10 Scandals to Look Out For in 2023

Conservative News DailyJanuary 4, 2023

With the new year comes more corruption. However, 2023 offers the chance to close some long-running corruption cases. These are the top 10 things to watch in the coming year.

1. Government’s Puppeteering of Big Tech and Media

The continuous release of the “Twitter Files” 2022 was closed with a new scandal. The internal communications of tech giant Elon Musk revealed extensive coordination between the government, Twitter, Facebook and Google and other large players controlling information flow. While conservatives have known — and complained — for years of Big Tech’s censorship and shadowbanning, by purchasing Twitter and giving independent journalists access to corporate emails, Elon Musk provided indisputable confirmation that Twitter both censored and blacklisted conservatives.

The censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the silencing of scientific criticism of the government’s heavy-handed Covid regime, both at the prompting of federal agents, proved the most appalling.

Musk is still able to access internal communications. Therefore, it is important to keep an eye on 2023.

2. Intelligence Agencies’ 2020 Election Interference

A related scandal to track in 2023 concerns intelligence agencies’ interference in the 2020 election. Even before Musk took over at Twitter, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed the FBI’s role in prompting the censorship of the Hunter Biden story.

As I said previously reportedIn an interview with Joe Rogan in August 2020, Zuckerberg revealed that the FBI had warned his Facebook team before the Hunter Biden laptop news was published. “be on high alert.” Zuckerberg says that the FBI had told Facebook. “[W]e thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election” And that “we have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump similar to that so just be vigilant.” Based on the FBI’s warning, when the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden story, Facebook treated it as potential misinformation and limited the visibility of the scandal.

While Zuckerberg hedged on whether the FBI identified the Hunter Biden story as the one that prompted the warning, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, signed a declaration attesting During their “regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and industry peers regarding election security,” “federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October.” Roth observed that he learned so much during these meetings “that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden,” Twitter also censored the story on the basis of the warning.

Although the Hunter Biden laptop wasn’t fake, it was presented to Twitter and Facebook by the intelligence agency. The tech giants were forced to censor this politically dangerous story less than a week before the 2020 election. The FBI’s interference in the 2020 presidential election is a huge scandal, yet just began to percolate in the press in late 2022.

This scandal will continue into 2023. But, even more damning details could be dropped this year because of the “Twitter Files” Elvis Chan, an FBI Special Agent, was the one who sent the following: “Heads Up” to Roth on the late evening of Oct. 13, 2020 — hours before the Post story hit. Chan’s email alerted the Twitter executive to a “Teleporter link” Roth could download 10 documents. “It is not spam!” Chan stressed the importance of the link and asked Roth for confirmation. Roth downloaded the files two minutes later at 6:24 p.m. California time.

Chan sent a similar email two days after the Post story ran. The Oct. 16, 2020 post from Chan to Roth and a high ranking Twitter attorney included a similar message. “I just got something hot off the presses today,” Then tell them to keep an eye on their Teleporter messages. “two documents to download.”

Teleporter is the best way to get around. “Twitter Files” Details is a one-way communication channel that allowed the FBI secret messages to be sent to the tech giant. Those messages, however, reportedly disappear after 24 hours, and to date, both the content of the Teleporter messages and the documents the FBI attached for Twitter’s review remain unknown. But the timing suggests further evidence may exist showing the FBI lied to Big Tech to rig the 2020 election — and 2023 may be the year for it to emerge.

3. The Biden Laundromat

Federal prosecutors have been investigating Hunter Biden since at least 2020. Many expected charges to come last year, when in March of 2022, The New York Times — one of the go-to media outlets for Democrats to prime with inside information to blunt the effects of soon-to-be-released negative news — reported based on unnamed sources that David C. Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware overseeing the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, had a grand jury conducting “a wide-ranging examination” Hunter “Biden’s international business dealings, with prosecutors considering charges for tax fraud, criminal foreign lobbying, and money laundering.”

If Weiss intends to indict, 2023 will be the year to move because after That the country returns to campaign mode and it seems unlikely the DOJ would drop an indictment of the president’s son during an election year. But whether Weiss indicts or not, the House of Representatives, now under Republican control, will most assuredly investigate the Biden family money-making machine — and there is a lot to investigate, including the financial dealings of Hunter Biden, James Biden, Sara Biden, and all the corporate entities linked to them, and how Joe Biden benefitted from those financial dealings.

Further, beyond Ukraine and Hunter’s dealings there, both Hunter and James Biden (the president’s brother) negotiated deals with the communist Chinese regime, with financial records showing various entities run by President Joe Biden’s family members received wire transfers “from communist-connected Chinese businesses” that “totaled $5,000,000, with the proceeds reaching Hunter and James Biden through a variety of business organizations they controlled.”

Profiteering from communist China represents but one aspect of the duo’s financial dealings. According to The New York Times, Hunter Biden’s joint global equity firm, the Bohai Harvest Equity Investment Fund, helped arrange the purchase by a Chinese mining company of the world’s largest cobalt source in the Congo. “Hunter reportedly launched that new joint enterprise with Chinese business partners less than two weeks after he traveled to China on Air Force Two with his then-vice president father.”

A Senate report is also available documents Hunter Biden’s receipt of a combined $3.5 million from the wife of the former Moscow mayor, a Kazakhstan investor, and several other individuals. “Closer to home, James Biden’s financial dealings also evidence a complicated pay-to-play scandal underlying his investing in the health care sector” Americore, a company. James Biden is said to have remained a “promise of a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections,” Before taking “a six-figure personal loan out of Americore’s coffers,” but then the Middle East investment never materialized, and neither did James Biden’s repayment of the loan.

Between federal prosecutors and Republican House oversight committees, 2023 promises to hang out the Biden family’s financial dirty laundry.

4. FBI Corruption

Since SpyGate exploded in 2018 with then-House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes’ release of his memorandum detailing the FBI’s abuse of the FISA court system, evidence of FBI malfeasance has continued to mount. While SpyGate and Hunter Biden’s laptop story have not been brought to any serious consequences by the FBI, evidence of FBI malfeasance has continued to mount. Last year, however, a number whistleblowers were able to expose the FBI.

These whistleblowers can include some in “senior positions,” According to reports, who told Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office that FBI officials “falsely portray[ed] as disinformation evidence acquired from multiple sources that provided the FBI derogatory information related to Hunter Biden’s financial and foreign business activities, even though some of that information had already been or could be verified.”

Additional whistleblowers reached out to GOP Rep. Jim Jordan. reporting FBI officials “allegedly pressured agents to label cases as ‘domestic violent extremism’ to boost case numbers.” Numerous whistleblowers “have disclosed how the FBI leadership is conducting a ‘purge’ of FBI employees holding conservative views,” FBI investigations can be affected by political bias.

Potential for more whistleblowers and the “Twitter Files” and House oversight committees now in Republican hands, could reveal more fully the FBI’s corruption in 2023.

5. Eugene Yu Versus Tru the Vote

The fifth scandal Watch out for True the Vote and Eugene Yu in 2023.

Last year ended with the L.A. County district attorney’s office dismissing criminal charges against Yu, the founder of the Michigan-based election-management software company Konnech. The L.A. County D.A. had previously announced Yu’s arrest, stating in a press conference on Oct. 4, 2022, that “under its $2.9 million, five-year contract with the county, Konnech was supposed to securely maintain the data and that only United States citizens and permanent residents have access to it.” However, the press release states that “District Attorney investigators found that in contradiction to the contract, information was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China.”

Shortly after Yu’s arrest, the self-proclaimed “nation’s leading voters’ rights and election integrity organization,” True Vote announced that it had “played a small role” in the investigation of Konnech and applauded the L.A. County D.A.’s office for its work on the case. True the Vote’s involvement in the case apparently prompted the far-left D.A. The Vote’s involvement in the case prompted the far-left D.A. to reconsider the charges, which eventually led to the dismissal. “about both the pace of the investigation and the potential bias in the presentation and investigation of the evidence.”

Although LA. While LA. Yu, True the Vote’s representative and two other representatives are presently awaiting a civil suit in federal district court against Yu for defamation. Yu maintains that Konnech did not have the right to sue him. Never Chinese servers had election worker data stored. True the Vote counters by claiming that it provided evidence to the FBI supporting Konnech’s illegal use of foreign servers.

2023 will see these conflicting accounts play out and, more importantly, reveal the FBI’s role in the scandal — because the real import concerns neither Yu nor True the Vote, but the FBI.

According to court documents, a confidential source gave evidence to the FBI that Konnech had personal information about election workers stored on a Chinese server. The evidence was used by the L.A. County D.A. Yu was indicted by the office. These charges were later dropped because of concerns about the authenticity and credibility of the evidence by the state prosecutor.

While the public still does not know whether the CHS’s server data was authentic, the FBI does and did long before Yu was arrested. But following Yu’s arrest, the FBI remained silent, apparently abandoning multiple confidential human sources and discarding an 18-month investigation into evidence that Yu maintained the personal information of tens of thousands of American election workers on a server in China. The other option is that the bureau allowed Yu to be arrested for crimes he did not commit and permitted the innocent American to be branded a felon and traitor by not informing the L.A. district attorney’s office that the China-server data was false.

With Yu’s civil case against True the Vote still pending in Texas, this year should bring some clarity to the question.

6. Supreme Court Leak

Although it is long overdue 2023 should bring an end to the Supreme Court leak scandal. That scandal, of course, concerns the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Politico. The May 2022 leak prompted Chief Justice John Roberts to direct Gail Curley, a former Army colonel and the court’s marshal, to investigate the source of the leak.

Roberts was at the time promised A full investigation was conducted and he indicated that the justices could expect a final report in fall. However, so far, no public report has been released. Watch for 2023 to reveal details — and hopefully justice for the leaker.

7. Covid-19

Many scandals involving Covid-19 are poised to flourish in 2023. The “Twitter Files” revealed the government’s push to silence critics of the federal response, and those details will likely spur many questions about those efforts — from the origins of Covid-19 and the likelihood of a lab leak, to the funding of gain-of-function research, to the safety and efficacy of the jab. Related scandals may also evolve if it becomes clear that those responsible for formulating the government’s response to Covid knew of the validity of contrary scientific opinions and lied to the public.

8. SpyGate

2023 will be likely the year Special Counsel John Durham concludes his investigation into the Crossfire Hurricane or Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Conventional wisdom says Durham’s team is done indicting individuals and that all that remains is a written report. Conspirators who were hoping to be sentenced will be disappointed if this is true. However, this detailed summary of the Russia collusion hoax exposes the extent of the deceit perpetrated by corrupt agents in the deep state.

When paired with this report, it can be quite a powerful document. “Twitter Files” The growing number of whistleblowers and revelations could be the catalyst for an overhaul of intelligence agencies.

9. Pro-Life Targeting

Another scandal developing in 2023 concerns the Biden administration’s targeting of pro-lifers, with the federal prosecution of Mark Houck providing a platform to expose further DOJ politicization.

The Biden administration’s targeting of Houck first made news when some 20 law enforcement officers, including many with ballistic shields, long guns, and a battering ram, swarmed his family home in late September 2022 to arrest the father of seven on charges that he violated the Federal Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act. Houck has filed a motion to dismiss all charges. asserting Houck was the one who purportedly escorted Planned Parentshood. Houck also argued in the motion that the Biden administration’s selective use of the FACE Act to prosecute pro-lifers compels the dismissal of the charges.

The motion has not been decided by a court, but Houck will most likely appeal the denial. This will force the Biden administration into defending its absurd attack on prolifers. And if the charges aren’t dismissed, Houck’s defense — that the Planned Parenthood escort was both the aggressor and the true perpetrator of a FACE Act crime — will be paraded for both the jury and the public at large. The Biden administration will likely be on trial at the end.

10. Journalists’ Silence

The tenth scandal of 2023 is one that can’t be watched because it is the dog that didn’t bark: the press that didn’t report.

Trump ended years of left-leaning bias within the press. They discarded any pretense of professionalism from the reporters who were employed by the journalists considered to be the standard-bearers in journalism. They spread the Russia collusion hoax while ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. They became propagandists for their favorite politicians and stopped being watchdogs of our constitution. And given the media elite’s lack of response to the first nine scandals, their continuing silence in 2023 seems an assured final scandal.

Margot Cleveland, The Federalist’s senior law correspondent, is Margot. She has also contributed to National Review Online and Washington Examiner. Aleteia and Townhall.com. Her work has been published in USA Today and Wall Street Journal.

Cleveland is a lawyer and a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Prize—the law school’s highest honor. Later, she served as a permanent law clerk on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals for almost 25 years. Cleveland was a former full-time university professor and now teaches adjunctively.

Cleveland is a stay at home mom to a son with cystic Fibrosis. She writes frequently about cultural issues related parenting and special-needs children. Cleveland can be found on Twitter at @ProfMJCleveland Cleveland’s private views are expressed here.