Below is my column in the New York Post on the expanding scandal surrounding the Hunter Biden investigation. Even CNN legal analysts are now calling the handling of the investigation at the Justice Department an “unholy mess.” The responsibility for this theater of the absurd is Attorney General Merrick Garland who has again shown a lack of strength and leadership at a key moment for his department.
Here is the column:
“There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.”
Those words from Inspector Jacques Clouseau may have to be emblazoned across the hearing room of the House Oversight Committee. It was a month ago that House Democratic members mocked the testimony of two whistleblowers who testified about the rigged investigation to protect Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden.
Now it appears that the controversial “sweetheart deal” was not the first choice of US Attorney David Weiss. He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge despite massive unpaid taxes, gun violations, and work as an unregistered foreign agent, among other alleged crimes.
The reason for his change at Justice, according to the New York Times? Those pesky whistleblowers.
One of the most insulting moments for the respected IRS agents came from ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who mocked the allegations as part of “this Inspector Clouseau-style quest for something that doesn’t exist [that] has turned our committee into a theater of the absurd, an exercise in futility and embarrassment.”
Raskin assured the public that these “disagreements” are “routine” matters in investigations (a position echoed by his junior colleague, Rep. Dan Goldman of New York). The IRS agents tried to object that they had never seen anything like what happened in this case.
Then the case became anything but a laughing matter for Democrats. The plea agreement with Hunter Biden collapsed within minutes of a federal judge asking a few basic questions.
When District Judge Maryellen Noreika balked at sweeping language on immunity, she asked the prosecutor if he had ever seen any agreement like this one. He answered “no” and the deal quickly fell apart, with Hunter Biden’s lawyer finally saying exasperatedly, “Just rip it up.”
The language was anything but routine.
Then an FBI agent spoke to Congress and confirmed testimony of the IRS agents, including that Hunter Biden was tipped off on an attempt to interview him. The agent said they were forced to sit a block away and told not to approach the house. The interview was then cut off. He described being “upset” and how this was not routine.
The New York Times, which has spent years downplaying the Hunter Biden scandal, has published an internal account of the investigation. The Times reported that US Attorney David Weiss was actually preparing to let Hunter walk “without requiring a guilty plea on any charges.” However, that “changed in the spring, around the time a pair of IRS officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation. Mr. Weiss suddenly demanded that Mr. Biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses.”
In other words, according to the Times, those two mocked whistleblowers prompted the Justice Department to prosecute. Why would that be?
Attorney General Merrick Garland insisted that no political pressure or political considerations would affect the investigation.
Yet it appears that the Biden team did raise the potential embarrassment for the president and the Justice Department if Hunter faced serious charges. New emails reveal that Hunter Biden’s lawyers told the prosecutors that, if there were serious charges, it would be President Biden in the spotlight.
Hunter’s lawyer Chris Clark (who just asked the court to be allowed to leave the Biden team) wrote Weiss and the prosecutors that the best thing for everyone was to just walk away: “This of all cases justifies neither the spectacle of a sitting President testifying at a criminal trial nor the potential for a resulting Constitutional crisis.”
So the Justice Department had the Biden team warning that it needed to avoid the embarrassment for the president from any trial while their own investigators were threatening to reveal embarrassing details on the special treatment afforded to Hunter.
The solution appeared to be a plea deal that would involve minor crimes with no jail time. The appearance of prosecution without any real consequences for the Bidens. No time would be served and, again, the investigation could be shut down without further complications or controversy.
Then the wheels fell off in court and left everyone in a bit of a muddle.
There was no way now to kill the case.
There was no way to ink the original plea deal.
Congress was calling Weiss and key Justice Department figures to answer questions about this investigation, the compromised investigation, and the sweetheart deal.
Weiss had agreed to supply answers when he thought the plea deal was a done deal. Now that “spectacle” was becoming more and more likely.
It got even worse. If Merrick Garland finally yielded to demands for a special counsel, the regulations specified that the person had to come from outside the Justice Department. That meant it could not be Weiss. That person would presumably start by reviewing not just the evidence but the crimes that might have been charged years earlier.
Yet the Justice Department reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run on major crimes, including the tax offenses related to the suspicious payments to Hunter Biden from Ukraine and other countries.
Garland decided to violate the regulations and appoint the most controversial person (with the possible exception of Hunter himself) to offer an independent examination of the case: Weiss.
While Weiss may be able to justify his actions or contest these allegations, he is clearly viewed as compromised by many in the public. He stands accused of running an allegedly fixed investigation and, now according to the Times, only pursued the “sweetheart deal” when whistleblowers moved to expose the allegations of special treatment for the president’s son.
The question is why, knowing the distrust over the past handling of the investigation, Garland would make an appointment guaranteed to further deepen that unease. According to a 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.”
For these Democratic members and Garland, the case has truly become the “theater of the absurd” that Raskin predicted … only no one is laughing.
Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
A Vice President pimping out his crack addicted son to solicit bribes from foreign governments and crooked cops at the FBI to slow walk any investigation of the Bidens. We have officially become Honduras…… without the bananas.
Actually, Hunter is the pimp, and his dad is the whore. But close enough.
“Turley demanded Weiss be appointed special counsel.”
You’re lying, again — by implication, by omitting the dates, and by evading what happened between those dates.
The dates have no bearing on the fact that Weiss was already working for the government when Turley called for him to be appointed SC, but Turley now complains that a SC should be appointed from outside the government.
“but Turley now complains that a SC should be appointed from outside the government.”
That is the law.
Idiot.
It’s not the only law under which a Special Counsel can be appointed.
Idiot.
Durham wasn’t appointed from outside the government either.
If the NYT has suddenly and unexpectedly turned to reporting the true facts, Biden is toast.
Hunter has always been a 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰 for me. As for the President and this Presidency – Ditto. The V.P. … Who? who is the V.P.???
The Cabinet is a Joke, what have they accomplished? … 𝐙𝐄𝐑𝐎.
Whatever is claimed – it’s a Side Show.
You ask me, What’s the Side Show for? I’ll Tell-Ya. It’s a 𝐃𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 from the Industrial Military Complex’s – 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐒 (Spending Money on the Military Corporation Systems), It’s a 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 from Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s – 𝐃𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐘 𝐃𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐒 (Russia Gate The uses of the Alphabet Departments upon the Citizens, ….), It’s a DIVERSION from the systemic working deals of 𝐊-𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 (How it Really Functions, i,e, Seneca Ptrs. / H. Biden / Advisor-Lobbying etc..), and finally It’s a DIVERSION from 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐒 (The Bankrupt Incestuous 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑·𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐙𝐈 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐄 that is a flat out Lying Machine to steal the Labor of the Masses and line the Pockets of a Self-Chosen Few).
You may say, Well it Works.
It really doesn’t, in the end the Planet takes a beating and it’s telling All of Us that it is far greater than You, and it’s going to Win 🌎
Says, capitalism for the elites, socialism for the rest of us.
Yes Sir! Independent Bob,
You are 100% Correct.
The IRS had a weak case??? He didnt report income. He failed to pay taxes on that income.
Brain dead is the only explanation here. Or, just say stupid sh!t for the sake of saying it, idk which it is.
You do understand that circumstances change, right? Turleys latest calls for a Special Counsel were in part due to Weiss’ handling of the HB case. His cals for Weiss to be that guy were prior to the plea deal fiasco.
I will say, you’re making this good practice for anyone wanting to join the 3rd grade debate team.
As long as the person pays the back taxes they owe, the DOJ almost never files criminal charges against them.
Roger Stone owed $2M in back taxes. Should he have been criminally charged, according to you? All DOJ did was file a civil suit to recover the money owed. HB has already paid his back taxes.
Why would i give a rats a$$ what they do to Roger Stone. All I know is that if I don’t declare my known income, its a felony.
Stone paying back taxes is exaclty the same as the DoJ allowing the SOL to toll.
You are a legal giant in your own mind. Drug around by the nose by whataboutism.
Tom is right. You are brain dead. Hunter only paid off the money after the IRS found he didn’t report his income.
You bring up Roger Stone, but you have made the same errors many times. Stone’s was case is different. People who don’t report income can end up in jail. When income is reported but tax ramifications are involved there is a different way of handling things.
Always report income or you can end up in jail especially when there are multiple companies that are hiding that income.
“Failure to report is a misdemeanor when the IRS can’t prove it was intentional.”
There is that a word again. Prove. Of course 20 shell companies and payments made in family members names is not proof. So, you find it plausible that he just forgot about 5 million dollars, or that he wasn’t aware that prostitutes or even “golf memberships” can’t be written off?? We have the POTUS on record saying Hunter is the smartest guy he knows. And we have Dennis and Smeagol to attest that “attorneys” are the smartest people on the planet. Yet Hunter didn’t know what every other taxpayer knows. Right. Keep pedaling. We are now on a second grade level.
Pretty sure if that was me, I’d have to prove it was unintentional. I don’t get to walk into court and say “it was unintentional, prove otherwise”. Just plain dumb.
“Since he paid back the taxes there’s no point in charging him with a felony for something that’s already been settled.”
LMAO right, if you pay your back taxes, there’s no point in charging a felony for felonious activity. So if you’re an average Joe, and you used the money that you didn’t pay the IRS to say, pay for your kid to go to college, and now you don’t have the money to repay, you should go to prison. But if you’re Hunter Biden, and you spent it on crack cocaine and sex, and you’re “friend” pays the liability for you, there is “no point”, so you should walk.
Apparently, my last response to this was too inflammatory, and was rejected. So I’ll try to be nice this time.
But for crying out loud, I am sick of having to do this every time you insist on conflating “evidence” and “illegal activity”. An act doesn’t have to be illegal to be evidence of illegal activity. You get that. Let me say it again. An act doesn’t have to be illegal to be evidence of illegal activity.
Let me illustrate it for the brain dead among us. I have a bloody sweatshirt on. Not a thing about that is illegal (analagous to shell companies). I have a bloody knife in my hand. Again, not criminal (analagous to claiming false deductions). There is a bloody body lying in the gutter a block away (analogous to the 5 million I didn’t claim). None of that is proof that I killed the man.
Give us abreak with that “no evidence” nonsense dude, its really getting old, and makes you look really bad.
“The big clue, which you obliviously presented, is you can’t prove that you killed the man.”
There you go with that word again. The fact that I haven’t proved it yet doesn’t mean its not evidence, fool. You need to read it again. I never said any of that was incontravertible proof, nor did I say that each piece of information linked me to the death.
But why don’t you tell us all
WHICH PIECE OF THAT INFORMATION WOULD NOT BE SUBMITTED AS EVIDENCE AT TRIAL???
So now we find out that the DNA on the knife I was holding matches the deceased. According to you, thats not evidence.
And by the way, none of the evidence I just gave you was illegal. Unbelievable how circular your reasoning is. I swear it’s like talking to a child.
And in your world, somehow, if I were seen running with a bloody sweatshirt and knife a block away from where someone just screamed “help, police, someone just stabbed my husband!!” that they wouldn’t have probable cause to arrest me, cuz I was a block away (thats a long distance for you bro?) and they didn’t have a quick DNA test kit on them??
You sound like the defense lawyer standing outside the courthouse. “They don’t have any evidence whatsoever that my client committed this murder. You know, some people just collect knives and he found a bloody one laying on the side of the road and ran off with it. There’s no video of my client stabbing the victim.”
Hope you got more than that, bro.
“None. Because you will still need the incontrovertible proof in order to guarantee a conviction.”
And there you have it folks!
Here is the world according to Smeagol
1. You must have incontravertible proof to obtain a conviction.
Really dude, that’s the standard??? You wanna stand by that statement before I quote the 5th Amendment on you?
2. Evidence cannot be submitted at trial without “incontravertible proof”
Ouch, that one’s not even worth addressing.
3. Bloodstained sweatshirts, bloody knives, DNA. None of that is illegal, so why would it be evidence of an illegal act?
I heard Kohlberger is one moron short on his defense team. Might wanna give them a call and ask for a job.
Stick around and see if that POS gets convicted, with absolutely NO INCONTRAVERTIBLE PROOF.
Why don’t you ask ol’ Richard Murdaugh if you can be the lawyer who files his appeals on the basis that they don’t have incontravertible proof???
I swear, its like debating a 6 year old. I’m done with you Smeagol.
Yes it does. If it’s not illegal it can’t be evidence of an illegal activity
Jack Smith begs to differ. He lists text msg asking for a phone number as evidence of. whatever. Asking for a phone number is not a crime
Iowan
I mean, how do you debate with someone who just says stupid sh!t constantly?
Where is bug, at least his retorts get colorful. This is boring.
“In and of itself…”
Nice job. Now you seem to get it. Pretending you’ve haven’t been ignoring that all along is hilarious though.
That’s funny, you and jerksmit have been reading Trumps mind and telling us what Trump believed and knew and when.
“Now at trial Hunter will be able to prove how weak those cases really are.”
If he was charged with felonies, there wouldn’t be a trial. He has nothing to lose because he didn’t get the immunity he wanted, and the misdemeanors will result in a slap on the wrist.
Now we’re down to first grade level.
But I am gla you made that statement. Because I am going to post it above and below EVERY post you make starting the day after he is found guilty.
“A trial is required. Hunter has to be given the opportunity to defend himself and according to the law he’s innocent until he’s convicted of the crime. You don’t know how the Justice system works do you?”
Now we are at kindergarten level. Let me spell it out for you. My point was that poor innocent Hunter would plead out a felony and there would be no trial. We’ll see what happens with the felony gun charge, smarty pants.
“DOJ doesn’t have the evidence to meet that requirement.”
Cuz you’ve seen al the evidence? Oh no, it’s just because you know everything. Sorry, I forgot that.
“No, because the DOJ hasn’t been willing to file charges in 5 years (i know, I keep saying 5 years as if the investigation was done on day 1, lol). It’s easy to assume they didn’t have the integrity and fortitude required to file felony charges.”
There, I fixed that for you
But thanks for finally admitting that you have no factual basis for your claims, just an easy ASSumption.
Where is bug?? Because I am getting bored with this Smeagol, he makes it too easy.
Your red herring is that the investigation was over in a day and they sat around stewing about it for 5 years. And you know full well thats not how it works. Unless the perp is a total moron (hard to argue that Hunter isn’t, but lets go with that for now), the web takes time to untangle. Interviews (some of which were blocked), obtaining records, chasing bad leads, chasing good leads, these all take time. (this debunks your trump doj red herring, nice try). Not to mention the offshoot investigations that this type of corrupt behavior causes. You need to find another bone to pick bro. This ones a loser.
By the way, you make an assumption, you gotta back it up, I don’t gotta disprove it lmao. or we can just do it your way, LALALALALALALALALALALALALA.
“A trial is required in order to determine if he’s guilty of the charge. By law he’s entitled to a trial and he’s still innocent until proven guilty at trial.”
“Your point is that you don’t understand how the justice system works.”
LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA
See how easy that is.
A plea deal IS NOT a trial. I said if he was charged with a felony and threatened with real jail time, his sorry a$$ would plead out. (hell he plead out to two “weak” misdemeanors). So, he would be innocent until he PLEAD GUILTY. Seems you are the one that doesn’t understand how the “justice system works” . But thanks for the first grade lesson.
Only difference is, once he plead guilty, he would never be able to claim innocence again, which he could do if he were convicted at trial.
“No you didn’t. You said,
“If he was charged with felonies, there wouldn’t be a trial.””
—Smeagol
LMAO, which was only taken literally by YOU. Do you have to always be a Smeagol??
A third grader could see what I was implying, but you’d rather pretend that I don’t know what the 5th Amendment says. Seriously dude, you can do better can’t you?
Yea, we’ll see which way it goes. I predict a plea. They don’t want this investigation to go where it likely may.
“My mistake.”
No, it was my mistake for assuming you could do more than read. If you wanted to give me credit for not being illiterate, you would have understood what I said. My statement wasn’t erroneous, dipweed, cuz it was a hypothetical. Save face LMAO. What a DA
So you really believe that I didn’t know what the 5th Amendment says until you instructed me on it? Is that really what we are dealing with here?? BORING
But why don’t you tell us all
WHICH PIECE OF THAT INFORMATION WOULD NOT BE SUBMITTED AS EVIDENCE AT TRIAL???
“The gun charge is also moot. The Supreme Court recently ruled you can’t criminalize ownership of a gun just for being an addict. That presents another problem Turley conveniently avoided.”
Oh, so ATF Form 4473 must have changed then? No, wait, I see that it hasn’t. A review of the most recent changes does not include that one.
Not to mention that now the charge could change to what it should have been, a different subsection, which is perjury to obtain a gun. If they are interested in justice, that is. Let’s not forget, that there is ample evidence of all sorts of other criminal behavior by this POS.
Right, because the SC ruled before they knew about the gun violation.
How about you cut and paste the applicable part of that SC ruling and maybe we’ll see why the ATF form hasn’t changed.
“Creating shell companies is not illegal. It’s pretty common by those engaged in illegal activites”—-Smeagol
Fixed that for ya. Its pretty common alright. It’s always a huge red flag for the IRS.
Really? I think you’re lying.
You have already deemed him a criminal, so you tell me???
WRONG
If you think so, go try buying a gun and claim you’re a drug user. You’ll find out how moot it is.
Nah, you’re the one who keeps using it as your argument. Produce it or prove yourself a “coeward and a liar”.
Bruen (another bad ASSumption on your part, that I didn’t know what that was) I knew you culdnt post the applicable portion.
Federal court ruling…
Obfuscate much? We’ll soon see how far SCOTUS will let this go.
Or do you just enjoy getting out over your skis?
Thanks for proving my point. Guess thats why the ATF form hasn’t changed.
Think I’ll go tell my stepson, who is a convicted felon, he can go buy a gun now. And Hunter should run right out and get one too.
“Simply being an addict doesn’t prevent you from buying a gun.”
First of all, the form doesn’t say “addict”. Get a clue.
Secondly, go try to buy one, and claim you’re a drug user, and see if you get it.
Sure you could. Point it out.
Thats what I thought.
The plea deal was agreed to before the gun ruling.
You are really good at ignoring facts.
Not to mention that ruling wasn’t by the Supreme Court, as he keeps saying. Thats why he refuses to post his proof.
The perjury happened. No ruling by any court undoes that perjury.
“The perjury happened. No ruling by any court undoes that perjury.”
It’s no longer a legal issue in Hunter Biden’s case.
Being an addict is not a crime. So making it a felony to lie about being an addict is unconstitutional
Addict is not the question. Have you used illegal drugs in the past ? years. (Possessing is a crime but is meaningless to the question)
You were perfectly fine locking up Flynn for lying, but not Hunter. Got it. Double standards RULE!
“Made you look it up”
Another bad ASSumption on your part. I was well aware what Bruen entailed all along. Why do you think I goaded you into posting it. Because I knew you couldn’t show where SCOTUS said a damn thing about drug use and gun purchasing. You specifically said the SCOTUS ruling made it legal now. I said it didn’t. Go try to buy a gun and tell ’em you’re a drug addict. See if you get one. Hint—I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I might holfd an FFL, or know someone who does.
The Professor hit this one right out of the Park!
He sorts out the very essence of this disaster for the DOJ and Biden Syndicate.
If you did not realize what a circus this is….consider the way the two clowns….Goldman and Raskin are behaving and being cheered on by the Loons on the Left.
To ever think Garland had the makings of a Supreme Court Justice is just plain laughable….but hang on….if Biden is pulled and pushed across the finish line and gains a second term….Garland shall be his first pick for a vacant seat on the Bench.
If the President was the CEO and the Cabinet Members of this administration were charged with the running of a private business….how long would they have lasted before the Share Holders removed them?
What terrifies me is not one of them shall ever see the inside of a Prison Cell while clothed in an orange jump suit….or the Federal version of khaki hue.
The best Man for cleaning house in the DOJ is the Man that has suffered the most from its abuses…..Donald Trump.
As we all know….Karma is real….and can be a real…..well you know “the thing”!
The Biden crime family makes the Clinton’s look honest.
All government agencies are organized criminal organizations.
And herein lies the reason the Trump candidacy refuses to die. This appallingly corrupt government has succeeded in making DJT a victim of its crimes and now his supporters are in this untenable position of redoubling their support for a person indicted four times going in five, with dozens of charges, hemorrhaging cash and time. Whether justified or not, the People cannot allow this injustice so great, no descriptor is adequate. What choice do we have? Even if he goes down, anyone stupid enough to attempt to replace him will follow him right to this living Hell, where many J6 already reside.
The goal isn’t Trump, it’s our country, our Republic, our way of life. It’s a war- the sooner these pols understand it and start fighting like the country depends on it, the better.
It seems clear DOJ will never hold any Biden, Democrats or themselves accountable; the House has no courage to impeach Biden, Garland and even if they did, the Senate will never convict.
Americans could be forgiven for thinking this us some diabolical master plan to destroy their country, but are any if them smart enough to conceive such a plan?
Almost half of Americans are listless vessels.
Did you see how CNN edited the clip?
It was so obvious, the jump, that half of America’s believe what CNN made up is true.
Almost half of Americans think Trump is truthful – which is why I discount what almost half of Americans think. They are not living in reality.
Almost half of Americans think Trump is truthful
Yesterday, with the only job, to console and provide hope to the survivors on Maui. Biden spewed out his tall tales of personal woe, all lies, all debunked dozens of times.
Great role model you support. Forced to live in the past, you must ignore the day to day disaster that is the VERY BEST, Democrats can find to be the President. NO Democrat, can accomplish what Joe can accomplish.
+100
Tom, but Trump.
You got me there Bob
“Biden spewed out . . .”
An island of people who’ve lost everything to a devasting wildfire. Some 100 killed, including children. And Biden “sympathizes” with them by recounting his small kitchen fire from 15 years ago?!
That is a psychopath.
Same guy who told 13 gold star parents that his son died in Iraq and came home in a flag draped coffin. He gives psycopaths a bad name.
Here is some reality for you,
East Palestine OH.
Trump went there.
Biden has yet to.
Biden’s trip to Maui two weeks after the fact. Made bad jokes, insulted all those people to the point they were yelling, “F-you!” in the streets as his motorcade went past.
That is reality for you.
Here’s the reality for you: Biden immediately approved aid for Hawaii, while Trump kept aid from Puerto Rico for years.
Puerto Rico, was not cooperating in documenting the use of past federal aide. All they had to do was provide and accounting. Alas they could not.
Hawaii is in much the same situation. It is not a well run state. Oligarchs control and grift.
Keep sputtering your whataboutism, it really does define your intellectual capacities.
Iowan, doesn’t this sound a bit like Ukraine? Trump followed the law trying to make sure American money was not being given to corrupt people.
Biden was part of the corruption under investigation and that is why Shokin was fired. He was getting to close.
Amazing anonymous can’t understand these things.
Reality for you, $700 one time payment for housing for those people affected in Maui.
$200 million to the Ukraine . . . for what exactly?
And, Biden insulting all those people in Maui they were yelling “F-you!”
That is reality for you.
Here is more reality for you: https://twitter.com/MattWallace888/status/1693778794648162497
TRump Trump Trump Trump Trump
Apparently you drink as much Kool-Aid as they do.
Both sides are a cult.
“…almost half of Americans lack trust that the Justice Department will conduct the Hunter Biden investigation in a “fair and nonpartisan manner.”
This means more than half of Americans believe otherwise. Lord help us.
Our host is leaning hard on Hanlons razor.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Turley is treading water, and lossing the battle, slowly sinking into the sea.
Turley wants to believe the DoJ and Garland are honorable.
Sorry Chief, that shipped has long ago left the Dock.
Obama has successfully politicized the DoJ, the military, the Intelligence community. It is layers deep into the top levels of civil servant career leadership. We know this by the lack of whistleblowers. There should be hundreds, exposing the political mechanization of these agencies.
It is going to take massive, ugly, house cleaning. Other than Trump, who has the spine to survive such an undertaking and media assault full of their trademark lies.
Cleaning house needs to work the Obama made it happen.
You cant fire civil employees, But your political appointees can hire your political toadies to fill the positions that come open. That’s easy by making it known to the civil servants they are going to leave by either positive of negative incentives. Once the top deputies are in place, they hire in exactly the same way.
Thats how Obama did it in the military. Carreer officers of a conservative patriotic bent, were simply told they were not going to be promoted anymore. Get out while the getting is good. Younger officers pass you by as they get promoted, and you stagnate, loosing the respect of those you command.
Short answer is no one. The uniparty has too much to lose. Why else did no one in government, the media, universities, and big business not pursue the 2020 election fraud? It would reveal how corrupt our elections are. They are all happy with the status quo, nothing to see here, just shut up and move on.
Dollar Bill
Yes the GOPe is at the trough getting their cut of the Grift. Thats why they go after Trump as hard as any Democrat. Consider New Jersey Christie. You think he’s running for President to better the Nation? Nope, He is being paid to smear Trump everytime he opens his mouth. He has no chance, 40% of Republicans wont vote for him, and Dems wont either. Christie is being paid to take Trump out so he cant be President. Sacrificing himself. But He is being paid well
Biden, like Trump, picked the wrong Attorney General – but for different reasons. Trump’s mistake was hiring a longtime corporate lawyer who at one time served as Attorney General when the world and America’s political parties were at peace with each other. As corporate lawyers go, Barr just wanted to settle every case and have the parties go home. Biden’s AG was indeed different but also incorrect for the job. A real pro like Eric Holder would have gotten the message to broom the Hunter Biden case and that would have been done silently And outside the inquiring eyes and minds of the IRS and any other potential whistleblowers. Eric was a pro at this. Garland was not a pro and not even a good amateur but one that got caught stealing second on his first try. Weiss, also inept in these kinds of things, was the proximate cause of the scandal and so he inherited the task of fixing what he broke. But it cannot be fixed. There is at least one ethical person at DOJ these days and that is whoever instructed Lesley Wolf to demand an ancillary attachment to the plea agreement describing the “covered conduct.” This is a pro forma requirement but in this case it revealed hard evidence of Hunter’s FARA crimes that were not charged. Memo to Comer, Smith, and Jordan: Find and interview that one decent and ethical DOJ person who knew what they were doing here and refused to broom this case.
JJC:
+100
JJC,
I always enjoy reading your comments.
This entire affair is a cluster. Imagine what would happen if every run-of-the-mill criminal case was mangled as badly as this one: cover-ups; Congressional hearings; intrigues; and favoritism. The federal criminal justice system would collapse.
All they needed to do was just treat Hunter Biden like any other defendant in the U.S. and in the end it would have been properly adjudicated without any of the drama or scandal.
Instead it’s reduced to a Kabuki Theater troupe composed of monkeys.
Anonymous, you should change your name to dillusional.
Independent Bob,
Delusional and desperate. You would have to be to make such a statement.
Bob, I can’t say it better. This “Anonymous” has a screw loose.
If he were treated like any other defendant, there would be no charges against him.
Yea, cuz Hunter is the one they’re after., right. Keep obfuscating, and take another hit of Hunter’s pipe.
Wait…, you are actually as dumb as you sound.
“Wait…, you are actually as dumb as you sound.”
I know you are but what am I!
You are dumb times infinity!
Now, get off your phone and pay attention to your 3rd grade teacher, kiddo.
Raskin and Goldman are making fools of themselves in order to defend Joe and Hunter, two guys that EVERYONE knows are crooks. They need to be asked if it is worth it.
To echo one of the Rep Senators..’thank God you (Garland) didn’t get appointed to the Supreme Court”
“No one f—s with a Biden.”
…unless they are a prostitute.
Or Hunter’s baby momma
the Biden’s aren’t the problem….it is the LAWLESS DC government!
The DOJ, FBI, IRS, CIA, NSA, Judges….WHO committed the biggest crime in US history the Russian Hoax, the ones who ignore the crimes of the Bidens, Clintons, Obamas, etc
I am curious who all top Democrats end up with $100 Million distributed to their families?
H.G. Wells Book: Outline of History
Documents Machiavellians(greedy evil people) through out history, accumulating total centralized power which then results in the destruction of their own empires!
I always can’t stop imagining how quickly Trump would have been forced to testify, and how swiftly Don Jr. would be in jail if all this evidence was against them. Instead, they have to manufacture a Kamala style word salad to pretend Trump did something wrong, so they can throw him to the wolves of Washington. Anything to get Trump, and avoid getting Biden, Clinton, Obama.
I have little time to waste on any considerations of that court jester. We shall see how the Charmin rolls out and what is wiped clean.