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Hunter’s Art Scandal
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has continued digging into the various financial scandals involving the Biden family. His latest revelations involve Hunter’s so-called “art business.”
Again, we were told that the White House set up a strict ethics plan to ensure that there was no untoward influence involved in the sale of Hunter’s art. No one was supposed to know who was buying Hunter’s work, not even Hunter Biden himself, and no one was supposed to benefit from buying it.
Well, that didn’t happen. Shocker, I know.
Hunter Biden’s art dealer, Georges Berges, told House investigators that Biden knew the vast majority of his art buyers and the White House never talked to him about any “ethics plan.”
It was another total lie for pure monetary benefit.
Speaking of Hunter Biden, he had the audacity to show up this morning at the House Oversight Committee hearing that was scheduled to draft his contempt of Congress resolution for defying a congressional subpoena. He didn’t stay long and again refused to answer any questions.
So, he won’t talk to House investigators, but he will turn up at a hearing he wasn’t invited to.
The Battle For Election Integrity
Election integrity, the guarantee of free and fair elections, is a major concern for many Americans. It’s not a fringe issue or the realm of conspiracy nuts.
Polling shows that 56% of Americans are concerned about cheating in the 2024 election. At the same time, only 28% of Americans are satisfied with the way democracy is working in our country today.
Regardless of what you think about the issue of election integrity or whether the 2020 election was rigged or perfectly fine, those are terrible numbers that represent a huge problem.
Of course, the left insists that election integrity is not a big deal. “Voter fraud almost never happens,” they say.
Tell that to the voters of Bridgeport, Connecticut, where an election was recently overturned because of fraud and cheating. The secretary of state is now urging voters to vote in person and avoid using absentee ballots.
One major concern in recent years has been the recent trend in progressive cities to allow illegal aliens to vote in local elections. Somehow, they’re allowed to vote for local offices, but nothing else.
That seems insane to me, not to mention an open invitation for voter fraud and cheating. But at least it is theoretically limited to local elections, right?
Well, one conservative media outlet is sounding the alarm about voter registration procedures in Arizona, a critical swing state.
It seems that if someone does not provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote (why is that even optional?!), they automatically become not a “local only voter,” but a “federal only voter.”
Here it is in black and white right off the Arizona secretary of state’s website:
“A person must be a U.S. citizen in order to register and vote.
“A person who submits valid proof of citizenship with his or her voter registration form (regardless of the type of form submitted) is entitled to vote in all federal, state, county and local elections in which he or she is eligible. The voter registration form otherwise must be sufficiently complete.
“A person is not required to submit proof of citizenship with the voter registration form, but failure to do so means the person will only be eligible to vote in federal elections (known as being a ‘federal only’ voter).”
It is shocking and outrageous that this could possibly be legal, but it’s a real issue that the state of Arizona has been fighting to correct for years now.
Arizona legislators attempted to address this over a decade ago, but the Supreme Court struck down Arizona’s law requiring proof of citizenship when individuals register to vote.
Why? In the court’s opinion, the state requirement violated the 1993 Motor Voter Act, which created a federal registration form that states are obligated to accept. That form asks individuals to attest that they are citizens, but no documented proof of citizenship is actually required.
According to the New York Times, there are more than 30,000 “federal only voters” in Arizona. Biden won the state by just over 10,000 votes.
Arizona legislators tried again to fix this glaring problem in 2022, and the Biden Administration sued to block the new law. A federal judge appointed by Bill Clinton overturned parts of the law in September and is expected to issue a final decision this spring.
Meanwhile, this problem is not limited to just Arizona. At least three other states have been prevented from requiring proof of citizenship when people register to vote.
We will continue to closely monitor this issue. We urge elected leaders at every level to do everything they can to secure our elections in order to restore faith and confidence in our democratic process.
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