Badlands News Brief

Hunter Hunted, Biden's Bane & Ukraine Fatigue

The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.

That’s where we come in.

In the Badlands News Brief, the Badlands Media team is going to take you through a few news items of interest from the previous day in an attempt to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community while introducing you to some brief, original commentary from our growing team of citizen journalists.

(Feel free to follow the corresponding link attached to each Badlands contributor’s name to check them out on other platforms.)

Now, onto the news from Wednesday, February 1 …

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'Set phone up so I can spy on you showering.' Hunter Biden threatened to withhold cash-strapped assistant's pay if she didn't FaceTime him naked, texts show - as it's revealed she's the FOURTH employee with whom he had a sexual relationship

Hunter Biden threatened one of his cash-strapped young female staffers with withholding her pay if she didn't FaceTime him for sex.

Shocking texts between the President's son, 52, and his young assistant, who was 29 at the time, show Hunter asking for video sex sessions and sending her cash via Apple Pay after she pleaded that she was struggling to make rent.

The woman, who DailyMail.com has chosen not to identify, worked as an assistant at Hunter's law firm, Owasco, in 2018 and 2019. She is the fourth employee he is known to have had a sexual relationship with. — The Daily Mail

Our Take: “Given what information we've gleaned from the discarded laptop in regards to Hunter Biden's proclivities, I think it's safe to say that none of us expected him to be winning any awards for morality, but this latest news bit makes the first son appear especially contemptible. As usual though, the real story in all of this are the contacts found on the device that Rep. James Comer says could be "of concern to our national security." At this point, all the smarmy details regarding Hunter Biden's personal life are more noise than signal. The real signal is how the Biden family are political criminals who have put the people of this country in serious danger for personal gain.” — Ryan DeLarme

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Hunter Biden demands investigations and retractions, opening new front against GOP foes

Hunter Biden's legal team went on the offensive Wednesday, demanding state and federal investigations into the dissemination of his personal material — purported to be from his laptop — and threatening a defamation lawsuit against Fox News' Tucker Carlson for allegedly failing to correct false statements.  

The flurry of letters to the Delaware attorney general, the Department of Justice, the IRS and attorneys for Fox News and Carlson represent an aggressive new strategy for the president's son, who is facing long-running federal criminal investigations, as well as new probes promised by congressional Republicans, according to a source familiar with Biden's approach.

"This marks a new approach by Hunter Biden and his team," the source told CBS News. "He is not going to sit quietly by as questionable characters continue to violate his rights and media organizations peddling in lies try to defame him." — CBS News

Our Take: “Damage control from the Biden crime syndicate? Given the unquestioned legitimacy of the fact it is Hunter's laptop and the fact he effectively abandoned it to the repair shop, one would think, he doesn't have a case to sue. But since he's the son of a sitting POTUS and he has backdoor strings to pull with the same spooks who helped push the Russiagate narrative, no doubt Hunter might get what he wants. Another thing to consider is the unconfirmed theory that the laptop was intentionally left behind, as part of an effort to expose more of the Deep State’s machinations.” — Justin Deschamps

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FBI searches ​​Biden's beach home in Delaware

Federal investigators conducted a search Wednesday of President Joe Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth, Del., as part of their ongoing probe into his handling of classified documents, officials said.

Bob Bauer, Biden’s personal lawyer, said in a statement that the president’s team did not seek to provide advance notice of the operation. But he confirmed the search by the Department of Justice was taking place after it was reported by CBS News, which, along with other television outlets stationed outside of the president’s home, observed black vehicles arriving mid-morning.

Federal agents searched the home from 8:30 am to noon, Bauer said.

“No documents with classified markings were found,” he said in a statement. But, as with a similar search at Biden’s other Delaware home, the DOJ took for further review some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as Vice President. — Politico

Our Take: “The FBI has now searched the Penn Biden Center, Biden’s Delaware home, and his Rehoboth Beach vacation home.

The Biden’s are granting the FBI access to do this so that a search warrant isn’t needed, helping to avoid the descriptor of it being a “raid.”

One would think though, that a search warrant will be needed soon. Perhaps for James, perhaps for Hunter, perhaps for Joe when he eventually decides to try and block the FBI's efforts probe deeper into his family's corruption.

In related news, Special Counsel Hur officially took over the investigation and began his work today. We may soon see a shift in how these searches are conducted.” — Just Human

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As Russian invasion nears one-year mark, partisans grow further apart on U.S. support for Ukraine

As the United States ramps up military aid to Ukraine, the share of Americans who say the U.S. is providing too much support has grown. About a quarter (26%) now say the U.S. is providing too much support to Ukraine, while 31% say it is giving the right amount and 20% would like to see the U.S. give Ukraine additional assistance.

The share of adults who say the U.S. is providing too much aid to Ukraine has increased 6 percentage points since last September and 19 points since shortly after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last year, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted Jan. 18-24 among 5,152 U.S. adults.

This shift in opinion is mostly attributable to the growing share of Republicans who say the U.S. is providing too much support to Ukraine. Today, 40% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents hold this view, up from 32% in the fall and much higher than the 9% who held this view in March of last year. — PEW Research Center

Our Take: “While it can seem agonizingly slow for those of us who leave no stones unturned in the modern Information War, where obfuscation and intentional misinformation are the name of the game, the Great Awakening IS progressing.

Remember, the Ukraine ‘war’ only kicked off 12 months ago—less than that—and already, what seemed to be an endless cash cow for Globalist interests, as well as the latest forever tragedy the Media Industrial Complex could clog the airwaves with on a 24-7 loop has largely worn out its welcome with a growing and increasingly bipartisan subset of the American public, whose quality of life is deteriorating as bureaucrats debate how much more of their money to lend to another Forever War quagmire in distant lands.” — Burning Bright

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Hunter Biden DID help secure millions in funding for US contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research, laptop emails reveal, raising more questions about the disgraced son of then vice president

Moscow’s claim that Hunter Biden helped finance a US military 'bioweapons' research program in Ukraine is at least partially true, according to new emails obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.

The commander of the Russian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces, claimed there was a 'scheme of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian biological objects' and pointed to the 'financing of such activities by structures close to the current US leadership, in particular the investment fund Rosemont Seneca, which is headed by Hunter Biden.'

Intelligence experts say the Russian military leader's allegations were a brazen propaganda ploy to justify president Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and sow discord in the US.

But emails from Hunter's abandoned laptop show he helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases that could be used as bioweapons. — The Daily Mail

Our Take: “All you need to know is that a prestigious crackhead, who has no background in science, has a bioweapons lab in a war zone where they also conduct money laundering. Remember that little phone call they held an impeachment trial against Trump for? Is it so crazy to think that through his relationship with Putin, Trump probably knew all of this? That maybe he was trying to get to the bottom of the corruption between the Dems/Bidens and Ukraine?

Could it be that the deep-state actors kept impeaching Trump because he kept trying to expose their corruption? I don't think this family is smart enough to have a virus created so joe could steal a election. But somebody certainly was!

Of course, I could be wrong here. Hunter is an extremely well-rounded and talented man. He had a legal firm, was involved in a investment firm; he made good money as an energy expert, and not to mention, he was one hell of a top notch artist, too. AND NOW he is a SCIENTIST? Amazing individual ... no wonder Joe is so proud of him!” — Ryan DeLarme

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GOP Attorneys General: CVS, Walgreens will violate laws by distributing abortion pills by mail

Twenty GOP state attorneys general joined Wednesday to warn CVS and Walgreens that plans to distribute abortion pills through the mail would violate state and federal law.

The effort is being led by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, according to Fox News.

"As Attorney General, it is my responsibility to enforce the laws as written, and that includes enforcing the very laws that protect Missouri's women and unborn children," Bailey says.

In a letter sent Wednesday to the chain drug stores, Bailey wrote that many people are not aware that federal law expressly prohibits using the mail to send or receive any drug that will be used or applied for producing abortion. — Just the News

Our Take: “We tend to think that by enacting a law to prohibit a criminal act, law enforcement, along with DA offices immediately begin to enforce the law, without question or preference. But the truth is that DAs and law enforcement agencies have incredible discretionary power, to the extent, that they act to inhibit justice—they knowingly let criminals get away with it.

Case in point, why is it that the mail is being used by large corporations like CVS and Walgreens to send baby-kill drugs to would-be abortionists and there has not been a major effort to stop it?

Presumably, If a citizen was caught sending illicit drugs via the mail, not just once, but openly, as an aspect of normal business operations, that citizen would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Until WE THE PEOPLE wake up and occupy our sacred office of the single greatest check and balance to government corruption, at all levels, the status quo of two-tiered justice will continue—color of law, not the true rule of law.” — Justin Deschamps

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We hope you enjoyed this brief look back at the major news items you might have missed in this ever-escalating and ever-accelerating news cycle as the Information War continues to rage on around us.

The Badlands Media team will continue to combine our cognitive powers in order to slow things down and find the signal amidst the noise as this series expands.

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