{"id":1576876,"date":"2022-07-28T14:56:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576876"},"modified":"2022-07-28T14:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T18:56:05","slug":"answer-these-questions-for-the-country-matt-gaetz-presses-national-security-head-on-hunter-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/answer-these-questions-for-the-country-matt-gaetz-presses-national-security-head-on-hunter-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Answer These Questions For The Country\u2019: Matt Gaetz Presses National Security Head On Hunter Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanswer-these-questions-for-the-country-matt-gaetz-presses-national-security-head-on-hunter-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/11403-e1659032573505.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz repeatedly pressed Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen on Hunter Biden during a Thursday hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz pressed Olsen on whether the president\u2019s son\u2019s business dealings are a threat to national security, accusing the Attorney General\u2019s office of taking no action in investigating possible criminal activity by the president\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Hunter Biden a national security threat?\u201d the representative asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not a question that would come before me,\u201d Olsen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re the head of the National Security division, so it seems sort of on the nose,\u201d Gaetz pressed.<\/p>\n<p>Olsen claimed it is not his job to label any individual or American citizen as a national security threat. Gaetz suggested that Hunter Biden would be a national security threat if Bidens were \u201ccompromised,\u201d to which Olsen said his division investigates these matters in open court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gaetz then questioned Olsen on the whereabouts of Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/17\/nyt-admits-authenticity-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">laptop<\/a>, which had been abandoned in a Delaware repair shop in 2019. The computer contained a cache of files and emails detailing his overseas business dealings with a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, and a Chinese energy company, CEFC China Energy. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/29\/matt-gaetz-confronts-fbi-official-hunter-biden-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Matt Gaetz Confront FBI Official On Whereabouts Of Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop, Enters It Into Congressional Record)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeak to this, where\u2019s the laptop? Do you know where Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop is?\u201d the representative asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to talk about any potential, ongoing investigations as I sit here,\u201d Olsen replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know where it is? You come here and tell us you follow the facts and the law but you can\u2019t even follow a laptop that you\u2019ve had for three years,\u201d Gaetz said.<\/p>\n<p>Olsen repeated that the division discusses such matters in open court. Gaetz argued the National Security division refuses to investigate any \u201cderogatory\u201d detail about the president\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/26\/fbi-hunter-biden-alleged-criminal-activity-disinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote a letter<\/a> to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland Monday after \u201chighly credible\u201d whistleblowers allegedly told him the FBI downplayed Biden\u2019s alleged \u201ccriminal financial and related activity\u201d before the 2020 presidential election. Former FBI agent Timothy Thibault allegedly \u201cordered closed\u201d an \u201cavenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you aren\u2019t speaking about, you know who is speaking about it,\u201d Gaetz said of these reports. \u201cThe whistleblowers from the FBI who\u2019ve gone to Senator [Chuck] Grassley and said that you guys purposely take any information that is derogatory about Hunter Biden and you go and rathole it so that you never have to speak about it in any circumstance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olsen refused to answer if he is aware of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/27\/hunter-biden-patrick-ho-cefc-fara\/?s=kistner&#038;_page=105&#038;fbclid=IwAR0ITqrMI5FjPA2ysR6ShoHbc4iFXecfxaYQx1Dt3Fwo7XRbZxNRQ-FrUX8&#038;jwsource=cl&#038;utm_campaign=targetingUSA&#038;utm_medium=display&#038;utm_source=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Ho<\/a>, who was arrested by FBI agents for his plot to bribe African leaders millions of dollars to advance the Chinese government\u2019s interests. He and his boss, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/31\/hunter-biden-cefc-china-intelligence-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ye Jianming<\/a>,\u00a0had entered into a business partnership with Biden and his uncle, James Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t you see that that degrades the country\u2019s belief in you guys when you have whistleblowers saying that you\u2019re purposely ratholing this information and then you come here and say you won\u2019t talk about it,\u201d Gaetz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know why you don\u2019t speak about it? Because it\u2019s about Hunter Biden,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou guys have no problem leaking about other stuff, right? You guys have no problem tagging parents at school board meetings as a national security threat, but when all of the facts and all of the logic regarding the corruption of Hunter Biden, you don\u2019t want to speak to that at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz asked if the division had communicated with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/22\/hunter-biden-joe-biden-tony-bobulinski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tony Bobulinski<\/a>, a former business partner of the Biden family, who confirmed the authenticity of an email discussing a business deal between Biden and CEFC energy company. The email had initially been labeled as Russian disinformation by Democrats. Olsen refused to discuss these claims or answer if this case is a national security matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty easy to see that Hunter Biden is compromised,\u201d Gaetz said. \u201cI think every American knows that\u2019s a threat to national security. I think we\u2019re watching a crime spree in progress that Hunter Biden is orchestrating and one has to wonder, what are the Chinese getting for the tens of millions of dollars that they\u2019re cutting the Biden family on?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what? Winter is coming, we\u2019re gonna be in the majority, and then you\u2019re gonna have to answer these questions for the country,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department (DOJ) investigation into Biden\u2019s dealings has neared a \u201ccritical juncture,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/20\/politics\/hunter-biden-investigation-critical-juncture\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN report<\/a>. The agency has shifted more focus to his alleged tax violations and the 2018 gun crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz repeatedly pressed Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen on Hunter Biden during a Thursday hearing.Gaetz pressed Olsen on whether the president\u2019s son\u2019s business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}