Happy Friday

Yesterday, as you know, was Groundhog’s Day. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and said, “Man, did I really get that fat?”

Seriously, the famed groundhog did see his shadow out at Gobbler’s Knob, which, according to tradition, means six more weeks of winter.

Hunter Biden Now Wants Fed Goons to Go After Trump-Allies Who Disseminate Information From His Laptop

Talk about infinite gall. Hunter Biden has requested a federal probe of the high-profile Trump-connected figures who have disseminated information from his infamous laptop … along with the computer shop owner who turned the laptop over to the FBI after Hunter abandoned it.

As the NY Post put it, “So much for the laptop ‘could be’ mine.” And of course, so much for Joe Biden’s debate stage lie that his son’s laptop was Russian disinformation.

We wrote more in “Shameless: Hunter Biden Demands His Dad’s DOJ Investigate Trump Allies Who Shared Laptop Information.”

Biden’s lawyers also sent requests for an investigation to the Delaware State Attorney General and the IRS.

Even more absurdly, Biden attorney Abbe Lowe denies that the requests are an admission the laptop is legit. He suggests (with no evidence) that the information released to the public may have been tampered with. “These letters do not confirm Mac Isaac’s or others’ versions of a so-called laptop,” Lowell told Fox News Digital. “They address their conduct of seeking, manipulating and disseminating what they allege to be Mr. Biden’s personal data, wherever they claim to have gotten it.” 

Shameless. Again … shameless.

Can’t help but think this is all part of Biden, Inc.’s effort to stonewall and keep its House of Ill-Gotten Cards from collapsing. 

For example, see this amazing thread from blogger Kanekoa tying some of Biden, Inc.’s Ukraine threads together, particularly connecting the Biden’s and Zelenskyy to a Ukraine oligarch and a Ukraine bio-lab (or bio-weapons lab).

As you read this thread, keep in mind that Donald Trump was impeached merely for asking Zelenskyy what the Bidens were up to. Imagine if, rather than impeaching Trump, the Democrats had helped get an answer. They wouldn’t be stuck with Biden and his scandal now … and we might not be on the brink of war with Russia.

Meanwhile, here’s another effort to protect the House of Ill-Gotten Cards.

National Archives Ordered to Stifle Information About Biden Doc Scandal

“Keep quiet, if you know what’s good for ya.” That seems to be the message the capos in the White House have sent throughout the Federal Government. A couple days ago, we learned Treasury Department is refusing to turn over information on the scores of Hunter Biden financial transactions banks had red flagged as suspicious. DOJ has told House Oversight to bug off. Now, a lawyer for the National Archives says they were ordered to suppress a statement about the classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center. Or so claims Oversight Chairman James Comer.

Yesterday, @USNatArchives informed us that they prepared a press statement regarding the Penn-Biden Center classified docs. However, the Archives confirmed someone suppressed the statement from going public. Only two have that authority: 1. The White House 2. DOJ.

Making this especially odious: This same National Archives did more jawboning about the Trump documents than a publicist for a K-Pop band. In fact, they devoted a whole section of their website to it. Dropped seven public statements. But for Biden, they’re clamming up.

Meanwhile, Senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio, leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland blasting DOJ for ignoring their request to learn if the classified documents Biden left around pose a danger to national security. The bipartisan duo notes “our request is not unprecedented” in cases involving the mishandling of classified information.

So who ordered DOJ to keep mum? And the Archives? And Treasury? Same person who ordered the fact that the FBI searched the Penn Biden Center in November be kept from the American people? And the fact that classified documents had been found there before the midterms.

House Republicans Vote to Book Anti-Semite Rep. Ilhan Omar Off the Foreign Relations Committee

Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Hamas-friendly congresswoman with a long track-record of anti-Semitic, anti-American comments, has been booted from the House Foreign Relations Committee. Even Democrats have admitted Omar’s anti-Semitic history… not that any in the House voted against her Thursday. The vote against her split along party lines.

Omar has also been accused of assorted immigration and elections-related violations that nobody seems to take seriously.

How a woman who describes 9/11 as “some people did some things” ever got on the Foreign Relations Committee is a wonder that cannot be explained.

Easier to explain is the Associated Press’s difference in covering Omar being ousted from a committee and the Democrat’s shoving Marjorie Taylor-Greene off of committees. Thank you, David Harsanyi.

Notice the subtle difference. In one the "House" votes (which is correct) in the other "House Republicans" vote. pic.twitter.com/6fK91Sq08W

— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) February 2, 2023

Meanwhile, this cat is starting to make Omar look good.

FBI Investigating Whether Rep. George Santos Raised Thousands for a Disabled Veteran’s Cancer-Afflicted Service Dog … and Kept the Loot

Stealing $3000 raised to help fund surgery for a disabled vet’s cancer-stricken service dog? I don’t even think Michael Avenatti would stoop this low. Or the Grinch on his worst day. Even Hunter Biden would wince. But Rep. George Santos stands accused of that very thing, and the FBI is now investigating.

Retired U.S. Navy vet Richard Osthoff confirmed to NBC News he’d been in contact with the FBI, and handed over texts and other info about the alleged 2016 GoFundMe scam. He and another New Jersey vet first told the story to Patch.com. Santos in tweet denied the allegation. Well, sort of.

The reports that I would let a dog die is shocking & insane. My work in animal advocacy was the labor of love & hard work. Over the past 24hr I have received pictures of dogs I helped rescue throughout the years along with supportive messages.

These distractions won’t stop me!

— George Santos (@Santos4Congress) January 19, 2023

Notice it says nothing about making off the dough. That was supposed to be for a doggy. A service dog. Belonging to a veteran. A disabled veteran. 

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Deliver GOP Rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union

America’s youngest governor, newly sworn-in Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been chosen by Speaker Kevin McCarthy to deliver the GOP rebuttal to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday.

She is the
✓ Youngest governor in America
✓ First female governor in Arkansas history
✓ First father-daughter governance in history

Everyone—including President Biden—should tune in. pic.twitter.com/8FlP4p8OIL

— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) February 2, 2023

Trump’s former Press Secretary will speak shortly after the speech is translated into coherent English. Seriously, how fun would it be if Sanders said, in that Southern drawl of hers, “Look. Does anybody really know what he was tryin’ to say? What wasn’t nonsense was gibberish.”

Meanwhile, Speaker Kevin McCarthy is too classy to rip up Biden’s speech like Nancy Pelosi. However, he still can have some fun. Invite the granddaughter whom Biden pretends doesn’t exist. Hold up a laptop with a sticker “Hunter Biden’s Laptop is Real.” Leading House Republicans in a “Let’s Go Brandon” chant is probably too much.

 

Along The Stream

The Stream’s Nancy Flory spoke yesterday to the 19-Year-old Georgia cop forced to resign over a pro-traditional marriage Facebook post. Read her story… and learn the silver lining to the story.