Below is my column in The Messenger on President Joe Biden continuing his claim of having no knowledge or interaction with the business associates of his son and brothers. With the formal vote on an impeachment inquiry planned for this coming week, the absurd denial shows that the President is now trapped in the amber of this corruption scandal — unable to acknowledge the obvious falsity of his past statements.
Here is the column:
With a formal House vote on an impeachment inquiry expected next week, President Joe Biden was confronted this week about his knowledge and involvement in alleged influence peddling by his son and brothers. An irate Biden seemed to morph into Bill Clinton and — echoing his predecessor’s “I did not have sex with that woman” denial of an earlier scandal — effectively declared that he did not have relations with “those people.”
As with Clinton, the denial was absurd, even insulting. Roughly 70% of voters (including 40% of Democrats) believe Biden has acted either unlawfully or unethically in the overseas business dealings of his family. More importantly, the House has interviews, documents, photos and even audiotapes contradicting Biden’s continuing denial of having any knowledge of his son’s financial dealings.
This includes testimony from Hunter Biden’s associates that Joe Biden called in as many as 20 times (and was put on speakerphone) at dinners and meetings with Hunter’s associates. It also includes sworn testimony from figures like Hunter’s ex-associate, Tony Bobulinski, that he discussed dealings directly with Joe Biden. And it includes a statement by Devon Archer, Hunter’s close friend and business partner, that the president’s denials of knowledge were “categorically false.”
Yet, according to the president, it is all lies, lies, lies.
When finally confronted this week about interacting with these associates, Biden barked back, “I did not and it’s just a bunch of lies. They’re lies. I did not. They’re lies.”
It may become Biden’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” moment, a line that is likely to be repeated with the same frequency as Clinton’s denial before being impeached in 1998. In the face of a formal vote for an impeachment inquiry, Biden is sticking with the same rhetorical chest-poking done by his predecessor.
Despite the photos of Clinton with Lewinsky and his long history of womanizing, Clinton expected the media and the public to ignore their lying eyes. The Starr investigation and impeachment forced his hand in eventually admitting the obvious.
The Bidens have their own vices, of course, but it seems the family signature has been influence peddling. It appears to have been, as I have written previously, virtually a family business.
Like Clinton, however, Biden is in a bind. He spent the last election categorically denying any knowledge or involvement in Hunter’s business dealings. He continues those denials despite evidence that Hunter discussed these dealings with his father and used Air Force 2 as transport to work on foreign clients during official trips with his father.
For years, much of the media refused to acknowledge the authenticity of the emails on Hunter’s abandoned laptop. Yet, in the last year, many have reached the limit of plausible deniability and now acknowledge that Hunter was involved in a multimillion-dollar influence-peddling scheme. The final line of defense has become that Joe Biden did not directly benefit.
Even now, some are frantically joining Biden in calls for blind denials. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) has even doggedly maintained that the laptop may really be Russian disinformation, despite confirmation of its content by witnesses, government investigators, and several media organizations.
It won’t work. Biden clearly lied when he denied knowledge of his son’s business operations, and he has continued to lie during his presidency. Moreover, besides the benefits to his family (which would legally constitute benefits in criminal cases), there are references in Hunter’s emails to giving his father income, paying bills, and using shared accounts and credit cards.
Now, the National Archives is finally turning over tens of thousands of emails, including many in which Joe Biden reportedly used false names in communicating with Hunter’s associates. And various key figures, including Hunter, face testimony or contempt proceedings.
Thus, Biden is caught in a trap of his own making.
Bill Clinton eventually gave a redemptive-sinner speech and effectively confessed to being a cad. Yet for Biden, after years of categorical denials, it will be a bit more difficult to reveal himself or his family as being corrupt. Some people may forgive perjury over sex with an intern as impulsive, or immaterial. But, as shown by the overwhelming poll numbers, it is harder to pretend that knowledge of or involvement in influence peddling is simply an indiscretion.
The evidence is overwhelming that the president surely knew of his family’s influence peddling and foreign interests. The United States has pushed international agreements targeting influence peddling as criminal corruption in other countries. Knowledge that your family has engaged in such corruption is all the more serious when you facilitate or enable these efforts through meetings, dinners and calls.
There is another difference between Biden’s and Clinton’s denials.
I testified at the Clinton impeachment that perjury is an impeachable offense for a president, regardless of the subject. However, many witnesses and observers argued that even a criminal act is not impeachable if it does not compromise one’s office.
Influence peddling is different, though. It involves the selling of access to or influence on one’s public office. Even if you claim the money did not influence your decisions, knowledge of or interaction with such corruption undermines both the office and the public trust.
The vote this coming week in the House not only will bring a moment of truth for Biden but for his party. House Democrats will have to decide whether, despite the extensive evidence of influence peddling and the president’s apparent lies, they will not support even an inquiry into allegations of corruption. This is the same party which used a “snap impeachment” for the last president without holding a single hearing.
It does not have to be this way, where not a single Democrat will support the investigation — despite 40% of their party viewing Biden as either criminal or corrupt or both. If members truly oppose the corruption that saturates this city, they can take a stand by voting in favor of this inquiry and against influence peddling.
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.
40% of his party believes he is lying? Not likely. That does not include the “my team” crowd.
This is just the obvious but kissinger Albright and Clinton undermined us for years. Linage. You can’t have democracy and no borders. It ends up with the mayor of Saint cloud telling the towns founders if you don’t like it you can leave. That doesn’t work. Where do the originals go ? For the paper clip placed replacements ? No z this is war. Bidets didn’t just lie to make money their policy is to give the replacements town after town. And we the people see it. Mossad. Warned us. Fist they came for us. Then they come for you. Wake up!
This is why world wide nations all them in the un even support borders. It’s only the dems in Erica who don’t support our borders. Why why why o? And Ukraine was a Civil War and it was un policy to stay out of civil wars. Yet Russia wld never have felt the need to escalate if Clinton’s nulamd hadn’t regime changed ukraine et al. He gave plenty warning 2008 he didn’t like the greater European expansion but we withbegos pricked and pricked at him leaving him no choice but to invoke his own Bush doctrine. Of national preservation. Look in the mirror on who started this? Nato mirror them like they do. Themselves. Their expansionist proviclivit6 started this.
Just saw a report with some analysis stating that Harvard’s Claudine Gay appears to have plagiarized parts of her doctoral thesis.
If true, and it looks like it may be, I ordinarily wouldn’t expect much to come of it. After all, ML King did it too. Special rules.
But under the present humiliating circumstances this may be just enough to oil the hinges on the exit door for her.
Maybe not last out the coming week. Number 2 of 3 hopefully gone. Hamas University may have several recent openings. Classrooms and offices may need some touch-ups; something more than new drapes.
OT: For those people not smart enough to realize that questioning the 2020 election is legitimate, here is another case of questionable ballots that is not resolved. The numbers of unresolved questions is astoundingly high and more questions will continue to arise.
One can’t trust the leftists on this blog. They lie. Isn’t it amazing that most of these problems are occurring in counties where fraud is most suspected?
“At least 5,600 federal-only ballots cast in Arizona 2020 election without US citizenship proof”
That is more than half of the votes Trump lost by and there may be more. Some counties still haven’t released the voting records.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/least-5600-federal-only-ballots-cast-az-2020-general-election-without-us?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
S. Meyer,
Considering how those in charge handled the Derek Chauvin prosecution and those of his fellow officers, how they are using lawfare and media attacks to try to destroy Trump, how the media has tried to blame Israel for the sub-human cruelty of the Hamas attacks, it seems all too likely that Trump ‘lost’ the election by barely disguised fraud.
I was equally surprised with the cowardly judicial system and its refusal to get to the merits of the election fraud cases, its cowardice on Chauvin’s appeals, and its handling of the J6 cases. I suppose they can still handle divorce cases but I don’t expect much better of them.
It is not possible to prove that Trump won the 2020 election – because democrats and many republicans everywhere have prevented inquiry.
I do not know if you have followed the Lake 3033 challenge – it is unlikely that LAke will prevail – because even the AZ supreme court – which has been very favorable to here is going to reverse the election results – even facing the growing body of evidence of large scale election fraud.
My hope is that courts across the country will grasp that the best way to avoid having to make tough decisions faced with credible allegations after the election is to enforce the actual law and constitution BEFORE the election. While we are not unfortunately returning to pre-2020 election conditions – which were bad enough. I do not think Democrats can mount as large and as successful an election fraud operation as they have been able to do in the past.
Even the understanding that people are paying more attention is a big deal.
Large scale election fraud requires the chaotic and lawless conditions of the 2020 election.
Agree
Republicans To Meet With Putin Allies On Ending Aid To Ukraine
Allies of Hungary’s far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán will hold a closed-door meeting with Republicans in Washington to push for an end to US military support for Ukraine, the Guardian has learned.
Márton Ugrósdy, the deputy state secretary for the prime minister’s political director’s office, and Attila Demkó, a leading pro-Orbán academic, along with members of the Hungarian embassy in Washington, will on Monday begin a two-day event hosted by the conservative Heritage Foundation thinktank.
Edited From:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/10/hungary-viktor-orban-republicans-ukraine-aid
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This illustrates that the so-called ‘Russia hoax’ was no hoax whatsoever. The GOP is now the POP (Party of Putin). But we, as Turley readers, are supposed to stay focused on Hunter Biden.
Peter Hill Shill has posted under many names but hasn’t been right on any of the significant arguments.
Let’s applaud his ability to be near 100% wrong.
Yeah, but clearly for some of you, staying focused on anything a an awful lot to ask. At this point, you’re not even able to focus on the topic of this article or give us reasons to doubt Turley’s analysis. All you can focus on is attempting to divert attention from your drooling imbecile of a president’s corruption. Keep at it. It only convinces more moderates that he’s not fit serve another term.
More booger eating, taint sniffing, scrotum licking, steaming piles of sh!t from The Guardian.
LMAO that you are deluded enough to think anyone would even click on that vomit.
And this from the genius who claims that 126 posters here are all estovir the terrible!
Putin Putin Putin!!!
What a pathetic little flaming kunt you are.
There are very few people in this country right or left that do not want Putin defeated in Ukraine.
But it is increasingly obvious to more and more of us what should have been obvious from the start.
Ukraine can not defeat Russia in a land war in the Ukraine without atleast one other consequential nation being willing to put boots on the ground. That is not going to happen.
There was an oportunity for a peace deal about 2 years ago. The US and UK talked Ukraine out of it. It is increasingly self evident that was a huge mistake – for EVERYONE.
While Russia is no longer a global superpower – that is self evident. She still is a regional super power, and no amount of money and toys is going to overcome the Russian advantage.
I would be happy to discover I am wrong. But I am not.
You malign Orban – yet at the same time – many stories are being leaked that the US has become tired of this war, and is prepared to get behind a peace deal.
The Ukraine war is slowly becoming increasingly unpopular in the US, but even more importantly it is becoming more and more obviously a failure for Biden and democrats. The politicallu wise choice for Biden right now (actaully almost 2 years ago), would be to broker a deal, end this, pretend to be peacemaker and get Ukraine out of the news. It is NOT a good story for Biden in oh so many ways.
I would advise you to come to grips with the probability that the Ukraine war ends in an unpleasant deal with Russia.
Are Republicans contemplating that – absolutely, The odds are very very good that is the best outcome possible.
Are Democrats ? Not as loudly, but there are leaks all over that this administration is grasping this wars is not winnable by U*Ukraine
If I were you I would be prepared to eat Crow when Biden twists Ukraine arm to accept a pretty crappy deal. .
New Bot quotes the Guardian. End. Of. Story. Period. isn’t that how they do it?
Were the cleansing waters of integrity ever to rain vengefully upon our nation’s capitol the thunderous downpour would go unheard for the citywide chorus of torturous screams, “I’m melting, oh god, I’m melting!”
Old School: Awesome prose poem. Vaguely Shakespearean. And relevant, given the black hole known as Washington, D.C.
My hope is that Obama is eventually called to testify about when he knew his VP was an unregistered foreign agent and how he knew it. Will he come clean and sell his former VP out? If he claims no knowledge, then Obama will come across as either clueless or an co-conspirator.
Arnold, we have a better chance of the powers that be letting the Republicans call Jesus as a witness.
Biden is orders of magnitude dumber than a normal president according to Powerline
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/12/joe-biden-is-orders-of-magnitude-dumber-than-a-normal-president.php
Their short post included a persuasive X clip of Biden at his normal.
Watching it I recalled a poem Churchill favored, “The Clattering Train”. Who is in charge of the clattering train? Who indeed? Certainly not this quarter wit.
Even some well-known Democrats are thinking of voting for Trump as it dawns that they too are on the clattering train with the rest of us and are beginning to worry that perhaps some actual person should be in charge. The poem ends by revealing that Death is in charge of the clattering train. Next election may determine this country’s next stop, or final stop. Assuming it is in time as we clatter on in the dark. With no one in charge.
There is no future in being 81 years of age.
Biden will be gone physically or mentally soon enough.
The real question is: Who is going to fulfill the duties of president?
Will it continue to be Obama/Rice/Jarrett or will Michelle be “drafted” at the convention?
I appreciate the straight forward statements in your articles. I trust you will continue to share your insights and thoughts in this manner, regardless of the subject.
Trump says that he’ll implement a religious test for immigrants if he is elected: “I will implement strong ideological screening of all immigrants. … If you don’t like our religion…, then we don’t want you in our country and you are not getting in.”
Which religion is “our religion”?
And biden said he would forgive student loans, even though he admitted it was unconstitutional. And he tried.
Weak sauce.
Next.
Biden did legally forgive many student loans.
And he unconstitutionally attempted to erase many more, admitting it was unconstitutional with the pen in his hand.
But thats not the mark of a dictator…
Next
Which means that working people will be forced to disproportionately pay for the losses. Joe Biden, friend of the working man.
Notice that you avoid the question: Which religion is “our religion”?
Of course i avoided your off topic attempt to deflect the conversation. I have an IQ over 100. You…apparently not.
But you did notice that i didnt fall for it, so that probably puts you in the 80-90 range.
No, my IQ is in the top 1%. Maybe if yours were higher, you’d know better than to make such false assumptions.
Lmao if you want anyone to buy that, you really should
Engage less like a child
Exhibit an inquisitive mind
Show some reasoning skills and intellectual curiosity.
And have
Done something besides mow lawns for a living
Not let the low iq trump beat you out of money
I’ve got you at a solid 90.
That you confuse me with other Anonymouses only underscores my point.
That you dont differentiate yourself and exhibit the exact same qualities as Elvis Bug proves my point. Your intellect matches his very closely.
For instance
In response to my point regarding joe attempting to bypass the constitution and the rule of law, you replied “well, he did some legally too”. So either you misunderstood my point, exhibiting a low IQ, or you were making a weak attempt to gaslight, also exhibiting a low IQ.
Your weak attempt to change this columns narrative by asking us to say WTF DJT may or may not have been talking about demonstrates a low IQ.
So admit to being buggy boy or dont, it matters not. Your IQ matches his.
Continuing to press this issue, in-spite of having your proverbial a$$ handed to you, is also an Elvis Bug, low IQ trait.
But hey, masochism takes on many forms…
There is no means to distinguish one anonymous from another.
There is no reason for anyone to even try.
The fact that is not obvious to you means your IQ is not in the top 50%
Also, i didnt assume anything. I surmised it (note the term “apparently”) based on the available evidence.
Your false assumption was a result of your surmising.
top 1% -just like Biden at the top of his law school class…..very believable
LMAO wolfman…so true!!
His IQ is so low, he couldnt even reason that he should go with something reasonable, like upper half. He went with 1%, the space reserved for chess grandmasters, quantum physicists, and Marilyn vos Savant.
I’m starting to lean closer to 80.
And Hillary Clinton is the smartest woman in the world.
And hunter is the smartest person joe knows.
And kamala is the smartest person she knows.
Maybe this guy keeps their company, so he’s in the top 1% of that list.
I have met many many many people who claim to have high IQ’s.
I am more interested in the quality of your argument than your self agrandizing claims regarding your alleged intellect.
But if you want to make this into a measuring contest – even if you are not lying, you lose.
If your IQ is in the top 1% that means 9 people in 1000 are smarter than you.
Truly intelligent people do not brag about being in much more rarefied air.
They do not need to. They are capable of formulating valid arguments and not long strings of fallacies.
Hey “Anonymous”, if you are in the top 1% why not create a name so we can “appreciate” your words of wisdom instead of confusing you with those other dumb Anonymous people?
Your IQ scores were provided to you in Hebrew, where things are read from right to left.
Tom,
As I have mentioned on this blog more than a few times, I am not religious.
However, given the choice, the Founding Fathers view on morality would be a better path for a country that values life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness than others by far.
Woke leftism is a country that has destroyed all things good and happy for the sake of everyone being miserable in the name of CRT, DEI and the sexualization of children.
Upstate
I feel like i have agreed with you on this before. My only issue with their morality was their belief that black people were only “half” a man, and not worthy of life LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness. However, i understand sociology enough to understand where that came from, but I was brain washed about a lot of things as a child as well, i grew up in a southern baptist church. I dont buy that excuse.
Granting student loans is irrefutably unconstitutional.
Conferring forgiveness for student loans is irrefutably unconstitutional.
Congress has no power to tax for or provide student loans.
George, why is everyone forgetting the Eviction Moratorium?
“Christianity is the most prevalent religion in the United States. Estimates from 2021 suggest that of the entire U.S. population (332 million) about 63% is Christian (210 million).”[1]
– Wiki
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The only reason the percentage of Christians is diluted and not higher is the criminal invasion of illegal aliens who hold different religions. Immigration law of the American Founders, the Naturalization Act of 1802, was illegally abrogated at gunpoint by the brutal military force of “Crazy Abe” Lincoln. That immigration law required foreigners who were “admitted to become citizens” to be “…free white person(s)…,” and, as is the case with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, must be in full force and effect to this day.
Freedom of religion meant freedom of Protestants from Catholicism while loosely including all religions which were essentially rejected and nonexistent.
You anti-American communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) give us the dumb act while quietly allowing “our” enemy, your ally, inside the gates.
Does this ring a bell:
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
– Barack Hussein “Barry-I-Have-A-Statue-In-Jakarta-Soetoro” Obama
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Who the —- asked this illegal alien communist to transform “our” country?
Answer: The Global Communist Deep Deep State “Swamp”
Not a fan of the establishment and free exercise clauses, huh?
He is not. But you would know that if your IQ were above 90.
It was a rhetorical question.
“It was a
rhetoricalpointless question.”Fixed that for ya.
You and I clearly have different opinions about that.
Then praytell, what was the point of the question?
LOL. And you claim that I’m the one with a low IQ. Do you not understand how rhetorical questions work? I was noting that George isn’t a fan of the establishment and free exercise clauses, both of which are relevant to Trump’s anti-constitutional desire to implement a religious test for immigrants.
Yep, i understood that. Which made it a pointless question.
Yep, a solid 80. Wanna shoot for 70?
You said you have an IQ in the top 1% then you would KNOW from the text YOU cite that Trump did NOT propose an unconstitutional religious test.
There is a difference between – You are required to have religion X – which is unconstitutional,
And you are required to tolerate the religions of others – which is a paraphrase of the first amendment.
This country can bar immigration of those whose religion or ideology advocates religious or racial genocide.
Read.
“Freedom of religion meant freedom of Protestants from Catholicism while loosely including all religions which were essentially rejected and nonexistent.”
Immigration law of the Founders did not allow them or their religions in.
That immigration law was illegally and unconstitutionally nullified by “Crazy Abe.”
Secession was not prohibited and fully constitutional.
Everything after “Crazy Abe’s” initial crime of denying the constitutional right to secession was similarly criminal, unconstitutional, invalid and illegitimate, including, but not limited to, the “Reconstruction Amendments.”
“Which religion is “our religion”?”
Our religion refers to the many different faiths held by Americans. Amazingly, you do not understand that when some people are advocating killing those with another belief. The stupidity of the left never ceases to amaze me.
Are you saying we should let in people who wish to kill others because of their race or religion ?
What is “our religion” ? Any religions that eschews beheading and buring alive those you disagree with.
In his last paragraph, Professor Turley raises a great point. One that is rarely discussed.
The Democrats ruthlessly enforce iron party discipline on matters that are important to them politically. A couple of examples: Abortion at the Supreme Court. Voting unanimously to throw the House of Representatives into disarray over the Speaker. The Democrats rarely break ranks when the interests of the party are at stake.
Loyalty to the Democrat party trumps loyalty to the Nation.
Does anyone care to take odds on whether a single Democrat will break ranks and vote in favor of an impeachment inquiry?
Svelass admitted that the dems are party before country and touted it as something to be proud of.
Loyalty to the Republican party trumps loyalty to the Nation.
Rep. Cuellar (D-TX) is anti-abortion. And Republicans were the ones who introduced the motion to oust McCarthy; when have the Republicans ever voted in favor of keeping a Dem. Speaker?
Anonymous,
Does it ever bother you that the Biden family made millions from corrupt payments from Ukraine and China while you’re slaving away commenting on the Turley blog for peanuts?
Epstein, does it ever bother you that you lie about people you disagree with? I comment here on one or two articles a week, not for pay, and JOE Biden didn’t make money from corrupt payments. If you care about people not in office getting corrupt payments, you’d also complain about Jared Kushner’s billions from Saudi Arabia.
What is is you idiots like to say??? Jared Kushner isnt President
Right, and neither is Hunter Biden. That was the point, duh.
Joe is, duh.
If you still think hunter is the point, your brain is smaller than i’d imagined.
Anonymous,
Are you an artist? Have you ever considered making some extra money through a career in art?
There seems to be a lot of money in the art market these days.
The prices that Hunter has been getting set the market and there is no doubt in any of our minds that your art would be much more proficient than Hunter’s.
The last part, at least, is said with all sincerity!
Kushner was not given Billions from anyone. He is investing 3.5B, if he does well he will make about 20M.
If he does poorly they will take the money back.
Everyone with a brain who can read knows That Kushner is not getting money for nothing.
Nor is he getting money for past or future excercises of US government power.
It is possible – even likely that Kushner a Jew is getting an oportunity to make money for himself and his clients – Arabs
because of his past track record – both as an investor and in mideast peace negotiations.
There would be few questions about Hunter – if he had already made Billions investing in oil and gas.
“trumps loyalty to the Nation.
Rep. Cuellar (D-TX) is anti-abortion. “
Abortion is not a Nation-al issue.
Next.
Do you seriously think that i was referring to the speaker vote???
Lmao, what a small mind.
Biden claims to be a devout catholic, yet supports abortion. Thats a better indicator than one off cuellar.
Manchin is another one off. And he saved this country from the mindless zombies in the 117th congress.
If you were better at paying attention to the threading, you’d know that it was a response to Epstein, who explicitly wrote about the Speaker vote.
Yes, i do suck at that. My bad. Weak sauce on both of your parts.
That’s just the point. Congress cannot vote for unconstitutional communism. Democrats are invalid and illegitimate. Congress cannot vote for central planning, control of the means of production (i.e. unconstitutional regulation), redistribution of wealth, or social engineering under Karl Marx’s motto: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” The votes of democrats are moot. The singular American failure is the Supreme Court which must have struck down the communist American welfare state at every step of its gestation.
Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto 59 years after the adoption of the Constitution because none of the principles of the Communist Manifesto were in the Constitution. Had the principles of the Communist Manifesto been in the Constitution, Karl Marx would have had no reason to write the Communist Manifesto. The principles of the Communist Manifesto were not in the Constitution then and the principles of the Communist Manifesto are not in the Constitution now.
The entire communistic American welfare state is unconstitutional including, but not limited to, admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, HHS, HUD, EPA, Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax ONLY for debt, defense, and “…general (all, the whole) Welfare…,” omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor or charity. The same article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY money, the “flow” of commerce, and land and naval Forces. Additionally, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification, and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals while government is severely limited and restricted to merely facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and infrastructure only.
Estovir’s Featured Puppets Today
On this Sunday, Estovir, the Blog Stooge, is commenting under the following names:
Wolfman
Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself
Tom
Dgsnowden
Thinkthrough
Estovir is also using that green anonymous he’s been so fond of lately. Look for that green anonymous to respond to this post with something filthy. Or Estovir Himself might respond with one of his gay videos (like that should suffice as an answer).
Here ya go…you’re a booger eating, lying, psychopathic, turd faced pedophile who makes a really poor detective, who insists on coming in daily to lay your steaming pile of sh!t at everyone’s feet and them accuse someone else of being “filthy”.
——the green anonymous
And you’re also a liar and a coward, EB
BugAnon goes off the rails again.
Edwardmshl,
The level of paranoia and delusion that one or more commenters just might be different people, one would think would be evident of the need for professional mental help.
Kinda reflective of the mental health issues that plague America today.
Its worse upstate. He doesnt really believe it. He is just delusional and thinks he is clever, and that he can disrupt the discourse by laying his steaming turd here every day. Estovir may be right about him being this media matters clown, he seems to have a lot of animosity towards estovir.
I grin from ear to ear when the name Estovir is copiously posted by the Media Matters troll. The word estovir is latin for be a man. This explains why the Media Matters troll continually repeats it: he gets a hardon fantasizing being a man. Media Matters founder, David Brock, and his successor Angelo Carusone are whiny, pathetic NPC hiding behind sockpuppets
Glenn Greenwald was on point about David Brock and Media Matters
Glenn Greenwald calls Media Matters founder David Brock a ‘craven, deceitful and amoral scumbag
https://meaww.com/glenn-greenwald-calls-media-matters-founder-david-brock-a-craven-deceitful-and-amoral-scumbag
Be a man, not an NPC troll
My my estovir, a bit riske’ for a man of your righteousness. Careful you dont join the carrion here.
Estovir,
Thank you for posting that Greenwald article.
Explains a lot!
OMG I am the wolfman and live in AZ. My given name is Douglas Wolf so you swung and missed on me and likely all the others too
I was just watching Jake Tapper interview Comer. Tapper acted real skeptically when Comer tried to explain to him the extent of the corruption going on with the Biden family. How much evidence do these dopes in the media need? In my view enough evidence has been produced to show that Joe Biden is corrupt, more corrupt than Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter. Ronald Reagan, none of these Presidents allowed their children or relatives to monetize their offices – to do this is Banana Republic like stuff. In a Banana Republic the Presidents relatives all get rich, and they can’t get arrested for anything either. Ferdinand Marcos must be one of Joe Biden’s heroes, he is doing, and has done stuff, worthy of Marcos. He had the DOJ arrest his top rival for the Presidency on a trumped up charge, he and his son and brother have collected money from Red China, even the grandchildren got in on the “booty”. Joe Biden is doing, and has done, things I’ve never seen done before by a sitting POTUS. Biden deserves to be impeached, we must send a message to future US Presidents and VP’s that you don’t monetize your offices on behalf of your flaky unemployable relatives.
Comer didn’t have evidence. He only has beliefs.
Yea, he “believes” that hunter called joe from dubai because he has evidence
He believes that joe benefitted from hunters earnings because he has evidence,
He believes that hunter and joe comingled funds because he has evidence
He believes that joe met with hunters partners because he has evidence
He believes that hunter was selling access to his father because he has evidence
He believes that hunter was forced to give his father much of his earnings because hunter said so.
He believes joe was involved because he has eyewitness statements, whatsapp messages, and emails that all say he was, all evidence.
I could go on. Tapper is right to be skeptical. The breadth and depth of the alleged corruption is almost hard to believe. What he would not be right in doing is characterizing evidence as allegation because they’re not even categorically the same terms. An allegation is made and evidence is presented to support it. Conflating the two is weak sauce from intellectual lepers.
Comer doesn’t have evidence about Joe Biden taking any inappropriate $.
Nice try
See 2 and 4 above.
Yea, and the state of south carolina doesnt have any evidence that alex murdaugh pointed an ar-15 at his wife and pulled the trigger, discharging several bullets into her body. Not one shred.
Yet he is rotting in jail.
Keep repeating that ignorant statement, as though its even relevant.
But hurry!! There is still time to save Bryan Kohleberger! Call his lawyers and tell then about the “you dont have evidence, its all allegations” defense!!! I dont think they have tries that one.
It was late in the year (2016), Joe wheeled the Vette into the garage and unloaded some boxes onto the floor then hurried into the house. Jill was standing there with the refrigerator door open, starring blankly into the cool void, wondering what she wanted to make for supper. Hi Honey, Joe said, Guess what! I bought Us a Beach House in Rehobot today.
Oh Joe, you can’t be bring home stray Dogs all the time, Jill said, still staring deeply into the Fridge. What am I going to do with a Beach House, We can’t afford the Help around this dump. I don’t know, maybe if you get us some more Venezuelans, I could swing it.
By the way, I balanced the checkbook and found a deposit for $2,744,001 from Hunter’s firm, Did you two do something naughty again?
Joe gave her that sneaky little smile she loved so much, and said; Who Me Dear (?), Heavens No. Just forget about it, It’s all buried in the sand at our new Beach House. … T.B.C.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12649277/Joe-Biden-paid-nearly-2-75million-CASH-Rehoboth-Beach-house-weeks-Hunter-sending-threatening-text-Chinese-business-partner-demanding-close-10million-deal.html
Who are the girls in that car? At least one looks quite underage.
Lets see, if i told the person i was attempting to extort that the person next to me was gonna enforce my extortion, would that make sense, if the person on the other end didnt already know that the third person was involved?
If i hunter had said “milton burle and i are waiting on your call, wouldnt the other person wonder why hunter had gotten milton burle involved?
Oh, but there is no “evidence” that joe was involved.
SMH
“But a comparison of the income reported by Joe from his CelticCapri company on OGE reports versus what he told the IRS, shows a difference of almost $5,180,071 which remains unaccounted for.
The figure is surprisingly similar to the $5 million Joe was allegedly bribed by Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner Ukrainian gas firm Burisma, according to information received by a trusted FBI informant.
In the 2020 write-up of an agent’s interview with the unnamed informant, released by Congress this year, the source claimed that during a meeting with Zlochevsky in 2016 the Ukrainian oligarch boasted about funneling $5 million each to Hunter, who served on the Burisma board at the time, and Joe, via a complex network of offshore accounts.”
BURNED
“… he is doing, and has done stuff, worthy of Marcos. …”
And Jill ‘Giacoppo’ Biden (My lips are sealed) is doing stuff worthy of Imelda Marcos.
Just check her Skeleton & Shoe Closet.
Jimmy Carter did have a big money brother in the form of Billy Beer. LOL
A more appropriate analogy is:
Bill Clinton’s “I did not Inhale” (the marijuana smoke)
with
Joe Biden’s, I do not know about Hunter’s business dealings, “it’s just a bunch of lies. They’re lies. I did not. They’re lies.” (on interacting with his sons business associates).
Indeed, He should have sent in his former Campaign Manager Valerie Biden-Owens to make the statements for him.
I can’t recall the name of the women now but she was well informed about the way the Clintons operated. She told Monica to save the dress and not launder it because if it came out that Bill Clinton had sex with her the Democrats would do everything in their power to destroy her life. When it did come out they did exactly that. Then after constant denial by Bill Clinton that it happened the blue dress was brought down from the shelf in the closet to prove that it was not Monica who was lying but rather the President and his wife who had been covering up for him for years had lied to the American people. With these facts in mind is it any wonder that Hillary Clinton would make up a story about Trump urinating on a bed in Moscow. Her cause was so important that she would do anything and lie about anything to hold on to power. But they say Trump is crazy.
The woman that you are referring to was a female co-worker of the intern that Bill Clinton victimized. A random woman who gave the victim advice that rivaled any white shoe law firm.
They dragged that woman through the mud too.
Another way to put it? Unlike Christine Blasey Ford, she didn’t exactly get the best seat in the faculty lunch room or a lavishly funded Go Fund Me.
Still, the worst part about the Biden family corruption scandal is that it directly implicates millions of dollars that the Bidens received from Ukraine and China.
Ukraine, where Joe bragged about firing the prosecutor. Over which they impeached Trump. Where we are now dragged into an interminable proxy war. And China, our nation’s most important strategic adversary.
Two nations from which the Bidens received millions.
This is the 21st century, Joe Biden is the empire now.
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” ~ Karl Rove, aka ‘The Turd Blossom’
*btw, I don’t believe Epstein killed himself, either.
Linda Tripp
Linda Tripp
The Accusations:
Juanita Broaddrick
Leslie Millwee
Paula Jones
Kathleen Willey
Gennifer Flowers
Monica Lewinsky
Cristy Zercher
Eileen Wellstone
Sandra Allen James
A former professor from the University of Arkansas
Karen Hinton
Sources within the Democratic Party told author and former foreign editor of Newsweek Edward Klein that Clinton was being accused of sexual assault by 4 women. The plaintiffs alleged that the assaults took place shortly after the end of his presidency in the early 2000s, while they were in their late teens. A member of Clinton’s legal team confirmed the existence of new allegations against Clinton
…
Read the details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_sexual_assault_and_misconduct_allegations
Just further proof that: Nobody wants Hillary Clinton, not even Bill Clinton !
Now read even more accusations against Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations
He’s even been found liable for sexual assault in court.
Clinton isn’t running for President (thank goodness). Trump is, and he should be rejected.
All those trump allegations are just as believable as the one where an old man managed to get an erect penis without any stimulation, in the dressing room of a crowded department store, and then managed to slip that penis into the dry vagina of an unwilling victim, standing face to face, with leggings around her knees.
Bwahahahahaha
You laugh at rape. Nice.
No i laugh at the stupidity of the claim, and anyone who buys it. Even a trump hating new york jury didnt buy it.
I laugh at you as well, because you lack enough perception to even realize what i was laughing at.
Lmao right anon, and these are the same goobers who 7 years ago were linking to the pee tape allegations and the rest of the steele dossier.
They fall for it every time!!
Again: Trump was found liable in COURT for sexual assault, by a unanimous jury that included a Trump supporter.
How would you know what occured in that dressing room?
I know what was testified to. Even the jury didnt buy it.
They found him liable for sexual assault, and the type of assault is considered rape in most states.
Conflate away, booger boy. She accused him of putting his penis inside her. The jury found that was not likely, under a preponderance of the evidence.
That makes her a liar. Anything beyond that makes the judgement suspect. You can choose to believe what you want.
Maybe you’d like to name ONE PIECE of compelling evidence that was presented at trial, since u know so much.
It doesn’t make her a liar. It simply means that the jury didn’t find for her unanimously on that count. They did unanimously find that Trump had sexually assaulted her. You ignore his depravity.
As for evidence, there was testimony under oath by three women that he’d sexually assaulted them, and Trump refused to testify under oath, knowing that in a civil trial, the jury can make an adverse inference about the refusal to testify. There was also testimony that Carroll had contemporaneously told a friend about the assault.
The jury found it compelling. It’s irrelevant whether you do.
Its quite relevant that i do. Because that was the topic, not the jury.
Testimony by 3 women of other assaults is not compelling to anyone, unless they also provided one shred of proof. They could be lying just like carroll was. I could line up 3 women tomorrow to swear that you raped them. Tomorrow.
Thanks for the contemporaneous thing. I’ve been waiting for that one thing for awhile.
Tara Reade has all sorts of contemporaneous reports of joe biden sexually assaulting her.
There are all sorts of contemporaneous discussions of joe bidens involvement in hunters business.
Yet the left doesnt find these compelling.
I suppose you find the rape accusation plausible, given the way it was described? Have you ever considered having sex in a public place, and what it would take to pull that off even with a willing partner??? Come on, bro. Do you really want to play the part of a fool?? You would have been a perfect fit for that jury.
By the way, what was the trump supporters name?
You’re missing the point, dick breath. Many of us would be delighted to reject Trump, but not for a drooling, pant’s shitting, spineless, weak imbecile like Joe Biden, and certainly not just to protect you welfare check or get you off the hook for your student loans.
Your list, as long as it is, is missing at least one critical name.
Tara Reade, then a congressional staffer, credibly accused Senator Joe Biden of sexual assault in the Senate Office building. It is distasteful to even have to say out loud, but she alleged that Biden felt her breasts and attempted to penetrate her with his fingers. Ms. Reade’s mother even called in to the Larry King show at the time asking how to find redress against a US Senator for sexually assaulting her daughter. The Dems drug Ms. Reade through the mud too. It’s what they do.
Joe Biden doesn’t exactly have a deep well of credibility to fall back on. Biden was forced out of a presidential race for plagiarism. He falsely claimed that he graduated in the top half of his law school class (what a horrible thing to have to lie about, wouldn’t you think?). And of course that poor truck driver Biden drug through the mud for political expedience.
And now Joe Biden is caught red handed. Once again.
Biden’s conduct is like Bill Clinton’s semen stain on the intern’s blue dress. Except that the Biden family corruption implicates America’s national security in Ukraine and China.
Tried and true tactic of all unprincipled, unscrupulous scoundrels… deny everything and make counter allegations. Some even convince themselves that what they say is actual truth… I suspect Biden is in this category. He cannot afford to disbelieve his counter-factuals.
That’s why Joe Biden chooses truth over ‘counter-factuals’.
‘It’s all a bunch of lies’ .. .
*whatever it ‘is’ ~ Bill Clinton
Biden clearly lied when he denied knowledge of his son’s business operations, and he has continued to lie during his presidency.
Perhaps I’m wrong, but this is as forceful as I’ve seen JT describe Biden’s corruption. He always seemed to try to avoid using the words, “lie, liar, lying” and now it seems obvious to me that JT has finally reached his limit. Good for him.
I think what we should keep in mind is that Turley knows things that we don’t. He mentions the audiotapes again as if he is certain they exist. He hints at other evidence that has not been made public. Dont forget that he has been in pretty constant contact with the principles in the House, as a legal consultant.
I dont think he’d be going after joe biden this hard if he didnt know they have the goods.
Tom, JT doesn’t need special knowledge to know that Biden has been lying from the start. Additionally, there is no mysterious evidence needed that will finally prove the Biden crime family exists. All he needed was the courage to say it out loud.
Agreed. My point was that its starting to look like comer is not the dumb kentucky redneck he’s been accused of being. I think they have the goods and he’s setting everyone up, including jake tapper. I could be wrong, but there are tea leaves.
🤙
Furthermore, i believe the pubs, if they do indeed have the goods, are dragging this out for one reason, and its a good one.
Kamala Harris
Dear Prof Turley,
“There is no improper relationship” ~ Bill Clinton
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the—if he—if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. … Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.”
How dare you compare the follies and indiscretions of Slick Willy with the deranged, psychopathic, in-your-face autocratic and catastrophic rule of demented Joe Biden .. . it’s not in the same ball park, it’s not even the same game.
*Clinton was a Rhodes scholar ffs.
cory booker was a rhodes scholar, too, what’s your point?
My point was Joe Biden gets lost on stage, speaks in strange, often incoherent, tongues and is, I believe, a deranged psychopath with a lot of blood on his hands who presents a clear and present danger – not just to the U.S., but to the whole world.
The truth ain’t in him.
*you have to go back to late 1800s/early 1900s to find a Republican Rhodes scholar .. . what’s your point?
Republicans went out and worked, built America. They didn’t try to tear down that what was good about America.
People of all parties went out and worked and built America. Most people don’t try to tear down what’s good about America. Trump, though, is trying to tear down our Constitution, which is part of what’s good about America.
Please explain how Trump “is trying to tear down our Constitution.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constitution-truth-social/index.html
Not only did he claim that the 2020 election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” but he argues against other elements of the Constitution, such as the free exercise clause, and he claims that he wants to be a dictator on Day 1 if he wins the 2024 election. He had his lawyers argue that he didn’t take an oath to support the Constitution. All you have to do to answer your question is pay attention to what he’s saying.
Hey Bot,
Go back and read the CNN article and don’t try to spin it. Just reread it.
Second point you tried to spin.
You are promising America tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?” Hannity asked.
“Except for Day One,” Trump said.
When asked to clarify, Trump said he would use the presidency to close the border and increase oil drilling in the U.S.
Sheila Jackson Lee, Hillary Clinton, Cory Booker and Bill Clinton all graduated from Yale. Wow!
You raise a great point.
Not only did Bill Clinton deny his misconduct, both Bill and Hillary tried to destroy the young woman that was the victim of Bill’s sexual predation. Bill only admitted to it because they found his semen on the young woman’s dress. Yes, its distasteful to say it, but it’s true.
The Bidens are following the Clinton’s “ethical” playbook. The main difference being the Joe Biden has never held a candle to Bill Clinton’s intelligence. Even in Biden’s best days. Which are far behind him.
Bill was preoccupied with getting his rocks off.
The Biden family’s misconduct is directly related to Ukraine where we are fighting a major proxy war. And China, our greatest strategic foe. Joe Biden’s misconduct threatens to destroy a nation.
Addendum:
“… The Biden family’s misconduct is directly related to Ukraine where …” People are being Killed and Dying because of the War the CIA manufactured.
Putin invaded Ukraine. The CIA didn’t manufacture the war in Ukraine.
Spoken like a simpleton, who has no understanding of the world.
Indeed you are.
Because the US renigged on a 30 year old commitment not to bring NATO to withing 1000 miles of Russia.
John, there is no hope for some of these people. They don’t know their history and do not understand the dynamics involved. Do they realize the deals made when Germany was reunited? Do they ask themselves why Austria is not a member of NATO? There are only four Nato countries in Europe that border Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Finland. Belarus and Ukraine create deep borders from Russia and Moscow.
The CIA may have a role in this – but this is a Clinton/Obama/Biden disaster.
Ukraine would be SLOWLY creeping towards being a more paletable country, had These democratic stooges, not backe3d a Coup, and then engaged in reckless and threatening talk about joining Nato.
Are you old enough to recall that the US nearly started WWIII over Russia staging military forces at the US border ?
Ever heard oif the Cuban Missle Crisis ?
Not only did Bill Clinton deny his misconduct, both Bill and Hillary tried to destroy the young woman that was the victim of Bill’s sexual predation. Bill only admitted to it because they found his semen on the young woman’s dress. Yes, its distasteful to say it, but it’s true.
The Bidens are following the Clinton’s “ethical” playbook. The main difference being the Joe Biden has never held a candle to Bill Clinton’s intelligence. Even in Biden’s best days. Which are far behind him.