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Biden’s Corvette Defense Was a Lemon But His “Inadvertence” Defense Could Prove Worse

Below is my column on Fox.com on President Joe Biden’s comment on his corvette and the unfolding of a defense from his counsel, including the “inadvertence” defense. While this defense is better than the conspiracy theory put forward by Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) and others that the documents may have been planted, it has some obvious risks and conflicts.

Here is the column:

“Like a car, only better.” That slogan for Corvette sold a lot of cars, but, until last week, it was never used with regard to classified documents. President Joe Biden responded to a question Thursday from Fox’s Peter Doocy about the disclosure of additional classified documents found in his garage next to his corvette at his home in Delaware. The president responded “My Corvette is in a locked garage, OK? So, it’s not like they’re sitting out on the street.”

Like his car, Biden had classified documents stored in his garage but it was hardly better.

There is no question that Biden’s 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is one hot car. Most of us would take the Stingray over an assortment of classified Ukraine briefing papers or memos. However, foreign intelligence may be more discerning.

The fact is that the argument that you protected classified documents as carefully as your Corvette will not cut it with the criminal code. As the Justice Department stated in the Trump filings, the mishandling of classified material can be a criminal act. The Justice Department cited provisions included 18 U.S.C. 793 (Gathering or Transmitting Defense Information) and 18 U.S.C. 2071 (Concealment, Removal, or Mutilation Generally).

Despite that history, many experts assured the public, without any evidence but a couple leaks, that there was no criminal conduct involving Biden.

Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe has previously run through the criminal code on what Donald Trump should be charged with, including witness tampering, obstruction of justice, criminal election violations, Logan Act violations, extortion, espionage, and treason by Trump or his family.

Tribe insisted that “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” Most recently, that included a charge of  attempted murder of former Vice President Mike Pence.

Yet, when Biden was accused of the same unlawful possession of classified information, Tribe needed no further evidence. He declared “One is criminal (Trump). And one is not criminal (Biden). Say it in plain English.”

Mueller’s top aide Andrew Weissmann added “It’s not a crime to accidentally take and retain govt docs. If upon learning that you have docs, you return them, there is no crime.”

 

Clearly, the Justice Department did not agree. In order to appoint a special counsel, the Attorney General had to find “that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted.” That does not mean that there is criminal conduct in this case, but the law prefers, at least for appearance’s sake, to wait for a modicum of evidence before making final judgments.

Biden’s counsel has insisted that this is merely “inadvertently misplaced.” That statement is belied by a couple facts. First, it seems that these documents were likely moved more than once. Biden left office as vice president in 2017. He presumably took these documents at that time. However, they ended up in different places, including one document found separately from the “garage files” in the residence.

Moreover, Biden had an office at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia after finishing his term in 2017. On February 8, 2018, the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement says that it opened its doors in Washington, D.C.

Biden could not have moved into the D.C. office until later that year. So those documents had to be moved from another location with moving trucks and personnel. They then sat in the office for years as other classified documents sat in his garage with his Corvette.

At some point, some documents were sent to the office and some to the residence and garage. What explained this division if it was not based on what the then vice president was working on?

The “inadvertent” defense hardly fits neatly with these facts. Moreover, if Biden worked off any of these documents for his book (which dealt with some of the underlying subjects like Ukraine), the inadvertent defense is not only shattered but could be cited later as an effort to deceive the public.

There are already concerns over the public statements from the president and his staff. The White House was already aware that there was not just one but three discoveries (the Penn Biden office, the garage, and the residence) of classified documents. However, the president indicated that only the Penn Biden office documents were at issue.

Finally, there is a question about the timeline. There seemed to be a general lack of urgency from the government despite finding documents classified at the high “Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information” (TS/SCI) level.

However, it took two days for the archives to notify the Justice Department. It then took seven days after the discovery for the FBI to do a risk assessment. Most notably, after the discovery of classified material in two locations, it was private counsel who discovered the last classified document. That was December 20th. It is not clear if the FBI asked or were allowed to conduct its own search before December 20th given the repeated discoveries in different locations.

While Garland finally made an appointment, he appears to have done so with one huge benefit to Biden. Unlike the sweeping mandate given the special counsel for Trump, the Biden mandate appears quite narrow. There was no reference to the alleged Biden influence peddling scandal, which long ago warranted a special counsel appointment.

We may soon, however, see an extraordinary historical development where both leading candidates for the presidency will be campaigning with their own assigned special counsels.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and a practicing criminal defense attorney. He is a Fox News contributor.

425 thoughts on “Biden’s Corvette Defense Was a Lemon But His “Inadvertence” Defense Could Prove Worse”

  1. To me it seems clear that Joetard’s DOJ was fully aware that Joetard had possession of classified records F0R YEARS (I don’t see how they could not be aware of it), so it made certain to concoct a case against Trump as cover for Joetard’s misconduct — Joetard having no authority to possess or remove classified records compared with Trump, who had the authority to declassify records and possess them, and clearly stated what he was doing BEFORE doing it.
    Joetard and his entire Justice Dept. are thoroughly corrupt, and this controversy is just the latest episode of that corruption, which also further highlights the ridiculous corruption of the Garbage media.

        1. No respectable website would allow trash like you to post your garbage, punk. Where does your “reply” deserve “debate,” you pathetic troll? You’re Turley’s problem, not mine.

      2. Typical garbage boy response. You can’t defend Joetard’s indefensible conduct, so you attack me. No decent website would allow that sort of conduct, which is why you’re here.

    2. You swung for the fences and knocked it out of the park. This makes more sense than the “Dems don’t want Joe so they planted them” hypothesis. Especially when they can just steal another election to put the brain dead idiot in again.

    4. I agree. They didn’t give one whit when it was their democrat boy biden and they helped him break the law for many years, and cover it up before the elections. No doubt they were snickering and cheering about the criminal they were helping put in power as the 2020 debates occurred and they watched, knowing what they were getting away with. Then in the midterm, the same. Their plot against Trump who has full authority over the documents was dirty and criminal – as they went and looked, suggested a lock, then came back in full on tyranny and went underwear sniffing and violating every bit of privacy like the dirty skum that they are. Then they tried the turn off all the cams trick so they could steal and be fools secretly.
      Alternately and out of character, for their criminal cohort joey the mobster, it’s hands off keep it quiet ask nicely never use law enforcement nor tip off the press (except secretly and demand they not expose it) and say it was all a little unimportant misunderstanding. Then when immense pressure mounted, appoint one of their cover up agents who did corrupt Rosenstein’s bidding protecting democrats and promoting russia russia russia lies. So the special counsel investigation is bogus and we all know it already. Another corrupt con job.

        1. Your response is inadequate. You must not know the facts. Did you respond without thought or too quickly? You made too many errors.

          Can you restate your case with fact and accuracy, or are you repeating talking points provided by others for those incapable of obtaining the information themselves?

            1. I see prompting has helped you acknowledge some of your mistaken comments, but not all. I’ll let it stand at that, for at the least, you are starting to recognize the difference between various entities even though you cannot still use words correctly.

                1. You are making your attacks too obvious. When you fail to understand concepts, you wing it with accusations made up of that gooey stuff in your head. You have to try harder

    5. Ralph – I am beginning to wonder if the federal government has a central data base to keep track of who has classified docments and where they are. Also, do they have a protocol for reviewing the documents to see if they should keep their classification. I strongly suspect that in most cases classification outlives its usefulness.

    6. I doubt the DOJ was aware. But they could have guessed.

      Before Garland went After Trump he should have met Joe in the Ovaka and said – Before I go after Trump – is YOUR house in order ?

      The Biden – I did not know claim is nonsense – unless his dementia is so bad he has forgotten.

      These records did not get scattered by accident. The docs were likely for his book – even the left is claiming that.
      That means that multiple times from 2017-2021 He saw these Classified docs.

  2. it is ok….Democrats can commit crimes…just ask the DOJ, IRS and FBI!
    The plan was always 2 years of Biden and then 2 years of Kommie Harris. Biden will walk just like Cuomo when they tired of him

    DC is lost…and is 100% corrupt for Democrats

  3. I do believe it may BECOME OBVIOUS that a PRESIDENT has certain powers re: documents however; a Vice President does NOT. There are actually RULES to follow!! If the Voting Public does NOT see the (illegal manipulations) of charges between Trump and Biden, then We The People have a dire problem. The SWAMP WINS.

    1. First there is no possible claim that Biden’s docs are not WH Docs and blelogn either with NARA or Obama.
      There is no possible claim the Biden Docs are not still classified.

      It MIGHT be possible to claim legal possession – If the Docs were moved to Biden’s home while Biden was VP AND they were found in his Fed ex VP office space.

      Docs that are in the VP’s posession legally at the end of his term do not magically become illegal.
      BUT whether during his term or after they STILL must be handled properly.

      The Biden Center is NOT a proper place for them.
      The garage with his Corvette is not a proper place for them.
      His library is Probably not a proper place for them – Depends on what constitutes his ex VP office space.

      The Claim that Biden did the right thing and turned the docs over is BullShite.
      There is ZERO possibility that these docs arrived at his VP Office legally and were moved all over the place from 2017-2021 without Biden or anyone else EVER noticing they were classified. That means the I was not aware defence is BUNKUM.

      Trump is far more complex, with far more roads to innocence.

      We still do not know what these docs are.
      If they are Russiagate Docs – this blows up in Biden’s face.
      The Russiagate Docs were publicly declassified repeatedly.

      Even if they are not – If Trump claims they are declassified – DOJ must prove beyond a reasonable doubt they are not.
      Trump can not telepathically declassify. But it is arguable that merely moving them from the WH to MAL intentionally, knowing they would be at MAL after he was president would declassify them.

      Assuming that DOJ establishes that they are still classified.
      There is still no crime – so long as they arrived at MAL legaly – which with near certainty they did.
      And they remained within the Ex Presidents official office space, and They were locked up when Trump had visitors.

      There is the separate issue of the WH Papers that Both Biden and Trump had.

      Contra DOJ – Ex President Trump may legally posses papers from his WH.
      Ex VP Biden may not. WH Papers belong to the president at the time – not the VP.

  4. (I stand corrected for a sarcastic remark I made yesterday @ 7:47 p.m.”Biden’s ‘Surprise'” about documents in the corvette trunk.
    I remember reading that somewhere (I’m not one to make something up) but cannot find the reference/source today. I know nothing about corvettes. I should have cited the source, even for one-sentence sarcasm. Apologies to all.)

    1. I know neither Joe Biden’s 1967 C2 427/435 hp Corvette Stingray nor the classified TS/SCI documents stored in its boot (yes, boot) was parked at the curb. With the keys in it.

      *hope that helps.

      1. Jim22 and dgsnowden: Thanks for your humor and being understanding. Not to get personal, but I have an older alfa romeo (spider veloce); even with its small size, I bet I could fit Biden in the trunk and no one would know for five years.

        1. Lin,

          Cool that you have a fun car. Like I tell everyone, drive the hell out of while the govt. still lets you! I consider myself an environmentalist since I drive only recycled car. 69 C10 Truck, 67 GT Cougar, 72 Gremlin and 67 Olds Vista Cruiser. The Cruiser could fit many boxes of documents plus the Biden family.

                1. Yours is old-news derivative energy from the solar system on your roof. I think Wens is correct that the market has yet to offer a solar car.

                    1. Precisely. And that’s why Wen is correct, (and I wrote the anonymous comment at 11:57, -pushed “send” before entering my name). And why did you dispute Wen with, “Where do you live? Antarctica?” -Doesn’t take Antarctica to know that’s why we have hybrid cars and electric charge stations around the country.
                      Bottom line, Wen is correct in his stand-alone statement. Thanks

            2. So are mine. they run on stored solar enrgy from many years ago.

              And it cost you something.

              1. The PV system I figured to have a 10-year payback, but our first electric car brought it down to three years.
                Now it saves us lots of money.

            3. george227 says: “My two cars run on power from the sun. No pollution, no cost, purely clean.”

              Wow! I’m really impressed with Fisher-Price!

                1. That is great, George227. Does that mean you can go 60 mph on my 25 mph streets where children are playing? If, accelerating, you hit two or three kids, does that mean your car gets to 60 in less than 3.2 seconds?

                    1. Really? You are the one bragging about getting from zero to 60 in 3.2 seconds. That shows you haven’t outgrown anything and are juvenile. You even tell me it is a Tesla instead of a Chevrolet. I wonder why? I use a car to get me from point A to point B. I like it safe, reliable, and comfortable.

                    3. Your comment makes you a ‘me too guy’. I think the zero to 60 dominated your thinking.

                    5. If anyone compares what we have both written, they can see what does the thinking for you.

                1. Yeah, lol, but I get free transportation in my classy Tesla Model S.
                  No oil changes. No transmission worries. No emissions checks. No going out for gas.
                  Don’t forget to open your garage door before warming up your polluter.

                  1. Free transportation? That I and others help fund. You did get a tax credit, didn’t you? The company got financing from the government, right? Who do you think pays those bills? Do you like slave labor? Where do you get the minerals? Did you ever check how young the workers can be? Did you ever wonder where the dead batteries go? How about the carbon footprint created by all the heavy equipment used to get to the needed rare earth elements?

                    There is plenty of costs and plenty of pollution going into that Tesla. I hope you realize power plants produce electricity using carbon-based energy.

                    Finally, you can act like Nancy Pelosi and tell a person earning $40,000 annually to buy a Tesla starting at around $50,000. Don’t tell him what it costs when he has to buy a new battery.

                    Understand, I have no problem with electric vehicles. My gripe is with those who do not understand their costs, financial and other. I hope EVs thrive in the competitive marketplace while believing they will.

                    1. Why would assume I got a tax break? I bought it used, not being rich. And I do not use polluting power. We charge using the PV power we put into the line in the daytime. My utility power comes from renewables by contract. Do you STILL pollute?

                    2. George227,
                      The initial tax break leads to a lower price for a resale. So do the financial advantages provided to the company. You do know that, correct?

                      What fuel does your power company use to generate electricity for your car?

                      A used Tesla means the battery life isn’t that long. Do you fill the battery 100%? When will you have to replace it? Do you know the cost to you and the environment when the battery ends up in a landfill?

                      All cars cause pollution, as does my own. I judge cars based on my needs. When EVs compete on a level playing field, you can come back and tell me about going zero to 60 in 3.2 seconds.

                      “I bought it used, not being rich.”

                      Why are you not rich?

                    3. Lots of ignorance in your post. I charge using what we put into the grid, or take from the grid using renewable power by contract. And the little tax benefit does not affect the price of used cars. And my car is ten years old still with a good battery which may eventually be recycled like many have been already.
                      Think of me when you get your first EV.
                      Name it after me.

                    4. “Lots of ignorance in your post.

                      Try to stay pleasant and skip the name-calling because when one compares what we have written, you don’t fare too well.

                      “using renewable power by contract.”

                      That doesn’t answer the question, and you should know that, but you don’t. Keep winging it.

                      What is the power source? Is it using a mix of sources to produce electricity? What is the source of electricity when you fill up on the road?

                      “And the little tax benefit does not affect the price of used cars. ”

                      $7,500 trickles down to the used car market. That is something you should know. How about the hundreds of millions or billions given to Tesla? You didn’t know about that either.

                      Your car can do zero to 60 in 3.2 seconds, but your mind stalls.

                      “Think of me when you get your first EV. Name it after me.”

                      Why should I think of you, and why should I name it after anyone? It’s a car, and whether it is gas or electric, I buy mine new.

                    5. I brought up the fast acceleration to respond to the cutie who called EVs Fisher-Price. And doesn’t your utility offer pure renewables? Gazillions “given” to Tesla? Did you know petroleum gets over five trillion dollars/year in subsidies worldwide? Want proof?
                      Listen, every watthour put out by my PV system is one not put out by polluting sources. I invested in PV and the first EV because it was the right thing to do, not expecting the fantastic set of benefits I would reap.
                      Sorry you are so in need to “own” others.

                    6. George227,

                      “I brought up the fast acceleration to respond to the cutie who called EVs Fisher-Price.”

                      Your response was poor, or you wouldn’t still be trying to hang onto your dignity. Cindy’s comment was funny despite your testosterone being offended. That led to your ill-fated comment, ‘it goes from zero to 60 in 3.2 seconds.’

                      You didn’t have to be a sexist and call Cindy a cutie even though she is top-notch.

                      “Did you know petroleum gets over five trillion dollars…”

                      I commented on your statement about Tesla being free, not about other costs. Pay attention to the topic.

                      “I invested in PV and the first EV because it was the right thing to do”

                      I like doing the right thing as well. When Covid started to kick up, I decided to buy Mattel for obvious reasons and skipped on the Tesla. I think Mattel owns Fiser-Price. When it tripled, I sold. Today, I can take a portion of the profits and buy a new Tesla or a comparable car. I would say my Fisher-Price adventure had fast acceleration and a lot of long-term benefits.

            5. “Toyota President Akio Toyoda said he feared government regulations would make cars a ‘flower on a high summit’—out of reach for the average person.”
              __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

              You communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) simply want to abolish the car.

              It is eminently unconstitutional for any level of government to manipulate free enterprise and free markets, and to deny the market freedom of choice of citizens. Products are offered based on their sales and market success, not governmental orders. Giving orders is called dictatorship, for those of you in Rio Linda.

              Oh, and those African slaves, newly minted by African tribal chiefs, in the Congolese cobalt mines are a real throwback, aren’t they? You are woefully misinformed. There is not enough electricity and electricity is not always reliable.

              Electric cars are filthy and immoral to make.
              ___________________________________

              “Toyota’s Chief Says Electric Vehicles Are Overhyped”

              Akio Toyoda says converting entirely to EVs could cost hundreds of billions of dollars and make cars unaffordable for average people.

              Motor Corp.’s leader criticized what he described as excessive hype over electric vehicles, saying advocates failed to consider the carbon emitted by generating electricity and the costs of an EV transition. Toyota President Akio Toyoda said Japan would run out of electricity in the summer if all cars were running on electric power. The infrastructure needed to support a fleet consisting entirely of EVs would cost Japan between ¥14 trillion and ¥37 trillion, the equivalent of $135 billion to $358 billion, he said. “When politicians are out there saying, ‘Let’s get rid of all cars using gasoline,’ do they understand this?” Mr. Toyoda said Thursday at a year-end news conference in his capacity as chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association. He said if Japan is too hasty in banning gasoline-powered cars, “the current business model of the car industry is going to collapse,” causing the loss of millions of jobs. Advocates of EVs say they can be charged at night when electricity demand is low and, over time, can grow in tandem with other green technologies such as solar power. Local news reports in early December said the Japanese government was about to announce a ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered cars starting in 2035, while it would still allow hybrid gas-electric cars. Such a ban would follow the state of California and countries such as the U.K. But no announcement has come amid industry resistance. Officials at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said they haven’t made a decision on the future of gasoline cars.

              EV maker Tesla Inc. passed Toyota this year as the world’s most valuable auto maker by market capitalization.

              In a country such as Japan that gets most of its electricity from burning coal and natural gas, EVs don’t help the environment, Mr. Toyoda said. “The more EVs we build, the worse carbon dioxide gets,” he said.

              He said he feared government regulations would make cars a “flower on a high summit”—out of reach for the average person.

              – WSJ, 12/17/2020

            6. “No pollution, no cost, purely clean.”

              Says the person who is completely ignorant of the manufacturing and transportation processes necessary to make those cars, solar panels, batteries, et al. — all of which require fossil fuels. As do the clothes that keep you warm, the glasses that keep you sighted, the vaccines that keep you healthy, the food that keep you fed, . . .

          1. edwardmahl: Ha, probably, but then, maybe Biden wouldn’t remember how he got in there.
            (don’t mean to be rude about memory loss, most of us may be there someday. On rainy days like today, good comments from you and others keep my brain electrically/electrolytically charged)

  5. I predicted that if Republicans won the House, that they would do nothing about the hyper-partisan, corrupt, scorched earth, Machiavellian machinations of Biden’s DOJ, Merrick Garland, FBI and corrupt Members of Congress like (too many Democrats to list) who have literally destroyed our US Democracy and the very fabric of our nation.

    As a stark contrast between the malevolence of Democrats versus the eunuchs that characterizes Republicans, as a Hispanic I vividly recall how Democrats ruined the career of Mexican-American attorney Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General under George W. Bush for the very reasons they accused Gonzales: political handling of careers of US Attorneys. Democrat Senators (e.g. Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Sheldon Whitehouse) held a political “no confidence vote” in the Senate that had no legal binding, all to get the mongrels stirred in their friends with the libera news media. In the US House, predictably, Adam Schiff sponsored a similar vote. Not to be outdone, Democrat Jay Inslee introduced a bill to impeach AG Alberto Gonzales, all done for politics more than 15 years ago.

    H.Res.589 – Directing the Committee on the Judiciary to investigate whether Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States, should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.
    110th Congress (2007-2008)
    https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/house-resolution/589/text

    As Attorney General Alberto Gonzales looks like an angel compared to AG Eric Holder, and a Guardian Angel compared to AG Merrick Garland

    Democrats historically (e.g. Ted Kennedy/Chappaquiddick) break every moral, ethical and legislative act known to man, the legacy media enables them, then accuse their enemies as having broken same with truck loads of kabuki theater to win in the court of public opinion via their lying news media enablers

    Perhaps Republicans are wrong when it comes to hormonal treatment. Perhaps they need to start gender affirming therapy stat, vis a vis testosterone therapy, so as to grow a pair of cojones and start acting with zeal to reverse the collapse of our nation. They should learn from the pros: Chuck Schumer, Sheldon Whitehouse, Adam Schiff, et al.

    1. Estovir– As always, an excellent comment. In my opinion, this moral decay permeates Democrat values today. Consider, for example, what the pro-choice movement has become. The House recently passed the “Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act.” Every House Democrat voted against the bill. Pelosi and Schumer labeled the bill “dangerous.” Apparently, pro-choice ideology has become so rigid that it must now allow babies who actually survive an abortion attempt to be murdered. Given the readily available birth control measures, devices and medicines, either before, during or after intercourse, the “right” to an abortion in the vast majority of cases is nothing more than a means to escape responsibility for irresponsible conduct, and yet, to protect this “right,” Democrats are fine with infanticide. As you correctly say, if the Republicans do not stop this moral decay, our days are numbered.

      2. Biochemically, physiologically, genetically, the fusion of a sperm and ovum is ipso facto the beginning of human life; cell division, transcription, translation, production of ATP (main currency of energy), consumption of glucose (main fuel), exchange of chemical gases, enzymatic chemical reactions, cell to cell signaling, motility (movement), etc. are all unique to living organisms.

        Our innate immune system has long been described as coming exclusively from our bone marrow. Research conducted these past +/- 5 years has disproven the former was incorrect. Much of our innate immune system comes from the yolk sac and fetal liver, then develops in target tissues within the fetus (e.g. heart, lungs, skin) and self-maintain in adulthood without any contribution from the bone marrow. This is a big deal not only in immunology but how we are now reassessing common human diseases like atherosclerosis. Science provides great insight into who we are as humans but you have to be interested in the knowledge science provides as it continually evolves, is updated and rejects previously held dogmas. Pro-aborts and their enablers reject science, preferring instead their religious woke ideologies

        Otherwise, I get riled up when I see men act like cowards esp if their inactivity impacts my freedoms.

        We reveal physiological erythropoiesis in fetal skin and the presence of mast cells, natural killer and innate lymphoid cell precursors in the yolk sac. We demonstrate a shift in the haemopoietic composition of fetal liver during gestation away from being predominantly erythroid, accompanied by a parallel change in differentiation potential of HSC/MPPs, which we functionally validate. Our integrated map of fetal liver haematopoiesis provides a blueprint for the study of paediatric blood and immune disorders, and a reference for harnessing the therapeutic potential of HSC/MPPs.

        see:

        Popescu DM, Botting RA, Stephenson E, Green K, Webb S, Jardine L, Calderbank EF, Polanski K, Goh I, Efremova M, Acres M, Maunder D, Vegh P, Gitton Y, Park JE, Vento-Tormo R, Miao Z, Dixon D, Rowell R, McDonald D, Fletcher J, Poyner E, Reynolds G, Mather M, Moldovan C, Mamanova L, Greig F, Young MD, Meyer KB, Lisgo S, Bacardit J, Fuller A, Millar B, Innes B, Lindsay S, Stubbington MJT, Kowalczyk MS, Li B, Ashenberg O, Tabaka M, Dionne D, Tickle TL, Slyper M, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Filby A, Carey P, Villani AC, Roy A, Regev A, Chédotal A, Roberts I, Göttgens B, Behjati S, Laurenti E, Teichmann SA, Haniffa M. Decoding human fetal liver haematopoiesis. Nature. 2019 Oct;574(7778):365-371. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1652-y. Epub 2019 Oct 9. PMID: 31597962; PMCID: PMC6861135.

        2. Medical Bombshell: CDC Confirms COVID Shots Cause Massive Increases In Strokes FOX News Video

          99,140 views

          Jan 13, 2023

          The Alex Jones Show

          Viewers and Infowarriors already know the dangers of the COVID poison shots, but finally the CDC, FDA, and NIH cannot ignore the massive death and damage caused by the mRNA jabs. The CDC is now investigating the Clot Shots and their ability to cause strokes in unwitting humans that took them, after being told they were “safe and effective”.

          https://banned.video/watch?id=63c1ea23b0641c1427399bad

        3. BTW: With the Sterilization the mRNA Death/Clot Shots are being claimed to cause people shouldn’t have to worry about their immunity/Genetics has been destroyed.

          (Cliff Note: Pay attention to what Jay Dyer is saying or not.)

    1. No, he just stole classified documents for years as an ex V.P. and anfter moving them most likely several times, waited until after the midterms to return them. Go but your blinders back on.

    2. george227 – a subpoena is not exactly a “court order”. It is issued in blank to a litigant or an agency which fills it out and serves it upon the subject. The subject has the right to file a motion to quash the subpoena. Typically, if there is an objection to the subpoena, the parties will engage in negotiation or at least discussion before the matter goes to court. See Federal Rule of Criminal Prodedure, Rule 17. https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_17

    3. Do we have to keep this brain dead twaddle up ?

      If there was a court order – no warrant would be needed.
      DOJ/FBI can come to MAL and take documents responsive to the court order without a warrant.

      There was not court order.
      There was a subpoena.
      Subpoena’s are not court orders.
      Failure to comply with a Subpeona MIGHT result in a court order – AFTER a day in court.
      In a civil case it might result in limits to Trump’s defense.

      But it is not a court order.

      And you can not obstuct a DOJ Attorney.
      You have to obstruct and actual court.

  7. Dear Prof Turley,

    As a matter of public safety, it should be against the law for Joe Biden to have a C2 427/435 hp Corvette too, imho. I certainly wouldn’t want to meet Joe on the road in a naturally aspirated muscle car, would you? (If we’re lucky, fast asleep at a stop light.)

    No. The Stingray may be one hot car, but I want to see the ‘classified’ Ukraine briefing papers or memos.

    There is no question that Biden’s 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is one hot car. Most of us would take the Stingray over an assortment of classified Ukraine briefing papers or memos. However, foreign intelligence may be more discerning.

    Could be an urgent matter of life and death. .. for untold countless people all around the world.

    *special note. because the world is round, Taibbi is calling for a new ‘Truth and Reconciliation’ meeting, but I’m not so sure . .. see e.g. , Church Committee, Pentagon papers, Iran-Contra, Iraq, Wikileaks, Snowden files, etc., etc.

    1. Your asuming Joe remembers he has a Corvette while even looking at it, or that he knows where the keys are or that it even needs keys.

  8. Peter Navaro. was on FOX yesterday.

    He explained how he had to handle classified material.
    He had a classified vault in his office. If he was not working with the document, it was always stored in the vault. If he went to lunch, document in the vault. Biden would operate under exactly the same protocols. Evidence to date shows Biden stole the Boxes of documents…found so far. Unlike the President, what the VP had were all logged and inventoried. The originating agencie of those classified docs know exactly who had them….and allowed the VP to keep them, without authorization….for 6 years.

    Garland, not a man noted for following the written law is not bringing Charges against the President. As Biden has Admitted he stored classified documents in a manner in conflict with the law.

    Lets not forget the serious National Security Interests at stake.

    1. The process is not the same at every level. Though MOSTLY Navaro is correct.

      At some levels – you can not have classified documents in your office at all.
      You can only review them in a SCIF.

      A SCIF can be anything from 50% of the WhiteHouse, to a locked closet with a chair.
      Classified documents are stored in a SCIF when not being used.
      They are also reviewed in a SCIF for those without clearance to take Documents to their offices.

      Presidents and Vice Presidents UNIQUELY have government offices in their personal homes.
      And those offices contain a SCIF.

      ExPresidents (and I beleive ExVPs) retain that official Government office and SCIF.
      They also retain unlimited clearance.

      Both Trump and Biden retained the priviledge to review the classified documents they posessed.
      Trump certainly – and Biden likely retained the privilege to keep classified documents in the SCIF in their homes.

      There is a separate question with Trump because the Trump documents may not be classified.

      But that is not in question with Biden.

      Assuming the documents were classified. Neither Trump nor Biden could remove them from their presidential office, and would be required to keep them in the SCIF when they were not alone in their offices.

      We KNOW Biden did not do that.
      It appears Trump did.

          1. BS.

            For example, the DOJ told Judge Cannon “Notwithstanding [Trump’s] counsel’s representation on June 3, 2022, that materials from the White House were only located in the Storage Room, classified documents were found in both the Storage Room and in the former President’s office.”

        2. In his presidential office.

          BTW do you have an official source for that ?
          Unless it is part of court pleadings or public statements by FBI/DOJ anything in the media purportedly from DOJ/FBI is near certain wrong.

  9. The Biden documents scandal is a perfect example of the two faced double speak that controls our government, media and culture.

    1. all DC based 3 letter agencies are 100% corrupt for Democrats IRS, DOJ, DHS, FBI, CIA, FED, etc

  10. Another day another example of two tier justice system. America, the new Banana Republic. Sad.

    1. Yes the colloquial ‘two tierd’ legal system, as old as man.

      But what we are seeing now, with Garland, and the whole of management at the DOJ is three tiered system. The Third Tier of using the DoJ and IC as a political tool to go after your political adversaries, ie labeling parents domestic terrorists for attend public school board meetings.
      again using the cover of National Security to cloak their unconstitutional searches

  11. What does it mean to say your garage is locked? Does Biden’s garage have a remote-control door opener that uses radio signals? That sounds like a homework assignment for Hacking 101.

    1. You do not even need to Hack the Remote which is quite easy.

      Getting something under the door is easy and you can then pull the door release or trip the Emergency Sensors and open the door.

      And that ignores the fact that we are talking about getting into an unoccupied space where the garage is visibly sheilded from the Street.

      A chain Saw will get you right in.

    2. I beleive NYT went to an enormous amount of Trouble to produce a 3D model of how one could get to where the Trump documents were.

      – if you can sneak into the kitchen, find your way to this tunnel, crawl through this grate, get down this hall without SS detecting you ……

      For biden it is – Open the garage door.

  12. Defense Could Prove Worse

    Especially if Uncle Joe skipped required Corvette maintenance such as oil & filter change & tire rotation.

  13. Admire the determination of the lefty commentators to lie.

    And the equally determined lefty readers to accept the lies.

  15. Garland PRotection of the DEMs/BIDEN Documents keep showing up, why all of a suden? who is behind it, the DEMS who want to get rid of Biden for 2024? The Documents have been moved, what is the chain of custody, who went thru them? who pullled out cerrtain doc’s and put them in Biden’s Library? Chinese had access, according to Hunter who gave them keys where Doc’s were kept in a closet??????????? Locked Garage??? Dog ate my homework excuse. IT all SMELLS. Carland and Wray need to be called up to Capitol Hill and they need to be questioned on there two tier justice, soft on DEMS/Biden and hard on Trump

  17. How much more evidence/proof do we need before we are convinced Joe Biden was never ‘lunch bucket’ Joe? How and when did those Top Secret materials get removed from the Archives in the first place? How come the Archives were not making a demand on Joe to return them many years later? And again, how much money did Chinese entities pour into the University of Pennsylvania and should U of P be investigated? When is Lawrence Tribe going to go away already – he represents no one and is a stain upon Harvard.

  18. The last document was actually found around Jan 12 in Biden’s library. The trove in the garage was found around Dec 20, which is when Biden’s lawyer notified US Attorney Lausch about it.

    Even if Biden “inadvertently placed” these documents where they all were found, why is that not Biden’s gross negligence, which is the applicable standard under 18 USC 763(f)?

    1. Daniel, How did these boxes of classified documents leave the White House? The Vice President lacks the Power to take them. He had to steal them.

      1. I agree, though I suppose they could have been boxed up by mistake. This is just one of many questions the investigators will have to answer.

        1. Daniel, I considered the notion the classified documents were stacked on desks and credenzas, and tables, and intermingled with other office paperwork. But that goes against just basic human attitude.
          All the White House offices, that handle classified documents have a Document vault. If not actively being used, Staff with specific assigned duties, bird dog those documents. Unless it is in the VP hands, staff puts it in the vault. I’m have a terrible messy desk, but, when I had the opportunity to have help that kept things neat, My work area looked better. Some things I dont like put away, but communication settled into a good routine. Biden’s staff had to be constantly sweeping up classified AND other documents and keeping them organized.

          I find the whole, “got swept up with all the other office papers” a blatant lie. If those White House offices are sooo sloppy Classified stuff is Just lost in 6 inches of paper covering every flat surface and the untraveled portion of the floor, no wonder DC is such a mess.

    1. LOL — Thanks for proving that this is a political issue and not a legal issue. DeSantis is a CLOWN.

    2. Clinton was the first black president.

      Obama was the first woman president.

      DeSantis wants to be the first hispantino presidente.

      Real President Donald J. Trump wants to Make America Great Again!

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