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.
As this visibly demented man has said “ah, c’mon man.” As I say: let’s hear and see the recordings of the interviews. (Of course, not the ones the ghostwriter destroyed. Wouldn’t they be interesting to hear? to compare to the book SlowJoe authored?)
Jonathan: On of the things we learned from the 2-day hearings in Judge McAfee’s courtroom is that memories fade over time. Most of the witnesses who testified in the motion to disqualify DA Willis are competent lawyers. But even they had a hard time remembering relevant dates or events less than 5 years ago. Not remarkable. I know I could not tell you what I did on any specific day last month–let alone last year. So it’s also not remarkable Joe Biden could not recall specific docs, events or dates 15 years ago. But SC Hur tried to portray Biden as an old senile man and that’s why he determined the President could not be prosecuted. That’s not the reason. Hur could find no LEGAL basis to charge Biden. Does anyone doubt that if Hur, a DJT appointee, thought he had a solid basis to charge Biden he would not have recommended prosecution –despite Biden’s age?
That said, let’s move on to the Comer impeachment inquiry. This time it’s all about Form FD-1023–the form used by the FBI to interview Alexander Smirnov who made the claim that Joe Biden received a $5 million bride from a Ukrainian oligarch. That’s the same form Jim Comer waived around claiming it was proof that Joe Biden received bribes in connection with the Ukrainian affair.
Yesterday, SC David Weiss, who can’t be accused of bias since he is also prosecuting Hunter Biden, filed a criminal complaint against Smirnov alleging he lied to the FBI and fabricated his story. Once again, Comer and Jim Jordan have egg on their faces. Their “star witness” is now an indicted criminal defendant.
LOL. You’re a hoot, Denny.
“Hur could find no LEGAL basis to charge Biden.” LOL. You sure that’s what Hur said, Denny? You need to work on reading comprehension.
“Does anyone doubt that if Hur, a DJT appointee, thought he had a solid basis to charge Biden he would not have recommended prosecution –despite Biden’s age?” LOL. Only you, Denny. Only you. LOL.
Speaking of bias, Denny, what are the odds SNL will mock the heck out of Big Fani’s courtroom dramatics in their cold open tonight? If they leave that comedy gold on the table….well then….no surprise.
“One of the things we learned from the 2-day hearings in Judge McAfee’s courtroom is that….” LOL.
What we learned was this:
“How someone reacts to the Fani Willis testimony yesterday is a litmus test for if they’re a complete partisan hack.
Anyone who denies that she clearly lied, could not respond to basic questions, acted inappropriately, and corrupted this prosecution is a mindless Dem partisan.” @ggreenwald
Dennis- You say: “memories fade over time. Most of the witnesses who testified in the motion to disqualify DA Willis are competent lawyers. But even they had a hard time remembering relevant dates or events less than 5 years ago.” Do you not realize that you just made the case for NOT retroactively erasing a Statute of Limitations on a rape statute and allowing a 30 year old charge to be laid? You were one of the most enthusiastic supporters of E. Jean Carrol. Faded memories didn’s seem to bother you then.
You also say: SC David Weiss “filed a criminal complaint against Smirnov alleging he lied to the FBI and fabricated his story [about someone in Ukraine bribing Joe Biden].” First, how likely is that the DOJ will actually prosecute Smirnov? It is probable that, like many of the Russian figures indicted by the Mueller team who were never prosecuted, the indictment of Smirnov was done for political purposes only. Second, when did they determine that the accusations by Smirnov were fabricated? I believe that it is been over three years since the accusations were made. Were they investigated when made? If so, the fabrication should have discovered then. Why is something being filed now? Finally, why should we trust that FBI when we know that it has been persecuting Trump since the summer of 2016?
Dennis – Fact check this for us, please…
Did the DOJ arrest and charge all the people (or any of them!) who provided false information against Trump in the fake Russia allegations, that the fake news media circulated on their airwaves for 3 or 4 years? Or nah?
Once again, commenters here have their own agenda, much of which has nothing to do with Biden’s lying in his hastily called press conference.
“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.” (JT)
When Biden took office, we were told that: “The adults are back in charge.”
If that cadre of pathological liars are what pass for adults, we’d be safer under the “Lord of the Flies.”
How about “Lord of the Lies”
There is something strange here, a lot of speculation and a stability of a Democratic party very concerned about the polls and what they themselves risk by supporting Biden.
That Biden is senile is a fact that at first seemed funny, but that has ultimately worsened in an advanced and critical manner. In my opinion, between now and November it will be worse and worse and paints a terrifying picture. They preferred an “unpredictable crazy man” with control than an “unpredictable crazy man” who we don’t know who controls him.
I believe that he is becoming crazier than necessary, following “his advisors” but what we should ask ourselves is who those advisors work for…… for Kamala (no), for the Obamas (very likely) or for Ms. Clinton (I’d bet it all). I think that in September we will receive a big surprise and they will declare a new candidate, if this is not a possibility, ask yourself what Podesta is doing within the WH, as far as we know he played everything with Ms. Clinton. our lady of
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Here the most shameless person is Mrs. Biden, who lends herself to this very shameful game that helps discredit her husband, because he may be lukewarm, but she is completely sane and cold!
The change in rhetoric of the traditional media and those super polls that show Trump as the winner do not convince me, there is a deeper strategy WHICH WE STILL DO NOT KNOW.
And while they make us dizzy with Trump and NATO, the UN and the United States together with their new favorite partners in the Middle East are trying to force Netayahu to quit and create an Independent Palestinian State (from Hamas of course)…… You would believe This country that Israel is a puppet, I wonder why they wouldn’t do the same with Ukraine or better yet Russia. They are giving the terrorists a voice and, worst of all, financing to annihilate us while Iran already claims to own part of the South Pole.
But nothing, here we are so calm and we don’t worry as the UN also finances our land invasion, directly and indirectly with NGOs that are the worst smuggling mafia. I would ask rhetorically, how many NATO allies would be willing to come help us fight this Ephemeral War of Independence in the 21st century.
This is the real fear that we should keep in mind when “the poor senile old man” walks around senselessly while our adversaries are mocking us, while they are empowered by what we once dominated……
And what if the real coup d’état is internal? What if, unnoticed, there is a man who proclaims himself the savior of democracy? Any Franklin D. Roosevelt who can last 4 terms…… who knows, with so many novel interpretations of clauses that were believed to be extinct from the Constitution, anything is possible. And no, I don’t think Trump would proclaim himself, although he could see it in our real Shadow President, Barack Hussein Obama II.
Maybe, but, in my view this is much simpler: Joe Biden knows where the DNC bodies are buried (especially the Obama-Hillary ones). They don’t want him to run, but they have no choice. Rest assured, once he gets a second term, he will have “a health event” that brings Kamala, their next puppet, to power. They don’t give a rat’s ass about this country. They only care about their own wealth and power!
“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.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
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It is long past time.
Abraham Lincoln voided the Constitution, seized power, and imposed martial law.
Joe Biden is a crime boss, who has run Delaware like a mafioso crime family. Always has been corrupt and bought off …. everyone knows it. Everyone around him running a protection racket should be taken down and put in prison. No trial. No due process. Just lock them all up along with the entire Biden Crime Family.
A [corporate headquarters] crime family.
Future Dylan Roots, and Robert Bowers type people (black church shooter-upper and synagogue shooter-upper, respectively), are going to appreciate this bit of help from the Democratic Party! And all the pro-Palestine folks here, and insane trans activists. This is from Breitbart. (It isn’t April 1, is it???)
“Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) is pushing legislation that could prevent churches around the country from using a “security services unit” comprised of concealed carriers in congregations, parishes, etc.
The bill is the Preventing Private Military Act of 2024, and it is co-sponsored by Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA).
The text of the bill prohibits “acting as part of or on behalf of a private paramilitary organization and armed with a firearm, explosive or incendiary device, or other dangerous weapon.”
In another portion of the bill, the text provides circumstances that qualify as an action that is prohibited and includes the use of “large capacity ammunition feeding devices,” which is leftist speak for magazines that hold more than ten rounds.
Protestia sounded the alarm over the bill, suggesting it “would make it illegal to ‘publicly patrol, drill, or engage in techniques capable of causing bodily injury or death.’”
They warned that “power to enforce this law would be derived from the interstate commerce clause of the constitution” and “would be applicable whenever a church security team utilizes either weapons or ammunition.”
Protestia noted, “Additionally, if an active shooting situation took place, and the shooter was killed or injured by the church security team, the proposed law would make members of the security team subject to criminal penalties that range from 5 years to life in prison.”
The applicable text of the bill says, “In the case of a violation that results in…bodily injury, the person shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both; or death, the person shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for any term of years or for life.”
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Maybe they could go ahead and add a Super-Bowl Protection Act, to prevent massive numbers of police being in attendance during Super Bowl parades, celebrations, and other sporting event victory affairs. I am sure that having 800 police there, in Kansas City, a few days ago, stressed out the two young gentlemen who then opened fire, and shot up the place.
I am all but positive you cannot outlaw the militia with a statute.
So Marky really needs to explain how this is going to work CONGRESS is making a law, the restricts citizens from worshiping freely?
He is obliterating the 1st and 2cnd amendment of the Constitution. Is this Marky charecter 12 years old. Has he never heard of Citizens United?
Turley should change the name of this blog to “I knew Joetard was corrupt, and I voted for him anyway.”
LOL – I think there’s a spoof campaign-button idea you’ve got.
Trump. It takes a special kind of person to get caught overseeing a fraudulent charity, a fraudulent “university,” and a business that repeatedly committed fraud.
If legal activity is fraud – we are all guilty of fraud.
Fraud has an actual meaning, particularly with respect to the law.
Speech alone whether true false or opinion are never fraud.
False speech is a required element of Fraud, but it is one of many.
Assuming you have established false speech – which has NOT been established in ANY of the Trump cases.
You must also establish that others relied on that false speech.
No matter what you say – if others do not make decisions based solely or primarily on your false speech there is no fraud.
In none of these cases did anyone rely on trumps speech.
Reliance is a required element of fraud so now you are missing TWO elements.
The next element is a duty to the person relying on your speech. Typically that means a contractual relationship.
There is a contract in the Trump U case.
Trump promised to show people how to get rich.
They relied on that promise.
There was a contract, so there was a duty.
The problem with the case is that Trump lived up to that duty.
Trump brought in essentially a form of motivational speaker to teach some classes.
Those sewing Trump claimed that these are not professors, Which is true.
But Trump’s promise was to show you how to get rich – and the universal anser is that anyone with an IQ of 100 or above gen get rich if they work their asses off. You are far more likely to learn how to get rich from a motivational speaker than your average college professor today.
Trump kept his promise. He kept his contract, he fullfillef his duty. What students atr Trump U did with the information provided them is up to them.
BTW how to get rich is no secret. Go to the library or any bookstore or amazon and look for the get rich quick section – it is huge.
None of these people are charged with Fraud – Why ? because the only issue with their plans is the “Quick” part. few of them say easy either.
There are bazzillions of different ways to get rich over time. Barring stupidity and given hard work – they all work.
Most of us are not focused enough to “get rich”. Most of us do not want to get rich badly enough to work hard enough to do so.
We all want some easy way. Every now and then someone makes it look easy. But the reality is getting rich is very hard work.
And most of us just do not want to badly enough – and that is perfectly OK. Just do not try to blame others because you were unwilling to work hard enough to get rich.
The next element of Fraud is HARM. As I noted in the Trump U case – there was no fraud. Aside from all the other missing elements – the element of Harm is missing. Students at Trump U got what they paid for – the not so secret secret to getting rich. If most of them did not put that to practice – that is on them.
Fraud require all of the above elements – the Trump U case has NONE – it never should have gotten in the door of the courthouse.
Next is the Property valuation case.
First you literally can not misrepresent the value of something ever.
You can price something that is yours at any value you wish. Others are free to accept or reject that value.
One of the laws of economics is “value is subjective”
That is litterally a requirement of economics.
No one buys something unless what they are buying is more valuable to them than the money they are paying.
No one sells something unless the money they are receiving is more valuable to them than the thing they are selling.
If value was not subjective – no one would buy or sell anything ever.
Next we have this Bragg nonsense.
NDA’s are perfectly legal – they are voluntary agreements to take money in return for silence about legal acts.
Nor is or can there be some requirement to disclose an NDA to government – that would thwart the entire purpose of an NDA.
The FEC long ago established – because nothing else works that if there are multiple purposes for an expenditure and any of them do not have to do with a political campaign – then there is no requirement for disclosure.
I would further note that the FEC has ZERO power over money that you give your own political campaign. You need not disclose it,
In fact the FEC has no power over contributions to a political campaign AT ALL, unless the candidate accepts FEC money.
Anything different would violate the first amendment. Any candidate who wishes to forgo federal matching funds can take however much they want from whoever they want.
With respect to the Bragg nonsense.
Trump paid Cohen for legal fees. If you accept that – there is no misstatement of FACT. I would further ntoe that is consistent with the fact that Micheal Cohen plead guilty of capaing finnce violations for paying hush money to Daniels. That is ONLY a crime if Cohen was paying his own money. If you argue that the legal fees were not legal fees, then Cohen is not guilty of anything. He merely fascilitated the transfer of meny to Daniels for a fee. That is actually inconsistent with the Facts – because Trump is NOT a party to the NDA – Cohen is. Daniels would have owed Cohen a million dollars if she had violated the NDA. I would note Daniels sued Trump over this and she lost – because Trump was not a party to the NDA and she ended upo owing Trump legal fees and Avanatti her lawyer was sanctioned by the courts.
But assuming that you engage in this nonsense that Trump was not paying legal fees but paying the NDA. The FEC has already ruled that is legal.
Again Trump can contribute as much as he wants to his own political campaign.
So all you are left with is that Trump reported the expense as legal fees. Guess what NDA’s are also legal fees. But lets assume they are not.
They are still an expense just like legal fees. If Trump had actually violated tax laws – he – like Hunter Biden would be facing charges of tax evasion. There is no actual crime of reporting an expense int he wrong catagory.
Someone here tried to claim that keeping two sets of books is illegal – that is false.
I personally have atleast 5 sets of books. Further you can legally keep multple sets of books for the same company.
For 20 years I kept both cash based and accrual based books for a medium sized business. We had to know our financial position on a cash basis – because that is how we were taxed and because that would tell us our cashflow needs. We kept a separate acrual based set of boooks because that told us whether we were profitable and informed business decisions that were not tax or cashflow based.
This is quite normal.
As a private company or a closely held company you can keep your books anyway you want – Except that you must properly pay your taxes.
Too be clear – you do not owe taxes based on your books, you owe taxes based on the law. If you keep a set of books for the purpose of your taxes, That set of books must not misrepresent your tax liability. But you are not required to keep books to pay your taxes. Only required to pay your taxes correctly. I doubt any of those here who do not own a business keep a set of books for their taxes or any other reason. Yet you hopefully pay your taxes correctly.
So the bottom line for Bragg is he is alleging that Trump committed a federal crime – which the FEC has already determined he did not.
And that as part of that Crime Trump misrepresented the expenditure associated with that crime on books he is not required to have and that need not actually distinguish between different types of expenses, and that no matter what Trump had reported would not change his tax liability.
Every single element of Fraud is missing.
But like typical left wing nuts – you think saying something makes it true.
Fraud is something specific – especially with respect tot he law.
You are free to cry fraud fraud all you want. You are not free to prosecute fraud when the elements of the crime of fraud are not present.
That is ACTUAL fraud. So the FRAUD we have here is that of Engron and JAmes and Bragg and Merchan.
Not Trump.
Just brilliant! It will be difficult to learn how to become rich, but we have definitely just learned a master lesson in what constitutes fraud.!
Statement from the spokesman for Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger:
“Once again, True the Vote has proven itself untrustworthy and unable to provide a shred of evidence for a single one of their fairy-tale allegations,” Raffensperger spokesman Mike Hassinger said Wednesday. “Like all the lies about Georgia’s 2020 election, their fabricated claims of ballot harvesting have been repeatedly debunked.”
Raffensberger is C.O.R.R.U.P.T. And a liar. Period.
So is Kemp.
Why? Because he tells you things you don’t want to hear?
I do not care what people SAY, Not Biden, not Trump not Raffensberger, not courts – far too many of whom have abandon the rule of law.
I do care about FACTS. The FACT is that TTV produced hundreds of hours of Video in GA of Ballot harvesting – one person stuffing 10 or more ballots into a a ballot box. That Video was mostly from State Surveilance cameras, and aquired through FOIA requests.
Alone it is more than sufficient to establish Election fraud.
In addition TTV bought Trillions of Geofence data locations and found about 2000 cell phones nation wide that visited atleast 10 ballot drop boxes in a single night prior to the election. That data Uniwuely identifies specific cell phones. Further that data in many instances can be directly mated with video of ballot harvesting.
But Geofence provides (properly) denied TTV the identity of the geofence data points, and the courts and prosecutors improperly refused to issue warrants and subpeonas.
Special Collection | Georgia
– Open.Ink Editorial: The Georgia and January 6th-related indictments against Donald J. Trump are predicated on the narrative that election authorities like Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, and others had thoroughly evaluated the accuracy of the 2020 elections and gave counsel to then-President Donald Trump that there was “no meaningful election fraud” based on their professional, supportable evaluations. True the Vote’s experiences in Georgia prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the General Election of 2020 was never meaningfully investigated. From the over 67,000 votes attached to voting records of individuals ineligible to vote in their jurisdiction to unmonitored surveillance cameras and phantom ballots, these errant processes should have been monitored and investigated before certification. As you will read, True the Vote repeatedly presented its work to Federal and State law enforcement officials. Authorities did not investigate. Instead, they obfuscated, delayed, and ultimately targeted President Trump, True the Vote, and others, for publicly exposing their failure to uphold lawful processes. Those who question the accuracy of the 2020 General Election were, and are, right to do so. open.ink team”
This open.ink special collection offers an in-depth look at True the Vote’s election integrity efforts in Georgia. It is not a complete recitation of True the Vote’s work; for that, we would have to start over a decade ago. Instead, this collection is meant to highlight a series of extraordinary events that began in 2020, are happening at the time of this publication, and by all indications, will continue throughout 2024.
Certain documents, video clips, and other exhibits will not be immediately released for reasons including active litigation, protective orders, and ongoing research. Open.ink will add exhibits to this collection as events unfold.
Note on video: True the Vote currently stores over 100 hard drives containing Georgia ballot drop box surveillance video, ranging in size from 8 to 90TB. This body of evidence was collected by True the Vote through county specific open records requests. The drives have been preserved strictly as provided to them.
https://open.ink/collections/georgia
I do not wish to hear lies.
Why should I beleive the same people who conpspired with foreign intelligence agencies to illegallyu spy on 26 Trump campaign staff in 2016. Who spied on Trump, Who lied to the FISA dourt to get multiple warrants on US citizens,
Who sold the collusion delusion.
Who lied about Covid.
Who lied about the hunter Biden laptop.
Who are lying about the economy
Lying about the border,
Lying about SC Hur
Who have been caught censoring Covid information, election information, political views they do not liek,
and who have used governemnt or government paid agencies to do so.
Who are openly engaged in lawfare and election interferance.
Who likely nenefited by political interferance by China in the 2020 election.
And that is just off the top of my head.
Why should anyone beleive you ?
Why should we beleive courts that are a corrupt part of all of that ?
You keep saying fraud – but it is you that are the fraud.
Kemp is not corrupt. He is overall a good governor, but he has studiously avoided involving himself in issues that he need not.
I do not agree with his decisions. But they are not corrupt.
Raffensberger however has failed to enforce GA election law./ That is not nevesvarily corruption.
But it is morally and ethically wrong.
No, Kemp is corrupt. He’s a WEF’er. Why is he attending the WEF in Davos?
Why won’t he open a criminal investigation into Fani Willis?
If she was pulling this political prosecution election interference stunt in Florida, DeSantis would have removed her and shut her down. Why is Kemp allowing it to move forward?
Why won’t he play hardball against Democrat lawless lawfare?
Why won’t he get rid of voting machines? He’s admitted the voting machines are hackable, and then he does nothing to remove voting machines?
He called for a recount in 2020, then a Loefler staffer, who also happened to be Kemp’s daughter’s boyfriend, died in a random car accident. After that, Kemp “got in line” – so to speak — and never investigated election fraud. What’s going on there?
In addition to being a rabid Trump hater, Kemp, like Romney or Cheney, will do nothing to help Republican party if it entails helping Trump in any way.
Don’t be fooled. They’ve got something on both Kemp and Raffensberger.
“He’s a WEF’er. Why is he attending the WEF in Davos?”
So ? That does not make him corrupt -= it may make him Wrong.
Milei also attended the WEF – are you going to call him corrupt too ?
“Why won’t he open a criminal investigation into Fani Willis”
Because he is not the AG. This is not his job. Politically he can defend Trump, attack Trump defend Willis or attack Willis, or as he has done mostly keep silent.
I do not think Kemp likes Trump. So what.
I think there is about a 50:50 change Trump picks Haley as his VP.
Not because he likes her – though Trump can separate politics from personal.
Trump did NOT go after Hillary when he was elected, despite promising to do so.
Why ? Because that is illegal and it is wrong.
James did, Willis did, Biden did.
Trump does occasionally say things he should not.
But he does not DO those things.
Democrats only recognize their own moral and legal failures in others.
“If she was pulling this political prosecution election interference stunt in Florida, DeSantis would have removed her and shut her down. ”
If he did he would be wrong – he is Governor, not AG. But you are sort of Correct that DeSantis would be railing at Willis, and Kemp is not.
That is a political choice, you can maybe argue it is a moral choice.
It is NOT a legal choice. Neither Kemp nor Desantis have the authority to go after local prosecutors.
In both states the AG is elected, not appointed. they do not take direction from the governor.
“Why won’t he play hardball against Democrat lawless lawfare?”
Because that is not his job.
Look I think Kemp should more vocally support Trump.
But that is a choice that you can express at the polls.
“Why won’t he get rid of voting machines? He’s admitted the voting machines are hackable, and then he does nothing to remove voting machines?”
Because he can not – in GA the SOS – Raffensberger is elected, and Raffensberger won re-election.
Raffensberger is a bad SOS. He has been disasterous for GA.
He does not enforce the law.
As Democrats are showing us all over – there is no fix for deliberately not enforcing laws you do not like.
You can not have the rule of law if the law is not enforced.
If you are elected to an executive position – it is your job tro enforce the law that exists.
Whether you like it or not.
You are free to try to change it, bit in the meantime, you must enforce it.
Without that – we no longer have the rule of law.
This is one place I part company with Turley.
Turley is correct that maladministration is NOT an impeachable offense – atleast not by pre-2019 standards.
But refusing to enforce the law is lawlessness it is more than maladministration,
it undermines the rule of law – and it is impeachable.
“He called for a recount in 2020, then a Loefler staffer, who also happened to be Kemp’s daughter’s boyfriend, died in a random car accident. After that, Kemp “got in line” – so to speak — and never investigated election fraud.”
Again Kemp is not the AG or SOS. I agree with you he should speak out more politically.
But that is something you act on at the ballot box – it is not corruption.
“In addition to being a rabid Trump hater, Kemp, like Romney or Cheney”
It is a bit odd myu giving republicans advice – I am libertarain. When there is a libertaraina candidate for office I nearly always vote for them. When there is not I vote for the most libertarian candidate on the ballot – more often than not, but not always that is the republican.
Regardless, Trump is the culmination of a power shift int he GOP that started with the Tea Party.
It is a relatively libertarian shift and to the extent it is I support it.
But do you want 100% of Republican governors, senators, representatives to 100% support Trump,
and to have Democrats control the house and senate and whitehouse ?
Larry Hogan a republican popular governor is running for the Senate in Maryland. That is a possible big blue state pick up for Republicans. But Hogan is little different from Kemp – except that there was not going to be an election contest in MD – Because Trump did actually lose fair and square in MD.
Do you ant to pick up a senate seat ? Or do you want a Trump supporter in MD to lose ?
There is no easy answer to that. The TP fought its way to power in the GOP by being willing to risk losing elections if the alternative was a milquetoast republican.
That was an important tactical move. At the same time, Do you want a senate with 40 Trump supporters, and 60 democrats ?
There is not an easy answer to this. I am very glad that uber neocon Chenney is gone – hopefully for good.
Outside of her conflicts with Trump she has been disasterous for this country. She killed several reforming the deep state bills that would have passed but for her.
I do not hate Halley, but I would prefer another VP choice. But my Bet is that Halley is worth probably 1-2pts in the popular vote for Trump. I think he will win anyway. But picking Halley is insurance.
I will bet Trump will pick insurance.
I did not like Pence either – before J6. But Trump picked him to shore up evangelical christians, and without Pence Trump would have lost in 2016.
“Larry Hogan a republican popular governor is running for the Senate in Maryland….
Do you want to pick up a senate seat ? Or do you want a Trump supporter in MD to lose?”
Vote for Hogan, absolutely. Gaining a GOP seat in the Senate — even a Jeb! loving, Trump-hating, RINO like Hogan would be better than another hardcore Dem like a Ben Cardin, who vote 100% with Schumer. Hogan would certainly thwart Trump’s agenda every chance he gets, much like Romney, but he is still a net gain over another Dem. Dems will do all they can to not allow that seat to go Red RINO. Will R’s make sure to hold their nose and vote for Hogan? We’ll see.
“But picking Halley is insurance. I will bet Trump will pick insurance.”
No way. Haley’s campaign is being financed and backed by Dems and establishment types. She is awful for MAGA America First in every way. Hard no – even for cabinet. If Trump picked her as VP he is no longer assassination-proof, like Kamala has made Dementia Joe. Trump needs a VP more like a Ramaswamy, who can bring in the younger vote. Haley as VP puts a certain target on Trump’s back. He won’t be that foolish no matter how much he is pressured to pick Haley. She’s a snake. Do not let her in.
When I saw Trump and Melania walk into an event at Mar-a-Lago, alongside Vivek and his wife, I got the chills. It looked like a winning ticket that would give Trump another potent 4-year term…and then pass the White House to a new generation of America First Republican leadership with Vivek and Apoorva for another 8 years. That’s my take, anyway.
I see Secret Service protection was just approved for Haley — even as they continue to deny it to RFK, Jr. who has much higher polling than Haley ever had.
Why would they give her SS protection now, when she is certain to lose her home state SC by a humilating margin? Why is she being financed and propped up? By all the forces that want to destroy Trump/MAGA?
Because the establishment wants Haley to be the candidate –when Trump almost certainly gets convicted of bogus crimes the Dems have cooked up.
It’s a nefarious plot behind Haley.
Haley as VP on a Trump ticket is a hard no. She’s a snake, being backed by snakes.
The powers that be, (MIC, CIA, etc) would almost certainly take Trump ‘out’ by whatever means they concoct, in order to install their preferred candidate, Haley, into the top slot.
Trump will not back down or allow himself to be taken out of the race by bogus felony convictions.
and he will never choose Haley for VP.
We have all kinds of claims regarding Fraud and those of you one the left seem to think that the idiotic claims of Fraudulent courts and of a well know fraudster matter. Raffensberger failed to follow GA law in the 2020 and subsequent elections.
TTV produced vidoe of ballot harvesting in GA and 5 other states. This video in most cases was obtained from those states via FOIA requests.
Video exactly like this – showing people dropping 10 or more ballots into a drop box at a time was sufficient to convice a judge in CT to toss the democratic mayoral primary over fraud – and that was with FAR LESS evidence.
But TTV also provided geofencing data – the same data that the FBI has used to prosecute people for J6.
With one difference – Appla, Google, Amazon and others will NOT convert the geofence ID into information identifying an actual cell phone and therefore a person without a warrant. And the courts have refused to let TTV get a warrant and the left has threatened conservative DA’s with disbarrment if they issue warrants of subpeona’s
Special Collection | Georgia
– Open.Ink Editorial: The Georgia and January 6th-related indictments against Donald J. Trump are predicated on the narrative that election authorities like Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, and others had thoroughly evaluated the accuracy of the 2020 elections and gave counsel to then-President Donald Trump that there was “no meaningful election fraud” based on their professional, supportable evaluations. True the Vote’s experiences in Georgia prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the General Election of 2020 was never meaningfully investigated. From the over 67,000 votes attached to voting records of individuals ineligible to vote in their jurisdiction to unmonitored surveillance cameras and phantom ballots, these errant processes should have been monitored and investigated before certification. As you will read, True the Vote repeatedly presented its work to Federal and State law enforcement officials. Authorities did not investigate. Instead, they obfuscated, delayed, and ultimately targeted President Trump, True the Vote, and others, for publicly exposing their failure to uphold lawful processes. Those who question the accuracy of the 2020 General Election were, and are, right to do so. open.ink team”
This open.ink special collection offers an in-depth look at True the Vote’s election integrity efforts in Georgia. It is not a complete recitation of True the Vote’s work; for that, we would have to start over a decade ago. Instead, this collection is meant to highlight a series of extraordinary events that began in 2020, are happening at the time of this publication, and by all indications, will continue throughout 2024.
Certain documents, video clips, and other exhibits will not be immediately released for reasons including active litigation, protective orders, and ongoing research. Open.ink will add exhibits to this collection as events unfold.
Note on video: True the Vote currently stores over 100 hard drives containing Georgia ballot drop box surveillance video, ranging in size from 8 to 90TB. This body of evidence was collected by True the Vote through county specific open records requests. The drives have been preserved strictly as provided to them.
https://open.ink/collections/georgia
“Georgia Secretary of State Brad “Sycophant in Thief” Raffensperger and U.S. Attorney General Bill “Mr. Deep Deep State” Barr.”
Seriously?
Do conservative actual Americans want that “Deep Deep State” evaluation of the accuracy of the 2020 elections?
Does the global communist Deep Deep State also evaluate the accuracy of Putin’s elections?
Are you or are you not completely oblivious?
Let’s assess the pertinent probabilities of that question.
How in the hell has Joe Biden, the pathological liar, and his sick, degenerate, disgusting, filthy dirty, Crime Family gotten away with their *actual* crimes? For all these years, decades, even?
Racketeering.
Wire Fraud.
Money Laundering.
Tax Fraud
Tax Evasion
Sex Trafficking
Illegal Drugs
Lying on Federal Firearms Forms
CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS
Stealing Top Secret Documents out of SCIFs he has NO RIGHT TO HAVE IN HIS POSSESSION
Selling his political influence (policy decisions???) to our enemies
TREASON
ESPIONAGE
FJB and may he rot in hell where he belongs.
JOE BIDEN IS THE CRIMINAL.
Not Donald J. Trump.
Wake up, people. We’re no better than Russia.
Joe Biden’s America is a lawless Banana Republic.
Joe Biden is a lawless, demented, sick POS 3rd world dictator running America into the ground. INTENTIONALLY. And lying about everything. EVERYTHING.
No better? Try, nowhere near as good.
Here’s what we are witnessing:
“In the judicial system, conservatives want constitutional scholar dorks who care about neutrality and fairness.
Progressives want foot soldiers who don’t care about “the law” and only know how to punish enemies.”
@loganclarkhall
‘Between the United States and Russia, one country just arbitrarily seized the assets of an oligarch opposed to the regime, and is trying to jail him
The other country is Russia’
@willchamberlain
Putin’s Russia is what Trump wants America to be: a brutal autocracy that rules on behalf of a cadre of thieving plutocrats with an iron fist.
Trump, in 2017, asked about Putin killing political dissidents: “What, you think our country’s so innocent?”
Tucker Carlson, in 2024, asked about Putin killing political dissidents: “Leadership requires killing people.”
MAGA has always been openly jealous of govts silencing speech with violence.
“a brutal autocracy that rules on behalf of a cadre of thieving plutocrats with an iron fist.”
That is what Biden’s America is, right now…!
WHO is running the country?
For sure, it is NOT Joe F’n Biden. Or even Dr. Jill — she’s too stupid….just like Joe….dum, power-hungry and corrupt….
Biden Regime: It’s not communist, not even Marxist. It’s in fact fascist, by definition.
‘I’m telling, the only thing that judge knows is the Sunday before testimony he picked up the WaPo and saw the Trump +10 headline.
People think I’m kidding. I’m not. They’re fanatics.’ @Peoples_Pundit
So HOW is it that Trump wants the US to become Russia ?
In Russia the law is whatever dear leader says.
In the US it is Biden, Democrats, who refuse to follow the law and constitution.
What is it that Trump did as president that was an actual violation of the constitution or the law ?
Did he spy on political oponents – as Bidna and Obama did ? Did he spy on ordinary americans with different prolitical views as Biden and Obama did ?
Did he spy on Journalists as Biden and obama did ?
Did he use government to censor political opponents, to deprive voters and the american people of the truth about
Covid or politics ?
Did he use government funds to pay private agencies to engage in even more of the same censorship ?
You say Trump lost americas respect in the world – yet China, Russia and Iran were contained under Trump .
Not only was the US involved in less war when Trump left than when he entered office – but the world as a whole was more peaceful.
Putin who invaded another country under Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden did not invade anyone under Trump.
Trump was responsible for the largest peace deal in mideast history and the only one since Carter and Camp David.
This alleged buffoon who no nation respected managed what neither Reagan, Bush I, Clinton Bush II Obama or Biden could manage.
Trump followed our immigration laws – neither Obama nor Biden have.
Trump cut taxes, cut spending, cut regulations and took a weak and volatile economy and restored steady solid growth near US 20th century norms rather than the european stagnation of Bush obama and Biden.
If Trump is Failure – “please sir, can I have more” – If Biden is democracy and success – please bring on totalitarianism.
Regardless, the FACT is Trump is FAR from perfect. He is also far better than Obama or Biden.
Look at DA Fani Willis.
Look at DA Letitia James.
Look at Alvin Boast & Bragg
These are lawless, utterly corrupt, moronic, leftists administering “justice” in our cities?
They are corrupt, unethical, unhinged, stupid, idiotic, DEI diversity hires, who have NO business being in their positions of power, which they are clearly abusing.
THEY are trippin’ all over their ‘power’…
THEY are the criminals.
THEY are the lawbreakers.
THEY belong in prison.
THIS is what’s happening in cities all across America.
Wake up, people.
Letitia James should serve prison time next to her girl, Big Fani.
And throw in Big Alvin next to them.
Corrupt to the core. Moronic DEI diversity hires.
Lock them up and throw away the key.
‘In totalitarian countries, the controlling regimes issue arbitrary debilitating fines and seize the business of political opponents. Just like New York Democratic politicians just did to Trump.’ @TomFitton
If you think we have a functioning “justice system” in America, you had better wake up.
We are a lawless, corrupt, dictatorship.
Joe Biden will throw every single MAGA “extremist” in the gulag, no due process, if he can.
Don’t think he has sicc’d his FBI/Gestapo goons on YOU, yet?
THINK AGAIN. They’re coming for you.
‘These partisan Democrat attorneys, prosecutors, and judges are disgracing themselves, destroying the legal system, and causing grave damage to the “democracy” they pretend they’re protecting.
If courts want to keep their legitimacy—and funding—the appellate courts must fix this.’ @mrddmia
Simple: He’s a democrat. The last dem prosecuted was Dan Rostenkowski when you were in grade school.
Associated Press report:
A conservative group has told a Georgia judge that it doesn’t have evidence to support its claims of illegal ballot stuffing during the the 2020 general election and a runoff two months later.
Texas-based True the Vote filed complaints with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in 2021, including one in which it said it had obtained “a detailed account of coordinated efforts to collect and deposit ballots in drop boxes across metro Atlanta” during the November 2020 election and a January 2021 runoff.
True the Vote’s assertions were relied upon heavily for “2000 Mules,” a film by conservative pundit and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. A State Election Board investigation found that surveillance camera footage that the film claimed showed ballot stuffing actually showed people submitting ballots for themselves and family members who lived with them, which is allowed under Georgia law.
The election board subpoenaed True the Vote to provide evidence that would assist it in investigating the group’s ballot trafficking allegations. True the Vote’s complaint said its investigators “spoke with several individuals regarding personal knowledge, methods, and organizations involved in ballot trafficking in Georgia.” It said one person, referred to in the complaint only as John Doe, “admitted to personally participating and provided specific information about the ballot trafficking process.”
The group came up empty-handed despite having “made every additional reasonable effort to locate responsive items,” its attorneys David Oles and Michael Wynne wrote in a Dec. 11 legal filing first reported Wednesday by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
ATS: this is what is called misinformation.
TTV long ago provided actual evidence of ballot stuffing – in the for of video from surveailance cameras and in the form of geofencing data.
What you are dealing with here is that TTV could not provide Other evidence to support other claims – such as they could not identify specific individuals who were stiffing ballots.
They could not do so because they did not have the power to subpeona Apple, Google, etc. the GeoFencing providers to turn the geofencing identifiers into actual IMEI’s Telephone numbers, and then people and addresses.
With subpeona power they will have no difficulty in identifying people who stuffed ballots in GA.
They have PLENTY of video that they can tie to GeoFencing data Which will allow they to identify the specific people in the video at that time.
I would note the demand from the court is nonsense.
The judge in RI tossed the entire mayoral primary based on just a few videos withn no geofencing data.
Rather than make your case, you have done nothing mere than prove that the courts are politically corrupt.
A CT judge tosses a democratic primary based on about 1/10000th the evidence that TTV has,
And a GA judge says 10000 times more evidence of the same thing PLUS Geofencing data is NOT sufficient evidence.
Funny how the standard of proof is orders of magnitude higher for republicans.