Below is my column in The Messenger on Hunter Biden’s curious new defense in the federal gun case: he had a moment of sobriety just before he signed his gun form. It appears that the defense is lifting Hunter’s blackout dates on his long addiction defense.
Here is the column:
Hunter Biden returned to court today on the felony indictment for his possession of a handgun, including allegations that he lied on an Oct.12, 2018, form by denying that he was a drug user. His counsel is expected to continue to insist that the form was accurate because Hunter had ended his addiction to drugs and alcohol.
The problem for the case is that Hunter and his counsel appear to have an elastic calendar on his addiction, depending on its value in a given case or controversy.
The indictment alleges Biden certified on a federally mandated form “that he was not an unlawful user of, and addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, and any other controlled substance, when in fact, as he knew, that statement was false and fictitious.”
However, Biden’s counsel, Abbe Lowell, maintained that “at the time that he purchased this gun, I don’t think there’s evidence that that’s when he was suffering.” Lowell said that Biden had already emerged from rehabilitation when he signed the form.
That is a shift from the previous year during which Hunter’s addiction was used as a final line of defense. At the start of this scandal, many in the media insisted that Hunter was a legitimate businessman who brought his skills and expertise to foreign businesses.
As it became clear that Hunter acquired millions in a raw influence-peddling scheme, many turned to the addiction defense. Hunter released a book, Beautiful Things: A Memoir, that was heralded by many as a brave account of his drug addiction. Reviewers gushed about “an astonishingly candid and brave book about loss, human frailty, wayward souls, and hard-fought redemption.”
I called it the “the 7% solution“: Suddenly, Hunter’s addiction to cocaine and other drugs was the conversation stopper for anyone who did not want to seem insensitive to the struggles of an addict. Gone was the president’s past mantra that “my son did nothing wrong” and, instead, in an 2022 interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, the president declared that Hunter “fought an addiction problem. He overcame it. He wrote about it.”It was all about addiction … until now, apparently, it isn’t any longer.
Even before the latest calendar correction, the addiction defense only heightened the concerns over corrupt influence-peddling. When foreign figures were giving him millions of dollars, Hunter admits that he was a crack addict and alcoholic, writing in his book that “Drinking a quart of vodka a day by yourself in a room is absolutely, completely debilitating” as was “smoking crack around the clock.”
Yet Hunter was not some junkie in Times Square snatching purses to feed his addiction. He was flying around the world, vacuuming up millions and, according to House Republicans, allegedly distributing the money to various Biden family members through a labyrinth of shell companies and accounts. The addiction defense also begged the question: Why would these corrupt figures want an addict on their boards or involved in their businesses?
Nevertheless, the media embraced the troubled-son-of-the-president narrative. The prostitutes, the tax evasion, the gun violations, and other alleged crimes were just the face of the addiction.
Now, however, we are told that Hunter surfaced in sobriety just in time to sign a federal gun form.
The problem is that Hunter’s book discusses how his addiction continued into his father’s presidential campaign and required an intervention by his family. He said that, despite attacks from the Trump campaign and the liability to his father’s campaign, he remained an addict in 2019. (The gun form, remember, was signed in late 2018.)
There is an added problem with moving back the calendar date of his addiction. It would mean that Hunter no longer has the “7% solution” to other problems.
For example, in the summer of 2019, Hunter allegedly continued to receive huge transfers of money from Chinese sources. Notably, House Republicans say, he received two wire transfers totaling $260,000 that listed President Biden’s Delaware home as the beneficiary address for the funds.
Yet, in October 2019, a few months later, Hunter denied the receipt of any such money from China — echoing the repeated denials of his father. When ABC News asked if he received any money from the Chinese deals, Hunter said “no, no.” He was then asked, “Not one cent?” and replied “Not one cent.”
That was a dead-cold sober lie.
Starting today, the Biden campaign undoubtedly will try to thread this needle. It is the criminal defense version of airline blackout dates where you cannot make allegations against Hunter when he was allegedly blacked-out with drugs: While he was still influence-peddling on a global scale, those dates are addiction dates.
However, it turns out that Oct. 12, 2018, was a moment of sobriety — and thus Hunter apparently was telling the truth in denying the use of drugs.
In his book, Hunter wrote that he has never used the tragedies of his life as an excuse for his addiction because “that would be a cop-out.” Indeed, in a change for his counsel and the media alike, sobriety is now Hunter’s final line of defense.
Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.
Sounds like and reminds me of another liar that said “It depends on what the definition of is is.”
The Dims are weak and worthless. Hunter is just Exhibit 80,098,375.
The High Frequency / Low Duty Cycle transitions between Hunter’s uses of blackouts (Stoned) & white outs (Stone cold sober) might cause some epileptic seizures among the news media.
I think b4 he said a defense of…that law isn’t even constitutional. And that’s what he would fight about. Which he probably will now. For example several plus years ago I asked a salesman at basspro (liscensed) about that form. He said I’d have to basically smell like alcohol. At the time to be denied. Yet there is no piss test to check for drugs. Whilst the word “currently” means something….even if it’s not on the form…..the ambigous form. What are its timelines? If this prevails against hunter….it means anyone reformed or rehabbed or not….looses their right to self defense?? If he was visibly sober when he bought it . . . And there is no drug test….then how did he lie? Moreover being addicted was an excuse to his other crimes….not a defense. I hope he beats this gun charge. Would it be different if like his dad said all ppl need is a double barrel of their back porch? Just bc in heller scalia in dicta said….reasonable controls….that wasn’t the holding of the case. In any event he said reasonable….the law can’t only apply to the guy who happens to write a book.
Jesus freaking christ. The point of the question is, are you a law abiding person, not are you currently f’ed up. If you are a law abiding person, then you can reasonably be expected to continue so. However, if you’ve already shown you cannot follow the law, then a gun is definitely not the tool for you. If hfb was cold sober for a week before he bought the gun, what are the odds he wouldn’t be a week after he bought it…right, 100%.
If they find him not guilty, they need to turn loose EVERY person currently incarcerated for the same offense.
In fact, if the “5th circuit said so”, why havent they already been set free???
The armchair lawyers here make me laugh.
How liberating it must be to be freed from the bondage of archaic concepts like ‘truth!’
Hunter, thank you for your service and sacrifice
Darren, does this comment encouraging suicide breach the civility rule?
Jonathan
In other news,
These prosecutors must be the dumbest people on the planet. Have none of them ever taken law classes at night school, or even read the inside of a Bazooka bubble gum wrapper?
How could they have not heard of Bruen? Furthermore, why hasn’t Abbe already filed the motion to dismiss?
They don’t have video of Hunter taking a drag on that crack pipe as he was filling out the form , so they got nothin’. They know that no one has ever been succesfully prosecuted for this crime, so why are they wasting taxpayer time and money?
Almost looks like a cover up for worse crimes, doesn’t it??????? Wait, didn’t they try that already, with the diversion agreement??
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I think that under Bruen he clearly is not required to fill out that form to purchase a firearm. But he IS NOT being prosecuted for purchasing one without filling out the form, he is being prosecuted for allegedly making a false statement under penalty of law on a form that constitutionally he wasn’t even required to fill out. That is an important distinction. Even if not required it is still a crime to lie to the feds.
Guessing if you look at time stamps from images, videos and emails on the laptop that is and isn’t his… Schrodeinger’s (sp? Eh, don’t care, everyone gets the reference) laptop… they can bracket is “insobriety” to a matter of days.
Jonathan
This is disturbing. Why are we still discussing this old news??
Vox, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Rachel Maddow, and Mr McIntyre have ALL assured us that the diversion agreement is still valid and in force, and there will be no indictment, arraignment, or trial on the gun charges.
Bruen doens’t apply.
Lying on 4473 is the crime.
The interesting thing… in IL you need a FOID card to handle a firearm or ammo, let alone purchase either. Without it, its a felony.
That’s been around since ’68 and multiple courts have found it legal.
If you look at Bruen, it would comply since the only way you can’t get a FOID card is if you’re under 21 (without parent/guardian approval) or you have a criminal background. )
-G
Jonathan
Whataya think, 45 for 56?
I have already been in touch with Jim Jordan, and suggested that, when they hold the vote to change the house rules regarding indicted persons, to allow Trump to serve, that they add a house rule, establishing an “Associate Speaker of the House”. I suggested Jimmy serve as this individual, who would serve as the surrogate for Trump, and complete the daily tasks of Speaker. Then Trump will be free to continue playing golf every day, interrupted only by the occassional trip to court. Trump will have the final say on everything, of course, and they could also change the house rules making only the Speaker able to vote remotely, from anywhere on earth.
This of course has the added benefit of making the madern marxist libtards heads explode.
You know the old adage, careful what you ask for….
PS, I heard DJT shot a 65 Monday, from the tips, with the rough at US Open height at Bedminster. Witnessed by John Dailey, Craig Stadler and Happy Gilmore.
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McConnell during Trump’s 2nd impeachment:
“President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office…We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation and former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one.”
I wonder, DO we really still have criminal justice system in this country, or is it all Kabuki Theater, modified to fit the goals of the party (Dems) who happen to be installed as the administration?
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NEW YORK — “The JUDGE overseeing former President Trump’s New York fraud trial ISSUED A GAG ORDER Tuesday.”
– The Hill
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Does anyone know if judges have the power to arbitrarily repeal the 1st Amendment?
I don’t see that anywhere in the Constitution.
In which article and section would that power be provided?
Are constitutional rights and freedoms optional or otherwise at the discretion of particular elected officials or appointees?
If constitutional rights and freedoms are not absolute, they don’t exist.
The only conclusion one may draw from the Constitution is that every person and organization, including judges and courts, in America must adapt to the outcomes of freedom of speech and all others.
President Trump cannot be penalized with a denial of his freedom of speech until he is penalized for a conviction, if then.
Off topic because the website blocked my On-topic comment TWICE:
Since Turley’s sham website has arbitrarily decided to not post my comment related to this issue after two attempts at posting it, I’ll recommend that readers and commenters (the two categories often not being the same at this questionable website) might more-profitably spend their time reading Trump’s Motion to Dismiss the Indictment filed in the DC case today, which argues that all of the allegations in that case concern conduct for which President Trump enjoys full immunity due to his actions falling within the “outer perimeter” of a president’s official responsibilities:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656604/74/united-states-v-trump/
US v. Nixon’s main holding: presidential immunity is not unlimited and gives way in the context of a criminal prosecution.
LOL — get lost, Anonymous moron. Try reading the Motion before responding, child.
It’s a loser of a motion. It will be denied, and Chutkan will likely cite US v Nixon in her denial order.
As Mitch McConnell said during Trump’s 2nd impeachment:
“President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office… We have a criminal justice system in this country, we have civil litigation, and former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one.”
LOL — Your ignorant interpretation of US v Nixon is in error. Immunity does not give way in the context of a criminal prosecution. It sometimes gives way in the context of criminal activity, but there’s all the difference in the world between a criminal prosecution and verified criminal activity. At any rate, Trump was already constitutionally acquitted by trial in the Senate.
Again, instead of posting ignorant garbage at this ignorant garbage site, I highly recommend that you try READING motions before posting comments about them, Anonymous troll.
The Senate is part of the legislative branch, not the judiciary. Trump has not been tried in court. And time will tell which of our interpretations is correct.
Go back to elementary school and finish your education. You morons will do ANYTHING other than actually read in order to understand the issues.
And his charges in the D.C. indictment don’t remotely resemble the impeachment charge.
I provided a LINK to the Motion, but you Anonymous morons that Turley LOVES poluting his trash site will literally to ANYTHING but actually READ the Motion before “replying” with your garbage-brained talking points.
If you want to participate in a discussion of the motion and its legal holes: https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/10/05/trump-claims-absolute-immunity/
One thing is for sure:
The WordPress website, the Turley Blog, is pure junk in terms of coherence, functionality, and user-friendliness.
Darren Smith claims that the Turley Blog administrator has no control.
WordPress is utterly nonresponsive and unhelpful.
The Turley Blog/WordPress relationship should be reviewed for functionality and effectiveness.
George,
With regard to the pagination / spacing issues you are having, I suspect the most likely cause of it lies with the user interface that you are typing in that gets submitted to the WordPress server, meaning the web browser or if you are replying view e-Mail, the mail client.
I looked at one of your comments that appeared to be displaying the lack of paragraphs and having a couple of unconventional, (meaning not within Grammar) line breaks and it seems that whatever you might be using is pre-formatting the text before it submits it to the WordPress server. This is speculation on my part but is likely.
The comment you posted had displayed a stream of characters and space characters then inserted what is called a <CR><LF> “pronounced “CUR-LIFF”, then continued with the rest of the sentence. A CRLF is two characters, a Carriage Return and a Line Feed which serves in a great many contexts to mean a Break that often is used to denote the end of a line and to advance to the next line and continue from the beginning. It is a hold over from the characters for Teletypes which the CR sent the Carriage of the typing keys back to the left and the Line Feed advanced the paper up for the next line to be printed. In fact a {CR}{LF}.{CR}{LF} is used NNTP, POP3 and SMTP protocols to signal and denote the termination of an email or article when sending.
In otherwords, whatever interface you are using is pre-formatting the text before sending it. This would explain why the strange line breaks are occurring and the interface is ignoring what you have typed as far as paragraphs go.
There is another variable that might present the unexpected. If you copy from one application to the interface you use to post the comments via the Paste functionality of Windows or other operating system. Know that there can be several ways that the clipboard and the recipient application will deal with the data. The clipboard when asked to copy an item can copy it in several different forms, lets say in the case of text. It can make several copies to be stored. One can be Plain Text which is just raw, unformatted text. Another could be Rich Text, such as if you were copying from a word processor where it will take formatting such as boldface, text size, color, etc. And another could be say Unicode. (a character set). When you go to Paste it into a distination application, the application will look at the versions of the copied text, Plain / RTF / or Unicode, and decide based upon its configuration or user instructions which one to take and then use for its purposes. One example is if you as the user select “Paste as Plain Text”.
This is where the unexpected might occur. You might be wanting to send formatted text to the client but when the client receives the text, it might be only configured to take Plain Text, so the colors and such will be lost. Another manifestation of this problem occurs when you copied from a Windows Code page set command prompt in a foreign language version of Windows but the destination you are pasting to might be configured to only handle Unicode and some of the characters will be lost, or mistranslated, or appear as boxes [].
A third possibility is that if using a web interface to write comments, the web interface might be importing the services of a word processing application that is rendering in some format that the WordPress server is not expecting and does not do a good job rendering what you expect. To see if this is the case, you might look through the settings in the web browser to see if it is using some outside application, such as Word or other application. If it is, uncheck or disable that functionality, restart the browser and see if the problem happens. This could also be the case if you are using e-Mail to reply to or make comments and it is using Word or some other application to do the rendering.
That’s about as much as I can think of for now.
Darren Smith, thanks, I think. I don’t do IT (eyetee) so well. I do generate, copy and paste from another grammar/paraphrase site occasionally. But the defects I refer to began about ten days ago on the Turley Blog. This particular comment is direct on the the Turley Blog. I can only type one sentence to the next – I can’t paragraph, return, enter or space/double space.
Next, I’ll send another rendition cut and pasted from a separate site.
The last line above was returned, entered, spaced or paragraphed randomly and spontaneously by the Turley Blog format.
CUT AND PASTED VERSION FROM A SEPARATE SITE
Darren Smith, thanks, I think.
I don’t do IT (eyetee) so well.
I do generate, copy and paste from another grammar/paraphrase site occasionally.
But the defects I refer to began about ten days ago on the Turley Blog.
This particular comment is direct on the the Turley Blog.
I can only type one sentence to the next – I can’t paragraph, return, enter or space/double space.
George,
Can you do the following, typing directly into the application that you are using WordPress?
In one complete line type the following exactly as I write it, don’t cut and paste, Use only one space between words and sentances (no double spacing)
One two three. Four five Six. Seven eight nine.
** Next test Hold down any letter key and repetedly type at least 300 keystrokes but stop exactly at the end of the text box you write the comment to, then hit the [Enter] key or your keyboard. Then finally the [Reply Button]
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH { snip ] HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
One two three. Four five Six. Seven eight nine. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH { Snip } HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Darren, the {snip} was not there previously.
Mine appears below, I can’t space more than once and I can’t paginate. I clicked e-mail, entered an address and screen name, and clicked reply.
Mine appears above. Sorry.
George, I entered the {snip} after the fact, and changed it above for reasons it caused the page to display funny.
Anyway that gave me what I needed to help diagnose the problem. It is clear to me that the browser you were using above is pre-formatting the text you type before it posts it to WordPress, as evidenced by the fact that at the end of each sentance and period, where you typed only one [space] character, the browser substituted two [space] characters after each period. Two [space] characters after a period are standard typewritten grammar for the purposes of writing in general. Since you only type one [space] character after the period, it is apparent it was pre-formatted. Also, the string of H’s did not break a line and went off the screen. This shows that the browser is treating this as one giant word and does not break it up after a set limit, which is evidence of pre-formatting, if at least not a good strategy.
Unfortunately this only confirms what the cause might be but does not really offer for you a workaround that is easy other than changing browsers to Edge as you ahve done where it might have been the case where you preferred to user Firefox. But it does at least offer at least a probable explanation.
Darren thanks, I’ll get into this when I return..
There is a considerable delay in the reply/posting function.
Darren, I have an appointment at 5. Later, I’ll check any notes you might leave here.
Thanks.
George, Ok. I also am wondering about what might be causing the delay in posting. Can you explain what is happening. Here is an example of what I am saying:
1) Click on Icon to authenticate myself as George
2) Type text into reply window
3) Click on reply button
4) Browser does {{{ something }}}}
5) 10 seconds later website refreshes, and immediately shows my comment
Darren, I switched browsers from Firefox to Edge.
Now, I can double space and space paragraphs.
It appears that Firefox failed when WordPress changed the format about ten days ago.
The comment box still does not present an option to “remember me.”
George. Good that you found a workaround. I believe you might be able to configure FireFox to change its behavior when typing into such entities as wordpress by going through the settings of Firefox and looking for anything that says how to enter text or use an application such as word to render your type. It might also be that there is an interface built into Firefox that is set up to work with WordPress. But somewhere along the line, WordPress or firefox changed their programming and as a result Firefox and the WordPress back end server are not speaking the same language with each other and something is getting horked up. Or it could be that it will remain something that either wordpress or firefox just won’t fix. Unfortunately, that is on their ends of the situation.
I saw the comment box change as you did a couple weeks ago. There’s nothing we can do on our end to change behavior/situation presented by the WordPress servers which handle this type of persistence. Others I suspect are having this problem since occasionally regular users will post as Anonymous in that they had forgotten to hit the required link to login or connect as a particular user. There are so many ways this can manifest for each person depending on browser settings (eg saving cookies, etc) and which type of browser or method they use (gravatar, etc). Its a matrix of possibilties too vast for me to diagnose in each case individually. In one case I saw that you had to click your ICON/Avatar for each comment you made then a few days later it remembered who you were from the last comment as long as you did not log out from gravatar. Like I said, it’s a situation created by either WordPress or Gravatar, or other issue. It would be unfortunately the purview of each user to see how this affects them. I might suggest making sure your user settings might include not Clearing Cookies or History within the browser’s settings But that’s as far as I could go with it.
Darren, perhaps
you could contact WordPress and request that it reinstate the previous programing that worked so well, for so many, for so long.
I have no idea who or what spaced the first sentence above after perhaps. This WordPress appears ill.
One thing is for sure:
The WordPress website, the Turley Blog, is pure junk in terms of coherence, functionality, and user-friendliness.
Darren Smith claims that the Turley Blog administrator has no control.
WordPress is utterly nonresponsive and unhelpful.
The Turley Blog/WordPress relationship should be reviewed for functionality and effectiveness.
BTW, if you want to participate in a discussion of the motion and its legal holes: https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/10/05/trump-claims-absolute-immunity/
LOL — That article is worse garbage than this site.
There are no anonymous comments there, and several of the commenters are lawyers. You just don’t like their views.
Pictures this week show Hunter has lost most of his hair and what’s left has turned gray. Addiction will age a person quickly. The Grateful Dead had a song about that. All one can say is ain’t it a shame.
I think Commander the big guy’s ravenous biting dog chewed hunter’s noggin half off when he was passed out on the white house floor. So daddy had commander bite a few more secret service agents who he blames for taking away hunters cocaine
Jonathan: In other news some MAGA Republicans in the House want DJT to be the next Speaker. As if they didn’t have enough internal problems with so many self-inflicted wounds. Anyway, MYG thinks it’s a great idea. Even Jim Jordan, who is running for the position himself, says “that’s fine too”. And apparently Sean Hannity says DJT is open to the idea.
Only one problem. House Rule 26, adopted by the House in January, states that any GOP leader indicted for a felony with the potential of a prison sentence of 2 years or more is ineligible. DJT has been indicted on 91 felony counts, many of which carry potential sentences way above 2 years. MAGA members of the House say: “We’ve broken so many House rules who cares about Rule 26!”.
The Q is whether DJT, who plays golf almost every day, want to give up his golf game to rule over a herd of GOP rebellious fighting cats who have formed a circular firing squad? Pretty unlikely. Besides, how would DJT conduct House business remotely from his golf course, while on the campaign trail, traveling from courthouse to courthouse–or possibly from a prison cell? You complain a lot about the “age of rage”. You are seeing it in spades in Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz and MTG’s House these days.
I think Trump is using LEVERAGE (Remember the Art of the Deal is all about leverage) in order to not get another McCarthy type. He can get this if he wants it, so hey RINOS, you elect 1. Jordan 2. Biggs or 3. Scalise or maybe a surprise like Stefanik from New York (doubtful) or I am going to take the job. SMILE
It’s doubtful that a majority of House members would vote for Trump as Speaker, and they’d also have to change Rule 26(a) that requires House leadership members who’ve been indicted to step aside.
Are commenters on the Turley Blog paying a premium to WordPress?
WordPress is completely non-responsive.
My keyboard won’t multiple-space or paragraph.
I am compelled to format on another site and cut and paste to the Turley Blog.
How do commenters on the Turley Blog contact WordPress?
Your meds are no longer working, not that any of us think they ever had a chance. Your keyboard is not affected by WordPress, but the crazies in your head affect all of us commenters!!!
Thank you for reading
My Alleve is eminently efficacious.
Thank you for your concern.
Are you saying I am being censored for content, including the facts and truth about the communist sympathizer and fellow traveler of Karl Marx, “Crazy Abe” Lincoln, who illicitly and unconstitutionally denied fully constitutional secession, causing every subsequent act of Lincoln’s to be equally illicit, unconstitutional, invalid, and illegitimate to this day? One cannot benefit subsequently from what was an initial crime, you would agree.
And thanks for reading again, as usual.
You’re my most loyal patron.
Take a look at your comments. They have paragraph breaks in them! Is your eyesight going?
That’s a workaround generated on, copied from, and pasted from another site.
Jonathan: Whatever Hunter Biden’s sate of sobriety when he filled out the gun registration form that’s kind of a sideshow. What is more important for the gun charges is the other affirmative defenses Hunter may assert. His attorney, Abbe Lowell, points to Justice Thomas’s ruling in the Bruen case last year. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals used that decision to find unconstitutional a similar law that is at the heart of Hunter’s case. Benjamin Levin, a law professor and authority on gun laws, says that the Bruen decision “potentially benefits many criminal defendants, even criminal defendants kike Hunter Biden”.
There is no evidence Hunter was impaired when he purchased the gun and was apparently in a recovery program at the time. He only had the gun for a matter of weeks when his girlfriend dumped the gun in a dumpster. There is no evidence Hunter used the gun in any criminal activity. That is why the original plea agreement was the best resolution of the gun charge–usually not one criminally charged.
As big supporter of the SC’s recent rulings in 2nd Amendment cases what say you regarding whether Hunter has an affirmative defense under Bruen and its progeny? That would have been a better use of your time in your column.
ABBE HAS GOT “IT”
Justice must be blind and impartial.
Judges must be impartial.
Attorneys must be impartial.
Does Abbe Lowell have the power to alter facts?
Some might refer to that not as legal, intellectual superiority, but as abject corruption.
Does he have the power to do magic, sleight of hand, nay, sleight of mind?
Do NFL officials have the power to alter game scores?
Andy Ngo
@AndyNgo
October 03, 2023
Unedited video of Brooklyn homicide of Antifa activist
X account The Daily Sneed obtained the unedited video of the Brooklyn stabbing attack of leftist activist and self-identified Antifa member Ryan Carson when he was with his girlfriend, Claudia V. Morales. As he was attempting to flee, he tripped and fell on a bench, giving the black male assailant an opportunity to stab him repeatedly in the chest. The hoodie-wearing suspect has not been apprehended or identified.
The murder happened early on Oct. 2, 2023 in the black neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.
https://ngo.locals.com/post/4671830/unedited-video-of-brooklyn-homicide-of-antifa-activist
TL;DR: ANTIFA Marxist stabbed while his ANTIFA Marxist girlfriend does nothing because she knew the perpetrator, a black teacher in the Brooklyn area. She literally did nothing while the perp repeatedly stabbed her ANTIFA boyfriend
Violence and cold heartedness run in their DNA. No wonder violence in America has exploded since ANTIFA BLM and Democrats normalize violence
“Is Donald Trump normalizing political violence in America?”
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/10/05/donald-trump-normalizes-political-violence-in-america
The question was HAS he normalized it, and of course the answer is no, but hey – you keep listening to npr, the atlantic, etc for the answers to the questions no one that isn’t a cia prop would even give a second thought to, they’ll give you those kinds of questions and your little mind will also get their answers, which you unthinkingly accept. Good thing they limited their debate to America, because we know who normalized violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Africa, Ukraine, and frankly America’s democrat run craphole cities like Berkeley, Charlottesville, Portland, Philly, Detroit, B’more, Memphis, MN, etc… Everyone know the answer to who’s behind all that…
The answer is actually “yes,” not that you’ll admit it.
If you mean “yes” to everyone knows who’s behind all the dem crapholes, I agree. Political violence in the US was (most recently) normalized under the obamma administration with his racial warriors burning, looting, and ruining further the democrat plantations they are penned in. Chaz, antifa, blm, by any means necessary are all left-wing nutjobs fostered and protected under democrat state, local, and federal regimes. Not that you’ll ever admit it – perhaps take off the pussy hat?
His pink trans hat is no doubt speared on permanently by the pinocchio nose extremity
Madison, Wis.: Man with handgun sought Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, was arrested in state Capitol, posted bail, and returned with an assault rifle.
No. The FBI covert operations are.
“Is Donald Trump normalizing political violence in America?”
You mean like democrat politicians who remained deaf and silent, as BLM/Antifa torched American cities?
Or perhaps you mean those Leftist politicians who cheer, as nihilists raze America’s iconic statues.
Or perhaps you mean those anti-energy politicians who say nothing, as Green nihilists destroy property, stop traffic, halt public events.
Or maybe you mean the free-range criminals unleashed by Leftist activists and prosecutors.
Or maybe you mean those Leftist students and professors who squeal that opposing ideas justify their violence.
Because they are mindless, violence is built into the DNA of Leftists.
Another relapse story, this one about a Member of Congress, NYC Democrat, an inconsolable womyn just a few years ago when she visited the US Border, and saw Trump’s US Border Wall being built. She sobbed and sobbed and sobbed, and gave Cecil B. DeMille a run for his money in the drama category. She had a mental breakdown, stated she felt unsafe, when she saw US Border immigrants dressed in their clothing with family members nearby, sleeping on cots in an air conditioned processing center where border agents provided blankets, food and water bottles. Now that her BFF Joseph Biden has decided to continue Trump’s efforts at building said wall, the inconsolable AOC cant seem to be found at this latest FJB development at the US Border. Perhaps President Biden should stage an intervention on AOC’s apparent relapse, and have White House dog, Commander, find her.
Turley says: “Gone was the president’s past mantra that “my son did nothing wrong” and, instead, in an 2022 interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, the president declared that Hunter “fought an addiction problem. He overcame it. He wrote about it.”It was all about addiction … until now, apparently, it isn’t any longer.”
Turley, you KNOW that it’s wrong to equate an addiction problem with moral failing. You DO know that. Turley also says: “Even before the latest calendar correction, the addiction defense only heightened the concerns over corrupt influence-peddling.” Turley yoiu also KNOW that “influence peddling” is NOT illegal, so why do you call it “corrupt”, when there is a huge lobbying industry in Washington DC, and that’s what they do? Don’t you get tired of spinning facts to attack the Bidens, ignoring Trump’s flaunting of the law and disrespect for judges and the legal system of which you are a part, all to throw chum to the disciples?
speaking of addicts and interventions…..
nah…..Svelaz/Natacha/Gigi/Dennis/Peter Shill/Wally/Concerned Citizen/et al, you do you
Which are hunter and FJB then, addicts or moral failures?
Gigi – you say: “you KNOW that it’s wrong to equate an addiction problem with moral failing.” Why is that wrong? Cocaine does not fly into our noses on its own volition. We DECIDE to search out, buy, prepare, and inhale cocaine. It is an act of will.
Edward: people who self-medicate with substances, be it food, cocaine, heroin– whatever–are attempting to self-medicate away their emotional suffering. If you’ve ever seen “My 600 lb. life”, as one example, you would hear stories about people who have undergone sexual abuse, oftentimes starting at an early age, physical and emotional abuse, rejection by parents, learning disabilities that weren’t diagnosed or treated causing them to drop out of school and be unable to hold any decent job, lack of supportive friends and family, and other traumas that resulted in seeking comfort by overeating food. The more they eat, the more weight they gain, and the more they engage in self-loathing, until it gets to the point where survival is in peril, so they seek help. Three year old Hunter was in the car with his mother, one year old sister and brother Beau when their station wagon was broadsided by a truck, killing his mother and sister and seriously injuring him and Beau. Hunter suffered a head injury. He also went through a traumatic divorce. He has suffered a lot of trauma, which he believes resulted in his addiction problem. He has since overcome his addiction, which is not the result of being an immoral person. It is sickening the way that Republicans leverage Hunter’s addiction problem as a political attack against his father. I cannot imagine how awful it would be to experience first-hand the violent deaths of your mother and baby sister at the tender age of 3.
Joe is an addict too?
Addicts can potentially do anything for their next fix.
Enabling addicts makes things worse for all and encourages addiction.
Most government intervention helps to enable addicts.
The best treatment for a seasoned addict is to let them hit bottom. The bottom is not when the addict comes for help. It is far more distant since any addict will come for help when a willing enabler is available.
A drug program will only help seasoned addicts after they reach the bottom. That program should be away from the addict’s home and friends. He should not return there even to see family. The family should visit him where the successful treatment occurred. It is super-difficult today because our Government lets drugs flow all over the nation along with criminals whose intent is to sell to addicts and addict those who aren’t. The open border is a major cause, and the deaths today are around 100,000, predominantly the young.
The left continues to destroy the nation by helping it eat itself from the inside out. Drugs are just one problem created by the left. End the present Democratic Party Enablers. Treat leftist activists as outcasts and do not seek dialogue with them on their terms, which involve lies and deceit. Insulting them face-to-face or elsewhere should be considered a treatment for their outrageous behavior.