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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Verdict with Senator Ted Kruz ben Ferguson with
you as well, and we have two really big stories.
One of them is huge and you may have seen
the headline. It deals with two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a wire that originated in Beijing with a beneficiary
address listed as Joe Biden's home. Now, we're gonna deal
(00:27):
with this because obviously that is a bombshell report that
has come out. There's also something else that's not being
covered in the news, and that's why we're gonna lead
with it. And it is about an Iranian influence operation
specifically on the Biden administration. The same Iranians that just
got six billion dollars freed up that they can quote
(00:50):
as they said, we'll do whatever the hell we want
with it. Senator, let's talk about this Iranian infiltration of
the Biden administration and what this means and explain it
all for everyone listening.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Well, listen today. I think this podcast is a very
important podcast and to underscore why think about the fact
that we now know that a quarter million dollars was
sent from the Chinese Communist to President Joe Biden's home
and that's the number two story on this podcast that
(01:23):
should make you pause. Now, why is it the number
two story in this podcast, Because the number one story
in this podcast is one of the most shocking stories
I've seen ever. And it's a story that I'm going
to tell you right now. The corporate media is not covering.
You didn't watch it on CNN, you didn't watch it
on MSNBC, you didn't watch it on ABCNBC or CBS.
(01:45):
It is a story that broke today that three senior
officials in the Biden administration were operatives for the Iranian government.
I mean, this is stunning, and I want to walk
through it because it's a very detailed expose about how
senior officials in Joe Biden's Democrat administration were operatives. They
(02:09):
were working for the Iranian government, they were in close
coordination with the Ayatola, they were working on behalf of Iran,
and they were setting US policy. And mind you, these
are individuals who have security clearances, who were working on
behalf of an Ayatola who chants death to America and
(02:29):
death to Israel. And so I want to walk through
this because again, you will not see this on the news.
The News does not want to cover it, and so
the story broke yesterday that three quote Iran experts who
worked closely for Rob Mallee. Now, who is Rob Maali?
Rob Malley was the Biden administration's quote special envoy to Iran.
(02:52):
Now Rob Malay has been fired. He's been fired because
the security clearance was revoked and he was thrown out
of the Biden administry. We still don't know why, but
it is presumably for a serious violation of law, because
to be too pro Iran for the Biden administration. I
don't even know what that means. Maybe that entails having
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the Ayatola tattooed three or more times on your body.
Maybe it entails smuggling heroin and balloons that you ingest
to Iran. I don't know, But all right, enough hyperbole,
let's talk actual substance. So the report that came out
yesterday is an investigation that was based on thousands of
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emails between Iranian diplomats and analysts, and it was published
by Semaphore and Rob Mallee, working for the Biden administration,
named three individuals to be senior officials. Number one. In
February twenty twenty one, Rob Malley recruited Arion Taba Tabai,
(04:02):
Sorry if I got the pronunciation wrong. She was a
Middle East fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the
United States the United States, and she came to the
State Department to assist in negotiation for Iran. She served
in that position for fifteen months. Mali also appointed or
tried to appoint Ali Vaez, who was the Iran Project's
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director at the Crisis Group. But Vaez had a problem.
According to two different sources, this is in public reports.
Viez could not obtain the necessary security clearance and so
his appointment was canceled. Nevertheless, Rob Malley maintained Vaez as
a confident and according to two different people in this report,
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Viez drafted Mallei's tweets, so he's communicating on behalf of
a senior Biden administration official. Now, third one is another
Iran analyst named Dina s Fandiari who was hired by
Mali at the ICG in twenty twenty one. And here's
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here's what the project from Iran was. Iran engaged in
a focused influence effort. And I want to read you
one of the leaked emails and this is this is
within the Iranian government.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
As you already know, based on our previous discussions, a
network of young second generation Iranian exports was initiated and
we're looking forward to holding a meeting in Vienna in
med Farvadian. Actually, this very idea of Iran experts initiatives
was discussed between me and two of the young experts.
(05:51):
We you and me met in the Prague conference i
e Arian Taba Tabe and Dinas s Fan. We three
agreed to be the core group of the IEI for
the first meeting in Vienna. In order to establish this
network in practice, we have decided to invite almost twenty
scholars with established affiliation with the leading internationally well known
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think tanks and closes the preliminary list of invitees. Please
let us know if you have any reservation on the
names asap. By the way, as you promise, this initiative
needs your financial as well as political support for the
first meeting. We need to cover the the We need
funds to cover the costs, including some tickets, hotel costs,
et cetera. Look forward to hearing from you Ba Tajdidi
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eteram which I will confess my Irania is not good
enough to know what the heck that means, but it
is signed Sahed kleib Zadeh. And these were individuals. It
was a core of young Iranian nationals who were in
the United States who were working for Iran, and three
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of them went on to work for the Biden administration
in senior positions. Now you look at the last two
and a half years, Joe Biden has leaned into Iran
in a level that has been insane. Iran is on
the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. This is a nation
led by a note Iatola who chanced death to America
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and death to Israel, and he's about to acquire nuclear weapons.
And this has been cheerleaded and pushed forward by officials
in the Biden administration who were working for Iran, who
were under the direction of Iran, who were literally operatives
for the government of Iran. And this is now documented
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in multiple emails where they are emailing Iran saying what
do I say? What do I do? I work for you?
What do you want me to do? And I got
to say, this is a lead.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Oh, by the way, of course it is. O course
it is because it is illegal.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Is what you're saying, So, then how is no one
being arrested for this?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Well, the story just broke yesterday. Uh so we'll see
how it plays out. But the first step is the
media is just trying to bury it. The media doesn't
want people to know about it because listen, I mean,
I mean, is it comforting to anyone to know that
the senior government officials and the Joe Biden administration dealing
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with Iran are operatives for the Iranian government? And Iran
is led by a theocratic, homicidal zealot who hates America
and these individuals were working for him. That is, it's stunning.
And what is striking now is is this report has detailed.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I want to make a career when you say that
the media is not covering this. Right now, as we're
recording the Center, I just put in the word I
ran into Google and the top story comes up. It's
from your website, Center Ted Cruz. It says Center Cruz
calls for Halton's secret Iran negotiations after leak emails. Then
the next one is a free Beacon, it says Pentagon
mom on Biden appoint he's alleged membership in Iran, you know,
(09:17):
in this group, and.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Then after that CNN.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So the first big news that has anything with Iran
right now, they're reporting on it says three m agrees
to pay almost ten million to settle an apparent Iranian
sanctions violation. Not a single news story has been written
about what we're breaking right now. When you put in
the word Iran right now, the only thing that's even
(09:43):
close is Al Jazeera says they had this. Why did
Iran's foreign minister want to go to Washington as the
US refuses the Iran's top diplomat request to visit DC.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
That's it. No one else is touching this right now.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well, and it's because the media can't defend this and listen,
this screw out of what was called the echo chamber.
So during the Obama administration, there were a group of journalists,
a group of left wing think tank activists, and a
group of zelots in the White House who created what
they called the Iran echo chamber, where when Barack Obama
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was pushing for the Iran nuclear deal, everything he said
would get amplified by the press and the think tank world,
in the NGO world. And it was deliberate and this
grew out of that. But what we now know is
that this was directed by the Iranian government. And all right,
(10:40):
so let me give you an example. Zareff, who was
the Foreign Minister of Iran. On October second, twenty fourteen, Vaez,
one of the three, wrote to Zarif regarding the discontent
he head with an ICG report on Iran. Trying to
clarify the situation, provided explanation. Here's a quote from from
the email.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
As an Iranian, based on my national and patriotic duty,
I have not hesitated to help you in any way,
from proposing to your excellency and your an excellency are
both capitalized a public campaign against the notion of nuclear
breakout to assisting your team in preparing reports on the
(11:26):
practical needs of Iran. And Vaez explained that the icg's
reports were compiled through a process in a collaborative manner,
which suggested that he didn't have final say in his publication. Likewise,
Adnan tabat Abai wrote to Zarif on May nineteenth, twenty fourteen,
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after an II meeting with him in Vienna. Quote, as
you will have noticed, we are all very much willing
to dedicate our capacities and resources to joint working on
the improvement of Iran's foreign relations. Iran is our country,
so we too feel the need and responsibility to contribute
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our share. When I say we, I mean the very
group you met now. I want you to stop and think.
These are officials for the Biden administration who say Iran
is our country, so we too feel the need and
responsibility to contribute our share. They are literally working for
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a foreign nation who are as our enemy and who
openly advocates death to America. And by the way, their bosses,
the Iranian Ayatola and the Mullahs in Iran, are actively
trying to murder the former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,
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the former US National Security Advisor John Bolt, than the
former Assistant Secretary of State Brian Hook. They're doing that
today as we speak. I forced the Biden State Department
to admit on the record today the State Department is
spending two million dollars a month in security costs to
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defend the former US Secretary of State and other former
US senior officials from Iran's efforts to murder them. And
three officials of the Biden administration are working for the
bastards who are trying to murder former senior US officials.
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Com center. This news breaks, and the second question that
I have for you is are these people we know
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who they are, Are they still able to access anything
they want within the US government? Have they been arrested,
have they been have their key cards turned off? Their
access to their email the US government turned off? Or
are they still able tonight, tomorrow, the next day, and
definitely until someone decides to stop them. Do they still
(15:30):
have access to all of the intel they have with
its government?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Astonishingly yes. So let's take for example, Ariann Tabatbai. She
is currently the Department of Defenses, current chief of Staff
for Special Operations. She has a security clearance. Today the
Biden White House is not revoked her security clearance yet
(15:56):
this story broke. They haven't done anything. Let me read
you what she emailed Iranian leadership in twenty fourteen, so
nearly a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Our goal was to show what is said in the West,
that Iran does not need more than one thousand, five
hundred centrifuges is wrong, and that Iran should not be
expected to reduce the number of its centrifuges. That is
right now the current chief of staff for Special Operations
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in the Biden Department Department of Defense. It is insane
that she has a security clearance and given this evidence
that you've got three individuals, on the face of it,
it appears to be a violation of federal law that
you cannot be working for a foreign government, much less
an enemy of America while a senior national security official
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for the government. And look, the stories that are most
damning are the stories that the corporate media utterly ignores.
It's like when you and I discussed the border and
what's happening at the border. There's a reason the corporate
media doesn't discuss the Biden open borders because you can't
defend it. There is no defense this story. There is
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no defense. Senior officials for the Biden Foreign policy and
National security team have been working for the government of Iran, like,
holy crap, there's no response. So their only hope is
ignore it. And and that's why we do this podcast,
is to focus on topics that will not be covered
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unless you engage, you speak out. And so this is
an issue that this actually reminds me of when the
Biden administration sent letters to the families of the nine
to eleven victims and said they were not going to
seek the death penalty for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and other
plotters of September eleventh, and we devoted an entire episode
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of this podcast talking about it, and and the listeners
of a Verdict got engaged and spoke out, and within
days the Biden administration reverse course. Here they are hoping
for silence because there is no defense, there is no explanation. Well, yeah,
the chief of staff of a major division at the
Department Offense is working for the Ayatola who hates America,
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who is a radical zealot who chanced death to America.
But you know, no, biggie, there's no defense there. And
so they're hoping for silence. And I'm hoping that our
listeners don't allow them to engage in silence.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
All right, I have to go back to this question now,
because we just had this, you know, six billion dollars
that went to Iran in this quote prisoner swap. So
number one question is were any of these people involved
in that swap and advocating for that the billions to
be freed out to Iran? That that's my question number one.
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And number two, who would be making the decison vision
tonight to suspend them pending at least an investigation so
that they can't be taking in theory top secret information
they have security clearance and deciding to just grab it
all and give it to the Iranians.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Look in terms of who was involved, presumably all three
were involved in the decision. And look, when it comes
to Iran policy, the Biden administration came in and their
number one four policy objective was to re enter and
a Ran nuclear.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Agreement and to appease the.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Iranian regime at a level that has never been seen.
Rob Malley, he helped negotiate the original Obama Ran nuclear deal,
which was catastrophic. It was a disaster. They brought him back.
And by the way, this is a guy who's been suspended.
His security clearance has been revoked. We don't know why.
They won't tell us why, but he did something so
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stunningly bad even the Biden administration had to fire him.
Holy cow. By the way, I've got to say, I'm
really embarrassed to admit my alma mater, Prinston has brought
Rob Malley in as a special lecturer and professor because
you know, he's fired for violating national security in some
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undisclosed way, so we ought to have him teach at
one of the premier universities in America. I mean, it
really does illustrate all the problems we've got. But it
was Rob Malley who hired all three of these people.
And look you asked, is the fact that these three
people were working for the Biden administration the reason why
the Biden administration is appeased. Iran has sent billions of
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dollars to Iran, has refused to enforce oil sanctions on Iran,
has allowed the Ietola to sell two billion barrel two
million rather two million barrels of oil a day. Is
that the reason?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
And no. They started wanting to give Iran everything they wanted,
which is why they hired Iranian operatives to be senior officials.
In some ways, these Iranian operatives were effective carrying out
the mission of the political hacks in the Biden White
House because their objective was appease Iran. And who better
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to implement a policy of appeasing Iran than people who
are literally working for the Iranian government.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
All right, let me ask you what words are appropriate
in this scenario? Is this spying? Are these people's spies?
Is this espionage? And the fact that no one in
the Biden administration is stopping them from doing this, I
guess is their way of downplaying saying no, no, no, it's
not that at all. They're just working on great foreign
relations with a country that chance death to America. But
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in your mind center, is this espionage? Is a spying?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Look, almost any word you could apply to this is appropriate.
These are operatives who are working for the Iranian government.
We now have email proof, according to these press reports.
And look, these emails need to be confirmed, but we've
got now multiple press reports that are detailing them that
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they were regularly emailing the Iranian government and saying what
should we do? What do you want us to do?
They were seeking direction, they were seeking instructions. We have
emails from the Iranian government saying they set up this
network with the purpose of influencing US government policy. And
so whether they were spies or simply operatives working for Iran,
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it's functionally the same thing they were. As the emails
I read, they said, our loyalties are to Iran. You
know what, if your loyalties are to Iran or to
communist China, or to Russia or North Korea, or to Venezuela,
you shouldn't be in a senior national security position for
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the United States of America. And there's a very real
question that I suspect is going to be investigated in
the days to come forward whether it was a violation
of criminal law law. There's a law Pharaoh that requires
an agent of a foreign government to register if they're
working on behalf of a foreign government. That raises an
obvious question, were the in violation of that law? But
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the fact that they were given security clearance is I
got to tell you. Look listen. As an ordinary matter,
I mean, they ask you what contacts have you had
with the foreign government. Generally, if you said boo to
a foreign government that is an enemy of America, you
can't get a security clearance in this case, these three individuals,
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their involvements was deep and pervasive, and they were part
of a government program launched by the Ayahtola specifically to
influence and undermine American policy and the Biden administration. They're
not defending this. You can't defend this on the merits.
They are counting on silence, because can you imagine Joe
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Biden if any reporter had to merity to ask, how
do you feel about senior national security officials in your
administration working for the Ayatola in Iran? And do you
think it's a grave national security violation? He would get
confused and try to tie his shoe. He couldn't answer
that question, and so they're counting on the press to
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cover up for.
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this podcasts everywhere you can on social media. It had
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that story that dealt with the Pentagon and Khali Sheik
Muhammad and that deal that was done.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
We were able to stop that.
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It's an important national security story and we need to
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post this wherever you can. Now onto this other topic
center that is just as shocking is the last one.
There is new reporting out that Hunter Biden received wired
transfers for a quarter of a million dollars originating in
Beijing for more than more than two hundred and fifty
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from Chinese business partners during the summer of two thousand
and nineteen. These wires were listed that were listed had
the home address of the President of the United States
of America, Joe Biden, as the beneficiary address for the
funds that were being transferred. This is a direct link
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from money from Beijing now to the President of the
United States of America in the summ of at least
two hundred and fifty thousand and counting.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Well, look, that's exactly right. Let me walk you through
a little bit of this timeline. An individual named Jonathan
Lee and Hunter Biden developed a business relationship while Joe
Biden was vice president. On July twenty sixth, twenty nineteen,
Hunter Biden received a ten thousand dollars wire from Wang Jin.
On October second, twenty nineteen, Hunter Biden received a two
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars wire from Jonathan Lee and
Tan Ling. Both wires originated in Beijing and listed as
the beneficiary address Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home. Nearly three
months later, on October thirteenth, twenty nineteen, Hunter Biden's attorney
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guy named George Mesiris, stated that Hunter Biden received no
money from BHR and did not disclose any payments from
Jonathan Lee. I mean, it's easy to forget quarter million dollars.
Everyone loses that. Beyond that, evidence shows that Joe Biden
developed a familiar relationship with Jonathan Lee during his vice
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presidency and prior to these payments to Hunter Biden. Devin Archer,
who was a business associate of the Bidens, described how
Joe Biden, not Hunter, Joe Daddy, met with Jonathan Lee
in Beijing, China, had a phone call with him, and
later wrote college recommendation letters for his children. So understand
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the guy who's wiring a quarter million dollars to Hunter
Biden to Joe Biden's home address, Joe Biden wrote college
recommendation letters for his kids, and in fact, in December
twenty thirteen, during a vice presidential trip to Beijing, reports
indicate that quote Hunter, shortly after arriving in Beijing on
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December fourth, help arranged for Lee to shake hands with
his father in the lobby of the American delegation's hotel.
And mind you, all of this is happening, this wire
is happening simultaneously to Joe Biden announcing his campaign for
president of the United States. But nevertheless, on October twenty second,
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twenty twenty, here's what Joe Biden said, quote, my son
has not made money in terms of thing about what
are you talking about China? The only guy who made
money in China is Trump. So what he said, his
Sun is not made money. From China. It was a
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flat out lie. Not only had he made money, he'd
made a quarter million dollars from a guy Joe Biden
had met, from a guy who Joe Biden had written
recommendation letters for his kids, and that quarter million dollars
was wired to Joe Biden's home address.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I still am taken aback, and rarely does this happen
center at just the the.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
And I don't think it's in commonant.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's just the brazenness of the crimes that were committed
by the Bidens. They didn't get And this is twenty nineteen,
this is not that long ago.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
He's running for president, right.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
He's running for president of the United States of America.
And they're wiring these funds from Beijing to the home
address of the President of the United States and now
presidented States America while he's trying to become the president.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
It's America.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
It's almost like they're like, hey, get the money in here, quick,
move it through quickly.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
We got to get this.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
We gotta get this money in here fast before he
becomes the president. And so send it on where do
you want me to send We're not eve gonna funnel
the money this time. We're not even gonna put it
in the LLCs and move the bank accounts around. Just
send it directly the home address of the president, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
And this is an example where the corporate media will
be utterly compliant. So the only one who will even
bother to ask a question of Joe Biden at a
press conference or or of Kareem John Pierre will be
Fox because the rest of the corporate media will roll
over and be compliant. But here's a basic question, mister president,
did you ever meet Jonathan Lee's kids?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Let's start with that. You wrote recommendation letters for him.
Do you ever meet him? You know anything about him?
And if the answers no, well why the hell did
you write recommendations letters for them? What did Jonathan Lee
do to get you? You were the vice president of
the United States to write a recommendation letter for his kids?
If you ever met the kids. I don't know if
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he met him, but I would be shocked if he did.
If you never met the kids, So you're willing to
write a recommendation letter for someone you never met, presumably
you owe something to Daddy. If you're writing a recommendation
letter to the kids. So the question is what do
you owe, what did daddy do? And does it have
anything to do with the fact that daddy sent a
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quarter million dollars wired it to your son at your
home address while you were running for president of the
United States. Remember the Democrat talking point and the corporate
media talking point is yeah, Hunter's corrupt. He let's throw
him overboard. We've given up on Hunter. But Joe had
nothing to do with it. Well, you know what, Hunter
didn't write recommendations letters for the kids of Jonathan Lee.
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Joe did. So what did Joe get in exchange for
a recommendation letter? By the way, you and I are
both parents, Do either of us have recommendation letters from
the Vice President of the United States for our kids? Like,
that's pretty damn serious, And it's remarkable the media they
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will not even ask these questions. They do not care.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Well, it's not just that you.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I'm sure could ask ten hundred times more than I
do for recommendations for different things. And the more that
you build something, the more cautious and careful you are,
because you don't want to give your name to somebody
that could come back to haunt you. One day when
a press person like, hey, Senator Cruz, did you actually
write over a letter of recommendation for someone that you
(33:37):
didn't know, and now they've been arrested for drugs or
for this crime or that or embezzlement, you protect your
good name, unless, sure, Joe Biden, where it seems to
be that you can just buy a letter of recommendation
from the Vice president if the dollar amount is enough
to your family.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So look, I'm fifty two years old. I've been in
the Senate eleven years. My guess is maybe I've written
in the whole course of my life, let's say one
hundred recommendation letters. That's probably high, but I'm gonna overestimate it.
Those hundred have been almost exclusively people who are either
good personal friends of mine or people have worked for me.
(34:18):
If so someone was a staff assistant, if someone was
an employee in the office and they worked and they
did a good job, I'll draft a letter of recommendation,
and it'll vary if I know them well. Some letters
are recommendation. I lean in closely because if I know
them well and I work with them, I'll say something
nicely about them. If they were a good kid, and
they worked in the office and they could do good work.
I'll write a more generic letter and I'll often have
(34:39):
staff draft it and try to reflect you know. You know,
Young Ben did a nice job on a memo on
national security and he pointed out maybe we should not
have Iranian agents working for the federal government, and I
agreed with that. That was nicely done.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, mind you.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
That means Young Ben couldn't get hired in the Biden administration.
But in a sane world, old Young Ben had some
wisdom that was impressive, and so you should hire him
at old miss because he also has a wicked serve
and knows how to play tennis. Like that's a letter
I might write, But I can tell you right now,
I have never written a letter of recommendation for a
(35:18):
Chinese national, and I'm sure as hell haven't written a
letter recommendation for the children of a Chinese national I've
never met. And I'm sure as hell as hell, as
hell as hell have never written a letter recommendation for
the children of a Chinese matt national who I've never
met the children, and that the dad has given a
quarter million dollars to my son and sent it to
(35:38):
my home address, Like, holy crap, Yeah, this is not
like there's sort of a realm of reasonableness. And look,
sometimes you have someone who was an intern and shook
your hand and you say, young Ben is a nice
young man, and it's kind of a courtesy, and you
don't really know. Young Ben may not be a nice
young man. He may be a total jerk, but you're
(36:00):
trying to be nice, and so you write a letter
because young men seem fine. This is qualitatively different. I
don't know anyone in politics who's ever done this like
what Joe Biden is doing. Like people listening might think, oh,
I don't know the political world. This is commonplace. No, no,
it's not. People don't do this like a quarter million dollars.
(36:26):
You don't get sent to you. You don't get sent
to you from Chinese nationals. You don't get sent to
you from Chinese nationals while you're running for president. Don't
get sent to you from Chinese nationals in exchange for
who the hell knows what I mean this is. And
it's worth underscoring this is not Hunter. This is Joe, Joe, Joe.
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This money was wired to Joe's home address.
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And finally sentater.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
It's interesting because as we find out about this money
that has come in directly from Beijing, you have the
first impeachment inquiry hearing that's going to take place in
Washington this week. James Comer seems to have a very
interesting strategy. He announces his three key witnesses for the
first impeachment inquiry hearing. They announced this and they said
(38:44):
that these three witnesses that are going to testify before
the first impeachment inquiry. They include a Professor Jonathan Turley
of George Washington University Law School, Ellen O'Connor, former Assistant
Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice Tax Division,
and Bruce Devinsky of Davinski Consulting. A forensic accounting expert,
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Turley is nationally recognized as a legal scholar who has
published work in areas ranging from constitution law to legal theory.
O'Connor supervised the DOJ's litigation of civil, criminal trial and
appellate tax cases. And Davinski accumulated more than forty years
of financial investigative and dispute consulting experience, as well as
(39:25):
served as an expert witness more than one hundred times,
testifying in more than eighty trials, including trials involving criminal
and civil financial fraud. So it seems to me that
these witnesses seem to be about really building a case
around the financial transactions around Joe Biden and his role
(39:47):
in the family business. I'm sure if these witnesses get
to see things like a quarter of a million dollars
coming from Beijing, that's going to raise some red flags
in their area of expertise.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Look unquestionably, and I will say James Comer is, I
think doing an excellent job, as is Jim Jordan building
up the case systematically and laying out the evidence. Of
the three witnesses. I know two of them personally. I
know Turley and I know O'Connor personally. They're both serious professionals.
Turley is a very well respected constitutional law professor. He's
(40:19):
not a Republican, he's a Democrat, but he's an honest
constitutional law scholar, and so he ends up being characterizes
more of a Republican because he actually speaks out against
the corruption we're seeing in the Biden administration. He has
the courage to do so. Turley is kind of like
Alan Dershowitz, who is another Democrat, Alan whom I know
very well. He is my criminal law professor in law school.
(40:42):
Alan is a self described liberal Democrat. He does not
like Donald Trump. He's voted against Donald Trump every time,
but he believes in constitutional law. Turley has been really courageous.
Aileen O'Connor is a very serious federal DOJ official taxificiall.
I expect she will testify about how bizarre it is
(41:03):
how the Biden DOJ has investigated these crimes, and in particular,
how they've obstructed justice, how they've blocked an investigation, how
anyone not named Hunter Biden would face very different investigation
and prosecution. If his name was Hunter Smith and you
engaged in a rampant pattern of criminality, the DOJ would
not be protecting you, and would not especially be protecting
(41:25):
your father, who was the locus of the criminality. The
third individual I don't know, but he's described as a
forensic accountant, and I assume he's going to testify about
things like what it means to get nearly two hundred
suspicious activity reports on your banking records, what it means
to have over twenty shell companies that make no products,
that have no employees, that don't do anything other than
(41:46):
exist to launder money and to hide the transaction of money.
And so look, I fully expect Democrats to ignore what
these witnesses have to say, and the corporate media to
cover it up and try to hide it. But we
are seeing drip drip drip every day. People are realizing
(42:08):
the evidence of corruption of the Biden family. And we're
not just talking about Hunter. Hunter is a troubled soul.
But if Hunter were the only issue, we wouldn't be
talking about this. This is about the corruption of Joe Biden,
the current president of the United States. And understand this
as we wrap up. The current president of the United
States had a quarter million dollars wired to his house
(42:31):
from communist China while he was running for president of
the United States. Yes, it was sent to his son,
but sent from a guy who Joe Biden himself wrote
recommendation letters for his kids. The family business. Let me
actually wrap with this for every Democrat, for every dishonest
(42:56):
corporate media shill who's saying Hunter was corrupt, but not Joe.
One question you need to ask, over and over again.
We're going to revisit this in a later podcast. What
was Hunter Biden selling? He has no skills, he doesn't
have goods or services, He cannot do anything. When's the
(43:20):
last time you paid millions of dollars to a crackhead?
What function, what role? What service was he providing? The
only thing Hunter was able to sell is favors from Daddy,
and so the argument that Daddy had nothing to do
with it is on its face ludicrous.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
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and what it was going on with Iran as well,
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Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Verdict with Senator Ted Kruz ben Ferguson with
you as well, and we have two really big stories.
One of them is huge and you may have seen
the headline. It deals with two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a wire that originated in Beijing with a beneficiary
address listed as Joe Biden's home. Now, we're gonna deal
(00:27):
with this because obviously that is a bombshell report that
has come out. There's also something else that's not being
covered in the news, and that's why we're gonna lead
with it. And it is about an Iranian influence operation
specifically on the Biden administration. The same Iranians that just
got six billion dollars freed up that they can quote
(00:50):
as they said, we'll do whatever the hell we want
with it. Senator, let's talk about this Iranian infiltration of
the Biden administration and what this means and explain it
all for everyone listening.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Well, listen today. I think this podcast is a very
important podcast and to underscore why think about the fact
that we now know that a quarter million dollars was
sent from the Chinese Communist to President Joe Biden's home
and that's the number two story on this podcast that
(01:23):
should make you pause. Now, why is it the number
two story in this podcast, Because the number one story
in this podcast is one of the most shocking stories
I've seen ever. And it's a story that I'm going
to tell you right now. The corporate media is not covering.
You didn't watch it on CNN, you didn't watch it
on MSNBC, you didn't watch it on ABCNBC or CBS.
(01:45):
It is a story that broke today that three senior
officials in the Biden administration were operatives for the Iranian government.
I mean, this is stunning, and I want to walk
through it because it's a very detailed expose about how
senior officials in Joe Biden's Democrat administration were operatives. They
(02:09):
were working for the Iranian government, they were in close
coordination with the Ayatola, they were working on behalf of Iran,
and they were setting US policy. And mind you, these
are individuals who have security clearances, who were working on
behalf of an Ayatola who chants death to America and
(02:29):
death to Israel. And so I want to walk through
this because again, you will not see this on the news.
The News does not want to cover it, and so
the story broke yesterday that three quote Iran experts who
worked closely for Rob Mallee. Now, who is Rob Maali?
Rob Malley was the Biden administration's quote special envoy to Iran.
(02:52):
Now Rob Malay has been fired. He's been fired because
the security clearance was revoked and he was thrown out
of the Biden administry. We still don't know why, but
it is presumably for a serious violation of law, because
to be too pro Iran for the Biden administration. I
don't even know what that means. Maybe that entails having
(03:14):
the Ayatola tattooed three or more times on your body.
Maybe it entails smuggling heroin and balloons that you ingest
to Iran. I don't know, But all right, enough hyperbole,
let's talk actual substance. So the report that came out
yesterday is an investigation that was based on thousands of
(03:36):
emails between Iranian diplomats and analysts, and it was published
by Semaphore and Rob Mallee, working for the Biden administration,
named three individuals to be senior officials. Number one. In
February twenty twenty one, Rob Malley recruited Arion Taba Tabai,
(04:02):
Sorry if I got the pronunciation wrong. She was a
Middle East fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the
United States the United States, and she came to the
State Department to assist in negotiation for Iran. She served
in that position for fifteen months. Mali also appointed or
tried to appoint Ali Vaez, who was the Iran Project's
(04:25):
director at the Crisis Group. But Vaez had a problem.
According to two different sources, this is in public reports.
Viez could not obtain the necessary security clearance and so
his appointment was canceled. Nevertheless, Rob Malley maintained Vaez as
a confident and according to two different people in this report,
(04:50):
Viez drafted Mallei's tweets, so he's communicating on behalf of
a senior Biden administration official. Now, third one is another
Iran analyst named Dina s Fandiari who was hired by
Mali at the ICG in twenty twenty one. And here's
(05:13):
here's what the project from Iran was. Iran engaged in
a focused influence effort. And I want to read you
one of the leaked emails and this is this is
within the Iranian government.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
As you already know, based on our previous discussions, a
network of young second generation Iranian exports was initiated and
we're looking forward to holding a meeting in Vienna in
med Farvadian. Actually, this very idea of Iran experts initiatives
was discussed between me and two of the young experts.
(05:51):
We you and me met in the Prague conference i
e Arian Taba Tabe and Dinas s Fan. We three
agreed to be the core group of the IEI for
the first meeting in Vienna. In order to establish this
network in practice, we have decided to invite almost twenty
scholars with established affiliation with the leading internationally well known
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think tanks and closes the preliminary list of invitees. Please
let us know if you have any reservation on the
names asap. By the way, as you promise, this initiative
needs your financial as well as political support for the
first meeting. We need to cover the the We need
funds to cover the costs, including some tickets, hotel costs,
et cetera. Look forward to hearing from you Ba Tajdidi
(06:41):
eteram which I will confess my Irania is not good
enough to know what the heck that means, but it
is signed Sahed kleib Zadeh. And these were individuals. It
was a core of young Iranian nationals who were in
the United States who were working for Iran, and three
(07:04):
of them went on to work for the Biden administration
in senior positions. Now you look at the last two
and a half years, Joe Biden has leaned into Iran
in a level that has been insane. Iran is on
the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. This is a nation
led by a note Iatola who chanced death to America
(07:25):
and death to Israel, and he's about to acquire nuclear weapons.
And this has been cheerleaded and pushed forward by officials
in the Biden administration who were working for Iran, who
were under the direction of Iran, who were literally operatives
for the government of Iran. And this is now documented
(07:49):
in multiple emails where they are emailing Iran saying what
do I say? What do I do? I work for you?
What do you want me to do? And I got
to say, this is a lead.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Oh, by the way, of course it is. O course
it is because it is illegal.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Is what you're saying, So, then how is no one
being arrested for this?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Well, the story just broke yesterday. Uh so we'll see
how it plays out. But the first step is the
media is just trying to bury it. The media doesn't
want people to know about it because listen, I mean,
I mean, is it comforting to anyone to know that
the senior government officials and the Joe Biden administration dealing
(08:30):
with Iran are operatives for the Iranian government? And Iran
is led by a theocratic, homicidal zealot who hates America
and these individuals were working for him. That is, it's stunning.
And what is striking now is is this report has detailed.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I want to make a career when you say that
the media is not covering this. Right now, as we're
recording the Center, I just put in the word I
ran into Google and the top story comes up. It's
from your website, Center Ted Cruz. It says Center Cruz
calls for Halton's secret Iran negotiations after leak emails. Then
the next one is a free Beacon, it says Pentagon
mom on Biden appoint he's alleged membership in Iran, you know,
(09:17):
in this group, and.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Then after that CNN.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So the first big news that has anything with Iran
right now, they're reporting on it says three m agrees
to pay almost ten million to settle an apparent Iranian
sanctions violation. Not a single news story has been written
about what we're breaking right now. When you put in
the word Iran right now, the only thing that's even
(09:43):
close is Al Jazeera says they had this. Why did
Iran's foreign minister want to go to Washington as the
US refuses the Iran's top diplomat request to visit DC.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
That's it. No one else is touching this right now.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well, and it's because the media can't defend this and listen,
this screw out of what was called the echo chamber.
So during the Obama administration, there were a group of journalists,
a group of left wing think tank activists, and a
group of zelots in the White House who created what
they called the Iran echo chamber, where when Barack Obama
(10:19):
was pushing for the Iran nuclear deal, everything he said
would get amplified by the press and the think tank world,
in the NGO world. And it was deliberate and this
grew out of that. But what we now know is
that this was directed by the Iranian government. And all right,
(10:40):
so let me give you an example. Zareff, who was
the Foreign Minister of Iran. On October second, twenty fourteen, Vaez,
one of the three, wrote to Zarif regarding the discontent
he head with an ICG report on Iran. Trying to
clarify the situation, provided explanation. Here's a quote from from
the email.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
As an Iranian, based on my national and patriotic duty,
I have not hesitated to help you in any way,
from proposing to your excellency and your an excellency are
both capitalized a public campaign against the notion of nuclear
breakout to assisting your team in preparing reports on the
(11:26):
practical needs of Iran. And Vaez explained that the icg's
reports were compiled through a process in a collaborative manner,
which suggested that he didn't have final say in his publication. Likewise,
Adnan tabat Abai wrote to Zarif on May nineteenth, twenty fourteen,
(11:49):
after an II meeting with him in Vienna. Quote, as
you will have noticed, we are all very much willing
to dedicate our capacities and resources to joint working on
the improvement of Iran's foreign relations. Iran is our country,
so we too feel the need and responsibility to contribute
(12:11):
our share. When I say we, I mean the very
group you met now. I want you to stop and think.
These are officials for the Biden administration who say Iran
is our country, so we too feel the need and
responsibility to contribute our share. They are literally working for
(12:37):
a foreign nation who are as our enemy and who
openly advocates death to America. And by the way, their bosses,
the Iranian Ayatola and the Mullahs in Iran, are actively
trying to murder the former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,
(12:57):
the former US National Security Advisor John Bolt, than the
former Assistant Secretary of State Brian Hook. They're doing that
today as we speak. I forced the Biden State Department
to admit on the record today the State Department is
spending two million dollars a month in security costs to
(13:19):
defend the former US Secretary of State and other former
US senior officials from Iran's efforts to murder them. And
three officials of the Biden administration are working for the
bastards who are trying to murder former senior US officials.
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Com center. This news breaks, and the second question that
I have for you is are these people we know
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who they are, Are they still able to access anything
they want within the US government? Have they been arrested,
have they been have their key cards turned off? Their
access to their email the US government turned off? Or
are they still able tonight, tomorrow, the next day, and
definitely until someone decides to stop them. Do they still
(15:30):
have access to all of the intel they have with
its government?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Astonishingly yes. So let's take for example, Ariann Tabatbai. She
is currently the Department of Defenses, current chief of Staff
for Special Operations. She has a security clearance. Today the
Biden White House is not revoked her security clearance yet
(15:56):
this story broke. They haven't done anything. Let me read
you what she emailed Iranian leadership in twenty fourteen, so
nearly a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Our goal was to show what is said in the West,
that Iran does not need more than one thousand, five
hundred centrifuges is wrong, and that Iran should not be
expected to reduce the number of its centrifuges. That is
right now the current chief of staff for Special Operations
(16:26):
in the Biden Department Department of Defense. It is insane
that she has a security clearance and given this evidence
that you've got three individuals, on the face of it,
it appears to be a violation of federal law that
you cannot be working for a foreign government, much less
an enemy of America while a senior national security official
(16:49):
for the government. And look, the stories that are most
damning are the stories that the corporate media utterly ignores.
It's like when you and I discussed the border and
what's happening at the border. There's a reason the corporate
media doesn't discuss the Biden open borders because you can't
defend it. There is no defense this story. There is
(17:13):
no defense. Senior officials for the Biden Foreign policy and
National security team have been working for the government of Iran, like,
holy crap, there's no response. So their only hope is
ignore it. And and that's why we do this podcast,
is to focus on topics that will not be covered
(17:36):
unless you engage, you speak out. And so this is
an issue that this actually reminds me of when the
Biden administration sent letters to the families of the nine
to eleven victims and said they were not going to
seek the death penalty for Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and other
plotters of September eleventh, and we devoted an entire episode
(17:59):
of this podcast talking about it, and and the listeners
of a Verdict got engaged and spoke out, and within
days the Biden administration reverse course. Here they are hoping
for silence because there is no defense, there is no explanation. Well, yeah,
the chief of staff of a major division at the
Department Offense is working for the Ayatola who hates America,
(18:21):
who is a radical zealot who chanced death to America.
But you know, no, biggie, there's no defense there. And
so they're hoping for silence. And I'm hoping that our
listeners don't allow them to engage in silence.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
All right, I have to go back to this question now,
because we just had this, you know, six billion dollars
that went to Iran in this quote prisoner swap. So
number one question is were any of these people involved
in that swap and advocating for that the billions to
be freed out to Iran? That that's my question number one.
(18:56):
And number two, who would be making the decison vision
tonight to suspend them pending at least an investigation so
that they can't be taking in theory top secret information
they have security clearance and deciding to just grab it
all and give it to the Iranians.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Look in terms of who was involved, presumably all three
were involved in the decision. And look, when it comes
to Iran policy, the Biden administration came in and their
number one four policy objective was to re enter and
a Ran nuclear.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Agreement and to appease the.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Iranian regime at a level that has never been seen.
Rob Malley, he helped negotiate the original Obama Ran nuclear deal,
which was catastrophic. It was a disaster. They brought him back.
And by the way, this is a guy who's been suspended.
His security clearance has been revoked. We don't know why.
They won't tell us why, but he did something so
(19:50):
stunningly bad even the Biden administration had to fire him.
Holy cow. By the way, I've got to say, I'm
really embarrassed to admit my alma mater, Prinston has brought
Rob Malley in as a special lecturer and professor because
you know, he's fired for violating national security in some
(20:11):
undisclosed way, so we ought to have him teach at
one of the premier universities in America. I mean, it
really does illustrate all the problems we've got. But it
was Rob Malley who hired all three of these people.
And look you asked, is the fact that these three
people were working for the Biden administration the reason why
the Biden administration is appeased. Iran has sent billions of
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dollars to Iran, has refused to enforce oil sanctions on Iran,
has allowed the Ietola to sell two billion barrel two
million rather two million barrels of oil a day. Is
that the reason?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:48):
And no. They started wanting to give Iran everything they wanted,
which is why they hired Iranian operatives to be senior officials.
In some ways, these Iranian operatives were effective carrying out
the mission of the political hacks in the Biden White
House because their objective was appease Iran. And who better
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to implement a policy of appeasing Iran than people who
are literally working for the Iranian government.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
All right, let me ask you what words are appropriate
in this scenario? Is this spying? Are these people's spies?
Is this espionage? And the fact that no one in
the Biden administration is stopping them from doing this, I
guess is their way of downplaying saying no, no, no, it's
not that at all. They're just working on great foreign
relations with a country that chance death to America. But
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in your mind center, is this espionage? Is a spying?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Look, almost any word you could apply to this is appropriate.
These are operatives who are working for the Iranian government.
We now have email proof, according to these press reports.
And look, these emails need to be confirmed, but we've
got now multiple press reports that are detailing them that
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they were regularly emailing the Iranian government and saying what
should we do? What do you want us to do?
They were seeking direction, they were seeking instructions. We have
emails from the Iranian government saying they set up this
network with the purpose of influencing US government policy. And
so whether they were spies or simply operatives working for Iran,
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it's functionally the same thing they were. As the emails
I read, they said, our loyalties are to Iran. You
know what, if your loyalties are to Iran or to
communist China, or to Russia or North Korea, or to Venezuela,
you shouldn't be in a senior national security position for
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the United States of America. And there's a very real
question that I suspect is going to be investigated in
the days to come forward whether it was a violation
of criminal law law. There's a law Pharaoh that requires
an agent of a foreign government to register if they're
working on behalf of a foreign government. That raises an
obvious question, were the in violation of that law? But
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the fact that they were given security clearance is I
got to tell you. Look listen. As an ordinary matter,
I mean, they ask you what contacts have you had
with the foreign government. Generally, if you said boo to
a foreign government that is an enemy of America, you
can't get a security clearance in this case, these three individuals,
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their involvements was deep and pervasive, and they were part
of a government program launched by the Ayahtola specifically to
influence and undermine American policy and the Biden administration. They're
not defending this. You can't defend this on the merits.
They are counting on silence, because can you imagine Joe
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Biden if any reporter had to merity to ask, how
do you feel about senior national security officials in your
administration working for the Ayatola in Iran? And do you
think it's a grave national security violation? He would get
confused and try to tie his shoe. He couldn't answer
that question, and so they're counting on the press to
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cover up for.
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center that is just as shocking is the last one.
There is new reporting out that Hunter Biden received wired
transfers for a quarter of a million dollars originating in
Beijing for more than more than two hundred and fifty
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from Chinese business partners during the summer of two thousand
and nineteen. These wires were listed that were listed had
the home address of the President of the United States
of America, Joe Biden, as the beneficiary address for the
funds that were being transferred. This is a direct link
(27:16):
from money from Beijing now to the President of the
United States of America in the summ of at least
two hundred and fifty thousand and counting.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Well, look, that's exactly right. Let me walk you through
a little bit of this timeline. An individual named Jonathan
Lee and Hunter Biden developed a business relationship while Joe
Biden was vice president. On July twenty sixth, twenty nineteen,
Hunter Biden received a ten thousand dollars wire from Wang Jin.
On October second, twenty nineteen, Hunter Biden received a two
(27:51):
hundred and fifty thousand dollars wire from Jonathan Lee and
Tan Ling. Both wires originated in Beijing and listed as
the beneficiary address Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home. Nearly three
months later, on October thirteenth, twenty nineteen, Hunter Biden's attorney
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guy named George Mesiris, stated that Hunter Biden received no
money from BHR and did not disclose any payments from
Jonathan Lee. I mean, it's easy to forget quarter million dollars.
Everyone loses that. Beyond that, evidence shows that Joe Biden
developed a familiar relationship with Jonathan Lee during his vice
(28:37):
presidency and prior to these payments to Hunter Biden. Devin Archer,
who was a business associate of the Bidens, described how
Joe Biden, not Hunter, Joe Daddy, met with Jonathan Lee
in Beijing, China, had a phone call with him, and
later wrote college recommendation letters for his children. So understand
(28:59):
the guy who's wiring a quarter million dollars to Hunter
Biden to Joe Biden's home address, Joe Biden wrote college
recommendation letters for his kids, and in fact, in December
twenty thirteen, during a vice presidential trip to Beijing, reports
indicate that quote Hunter, shortly after arriving in Beijing on
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December fourth, help arranged for Lee to shake hands with
his father in the lobby of the American delegation's hotel.
And mind you, all of this is happening, this wire
is happening simultaneously to Joe Biden announcing his campaign for
president of the United States. But nevertheless, on October twenty second,
(29:42):
twenty twenty, here's what Joe Biden said, quote, my son
has not made money in terms of thing about what
are you talking about China? The only guy who made
money in China is Trump. So what he said, his
Sun is not made money. From China. It was a
(30:02):
flat out lie. Not only had he made money, he'd
made a quarter million dollars from a guy Joe Biden
had met, from a guy who Joe Biden had written
recommendation letters for his kids, and that quarter million dollars
was wired to Joe Biden's home address.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I still am taken aback, and rarely does this happen
center at just the the.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
And I don't think it's in commonant.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
It's just the brazenness of the crimes that were committed
by the Bidens. They didn't get And this is twenty nineteen,
this is not that long ago.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
He's running for president, right.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
He's running for president of the United States of America.
And they're wiring these funds from Beijing to the home
address of the President of the United States and now
presidented States America while he's trying to become the president.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
It's America.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
It's almost like they're like, hey, get the money in here, quick,
move it through quickly.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
We got to get this.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
We gotta get this money in here fast before he
becomes the president. And so send it on where do
you want me to send We're not eve gonna funnel
the money this time. We're not even gonna put it
in the LLCs and move the bank accounts around. Just
send it directly the home address of the president, all right.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
And this is an example where the corporate media will
be utterly compliant. So the only one who will even
bother to ask a question of Joe Biden at a
press conference or or of Kareem John Pierre will be
Fox because the rest of the corporate media will roll
over and be compliant. But here's a basic question, mister president,
did you ever meet Jonathan Lee's kids?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Let's start with that. You wrote recommendation letters for him.
Do you ever meet him? You know anything about him?
And if the answers no, well why the hell did
you write recommendations letters for them? What did Jonathan Lee
do to get you? You were the vice president of
the United States to write a recommendation letter for his kids?
If you ever met the kids. I don't know if
(32:02):
he met him, but I would be shocked if he did.
If you never met the kids, So you're willing to
write a recommendation letter for someone you never met, presumably
you owe something to Daddy. If you're writing a recommendation
letter to the kids. So the question is what do
you owe, what did daddy do? And does it have
anything to do with the fact that daddy sent a
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quarter million dollars wired it to your son at your
home address while you were running for president of the
United States. Remember the Democrat talking point and the corporate
media talking point is yeah, Hunter's corrupt. He let's throw
him overboard. We've given up on Hunter. But Joe had
nothing to do with it. Well, you know what, Hunter
didn't write recommendations letters for the kids of Jonathan Lee.
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Joe did. So what did Joe get in exchange for
a recommendation letter? By the way, you and I are
both parents, Do either of us have recommendation letters from
the Vice President of the United States for our kids? Like,
that's pretty damn serious, And it's remarkable the media they
(33:09):
will not even ask these questions. They do not care.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Well, it's not just that you.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I'm sure could ask ten hundred times more than I
do for recommendations for different things. And the more that
you build something, the more cautious and careful you are,
because you don't want to give your name to somebody
that could come back to haunt you. One day when
a press person like, hey, Senator Cruz, did you actually
write over a letter of recommendation for someone that you
(33:37):
didn't know, and now they've been arrested for drugs or
for this crime or that or embezzlement, you protect your
good name, unless, sure, Joe Biden, where it seems to
be that you can just buy a letter of recommendation
from the Vice president if the dollar amount is enough
to your family.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So look, I'm fifty two years old. I've been in
the Senate eleven years. My guess is maybe I've written
in the whole course of my life, let's say one
hundred recommendation letters. That's probably high, but I'm gonna overestimate it.
Those hundred have been almost exclusively people who are either
good personal friends of mine or people have worked for me.
(34:18):
If so someone was a staff assistant, if someone was
an employee in the office and they worked and they
did a good job, I'll draft a letter of recommendation,
and it'll vary if I know them well. Some letters
are recommendation. I lean in closely because if I know
them well and I work with them, I'll say something
nicely about them. If they were a good kid, and
they worked in the office and they could do good work.
I'll write a more generic letter and I'll often have
(34:39):
staff draft it and try to reflect you know. You know,
Young Ben did a nice job on a memo on
national security and he pointed out maybe we should not
have Iranian agents working for the federal government, and I
agreed with that. That was nicely done.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Yeah, mind you.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
That means Young Ben couldn't get hired in the Biden administration.
But in a sane world, old Young Ben had some
wisdom that was impressive, and so you should hire him
at old miss because he also has a wicked serve
and knows how to play tennis. Like that's a letter
I might write, But I can tell you right now,
I have never written a letter of recommendation for a
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Chinese national, and I'm sure as hell haven't written a
letter recommendation for the children of a Chinese national I've
never met. And I'm sure as hell as hell, as
hell as hell have never written a letter recommendation for
the children of a Chinese matt national who I've never
met the children, and that the dad has given a
quarter million dollars to my son and sent it to
(35:38):
my home address, Like, holy crap, Yeah, this is not
like there's sort of a realm of reasonableness. And look,
sometimes you have someone who was an intern and shook
your hand and you say, young Ben is a nice
young man, and it's kind of a courtesy, and you
don't really know. Young Ben may not be a nice
young man. He may be a total jerk, but you're
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trying to be nice, and so you write a letter
because young men seem fine. This is qualitatively different. I
don't know anyone in politics who's ever done this like
what Joe Biden is doing. Like people listening might think, oh,
I don't know the political world. This is commonplace. No, no,
it's not. People don't do this like a quarter million dollars.
(36:26):
You don't get sent to you. You don't get sent
to you from Chinese nationals. You don't get sent to
you from Chinese nationals while you're running for president. Don't
get sent to you from Chinese nationals in exchange for
who the hell knows what I mean this is. And
it's worth underscoring this is not Hunter. This is Joe, Joe, Joe.
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This money was wired to Joe's home address.
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Speaker 1 (38:21):
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Speaker 2 (38:22):
It's interesting because as we find out about this money
that has come in directly from Beijing, you have the
first impeachment inquiry hearing that's going to take place in
Washington this week. James Comer seems to have a very
interesting strategy. He announces his three key witnesses for the
first impeachment inquiry hearing. They announced this and they said
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that these three witnesses that are going to testify before
the first impeachment inquiry. They include a Professor Jonathan Turley
of George Washington University Law School, Ellen O'Connor, former Assistant
Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice Tax Division,
and Bruce Devinsky of Davinski Consulting. A forensic accounting expert,
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Turley is nationally recognized as a legal scholar who has
published work in areas ranging from constitution law to legal theory.
O'Connor supervised the DOJ's litigation of civil, criminal trial and
appellate tax cases. And Davinski accumulated more than forty years
of financial investigative and dispute consulting experience, as well as
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served as an expert witness more than one hundred times,
testifying in more than eighty trials, including trials involving criminal
and civil financial fraud. So it seems to me that
these witnesses seem to be about really building a case
around the financial transactions around Joe Biden and his role
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in the family business. I'm sure if these witnesses get
to see things like a quarter of a million dollars
coming from Beijing, that's going to raise some red flags
in their area of expertise.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Look unquestionably, and I will say James Comer is, I
think doing an excellent job, as is Jim Jordan building
up the case systematically and laying out the evidence. Of
the three witnesses. I know two of them personally. I
know Turley and I know O'Connor personally. They're both serious professionals.
Turley is a very well respected constitutional law professor. He's
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not a Republican, he's a Democrat, but he's an honest
constitutional law scholar, and so he ends up being characterizes
more of a Republican because he actually speaks out against
the corruption we're seeing in the Biden administration. He has
the courage to do so. Turley is kind of like
Alan Dershowitz, who is another Democrat, Alan whom I know
very well. He is my criminal law professor in law school.
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Alan is a self described liberal Democrat. He does not
like Donald Trump. He's voted against Donald Trump every time,
but he believes in constitutional law. Turley has been really courageous.
Aileen O'Connor is a very serious federal DOJ official taxificiall.
I expect she will testify about how bizarre it is
(41:03):
how the Biden DOJ has investigated these crimes, and in particular,
how they've obstructed justice, how they've blocked an investigation, how
anyone not named Hunter Biden would face very different investigation
and prosecution. If his name was Hunter Smith and you
engaged in a rampant pattern of criminality, the DOJ would
not be protecting you, and would not especially be protecting
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your father, who was the locus of the criminality. The
third individual I don't know, but he's described as a
forensic accountant, and I assume he's going to testify about
things like what it means to get nearly two hundred
suspicious activity reports on your banking records, what it means
to have over twenty shell companies that make no products,
that have no employees, that don't do anything other than
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exist to launder money and to hide the transaction of money.
And so look, I fully expect Democrats to ignore what
these witnesses have to say, and the corporate media to
cover it up and try to hide it. But we
are seeing drip drip drip every day. People are realizing
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the evidence of corruption of the Biden family. And we're
not just talking about Hunter. Hunter is a troubled soul.
But if Hunter were the only issue, we wouldn't be
talking about this. This is about the corruption of Joe Biden,
the current president of the United States. And understand this
as we wrap up. The current president of the United
States had a quarter million dollars wired to his house
(42:31):
from communist China while he was running for president of
the United States. Yes, it was sent to his son,
but sent from a guy who Joe Biden himself wrote
recommendation letters for his kids. The family business. Let me
actually wrap with this for every Democrat, for every dishonest
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corporate media shill who's saying Hunter was corrupt, but not Joe.
One question you need to ask, over and over again.
We're going to revisit this in a later podcast. What
was Hunter Biden selling? He has no skills, he doesn't
have goods or services, He cannot do anything. When's the
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last time you paid millions of dollars to a crackhead?
What function, what role? What service was he providing? The
only thing Hunter was able to sell is favors from Daddy,
and so the argument that Daddy had nothing to do
with it is on its face ludicrous.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
We're gonna keep covering this issue also that the money
and what it was going on with Iran as well,
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