Hey, everybody. We got a great one today, you know, for a change.

Ann Applebaum and Frank Four, join me for our second year in review podcast.

This time we tackled the world.

Anne and Frank were both with me in September and on Ukraine and Frank on his great book,

The Last Politician, about Biden's first two years in the White House.

A lot has happened since I last spoke of them, of course, October 7th and the war between Israel and Hamas,

which, of course, is a good part of our discussion.

As I was about to record this monologue, new charges against Hunter Biden were announced

for failing to file and pay taxes, tax evasion, and filing false tax returns.

Biden said that he had a period where he was struggling with depression and addicted to drug.

You still have to pay your taxes.

Now, Biden's lawyer said in a statement that his client had repaid his taxes in full two years ago. Now, I obviously don't know what the deal is.

James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating Hunter Biden,

had recently obtained bank records revealing that Biden's law firm, which had received payments from

Chinese state-linked companies and other foreign companies in the past, made direct

monthly payments to Joe Biden. Comer claimed the payments, quote, are part of a pattern revealing

Joe Biden knew about, participated in, and benefited

from his family's influence peddling schemes, unquote.

Turns out that these three payments of $1,380 each that occurred in September, October, and

November of 2018, were actually for a

2018 Ford Raptor truck that Joe Biden had purchased and that Hunter was using.

This was verified by a Washington Post forensic analysis.

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