Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 107th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983 and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989.
Bernard Bailey Kerik is an American consultant and former police officer who was the 40th Commissioner of the New York Police Department from 2000 to 2001. As a convicted felon,he obtained a presidential pardon from President Donald Trump in 2020 for his numerous federal convictions for tax fraud,ethics violations,and criminal false statements.
Counselor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States and senior members of the White House Office.
Ralph Warren Norman Jr. is an American real estate developer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 5th congressional district since 2017. His district includes most of the South Carolina side of the Charlotte metropolitan area,along with outer portions of the Upstate and Midlands. A member of the Republican Party,Norman served as the South Carolina state representative for the 48th district from 2005 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2017.
Patrick Michael Byrne is an American businessman,promoter of conspiracy theories,and libertarian noted for his views on public education and blockchain.
Peter Kent Navarro is an American economist who served in the Trump administration,first as Deputy Assistant to the President and director of the short-lived White House National Trade Council,then as Assistant to the President,Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in the new Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy;he was also named the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator. He is a professor emeritus of economics and public policy at the Paul Merage School of Business,University of California,Irvine,and the author of Death by China,among other publications. Navarro ran unsuccessfully for office in San Diego,California,five times. Navarro,who sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election,was the first former White House official ever imprisoned on a contempt-of-Congress conviction.
Robert Hunter Biden is an American attorney and businessman. He is the second son of U.S. President Joe Biden and his first wife,Neilia Hunter Biden. Biden was a founding board member of BHR Partners,a Chinese investment company,in 2013,and later served on the board of Burisma Holdings,one of the largest private natural gas producers in Ukraine,from 2014 until his term expired in April 2019. He has worked as a lobbyist and legal representative for lobbying firms,a hedge fund principal,and a venture capital and private equity fund investor.
Maryellen Noreika is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2018 as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
The Trump–Ukraine scandal was a political scandal that arose primarily from the discovery of U.S. President Donald Trump's attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating his political rival Joe Biden and thus potentially damage Biden's campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Trump enlisted surrogates in and outside his administration,including personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr,to pressure Ukraine and other governments to cooperate in supporting and legitimizing the bogus Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory and other conspiracy theories concerning US politics. Trump blocked payment of a congressionally-mandated $400 million military aid package,in an attempt to obtain quid pro quo cooperation from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Contacts were established between the White House and government of Ukraine,culminating in a call between Trump and Zelenskyy on July 25,2019.
The inquiry process which preceded the first impeachment of Donald Trump,45th president of the United States,was initiated by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on September 24,2019,after a whistleblower alleged that Donald Trump may have abused the power of the presidency. Trump was accused of withholding military aid as a means of pressuring newly elected president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to pursue investigations of Joe Biden and his son Hunter and to investigate a conspiracy theory that Ukraine,not Russia,was behind interference in the 2016 presidential election. More than a week after Trump had put a hold on the previously approved aid,he made these requests in a July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president,which the whistleblower said was intended to help Trump's reelection bid.
Kashyap Pramod "Kash" Patel is an American attorney and former government official. He served as a U.S. National Security Council official,senior advisor to the acting Director of National Intelligence,and chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defense during the Trump presidency. A member of the Republican Party,Patel previously worked as a senior aide to congressman Devin Nunes when he chaired the House Intelligence Committee. He was previously a federal public defender,a federal prosecutor working on national security cases,and a legal liaison to the United States Armed Forces.
Eric Herschmann is an American political advisor and attorney who served as a senior advisor to former President Donald Trump.
Olivia Troye is an American national security official who worked on national security and homeland security issues at the National Counterterrorism Center,the United States Department of Energy Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence,and the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis. She went on to work in the Office of the Vice President of the United States as the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Mike Pence and also served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force as Pence's lead staffer on the Task Force. She resigned from the White House in August 2020.
Melissa Batya Cohen Biden is a South African‐American activist and documentary filmmaker. She is married to Hunter Biden,a son of U.S. President Joe Biden.
The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of false allegations that Joe Biden,while he was vice president of the United States,improperly withheld a loan guarantee and took a bribe to pressure Ukraine into firing prosecutor general Viktor Shokin to prevent a corruption investigation of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and to protect his son,Hunter Biden,who was on the Burisma board. As part of efforts by Donald Trump and his campaign in the Trump–Ukraine scandal,which led to Trump's first impeachment,these falsehoods were spread in an attempt to damage Joe Biden's reputation and chances during the 2020 presidential campaign,and later in an effort to impeach him.
Tristan Leavitt is an American attorney who is the president of Empower Oversight as of March 2023. He formerly served in several roles at the Merit Systems Protection Board,including member,acting chair,and general counsel.
The United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol was a select committee of the U.S. House of Representatives established to investigate the U.S. Capitol attack.
In October 2020,a controversy arose involving data from a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden. The owner of a Delaware computer shop,John Paul Mac Isaac,said that the laptop had been left by a man who identified himself as Hunter Biden. Mac Isaac also stated that he is legally blind and could not be sure whether the man was actually Hunter Biden. Three weeks before the 2020 United States presidential election,the New York Post published a front-page story that presented emails from the laptop,alleging they showed corruption by Joe Biden,the Democratic presidential nominee and Hunter Biden's father. According to the Post,the story was based on information provided to Rudy Giuliani,the personal attorney of incumbent president and candidate Donald Trump,by Mac Isaac. Forensic analysis later authenticated some of the emails from the laptop,including one of the two emails used by the Post in their initial reporting.
The Twitter Files are a series of releases of select internal Twitter,Inc. documents published from December 2022 through March 2023 on Twitter. CEO Elon Musk gave the documents to journalists Matt Taibbi,Bari Weiss,Lee Fang,and authors Michael Shellenberger,David Zweig and Alex Berenson shortly after he acquired Twitter on October 27,2022. Taibbi and Weiss coordinated the publication of the documents with Musk,releasing details of the files as a series of Twitter threads.
The United States House Oversight Committee investigation into the Biden family is an ongoing investigation since January 2023 by the United States House of Representatives into U.S. President Joe Biden and his family. The investigation was initiated on January 11,and includes examination of the foreign business activities of Biden's son,Hunter,and brother,James,as well as Twitter's involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop controversy.
