Special Counsel David Weiss appears to have finally made the long-awaited case exposing years of concealment and political corruption. No, it is not the case against Hunter Biden. The allegations of tax fraud in California are obvious and unavoidable. Weiss just made the case against the Justice Department and himself in protecting Hunter Biden from the most damaging charges of being an unregistered foreign agent. In a new filing, Weiss released evidence on Hunter seeking money to advance the interests of a Romanian on United States policy.
I have previously testified on the Foreign Agents Registration Act and have previously written about the disturbing disconnect in the treatment of the President’s son as opposed to figures like Paul Manafort.
The charge was always one of the greatest fears of the White House. If Hunter Biden was a foreign agent, it would magnify the influence peddling scandal and further link his conduct to work of his father as vice president and later president.
What was previously known about millions received from China, Russia, and other countries made such a charge obvious. In the past, the Justice Department has used the charge early and often in high-profile cases to pressure defendants and force cooperation or plea agreements. During the Trump Administration, an official could not go to Epcot without drawing a FARA charge from DOJ.
This charge has been a favorite of the DOJ before the President’s son was implicated in a massive influence peddling scheme with foreign figures.
Here is the definition used in such cases:
A “foreign agent” is defined as “(1) any person who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or servant, or any person who acts in any other capacity at the order, request, or under the direction or control, of a foreign principal or of a person any of whose activities are directly or indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed, or subsidized in whole or in major part by a foreign principal, and who directly or through any other person— (i) engages within the United States in political activities for or in the interests of such foreign principal; (ii) acts within the United States as a public relations counsel, publicity agent, information-service employee or political consultant for or in the interests of such foreign principal; (iii) within the United States solicits, collects, disburses, or dispenses contributions, loans, money, or other things of value for or in the interest of such foreign principal; or (iv) within the United States represents the interests of such foreign principal before any agency or official of the Government of the United States; and (2) any person who agrees, consents, assumes or purports to act as, or who is or holds himself out to be, whether or not pursuant to contractual relationship, an agent of a foreign principal as defined in clause (1) of this subsection.”
For years, I have expressed alarm at the special treatment afforded to Hunter Biden on the charges. Many of us have also criticized Weiss for allowing the most serious tax charges to expire despite being able to extend the statute of limitations. He has yet to offer a compelling reason why prosecutors would ever allow viable felony charges to expire when they could have extended that period.
Now, Biden is seeking to avoid conviction under the tax charges in California. He is repeating the claims that failed in his recent gun violation. He is claiming that he was an addict and not responsible for his criminal conduct, even though he was flying around the world collecting millions from foreign sources.
To rebut that claim, Weiss’ team said they plan to introduce evidence showing his sophisticated scheme to tap foreign sources interested in influencing the government and federal policy.
In the filing below, Weiss opposes the Biden team effort to exclude the evidence of his working for the Romanians. Senior assistant special counsel Derek Hines writes in the filing that “[t]he evidence of what the defendant agreed to do and did do for [the businessman] demonstrates the defendant’s state of mind and intent during the relevant tax years charged in the indictment. It is also evidence that the defendant’s actions do not reflect someone with a diminished capacity, given that he agreed to attempt to influence U.S. public policy and receive millions of dollars pursuant to an oral agreement.”
That sounds a lot like seeking the work of a foreign agent. Here is the language from FARA:
“The first category of evidence the defendant seeks to exclude is any “reference to allegations that Mr. Biden (1) acted on behalf of a foreign principal to influence U.S. policy and public opinion . . .” Motion at 3 (emphasis added). The government does not intend to reference allegations at trial. Rather, the government will introduce the evidence described above, including that the defendant and Business Associate 1 received compensation from a foreign principal who was attempting to influence U.S. policy and public opinion and cause the United States to investigate the Romanian investigation of G.P in Romania.” (emphasis added)
It is a curious argument. It is akin to saying that we know that he stole the car because he used it in the kidnapping. It leaves most people wondering why you did not charge on the kidnapping crime.
The fact is that this is only one of an array of such contracts that have been detailed by the House Oversight Committee and other House committees. The other foreign dealings reportedly involved Hunter reaching out to government officials while his father was vice president. That includes the controversy over Joe Biden’s sudden decision to issue an ultimatum to the Ukrainian government.
In a 2018 interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, Biden bragged that he unilaterally withheld a billion dollars in US aid from the Ukrainians to force them to fire prosecutor general Viktor Shokin.
The Ukrainians balked, but Biden gave them an ultimatum: “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.”
However, a State Department memo is shedding disturbing light on that account and shredding aspects of Biden’s justification for the action. It directly contradicts Biden’s insistence that he took this extraordinary stand because there was little hope for the anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine if Shokin remained prosecutor.
The Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizes the recommendation of the Interagency Policy Committee that was handling the anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine: “Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third guarantee.” One senior official even complimented Shokin on his progress in fighting corruption. So Biden was told to deliver on the federal aid but elected to unilaterally demand Shokin be fired.
In testimony from Devon Archer, a business associate of Hunter Biden, we learned that Burisma executives made the removal of Shokin a top priority and raised it with Hunter. He described how the need to neutralize Shokin was raised with Hunter and how “a call to Washington” was made in response. While Archer also said that “the narrative spun to me was that Shokin was under control,” he and others also heard concerns over Shokin and the risks of the investigation.
Other transactions directly requested intervention on matters being addressed by the Obama-Biden Administration.
So, now, the Justice Department is citing some of these dealings to show a conscious and premeditated effort to shake down foreigners to influence U.S. policy. Weiss now maintains that “The defendant did receive compensation from a foreign principal to attempt to influence U.S. policy and public opinion, as alleged in the indictment, and this evidence is relevant.”
They have made more than the case against Hunter Biden. They have made a conclusive and overwhelming case against themselves in slow walking and minimizing charges against the President’s son.
Here is the filing: gov.uscourts.cacd.907805.181.0
1) The fact that Joe Biden, through his son, has been selling his office to foreign nationals has been obvious for a long time. It is a testament to the corruption of the MSM, and its ally, the Democatic Party, that this fact was not widely acknowledged.
2) When the final story is told, will someone write that the intervention of the America, and the Biden family especially, into the internal affairs of Ukraine influenced Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine?
3) The real malefactor in this sad story of corruption and war is the American Left, a group of people who control the Democratic Party and the MSM. If he were with us today, Ronald Reagan would call the American Left “the focus of evil in the modern world.”
He hasn’t been selling anything. You’re saying that Joe Biden, the supposedly cognitive challenged president had the ability to manage a complex web of deceit and clandestine deals without anyone ever knowing?
The idea of Joe Biden selling the office is as stupid as it gets. Nobody has been able to articulate exactly what it is that he “sold” or what policy changed as a result of “selling the office”. Do you have an example?
“Nobody has been able to articulate exactly what it is that he “sold” or what policy changed as a result of “selling the office”. Do you have an example?”
Read Turley’s column, dumb ass. You have serious reading comprehension issues.
Bribery Biden’s policy decisions and payoffs are too many to list here.
Biden abandoned Bagrum Air Base. The Chinese now have it.
Biden left behind US military weapons worth $billions to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Those weapons are being sold to terrorists and our enemies.
Bribery Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to travel across the country before shooting it down.
Ukraine war and endless funding. The Biden’s are well connected to Ukraine corruption.
Connecting Biden to the bribes his bagman Hunter collected is not hard.
Biden is a treasonous sellout to this country. Everyone knows it.
“Bribery Biden’s policy decisions and payoffs are too many to list here.”
Bribery? But you can’t post one single example. Not even the impeachment inquiry could show any evidence of bribery.
“Biden abandoned Bagrum Air Base. The Chinese now have it.”
It’s Bagram dumba$$ and no he didnt’ abandon it. He was following Trump’s plan to leave Afghanistan. You know, the plan that Trump was too scared to implement because he was worried about being blamed if it went wrong. It was planned, even congress knew it.
“Bribery Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to travel across the country before shooting it down.”
The Chinese were flying balloons over the U.S. long before Biden. You didn’t know that? What is worse is that it happened under the Trump administration. They were completely unaware of Chinese balloons floating over the U.S. He didn’t shoot any down. But Biden did. What was Trump doing?
You still have not been able to show what evidence of bribes. Saying there were is not evidence.
Biden shot the balloon down? What did he use?
Are you really that big of a fvcktard, that you would assign the “blame” for US not seeing a ballon on Trump? Oh, I know, he must not have seen it because he was playing golf. What a spastic.
This is precisely the disingenuous type of nonsense you engage in here everyday. You don’t believe your own horse shit, so you just have to make nonsense up out of thin air.
“Biden shot the balloon down? What did he use?”
You cannot be that stupid. No way. If you can’t figure out what was meant by “biden shooting down the balloon” you are a lost cause. But I will take a wild assumption that you were being sarcastic.
Trump assigned blame for a Chinese balloon floating over the U.S. on his watch. But he didn’t notice that several flew over on HIS watch. Why didn’t Trump notice it? And “by Trump” I mean his administration just in case you get confused by your atrocious reading comprehension problems.
You don’t have to take my word for it. Use those fancy degrees to figure it out for yourself. Google is at your disposal.
Ok, you really are an imbecile.
The point is that assigning blame or credit to the goddam president is either incredibly stupid or disingenuous. I guess since you doubled down you are incredibly stupid.
I dont give a shit what Trump said about it. That excuses you being a cretin?
You said “what was Trump doing” as though it were his fault. Now you excuse your stupidity by blaming Trump again.
The decision not to shoot it down (whether good or bad) until it was over the Atlantic was Bidens. The failure to see one or more was not Trump’s, you idiot. Is that not simple enough for you? Do you need it explained further?
It’s Trump’s fault I’ve lost my fvcking mind—Svelaz
“The point is that assigning blame or credit to the goddam president is either incredibly stupid or disingenuous.”
“Bribery Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to travel across the country before shooting it down.”—Waters.
So which one is it, stupid or disingenuous?
Bribery Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to travel across the country before shooting it down.”—Waters.
I never said any such thing, you fvxking spastic. someone else said that. Get a grip tool.
What i did say was it was his decision, do you claim otherwise?
I’ll answer for you, you’re stupid
So Trump didn’t know, nobody knew, Chinese spy balloons flew over the nation under Trump’s watch, but now, many years later, you people “discovered” it.
Nobody believes your stupid lies.
You do not have a time machine.
“Trump assigned blame for a Chinese balloon floating over the U.S. on his watch. But he didn’t notice that several flew over on HIS watch. Why didn’t Trump notice it?”
Because they did not fly over the continental US and they did not do so such that the public was aware of them.
“And “by Trump” I mean his administration just in case you get confused by your atrocious reading comprehension problems.” Actually you likely mean NORAD – the same people under Trump as Biden.
I do nto think anyone is blaming Biden for not knowing what NORAD did not tell him.
Except for the i8mpact of policy changes of sp-ecifc adminiistration and decisions that are made by the executive – such as how to withdraw from afghanistan.
We do not generally hold the president accountable for the mistakes of the military that are not policy drive.
“He was following Trump’s plan to leave Afghanistan.”
Such a juvenile argument. EVERYTHING is Trumps fault, isn’t it?
Nevertheles, I will give you the chance. Cite your proof that it was “Trump’s plan”. Pro tip—Rachel Maddows comments are not proof, gigi.
Lets see the documents you refer to. And the testimony of the generals involved.
Making shit up…the Svelaz way
“Such a juvenile argument. EVERYTHING is Trumps fault, isn’t it?”
Not saying it was his fault. But it was his plan which you don’t deny. Trump didn’t have the courage to implement it during his term because he didn’t want to get blamed if anything went wrong. Trump was the one who promised to get the troops out of Afghanistan. Remember that?
“Over his last 11 months in office, President Trump ordered a series of drawdowns of
U.S. troops. By June 2020, President Trump reduced U.S. troops in Afghanistan to
8,600. In September 2020, he directed a further draw down to 4,500. A month later,
President Trump tweeted, to the surprise of military advisors, that the remaining U.S.
troops in Afghanistan should be “home by Christmas!” On September 28, 2021,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley testified that, on November 11, he had
received an unclassified signed order directing the U.S. military to withdraw all forces
from Afghanistan no later than January 15, 2021. One week later, that order was
rescinded and replaced with one to draw down to 2,500 troops by the same date.
During the transition from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration, the
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outgoing Administration provided no plans for how to conduct the final withdrawal or to
evacuate Americans and Afghan allies. Indeed, there were no such plans in place
when President Biden came into office, even with the agreed upon full withdrawal just
over three months away.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/US-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan.pdf
The Trump administration negotiated the Doha agreement which set the timeline for withdrawal.
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/02.29.20-US-Afghanistan-Joint-Declaration.pdf
“But it was his plan which you don’t deny”
Yes, I did dispute it, but you are too dumb to get it. When I asked for a citation for your claim, I knew you couldn’t provide it. Where is Bagram mentioned in either of those documents?
That garbage you posted is a claim by this administration, dipshit. Thats not a citation. Fvcking propoganda. Which they engage in every day and are known for.
Show me the documents or the testimony for when Bagram was to be abandoned according to the “Trump plan” or admit that you made shit up AGAIN.
Furthermore, it doesn’t say what you claimed. In fact it says just the OPPOSITE
the outgoing Administration provided no plans for how to conduct the final withdrawal or to
evacuate Americans and Afghan allies. Indeed, there were no such plans in place
when President Biden came into office, even with the agreed upon full withdrawal just
over three months away.
LMAO they blame him for the plan and then claim there was no plan. So they had 3 months to come up with a plan and didn’t. Nice. Thanks for posting that LOL.
Libturds love to take credit for anything good and lay the blame elsewhere for anything bad. You want more examples?
Bottom line
Show me the documents or the testimony for when Bagram was to be abandoned according to the “Trump plan” or admit that you made shit up AGAIN.
Waters,
I provided what you wanted. You didn’t’ want news articles or Rachel Maddow.
I provided you with the actual document which is from Trump’s administration, the Doha agreement. The White House documentation corroborated Trump’s Doha agreement. You wanted documents and you got them. Now you whine and moan that it’s propaganda and yada yada yada.
And as usual with your reading comprehension problems you really don’t understand what you read.
“Furthermore, it doesn’t say what you claimed. In fact it says just the OPPOSITE
the outgoing Administration provided no plans for how to conduct the final withdrawal or to
evacuate Americans and Afghan allies. Indeed, there were no such plans in place
when President Biden came into office, even with the agreed upon full withdrawal just
over three months away.…”
Wow, you are indeed stupid. What that is saying is Trump didn’t have a plan on HOW it would withdraw. That doesn’t change the fact that it was Trump who negotiated and planned, yes, planned the timeline of withdrawal. His administration. Already removed several thousand troops long before Biden according to HIS negotiated plan. What was NOT planned was the final movement which included the evacuation of the remaining personnel and equipment. Biden only had a few months to plan the hardest part which Trump didn’t want to do because those in his administration knew it was going to be a mess. Even his generals knew it was going to be a mess.
You’re an incompetent reader. That’s really the problem. Plus you keep changing what you want. First is documents and then you want testimony after providing you the documents which you dismissed as propaganda.
Trump is the one who promised he would withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and as part of his plan to do so he managed to get the majority of them out before getting to the hard part which he left to Biden.
So yes, they correctly blame Trump for the plan because the plan was called the Doha agreement. He did what the plan called for. Removing troops in phases. He didn’t finish the job because he left it to Biden. Who got blamed for the mess Trump left him. So it is indeed Trump’s fault.
“Plus you keep changing what you want. First is documents and then you want testimony after providing you the documents which you dismissed as propaganda.”
Wow, talk about reading compehension problems!
First, I asked for documents OR testimony of “Trumps PLAN”. I never changed what I asked for. The documents you provided were not a plan, even by your own citation. I didnt dismiss your white house citation, I characterized it as propoganda. But it CLEARLY stated that there was NO PLAN. So make up your teeny tiny mind.
The agreement says NOTHING about Bagram. You claimed that Bagram was part of “Trumps plan”. If you think Doha is a “plan”, you’re dumber than I thought. In fact, why don’t you cite anyone calling that a plan.
Removing troops in phases isn’t a plan, you numbskull. Its a goal. Its a commitment. Its an agreement.
Its not a plan. You need a PLAN to do that. You get that? Or do you want to pretend to be stupid?
I offered “testimony” as an alternative because I knew you wouldn’t go there either. Because the TESTIMONY from EXPERTS didnt blame Trump or the Doha agreement.
Who ordered the force drawdown to 650, instead of the 2500 recommended by Milley? BIDEN. Do you know who Milley is? What was that 650 adequate for??? Not keeping Bagram, thats for sure. Why did Milley want 2500? To keep Bagram. Get a clue. That had NOTHING to do with Trump. It was SIX MONTHS after he left office. Get a grip on yourself and stop acting like a stooge.
In fact, Milley testified that he URGED Biden to keep 2500 for BAGRAM
Stooge.
Milley was the nation’s top-ranking military officer at the time, and had urged President Joe Biden to keep a residual force of 2,500 forces there to give Afghanistan’s special forces enough back-up to keep the Taliban at bay and allow the U.S. military to hold on to Bagram Air Base, which could have provided the military additional options to respond to Taliban attacks.
Biden did not approve the larger residual force, opting to keep a smaller force of 650 that would be limited to securing the U.S. embassy. That smaller force was not adequate to keeping Bagram, which was quickly taken over by the Taliban.
Waters, you’re a moron.
“Show me the document that says that the timing of abandoning bagram was trumps plan.
You cant because you made it up”
Your reading comprehension is your biggest obstacle to understanding. You are the stupidest commenter here. You must have coasted through your engineering degree by sheer luck.
The Doha agreement IS the plan. It shows the timetable of withdrawal and the phases of withdrawal. Trump, because he’s an idiot. Didn’t bother to plan the details of the final withdrawal. He’s the one who set the deadline and the one who negotiated with the Taliban. The White House was making the point that Trump set the deadliness to withdraw and since it IS a binding agreement Biden was bound to honor it. Because Trump always gets things done half-a$$ed its his fault for not finishing the job so it fell on Biden to get it done with little time to prepare. 3 months was not enough.
You got the info you wanted. Now you don’t like it because it doesn’t meet your exacting standards. How about finding out for yourself. That way you won’t be disappointed.
You said “biden didnt abandon bagram, he was following trumps plan. Thats what you said
That os exactly what you said
That is a lie.
Trumps “plan” which you then said is not a plan, did not include any language whatsoever about bagram. ZERO
Milley recommended keeping 2500 to hold bagram. Biden and KAMALA DECIDED NOT TO.
You’re the moron here.
@ Waters: it is not solely the agreement that Biden screwed up, but the process of withdrawal. Svelaz is an idiot and hasn’t read the agreement.
Two basic problems.
1) The Taliban violated the agreement, and the 13 deaths easily prove that.
2) The withdrawal from 5 bases, but the US had 6.
Svelaz, now known as George and previously known as Peter Hill, Peter Shill, and a couple of dozen other names, has zero critical thinking skills and knowledge. He puts sentences together, but the content is mostly wrong and contradictory.
The question I have is if he paid for some type of world processor to make his sentences look reasonable or if he has that ability while lacking everything else.
The funniest part is that the shameless douche posts an irrelevant response to my request for a citation for his ignorant claim about Bagram, and claims he “gave me what I asked for”, just because it wasn’t written by Maddow. Then he posts a white house propoganda paper that directly CONTRADICTS his claim that there even WAS a “Trump plan”.
He does all this in full view of everyone, and has no self respect for looking like an idiot.
S. Meyer, you still don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. I know you didn’t read the agreement, but you commented on it as if you did. Yes, you’re that transparent.
“S. Meyer, you still don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. I know you didn’t read the agreement,”
Trump had withdrawn American troops from 5 bases and reduced the number of American soldiers as per the agreement. However, with Biden assuming the presidency, we witnessed a series of missteps, culminating in a costly withdrawal that left 13 Americans dead and billions of dollars worth of weaponry in the hands of our enemies, posing a grave threat to us today.
Part 2, had five numbered clauses, aimed at safeguarding American security. However, it’s disheartening to note that the Taliban, in a clear violation of these stipulations, rendered the agreement null and void. This is where Biden’s missteps began.
I decided to revisit the agreement to provide an example of these stipulations. An excerpt from #1: “The Taliban will not allow any of its members, other individuals or groups, including al-Qa’ida, to use the soil of Afghanistan.”
George, Svelaz, Peter Shill, you are as dumb as they come. Why would anyone want to converse normally with a JackA$$ like you? It strains the human imagination. I understand your reason. You get recognition and a high from being recognized as human rather than your usual subhuman recognition.
“S. Meyer, you still don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. I know you didn’t read the agreement, but you commented on it as if you did. Yes, you’re that transparent.”
@ George-Svelaz, you commented that I didn’t read or understand the agreement, but I showed how wrong you were.
Everyone should note how you lied, ran away, never apologized, and never corrected yourself. You continue doing the same in every comment.
George-Svelaz is a PROVEN LIAR.
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/08/08/the-justice-department-makes-the-case-against-hunter-biden-and-itself-in-california/comment-page-1/#comment-2432584
“But it was his plan which you don’t deny.”
That is false.
His plan included keeping Bagram under U.S. control. Not surrendering it to the communist Chinese.
George: Why are you defending the indefensible?
Biden took bribes. Period. Well documented.
Just because Hunter collected the money, doesn’t mean it did not “benefit” Biden himself.
Biden was the ‘thing’ for sale. Hunter did the shakedown. Hunter collected the money.
The Biden family network of shell companies and bank accounts distributed the money to assorted Biden family members.
It’s called money laundering. Wire fraud. Bank fraud. Tax fraud.
And when you are in high political office as Biden was and is, it’s called bribery and treason.
And again, it’s not like Biden is the only public official taking bribes.
Senator Bob Menedez is going to prison for it.
When you see politicians vote a certain way that does not make sense, you can bet they are bought and paid for. Bribing politicians and power brokers is the way Washington DC “works.”
Joe Biden took it to a new level.
The Chinese Communist Party does not pay out millions to not receive something valuable in return.
Period. Biden delivered.
“George: Why are you defending the indefensible?
Biden took bribes. Period. Well documented.”
So cite the documentation proving the bribes. Why aren’t you citing it he documentation if it’s well documented. You still lack proof.
Find it yourself, assclown. Thats always your response.
The documentation would come out in Biden’s impeachment trial. But Democrats will never allow it to take place. Just like Schumer would not allow the impeachment trial of the scumbag criminal psychopath Mayorkas to take place.
Joe Biden is a criminal. Period. Without a doubt. EVERYONE IN WASHINGTON DC KNOWS IT.
Everyone in DC also knows that Biden is a SERIAL LIAR & FABULIST.
Every time Biden opens his mouth, HE IS LYING.
Biden has lied like a mutha for 50 years.
EVERYONE IN DC KNOWS IT.
Joe Biden is the scummiest scum of political scum that has ever been in Washington DC.
And EVERYONE KNOWS IT.
His wife, Dr. Jill, is even scummier scum than Joe Biden himself.
And THAT is saying something.
She is pure evil scum.
“Bribery? But you can’t post one single example. Not even the impeachment inquiry could show any evidence of bribery.”
NYT provided the evidence of bribery in 2015 your living in a bubble.
What is really weird is that you do not need to continue to lie – Joe is no lonmger the candidate, you do not need to protect him. And still you are.
Are you that Dumb ?
Are you so ideologically blind that you can not addmit even to yourself that Joe is corrupt ?
Joe is not the most corrupt president in US history – he is just the most obviously corrupt.
“It’s Bagram dumba$$ and no he didnt’ abandon it.”
yes he did, obviously
Regardless there is no need for monday morning quarterbacking – Joe was president and he FAILED.
It is not necscary to prove that someone else would have done differently or better.
The president is responsible for the failures of the executiver.
“e was following Trump’s plan to leave Afghanistan.”
False and irrelevant.
The United States has only one president at a time.
Joe wass president. Whatever the plans on Jan 20, 2021, on Jan 21, 2021 Joe was president and had the power to change those plans if he did not like them.
Which BTW he did – he delayed the withdraw from April to August. Failing to grasp that just as that gave the UIS military more time – it also gave the Taliban more time.
The end result was in April the Taliban was not threatening Kabul or Bagram and the withdraw would have faced far less threats. Delay makes sense if it changes things positively Biden’s choice to delay left him facing a WORSE situation in August.
But in the end – Biden was president – the US has only one president at a time,
and the buck stops with the person sitting at the resolute desk in the oval office in the WH at the time.
“You know, the plan that Trump was too scared to implement”
False and irrelevant.
Lets say you are correct. Trump still chose not to impliment it. avoiding the mess.
But the reality is Trump’s plan was to leave in April – Biden changed that.
That was his right as president, and the consequences are his responsibility.
It is likely that the Taliban were going to take over afghanistan no matter what – unless the US stayed forever.
Had Trump not had the election stolen, there is little foubt that the withdrow would have been criticized.
The Taliban would have taken over. We would be gone, and bad things would happen to many Afghans.
Absent the afghan army standingf up to the Taliban – which was possible but they were porely led and did not have the will to fight for their own country, the Taliba was taking over.
But the mess we all saw in august was NOT inevitable. That was Biden’s fault.
“The Chinese were flying balloons over the U.S. long before Biden. You didn’t know that? What is worse is that it happened under the Trump administration. They were completely unaware of Chinese balloons floating over the U.S. He didn’t shoot any down. But Biden did. What was Trump doing?”
Too a small extent you are correct. I beleive this was the first balloon to pass over the continental US – mosdt of them went over US posessions in the pacific or Alaska.
You are also correct in that Trump was not made aware of them.
This particular balloon appears to have had a faiulure than caused it to go over the continental US. Initially it was sported by amateurs, eventually it was easily visible – there was no doubt that the govenrment knew and that Biden knew and then he waited a long time before acting.
@ John: Trump wanted to disengage from Afghanistan, but he wanted no threats from the Taliban. That is why the agreement with the Taliban made it clear that there was no recognition of the Taliban as the lawful government.
Trump cleared or was clearing the bases and left Bagram secure since that was where our military leverage existed.
Trump’s disengagement plan was successful in achieving his goal. It allowed the US to disengage while still maintaining power. The legitimate government, understandably, would not want the US to leave Bagram. However, the agreement was primarily focused on American security rather than the leadership of the Afghanistan government. American security was the leverage.
This was a typical Trump document he used in business—a win-win no matter who ran Afghanistan. George is arguing but never read the document. If he bothered to read it, he wouldn’t understand it. He rates very low on the scale for intelligence.
Turley’s column doesn’t say squat about what Biden “sold” or what policy was acted upon because of it?
The majority of Turley’s column consists of debunked claims from years ago and he still can’t articulate what policies were changed. If you are referring to Shokin and the withholding of money. Then you are as gullible as Turley is.
Yoiu have reading comprehension issues.
Do you know yet why I knew you were full of shit regarding Bagram, Svelaz?
Just another day of proving you are the most ignorant and under-informed commenter here.
Waters, you don’t now squat. All you do is whine and insult because you have an ongoing problem with reading comprehension. You will keep moving the goalposts every time you get what you ask because you cannot admit you were wrong or worse don’t understand. So all you can do is hurl insults and show us you don’t know how to read properly.
George, you claimed one month ago that Biden was sharp and now you are saying that he was too mentally impaired 12 YEARS AGO to be corrupt?
Hullbobby, I said “supposedly.”
You can barely remember what was said yesterday. You don’t know what I said a month ago.
How long have you been commenting on this site “George” and what name did you use previously?
“the supposedly cognitive challenged”
You can’t even admit THAT yet?
Now tell us how ‘blue no matter who’ isn’t cult-like behavior.
You can’t read for crap. Reading for comprehension is definitely not your thing.
Do you realize that you look really stupid when you say that?
Do you know what a common denominator is?
That’s the 5th commenter you’ve said that to, since you said it was just me.
Lots of commenters have reading comprehension problems. It’s a common problem.
No. Its just you claiming that. Mirror, mirror
Thats not what you said the other day. You said it was just me.
Making shit up again Svelaz?
No waters, I never said it was just you. Even you can’t remember what was said. So you resort to making it up. You can’t even quote me directly.
How about it liar? If i show the post, you gonna leave for good?
“He hasn’t been selling anything.”
Your saying peopole gave the Biden’s money for nothing ?
“You’re saying that Joe Biden, the supposedly cognitive challenged president had the ability to manage a complex web of deceit and clandestine deals without anyone ever knowing?”
First – everyone has KNOWN. None of this has been secret. Those of you on the left have merely pretended it was not actually criminal.
You have pretended that by using Hunter as a cutout that there was “technically” no quid pro quo.
Regardless to the extent this was “secret” it has not been because of Joes great skills it has been the complete complicty of the left, the media democrats and you in selling willful blindness.
As to Joes cognative ability – no one is claiming that Joe has been managing this – atleast not in the past decade.
Only that Joe is the PRODUCT, you do not need brains to do as your told and collect money for it.
“the idea of Joe Biden selling the office is as stupid as it gets. Nobody has been able to articulate exactly what it is that he “sold” or what policy changed as a result of “selling the office”. Do you have an example?”
Joe has himself been perferctly Clear about that. Joe killed the investigation into BNurisma by getting Shokin fired.
There is ZERO doubt that he did that.
There ius ZERO doubt that Burisma wanted that.
Their is zero doubt that Burisma paid hunter for exactly that.
As Turley points out – the idiotic claim that Shokin was coirrupt was nonsense from the start – even the State department thought Shokin was doing a good job and Joe was meddling.
Regardless Shoicking has not retied to some oppulent Dacha, He is living on the modest pension of a public servant.
If he was corrupt where is the money and why is no olicharch rewarding him for his corrupt service.
What is absurd is that idiotcs like you still are shilling for the Biden crime syndicate.
Joe is Corrupt – and he is pretty bad at it. The clintons are far more corrupt -= but they have hid their corruption in plain site behind a charitable foundation. Brilliant move – Biden should have done the same. The Biden’s had all kinds of difficulty laundering their money.
When they could have done so openly through a charity.
Joe is not the most corrupt president ever. But he is the most obviously corrupt and the stupidest.
I have only addressed Shoikin and Burisma, but there are many other examples, Burisma is just the most well documented for the longest and the clearest example of Joe Acting publicly as VP in the interests of people paying his son, which is ALL that is necescary to prove briberty. .
Hunter was even doing business with the spy chief of China. It’s documented on the laptop. Hunter says it himself.
Joe Biden is crooked as hell. The words “decent” and “honest” should never be used in the same sentence as the name Biden. The Biden’s are truly evil, nasty, sick people. What Joe did to this country deserves prison time. His legacy is turning the country into Biden’s Banana Republic.
Electric Light Orchestra wrote a song about Jill.
Evil woman
Evil woman (You’re an evil woman)
Evil woman (Such an evil woman)
Evil woman (You’re an evil woman)
Evil woman (Such an evil woman)
Evil woman (You’re an evil woman)…
“You’re saying that Joe Biden, the supposedly cognitive challenged president . . .”
I did not realize that he was cognitively challenged while VP.
edwardmahl,
“Ronald Reagan would call the American Left “the focus of evil in the modern world.”
Great comment!
If Ronald Reagan were alive today, he’d look at you and all the other Trump supporters and call you out as uneducated bigoted former Democrats who switched parties.
What is odd is on the motion filed Weiss is emphasizing that the government is not introducing and will not argue that Hunter Biden violated FARA or that he funneled money to his father. Which contradicts Turley’s position on the matter.
The whole thing was orchestrated by Hunter’s business associate which the government identifies as business associate 1. There is also a business associate 2. Both are not identified and it is certain they were offered immunity in exchange for their testimony. The problem is the government is not claiming Hunter violated FARA or sent money to his father. They are claiming Hunter hid the purpose of the consultation or lobbying as something else. BUT, it still points out that it was business associate 1’s idea. He was the one pushing for it and offered to split the compensation with Hunger and associate 2. So it seems Hunter Biden was not the one seeking this. It was his business associate.
“Which contradicts Turley’s position on the matter.”
You have serious reading comprehension issues. Turley precisely uses that as confirmation of his point, dum dum.
No, Turley claims Hunter biden violated FARA and he wonders why Weiss isn’t charging him for it. Problem is, Turley can’t produce evidence and neither can Weiss.
Turley claims all the actions Hunter Biden are FARA violations, but none actually meet the definitions and requirements of FARA. Weiss pointed out in previous motions why FARA can’t be applied.
“Weiss pointed out in previous motions why FARA can’t be applied.”
Cite that
Making shit up again
You are perfectly capable of looking it up yourself waters. Put those fancy degrees to good use.
Yes, it was his business partner that sold the service and Hunter received his 1/3 cut.
The service was Hunter’s contacting his father (and the WH and State Department) to help his client.
What part of that do you not understand?
Exactly, WTF would his “business partner” have been able to do without Hunter the bag man?
NOTHING
Even use of the term “business partner” is a fvcking joke.
He didn’t contact his father. That’s what Turley isn’t saying and neither is Weiss.
The allegation is that the Romanian businessman TRIED to seek influence. The motion does not say he succeeded or that Hunter made any effort to contact his father over the matter. Hunter was strung along by his business partner (business associate 1) into the deal. There is no evidence that Hunter even fulfilled his part of the deal made by his business associate.
This was not business. LMAO at your stupidity.
It was business. How do you figure it was not?
Because influence peddling is not a legitimate business., dum dum.
Now, where is the proof that the untimely evacuation of Bagram was part of Trumps plan?
Or, your admission that you made that up?
Also, how long have you been commenting on this blog and what name did you use prior to “Geroge”?
Influence peddling is just lobbying, which is legal. It’s done all the time. It’s a literally a business. People get paid to lobby on behalf of others. An entire industry revolves around the business of lobbying (influence peddling).
“Now, where is the proof that the untimely evacuation of Bagram was part of Trumps plan?”
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/02.29.20-US-Afghanistan-Joint-Declaration.pdf
It’s all there, but with your reading comprehension problem I seriously doubt you will figure it out.
If you have trouble, look at part 2 of the agreement. It’s all there.
Looking at Part 2 (LMAO),
When did Trump “agree” to abandon Bagram in July, numbskull? I dont see that in the Doha agreement. I see 8600 and ZERO. Thats it. Milley wanted 2500 in order to secure Bagram. BIDEN decided on 650, with KAMALA’s help. What kind of morons evacuate the military and then civilians??? And in defiance of the URGING of the experts??
So, what happened is NOT “all in there” is it?
You are ignorant and ill informed again. When will you learn?
Waters, it’s clear there is no reasoning with you. Your reading comprehension problems are just that, problems that only you can resolve. It is you who is being ignorant. You’re beyond help.
Its funny thats where this always ends up.
You wont cut and paste the plan for bagram. Because there was no such thing.
“Biden didnt abandon bagram. He was following trumps plan”
YOU said that.
Milley URGED Biden to keep bagram and he ABANDONED it
You’re a liar.
George
In order for lobbying to be legal, you must register as a foreign agent under the FARA law.
A “foreign agent” is defined as “(1) any person who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or servant, or any person who acts in any other capacity at the order, request, or under the direction or control, of a foreign principal or of a person any of whose activities are directly or indirectly supervised, directed, controlled, financed, or subsidized in whole or in major part by a foreign principal, and who directly or through any other person— (i) engages within the United States in political activities for or in the interests of such foreign principal;
Senior assistant special counsel Derek Hines writes in the filing:
It is also evidence that the defendant’s actions do not reflect someone with a diminished capacity, given that he agreed to attempt to influence U.S. public policy and receive millions of dollars pursuant to an oral agreement.”
Hey JT, How’s that Biden impeachment inquiry going?
Any day now. The house will probably vote 90% to impeach, And no doubt the Senate will vote to convict 95 to 5 right?
Any day now, I’m not going to hold my breath but any day now right? Common JT say something about the impeachment that you so vociferously fought for.
When did JT “vociferously” fight for impeachment? See https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/turley-current-evidence-does-not-support-biden-impeachment-articles-but-warrants-an-inquiry-193984069644
What a pathological LIAR. Is this Gigi, or the booger eating drunktard Lawn Boy?
Turley has never argued one iota for impeachment.
Get a grip, spastic.
One person who cut and run was Tim Waltz.
Tim Waltz fed ANTIFA BLM Molotov cocktails to burn down Minneapolis, endangered the lives of police in their precincts, and unleashed total and complete anarchy. Will DOJ prosecute Waltz for failing to protect the people of Minnesota from domestic terrorists? nah.
Estovir,
Reading all the radical far left wing positions Waltz has taken, if Harris/Waltz wins in November, this will be the most radical far left wing admin in history. Likely the most tyrannical too.
Rumor has it “Pelosi just called Tim Walz and said we can do things the easy way or the hard way”
per David Sacks 😂
Shawn Ryan
@ShawnRyan762
It seems I’ve misspelled “Walz” in my last post. Thank you for bringing that to my attention and my sincerest apologies, allow me to correct my previous.
This is a photo of me not being Tim Walz.
Some of us answered the call and some of us (Tim Walz) cowered in the rear
https://x.com/ShawnRyan762/status/1821526026775634109/photo/1
Minnesota National Guard confirms VP nominee Tim Walz demoted, calling into question official bio
“Gov. Walz’s biography boasts a higher National Guard rank than he retired with after he was automatically demoted for failing to fulfill obligations of his promotion. He also bailed out on his unit before deployment in Iraq.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/past-criticisms-vp-nominee-tim-walzs-retirement-military-resurface
The timing of him “quitting” before his units deployment is highly questionable.
Hotel California
“https://x.com/JobCreatorsUSA/status/1821232873833427424”
Wrong, After serving 24 years he put in his resignation before the unit was scheduled to depart.
Get your timeline correct. Someone should check out the two individuals (yes only 2) that have said stuff about Walz. Are they trump supporters?
But your timeline says this is all a BS story made up to make a good man look bad. Gee I wonder why the guy that evaded the draft over fake bone spurs would do this? trump faked his bone spurs then played tennis while his peers went to Vietnam and died. trump is the coward here, not Walz.
Get your timeline straight before you hurl accusations.
No liar, his group was on notice that they would be going to Iraq way before he resigned and your claim is an out and out lie. They didn’t get the OFFICIAL NOTICE but as the commander he was aware that they would be deployed…and he bugged out.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/swift-boat-walz/
We have seen Trump in action.
With blood running down his face after a failed assassination, Trump raised his fist unworried about his own safety and yelled “fight”
Tim Walz left his men to fight alone.
trump faked bone spurs to avoid Vietnam. Yep, the hero orange god cult leader felon trump.
Thanks for that professional medical opinion, libturd.
Biden the football star and lifeguard faked asthma to avoid Vietnam.
How long and in what war did you serve, cowardly fvck?
According to Trump, people who died in war are suckers and losers.
Did you hear him say that? Please link to the video. I heard that you said you sucked off half of the Tennessee Titans football team.
And people who never served should shut their cowardly mouths on the issue of draft dodging.
So when and where did you serve, coward?
…”sucked off half of the Tennessee Titans football team.”
Evidently the other half lacked confidence in their source of antibiotics…
Yes, they wanted no part of that syphilis infested booger eating troll
The drunk is unable to remember previous discussions. Look at how Trump acted when he knew he was shot but not where. “Fight,” he said with his arm raised, and then he was taken to the hospital. That is not a coward, but you are. Rather than face life, you face the bottle.
Jon do you believe you will be raided by the FBI/DOJ as so many who disagree with Democrats are?
Morons believe the reason people were raided by the FBI/DOJ is because they disagreed with Democrats. In the case of Trump, he misappropriated military secrets and shred them with people who had no clearances. It’s on tape. But Trumptards refuse to acknowledge this.
link to the tape. Lets hear these “secrets”. Just makin shit up
Bidens were known criminals for decades! There is too much POWER IN DC.
Dismantle it…cut fed government spending by 50%…move 75% of remaining DC workers to the heartland!
Looks like the orange god has been caught in a lie about his Project 25 connections.
Trump Took Private Jet Flight With Head Of Project 2025, New Photo Shows
But hey, after 30,000 plus lies, what is one more right?
Ooooh you got the news feed too. Good boy.
Spastic idiot. We all know Trumps politics and you and Kamakameleom don’t get to say what they are.
Nice try, but rather lame.
Trump’s politics are solely about appealing to morons.
Says the moron
anyone go to prison for the Russian Hoax the worse crime in US history?
I want 1000’s of Democrats from across government jailed(judges, DAs, AGs, DOJ, etc)…or they will destroy America!
“anyone go to prison for the Russian Hoax the worse crime in US history?”
Hyperbole much? I’m sure the camping excursion int he 1860s where a few hundred thousand died was no big deal.
Nixon spying on the Demos? No big deal there. That mass shooting in Las Vegas a few years ago? They deserved to die right?
Get a life, Get some help, the orange god is not a God, he is a grifter that just wants you money and your love. It is a cult, get some help.
You’re the one that needs to get a life, ya booger eating troll.
Drunk ass day trader spewing your hatred and filth here.
Such a juvenile assclown.
The cult is the TDS infected douchebags running around in circles where they arent welcome. Irony, such a terrible thing to waste.
did you call your nephew back yet?
You need to wash Trump’s splooge off your face.
Who is Trump to me, fagg*t? Stop with your fantasies already. we get it. You want to see Trump naked.
You’re his dumpster.
This is all after the fact drama. We have all known this and we have known that Hunter and his Dad were crooks even in spite of the obfuscation of Fed Attorney Weis. I’m sort of surprised that Fed Attorney Weis still has soles on his shoes with all the foot dragging he has done in trying to avoid justice in this case.
Hunter was not born an addict and he made the decisions that led him to his addictive behaviors. All of this was illegal. The best way to not become an addict is to not do the drugs, especially if they have addictive properties and are illegal. No doubt there are addictive tendencies that some people have that promote an addiction lifestyle. Bipolar disease being one of the worst for self medicating. But he took the steps. He can beat the addiction but I do not subscribe to the idea that if I’m an addict, I am no longer responsible for my actions. You are responsible for your actions. Part of rehab is realizing that and acting on it.
But since Joe is no longer in the running for the presidency, it’s now safe to go after Hunter as savagely as they want because there will be no blowback. Joe is yesterday’s news and Kamala is clear of all this scandal and the democrats skate on the attempts to stage a coup on Trump in 2017-1019 , and now totally subvert the DOJ. All they have to do now is gut the Supreme Court and we will all then enjoy the poverty of the Workers Paradise, or is it Global Greenliness, or maybe it’s just poverty with no paradise once the economy really crashes.
Much more of this Bidenomics and we will be like the Weimar Republic but instead of using wheelbarrows to carry enough Deutschmarks to by a loaf of bread , it will be dollars. I can barely wait.
“…poverty of the Workers Paradise…”
I don’t know if you’re an idiot or not, not my call, but it seems you completely miss the fact that the Democratic party has becoming the party of the owners of the country: big business and the rich. In the Fortune 500 only a few CEOs have publicly endorsed Trump like Steve Schwarzman, of Blackstone Group and Elon Musk. And since Biden dropped out there have been speculation Schwarzman will withdraw. Anything Democrats say in support of workers is merely throwing a bone to them to deflect the fact they are the advocates for college educated people making more than 6 figures. We’re not even remotely headed toward breadlines. It’s not what the owners of the country want.
Dear Prof Turley,
Better late than never. .. as they say in the Dept. of Justice.
Weiss had to do something. As they say in the hills, it was time to poop or get off the pot. .. time is of the essence.
Needless to say, I don’t think you will be invited to the big Pardon Party on WH back lawn anytime soon. Real soon, I expect.
FARA is tricky business to begin with. Most in congress are on the payroll of somebody, everybody is a friend of AIPAC and if they are not, they soon will be. .. all perfectly legal.
*the FBI has suddenly found a renewed interest in FARA investigations as well .. .
“everybody is a friend of AIPAC”
“And let me say this: AIPAC, I’m coming to tear your kingdom down!” _Cori Bush
Anti-Semites aren’t friends.
^Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome
Oh. My. God. Really? Turley is peddling these debunked claims again? He must be needing to take a break from writing columns on free speech and plugging his book.
Turley, telling half the story, forgets to mention that Biden was backed by congress, the UN, and the Obama administration when a billion dollars was withheld from Ukraine. He also forgot to mention that all three of those entities wanted Shokin fired because he refuse to investigate corruption.
He also forgot to mention the fact that his business partner is the one who arranged the deal, not Hunter. I don’t know why Turley mentions FARA. This has nothing to do with a foreign government. Popoviciou is not a government representative. He’s a businessman who was being investigated for bribery in Romania. Weiss won’t introduce any evidence that Hunter Biden was directly paid by a foreign government “or evidence that the defendant received compensation for actions taken by his father that impacted national or international politics.”
This seems like a rehashed insinuation without evidence to back it up. It’s not even known if there was an actual attempt to do anything. Hunter’s business partner is supposed to testify against him which I suspect was given immunity since he was the one who proposed the deal to Hunter. I don’t think these new ‘charges’ will fare well in court.
Even assuming your legal analysis is correct with respect to Romania and Ukraine, it collapses when we consider Hunter’s deals with the CCP in the deals with his Chinese contacts. They and their actions were directly connected to the Chinese government – as is everything in China – and Hunter and his business colleagues acted as unregistered foreign agents in influencing the “Big Guy” to act.
What policies were changed as a result of this alleged China deal? Can you name any?
What was illegal about the deals? You do know that almost every Chinese company has connections to the Chinese government, right?
Ivanka Trump has better deals with the Chinese government and got preferential treatment because they wanted her to talk to her dad, the president. Odd that Turley never covered that.
Dupe
“Oh. My. God. Really?”
What are you, a fvcking eigth grade valley girl?
George say: I don’t know why Turley mentions FARA. This has nothing to do with a foreign government.
Senior assistant special counsel Derek Hines writes in the filing
It is also evidence that the defendant’s actions do not reflect someone with a diminished capacity, “given that he agreed to attempt to influence U.S. public policy and receive millions of dollars pursuant to an oral agreement.”
the government will introduce the evidence described above, including : “that the defendant and Business Associate 1” “received compensation from a foreign principal” who was attempting to influence U.S. policy and public opinion and cause the United States to investigate the Romanian investigation of G.P in Romania.” (emphasis added)
PROOF THAT YOU HAVE TO SEE AND RECEIVE COMPENSATION FROM A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT FOR INFLUENCED US POLICY
1.”that the defendant and Business Associate 1″ “received compensation from a foreign principal” who was attempting to influence U.S. policy and public opinion
2. that the defendant’s actions, “given that he agreed to attempt to influence U.S. public policy and receive millions of dollars pursuant to an oral agreement.”
3. “influence U.S. policy” “and cause the United States to investigate the Romanian investigation of G.P in Romania.” (emphasis added)
WHY TURLEY MENTIONS FARA
Because for lobbying to be legal you have to register as a foreign agent, under the FARA law
A “foreign agent” is defined as
“(1) any person who acts as an agent, representative, employee, or servant, or any person who acts in any other capacity at the order, request, or under the direction or control, of a foreign principal or of a person any of whose “activities are directly or indirectly supervised,” directed, controlled, financed, or subsidized in whole or in major part by a foreign principal, and who directly or through any other person—
– (i) engages within the United States in political activities for or in the interests of such foreign principal;
– (ii) acts within the United States as a public relations counsel, publicity agent, information-service employee or political consultant for or in the interests of such foreign principal;
– (iii) within the United States solicits, collects, disburses, or dispenses contributions, loans, money, or other things of value for or in the interest of such foreign principal;
– or (iv) within the United States represents the interests of such foreign principal before any agency or official of the Government of the United States;
and (2) any person who agrees, consents, assumes or purports to act as, or who is or holds himself out to be, whether or not pursuant to contractual relationship, an agent of a foreign principal as defined in clause (1) of this subsection.”
I consistently think of young men and women who have stormed beaches, fought in polar winters, ambushed in jungles and choked on desert dust to give all for the most corrupt individuals in our society. Will Americans wake up, stop the downward spiral of the nation and put an end to political corruption once and for all?
Having been an alcoholic, I cannot imagine leaving myself so vulnerable and exposed. I would never be so careless with my safety, to travel in dangerous circles, in foreign countries while inebriated. Dude was so protected that he didn’t give a rat’s ass. Maybe Hunter is the smartest guy Joe knows.
Joe was always the Manchurian candidate, after Hillary lost
All people are created equal, only some are more equal than others.
Trump needs to fundamentally dismantle DC! There is too much power and it is FOR SALE!
You can burn it to the ground, so far as I am concerned. You should evacuate anyone not corrupted by the swamp first. You will probably need at least two busses for that exercise.
I want 1000’s of democrats from across government jailed.
Congress, judges, DOJ, FBI, DAs, AGs, etc
We need to STOP Fascist Democrats!
Perhaps Joe now supports a conviction of Hunter so he can be able to issue the pardon before in inauguration.
To the best of my knowledge, preemptive pardons have been issued before, and never invalided. I would very much like to be wrong about that, so please cite counter-examples, if you have any.
Why call it “influence peddling?” Call it what it is, bribery. I give you money and you do something for me.
It is similar to buying a steak in a restaurant and pretending that a cow was not slaughtered in the process because the cook bought the meat in a store.
Perhaps Biden ought to reconsider his opposition to the whole presidential-immunity thing.
Yes Corruption, pay for political influence, dishonesty and much more but, nothing is going to happen to Hunter, he may be convicted and sentenced but will get a Full Pardon from Joe or Kamela.
Waiting for all the lefty lawyer-types to show up and tell us all that Turley is full of you know what. What we know to be true…just isn’t. So shut up and leave the Bidens alone. Someday, we’re gonna see ole Joe on Mount Rushmore you know. Maybe Hunter too, with his head on a pillow and a crack pipe in his mouth.