Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has promoted two agents with the Internal Revenue Service who said they faced retaliation after blowing the whistle to Congress and speaking out to CBS News about political interference into their investigation of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes. IRS special agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler were assigned to Bessent’s office as…
Washington — President Trump on Monday said he was revoking Secret Service protection for former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, “effective immediately.” Biden’s daughter, Ashley Biden, will also lose her Secret Service detail, Mr. Trump said. “Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United…
Media ‘NO SENSE’ Amy Klobuchar, a senator from Minnesota, said the system should be radically changed. Maurício Alencar Freelance Reporter Updated Dec. 15 2024 3:43PM EST / Published Dec. 15 2024 2:43PM EST CBS via X Maurício Alencar Freelance Reporter MauricioFCA_ mauriciofca@gmail.com Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here. Source link
Chris Rock returned to Studio 8H to host “Saturday Night Live” for the fourth time — joking in his highly anticipated monologue that President Biden’s middle finger “still works” after he controversially pardoned his son Hunter. With the stage at 30 Rock decorated for Christmas, the legendary comic, who rose to fame as a cast…
Joe Biden and the Dem apparat around him have made it plain: They are going to do as much damage to America as they can on the way out the door. Last week brought a record number of presidential pardons, including 1,500 commutations of the sentences of “nonviolent” felons, most of whom were already serving…
A heartbroken mother has blasted President Joe Biden for commuting the lengthy prison sentence of a corrupt former judge jailed in the notorious kids-for-cash scandal. Critics have claimed the president tainted his legacy by pardoning his son Hunter Biden after insisting he wouldn’t intervene when he was convicted on gun and tax charges. Now Sandy…
President Joe Biden—forgotten but not gone as Jim Geraghty so nicely put it over at National Review—is a much-reduced figure, and one naturally wants to be charitable toward him as his failure as a politician and his failure as a father are fused together in the waning days of his presidency, a period dominated by…
This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become. “Yes I do think so, and I think he should pardon all of those people that have been accused and who have been targeted so we can clean the slate.” —Jim Clyburn, when…
Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, said Sunday that she’s “not a fan” of preemptive pardons that President Joe Biden is reportedly weighing to issue before he leaves office in January. Politico and NBC News reported last week that Biden is considering issuing preemptive pardons for prominent critics of President-elect Donald Trump, including Democratic Senator-elect…
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, on Sunday if he had any concerns about President Joe Biden‘s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden. Last Sunday, Biden issued a pardon for his son that not only covered his federal felony gun and tax convictions but also any other “offenses against the…