speaker 1: so much money, this is why he remained soft on China.
- 19:44Speaker 1: That is a legitimate question for every American to ask. Well,
- 19:47Speaker 1: I heard that the press has to submit their questions beforehand.
- 19:51Speaker 1: One of the believe it was an African reporter. She
- 19:53Speaker 1: got really angry at Pierre because she never gets called on,
- 19:58Speaker 1: and she blew the whistle and she said listen, these
- 20:00Speaker 1: things are sent in advance, he gets the questions in advance.
- 20:04Speaker 1: The people are pre selected. Is anybody ever going to
- 20:07Speaker 1: ask him? Do you think your family's financial situation is
- 20:12Speaker 1: affecting your policy towards China? Well, and not just that,
- 20:15Speaker 1: I mean, obviously China is our premier enemy, right, our
- 20:19Speaker 1: premier foreign enemy. And so this is a legitimate question
- 20:22Speaker 1: that needs to be asked. Nobody has asked it yet.
- 20:25Speaker 1: But consider the other big hot spot in the world, Ukraine.
- 20:28Speaker 1: The Biden crime family is completely compromised on Ukraine. So again,
- 20:32Speaker 1: it's the President of the United States representing all of
- 20:35Speaker 1: us in America's interests or is he representing his own
- 20:38Speaker 1: interests and that of his family? Maybe, Peter Doocey, you'll
- 20:41Speaker 1: get to ask that one of these press conferences, I hope.
- 20:43Speaker 1: So we'll hold our breath, all right, Thanks Monica, you bet.
- 20:47Speaker 1: I think she's actually right. I've known Monica for a
- 20:51Speaker 1: long time. I think this is exactly what they're thinking
- 20:54Speaker 1: about here, that if you're Michelle Obama, you're doing all
- 20:59Speaker 1: the right things, and you're looking for a lane, You're
- 21:02Speaker 1: looking for an avenue, you're looking for an opportunity, That's
- 21:08Speaker 1: clearly what this is about, is that opportunity. Michelle Obama,
- 21:15Speaker 1: it looks to be making moves quite possibly to run
- 21:18Speaker 1: for president of the United States of America. Is this
- 21:22Speaker 1: something that she did by accident? No, Michelle Obama, just
- 21:25Speaker 1: say you know, it was actually a very very very
- 21:27Speaker 1: smart person. I want you to understand that, Like, she's
- 21:30Speaker 1: not an idiot. Sometimes I think we conflate our our
- 21:38Speaker 1: lack of respect for a person politically and what they do,
- 21:41Speaker 1: what they believe in, as saying, oh, well, they're stupid.
- 21:44Speaker 1: I don't do that. I think you have to look
- 21:46Speaker 1: at your adversaries and understand what you're up against. Like
- 21:50Speaker 1: I don't think that China, by the way, and Giping
- 21:52Speaker 1: is a is an idiot. I also don't think the
- 21:55Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin's an idiot, right, I don't think that Kim
- 21:57Speaker 1: Jong ung is an idiot. There are things that I
- 22:00Speaker 1: can't stand about them, but I respect them as an adversary.
- 22:04Speaker 1: You look at Michelle Obama and how she's throwing this down,
- 22:08Speaker 1: and they are now Democrats that are actually saying we
- 22:13Speaker 1: should look to Obama, Michelle should Biden or Harris declined
- 22:18Speaker 1: to run and then there's others have said maybe maybe
- 22:20Speaker 1: there should just run her anyway. Democrats sound say Michelle
- 22:24Speaker 1: Obama has the quote it factor that could maybe beat
- 22:28Speaker 1: Donald Trump in twenty twenty four. Well, Democratic leaders are
- 22:32Speaker 1: publicly rallying behind Joe Biden to be their guy for
- 22:35Speaker 1: the twenty four presidential election. Behind the scene, Democratic donors
- 22:40Speaker 1: are terrified and played to that audio, by the way,
- 22:43Speaker 1: yesterday of him talking about having a surgery and they
- 22:46Speaker 1: cut his head, his brain alp or his head off.
- 22:49Speaker 1: A couple of times. He said that publicly yesterday. The
- 22:54Speaker 1: guy clearly doesn't have what it takes to be president.
- 22:57Speaker 1: I would refer to what they're doing to him now
- 22:59Speaker 1: as elder abuse. No different than elder abuse. That's my opinion.
- 23:04Speaker 1: But what I do know from all this is that
- 23:05Speaker 1: it's clear that there is massive cognitive decline and Democrats
- 23:10Speaker 1: know it. They see it. Whether the media admits it,
- 23:13Speaker 1: whether the media will talk about it is irrelevant. In
- 23:16Speaker 1: my opinion. I really do believe that this is a
- 23:23Speaker 1: issue of the media is saying, are the Democrats going,
- 23:26Speaker 1: all right, we know it's bad, we just got to
- 23:28Speaker 1: figure out how bad it is, right Like, we know
- 23:32Speaker 1: that this present clearly, cognitively is just not there. But
- 23:37Speaker 1: do we have another option? If it's Michelle Obama, that's
- 23:41Speaker 1: an option I guess they like. Yesterday, it happened again,
- 23:47Speaker 1: Joe Biden tripped going up the stairs on Air Force One.
- 23:51Speaker 1: Reporters called it a quote. They're now categorizing it as
- 23:55Speaker 1: a quote quick trip, not kidding quick the Air Force
- 23:59Speaker 1: One that he touched down not even four hours ago.
- 24:03Speaker 1: A quick trip, but as you said, very impactful. Yeah,
- 24:06Speaker 1: it's just a quick trip. Yeah, he tripped up the
- 24:10Speaker 1: stairs again. Now he's fallen twice that we know about.
- 24:15Speaker 1: Now he's tripping as he's holding onto the rail. This
- 24:18Speaker 1: is happening more and more often. Biden also claimed again
- 24:23Speaker 1: yesterday a lie that he's been fact check on. But
- 24:26Speaker 1: I think it's because he gets lost in his speeches
- 24:28Speaker 1: so he goes back to lines that he can remember
- 24:30Speaker 1: that he claims that he cut the deficit in this country.
- 24:32Speaker 1: That's a lie. I did all we did and all
- 24:35Speaker 1: the stuff you guys wanted to be doing some more,
- 24:37Speaker 1: and we still cut the deficit in the last two
- 24:39Speaker 1: years by one point seven trillion dollars. That didn't happen,
- 24:44Speaker 1: By the way, The fact checkers A fact checked him
- 24:46Speaker 1: on it and said it didn't happen. Everybody knows it's
- 24:49Speaker 1: a lie, and he keeps going back to these stories
- 24:51Speaker 1: and these lines here right there are there. I think
- 24:58Speaker 1: that this is a real possibility. That's my opinion, I
- 25:02Speaker 1: really do. I think there's a very good chance here
- 25:05Speaker 1: that she, Michelle Obama is going to really look at this.
- 25:09Speaker 1: And I think the Democratic parties trying to figure out
- 25:11Speaker 1: could she be the silver the bullet they need to
- 25:14Speaker 1: get their mojo back something else had happened. The White Owl, says,
- 25:20Speaker 1: is refusing to say even whether Biden is sanctioned Russian
- 25:24Speaker 1: billionaire for what's happening in Russia with all the corruption.
- 25:28Speaker 1: Take a listen regarding Russia's sanctions. I'm wondering if you
- 25:32Speaker 1: could share the reason why President Biden hasn't sanctioned the
- 25:36Speaker 1: Russian billionaires Vladimir yet to Shakov and Ula about Arna.
- 25:41Speaker 1: How is he handling the conflict of interest they're giving
- 25:43Speaker 1: His son was a business associated these two people, and
- 25:46Speaker 1: can you confirm that as sitting vice president he dined
- 25:49Speaker 1: with Batterina and George Stat. I'm just not speaking to
- 25:52Speaker 1: anything that's related to his son. From here. If you
- 25:54Speaker 1: want to have if you want to ask a questions
- 25:56Speaker 1: about Hunter Biden specifically, I would refer you to his
- 25:59Speaker 1: family as it released to any sanctions. I'm not speaking
- 26:02Speaker 1: to individual individual persons from Russia. Think about that response.
- 26:08Speaker 1: We have found out yesterday in a major move, that
- 26:12Speaker 1: the White House has not sanctioned the Russian billionaires that
- 26:15Speaker 1: his son was doing business with a bunch of other
- 26:18Speaker 1: ones we've done, not this one, right, not this one.
- 26:21Speaker 1: A bunch of other ones we've done, not this one.
- 26:24Speaker 1: We have a president that won't even call out Mexico
- 26:28Speaker 1: for the abduction of four American citizens, quite possibly the
- 26:32Speaker 1: murdering of two in broad daylight as we saw their
- 26:34Speaker 1: lifeless bodies being drug into the back of pickup trucks.
- 26:39Speaker 1: We have a present that still hasn't spoken out about
- 26:42Speaker 1: that defending the Americans in Mexico. And we have now
- 26:48Speaker 1: a president that can't even sanction the people that he
- 26:50Speaker 1: wants or needs to sanction if they have business deals
- 26:53Speaker 1: with his son, some of them he ate with in Georgetown,
- 26:58Speaker 1: and the White House says, I don't have to answer
- 27:00Speaker 1: that question. I'm not going to answer that question. I
- 27:03Speaker 1: don't need to answer that question. The arrogance factor here
- 27:08Speaker 1: is truly at an all time high from him, Like
- 27:11Speaker 1: the arrogance factor here is incredible this White House, I
- 27:17Speaker 1: don't have to answer that question. I know these billionaires
- 27:19Speaker 1: did business with Hunter Biden, I know he'd dine with him.
- 27:23Speaker 1: But if it's about Hunter Biden, we don't answer that
- 27:25Speaker 1: question regarding Russia's sanctions. I'm wondering if you could share
- 27:30Speaker 1: the reason why President Biden hasn't sanctioned the Russian billionaires.
- 27:34Speaker 1: Vladim your yet to Shankof and to guild of about Terna.
- 27:38Speaker 1: How is he handling the conflict of interest they're giving
- 27:40Speaker 1: his son business associated these two people, And can you
- 27:43Speaker 1: confirm that as sitting vice president he dined with Batterina
- 27:46Speaker 1: and George stat I'm just not speaking to anything that's
- 27:49Speaker 1: related to his son from here. If you want to
- 27:51Speaker 1: have if you want to ask questions about Hunter Biden specifically,
- 27:54Speaker 1: I would refer you to his family. By the way,
- 27:56Speaker 1: we're not asking questions about Hunter Biden. We're asking questions
- 28:00Speaker 1: about the president not sanctioning to people as the president.
- 28:05Speaker 1: That's the part that they're missing here. I want to
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