Below is a slightly expanded version of my New York Post column on the report that President Joe Biden, not Special Counsel Robert Hur, raised the death of Beau Biden during his interview. The report, now confirmed by various media outlets, suggests that the President lied to the press and the public in his controversial press conference after the release of the Special Counsel’s findings.
Here is the column:
In his press conference following the Special Counsel report on his retention of classified documents, President Joe Biden lashed out at Special Counsel Robert Hur over allegations that he has such “diminished faculties” that it would be difficult to criminally charge him. One of the key and scripted moments was Biden angrily denouncing Hur for raising the death of his son. The “how dare you” moment was eagerly re-played by many in the media who piled on the next day in calling the question outrageous, callous, and unprofessional. Now, however, NBC is reporting that it was not Hur but Biden himself who raised the death of his son.
In the disastrous press conference, Biden quickly went on the attack and asked “How in the hell dare he raise that?” Frankly, when I was asked the question I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
The NBC sources suggest that this was a knowingly false claim by the President and that he was the one who raised his son’s death.
If it is true, this is not something that the White House can simply correct with a few brackets rewrites. The corrected version would read “How in the hell [could I] raise that. When I [raised] the question I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
It would make referencing recent conversations with dead foreign leaders look like relative moments of clarity.
While we will have to await the spin, the report (if true) suggests that the President is either mentally diminished or openly deceptive in such moments. The latter seems most likely. Biden clearly went to the podium intending to make this attack on Hur. That means that it was likely vetted by his staff.
Moreover, the press conference was inundated by false claims from the President. He suggested that the Special Counsel did not find willful retention of material. He not only did so but repeatedly said so in the report. He claimed that he did not show classified material to third parties. Not only did the Special Counsel say that he did, but there is a witness to that fact. He said that he kept material in locked drawers or drawers capable of being locked. The Special Counsel showed actual pictures of ripped boxes holding such material in his garage.
Once again, it is hard to see how these false claims were made without the prior review of Biden’s staff. The President famously works off teleprompters and scripts. The staff also did not correct the record on any of these false claims immediately after the press conference despite being demonstrably untrue.
Ironically, the White House may have to claim that the President was simply confused in a press conference called to deny such chronic confusion. It has already had to spin out of the President confusing the presidents of Egypt and Mexico in the same press conference.
Yet, in support of the diminished capacity defense, the President continues to make false claims about his son Beau, including repeated claims that Beau died in the Iraq War. He actually died at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland from glioblastoma, the most prevalent form of brain cancer, in May 2015 — six years after he returned from Iraq.
Of course, an enabling media quickly took the lead from the White House and lashed out at Hur. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California objected “I do think the special counsel’s gratuitous mention of Beau Biden, whatever you think of the rest, but to talk about someone’s dead son and to put that in … what is this country coming to that we’re politicizing that?”
In the media, there was outrage. MSNBC’s Jennifer Palmieri asked:
“Why was the special counsel asking him about Beau’s death, right? There is no legitimate answer for why he would do that, and in an interview that happened in October, months and months and months after the special counsel began their work. Unless they were trying to trip him up, rattle him, gain oppo, right? I mean, I think it is just that, the fundamental question of, why would you ask him about Beau’s death, raises the question about the legitimacy of the entire line of questioning,”
MSNBC host Al Sharpton joined the chorus of objections and Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian, told MSNBC it was “beyond the pale.” . Likewise, former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder was positively irate:
“[T]he larger question is, why the hell are you asking that question? What does that have to do with the retention of classified documents? I’d like to think that at best, this prosecutor was extremely naive, a rube perhaps. He’s a Republican appointee, and he’s thinking, I want to have a life beyond what I’m saying in connection with this investigation. And that might have shaded what he put in the report.”
The First Lady was reportedly used by the campaign to raise money off of the outrage, stating “I hope you can imagine how it felt to read that attack — not just as Joe’s wife, but as Beau’s mother.”
She added “[w]e should give everyone grace, and I can’t imagine someone would try to use our son’s death to score political points.” However, if these reports are true, it was the President who interjected the death of his son into the interview.
The use of the White House to spread false claims about these investigations is a highly precarious practice. It can be the thing that impeachments are made off. Ian Sams, spokesman for the White House Counsel’s Office, has been especially aggressive in attacking critics of the President and spinning these reports. He was recently confronted about false claims in connection to the Hur report.
The use of White House staff to carry out an alleged disinformation campaign can raise alleged violations of the public trust and misuse of federal staff and resources. Such allegations have been included in past articles of impeachment and would be most serious in relation to the ongoing investigation into influence peddling by the Biden family. In the. most recent controversy, the aggressive effort of the White House Counsel’s office to shape the coverage led to a rare rebuke from the White House Correspondents Association.
The coordinated campaigns can also bootstrap earlier alleged violations into Biden’s presidency. For example, the House is pursuing allegations of corruption stemming from Biden’s time as Vice President and the period in which he was a private citizen before running in 2016. Using federal personnel like Sams to spread or repeat false claims could make such allegations “evergreen” in tying them to contemporary ‘in office” conduct.
In other words, the White House has to be careful that the effort to spin out of scandal only results in spinning into an impeachment.
Quick, we need more posts on Hunter. Maybe put a link to the Hunter porn videos. Anything to distract from other news.
The primary witness against Biden has been charged with lying to the FBI
Trump is found a fraud in NY, has to pay $355 million (Plus interest)
Trump must face criminal charges with regards to hush money to a women he had sex with and tried to hide it from the public
And in an understatement of the decade, the Jude in NY said of trump and his family…they are “incapable of admitting the error of their ways”
Oh, and Hunter did drugs in the past so please, more Hunter stories.
Are you sure that you wouldn’t like some more Hunter stories?
Sure, let’s try to find some stories where he paid forward the next person in line at the checkout counters bill. How about Hunter helping an elderly person cross the street.
Anything, anything but true stories about how the prime witness against Biden is charged with lying to the FBI. And please no stories about how trump lied nearly every time he opens his mouth. And has been ordered to pay $83 million to a woman he sexually abused. and $355 million (plus interest) for defrauding everyone in NY with his inflated values (to lenders), and deflated values to pay less tax. Can’t have 2 sets of books unfortunately And we certainly don’t want to know about what trump thinks of NATO and his buddy Putin.
We could publish the 2020 Republican platform from when trump last ran for president. Oh Wait, there wasn’t one.
How about a story about trump using classified documents to wipe his butt in his golden lair of a bathroom in mar a logo? oops, can’t do that, might draw attention to what a complete A hole trump is.
So yes, please, more Hunter stories.
Actually you can have as many sets of books as you want. What you can not do is commit fraud.
And fraud is not statements of fact that you disagree with.
Legal fraud is something very specific. It is deceit that a person that you owe a formal legal duty to relies on to their actual harm.
The rule in realestate is the duty that a sellor or borrower owes to a lendor or buyer is access tot he property so that they can velue it themselves. Because VALUE IS SUBJECTIVE. A sellor or borrower is perfectly free to claim any value they want for a property.
The buyer or lendor is free to agree to that value or walk away or negotiate.
I would note this is not just a rule in realestate – it is the rule of the free market.
When you take your cart into a grocery store and start filling it. Everytime you take something off the shelf and put it into your cart – You the Buyer are establishing that the item you put in your cart is something you want sufficiently much to pay the price on the item.
In most cases someone somewhere is elling something similar at a lower (and higher) price. They are not committing fraud.
Nor are you committing fraud by paying less than others.
I would further note that YOU determine the price as much as the sellor does.
The sellor offers goods forsale at a price higher than THEIR value of the property.
NO ONE EVER sells something for less than it is worth to them or even exactly what it is worth to them.
If the only price they can get is exactly what it is worth to them – they will not sell – there is too much work in selling to do so without getting more than the things is worth.
Conversely no buyer will ever pay more than what something is worth to them. If that was their only choice – they would walk away.
If they do not walk away then the good is worth what they are paying.
Fraud does not occur when the buyer and sellor can not agree on a price.
It can not occur if they do agree on a prive.
Fraud SOMETIMES occurs when the thing being sold is not what the sellor claims it is. Fraud is not about misrepresenting the price, it is about missrepresenting the thing being sold. And even that is not enough.
For there to be fraud – you must lie about the thing being sold, you must have a duty of to lie to the buyer you must have hidden some flaw in what you are seeling in a way that the buyer could not find that flaw if their did their due dilligence.
The only people who bel;eive that E Jean Carrol was ever sexually abused by any of the manyh many men she has claimed have raped her – are left win nut jobs.
Run on that platform for Congress in November. See how many votes you get.
Bob, that is not a platform, though, as you admit, that is the platform you and the left are running on. Don’t you see how stupid it is?
The 2020 Republican platform is the 2016 republican platform is the 2024 republican platform – even NYT has reported that.
No need to change it.
Or perhaps you couldn’t find anyone that could write to update it?
“And we certainly don’t want to know about what trump thinks of NATO and his buddy Putin.”
Does this statement have meaning ?
You are free to wish to know or not know whatever you want.
Putin has made it clear what he thinks – he has endorsed Biden. Which makes perfect sense – Biden is the least threat to Putin or Russia.
Just as Clinton was.
And you believe anything Putin says because?
It is weird that you think that these things are actually favorable to you.
First this is NOT the primary witness against the Biden’s.
This FBI CHS is NOT a Witness – the House was never provided the name of this person.
In fact we only have DOJ/FBI’s word that anything from this person is part of the House investigation.
This FBI CHS is NOT a house witness – they could not be, the house was never provided their name,
only a partly redacted FBI 1023.
The FBI has charged its OWN CHS that the FBI called highly reliable, with lying to the FBI, over a 1023 that is the report by that CHS of a conversation that occured in Ukraine.
What is the FBI going to do here to discredit their own source ? Bring in Zolechefsky ? Or Hunter Biden ?
This is just stupid on the part of the DOJ and more proof that left wing nuts are stupid.
The House investigation of the bidens stands up with or without this FBI CHS and with or without the FBI 1023.
But I should remind you that – this was information the FBI gathered – not the House. It was informatiuon the FBI rated as highly reliable – not the house. It was information the FBI hid – allegedly to protect its own source.
Further the FBI turned this over to the house – it did NOT claim that the 1023 was priviledged, It did not claim it was classified, it did not claim that it was evidence in an ongoing criminal investigation.
That means that DOJ did not START this investigation of an FBI CHS until AFTER Grasseley and Comer pried the 1023 out of the FBI.
Which makes this look alot like election interference and obstruction of congress.
You think this is a good thing for DOJ /Biden, but this is much like Biden claiming that Hur badgered him for the allegedly irrelevant date of Beau Biden’s death. Yet NYT is claiming that multiple sources in the SC say that it was BIDEN that brought up Beau’s death and then could not remember when it occured.
Of course this can all be cleared up by releasing the video of the Biden deposition,
And by charging the FBI CHS, the DOJ has made that persons name available to the house, and NOW they are likely to be a witness,
And will likely be VERY happy to testify.
But if you really think this was a good thing for you – hold on tightly to your delusions.
Excellent! You are not by any chance a forensic pathologist, are you? Because I notice that you simply dissect the heck out of some of these statements, weigh the organs, and then bag them.
You asked for more on Hunter – the SC released photos from the Hunter Biden laptop of Hunter doing crack during the period of time he was purchasing the gun – in otherwords the claim that he was breifly sober so he was not lying pretty much bit the dust – briefly – what 30 seconds ?
Regardless, you asked for it
You think the Engron decision is helpful to you ?
I am happy that Engron was stupid enough to shoot the moon. It exposes how corrupt he and democrats are and makes it all the easier to overturn.
Do you honestly think that the appeals courts – even in NY are going to allow a decision that would make every single person who has ever sold realestate in NY a fraud subject to having their businesses confiscated ?
There is an excellent video by Kevin OLeary of shark tank on youtube of this. He makes clear – he is not trying to defend Trump – just point out that Engron is completely insane and if his decision is not wiped out – no one will do business in NY ever again.
Regardless – I am celebrating Engron’s decision – you gave Trump more free publiclity
Outside of a few left wing nuts most people understand there is NO FRAUD OF ANYKIND.
Engron is wrong with respect to fundimental legal principle that are over 2000 years old – “caveat emptor”
It is ALWAYS the legal responsibility of the BUYER (or bank) to “value” what they are buying.
Why ? Because “value is subjective” – and infact Engron PROVED that.
Engron seems to think Mar-A-Lago is worth 18M – the tax assessed value, when just down the road is a vacant site half the size of MAL that is on the market for almost 800M.
The value of ANYTHING is what a willing buyer and a willing sellor agree to.
I would note that – aside from property taxes – every single US government entity from your local city through the IRS has structured tax laws that way.
If I sell a property I own, the taxes are calculate as: The difference between the price I paid for the property, and the price I sold the property for, adjusted for the depreciation I have claimed on my taxes in the past.
Why ? Because government does not want to get into trying to value anything. Government uses the value that the market decides when it is sold.
BTW Kevin Oleary is not out there on this. The area of valuing Realestate is enormous and actually highly regulated.
Engron claims that the Banks were defrauded. Aside from the fact that the banks testified that they were not, aside fromt he fact that they wrote a mortgage and were fully paid back with interest and therefore could not possibly have been defrauded – in fact they could not have been defrauded even if Trump overvalued the properies by a factor of Ten, and the banks wrote mortgages for insanely high values.
Because that is not fraud. Lloyds will insure you for almost any amount for almost anything – so long as you are willing to pay the insurance premiums. Fraud in lending occurs ONLY when you default on a loan.
Have you ever owned a home ? Did you ever sell one ? Did you tell the real estate agent to list it at a high value in the hope someone would pay that ? Then according to James and Engron you committed fraud.
Regardless banks – and all lendors, and in one form or another often all buyers do something called “due Dilligence” – that is a general term, but it has a specific meaning in real estate.
Title insurance is part of due dilligence – It is very difficult to buy a property without buying title insurance. Why ? Because the bank want insurance that after they give you the mortgage money to purchase the property – they will not discover someone else owns it.
When a commerical property is bought sold or mortgaged an army of “due dilligence” professionals descend on the property.
They check to make sure there is clear title, that there are no hidden leins or mortgages, that the property is worth what they are loaning, that it is being well maintained, that it will generate enough revenue to pay the maintanence costs and the mortgage, that there are not hidden environmental problems – and on and on and on.
I would note that the BUYER pays for all of this – or the person mortgaging the property.
How do I know this – because I am not a moron like those of you on the left, Because we have spent thousands of years working this out,
because I have bought and sold property in my life, and because I own and operate a due dilligence business. I do part of the job of assuring banks they are not going to get screwed for a living – or atleast as ONE of my professional jobs.
I do nto beleive I have ever worked on the due dilligence of a Trump property – but I have done propertie adjacent to Trump properties.
I have done very high value properties in NYC – like the JW Marriot on Central park.
I also own commerical realestate.
People call me everysingle day to try to buy one of my properties.
As those properties are investment properties – they are ALWAYS for sale – but not ACTIVELY for sale.
When I get a call, I tell the person at the other end how much I want to NET out of the deal. I ALWAYS give a very high number.
Why ? Because if all you are going to do is pay me what zillow thinks my properties are worth – I will hold on to them until I have a good reasont o sell. To get me to sell TODAY, the only reason that will work – is because you are going to pay me gobs of money.
Because one of the laws of economics is “Value is subjective” – Engron wasted millions of dollars on this case – and he and james should PERSONALLY have to pay all Trump’s legal bills – why ? Because Attorney’s and Judges do not get to decide what things are worth – unless they are personally BUYING. The price of any of Trump’s properties is what Trump and a willing buyer agree to.
This is MORE than just a legal argument, in theory you could have law that is different than I say – but we do not.
Why ? Because law that does not work in the real world does not last very long.
I can’t believe how stupid some people are, and I agree this will not stand or NYC will be good for nothing except housing illegal immigrants. Maybe we should send them ALL there. If Trump wins the election, you could be in Arizona and still hear the sphincters in NY and DC slamming shut.
There is no reason to sweat this nonsense.
It is a huge political mistake on the part of the left.
All they are doing is making Trump into a sympathetic martyr.
And frankly they are doing so at little cost to Trump.
It is hgihly likely these decsions will be overturned. The only question is when and for which of the many excellent reasons. he leftus who they are.
That the can not win an honest conflict.
Who beleives that a political party that thinks they need to jail Trump to win in 2024, did not committ large scale election fraud in 2020 ?
The more egregious your conduct is today the easier it is to beleive your past conduct was egregious too.
The left makes plenty of mistakes.
“It is a huge political mistake on the part of the left.”
Mark my words. The party that used to be known as Republican, has now firmly become Trump. In 5 years it will dissolve after losing the 2024 election up and down the ballot. They will lose again in 2026 and finally walk home with their heads held low and disolve. Sometime after that a new party will emerge.
“The party that used to be known as Republican, has now firmly become Trump. ”
Bob, you don’t know what you are talking about. Yes, Trump is the leader of the MAGA movement, but that movement continues with or without Trump. That is what you don’t understand. People want a more responsible government. People like yourself just root for a team and have yet to learn what that team’s policy is.
Why don’t you put to rest the idea that you are stupid? Start talking about policy. If you can’t, then that idea is correct.
“Trump is found a fraud in NY, has to pay $355 million”
Bob, what does that mean? Firstly, it means the judge should be removed from the bench. Secondly, it means you are an idiot because you don’t know what the law is.
A) If you think your house is worth $ 2 million and a person wants to pay only $500,000, does that make you a crook?
B) If you take out a loan on that house and tell the bank it is worth $2 million, but they have to do their due diligence, does that make you a crook?
C) If the judge values Mar a Lago at $19 million and it is worth $200 – $500 million, what does that make the judge?
A) No, but you are too stupid to understand that.
B) No, but you are now doubly stupid.
C) It makes the judge incompetent and someone as stupid as you.
“Trump must face criminal charges ”
There is a woman who claims you raped her about 30 years ago but doesn’t remember what year and doesn’t have any witness to the act. Does that make you guilty?
No, but believing it makes you stupid.
I have provided some evidence. Can you provide proof you are not stupid?
A) No, but you are too stupid to understand that.
B) No, but you are now doubly stupid.
C) It makes the judge incompetent and someone as stupid as you.
Wow, thanks for that. I feel so bad.
trump will be the Repo nominee for Nov 2024. Trump will lose. The Repos will lose the House and Senate. It will be a blowout deposing many Rs. How many Rs are fleeing the party now? Good luck wining with a minority of the votes.
“Wow, thanks for that. I feel so bad.”
You’re welcome, but I didn’t say that to make you feel bad; you are too stupid to be embarrassed. I said that so others could see what they were dealing with.
All I hope for is that the Democrats don’t cheat too much. If they don’t, Trump will win. Biden’s policies don’t hurt me, so why should I care? I do for folk not as lucky as me, but what do you care? You are a rapist based on the fact that 30 years ago, you raped at least one woman, but no one is sure of what year that occurred. That is what makes you so stupid.
How The Democrats Could Dump Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and win the Presidency
Here is my amateur political strategist ideas on this topic. GrimS was right earlier, when she said the ship had pretty much left the barn, what with Biden already winning some primaries. But assume Biden takes a tumble down the stairs, and hits his head on the steel corner of an ice cream cone vendor’s cart. Would the elections be over for the Democrats? No, they would make a substitution. So, as a theoretical matter, Joe could go to a nursing home, or the Great Ben & Jerry’s In The Sky, and as they say, “one monkey don’t stop no show!”
I believe there are two kinds of Democrat muckety-mucks: The practical and cynical politicians, and the insane ideologues. I believe there are more of the former, and for example, they do not think Open Borders are good, but they will support them to get votes and voters. The ideologues really believe their crap. There is currently a mutual parasitical relationship between the two, but many of the practical, cynical types believe, as Bill Maher does, that the far Left ones are nutz, and commies, like Bernie. And, they believe the wackiness is chasing off more intelligent Democrats and voters. Additionally, the far-leftists have become actual, real-life anti-Semites. So, the Hillary-types get together, as they did against Bernie, and they nominate Joe Manchin, or someone like him. Maybe John Bel Edwards. The Narrative becomes, “Our party has gone off the rails, and our Country has gone off the rails. Joe Manchin, or whoever, is here to makes things right with the Country, and within our own party.”
The “New” Democratic Party is much more centrist. It supports Abortion, but only up until the first trimester or so, like European counties. No more abortion in the delivery room, after the water done broke. No more Open Borders, and any illegal immigrant criminals are deported. No more “gender-affirming” crap for kids. That nonsense is already coming to an end in Europe, and it is going to come to an end here anyway. The whole Green thing, gets a do-over. Electric cars are a niche thing, and people mostly do not want them. EV’s have become a boat-anchor, as have stupid energy policies. They could also turn their back on stupid things like not prosecuting criminals, in a meaningful manner.
Taking this radical step, would keep the Democrats in power, and some of the other stuff they are in la-la-land about, could continue existing, such as their support for no Voter-id, and the basic welfare state, to retain the black vote. If I were the “New” Democrats, I would ditch the support for Ukraine, and even work to increase social security payments. But just getting rid of a few of the most stupid things they are for, would probably win them the Presidency. That is my opinion.
Floyd,
Your comment makes total sense.
And yet, if you read comments from the likes of Bob, Sammy, Wally, Dennis, Natasha et al, you will see sense is not one of their attributes.
No. But TDS is.
Thanks Upstate!
With those guys, I don’t think that what they say, is the same as what they believe on most topics. Do they hate Trump, but because he is a Republican. They would express the same hatred, maybe not to as great a degree, toward any other Republican. Remember, Mitt Romney was a racist to them, too. But Joe being senile? Sure, they know that. Joe being a crook? Sure, they know that. Blacks currently being victims of Institutionalized Racism? They don’t believe that. They can count to 80% just like anybody else. Plus, in my opinion, Liberal Whites probably have the least respect for blacks compared to other white people. Just think how uptight your average, upper-middle class and above, white person is. The furniture in the house has to match, they have to drive the proper kind of vehicle, their dog has to have papers. With them, everything is la-de-dah. Now think of a Bitter Clinger. That white dude drives a beat up pickup truck. Mention feng shui, and he’ll be like, “Where is that on the menu? I don’t see it? Is it chicken? Is it this szechuan stuff here???” Now which one of those two types, are going to be more accepting of some black dude, doing a physical job like delivering Chewy boxes, with his vernacular, and his, lack of formal education. It’s going to be the working guy, or the guy who comes from working people. I think you will see this soon in D.C. as the Maury school people get integrated with the Minor school people. Lots of white liberals going to moving, and quickly. But anyway, I digress. No, I don’t think the shills intentionally say anything but what they are paid to say.
yea right. I have never once said I am a democrat or anything. Because I think trump is a scumbag you make assumptions.
Here is a prediction, you’ve heard it before. The Republican Party as we knew it 10 years ago is dead. It is now firmly the trump party and he will milk it to take its money for his own purposes. After the November election when the Repos lose the House, Demos gain in the Senate,and a Demo wins the presidency, we will hear yelling and screaming from the trumpsts (aka former Repos), about how they didn’t get a fair deal, it was fraud, and on and on and on. Then after about 2 years when they lose the 2026 election they will slowly try to claw their way back to a national party. Not sure it will happen as trump will have so thoroughly trashed it.
Think I’m wrong? Check out how many wins the Repos have had in the last 7 years. 2018, Rs lost. 2020, Rs lost, 2020 Georgia Senate election? Rs lost both seats. 2022, Rs had a minuscule gain when everyone (everyone) predicted a red wave. Special elections since 2020, Rs mostly lost. people whom trump publicly supported? Mostly lost.
How’s that witness against Biden working out?
Well, if I were a Democrat, then I would not want to admit it either.
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Meanwhile, over at Marc’s Troll Farm, James O’Keefe’s source, plants a video camera.
Unknown Overweight Boss Type: OK, today we want to really stress the Smirnov Indictment thing. Remember, we want to portray this as the entire basis for the impeachment. Gary, Tony is out today, so you take over the “Bob” sock puppet at Turley’s. Catch up on the Bob Bio – remember “Bob” plays a disaffected Republican, so attack, attack, attack. Do not actively defend the Democrats
George, you take over for Gary, and play Gigi. Remember, Gigi is a radical feminist, and keep your comments short and to the point. Call names a lot.
Who is playing Dennis McQuire today? Ok, you, Nicholas. Be careful not to over engage with the people there. Remember, you do not have to read their comment before you respond. Just follow the script, okay!
“I have never once said I am a democrat or anything. ”
Bob, the only thing that links you to the Democrat Party is you never engage in policy decisions. That requires what you don’t have: intelligence. You are rooting for the equivalent of a ball team, but you don’t know anything about them, nor do you know anything about your adversaries.
You don’t like Trump. That is your prerogative, and who cares anyway. Intelligent people are voting based on policy, but that is something you are unable to discuss. Do you know why? Because you are stupid.
What gets me is that leftists like the Roberts family (owners of Comcast, which owns NBC, MSNBC, etc.) even seem to be turning on Biden
“How dare he,” as we all know, was intended as a so-called “veiled’ threat. But as we also all know re the weaponized DOJ, aided by the judiciary, the CIA, the FBI, etc., a blanketed threat is a very real threat in America today. And Old Joe very much intends that it be interpreted that way.
Presumably he’s already gone back to the white shoe law firm where he landed after Trump lost. The SC gig was always temporary. What could Biden do to him there?
“WHAT THE —- HAPPENED, AMERICA?”
The Founders restricted government; the Founders restricted immigration; the Founders restricted the vote.
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“Trump Ordered to Pay $355 Million and Barred From New York Business”
“The ruling in Donald J. Trump’s civil fraud case could cost him all his available cash. The judge said that the former president’s “complete lack of contrition” bordered on pathological.”
– N.Y. Times
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“Crazy Abe” Lincoln: The gift that keeps on giving.
Thank you so much, Abe.
And please do pass on our gratitude to your fellow traveler and mentor, Karl Marx.
Joetard is playing it both ways — being simultaneously mentally competent and mentally incompetent. He will play the competent card as long as it’s advantageous to himself or the democrat party, and then when he’s in serious legal jeopardy (not to be confused with political jeopardy) he’ll play the mental incompetence card.
Right now Joetard and the democrat party are actually getting away with that nonsense, and republicans are buffoonishly allowing them to get away with it.
In that regard, Joetard, the democrat party, the republican party, AND the media (pardon the quadruple redundancy) are all telling Americans watching this farce that they don’t matter, and they are just the disconnected audience for this silly play, and should sit back, drink more beer, and watch this incredible clown show performed by our government goofuses and our media morons.
And when it all gets too stupid, some new emergency will pop up to wipe all of this off the front page and be forgotten in the wake of some new urgency over the next clown show.
NYS judge finds DonnieDoughBoy needs to cough up $364M in fraud case.
MAGA tears are so sweet.
And yet loans which the banks themselves testified they were satisfied with after doing their own due diligence.
If you were smart enough, you would know this is a sham trial. It is Democrat waged lawfare. It has nothing to do with truth, facts or justice. It is a perversion of justice.
But you are not that smart to see the truth of it.
This ruling just might of secured Trump’s win in November.
Trump should win on appeal.
The only question is how far up the appeals food chain before the court will agree with that.
My guess is that the first appeal should do it because Engoron made a summary judgement before hearing the evidence.
That would stop it there.
Engoron should face sanctions for violating his judicial canons… See #5.
James should be disbarred.
This was a mockery of justice.
-G
This doesn’t have anything to do with Trump, a-hole.
Of course, the prosecutor MUST have brought the obvious and relevant charges.
The prosecutor must be adjudicated for flagrant criminal dereliction, negligence, and corruption.
The capacity of the defendant must be assessed at trial.
This is one sick Justice Department and judicial branch.
Vice President Joe Biden evidently committed a criminal act and a crime of high office.
Vice President Joe Biden stole classified documents; Obama was complicit.
Sandy Berger was criminally prosecuted for unauthorized removal and destruction of classified material in 2003.
I’m surprised more leftist totalitarian folks don’t have glioblastoma from all the smoke this administration blows up their you-know-whats. This gaslighter-in-chief is just a pitiful shell of a human…and his wife constantly shows us her true colors.
you have no evidence to support
Biden has said that Beau died from the Iraq war because he of toxic smoke he inhaled from a fire. It is rare that some one 46 yrs old die of the type of brain cancer he had, so the Iraq war may be a plausible expiation. Once again JT twists the facts. Also, the NY times article is only speculation not facts, why is JT commenting of speculation as possibly true?
His death was not tied to his service
Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., CNO, 1970s, ordered the application of Agent Orange in Vietnam and believed his son died from exposure to that defoliant.
The democrat left has raised so many issues propagated with lies; misdirection’s and overflowing with crap, it’s hard to decipher anything but confusion of fact, and ultimately the truth to the dullards of the left!
It isn’t just that this administration is easily and handily the most corrupt in US history – it’s also the milieu they have created to grant them virtual immunity. It is labyrinthine, intentional, and unbelievable. It’s all so unprecedented. Watergate, even the Clinton impeachment look like a damn walk in the park – Oliver North? Pfft. Unreal. I have not seen such malfeasance in the West in my lifetime. Throw in the UN saying Hamas isn’t a terrorist group, whatever one’s position on war and the very real tragedy of war – the West has been infiltrated, but good, and if we don’t start to address it we are just going to have to be content to watch it crumble. WAKE UP. You are not the globalist’s ‘friend’ because you follow them on Instagram or put a badge on your profile. They don’t give two sh** about you, only their own power. This is NOT going to end well if we don’t begin to self-correct.
OT,
From the Rasmussen Reports,
Q – Thinking about President Joe Biden’s term in office so far, would you say Biden’s presidency has been a complete success, mostly successful, mostly unsuccessful, or a complete failure?
58% said it was a failure. of those, 40% said it was a complete failure. 18% said it was mostly unsuccessful.
58% say Biden’s presidency is a failure, yet RCP general election polling averages currently has Trump with 44.9% & Biden with 43.8%. Polls are all over the map.
Jonathan: How many times have you been sued civilly or been charged with a criminal offense–excluding small claims court? In my lifetime never and I suspect that would be true in your case. I raise the issue because a former president is facing so many civil and criminal cases it bogglers the mind–over 90 criminal counts alone. If it was anyone other than DJT would voters consider him/her a serious candidate? Unlikely. George Santos was expelled from Congress because of his crimes and fraud and will never be able to run for office again. But bizarrely the MAGA crowd thinks their leader should get a pass on everything.
Apropos DJT, he was in the Manhattan Courtroom of Judge Engoron yesterday to hear his motions to dismiss or delay the trial in the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. Engoron denied them all so the trial starts on March 25th. Before he went into the courtroom DJT held a news conference and made a number of false statements. Here are two that stand out:
First, DJT claimed the case against by DA Alvin Bragg is “election interference”–because it literally interferes with his ability to campaign in S. Carolina: “I shouldn’t be in the courtroom”. FACT CHECK: Normally a criminal defendant is required to appear in all court proceedings. But Judge Engoron specifically gave DJT a waiver for yesterday’s hearing.
Second, DJT falsely claimed the Bragg criminal prosecution is “being run by Joe Biden’s White House…His [Bragg’s] person, Colangelo, and some others have been placed into the DA’s office to make sure they do a good job of election interference”. FACT CHECK: Matthew Colangelo voluntarily left the DOJ in 2022 to work on Bragg’s team. He wasn’t ordered to do so by Joe Biden. Bragg and Colangelo previously worked together in AG Letitia James office and Colangelo led the team that forced DJT to pay $2 million in damages when the Trump Foundation improperly used charitable donations for his 2016 campaign. So naturally Bragg wants to use Colangelo’s skills in prosecuting DJT over the election interference and hush money payments. Again, no evidence that Joe Biden selected Colangelo for his position.
So the leading candidate for the GOP nomination continues to lie about everything. No big surprise there. And, apparently, no big concern for the MAGA crowd–and for some on this blog.
“Jonathan: How many times have you been sued civilly or been charged with a criminal offense–excluding small claims court? In my lifetime never…”
Maybe that’s because nobody knew who you were before you engaged yourself in self-flattery on this site.
“The American government would never imprison an individual whose life and knowledge suddenly became a huge liability to the regime. And it would definitely never kill him in prison, wipe the video cameras that recorded his death, then claim he committed suicide.
And the American government would certainly never try to ban its chief political opponent from the ballot, try to bankrupt him with frivolous lawsuits, or attempt to imprison him to prevent him from winning an election.
The American government would never tap attorneys appointed by the president’s hand-picked lawyers to absolve the president of a whole host of crimes committed by the president and his family.
On top of that, the American government would never imprison thousands of political dissidents for protesting against the regime’s history of rigging elections or refer to them as a bunch of filthy kulak wrecker insurrectionists.
And you better believe the American government would never ally with corrupt oligarchs who owe their fortunes to monopolies protected by the government to censor the government’s political opponents to prevent them from talking about the corruption of the family running the government.
That would never happen in America. That only happens in other countries. America’s government would never do anything like that.”
@seanmdav Feb 16, 2024
As the world reflects on the murder of Alexei Navalny at the hands of Putin, it’s worth remembering that Democrats are actively doing Biden’s bidding as they also try to imprison his chief political opponent, Donald Trump, remove him from the ballot, and ensure he dies in prison. @LeeMZeldin
There’s good evidence of Trump having committed crimes. He doesn’t get a pass just because he’s a candidate.
“Your corrupt government, which is at this very moment working to put your Christian neighbors in prison for protesting abortion, wants you to be VERY ANGRY at a foreign leader 6,000 miles away so you won’t pay attention to what your leaders are doing to you in your own backyard.
Your government, which wants to disarm you and prevent you from defending yourself, wants you angry at a leader who has no power over you whatsoever. The government that censors you and lies to you about viruses it helped create wants your focus elsewhere. The government that sold your economy off to China and then destroyed the value of your currency wants you mad at someone else.
The government that banned you from going to church and then tried to fire you for not taking its worthless “vaccine” wants to whip you into a frenzy over literally anything else other than what it’s doing to you right now.
The government that opened your borders to invasion and looked the other way as violent crime enveloped your cities wants you to believe that crime on another continent is the only crime you should care about. And that the borders of a country half a world away are the only borders worth protecting.
They’re manipulating you and gaslighting you and trying to emotionally blackmail you into going along with their nonsense.
Stop letting them get away with it.” @seanmdav
Dennis – In your opinion…
Does Biden “lie about everything”? Or nah?
Is Biden an utterly crooked politician and serial liar? Or nah?
Do you think someone knows when they are brainwashed by media propaganda and lies? Or nah?
‘Navalnys death in prison is a brutal reminder that jailing your political opponents is inhumane and a violation of every principle of a free society. Watch the Biden Administration speak out against Putin and his jailing of his leading political opponent while Democrats in four different jurisdictions try to turn President Trump into an American Navalny. The hypocrisy and corruption of the left is astonishing.’ @newtgingrich
There was a time in this country when the legal profession had scruples.
Or so I’m told.
Dennis –
So the leading candidate for the Democrat nomination continues to lie about everything. No big surprise there, eh?
And then we have Jill Biden fundraising off their dead son Beau by smearing Special Counsel Hur — while knowing her accusation was untrue. What kind of person does that? A Biden.
But not to worry, Dennis, because Mr. Hur is set to testify in March before House Judiciary. Hur will then prove Biden’s lies. Hur will then detail Biden’s Espionage Act violations. And of course, he will reiterate his questions and concerns re Biden’s mental fitness. So be sure to mark your calendar for March 12. It’s going to be quite a day for the Buydens.
* The judge in the hush money case is Juan Merchan, not Engoron (who was the judge for the civil fraud case).
This afternoon, Engoron “ordered former President Donald Trump and his companies to pay nearly $355 million in a ruling in the New York civil fraud case. He is also barred from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in the state for three years, and he cannot apply for loans from any financial institution registered in the state for three years.” (CNN)
And as Max Kennerly notes:
“An additional point: all the normal means that a crooked billionaire would have for paying this (or, rather, posting bond) are foreclosed to him, because he’s precluded from getting a loan from any financial service registered in NY, and his companies have a monitor, so he can’t launder it either.”
“[A] former president is facing so many civil and criminal cases it bogglers the mind–over 90 criminal counts alone.”
*There* is your measure of the Left’s corruption: That its leaders use the “law” to destroy the leading opposition candidate. That its supporters cheer those Stalinist tactics.
Biden has used his children to benefit himself so many times that even in his demented state he instinctively throws out his dead son at anyone or anything he’s uncomfortable with.
He’s abused his children, it’s awful.
For the non-lawyers here, and DNC Shills, who are all excited about Smirnov, here is how things DON’T work. Smirnov was never going to come into an impeachment hearing, make allegations about Hunter and the Big Guy getting $5 million, and then that would be it! Nope, real lawyers would want to see some evidence of his claims, and certainly the Biden legal team. Here, it looks like the GOP was trying to do just that – see the underlying documentation – and that is when Smirnov got charged. Smirnov was a TRUSTED FBI SOURCE, FWIW. Was Smirnov lying to the FBI? Maybe. That is why one person’s allegation about the Biden Cosa Nostra was never the whole case. Well, I take that back – sometimes one person’s bald accusation does seem to be all it takes. For example, the E. Jean Carroll sexual assault case. Or the Christine Ford allegations against Kavanaugh. But those were against Republicans. So, it only takes more than mere allegation when Biden or a Democrat has been accused of something, which is the case here.
It is interesting that Special Counsel Weiss’ only charge to date – apart from open/shut Tax obligations and, maybe, a gun charge after years of investigation – is the allegation that the FBI’s ‘most trusted’ [citation needed!] CHS fabricated/lied about Hunter’s income from Burisma-Ukraine and, more broadly, the Biden ‘brand’ working their magic in that war-torn country.
Why do you believe “Smirnov was never going to come into an impeachment hearing, make allegations about Hunter and the Big Guy getting $5 million”?
*Turley’s blog, Floyd, seems chock-full of lawyerly types .. . but I don’t, necessarily, hold it against them.
What I said, and maybe not well, was that Smirnov was never going to come in, make the allegation, and then that would be the end of it. There was always going to have to be more. There was always going to have to be some supporting evidence behind Smirnov’s claim, and certainly for Biden’s team. That is why the GOP requested the underlying form.
Think of it like this. Monica said Bill Clinton had her perform sex acts on him. That is an allegation. Clinton, Inc. thought they were safe, because there was no other evidence. There was nothing to support the allegation. She said, he said. Ahhh! But then, actual DNA evidence appeared, and on one of Monica’s dresses, the “blew” one. (Sorry, I could not resist! :))
So, if Smirnov was not telling the truth, while a good thing for the Biden Crime Syndicate, this was in no way the whole dang case for impeachment. Smirnov’s importance is being over-rated by the Dems, as a propaganda technique.
Ty. I understand perfectly now. .. Bill Clinton blew it on the blue dress.
Still, there’s something very fishy about this Smirnov business. ..
*I wonder if SC Weiss, who’s remit is to investigate Hunter Biden iirc, will confirm all the other sources/methods of Hunter’s income from Burisma-Ukraine?
@dg. I don’t know, but you are right that something fishy is an option. I mean, a trusted source tells you the President got a million bucks on the sly, and his shady son, too, and you don’t go ahead and vet the info??? Either it was a sand-bagging job, or some pretty major dereliction of duty by the FBI.
Yeah. @ Floyd.
It just seems to me this SC Weiss is working more for Hunter’s defense .. . than the prosecution.
Weiss and the FBI fully investigated these allegations only after Grassley raised them publicly last Spring. Until then, DOJ/FBI appear to have been willing for years to accept the possibility, alleged by a trusted CHS, that Biden had been bribed and was thus compromised. Not exactly confidence inspiring.
Special Counsel David Weiss is a Republican who was nominated to the district court by Trump. Weiss having Smirnov arrested for lying to the FBI & creating false reports about Biden hardly supports Floyd’s assessment about Smirnov being a TRUSTED FBI SOURCE. What’s your supporting evidence that Smirnov remains a trusted FBI source, Floyd?
Uh, is this a trick question? I just gave you evidence above.
Special Counsel David Weiss is a Republican who was nominated to the district court by Trump.
This lie the left keeps repeating only works because a wide swath of people don’t know the process for appointing US District Attorneys.
But you go right ahead and keep the lie alive.
Floyd wrote: “Smirnov was a TRUSTED FBI SOURCE, FWIW.”
I seem to recall reading somewhere yesterday that not only was he that, but that Director Christopher Wray resisted recommendations from several credible sources, made on several different occasions, that Smirnov should be re-evaluated. There was mention in a comment thread here recently about some of the poor selections Trump made in the department heads for his administration. This idiot jack-off Wray surely has to be near the top of that list. I’d like to think that to avoid repitition, Trump could admit some of those mistakes, if only to himself, but I fear his ego wouldn’t allow it.
poor selections Trump made in the department heads for his administration. This idiot jack-off Wray surely has to be near the top of that list.
Ask Chris Christie. He is the one that put up Wrays name. Chistie to this day defends the Job Wray is doing. Conservatives know this. That’s why Conservatives consider Christie scum. And Its not JUST the Wray fiasco. It is just an example of the GOPe philosophy.
Dear Prof Turley,
Somehow, this only seems to support SC Hur’s conclusion that Joe Biden can’t tell fact from fiction, truth from falsehood or Mexico from Egypt. The ‘insanity plea’.
Biden has lived in a political-vortex twilight zone for so long – it’s all he’s ever done – he is unable to determine cause and effect, or any of the normal human interactions you and I take for granted. He makes his own reality. A twisted product of his own political environment.
He’s crazy. Alright. .. and he is not alone.
Nevertheless, I reject Hur’s insanity plea on behalf of Biden. There is nothing ‘well meaning’ about Joe Biden – never has been – and I have zero (0) ‘sympathy’ for him.
*’politics’ is an infirmary.
Biden has been a practicing pathological liar for many years. It has suited him well over the years so why stop now when you have liberals eating it up as gospel.
“The First Lady was reportedly used by the campaign to raise money off of the outrage, stating “I hope you can imagine how it felt to read that attack — not just as Joe’s wife, but as Beau’s mother.””
The Biden clan makes money the old fashioned way: lying, extortion and con games! And now we even have a “mother” using a dead family member as a way to get campaign money? The question is no longer how bad the Bidens are but to how naive and stupid are their supporters (that would be the non on-the-dole portion of their supporters. Admittedly, a small percent of their base.)
There is evil everywhere. Here is a good description of the world we live in…
https://www.alternet.org/the-monsters-we-create-republicans-and-their-battle-against-the-zombie-apocalypse/
That was a stupid article.
Transcripts are interpreted. Release the tapes.