Below is my column in The Hill on the bizarre scene last week in front of the Capitol when Rep. Eric Swalwell drove up with Hunter Biden and facilitated a flagrant act of contempt of Congress, a federal crime. Swalwell used his office and presumably his staff to assist in the defiance of a valid subpoena for Hunter to appear before a House committee. The House will now presumably hold Hunter in contempt and refer the matter for prosecution. The question is what to do with Eric Swalwell.
Here is the column:
This week, millions of people were glued to their televisions as Hunter Biden defied a House subpoena in a press conference with the Capitol building in the background. It was an act of legal self-immolation as the president’s son engaged in flagrant contempt of Congress, a federal crime.
Stranger still was that behind Hunter was standing his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, who watched as his client effectively begged to be criminally charged.
But it was a familiar figure behind Lowell that was the most incongruous: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.).
At first, one had to wonder whether Swalwell had simply wandered by the presser on the way to his office. But the Biden team set up the conference on the Senate side — out of the reach of the House sergeant at arms, who might not have reacted well to an act of open contempt of Congress on his side of the Capitol.
We later learned that Swalwell was not there simply as a pedestrian, but as a participant. It was Swalwell who helped orchestrate the defiance of his own House and facilitated an alleged federal crime.
As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Swalwell used his official position to reserve the space for the press conference and lent his assistance to Hunter in refusing to appear before the House committees investigating his father, President Biden. It was a curious role for a former House impeachment manager to play in assisting in the obstruction of an impeachment inquiry of three House committees.
Of course, Swalwell has argued for the rounding up of anyone who aided and abetted the unlawful conduct during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Indeed, in 2021 Swalwell sponsored a resolution exploring whether dozens of Republican colleagues could be expelled under the 14th Amendment for aiding and abetting an insurrection by “making unsubstantiated claims of systematic election and voter fraud.”
Now, Swalwell was standing in front of the same building aiding and abetting both a potential crime and the obstruction of congressional proceedings.
Hunter was not just committing contempt of Congress; he was parading his contempt with Swalwell as the drum major.
What followed him was contempt on steroids. All Hunter had to do was walk into the building behind him to appear in the deposition and plead the 5th Amendment to refuse to testify, as others have done. The only option he did not have was to refuse to appear.
Swalwell insisted that it was the fault of the House for insisting on a closed-door deposition, which he portrayed as outrageous. It was another hypocritical moment since the Democrats insisted on the same process for witnesses, including those who appeared before the Jan. 6th committee.
It was also how Swalwell and his colleagues handled the investigation of the Ukrainian telephone call by Trump. Indeed, Swalwell participated in closed depositions and then gave interviews after they were held in private.
There are various reasons for closed deposition preceding public hearings.
First, these depositions allow professional staff to conduct questioning in a methodical and professional manner. In a public hearing, questioning is conducted by members who are often ill-equipped for substantive inquiries.
Second, Hunter must be asked about an array of financial documents and communications involving names and privacy protected information. In a public hearing, the use of such documents would trigger redactions and interruptions in their use.
Third, these depositions allow for in-depth questioning on transactions and communications. In a public hearing, members are confined to a five-minute rule that guarantees questioning cannot achieve much, if any, depth.
Both Hunter and Swalwell likely knew that, and that is precisely why they wanted a public hearing. Notably, after saying that he wanted to answer all questions in public, Hunter then refused to answer any questions in public put forward by the press.
The fourth and most important reason for the deposition is that the House wants it this way. Witnesses, even a president’s son, do not get to choose how or when they appear. Two Trump associates – Steven Bannon and Peter Navarro – refused to appear in the House and were quickly held in contempt by a majority of the House, including Swalwell.
Indeed, President Biden himself has maintained that defying subpoenas cannot be tolerated. When subpoenas were issued to Republicans during the House’s Jan. 6 investigation, Biden declared: “I hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable criminally.”
The Justice Department clearly agreed. Under Attorney General Merrick Garland, Bannon went from a failure to appear to an actual indictment in just two months.
It also does not matter that the House formally approved the impeachment inquiry only after Hunter’s press conference. As I testified in the first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing, there is no requirement of a formal vote. Indeed, the Democrats did not initially hold a formal vote in their own impeachment of Trump. Hunter’s subpoena was issued by two committees with inherent subpoena authority under three different House rules, including the authority given to the House Oversight Committee.
It was a valid subpoena.
The question is not whether Hunter Biden can be held in contempt; of course he can. The question is what to do with Eric Swalwell.
Swalwell has long courted controversy. Republicans tossed him off the House Intelligence Committee due to his purported affair with an alleged Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
This is different. Swalwell was not charged in the Chinese affair, including by the House Ethics Committee. This was a criminal act directed against the House itself.
Recently, the House censored Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) for pulling a fire alarm before a major vote. Here Swalwell played a key role in obstructing a major House investigation. Where Bowman’s offense was treated as a misdemeanor, Hunter’s offense is a felony.
Swalwell did not simply facilitate a crime, he went out of his way to associate himself with it.
Swalwell surely knew that he was helping Hunter in defying a subpoena and obstructing the investigation into Joe Biden. He not only helped set up the press conference but made sure that he was in the camera frame behind Hunter for every network audience. He presumably utilized congressional staff to assist in this effort.
In taking these actions, Swalwell encouraged and facilitated the contempt of Congress. While his conduct may not warrant a criminal charge, it certainly warrants action from the House.
The issue is whether the House has a right to demand answers in this investigation. One member was particularly passionate in 2018 in calling for contempt sanctions against Steve Bannon: “If they don’t force him to answer legitimate questions, they will be ceding Congress’ authority, and we’ll be setting a very, very dangerous precedent that people can just tell Congress what they will and will not answer, and will show no resolve to use our subpoena power to get to the bottom of what’s going on.”
That was Eric Swalwell.
Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School. He also previously served as lead counsel representing the House of Representatives.
Jonathan: So now it’s about Rep. Eric Swalwell. That by appearing with Hunter Biden at the press conference in front of the Capitol he “helped facilitate the defiance [of a subpoena] of his own House and facilitated an alleged federal crime”. And you claim Swalwell is now “aiding and abetting both a potential crime and obstruction of congressional proceedings”. A lot of allegations but nothing in the way of substance.
What is lost in your allegations is that Swalwell’s mere attendance at the press conference doesn’t make him an accessory to a “potential crime”. Besides Comer has yet to hold a vote on a contempt citation–let alone a referral to the DOJ for prosecution. Without that neither Swalwell nor Hunter has committed any “potential crime” by holding a press conference.
Hunter and his attorney, Abbe Lowell, have made it clear. Hunter will comply with the subpoena. But he wants to testify in a public hearing where Comer can’t cherry pick his testimony. That’s what happened when Devon Archer gave his private deposition and Comer’s released only portions of the interview to serve his political purposes. It was the Dems who had to release all of the deposition that contradicted Comer’s claims. Hunter wants to avoid that by testifying in a public hearing. What you avoid discussing is that last week, when the GOP passed the resolution formalizing the impeachment inquiry, it gave Comer the discretion not to hold public hearings. It’s pretty clear. Comer doesn’t want a public hearing where Hunter might contradict all of Comer’s claims of “influence peddling” and “corruption”.
You also claim a deposition is preferable to a public hearing. Why? Because you say that in a public hearing members of the committee are often “ill-equipped for substantive inquiries”. That’s a cop out and a slap in the face to Comer’s committee. Are you saying the Republican members would be less prepared for questioning? That’s an excuse, not a reason for not holding a public hearing.
You then object to a public hearing because a “five-minute rule …guarantees questioning cannot achieve much, if any depth”. Another feeble excuse. Comer has the power, as Chairman, to suspend the five-minute rule and allow unlimited questioning by all members of the Committee–or attorneys appointed by each side to ask probative Qs. That’s what happened in the impeachment inquiry of DJT by the Jan. 6 House Select Committee. You didn’t object to the format of those public hearings. The Jan. 6 Committee did conduct private interviews of witnesses. But, unlike Comer, they didn’t cherry pick them and release only the portions they thought would back up their claims against DJT. Your whole column is an attempt at “abetting” Comer’s charade of an investigation trying to find crimes that don’t exist!
Nice twisting. Fail!
So let’s see…
Hunter will comply with the subpoena he wanted to get but not with the subpoena that he actually received. Is that how it works. I’m sure that there are lot of rapists, murderers, burglars, and other Democrat fave-boys who would love to hear that.
By the way, open hearings are more properly referred to by their official name–Vaudeville.
Hunter will comply with the subpoena. But he wants to testify in a public hearing
Retard Dennis believes you have the right to negotiate terms after you are served a subpoena.
OT
Did you say, “Flagrant act of contempt?”
THEY “RIG” AND “FIX” ELECTIONS, DON’T THEY
DELIBERATE DILUTION BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PRECLUDES THE ELECTION OF ACTUAL CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE AMERICANS
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“I’ll have those n—–s voting democrat for 200 years.”
– Lyndon Baines Johnson
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“[I’ll have those Mexicans voting democrat for 200 years].”
– Barack Obama / Joe Biden
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The American Founders legislated (i.e. Naturalization Act of 1802) that immigrants could enter to work but that immigrants must be free and white to become citizens and vote.
American freedom and immigration law were intended to persist in perpetuity but were illicitly and unconstitutionally obviated after a mere 71 years.
And what of our president, Joe? According to his spokesperson, KJP, he also knew in advance what Hunter was going to do and say.
I think that somewhere it says that Joe’s supposed to uphold the law.
Naaah, must be wrong since he’s defied many court decisions trying to limit his power, most notably the student loans that he kept trying to pay. Ultimately, he did pay more than a half-billion before he was stopped. Why should a little detail like separation of powers get in the way of what Joe wants to do?
I think that Joe really believes what he said, that Hunter did nothing wrong.
Because if you’re a Biden, you’re entitled. The rest of us can all go pound sand.
Whether HB is to be held in contempt of Congress is up to the House, not up to JB.
HB has a First Amendment right to speak publicly.
If Congress thinks that JB is failing to uphold his oath of office, they can impeach and remove him.
Dennis McIntyre – please take note that BugAnon believes a President can be impeached for failing to enforce immigration laws. It blows a hole in your theory of yesterday that impeachment must be “a high crime or misdemeanor.”
Professor Turley seems oddly outraged that Hunter Biden has agreed to appear before the House committee to answer legitimate questions, yet when Jim Jordan refused to honor a House subpoena, Turley never called that a flagrant act of contempt of Congress & a federal crime.
Last month, Turley salivated at the prospect of Hunter testifying under oath: “The committee will now be able to ask Hunter Biden for specific answers on millions in transfers from foreign sources using dozens of shell companies and accounts” JT presumably now argues that the committee won’t be able to ask Hunter for specific answers to all of their questions at a public hearing with millions of people glued to their televisions watching the proceedings.
Three months ago, a GOP House committee member said: “Hunter Biden is more than welcome to come in front of the committee. … He’s invited today. We will drop everything.” That was Jim Comer.
Now when Hunter readily agrees to come in front of the committee to testify under oath to provide specific answers to each & every question, Fox News legal contributor Turley spends the last 2 days directing all of his fire at Swalwell.
We’re beginning to see a noticeable & predictable pattern here on Professor Turley’s personal website.
Nothing about the merits, just crybaby “whatboutism” weake.
“…Hunter Biden has agreed to appear before the House committee to answer legitimate questions…”
Yet he didn’t. He defied the subpoena and did a press conference instead as he made a statement but refused to answer questions from even the friendly press. We see the continuing and noticeable pattern here from Anonymous’ comments on Turley’s personal website. He deflects from any wrongdoing by Joe Biden and his family members, by criticizing Turley’s site. A website he admits to despising while still appearing here daily to endorse the criminality of the Biden family.
Jim Jordon is not required to respond to a phony subpoena.
This Swalwell likes Chinese hookers so much, how about a one way ticket to Wuhan?
There is a profound difference b/n investigating a fellow member of Congress and investigating a member of the public. The former tactic virtually insures that Congress will stop functioning.
OT. As the left stops traffic, stops shows, stops Congress, disrupts college life, attacks Jewish owned businesses all in support of Gaza and against Israel maybe it would be a good time to remind them that inside Gaza right this minute there are Americans being held hostage by Palestinians. Also remind them that Palestinians killed 31 Americans only a few months ago and Biden just keeps sending them more and more money.
While we are at it let’s remind our citizens that as we gratuitously recite “thanks for your service” to uniformed men and women that right this minute we have the Iran backed Houthis sending drone attacks against our own service men and women and our feckless president has done nothing to deter these continuing attacks.
So Iran backed Palestinians are holding Americans hostage, killed Americans and are lobbing missiles at our military every other day and all we get from liberals and Democrats is attacks on Israel.
These days I believe that if Trump was president and we got hit like on 9/11 the left would not have come together as we did in 2001, they would be marching against our own country because they now hate us more than they hate actual terrorists. Especially our young, schooled but uneducated morons that are being produced by our schools, colleges and bad parents.
I think Republicans hate Biden and love Trump more than they love our country and the Constitution.
When a party no longer represents their voters, it is the voters right to move on to someone or another party that does.
There are those both in the Republican party and the Democrat party that feel their party no longer represents them. It is their right to vote for someone who does.
That is why Trump has so many supporters as they feel the Republican party no longer represents them. Does that concern the Republican party?
Of course. As it should. But the Republican party should acknowledge they are not listening to their voters and change accordingly. Those voters put nation before party.
Same goes for the Democrat party.
Difference is, the Democrat party has been taken over by woke leftists, socialists, antisemits and anti-America. They look more and more like 1930s Germany or Mao’s Red Guard.
Trump’s the one echoing Hitler and having private dinner with noted anti-Semite Nick Fuentes.
Who is Nick Fuentes?
He’s a far-right white nationalist political commentator and Holocaust denier who advocates genocide against Jews.
If you simply do an internet search on his name, it’s easy to learn more.
The term “anti-semite” is one liberally used by leftists. It has been, for example, used against people like Kim Iversen who have questioned the scale of the response of Israel to the Hamas terror attacks on October 7. Labeling is a way of silencing. We don’t need even more censors.
Fuentes is a Holocaust denier who advocates genocide against Jews.
He’s a rabid anti-Semite, whether you can admit it or not.
Considering their past associations and interactions with Chinese government officials, why should there be surprise that Swalwell is running interference for Hunter and, by extension, Joe?
It’s disconcerting, but not surprising.
@Vincente,
It goes beyond Fen Fen.
Remember who Agent Swallow is beholden to in the Party and if he can help Hunter, Joe and the DNC… his value rises.
The issue is that he’s planning on nothing happening.
There’s a list of people ahead of him who should have been tossed for doing worse, yet they remain in office.
Of course they didn’t actually commit a crime. Agent Swallow committed obstruction. To make it worse… he’s on the friggin committee.
Note: Garland will do nothing which is what Agent Swallow is betting on. He believes at most he’ll be bucked from the committee.
-G
Senator Cheyenne Bodie gives a speech to the US Senate during an impeachment preceding.
Love Clint Walker AND the snappy theme song:
Having been compromised, American’s should know what the Bidens and Swalwell have surrendered to China. . . . And, what other politician is beholden to China
“Hunter was not just committing contempt of Congress; he was parading his contempt with Swalwell as the drum major.”
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One of the best ways to respond to outrageous behavior by cads such as Swalwell is to simply point it out in a pleasant or funny way. Then, you move on and deny him anything in your power to deny him. It’s a tried and true method of dealing with children by not being outraged at their patently eggregious conduct. It even works with children who’ve graduated out of the age bracket if not the emotional maturity progression. (Fang Fang, anyone?) You just have to remember who is the adult in the room and in doing so you maintain control and garner lots of dignity.
“Being to advise or reprehend any one, consider whether it ought to be in publick or in Private; presently, or at Some other time in what terms to do it & in reproving Shew no Sign of Cholar but do it with all Sweetness and Mildness.” ~ Geo. Washington, “110 Rules of Civility,” (at age 14)
Not to mention Swalwell’s long-running anti-Russian xenophobia, including suggesting “kicking every Russian student” out of the US, because all approximately 5,000 are purportedly the children of “the richest Russians.” https://newrepublic.com/article/165509/punish-russian-students-swalwell-gallego
Or maybe, to paraphrase A Few Good Men, Swalwell was sick the day they taught contempt at U Maryland Law School – after which he led the Alameda County District Attorney’s Hate Crimes Unit. Apparently he sees one acceptable hate.
In other news, AOC claims that no one can give “first-hand testimony” of Hunter’s criminal antics:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/aoc-claims-no-one-can-give-first-hand-testimony-of-hunter-biden-s-crimes
Bowman & Swalwell are examples of why the public considers laws just a suggestion. Lawmakers even break the law openly. I wonder if they shop lift also?
Sidebar: Can’t we have a more modern style of comment section? Anonymous this, Anonymous that. Hard to tell which Anonymous is commenting (until I have to read the dang thing) and to which comment they are replying. Time for either requiring screen names for all or–shocker–actual names. Ditch the Anonymous, please.
Hard to tell which Anonymous is commenting (until I have to read the dang thing) and to which comment they are replying.
Mary, you do not “have to” read any comments. I don’t read any anonymous comments, especially if they are in reply to me. The odds of me reading anything of value from someone anonymous are very low.
The odds of me reading anything of value from someone anonymous are very low.
And how would I know, if I don’t read them? Experience.
I don’t mind the Anonymouses. But it does become tedious scrolling past the more prolix amongst them, and of several who are less anonymous. I am developing repetitive strain disorder in my thumb. Perhaps the Professor will represent me in my suit for damages. I have lobbied for a 250-character limit in the comments, to no avail.
Mary, I have been begging this site to stop allowing “Anonymous” postings. You can remain anonymous, you just shouldn’t all be named “Anonymous”.
Pick a damn name!
NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!!! (Except all Democrats.)
Hunter Biden, with the help of little Eric Swalwell, defies his Congressional Subpoena because they are both “saving democracy” for America. The Democrat’s 2024 campaign slogan. Can’t you see Jonathan ???
Well Santos deserved to be expelled. If we are honest Republicans, Moderate or Conservative we do have to keep our house clean and in order. The fact that the democrats and Mr. Swalwell feel no shame in acting this way is too their own detriment. The only way this type of behavior gets corrected is by elections and removals of these types of politicians. Unfortunately that often fails to do the job. Far too many times politicians of both parties have done equally or worse and continued to be elected. It is one of the weaknesses of our electoral system and voters who are too lazy to house clean. Hence the cries for term limits. My memory goes back to Adam Clayton Powell from Harlem and it was difficult to understand his continuing re-election to the House despite his obvious shenanigans but he was not seated in 1967 by a overwhelmingly democratic House. He won the special election to fill the seat (with 86% of the vote) and the Supreme Court overturned the House’s action but eventually his absenteeism cost him an election and he quit. It is still inexplicable what voters will put up with in their representatives, no matter what the color or ethnicity. I respect our freedom to elect freely who we want but lifetime appointments to the house and senate only serve to increase division, irresponsible actions because the office holder thinks they can do anything without punishment, and the officeholder only responds to their avarice and not the needs of the nation or the officeholders constituency. They become, in effect royalty, and above the the fray and almost untouchable. They most remain of the people and nothing else till the time is up and they have to leave (6-12 yrs sounds about right)
Dims absolutely feel no shame. And most people would like to see changes in congress except for their representatives.
@GEB: Re:” the officeholder only responds to their avarice and not the needs of the nation or the officeholders constituency.” That would hold true for an office holder who was held to only one term for cause. Beyond that, the moral compass of the constituency is reflected in the conduct of the individual raised to high office. Reserve further judgement in that regard for Swalwell and his, in that he stands for re-election in 2024.
GEB, I fully support your proposal for term limits. I also agree that once members of Congress become too comfortable in their positions they have a tendency to forget that they are working for the citizenry. During the 2016 Republican primary, Carly Fiorina referred to these folks as the “political class.” She was correct. In addition to term limits, I would like to see rigorous civics education for members of Congress. It would begin with Constitutional Law and could also include topics such as the law of insider trading.
hunter and eric both looked a little sleepy at that ‘presser’. They probably just got out of bed with fang fang.
Nope, too late. She died in a plane crash several years ago.
Thing is, R’s have no foot to stand on with the issue of contempt after their behavior during the trump Reign. Jim Jordan was the poster child for contempt yet no consequences.
And Swalwell has been on Turley’s grudge list since making Jon look rather unprepared in a congressional hearing some years back.
Face it, Hunter owned Comer and Jordan on the steps to the Capitol. He absolutely mocked your attempts to damage Joe Biden through Hunter. It’s got to be painful for you, Jon. Won’t stop the financial reward for your efforts…, but it completely delegitimizes it.
Eb
Jim Jordan was the poster child for contempt yet no consequences.
Do you ever get tired of lying? The regular commenters here understand the difference between congress issuing as subpoena to a sitting congress member, vs another citizen.
Garland never indicted. You know exactly why.
Nobody believes your lies.
Democrats, defending the indefensible You know, the fact that y’all are so self-determined, so committed to self-interest, with zero respect for any law or propriety that might impede, does not mean that the voting American majority agrees with you.
The House R’s viewed the J6 hearing as illegitimate due to the fact they WERE! The committee was formed without the input from the R’s leadership; it was bogus from the start.
Just picture a mashing up between Nathanial Sowerby and Obadiah Slope and you have swallwell’s character in an instant.
“The question is not whether Hunter Biden can be held in contempt; of course he can. The question is what to do with Eric Swalwell.”
Actually, the question is whether HB WILL be held in contempt. That requires a vote by the entire House. Will every Republican vote in favor? They have a slim majority, and you can bet that the Democrats will turn it into a campaign issue that the Republicans are making time to vote on contempt charges for someone willing to testify in public when they’re not taking care of the bread and butter issues affecting most Americans, not taking time to vote on continued funding for Ukraine (doing Putin’s bidding), and so forth.
Sure JT, this is the most important thing you can come up with. Meanwhile trump has gone full nazi in his rants. Perhaps that is exactly what JT wants?, to be the AG for the orange Jesus turned nazi?
The “Trump is Hitler!” is the new/old narrative the desperate DNC/MSM is pushing.
Dont fall for it.
Trump: “[Immigrants are] poisoning the blood of our country, that’s what they’ve done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world.”
Hitler wrote a lot about blood being pure or adulterated, and several times referred to blood being poisoned. Some examples of his writings about it:
“He [‘the Jew’] poisons the blood of others but preserves his own blood unadulterated. The Jew scarcely ever marries a Christian girl, but the Christian takes a Jewess to wife. The mongrels that are a result of this latter union always declare themselves on the Jewish side. Thus a part of the higher nobility in particular became completely degenerate.”
“He [‘the Jew’] is a real leech who clings to the body of his unfortunate victims and cannot be removed; so that when the princes found themselves in need once again they took the blood from his swollen veins with their own hand. … It is not however by the tie of language, but exclusively by the tie of blood that the members of a race are bound together. And the Jew himself knows this better than any other, seeing that he attaches so little importance to the preservation of his own language while at the same time he strives his utmost to maintain his blood free from intermixture with that of other races. … The black-haired Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end, satanically glaring at and spying on the unsuspicious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood and removing her from the bosom of her own people. … For as long as a people remain racially pure and are conscious of the treasure of their blood, they can never be overcome by the Jew. That is why the Jew systematically endeavours to lower the racial quality of a people by permanently adulterating the blood of the individuals who make up that people. … And out of every oppression those forces can develop which bring about a new re-birth of the national soul–provided always that the racial blood is kept pure. … [T]he problem of the maintenance or loss of the purity of the racial blood will last as long as man himself lasts.”
“It seemed as if some all-pervading poisonous fluid had been injected by some mysterious hand into the bloodstream of this once heroic body, bringing about a creeping paralysis that affected the reason and the elementary instinct of self-preservation.”
“And so this poison [of ‘the public mind’] was allowed to enter the national bloodstream and infect public life without the Government taking any effectual measures to master the course of the disease.”
“[T]he poison which has invaded the national body, especially since the Thirty Years’ War, has destroyed the uniform constitution not only of our blood but also of our national soul. The open frontiers of our native country, the association with non-German foreign elements in the territories that lie all along those frontiers, and especially the strong influx of foreign blood into the interior of the Reich itself, has prevented any complete assimilation of those various elements, because the influx has continued steadily.”
So yes, Trump’s words echo Hitler’s.
Do tell us how Trump’s statement about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country” refers to anything good.
BugAnon – the good thing about the quote is that Trump, unlike Biden, is concerned about the communicable and possibly novel diseases that unvetted invaders may be bringing into the Country.
Edwardmahl,
Ah, yes!
If you are an American, the shot for you! No exceptions! No jab! No JOB!
Illegal immigrant, just come on in!
Parents concerned about their child’s education? Investigate them as potential domestic terrorists!
Illegal immigrant at the border with a AK-47, handgun, 10 IEDs? What is to worry about, right? (sarc)
It’s funny, I thought of you yesterday when the Wordle word of the day was “BACON”.
Once again, I’m not EB.
There is absolutely nothing in what Trump actually said in the speech that implies that he’s “concerned about the communicable and possibly novel diseases.”
The only diseases that he touched on were mental illnesses, which are neither communicable nor novel.
Go ahead, keep ignoring that he’s echoing Hitler, just like many Germans ignored how dangerous Hitler was. You don’t care that Trump is dangerous either.
Edwardmahl, you are correct! The possibilities that you mention are a significant concern. Now, of course, we have to worry about the existence of terrorist cells throughout the country
Tell us how the statement refers to anything bad.
I already did. Work on your reading comprehension.
This whole “blood” discussion has zero to do with Biden.
But the Retard is oblivious. Like lots of retards.
It has to do with Candidate Trump, duh.
Candidate Trump has nothing to do with this post.
Your leftist Gods are screwing up at every turn to deflection is your only option
What is the fentanyl death toll today? What is the cocaine and methamphetamine interception score at the borders?
Bye
Drug interception at the border is better under Biden than it was under Trump.
So true. The border agents just look for Hunter’s truck (that Daddy paid 11 million for) and stop it.
Bill G sees Nazis everywhere. Poor fella… another victim of the horrible TDS syndrome. Me thinks he didn’t get the latest vaccine shot.
Lets no forget, Hitler, like Bill G., was a socialist too.
Hitler wasn’t a socialist any more than the GDR was democratic.
National Socialist Party, keyword “Socialist” the Deutschmark mark, the autobahn, community service housing… learn some history.
The German Democratic Republic, aka East Germany, was not democratic.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is not democratic.
The NSDAP was not socialist.
That a word appears in a title does not make it apt.
Learn some more history yourself.
“The German Democratic . . .”
You’re attempting to rewrite history and whitewash socialism.
Nazi intellectuals and political leaders were well schooled in political philosophy. The German universities they attended offered a robust curriculum in those ideologies.
They were evil, but they were not stupid. They knew better than you the proper name for their vicious political philosophy: Socialism.
I’m not “attempting to rewrite history and whitewash socialism.”
I’m pointing out that fact that despite the word “socialist” in the party name, the party was not socialist, any more than the GDR or DRC are democratic, despite “Democratic” appearing in their names. The name does not determine the politics/ideology.
The NSDAP self-identified on the right.
You can read some of the history in these US Holocaust Museum pages: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-party-1
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-rise-to-power
“The National Socialist German Workers’ Party—also known as the Nazi Party—was the far-right racist and antisemitic political party led by Adolf Hitler.”
“The Nazi Party was one of a number of right-wing extremist political groups that emerged in Germany following World War I.”
Or look at how the German Bundestag describes each of the parties at the time: https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/189776/01b7ea57531a60126da86e2d5c5dbb78/parties_weimar_republic-data.pdf (“the right-wing extremist NSDAP”)
No I don’t. I see and hear what trump says. I see what right wing people do about banning books, closing libraries, criminalizing librarians, school teachers, doctors. No Demos are not doing that. trump has allegedly violated the law with his document hoard in his bathroom at mar a lego. Some documents are now missing. He raped a women, at least one, there are several other credible accusations of rape.
You believe what you want. I’ve how his supporters belittle others and cause actual harm to others. And don’t give me any BS about BLM. They are fighting continued racism in how they are treated.
Interesting you throw in vaccine shot. The rate of vaccination is now below what is needed to prevent an outbreak of some nasty diseases. If this stays as it is, watch for a measles outbreak in the next few years. Sad, so sad.
There is a lot to not like about Demos, they are not spouting hitler nazi propaganda like orange Jesus is.
What type of idiot wants pornographic books in schools for young children to read? It’s probably the same type of idiot who doesn’t understand that choosing reading material for a school is not censoring. Libraries are open; books are sold.
I was told you raped five women. Does that mean you raped them? Hmmm, you don’t understand what constitutes a rape or what censorship is.
“And don’t give me any BS about BLM. They are fighting continued racism in how they are treated.”
You are behind the times. BLM has been proven to be a dishonest organization that benefited certain leaders but not most people.
“If this stays as it is, watch for a measles outbreak in the next few years. Sad, so sad.”
Blame the lies of the Biden administration and how it inappropriately used power to push people to get the Covid vaccine. Suspicion of vaccines is a fallout from the Biden policy failures.
You are very ignorant.
I see what right wing people do about banning books, closing libraries, criminalizing librarians, school teachers
All lies. Its a list with ZERO identified actions you find worrisome.
Not three identifed events and well talk. (I’m budgeting zero time for the discussion, because trolls just lie.
No one is banning books.
Decent, moral, common sense people know it is wrong to have and promote pornography in elementary schools. That is something immoral Democrats are promoting. Criminalizing librarians, school teachers, doctors whom groom children, attempt to mutilate children or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones without parents consent or knowledge is the right thing to do. Democrats are the ones doing those immoral things.
I noted you will not acknowledge Biden’s documents in the garage next to his Corvette or the others at a university where China can get access to them as well.
You also ignore Biden swimming in the pool naked in front of his female SS. Or the credible sexual assault on a former Biden staffer who’s own mother called into Larry King that sexual assault was on going in the Capitol.
Look how MSM belittles anyone outside of the DNC.
Look how socialist Democrats chant “From river to sea!” assault, and do real violence against Jews on college campuses and in the streets.
If anyone is spouting Hitler Nazi propaganda, it is coming from the Democrat party.
The Democrat party is not a friend of the Jewish people or Israel.
Hey Bill! F YOU.
I see your orange Jesus has taught you well. Just yell obscenities and pretend that makes sense and solves problems.