'Nap time, that's Biden’s plan': Ted Cruz fires back after @POTUS tweet mentions him by name



Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas fired back on Tuesday after a tweet posted on President Joe Biden's @POTUS Twitter account called Cruz out by name.

"Ask yourself: How well are you going to sleep at night knowing that every five years Ted Cruz and other Congressional Republicans pushing ultra-MAGA policies are going to vote on whether you'll have Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? That's their plan," the tweet on Biden's account declared.

"Nap time, that’s Biden's plan," Cruz responded.

\u201cNap time, that\u2019s Biden\u2019s plan.\u201d
— Ted Cruz (@Ted Cruz) 1655233606

The term MAGA is short for "Make America Great Again," former President Donald Trump's well-known campaign slogan.

Many others also reacted to the post from the @POTUS Twitter account.

"Tell me you're looking for a new social media director without saying it," Jonah Goldberg wrote.

"The president's comms team....sorry, just going to say it: they really suck at this. Might as well be freeze dried this is so generic and lifeless. Does anybody over there have a pulse, fresh idea, or some kind of initiative? It's embarrassing, get an adult in charge over there," Andrew Donaldson commented.

"Actually, the existential threat to Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security is Biden's program of unlimited low-wage immigration, unprotected open borders & mass amnesty. These extremist corporatist policies will eviscerate the safety net. One more reason working class fleeing Dems," Stephen Miller tweeted.

"There's still a baby formula shortage that Biden ignores & now a tampon shortage. Food is next. Inflation is through the roof with gas above $5 everywhere. THAT keeps Americans up at night, while it’s ignored by Biden who is desperately trying to make 'ultra-MAGA' happen," Jason Rantz tweeted.

"Dems have the White House and Congress…and what have they done?" Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama tweeted, making a list that includes, "record gas prices," "40+ year inflation high," "worsening crisis at the southern border," "a baby formula shortage," "out of control crime rates," and "evacuation of 2 US embassies." Tuberville added, "But, it's never their fault. NEVER."

\u201cDems have the White House and Congress\u2026and what have they done?\n\n- record gas prices\n- 40+ year inflation high\n- worsening crisis at the southern border\n- a baby formula shortage\n- out of control crime rates\n- evacuation of 2 US embassies\n\nBut, it\u2019s never their fault. NEVER.\u201d
— Tommy Tuberville (@Tommy Tuberville) 1655234588

NBC News analysis: Hunter Biden raked in $11 million in 5 years – more than half from Chinese deals. President Biden said his son did not make money in China.



Hunter Biden made millions from overseas business deals, according to the analysis of the first son's infamous laptop by NBC News. Hunter Biden raked in the most money from Chinese business dealings. However, President Joe Biden previously said that his son did not make any money in China.

The NBC News report stated, "From 2013 through 2018 Hunter Biden and his company brought in about $11 million via his roles as an attorney and a board member with a Ukrainian firm accused of bribery and his work with a Chinese businessman now accused of fraud."

Of the $11 million that Biden made in the 5-year span, $5.8 million was attained from two business deals with Chinese entities.

"The documents and the analysis, which don’t show what he did to earn millions from his Chinese partners, raise questions about national security, business ethics, and potential legal exposure," NBC News reported.

The findings regarding Hunter's finances were derived from a copy of Biden’s hard drive, his iCloud account, and an 87-page report titled "Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns" released by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in September 2020.

Hunter Biden's business deals in China

The analysis found that Hunter's most lucrative deal involved a Chinese businessman who is now believed to be detained in China, according to NBC News.

“According to business records referred to in the Senate report, Hudson West III, a venture funded by the Chinese oil and natural gas company CEFC and its chairman, Ye Jianming, paid $4,790,375.25 to Owasco P.C. over about one year.”

Owasco P.C. was controlled by Hunter Biden, according to filings in Washington, D.C.

In 2018, Ye Jianming was accused of “economic crimes” by Chinese prosecutors. He has not been seen in public since he was detained for questioning on accusations of fraud and bribery.

Ye Jianming is the former chairman of the China Energy Fund Committee. He is rumored to have ties to China's People's Liberation Army. A 2018 Financial Times report linked him to Chinese military intelligence.

"Ye's company, CEFC China Energy, aligned itself so closely with the Chinese government that it was often hard to distinguish between the two," CNN reported in 2018.

Chi Ping Patrick Ho – an associate of Ye Jianming and a top executive for CEFC – reportedly wired a $1 million payment to Owasco P.C. that was listed as “Dr Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation.”

In March 2019, Patrick Ho was sentenced to three years in prison for international bribery and money laundering.

The New York Post reported in October 2020 that Patrick Ho had been in the process of brokering a partnership between the multibillion-dollar energy company and a business group involving Hunter Biden and his uncle, James Biden.

Joe Biden denied his son's profitable Chinese ventures

However, Joe Biden previously declared that his son had not made money from China during a 2020 presidential debate with Donald Trump.

"My son has not made money in terms of, this thing about, what are you talking about, China," Biden stated.

After being elected, Biden's White House doubled down on the assertion that Hunter did not receive money from China.

In March, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield was asked about the damning New York Times report that declared that emails from Hunter's abandoned laptop were authentic.

“We absolutely stand by the president’s comment,” Bedingfield responded. “And I would point you to the reporting on this, which referenced statements that we made at the time, that we gave to the Washington Post, who worked on this story. But as you know, I don’t speak for Hunter Biden so there’s not more I can say on that.”

Joe Biden in 2020 insisted Hunter \u201chas not made money\u201d from China.\n\nHunter actually made millions, starting when Joe was VP. Joe Biden lied.pic.twitter.com/nL03U21ysX
— Tommy Pigott (@Tommy Pigott) 1652966638

Hunter Biden's Ukrainian connections

The NBC News report also mentions Hunter's position on the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.

"Biden’s addition to the company’s board as head of legal affairs was reported in a news release in May 2014," the outlet stated. "At some point from May to December 2014, Burisma allegedly paid a bribe to a Ukrainian official to help stop a joint British/U.S. money-laundering investigation into Burisma’s top executive, according to a State Department email that quotes a Ukrainian prosecutor."

The New York Post previously reported, "In 2016, Hunter’s total income from Burisma was $999,996. In 2017 it dropped to $665,000, and then $498,000 in 2018."

Hunter Biden blows through fast money

The analysis of his laptop hard drive showed that Hunter spent his money faster than he earned it.

"Expenditures compiled on his hard drive show he spent more than $200,000 per month from October 2017 through February 2018 on luxury hotel rooms, Porsche payments, dental work, and cash withdrawals," according to NBC News. "Biden has admitted to burning through cash to pay for drugs and partying with strangers who routinely stole from him, and he struggled to pay multiple mortgages or keep up with alimony and child support payments to his ex-wife."

In his divorce filing from February 2017, the attorney for his ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, claimed, "Throughout the parties' separation, Mr. Biden has created financial concerns for the family by spending extravagantly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations) while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills."

Hunter Biden may have been a national security risk

Frank Figliuzzi – the FBI’s former assistant director for counterintelligence – warned that Hunter Biden could be a national security risk.

"It’s all about access and influence, and if you can compromise someone with both access and influence, that’s even better," Figliuzzi told NBC News – where he is a contributor. “Better still if that target has already compromised himself.”

Walter Shaub –a former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics during the Obama administration – blasted Biden, "No government ethics rules apply to him.”

Hunter Biden's defense attorney Christppher Clark declined to give NBC News a comment on the analysis of his client's laptop.

CNBC anchor goes on rant demanding Biden 'require' forced nationwide COVID vaccinations: 'Have the military run it'



CNBC anchor Jim Cramer closed his show Monday night with a fervid rant demanding that the Biden administration "require" forced nationwide COVID-19 vaccinations, going so far as to suggest deploying the U.S. military to run the operation.

What did he say?

Cramer, who hosts CNBC's "Mad Money," usually talks stock market and business world news. But on Monday, he turned his attention to the newly detected coronavirus variant, dubbed "Omicron," that sparked mass hysteria over Thanksgiving weekend.

“With the new Omicron variant sweeping the globe, how do we finally put an end to this pandemic? How do we save lives and get business back to normal so everybody can put dinner on the table?" he asked his audience, according to Mediaite.

The anchor then followed up his question by proposing, “The federal government needs to require vaccines, including booster shots, for everyone in America by, say, Jan. 1.”

CNBC's Jim Cramer DEMANDS Biden Impose Nationwide Vaccine Mandate in Epic Rant https://mediaite.com/a/cfdld\u00a0 via @mediaitepic.twitter.com/14ELNrws9c
— Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher) 1638290710

What else?

Over the next several minutes, Cramer chastised the federal government's supposedly half-hearted approach regarding vaccine mandates, at one point lamenting that "our government has lost the ability, or the will, to make our people do the right thing" (emphasis added).

He went on to complain that "we haven’t centralized the issue to the point where the White House actually seems to take responsibility," but instead have left the issue up to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.

Even worse, according to Cramer, "We left vaccination policy to individual companies."

"It’s just plain wrong, and most of us are sick of it," the anchor added, eventually stating, “It’s time to admit that we have to go to war against COVID. Require vaccination universally. Have the military run it.”

Anything else?

Mediaite noted that a federal vaccine mandate isn't something that a president can simply demand. The issue is nuanced, and a sweeping directive such as that would almost certainly end up in court.

In fact, Biden's vaccine mandate for private companies has already been halted by a federal court order. And so has his vaccine mandate for health care workers.

In the latter case, the ruling judge did not mince words when illuminating how Biden's mandate stood in opposition to America's republican system of government.

"Congress did not clearly authorize CMS to enact ... this politically and economically vast, federalism-altering, and boundary-pushing mandate, which Supreme Court precedent requires," U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp declared.

Delaware State University says Biden was never a student after he claimed starting academic career at historically black school



Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hinted that he started his academic career at Delaware State University, a historically black college. However, Delaware State University has gone on record to say that the former vice president was never a student at the institution.

Biden made the assertion while on the campaign trail in October 2019. During a town hall event held at the historic Wilson High School in Florence, which was founded in 1866 by the Freedmen's Bureau for black children, Biden made the unfounded claim.

"I got started out of an HBCU, Delaware State — now, I don't want to hear anything negative about Delaware State," Biden told the audience. "They're my folks."

Biden claims he “got started out of an HBCU, Delaware State” when he did not attend the universityhttps://t.co/LnBOS1wQlT
— Tommy Pigott (@Tommy Pigott)1572125951.0

Carlos Holmes, the director of news service for Delaware State, said Biden was never a student at the school.

"Vice President Biden did not attend DSU," Holmes told the Washington Times on Thursday.

Holmes noted that the former vice president had made appearances at the university.

"However he was the Commencement keynote speaker in 2003 and [2016], and during the former he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree," Holmes said.

Biden went on to win the South Carolina Democratic primary, which resurrected his campaign after disappointing results in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada.

In Biden's 2007 memoir, "Promises to Keep," the former VP talked about his time as a freshman at the University of Delaware, but there is no mention of Delaware State University.

Earlier this month, the Biden campaign named Delaware State University president Tony Allen to the campaign's transition team advisory council. Allen was previously a speechwriter in Biden's Senate office.

The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment by the Washington Times.

Biden's latest controversy comes only days after another resurfaced video clip shows him seemingly denigrating U.S. military service members by calling them "stupid bastards."

Biden made the remarks during a visit to Abu Dhabi on March 7, 2016.

"And I want you to know notwithstanding what you may hear about me, I have incredibly good judgment. One, I married Jill," Biden said in the video. "And two, I appointed Johnson to the academy. I just want you to know that. Clap for that, you stupid bastards."

Biden continued, "Come on, man. Man, you are a dull bunch. Must be slow here, man. I don't know."

The Biden campaign confirmed that the video is real and said that he was joking.

"Vice President Biden was jokingly encouraging the audience to clap for an airwoman on the stage, and a number of service members can be seen laughing and smiling at the comment," Andrew Bates, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, said.