By: Mark Glennon
Illinois Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi voted last week, along with all Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee, to kill a request by GOP committee members to get documents related to the Biden family’s international business deals.
Evidence against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s business dealings already comprise multiple scandals of historic importance. That evidence includes information from Hunter’s infamous laptop and corroboration by the Biden family’s former financial advisor showing: 1) influence peddling by Hunter and Joe for their mutual enrichment; 2) lying by Joe about not knowing anything about Hunter’s businesses; 3) pre-election suppression of the evidence on Hunter’s laptop by the media, big tech platforms and the FBI; and 4) participation by the national security establishment, particularly the FBI, in a fraudulent attempt to claim Hunter’s laptop was part of a Russian conspiracy, thereby suppressing the evidence on it to influence the 2020 election.
Some media that initially participated in those wrongs have confessed to their error, including the New York Times and Washington Post.
In other words, they’ve “recalibrated,” as legal scholar Jonathan Turley put it after the committee vote, because the evidence is now overwhelmingly against their initial narrative.
Not so for Krishnamoorthi and his colleagues on the Oversight Committee. “Nothing to see here.” That’s their story and they are sticking to it.
So, they now “own” Hunter Biden, as Turley wrote. “House Democrats are now on record as actively blocking efforts to investigate this massive influence peddling scheme.” Turley further wrote:
Even if no criminal acts are charged, the foreign dealings of Hunter and his uncle were clearly corrupt and leveraged access to Joe Biden to acquire windfall payments from governments and their surrogates. There is no good faith basis to refuse to investigate such a scheme designed to influence U.S. policy and policymakers. Why wouldn’t the Congress want to know if there was a multimillion dollar influence peddling scheme reaching the very top of our government, including allegations of the involvement of foreign intelligence figures?
Most of the Illinois press now owns Hunter Biden, too. Their national counterparts may have backpedaled, but not most of the Illinois press that participated in the initial suppression of the laptop story and in the Russian conspiracy theory about it.
That House Oversight Committee, by the way, was also tasked with ensuring that the trillions of dollars of “pandemic relief” were spent properly. Maybe we can get to covering that “oversight” eventually. For now, we have scandal overload.
-Mark Glennon
A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
Simply another swamp creature!
This man is a complete idiot!
Send him back to operating the Slurpy machine, that’s all he is good for.
The press is as complicit in this coverup as the filthy politicians. We can move out of Illinois to avoid state corruption, but where shall we go to avoid it on a national scale? Democracy is dying a slow death.
If there was a House movement to investigate why President Trump used Mary Ellen Mahoney’s red crayon in 3rd grade without her permission he would be foaming at the mouth to vote AYE!
When Republicans win their elections in November of this year, Democrats better stay away from the fan. After everything “hits it”, it could get pretty ugly.
Nothing going to change in IL. Republicans have all moved out. If Amendment 1 wins, that will be death knell for IL
I’ve been hanging in there but if Amendment 1 passes all bets are off. Already looking at alternatives
Moved out of IL, got out of his district, but those remaining will re-elect him no matter what. Was also in indicted and convicted Tom Cullerton’s state senate district. Good luck, IL, I voted against these guys but now I’m GONE!
Leaving is all you can do Wally. You did the right thing setting an example.
There is one word that always comes to mind when I think of Illinois politics.
That word is “FILTHY”.
Vote him out
Raja: cute ads, just another power hungry little man.
And, his willingness to cover for the Biden’s demonstrates he is morally bereft as well.
Just another pol willing to prostitute himself for power and votes…
Elections matter and Republicans have been shut out of power completely in DC, with only the filibuster to rely upon to stop all but the craziest of legislation. Raja ignores the Hunter Biden story because he can. He knows Hunter is corrupt but just doesn’t care. To them, Hunter is nothing more than a distraction along the lines of Bengazi or the Lois Lerner IRS scandal. Big nothingburgers for them. But they were big stories. The reality is that there is *nothing*, nothing at all, that will cause them to take any inspection that will cause them to lose power,… Read more »
We have to keep at it. If they own it then continue to force it out into the light.
Is anyone surprised? He is a hack and always has been one….
what does that say for his voters?
They’re idiots.