Donalds wants to know if Biden paid ‘fair share’ in taxes on payments in alleged ‘bribery scheme’
Heather Hamilton
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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) blasted President Joe Biden over an alleged “criminal bribery scheme” in which an FBI informant suggests the president and his family have received millions of dollars in foreign payments, asking if they had paid their “fair share.”
On Monday, while speaking on the Senate floor, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that a largely unredacted version of the FBI’s FD-1023 form said that “the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them — 17 such recordings.”
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In response, Donalds affirmed that Grassley’s comments “pan out” with what he has seen of the same form.
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“Everything that Sen. Grassley says does pan out because the document does state that the Burisma executive actually has receipts,” Donalds told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “And then the other piece that definitely pans out is that they move the money through several accounts that would take investigators 10 years to find.”
“By the way, I will add this: Joe Biden likes to say that the rich need to pay their fair share,” he continued. “’Hey, Joe, did you pay your taxes on that $5 million?’ I don’t think you did.”
Donalds asserted that he believes Biden is compromised and echoed others’ calls for a special counsel investigation.
“The president and the president’s family have been shaking down foreign companies and foreign countries for a long time,” Donalds said. “Don’t tell me that Joe Biden is not compromised by the fact that his family has gotten millions and millions of dollars through all these dummy shell corporations that they set up in his last year and a half as vice president.”
“They set it up on purpose for this exact thing,” the congressman said. “It’s time that a special council is brought forward to investigate this the same way they have a zealous prosecution of President Trump.”
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When asked about the alleged “bribery scheme,” Biden has called the allegations “a bunch of malarkey,” saying, “Where’s the money? I’m joking.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) also told Ingraham to expect appropriations legislation coming from the House next week that will employ Congress’s “power of the purse” and seek to withhold government funding of the FBI amid allegations of corruption within the federal agency.