My recent column explored whether time is running out for Hunter Biden. The answer may be “no” if Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is right about what whistleblowers are telling him about the investigation. CBS is reporting that “highly credible” whistleblowers informed him that officials within the FBI and the Justice Department are downplaying or dismissing negative evidence on Hunter Biden. Given the documented bias of the FBI and DOJ during the Russian collusion investigation, such allegations must be considered seriously given the baffling refusal of Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a Special Counsel.
Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland that
“The information provided to my office involves concerns about the FBI’s receipt and use of derogatory information relating to Hunter Biden, and the FBI’s false portrayal of acquired evidence as disinformation. The volume and consistency of these allegations substantiate their credibility and necessitate this letter.”
What was particularly interesting were the dates referenced in the letter. It indicated that the Justice Department had evidence on the alleged criminal conduct in 2020 before the election, but that a named supervisor allegedly spiked the investigation:
“First, it’s been alleged that the FBI developed information in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s criminal financial and related activity. It is further alleged that in August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by an FBI Headquarters (“FBI HQ”) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”
During this period, 51 intelligence experts wrote a letter dismissing the laptop as likely “Russian disinformation.” The media echoed that claim to dismiss the allegations. According to Grassley, not only did the Justice Department have compelling evidence to justify an investigation but showed the same biased analysis flagged by the prior Russian collusion investigations.
Indeed, if the alleged whistleblower accounts are true, the Hunter Biden matter showed the same “all-hands-on-deck” profile as government, political, and media allies presented a unified front on the investigation.
Previously, Sen. Grassley accused Timothy Thibault, the senior FBI agent at the bureau’s Washington Field Office, of possibly violating “[f]ederal laws, regulations and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) guidelines” in response to Hunter Biden evidence of wrongdoing.
With a possible Republican takeover of one or both houses of Congress, these questions could be pursued after November. It will then be interesting if the Justice Department will show the same commitment to contempt prosecutions if GOP subpoenas are disregarded by targeted individuals.
Does one need any other evidence on how corrupted the FBI has become?. This Agency needs to be completely revamped and its managers brought to Congressional hearings under oath to determine the full extent to which they have weaponized the FBI. I suspect much of the politicization began in earnest under Obama. If the Republican party takes over and is incapable of pulling this off then they are no better than their opposition. We don’t need grandstanding by the likes of Lindsey Graham but real investigatory action and substantive interrogation by real prosecutors such that the likes of Peter Strzok end of behind bars rather than behind an MSNBC microphone
Saw that Jill Biden’s press secretary has resigned. Gee, who wouldn’t want to work for Dr. Jill, the most unpopular, classless first lady….ever!
Ooh ooh, Grassley wrote another letter. They all go unresponded to. Nothing ever comes of it. No Republicans have the balls to do anything more than write a strongly worded letter that officials simply ignore. Just pitiful.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
“Nothing” has ever come from the complete nullification of the Constitution and Bill of Rights which began with Lincoln’s unconstitutional denial of fully constitutional secession.
It has all been downhill ever since.
America has been progressively forced to accept the incremental implementation of the principles of communism from Lincoln through Wilson, Roosevelt, and Johnson, to Obama and Biden.
Lincoln was Karl Marx’s “earnest of the epoch” leading America toward “the RECONSTRUCTION of a social world.”
Letter of congratulation and commendation to Lincoln from Karl Marx – https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
Lincoln espoused Marx’s pejoratives “capitalist” and “fleece the people,” and the principles of the Communist Manifesto in 1837.
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“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.”
– Abraham Lincoln, from his first speech as an Illinois state legislator, 1837
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“Everyone now is more or less a Socialist.”
– Charles Dana, managing editor of the New York Tribune, and Lincoln’s assistant secretary of war, 1848
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“The goal of Socialism is Communism.”
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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“The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.”
– Karl Marx and the First International Workingmen’s Association to Lincoln, 1864
Turley says:
“With a possible Republican takeover of one or both houses of Congress, these questions could be pursued after November. It will then be interesting if the Justice Department will show the same commitment to contempt prosecutions if GOP subpoenas are disregarded by targeted individuals.”
Indeed so. Investigate Hunter and Joe all you like. Furthermore, if any Democrat yells, “Witch-hunt,” “Deep State,” or “Hoax,” I will call them a liar just like I did the Trumpists. I will be consistent. And if Hunter is convicted of any crime and/or Joe, so be it. I will accept it. Yet not one of you Trumpists is willing to PUBLICLY commit- here and now- to accept a final unappealable criminal conviction of Trump *should* it come to that.
Not one of you. Hypocrites.
There have been two crazy conspiracy theories. One was the Russian Hoax. The other is Trump’s election fraud hoax.
Your consistency would be shown by acknowledging both.
SteveJ,
The Mueller Report did not establish a criminal conspiracy, but it cannot be dismissed as a hoax. Manafort gave polling data to Kilimnick known to have contacts with Russian intelligence. Ipso facto Russian collusion. We may have learned about more collusion had Manafort not refused to fully cooperate with the investigators owing to Trump dangling a pardon.
Well now you see, you haven’t been consistent.
Part of the problem with a conspiracy theory is that always ascribes attributes to someone that they simply do not possess.
Donald Trump is a game show host. He did not pull off some intricate maneuver with Russians to steal a United States election. He does not have that capability.
You have an obvious explanation rooted in reality. Hillary Clinton was a horrible candidate.
The Democrats have now lost to, and then barely beaten, a game show host. They are not understanding that message.
SteveJ says:
“Donald Trump is a game show host.”
Turley described him once as a “carnival snake charmer.” You and he agree that he is unworthy as a President.
I have never believed nor does the Mueller Report contend that the Russians influenced the *result* of the election.
I have never liked Hilary since she stood by her liar husband whom I was in favor of his being impeached. A lie under oath is perjury notwithstanding that it is about a private sexual matter unrelated to his presidential duties.
“The Mueller Report did not establish a criminal conspiracy, but it cannot be dismissed as a hoax.”
The Mueller report is real though it is based on lies and partisan investigation. That some facts might be true but did nothing to link any of Trump’s activities to the Russia hoax. We don’t expect more from a simpleton. Any reasonable person that looks in depth to the Mueller Report realizes that they knew everything that was needed in a matter of days or at best a couple of weeks.
No wonder that you are now known as Jeff Simpleton.
There is nothing “baffling” about Garland’s refusal to appoint a special counsel. His partisan bias is the most notable thing about his tenure.
Anonymous
Another ugly post from you.
Suggestion, try wit and basic courtesy.
You will do better as a commentator and other bloggers will feel less contempt for you.
As an aside, I almost regret reading your posts.
It’s called a cover-up and government officials and others have been covering for Biden ever since he first went to the Senate in 1973. He’s a crook and a liar and his whole family are crooks and liars.
I agree with Bongino’s sentiment when he says: Republicans may not be the solution to all of our problems, but Democrats are certainly the cause of all of our problems.
I’m registered Independent. The current iteration of the Democratic party amplifies that sentiment. While this country may not get fixed by just voting Republican, it will certainly get worse by voting for the current iteration of the Democratic party.
I’ll have to go along with this, although the Republicans are running out of 2nd, 3rd, and 4rth chances as well.
I think the message sent in 2016 was a rejection of the two parties. The RNC didn’t want Trump nominated, and didn’t go all out for the general. And of course the DNC didn’t want him either. Trump was the benefactor of a non-loss. But when a candidate wins without the RNC or the DNC, that is a message that needed to be taken seriously.
Obviously the Democrats did not do that. They nominated two ultra-establishment politicians beholden to the donor class.
The short-term victory is all their going to get out of it — as long as the Republicans keep their heads screwed on straight.
Remember, Trump was every politician’s friend when he donated to their Democrat and Republican campaigns and causes. Then suddenly he was persona non grata to BOTH major parties when voters (remember them?) elected him to the only political office he ever sought. It’s more likely than not neither Party has learned anything close to realizing the electorate is not pleased with the “rules for thee, not for me” mindset of Beltway living. Both Parties are still operating with ‘Party before Country’ planning and implementation. They’re all stuck in a rut, so to speak, unwilling (perhaps unable) to look at the damage they’re causing. They’ve been so far removed from working-class life and the real concerns we’re forced to live under for so very long, they simply can’t think what it’s like to NOT have power, to NOT have unlimited money to make ends meet. Out-of-touch doesn’t begin to describe the problem in DC. Neither “Party” has their heads screwed on straight and likely never will.
Both you and SteveJ have it right. We have two major political parties that operate under the false assumption that party registration = party loyalty. I was a lifelong registered Republican until about 8 years ago when I realized my registration fed that assumption. I believe party affiliation unwittingly forces people to defend policies they would otherwise reject. If you think about it, the only people party registration benefits are the politicians. If we had a movement in this country that had people registering Independent, the politicians would be forced to spend more time in their districts and states to understand what the real concerns were of their constituents.
We have one political party, with 2 wings.
Why have parties at all? The founders never envision the concept of parties. It was just representatives according to local populations that’s it.
With the absence of political parties there would be no need for districts according to party. There would also be no gerrymandering either. Each state would have a representative and a senator. In states each county, parish, or township would have a representative on their state legislatures. No party affiliations at all. That would force people to vote based on ideas and views instead of just party affiliations.
That would force people to vote based on ideas and views instead of just party affiliations.
Agree. Additionally, the politicians would be forced to spend more time in their districts and states to understand what the real concerns were of their constituents.
Agreed. I’ve always been registered as Independent for nearly 40 years and the price I pay is being bombarded every election season by every Tom/Thomasina, Dick/Ricki, and Harry/Harriett running for every possible office, in every possible Party they represent with fliers, mailers and phone calls. I’ll read their materials but I’m rarely swayed by anything said. Shallow promises and mud slinging galore. Oy.
I receive all that political bulk mail as well. I treat it just like I do every other piece of junk mail.
As I noted yesterday, former FBI director Louis Freeh appears prominently in emails from 2016 found on Hunter’s laptop. They were in connection with a tycoon in Bucharest, a pal and colleague of Hunter, who was being tried for land fraud. To get close to the Bidens, Freeh “donated” one hundred thousand dollars to a foundation established for Hunter’s deceased brother’s children. Freeh contacted the criminal division of the Bureau to try to have Gabiel Popoviciu, the embattled tycoon, considered a top echelon FBI snitch. Freeh appeared desperate to get business for his international “security” firm. He tried to wiggle his way into the Biden family, dropping mentions, for example, that he and then-VPOTUS Biden were communion buddies at a local church in DC. Grassley is right to question the FBI’s behavior vis-a-vis Hunter and Turley is right in questioning AG Garland’s willful ignorance of the need for special counsel to examine this matter from top to bottom. One last thing: Turley thinks the hearings will begin in November following the midterms but it’s more likely to be after January 2023 when the new House is seated. I doubt if the lame ducks are going to do much before leaving.
On this week’s “60 Minutes” show it shows the unequal treatment – under the law – received by Reality Winner. Winner swore a constitutional Oath of Office to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Winner then found out about a foreign nation that was attempting to subvert America’s democratic process – potentially affecting the outcome of elections. Following her constitutional Oath of Office she leaked the information. Winner had an outstanding record of helping defeating and killing 600 foreign enemies.
Winner a leaker – not a spy – was sent to prison for 4 years not for leaking but for espionage. By comparison, a real spy who sold secrets to a foreign nation was sentenced to 2 years in prison. David Petaeus arguably committed a crime worse than Winner and served no prison time at all.
One way for the U.S. Department of Justice to regain trust and respect would be for Congress to totally abolish the Espionage Act of 1917. For over 100 years, more than 99% of criminal indictments punished non-spies (no connection to any espionage cases). Most EA indictments have been used to punish journalists and legal whistleblowers. The Bush Administration systematically dismantled the 20th Century whistleblowing system for intelligence personnel to report waste, fraud and abuses that violate the American Oath of Office. Bush’s actions compounded the leaking of unconstitutional practices fraudulently labeled as secret.
Biden and Garland should pardon loyal Americans like Reality Winner as soon as possible.
To get truly honest public servants, pay them all minimum wage, put them up in standard government housing and give them obamacare. give them standby government transportation, let them only achieve SS as a retirement plan and watch their government bank account. If they truly want to serve the people they will accept this. Why should these liars and partisan hacks make gravy while ignoring their charge? Government work of any level should not be a ticket to affluence. Perhaps, if the citizens were able to observe their and their families bank accounts there would be less graft and corruption. I realize this is as unrealistic as those wanting pure renewable energy but it is, at least, an ideal worth considering.
“ Indeed, if the alleged whistleblower accounts are true,…”
Turley sure loves to chase allegations and insinuations as if they were already proven to be true.
When the laptop story was first reported it was easily dismissed as misinformation or unreliable because of the nature of how that laptop and its contents supposedly “surfaced”. Turley conveniently leaves out the fact that it was the disgraced liar and nutty lawyer Rudy Giuliani who made multiple copies of the hard drive and no direct chain of custody of the evidence was tracked.
At the time the FBI had no reason to believe the laptop and it’s contents were credible or even authentic.
Everything is still an allegation. Most of what Hunter Biden is accused of is actually legal. Some things may warrant an investigation but given the constant accusations and the narrative implying criminality and illegal activity these are just being used to cast doubt and politicize suspicion as a means to undermine the president. Trump’s own children have engaged in similar activities without any calls for investigation or scrutiny, especially when their father is a well known grifter and charlatan.
The Hunter Biden “scandal” is nothing more than an attempt to distract from the real crimes and illegal activities of the Trump administration which are far more serious than Hunter Biden’s “alleged” crimes.
“At the time the FBI had no reason to believe the laptop and it’s contents were credible or even authentic.”
Incredibly uninformed. The FBI had the laptop for 2 years. Did they ask Hunter whose laptop it was? Putting words together in a sentence is not thinking.
Prior to the FBI having the laptop it’s hard drive was copied and distributed to multiple individuals which destroyed any credibility of its contents. There’s no way to tell if anything was added or edited while that was happening. The mystery of how that laptop came to thst shop is also an issue. When Rudy Giuliani started lending out copies of the hard drive any semblance of legitimacy was gone.
We know how incompetent and unreliable Giuliani is. The FBI had no reason to take the laptop issue seriously and at the time it was believed to be disinformation.
The problem incompetent people have is they don’t recognize that in a simple phone call the FBI could have validated the computer as Hunter’s or not. Hunter could have shown what was false, but that never occurred because the laptop was reliable from the start.
Giuliani brought NYC to life and prosperity. One has to be ignorant not to know that.
“ The problem incompetent people have is they don’t recognize that in a simple phone call the FBI could have validated the computer as Hunter’s or not. Hunter could have shown what was false, but that never occurred because the laptop was reliable from the start.”
How do you know they didn’t do that? You have no clue about whether the FBI followed up with Hunter Biden while they were in possession of the laptop. Keep in mind that Giuliani already had access to the hard drive before the FBI had it. He made multiple copies and distributed it to a lot of people. What is not known is whether people tampered with the contents added incriminating content or simply edited the contents and distributed false information. This is why the FBI at the time had to assume this was misinformation.
The fact that the chain of custody is so contaminated and unreliable it is plausible to assume everything on the laptop is not genuine or credible enough to base a case on it.
Giuliani may have been at one time a competent individual. That’s no longer the case today. He’s a bumbling fool and failure of a lawyer. His credibility is nonexistent. He’s a laughingstock.
Svelaz, I am taking Anonymous’ advice and reading only the first sentence which proves his case.
“How do you know they didn’t do that? You have no clue about whether the FBI followed up with Hunter Biden while they were in possession of the laptop.”
If the NYT was promoting news, it would have included whether or not the FBI followed up. If they did they would have a record of him denying the laptop was his which would be a lie since we now know for sure it is, or they would have known it was his laptop 2 years earlier and quickly investigated Either way, you look like a fool.
Nothing you write demonstrates you have any credibility.
S. Meyer,
“ If the NYT was promoting news, it would have included whether or not the FBI followed up. If they did they would have a record of him denying the laptop was his which would be a lie since we now know for sure it is, or they would have known it was his laptop 2 years earlier and quickly investigated Either way, you look like a fool.”
You assume they would do that, but that depends if the NYT had actual evidence that the FBI did follow up? The FBI doesn’t have to tell everything to the NYT. Of course you didn’t know that because you are trying to make up situations that would support your assumptions and claim them as fact.
You’re the dumba$$ here. You’re just making up excuses and assumptions because you have no idea what you’re trying to argue. You can pretend to be knowledgeable as much as you want, but that’s all there is, pretension not actual intelligence. In order to feel better about if you project the worst of your flaws on others as a coping mechanism. Throwing insults is just a deflection from your inability to concisely refute OR even have a rational discussion. I wouldn’t go around calling others idiots or fools.
I gave you the logical extensions of what you said. Do you have an additional one? No. The NYT didn’t investigate appropriately or made a lot up. You have no critical thinking skills, so you don’t think of these things.
It is amazing that you are able to write in complete sentences, but apparently you have that ability to link nonsense to other nonsense. I stay away from most discussions with you because I almost never find anything you say to be knowledgeable.
I urge you to look at one of our previous discussions where you made a fool out of yourself. Maybe you can learn from your mistakes, though that is doubtful.
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/01/21/the-other-big-lie-democrats-fuel-doubts-over-the-legitimacy-of-the-coming-elections/comment-page-1/#comment-2153325
SM
Plus the FBI had the signed receipt with Hunter’s signature, his address and phone number.
“Alleged crimes?” Money laundering, drug use, pornography, tax evasion and FARA violations are all verified by the laptop.
“Plus the FBI had the signed receipt with Hunter’s signature, his address and phone number.”
E.A., FBI actions make our FBI seem incredibly stupid or partial which is not in their charter. The FBI should be abandoned or reconstituted with those in charge being investigated, fired and losing their pensions if some of them aren’t sent to jail. None of that will happen because we have gone through this before, and seldom if ever punished the top level offenders.
” Trump’s own children have engaged in similar activities “
Tell us how, O ignorant one?
Anonymous,
“ Donald Trump’s tax returns, as leaked to the New York Times, suggest that he may be illegally disguising gifts to Ivanka as consulting payments to avoid estate taxes, something Donald’s father did but that we didn’t learn about until the statute of limitations had expired.
Ivanka was involved at a very high level in a Panamanian real estate development scheme where her key partner was a money launderer for various organized crime figures (oops).
She was also the most senior official from the Trump Organization involved in a real estate development project in Azerbaijan that appears to have been a money-laundering scheme for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (double oops).
Last but by no means least, back in 2012, Ivanka was nearly indicted by the Manhattan district attorney for fraud, but the inquiry was quashed by the DA himself after a timely $25,000 campaign contribution from the Trump family attorney Marc Kasowitz.”
That’s Ivanka.
“ Joshua Harris, founder of Apollo Global Management, attended a series of White House meetings about infrastructure policy and shortly thereafter refinanced a loan on a Chicago skyscraper for Kushner.
While working on Middle East policy, Kushner’s family company sought loans from a Qatari sheikh.
The family business has also done a series of deals with Israeli investors.
Oscar Health, another Kushner family company, was tapped to build a federal Covid-19 testing website.
Somehow Kushner has also been getting coronavirus emergency money from the Small Business Administration.”
That’s Jared Kushner.
Don Jr. was actively selling properties and doing lucrative desks in Indonesia benefiting from his family name and selling influence. Just like Hunter Biden.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/21527215/hunter-biden-jared-ivanka-eric-don-junior
All of those activities are just as sketchy as Hunter Biden. Here’s more,
“ They are criticizing the vice president’s son for doing exactly what they are doing themselves,” said Martin Ford, a member of the Aberdeenshire Council in Scotland, which voted last month to approve a proposal by the Trumps to build a 500-unit housing development. “They are conducting international business here in Scotland.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-eric-trump-business.html
Vox
LMAO
” Donald Trump’s tax returns, as leaked to the New York Times, suggest that he may be illegally disguising”
Take note of the words, “may be”, from the NYT that has been wrong on almost everything Trump. This is another one of their digs at Trump. The NYT need not have any facts to publish this garbage. All they have to do is say, what if and then write a fictitious story. I skipped reading further because if the first line is ignorant the rest following is not trustworthy,
To avoid sounding like the ignoramus you are, put your best argument in the first sentence.
Consulting payments are taxed so there is no benefit to the Trump family. Also, recognize that Trump uses certified accountants that lose their licenses when they lie. Over the decades, Trump’s taxes have been scrutinized over and over again by the feds and states, yet no Trump accountant has yet lost their license.
This is what happens when you don’t or can’t use your brain.
“ I skipped reading further because if the first line is ignorant the rest following is not trustworthy,”
This is what happens when you don’t use your brain. You skipped reading the rest because you didn’t want to face the facts of their own suspicious activity which were the same kinds of activity Hunter Biden is accused of.
You already showed you are willfully ignorant when you chose not to read the rest of the proof YOU asked for.
You hinge your entire reason for ignoring the rest of the evidence on the word “may be”. Hey guess what. Hunter Biden also “may be” engaging in illegal or criminal activity. But as you say the word “may be” is reason enough not to trust the claims being made against Hunter Biden. That’s YOUR logic not mine.
“ Consulting payments are taxed so there is no benefit to the Trump family.”
That’s not the issue. The full quote,
“ illegally disguising gifts to Ivanka as consulting payments to avoid estate taxes, something Donald’s father did but that we didn’t learn about until the statute of limitations had expired.”
Ivanka like Biden got unusually large “consulting fees” to avoid paying taxes is tax fraud. Luckily for her the statute of limitations expired meaning she got away with it. That’s one example of suspicious financial activities that others accuse Hunter Biden of. If the statute of limitations did not expire there was ample evidence to start an investigation. Just like Turley mentions should be a serious enough issue to warrant an investigation.
“ Also, recognize that Trump uses certified accountants that lose their licenses when they lie.”
Trump’s own accountants can be complicit in Trump’s fraudulent schemes. Remember Arthur Andersen? They were a whole company of crooked accountants. Trump may have hired some of them too.
“You already showed you are willfully ignorant when you chose not to read the rest of the proof YOU asked for.”
The first sentence didn’t make you seem smarter. Historically you have been ignorant and wrong on every significant discussion, Why should anyone waste time?
“illegally disguising gifts to Ivanka as consulting payments to avoid estate taxes”
You are an idiot. IS there proof Trump did that? He can pay consulting fees to someone who works for him. That makes it legal. How do you know the consulting fee was too large? Oh, I forget, you are a socialist that believes government should set prices and fees. You will have to wait until the Democrats secure total control of the nation.
“Trump’s own accountants can be complicit in Trump’s fraudulent schemes. “
Trump has been audited many times so one has to assume what Trump did was legal, especially since they have been trying to pin some guilt on him.
It doesn’t pay to discuss things with an ignoramus.
SM
S. Meyer,
Basing your reason not to read the evidence you asked for on what the first sentence says is a classic example of willful ignorance. You claim to be a smart fella, and smart people read the whole post before making asinine excuses as to why it’s not worth reading.
“ illegally disguising gifts to Ivanka as consulting payments to avoid estate taxes”
“ You are an idiot. IS there proof Trump did that?”
Yes, there is. Now because you chose to be willfully ignorant you would have noticed that the reason it wasn’t prosecuted was because the statute of limitations expired.
An investigation revealed he DID disguise gifts as consulting payments. That’s how we know why it didn’t get further than being mentioned as part of an inquiry. Because the statute of limitations expired.
“ He can pay consulting fees to someone who works for him. That makes it legal. How do you know the consulting fee was too large? ”
Oh yes he can, BUT if he’s doing that to avoid taxes that’s still fraud. That’s…illegal. The consulting fee was unusually large did the type of “consulting” she did and that’s not even mentioning the fact that she had no experience in the field she was “consulting” on. That alone was the biggest clue.
“ Trump has been audited many times so one has to assume what Trump did was legal, especially since they have been trying to pin some guilt on him.”
Yes he’s been audited many times because many of his tax returns were suspect. Being audited is not an indication that what he’s doing is legal. It’s also an indication that fraud is being alleged or suspected.
S. Meyer, when you project your own ignorance on others all you’re doing is showing us your own problem of willfull ignorance.
Svelaz, as dumb as a truckload of bricks. Reading your nonsense isn’t necessary once you have exposed your ignorance in the first sentence. However, I took a look back, and what I said stands. I wasted my time just to be nice to a brick.
You state there is proof regarding gifts or fees Trump provided Ivanka.
“An investigation revealed he DID disguise gifts as consulting payments. That’s how we know why it didn’t get further than being mentioned as part of an inquiry. Because the statute of limitations expired.”
Typical Svelaz idiocy. An investigation, but no mention of what investigation or who did it or when/ The only thing we know it is after the statute of limitations, but the IRS trying to pin something on Trump failed before the statute of limitation. Amazing, did you find this “information” in a letter on one of your bricks?
“Yes he’s been audited many times because many of his tax returns were suspect. Being audited is not an indication that what he’s doing is legal. It’s also an indication that fraud is being alleged or suspected.”
The problem is the IRS found nothing criminal even after looking continuously. That is proof. Your proof and a brick are still only a brick. By the way, next time you go to H&R Block to have them do your taxes, ask them to show you where consulting fees of that nature would be listed.
You have no business experience and no knowledge of finance, yet you talk and talk, making yourself look increasingly stupid.
SM
I don’t find anything in Professor Turley’s column to be a surprise. With the evidence of the laptop right in their hands there should be no need for a 2 year investigation unless you are literally dragging your feet at all levels. Virtually no investigations of Obama, HRC “cleared” by Director Comey of e-mail indiscretions that would put 99% of the rest of the US in Jail. Then Trump comes along and you get the travesty of the Russia collusion Hoax, the 1st impeachment over quid pro quo, which is called foreign policy with money handed over. I mean we have always given money to our friends to assure their support and votes in international meetings and the UN and on and on. Then a laptop literally drops in the lap of the FBI and 2 years later nothing apparent has happened. And the media, strangely loose like a pack of wild dogs during the Trump administration, turns into a cluster of corgi’s on a chain link leash when Biden is elected. We are confronted by a crashing economy, highest inflation in 40 years and likely going into a recession, gas prices which reached near all time highs, massive incompetence on the border, upheaval with forcing moral changes a significant part of people oppose and nothing happens. If Hunter Biden goes free with all this suppressed evidence the rage level of the people will go thru the roof. Best news I have heard is the Republicans thinking about a purge if they take congress and then the presidency. It will have been a long time coming. Justice needs to turn blind again and not keeping one eye open so she will miss the democrats.
GEB,
Great comment.
I wish I could say I was surprised by the whistleblowers report, but after watching the numerous passes given to other Dems by the FBI and DOJ . . . the two tiered justice system on full display.
Notice how desperate they are to change the definition of “recession?”
GOP, DNC, ….
Bee eye bicki eye…
Bye oh bee!
Bicki eye bicki oh …
Biden!
Congress could fix the real problem today by making DOJ’s good people (working in this bad system) totally independent of politics. A genuinely independent Department of Justice and try to make our Judicial Branch courts non-political.
If we had had a non-political Justice Department and non-political court system, America’s 200+ year reputation wouldn’t have been destroyed by the Bush Administration violating Ronald Reagan’s torture treaty (also federal law in the USA predating 9/11). 20 years later no accountability for the political DOJ attorneys that committed legal malpractice overturning federal criminal law and legally binding international treaties.
The USA’s torture program, for the first time in over 200 years, was denounced by the International Red Cross [Christian founded organization], Amnesty International and other human rights organizations. According to the ACLU, over 200 FBI agents were totally opposed to America’s torture program.
Many voters don’t perceive the U.S. Justice Department and judges as non-political. Congress can fix this problem today. This problem didn’t start with Trump or Obama.
The rule of law is respected by most Americans because we believe that justice in this country is essentially fair (though we recognize its flaws).
And we fear its power.
But now we are losing respect for justice thanks to the DOJ and the FBI.
Fear alone won’t prevent people from breaking the law.
And a Republican administration will throw out the partisans in order to install their own adherents.
Ugly cycle.
I posted a link to this with a snippet of the letter to the FBI. To me, the eye brow raising action was the opening of the investigation supporting the Russia disinformation lie. The exact circular process used for the Russia lie.
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Runaway inflation *and* a recession.
Nice going, democrats.
Of course, the polticized Keystone FBI downplayed the criminality of the Prodigal Pervert to appease the Little Girl Hair Sniffer In Chief. Fawning underlings always do.
If the GOP can regain the White House in 2025, perhaps some of the Bidens’ conduct can be prosecuted before the statute of limitations expires.
disagree. The GOP aren’t our saviors anymore than the DNC. Both are rotten billion dollar corporations who manipulate Americans into thinking they’ve got our back, aside from thrusting a dagger in our backs
The DNC and RNC are Private Corporations
In 2017, a Florida judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the DNC brought by supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders over the handling of the 2016 presidential primary. The court ruled that the DNC is a private corporation and that voters cannot protect their rights by turning to the courts. The DNC asserted that the primary election belongs to the people who control the party, not the voters. DNC lawyers argued that the Democratic Party doesn’t owe anyone a fair process and that it has every right to disregard its own rules or interpret its rules how it wants because it is a private organization.
Link to the Florida Case:
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/WildingDNC.pdf