Below is my column in the Hill on the Hunter Biden scandal and how the media is attempting to cover a story that was dismissed as Russian disinformation throughout the campaign. The media like the Daily Beast is spinning the sudden disclosure of one and possible two related investigations as based on details that were “largely unnoticed” before the election. They were of course noticed. They were largely ignored.
Here is the column:
“Hunter is stuck on the roof.” That is what the transition team for Joe Biden should have said this week, instead of declaring that Hunter Biden is under federal investigation. The surprise was a lot to handle for many who have been insulated from real news about the case for weeks. The Biden team evidently never heard the old joke about the man who calls home during a trip to speak with his brother who was house sitting.
When asked how things are going, the brother blurts out, “Fluffy is dead.” The man is shocked and yells that is not how you tell someone their cat died. Instead, he claims, you build up to it and say the cat is stuck on the roof, and then call back to say she fell. After the brother apologizes, the man asks how their mother is doing, and the brother pauses before replying, “Mom is stuck on the roof.”
The problem is that Americans were assured that Hunter Biden was nowhere near the figurative roof. Before the election, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said the story involving the laptop was a “smear” from Russia. Some 50 former intelligence officials also insisted the laptop story was likely the work of Russian intelligence. Cable hosts and journalists laughed at the laptop story as fake news, and there was a virtual blackout on further coverage, until that loud thump after the election.
Most striking about the media blackout is that, as with the Trump-Russia collusion story, the media was coaxed to buy into a false narrative. Reporters became so invested in the denial that they couldn’t afford to acknowledge growing evidence of possible wrongdoing. If Hunter Biden and his uncle did conduct a global influence peddling scheme, these reporters were at best dupes and at worst enablers of a coverup, so the story could not be true.
The public shock was palpable because so many have been hermetically and journalistically sealed off from any negative reports on the Bidens. The media was openly in the bag for candidate Biden, and he was left unchallenged in ridiculous claims like his often repeated line “no one has suggested my son did anything wrong.”
Now some media outlets are trying to explain how Hunter wound up on the roof when, before the election, they told us he was resting comfortably. The Daily Beast reported the story by referring to “markings on a series of documents that were made public” but “went largely unnoticed.” It was referencing serial numbers that I and others discussed in detail when the story first broke in October. There was much speculation about what those numbers meant, and how the laptop may have been seized by the FBI to look into underlying business transactions, including possible money-laundering. So that aspect was not “largely unnoticed” — just largely ignored by virtually every media outlet.
There is little pushback on Hunter Biden claiming he just heard about an investigation into his taxes this week. This investigation appears to have been ongoing for two years. The laptop was evidently subpoenaed in 2019, and its emails were said to be packed with incriminating accounts of millions in payments or gifts and references to Joe Biden himself. A key business associate of the Bidens, Anthony Bobulinski, confirmed the authenticity of the emails and accused Joe Biden of lying about his involvement before the election. Yet most media reported none of that.
We now know that Joe Biden’s brother, James, is implicated in a separate federal investigation. But the Hunter Biden investigation remains more notable. The Biden transition team issued a statement saying this is solely Hunter’s “tax affairs” — but tax investigations can be a tad more intrusive and far more damaging than a “tax affair” gone wrong. They require scrutiny of underlying transactions and gifts, like those reportedly detailed on Hunter’s laptop.
The laptop reportedly refers to the Biden family discussing a $5 million interest-free unsecured loan from a Chinese state-owned enterprise that allegedly was part of a discussed wire transfer of $10 million. Since these exchanges strike some of us as raw influence-peddling, there may have been an effort to conceal or disguise them; accordingly, there reportedly were gifts like a 2.8 carat diamond for Hunter Biden from the firm’s founder and former chairman.
The laptop also reportedly contains direct references to tax problems. A former business partner sent Hunter Biden an email in 2017 warning him that he did not disclose on his tax returns some $400,000 in income from a Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma. Eric Schwerin, then president of Rosemont Seneca Partners, wrote: “In 2014 you joined the Burisma board and we still need to amend your 2014 returns to reflect the unreported Burisma income.”
Moreover, reports indicate the investigation may not be simply about “tax affairs” but about money laundering and other suspect dealings. The New York Times reported a separate investigation into Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine “has escalated this year” in Pittsburgh. There is a possible investigation risk from the Senate, if Republicans win at least one of two seats in Georgia. A Biden administration would have to deal with those Hunter Biden inquiries while dealing with a special counsel looking into actions taken during the Obama administration to investigate Trump campaign figures in 2016.
At some point, Joe Biden should address his repeated denials of knowing about his son’s business dealings, an assertion even his son has contradicted. He also should answer such questions as whether he met with Hunter’s business partner, Anthony Bobulinski, in spring 2017, at the Beverly Hills Hilton to discuss any Chinese business deals. He can still rely on a media that is heavily invested in denying the seriousness of these investigations, but it will be hard for those news outlets to maintain radio-silence with a growing cacophony of investigations afoot.
Hopefully, now that Biden is elected and Trump defeated, some in the media may be willing to report on these investigations, and at least acknowledge that Hunter and his uncle are back on the roof.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. You can find his updates online @JonathanTurley.
Welcome to week 7 of Turley’s ongoing crusade to make Hunter Biden our country’s biggest threat. While Trump, his attorneys & supporters stage their own relentless crusade to attack, undermine & issue death threats to Homeland Security, Republican elected officials, Trump appointed judges, Bill Barr, the Trump Justice Department & the Supreme Court, JT is waving frantically his arms about the media being heavily invested in denying the seriousness of investigations.
Turley insists “the public shock is palpable.” He is clearly assigning himself to speak on behalf of the American public. This just after Trump’s Republican allies petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn election results in 4 states on the grounds it was supposedly mathematically impossible for Biden to win those states.
Strap yourself in. Turley’s Hunter Biden obsession clearly takes precedent over Trump’s continuing claims that Republican governors, secretaries of state, judges, Homeland Security officials are dupes & enablers of a cover-up of massive voter fraud despite his own Justice Deparment not finding a shred of supporting evidence.
Can we just ONCE address the topic at hand.? The ” What about Trump ” argument is tired and old. The topic of this PARTICULAR blog is how the media lacked any kind of neutrality in reporting on the credible evidence that Hunter was benefiting from his father’s office illegally with the knowledge of Joe! To say that he had no knowledge of anything of his son’s foreign entanglements and to say his son has not been accused of doing anything wrong is both laughable and insulting.
Just say Trump is Satan and anybody to replace him no matter how dirty is ok.
Just please insulting the intelligence of everyone with an IQ over room temperature!!!!
The Biden corruption cow is leaving the barn amid a trail of odorous evidence and, sadly, it does not seem that anyone is really trying to shut the door.
Where is your proof of “credible evidence”? Let’s see it, or is it being kept with the “evidence” of massive voter fraud? What is Hunter “accused of”, and by whom? With what has Hunter Biden been charged? Oh, that’s right, he hasn’t been charged with anything, just being investigated by the FBI and DOJ which Trump controls. Do you see what the problem is?
We are still waiting for your proof (credible or incredible) that you are an attorney, nurse practitioner, though mad lunatic seems more plausible
‘Don’t let them push this off on Hunter.
”THE BOSS” is Joe Biden.
He got 50% of all the illegal millions for 30 years.
All in the written texts in the Hard Drive.
I’ve got it.’ @RudyGuiliani
Officials that knowingly certified a fraudulent election are about to have a bad time.
It wasn’t a fraudulent election.
Let the courts determine that.
Oh, yeah, the courts refused justice.
My bad. I forgot.
The injured parties have “no standing.”
The American revolutionaries also had no standing in British common law.
George,
Atty Robert Barnes explains to us the term “Standing” in regards to the US Courts is utter Bullsh*t.
There isn’t a word/line/mention in the USC regarding the term standing.
That the term wasn’t even used by the courts until about a 100 yrs back.
But we can all see now who the sold out SC members are that Stab us voters/States voters (110 million plus) in the Back.
Thks for Nothing Amy “The Phony” Barrick & the other 7 & that disgraced loser AG Barr/
And that makes me think: Why doesn’t Prof forget about Biden/Trump & be the USC champion for us citizen Stakeholders for a change? He’d hate not getting the invite to the DC cocktail parties?
I skipped the 1st 10-15 min until Barnes comes on:
Gray Anonymous fails to grasp that Trump’s attempts to overturn the election is one of the most unusual political stories of the past 100 years. No American alive can remember when an incumbent president tried to win the Electoral College with a blizzard of frivolous lawsuits. ..And we’re supposed to pretend that Hunter Biden is a ‘bigger story’..?? How pretentious can you get!
You’ve got it entirely bassakwards.
“No, you’re the puppet.”
Trump vaccine shots have already begun.
The Dems did nothing to speed up the process. Instead they caused delays.
They aren’t Trump vaccines.
The vaccines were produced via a US-Germany partnership involving two companies, Pfizer and BioNTech, that didn’t take Warp Speed funds.
The Trump Admin stupidly refused to buy sufficient vaccines from them as recently as last month, after the vaccine trials.
No they are Trump vaccines. Without Trump the process would never have sped up. As proof you can refer to the prior Obama /Biden administration.
Trump invested in many companies rather than just one and pushed aside Obama Biden regulations that inhibited its rapid development.He paid for the vaccines in advance.
As far as your statement: Trump bought the vaccine from Pfizer.
PFIZER AND BIONTECH ANNOUNCE AN AGREEMENT WITH U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR UP TO 600 MILLION DOSES OF MRNA-BASED VACCINE CANDIDATE AGAINST SARS-COV-2 July 22, 2020
The above is from Pfizer’s own report.
https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2020/Pfizer-and-BioNTech-Announce-an-Agreement-with-U.S.-Government-for-up-to-600-Million-Doses-of-mRNA-based-Vaccine-Candidate-Against-SARS-CoV-2/default.aspx
As far as buying more from Pfizer? The question is when it would be ready, the price, what Moderna and other companies are doing, etc.
Your intellect is inadequate.
The story you bring to the table had to be updated by the spokesperson:
“The spokesperson clarified that its vaccine is linked to Operation Warp Speed, though its research and development has not taken funding from the federal government. The headline was also updated for clarity.” Newsweek.
You troll the net with old politically tainted news that has to be corrected all the time. This is not the first time you have had to be corrected on this subject so one can call you a liar as well.
What on earth do you mean by “As proof you can refer to the prior Obama /Biden administration”? SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, didn’t exist when they were in office.
You even quote “its research and development has not taken funding from the federal government,” but don’t understand that that means Trump isn’t responsible. The scientists at the companies are responsible. Your own source confirms what I said, the two companies, Pfizer and BioNTech, “didn’t take Warp Speed funds.”
You cite an old article that says the US would buy “up to 600 million doses.” But the US only bought 100 million, and each person requires two doses, so that’s enough to vaccinate 50 million people, when there are 330 million people in the US.
“SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, didn’t exist when they were in office.”
No one said it did.
Dummy they were paid in advance for the vaccines. That is a stimulus.
Contracts contain things not pertinent to the immediate deal
You are not making much sense
They were paid in advance by lots of countries. If the US hadn’t bought anything from them, they would have just sold them to other countries.
You are not making much sense.
You laud Trump and say nothing about the scientists who are actually responsible for creating the vaccines.
“They were paid in advance by lots of countries.”
Which countries, how much and when?
Yes, I laud Trump because he deserves lots of credit he does not get. I agree with you we should also laud the scientists that produce the vaccine and the farmers that produce milk. We should laud the working people of American and make sure that America stands up for them rather than pushing them down.
No one’s been more damaging to farmers than trump. His flawed trade policy has single handedly squashed the grain markets to the point it’s taken 28 billion in bailout money to even keep the market alive.
A diversion from the topic. Progress sometimes creates undesirable things. No progress can ever be made with with the type of attitude you are promoting.
The alternative was to let China get all our industry, our IP and markedly decrease the American standard of living. It looks like we might get that now. Remember , Germany could only sustain the well being of the population by providing Jewish lives and money for only so long. Then what happens?
Among the other countries that preordered from Pfizer: the EU, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the UK, Australia, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica and New Zealand.
The EU alone preordered 300 million doses, 3 times more than the US
Japan alone preordered 120 million doses, more than the US, even though their population is smaller.
The Trump Admin stupidly refused to buy sufficient vaccines from them as recently as last month, after the vaccine trials.
he claims with zero evidence.
To claim President Trump had nothing to do with the speed of the Vaccine getting to the people is stupid.
I’m old enough to remember when the experts all poo pooed the notion of a vaccine available by year end. Follow the science…science told us it was impossible.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/14/covid-vaccine-us-passed-on-more-pfizer-doses-in-november-says-board-member-gottlieb.html
I’m old enough to remember when the experts all poo pooed the notion of a vaccine available by year end.
he claims with zero evidence.
It took a visionary like Trump to push the quick development of vaccines. People do what they think they can do. If 4 years the job will be accomplished in 3 years. Trump said it could be accomplished in less than a year and worked with everyone. Guess what the visionary was right and had he not been there we would not have the vaccine.
LMAO that you think only visionaries pushed for quick development of vaccines.
No, I said Trump was a visionary or do you deny the leftist press and cNN that is your basis of knowledge? The media laughed like they did with so many other things that came true and helped America. You forget about those things.
What did Trump envision that others didn’t?
The vaccine could be ready before the end of the year. Listen to what the media had to say and the laughter about how ridiculous it was to believe the vaccine could come that early.
On the contrary. The Dems have done a magnificent job of accelerating death rates, mental health deterioration, bankrupting families, closing small businesses and lets not forget Hunter and the Big One
True.
BECAUSE OF TRUMP: and his endless lying, his firing of people who won’t do his will, his bullying of lawyers and doctors, PEOPLE DON’T TRUST THE VACCINE. If he would just shut the F up and leave the doctors and vaccine makers alone, people wouldn’t have as much reason to be concerned, but he can’t. He must have attention, adulation, praise and take credit for everything, including the vaccine. People would be crazy to ignore the reality of Trump: he’s a narcissistic, chronic, habitual liar. He cheated to get into our White House. He got the “demon sperm” doctor to claim hydroxychloroquine cures COVID, he bullied the FDA into emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and convalescent serum, both of which are not effective in treating COVID. He bullied Dr. Hahn, head of the FDA, to push ahead approval of the Pfizer vaccine or get fired. The FDA might have gone ahead anyway, or they might have wanted more data and/or warnings, especially as to pregnant and nursing mothers and those under the age of 19, but Trump forced them to proceed. This is after lying about the dangers of COVID, downplaying the risk and holding superspreader events.
Trump keeps lying and misleading the public. He claims that he obtained a vaccine in “record time”. First of all, he did nothing–it was the intelligence, education and dedication of scientists who used knowledge gleaned by decades of experience of their predecessors, to come up with a vaccine. It is an obscenity for Trump to try to take credit for the work of these people. Secondly, this was only emergency approval–not the final word. It may turn out that the vaccine has safety issues that haven’t been discovered yet. It may turn out that pregnant and nursing mothers shouldn’t get the vaccine. Third, this virus was only identified here less than a year ago. There are still many unanswered questions, and no long-term follow-up. It hasn’t been long enough to say with certainty that the vaccine provides any level of immunity for any specific period of time or that it is totally safe.
Here’s a clue: you cannot goose science to go any faster than established norms to produce scientifically-valid results for safety and efficacy. Trump neither believes in nor understands science. If you push, you are cutting corners, and if you are cutting corners, you are risking harm, especially to those groups that weren’t tested, like pregnant and nursing mothers and those under 19, of which there were only a few volunteers. There are more questions than answers at this point, including how long immunity lasts. There are laboratory-confirmed examples of people getting COVID a second time only a few months after their initial infection. Also, after COVID mutates, will the initial vaccine injection prevent reinfection and/or result in a milder case of illness? Can you spread COVID after vaccination if get infected but are asymptomatic? The vaccine is not a panacea.
Folks, I wish I could respond to all the troll scat posted by our communist friends, but I have a real life out there. Until tomorrow!
Diogenes and Beijing Biden are puppets of our usual troll who seeks absolute domination of these comment threads.
It’s sure not me. I think a commie style general strike by the workers is in order, and an income tax strike, and eventually a commie style attack on 700 billionaires. But I would not call it communism I would call it patriotism, to hit back at the evil system and its controllers in such a way
The silver lining of the commie inspired BLM and ANTIFA demonstrations is that they proved the point that law enforcement is powerless against large numbers of people who take up nonviolent resistance. Well, to be fair, BLM and ANTIFA are pretty violent, but you get the idea.
Saloth Sar
Excellent article, JT.
Too bad there isn’t a WordPress filter for the fallacy of diversion: a fallacy in which a person attempts to evade an argument, by diverting attention to a different issue.
That fallacy is out in force throughout these comments.
Right you are Sam.
That is what the media did to spin the election towards Biden. It wouldn’t have worked except for the massive numbers of fraudulent ballots.
Mel:
Did you get the percentages information that you needed? If so, was it put to good use?
What I obtained was not good enough, but it will eventually come out.
Thanks.
Mel: “it will eventually come out.”
Good. That was my hope.
Mel, there was no massive fraud in the election. Break down and buy a newspaper.. You need it.
I more frequently than not don’t answer the rantings of those who have demonstrated themselves to be dishonest on a continuous basis.
The MSM including social media are omitting facts that are more important than the facts they provide. That leaves the audience and you ignorant of the world around them. You are happy with that situation. Ignorance is bliss. I wouldn’t want to wake you up from your pleasant ignorant slumber.
Mel Dude, Look at me! Your guys are 1-60 in court cases challenging the election and that includes having Clarence Thomas saying he would not support anything in the case brought to the SC.
Clarence Thomas!
He’s in on the conspiracy?
What you are demonstrating is not the severe bias that you have rather an inability to understand what has happened. It is not up to me to get you up to speed. A closed mind cannot absorb anything new.
You can respond to this but I won’t respond unless you are able to demonstrate some intelligence in your remark. That is doubtful.
Someone please explain this Electoral College. It is on tv right now. I went to an electric college and learned the electrical trade. Where is this college and why do they still it wrong?
Why do they vote for the Joe or the Trump?
I meant to say: ..why do they spell it wrong?
Oh. Someone just told me that it’s not a “college” and has no students.
What a disgusting thread – I’m sorry I clicked it on.
Boy, the trolls are out in force today. This Biden thing is really bothering them. I wonder why? It’s their thugs that want to dump Joe. Didn’t they get the memo??
Still can’t get enough of these conspiracy theories? Check out The Outer Limits, The Hundred Days of the Dragon….1963.
A Chinese spy becomes President of United States.
Like I suggested before on this very comment board, when the West Coast mafia is done using ol’ Joe, the Bidens will be thrown under the bus. Looks like Joe’s shelf life is the day after Inauguration Day. She must already be choosing the curtains for the Ova Office.
I need to sharpen up on my cynicism. I didn’t think things would happen this fast.
We are A Democratic Republic. Not Crats and not Cons.
Trump is a Con Man and will be convicted. Biden is a crafty old guy but that the same as being a Con Man.
Turley: your situation is just getting sadder and sadder. You have allowed whatever credentials and credibility you have to be sold as part of the effort to normalize the absurdly abnormal Donald J. Trump, someone who has always been known as a crook and a liar, and who will go down in history as the worst-ever POTUS. He and his enablers, of which I include you, constantly attack media, as part of the indoctrination process to reel in the gullibles so they will be conditioned not to believe the truth. The current truth they are being told to believe is that the election was stolen from the fat orange man, and that Biden was not validly elected President. Another current truth they’ve been indoctrinated to believe is that COVID is really not any more dangerous than the flu. Many of the disciples continue to refuse to wear masks, even though the death toll is close to 300K. This is why it is so sad that someone like you allows your credentials to be used to bolster someone like Trump, whose incompetence and lying is literally killing people.
The truth about Hunter Biden is that there has never been any proof that he committed any crime: just allegations, and these coming from a patently dishonest chronic, habitual liar, who even tried to bribe Ukraine into conjuring up lies to smear the Bidens. That act alone got Trump impeached by the House and 49 US Senators voted to remove him from office.
In any event, it doesn’t really matter whether Hunter Biden has committed any crimes because , unlike Trump, Biden is not going to have his family in the White House as a “senior adivsor”, and he isn’t going to misuse the DOJ as his personal attorney to cover up crimes or go after his critics or enemies. What are media, other than Fox, supposed to report, anyway? That there is an “investigation”? They have reported this. One trouble is that Trump has misused the DOJ as his personal law firm and Barr has allowed this to happen. This entire flap is about nothing more than accusations at this point, but never let an opportunity pass without attacking mainstream media if at all possible.
Why don’t you comment on the ethics of constantly re-filing the same baseless complaints that have been rejected by dozens of courts, or the fact that the only states in which the fat orange slob is attacking the election results are those with Republican state legislatures, as part of the scheme to get them to throw out the millions of validly-cast ballots and award their electoral college electors to Trump? How about the immorality of trying to steal an election in this manner? That is a far more important and relevant topic than Hunter Biden.
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Elvis Bug
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T r u m p W o n.
B i d e n C h e a t e d.
T r u m p W i l l P r o v e I t.
No. No. Hell No. Get help.
Soooo… the contents of Hunter’s laptop and the testimony of Bobulinski aren’t “proof?” Can you then define “proof,” so that we peons and deplorables can maybe round some up for you. Many thanks. (Reports this morning indicate that Hunter’s legal team is already stonewalling, so that’s not a very good indication of innocence.)
And as for bribing Ukraine… there’s ACTUAL video of Biden doing just that on various YouTube channels. Maybe you should check it out.
Stonewalling is proof of guilt? Please tell that to Mueller.
I guess you are saying the media should report an investigation into Hunter Biden in detail because if they are investigating then surely he must have done something wrong.
Now, how many Trump family investigations are there and how many have you reported about here on your blog? Can we assume they did something wrong if they are being investigated so much?
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Elvis Bug
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oh look, how cute….Fish Wings and Elvis Bug are Butt buddies. Thank you for joining my club, boys
Is this WeHo?
Your balls are so far receded that you’re pretending to be Svelaz.
More Fraud evidence by Sino Joe’s cohorts
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2020/12/forensics-report-antrim-county-mi.html
It is reported on the internet that Trump is playing an old song called “Bomb Bomb Iran!”
He is this king of Georgia too.
I know we have seen Joe Biden’s Tax returns and have not seen Donald Trump’s. Although a newspaper found the latter and found that he only pays $750 per year in taxes.
Now, we have not seen Hunter Biden’s tax returns but neither have we seen Don Jr.’s, Eric’s or Ivanka’s – even though Ivanka holds a position in the government.
I would be interested to see the laptops of Don Jr’s, Eric’s and Ivanka’s – but somehow some blind computer repairman has not mysteriously come across them. But let’s at least put all these President’s and President-elects’s children and give them similar privacy rights in their laptops and similar standards for corruption.
Holding a position in the government does not compel you to release your tax returns. Breaking the law and peddling influence will result in a subpoena and hopefully the truth will come out. Aligning yourself with Burisma and attempting to legitimize corruption in the Ukraine is always a bad idea and Hunter did it for money
Trump should be subpoenaed as soon as he’s out of office.
Put it all on the table. Biden kids. Trump kids. Whatever.
Turley, what’s glaring is your lack of a spine in regard to the anti democratic moves by over a hundred house members and 17 repub AG’s as they signed on to a crazy suit brought by the corrupt Texas AG. Even more glaring is how you sign on to the republican specific lens to investigate elections, nepotism, etc. It’s just so obvious. Love how you say trump’s bogus complaints should be fully aired while staying silent on voter suppression and assaults on voter rights and gerrymandering….
So I can’t take what you have to say seriously. It’s just selectively aimed political drivel.
Elvis Bug
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Then why do you even bother reading Mr. Turley’s blog? You and the cabal of regular rhetorical nitwits seem to never agree with a single post, make ad hominem comments about the author’s purported spinelessness, decry that he wrote about ‘X,” and not “Y or Z,” and generally spew hatred and derision upon the author as well as commenters.
Again: Why are you and the rest of the cabal so habitually dedicated to reading Mr. Turley’s posts, feeling compelled to respond and demonstrate your visceral disagreement with the present post, and pointing out that you have vehemently disagreed with any of his previous posts?
It almost seems to display symptoms of a mental disorder.
Do you think you’ll change Turley’s mind–or anyone else’s, for that matter? Do you get paid by some entity to post for some unknown reason? Do you get paid by the number of posts, or number of words? Or, perhaps you get paid by the number of replies you elicit? Would it not be easier for you to start your own blog: one where you could discuss “Y or Z” to your heart’s content, all the while deriding other blogs that only discuss “X?” But why, instead, do you insist on swimming so hard against the current? Are you drawn to some metaphorical birthing place where you can spawn, and thereby fulfill your life’s purpose?
Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why? Why?
Unless your name is Neo.
+10!! Thank you for saying what I was thinking.
Cool. I can address two wildly confused points of view at once.
It is not my job squash all dialectical discussion just to agree with a blog writer. And I DGAF what you think. Notice i address my responses to Turley and not you. Why do you think you have to answer for Turley? And before you say ‘Turley doesn’t read the comments’, do you, in fact, know that?
Elvis Bug
ky: “Why are you and the rest of the cabal so habitually . . .”
They do not want anything, literally. They’re nihilists. Instead of beautiful statues, they topple good blogs.
Whatever the merits of the current investigation into Hunter Biden’s US taxes, it would not justify President Trump extorting the Ukrainian President by withholding military aid until the Ukrainian President announced an unwarranted Ukrainian investigation into Hunter Biden.
We will find out in time if this investigation turns up something or not, but Trump still should have been removed from office for his actions.
This all seems like a distraction from Trump losing the electoral college in a landslide today.
“Now that Biden is elected and Trump defeated…”
Did you tell your friend Trump that? Did you tell Republican State AGs and Republican Congressional Reps that? Because acknowledging that obvious fact is something they have not been able to muster the courage to do. That is what is wrong with The Trump cult today.
If you are going to make a bold statement like that, display it loudly rather than bury it in the last paragraph. Go on OANN and Newsmax and FoxNews and tell the world.