Below is my (slightly updated) column in the New York Post on three myths being widely repeated in the Biden impeachment inquiry. These false narratives have been eagerly repeated in the media despite lacking legal or factual support. In the interest of interjecting a modicum of reality into this debate, here is why these defenses are illusory.
Here is the column:
With the formal approval of the impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Joe Biden, the alarm and denial in Washington has reached an almost hysterical level.
Despite overwhelming evidence of a corrupt Biden family influence-peddling operation worth millions of dollars, not a single Democratic member voted for an inquiry into the allegations.
Nearly 70% of voters (and 40% of Democrats) believe Biden has acted unlawfully or unethically or both.
Yet every Democrat voted to stop any further inquiry.
Even in our blindly partisan times, that is no easy rationalization.
That’s why members are repeating three myths like a mantra on the Hill.
They’ll likely continue as the House moves to compel testimony of key parties.
When I testified at the first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing months ago, I said the threshold for an inquiry was obviously satisfied by the evidence of these massive payments and the contradictions of the president’s past claims.
Indeed, at least four articles of impeachment could be established if the House confirms critical facts.
That is the point of an inquiry: to compel not impeachment but answers. That’s why I encouraged the House to hold this formal vote.
Three myths, however, will have to be set aside.
Joe Biden did not benefit from the influence peddling
After years of suppressing this scandal, the media and even some Democrats now admit Hunter Biden and his uncles have long been involved in influence peddling.
The United States has led global efforts to criminalize and deter this common form of corruption for years.
Recent testimony from Biden associates confirmed they were selling “the Biden Brand” and Joe Biden regularly called into meetings and met with business associates.
The last line of defense has been to argue that while millions may have been sent to Biden family members in raw influence peddling, there is no evidence Joe actually benefited from the money as opposed to his children, brothers and grandchildren.
This false narrative is being repeated despite the fact courts have rejected this claim in actual criminal cases.
Not only have payments to children and other family members been viewed as benefits to a defendant, but the same is true in impeachments.
I served as lead counsel in the last judicial impeachment tried before the Senate.
My client, Judge G. Thomas Porteous, had been impeached by the House for, among other things, benefits received by his children, including gifts related to a wedding.
It’s about Hunter Biden’s addictions, not actions
Democrats are again insisting that a complex, multimillion-dollar influence-peddling operation was simply the product of Hunter being a blacked-out drug addict for years.
The argument obviously cuts both ways.
Even if Hunter was some addict thinking only about his next fix, it only highlights that these foreign figures were giving millions for access to his father, not the advice or expertise of his son.
But Hunter’s own counsel has undermined this claim by arguing in Hunter’s gun case that he had emerged from his addiction just in time to sign the allegedly false gun form.
Much of the misconduct occurred when Hunter was, by his own lawyers’ account, suddenly clear-headed and responsible.
The evidence belies claims that Hunter was not responsible for these transactions or the underlying influence peddling.
It shows a knowing, organized effort with the involvement of his uncles and, in some cases, his father.
The effort to portray Hunter as some purse-snatching junkie does not fit the evidence as he flies around the world to meet with corrupt figures and secure millions.
It’s all about Hunter’s truck
The latest myth is particularly maddening.
The House Oversight Committee released new evidence showing payments to the president out of Hunter’s business accounts.
The committee used the payments to show these business accounts were being used for personal payments and there was an intermingling of funds.
Democrats and the media immediately latched onto payments where Hunter was allegedly paying back loans to help pay for his truck.
Members told the Ways and Means Committee this was merely “a father’s love” and not anything impeachable.
It’s a cynical effort to focus on a few thousand dollars while ignoring the millions the committees detailed in months of investigation.
Democratic members make it sound like the impeachment inquiry is based on a couple alleged truck payments. It is not.
The truck payments are a handful among dozens of transfers found from these accounts to Hunter or his family members.
The point is the proceeds of influence peddling may have been used to pay back the president, who was supporting his family members.
Dollars are fungible. The money in these accounts were intermingled with personal expenses, including payments to Hunter’s father.
Once again, President Biden would be viewed as benefiting from the millions of dollars going to his family even without direct payments.
The question is his knowledge and involvement — not those benefits.
That not a single Democrat is demanding answers about this corruption is disappointing but hardly surprising.
But Biden is now facing an impeachment inquiry that will finally demand answers, not myths, on the Biden family’s influence-peddling operation.
Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
I could care in the least if President Biden is impeached, just that he is gone along with all sycophants of the Democratic Party in2024!
I plead for your forgiveness for the length of this post.
Plato [Warped Minds, Warped Societies] (564 ‘d’):
“….Let’s assume that there are three distinct components to a democratically governed community-as in fact there are. First, its openness allows the drone element to develop within it, and in this respect, it resembles an oligarchy.
True.
But this element is far more vigorous in a democracy than an oligarchy.
Why?
In an oligarch it isn’t given any respect and is excluded from political office, so it never gets a chance to flex its muscles and become strong. In almost all democracies, however, it is the leading element: its most vigorous member make speeches, and do thing, while the rest settle in a buzzing swarm around the rostra and prevent anyone presenting alternative point of view, and consequently the government of a democratic community is almost entirely in the hands of this element,
Yes indeed, he said,
Now, the second element is constantly being propagated by the inhabitants.
What is it?
Although everyone is trying to make money, it’s invariably the most disciplined people who do best financially.
That’s likely.
They’re a rich source of honey for the drones, I should think it’s very easy for them to siphon it off from there.
Well, it’s hardly possible to siphon it from the have-not’s, he remarked.
And this element, the drones’ fodder, is called the moneyed class.
That sounds about right, he said.
The third element would be the general populace-the smallholders, who don’t spend all their time on politics and don’t have a great deal of property. They form the largest section of the population, and when they gather in one spot, they are the most authoritative group in a democracy.
True, he said. But they tend not to gather very often, unless there’s honey to be gained.
And they always get it, I said. Those champions of theirs do their very best to rob the rich and distribute the trivial amount they don’t keep for themselves to the general populace.
Yes, that’s how they get their honey, he said.
Their victims are forced to defend themselves, I suppose, by making speeches to the people and acting wherever possible.
Of course.
And then they’re accused by the democratic leaders of plotting against the people and of being oligarchs, even if revolution is the last thing on their minds.
Of course.
Ultimately, when they realize that the populace at large is out to wrong them, not because it really wants to, but because in it ignorance it’s been misled by the lies and slanders of their opponents, then-and only then – they do in fact willy-nilly become oligarchs, It’s not that they really want to, but the drones stings inject this poison into their systems as well, to grow inside them.
That’s undeniable.
And the result is that the two sides turn to arraignments, lawsuits, and trial about each other’s conduct.
Yes.
And aren’t the people always given to setting up a particular individual as their special champion, who under their caring nurture grows to a prodigious size?
Yes, they do tend to do that.
It’s clear, then, I said, that this champion is the only possible root from which any dictatorial shoot that appears is bound to have grown….
….That anyone who tastes even a single morsel of the human entrails mixed in among those of other sacrificial offerings is bound to become a wolf….”
That not a single Democrat is demanding answers about this corruption is disappointing but hardly surprising.
Democrats lost voters like me when we came to admit they had become unreasonably good liars. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, Democrat, would be disgusted at what has become of his party. Democrats can no longer surprise ex-Democrats like me in how they make Richard Nixon look amateurish in his stonewalling with Watergate. Thus it is not surprising that Democrats today, true racists, Nazis, anti-semites, and destroyers of children, families and American institutions, defend the indefensible: the Biden Manchurian presidency. To wit, the issue of bodily mutilation of children harkens back to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Holmes in ruling Buck vs. Bell, for eugenics. The WSJ published an editorial by a gay endocrinologist on the subject of Trans, children and the politicizations therein. Dems did this to children just like the Reichstag of Nazi Germany passed the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring in 1933.
Behind a paywall, so I will provide the entire article with proper citation.
Most ‘Transgender’ Kids Turn Out to Be Gay
Subjecting them to medical interventions is the modern-day version of ‘conversion therapy.’
By Roy Eappen, MD
Dec. 14, 2023
As a medical professional who happens to be gay, I’ll be celebrating Dec. 15, the 50th anniversary of the American Psychiatric Association’s decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. The longstanding designation was based on prejudice, not medical research, and the revision marked the beginning of the end for so-called conversion therapy, which sought to “cure” gays and lesbians of a nonexistent malady.
Half a century later, the medical establishment is pushing a new kind of conversion therapy under the guise of transgender identity. No one is suffering more than gay kids. In Canada, where I practice, and in the U.S., physicians provide what’s euphemistically known as “gender-affirming care” to patients as young as 8, and the leading transgender health association has opened the door to interventions at even earlier ages. Under this framework, those who feel uncomfortable with their bodies may receive a medical regimen including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex-change surgeries. These interventions typically stunt, remove or irreversibly modify a patient’s sexual development, genitals and secondary sex characteristics. Any endocrinologist or other physician who rejects this approach is alleged to be endangering the health and even the life of his patients.
But are these patients really “transgender”? Research shows that some 80% of children with “gender dysphoria” eventually come to terms with their sex without surgical or pharmaceutical intervention. Multiple studies have found that most kids who are confused or distressed about their sex end up realizing they’re gay—nearly two-thirds in a 2021 study of boys. This makes sense: Gay kids often don’t conform to traditional sex roles. But gender ideology holds that feminine boys and masculine girls may be “born in the wrong body.”
In this light, “gender-affirming care” looks a lot like conversion therapy. In the past, it took the form of electroshock therapy, chemical castration and even lobotomy. Now it takes the form of rendering teenagers sterile and sexually dysfunctional for life. Clinicians from the main U.K. transgender service referred to prescribing puberty blockers as “transing the gay away”—a play on the description of old-fashioned conversion-therapy as “praying the gay away.” A clinician who resigned from the U.K. service accused it of “institutional homophobia.” Clinicians at the service had a “dark joke” that “there would be no gay people left at the rate Gids”—the Gender Identity Service—“was going.”
Consistent with conversion therapy, physicians are telling young gays and lesbians that something is wrong with them, based on a regressive view of what it is to be male or female. Also consistent with previous efforts to cure homosexuality: The resulting interventions often create lifelong medical problems, both physical and mental. Contrary to advocates’ claims, there’s no evidence that puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgeries reduce the risk of suicide.
Children who take this road face a lifetime of pain, infertility and anguish. They deserve real mental-health care to address common underlying comorbidities, not mind- and body-altering medical interventions that try to make them into something they aren’t.
Fifty years ago, the medical assault on homosexuals began to end. Now society has been told that accepting transgender identity is the same as accepting gays and lesbians. But it isn’t. Even well-intentioned acceptance of transgender identity disproportionately harms them. One day perhaps professional organizations like the Endocrine Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics will follow the evidence, as the APA did in 1973. Until then, gay kids will continue to suffer from an injustice that was supposed to end 50 years ago.
Dr. Eappen is a practicing endocrinologist in Montreal and a senior fellow at Do No Harm.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/most-transgender-kids-turn-out-to-be-gay-gender-affirming-care-conversion-therapy-58111b2e
Estovir,
The gay community has steadfastly refused to allow research or discussion of the underlying causes of homosexuality.
I do not have the answers, but they do matter, because the answers have implications.
If homosexuality (and/or transexualism) are genetic – then they would be very strongly regulated by natural selection.
They might increase as life expectancy increases, but they would decrease as birth rates decline.
The survival of the species is not merely an instinctual driver, it is also a fact of mathematics and genetics.
Regardless, a genetic origen for homosexuality would naturally limit homosexuality -= if not entirely breed it out.
Conversely if homosexuality is a choice, then choices can be made differently.
If it is a product of environment – environment can be changed.
I do not personally have a problem with homosexuality. But I do have a problem with being deliberately blind.
The gay community has steadfastly refused to allow research or discussion of the underlying causes of homosexuality.
John, I have told people, including gays/lesbians, that there is no “gay community” only a “gay population”. Same applies to every other group under the sun: Americans, Jews, Asians, etc. There does not exist a monolithic gay (or American, Jewish, Asian, etc.) voice, thus there is no invisible (gay?) hand that dictates or refuses research on anything. IIRC, there was a claim made by a homosexual researcher years ago who allegedly discovered the “gay gene”. It was all falsified.
Im not going to go into explaining genetics on this forum. It is a complex topic and beyond the understanding of most physicians never mind laymen. Homosexuality is not genetic. That which is not capable of reproducing succumbs to extinction. Homosexuality comes from heterosexuals. Heterosexuals create homosexuals. IMO, homosexuality is the result of trauma. Andrew Sullivan and I had this conversation over 20 years ago at an HIV conference. He has written as such, but I dont keep up with his writings. Regardless of the origins/genesis of homosexuality, it is a cross that gays and lesbians carry, not a choice. Most gays are regular people. Some are awful people but then again same goes for every group under the sun.
Jonathan: The House impeachment inquiry is an exercise in futility. There is no chance the Senate will convict Pres. Biden. Senator Chuck Grassely, who is conducting a parallel investigation, says he has seen no evidence that Biden has committed “high crimes and misdemeanors”.
That said, let’s discuss the actual impeachment inquiry resolution that just passed in the House. It tracks the exact language in the Dem 2019 resolution in its investigation of DJT. But the just passed GOP version leaves out some important language contained in the 2019 resolution.
For example, the GOP version excludes the words “open and transparent”. Where the 2019 resolution said there “shall” be open hearings, the GOP version substitutes “may”. That means it is at Comer’s discretion whether to hold public hearings. Also, the 2019 Dem resolution said “The Permanent Select Committee is directed to issue a report setting forth its findings”. In the House Republican version it says Comer’s Committee “may” issue a report. Small changes but significant as to whether Comer is really interested in an open and transparent investigation.
Months ago Comer said he would welcome Hunter Biden to testify in an open session. Now Comer has changed his mind. This week Hunter stood in front of the Capitol and said he welcomed the opportunity to testify in public. Comer doesn’t like that idea. He wants Hunter to first give a deposition behind closed doors and he “may” later have Hunter testify in open session. Comer is really not interest in “transparency”. Like the deposition of Devon Archer, Comer wants to cherry-pick the deposition of Hunter to fit his false narrative.
What is Comer afraid of? Under House rules Comer could suspend the “5 minute rule” to permit unlimited questioning of Hunter. That would permit the truth and nothing but the truth to come out. That is what Comer is afraid of! The Comer investigation is not really about actually impeaching Biden but serving the interests of DJT who thinks an ongoing investigation of the Biden family next year will muddy the waters and enhance his chances of getting re-elected. That’s really what this investigation is about.
Good politics! Sounds like DJT not only has your head, he has a good plan for keeping us from suffering 4 more years of Biden
Dennis, how is your vhs copy of the pee tape? Worn out yet?
That is not what Grassley said. He specifically state that “I’m going to take the same position I’ve taken since 2019 that all I can say is there some indication of maybe some compromise with China particularly, but I have no evidence of it.”
With respect to Sen. Grassely Prof. Turley should add Grassley’s argument to his list of myth’s.
There is absolutely Zero doubt at this point that Hunter and James Biden were selling influence. More specifically their ability by leveraging Joe Biden in his government role at any given time to deliver through the use of public power on the demands of their clients.
The question Grassely raises – one that is appropriate to an impeachment inquiry, is Did Hunter and James deliver what they were selling ?
There are only two choices – yes and no.
If you answer Yes, you have accepted that Joe Biden was part of a bribery scheme.
If you answer No, then you have James and Hunter committing fraud to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
AND you have to beleive that the victims of James and Hunter’s fraud never caught on.
Dennis,
The democratic impeachment inquiry was NOT Open and Transparent.
All you are doing is pointing out that democrats LIED in 2019.
While democrats conduct has been more egregious since. The FACT is that in every matter that you raise regarding Republican conduct since 2022, Republicans have ACTED dramatically better than democrats did prior.
There has absolutely been some retaliation against democrats – specifically for the abuses of democrats when in power in the house.
But that has been quite small overall.
Further – while I want Republicans to do better – because that is in the interests of the country.
I have ZERO Sympathy for democrats – or for YOU.
You reap what you sew.
Republicans have NOT treated democrats as good government requires.
But they have treated democrats far better than their own actions deserve.
John Say: You claim the Democratic impeachment inquiry DJT in 2019 was “NOT open and transparent”. Let’s look at the facts. DJT infamous phone call to President Zelensky was on 7/25/2019. The House authorized a formal impeachment inquiry in late September. The House voted to begin public hearings on 10/31. 6 public hearings were held starting on 11/13. Twelve witnesses testified. They were all “open and transparent”. A final report was issued on 12/3. On 12/18 DJT was impeached. So it took about 4 months for the process to be completed.
In contrast Jim Comer began his investigation of the Biden family 11 months ago. His first public hearing was not held until Sept. 28. And it was not until this week that the House voted to formalize the Biden impeachment inquiry. Devon Archer, a key witness, gave a deposition on 7/23. Has Comer announced a public hearing in which Archer could testify? Nope. Hunter Biden has offered to testify at a public hearing but Comer has refused.
Comer has held a lot of press conferences and issued subpoenas but has not announced any more public hearings. So who is hiding the ball? Who is not being “open and transparent”? It’s Jim Comer, not the Dems back in 2019!
The impeachment procedings against Biden – like both of those against Trump and like the various legal attacks on Trump are ALL entirely political. None of them have any chance – nor even intention of leading to actual justice.
It is highly unlikely that Biden will be removed by the senate.
I would not even bet on a senate trial.
Will all hearings be public – absolutely not. Though far more than democrats in impeaching Trump
Nor should they be.
But ultimately the audience for the Biden impeachment inquiry is not the senate, but the american public.
The impeachment inquiry will be fruitless if republicans draw conclusions without persuading voters.
And that is done in public, not secret.
The same is true of the Trump legal battles – and that is why democrats are losing those.
It is likely that the evidence against Biden will grow with further inquiry.
Regardless it will not diminish and there is already enough for most of the country to vote to impeach try and remove.
But the real impeachment trial of Joe Biden will occur in Nov. 2024 – if he makes it that long.
And that is the jury that House republicans are appealing to.
The same is true of the Trump trials – and those are faring far worse.
Unlike Biden – we have all the evidence regarding Trump. It is highly unlikely that consequential new evidence will emerge.
We will see months of fighting over procedural issues. These are getting democrats NOWHERE.
Like Biden’s impeachment inquiry where the senate is unlikely to sit as a jury, the prosecutors, judges, are not going to empannel a jury to judge Trump.
The Jury is already selected – it is US – voters. Trump and Biden. That is who the house and the DOJ are playing to.
And Biden and democrats are losing the fight.
This is your big argument ? That after Hunter is deposed, there might not be a public hearing ? That maybe the committe will just release the transcript ?
You do understand that it is just as easy to cherry pick public testimony as private ?
You do understand that it is NOT cherry picking when both republicans and democrats fail to cite testimony by Archer that contradicts the damning sections ?
Here is the link to Archer’s entire testimony. Go ahead find where Archer contradicted what is repeatedly cited.
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Devon-Archer-Transcript.pdf
Do you need video too ? Or is the testimony only plausible if it is done infront of the Senate entrance and not under oath ?
Updated 12/15 13:37 Lefty Wall of Shame aka The Lefty Turd Farm
(I decided to keep the name because bug expressed that he really liked it)
Two new additions…enjoy
The quid has to be illegal for a quid pro quo to be illegal—-*Elvis bug aka The Lawn boy
If Joe’s quid results in Hunter’s quo, that’s not illegal—-*Elvis Bug aka The Lawn Boy
Inflation was on a rising trend from 2015 until Trump left office—-Elvis Bug aka The Lawn Boy
(1.3, 2.2, 2.5, 1.9, 1.3)
Comer said that the mere presence of shell companies is *proof* of a crime—-Svelass aka Mr. Peetape
Hunter Biden showed up for his hearing today—–Svelass aka Mr. Peetape
Hunter Biden agreed to testify to a public hearing—–Gigi the LIAR
(who did he agree with?)
The Consumer Price Index was indeed at 7.6% when Trump left office—–Elvis Bug aka The Lawn Boy (it was 1.4%)
Archer gave no details about the meeting at the Naval Observatory with Marc Holtzman—-Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Archer had no idea what was on those phone calls. He admitted it under oath—Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Evidence isnt permissible unless its incontrovertible—-ATS
Circumstantial evidence alone is not enough to convict——Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Republicans are the only ones calling for violence these days—-Dennis
Democrats call for violence when the cause is right—-Dennis in the same post
Gas prices spiked because Texas uses crude oil to make electricity—-Gigi the LIAR
AR-15’s ruin the meat—-Dennis
The inflation rate was 8% when Trump left office—-Gigi the LIAR
(it was actually 1.4%)
Biden only released the strategic oil reserve once—-Svelass Mr Peetape
Archer never said it was Joe that was called from Dubai—-ATS
The State of Florida does property tax “appraisals”—-Svelass Mr Peetape
You can’t convict without incontrovertible proof—ATS
Trump was convicted of rape—Svelass Mr. Peetape
The Jefferson County school board has a supermajority of republicans—-lawn boy EB
Trumps attorney forgot to “check a box”——Dennis
An insult or name calling is not a personal attack—-Svelass Mr. Peetape
The DC NG answers only to the President—-Gigi the LIAR
Christianity teaches to treat your fellow man the same way you treat Jesus—-Svelass Mr Peetape
The ideal athlete is 6’2” and 175#—-Dennis
There is no way a fat person can shoot a 67 in golf—-Dennis
“Bright red Alabama is the “wild west”,” (when its bright blue Birmingham that accounts for 95% of the gun violence in Alabama)—-Dennis
That’s why McCarthy didn’t hold a vote. He was going to, but upon realizing he didn’t have the votes he chose not to hold one.—-Mr Peetape
McCarthy never said he didn’t have the votes.—-Mr Peetape.
*These statements are attributed to the booger eater, because they were posted by a green anonymous. If that clown wants to step up and claim ownership, I will change attribution.
OT. Boston’s first non-white and female mayor got caught being a segregationist when her aid sent invitations to a Christmas party for City Council “electeds of color” (don’t you love that term) to the entire City Council by mistake. The mayor then apologized…for sending the invitations to the white members!!!! No apology for having a segregated party. She went on to say that she will be having a party for the full council too. So I guess the “electeds of color” get two parties and the whites just get one.
One bit of irony is that across the river from Boston sits Harvard where the mayor, Michelle Wu, would NOT be considered a minority if she applied there. At Harvard Asians are white, Jews are white and Palestinians and other Arabs seem to get in by the truckload, if the marches and parades are any indication.
Another bit of irony is that if you told Mayor Wu that she would have loved George Wallace she would probably have no idea what you are talking about.
Wait, there is more irony…..her plus 1 was WHITE
Give that lady a free dinner at the French Laundry… Rules for thee and none for me
As I mentioned yesterday. I wonder what would happen if Mattie Parker, the white Republican mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, held a white’s only holiday party and on top of that, sent invitations to every city employee…
AOC’s head would literally explode, for one thing. Spilling her walnut sized brain into the rotunda.
NBC reporter: AOC, what do you think about Roe vs Wade?
AOC: Well, it’s the only two options for migrants to cross the river.
“…SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY…”
– PREAMBLE
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AMERICAN FREEDOM PERSISTED FOR A MERE 71 YEARS, UNTIL LINCOLN DESTROYED IT
THE CONSTITUTION WAS INTENDED TO PREVAIL IN PERPETUITY
AS WAS THE IMMIGRATION LAW OF THE FOUNDERS, PASSED WITHIN THE YEAR OF THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798 and 1802 (four clear iterations)
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…
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Workers could enter the U.S. to accept employment…
BUT NOT TO VOTE.
THE VOTE WAS EMINENTLY IMPORTANT; THE VOTE WAS CRITICAL TO THE FOUNDERS.
Lincoln boned your grandmama
Did I hit a nerve, Hon?
The truth can be harsh and difficult for some.
I am certain you will learn to cope and adapt.
And thanks for continuing to read and provide your patronage.
HUNTER KNOWS THE “BIG GUY” IS HIS FATHER
“My father was not financially involved in my business — not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of Burisma, not my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not my investments at home nor abroad. And certainly not as an artist.”
– Hunter Biden, December 14, 2023
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“10 held by H for the big guy?”
– Hunter Biden’s Business Partners On Abandoned Hunter Biden Laptop, 2019
Professor Turley,
Would it violate your FREE SPEECH principles if it were set up where one person would be limited to one post and two replies per topic?
It would force some to think before they speak and cut down on all the useless trash talking.
BTW, I enjoy reading your daily articles.
Straight from the Dennis troll farm, another idiot that thinks that Turley reads this mindless drool.
SMH
Anonymous, you know what would help…if you created a real name! TOO MANY ANONYMOUS CLOWNS.
There are TOO MANY CLOWNS with NAMES. Being Anonymous, means you are not on a team that always “like” each other. Being Anonymous, the readers will read your comments because they know who the trash talkers are.
At least if someone, maybe me, is a “clown with a name” people can ignore said clown. But you freaks that need to remain as one of many “Anonomous” critters are just weird.
Hey “Anonymous”, why do you think no site in the world would allow 2, 3, 10 or 100 Hullbobbys’? Because it is confusing, misleading and non-productive.
Create a name and do something positive.
Steaming turd ^^^^
The phrase “steaming turd” goes against the Civility Rules.
How so? That comment is specifically directed at the comment, not the commenter. Would you care to name exactly how the rules were violated, or did you really just drop another steaming turd?
All being anonymous means is that anonymous posts have no identity.
Therefore they have no credibility but for what they can create inside the post.
A lack of identity means no history – no reputation, no means of distinguishing one anonymous post from another or of establishing relations between them.
Anonymity is a right – with respect to the govenrment, but it comes at significant cost.
You are free to be anonymous. But it comes with the presumption that YOU are one of the trash talkers.
Confession through projection.
I post as Jbsay – the only “team” I am on is my own.
I spend more time disagreeing with posters than agreeing – because it is not as important to echo a correct view as to rebut an incorrect one.
I spend more time disgreeing with those on the left because they are wrong more and more egregiously wrong.
Not because they are not on my team or because those I do not respond to are on my team.
Regardless, truth is NOT about teams.
What is so disturbing about the current moment is that the left has relatively rapidly become so extremely wrong and so extremely disconnected from reality so fast.
Over the course of my lifetime the right has changed very little.
The BIG changes on the right in my lifetime are the significantly diminished power of the religious right,
the significantly diminished power of neocons,
A slight shift to a more libertarian conservative core,
and a significant increase in the appeal to the working class.
The latter has MOSTLY come without changing values or policies.
It has mostly occured because the gradual rise in standard of living over my lifetime has made the working class much more successful and self sufficient and less interested in handouts than freedom.
But there has been some GOP policy shift towards the working class.
These are all significant changes – but they are NOT big changes.
If anything the GOP is much more centerist than in the past.
At the same time Democrats have moved pretty hard left pretty fast.
After the 20th century it should be without question that socialism – even socialism light is a bad idea.
Throughout the world over the past century socialism in all forms has FAILED.
In its strongest forms it has failed BLOODILY.
In its weakest, it has left nations to fall behind their peers.
Conversely political and economic freedom have transformed positively everything in the world they have touched over the same time period.
Yet modern democrats are not merely embracing socialism in a way that has not been seen on this scale in the US,
but they are embracing it in fairly malignant form.
History tells us this ends badly.
John i apologize. I’ve called you long winded before. What i have found is that you are just more willing to spell things out such that a juvenile mind can understand. I lack that patience because i am used to dealing with people with exceptional IQ’s. I assume these, ahem, people are feigning ignorance and idiocy, but i’m starting to think yours is the correct assessment. I appreciate your willingness to explain it in terms that an 8th grader can comprehend. Well done sir.
Civility Rule
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This blog is committed to the principles of free speech and, as a consequence, we do not ban people simply because we disagree with them. Indeed, we value different perspectives and do not want to add another “echo chamber” to the Internet where we each repeat or amplify certain views. However, the Turley blog was created with a strong commitment to civility, a position that distinguishes us from many other sites.
– Professor Turley
Our Leader – Can Not Be Trusted
His Son – Can Not Be Trusted
His Brothers – Can Not Be Trusted
His Sister – Can Not Be Trusted
His Wife – Can Not Be Trusted
His Party – Can Not Be Trusted
Seize the Moment – Seize them All
True for those who think Trump is their leader. His sister died. Don’t forget his daughter and son-in-law.
So that gives the Biden’s the right to sell out America?
It’s not that he has the right. We just want to keep our dead babies, high inflation, high interest rates, 85,000 more IRS agents, genital mutilation of minors, men playing womens sports, and drag queen story hour.
Carpe Dims!
It’s highly amusing when Turley talks about hysterical levels. The Professor has spent Biden’s entire presidency making allegations of massive influence peddling. This year, Turley has posted 65 separate attacks on Joe & Hunter. JT ushered in 2023 by salivating over the prospect of “the details of one of the largest & most lucrative influence-peddling operations in history could be made public.”
On March 19, Turley boldly proclaimed: “What is also clear is that the Bidens ran one of the most lucrative and blatant influence peddling operations in history.”
But that bold, confident declaration quickly vanished when Turley testified under oath at the House Oversight Committee’s public hearing on September 28th. He reluctantly admitted “We simply don’t know, and we don’t even know if this was an illusion or not…whether Joe Biden had knowledge, whether he participated, whether he encouraged it.” Of course, that didn’t stop Marjorie Taylor Greene from filing articles of impeachment against Biden on his 2nd day in office. House Republicans have filed 17 articles of impeachment against Biden over the past 3 years.
Turley insists the Biden impeachment inquiry isn’t propelled by blatant partisanship. Turley strongly opposed Trump’s second impeachment trial despite the fact that 10 House Republicans voted to impeach Trump & 7 Senate Republicans voted to convict Trump. So if House Republicans vote to impeach Biden, the American public will finally see whether or not the final vote tally is entirely propelled by blatant partisanship, right JT?
Steaming turd ^^^^
” Of course, that didn’t stop Marjorie Taylor Greene from filing articles of impeachment against Biden on his 2nd day in office.
Again, the Republicans are playing by the rules invented by . . .Democrats!
She could have saved us 11 months!!!
We should look at other countries to see our future. Here are a couple of bullet points from an article. That is what happens when there are open borders.
Daily Jihad in France
From the murder of Sébastien Sellam in 2003 to that of Mireille Knoll in 2018, all murders of Jews in France have been committed by radicalized Muslims.
Shouting “we are coming to kill white people”, they attacked, murdering Thomas Perotto, aged 17, who had his throat slit. Seventeen other people were wounded, some seriously. Criminologist Xavier Raufer, asked about the attack, replied that raids like that take place throughout the country every week.
74% of Muslims between the ages of 18 and 25 in France say they place Islamic sharia law above the laws of the French Republic.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20220/france-jihad
S. Meyer, thanks to Muslims we have seen with our own eyes, either live or on video, people jumping our of the 100th floor in order to try to save themselves from fire, people being flown into buildings on purpose, people getting their heads cut off, people being drowned in cages, people being burned in cages and now women being mutilated, women being raped, babies being put into ovens and young girls being carted off in jeeps full of men.
We have never witnessed ANY of these things before Muslims started their war on civilization and now we see these nightmarish events happening more often than imaginable.
Biden was not in office during this time. There is nothing illegal or unethical or unethical about a private citizen doing this. There is no evidence that Biden did anything wrong.
Poor Sammy.
Do you really believe that or is that the best talking points you got from your handlers?
Look, we can break it down for you…
The actions took place during Biden’s tenure as VP.
The reason you don’t see charges is that the DoJ somehow let the statutes of limitation run their course.
Do you still want to keep playing?
-G
I share Senator Mullin’s (R-Okla) concern about impeaching President Biden for actions he took earlier as VP (not as President). I’m not sure if JT has specifically addressed that issue.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4362208-gop-senator-says-biden-cant-be-impeached-for-pre-presidential-actions/
Wrong Biden was in office and he still had all his security clearance
When you want to take a break from playing with the trolls, watch this interview with Kash Patel. You’ll quickly realize, as bad as the Biden Crime Family is, there is a far more sinister force making all of this seem like small potatoes. Commonly referred to as the Deep State, Patel calls them in his new book, Government Gangsters.
https://www.blazetv.com/watch/featured/mIa1TqLeT1cA-trump-admin-insider-exposes-every-level-of-the-deep-state–ep-323
Olly, no problem but I want to let you know that this is a paid video. I have no problem with that except for the fact that one first gives them all their information only to find out it is a waste of time.
If you feel there was an extraordinary point other than there are many in our government that are worse which I agree with, idly let us know.
My apologies Seth. I also make it a point to not pay for a subscription, unless I know exactly what I’m buying. I follow Bongino on Rumble (free), because he provides not only opinion, but more importantly, he backs everything up with evidence. I have followed Beck and Tucker for years (free) for the same reason. Only recently did I subscribe to Beck’s BlazeTV (paid). I follow Tucker on X, which is free and only recently subscribed (paid) to his new network TCN. Like everyone else, my time is valuable. Like these 3 or hate them, I find their interviews are incredibly valuable. If JT put this blog behind a paywall, I would subscribe.
I suppose what you’d get out of the Patel interview is largely what you’d get from his book. But to hear directly from someone that connected to the intel, naming names and how the Deep State operates, my takeaway was as important as it is to expose the entire BCF, it needs to lead to exposing the bigger syndicate controlling everything.
Olly, there is no need to apologize. I like Beck as well. In person, I saw him being kind to a server despite the fact that he was scheduled to speak shortly. He said his dinner could wait, and I was impressed by how well he dealt with a “regular” person. I asked him why he left NYC. His response was horrifying. His young kids were being harassed in Central Park at the Strawberry Fields Memorial because their father was Glenn Beck. He lived close by, so he was there frequently.
That is NYC and the West Side.
Seth, one of interesting things Patel said about impeaching Biden, he believes that would be doing the Deep State a favor. He said, “they’re smart enough to know they want Biden out, but they haven’t figured yet how to do that.” He went on to say “that Republicans will take the bait and impeach him.” Instead he believes, “impeaching Wray and Garland is the maneuver. Impeaching the guys that have created the two-tiered system of justice and getting the documentation of their corruption to the American public, before the election, is the maneuver. Impeaching the two individuals that have violated 6 congressional subpoenas a piece and committed felonies, is the maneuver. The political potshot is get Biden and what you have is, the Democrats and the Deep State coming in and saying “thank you,” we don’t want this guy to run.”
There’s so much more.
Olly, I agree. At this point, and with so many weak Republicans, it is best to let Biden burn and keep releasing things embarrassing the Democrats until he is out. He has no conscience and should burn in hell.
Presently, after saying he has Israel’s back, he is pushing Israel, which is causing the deaths of more Israeli soldiers and probably more civilians as well. If Israel doesn’t finish the job, many more people will die. I wish the Jewish Liberals would immediately see the truth and start exerting pressure on Biden along with moving away from the Democrat Party.
Thanks.
If Trump republicans were serious, they would let Hunter Biden answer all of their questions live on TV. Because it worked out so well for them with Hillary.
Steaming turd^^^^
Are you just mad because you ran out of white for your KKK coloring books?
Another steaming turd^^^^
Nah. Doesn’t work that way.
Behind closed doors is a deposition.
In front of cameras there’s a different set of rules.
Congress critters get 5min and that’s it.
Its a dog and pony show.
But you knew that.
If Hunter was as innocent as he claims… he’d do the closed door and then go in front of camera afterwards.
“At this point what difference does it make?”
It clearly makes a difference between HB testifying about it versus not.
The net is tightening.
Impeachment inquiry zeroes in on origin of Hunter Biden’s China deals while Joe Biden was VP
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/impeachment-inquiry-zeroes-origins-china-deal-while-joe-biden-was?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
Unlike the MSM, Solomon documents what he says with emails, transcripts, bank records, and other things so one can see that his sources are not anonymous and one can read the original source for themselves.
Below is an example of the things he based this one story on.
The Facts Inside Our Reporter’s Notebook
Documents
File
Bank Email.pdf
File
T19-Exhibit-401-Memo-FINAL-Memo-of-Interview-w-James-B-SPORTSMAN-09.29.2022_KPM-Unredacted_Redacted.pdf
File
03_22_2016 – Fwd H to Zang Draft.pdf
File
T60-Exhibit-401-John-Robinson-Walker-Interview-Transcript-12.08.2021_Redacted-2.pdf
File
T58-Exhibit-400A-Anthony-Bobulinski-302-Interview-Memo_Redacted.pdf
File
FINAL_Hearing-Transcript-12.5.2023.pdf
File
12_24_15 – Text from Gilliar to Bobulinski.pdf
File
10_06_2015 – Email from Oh to Hunter Biden.pdf
File
10_05_2015 – Email from secretary to Hunter Biden.pdf
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12_04_2015 – Next Weeks Schedule.pdf
File
02_04_2016 – Alevo SA.pdf
File
02_23_2016 – Gilliar email about CEFC & Westinghouse.pdf
Links
CEFC China Energy
Gary Shapley
The bank investigators warned
held a news conference on Capitol Hill
ust the News
first reported on Hunter Bidenâs dealings with CEFC
The Washington Post
$9 million in payments
$1 million legal retainer fee
Department of Justice
abandoned laptop
served as the Chairman
Hunter Biden inked a previous $5 million deal
reported last year by Just the News
an April 2014 and an April 2015 meeting
asserted that âMy father was not financially involved in my business.â
have indicated that they will move forward
Updated 12/15 11:17 AM Lefty Wall of Shame aka The Lefty Turd Farm
(I decided to keep the name because bug expressed that he really liked it)
Inflation was on a rising trend from 2015 until Trump left office—-Elvis Bug aka The Lawn Boy
(1.3, 2.2, 2.5, 1.9, 1.3)
Comer said that the mere presence of shell companies is *proof* of a crime—-Svelass aka Mr. Peetape
Hunter Biden showed up for his hearing today—–Svelass aka Mr. Peetape
Hunter Biden agreed to testify to a public hearing—–Gigi the LIAR
(who did he agree with?)
The Consumer Price Index was indeed at 7.6% when Trump left office—–Elvis Bug aka The Lawn Boy (it was 1.4%)
Archer gave no details about the meeting at the Naval Observatory with Marc Holtzman—-Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Archer had no idea what was on those phone calls. He admitted it under oath—Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Evidence isnt permissible unless its incontrovertible—-ATS
Circumstantial evidence alone is not enough to convict——Svelaz aka Mr Peetape
Republicans are the only ones calling for violence these days—-Dennis
Democrats call for violence when the cause is right—-Dennis in the same post
Gas prices spiked because Texas uses crude oil to make electricity—-Gigi the LIAR
AR-15’s ruin the meat—-Dennis
The inflation rate was 8% when Trump left office—-Gigi the LIAR
(it was actually 1.4%)
Biden only released the strategic oil reserve once—-Svelass Mr Peetape
Archer never said it was Joe that was called from Dubai—-ATS
The State of Florida does property tax “appraisals”—-Svelass Mr Peetape
You can’t convict without incontrovertible proof—ATS
Trump was convicted of rape—Svelass Mr. Peetape
The Jefferson County school board has a supermajority of republicans—-lawn boy EB
Trumps attorney forgot to “check a box”——Dennis
An insult or name calling is not a personal attack—-Svelass Mr. Peetape
The DC NG answers only to the President—-Gigi the LIAR
Christianity teaches to treat your fellow man the same way you treat Jesus—-Svelass Mr Peetape
The ideal athlete is 6’2” and 175#—-Dennis
There is no way a fat person can shoot a 67 in golf—-Dennis
“Bright red Alabama is the “wild west”,” (when its bright blue Birmingham that accounts for 95% of the gun violence in Alabama)—-Dennis
That’s why McCarthy didn’t hold a vote. He was going to, but upon realizing he didn’t have the votes he chose not to hold one.—-Mr Peetape
McCarthy never said he didn’t have the votes.—-Mr Peetape.
I’m old enough to remember Watergate. That case – which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon – was cracked when reporters “followed the money”. In the Biden impeachment matter the Democrats and their pals in the media are taking the position “don’t follow the money”. Don’t ask question why millions of dollars raining down on the Joe Biden’s family. I mean it’s pretty laughable. I can understand why the Democrats members of Congress are pretending their was no corruption going on, but I am perplexed – stunned – that reporters would ignore the story. Apparently Democrat reporters and editors believe that reporting the truth – that the Biden’s were engaging in pay-for-play influence peddling – would help the Republicans, so they are blacking out the story. That’s sad to see, reporters covering up corruption, but that’s what’s happening. This is why so many – including Trump supporters – refer media outlets MSNBC or CNN as the “fake” news”.
Wolfman, It’s all One CONGLOMERATE (Loop).
The Party(ies)>> The Wall Street Media>> The Wall Street Banks>> The Wall Street Supply Chains (e.g.: Dom. & Mil.>> The Federal Branches to supply: Money>> Legislation>> Adjudication> Political Justification (e.g.: Wars)>> … >>-LOOP->> … The Mirage (News Media) is there to disguise it and anesthetize the Masses. The Narrative is that you are in good hands, forget about it and be happy (that you don’t live in the Other world).
One Big Sucking Machine, Everyone takes a Cut (e.g.: K-Street, Congress, The President, The Banks, The Firms, … even You)
Is this “The Way” it should be? (Std. Op. Procedure) or has “The System” been subverted? (Corrupt)
It is the current way of the Western World, You live in it, You tell Me.
“Democrats and the media immediately latched onto payments where Hunter was allegedly paying back loans to help pay for his truck.
Members told the Ways and Means Committee this was merely “a father’s love” and not anything impeachable.”
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$11 million to Hunter from stooges in Ukraine? That was one nice truck you bought him, Lying Joe!
Yep, a $4k loan for a truck in a year that Hunter *reported* $1.2M in income and wrote off $338k in travel expenses.
Nothing to see here
It was a trailer carrying a number of Bugattis.
He had a Fisker, given to him by a Hungarian oligarch, but he really need a truck to haul all of Joe’s cash around. Of course it needed to be an $80k Raptor, so he could haul it in style. Because you know, people who are really strapped for money buy Raptors.
Nothing to see here.
May the glue for the blinders on voters in blue states dissolve and fall off if their senators don’t vote to convict this miscreant.
Let’s wait to see whether the House actually impeaches him. There is no Senate trial absent a House impeachment.
@Anon,
They will impeach him.
Unlike the Dems under Pelosi, they won’t rush it and will build a case for Impeachment.
They already have enough evidence to nail him dead to rights… but they know that unless they can flip a number of Dems in the Senate… no way it will fly.
But they will still do it.
The evidence will come out. It will be reported on.
Some in the MSM will still run cover for Biden. Others will not.
It will be televised. If not, it would mean that Biden is censoring it. Again a bad look.
Biden will skate, but the impeachment will hurt him in the election.
With a roll call vote… it will expose Dems who are up for election in 2024 to some risk. It will depend on which state.
It will flip the Senate and strengthen the GOP in the House. (Unless they run ineffective candidates.)
This will happen. Doesn’t take a psychic or a seer to see this …
-G
Anyone who pretends that they can read the future is pretending to be a psychic or a seer. I guess you fit the bill here.
steaming turd ^^^^
I think that I can put it all in a nutshell. The IRS requires that there be documentation of loans of large amounts to family members. If it is found that no documentation is available than a gift tax of 40% must be applied. In other words, the claiming of a loan when no documentation of a loan is present for the purpose of avoiding paying taxes on the amount of payment is a Federal Crime. Both the person paying back a non existent loan and the person receiving the funds are subject to prosecution for tax evasion. It could all be settled if the Bidens would just produce a loan contract. They won’t because they can’t.
If the person paying it back is the person who received the loan, then it’s not a “non existent loan.”
Anonymous, you refuse to address the missing loan paperwork that is required by the IRS. This is just one more instance in which the Bidens believe that they and you believe that they are above law.
Tit, you refuse to show that the IRS requires that for personal loans. You simply assert it, and you are untrustworthy.
Steaming turd ^^^^
A sincere question for the Left:
What would you accept as evidence that Joe Biden is guilty of bribery?
Identification of JB’s receipt of the quid and provision of the quo in an illegal quid pro quo.
“Identification of . . .”
Done and done. Except for those who are willfully blind.
(And don’t ask me to recount the two “dones.” They’ve been cited here and elsewhere countless times.)
Nope. I said “identification” and that’s what I meant. I don’t read lots of columns here, don’t comment on lots of columns here, and am not going to search for where you believe it occurred. Either man up, or don’t pretend it’s been done.
“I said “identification” . . .”
So what you really meant was: “Identification *by you* of . . .”
And your taunt is childish.
You asked “What would YOU accept as evidence that Joe Biden is guilty of bribery?,” and I told you. You have not presented it. It’s that simple. There is nothing for me to accept because you haven’t presented it, only claimed that it exists. Maybe it exists, may it doesn’t; there’s no way to know absent your presenting the evidence itself.
BTW, my comment had three parts: an illegal quid pro quo was the third. You say “Done and done” as if there were only 2 parts. You can’t even bring yourself to name the illegal quid pro quo.
It does not matter what the facts are with the Trump cult, they just want revenge for themselves for voting for a con-man like Trump.
Another steaming turd from fishlips ^^^
it doesn’t have to be illegal you moron
Hey Moron, Sam asked what a member of the left would accept as evidence of bribery, and I said what I would accept, and you don’t get to substitute what you think and tell me that it’s what I think. Bribery is an illegal quid pro quo. Lots of quid pro quos are legal, and there’s nothing wrong with them, and they aren’t examples of bribery. Next time, Moron, pay attention to the relevant details.
Backtrack backtrack you said a quid pro quo has to be illegal to be bribery. Idiot