We have previously discussed the controversial representation of Kevin Morris of Hunter Biden, including the threat from Morris to sue me for defamation if I continued to raise ethical concerns over his conduct. Now a report by the New York Times suggests that even Hunter’s other lawyers had concerns over Morris’s claims, particularly the fostering of a conspiracy theory to deny the authenticity of the infamous laptop of Hunter Biden.
According to the New York Times, Kevin Morris “quietly pushed a complex theory under which the repair shop was a front and the information had been made public through a cast of characters including a psychiatrist who had treated Mr. Biden’s addiction using ketamine therapy and the Trump-allied operative Roger J. Stone Jr.”
That is notable because many in the media picked up on the conspiracy theory despite ample evidence that the laptop was genuine. Indeed, a similar theory was contained in the now debunked letter of former intelligence officials just before the election — a letter widely used in the media to effectively shutdown coverage. Some later admitted that they assumed the emails were genuine.
The Washington Post’s Phillip Bump and others pushed the conspiracy theory. Indeed, in 2021, when media organizations were finally admitting that the laptop was authentic, Bump was still declaring that it was a “conspiracy theory.” Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Bump continued to suggest that “the laptop was seeded by Russian intelligence.”
What is equally astonishing is that in 2023 the Post expressly stood by Bump’s reporting on the laptop and other debunked claims.
The media report suggests that Chris Clark and Joshua Levy stopped working on the case as the false claims were being pushed. It is not clear if they support the reporting in the Times.
Levy reportedly exited from representation in March 2023 after “unease and dissent” over the Hunter Biden legal team and its direction.
Clark withdrew shortly after he admitted that Hunter’s notorious 2017 WhatsApp text demanding money from a Chinese businessman was genuine. In the message, Hunter literally describes his father sitting next to him to drive home the threat, declaring “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled…I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight…I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
Morris has increasingly appeared to be something of an enabler for Hunter, reinforcing a persecution complex while funding his lavish lifestyle. What is striking about the report is that the conspiracy theory is precisely the type of disinformation that the Biden Administration has alleged against critics to seek their censorship, throttling, and banning on social media.
“THE FBI CAME TO US”
“GETTING THE DECISION WRONG SUCKS”
– Zuckerberg
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Getting the decision wrong deliberately and willfully (i.e. taking orders from the FBI) sucks even worse.
What the —-, Zuck?
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“Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship”
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden’s son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings.
The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son’s business dealings in Ukraine.
Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship.
Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong “sucks”.
“When we take down something that we’re not supposed to, that’s the worst,” Zuckerberg said in a rare extended media interview on the Joe Rogan podcast.
The New York Post story was released just weeks before the presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which Mr Biden won.
It claimed that a laptop, abandoned in a repair shop by Hunter Biden, contained emails which included details of Hunter introducing a Ukrainian energy tycoon to his father and arranging a meeting. There is no record on Mr Biden’s schedule that such a meeting ever took place.
Critically, it…[was]…about [de facto] corruption on Joe Biden’s part to ensure his son’s business success in Ukraine.
In that context, the New York Post story, based on exclusive data no other news agency had access to, was met with scepticism – and censored by social media outlets.
Zuckerberg told Rogan: “The background here is that the FBI came to us – some folks on our team – and was like ‘hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump that’s similar to that’.”
– BBC
Dear Prof Turley,
The important thing is Joe Biden still believes the laptop is a Russian plan[t]. You can believe that, and he is not alone. Over 50 top intel officials, including the past five (5) CIA Directors believe it too. .. The NYT is keeping its options open.
Mr. Morris is so much more than just a lawyer. He’s like an artist, and a big time Hollywood producer with more money than Rockafella. Mr. Morris is now the ‘quarterback’ of a new documentary film about Hunter’s Redemption patriotic love story against all odds .. . should be out this fall.
*it’s the story of Hunter’s hard-scrabbled cockeyed enthusiasm in the face of international intrigue and Russian espionage. ..
OT: The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are unborn children and a valid wrongful death action can be based on their destruction — making IVF difficult for many couples in Alabama, as well as outlawing research that kills unimplanted embryos.
“The central question presented in these consolidated appeals, which involve the death of embryos kept in a cryogenic nursery, is whether the Act contains an unwritten exception to that rule for extrauterine children…”
The Alabama Chief Justice’s concurrence is openly theocratic:
“In summary, the theologically based view of the sanctity of life adopted by the People of Alabama encompasses the following: (1) God made every person in His image; (2) each person therefore has a value that far exceeds the ability of human beings to calculate; and (3) human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy
God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself. Section 36.06 recognizes that this is true of unborn human life no less than it is of all other human life — that even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.” Let me guess which religion this Justice practices and wants to force on the rest of Alabamans.
You apparently understand neither the role of legislation nor courts.
The duty of the Ala Supreme Court is to carry out the anti-abortion law voted on by Alabama’s citizens.
From the Court’s decision: “Finally, the defendants and their amicus devote large portions of their briefs to emphasizing undesirable public-policy outcomes that, they say, will arise if this Court does not create an exception to wrongful-death liability for extrauterine children. In particular, they assert that treating extrauterine children as “children” for purposes of wrongful-death liability will “substantially increase the cost of IVF in Alabama” and could make cryogenic preservation onerous,” he added. “While we appreciate the defendants’ concerns, these types of policy-focused arguments belong before the Legislature, not this Court. Judges are required to conform our rulings “to the expressions of the legislature, to the letter of the statute,” and to the Constitution, “without indulging a speculation, either upon the impolicy, or the hardship, of the law.”
https://publicportal-api.alappeals.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13/cms/case/343D203A-B13D-463A-8176-C46E3AE4F695/docketentrydocuments/E3D95592-3CBE-4384-AFA6-063D4595AA1D
Actually, I understand both the legislation and the courts. And one of the things I understand about courts is that they’re to abide by the Constitution, including the separation of church and state (including state courts, given that the Bill of Rights was incorporated in states via the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment). The First Amendment was incorporated almost a century ago. The Chief Justice has no business making the theocratic statement he made.
The Constitution does not use the words “separation of church and state”
It merely states that no church may become “established.”
I didn’t claim that the phrase was in the Constitution. The phrase comes from Thomas Jefferson:
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions — I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore man to all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
Both the specific phrase “separation of church and state” and the concept have been referenced in multiple Supreme Court rulings (e.g., Reynolds v. United States, Everson v. Board of Education). The Chief Justice of Alabama is bound by those rulings.
They are not bound by the words in a letter from Thomas Jefferson, which you relied upon. Other founders of the country would never have used such a phrase, as they believed that religious faith and practice was vital to the survival of a free government.
Again: Both the specific phrase “separation of church and state” and the concept have been referenced in multiple Supreme Court rulings (e.g., Reynolds v. United States, Everson v. Board of Education). The Chief Justice of Alabama is bound by those rulings.
Actually, you do not.
(1) The Court’s opinion expressly states that, “Finally, the defendants and their amicus…[warn that undesirable consequences] ” will arise if this Court does not create an exception to wrongful-death liability.”
The Defendants are asking the high court to legislate.
(2) Second, the Court is not expressing its “theological” view, -it is summarizing the view that the PEOPLE OF ALABAMA voted on. Specifically, the Court opinion expressly states, ““In summary, the theologically based view of the sanctity of life adopted by the People of Alabama encompasses the following…”
Actually, I do. I never suggested that your (1) is false, and your (2) *is* false. The Alabama law in question does not mention God or theology. The Justice is the one who introduced God and theology into the discussion.
P.S. no one said that the “Alabama law in question” mentioned God or theology. Perhaps you should read the actual opinion, to see the source….
Enough of OT discussion, and I apologize to others for staying OT)
I’ve read the actual opinion. That’s how I came to quote from it. And you said “it is summarizing the view that the PEOPLE OF ALABAMA voted on.” It isn’t. The Justice introduced concepts that are nowhere in the law nor implied by the law.
you quoted from a concurring opinion, not the opinion of the court.
You’re correct, and that’s the opinion I was referring to and the one I’ve been discussing all along. Sorry not to have been clearer.
(sorry, both “anonymous” comments at 2:01 and 5:07 are from me, lin. If I don’t log in separately, they appear as anonymous.). While I’m at it, I may as well comment that your “constitutional” reference (your statement: “And one of the things I understand about courts is that they’re to abide by the Constitution,”), has nothing to do with anything. The Court was not pontificating or declaring its own religiosity. Thanks.)
After 24 hours of fertilization, a viable human being exists and will persist given appropriate shelter and nurturing until the age of 77, on average, barring abortion or other man-caused terminal events or acts of God. Freezing imposes a temporary suspension of life.
As I’ve repeatedly pointed out to you, most embryos are not viable.
After 24 hours of fertilization, a viable human being exists and will persist given appropriate shelter and nurturing until the age of 77, on average, barring abortion or other man-caused terminal events or acts of God. Freezing imposes a temporary suspension of life.
Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true. Most often, what you claim is “a viable human being” is not, in fact, viable. Your god creates many non-viable zygotes.
You are a very small person with an infinitesimal intellect, nay, an utter dearth of intellect. You are a very small person with an infinitesimal intellect—nay, a full dearth of intellect.
Nature creates embryos, science proves their existence, and science describes their progression.
You are incoherent, irrational, incorrect, and wrong.
Repeating your flawed, inane, and absurd prevarications won’t help your unsupportable meanderings of mental perplexity.
Understanding the existence of meaningless infinitesimal exceptions to the rule—8 billion successful fertilizations on planet Earth—after 24 hours of fertilization, a viable human being exists and will persist given appropriate shelter and nurturing until the age of 77, on average, barring abortion or other man-caused terminal events or acts of God. Freezing imposes a temporary suspension of life.
LOL at your ad hom. Grow up.
You don’t refute. You repeat nonsense. You have nothing. You have nothing to offer. You have nothing to contribute. That was not ad hominem. That was fact and science. Please, and by all means, do repeat your nonsense indefinitely.
Below there was conversation about President Trump and the ruling by rouge judge in NYC.
Cryptocurrency, Numismatic, Philatelists or any other type of collector or speculator should be very cautious about doing business in the State of New York and in particular New York City. Additionally, the Government itself is the purveyor of arbitrary valuations when they are selling One Ounce Silver dollars for $80.00. Who valued this transaction and under what basis did they arrive at valuating an ounce of silver. These questions are only posed to show how absurd the nature of the ruling against President Trumps stated valuations is.
A funny ad:
Jonathan: Early on in the trial before Judge Engoron both Alina Habba and DJT, despite all their bravado, knew they were going to lose the case. The evidence against the Trump Org. was overwhelming. How do I know this? Yesterday, DJT was in Philadelphia to launch a new sneaker line–the day after Engoron ordered DJT to pay the people of NY $355 million in damages. You don’t launch a sneaker line without months of preparation. DJT unveiled his gold “Trump Sneakers”, holding them up which his new website lists at $399 a pair. DJT says he has been “talking” about this line for 12 or 13 years. Why did it take so much time? Mere coincidence? I don’t think so.
What is this new scam really about? DJT is desperate for money. With the Engoron and E. Jean Carroll judgments DJT is facing a bill of probably at least $500 million. In addition, he is has legal bills of probably $10 million a month. Not exactly Trump change. DJT has only about $400 million in liquid assets. He now can’t get loans–either because Judge Engoron’s judgment foreclosed that avenue or banks won’t touch him.
So now DJT has to resort to the tried and trusted marketing scam he knows well. Get his MAGA supporters to pay his bills. It appears DJT’s marketing people think they can duplicate Michael Jordan’s Nike “Air Jordan” shoes. Michael makes an estimated $400 million per year from his brand. Does delusional DJT really think he can duplicate that?
Don’t forget the fake $2 bills with his mugshot that he’s hawking for $19.95 plus S & H.
Hard to believe that anyone pays for this garbage. What dupes his supporters are.
His “dupes” are patriots who not want open and free elections replaced by Lawfare. Defeating the DNC strategy of Lawfare against Trump is essential to preserving meaningful democracy.
There’s good evidence that Trump committed crimes. What you call “lawfare” is Trump facing the consequences of his illegal acts. Have you even read the indictments?
Trump’s the one who tried to undermine the free and fair election in 2020. He is teaching his supporters to hate the rule of law.
Who wrote the indictments? Hmmm?
Truth Bomb: The bringers of the indictments are the criminals who belong in prison.
Soros DA: “Show me the man called Trump, I’ll find you a damn crime”
Soros DA: It’s my campaign promise to you. I will stop him!
Soros DA: Here! Right here! I found a crime! I found a crime!
THIS is what is happening, doofus.
Denise,
You’re too funny.
Trump and his legal team knew that once James filed the lawsuit, the odds were stacked against him in a NYC court.
But lets stick to the actual facts and not supposition.
Early on, Engoron ruled against Trump granting James a summary judgement.
A summary judgement is based on the idea that the facts as presented are not in dispute and this he can make the ruling based on the given facts.
Yet these facts were in dispute. Not to mention after making his ruling, DB bankers testified in Trump’s favor showing not only no damage, nor any reliance on Trump’s numbers, they wanted Trump as a client because he was a ‘whale’ and additional unrelated business came with him as a client.
So DB actually not only got paid in full from Trump, but actually gained revenue.
So Trump can appeal and win just on this fact alone. That the ruling by Engoron was wrong and he disregarded the fact that there was evidence in dispute which later came up in the transcript from the trial. This is almost an automatic win for Trump.
There’s more Denise, so much more that when the dust settles… Trump could very well be suing James along w the SDNY as well as go after Engoron for violating his Judicial Canons. (Which will just get him a slap on the wrist… )
If Trump wins… his USAG and the DoJ could very well investigate James and Engoron for election interference which is an actual crime.
That would be a stretch, but not out of the realm of possibilities.
-G
why SDNY?
The civil fraud case brought by Letitia James was not brought in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). It was a state court action brought in New York State’s lowest level court – the Supreme Court. On appeal, the appeal will be heard at the Appellate Division (First Department). There are four appellate level courts in the state. Appeals from any of those courts go to the New York Court of Appeals.
Gumby: I don’t normally respond to inane comments on this blog. But I will make an exception for you because you raise important points. But first some housekeeping. My name is “Dennis”–not “Denise”. But if you insist on using pejoratives I will address you as “Michelle”.
So, Michelle, you are right that Judge Engoron granted summary judgment finding DJT liable for persistent and continuing fraud. Once that finding of fact was established it could no longer be litigated. But during the trial Alina Habba tried to re-argue the facts already established. That’s where Judge Engoron had to admonish Habba that she could not do that. On the issue of “fraud” the facts were NOT in “dispute” as you claim.
And you are confusing the liability issue with the rest of the trial that dealt with damages. Yes, DJT’s DB bankers testified they did not lose money–but actually made money in their lending to DJT. But that was basically irrelevant because DJT’s financial fraud was upon the PEOPLE of NY. DJT got loans and preferential treatment through cooking the books and that deprived other borrowers of the same benefits. Let’s make it simple. I go to my neighbor and ask to borrow $1,000. My neighbor is sympathetic but tells me he is fresh out because he just loaned his brother $2,000. Same thing with DB. They don’t have unlimited lending money. So by lending the “whale” hundreds of millions based the fraudulent financials this deprived other borrowers from getting similar loans. It’s simple Econ. 101 Michelle.
As to DJT’s appeal of Engoron’s decision you claim it “is almost an automatic win for Trump”. Really? Successful appeals are never “automatic”. And in DJT’s case Engoron has written an almost appeal proof decision. There might be some argument about the amount of damages but I seriously doubt Engoron will be be completely overturned on appeal. You are really grasping at straws on that one, Michelle.
That leaves your spurious claims that DJT should sue AG James and Judge Engoron for violating “Judicial Canons” and that once DJT gets back in office, (wild speculation at this point) he will get his handpicked AG to “investigate James and Engoron for election interference”. Tell me how that would work? For starters, AG James’ case was brought in NY STATE court–not under federal law. The DOJ has no jurisdiction to intervene in a state civil fraud case.
Now the main reason I am responding in such detail is I don’t want others on on this blog to have the allusion you know something about the law. You don’t. So give up the pretense, Michelle!
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Dennis – I may have missed it, but was personal injury lawyer, Nathan Wade asked, point blank, while on witness stand, to explain the nature of his curious visit to the Biden White House in Washington DC after he was given the contract by Big Fani to prosecute Trump, et al? Anyone wondering why the BIGGEST most obvious question was NOT asked of Wade to explain, under oath, his coordination with the Biden White House in the prosecution of Biden’s number one political opponent?
He wasn’t asked about his curious visits to the Biden White House because this indictment was timed, specifically, to INTERFERE with the election.
That’s why.
Just as the other 3 political hit job indictments were timed to specifically interfere in the election in order to PREVENT Donald J. Trump from being elected again.
Just as Biden was NOT INDICTED FOR OBVIOUS CRIMINALITY in his stolen classified documents espionage case where Hur danced around as much as he could to avoid pointing out Biden’s obvious crimes. Why would Hur do this? Because HUR is ALSO a Biden fixer and this is yet another Biden case where the fix is in. This is OBVIOUS corruption to anyone with a brain.
We have no functioning justice system in this country. The U.S. under Biden has no moral authority over Russia or Putin or any other two-bit corrupt dictatorship. Biden has dragged America down to his level of villainy and corruption. Biden is a disgrace who has brought dishonor to the flag and to this country in too many ways to put in words. It is grotesque what Biden has been allowed to get away with.
Aww Denise you missed ut.
BTW its Gumby but I’m flexible. 😉
And you yet again missed the point.
Had Engoron not ruled in a summary judgement against Trump, he couldn’t continue on to the damages.
His summary judgement ruling *is* the crux of the case.
The appellate court will overturn for the reasons I said.
Facts were in dispute thus Engoron could’t make a summary judgement.
The evidence from the DB Bankers shows this.
Now that said. Trump can raise an ethics complaint at any time against Engoron. Violating his judicial canons. See #5.
If the court does view James action as prosecutorial misconduct, that opens the door to Trump suing her and the state.
BTW I thought it was SDNY but I’ll admit I was wrong.
So many lawsuits against Trump, hard to keep straight.
But back to the point.
Every lawyer that’s a pundit says he’ll win on appeal. You should pay more attention to what they are saying.
Even MSNBC questioned the fine as being excessive.
We’ll have to see how this plays out. Engoron probably doesn’t care. He’s old enough to retire.
-G
Dennis – it is not clear why you think the Summary Judgment order is safe on appeal. Valuations are necessarily questions of fact and, in many cases, matters of opinion. It is hard to see how fact-finding, based on testimony, can simply be ignored.
As to your assertion that the people of New York are “victims” because Trump was able to get preferential loan treatment – this is both wrong and silly.
It is wrong b/c DB testified that they DID NOT rely upon Trump’s valuations.
It is silly because no one can know whether the local economy would have benefited from some imaginary alternative loans. This is not law; it is fairy tales.
What we know for sure is that NYC will no longer receive the benefits of Trump’s rare entrepreneurship. The future unemployed can thank people like you.
Venue Corruption.
They tried OJ in L.A. not Santa Monica.
Wikipedia: From an original jury pool of 40 percent white, 28 percent black, 17 percent Hispanic, and 15 percent Asian, the final jury for the trial had ten women and two men, of whom nine were black, two white, and one Hispanic.
That “verdict” was never in doubt.
N.Y., D.C. et al. are black holes for conservative actual Americans.
How do you communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) get away with it?
Answer: Through your “Assault on Democracy,” aka indecent, unethical, and immoral, lying, cheating, and Corruption.
Dennis – You are one grotesquely irritatingly annoying obtuse person. Has anyone around you been honest enough to say this to your face? If they haven’t said it, believe me, they think it.
Turley wrote:
“Clark withdrew shortly after he admitted that Hunter’s notorious 2017 WhatsApp text demanding money from a Chinese businessman was genuine. In the message, Hunter literally describes his father sitting next to him to drive home the threat, declaring “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled…I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight…I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
Huh??? You mean there is evidence for impeachment that wasn’t based on Smirnov???
Joe Biden cannot be impeached for Hunter Biden’s behavior. Notice that you don’t say a thing about Joe Biden himself doing anything impeachable.
@ShillAnon
After the conversation, the Chinese sent $5 million to “Hunter, Inc”, who set $400,000 to Hunter, who in turn sent $150 to Uncle Biden, who then sent $40,000 (or %10 of $400,000) to the Big Guy. But, you already knew that,
A check repaying a loan while Joe Biden was a private citizen. Not evidence of Joe Biden doing anything impeachable. You can’t even provide evidence that Joe Biden knew where the $40,000 originated.
@anon
Maybe you are right! Tell you what, send me $40,000, and I promise you not to ask where it came from, or what it was for. OK? You won’t even get a “Huh?” from me,
@Anon
Dude!
Oh yes he can.
Want to bet he’s impeached after the DNC convention in August?
-G
No, JB cannot be impeached for HB’s acts.
People keep repeating this little nugget. Rather that argue the case, just answer one simple question. Who would have the power to overturn this specific impeachment.
After you answer that, Trump Carrying out his foriegn policy with Ukraine is not impeachable.
Do tell us what the Articles of Impeachment say.
If Joe was sitting there, letting his name be used to shake down the man on the other side of the phone, he is just as much to blame as Hunter.
Was JB actually sitting there, or was HB lying about it? Inquiring minds want to know.
Yes, which is why there needs to be an Impeachment Investigation. Thanks!
Joe Biden can be impeached for anything or nothing at all. Democrats established that with Faux Trump impeachment I & II.
The only review of impeachment is the trial in the senate.
While I think that is wrong, the constitution did not provide that the ocurts can review whether a house impeachment complies with the constitution.
As to the rest – No one was buying Hunter. What matters is what Hunter was SELLING – and again and again, it is made clear that what was being sold was VP Joe Biden, and that is bribery.
Floyd,
This is a good read: Joe the Rainmaker? Payments, deals followed key Biden meetings with son’s foreign associates
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/rainmaker-payments-and-agreements-followed-key-biden-meetings-sons?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
That, and the shills are still hollering that there is no evidence.
What’s happened to Hunter’s Russian Hookers (or any of His prostitutes and suppliers)?
What happened to the Escort Agency he was using?
Why is it that these Ladies of ill repute, get sidelined and never surface again?
Heidi Fleiss (LA – The “Hollywood Madam”) would have a very good insight as to his West Coast interest.
Sydney Biddle Barrows (NYC – The “Mayflower madam”) would also have some juicy details.
And Deborah Jeane Palfrey (The “D.C. Madam”) whom was found hanging on her mother’s property. Investigators ruled it a suicide, but it was also much like the Jeffrey Epstein hanging incident (She was ‘driven’ to it – pressure was applied).
The Hookers know what Hunter was “into”. The Drugs, Kink, and His Business Deals all that was Hunter Biden at that time, and He himself claims was an Addiction in his defense. Addicts like to start ‘bragging’ with loose lips, and They want to know if the John is good for the Money.
Comer need to investigate for the record Their side of the story.
Hunter likes (Subpoena the P_ _ _ y)
The Hookers are Direct Witnesses to Hunter’s use of: Drugs & Drug Dealing, Prostitutes, and most importantly His Business Deals.
They are the ones that need Witness protection, not Hunter.
Kevin Morris may think the infamous laptop of Hunter Biden is not real, but those Hookers are real.
Natasha and Svetlana are ready & willing to testify about comrade Hunter.
@Anon,
The hookers are a completely different issue.
Nothing to do with the Big Guy’s 10% unless Hunter was buying the hookers for Pedo Joe to sniff their hair.
A Very Good Point, Maybe Pedo Joe’s sexual desires live vicariously through his son Hunter (e.g.: He (Daddy) like to hear about his Son’s sexual escapades and conquest). Lets check it out, bring on the Hookers – the Committee needs to leave no stone upturned.
why the kabuki theater….EVERYONE ON PLANET Earth knows the Judges, DOJ, FBI, IRS, heck CONGRESS etc are 100% corrupt for Democrats. Nothing will happen but Republicans shoveling more money to CORRUPT Democrats across the country! Families of top government officials taking bribes from foreign countries should be met with EXECUTION for TREASON! Trump will be jailed for high school assignment or some other FRAUD indictment!
Jonathan: I think it’s a waste of valuable column space for you to to continue to defend against the threat of Kevin Morris to sue you for defamation. The authenticity of the laptop is no longer a big issue anymore. Neither the salacious photos of Hunter nor anything else on the hard drive establish the Biden family was engaged in a “vast corruption bribery scandal”.
After a year of investigation by Jim Comer he has not proved Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s business dealing or received bribes while he was in office. Since the laptop provided no corroboration of his claims Comer has focused on a string of witnesses he claimed would provide the “smoking gun”. Instead, all the credible witnesses directly contradicted his claims. Other witnesses Comer wanted to call have either gone missing or are criminal defendants–like Alexander Smirnov who was just indicted by SC David Weiss.
Where does this leave the Comer investigation? Pretty much dead in the water. But it’s never been about actually proving Joe Biden is guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors”. In your columns this past year it’s about throwing up enough dirt on the wall–insinuation and innuendo–hoping something would stick against Joe Biden. This political campaign is designed to convince enough voters that where there is smoke there must be fire. We’ll see in November whether this campaign of unproven claims actually worked.
We need to think of information as a lethal weapon. And the information space as a war zone. No one should go into this space unarmed, without critical-thinking skills. No one in this space is an ally until they’ve been fully vetted and proven trustworthy.
Dis, mis and mal-information are weapons that work best against unarmed people. And censorship is nothing more than a mob-style protection racket used against those ignorant and vulnerable people.
OLLY,
Well said.
No, there is NOT “ample evidence that the laptop was genuine.” There is ample evidence that *some* of the contents of the laptop are genuine, and also evidence that the *entire* contents cannot be verified and that some files were added after the laptop was dropped off at JPMI’s shop. For example, “Thousands of emails purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, are authentic communications that can be verified through cryptographic signatures from Google and other technology companies, say two security experts who examined the data at the request of The Washington Post. … The vast majority of the data — and most of the nearly 129,000 emails it contained — could not be verified by either of the two security experts who reviewed the data for The Post. … In their examinations, Green and Williams found evidence that people other than Hunter Biden had accessed the drive and written files to it, both before and after the initial stories in the New York Post and long after the laptop itself had been turned over to the FBI” — https://web.archive.org/web/20220331025328/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/
No one who is trying to have an honest discussion about it pretends that there is “ample evidence that the laptop was genuine.” This has been pointed out to JT more than once, and we know that someone reads comments on his behalf, as he periodically makes corrections to columns based on comments. This is repeatedly misleading wording on his end.
An example of better reporting about the laptop:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/12/17/john-paul-mac-isaacs-serial-inaccuracies-and-the-ablow-laptop/
emptywheel.net/2023/07/08/the-laptop-everyone-knows-as-hunter-bidens-appears-to-have-been-deleted-starting-february-15-2019/
–and Emptywheel is your source? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaHAHA
Note that you cannot show that her analysis is wrong. You simply dislike her accurate analyses.
And you cannot show that her analysis is right. Goes both ways., bud. That’s why we look to sources. Yours are washington post and empty wheel. And you left out the part where your WAPO article says “…the two security experts who reviewed the data for The Post. Neither found clear evidence of tampering in their examinations, but some of the records that might have helped verify contents were not available for analysis, they said.”
Again, hahahahahahahahaha
Figures it has to be anonymous. So the pictures of Cocaine and the lines of cocaine that they’re not gonna charge Hunter with. Saying will filling out his gun permit the picture on his laptop Coincide with the same time of the application.. So you’re gonna pick and choose from the laptop what you think is real and what you think is not.. Why don’t we get the hookers around there and maybe some of the grills that look like they’re on their age and let’s question them.
are you a PAID liar or UnPaid Liar? “No, there is NOT “ample evidence that the laptop was genuine.”
Everyone of the US Intel Officials openly LYING the laptop was Russian SHOULD BE IN JAIL…for Treason!
If it walks, if it talks, if it is a prog/left tool – we can only assume that it is lying.
I’ll give Kevin Morris credit at least, he’s a true cool-aid drinker to the end. He’s doing what every other Biden loyalist does. He accuses YOU of putting out misinformation and disinformation, which is the very thing that HE is doing. A little projection there Jonathan ?
OT,
Not sure how real this is, but apparently there is a video on X, of truckers saying they are going to stop taking loads bound for NYC in light of the recent $355 million fine on Trump.
If real, and gains traction, no freight going into NYC to include things like Rx prescriptions, food, things might get real interesting.
As I have mentioned in the past, study logistics.
UF – if true, it means that truckers have more guts than the rest of us. It is time for a boycott.
A boycott of what?
“A boycott of what?”
Of what is obvious to all — except the willfully blind. And their brothers in spirit: The Apologists.
No, it’s not obvious what Edward is calling for a boycott of.
Edwrdmahl,
I get what you are saying, but this kind of thing will have a real, serious impact.
There is only about three days worth of food in any given city at regular consumption rates.
This could have multiple unforeseen effects.
And an opportunity for someone to do something very dumb.
@Upstate
This is why leftism is a cancer (and to be clear – leftism is not equal to liberalism) – perfectly innocent people are harmed in opposition to their policies that are already harming people. I saw the trucker piece too, and I’m on the fence. I can say with certainty, though, the vast majority of people in NYC are indeed the upper crust, not many ‘regular’ folks living there these days. I suspect, as with the 2008 crash, or covid, the 1% will whine but be fine. Little ever changed for those folks, not the entire time. Could be interesting.
James,
I too am on the fence on this.
I agree with Sam below about civil disobedience and protest.
But I also know what it looks like when the food supply to a city get cut off.
I would not want to be in NYC over the next few days.
“But I also know what it looks like when the food supply to a city get cut off.”
Those who support James and Engoron, and their fellow power-lusters and looters, will get what they deserve. Those (few) New Yorkers who do not will be cheering in the streets.
“[T]ruckers saying they are going to stop taking loads bound for NYC . . .” (And, yes, it is real.)
Good for them! The American spirit lives — at least among truckers.
Government confiscation of Trump’s wealth, and the Left’s attempts (yet again) to rig the election: “has ignited a fervent protest among a segment of the trucking community, casting long shadows over the logistics and delivery networks critical to New York City’s bustling life.”
Go Stalinist, go broke.
Please spread the word about the trucker’s protest. If there is such a thing as *righteous* civil disobedience, that protest is it.
(UF: Thanks for the heads up!)
“A conservative social media influencer and trucker who goes by Chicago Ray posted a video clip in which he claims that some of his colleagues are going to stop making deliveries to New York City to protest the ruling, issued in Manhattan Supreme court on Friday.” (NY Post)
How many truckers will join him? Who knows. Maybe it’ll be like the small trucker convoy that went to Texas; they’ll lose work and it’ll have essentially no impact on goods going into and out of NYC.
Trump FAFO’ed. If you don’t want to get fined in NYC, don’t commit fraud in NYC.
BTW, you’re misusing “civil disobedience.”
This was an incredibly stupid decision.
While it will with near certainty be overturned, the consequences to NYC will be uneffected by a later reversal.
New York has announced it is closed for business.
The left idiotically beleives it has made its case.
Businesses in New York grasp that if they piss off the powers that be, or if they piss off someone who later comes to power,
that they could lose everything.
All the various left wing nuts may not realize Trump did nothing wrong,
But people who actually run real businesses KNOW that ANYONE could be charged using this overbroad reading of the law.
To put it into a context that left wing nuts might understand – this decision means that if you ask for a raise or tell a prosepective employer you want a wage higher than some court decides you are worth – even if your employer actually pays you that wage,
That you could have all your wealth confiscated.
If you steal $100 from your boss, bet it at the races, make $200 and then replace the $100 you stole, you’ve still committed a crime.
So one can assume that the legal canons of ethics are more suggestions than hard and fast rules.
(OT — sort of)
Aleksey Navalny was the leading opposition candidate in Russia. On his recent death, The State Department released the following comment — without a hint of irony:
Navalny’s “death in a Russian prison and *the fixation and fear of one man* only underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system that Putin has built.” (Emphasis added)
Sam – it is hypocritical of the State Department to accuse the Putin regime of being “rotten” when the Biden regime is trying to jail Biden’s main appointment, while keeping Assange in forced captivity, and keeping harmless J6 protesters in official captivity. Both regimes are “rotten” and ours may be worse.
Edwardmahl,
Notice no mention of the American journalist who was jailed by Zelensky for being a critic of Zelensky.
And the American died while imprisoned.
What did the State Department do to free him? Biden?
Yes! See this – Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison recently:
So true, Edwardmahl. It’s a dystopian momen – that’s for sure.
“. . . the type of disinformation that the Biden Administration has alleged against critics . . .”
There’s no inconsistency there — if you accept the Left’s premise:
“Information” is whatever the Left decrees. “Disinformation” is whatever disagrees with those decrees.
The lies work because the leftist are lazy, and lack the ability and desire to find the facts.
We see it every day in the comments here. People that understand The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect when taking in the “news”. If you read carefully you often find a lengthy article that is void of a single named source. I don’t just ignore those stories, I assume the opposite is where the Truth lies.
What is Morris getting out of this? Is it fame, power or money? Something motivates him to such corruption.
Originally, it was being close to power, and having a few crumbs land in your pocket.
Now, its bribery. They will carry the message or embarrassing/ illegal facts will be made public. Because information is the true legal tender in Washingtion DC
The Bidens’, … Take No Prisoners.
Morris will take the fall … for his part, just like Devon Archer.
They’re killing him off, like the Characters on a TV Soap Opera (The Biden Show).
After Him, I guess the question becomes: Who’s Next ?