Victims Only of Their Own Mendacity, part one

So, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., who said that he would never pardon his son, Robert Hunter Biden, for the few Federal crimes with which he was charged after being protected by the United States Ministry of Injustice and the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department of the Treasury even during four years of the former President Donald John Trump’s first term, especially during the 2020 presidential campaign, and for most of Biden’s own four years in office until a Biden-friendly special prosecutor, Delaware’s own David Weiss, charged the son of the Big Guy with relatively minor offenses in compared to the ones which Weiss chose not to prosecute before their respective statutes of limitation expired.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. and his son, Robert Hunter Biden, a self-proclaim “artist” whose artistic talent seems confined principally to make millions upon millions of dollars from Chicom and Ukrainian oligarchs have been given every special consideration imaginable, up to and including the then former Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.’s. lying directly to the American in 2020 about Hunter’s now infamous laptop computer’s hard drive being Russian information based upon what he, the Big Guy, knew to be the false representations made by fifty-one former American intelligence officials, none of whom had examined the computer’s hard drive, and had been recruited to give their false testimony by the man whom became the United States Secretary of State on January 26, 2021, Anthony Blinken, as being “Russian disinformation” even though the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had internally verified the laptop’s authenticity as early as February of 2020 after its agents had taken possession of it in December of 2019.I

Yet it is the Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., had the temerity to issue the following statement upon issuing the pardon that he said would not give to a son who learned corruption from the amoral Big Guy Himself. I will interject at various points:

Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.

The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.

No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.

For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision. (Statement from President Joe Biden.)

Interjection Number One:

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., always lied to the American people.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., plagiarized when a student at Syracuse University Law School.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., plagiarized a speech by then British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock when he was running against then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1987.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., lied when he said that he never met with Robert Hunter Biden’s business associates.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., lied when he said that he knew nothing of his son’s business dealings?

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., lied when he said that his son had never broken the law.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. lied when he said that then former President Donald John Trump was responsible for his, Biden’s, decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan without protecting their families or the Afghanis who had provided assistance to the George Walker Bush-Richard Bruce Cheney-Donald Rumseld ill-conceived American war against the Taliban.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., lied when he said illegal immigration rose during the administration of Donald John Trump.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., lied when he said that inflation and unemployment were higher during the administration of President Donald John Trump.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., lied when he said neither he nor anyone in the White House played any role in the truly selective prosecutions against then former President Donald John Trump and that no one in the White House had any role in the state-level prosecutions against the man he called an opponent of “democracy” even though some of those White officials were indeed meeting with the likes Fulton Country District Attorney Fani Willis and her paramour, Nathan Wade.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., lied when he said that he did not know that confidential material that he was not entitled as a United States Senator or even Vice President of the United States to take and then to keep in seven different locations, including in some boxes next in a garage next to his beloved Corvette.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is a demagogic liar.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is a pathological liar.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is a sociopath who does not care how many people must be falsely accused or how many guilty associates must be shieled from prosecution because of his shanty Irish sense of being untouchable, of being unlike other mere mortals.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., liked when he said that he would never pardon his son, Robert Hunter Biden.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Robert Hunter Biden are victims only of their own mendacity.

Yet it is that that serial liar, sociopath, and demagogue dared to claim that sonny boy was being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted?

On only one point did Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., tell the truth: Robert Hunter Biden was treated differently because his last name was “Biden” and was thus untouchable in a criminal justice system that Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro had weaponized to harass his critics, especially reporters who wrote stories about his administration’s policies using confidential sources that he, Obama/Soetoro, wanted revealed in spite of First Amendment freedom of the press privileges, and to authorize the whole espionage scheme against then candidate Donald John Trump in 2016.

Robert Hunter Biden was protected by corrupt officials within the United States Ministry of Injustice, including the FBI, and the Internal Revenue Service who desired to defeat then President Donald John Trump in 2020 and then make sure the former president did not become president ever again. Moreover, this protection racket was mean to keep the depth of the Biden Family Crime Syndicate’s criminal activity from all public view.

Here are some reminders, culled from editorials and reports published in July of 2023, of the special protection, not selective prosecution by “political enemies,” that both Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Robert Hunter Biden received from Federal prosecutors and investigators:

There are 472 days until the 2024 presidential election.

Does Joe Biden really think he can camp in the White House basement until then, dodging every question about his son Hunter, foreign bribes and Department of Justice coverups?

He may try to hide behind the skirts of MSNBC anchors, but Americans are demanding answers on a series of scandalous revelations:

The head of Ukrainian gas company Burisma laid out in stark terms to a credible FBI informant exactly when he had Hunter Biden on the payroll. He needed the then-vice president’s son to solve problems and get a prosecutor fired.
That Burisma executive, Mykola Zlochevsky, said he was “pressured” to pay Hunter $5 million, and Joe Biden another $5 million, for their assistance.
We know Hunter was paid this money; it’s documented. We also know he had no expertise in oil and gas, was addicted to drugs, and dropped his father’s name with clients. So what other possible reason was there for him to be paid by Burisma except to influence Joe?
But when investigators tried to probe the $17 million Hunter Biden made from foreign clients, they were blocked at every turn, testified two IRS whistleblowers. Hunter was tipped off to a possible interview. Agents were told they couldn’t search the Biden home. Felony charges were suddenly downgraded to misdemeanors. A whole IRS team of probers was sidelined after years of work.
After spending years praising the “courage” of whistleblowers against Donald Trump, Democrats now impugn these on-the-record government employees, blasting their testimony without disputing it.
Former Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski said he met with Joe Biden about a possible deal with China-based energy firm CEFC. Emails confirm Joe was set to enter a partnership with Hunter and Bobulinski after leaving office.

None of this is rumor or conspiracy theory. It’s backed up with bank records, pictures, witnesses, even Joe Biden’s own words.

Unlike the final days of the 2020 election, when 51 former intelligence officers aligned with the Democrats tried to sabotage the Hunter scoops, no one is buying that this is “Russian disinformation” or a “hoax.”

Congressional investigators will continue to probe where the money went, and should call for an end to Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal.

But it’s also long past time for the president to answer tough questions.

If he doesn’t, it means he has no good answers. And if the media fails to ask them, it’s journalistic malpractice.

We offer a few inquiries to get started:

Bank records show that Hunter Biden not only paid himself from foreign companies, he also paid other family members — such as your daughter-in-law — and household bills in Delaware. How much of your family’s lifestyle was paid by Hunter?
Do you deny that you met with Tony Bobulinski to discuss a business opportunity with a Chinese energy firm after you left office?
You claim you pushed for the Ukrainian prosecutor to be fired because he was corrupt. So why would the Burisma executive say you did it as a favor for him?
Mykola Zlochevsky says he spoke directly with you at least twice. What did you discuss?
You’ve bragged that you have a transparent administration. So will you investigate the allegations of the two IRS whistleblowers?
And perhaps one of the most important questions Joe Biden has neither been asked, nor answered:
Let’s say it’s true that you didn’t profit at all from your son’s business. Why would you allow him to sell the Biden name around the world? Why would you not prevent him from serving on the board of a Ukrainian gas company at the exact time you as vice president were dealing with Ukraine?

This is just a start, of course. But the dam has broken. Joe Biden and the Democrats cannot pretend this is a farce and that the stink of Hunter Biden doesn’t extend to his entire family.

It’s time for the Big Guy to talk. (The Post Says: Joe Biden can't keep dodging questions of corruption — talk Big Guy!.)

In an age of sleazy political corruption that seems insurmountable, there is enormous power in the integrity of two ordinary men willing to stand up, show their faces and tell the truth under oath.

Two elite IRS agents, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, put their reputations on the line to testify yesterday about egregious wrongdoing at the highest levels of the Department of Justice, which they say obstructed and ultimately destroyed their five-year criminal investigation into Hunter Biden.

Their integrity is as rare as a unicorn in Washington, DC, and they put to shame all the cowards in the IRS and DOJ and FBI who have stayed silent about this Watergate-level coverup.

The testimony they gave and the evidence they will continue to provide Congress helps put the nail in the coffin of Joe Biden’s repeated claims that he knows nothing about his son Hunter’s overseas business dealings.

Not only did he know, but there is mounting evidence that he was involved in the international influence peddling scheme run by his son and brother Jim Biden while he was vice president.

We will learn more about the president’s involvement in his son’s business meetings with shady foreigners when Hunter’s business partner Devon Archer testifies to the House Oversight committee next week.

Yet, according to Shapley and Ziegler, the IRS and FBI team in Delaware that spent five years investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings between 2014 and 2019 were warned by prosecutors not to pull on any string that led to Joe Biden.

They were not allowed to ask witnesses about the “Big Guy,” who has been identified as the former VP.

They were not allowed to obtain search warrants for a cottage on Joe Biden’s property.

They were sabotaged in their efforts to search a storage unit of Hunter’s because a prosecutor tipped off his lawyers.

They were not allowed to interview Joe Biden’s grandchildren who had received money that formed part of the tax investigation.

They were not allowed to geolocate Hunter to see if he was telling the truth in a shakedown message on WhatsApp when he told a Chinese business associate that he was sitting next to his father who wanted to know why money had not been paid.

They were not allowed access to the laptop, which the FBI had, and which contained a wealth of information that could have boosted their investigation.

Ultimately, when Shapley and an FBI supervisory agent flew to California to interview Hunter in December 2020, they were sabotaged by someone at FBI headquarters who tipped off then president-elect Joe Biden’s transition team and the Secret Service.

Shapley never did interview Hunter, and his team was obstructed from interviewing 11 of the total 12 witnesses they had planned to interview.

All roads lead to Joe

As The Post has pointed out since the first day of our coverage of this scandal, all roads from the Hunter Biden scandals lead to Joe Biden.

That is the only reason that an unemployed 53-year-old recovering crack and hooker addict remains in the news.

It is because he was the bag man in an international influence-peddling scheme that stret

ched from China to Ukraine, Romania, Russia, Kazakhstan and beyond.

Ziegler spent five years painstakingly following that money trail.

He itemized yesterday exactly how much money he found that had flowed through to Hunter and his associates, which include the president’s younger brother Jim Biden.

Ziegler testified to $17.3 million from 2014 to 2019 in total foreign income streams through various shell companies to Hunter and associates.

From Romania: $3.1 million.

From China: $3 million from State Energy HK, a firm affiliated with the Chinese Communist party-backed energy company CEFC.

From China: $3.7 million from CEFC-affiliated Hudson West III.

From Ukraine: $6.5 million from corrupt energy company Burisma.

Of that $17.3 million, he said Hunter received $8.3 million, while the rest went to immediate family members and associates, the committee has found.

Shapley demolished the lie from Democrats that they are just disgruntled investigators unhappy that prosecutors determined they didn’t have a case.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna even compared him to Inspector Javert from “Les Misérables,” the villainous cop who jailed people over a loaf of bread.

But Shapley testified that “Two assistant United States attorneys, two DOJ tax attorneys, DOJ Tax Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart Goldberg and US Attorney David Weiss all assisted on this investigation since its inception, knew all of the evidence and agreed with the prosecution of felony charges in both DC and the Central District of California.”

Ultimately the case was sabotaged by the DOJ in ways we are still discovering, and the statute of limitations was allowed to expire on the most serious charges.

Hunter got a slap on the wrist in a plea deal allowing him to plead guilty to two misdemeanors. And he hasn’t even repaid all the taxes!

In response to all these the truth bombs, Democrats on the committee behaved like panicking clowns yesterday, injecting red herrings like “racial inequity” and Trump Trump Trump into every question.

By contrast, Shapley and Ziegler are frank and serious men.

For Shapley what is important is “the equal application of justice . . . There are 300 million taxpayers out there who think this hearing is a big deal because they’re paying their taxes and they see someone who isn’t.”

Ziegler said: “We need to hold those accountable who basically for the last five years hasn’t been following proper procedure.”

‘Never compromise’

These are not partisans. Shapley, who has voted for both parties, told the committee: “I am the first person in my family to go to college. It was not an Ivy League school, and I don’t have a network of rich and powerful friends to help me weather the storms of retaliation and character assassination raging on me for doing the right thing. “I am putting myself at risk for the American people who support me and for those who do not. At the end of the day, I am just a small town kid from Norwich, New York who worked hard to get where I am and will never compromise my integrity.”

Ziegler’s life story was a rebuke to Democrats who frame the witnesses as GOP stooges: “I am a gay Democrat married to a man. But I’m no more credible than [Shapley] due to my sexual orientation or my political beliefs. I was raised and have always strived to do what is right. I have heard from some that I am a traitor to the Democratic party [but] I implore you, that if you were put in my position . . . that you would be doing the exact same thing — regardless of your political party affiliation. I hope that I am an example to other LGBTQ people out there . . . We should always do the right thing, no matter how painful the process might be.”

They are true American heroes.

Their sacrifice will help right the rotten ship of state. (Elite IRS whistleblowers are bravely standing up to the Bidens, DOJ.)

A trusted FBI informant told agents in 2020 that Hunter Biden was hired by Burisma Holdings to use his father to help "protect" the Ukrainian gas firm from problems, including an effort to "take care of'" a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating the company for corruption, according to an explosive document released by Sen. Charles Grassley on Thursday.

"They hired Hunter Biden to protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems," the informant reported to the FBI that a top Burisma official named Vadim Pojarskii declared during a meeting while Joe Biden was still vice president, according to the FD-1023 confidential human source report Grassley, R-Iowa, released.

The informant also reported that Burisma had asked Hunter Biden to help get the top prosecutor in Ukraine, Victor Shokin, sidelined because he was investigating the firm for corruption and interfering with Burisma's effort to buy a U.S. firm.

"Shokin's investigation into Burisma, which was made public at this time, it would have a substantial negative impact on Burisma's prospective IPO in the United States," the report alleged. "Zlochevsky replied something to the effect of, 'Don't worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.'"

The report reveals that the informant began reporting these concerns back in 2017.

You can read the full document here. fd_1023_obtained_by_senator_grassley_-_biden.pdf

Joe Biden has admitted he forced Shokin's firing in late 2015 and early 2016 by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees from Ukraine. The prosecutor was fired, but Biden has adamantly denied he did so to help his son's company.

The memo clearly states Burisma owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, told the informant he had been "coerced" into paying the Biden's money and estimated the price tag to be $10 million.

"Zlochevsky stated he didn't want to pay the Bidens and he was pushed to pay them," the report stated

The owner added it "cost 5 (million) to pay one Biden, and 5 (million) to another Biden," the informant reported, adding that "at this time, it was unclear to CHS whether these alleged payments were already made."

The informant also revealed that Burisma officials had become frustrated by Hunter Biden's performance.

"Pojarski replied that Hunter Biden was not smart, and they wanted to get additional counsel," the FBI reported. "The group then had a general conversation about whether the purchase/merger with a US company would be a good business decision."

In response to the FD-1023's release, White house spokesperson Ian Sams issued the following statement:

"It is remarkable that congressional Republicans, in their eagerness to go after President Biden regardless of the truth, continue to push claims that have been debunked for years and that they themselves have cautioned to take 'with a grain of salt' because they could be 'made up.' These claims have reportedly been scrutinized by the Trump Justice Department, a Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney, and a full impeachment trial of the former President that centered on these very issues, and over and over again, they have been found to lack credibility. It's clear that congressional Republicans are dead-set on playing shameless, dishonest politics and refuse to let truth get in the way. It is well past time for news organizations to hold them to basic levels of factual accountability for their repeated and increasingly desperate efforts to mislead both the public and the press." (Bombshell FBI memo: Hunter Biden hired by Ukrainian firm to 'protect' it from corruption probe.)

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley on Thursday published an unclassified FBI document containing confidential human source information related to an alleged bribery scheme involving Joe and Hunter Biden in which a Ukrainian gas company hired Hunter Biden to secure access to his father to help the firm stifle an investigation into its dealings.

The House Oversight Committee previously issued a subpoena to obtain the document, with which FBI Director Christopher Wray did not comply. Though he ultimately permitted the committee members to view the FD-1023 in a secure location, the contents remained unpublished until Grassley's Thursday release.

The document shows that the bureau had a trusted source privy to Burisma's efforts to quash a probe from then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin and its plans to expand to the U.S. and secure a company for IPO purposes.

File fd_1023_obtained_by_senator_grassley_-_biden.pdf

Here are the key takeaways from the CHS claims outlined in the document.

Burisma Holdings hired Hunter Biden to have his father "protect" the company

During CHS's first meeting with Burisma leaders, senior official Vadim Pojarskii reportedly stated that Burisma had hired Hunter Biden to "protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems," though Pojarskii declined to elaborate.

In another meeting, the CHS conversed with CEO Mykola Zlochevsky about President Joe Biden's recent declaration that Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma at the time, was corrupt and ought to be removed from office.

Zlochevsky, in that instance, told the CHS not to fret about the adverse impact such a declaration may have on Burisma's prospects, saying "[d]on't worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad."

Biden ultimately succeeded in getting Shokin fired after threatening Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that he would withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if he did not remove him.

Burisma feared Shokin's probe would stop its efforts to get publicly traded in the U.S.

The energy company sought to purchase an existing U.S. firm for IPO purposes. An initial public offering refers to the original sale of stock in a company when it first becomes a publicly traded company. Firms often opt to make such a move as a means of raising capital to finance expansion.

The CHS debated the sense of CEO Mykola Zlochevsky's plan to by a U.S. company rather than forming a new U.S. entity or to purchase an already listed corporate shell company to which the CEO retorted that Hunter Biden had advised that such a plan would result in raising more money.

The CHS was concerned about the prospect of raising capital through an IPO in America given the ongoing corruption probe from Shokin and advised Zlochevksy to settle the case in Ukraine, though the Burisma executive dismissed the idea because he was not convinced Burisma would win the case.

Zlochevsky told the CHS that he need to retain Hunter Biden "so everything will be okay" and that the Shokin case "will go away anyway."

Burisma knew Hunter Biden had no experience, thought he was dumb, and sought additional counsel

During the CHS's first meeting with Burisma officials, the company discussed the composition of its board and the aid of the Bidens, to which the CHS questioned why they sought additional assistance.

"Pojarskii replied that Hunter Biden was not smart, and they wanted to get additional counsel," the FBI document reads

During a subsequent conversation with Zlochevsky, the CHS advised him to at least hire more conventional U.S. oil and gas advisors, citing the Bidens' lack of experience in the industry.

Zlochevsky acknowledged the Bidens' shortcomings, called Hunter stupid, and suggested that the Burisma CEO's dog was smarter than the first son.

The CHS believed the payments made to the Bidens were 'illicit' in nature

During the conversation with Zlochevsky, the CHS asked as to Burisma's efforts to purchase a U.S. company to secure a listing on the stock exchange. The company had sought to purchase a U.S. entity, an effort with which the CHS took issue due to the expense. The CHS proposed alternate approaches amid the ongoing investigation and discussed the legal prospects of Burisma in relation to Shokin's investigation.

The CEO dismissed the CHS proposal that they pay a lawyer $50,000 to litigate the case in Ukraine, an idea that elicited laughs from Zlochevsky, who quipped as to the expense related to paying the Biden's to handle matters.

"[I]t cost 5 (million) to pay one Biden, and 5 (million) to another Biden," he said. CHS repeatedly warned Zlochevsky against retaining Hunter Biden and not to make an international incident of the Shokin case, though Zlochevsky contended that it was too late to change course and that both Joe and Hunter had pressed him to keep Hunter on the board.

"Don't worry, this thing will go away anyway," the Burisma executive added.

The CHS inferred from the "too late" comment that Zlochevsky had already paid the Bidens, presumably to "deal with Shokin" and asked that Zlochevsky keep the CHS out of Biden-related matters. CHS advised Burisma to fire Hunter Biden and told Zlochevsky not to pay them, stating that to do so would complicate matters.

Burisma executives believed they had been coerced into hiring Hunter

During a phone call after the 2016 presidential election, Zlochevksy expressed disappointment in former President Donald Trump's victory, prompting the CHS to press the Burisma CEO on whether he was worried about the company's connection with the Bidens.

Zlochevsky retorted that he had not wanted to pay the Bidens and that he was "pushed to pay" them. The term Zlochevsky used, according to the CHS, was Russian slang for a coerced payment.

During that conversation, Zlochevsky indicated he had recordings and messages related to being forced to pay the Bidens and asked the CHS whether it would make a legal difference if he had been forced to make the payments or did so voluntarily.

Here are the key takeaways from the CHS claims outlined in the document.

Burisma Holdings hired Hunter Biden to have his father "protect" the company

Biden ultimately succeeded in getting Shokin fired after threatening Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that he would withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if he did not remove him.

Burisma feared Shokin's probe would stop its efforts to get publicly traded in the U.S.

Zlochevsky told the CHS that he need to retain Hunter Biden "so everything will be okay" and that the Shokin case "will go away anyway."

Burisma knew Hunter Biden had no experience, thought he was dumb, and sought additional counsel

During the CHS's first meeting with Burisma officials, the company discussed the composition of its board and the aid of the Bidens, to which the CHS questioned why they sought additional assistance.

"Pojarskii replied that Hunter Biden was not smart, and they wanted to get additional counsel," the FBI document reads.

During a subsequent conversation with Zlochevsky, the CHS advised him to at least hire more conventional U.S. oil and gas advisors, citing the Bidens' lack of experience in the industry.

Zlochevsky acknowledged the Bidens' shortcomings, called Hunter stupid, and suggested that the Burisma CEO's dog was smarter than the first son.

The CHS believed the payments made to the Bidens were 'illicit' in nature

"Don't worry, this thing will go away anyway," the Burisma executive added.

Burisma executives believed they had been coerced into hiring Hunter

Zlochevsky retorted that he had not wanted to pay the Bidens and that he was "pushed to pay" them. The term Zlochevsky used, according to the CHS, was Russian slang for a coerced payment.

Zlochevsky bragged he had covered his tracks on the Biden payments

The Burisma CEO questioned the CHS during the 2019 phone call as to whether CHS was an "oracle" in light of CHS's prior advice not to pay the Bidens and reports of investigations into their links with the company.

It was during this exchange that Zlochevsky confirmed he had not made any payments directly to the "Big Guy" and bragged that "it would take them (Investigators) 10 years to find the records (i.e. illicit payments to Joe Biden)," the FD-1023 reads.

The FBI received a lead involving cryptocurrency

The FD-1023 includes information regarding Oleksandr Ostapenko that noted he worked in the administration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the time and also for Valery Vavilov, the founder of cryptocurrency and blockchain firm BitFury.

Former FBI Assistant Director of Intelligence Kevin Brock pointed to the use of cryptocurrency for covert payments and suggested it might form a lead to trace the payments.

"Using cryptocurrency back in 2015, 2016, was still kind of new and leading edge," he said on the "Just the News, No Noise" television show. "The advantage of cryptocurrency is it does afford a degree of anonymity, but there's still money trail. It's a ledger-based system."

"So any payments, once you know who's making the payment and you've got the Bitcoin numbers, you can ... follow that money and you can see how it is laundered and how it's cashed out and converted back into normal crash and where it goes from there. So it's not impossible to follow cryptocurrency trails," he added.

The FBI long knew that Joe's associates called him the "Big Guy"

During a 2019 phone call, Zlochevsky referred to Joe Biden as the "Big Guy" while claiming to have never sent any payments directly to him. The CHS understood the term to reference Biden.

Given that the CHS date of contact was June 30, 2020, the form seems indicate that the bureau was aware that Biden's business associates referred to him as such well before Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski came forward to make the claim.

Bobulinski came forward in October 2020 in connection with the notorious business deal involving the now-defunct CEFC China Energy company. Bobulinski confirmed the legitimacy of a 2017 email stated "10 held by H for the big guy," which he stated was a reference to Joe Biden.

The FBI began receiving information on the Bidens and Burisma as early as 2017

A footnote in the FD-1023 refers to a March 1, 2017, exchange in which the CHS reported some of the information and stated that Zlochevsky briefly discussed Hunter Biden, but that his comments had not been related to the company's efforts to purchase a U.S. firm. CHS also acknowledged that Burisma assigned Pojarskii to manage that effort.

The bureau's former intelligence chief believes the memo warrants a criminal investigation of Joe Biden

During an appearance on the "Just the News, No Noise" television show on Thursday, former FBI Assistant Director of Intelligence Kevin Brock opined that the allegations detailed in the memo would warrant a criminal investigation into the president.

"You have enough here for a full field criminal investigation. No doubt," he said. "But beyond that, we have assertions by the CHS that the CEO of Burisma, Zlochevsky... tape recorded a lot of the conversations that he had with Hunter Biden to include two conversations directly with Joe Biden. The FBI needs to know what's on those tapes."

Zlochevsky claims to have 17 recordings related to the Bidens, two of which include Joe Biden while 15 feature only Hunter. He also claimed to possess documents, which the CHS believed were bank records and wire transfer statements, to prove that the payments occurred. (Secret tapes and coerced payments: Top 10 Biden-Burisma bombshells from FBI informant memo. Also see: FBI Told Twitter Hunter Biden Laptop Was Real on Day It Was Censored, IRS whistleblower's lawyer: Prosecutors supported pressing charges against Hunter but were 'shut down', Biden bribe file released: Burisma chief said 'both' Joe and Hunter involved, Joe Biden 'extremely well known' to feds investigating Hunter, showed up to FBI office during probe: IRS agent Joseph Ziegler, and FBI Told Twitter Hunter Biden Laptop Was Real on Day It Was Censored.)

To top off everything else, Special Counsel David Weiss, who was also the United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, only filed criminal charges against Robert Hunter Biden when a sweetheart plea deal that he tried to sneak pass Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika got called out by the latter for what it was: an unprecedent “get out of jail” card for a man who had gotten away with bribery, influence peddling, tax evasions, falsely filling out an application for a gun permit, and the serial purchasing of illegal drugs in full violation of the United States Code.

Here is what I wrote in 2023 about Judge Noreika’s rejecting a plea agreement that was without any precedent in the annals of American jurisprudence:

“One Set of Rules for All” Jack Smith, who lives in The Netherlands although is a native-born American, has struck again by adding four new counts in a superseding indictment against Deep State’s favorite whipping boy, former President Donald John Trump, who has always been and remains his own worst enemy as he hands much ammunition to his enemies to execute him politically in the classified documents case just one day after United States District Court Judge for the District of Delaware Maryellen Noreika refused to accept the unprecedented plea agreement between Sonny Corleone (aka Hunter Biden) and Don Vito Corleone’s (Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr’s) saldatos (soldiers) in Consigliere Merrick Garland’s Ministry of Injustice that would have immunized Sonny from any Federal crimes he committed between 2014 and 2023.

The timing of the superseding indictment against Trump, who is alleged to have ordered the erasure of surveillance tapes at Mar-a-Lago that are said to show the movement of classified documents that had been subpoenaed by a Federal grand jury, is rather transparent, but not as transparent as Consigiliere Garland’s efforts to intimidate and discredit Sonny Corleone’s former business partner, Devon Archer, just two days before he is scheduled to testify behind closed doors before the House Oversight Committee today, Monday, July 31, 2023, the Feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola:

The Justice Department is pushing for Devon Archer to report to prison — just days ahead of the former Hunter Biden business partner’s hotly anticipated congressional testimony, according to new court documents.

Manhattan federal prosecutors on Saturday filed a letter requesting a judge set a date for Archer to start his one-year sentence in a fraud case unrelated to the first son’s various scandals.

The request came after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Archer’s 2018 conviction last Tuesday on two felony charges for his role in a conspiracy to defraud a Native American tribe.

Archer — who is set to deliver closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee on Monday about Biden — had been challenging the conviction.

His attorney, Matthew Schwartz, said he would be filing a formal response to the request from the US Attorney’s Office by Wednesday — and noted that his client would still testify as planned despite allegations the DOJ letter was an intimidation tactic.

“We are aware of speculation that the Department of Justice’s weekend request to have Mr. Archer report to prison is an attempt by the Biden administration to intimidate him in advance of his meeting with the House Oversight Committee,” Schwartz said in a statement, per Politico.

“To be clear, Mr. Archer does not agree with that speculation,” Schwartz added. “In any case, Mr. Archer will do what he has planned to do all along, which is to show up on Monday and to honestly answer the questions that are put to him by the Congressional investigators.”

Schwartz has argued it was “premature” to pick a jail date as the 58-year-old mulls potential appeal options.

Back in 2009, Archer, Biden, and Christopher Heinz co-founded investment and advisory firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, which the first son used as a vehicle for many of his overseas business endeavors.

Archer is expected to testify that Hunter Biden would dial-in his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden during various meetings with overseas partners, as The Post exclusively reported.

This is a key development in the GOP-led inquiries of the Biden family, because it potentially ties the president to his son’s business affairs.

President Biden has previously said, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”

The White House now says the president “was never in business with his son,” an apparent shift in verbiage downplayed by press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

For months, Biden administration officials have pummeled Republicans over their probe of the first family’s business dealings and have sought to drive home the notion that the president hasn’t been directly implicated.

“Just last week his fellow GOP colleague on the Oversight Committee said this on camera for all to see: ‘I’ve heard over and over that President Biden has not been implicated or proven for any wrongdoing here, and I acknowledge that,'” White House spokesperson Ian Sams tweeted last Tuesday.

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), who has been the point-person on the GOP inquiries of the first family, has repeatedly shrugged off the Biden administration’s various defensives, highlighting the questions Biden activity his panel has uncovered so far.

Comer subpoenaed Archer in June and called the timing of the jail request letter “odd.”

“I don’t want to put words in Devon Archer’s mouth,” Comer said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” “but I’ll say this: He has an opportunity to come tomorrow to the House Oversight Committee and tell the truth.”

Other Republicans also seized on the DOJ letter.

“The DOJ is now actively committing the crime of obstructing a congressional investigation,” Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz charged in a tweet.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) shared Gaetz’s tweet, adding: “This is getting to be Banana Republic territory. They are moving from indicting their opponents to throwing witnesses in jail on the eve of Congressional testimony.”

Last week, Hunter Biden’s planned plea agreement with federal prosecutors burned down in flames after a Trump-appointed judge raised constitutionality concerns and found daylight between the two parties.

He then pleaded not guilty to two tax misdemeanors charges, to which he was initially expected to plead guilty.

Attorneys from the two sides are expected to head back to the drawing board to iron out their differences. (DOJ tries to jail key Hunter Biden witness Devon Archer on eve of congressional testimony.)

What a coincidence!

On the eve of Devon Archer’s bombshell testimony to the House Oversight Committee, the Department of Justice tried to put him in jail.

If you don’t suspect that’s an attempt to intimidate Hunter Biden’s former best friend before he reveals damaging secrets about the president, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

It’s another example of a DOJ gone astray.

Coming hot on the heels of the first son’s dubious plea deal in Delaware collapsing last week, and amid allegations from senior IRS whistleblowers of political favoritism by prosecutors to protect Joe Biden, you have to wonder how far a weaponized, all-powerful, unaccountable justice system can go.

Two more examples from the past week tell you the sky’s the limit — and they’re not even bothering to hide it anymore.

On Wednesday, federal prosecutors dropped campaign-finance violation charges against cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, who just so happens to have been Biden’s second-biggest donor.

On Thursday, new charges against Biden’s chief political rival, Donald Trump, were filed by special counsel Jack Smith over the former president’s handling of classified files.

‘Obstruction of justice’

It’s impossible not to view the gratuitous intervention in Archer’s case by Damian Williams, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, through the same prism of suspicion and distrust.

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer describes the letter as “obstruction of justice.”

In an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, he decried “the lengths to which the Biden legal team has gone to try to intimidate our witnesses, to coordinate with the DOJ and certainly to coordinate with the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee to encourage people not to cooperate with our investigation.”

Williams’ extraordinary letter was sent to Judge Ronnie Abrams on Saturday, two days before Archer was to tell the Republican-controlled committee what he had witnessed of then-Vice President Joe Biden’s involvement in his son Hunter’s overseas business dealings.

The letter asks Abrams to set a date for Archer, 58, to report to prison to serve a one-year sentence for his role in a $60 million bond fraud; he was convicted in 2018.

His appeal failed two months ago.

In his letter, Williams explicitly rejects a request he received from Archer’s lawyer to postpone any decision until Wednesday. So, he wants the date set sooner.

But why the big hurry?

Archer is scheduled to testify at 10 a.m. Monday that he witnessed Hunter dial in his father on speakerphone during meetings with his overseas business partners, including executives of the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma, who paid Hunter $83,000 a month during his father’s vice presidency and cut the payments in half weeks after Joe left office.

Archer, who served on the Burisma board with Hunter, also will be able to testify about dinners Hunter organized at Georgetown’s Café Milano for his father to meet his shady benefactors from Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan.

The claims are devastating to the president’s credibility after he repeatedly has claimed that he knew nothing about the millions of dollars Hunter raked in from corrupt countries where his father wielded power as veep.

“I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Joe Biden famously told Fox News in September 2019.

White House press secretaries have repeated the line ad nauseam for almost three years, until last week, in the wake of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, when the phrasing changed.

“The president was never in business with his son,” declared Karine Jean-Pierre.

Big difference. They’ll soon be parsing the meaning of “in business.”

In return for his cooperation, Archer will be hoping for a letter from the Oversight Committee to Abrams urging leniency, perhaps in the form of home detention.

But any decisions about his sentence are a matter for the judge to decide, not for the SDNY.

It is “highly unusual” for a US attorney to pressure a judge over a surrender date, says Bob Costello, former Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the SDNY.

“The Southern District shouldn’t be involved,” Costello said. “They’re allowed to be but there’s no need.

“Why are they suddenly interested in a surrender date right on the eve of his testimony?

“They want to put pressure on him. They want this to be weighing on his mind.”

Costello sees the letter to Abrams as “a psychological operation on Archer to see . . . how it affects his ability to recollect [damning details during his testimony].

“I think what the SDNY has done borders on obstructing justice, by interfering with a congressional witness. While they might technically be allowed to do this, it exhibits bad form at the very least.”

Archer’s ordeal

The pressure on Archer already was torturous when Williams’ letter dropped.

The father of three has been receiving death threats and was forced to go into hiding last week.

Saturday’s SDNY letter carries a double whammy.

Firstly, it serves to intimidate the witness, although Archer’s lawyer, Matthew Schwartz, a managing partner at Boies Schiller, the firm where Hunter once was “of counsel,” denied any deleterious effect on his client Sunday.

We are aware of speculation that the DOJ’s weekend request to have Mr. Archer report to prison is an attempt by the Biden administration to intimidate him in advance of his meeting with the House Oversight Committee,” Schwartz said in a statement to Politico. “To be clear, Mr. Archer does not agree with that speculation.”

Secondly, the letter serves to pre-discredit Archer’s testimony by highlighting his fraud conviction.

However, Archer may flip the advantage by using his moment in the spotlight (albeit behind closed doors) to place on the record his belief that he is innocent.

There is evidence to bolster his claim that he was a victim of fraud by his co-defendants, since he personally lost millions of dollars, and Abrams declared “an unwavering concern that Archer is innocent” when she initially overturned his conviction.

In any case, Hunter Biden’s former best friend has nothing to lose by testifying, and every hope that the truth will set him free.

Shame on you, GOP RINOs of the Senate

Senate Republicans rushed out last week to sabotage House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s efforts to hold Joe Biden accountable.

Why else would they join Adam Schiff in criticizing McCarthy for raising the prospect of an impeachment inquiry in the face of an avalanche of evidence and allegations of corruption against the president?

If Senate RINOs think impeachment is a bad idea, they should counsel their House colleagues in private.

Why carry water for Biden?

It’s a stab in the back to House Republicans who finally are doing what the DOJ and the FBI have failed to do for a decade.

If the DOJ can’t be trusted, then Congress has its own powers and a duty to investigate alleged high crimes and misdemeanors of the executive branch.

But Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) last week warned his House colleagues against following the lead of Democrats who “cheapened” the impeachment process under Trump.

Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) told reporters it was better to “be making an argument for why we need to have the majority in the House, the Senate and the White House come Jan. 2025.”

That’s all very well. But Democrats don’t care about niceties.

Joe Biden sicced the DOJ onto his main political rival, for crying out loud. Thune and Tillis haven’t exactly been railing against that “cheapening” of the justice system.

If GOP senators can’t support their House colleagues in the difficult task of investigating Biden family corruption, they should at least keep their mouths shut. Voters didn’t send them to Washington to support Joe Biden. (DOJ can't sink any lower after attempted jailing of Hunter Biden's ex-partner Devon Archer.)

United States Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) is entirely correct in his characterization of the letter sent to Devon Archer by the United States Department of Justice on a Saturday despite Archer’s attorney’s refusal to accept such a characterization as valid. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and his band of thugs who might as well have come from the casting department of Desilu Production’s The Untouchables. This is, as House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer noted, obstruction of justice. It is one of the boldest forms of political intimidation and is worthy, if one can use that word, of comparisons with the governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, East Germany, Cuba, and, of course, Red China.

Those interested in all the pertinent details of matters upon which I have commented recently in "Hands Off My Family" Won't Work for the "Big Guy" with Christ the King at the Particular Judgment and Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.'s., Ultimate Treason is Against Christ the King can read the following secular commentaries: Pro-Biden PAC disbursed thousands to family friend who discussed business opportunities with Hunter, Judge Rejects Hunter Biden's Dirty Plea Deal, One DOJ Official Could Have Stopped Biden Family Crime Racket Years Ago: Jack Smith, Hunter Biden's laptop full of secret agreements and contracts, BOTH Trump and Biden can be crooks, How DOJ, Hunter lawyers tried to sweet-talk judge into accepting sweeping plea deal, Republicans in frenzy over timing of 'brazen' new charges against Trump: 'We cannot allow this to stand', The fix was in for Hunter Biden — until a hero judge stepped up, Joe Biden's new claim about Hunter's business deals reveals what he really thinks of voters, and Hunter Biden plea deal wording: DOJ sought to protect Joe.)

For my part, however, I see no good reason to belabor points about this remarkable display of chutzpah from lifelong political thugs who even managed to send Jill Biden’s true husband to jail over, get this, tax charges after he refused to turn over his house to the future Mrs. Biden (see Jill Biden's ex-husband slams 'Biden crime family'). Those who do not want to see the truth about the Catholic apostate and moral reprobate who lives in the White House while others, most especially the capo of all capos, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, pulls many of the strings in what has been, in effect, his third term as president, at this point will never do so.

Here are some of the reactions to the outgoing corrupted president’s pardon of his equally corrupt and equally amoral son:

President-elect Donald Trump hinted at mass pardons for defendants tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot – with his team vowing he would also overhaul the “Democrat-controlled” Department of Justice — a little more than an hour after President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Sunday night.

“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” Trump posted on Truth Social. . . .

Sen. Chuck Grassley said he was “shocked” at the reversal.

“I’m shocked Pres Biden pardoned his son Hunter bc he said many many times he wouldn’t & I believed him,” the Iowa Republican posted on X. “Shame on me.”

House Republicans who led an impeachment inquiry into the president over his alleged involvement in his son’s foreign business dealings also decried the “blatant corruption.”

“Joe Biden has lied from start to finish about his family’s corrupt influence peddling activities,” said Oversight Chairman James Comer in a statement. “Not only has he falsely claimed that he never met with his son’s foreign business associates and that his son did nothing wrong, but he also lied when he said he would not pardon Hunter Biden.”

“The charges Hunter faced were just the tip of the iceberg in the blatant corruption that President Biden and the Biden Crime Family have lied about to the American people,” added Comer (R-Ky.), whose panel found evidence the commander in chief abused his power to perpetuate a family “influence-peddling racket” and obstructed their investigation. “It’s unfortunate that, rather than come clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can to avoid accountability.” (Donald Trump hints at mass pardons for Jan. 6 defendants after Biden pardons son Hunter.)

President Joe Biden has spent his half-century of political power to liberate his son from the consequences of his infractions, so why would the final full month of the president’s lame duck tenure prove any different? After months of promising he would “abide by the jury’s decision” to eventually convict Hunter Biden of various tax and gun crimes, the Big Guy came through for the First Son on last time before being discarded by the Democratic Party into the ash heap of history. True to form, Joe Biden has pardoned Hunter, absolving the convicted felon not just of the tax and gun crimes in question, but for any crimes “committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”

Daddy’s pardon seals the deal that Daddy’s Justice Department could not. The DOJ’s deal, which the president specifically lauded in his statement announcing his pardon of Hunter, would have protected Hunter from any future prosecution resulting from other investigations into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent or violated international sex trafficking statutes when soliciting prostitutes abroad. Conveniently, the pardon begins just months before the younger Biden was discharged from the U.S. Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine, discovered by his wife to be soliciting prostitutes abroad, and joined the board of Burisma Holdings.

Hunter Biden was, indeed, “treated differently” by federal prosecutors, but not in the way the president tried to portray. Of the 2,550 subjects of IRS criminal investigations in fiscal 2022, more than 9 in 10 offenders prosecuted were eventually convicted. More gallingly, Biden’s Justice Department intentionally sat on the most serious evidence that Hunter Biden may have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act and other lobbying prohibitions during his international business dealings. By simply waiting out the clock until the five-year statute of limitations for FARA expired, exactly five years after Biden resigned from his plum position on the board of Burisma Holdings and his father announced his third bid for the presidency, Daddy’s DOJ ensured Hunter Biden would never have to answer for the crimes most likely to implicate his father, who Burisma business partner Devon Archer confirmed would routinely call into his son’s professional meetings.

From securing Hunter plum patronages with his political donors and public sector allies at Amtrak and the Clinton Commerce Department to his pardon today, Joe Biden has spent the last 50 years trying to absolve his son from his sins and abdicate him from any responsibility for his actions. The only good news for Republicans is that not only is the entire clan of Biden grifters riding Joe’s coattails on their own, but also, now Democrats have no excuse to feign shock and awe when Donald Trump inevitably follows suit and plays the familiar pardon game. (As usual, Joe Biden uses his political power to absolve Hunter of responsibility for his crimes.)

Over and above all the criminal activity, including acts that border upon if not actually constitute treason against the United States of America, and over and above all the serial, sociopathic lying, which includes Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.’s appropriating a story that had been told to him by a friend as his own just minutes after being told the story and then using in a speech in front of his friend (talk about chutzpah!—see Jill Biden ex: Joe stole my story — minutes after I told it), the fact remains that Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., whom I questioned about abortion after a speech he game at the then named Allentown College of Saint Francis de Sales in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, in the Spring of 1980, has been disqualified from public office solely because he supports the slaughter of the innocent preborn by chemical and surgical means and has been in the vanguard of supporting every manner of indecency and perversity spread by the homosexual collective for the past twelve years since he preempted Obama/Soetoro’s own “coming out” in favor of absurdity that is “marriage” between two persons of the same gender.

I, for one, am amazed that anyone finds the pro-abort, pro-perversity, pro-open border, pro-everything bad grifter Biden’s mendacious behavior in the White House to be in any way extraordinary. The man has lived his entire life lying with impunity, and he is also a greedy, slimy, transparent crook as well:

Crooks lie.

Crooks lie all the time.

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is a thief, a crook, a bum, a deranged demagogue, a thug, and an enabler of George Soros-sponsored harassment of Democratic Party opponents, including United States Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) and Joseph Manchin (D-West Virginia), of his $3.5 trillion budget and $1.2 trillion “infrastructure” bill (see George Soros-Linked Group Behind Public Harassment of Kyrsten Sinema).

A Catholic father who can shirk his responsibility to advance the salvation of his children’s immortal souls and, quite indeed, is their accomplice in acts that are tantamount to, if not actually, treasonous by selling one’s family name and the influence it brings to the Chicoms, who are enemies of Christ the King and of all mankind in addition to be enemies of the legitimate national security interests of the United States of America. The unvirtuous who remain unrepentant will one day have to face Christ the King at the terrible moment of his Particular Judgment:

Beloved Christians, of all the goods of nature, of fortune, and of grace, which we have received from God, we are not the masters, neither can we dispose of them as we please; we are but the administrators of them; and therefore we should employ them according to the will of God, who is our Lord. Hence, at the hour of death, we must render a strict account of them to Jesus Christ, our Judge. "For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the 'proper things of the body as he hath done, whether it be good or evil"--II. Cor., v. 10. This is the precise meaning of that "give an account of thy stewardship", in the gospel of this day. "You are not," says St. Bonaventure, in his comment on these words, "a master, but a steward over the things committed to you; and therefore you are to render an account of them". I will place before your eyes to-day, the rigour of this judgment, which shall be passed on each of us on the last day of our life. Let us consider the terror of the soul, first, when she shall be presented to the Judge; secondly, when she shall be examined; and thirdly; when she shall be condemned.

First point. Terror of the souls when she shall be presented to the Judge.

1. "It is appointed unto men once to die, and, after this, the judgment"--Heb., ix. 27. It is of faith that we shall die, and that, after death, a judgment shall be passed on all the actions of our life. Now, what shall be the terror of each of us, when we shall be at the point of death, and shall have before our eyes the judgment which must take place the very moment the soul departs from the body? Then shall be decided our doom to eternal life, or to eternal death. At the time of the passage of their souls from this life to eternity, the sight of their past sins, the rigour of God's judgment, and th uncertainty of their eternal salvation, have made the saints tremble. St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi trembled in her sickness, through the fear of judgment; and to her confessor, when he endeavoured to give her courage, she said, Ah, father, it is a terrible thin to appear before Christ in judgment. After spending many years in penance in the desert, St. Agatho trembled at the hour of death, and said: What shall become of me when I shall be judged? The venerable Father Louis de Ponte was seized with such a fit of trembling at the thought of the account which he should render to God, that he shook the room in which he lay. The thought of judgment inspired the venerable Juvenal Ancina, Priest of the Oratory, and afterwards the Bishop of Saluzzo, with the determination to leave the world. Hearing the Dies Irae sung, and considering the terror of the souls when presented before Jesus Christ, the Judge, he took, and afterwards executed, the resolution of giving himself entirely to God.

2. It is the common opinion of theologians, that, at the very moment and in the very place in which the soul departs from the body, the divine tribunal is erected, the accusation is read, and the sentence is passed by Jesus Christ, the Judge. At this terrible tribunal each of us shall be presented, to give an account of all our thoughts, of all our words, and of all our actions. "For we must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he heath done, whether it be good or evil"--II. Cor., v. 10. When presented before an Earthly judge, criminals have been seen to fall into a cold sweat through fear. It is related of Piso, that, so great and insufferable was the confusion which he felt at the thought of appearing as a criminal before the senate, that he killed himself. How great is the pain of a vassal, or of a son, in appearing before an angry prince or an enraged father, to account for some crime which he has committed! Oh! how much greater shall be the pain and confusion of the soul in standing before Jesus Christ enraged against her for having despised him during her life! Speaking of judgment, St. Luke says, "Then they shall see the Son of Man"--Luke, xxi. 27. They shall see Jesus Christ as man, with the same wounds with which he ascended into Heaven. "Great joy of the beholders!" says Robert the Abbot, "great terror of those who are in expectation!" These wounds shall console the just, and shall terrify the wicked. In them sinners shall see the Redeemer's love for themselves, and their ingratitude to him.

3. "Who," says the Prophet Nahum, "can stand before the face of his indignation?--i. 6. How great, then, shall be the terror of a soul that finds himself in sin before this Judge, the first time she shall see him, and shall see him full of wrath! St. Basil says that she shall be tortured more by her shame and confusion than by the very fire of Hell. "Horridior quam ignis, erit udor". Philip the Second rebuked one of his domestics for having told a lie. "Is it thus", said the kin to him, "you deceive me?" The domestic, after having returned hom, died of grief. The Scripture tells us, that when Joseph, reproved his brethren, saying, "I am Joseph, whom you sold", they were unable to answer for fear, and remained silent. "His brethren could not answer him, being struck with exceeding great fear"--Gen., xlv. 3.Now, what answer shall sinners make to Jesus Christ when he shall say to them: I am your Redeemer and your Judge, whom you have so much despised? Where shall the miserable beings fly, says St. Augustine, when they shall see an angry Judge above, Hell open below, on one side their own sins accusing them, and on the other devils dragging them to punishment, and their conscience burning them within? "Above shall be an enraged Judge; below a horrid chaos; on the right, sins accusing him; on the left, demons dragging him to punishment; within, a burning conscience. Whither shall a sinner, beset in this manner, fly?" Perhaps he will cry for mercy? But how, asks Eusebius Emissenus, can he dare to implore mercy, when he must first render an account of his contempt for the mercy which Jesus Christ had shown to him? "With what face will you who are to be first judged for contempt of mercy, ask for mercy?" But let us come to the rendering of the accounts.

Second point. Terror of the soul when she shall be examined.

4. As soon as the soul shall be presented before the tribunal of Jesus Christ, he will say to her: "Give an account of thy stewardship": render instantly an account of thy entire life. The Apostle tells us, that to be worthy of eternal glory, our lives must be found conformable to the life of Jesus Christ. "For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son;...them he has also glorified"--Rom., viii.. 29, 30. Hence St. Peter has said, that in the judgment of Jesus Christ, the just man, who has observed the divine law, has pardoned enemies, has respected the saints, has practised chastity, meekness and other virtues, shall scarcely be saved. "The just man scarcely shall be saved." The Apostles adds: "Where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"--I. Pet. iv., 18. What shall become of the vindictive and the unchaste, of blasphemers, and slanderers? What shall become of those whose entire life is opposed to the life of Jesus Christ?

5. In the first place, the Judge shall demand of sinners an account of all the blessings and graces which he bestowed upon them in order to bring them to salvation, and which they have rendered fruitless. He will demand an account of the years granted to them that they might serve God, and which they have spent in offending him. "He hat called against me the time"--Lam., i. 15. He will then demand an account of their sins. Sinners commit sins, and afterwards forget them; but Jesus Christ does not forget them: he keeps, as Job says, all our iniquities numbered, as it were in a bag. "Thou has sealed up my iniquities, as it were in a bag"--Job, xiv. 17. And he tells us that, on the day of accounts, he will take a lamp to scrutinize all the actions of our life. "And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps"--Soph., i. 12. The lamp, says Mendoza on this passage, penetrates all the corners of the house--that is, God will discover all the defects of our conscience, great and small. According to St. Anselm, an account shall be demanded of every glance of the eyes. "Exigitur usque ad ictum oculi". And, according to St. Matthew, of every idle word. "Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it on the day of judgment"--Matt., xii. 36.

6. The Prophet Malachy says, that as gold is refined by taking away the dross, so on the day of judgment, all our actions shall be examined; and every defect which may be discovered shall be punished. "He shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall refine them as gold"--Mal. iii. 3. Even our justices--that is, our good words, confessions, communions, and prayers--shall be examined. "When I shall take a time, I will judge justices"--Ps., lxxiv. 3. But, if every glance, every idle word, and even good works, shall be judged, with what rigour shall immodest expressions, blasphemies, grievous detractions, theft, and sacrileges be judged? Alas! on that day every soul shall, as St. Jerome says, "see to her own confusion, all the evils which she has done. "videbit unusquisque quod fecit."

7. "Weight and balance are judgments of the Lord"--Prov., xvi. 11. In the balance of the Lord, a holy life and good works make the scale descend; but nobility, wealth, and science, have no weight. Hence, if found innocent, the peasant, the poor, and the ignorant, shall be rewarded. But the man of rank, of wealth, or or learning, if found guilty, shall be condemned."Thou art weighted in the balance", said Daniel to Balthassar, "and art found wanting"--Dan., v. 27. "Neither his gold, nor his wealth", says father Alvares, "but the king alone was weighed."

8. At the divine tribunal, the poor sinner shall see himself accused by the Devil, who, according to St. Augustine, "will recite the words of our profession, and will charge us before our face with all that we have done, will state the day and the hour in which we sinned"--Con. jud., tom. VI. He will recite the words of our profession; that is, he will enumerate the promises which we have made to God, and which we afterwards violated. He will charge us before our face; he will upbraid us with all our wicked deeds, pointing to the day and hour in which they were committed. And he will, as the same saint says, conclude his accusation by saying: "I have suffered neither stripes nor scourges for this man." Lord, I have suffered nothing for this ungrateful sinner, and to make himself my salve, he has turned his back on thee, who hast endured so much for his salvation. He, therefore, justly belongs to me. Even his angel-guardian will, according to Origen, come forward to accuse him, and will say" I have laboured so many years for his salvation; but he has despised all my admonitions. "Unusquisque angelorum perhibet testimonium, quot annis circa eum laboraverit sed ille monita sprevit"--hom., lxvi. Thus, even friends shall treat with contempt the guilty soul. "All her friends have despised her"--Lamen., i. 2. Her ver sins shall, says St. Bernard, accuse her. "And they shall say: You have made us; we are your work; we shall not desert you"--Lib., Medit., cap. ii. We are your offspring; we shall not leave you; we shall be your companions in Hell for all eternity.

9. Let us now examine the excuses which the sinner will be able to advance. He will say, that the evil inclinations of nature had drawn him to sin. But he shall be told that, if concupiscence impelled him to sins, it did not oblige him to commit them; and that, if he had recourse to God, he should have received from him grace to resist every temptation. For this purpose Jesus Christ has left us the sacraments; but, when we do not make use of them, we can complain only of ourselves. "But," says the Redeemer, "now they have no excuse for their sin"--John, xv. 22. To excuse himself, the sinner shall also say, that the Devil tempted him to sin. But, as St. Augustine says, "The enemy is bound like a dog in chains, and can bite only him who has united himself to him with a deadly security." The Devil can bark, but cannot bit, unless you adhere and listen to him. Hence the saint adds: " See how foolish is the man whom a dog loaded with chains bites". Perhaps he will advance his bad habits as an excuse; but this shall not stand; for the same St. Augustine says, that though it is difficult to resist the force of an evil habit, "if any one does not desert himself, he will conquer it with the divine assistance". If a man does not abandon himself to sin, and invokes God's aid, he will overcome evil habits. The Apostle tells us, that the Lord does not permit us to be tempted beyond our strength. "God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able."--I. Cor., x. 13.

10. "For what shall I do", said Job, "when God shall rise to judge me? and when he shall examine, what shall I answer him?"--Job., xxxi. 14. What answer shall the sinner give to Jesus Christ? How can he, who sees himself so clearly convicted, give an answer? He shall be covered with confusion, and shall remain silent, like the man found without the nuptial garment. "But he was silent"--Matt., xxii. 12. His very sins shall shut the sinner's mouth. "And all iniquity shall stop her mouth"--Ps., cvi. 42. There, says St. Thomas of Villanova, there shall be no intercessors, to whom the sinner can have recourse. "There, there is no opportunity of sinning; there, no intercessor, no friend, no father shall assist". Who shall then save you? Is it God? But how, asks St. Basil, can you expect salvation from him whom you have despised? "Who shall deliver you? Is it God, whom you have insulted?"--S. Bas., Or. 4, de Pen. Alas, the guilty soul that leaves this world in sin, is condemned by herself before the Judge pronounces sentences. Let us come to the sentence of the Judge.

Third point. Terror of the soul when she shall be condemned.

11. How great shall be the joy of a soul when, at death, she hears from Jesus Christ these sweet words: "Well done, good and faithful servant; because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter into the joy of thy Lord"--Matt., xxv. 21. Equally great shall be the anguish and despair of a guilty soul, that shall see herself driven away by the Judge with the following words: "Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire"--verse 41. Oh! what a terrible thunderclap shall that sentence be to her! "O how frightfully", says the Carthusian, "shall that thunder resound!" Eusebius writes that, the terror of sinners at hearing their condemnation shall be so great, that, if they could, they would die again. "The wicked shall be seized with the terror at the sight of the Judge pronouncing sentence, that, if they were not immortal, they should die a second time" But, brethren, let us, before the termination of this sermon, make some reflections which will be profitable to us. St. Thomas of Villanova says, that some listen to discourses on the judgment and condemnation of the wicked, with as little concern as if they themselves were secure against these things, or as if the day of judgment were never to arrive for them. "Heu quam securi haec dicimus et audimus, quasi nos non tangeret haec sententia, aut quasi dies haec nunquam esset venturus!" Cone. i., de Jud. The saint then asks: Is it not great folly to entertain security in so perilous an affair? "Quae est ista stulta securitas in discrimine tanto?" There are some, says St. Augustine, who, though they live in sin, cannot imagine that God will send them to Hell. "Will God" they say, "really condemn us?" Brethren, adds the saint, do not speak thus. So many of the damned did not believe that they should be sent to Hell; but the end came, and, according to the threat of Ezechiel, they have been cast into that place of darkness. "The end is come, the end is come. . . and I will send my wrath upon thee, and I will judge thee"--Ezec., vii. 2, 3. Sinners, perhaps vengeance is at hand for you, and still you laugh and sleep in sin. Who will not tremble at the words of the Baptist, "for now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree, therefore, that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down and cast into the fire"?--Matt., iii. 10. He says, that every tree that does not bring forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire: and he promises that, with regard to the trees, which represent sinners, the axe is already laid to the roots--that is, the chastisement is at hand. Dearly beloved brethren, let us follow the counsel of the Holy Ghost--"Before judgment, prepare thee justice"--Eccl., xviii. 19. Let us adjust our accounts before the day of accounts. Let us seek God, now that we can find him; for the time shall come when we will wish, but shall not be able to find him. "you shall seek me and shall not find me"--John, vii. 36. "Before judgment," says St. Augustine, "the Judge can be appeased, but not in judgment". By a change of life, we can now appease the anger of Jesus Christ, and recover his grace; but when he shall judge, and find us in sin, he must execute justice, and we shall be lost. (Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, Sermon on the Particular Judgment, Eighth Sunday after Pentecost.)

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is a serial liar. He is a man of iniquity himself and he has suborned iniquity, impurity, indecency, filth, and degradation in those around him, especially the family’s breadwinner, the “recovering” crackhead named Robert Hunter Biden. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.'s. mouth is an open sepulcher, and his mind, such as it has ever been, is filled with the falsehoods of a false age that was described by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to Blessed Anna Taigi in 1829 as follows:

The precursor signs revealed to the Blessed have little to do with the assumptions of worldly prudence. On November 9, 1820, the priest recorded: 'When you see a happy, quiet day of great contentment, then store food: bread, wine, oil. Money will not be lacking. (...) wicked Rome, cruel Rome, you will see the end of iniquity' (Vol. VI, p. 96). The confusion of ideas is one of the signs that are most found in the records of Mons. Natali. On June 8, 1829, he notes: 'Now reign bad customs, politics, human respect, simulation. There is a general scandal everywhere. This is the greatest and strongest punishment that has fallen upon the whole world: the confusion of ideas. I often told you that before the end we would pass by the Tower of Babel. But the end will come when I see fit' (Vol. VII, p. 468). And in 1828: 'Remember, my daughter, that I told you that the Tower of Babel is installed' (Vol. VII, pp. 375-376). On March 31, 1819, he wrote Mons. Natali: 'the Blessed told me that one day she would not know how to point out, during the first years [of the revelations], she heard that the world would be reduced to such a state that the few priests who remained would be forced to live hidden in the sewers carrying the Blessed Sacrament in their bosom' (Blessed Anna Maria Taigi: The Contemplative of the Struggle between Light and Darkness, Vol. IV, p. 391).

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is an end product of Modernity’s confusion of ideas that leaves no place for Christ the King and His true Church in the lives of nations and even, sadly, in the lives of so many people who consider themselves “good” Catholics even though they support evils that cry out to Heaven for vengeance and suborn extortive acts to shake down oligarchs no matter what it might cost their country as long as it enriches their own coffers by means of dummy bank accounts and shell corporations based in the “First State,” Delaware, a place where he had stored classified documents in a garage next to a Corvette, of course.

Although there are untold numbers of Catholic parents who, despite their best efforts after having given their children all the benefits of the Holy Faith, are suffering today in the pattern of Saint Monica herself, there are, most unfortunately, millions upon millions more who treat their grown children as demigods who must be pampered, enabled, and abetted at every turn no matter what they say, what they do, how they act, or who they hurt. No parent, however including Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr, and his wife, Dr. Jill Tracy Jacobs Stevenson Biden, who has been so bold as to wear Rosary beads around her neck while promoting baby-killing in Africa, where so many unsuspecting women have been sterilized by means of “vaccines” imported from the West, has anything other but the empty love of sentimentality for his children if he or she does or says anything that impedes their salvation of their souls by reaffirming them in lives of debauched sin and debauched hedonism; and, similarly no parent has any true love for his children if he omits to do or say anything that could dissuade them from displeasing God by Moral Sin and thus risk perishing in the eternal flames of hell described so vividly by Saint Alphonsus de Ligouri:

13. The reprobate shall be likewise tormented by the stench which pervades hell. The stench shall arise from the very bodies of the damned. “Out of their carcasses shall arise a stink.” (Isaiah 34:3). The bodies of the damned are called carcasses, not because they are dead (for they are living, and shall be forever alive to pain), but on account of the stench which they exhale. Would it not be very painful to be shut up in a close room with a fetid corpse? St. Bonaventure says, that if the body of one of the damned were placed in the earth, it would, by its stench, be sufficient to cause the death of all men. How intolerable, then, must it be to live forever in the dungeons of hell in the midst of the immense multitudes of the damned! Some foolish worldlings say, If I go to hell, I shall not be there alone. Miserable fools! do you not see that the greater the number of your companions, the more insufferable shall be your torments? “There,” says St. Thomas, “the society of the reprobate shall cause an increase and not a diminution of misery.” (Suppl., q. 86, art. 1). The society of the reprobate augments their misery, because each of the damned is a source of suffering to all the others. Hence, the greater their number, the more they shall mutually torment each other. “And the people,” says the prophet Isaias, “shall be ashes after a fire, as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.” (Is. 33:12). Placed in the midst of the furnace of hell, the damned are like so many grains reduced to ashes by that abyss of fire, and like so many thorns tied together and wounding each other.

14. They are tormented not only by the stench of their companions, but also by their shrieks and lament. How painful it is to a person longing for sleep to hear the groans of a sick man, the barking of a dog, or the screams of an infant. The damned must listen incessantly to the wailing and howling of their associates, not for a night, nor for a thousand nights, but for all eternity, without the interruption of a single moment.

15. The damned are also tormented by the narrowness of the place in which they are confined; for, although the dungeon of hell is large, it will be too small for so many millions of the reprobate, who like sheep shall be heaped one over the other. “They are,” says David, “laid in hell like sheep.” (Ps. 38:15). We learn from the Scriptures that they shall be pressed together like grapes in the winepress, by the vengeance of an angry God. “The winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God the Almighty.” (Rev. 19:15). From this pressure shall arise the pain of immobility. “Let them become unmovable as a stone.” (Ex. 16:16). In whatever position the damned shall fall into hell after the general judgment, whether on the side, or on the back, or with the head downwards, in that they must remain for eternity, without being ever able to move foot or hand or finger, as long as God shall be God. In a word, St. Chrysostom says, that all the pains of this life, however great they may be, are scarcely a shadow of the torments of the damned. “Hæc omnia ludicra sunt et risus ad ilia supplicia, pone ignem, ferrum, et bestias, attamen vix umbra sunt ad ilia tormenta.” (Hom, xxxix. ad pop. Ant).

16. The reprobate, then, shall be tormented in all the senses of the body. They shall also be tormented in all the powers of the soul. Their memory shall be tormented by the remembrance of the years which they had received from God for the salvation of their souls, and which they spent in laboring for their own damnation; by the remembrance of so many graces and so many divine lights which they abused. Their understanding shall be tormented by the knowledge of the great happiness which they forfeited in losing their souls, Heaven, and God; and by a conviction that this loss is irreparable. Their will shall be tormented by seeing that whatsoever they ask or desire shall be refused. “The desire of the wicked shall perish.”(Ps. 111:10). They shall never have any of those things for which they wish, and must forever suffer all that is repugnant to their will. They would wish to escape from these torments and to find peace; but in these torments they must forever remain, and peace they shall never enjoy.

17. Perhaps they may sometimes receive a little comfort, or at least enjoy occasional repose? No, says Cyprian, “Nullum ibi refrigerium, nullum remedium, atque ita omni tormento atrocius desperatio.” (Serm. de Ascens). In this life, how great soever may be the tribulations which we suffer, there is always some relief or interruption. The damned must remain forever in a pit of fire, always in torture, always weeping, without ever enjoying a moment’s repose. But perhaps there is someone to pity their sufferings? At the very time that they are so much afflicted the devils continually reproach them with the sins for which they are tormented, saying, Suffer, burn, live forever in despair, you yourselves have been the cause of your destruction. And do not the saints, the divine mother, and God, who is called the Father of Mercies, take compassion on their miseries? No; "the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from Heaven.” (Matt. 26:29). The saints, represented by the stars, not only do not pity the damned, but they even rejoice in the vengeance inflicted on the injuries offered to their God. Neither can the divine mother pity them, because they hate her Son. And Jesus Christ, who died for the love of them, cannot pity them, because they have despised his love, and have voluntarily brought themselves to perdition. (Saint Alphonsus de Liguori, “On the Pains of Hell,” Sermon for the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, The Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori For All the Sundays of the Year, published originally in 1852 and photographically reproduced by TAN Books and Publisher in 1982, pp. 93-95. The entire sermon is appended below.)

Yes, far more serious charges await us all at the Particular Judgment than can ever be rendered here on this face of this earth, which is why we must have recourse to the tender mercies of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus by making regular use of the Sacrament of Penance.

Our sins caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer unspeakable horrors in His Sacred Humanity during His Passion and Death and they caused Our Blessed Mother's Immaculate Heart to be pierced through and through with those Seven Swords of Sorrow, four of which were plunged deep into that same Immaculate Heart during her Divine Son's Passion and Death. We must be punished because of our own sins, and it is important for us to remember that even though the Biden Family Crime Syndicate will not escape scrutiny if its members and beneficiaries persist in their moral and financial crimes until they die, the reality is we are more responsible for the foul state of the world and of the Church Militant on earth than we realize or would like to admit.

The worst kind of slavery is slavery to Original Sin, wherein one's soul is captive to the devil and thus blinded from seeing the world clearly and whose disorderly passions are even more inclined to act in accord with the spur of the moment rather than in accord with even natural reason.

Fallen human nature is such, however, that even the the baptized vie with each in acts to aggrandize themselves, their power, and their fame while seeking to escape all just punishment in this life. Men who fall into the habit of persisting in and multiplying unrepentant Mortal Sins, blind themselves voluntarily as they seek after everything but the Catholic Faith as the means to guide their lives, being content to remain in slavery to devil, whether by means Original Sin or Mortal Sin, as they heap up riches, power, and influence in this life in the belief that this is the singular and all-defining purpose of human existence justifying whatever means are employed to obtained monetary wealth and/or worldly power.

The insanity and madness of Modernity that is supposed to produce "happiness" in this mortal vale of tears winds up producing anxiety and fear and misery and sadness.

This is the time of Antichrist, who has many figures walking abroad amid the lords of Modernity in the world and the lords of Modernism in the counterfeit church of conciliarism. We must simply endeavor to remain faithful to the very end.

These words from the book that inspired fourteen-year-old Therese Martin to seek admission the Carmel of Lisieux are rather pertinent:

However, it would not be correct to conclude from this testimony that there will be none of the elect left on earth, and that the Son of God will not fail to keep the promise made to His Church, when He sid, Propter electos, dies breviabuntur ("because of the elect, the days will be shortened"). Moreover, St. John, in his [Apocalypse] adds, "And he [the beast] will be worshiped by those who dwell upon the earth whose names are not written in the book of life."

St. Augustine tells us that, in the reign of the Antichrist, thee will be multitudes of martyrs who will display a heroic constancy, and also a number, more or less large, of confessors who will manage to escape into caves and high or sheer mountains, and God will see to it that these sanctuaries shall elude the vigilance and investigations of the persecutors, and will not permit the Devil to point them out them.

Daniel tells us that, at the time of when this terrible persecution breaks out, the abomination of desolation will openly sit enthroned in the holy place. "The king shall do s he pleases," says Daniel. "He shall exalt himself and make himself greater than any god; he shall utter dreadful blasphemies against the God of god . . . He shall have no regard for the gods of his ancestors . . . for no good shall he have regard."

In other words, once the man of sin has cowed the human once by his threats and entangled it in the meshes of his lies and wiles, he will observe no restraint, show his hand, and act openly. He will not permit anyone to worship or invoke any other god than himself, and will proclaim himself sole lord of heaven and earth. Wherever he is not present in person, men will be obliged to pay homage to his image or statue. Et elevabitur, mangifcabitur adversus ominem Deum. He will tolerate neither the Mosaic religion, nor natural religion itself. He will persecute with equal thoroughness Jews, schismatics, heretics, deists, and every sect that recognizes the existence of a supreme being and the immortality of the life to come. Yet God, in His wisdom, will draw good from evil. The horrible tempest that His justice has allowed to be unleashed upon the earth will result in the disappearance of false religions. Along with Judaism, it will abolish the remains of Mohammedans, idolatrous superstitious, and every religion hostile to the Church.

It will deal the finishing blow to the sects of darkness. Freemasonry, Carbonarism, Illuminism, and all subversive societies will vanish in the vortex of wickedness which will be their work, and which they had prepared for centuries in the belief that it would be their definitive, supreme triumph. They will have assisted unintentionally in the establishment of the reign of unity foretold by our Lord: "There one flock then, and one shepherd."

The triumph of the wicked one will be of short duration, but the consolations that follow will be universal, abundant, proportionate to the extent of the tribulations to the Church will have suffered.

However, the final consummation will not come yet, as it is written:

And when the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices in heaven cried out; the voices of angels and of virgins, together with the voices of confessors and holy martyrs, will hail Christ with praise and acclamations, giving thanks for His victory over the Antichrist, and for the extermination of the wicked. All men, now become worshipers of one and the same God, all professing the same faith, united in the same adoration, sharing the same table, will exclaim in chorus: "The kingdom of this world now belongs our Lord and to his Anointed One . . . We praise you, O Lord God Almighty, who is and who was and who are to come; because You have assumed your great power, and You have begun Your reign. (Father Charles Arminjon, The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life, translated by Susan Conroy and Peter McEnerny. Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 2008, pp. 67-68.)

Perhaps the octogenarian in the White House will read Father Arminjon’s words one day and be converted away from his life of perdition, demagoguery, deceit, and the full use of the levers of state-sponsored injustice against his political opponents. We must pity his fate if does not convert and stop his indemnification and celebration of sin in his own life and protecting it under the cover of the civil law while persecuting those who call sin by its proper name and recognize that sanctity, not sin, is the only basis of a just social order.

We, for our part, must remember that our weapon in these times of the open promotion of sin is Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary.

Pray the Rosary.

We must enfold ourselves into the love of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus as we make reparation for our own many sins, which are so responsible for the worsening of the state of the Church Militant on earth and of the world-at-large, as we seek to restore all things in Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen.

The enemies of Christ the King within in our souls and in the world-at-large will be defeated by Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary and the fulfillment of her Fatima Message.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Saint Bibiana, pray for us.

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