Below is my column in the New York Post on the recent deposition of Kevin Morris, counsel for Hunter Biden. The transcript only magnifies ethical concerns that I have raised in the past despite a threat of a defamation lawsuit by Morris’s own counsel. Morris often seemed confused about what role he was playing as donor, investor, collector, lawyer, producer, or friend.
Here is the column:
Kevin Morris testified last week in the House.
The question that lingered then, and now, is who is Kevin Morris.
The Hollywood lawyer, producer and Democratic donor has emerged as a major figure in the corruption scandal surrounding Hunter Biden.
For years, some of us have complained that we are not sure what Morris was at any given moment.
What became clear in the deposition is that Morris does not appear certain himself.
He’s Hunter’s confidant, art patron, business partner, and his lawyer.
That could prove his undoing … both for himself and his client.
Morris seems to move effortlessly between roles in his relationship with Hunter Biden.
Hunter met Morris when he attended a political fundraiser as a major donor.
Soon thereafter, he warned Biden associates that Hunter’s unpaid taxes raised political problems during Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential run.
He later proceeded to pay off Hunter’s taxes and to subsidize his lavish lifestyle.
He also took an apparent lead in planning public campaigns against the critics of the Bidens, reportedly pushing a scorched-earth approach to attack potential witnesses and accusers.
Then Morris seemed to take on the role of Hunter’s bank and art patron.
He reportedly gave millions to Hunter while insisting that they are loans, not gifts.
Most recently, it was revealed that, despite accounts of buyers flocking to buy Hunter’s overpriced art, it was Morris all along who bought most of the pieces.
The overpriced art could be used to excuse some of these “debts” — a type of special crafts project for the president’s son to write off millions.
The most striking thing about the deposition from his House interview was the speed at which Morris seemed to put on and remove his various hats.
He invoked attorney-client privilege at least 17 times over questions related to his payments and work for Hunter Biden.
Yet, while refusing to answer those questions, he admitted to an array of other financial ties and transactions with his “client.”
To the extent that Morris was not acting as a lawyer but as a businessman or a friend, these conversations (and related records) may not be protected.
In his deposition, Morris also discusses his ownership of 10% of Bohai Harvest RST LLC (BHR), through his acquisition of interest in Skaneateles LLC.
Those are business interests associated with Hunter Biden.
Morris seemed to be working through his own identity crisis with the help of House investigators.
While insisting that his legal representation of Hunter Biden was “global and complete,” Morris detailed how his relationship floated from loan giver to friend to patron to film producer.
His counsel insists that all loans and roles were clearly laid out for Hunter in writing and reviewed by outside counsel.
House investigator: “How did it come up that you were going to purchase Skaneateles? Or why did you buy Skaneateles of all the companies that Hunter Biden was involved with? Why that one?”
Morris: “That’s privileged. I am not going to answer that because of attorney-client privilege.”
That prompted a quick intervention by his lawyer.
Morris reversed and agreed it was not protected and said that he “evaluated it as a businessman, and I thought it was something that could be a very successful investment.”
Morris’ confusion often left his answers in an unintelligible morass.
When asked about his decision to do a movie on his client, Morris again seemed to merge his roles, saying these are “just materials being collected for representation that may be used in the future after the representation.”
Later, Morris seemed to invoke an open-ended, running privilege.
At one point, Morris claimed he was “like a general counsel” in Hunter Biden’s “virtual corporation.”
He explained, “Counsel, in my job, I represent high-profile individuals. … [H]igh-profile individuals have basically virtual corporations. And in those virtual corporations, they have all kinds of staff and assistants. You know, agents and managers … publicists. You know, whatever. And what I do is I oversee … sort of the squad. Sort of like a general counsel.”
With that, Morris was viewed as asserting a type of floating privilege because “I am involved in everything. And the same is with Hunter. If you check my retainer agreements, you’ll see that it’s not — it says all matters.”
The statement is both factually accurate and ethically dubious.
It seeks sweeping privilege claims despite the layers of different relationships, from loaner to donor to lawyer to producer.
If Morris is called to testify in court, this may not fly.
The problem is that when you are “everything” to a client, you may end up with nothing when it comes to confidentiality.
Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
Why don’t one of you fine counselors enumerate and quantify Carroll’s damages.
Where the Eff is the Contempt of Congress prosecution for Hunter Biden — with JAIL TIME?
It doesn’t matter that he “rescheduled” testimony after his “in-your-face” display of utter contempt re his subpoena.
Charge and prosecute the m’fer. Do not back down an inch!
Then, for God’s sake, IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH all the m’fers destroying the country from within!
GOP Congress, do your job, you worthless, spineless frauds!
Republicans need to move slow – first because their majority is tiny right now and they need every single vote.
But more importantly because the timing is not right and impeachment is Noty yet necescary.
The Goal is to SLOWLY weaken Biden such that Democrats decide they must replace him.
The sooner that occurs the sooner any democrat replacement has to start building support.
The best outcome for Republicans if for Democrats to force Biden to drop out of the election shortly before the convention and then have a protracted democratic convention battle between a dozen democrats who throw their hat in the ring
Biden is not going to be impeached and removed – democrats have sufficient power to assure that.
But that does not mean they can not be pushed into forcing him to drop out of the election.
it is likely that increasingly Democrats in the house and Senate will not want Biden to run.
Why ? Because even if whoever replaces him with certainty loses,
Biden as their 2024 candidate on the ballot risks down ballot disasters.
A new Democrat can divorce himself from Biden’s policies.
That will not win but it will mitigate down ballot damages.
“Real professionals kept pointing out all of her mistakes . . ..”. She is a real professional since she has qualified to practice law and does so. You simply double down on your defamation. If there are “real professionals” who will support your defamatory statements, I suggest your putting their names on your Witness List.
This Habba is incompetent and there will be no successful appeal because of it is a ludicrously stupid argument to be made in an extreme defamation case.
Is it wise to defame Habba after another plantif wins a 83M defamation claim ?
All they are doing is waving a giant flag saying we are drowning in Double Standards.
The case will likely be reversed because if it is not, Habba can sue Dennis for 84M and win.
That is not going to happen – because it is ludicrously stupid. But that is also why this case never should have seen the inside of a courtroom.
I have been listening to legal comentary about appeals of this even from many hostile to Trump.
What appears to be the case is:
Carroll is not going to see a dime anytime soon – unless she settles the case with Trump.
Trump will have to provide some kind of security against the judgement. But that does not require him to turn over assets or liquidate them.
Few think the judgement will be upheld as it is.
Most think that Trumps grounds for apeall are strong enough to litigate this for many years.
But probably not win.
Aside from procedural and bias issues there are several big areas.
The first is free speech.
I am finding this 2nd case is complicated by Kaplan’s order on the first.
Kaplan took it upon himself to define what constitutes future defamation.
It is a real reach to empower him to redefine something defined by law.
Kaplan aparently properly decided that Trump’s continued protestations of innocence would NOT constitute defamation.
But he did define attacks on Carrol’s character as defamation.
That can pose a serious problem.
“She’s not my type” is both a profession of innocence and a criticism of Carrol, but it is also an opinion and to the extent that it is a statement of fact it is really more one of personal values – it is NOT defamation.
The other biggy is “shes crazy” – insults are not defamation – false statements of fact are. She’s crazy is an opinion.
The next problem is that Kaplan arguably can not use an order from the first trial to preclude having a completely new trial.
Even if Kaplan beleives that “Shes crazy” is defamation, he must have a complete new trial, he can not skip to the damages portion.
This is a tactic we saw the courts employ against Alex Jones and against Guiliani, and it is likely to get overturned in one or both of those cases already in appeal. And any decision there will effect the Trump case.
Regardless if Carrol wishes to see a dime in here lifetime she needs to settle.
And Trump despite the magnitude of this award has little reason to settle on favorable terms.
Caroll is 80. if she dies – her estate will likely settle in a heart beat.
Also exposed recently is that Carroll’s attorney, was a partner in a lawfirm run by Kaplan and Kaplan was her mentor.
This is an ethical violation.
At a minimum it was required to be disclosed and it was not.
Kaplan almost certainly should have recused himself and he did not.
It is possible the appeals courts will not consider that an error significant enough to reverse.
But it will have significant weight on appeal.
My wife clerked for a local judge and then later appeared before him.
This was not secret – everyone knew it.
Most of the time it was not an issue.
But there were occaisons in which the possibility that the judge would have to recuse himself existed.
I interrupt this forum from its hourly bombast of turmoil, emptiness and despair for a message on beauty, love and memory. Marta Cinta González Saldaña, a famous Spaniard-Cuban prima ballerina, here stricken with Alzheimers, was a legend in NY Ballet circles in the 1960s. From Spain to Cuba to USA, she endured it all. She died shortly after this video was made of her dancing Swan Lake from her wheelchair. May we all be so fortunate to have beauty move our hearts today despite our circumstances and surroundings.
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Morris is simply part of the dark financial plumbing.
Jonathan: In the aftermath of the award of $83.3 million in damages yesterday in the second E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit there is another part of the case that’s not over.
Carroll’s attorneys have now asked Judge Kaplan to impose a permanent injunction on DJT to prevent him from continuing to attack and defame Carroll. Apparently, Judge Kaplan is going to hold an evidentiary hearing early next month on the issue. If the Judge agrees a permanent injunction is justified he could impose civil fines on DJT–a per diem fine for every day DJT violates the injunction. But considering that DJT has not been deterred by civil fines in the past and he can just get his loyal MAGA supporter to dig into their pockets and pay his fines, what will prevent DJT from continuing to defame Carroll? This where Judge Kaplan can reach into judicial tool bag and escalate civil contempt into CRIMINAL contempt. That would be the jack pot! If found in criminal contempt Kaplan could order the federal marshals to take DJT into custody and lock him up in federal detention–with the SS in tow!
This would mean Alina Habba would be pressed back into service–having to seek a writ of mandamus from another judge to get her client released. Now that is where poor Alina would really be over her head because she knows nothing–zilch about the criminal law!
Please – Go ahead – keep this stupid nonsense up.
Make it absolutely crystal clear that this is a free speech case.
Do everything you possible can to alienate the courts and the public.
I find it really odd that as Trump loses a defamation case over statements of oppinion – “she is not my type” “She is crazy”.
That you would think it is wise to defame Habba ?
I would also ask about your mental health.
Why is it that you are so frothing at the mouth full of hatred for Habba ?
“Let’s Go Brandon”
Dennis – I hope that Kaplan is stupid enough to do exactly as you propose.
You say that Kaplan will not does as the court demands – because millions of Trump supporters will bolster Trump.
Are you clueless ? Do you not understand what you are saying ?
Where is it that you think Kaplan gets his power and authority from ?
Let me give you a clue from the declaration of indepence.
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”
If as you say there are millions of people willing to give Trump money to defy the court – this is trivial.
The court is wrong, it no longer has authority.
There is a common thread tying nearly everything happening today together.
That is the arogance of the left and their willingness to use whatever power they have to destroy anyone who does not agree with them.
The Various Carrol Cases, the Engron Mess, the Growing mess in GA, the Mess in FL and DC the increasing revalations of lawlessness, the collapse of J6 narrative, the colappse of the collusion delusion, and the mess down at Eagle Pass in TX, Trump’s GROWING popularity in the face of your lawfare, and many other things all speak one thing very very loudly.
NO NONE TRUSTS YOU.
You and others are here pissing and moaning because the efforts at compromise on immigration in the senate have collapsed – allegedly because Trump wants immigration to be a campaign issue. Except there are several problems with that.
First the details of the compromise are starting to leak – and there was no way they were getting most Senate Republicans on board, and zero chance of getting the house – and that is true regardless.
Possibly more so than any other issue – Republicans are untied on the border. They are NOT united on what the policy should be, or who should be allowed into the US or how many should be allowed in. But they are 100% united that the law MUST be followed.
There is zero reason to compromise with democrats ONE ANYTHING, if Democratic presidents will not follow the law.
There is no reason to strike a deal that will not be kept.
Further absolutely the incompetence of democrats regarding the border is and always will be a campaign issue.
Compromise or not. You botched it. You did so under Obama and Biden has made it many times worse.
Further it is a Wedge issue for the democratic bases – and there is absolutely no good reason that Republicans should not leverage that to split the democratic party apart. As Obama said – Elections have consequences.
And to be clear – this is not about Trump. This is about the growing odds that in 2025 the GOP will control the house, the Senate and the presidency. And the power in the GOP will be MAGA.
Those in the hose and Senate have no good reason to destroy their own shot in return for a compromise bill that the people will hate, will not work and will not be followed by Biden. They also have no good reason to change the law now – law that Biden will not obey over the next year, but that Trump will be forced to adhere to in 2025, When they can have likely control of the house, senate and presidency and enforce the law that already exists.
But in truth this is not about the future – this is about RIGHT NOW.
Varrious different legal scholars are waying in on the situation in TX right now.
I am honestly surprised at the number that think that TX might prevail in the Supreme court.
I do NOT actually think Texas’s case is constitutionally strong enough.
What the court needs to do is NOT let TX step in to protect the border. But to order the President to follow the law.
Though I would note – this increases the odds that Chevron is overruled.
But the big deal at the border is not going to happen in the courts – even though people like Turley have said the court COULD buy some version of Abbotts argument.
The Big deal is what happens NOW.
We may well be facing our own Tianamen square or fall of the Berlin Wall moment – and you are on the wrong side.
TX has engineered a perfect storm – a total win win situation.
Lets examine the BEST possible outcome for democrats
TX backs down, and CBP comes in and cuts all the razor wire and the media reports tens of thousands of illegal immigrants flooding through nearly immediately.
That is a complete disaster for Democrats.
Mayorkas will be impeached, There will likely be a “snap” impeachment of Biden over this, It is unlikely but not impossible that Mayorkas and/Biden will be removed by the Senate – or more likely told by DEMOCRATS that he must drop out of 2024 or he will be removed.
Biden is increasingly an albatross arround democrats neck. While this is not exactly like Nixon and watergate there are strong resmblances.
Regardless, if Biden “wins” the Eagle Pass showdown – it still could be the end of his administration – either in reality or in the sense that they are impotent for the next 10 months.
So lets examine the OTHER possibilities.
Biden Orders CBP to go in – there are very strong indications that all or a large portion of CBP will refuse.
The order is arguably illegal and unconstitutional. Regardless, there is no way that CBP officers are going to use force against the TX national guard. This is not fort Sumter. And if CBP went in and anything bad happened – Biden would be on the hook, and if it did not – we are back to the disasterous first scenario.
The next Scenario is that Biden nationalizes the TX NG – that could trigger a snap impeachment.
Further 25 states have all volunterred to send their NG and more razor wire to Eagle Pass.
Is Biden going to nationalize ALL of the states National Guard ?
Regardless nationalizing the NG plays right into TX’s argument of the unprecidented nature of what is occuring at the border.
And What happens if Biden nationalizes the NG and the NG says NO – that like CBP they are not following an illegal and unconstitutional order.
Right now this appears to be a stalemate – but that can not last. Biden MUST win this fight – or TX is going to continue to do the same thing along the rest of the TX boarder and 25 other states will help. It is even possible that AZ and NM and even CA follow TX at sometime down the road.
If Biden does nothing – he loses, TX wins, Republicans win, and Biden is a very lame duck and democrats are in even more serious trouble.
My guess is that is what happens.
I would be happy to here how you think Biden can win this. Even how he can get out of this alive ?
Regardless returning to where I started – the most important issue is not the courts, it is not even the law, though in this instance Biden’s actions are lawless.
The most important issue is that the LEFT, Democrats, YOU have lost the trust of the majority of the people.
Nothing else matters after that. It does not matter what the law says, it does not matter what the constitution says – even though neither are favorable to you.
You say Kaplan must act – because Trump supporters will insulate him from this kangaroo courts decision.
But that is YOUR problem. So long as this court is perceived by millions of people as a kangaroo court, its authority and legitimacy is diminished or destroyed.
So please double down on Stupid.
Please behave as the CCP did at Tianamen Square and send in the Tanks – though I would suggest that you consider that there are 10’s of millions of people who have withdrawn their consent, not the few thousand at Tianamen Square.
Please do everything in your power to assure that Trump is a Martyr.
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
John Say: I don’t know but I would swear to get paid for every word. Here are my short answers:
1. I’m not defaming Alina Habba. Truth is an absolute defense. If you read the transcript of her trial practice before Judge Kaplan you could only conclude she is a walking a talking disaster!
2. Judge Kaplan gets his “power and authority” because he is a federal judge and wears the black robes. He’s been on the federal bench since 1994!
3. Judge Kaplan “no longer has authority”. False. He still has jurisdiction over the E. Jean Carroll case and can approve a permanent injunction on DJT!
4. “NO ONE TRUSTS YOU”. I have always said “trust but verify”. But I predicted, along with most legal experts, that DJT would be hit with a huge award of damages. Juries sometimes exceed our predictions. So if you go to the horse races with me will you NOT take my advice? You know you will! Your nonsense is only exceeded by your verbose stupidity!
” I’m not defaming Alina Habba.”
Of course you are.
” Truth is an absolute defense.”
Not in Judge Kaplan’s court.
” If you read the transcript of her trial practice before Judge Kaplan”
As if anyone beleives you have read a transcript.
Your sucking on the teats of some left wing nuts without any clue as to what really occured in the court room.
Regardless, you are obviously wrong – even if you were entirely correct and Habba failed to object to massive errors Kaplan made in his courtroom – an odd and contradictory position as you claim Kaplan made no errors – if that is true then there is nothing Habba could object to.
You can not have both Habba was incompetent in the courtroom depriving Trump of a successfull apeal AND Kaplan did his job correctly. That is called a logical contradiction.
The only way your argument that Habba failed in the courtroom is correct, id if Kaplan erred in the courtroom.
But all the above aside – Habba filed multiple motions – they ARE the record. Every assertion in every motion is going to be what is contested before an appeals court.
You claim Habba did not protect appeals issues – every single thing in any of the motions she made is fair game for an appeals court.
So yes the TRUTH is that you have defamed Habba and you owe her 83M dollars.
“you could only conclude she is a walking a talking disaster!”
Kaplan repeatedly gagged her.
One of the reasons for all the motions she filed was to get arround his gag orders and to gett issues ont he record FOR THE APPEAL EVERYONE KNOWS IS COMING.
“2. Judge Kaplan gets his “power and authority” because he is a federal judge and wears the black robes. He’s been on the federal bench since 1994!”
Nope. This is your stupidest argument. The power of a federal judge comes fromt he law and constitution. Not magic.
And the power of the law and constitution and ALL government power comes from the consent of the governed.
Please examine history – The collapse of the USSR the fall of the Berlin wall are not the only examples, but they are pretty clear examples.
East Germany and the rest of the USSR had laws, and presidents and judges, and a constitution, and elections – and yet in 1989 all of that melted into nothing in a few days. In the instance of the collapse of the USSR it did so peacefully, that is not always the case.
Regardless what happened was the east german people said NO MORE – we withdraw our consent. and in a matter of hours the GDR ceased to exist. No election. Just poof gone.
As the declaration of independence makes clear – the power and legitimacy of govenrment comes from the trust of the people.
According to Pew the current trust in government is 16% and dropping. It was nearly 10 pts higher under Trump
it was 54% in 2001. it was 77% in 1964.
There is a huge problem no matter how deep into the sand your head is.
I would further note your argument is just stupid.
Do you think that Kaplan is King ?
I wore a black robe at my graduation – did that confir power to me ?
“Judge Kaplan “no longer has authority”. False. He still has jurisdiction over the E. Jean Carroll case and can approve a permanent injunction on DJT!”
Nope. The jury reached a verdict in a civil case. The case is over. Kaplan’s remaining jurisdiction is purely administrative.
Regardless Judges do not have the power to issue permanent injunctions. They get to decide issues of law,
They get to issue temporary injunctions that do not violate the law while they have jurisdiction.
““NO ONE TRUSTS YOU”. I have always said “trust but verify”. But I predicted, along with most legal experts, that DJT would be hit with a huge award of damages. Juries sometimes exceed our predictions. So if you go to the horse races with me will you NOT take my advice? You know you will! Your nonsense is only exceeded by your verbose stupidity!”
Long wordy stupidity – nearly everyone including me predicted this mess. That does not make it right.
It is not all that hard to predict what a rogue and biased judge and a biased jury will do – and lo and beold they did exactly as nearly everyone predicted.
Regardless, your ability to predict the obvious does not earn you the slightest trust.
You have and continue to remain wrong on the facts, wrong on the law,
and that is the case with pretty much every single post you make.
I cited the fact that Trust in government is at an all time low.
Yoyur busy defending Kaplan and Chutkan and Engron and Biden – while failing to realized that THEY are why trust is low.
They have FAILED, and whether you like or not that diminishes their power.
Before all this lawfare that you are so enamoured with – Trump’s poll numbers were at an all time low.
As you have pushed this lawfare – Trumps polls have risen – a 10pt swing. That quite litterally means you have burned the trust of the people. Frankly it is far worse than the polls – because there is massive inertia in trust. We give government and judges particulrly far more trust than they deserve. It takes LOTS of mistakes – a pattern of mistakes to drive trust down
Or as expressed AGAIN in the declaration of independence
Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
So that we are clear – the declaration of independence was not merely an aspiration. It is one of the most revered documents ever written because it very near perfectly condenses millenia of hard earned understanding of the nature of government.
The declaration of independence is not law, it is not a constitution it is meta constitution. it is the codification of the observed rules of human nature with regard to governmen. It tells us what the purpose of government is and what the consequences are when that purpose is not met.
And it tells us what con be observed repeatedly in history – when government loses the consent of the governed – it vapirizes – sometimes slowly sometimes in an instant, sometimes peacefully sometimes violently.
The constitution is NOT the supreme law of the land – the people are.
But not in the sense of pure democracy – that the people vote on everything.
The legitimacy of government does not require democracy, or a republic or voting – though these are useful.
An entirely authoritarian govenrment that has the trust of the majority of people is perfectly legitimate even if no one ever gets to vote about anything.
John Say: You are not only unnecessarily verbose but down right silly.
1. You say: “…you are obviously wrong–even if you were entirely correct and Habba failed to object to massive errors Kaplan made…”. Talk about logical inconsistency!
2. And, yes, I read the trial transcript. Did you? Contrary to your false claim, Habba did make a number of non-sensical objections. Each time she was overruled by Judge Kaplan. Just read the transcript before you blather on!
3. “Logical contradiction”. Did you ever take logic in college–assuming you attended college? A “logical contradiction” is the conjunction of a statement S and its denial not-S. Ex: I love you and I don’t love you. You say “You can not have both Habba was (sic) incompetent in the courtroom depriving Trump of a successful apeal (sic) AND Kaplan did his job correctly”. The fact that Habba was “incompetent” in conjunction with Kaplan doing his job “correctly” is NOT a logical contradiction.
4. As to Kaplan’s “power and authority” it comes from the Constitution, i.e., the power of a President to nominate judges to the federal bench with the concurrence of the Senate. Kaplan was nominated by Bill Clinton in 1994 and confirmed by a unanimous vote of the Senate. That’s not a “stupid argument” nor “magic” as you bizarrely claim!
You spend a lot of time filling up this blog with inane and non-sensical stuff. The only part you did get right is that DJT will appeal the jury verdict. But if you think Alina Habba made a successful record for reversal on appeal you are whistling past the graveyard!
If calling someone crazy is defamation – isn’t calling someone stupid defamation ?
Can I go to Judge Kaplan’s court and demand 83M dollars from you right now ?
I would love to hear your explanation why not.
But I will give you a big hint – you can call me stupid as much as you want, and Trump can call Carroll crazy as much as he wants.
In fact Crazy is far closer to a subjective oppinion and therefore protected free speech than stupid is.
If you want to get into a dick measuring contest over intelligence with me – by every objective measure you are going to lose BADLY.
If I successfully predict the obvious – that defunding the police – even just running arround ranting about defunding the police, even just running arround pissing over and demoralizing the police, that any or all of these things will result in increasing is crime, violent crime, murder,
Does that make killing people into a good thing ?
Because that is what you are arguing.
Being able to predict that biased people will do biased things is not proof that they are not biased.
Being able to predict that lawless people with power will abuse that power does not make that abuse good or legitimate.
You are so proud of your self for predicting this Yet I predicted the same thing
The difference is you are stupid enough to think that lawlessness is good.
Kaplan is not single handedly responsible for the decline in trust in government during the Biden administration.
That almost 10pt drop – almost a 75% drop in trust took lost of very bad decisions by lots of people.
But Kaplan and those like him are contributors.
Finally whether you like it or not there are really only two possibilities moving forward.
Either those in power in govenrment – including courts and judges work to restore peoples trust,
or eventually government fails. If we are lucky that happens as it did in the GDR in 1989 – peacefully.
If not, then like the american or worse still the french revolution.
The collapse of governemnt as the result of a failure of trust is an incredibly dangerous thing. There is no guarantee that when govenrment fails that what follows will be good – quite often it is not – See the french revolution or Nazi German.
We are far better off if government and the courts restore trust by returning to the rule of law.
You keep defending lawless conduct and trying to pretend that it is magically lawful.
But the precipitous decline in trust is PROOF that it is not.
This is from a recent report in the rising threats to judges and the courts.
“While the Supreme Court Police Parity Act and the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act were passed to provide greater security for Supreme Court justices and federal judges, laws alone won’t stem harassment, threats, and attacks.
Public faith in and respect for the judicial system will falter if judges are perceived as biased or unethical.
But meaningful improvement in judicial security can’t be achieved if the judicial system can’t win public confidence.
Real work is needed to improve judicial security and trust in the judiciary, which are symbiotically related. Legislators, lawyers, judges, and courts all must do their part if we are to reverse these unacceptable trends.”
For the record – Trust in government
Declined under Johnson, nixon, ford and carter,
Rose under Reagan
Declined with a GWI positive spike under Bush,
declined and then rose under Clinton,
rose and then declined under Bush,
declined and then plateaued under Obama
rose under Trump
and has declined under Biden
But the long term trend has been declining since 1964.
All the rises since 1964 correlate to returns to limited government and the rule of law.
It is difficult for me to grasp how you can be so thick as to not understand that declining trust in government is unrebutable proof of the failure of government to deserve that trust.
What I am saying is tautologically true
Trust in government is THE measure of the trust worthiness of government.
Since you wish to Celebrate the lawless award of 83M to Carrol – money she likely will never see,
I thought I should warm your cockles with something very real and immediate.
Trump is leading in the RCP poll of polls by 4.3.pts
This is Trumps largest lead. Mostly it is due to Biden falling.
Regardless Trump is leading in every single poll making up the poll of polls.
And in 3 polls he has a total of 50% or more.
So that we are clear – 50% of the country is NOT MAGA.
There is no way Trump reaches 50% without winning nearly all republicans the majority of independents and some democrats.
Trump’s current polling is the highest ever and is trending up.
Trump is currently more than 1pt above Biden’s highest – which was over a year ago.
Biden’s current numbers are his lowest ever – and declining.
So how is all that lawfare working for you ?
As a rule civil judges and civil courts do not have the power to manufacture crimes.
There are some specific exceptions of dubious constitutionality – such as criminalizing the contempt in cases of domestic violence.
These required specific legislation to enable.
Regardless,
AGAIN – how stupid are you ?
You have promised to Jail Trump without regard for the law.
As I noted before Defamation as a whole – not just in the Carroll case is on the grey edges of violating peoples constitutional rights.
Do we need Trump during the 2024 Presidential campaign publishing “Letters from a New York Jail” ?
As I neted before – in Times V. Sullivan there were 4 votes to find defamation unconstitutional. We have the most pro free speech court we have had since that time.
And we have a judicial system that has been subsequently weaponized by the left for the specific purpose of silencing the free speech of those they hate.
You keep defaming Habba – and Trump frankly. Why is it that you think you are entitles to free speech – but they are not ?
Read your own posts – there is nothing in them that distinguishes your nonsense from that of Trump.
“The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report definition of rape: penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”
“What he did meets this definition. He raped her.”
According to your words, Joe Biden “raped” Tara Reade.
George
Assuming that you are discussing Carrol – the fundamental issue is not what is the label for what was alleged to have occurred –
Even Carrol can not clearly elucidate what happened, or whether it was consensual.
Though I would note that the FBI UCR is irrelevant. There is no Federal Crime of Rape, Rape is a state crime and the defintion is different in different states. Typically state criminal code distinguishes – Rape – with a Penis, from Sexual assault with another body part or object.
There is vast variety between states laws – though often the sentence is the same.
But one of the huge issues that Carrol and the left will have on appeal is that you have a decades old criminal allegation with no actual evidence that was unreported, and that the alleged victim has changed her story on repeatedly that you used civil law standards to essentially convict on, and that you are now using as a basis not merely to restrict free speech – but protestations of innocence.
There are innumerable ways this can lose on appeal.
Sufficiency of the evidence as an example.
Or the courts can decide that NY’s temporarily dropping the statute of limitations was an unconstitutional violation of due process.
All or nearly all the statements by Trump that are being used are statements of oppinion – not fact.
“She’s not my type”
“She’s crazy”
You have a Further problem in that Defamation is virtually never applied when the plantiff makes the original allegation.
“He raped me”, “No I did not” is virtually never defamation.
When you level an accusation of criminal conduct at someone else it is highly unlikely that the law and constitution are going to support gagging the person you accuse – even if they are actually guilty.
Even ignoring the 30 years that passed and the incredible weakness of the claim,
A huge problem you have with trying to turn protestations of innocence of accusations into defamation is that you can easily use this to create a vehicle by which you can leverage a lower standard civil finding into a criminal conviction.
That was a part of the problem with the Cosby case which should be instructive here.
Though the technical reasons that Cosby was ultimately overturned are different the fundimental principle is the same.
While I think Trump has myriads of excellent grounds to win on appeal,
I suspect that this case will be overturned on broad rather than narrow grounds and by supreme court decisions on Defamation in other cases.
As evidence by Alex Jones, Guliani, Trump and other cases – the Left has weaponized defamation politically.
Each of these cases has different problems – but they share several major items in common.
Politicized prosecutions, hostile press, tainted jury pools, and venue shopping.
Can you say “Sam Shepard” ?
Please explain how to distinguish any of the high profile cases the left has brought from the Shepard case ?
If anything each of these cases is WORSE than the Shepard case.
But the shepard requirement for an untainted jury is just ONE way that higher courts – particularly SCOTUS can choose to end this nonsense.
And that is the biggest problem that the left faces in all of its lawfare cases – and that is that SCOTUS, and even the majority of people see them as an improper abuse of power. You can tell how this lawfare is being taken by the public as Trump’s poll numbers RISE with each new case.
If you think this is not going to effect courts – particularly SCOTUS you are deluded.
There is a legal aphorism that “bad cases make bad law” – that usually means that heinous crimes usually drive judges to try to bend the law and constitution to support the prosecution.
But the reverse is true – prosecutions that are offensive also have a huge tendency to drive the courts to make law to limit them.
Times v. Sullivan was 5-4 – with 4 Justices prepared to rule that defamation was a violation of the first amendment.
Scotus could decide to go there – they were within 1 vote of that 60 years ago.
Regardless, if these cases are NOT overturned before they get to SCOTUS, there is a very high probability of SCOTUS doing something broad to end this nonsense.
The left has a major problem right now – they are inarguably lawless, and they have inarguably weaponized the law.
There is a large number of cases headed to SCOTUS all of which have a single Purpose – to destroy Trump and everyone close to him.
Further you have what may be the most pro 1st amendment court since the Warren court.
The left is litterally begging the court to shout NO!!!!!!
Do not be surprised if you get what you are asking for.
No rational and impartial court could award Carrol $83 million.
The alleged incident which has never been supported by evidence, charged, or proven, has past any reasonable concept of, if hypothetical, statute of limitations.
No rape was reported or proven; no rape kit or other evidence exists.
No damages to an 80-year-old woman can be established anywhere near the amount of $83 million.
She has not been required to pay out large sums of money and she has no earning capacity that has been diminished.
This is another failure of a judicial branch that has the America of its Constitution and Founders consistently.
Like Lincoln’s unconstitutional denial of not prohibited and fully constitutional secession, Carrol’s failure to report in a reasonable period of time an unsupported allegation precludes any and all subsequent action.
The judicial branch was designed to get it right and it consistently gets it wrong.
A compelling and prodigious example is that of the abject failure of John Durham to find the de facto conspiracy, aka coup d’etat, against President Donal Trump which everyone knows beyond a shadow of a doubt existed and persists – Fani Willis and her boyfriend consulted in the White for two eight-hour periods related to her political prosecution of Trump.
If one day I had a problem, I would like you to represent me, I don’t know how you perform in front of a judge, but you have something that most specialists do not have (doctor, engineers, lawyers). You express yourself in summary with simple arguments in plain language.
Another day, just feeding the rage to the Trump Cult. It has been working for you Turley, but even Trump supporters are jumping ship. After all, you should know what MAGA means, Trump……. Makes Attorneys Get Attorneys.
Soviet Democrat Apparatchik non-binary FishLips squealed in hyperbolic hysteria:Another day, just feeding the rage to the Trump Cult… even Trump supporters are jumping ship.
Dennis McIntyre/Biden’s Baghdad Bob is off in sick leave and FishLips has been dispatched to post the script in his absence?
It’s angry squeals make one think this is what you would get if he were the offspring of Bribery Biden’s primary Spokes Liar, Cringe Jean-Pierre and Greta Thunberg: HOW DARE YOU MAKE ANY MENTION OF THE BIG GUY SELLING AMERICA FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE!
FishLips have any comments on how the supporters and donors of Bribery Biden, The Big Guy, are jumping ship?
Straight out of the Soviet Democrats’ Little Red Playbook for their apparatchiks: blame them for what we’re doing and claim what is happening to us is actually happening to them. It identifies them just as clearly as it would if they had the commie hammer and sickle tattooed on their forehead.
It’s clear you have jumped ship from reality.
You seem to be projecting. There is no0 consequential rage in the US outside the left.
Trump supporters are jumping ship ?
That would be why the recent round of Polls like CBS and Harris have Trump up 6-8pts ?
And why Biden’s approval is the lowest ever recorded for a president ?
The only question going into 2024 – is how much cheating will democrats get away with and will the 10pt swing in Trump support overcome Democrat Fraud.
Regardless, not only are you losing on every front, but you do not seem to grasp that you are losing even were you beleive you are winning.
Willis is being taken to task all over – mostly by Democrats. The Atlanta City Counsel is asking questions and investigating.
The GA house is starting an impeachment inquiry, the GA senate an investigation,
I beleive the GA AG is also investigating.
Two Judges are pissed at her. While SO FAR it appears that the RICO judge is not YET ready to throw her off the case, she has destroyed her credibility with him and that is glaringly obvious.
Actual Evidence of The efforts of the Biden WH to stick their fingers in ALL the Trump cases is starting to surface – while that MIGHT not be illeagal it is a really bad idea for a party that is claiming that it is illegal and is prosecuting the leading political rival because of less egregious actions.
It is also very bad for a party claiming Trump interfered int he election to be overtly interfering in the election.
And you left wing loons think that Trump supporters are Angry over your semisuccessful lawfare.
No, they are SAD, that it has come to this, and they i8ncreasingly understand that those on the left must be ENTIRELY removed from any position of power anywhere – because you will lawlessly abuse any power you have.
FishWings – You have flown into a box canyon – even if you actually manage to accomplish the lawfare goals you set – they backfire on you.
Recent polls have Trump winning easily in a two way race and winning even more in a 3 way race.
You claim that Trump is losing among independents – and to a small extent that is true – Given a choice like Manchin, or Dean or RFK Jr rather than Trump or Biden – they will pick anyone but Trump or Biden, but given only the choice between Trump and Biden – more independents are picking Trump.
I would further note that Trump support is RISING – that does not mean more Trump supporters are flocking to Trump.
That means more democrats and independents are.
Why ? Because they increasingly grasp that Democrats are incompetent untrustworthy dangerous liars who will abuse any power they have.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. A loan made without a contract laying out precisely the terms and repayment of such a loan is not a loan but is an illegal campaign contribution to the Biden cartel. The payback of loans that have not been documented from funds received from the Chinese is influence by a foreign government. The paper trail is real. Wouldn’t you know it. The nothing to see here crowd on this blog is in full operational mode financed by the Democratic party with the purpose of removing your ability to see what is right before your eyes. The nothing to see here crowd thinks you’re stupid enough to go for it. After all, you are a part of the basket of stupid deplorables. First it was Hillary carrying the basket and now it’s Joe.
The problems are worse than that. It really does not matter what it is called.
It does not matter whether there is paperwork.
What matters is whether there was any effort or record to pay back the “loan”.
The Biden’s can possibly get away with claiming this stuff is “loans” based on flimsy assertions.
But there must be evidence that the “Loan” was actually treated as a loan. That payments were made, that interest was paid.
It is interesting how the Trump and Biden cases intersect.
Trump had real loans for real property with real interest rates and excellent documentation that were paid back in full – and left wing nust are crying “fraud”.
The Biden’s have memo lines on checks saying Loan, no paperwork clearly no interest, no record of repayment and the same people telling us that obviously correct valuation of the securing capital is frad are claiming that loans that there is no evidence of really anything much less repayment are perfectly Kosher ?
We are we paste “what about ism” – We are dealing with the Kafkaesque idiocy of left wing nuts where everything is twisted to suit their beleifs. Where there are no facts – just personal beleifs.
Once, while shopping for lingerie, I flirted with a man looking at items near me. I invited him into my dressing room, where I made sexual innuendos to him about ‘why doesn’t HE try on the intimate underwear.’ – I DID NOT CALL OUT FOR HELP when he started to “abuse” me, and I laughed about it/did nothing about it–until years later when he became famous and wealthy.
But for NY’s new “enabling” laws, you probably still wouldn’t know my name, because I certainly never became famous and wealthy on my own…
(this was intended to be posted under “Biden Administration Declares Cuomo….” sorry)
Jonathan: Well, the verdict is in and it’s a whopper! In the second E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit the jury just awarded Carroll $83.3 million–including $65 million in punitive damages. DJT promises to appeal but there are ample reasons why the appeal will fail.
The reason is simple. Even during the trial DJT continued to defame Carroll. That was pointed in Carroll attorney’s closing argument to the jury. Then, shortly into Carroll attorney’s closing DJT got up and stormed out of the courtroom. Such disrespect was not lost on the jury.
The large amount of punitive damages is designed to deter future defamatory conduct. DJT is his own worst enemy. Before and during the trial DJT continued to claim he is a “billionaire”. So anything less than $65 million would not have gotten his attention.
Then, Alina Habba didn’t help DJT’s defense. She made it worse. Her lack of lawyering skills were on full display during the entire trial. She had to be admonished by Judge Kaplan over and over again. In her closing argument Alina tried to turn her client into the “victim”–falsely claiming Carroll’s defamation suit was an attempt to get publicity for her book to make money. That was not lost on the jury who were instructed the real “victim” of rape and defamation was Carroll.
No doubt experienced trial lawyers will use Habba’s dismal performance to instruct new associates about how NOT to conduct a trial. It will be called “Habba Trial Practice 101”. The big Q is why DJT keeps Habba on retainer when she has demonstrated she doesn’t know the first thing about trial practice–and keeps losing cases for him? That is the real head scratcher.
Dennis – you just defamed Alina Habba. Hopefully, she will be able to obtain your real identity from JT and sue you in the venue of her choice. It would be nice to see one of the trolls on the site hoisted on his own petard. Incidentally, you cannot defame anyone by your remarks in court. It is absolutely privileged.
Dennis is incapable of grasping the disasterous consequences of his own hypocracy.
Habba is not going to sue Dennis – because Dennis’s remarks are opinions and free speech – JUST LIKE TRUMP’
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There is no such thing as a “fact” that can be established about something that is claimed over 30 years ago, and absent any supporting evidence.
But this is typical of the left, They intend to sort out and readjudicate all past greivances going back to Cain and Able.
Who knows maybe they can exonerate Cain.
Dennis McIntyre/Baghdad Bob Has Been Dispatched To Deflect From Attention Focused On Bribery Biden’s Corruption:Jonathan: Well, the verdict is in and it’s a whopper! In the second E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit the jury just awarded Carroll $83.3 million–including $65 million in punitive damages.
Imagine everyone’s absolute shock that New York’s Soviet Democrat Injustice System comes up with results like that! In normal places where Soviet Democrat justice, Lavarentiy Beria style, is not in place, E. Jean Carroll would be bankrupt paying Trump’s legal fees. But with jurors who are clones of Dennis McIntyre/Baghdad Bob and FishLips… why would anyone expect any other possible verdict?
Meanwhile, Dennis McIntyre/Baghdad Bob used his Official Internet Law Degree to provide another analysis of everything/anything Trump: No doubt experienced trial lawyers will use Habba’s dismal performance to instruct new associates about how NOT to conduct a trial.
You would think Dennis/Bob could be on topic long enough to give everyone his scholarly legal review of the performance of Biden’s lawyer, Kevin Morris – which IS the topic of this article. Maybe instruct new associates NOT to make illegal campaign contributions, NOT to violate the canons of the bar you’re a member of, DON’T evade your taxes while at the same time helping another criminal who is your client evade his taxes, etc.
Or if Dennis/Bob wanted to actually flex and pose about how NOT to conduct a trial regarding lawyers having something to do with Trump instead of Biden… does he have any comment on how Fani Willis conducted a trial of Trump? You know, sweaty and underneath her chosen prosecutor between the sheets? Paying her hot Tinder date who had never prosecuted such a case nearly a million dollars, much of which was spent by her taking her on expensive taxpayer funded vacations around the world?
You really need to try and at least play the role of Soviet Democrat Apparatchik better, Dennis McIntyre/Baghdad Bob – it’s far too late for you to attempt to do human being better. As it is, your posts are mostly useful as support group safe places for the few other Soviet Democrat police state fascists dispatched here to lie, deceive, and deflect from Biden Crime Inc whenever the focus lands on them.
Dennis and those on the left do not understand that they have flown into a box canyon.
They have fixated on the fact that polls have said that if Trump is convicted of something many voters would leave him.
They failed to understand that meant lawfully and credibly convicted of an actual crime.
Not persecuted in cases that make the Sam Shepard Case like like a model of fairness.
Someone needs to remind them that Shepard – who MAY have murdered his wife was convicted of her murder by a biased judge with a biased press and a biased jury that frankly looks like the model of fairness compared to the Trump cases.
“In 1966, in Sheppard v. Maxwell, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the “carnival atmosphere” surrounding Sheppard’s first trial had made due process impossible; after ten years in prison, he was acquitted at a second trial.”
Trump’s poll numbers continue to rise, and Biden’s favorability is at historic lows.
Put simply with each passing day people trust democrats less and less.
By people – I do NOT mean Trump supporters. Democrats are LOSING the independent vote.
Independants and centrist democrats increasingly are either voting for Trump or not voting.
several polls have Trump over 50% in a two candidate race.
The Democrat strategy is not working.
And it is damaging much more than Biden.
The big story of the moment is the standoff in TX. While there are legal aspects to it – and even Turley has commented that Abbot MIGHT manage to persuade SCOTUS, I personally doubt this case is going to SCOTUS and as interesting as Abbotts arguments are – I think they are even more of a constitutional stretch than Turley does.
But as I have repeatedly argued – though I thinkt he constitution is wonderful – it is NOT actually the supreme law of the land. Nor is SCOTUS the final authortiy on the law of the land.
As the Declaration of Independence notes – the legitimacy of government rests on the trust of the people.
The problem democrats face at Eagle Park the constitution, it is the lack of Trust in Biden and his cronies.
We appear to be approaching a Tianamen square or collapes of the Berlin wall moment.
There are indications that if Biden ordered CBP to take control of Eagle PArk – that most or all agents would not obey an order they beleive to be illegal and unconstitutional.
Purportedly Biden is talking of Nationalizing the TX national Guard. Again – will the TX NG obey ? And if they do, Will Biden then nationalize the NG of atleast 25 other states ?
And lets say that somehow Biden manages to get TX to back down – then we will have lots of video of CBP cutting through razor wire to let 10’s of thousands of illegal immigrants in. Biden has already thoroughly lost the support of americans on immigration.
Can he really afford to make that worse ?
Mayorkas is likely to be impeached in a week or two. But depending on his actions a “snap” impeachment of Biden over Eagle park could happen in hours.
As public support for Biden’s handling of the border gets even worse. Are Democrats in the senate going to vote against removing him ?
In 1972 Nixon resigned when Barry Goldwater went to the whitehouse and said that whjen the house impeaced Nixon the Senate would likely convict.
We all already know that massive amounts of Democrats want Biden out of the 2024 race. This is their oportunity to threaten him.
Withdraw from the 2024 election and you will not be removed or forced to resign.
Strategically Republicans should move this as slow as possible. The best outcome for Republicans is to have Biden replaced at the Democratic convention – not to have him withdraw in February. Regardless, it will be really really really hard for democrats to select and get behind another candidate before the election.
You are evil incarnate as you want all life on earth ended in nuclear annihilation in your perverse obsession with a war no one wants and could of ended in Mach 2020 if it were not for Biden the butcher.
Jonathan: Facing a possible defamation lawsuit you seem to tone down your rhetoric about Kevin Morris. But you can’t resist the temptation to still make the false claim that Morris is “a major figure in the corruption scandal surrounding Hunter Biden”. What “corruption”? That Morris made loans to Hunter so he could pay his back taxes? That’s not “corruption”– not the public “corruption” Bob Menendez was involved in.
It now appears you have given up trying to prove “corruption” by Joe Biden. That’s because, to your great disappointment, EVERY witness who has testified before Jim Comer’s Committee–from Devon Archer, Mervyn Yan, Rob Walker, the art dealer to Morris have all clearly and categorically testified that Joe Biden was never involved in his son’s business affairs. Comer’s investigation is going to die with a whimper!
So now you are reduced to writing a column in the NY Post, Rupert Murdock’s other salacious tabloid–calling Morris Hunter’s “sugar brother”. Now it’s all about Hunter, not his dad. Maybe it’s a bit of envy. We all wish we had a “sugar brother” to step in when we have had financial difficulties. It’s a sad day when a law professor and self-proclaimed constitutional scholar puts himself in the service of such an empty pursuit!
Dennis: Your sycophancy is well appreciated by some but not all on this blog. Willful blindness is an affliction of the left. We have suspicious transaction reports from multiple banks over several years showing unusual transfers of millions of dollars from foreign entities to various LLCs created by Hunter or other Biden family members for the reason of accepting these funds. Taxes were not paid on millions of dollars of these funds. The FBI has reliable human sources telling them about the pay-for-play influence peddling of the Bidens, especially Hunter. I coulkd go on but I think you get the pictuyre. Just ask yourself this: Would you feel the same way about Donald Trump if we now learned that while he was presidfent, his son was getting paid millions of dollars by foreign interests to influence his father? I seriously doubt that you would be defending Trump is such charges and saying that his actions, if true, were not “corrupt.” I dare you to tell me I’m wrong on this.
JJC,
Well said.
JJC: I believe it was reported that at least 170 SARs had been filed/referred by financial institutions regarding curious Biden transactions? —(Not like the banks were all right-wing conspiracy-theory-supporting entities contributing to Trump’s campaign…)
JJC: Speaking of “sycophancy”! The “suspicious” transfers you talk about involved the money Hunter and James Biden made in their business dealings in Ukraine and China. Nothing unusual for private citizens to make money overseas. And it’s not illegal. The problem for Hunter he didn’t pay the taxes on much of that income. But what you forget is that the whole purpose of Comer’s impeachment inquiry is to try to show Joe Biden (when he was a private citizen) got some of the money or, when he was VP, took some “official” action to benefit his family’s business dealings. As pointed out in my previous column ALL of the witnesses who testified before Comer’s Committee deny Joe Biden was involved in the family businesses nor did he derive any financial benefit.
And I take your dare. As to DJT’s WH, Ivanka and her husband made up to $640 million in outside income while they were working in the WH. The Chinese government granted 18 trademarks to companies linked to DJT and Ivanka in 2018. Then, shortly after Jared Kushner left the WH as one of DJT’s senior advisors, the Saudi Crown Prince overruled his own investment advisors, and gave Jared $2 billion. Why? Because during his entire time in the WH Jared protected the Saudi regime from criticism over its dismal human right record. That’s influence peddling and “pay-for-play in spades!
The problem with your argument is that Hunter has always remained a private citizen. Pres. Biden never brought his son, or any other family member, into the WH to work as a senior advisor so he could make money. That’s the big difference between the Biden and Trump families! Don’t you see the difference?
There’s quite a difference between selling ‘Billy Beer’, or other as sundry ‘asset’ management portfolios, and selling direct access/influence over official U.S. policy, both domestic and foreign.
In the case of Hunter Biden, there is ‘evidence’ President Joe Biden is the business. .. and has been for many, many years.
*see Ukraine.
Dennis. – per Hunter, “save 10 per cent for the Big Guy.”
If the evidence that exists regarding Biden had ever existed against Trump he would be wearing an orange jumpsuit right now.
If we had a functioning and unbiased system of justice in this country then there might be conseuences for Mr Morris’s obvious obfuscation but the sad fact is we don’t so there won’t!
“If Morris is called to testify, this may not fly” Seriously ? Morris will just take a page of Hunter’s book and no-show. You have forgotten that all things Biden are exempt from the rules.
skyraider: Ignoring a court subpoena can get you immediate jail time so I don’t think this will happen. A lot of these machinations by Congress that seem futile and a waste of time right now are strategically designed to overcome legal objections later on when, for example, a special counsel is appointed to look into all this. That process should begin in about a year from now.
I would beg to differ. Trump answered a reporters question about Revenge beautifully recently – that he will be too busy fixing the mess Biden has making and restoring order to spend any time on revenge.
One of the first things Trump should do on J21, 2025 is Pardon all involved int he Biden crime saga – as well as Asange, and Snowden, and thousands of J6’rs and …..
He should call for the equivalent of a Truth and Reconcilliation commission regarding the election, J6, the deep state political machinations.
Total amnesty in return for truthful testimony.
Let the sun shine it.
Hunter, Hunter, Hunter, Hunter, Hunter, Hunter, Hunter, Hunter.
JT seems a bit fixated.
Anon: Nearly 70% of voters (and 40% of Democrats) believe Biden has acted unlawfully or unethically or both. Hunter is the weakest link in the Biden Crime Family and, therefore, the most obvious target for investigation.
And in another poll, 79% of people said that they believe Trump acted either unethically or illegally. But we don’t see Turley writing columns about Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. So that clearly doesn’t explain all of his Hunter, Hunter, Hunter, Hunter columns.
Anon: We are not made saints by other men’s sins. Stick to the topic.
JT’s fixation is part of the topic.
Either unethically or illegally are different. 70% say Biden acted unlawfully – if you add or unethically that could be near 100%.
As to the Trump, Trump , Trump stuff – Turley has written about those in the past. He is on record about the weaknesses in most of Trump’s cases. It is unlikely he wants to speak regarding the recent developments for TWO reasons.
First because things are going very badly for the Left Wing nut lawfare – much as they did with the Collusion Delusion.
And Turley already has left wing nuts claiming he is biased because of his stands for free speech and the rule of law.
And next because it is increasingly obvious that all of this is antifree speech lawfare. Turley’s position on the first amendment is pretty clear.
You don’t pay attention to details John.
Contrast:
The original statement: “Nearly 70% of voters (and 40% of Democrats) believe Biden has acted unlawfully or unethically or both”
Your false claim: “70% say Biden acted unlawfully – if you add or unethically that could be near 100%.”
Do you understand why your substitution is false?
JJC,
The good professor writes about the BCF as he sees the corruption that is in the current WH admin, the various degrees of corruption on going in the judicial system, and the corruption of his own party.
He is merely trying to point out the obvious that our leftist friends are desperate to ignore: The Democrat party of JFK is long gone and has become the party of corruption and fascists.
Why isn’t anyone discussing the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege? These two – Hunter Biden and Kevin Morris – have some questionable financial associations that likely involve criminal frauds. Art has always been a magnet for money launderers because its value often is subjective. As such, it can easily be used to hide huge sums of ill-gained funds.
Yeah. Real estate is also a magnet for money launderers.
Anon: Yes, anything with a subjective value can be used. Even race horses have been used to launder money. Fortunately, FINCIN and the IRS are on to all these schemes and target them for investigation.
JJC, modern art is utilized by the wealthy as a tax dodge. They’ll pick some random clown painting dreck with his feet (sorry, Hunter) and bid up the price of his oeuvre. This builds the value, and then the final purchases are astronomically priced, revaluing the earlier purchases upwards for a huge gain on the balance sheet.
Then the rich donate the dreck and write off the whole thing on their taxes, moving the benefit to their income statements—and real cash.
The works are awful by design. It keeps that artist out of the popular market so the rich can better control the price.
The IRS knows all this, but it’s “art,” so what can anyone do about it in court? It’s also wealthy Democrats and Republicans, so there’s that, too.
BugAnon – if the value of real estate is subjective, how can Trump be guilty of fraud in his personal valuations?
Because there is no reason to make the same stupid mistakes that those on the left have made.
I do not think Turley has said this in blod faced capital letters, but there are TWO much easier way to defeat claims of privilege,
There is no priviledge for conduct that is not the practice of law, just because you are a lawyer.
Privledge only applies to the confidential communications with a client and diresctly associated work product. Morris’s actions and communicatiosn with third parties for Hunter or with hunter in the presence of third parties are not priviledged.
“The problem is that when you are “everything” to a client, you may end up with nothing when it comes to confidentiality.”
Sounds like he is just a bagman. The money he gave to Hunter probably was not his own.
Morris sounds like a typical LA/Hollywood Liberal type, simply seeking to piggy back on the Biden’s for influence, access, and $$$$$$$$$$$$$. A Lawyer?? even his own Lawyer had to advise him he was incorrect. A Fine Art Collector????: buying from upcoming talented Artist??? trying to turn a $1000000 art investment into $20000000 or $100????
Role? consigliere
For the Democrat Fascist Mob