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Nevertheless, prosecutors denied investigators' requests to develop a strategy to look into the messages and denied investigators' suggestion to obtain location information to see where the texts were sent from.
For example, we obtained a July 30th, 2017, WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to Henry Zhao, where Hunter Biden wrote: "I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father."
Communications like these made it clear we needed to search the guest house at the Bidens' Delaware residence where Hunter Biden stayed for a time.
In a September 3rd, 2023 [2020], pros meeting, the Assistant United States Attorney, Lesley Wolf, told us there was more than enough probable cause for the physical search warrant there, but the question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze. She continued that optics were a driving factor in the decision on whether to execute a search warrant. She said a lot of evidence in our investigation would be found in the guest house of former Vice President Biden, but said there is no way we will get that approved.
The prosecutors even wanted to remove Hunter Biden's name from electronic search warrants, 2703(d) orders, and document requests. Special Agent said on the call he felt uncomfortable with removing the subject's name from those documents just based on what might or might not be approved, as that seemed unethical. But his concerns were ignored.
And Department of Justice Tax Line Attorney Jack Morgan said, doing it without Hunter Biden's name would probably still get us, in quote, "most" of the data we sought. I have never been part of an investigation where only getting most of the data was considered sufficient.
On September 3rd, 2020, the slow-walking of process continued when AUSA Wolf stated that a search warrant for the emails for Blue Star Strategies was being sat on by OEO. That's the Department of Justice Office -- actually, I'm sorry. I don't know what it means, the acronym. She indicated it would likely not get approved. This was a significant blow to the Foreign Agents Registration Act piece of the investigation.
On September 4th, 2020, Deputy Attorney General Donoghue issued a cease and desist of all overt investigative activities due to the coming election. AUSA Wolf made several odd statements, to include that DOJ was under fire and it was self-inflicted. She stated that DOJ needed to repair their reputation.
Guess the he made it all up, right?
Gotta love the 'we have strong evidence Joe Biden took $5 million in bribes from the chinese communist party and our investigators are recommending a search, but we won't authorize it because of optics' vs 'we speculate Trump might not have turned over all his documents that he may or may not have a right to possess and our investigators are recommending we ask his permission to check, so instead we'll send storm troopers to burst through his front door'
This post was edited by Goomshill on Jun 25 2023 02:11pm