I'm Samantha Cheris, I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Wednesday, August 9th.

Here are today's headlines.

President Joe Biden continues to be hit with corruption allegations by House Republicans who have been digging into the Biden family's business dealings.

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer of Republican from Kentucky released a third bank records memo highlighting the Biden family's alleged influence peddling schemes.

This memo reveals that Biden's family and their business associates received over $20 million in payments from foreign sources in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.

Chairman Comer said during Joe Biden's vice presidency, Hunter Biden sold him as the brand to reap millions from oligarchs in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine.

It appears no real services were provided other than access to the Biden network, including Joe Biden himself.

Comer also said it's clear Joe Biden knew about his son's business dealings and allowed himself to be the brand sold to enrich the Biden family while he was vice president of the United States.

The records show that Biden's son Hunter received $1 million per year from Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings.

The memo alleges that Hunter received payments from Elena Baterina, Burisma, and Kenny's Rakashev and that Joe Biden had dinner with them in Washington, D.C. in both 2014 and 2015.

FBI Director Christopher Ray may have lied under oath. The Daily Seabull's Tyler O'Neill is reporting that Ray may have been dishonest about a January 23rd memo from the FBI's Richmond office.

The memo cites the Southern Poverty Law Center in urging investigation into radical traditional Catholic hate groups, that's according to Representative Jim Jordan.

On July 12th, Ray testified to the House Judiciary Committee that the memo represented a single product by a single field office.

And Ray said that as soon as he found out about it, he was a guest and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems.

Yet on July 25th, 2023, the FBI produced a version of the Richmond document with fewer redactions than an earlier version the FBI had produced.

Jordan shares the House Judiciary Committee and wrote in the letter to Ray that this new version shows that the FBI's actions were not just limited to a single field office as you testified to the committee.

According to Jordan, the FBI Los Angeles and Portland field offices appeared to have engaged in similar behavior.

The less-redacted version of the memo also explicitly states that FBI Richmond cooperated with FBI Portland in preparing the assessment.

Jordan said that it appears that both FBI Portland and FBI Los Angeles field offices were involved in or contributed to the creation of the FBI's assessment as traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.

We will include a link to Tyler's full report in today's show notes.

Florida Governor Rhonda Santis used an executive order on Wednesday to suspend Monique Whirl, the state attorney for the state's 9th judicial circuit for under-prosicuting criminals in her district.

The court says Whirl systematically permitted violent offenders, drug traffickers, serious juvenile offenders, and pedophiles to evade incarceration when otherwise warranted under Florida law.

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