First lady Jill Biden made a surprise Mother's Day visit to Ukraine, White House confirms there are no plans for Joe to travel to Kyiv



First lady Jill Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine this Sunday marking a rare solo as the spouse of a sitting president to visit an active war zone.

Fox News reported that the first lady entered Ukraine by crossing the border from Slovakia on Sunday morning after visiting with Ukrainian refugees at a processing center. Reportedly, she met with Ukrainian first lady Olen Zelenska. The Ukrainian first lady has not been seen in public since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Mrs. Biden said, “I wanted to come on Mother’s Day. I thought it was important to show the Ukrainian people that this war has to stop and this war has been brutal and that the people of the United States stand with the people of Ukraine.”

Zelenska praised her American counterpart for making a “courageous trip” which reportedly occurred as an impromptu stop on the U.S. first lady’s four-day trip to Eastern Europe without her husband.

The first ladies met in a small classroom in front of reporters before holding a private meeting. Zelenska and her children have reportedly remained in an undisclosed location due to safety concerns as Russian officials made it an early priority of their invasion to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and members of his family.

The two women later joined a group of children who live at the school where they met in making tissue-paper bears to give as Mother’s Day gifts.

The first lady’s visit to Ukraine marks the third high profile meeting between U.S. and Ukrainian officials.

In late April U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Zelenskyy to discuss the U.S. federal government’s role in providing the Ukrainian military with more than $300 million in financing. And in early May, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi along with the Democratic U.S. Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, Gregory Meeks of New York, and Adam Schiff of California met with Zelenskyy to show support for the Ukrainian government.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has also visited Ukraine and held a private meeting with Zelenskyy in the country’s capital city of Kyiv.

President Joe Biden has yet to visit Ukraine or host Zelenskyy.

Zelenskyy previously told CNN host Jake Tapper that he thought Biden ought t visit Ukraine because ‘’he is the leader of the United States, and that’s why he should come here to see.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki, however, confirmed that there are no plans to send Biden to Ukraine.

She said, “No. No, we are not sending the president to Ukraine.”

Republicans in Congress are prepared to subpoena Hunter Biden over his international business deals and content found on his laptop



Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to subpoena Hunter Biden after the 2022 midterm elections and force him to answer a series of questions about his foreign business dealings and the contents of his infamous laptop.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who currently serves as the House GOP conference chair, said, “We will subpoena Hunter Biden,” the New York Post reported.

Biden, the 52-year-old trouble child of the Biden family and youngest son of President Joe Biden, previously abandoned his personal laptop at a computer repair shop in Delaware in the Spring of 2019. The computer’s hard drive contained years’ worth of correspondence over emails and texts, legal documents, and photos that detailed the younger Biden’s international business ventures.

The owner of the computer repair shop made copies of the laptop’s hard drive and provided them to the FBI and Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and advisor to former President Donald Trump. Ultimately, the New York Post obtained a copy of the hard drive and ran an expose a month before the 2020 presidential election which was suppressed by Facebook and Twitter and largely ignored by legacy-corporate media.

At the time, Biden’s laptop was falsely dismissed by the media and many in the American intelligence community as “Russian propaganda.”

Accusing these entities of collaborating to benefit the First Family, Stefanik said, “It should concern every American that they did this for the Biden family’s financial gain, which came at the cost of our national security.”

One of the questions, Republicans in Congress are most seeking for an answer for from Biden is who the moniker “the big guy” refers to in emails to one of his business partners. “The big guy” is described as a partner in a Chinese business venture and is entitled to 10 percent of the venture’s profits; “the big guy’s” shares were to be held for him by Hunter Biden.

“That’s one of the critical questions — perhaps the most critical question,” said Stefanik.

Stefanik stated that she believes “the big guy” is none other than Hunter’s father, Joe Biden.

Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter’s, said that there is “no question” that Joe Biden was “the big guy.”

“The American people absolutely deserve answers,” Stefanik said. “There is no greater ethical concern or frankly conspiracy … whether this president is compromised because of his illegal ties to his family members.”

The Beau Biden Foundation took in millions of dollars in donations while spending just thousands on philanthropy in 2020



The Beau Biden Foundation spent less than $750,000 in 2020 on its purported mission despite raking in nearly $4 million in donations the same year.

The New York Post reported that the Delaware-based charity, which was started in honor of President Joe Biden’s late son, received an infusion of $1.8 million from the Biden Foundation — started by Joe and Jill Biden — prior to that organization ending operations before Joe became president.

The Beau Biden Foundation also received more than $200,000 in charitable donations from entities that are tied to a top political donor of the president.

Reportedly, the charity spent just over $500,000, in 2020, towards its stated purpose of protecting children from abuse, according to tax filings.

The charity spent an almost equivalent amount that year in paying six-figure salaries of longtime Biden associates who hold executive-level jobs at the Beau Biden Foundation. This includes Patricia Day Lewis, who served as Delaware deputy attorney general during Beau Biden’s tenure as the state of Delaware’s Attorney General. Lewis currently runs the non-profit and, as of 2020, receives an annual salary of over $150,000.

Joshua Alcorn, a Democratic operative with a long resume who has also worked as a consultant on campaigns for both Joe and Beau Biden, served as the COO of the non-profit, in 2020, and received $131,437 in compensation. He has since left this role.

Hunter Biden, the middle-aged trouble child of the Biden family, also previously served on the board of the Beau Biden Foundation.

Currently, Hallie Biden, with whom Hunter had a prolonged affair after the death of his brother, is the only member of the Biden family serving on the board.

The board also features former FBI director Louis Freeh.

CharityWatch, a watchdog group, stated that non-profits that receive its highest ratings generally spend at least 75 percent of their annual budget on their charitable giving programs. The Beau Biden Foundation, in this case, only dedicated 58 percent of its spending to its mission.

Laurie Styron, the executive director of CharityWatch, said, “A 58 percent ratio does not reflect a high level of financial efficiency.”

The non-profit said that following the 2021 inauguration of Joe Biden, in a bid to increase transparency, it would no longer take money from lobbyists or foreign donors and would release the names of its major contributors.

Currently, the Beau Biden Foundation conducts virtual and in-person workshops for adults starting at $500 a session and holds sessions for children focusing on topics like bullying and internet safety.