Headline Roundup • July 21st, 2023
What Did Republicans Reveal About the Alleged Biden Family Briery Scheme?
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Republicans continued their scrutiny of the Biden family's business dealings this week with whistleblower testimonies and a redacted FBI document detailing bribery allegations.
What Happened: Two IRS whistleblowers formerly involved in the agency’s investigation into Hunter Biden testified before the House Wednesday, accusing the Justice Department of obstructing the IRS investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes. Then, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released a redacted FBI "confidential human source document" on Thursday detailing allegations that the Biden family accepted a $10 million bribe from an executive for Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company which Hunter Biden previously served as a board member for.
What the Left Said: Left-rated sources covered the news less prominently than right-rated sources did. Most described the allegations as "unverified" and highlighted critics of them. A writer for The New Republic (Left bias) said there's "still no evidence," and called the document "an unverified form" that "relies on a Rudy Giuliani conspiracy theory." ABC News (Lean Left) called Grassley's decision to release the document an "exceedingly rare step."
What the Right Said: National Review's (Right) editorial board said the bribery allegation "strongly resembles the pattern uncovered by House investigators showing foreign actors paying Biden family members (including grandchildren) millions of dollars through labyrinthine channels that included some 20 obscure business entities, most of which Hunter set up while Joe was vice president."
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Senator Chuck Grassley on Thursday released the FBI report that Republicans claim proves the Bidens accepted bribes from Ukraine. But there’s just one problem: There’s still no evidence.
House Republicans have accused the Biden family of corruption for months but have been unable to provide any actual evidence linking President Joe Biden or his son Hunter to any wrongdoing. The GOP has repeatedly insisted that the just-released FBI document, which House members were initially allowed to see in June, proves the two men accepted bribes.
But this is an unverified form, and it relies on a...
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New details from a previously redacted FBI document claim that the owner of Ukrainian gas company Burisma thought Hunter Biden was dumber than his dog.
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa on Thursday dispersed more details from the FBI's FD-1023 document that has been claimed for months by Grassley and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky to contain "credible" evidence that President Joe Biden and his son engaged in questionable business dealings.
The document from June 2020 says that Joe and Hunter Biden each received $5 million from Mykola Zlochevsky, a former elected official and current owner of...
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The compelling congressional testimony of two IRS whistleblower agents has established three things.
First, the investigation into Biden corruption — millions of dollars pouring into the family coffers from apparatchiks of corrupt and anti-American regimes seeking to buy Joe Biden’s political influence — is real and has been thwarted by the Biden Justice Department. Second, the president’s son Hunter Biden received preferential treatment, and, next week, a federal judge should reject the sweetheart plea deal he was given by the Justice Department. Third, Attorney General Merrick Garland owes the country an explanation for why...
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