According to an new ABC News/Ipsos poll, almost half of Americans lack trust that the Justice Department will conduct the Hunter Biden investigation in a “fair and nonpartisan manner.” It is the latest indication of the failure of Attorney General Merrick Garland to restore faith in his department. There is ample reason for citizens to have their doubts.
The poll, conducted earlier this week, showed that 48 percent of Americans are not confident in the investigation. Only 32 percent expressed trust in the integrity and independence of the investigation.
We have previously discussed the failure of leadership at both the Justice Department and the FBI. Attorney General Garland has repeatedly failed to take actions that could address the growing distrust of his department.
The Hunter Biden matter has highlighted Garland’s utter failure at Justice. After ignoring calls from some of us for the need of a special counsel for years, Garland inexplicably appointed, David Weiss, the very same prosecutor who has been accused of running a fixed investigation by whistleblowers and signing off on a sweetheart deal that collapsed in court in a matter of minutes.
The Justice Department is now less trusted by the public than it was under his predecessor, Bill Barr. During Barr’s tenure, Pew found that 54 percent of the public viewed the department favorably, and 70 percent had a favorable view of the FBI. Under Garland, the department’s favorability had declined to 49 percent as of March, before many of the recent failures. The FBI’s favorability has fallen by 18 points to just 52 percent.
Garland’s failure of leadership has undermined key cases. A Harvard-Harris poll this summer showed that 55 percent of the public view the Trump indictment as “politically motivated,” and 56 percent believe that it constitutes election interference.
In making this appointment, Garland seemed to be virtually taunting the public while, again, repeating his Department’s motto as a mantra.
What is particularly glaring is that this widely ridiculed move was done in direct violation of the regulation. Section 600.3 requires an appointment from outside the Justice Department for obvious reasons. While John Durham also came from within the department, he was retiring from the department at the time of his appointment.
More importantly, Garland appointed a prosecutor who has been accused of conflicts of interest and false statements — the very antithesis of a special counsel who is supposed to have “a reputation for integrity and impartial decision-making.”
The appointment flips the regulation on its head and insulates a controversial prosecutor from congressional inquiries while undermining public trust in the investigation.
This is not to say that Weiss is indeed compromised or complicit. We have not heard from him. However, the regulation is designed to avoid such questions or doubts with the appointment of someone without prior history or lingering allegations.
The result of this failure of leadership is that Garland has again lost roughly half of the country and is playing to the same roughly 30 percent that is a constant base for the Administration. By failing to show the strength and leadership at this moment, Garland has deepened the institutional crisis for the Justice Department.
I want to ask all of the right thinking people that comment here if they have ever heard of a more asinine and partisan comment than what Dana Bash of CNN actually said, “I think the DOJ is lacking humanity for stringing Hunter Biden along for five years and it just isn’t fair”. SO the DOJ sits for 5 years so that various statute of limitations can lapse thereby getting the corrupt loser off without any charges or trials and this IDIOT thinks it isn’t fait to Hunter???? How is this type of analytical thinking even possible? How can this moron be on television and on the news?
“… if they have ever heard of a more asinine and partisan comment than what Dana Bash of CNN actually said …”
(1) Well, stupidity is difficult to quantify. That’s why people are given “intelligence tests” instead of “stupidity tests.”
(2) Secondly, when you’re talking about stupid stuff said on cable “news,” you’re talking about enough stuff to fill a thousand libraries, and it would be a daunting task to decide which of it qualified as stupidest. Don’t forget some of the competition includes Morning Schmoe and Rachael Madcow and Chris Wallace.
(3) The good news is that it was said on CNN, so probably only a dozen people heard it, and most of them were probably stoned and forgot hearing it 5 minutes later.
I don’t think they were teaching analytical or critical thinking when or where Dana Bash went to school. I’m a lot older, and the public schools (highly regarded) I went to didn’t – I learned these from my parents.
Public schools and many higher learning institutions, even “private” ones, are under the influence of the federal government, which is under the influence of some of the worst people in the world, who occupy seats of international power.
These do not want us thinking, they may in public scorn “low-information” voters, but in private they know that bombarding prople with non-stop information allows little time for digestion of the information via thinking. It’s the thinking part they don’t want us doing. Because all we are is to be useful until we aren’t, at which time we become disposable.
https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/you-are-the-carbon-they-want-to-reduce.jpg
Dana’s ex-husband was one of the lying intelligence criminals who signed laptop disinformation campaign to influence the election.
A less than clever ad-hominem attack.
I believe the word you are looking for is “chutzpah”.
And Dana Bash no doubt earns a hefty salary at CNN while making such frankly idiotic and clueless comments.
Poll Results Turley Is ‘Not’ Sharing
Harvard-Harris Poll: Page 36
58% Classified documents case against Trump is either “Somewhat Strong” or “Very Strong”.
Harvard-Harris Poll: Page 37
44% Trump is probably guilty of all charges.
26% Trump may be guilty but charges are political.
30% Trump is probably innocent of all charges
ABC Poll
49% Trump should have been charged in the Georgia case.
32% Trump should not have been charged in Georgia
PEW Research
63% of Americans have an unfavorable view of Donald Trump.
Even among Republicans Trump’s favorability has dropped 9% since July of 2022
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/21/little-change-in-americans-views-of-trump-over-the-past-year/
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The Harvard-Harris poll seems to be skewed towards Republicans in the sense that Republicans, as a group, are consistently more unanimous with their answers. Nevertheless this poll is not that promising with regards Trump’s perceived guilt or innocence.
NOTE: Turley’s PEW Research link is from October 1 of 2019.
The PEW link included here is from July 21, 2023.
Take note the poll results discussed are based on many people who have yet to hear the truth. The left lies. The right has been quite transparent.
LOL — Those “poll results” are based upon the prosecution having presented its case in the media while the defense has yet to present it’s case. There’s a REASON that trials are actually held and people aren’t convicted via media stories or polls taken of people who’ve only heard one side of the case via media stories, just as there’s a REASON that the judge or jury don’t come in with a verdict as soon as the prosecution wraps up its case without hearing from the DEFENSE.
If you are an American citizen and graduated from junior high school, you should know all of that.
Republicans, as a group, are consistently more unanimous with their answers.
You lost any credibility with that one.
Comrade, you sure washed my brain.
It feels so good to be communist.
Might just as well be yapper.
Jake Yapper, “Trump was right “, about Hunter.
Is it possible for people to be in a war and not know it, for people to be fiddling while Rome burns?
Dear Brandon, it’s a cruel summer
” I know nothing about my son’s business interests ! I have never talked to him or his business associates about it ! ”
” My son hasn’t taken a dime from China, not a dime ! ”
Wow, sleepy joe, do those two statements jibe ?
OT
The “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” after Karl Marx’s “RECONSTRUCTION of a social world,” including amendments, prevails.
John Rich says the Nashville Deep Deep State is censoring the music we hear on country radio.
Al Dean’s latest hit, “Try That In A Small Town,” is censored and blackballed.
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“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in [America] anymore.”
– Dorothy
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Perhaps America was “fundamentally transformed,” Dorothy.
Look what the “system” is trying to do to the songwriter & singer of Rich Men North Of Richmond…says it all right there.
Leftist, godless, human-hating, lying, duplicitous creatures now run nearly everything worldwide, not just in the US. I have given up on politicians making a difference. Most of them are in it for the money. Just watch how they act (McConnell & Pelosi). And now our new best friends the Ukrainians take precedent over Americans, like those in Maui. Hunter Biden, Schmunter Biden…who the hell cares? Look at the clowns throwing J6 jaywalkers in jail for years. Oh, you don’t like Biden? We’ll do a 6am raid on your house and kill you. That’ll show you not to be a Biden-hater!
“AI program In self learning mode is exposed to 30 minutes of American media and turns into an illiterate moron.”
(Adapted from Babylon Bee)
Turing Complete Idiot
“It is the latest indication of the failure of Attorney General Merrick Garland to restore faith in his department.”
This administration doesn’t care about respect or faith in the nation’s institutions. It cares only about compliance with all their dictats.
At the best, it’s chilling that they don’t care if we know.
At worst, they want us to know.
“[Polls], we don’t need no stinking [polls]!”
– “Gold Hat,” The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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Article 3, Section 1
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court,…
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“It’s the [Constitution], stupid!”
– James Carville
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“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what they forbid.”
“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY INVESTIGATION IS A CONSPIRACY TO COVER-UP – THE TRUMP INVESTIGATIONS ARE FRAUDULENT, MALICIOUS, POLITICAL PERSECUTION.
THE JUDICIAL BRANCH EXISTS TO CORRECT THE OVERREACHING LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE BRANCHES, RETURNING THEM TO THE CONSTITUTION.
THE SINGULAR AMERICAN FAILURE HAS BEEN AND REMAINS THE JUDICIAL BRANCH, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE SUPREME COURT.
I can’t believe 50% of Americans have confidence in the investigation of Hunter Biden. The “investigation” has been going on for five years, yet it is still not resolved. The investigators apparently need more time. IRS agents testified before Congress they were told not to “follow the money”. The IRS agents were also told not to look into weather or not the “Big Guy” was getting in on the bribery money sent to the Biden’s – for unknown “work”.
I’m sure they are the same 50% that think biden is doing a good job and the economy is just fine. Brainwashed sheeple who are only good at being told how to think.
If it takes a village to raise a child .. . it takes the media to raise village idiots.
*Bidenomics 2024 ‘Trickle Up Economics’
“If it takes a village to raise a child .. . it takes the media to raise village idiots.”
Boom!
“If it takes a village to raise a child .. . it takes the media to raise village idiots.”
BAAAAAMMMM !!!.
Mama, that isn’t true, only about 30% approve of Biden’s economy or that he is doing a good job.
“57 Percent of Americans Believe in Ghosts”
https://people.com/human-interest/over-50-percent-of-americans-believe-in-ghosts-and-35-think-theres-paranormal-activity-in-their-home/
This just goes to show that a large percentage of Americans tend to believe what they WANT to believe. Facts or reality have very little to do with “beliefs” among the general scientifically-illiterate population.
Given this reality, it’s not at all surprising that a significant percentage of the population believe whatever slickly-packaged information is fed to them by their favorite “news” channel.
50% have no confidence in the investigation and the other 50% are clueless either by choice or pure ignorance.
The unvarnished long view was expressed 40 years ago in the movie Bladerunner: “If you’re not cop, you’re little people.” So much for equality under the law.
Replicant Lives Matter. #RLM
*I believe Biden may be a Replicant, ‘More Human Than Human’, skin job with implanted memories .. . human tissue over metal alloy.
“There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
There have been a lot of people including Professor Turley who have told us what righteous guy Garland is in the past. I can excuse such oversight but when the chips are down Garland exposes his true nature. As a Judge he knows with out question that the appointment of Weiss is against the law. We now know that it’s more important for Garland to plant a big red rosy one on the Joe Biden derriere. So much for the Democrats no one is above the law talking point. It’s been slow in coming but the American people are becoming not more woke but more awake.
Between the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers, we preach ascendancy to our directorate. We worship Hegemony, and the Prepotency of the residency. We trust in Bureaucracy and all the benefits of centralized control. We hold the Truth: ‘State before Citizen’.
Horace “Queis humana sibi doleat natura a negates”, translated as ‘Human nature grieves for those who are denied’.
Il buono, il bruto, il cattivo.
Merrick Garland, arguably, has probably lied under oath during appearances before Congress. No one should have any faith in him. Period. That somewhere near 55% of the public view his efforts as politically motivated is itself amazing simply because the public, in general, are stunningly ignorant of everything surrounding the Bidens.
For example, almost no one I know has any idea what a SAR is and what it represents. Even people I know who have been following this news haven’t any idea why SARs that involve politically exposed persons are a particular concern. Is being the person or people behind 170 SARs unusual? People don’t understand that just two SARs would generally render a person unbankable. No respectable bank would want the sort of attention a person with two SARs would generate.
How about being in control of 20 or so shell companies that almost never have any activity in their bank accounts other than the occasional foreign wire transfer of $3,000,000, which, once the payment clears, is quickly parceled out to half a dozen people? This isn’t just smoke, but a trail of small fires and embers marking a path of dirty money one could follow in the dark. Yet, perhaps half of the public don’t know even this much. They are convinced, as a few commenters here show, that foreign payments made in this tangled and suspicious way is exactly like Trump being paid some fraction of the cost of a dinner ordered at one of his restaurants.
People with legitimate business dealings don’t generate SARs. People being paid for doing no apparent work and moving the money in ways to make the transfer difficult to follow; they generate SARs.
And the same can be said of political figures such as hillary – you don’t purposefully destroy subpoenaed servers and phones if you are an honest person who respects the rule of law. And People still worship that shrew. There is a sucker born every minute.
This is what Biden thinks of not only the press, but of American’s in general. Look how he smirks and smiles.
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1692561691643707893
Better Biden remain cloistered and mute than to open his mouth and mumbo jumbo.
Biden has a sinister and creepy laugh, too.
The man has been selling his public office to enrich his own family for his entire adult life and acts like a mob boss.
“Guess what folks—-leans forward and whispers creepily—its working.”
“And i came up with the idea to call it Bribenomics, as i watched the bridge fall in Pennsylvania.”
Then he tells Gold Star families of the 13 killed at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan withdrawal that he “knows how they feel” because his son “died in Iraq” and “came home in a flag draped coffin.”
Totally false, delusional lie. His son died of cancer and they were by his side at the hospital.
Biden is NOT running the country, that is clear.
All rules and guidelines for the U.S. Department of Justice are legally required to circumscribe the letter & spirit of the U.S. Constitution. Many DOJ rules don’t follow this legal and loyalty requirement, which 100% of DOJ employees swear an oath of office to follow.
The DOJ’s top job is “constitutional” Justice, not violating the U.S. Constitution or violating constitutional rights to justify the end goals. Indictment and prosecution are secondary duties in an “Innocent until proven Guilty” Justice system.
That’s a bigger problem that both parties support when their guy controls the Executive Branch. The problem is when voters support unconstitutional practices, that blows back on all of us of either party.
This is the very same DOJ that legalized and led torture that was already banned by Ronald Reagan’s torture treaty and the Bill of Rights. The same DOJ that allowed warrantless spying, warrantless searches and warrantless surveillance. Maybe start here first?
>”This is the very same DOJ that legalized and led torture that was already banned by Ronald Reagan’s torture treaty and the Bill of Rights.”
And driven home at the Nuremburg trials after WWII.
For much the same reasons the U.S. justice system cannot bring to trial the ‘worst of the worst’ terrorists because ‘evidence derived from torture is inadmissible in U.S. courts of law’. Thou will say anything upon the rack .. . and according to SC Durham much of the governments investigations into Trump have NO ‘legitimate’ basis.
*V. Ramaswamy has been raising these fundamental unpleasant realities going back to 9/11 .. . anyone who believes the final, much revised NIST report wrt bldg. #7, I’ve got some ocean front property in the Appalachians for sale.
re: dgsnowden
For more than 200 years, the basis military detention practice was based on battlefield activities.
For example, if Coalition or U.S. troops were being shot at from a particular building. Let’s say the building had 100 people inside but only 5 shooters were identified shooting out of the windows.
In that scenario, U.S. troops would likely temporarily detain the entire 100 people, including non-combatants or innocent people. Then U.S. troops would interrogate them to try to find out who the 5 shooters were and their accomplices.
After 9/11, the USA didn’t follow 200 years of American military justice.
The United States went to tribal chieftains/war lords and basically said “the USA will pay your village millions of dollars to turn over any terrorists you know about”. This was enough taxpayer money to sustain a village for several,years. For context, there are about 1000 individual little fiefdoms in Afghanistan alone we offered money to.
The tribal chieftains/warlords simply turned over people they disliked from rival tribes in exchange for money. Many were never on any battlefield, never firing at any Coalition or U.S. troops. Many weren’t on the same continent.
These were the detainees sent to Guantanamo Bay (86% were sold, never combatants on any battlefield). There was no evidence of any wrongdoing for most detainees.
These were the guys labeled “the worst of the worst” by petty politicians at the time. Since then more than 90% have been released.
Yes torture taints prosecutions but we mostly tortured the wrong guys! This made all of us LESS safe by turning potential friends of America into people that now hate us.
“ After ignoring calls from some of us for the need of a special counsel for years, Garland inexplicably appointed, David Weiss, the very same prosecutor who has been accused of running a fixed investigation by whistleblowers and signing off on a sweetheart deal that collapsed in court in a matter of minutes.”
Professor Turley was one of those demanding Weiss be appointed special counsel. Garland did what the professor wanted. Now he’s upset?
The whole Hunter Biden “scandal” has been predicated on finding evidence that president Biden has been involved. The evidence is still missing. Even Republicans running these investigations admit they don’t have evidence to prove their allegations. That’s why you have these poll numbers.
“Even Republicans running these investigations admit they don’t have evidence to prove their allegations. That’s why you have these poll numbers….”
No, sir. That is not why we have these poll numbers. We have these numbers because 1) the issue is complicated and people have difficulty following complicated matters, 2) the media which inform the majority of Americans about daily events don’t mention any of this if they don’t have to, and 3) when said media is forced to acknowledge some of the story they can do it in a way that leaves the reader/viewer even less informed than they were before. To say there isn’t evidence enough to prove allegations comes straight from main stream media reporting. That is why you have these poll numbers.
“Professor Turley was one of those demanding Weiss be appointed special counsel. Garland did what the professor wanted. Now he’s upset?”
By omitting the dates, and what transpired between those dates — you’re lying (again).
You, and your countless sock puppets, are the most deceptive commenter on this blog.