In this Free Speech Friday edition of the podcast, Joey Hudson covers a revealing new set of photos showing then-Vice President Joe Biden with Hunter Biden meeting Chinese officials. These photos have been released following a lawsuit by America First Legal, prompting questions about the Biden family’s business dealings and potential influence exerted during Joe Biden’s vice presidency. Hudson discusses these findings in the context of previous investigations and the implications they may hold for the Biden administration. Listener calls highlight concerns about ongoing corruption and the possibility of reopening investigations by the House Oversight Committee.
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1-800-655-6453 is how you join today’s Free Speech Friday. Anything that you want to talk about, I’m ready to listen to you today. These photos that I mentioned to you were obtained by America First Legal. They had sued the National Archives and Records Administration, known as NARA. And the photos show then Vice President Joe Biden introducing Hunter Biden to Chinese President Xi Jinping. Other photos show Joe Biden posing with Hunter’s business associates from BHR Partners, one of the many LLCs that Hunter Biden and the Biden family had set up, including Jonathan Lee and Ming Zhu. The America First Legal said in a press release this week, these images shed light on the connections between then-Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter, and his Chinese business associates and Chinese government officials, including the president of China. America’s First Legal said in this release, lawyers and representatives for President Biden and President Obama delayed NARA’s release of these photographs as they did other records until after this year’s election. So they basically have been fighting, the Biden administration has been fighting the release of these photos. They go on to say these photos corroborate the House Oversight Committee’s investigative findings that Hunter Biden arranged for his father to meet with his business associates, specifically Jonathan Lee and other BHR executives during the 2013 China trip. where Mr. Lee sought and received access to Vice President Biden’s political power, including, for example, preferential access to then-Ambassador to China Max Baucus, a condition of Hunter Biden and his associates’ participation in the BHR deal. America First Legal goes on to show other things that will prove that Joe Biden was lying when he said he knew nothing about Hunter Biden’s business dealings. America First Legal wrote that according to the committee’s investigation, the Biden family benefited from their business dealings with BHR. Hunter Biden was asked earlier this year by the House Oversight Committee about his meetings while traveling to Asia with his father. Biden said at the time, when we returned from an event to the hotel, there was a rope line, and Jonathan Lee was in the lobby of the hotel where I was going to meet him for coffee. In that line, I introduced my dad to Jonathan and a friend of his, and they shook hands, and I believe probably took a photograph, and then my father went up to his room, and I went to have coffee with Jonathan. The photos released, though, show a lot more than a rope line. Hunter Biden added then that he did not tell his father anything about who Jonathan Lee was. And they expect us to believe that. They expect the American people to be just that stupid. You think there’s any chance at all that the House Oversight Committee will reopen the investigation into this? The Biden family… Well, we know for a fact that Hunter Biden received millions of dollars from not only this company, but through his Ukrainian connections. And we know that Joe Biden has never hesitated to send a billion, two billion or more to Ukraine anytime they ask for it. Anytime Ukraine needs money, Joe Biden has been there to send it. Is that not suspicious to you? Of course, he justifies it by saying we have to protect these people. We have to help protect them from the Russians. But Joe Biden has a very cozy relationship with Ukraine. So did his son. Because it was a Ukrainian energy company that paid him a million dollars to sit on the board when he knew nothing about energy. I think Tom will tell that the Biden administration, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, his brother Jim Biden, they were the biggest crooks who’ve ever been in that position. 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Joey Hudson in for Mike on this free speech Friday. Whatever’s on your mind, I’m all ears. 800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation. Texter on the My Fellow text line says, Joey, the American people need to know how corrupt the Biden family is and the damage they have done to America. Also should be disclosed. is the Democrat Party and their corruption to cover up. You always should include America will suffer for many decades from the damage the Democrats have inflicted on this country from the last four years. Yeah, they have. Not only have they added trillions of dollars to debt to the bottom line, but just the – just the corruptness. Joe Biden, of course, has denied this all along. He said on the campaign trail, I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings, but emails that were found on Hunter’s laptop make a different point. They argue a different outcome there. In one email in 2017, it shows Hunter requesting keys for Joe and Jill Biden along with his uncle Jim Biden for space that he planned to share with an emissary to the chairman of the now bankrupt Chinese energy company. So if Joe Biden knew nothing about Hunter’s business dealings, why was Hunter… wanting his dad to have a key to the office that he was setting up as part of a partnership with this Chinese energy company. In another 2017 email, Biden wrote to the same Chinese energy company’s chairman extending, quote, best wishes from the entire Biden family and urging the chairman to quickly send a $10 million wire to properly fund and operate the Biden joint venture with the company. We’ve just touched the surface, and I’m just hoping that the new Congress will not let this lie. I hope that the argument that, well, let’s just let the old man go into retirement is done, it’s over with, forget it. I don’t think we can forget it. I think we need to use whatever resources we have to dig in a little further and and see exactly what Joe Biden was up to. What do you think? 800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation. Let’s go to Philadelphia, where Keith is standing by. Welcome, Keith. You’re on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Thanks, Joe. I appreciate it. I would echo what you said 150%. I think James Comer has been so fastidious about going through the details of falling to the LLCs and the money trail. To Joe Biden, it’s just, you know, Democrats, you know, maintain and be wasting our time for the last two years. But it’s so clear that it’s all gone to Joe. I mean, there are pictures of him with Hunter’s associates and 12 flights on Air Force Two to foreign countries. This is treason. I mean this is – and clearly he’s given up things to the Chinese. What was that balloon a year or two ago that was allowed to hover over sensitive sites in the U.S. and not back down until it was over the water? He’s clearly been a traitor, and I can’t – it would be horrible if all this work went for naught and he was not held accountable for this even though he’s leaving office.
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Yeah. You’re right, Keith. You are so right. Appreciate the phone call. Happy New Year to you in Philadelphia. One line open, 800-655-6453. Keith is right. I mean, at the very least, I mean, first off, just think about this for a moment. Is it believable at all, again, that a father would not talk with his son Particularly if you’re vice president of the United States and you’ve taken your son to China on official business trips with you, is it even possible that they didn’t discuss who Hunter Biden was meeting with? These relationships that Hunter Biden had? That’s not possible at all. But then when you read some of the e-mails… that Hunter Biden wrote, how can Joe Biden continue to deny that he didn’t know anything about this and that his son did not do anything wrong? I mean, how is it so clear to us but not to others and particularly not to the Department of Justice? Back to the phones. Ronnie is in Oregon. Welcome, Ronnie. How are you?
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I’m doing fine. I’m pretty aggravated at the Democratic Party. Let’s consider Biden is pardoning criminals, but he’s doing nothing about those that are in prison for January 6th. It was innocent in 99 percent of the time. It did nothing wrong. They let the police officer that shot the lady there get off with nothing when she wasn’t doing anything. She wasn’t threatening anybody. And yet he’ll pardon all these criminals, rapists, murderers and stuff, letting them go and taking away death sentences for those that have killed innocent people. But it’s not just Biden. It’s Obama. It’s all the other Democrats, Obama and Trump. Pelosi and Shuler shift Sanders to a whole dirty bunch. And when’s people going to wake up? But it’s not just one Democrat affair that’s hurting the American people. It’s all of them.
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Yeah, just wipe them all. And, Ronnie, I think people have wakened up. I think that’s what we saw on November the 5th. Appreciate your phone call. Happy New Year to you, Ronnie. I think people are awake. I think we have their attention now. It’s just I hope that Congress will have the backbone and the fortitude to not just say, well, Joe Biden’s an old man. He’s sick. You know, just leave him alone. He had a 40-plus year career in public office. No reason to drag this up again. No, we’ve got to get to the bottom of it. We can’t just have the attitude of let him go. Let him go quietly to the beach. Sit on the beach the rest of his life. Gene is in Alabama. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show, Gene.
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Thanks. Thanks, Joey. I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas.
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We did, Gene. I hope you did, too, and I hope you’re looking forward to 2025. Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
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It’s going to be a wonderful year since Trump got in. One thing I was curious about, if old Sleepy Joe actually – and stocking up for his estranged granddaughter.
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Well, I, of course, wasn’t invited to the Biden Christmas party. But I’m going to go out on a limb here, Gene, and say that he did not. I mean, he’s never really acknowledged her, has he?
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I don’t think so.
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Yep. Yeah, I don’t think that that little girl was invited to the Biden Christmas party. So that’s just another example of the true Biden family and how they operate. Hey, Gene, hope you have a great New Year, Gene. Happy New Year to you. Appreciate your phone call. Richard is in Columbia, Missouri. Welcome, Richard.
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How are you doing today?
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I’m wonderful. How are you, sir?
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Pretty good. I have a question that’s been nagging at me. If you have a judge that they find incompetent, they will go back and revisit his cases. Can that happen to Biden? Look at all the crazy stuff he’s doing. If they find him incompetent, would they go back and revisit his cases?
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Well, you know, so many of the things that he’s done, first off, it’s congressional action that he has just signed. So those would still stand. We already know that on day one, on the afternoon of the 20th, Donald Trump is going to undo a big part of what Joe Biden has done via executive order. So, you know, I don’t know that we’ll ever know the exact numbers, but I think that Donald Trump will probably – counter just about every single executive order that Joe Biden signed over these past four years. So that in itself is going to negate a lot of the horrible things that Joe Biden has done.
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But he’s had a lot of people that has fallen through the cracks that Biden has dealt with. And if they find him incompetent, like in a regular court case, other people could say, wait a minute, wait a minute. I don’t know how that works with presidents.
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Well, I don’t think it can be undone just simply because of his incompetence, but I do think we have a Congress who has the appetite to undo a lot of those things. And I know that Donald Trump won’t hesitate to sign an executive order to reverse that. what Joe Biden has done. So I think we can accomplish a good bit. And that’s, you know, that’s the plan. I mean, I’m told that Donald Trump has a stack of executive orders already, that they’re going to be ready for him to sit down and start signing. He said the other day at two o’clock on January the 20th was when he would start unraveling what Joe Biden has started. So I think that’s what we’re going to be able to watch.
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And I think the American people need to hear that, you know, that he’s really – I believe that he’s willing to step in and take over, do what he has to do.
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Oh, I know he is. I know he is. So now it’s going to be just get your popcorn out for January 20th, Richard, and be ready. Happy New Year to you. Appreciate your phone call. 800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453. That’s how you join the conversation on this Free Speech Friday. Your phone calls are welcome. Tracy will put you in queue. We’ll talk as time permits. You can also text me on the MyPillow text line. Always use promo code MikeG when you go to MyPillow.com. And, of course, emails are welcome as well, joey at joeyhudson.com. Go to my website, joeyhudson.com, and subscribe to my podcast, Just the Truth, and stay in touch with me. That’s a daily podcast, and we just dig a little deeper on the issues. So if you listen to podcasts, wherever you listen to, on the Odyssey app, wherever, just search for Joey Hudson, Just the Truth. I hope you had a blessed Christmas, and I want to thank every single one of you who stepped up and helped make our Angel Tree campaign such a success this year. You came through again like you always do. The work of Prison Fellowship, though, doesn’t end on Christmas. It continues all year round. There are Angel Tree-sponsored sports clinics for the kids, Angel Tree summer camping, and so many other wonderful outreaches to help the children of prisoners. Right now, if you didn’t have a chance to donate before Christmas, you can still help out, and you can score a great end-of-the-year tax deduction as well. Your donation today can literally change a child’s life for eternity. But the impact of your gift doesn’t stop there. Please go to MikeOnline.com. You’ll see a new banner up, Change Prisoners’ Lives in 2025. You can phone your generous gift in as well, 888-206-2788, or just text MikeG to 717767, and we’ll send you back a link where you can donate. But remember… To get a 2024 year-end tax deduction, you must make your donation before December the 31st. So why not just go ahead and do it today and have that done with. Thanks for considering a year-end donation to Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree program. I’m Joey Hudson, in for Mike Gallagher.
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Welcome in as we continue today’s Mike Gallagher Show. Glad to have you. Joey Hudson in for Mike. 800-655-MIKE. 1-800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation. Lots of ways to do so. You can send me a quick text on the MyPillow text line. You can call. We love your calls. And, of course, today is Free Speech Friday. So whatever’s on your mind, I’m all ears. Love to get your phone calls. We’ve got a lot to cover, but, hey, I’m interested in what you have to say as well. And, of course, I welcome your e-mails, and you can send those directly to me, joey at joeyhudson.com. So just a few things that are happening that we’re going to touch on this hour. Trump’s first day in office, of course, January the 20th. And he jokingly said this week that at 2 p.m. on the 20th was when he would start changing a lot of the things that Joe Biden has done these past four years. We’re told that he has a stack of executive orders already. All ready to go. But we’re going to kind of do a deep dive into what that first day can potentially look like. We know some of the primary issues he’s going to be covering on that first day. The Hill is being criticized for an editorial that appeared on The Hill this week that is suggesting that Congress can prevent Donald Trump from becoming president. Opinion columnist for The Hill called on Congress to invoke the 14th Amendment disqualification to block Donald Trump from taking office on the 20th. In a column published yesterday, Evan Day and David Schulte argued that the 14th Amendment enables Congress to object to the electoral vote since they consider Trump, in their words, an oath-breaking insurrectionist. We’re going to jump into that in just a moment, too. And your favorite federal government agency, the IRS, they are admitting that back in 2021, this was when Joe Biden was giving away trillions of dollars in the name of COVID, there was a COVID rebate that certain families could be eligible for. You had to check a box on your tax return, and evidently it was so complicated. And honestly, I haven’t had a chance since finding out about this earlier this morning. I haven’t had a chance to even check my tax return for 2021. But evidently it was so complicated, over a million Americans who should have received this rebate did not because they didn’t know how to complete the section on the tax return for this. So the IRS is saying, we’re going to do it for you. We’re not going to make you file an amended return. We owe you this money. So we’re just going to automatically send it to you if you qualify. IRS Commissioner Danny Warfel put out a statement saying the IRS continues to work hard to make improvements and help taxpayers. Well, that’s kind of rich coming from an agency that asked for billions of dollars for new funding and hired, what was it, like 80,000 people. I hope that the Trump administration, if they haven’t hired the 80,000 yet, remember what all the pushback that Republicans in the House and the Senate did at the time, but they didn’t have the numbers, they didn’t have the votes? You think they can go back and undo this? and eliminate those 80,000 additional IRS agents that Joe Biden hired for enforcement. But they went on to, Warfel said that this was about minimizing headaches for taxpayers. Now, what’s really happening here is the IRS, of course, they’re covering themselves. They’re realizing that the credit was so confusing that a million people didn’t even know they qualified for it. And so the money, I suppose, is just sitting in an account somewhere, hasn’t been distributed. So if you filed a 2021 tax return, and left the recovery rebate credit field blank, or if you put a zero in, which a lot of people did evidently, you’re on this list from the IRS, and… They’re going to send you a check. Now, if you have direct deposit, don’t worry. If you’ve changed bank accounts, because the IRS says that they’ll mail you a check instead. If they can’t make the direct deposit in the account they have on file, they’re just going to send you a check. How much? Well, some households are eligible to receive the maximum, which is $1,400. Now, $1,400 is not a lot, but hey, could you use an extra $1,400 right now maybe to pay off those credit cards that you ran up during Christmas, shopping for Christmas? Besides, it’s your money. I mean, they owe it to you anyway. The total amount that’s going to be paid out, $2.4 billion. Now, when I first read this, my first thought was this is just Joe Biden giving away money again. And it does seem like the Biden administration in these final weeks are just scurrying around to give away as much money as they can. In this case, though, it’s our money to begin with. And I want it back. If they owe me $1,400, I want it. Do you? 800-655-6453, they’re saying that, first off, you had to have filed a 2021 return. If you did not, they’re going to give you an extension, and you have until April of 2025 to file that 2021 return. And then you’ll be eligible to get this rebate. But it’s just another example, though, of how complicated… Our tax returns are and our tax code is. Don’t you think it could be a lot simpler? Don’t you think it could get to the point where we don’t even need to hire a CPA to complete it for us? Now, I know the CPAs aren’t going to like that, but still, to do a tax return just takes too long. Gathering all the information, I hate doing tax returns. I absolutely despise it. There’s got to be an easier way for me to pay my fair share, and that’s all I want to pay is what my fair share is. I don’t want to pay any more. Wow. 800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation today, and it is free speech Friday, so whatever’s on your mind, I’m interested. You can text me. You can email me directly as well. Hey, let me take a minute here to remind you. And Mike told me before he left, he said, you know, you got to remind our listeners about the Patriot Alaska cruise coming up next summer. Folks, I went on this last year. We had a blast. I’d never been to Alaska before. It is so beautiful. But it was just great being on this cruise ship. with several hundred other like-minded conservatives. We had a wonderful time. We got to do a lot of things, see a lot of things during the day, but then late afternoons, early evenings, we’d gather and just talk, just have open panel discussions. Imagine seven days of breathtaking Alaskan beauty. You’re going to see incredible wildlife, but then… you end each day with some powerful conversations with fellow patriots. This year you’re going to be hosted by Mike Gallagher, of course, Larry Elder, Joe Piscopo, Jennifer Horn. It’s a great group. You don’t want to miss it. And if you’ve never been to Alaska, this is a great time to see it. If you’ve been, it’s time to go back. It’s real easy. Just go to TravelWithSalem.com. TravelWithSalem.com. You can call 855-565-5519. 855-565-5519. It’s August the 16th through the 23rd of next year. So let me encourage you to join Mike Gallagher, Larry Elder, and special guests Jennifer Horn and Joe Piscopo for a wonderful trip. It’s the Patriots Alaska Cruise. Travelwithsalem.com. I’m Joey Hudson. In for Mike today.
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Joey Hudson in for Mike today. Axios has a column today talking about day one of Donald Trump’s new administration. They write, no issue has defined Trump’s political identity more than his crusade against illegal immigration, particularly after border crossings surged to record highs under Joe Biden. They speculate, led by Stephen Miller and former acting ICE director Tom Holman… Trump will unleash a flurry of executive orders ending Biden’s temporary parole programs, restarting construction of the border wall, and suspending refugee admissions. They also say that Trump is determined to immediately launch the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, despite some of the logistical concerns that no one quite knows how they’re going to do this. Axios says, watch out for a day one photo op flexing the new administration’s deportation muscle. They also say that President-elect Trump has vowed to issue an executive order ending birthright citizenship, setting up what is probably going to be a constitutional clash over the 14th Amendment and will probably end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. The second big issue, of course… Axios writes, the second bucket of executive orders will seek to institutionalize the conservative culture wars that have dominated Republican politics over the last few years. Top priorities for day one include a ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion, programs and requirements across the federal government that have used DEI, pardons for supporters convicted for breaking into the Capitol on January the 6th. We’re expecting to see that on day one. And then he has spent millions of dollars – they’re referencing Donald Trump – on anti-trans ads who want to use executive action to ban trans women from women’s sports, though Axios says the exact mechanism for doing so is yet unclear. Then they move on to regulation and big business. They write, the CEO and investor confidence has soared in the wake of the election as corporate America revels in Trump’s promise to slash 10 regulations for every new introduced during the Biden administration. They say that Trump has vowed to expedite permits for drilling and fracking. Inauguration will also start to clock on his one-year goal of reducing energy prices by 50%. Second, Third, Wall Street meanwhile is working to persuade Trump not to impose sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners, but he seems intent on ushering in a new era of MAGA protectionism as quickly as possible. is saying that Trump will do in those first few hours of being back in the Oval Office. They point out that they believe it’s going to be hard to bring down prices, and they quote… Trump on NBC’s Meet the Press recently where he says it’s hard to bring prices down once they’re up. It’s very hard. They, of course, are saying that Trump is now backtracking a bit on his promise to be able to make things affordable again. But look, the market can take care of that itself. We get inflation down and leveled off. and then let the market take care of things through competition, through the supply chain, we can see some of those prices start falling. And I think we will. He also, of course, one of his big things, too, is ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict. And he admitted recently, too, that might be a little harder than he expected, but he plans to work on that as well. It’s going to be an exciting day, January 20th, and I’m so happy that I’m going to be there on Inauguration Day sitting in the Capitol Mall watching him take the oath of office. It’s going to be fun. We’re going to have live reports for you as well on that day, so that’s going to be fun to watch. 800-655-6453. Glad to have you with me on this Friday edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. Hey, let me take a moment to remind you real quickly again about the Prison Fellowship and the end-of-the-year donations. You know, we’ve had a great year as far as the Angel Tree campaign. You can still give those end-of-the-year donations, though. You can go to mikeonline.com, click on the Change Prisoners’ Lives in 2025. Let’s continue to help these kids. I’m Joey Hudson, in for Mike.
