'Shut it down': Newly released FBI doc reveals who apparently killed probes into Clinton Foundation



FBI Director Kash Patel found a damning memo written in October 2017 that details the timeline of the probes into twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's alleged pay-to-play scheme.

It is clear from the heavily redacted memo, which was first obtained by Just the News, that the investigations into Clinton's alleged scheme — set in motion following the publication of Governmental Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer's bestselling book "Clinton Cash" — appear to have been brought to a screeching halt by then-Obama Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates with the help of other Justice Department and FBI officials.

Background

Hillary Clinton dealt with two particularly big scandals in 2016 before her humiliating electoral defeat.

One of the scandals concerned her use of a personal email system for official communications during her time as Obama's first secretary of state.

Authorities reportedly found hundreds of emails on her private system — which was vulnerable to hacking and enabled her to go off-the-books with her official engagements — containing classified information. Eight email chains were allegedly found to contain Top Secret information; 36 chains allegedly contained Secret information; and eight allegedly contained Confidential information.

The second scandal, which was brought to the nation's attention thanks to Schweizer's book, concerned the Clintons' alleged pay-to-play and bribery scheme, where big-time donors to the Clinton Foundation reportedly frequently found themselves materially benefiting from actions taken by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state.

The 2017 FBI memo

The memo recently secured by Patel indicates that on Feb. 1, 2016 — just days after FBI agents at field offices in New York, Arkansas, and the District of Columbia launched investigations into the Clinton Foundation regarding the allegations in Schweizer's book — the Obama Justice Department indicated that "they would not be supportive of a FBI investigation."

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The FBI timeline indicates that 16 days later, then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe "directed that no overt investigative steps were to be taken on the CF investigation without his approval."

The Durham report previously revealed that in February, McCabe — who had a possible conflict of interest and was described by one former FBI official as being "annoyed" and "angry" at the time — apparently leaned on the field agents to close their cases and that those restrictions on overt investigative activities remained in place for several months.

When speaking on Thursday to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck about the significance of the revelations, Schweizer, who confirmed he worked with the FBI as a confidential informant, expressed his admiration for the FBI field agents who tried to hold Clinton accountable.

"I can't speak highly enough of them," said Schweizer. "They doggedly continued those investigations because they saw how much smoke and fire was actually there."

Despite agents being well-positioned to continue digging — particularly those at the Little Rock field office — FBI leaders continued to set up roadblocks, prohibiting agents from taking additional "investigative steps" or from reaching out to new confidential human sources.

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Sally Yates. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The FBI memo indicated that sometime around March 2016, Sally Yates apparently ordered the U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of Arkansas to "shut it down."

'The deep state is really becoming clear right now.'

Schweizer told Beck that Yates' purported order was "highly, highly, highly unusual because field offices are supposed to organically follow leads and investigate, and to have the headquarters shut down an investigation on somebody as important as the Clintons ... speaks of course of the problems of the deep state that you highlighted for so many years."

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Months after Yates allegedly spiked the Arkansas investigation into the Clinton Foundation, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York made clear they "would not support the investigation" and apparently provided no explanation as to why.

"The deep state is really becoming clear right now," said Glenn Beck.

Additional insights

The Durham annex that was declassified by CIA Director John Ratcliffe last month provided insights into the alleged effort by former President Barack Obama to simultaneously protect his legacy and spare Clinton from accountability.

Russian intelligence services apparently hacked and gained access to the emails of a number of American government entities, nonprofit organizations, and think tanks ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Among the organizations allegedly hacked by Russian actors was Democratic mega-donor George Soros' Open Society Foundations.

A source shared with the FBI some of the intelligence gathered in these hacks — including purported emails between then-Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and two individuals at George Soros' Open Society Foundations, Jeffrey Goldstein and Leonard Benardo — the latter of whom just hid his tweets on X.

The source conveyed this information to the feds in two memos, one in January 2016 and the second in March 2016.

The first memo indicated on the basis of alleged communications between Schultz and Benardo that former President Barack Obama apparently sought to torpedo the FBI's investigation into the pay-to-play scheme that Hillary Clinton allegedly ran while secretary of state for fear of the scandal staining his legacy.

According to the second memo, Schultz confided in Benardo that Obama "sanctioned the use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects from the FBI investigation of cases related to the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence in the State Department."

Blaze News reached out to Schultz and to Obama's office for comment.

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America's ON FIRE, and China's holding the gas can!



Author Peter Schweizer has blown the lid open on just how insidious China’s influence over America really is.

“China’s holding an empty can of gasoline, and our leaders are basically not saying or doing anything,” Schweizer tells Sara Gonzales.

“It’s not that they caused these problems, but they’ve exacerbated them and made them worse,” he adds.

Some of those problems are the violent left-wing groups operating in America’s streets and the fentanyl epidemic that's killing thousands of Americans every year.

According to Schweizer, the drug cartels in Mexico may be the junior partners overseeing the fentanyl crisis — but the Chinese are the senior partners. The Chinese start the process when they ship the “component parts of the fentanyl” to a port in Mexico.

This port is run by a Chinese company, which then sends the parts to northern Mexico, where it’s made into fentanyl. That fentanyl is then distributed to the 2,000 Chinese nationals in northern Mexico before it makes its way across the border.

“The cartels are helping kill their customers, but the profit margin for fentanyl is 8 to 10 times what it is for cocaine, so they’re willing to suffer those casualties. Meanwhile, the senior partner, the Chinese,” Schweizer explains, “what they really want to do is kill Americans.”

Now, fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans under 45.

“That’s the thing, China’s like, 'Good, we want to kill Americans,'” Gonzales says, disturbed.


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China's secret role in the drug epidemic



Amid the border crisis and surging drug problems, author Peter Schweizer has completely exposed China’s massive influence over all of it.

Schweizer explains to Mark Levin that in early 2021, there was a congressional commission that reported to the White House there were 2,000 Chinese nationals just south of the border in Mexico.

These Chinese nationals have been assisting the Mexican cartels with creating fentanyl to smuggle across the border.

The report on this issue was issued by the congressional commission in 2021, but rather than taking it as a sign to protect the border, the Biden administration has left it wide open.

“That, to me, is the epitome of negligence, criminal negligence, because what you’re essentially saying is we know this is a systematic effort; we know that fentanyl is coming; we know that tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year,” Schweizer tells Levin, adding, “and our agenda is more important than actually protecting the American people.”

Meanwhile, President Biden has refused to even confront the Chinese verbally about what they’re doing with the fentanyl trade — despite fentanyl poisoning now being the leading cause of death in the United States for people under the age of 45.

“What you seem to be suggesting here is that Joe Biden is one of the greatest facilitators of the sale and use of fentanyl in the United States of America given his policies,” Levin says.

“He’s also one of the greatest, as the left calls them, ‘slavers’ in American history, given his border policies and the fact that unknown infinite numbers of women and children are being sold into sex slavery and pornography,” he adds.

“If you look at the human cost of the open border — human cost to Americans, human cost to women and children — the body count is astronomical,” Schweizer says in agreement.


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Peter Schweizer explains how the Clintons paved the road of corruption for Joe Biden



While America’s founders were mostly concerned about Great Britain, they were also worried about elected officials being given commercial opportunities as a form of persuasion.

Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer believes that political attitudes began to turn on this issue under Bill and Hillary Clinton.

“It was really the Clintons that turbocharged this,” Schweizer tells Mark Levin.

“When Bill Clinton started accepting $750,000 to speak for 20 minutes overseas, everybody realized these weren’t speaking fees, these were bribes disguised as speaking fees,” he explains.

Meanwhile, the Clinton Foundation began accepting $10 million donations from foreign governments while Hillary was secretary of state.

“If this stuff is allowed to happen,” Schweizer continues, “If the Clintons get away with it, and they largely did, other people are going to start doing the same thing.”

Now, the Bidens are following suit.

“The Bidens are even more blatant and direct about it than the Clintons were,” he says, noting that the foreign governments they’re dealing with are largely our greatest enemies.

“It’s going to get worse until enough people in Washington are prepared to stand up and say, ‘No, we’re not tolerating this anymore, this goes beyond the pale, it has to stop,'” Schweizer adds.

Levin is in agreement.

“Either you want to fight to save your country, or we’re going to lose it,” he says.


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Peter Schweizer exposes China's villainous acts in exclusive interview



America is more divided than ever, and American political consultant and writer Peter Schweizer is exposing just why that is.

In his new book, “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” Schweizer uncovers the real reason Americans are pointing the finger at each other instead of the real threat: China.

“China is engaging in activities to amplify our divisions or to give voice to radical ideas that are really a pretty small minority of the American people, but they get amplified,” he tells Mark Levin.

One of these radical ideas is transgenderism, which has been heavily funded by China.

The top offenders are two China-based billionaires who are the two biggest funders of the transgender movement in the United States — but they don’t advocate for the movement in China.

“That led me to the conclusion, which I think is amply supported, that is part of this disruptive strategy that China has to sow chaos and confusion in the United States,” Schweizer says.

China isn’t exactly operating alone, either.

“The Biden’s got some $30 million from Chinese businessmen,” he tells Levin, adding, “At least $5 million of it came from a businessman who was business partners with one of the Chinese criminal gang leaders who helped set up the fentanyl crisis in Mexico.”

“The first family of the United States has literally one degree of separation from the criminal networks that are poisoning 100,000 Americans every year,” he adds.

Levin is well aware of the Biden family's criminal history.

“In many ways, the Biden family is bought and paid for by the communist Chinese,” he says.

To learn more, watch the full interview below.


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These two Chinese billionaires are funneling money into the trans movement in the US but NOT China — WHY?



Americans today feel more divided than ever, but according to investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, that might not actually be the case.

In his book “Blood Money,” Schweizer exposes how the Chinese Communist Party is using real disinformation and pushing radical movements to divide us.

“Take the issue of the trans movement in the United States,” Schweizer tells Glenn Beck. “This just erupted in the last five years. Well, as I point out in the book, two of the biggest funders of the trans movement in America are China-based billionaires.”

One of those billionaires, Roy Singham, has put more than $160 million into radical causes in the United States, including the transgender movement. Singham is reportedly very close with members of the CCP.

Another billionaire, Joe Tsai, has poured tens of millions of dollars into the trans rights movement. He owns the WNBA team in New York, which was the first professional sports team to have a trans athlete play.

Schweizer explains that the “very troubling part” of all this is that “these guys do not push for these rights in China; they only push for these rights in the United States.”

“This is clearly an effort to destabilize the United States,” Schweizer says.

Even BLM and pro-Hamas demonstrations are funded by organizations that take their marching orders from China.

The other part that’s been devastating to the American divide is what the Chinese military is doing online.

“The Chinese military has thousands of experts that run individually thousands of social media accounts where they pose as Americans in the United States. Basically half the accounts, Glenn, say ‘America is a hopelessly racist, bigoted society,' and the other half of the accounts say ‘I only like white people,’” Schweizer explains.

“I think we are actually divided that we believe we are, and China is trying to create fissures between us,” he adds.

“I thank you for exposing all of this,” Glenn says. "You’re usually so far ahead of the curve, but I think America senses now something is really wrong.”

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Are American elites hurting the Ukrainian people as much as Putin?



There’s no doubt that the Ukrainian people are suffering, but there is doubt as to whether or not their government officials — whom we’ve been told by the propagandists are the good guys — are acting in anyone’s favor but their own.

While the media is constantly playing on the heartstrings of American’s people so that they turn a blind eye to the billions of dollars in aid America has sent to the Ukranian government, the fact remains that Ukraine is one of the dirtiest countries as far as money-laundering goes.

Glenn asks the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Schweizer, if this is all nothing more than just a money-laundering scheme. Schweizer says he’s concerned.

He continues, “The problem is Ukraine is led by this corrupt government,” before reminding us that Zelenskyy’s chief financial backer is an oligarch named Kolomoisky.

Kolomoisky is known to have ripped off billions of dollars in foreign aid in the past. He says it's not just the Ukrainian government we have to worry about, but the American government as well.

Schweizer says, “You have this cast of characters at the top of Ukraine, and then you have Americans who are making decisions ... who have had their hand in the trough.”

Not only have these Americans had “their hand in the trough” of Ukraine, but Russia as well. Schweizer says, “Ten years ago, the Clintons, John Podesta ... were all doing business with Vladimir Putin. ... They were taking money from oligarchs and people in Russia and Ukraine, so it is very hard not to look at this and say that there is a financial corruption component to this.”

When it comes to Ukraine, few American politicians are spared the charge of corruption.

Glenn asks his guest whether or not we’re going to track all of this and see if any of the money came back to people here in the United States.

Schweizer says that unfortunately, “that’ll be hard to do.”

What he says needs to stop is not the actual aid given to Ukraine, but the blank checks we keep handing its government.


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IMPEACH Biden? Author and expert on Biden family corruption says 'the EVIDENCE is clearly there'



From Hillary Clinton's email scandal to Biden family corruption to Russiagate and the Mar-a-Lago raid, it's very clear that many institutions in Washington, D.C., have a separate set of rules for former President Donald Trump — including the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation. And when you take a look at history, it's also clear that there's nothing more destructive to a free civilization than having a judicial system that favors one political side or is used to go after the other, as Peter Schweizer, author of "Red-Handed" and expert on Biden family corruption, explained.

Schweizer joined Glenn Beck on the radio program to give his thoughts on what the FBI's raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was really about (hint: getting caught "jerry-rigging" the Russiagate investigation was deeply embarrassing for both the DOJ and FBI) and whether President Joe Biden will ever be held accountable for his part in alleged "major crimes and major security threats" to our country.

Asked if there is enough evidence to impeach Joe Biden if Republicans gain control of Congress later this year (and if they actually have the spine to challenge the president), Schweizer told Glenn there is enough evidence for impeachment, but removing Biden from office may be another story.

"The evidence is clearly there," Schweizer said. "My view is this has always been, not a story about the hookers, about the cocaine, about the drug abuse, and it's not even been a story just about Ukraine and Russia. For me, it's always been about espionage and about the fact that Chinese intelligence has their claws into [the Biden] family. All you have to do is look at, very simply, the four businessmen that Hunter Biden received tens of millions of dollars from in China. They're all directly linked to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence, and that ain't a coincidence [...].

"The problem that you have with elected officials, like Mitt Romney, is they really do view a high elected office as a club ... but you can't gloss over major crimes and major security threats," he added.

Schweizer later went on to add, "When it comes to Ukraine, in my mind, it's really possible to believe two things at the same time. Number one, Vladimir Putin is an aggressor that has moved into neighboring Ukraine and created this humanitarian crisis. And number two, the Ukrainian government is corrupt, and we are going to pour billions of dollars in there that's going to end up in overseas accounts. We know Zelinskyy's already done this ... the international consortium of investigative journalists, they got access to overseas bank accounts that show government officials have been ... siphoning off billions of dollars of U.S. aid. So, what you're saying is already happening, and it's a tragedy."

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Biden crime family: Why Hunter’s secrets are REALLY about Joe



Almost every week, new incriminating evidence is mined from Hunter’s wild laptop. And the proof is mounting that President Joe Biden is lying about his knowledge of his family’s crooked deal-making. Everyone knows Hunter Biden is a seriously degenerate guy. Anyone who has handled his infamous laptop needs a tetanus shot.

The salacious stuff on the laptop is sad and pathetic for sure, but that stuff is NOT what is most relevant to the United States. Glenn Beck exposes how the laptop is REALLY about Joe Biden, his abuse of power as vice president, and his ongoing denials now as president.

Now that the 2020 election has passed and their man is in office, the mainstream media have suddenly decided to admit Hunter’s laptop is not Russian disinformation after all. No one has done more research into the Biden family corruption than journalist and best-selling author Peter Schweizer. He has researched the depths of Hunter’s laptop and found more than racy photos. “These aren’t HUNTER’S business deals,” Peter says, “they benefit the WHOLE family.” And he has the emails to prove it.

But the mainstream media still insist President Biden is as pure as his thinning white hair in all of this. As Glenn reveals tonight, he is not. But will anyone in the Biden family see jail time? Americans are fed up with two sets of rules – one for regular citizens and one for the ruling elites.

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