BUDDY CARTER INVITATION. BIDEN's CLAIMS DON'T SQUARE. Choking/Disrupting RFK Jr. Democrat Meltdown.

                                                       Two more cruise photos:

Henry with his mother, Lisa

Henry with his fiance', Jessica

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Buddy Carter generously invited me to hear Israel's President's address to Congress but I was out of town and due to health reasons was unable to accept his gracious invitation. 

I did listen on C Span and thought it was a balanced and appropriately structured. The Palestinians have lousy leadership which has enriched themselves and reminds me of The Biden Clan.

When Palestinians both renounce terrorism and stop murdering Jews, Israelis will be happy to discuss grievances.

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I am now listening to the Whistle Blower's testimony and RFK Jr's own party is attempting to destroy him with lies and false accusations  as they did earlier to De Santis. Democrats, led by radical and hateful black members and other assorted racists, have become truly vicious disrupters who employ weaponization as their special intimidating tool.

Credible whistleblowers drive Democrats into a meltdown trying to refute Biden Clan corruption..

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The Hunter Biden Whistleblowers

The IRS agents are under oath in public. Will Attorney General Merrick Garland respond?

The Editorial Board

With each day it’s getting harder to believe Attorney General Merrick Garland’s insistence that there was no interference in the Hunter Biden case. A month ago President Biden’s son was given a deal on tax and gun charges that probably means no prison time. Now comes Wednesday’s testimony by two IRS whistleblowers, who say their attempt to investigate Hunter faced unprecedented meddling.

The two IRS agents are Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler. Two months back, each had spoken behind closed doors to the House Ways and Means Committee, but Wednesday was their first in the spotlight and the first time that Mr. Ziegler’s name was released.

They say the Justice Department interfered in their investigation, for example, by tipping off Hunter’s legal team to a planned search and preventing questions related to Joe Biden. They also said the IRS team didn’t have access to Hunter’s laptop and or the FD-1023 document in which an FBI informant alleged that Joe and Hunter each accepted a $5 million bribe from Ukrainian energy giant Burisma.

Some Democrats, such as Maryland’s Jamie Raskin, tried to dismiss this all as normal disagreement between investigators and prosecutors. But Mr. Shapley testified that Justice’s “handling of the Hunter Biden tax investigation was very different from any other case in my 14 years at the IRS.”

They were backed up by a new FBI whistleblower, a former supervisory special agent assigned to the Biden investigation. According to the House Oversight Committee, the FBI agent confirmed Monday that on the day he and Mr. Shapley planned to interview Hunter, agents were told not to approach him and instead to wait for Hunter to call them. The interview never happened.

Mr. Shapley testified that at a meeting on Oct. 7, 2022, David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney assigned the Hunter Biden investigation, admitted to six IRS and FBI agents that he wasn’t the deciding authority. According to Mr. Shapley, Mr. Weiss said he had applied and was turned down for special counsel status.

Mr. Weiss’s statements in response have only added to the confusion. Recently he claimed he never asked for special counsel status, but he discussed a potential appointment as a special attorney, which would have let him “file charges in a district outside my own without the partnership of the local U.S. Attorney.”

Throughout the hearing instead of pressing Messrs. Shapley and Ziegler for answers, Democrats mostly opted for whataboutism. New Mexico Rep. Melanie Stansbury suggested the testimony was a political waste of the committee’s resources. “The real criminal, and the actual threat to our democratic institutions, is Donald Trump,” she thundered.

The IRS agents who investigated Hunter are saying live on C-Span that they were prevented from getting evidence. The allegations are becoming more specific as the number of witnesses backing them up grows. If Mr. Garland and Mr. Weiss want to persuade America they’re telling the truth, they ought to go before Congress and do what the two IRS agents have now done: answer questions under oath.

Credible IRS whistleblowers are accusing the Justice Department of blocking investigators in the Hunter Biden probe from following leads that involved President Biden.

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Meanwhile:

Biden claims to be a friend of Israel but his actions belie.

First, he interferes n their elections and internal policies. Secondly, he is pro Iran in terms of diplomacy, and third he does nothing he could when it comes to certain favorable decisions.

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US lawmakers call on Biden to end PA's 'pay for slay'

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is calling on the State Department to update Congress on negotiations to end the Palestinian Authority’s policy of paying terrorists.

In a letter sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the 50 members of Congress noted with concern the uptick of violence in Judea and Samaria in recent months and the P.A.’s refusal to condemn the killings of Israelis while at the same time continuing its “pay for slay” program.

Led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), the letter was signed by 30 Democrats and 20 Republicans.

Today, I led a a bipartisan group of 50 Members (30 Democrats & 20 Republicans) asking @SecBlinken to update Congress on the status of negotiating an end to the “Pay for Slay” program. We also urged the Administration to continue to raise this issue with Palestinian officials. pic.twitter.com/jfjInKVPIR

“For some Palestinians, terrorism literally pays. As you know, the Palestinian Authority has for decades provided financial compensation and other benefits to families of terrorists jailed in Israeli prisons and ‘martyrs’ killed while carrying out attacks against Israelis,” the missive reads.

“The Palestinian Authority has clearly continued down the path of more hatred, violence and terror, without regard for the damage inflicted or for their role in diminishing the prospects for peace. But, so long as they pay citizens to murder civilians, they will do so without benefiting from the support of United States taxpayers. We know that the administration shares the view that support for terrorism and the Palestinians’ characterization of the martyr payment system as a form of social welfare is unacceptable.”

The Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund costs the P.A. more than $300 million annually, or 8% of its budget. 

According to an analysis of the P.A.’s 2017 budget by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, $346 million was paid to “martyrs” and prisoners (33,000 recipient families) compared to $213 million for social welfare benefits (118,000 recipient families).

Since 2014, the U.S. has transferred financial aid to P.A. creditors rather than provide direct budgetary support in an effort to end the “pay for slay” program.

This policy was strengthened by the bipartisan Taylor Force Act (2018) that President Donald Trump signed into law. Named after Taylor Force, an American tourist murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Jaffa in 2016, the law prohibits direct U.S. funding of the P.A. until it ends the policy of paying terrorists and their families.

Citing recent examples of Palestinian terrorists murdering innocent civilians, the letter states that “those behind these heinous acts are lauded by Palestinian society, and it is abundantly clear that these payments continue to reward and incentivize terror.”

In addition to updating Congress, the letter urges the Biden administration to continue to bring up the issue with Palestinian officials.

The Taylor Force Act mandates an annual report by the State Department for six years that includes updates on estimates of P.A. terrorism payments, the legal basis for these payments and U.S. efforts to end these payments and any legal basis for them.

“I’m hoping that this letter will result in congressional hearings to examine the Taylor Force Act five years post its passage,” Sander Gerber, a distinguished fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America and a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, told JNS.

“The administration claims that they are complying. That they have a legal team that is ensuring compliance. But the administration continues to violate the substance of the Taylor Force Act,” Gerber explained.

He said that the State Department has chosen to classify the report updating Congress that the Taylor Force Act requires to be submitted on a regular basis.

“In order for the Palestinian Authority to change its ways, ‘pay-for-slay’ cannot be buried. It must be brought to light so that the world can see that supporting the Palestinian Authority is in fact supporting payments to kill,” Gerber continued.

“I have no doubt that the [Biden] administration does not like the ‘pay for slay’ policy because obviously it is a barrier to peace, but their efforts to stop it have been quiet.”

Gerber cited as examples President Joe Biden not mentioning the policy publicly during a visit with P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas and the State Department welcoming Palestinian officials like those “from any other nation, which ignores the fact that they have a legal infrastructure to pay civilians to kill civilians.”

U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, July 15, 2022. Credit: Screenshot/C-SPAN.

Since Biden took office, his administration has increased funding for the P.A., prompting a lawsuit by terrorism victims and their families last year. The lawsuit contends that the Biden administration violated the Taylor Force Act when it announced in July of last year $316 million in additional funding to support the Palestinians.

“This is on top of the more than half a billion dollars the United States has provided to the Palestinian people since the Biden administration restored much-needed funding to the Palestinians,” the White House said in a statement.

Meanwhile, a bill is advancing in the Knesset that would remove barriers that prevent civil tort claims against terrorists, including the Palestinian Authority. The “Compensation for Terror Victims” bill calls for courts to be “required to award exemplary damages” by establishing a minimum compensation of at least 10 million shekels (~$2.8 million).

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