Below is my column in Fox.com on the flurry of recent filings by Hunter Biden who appears to be channeling Donald Trump in his attacks on prosecutors, whistleblowers and the media.
Here is the column:
Last week, some of us were struck by how Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis seemed to morph into the man she is prosecuting in Georgia. In her mocking, combative testimony February 15, Willis lashed out against the media, the lawyers and many in the public for questioning her ethics in hiring her former lover as lead prosecutor. Where former President Donald Trump was roundly condemned for such testimony in court, Willis was celebrated by many as showing that she is a “great lawyer” and righteous champion.
Now, Hunter Biden also seems to have gone full Trump in court and no one appears to have noticed. In a flurry of motions, Hunter is seeking to dismiss indictments in two states. However, his arguments are strikingly familiar.
He is challenging the appointment of the special counsel, alleging selective prosecution and raising strategic leaks as reasons to strike all of his pending charges. The motions are ripped from the pages of Trump challenges, which were widely panned by the media. No longer.
Hunter has filed a flurry of nine separate motions seeking to dismiss charges against him. His arguments included challenging the authority of special counsel David Weiss as improperly appointed. Hunter maintains that “this prosecution is not legally authorized because David Weiss was unlawfully appointed as Special Counsel and Congress has not appropriated funds for the Special Counsel’s investigation or this prosecution.”
He argues that DOJ regulations instruct the attorney general to appoint a special counsel from outside the government, but Weiss was working as U.S. attorney for Delaware.
During the recent Trump appeal in Washington, there was also a claim that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s work was unconstitutional, though the challenge was based on the absence of an authorizing statute.
Hunter is also arguing selective prosecution and that the Justice Department caved into political pressure to target him despite a lack of criminal evidence. Much like Trump, Hunter is also arguing that leaks showed the bias and hostility of the Justice Department against him.
At the same time, Hunter is pursuing a challenge to the underlying gun law that his father has championed as strengthening gun control laws. Worst yet for many on the left, Hunter is adopting an argument from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other gun rights groups in calling such laws unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
Hunter is pursuing the arguments from Bruen v. New York Rifle & Pistol Association, which his father has condemned. He insists that requirements that you not be an actual drug addict run against the history and tradition of the Second Amendment.
If he pushed forward on these claims, Hunter Biden could face opposition from the Biden administration in seeking to expand Second Amendment protections in court. Yet, if successful, he would be the first Biden to be honored by the NRA.
Hunter is also adopting one of the most criticized practices of Trump in attacking the whistleblowers who came forward with allegations against him. Where Trump attacked the whistleblowers in the Ukraine controversy, Hunter has attacked IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.
Hunter is also arguing selective prosecution and that the Justice Department caved into political pressure to target him despite a lack of criminal evidence. Much like Trump, Hunter is also arguing that leaks showed the bias and hostility of the Justice Department against him.
Of course, adopting the same arguments and rhetoric of Trump does not make you Trump. That appears the critical distinction for many in the media, as it was for Willis. These arguments are being soberly analyzed on media platforms where Trump’s prior arguments were categorically rejected.
The only thing that remains is for Hunter to declare that he is only trying to Make America Great Again by nullifying independent counsels and expanding the Second Amendment. Indeed, it could be the start of a Biden MAGA movement.
Jonathan, if you find time, please spend it on Julian Assange.
He is the Nelson Mandela in the parlance of Our time.
Maybe a recap of the Criminal procedures he has endured and what would be moving forward.
Thnx
Mises Wire
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞
By: Connor O’Keeffe ~ Wednesday, Feb 21, 2024
https://mises.org/wire/outrageous-persecution-julian-assange
Trip:
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Absolutely.
It is also way past time to bring Snowden home.
Strike a deal, allow him to plead guilty and commute his sentence.
Julian Assange was only reporting what the CIA shouldn’t have been doing in the first place, but does every minute without recourse
(Free Rein & Free Reign – Unbridled Discretion doctrine).
𝐀𝐜𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨, 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐡𝐨𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐟 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬
WikiLeaks founder begins last effort to fight US extradition
Assange’s wife says ‘the world is watching’ extradition appeal hearing
Andrei Molodkin says he has gathered 16 works of art – which he estimates are collectively worth more than $45m – in a 29-tonne safe with an “extremely corrosive” substance.
By; David Mercer – Chief sub-editor ~ February 13th 2024
[Link] news.sky.com/story/acid-to-destroy-masterpieces-by-picasso-rembrandt-and-warhol-if-julian-assange-dies-in-prison-artist-claims-13070078
𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐰
Julian Assange’s lawyer submitted a new registration this week with the Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) division for his ongoing work on behalf of the embattled Australian WikiLeaks founder.
By: Taylor Giorno ~ 02/08/24
https://thehill.com/homenews/4456658-julian-assange-lawyer-submits-new-registration-under-foreign-agent-law/
𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞’𝐬 𝐔𝐒 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡
The court is not expected to reach a verdict in Assange’s case until March at the earliest
By: Landon Mion – Fox News ~ February 22, 2024
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/julian-assanges-us-extradition-hearing-wraps-up-london-decision-not-expected-until-least-next-month
𝐈𝐅 Trump receives multiple Criminal Convictions, what would be the chances of Him being released from Custody?
He hold knowledge of ‘State Secrets’ much the same as Julian Assange.
A good, concise analysis of the Indictment against Smirnov, with all its silliness:
Viva misses an important point. It is irrelevant WHEN Smirnov met with Burisma executives.
It is irrelevant that Joe Biden was no longer in public office.
All that matters is what was said in the meeting with Smirnov.
Smirnov claims that Zolochevsky told him that he had Bought Joe Biden – PAST TENSE. Not that he was about to Buy Joe Biden.
If the “lie” is the timing – – that is NOT material to Smirnov’s allegation.
Over the past year various associates of the Biden have been testifying about what occured IN THE PAST involving Vice President Joe Biden.
All of this testimoney is AFTER the fact.
Most of it is about conduct while Joe was president.
I would note that Viva citing the portion of the indictment that says that the FBI allowed Smirnov to engage in criminal conduct is VERY SIGNIFICANT.
All executive power int he united states is PRESIDENTIAL POWER. I have no idea whether President Obama signed off on Smirnov’s criminal acts, or whether he delegated the authority to do so to DOJ/FBI – but the FACT is that directly or indirectly this indictment CONFIRMS that presidents have the constitutional power to violate the law – or to authorize others to do so.
Put more simply – Trump is ABOLUTELY correct in his arguments regarding presidential immunity.
That immunity does not mean that no indictment is ever possible.
It DOES mean that neither the president nor anyone authorized by the president, nor someone authorized by an agent of the president can be convicted of a crime committed acting under the authority of the president without FIRST establishing that the alleged criminal act is not a legitimate excercise of the powers of the president.
To repeat that MUST occur BEFORE any indictment.
WE can debate precisely how that process of overcoming immunity occurs – the strongest claim is that impeachment by the house and removal by the senate is required PRIOR to indictment.
David Weiss coined the phrase himself: That’s The Delaware Way!
The Biden Show is starting to get interesting. Time to Tune -In
Bring on the Russian Hookers !!! Natasha & Svetlana are ready to testify about comrade Hunter
So then the pee tape was real?
Only it starred Hunter?
“The only thing that remains is for Hunter to declare that he is only trying to Make America Great Again by nullifying independent counsels and expanding the Second Amendment. Indeed, it could be the start of a Biden MAGA movement.”
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That’s riotously funny. Like when Hunter said he wasn’t an addict on his Federal Firearms Form. That white upper lip musta been milk. LOL
I find it amazingly laughable that the FBI and DOJ trot out this indictment of their own reliable informant and the Democrat goobers drool on themselves. Do they not have the cognitive ability to see the parallel of the Steele/Clinton dossier? I wonder if this was a set up surprise from day one. Looking at the shell companies, the bank records, the loans and the wealth that Joe and the Biden family has accumulated leaves little doubt in anyone with logical thought of their corruption. I would have to believe there is plenty enough evidence to impeach that demented old tool.
Biden’s Gestapo. Democrat Stasi. Secret Police.
The FBI is a domestic terror organization.
The indictment confirms that the meeting with Zolochevsky took place.
The indictment alleges that Smirnov lied about the date the meeting occured – which si NOT a material fact.
Smirnovs reported this to the FBI in 2020 – that is the date of the 1023.
Smirnov was NOT reporting an attempted bribe – but hearsay evidence of a COMPLETED bribe.
There appears to be only one place int he indictment that claims that Zmirnov did NOT hear what he reported, – and that provides NO basis for that conclusion. We do not have Zolochevsky testifying that he did not bribe the Bidens – and that would not be credible if they did.
This indictment is typical of the garbage we see from left wing nut lawyers – gaming timelines.
NO ONE – including Smirnov is claiming that zolochevsky bribed Joe Biden in 2017.
Smirnovs claim is that Zolochevsky told him about a bribe to Hunter and Joe AFTER the bribe occured.
All this has become a staging of a shameful Black Comedy that goes from the hall of fame of the true satirical drama of an award-winning American black comedy like “Network” (In profetice similitude Trump history) going through a gloriously rude and gleefully offensive comedy, such as “Bad Santa” but the leftists will find it uproariously funny because it destroys a childish figure like Santa and turns him into a thief, alcoholic, sex addict.
While it takes place between the grotesque American black comedy about the path of the stoner in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” moving into a dark comedy son-worship in “World’s Greatest Dad” concluding this black tragic comedy with the similarity whit James Freya’s book, “A Million Little Pieces” with Hunter’s book, both because of the story of his drug addiction and how he faces his supposed rehabilitation, after having spent all his parents’ money. Plus the similarity of the subsequent media scandal when the press discovers that he fabricated much of his memoirs, including details about his criminal record.
My favorite part:
“The only thing that remains is for Hunter to declare that he is only trying to Make America Great Again by nullifying independent counsels and expanding the Second Amendment. Indeed, it could be the start of a Biden MAGA movement.” 🌊🧢➕🅱️🇺🇸
LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
🚨#BREAKING: New documents show that Biden’s dog Commander has bit at least 24 Secret Service personnel before he was removed from the White House
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Where is the fake news media? 24 dog bites! Outrageous, but not surprising given how entitled the Bidens believe they are. What does Biden have on all the powers that be in DC that he has all of them lying to protect his negligence, criminality, lies, deception, corruption? It’s insane how corrupt and despicable Joe Biden and everyone around the Biden’s actually are.
There are two issues regarding Commander:
Why hasn’t he been adopted out to someone else. This dog clearly can not take the stress. This is not all that surprising – this is a full grown German Shepard they are highly protective dogs.
Why was Joe forcing this dog on the Secret Service.
This is NOT the dogs fault.
It is NOT the secret serivices fault.
Jim Jordan admitting that there is no longer any evidence Joe Biden did anything wrong, after the Smirnov thing: 🙂
https://www.c-span.org/video/?533716-101/judiciary-committee-chair-jim-jordan-biden-investigation-alexander-smirnov-indictment
Jordon and company need to get things moving along, imo. Whip it, whip it good.
The only reason anyone can still say there is no evidence or ‘proof’ that Joe Biden is a deranged, corrupt subterranean cave dweller is because he has never been charged, much less tried or impeached, for anything. Sure, the House has been doing an impeachment ‘inquiry’ for a while now, but that and $6 will get you coffee at Starbucks.
At this point, as far as anyone knows Biden is just a well meaning old fool incapable of even understanding charges against him (see Hur report).
They impeached the Trump monkey Apostle over a phone call and a tailgate party gone wrong.
* cut ’em in, cut ’em out .. . Rawhide.
Where in the video you linked does Jordan say that “there is no longer any evidence Joe Biden did anything wrong”
There are enormous questions here – including is the DOJ/FBI engaged in an attempt to obstruct congress by indicting Smirnov.
It is stuff like this that is why no one trusts you (or FBI or DOJ).
It is likely that Smirnov is a scurrilous character – the indictment notes that the FBI authorized him to commit crimes in order to get useful intelligence.
It is likely that he is a liar – most CHS’s are. The FBI does not hire nuns to get information on Putin.
It is actually fairly normal for CHS’s to lie to the FBI – that is why the FBI assesses them – and TWO different FBI field offices found Smirnov HIGHLY CREDIBLE – one of the highest paid FBI information for over 14 years. That means they found his intelligence to be valuable.
It also means Smirnov has good reasons to tell the FBI the truth, that reason being the FBI is not likely to pay him if his evidence proves false.
It is absolutely certain that Smirnov met with Russians – the FBI does not use CHS’s to spy on nuns.
It would be unusual if Smirnov was NOT meeting with scurilous people – people the FBI can not get information from directly.
Professor Turley, some times you say the stupidest things. There is NO comparison between President Trump’s malicious prosecutions (Fani Willis, etc.) and also the glove treatment afforded Hunter Biden (already got a pass on 2014 and 2015 tax returns – most egregious). You shouldn’t try to be so cute with your columns. This beneath you.
I do not think Turley is saying that the Prosecutions are comparable.
He is saying that the arguments made by the defendants are nearly the same.
A person can protest their own innocence and argue they are being frame as vigorously when they are guilty as when they are innocent.
Indicted FBI Informant Linked To Russian Intelligence
The Justice Department indicted Alexander Smirnov last week on allegations he made up information involving the Bidens, including his claim that the then-vice president and his son, Hunter Biden, each accepted a $5 million bribe, an assertion central to the GOP’s impeachment inquiry against the president.
The controversy surrounding Smirnov depended on Tuesday after the Justice Department revealed in a filing that Smirnov said he received his information about Hunter Biden from Russian intelligence.
“During his custodial interview on February 14, Smirnov admitted that officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in passing a story about Businessperson 1,” the filing reads. Businessperson 1 is Hunter Biden.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4480810-jordan-informants-indictment-doesnt-change-fundamental-facts-of-gop-case-against-biden/
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A certain law professor we all know has frequently ridiculed claims that the Hunter Biden laptop story was somehow linked to Russian operatives.
But it seems the Hunter Biden probe largely rested on testimony by FBI informant Alexander Smirnov who was indeed a tool of Russian Intel. However House Committee Chairman Jim Jordan today vehemently denied that Smirnov’s arrest threatens the Biden case.
turdrunner with the steaming turd of the day!
BugAnon – please tell us how the “Hunter Biden laptop story was somehow linked to Russian operatives.” Did they buy the laptop for Hunter? Did they tell him to take to MacIsaac’s repair shop? Did they tell him to leave there on purpose? Did they copy the hard drive and give it to Rudy Guiliani? What exactly are they supposed to have done?
Duh. The FBI and multiple media organizations have confirmed that the laptop IS Hunter’s laptop and the contents were free of Russian disinformation.
ATS – beat that straw man to death.
What I have read of the actual indictment is at odds with what you are claiming.
Whether Smirnov met with Russian intelligence is irrelevant.
Smirnov is a FBI CHS over the course of 14 years – starting in the late Bush administration.
I would bet he has met with Russian intelligence MANY MANY times.
I would note that the Indictiment itself CONFIRMS that Smirnov met with Burisma executives.
As to your idiotic aside regarding the Hunter Biden laptop.
I would recommend Glenn Greenwalds reporting from Oct 2020 regarding how to know that the contents of the laoptop are NOT russian disinformation – except that we are way past that – the FBI has confirmed the laptop is Hunters, Hunter’s attorney’s have confirmed it is Hunters.
The media has admitted that it is Hunters.
Further the various Russia collusion Russia disinformation naratives of the left fail the test of critical thinking.
Most intelligent people have known from the start that Putin wanted Clinton to win in 2020.
Over time CIA assessments done in 2016 by the CIA have managed to surface demonstrating that the FBI KNEW that Putin wanted Clinton to win.
But more recently we have found that BEFORE the Steele Dossier – the FBI contacted foreign intelligence services to conduct active spying – to CONTACT 26 different Trump associate and to make it look like they were colluding with Russia.
More recently another ATS here – or maybe you gleefully reported that Putin had endorsed Biden as if that was a surprise to anyone.
I do not think that the engagement of Russia in the 2016 or 2020 election was of any consequence. There is no evidence that Russia engaged in anything of consequence.
BUT the evidence IS that whatever Russia did it was to aide whoever was running AGAINST TRUMP
So No, I do not beleive that Russian agents fed Smirnov a damaging story about Joe Biden. That would require beleiving that Putin acvtually wanted Trump to win – which is a beleif only a complete moron could hold.
Can we be Clear – Burisma was an Energy company run by a Russian Ologarch.
It was not in Putin’s interest to make Burisma look corrupt – BTW Burisma’s corruption is also something we are way past.
So Lets be clear
Burisma is Russian affiliated
Burisma is corrupt.
Burisma hired Hunter Biden (as did other Russian oligarchs).
Shokin was investigating them.
Hunter was actively working to stop that.
Hunter and the Biden syndicate were paid to end the investigation.
VP Joe Biden got Shokin fired.
Burisma benefitted
Russia benefitted.
The Biden’s got paid.
The US did not.
Ukraine did not.
Was Smirnov told any or all of the above by Burisma executives ? You can decide that for yourself.
Smirnov does NOT make the case that Biden is corrupt.
He corroborates it.
Persopnally I suspect that Smirnov has lied to the FBI many times – that is the nature of being a CHS.
He has also told the FBI enough that was worthwhile to them to pay him well.
Was he lying about his meetings with Burisma executives ? I doubt it, and the indictment does not make that case.
Corrections
Putin wanted Clinton in 2016 not 2020
The CIA not FBI contacted foreign intelligence services to spy on Trump affiliates and to setup the Trump colluding with Russia narative.
Tip from a retired lawyer: If you are planning to go on a trip, be sure not to take any of this type of sawdust with you! The evil police will probably think it is illegal drugs, and drug paraphernalia! These are pictures from the phone of Hunter Biden:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/02/20/22/81507155-13106251-image-a-7_1708468058820.jpg
Ooops! I am sorry. I inadvertently posted the wrong image of the sawdust! Here is the actual sawdust image! Sorry!
https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&url=1m6gWO_0nYavXfQ00
Darn! I am all thumbs today! Here is the actual picture of the sawdust. Because Hunter did not ever do no drugs:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VX0wEBAxY1o/maxresdefault.jpg
Heck! I am giving up on the sawdust pics. Instead, here is a youtube video of Hunter, telling us that he never did have no drug problem:
When the DNC handlers pay the trolls to peddle their talking points, there isnt any evidence to believe the trolls have brain tissue that healthy or free of malignancy. OTOH, lurkers will appreciate objective facts dispelling DNC paid disinformation, malinformation, Hillary “sore loser” Clinton coup de etat
Many Reporters Paid for Covering the Russiagate Story
We learned there were 26 surveillance targets among Trump’s aides and associates in the 2016 campaign year, and we were able to use a number of key quotes, including the internal intelligence community analysis that Russia wasn’t desperate to avoid a Hillary Clinton presidency at all, but saw her as “manageable and reflecting continuity” and a “relationship they were comfortable with.”
https://www.racket.news/p/many-reporters-paid-for-covering
I see that JT doesn’t want to delve into the details. For anyone who does, or who wants to read the filings, head over to https://www.emptywheel.net/hunter-biden/ (this is a page that gathers columns tagged with HB’s name). Abbe Lowell even noted one of her columns in one of his motions, referencing the fact that SC Weiss had falsely presented a photo of sawdust to substantiate a claim that HB was using cocaine on a particular date. It’s a pretty funny mistake. Lowell’s comment about it was that “Mistaking sawdust for cocaine sounds more like a storyline from one of the 1980’s Police Academy comedies than what should be expected in a high-profile prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice.”
Seems the empty heads spend a lot of time at empty wheel.
Abbe Lowell…the brilliant lawyer who coined the term “false facts”. What comedy is that from?
Seems like you have ad hom and cannot point out anything she wrote that’s false.
Its all false facts,
S C Weiss is obviously controlled by the Russians.
Wasn’t the whole investigation based on a pack of lies from a guy with ties to Russia?
Haven’t the Trump kiddies profited a lot more than Hunter ever did based on their Daddy name? 2 Billion from Saudis, hellooooo!!!!
Trump and his children profited by delivering value for value. Not selling public office.
They rent apartments, and office space, they sell condos, they are paid by others to profitably invest money in real estate, they rent hotel rooms, they sell time on a golf course, or gambling at a casino, they sell meals at resturants.
What is it that the Biden’s exchange in return for money ?
It’s really not funny or cute to compare blatant lawbreakers with Trump. It’s getting old. There’s a significant difference. They are charging Trump for things nobody has ever been charged with. They are not charging Hunter for things everybody gets charged with. We get that Turley is a diehard Democrat but it’s simply dishonest and unfair.
You could always troll on Republican led legal forums since Republicans have a history of getting things done in Congress the minute they are sworn into office
No, they aren’t “charging Trump for things nobody has ever been charged with.” People have been charged with things like obstruction and ConFraudUS before.
Only in the most vague sense. Reuters examined all the NY cases applying the law used to confiscate Trump property.
It has NEVER been used in a business to business matter before.
Much less in a real estate matter where the requirement to due diligence ALWAYS rests with the lender or the buyer ALWAYS.
No ex-president has ever been investigated for posession of WH documents classified or nto before – JUdicial Watch TRIED to get the DC courts to order NARA to go after Classified Clinton documents – and the DC courts said neither NARA nor the courts have the authority to do so. the WH documents of a former president are his property if he wants them – whether they are classified or not.
Myriads of people have protested elections and claimed fraud int he past almost all of them democrats. Democrats have tried – and even succeeded in “finding votes” – see Coleman Franken – it took over a year for Franken to “find” enough votes to overturn the election.
In my lifetime EVERY SINGLE ELECTION that was won by a republican had its certification challenged in congress BY DEMOCRATS – including alleging voting machine fraud. Hillary sought to and succeeded in getting a few electors to change their votes. Alternate s;ates of electors have been offered by democrats in numerous elections.
NONE of this has ever resulted in a criminal prosecution before.
NDA’s are perfectly legal.
I do not think anyone in the US has EVER been found to have defamed another person over an alleged event almost 30 years int he past.
I am hard pressed to think of a civil lawsuit that was successful over anything 30 years in the past.
Some of the allegations against Hunter are old – but ONLY because the DOJ sat on them obstructed its own investigation and tired to run the clock out on them.
Peabody
The informant hasn’t been shown to be anything yet other than under indictment. After witnessing the weaponization of the DOJ, and bank statements, laptop references and more do you honestly believe Joe Biden isn’t as crooked as a pigs dick?
DGSnowden asks: “Do you know where I can find any information on the Bobulinski testimony . .. I can’t seem find any reporting.”
go to:
site:justthenews.com bobulinksky
Go to dig deeper for links to actual data and in particular read Solomon’s column’s as they are accurate and the best on the site.
Hunter just needs to file stuff to delay this through November. Once this election is over, win or lose, Hunter’s Dad will still be President for a period of time and can pardon him and nothing Turley can do about that. Really, who is going to complain about a pardon now that the central whistleblower has been shown to be a Russian propagandist.
Peabody Svelaz, have you anything intelligent to say?
Correct, both Hunter and Trump are trying to delay past the election.
Both are legally allowed to try to do that and under ordinary circumstances would succeed.
The “central whistleblower” has ALWAYS been Joe Biden – his video made in 2015 admitting to blackmailing Ukraine into firing Shokin.
Smirnov was an FBI rated highly reliable CHS since 2007. His report on the Biden’s was received by the FBI in 2020. But it did not reach the Senate until a few weeks ago.
The investigation of the Biden’s started LONG before that.
Smirnov is not central to anything. He was a strong corroborating evidence.
He remains that as the indictment spends most of its time trying to defend Joe Biden – rather than prove a crime by Sminov.
The allegations against Smirnov are that he got the date of the meeting with Burisma wrong – if True that is immaterial.
That he did not hear what he reported – as there is no recording of the meeting and none of the others we know are present could be trusted to admit they were part of a bribery scheme DOJ is unlikely to succeed in this claim anywhere but DC.
That Smirnov met with Russian intelligence … DUH ? pretty much a no brainer. He IS a CHS. The FBI did not pay him to meet with nuns.
Floyd, I thought he was in the middle?!
Who, Jimmy Dore? No, he is like a far-lefty. He supported Bernie, and got mad when Bernie did not fight back against the DNC. He is anti-war, and pro-Medicare for all. He is fed up with the Democrat Party, fed up with the Russiagate stuff, and with all the main stream media lying. He does not plan to vote for Trump, and has not voted for Trump. He has been on Tucker a few times, before FOX sacked Tucker. I agree with him on some things, disagree with him on others, but whatever, he is an honest person.
No Floyd not Dore…Malcom in the middle…
It’s high time that JT goes scorched Earth on our two-tiered justice system. If he paid any attention to the comments section he would see his roundabout way of posting about the confluence of the law and politics is a trees-based approach at describing a raging forest fire. At the rate things are going, It will be Roper and not More who gets his wish:
“William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!” A Man For All Seasons
Excellent reference!
This one seems to cross my mind frequently these days as well:
Norfolk: Then your reasons must be treasonable!
More: Not “must be;” may be.
Norfolk: It’s a fair assumption!
More: The law requires more than an assumption; the law requires a fact.
Of course, Dennis–A Man for No Seasons–will take umbrage.
Any one of us could write a comment on this blog like Dennis “Roper”. If JT ever decided to use an AI algorithm to filter out comments that ran afoul of the constitution, Bill of Rights, and what Bastiat described as the true purpose of the law, the comment section would be void of these parasites.
That you cannot recognize the humanity of people who disagree with you is pretty sad.
Now say something nice about Trump. We’ll wait.
I didn’t suggest that Olly has to be nice. I recognize that Trump is a human being — flawed, absolutely, but you won’t find me calling him a parasite, or vermin (a term that Trump uses for some people), or any other term that suggests that he’s something other than human.
A part of Trump’s appeal is that he does to those on the left what they have done to those that have tried to stand up to them.
You are not going to get anywhere ranting about what Trump has said becuase:
You have lied about it so often.
what Trump says is little different from what those on the left say all the time.
What Trump does matters more than what he says.
Trump supporters know this.
Increasingly moderates and some democrats know this.
That is why betting odds are 2:1 against Biden beating Trump.
What humanity don’t I recognize? Be specific. Are you suggesting disagreement is the result of not recognizing humanity?
No, I’m saying that calling people “parasites” denies their humanity. They’re people you disagree with. They’re people you may find annoying, a waste of time, … But they are not parasites.
Webster’s Dictionary 1. 1: an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host.
Thank you. I recognize their humanity just fine.
Webster omits that the parasite and host are of different species (see, e.g., https://www.britannica.com/science/parasitism). And parasites always harm hosts; otherwise the relationship is mutualism or commensalism rather than parasitism.
Now of course had you considered the context with which I used the term parasite, I assure you that I recognize their “humanity” as “parasitic” to this constitutional republic.
I would suggest walking away from this one. The other Anonymous–the hopelessly literal-minded one–is fixated on your use of the word “parasite”. He can’t grasp the concept of using a word metaphorically.
You could just as easily have said that someone is a “ray of sunshine”. He’d accuse you of denying their humanity because a ray of sunshine is a physical phenomenon and by calling someone such, you’re reducing their humanity to a stream of photons.
Don’t waste your time. He’s not worth it.
We are not in the midst of a scientific paper in the domain of biology.
Parasite has many meanings in many contexts. They do not all require the host to be different from the parasite.
They do not even all require living things. They do not all require harm.
Though your digression regarding harm is irrelevant.
Are you claiming that no humans live off of others ? Are you claiming that no humans are harmful to others ?
“No, I’m saying that calling people “parasites” denies their humanity”
How so ? Some people are parasites.
Calling people parasites does not deny their humanity.
And it only defames them if false.
I do not expect you to spell correctly,
I do not expect your grammar to be correct.
I can tolerate an occasional accidental misuse of words.
but parasite means living off of another.
It does not mean subhuman.
Being called a parasite is an insult.
It is NOT being called subhuman.
Many insults are also true.
The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image – the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America.
Malcolm X
Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
Kinky Friedman
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Thomas Jefferson
Live loath’d and long,
Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies
Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
William Shakespeare
People who make a living off other people’s fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.
Frank Sinatra
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
Fulton J. Sheen
No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
Thomas Sowell
There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
Thomas Sowell
The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The only acceptable response to bad speech is more speech.
We need to trolls to be sure of the merits of our own arguments.
It is the fact that they can come up with nothing mroe than garbage that s the proof that our own arguments are not distorted by our personal biases.
We are certain of what is try by the failure of those who claim otherwise to disprove it.
Excelent !!!