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The Justice Department Makes The Case Against Hunter Biden . . . and Itself in California

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

281 thoughts on “The Justice Department Makes The Case Against Hunter Biden . . . and Itself in California”

  1. I love headlines…

    “‘Cult of personality’: Ex-GA lieutenant gov. warns ‘Trump’s obsession with power’ will destroy GOP”

    Except, the GOP was destroyed just under 4 years ago. When the Jan 6 insurrection happened the GOP had a chance to do something right. They all talked a good talk for about 2 days. Then one by one, and two by two the members of the GOP made a pilgrimage to Maria A Logo to kiss the ass and ring of the cult leader. And within days of blistering attacks against trump they had glowing adoration for him.

    So no, “will” destroy the GOP? Sorry, that ship has sailed, you had your chance, you F’d up and now you have to live with the destruction of the GOP. It is now the trump cult and it will wither and die next year as they lick their wounds after loosing in one of the biggest landslides in our short electoral history.

    1. The communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) in America include RINOs.

      Once upon a time, Georgia was a patriotic, God-fearing, Constitution-adhering Great American State. 

      It is no longer. 

      1. Everyone’s a communist except for losers who didn’t show up for class, ended up waiting tables, working at Walmart or at a grain elevator, and except the gub’ment (i.e., Trump) to impose tariffs and bail them out. That’s your “America,” loser.

  2. Good! And it only makes Trump’s sentencing in September all the more clearly the work of a partisan, aristocratic regime hellbent on destroying any opposition. There is no question the Bidens, if not the most corrupt, are at least the most *openly* corrupt administration this country has ever seen. The media has dropped all of this like a hot potato in favor of current gaslighting (Mt. Rushmore? Really?), but it remains an unresolved and atrocious situation, nonetheless. Let us hope the ramifications care not about their priorities or timeline.

    They are going after Trump for so much less, and I am still concerned they only want to sentence him so that he’s in custody long enough to Epstein him (replete with 30 seconds of crocodile tears from the likes of Nancy). It is all pure madness.

  3. *LORETTA

    ALERT! The comments today can be skipped if you dislike off topic obscenity.

    Biden is drugged to avoid prosecution and Mr. Hur supported the dementia bunk. When the foreign agent story was getting hot and two weeks before the deadline to enter the 2020 race, Biden declared his candidacy.

    Harris can pardon all of them. Go vegan, you can be any gender, grow a food garden, walk or ride a bike.

    Thank you Mr. Turley for the commentary.

  4. Almost every democrat on this blog has said if Hunter engaged in illegality than indict or if found guilty he should have to pay the price. Turley did the same MO with Hillary writing on a almost daily basis that they got her now, look out, here it comes. And of course, if all else fails, whip out the free speech issue. But Turley ignores any voting rights issues with the SCOTUS gutting the voting rights acts, and red states doing everything in their power to make sure they count, who they want counted. And voting IS a core issue of free speech. Without the vote, all free speech could be lost.

    2. No one is being prevented from voting.
      No one’s Right to Vote is under threat — only illegals and dead people.
      YOU ARE A PROPAGANDIZED DUPE.

        1. Riiight…..the Harris/AWOLz/Pro-Hamas/anti-semitic/BLM/Antifa ticket is a ‘winner’.
          Like I said: YOU are a BRAINWASHED USEFUL IDIOT.

        2. Do you know that AWOLz is such a disaster for Harris that ‘Tiananmen Tim’ may not even make it to the DNC convention?
          YOU ARE A BRAINWASHED USEFUL IDIOT for The Party.

          1. What’s wrong, I know you want to make Russia great again and without Trump, you won’t be able to spend a weekend at Trump Towers Moscow?

            1. FishWings is what a BRAIN washed by industrial strength propaganda sounds like.
              These people are not persuadable by facts, reason or logic.
              They are programmed, conditioned, propagandized to such extent they can no longer “think”.
              They exist only as useful idiots, tools of the regime.

              1. Never try to teach a pig to sing…you’ll waste time, and you’ll annoy the pig… move on

        3. “Journalism” is dead.
          The MSM are nearly all Democrat operatives and activists now.
          You are being bombarded with “industrial strength propaganda” & lies.
          YOU ARE A BRAINWASHED TOOL of the State.

        4. It’s more like the Harris-Putin ticket. Why else, other than to boost Harris’ election chances, did Putin agree to the prisoner swap now? Certainly not to help Trump. Putin interfered with the upcoming election because he wants Harris and the Democrats, not Trump, to be elected.

          1. Putin is a dictator but he is not dumb. He can see quite plainly the handwriting on the wall, his buddy trump will lose the election and Putin wanted to get a deal done.

      2. Rite on ! The only spinners are the Democrats, who actually cover name for socialist communist whatever you wanna call him the most corrupt party in our country right now

      3. 100, 000 + mail-in ballots were found and they were all for Biden. Not 1 for Trump. Business as usual…

    3. Good Lord, hope you stretched well before that mental gymnastic tour de force…an all in one compact nonsensical paragraph.
      That’s gotta be good for at least a Bronze.

    4. Almost every democrat on this blog has said if Hunter engaged in illegality than indict or if found guilty he should have to pay the price

      No they haven’t ya spastic. Because you all know where it leads. He didnt do this shit without Joes knowledge and you KNOW it.

      They “TALKED VERY DAY”.

      “I think you’re in the clear”—Joe to Hunter on a voice mail

      But Joe knew nothing. Give me a fvcking break.

  6. Weiss is now going down this path so as to document a legacy of how “tough” he was on Hunter before Hunter’s father pardons him (and probably pardons himself) for any previous crimes. Don’t be fooled. Nothing Weiss does from this point will matter.

    1. See below as Dennis the Demented Draft Dodger proclaims that he actually believes that 6% of voters that would have voted for Trump have changed their minds because its Harris instead of Biden.

      So silly.

    2. I agree. I think Weiss is just trying to save himself! But since Trump was impeached over telling the DOJ to look into the Biden family corruption, someone needs to publicly exonerate Trump for that impeachment!

  7. Jonathan: In other news DJT is not holding campaign events this week. Probably because at his last outing at Georgia State his crowds were dwarfed by the audience at the previous Harris rally. So what is DHT doing exactly?

    DJT is flailing around almost every hour of the day on Truth Social–trying to find an answer to the surge of the Harris/Walz campaign. So like a petulant 5 yr old DJT engages in petty personal insults. Yesterday DJT posted this about Harris: “Kawabla Harris is afraid to Debate me on FoxNews. She will be easier to defeat on the Debate Stage than Crooked Joe Biden, just watch!” DJT ignores the fact that it was he who backed out of the September debate on ABC. Not Harris’s problem. Who is the real coward here?

    So from intentionally mispronouncing “Kamala”, DJT is now calling Harris “Kamabla”. Every school kid knows DJT’s type–a 3rd grade bully who hurls personal insults. One X follower had an answer for DJT’s racist misogyny: “I’m sure this will lock up the racist, um…6 year old vote!”

    And neither you nor DJT will like the latest news from Fox News that is reporting today that “Harris takes a 4-point lead over Trump as favorability rating suddenly surges, poll finds”. Fox cites a Marquette Law School poll that found that Harris expanded here lead, with DJT trailing Harris by 6 points–53% to 47%. In another poll NPR, PBS and Marist found Harris has a 3-point lead over DJT. What is DJT’s answer to the latest polls: “FAKE NEWS!”

    1. “DJT ignores the fact that it was he who backed out of the September debate on ABC.”

      There was no Sept debate with Kamakameleon, dum dum

      Do you love your alternate reality and “facts”?

      1. There was nothing in the debate contract that listed President Biden in the ABC debates. Trump was to debate the democratic nominee. Look it up yourself, or write ABC network.

        1. Cite it, ya spastic ass liar.

          It was an agreement between 2 campaigns, douchebag. A missing word matters not.

          Its called a meeting of the minds. You don’t know what that is??

          Don’t lie and ask us to prove you’re not.

          Cite the contract.

        2. When the agreement was made, the democratic nominee was Joke Buydone, Fishy.

          1. Incorrect, the presumptive Democratic nominee was Joe Biden. He had won enough delegates in the primary to be nominated by his party at the upcoming Democratic Party convention. Until the delegates vote, there is no nominee.

            If trump assumed it would be Biden, I guess it just shows trumps poor judgment skill. About everybody else knew there was a possibility Biden would not run.

            1. —If trump assumed it would be Biden, I guess it just shows trumps poor judgment skill. About everybody else knew there was a possibility Biden would not run.

              Am old enough to remember the last couple of months, when anyone bringing up Biden’s age, abilities, etc. was told, by everyone on the Dems side of things, including Biden himself over and over again, that he would be the one at the debates. That they had set the terms between them, between Biden and Trump. Not Trump and ‘whoever it may be’. That it was ‘crazy talk’ to say anything about Biden not being there. That he would finish the campaign. Don’t believe the ‘cheap fakes’, etc. So Trump’s ‘poor judgment skill’ was taking the Dems at their word?

              So… If a place advertises pizza, the Best Pizza In The World, but gives you pancakes instead, is that due to your ‘poor judgment skills’?

        3. From ABC

          The ABC debate had been agreed to by both the Trump campaign and the campaign for President Joe Biden. Biden exited the 2024 presidential race in July, and Vice President Kamala Harris is now the Democratic nominee. She had committed to keep the ABC debate in place. The event was to have been moderated by David Muir and Linsey Davis.

          Fishysmell wants his own reality, like Dennis, Gigi, and Svelaz-George

          1. “The ABC debate had been agreed to by both the Trump campaign and the campaign for President Joe Biden. ”

            See below, the agreement was to be at the debate with whomever met the CPDs debate criteria.

      2. The debate on Sep 10 that trump agreed to had no names. It had three criteria, 1) be eligible to serve as president as outlined in the Constitution, 2) have a minimum percentage of support shown by polls, and 3) be on the ballot in enough states to get 270 votes in the electoral college.

        There was no agreement to debate Biden. trump is lying about that.
        There was an agreement to be at the debate and debate whomever met the criteria.

        Get your facts straight. Look them up if you don’t believe me.

        Show me where trump made an agreement to debate Biden?

      3. He didn’t back out of the ABC debate with Kamala. Biden backed out of it which begins a new deal with Kamala. He has now made an offer. Now the ball is in Kamala’s court.

    2. Lighteredknot to D Mc. I posted last year that JB would not be on the Nov 2024 ballot as the Dem Candidate. Let me apprise you further. Kam Harris will be anointed in chaos Aug 17-19 Dem convention. Kam Harris will be removes in Oct 2024 as candidate. who will you Dem Socialists place onto that lead candidate? Bombastic lying kamikaze WalZ or Newsom? I could post for you, a video of Jesse Jackson highly praising DT for his great philanthropy giving to blacks. But that would be useless. But you just parrot the Dem cliche “racists”. Prepare for some Dem brought chaos as theses depressed corruption Biden disclosures begin to be disclosed. Selah

      1. The way you talk is why trump is losing. The U.S. is tired of all the name calling with no policy proposals. There are real problems in the world that need attention. Calling people names, mis pronouncing their names worked 8 years ago. It did not work 4 years ago and it will not work this year. That boat left a long time ago. Grow up and try to be part of the solution instead of whining like a 4 year old.

        Vote, accept the results.

        1. I will never accept you demoncrats vote totals. Not a chance in hell. You’re nothing but liars and cheats and thieves and destroyers of life.

          1. You love liars and cheats and thieves and destroyers of life… that’s why you vote for Trump.

        2. “The U.S. is tired of all the name calling with no policy proposals.”

          You mean name calling like “racist” and “misogynist” and “sexist”?

          Fvcking spastic.

        3. Oh, and “convicted felon” and “rapist” and “liar” and “fraud” and “insurrectionist”?

          Those names??

          Douchebag.

  8. The Hunter Biden case is the “look over there!” action to avoid looking at the elephant in the room… Donald Trump, the most corrupt politician in high office in the history of the United States.

    2. So it is your contention that Hunter Biden shouldn’t be prosecuted for his illegal actions?

      Former President Trump IS being tried for what is allegedly criminal conduct, but Hunter shouldn’t be?

      Please explain why he shouldn’t be prosecuted.

  9. What is the biggest fear of Tim Walz?

    Hey Governor, Pelosi, Schumer and Obama are on line 1.

  10. Hunter should be tried and convicted for conspiring as a foreign agent as defined viz. “(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.” But the next question is why Joseph P. Biden should also / or not be tried and convicted since he was right square in the middle of facilitating bribery / taking millions of dollars in bribes going through Hunter’s hands/pockets. Joe was in fact the only reason that Hunter was able to carry this out so Joe is more culpable than Hunter … Hunter was only the bag boy.

  11. Funny how Weiss pursues this line of attack now that Joe is no longer a presidential candidate. Did he just discover Hunter’s foreign work on behalf of the family? No, of course not. He can use it now that Joe no longer holds the Dems future in his hands.

  13. Well, well, well. Now that Weiss is no longer needed to protect a senile President he’s turned the slow walking of the Hunter case to a trot. He’s now in the protect your reputation mode. His future is no longer protected by a “Big Guy” who is no longer in power. He doesn’t want his legacy to be sullied with the useful idiot label. Too late Mr. Weisssss. How does you ssssleep at night.

    1. It’s not just Weiss, it’s Turley and the rest of MAGA that suddenly has no interest in focusing on Biden. They are too busy trying to figure out how to run a real campaign that doesn’t rely on insults and petty grievances.

      Once Fox stopped covering Biden, so did Turley. This column is just a filler before the next free speech column and book plug.

      1. George,
        Those are just your ‘opinions’, correct?
        Certainly not meant as slander or smear, correct?

      2. “campaign that doesn’t rely on insults and petty grievances.”

        Svelaz the spastic idiot, clearly hasn’t listened to a Kamakameleon or Tampon Tim speech lately.

      3. Svelaz

        Are these the insults you are referring to??

        “racist” and “misogynist” and “sexist” and “convicted felon” and “rapist” and “liar” and “fraud” and “insurrectionist”?

        Douchebag.

      4. George – campaigning by insult and petty greivance is the only way that Democrats campaign.

        You are the idiots who have the “weirdest” ticket and seem to think it is good politics to call your oponets wierd .

        Calleing JD Vance weird is just stupid. And the couch hoax – again par fort the course for democrats.

        There is a famous story about Johnson telling aides to leak that his apponent is a pig F34Ker.
        The aides say 0- wee can not say that – it is not true.
        Johsno replies – I know but I want to hear him deny it.

        That has been democratic politics for my entire lifetime.

        Absolutely Biden has withdrawn, and that has forced Republicans to make changes in their campaign strategy.

        I would say I think that will backfire – but Democrats had no choice. Going forward with Biden was going to result in a GOP blowout.

        Harris will likely not change that, but atleast there is a chance that democrats will not be obliterated in November.

        The hope that Harris has introduced has persuaded Zuckerberg to re-engage his massive illegal ballot harvesting operation.
        But the success of that Still requires a very close election.

        Trump still leads in all swing states except WI and MI and WI is within 0.5%.

        Harris MUST win WI, MI, and PA and that is just to have HOPE to win this.
        There is no plausible scenario that doews not go through PA, and Harris is down by 2.0 in PA.
        She did not select Shapiro who likely would have flipped PA or atleast made it competitive.
        I am not going to handicap Harris’s choices
        Shapiro had problems – ALL the potential Democrat contenders have problems.

        Walz obliterates Harris’s efforts to move to the center.
        Republicans will properly try to tie Harris to Biden’s policies – and she can not separate herself from most of them.
        They will properly criticise her as to the left of Sanders and Warren – Harris did that to herself with her senate recortd, her puiblic statements as VP and herr choice of Walz.

        If you want a true contest of ideology or policy – then Droip the lawfare, drop the campaigning by insult –
        Trump is quite good at that – but Democrats invented it.

        And actually run on i8deology and policy – Harris would be obliterated.

      5. George – this is a legal Blog and Hunter is still a huge legal issue even if Biden’s withdraw makes him far less of a political hot potato.

        Is the political strategy of democrats to govern through corruption and then when caught switch horses ?

        Are you atleast finnally willing to admit that the Biden’s are corrupt – now that it is no longer relevant to this election ?

        Are you willing to admit that YOU elected someone who was obnviously corrupt in 2020 ?

        Are YOU willing to admit that people who would accept bribes from foreign oligards, and governments would also commit election fraud ?

      6. Actually Weiss has been freed by Biden dropping out.

        As we are seeing – his case is not allowed to come closer to implicating Joe – because Joe is no longer a candidate.

        What TRurely is pointing out is that this just highlights the FACT that the investigation ALWAYS should have encompassed the far more serious public corruption charges that have never been filed.

        Hunter as a garden variety tax cheat is consequential only to the extent that his father is president.
        Otherwise this has always been a slam dunk case. It would have been plead long ago and it did not need an SC or even a US Attorney to porosecute it.

        The IRS is quite good at prosecuting tax fraud – easily convicting even the innocent – as opposed to those who try to write off drugs and prostitutes.

        The reason for an SC is to go after big game – p[eople in the White House or the top of DOJ where there is a conflict of interests.

        Hunter is only that to the extent his actions involved Joe.

        Regardless, I expect this will end soon – Joe will be told by Pelosi and Obama to Pardon Hunter to reduce the damage to democrats.

        A pardon will hurt democrats politically – but not as much as a Trial. It will hurt Joe politically – but not as much as a trial, and regardless, Joe is no longer political goods.

        I would love to see the trial proceed – I would love to see Weiss expose as a hoax all your idiotic claims of the past 4 years.
        But Weiss is mostly not going to do that. While he Will damage the Biden family – including Joe, he is still keeping his distance from official corruption.

  14. Turls, it’s time to face facts.

    You took the path in early trump years that would seemingly get you to the SCOTUS. Means to an end.

    Thing is, it’s blown up in your face. You’ve been relegated to being a Roy Cohn esque s$%t stirrer. This is it for career aspirations.

    You’ve just become the law professor who sold out to anti American interest via your association with fox. Being a special guest at a cocktail party for JD Vance, and money for the fox hits, is the height of your achievement.

    1. “is the height of your achievement.”

      Says the booger eating, day drinking, day trading, lawn mowing, failure, whose gretest achievement is coming here daily to spew his juvenile filth and disgusting nonsense, despite being banned by the moderator.

      In his midday stupor, he still imagines that “Turls” reads his gibberish, or gives a rats ass what his syphilis riddled brain is telling him in his fever dreams. Just another cretin moaning in his circle jerk.

      Irony and self awareness are beyond his comprehension.

      Party on, Lawn Boy. And call your nephew back.

      1. Ha! S’up turd magat?

        Knew calling you a moaning cretin at a circle jerk would get under your extremely thin skin. So much so you’ve adopted it into your lexicon. That’s how trump works, and you lick trump’s ass….so that’s how you work.

        So cool watching you melt down like this into your non creative depths of nothingness. Please post pics of your favorite moments of trying to gratify your obese cult leader.

        1. Huh? Moaning cretin was mine, dum dum. You copied it. Just like Party On. And meltdown. All stolen.

          Such a pathetic drunk you are. Seems that cooking sherry is making you cantankerous.

          So glad you showed me you werent bothered by responding to my post/sarc Bwahahahahahaha

          You steal all my good stuff.

          You suck Trumps orange balls and imagine me licking his ass. Nothing new there.

          Your nephew really wants you to call him back. By the way, when was the last time you cornholed him?

          If you don’t like my list of your biggest accomplishments, feel free to add to it.

          I know you have solicited pics of my nakedness before, but I must decline as usual. You should really call your nephew if you’re that horny.

          While you’re at it, tell us how long you served and in what war, pathetic drunk complaining about Trumps bone spurs.

      1. Like Kamamal blew Willy? Or like you blow people at your glory hole gig at the Pleasure Chest?

  15. Dear Mr. Turley, “this is what the White House fears the most”? The White House should have thought of this years ago. My guess is they never thought about Mr. Biden would ever become president, so all of his family business dealings could be slid under the rug. However, Mr. Biden did become president. The Left was so desperate to send Mr. Trump packing that they forgot to clearly look over everything Mr. Biden and family had been involved in. It was an open secret for years that the Bidens were engaging in backroom deals with foreign governments and now the White House is panicking????? Too little, way too late!

    1. See below as Dennis the Deluded Draft Dodger once again completely whiffs on contradicting Turley.

      In fact, he doesnt even realize that he is making Turley’s case for him.

      I have the over/under on McInlyre’s IQ at 97. Any takers?

  16. Jonathan: I don’t understand the point of your column about Hunter Biden. David Weiss has not been “slow walking” his case against Hunter Biden. What you apparently are upset about is that Weiss has not charged Hunter with more serious charges of influence peddling and Hunter bribing his father.

    Hunter tried to exclude certain evidence relating to his business dealings in Romania because he claims it is prejudicial. In response Weiss’s Motion (8/7/24) says “the government can conform it does not intend to introduce in this case of direct compensation from a foreign state or evidence that the defendant received compensation for actions taken by his father that impacted national or international politics” (at p. 5). Weiss’s Motion also states “we do not intend to introduce evidence/argue that defendant was trying to funnel money to Joe Biden” (at page 6). Weiss says the sole purpose of introducing evidence of Hunter’s business dealings in Romania is to rebut Hunter’s claim of “diminished capacity”.

    Weiss’s Motion completely contradicts your claim that the “Justice Department is citing some of these dealings to show a conscious and premeditated effort to shake down foreigners to influence US policy”. No. Weiss’s case against Hunter has always been about Hunter’s failure to pay taxes. Despite all your claims that Hunter was trying to shake down foreign leaders or businesses to funnel money to Joe Biden that was never a part of this case. That’s because Weiss could never prove the claims you have been making for over a year. It’s all sour grapes by you!

    1. Dennis, have you EVER understood the point of ANY of Mr. Turley’s columns?

    2. “Jonathan: I don’t understand the point of your column about Hunter Biden.”

      Its at this point that any sane person would STFU

    3. Dennis, Weiss is stating the evidentiary reason why the Romanian caper is admissible, which is to rebut the “I was stoned out of my mind” defense that Hunter has raised in this case. It has nothing to do with whether Hunter should have been charged as a foreign agent, although clearly Mr. Turley finds such failure to charge by DOJ to be a problem.

    4. Dennis, The “point” is stated pretty clearly at the outset. FARA has been applied differently, depending on whether you are a friend or foe of this Administration. The evidence introduced for the lesser tax charges essentially proves the FARA violations.

  17. Will DOJ bring charges against Tim “stolen valor” Walz for spreading misiformation about the 1A? Nahhhh.

    Tim Walz is bad news for Americans free speech

    Tim Walz: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech and especially around our democracy”

    1. Allowing eligible voters to vote is important. I don’t know anyone who says it isn’t. But why isn’t it also important that ONLY legitimate, eligible votes are counted?

    3. @Estovir

      Hoping the Professor addresses this, as it was some straight up, lying to people’s faces, boosheet. What a tool. I do not know how the likes of Walz look themselves in the mirror each day. You’d have to be a sociopath.

      1. The lying by the Dems is as rampant as the lying by Communists in Cuba.

        Cubans: There is no food!
        Communist Leaders: It’s the Capitalist Yankees fault

        Cubans: We want free speech!
        Communist Leaders: You’re a contrarrevolucionario

        Cubans: We want free elections!
        Communist Leaders: Cuba is a democracy

        Cubans: We don’t believe the government!
        Communist Leaders: You’re a contrarrevolucionario

        Cubans: Prices are too high!
        Communist Leaders: It’s the Capitalist Yankees fault

        Cubans: We want freedom!
        Communist Leaders: You’re a contrarrevolucionario

        Pelosi admits Biden campaign wasn’t on ‘path to victory,’ denies she pressed him to leave race

        “I won’t answer that question,” she told reporters who asked if she ever explicitly told the president he should bow out. ….Pelosi also spoke to “The New Yorker” and revealed that she wasn’t impressed with Biden’s team.

        “I’ve never been that impressed with his political operation,” she admitted. “They won the White House. Bravo. But my concern was: this ain’t happening, and we have to make a decision for this to happen. The president has to make the decision for that to happen. People were calling. I never called one person.”…..

        “So we are friends for a very long time. I love him so much. We pray together. I cry over it, I lose sleep over it and the rest, but that’s what evolved,” Pelosi said.

        Pelosi also spoke to CNN recently about her relationship with the president and said the two haven’t spoken since he announced he was dropping out.

        “Have you spoken to President Biden since he dropped out?” anchor Dana Bash asked.
        “No,” Pelosi replied. “No, I have not.”
        “Do you hope to?” Bash followed up. When Pelosi answered she indeed does, the host asked further, “Is everything OK with your relationship?”
        “You’d have to ask him,” Pelosi answered. “But I hope so.”

        https://www.foxnews.com/media/pelosi-admits-biden-campaign-wasnt-path-victory-denies-she-pressed-him-leave-race

        Like Cuba’s Communists, Democrat leaders want for nothing, except your heart, mind and dark soul.

  18. Walz let the city burn because he thought (felt) that the “cleansing” of society was needed and his wife enjoyed the aroma of burning tires because she also felt that society needed this adjustment. Also don’t forget that Walz’s daughter used social media to inform the rioters that the National Guard would not be deployed soon and that they were not in danger of being arrested. This is not a normal family, this is a weird family. Weird and RADICAL.

    1. Walz Planned for BLM to burn the evidence of the Fentanyl that was aborting Black Lives. Clever.

    2. HullBobby,
      We saw the woke leftist insanity that gripped the nation under the Biden admin.
      Did not think anything could be worse, but looking at how far left wing radical Waltz is, a Harris/Waltz admin would kick the crazy up to 12!

      2. Yes, I’m wondering when the Washington obelisk will meet the jackhammer and lady liberty toppled.

        The democratics clearly think that criminal conduct of every kind is the privilege of those in office.

  19. Just as with any other column Prof. Turley writes, no matter the topic, we are soon regaled by certain well-known parties here with tales of Trump’s 30,000 lies, or an “insurrection”, or that poor Hunter is being persecuted, or he was an addict led down a bad path by friends, or that there is no evidence, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

    Certain people cannot stay on topic or perhaps have reading comprehension issues.

    The topic today is how the justice department indicts itself by proving it has had mountains of evidence in its possession about Biden family doings for a long time — “The government does not intend to reference allegations at trial. Rather, the government will introduce the evidence” — and has dragged feet and let statues of limitation expire and so forth. All to protect the Bidens and by extension, the Democratic party. It’s a sorry tale all the way around.

    Thank you, Prof. Turley, for speaking to a story I’d have missed otherwise.

    1. The reason we all know you are lying is because corrupt Democrat prosecutors have concocted fake crimes to indict him. The only facially legit indictment was the improper classified docs case and Biden’s DOJ decided not to indict Biden for the exact same thing, so that one is illegitimate, too.

      But whatever. Keep living in a fantasyworld.

      1. Coming from someone who thinks the 60+ courts, which threw out Trump’s concocted claims of a stolen election, were corrupt, what you say has no impact beyond the rusted out patio table in front of your trailer home. Take another swig of Pabst Extra Lite and chill.

            1. That will happen when you have rallies in pastures.

              Everyone knows that conservative women put liberal skanks to shame. The list has been posted here many times. Get a grip fool

    5. Has the msm been hiding this form us? Damn Trump lovers.

      Maybe I’m inexcusably ignorant, but could give me some of the details behind this $10M bribe Trump took?

    6. Sammy please provide a source for your accusation. Since you never provide a source for any of your claims we must come to the conclusion that you suffer from mental midgetry. You can easily refute my claim and prove me a fool by providing concrete proof of your assertions rather than regurgitating something deeply imbedded within your cranial cavity placed there by indoctrination experts. Please inform us of where you have derived such wisdom. Short of such a presentation of a source we can only assume that you and your psychiatrist are working on it.

    7. Just because you claim something you saw on some fringe leftist website, does not make it true or a fact.
      Just like you keep repeating the insurrection or coup lie.

      1. Like when people falsely claim that Biden’s brain-problems
        were the Biggest Lie (although it was already well-known for years).
        Confirmation bias obviously not just on the Dem side.

    8. The one who received bribes from the Egyptian Government was not Trump, it was NJC Democratic Senator Bob Menendez.

      The indictment against Menendez and his wife included details of alleged bribes the senator received in exchange for revealing sensitive, non-public information to Egyptian contacts.

      Those bribes included cash, gold, paymentstoward a home mortgage, compensation for low- or no-show work, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value.

      https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23989554-us_v_menendez_et_al_indictment?responsive=1&title=1?embed=true&responsive=false&sidebar=false

    9. Sammy

      The one who received bribes from the Egyptian government was not Trump, it was Democratic Senator from NJC, Bob Menendez.

      The indictment against Menendez and his wife included details of alleged bribes the senator received in exchange for revealing sensitive and non-public information to Egyptian contacts.

      Those bribes included cash, gold, paymentstoward a home mortgage, compensation for low- or no-show work, a luxury vehicle, and other things of value.

      https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23989554-us_v_menendez_et_al_indictment?responsive=1&title=1?embed=true&responsive=false&sidebar=false

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