“Lies.” That response was a mantra for President Joe Biden, who denied ever meeting or knowing about his son’s foreign dealings. Despite the pronounced lack of interest by most media outlets in the alleged multimillion dollar influence-peddling scheme, the House and conservative groups have doggedly pursued the matter and found overwhelming evidence that the President has repeatedly lied about his interactions with foreign clients. Now, a new photo further contradicts the President, who recently pardoned his son for any crimes committed over a ten-year period.
America First Legal has been engaged in a prolonged legal fight with the National Archives to get access to the undisclosed evidence. It recently won critical rulings forcing the release. The discovery includes this photo of then-vice president Joe Biden meeting with Hunter and his clients. It adds to an already ample photographic and testimonial record contradicting the President’s past denials.
The House has released records showing $27 million in payments from foreign sources to Hunter Biden and his business partners from 2014 to 2019. Hunter used official trips with his father to facilitate some of these associations.
Despite denying meeting with these clients or knowing anything about his son’s dealings, it was later revealed that Biden was repeatedly put on a speakerphone with clients, attended dinners, and took pictures with them, including BHR Partners CEO Jonathan Li. A key witness said that he sat down with Joe Biden specifically to discuss these foreign deals with this son.
Joe Biden later wrote college recommendation letters for Li’s son and daughter.
In the summer of 2019, Li wired Hunter Biden $250,000 that originated in Beijing and had Joe Biden’s Delaware home as the beneficiary address.
There were diamonds as gifts, lavish expense accounts, and a sports car, in addition to massive payments that Hunter claimed were “loans.” There are messages like the one to a Chinese businessman openly threatening the displeasure of Joe Biden if money is not sent to them immediately. In the WhatsApp message, Hunter stated:
“I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the Chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
After years of ignoring the influence-peddling scandal, the media is not likely to suddenly pursue the story. If you want to see one of the reasons why the public is abandoning the legacy media for new media, just look at this photo.
In the meantime, Democrats have praised or rationalized Biden for pardoning his son despite the fact that it covered possible crimes that might implicate not just Hunter but his father in corruption.
Only two out of ten Americans support the pardon. However, Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate majority whip, called it a “labor of love.”
And, as we learned in a certain 1970 film, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” . . . particularly when you have pardon power.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Since Joe Biden obviously has Dementia, wouldn’t all his decisions and signings be deemed null and void? All that is needed is get a formal medical assessment stating his mental incompetence, then all the documents he signed are not legally binding. Please pursue this angle.
I’m not certain that would hold up in court, however I’m also not certain that it is actually his signature on all those documents. Who says? Has anyone submitted any of them to a handwriting expert?
They are probably using an auto-sign pen so no one can dispute Biden’s signature.
A cognitive test would provide sufficient evidence that Mr. Potato Head is beyond incapable of making sound decisions. Post removal, post nullification of his pardons and EO’s. Fire with fire. Relieve him of his ill gotten gains and prosecute his accomplices.
Now what will Congress do now ask Hunter about it and if he doesn’t show up or lies, then what Congress will have to wait until after 2024 to bring charges against him.
Does a Pardoned individual loose 5th amendment protection?
Yes, for all federal crimes specified in the pardon/commutation.
One could suppose that if subpoenaed to testify under oath, Hunter Biden could invoke the 5th by claiming he had that right because his testimony could expose him to state charges and convictions.
Old Airborne Dog
None of Hinters crimes were named.
Yes and no. They cannot take the 5th if forced to testify because they have immunity. See the Burdick v United States decision of 1915. A pardon has to be accepted by the recipient. They tried to get Burdick to testify against associates by giving him immunity through a pardon. He rejected the pardon. In theory they could now force Hunter to testify and spill the beans on his associates.
Every week or so more revelations are coming out about the Biden family corruption racket. As if anyone didn’t see this one, Hunter’s artwork was merely another family scam. Virtually all of the artwork was bought by one person. Even through we were assured by the Whitehouse that oversight of these sales was taking place. Why wasn’t the email from Hunter to his business associate that mentioned 10% to the Big Guy ever investigated? When you say that “No evidence Biden ever financially benefited from his son’s business dealings.”, was there ever a credible investigation? It is easy to say that if no one is looking. Evidence is normally discovered AFTER an investigation takes place. We know that the DOJ wasn’t doing it, we know that two different standards existed for FBI investigations, why didn’t the IRS look into this a little more? If Hunter and Co, was just collecting legal fees for lobbying, why all the layers of pass-through shell companies? There would have been no legitimate business purpose for structuring payments that way. That is the standard the IRS uses to examine step-transactions. Why wasn’t more investigation made of Hunter’s sugar-brother and why did the CIA supposedly tell the IRS to back off its investigation? Is it normally for a friend to pay off millions in back taxes? Hunter said it was a gift, the sugar brother said is was a loan. Was there a credible investigation of this or this just another example of “No evidence existed of a crime”.
The rino trash traitors in the Uniparty are playing possum they’ve failed to call several witnesses and fully investigate everything including the 10% email, all emails + the laptop that at least Matt Gaetz has so they can’t blame the fbi 4 no access. The state dept warned the Oduma admin that Hunters dealings are out in the open 4 all to see but they did nothing. IRS uncovered tons of evidence as well as the Pittsburgh FBI field office and another AG official but ordered to stand down,.
Isn’t it time to leave Joe Biden, alone.????
No. He is a mafia boss criminal and STILL THE PRESIDENT!
Isn’t it time to leave Joe Biden, alone.????
What an interesting question! Would you like to explain why you clearly believe that’s what should be done?
Americans don’t need to know exactly what went on with Biden as well as his family? Both before Trump ran for office or what has been done during the last four years?
Old Airborne Dog
Of course it’s time, that’s what a corrupt DOJ, FBI and Democrats do.
The Dems never leave us alone even when innocent of any wrongdoing.
@Guinness
Isn’t it time for you random trolls to give it up on this particular site? Go to Reddit or Bluesky, as you guys change exactly zero opinions in these conversations (though I also know that comment bombing serves another purpose, an equally fruitless one).
And shame on you for hijacking the name of the finest stout on earth. 😛
Murphy’s Irish Stout is better. 😉
Mr. Turley, If Ukraine wanted to extradite Hunter Biden for the original corruption charges, would his pardon be in play or would it be exempt? My feelings is since the potential crime was outside of the USA, he could be extradited if President Trump agreed.
Biden’s pardon of Hunter for anything dating back over 10 years–basically puts a stop to any further investigation into Joe Biden’s involvement. Quite nifty way to tie everything up in a nice neat bow. Joe Biden basically pardoned himself.
Biden’s pardon of Hunter for anything dating back over 10 years–basically puts a stop to any further investigation into Joe Biden’s involvement.
No it doesn’t. Unless you know of some way that pardon allows Hunter Biden to refuse to appear for questioning under oath if Republicans subpoena him to continue their investigation.
The real problem is that Republicans (unlike Democrats) don’t play for keeps, they won’t respond in kind to what Democrats did in the House and Attorney General’s office.
In their defense, Republicans have a little less than two years to get some significant progress on their promises before the midterm elections are here and their control of the House needs an effective defense to prevent the last two years of the Trump presidency becoming more blocked legislation, J6 Pelosi style commissions, and of course more impeachments.
Trump could do something like appointing a Special Commission that is independent of both the House and Senate members to look into all aspects of the lawfare, “Russia Dossier”, Biden White House Crime LLC. Revoking the Executive Privilege of both Obama and Biden while doing so – just as Biden did to Trump while president.
But Trump is no more going to do that than he fulfilled his promise to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton’s espionage felonies and part in the ‘Russia Dossier’ if he were elected.
It’s wishful thinking… but it isn’t going to happen.
Old Airborne Dog
Always remember which news network contracts with Turley! Its obvious. Every day.
In other words you have no issue with Biden’s corruption, only with a news organization that would have the temerity to mention it.
You nailed about Anonymous, Anonymous. All the hysterical complaints about Fox News ignore the fact that it’s one media outlet that presents conservative points of view v. CNN, MSLSD, NBC, ABC, CBS and the flailing big-city newspapers.
Have a great January 20th!
Donald Trump would be charged with a made up felony for jay walking, but Joe Biden will never be prosecuted for years of corruption that benefitted his family and himself.
It’s appalling.
No, Karen S., what’s appalling is MAGAs like you who believe Joe Biden is corrupt even though years of investigations by Republicans failed to turn up any evidence that Joe Biden ever received any bribe or conferred any benefit. Yet you believe it. Since you are a delusional MAGA through and through, you don’t appreciate how dangerous it is that billionaires started media companies solely to advocate for a Donald Trump they could manipulate by giving him millions of dollars to give them tax breaks in return, roll back regulations, like reports of Tesla self-driving vehicles killing people–one of Musk’s biggies, and that there are so many gullible people like you out there that believe whatever lie they are told.
We know the Biden family received over $20 million from foreign entities. Bank records show payments from foreign companies in countries like China, Russia, Ukraine, and Romania, which were funneled through a network of over 20 limited liability companies.
It would be interesting to know exactly what they did to earn that money and why they were hired. It would also be interesting to know why 20 companies were needed to collect the money.
Well said.
How do “WE” know anything? You are repeating garbage you got off of MAGA MEDIA. Who are “they”, and what connection do these “limited liability companies” have to JOE Biden? What favor did JOE Biden give in return? Do you have anthing resembling proof? No, you don’t, but you still believe.
Kamala lost
All hail Plankton
Impeach Biden
Negate his Presidential authority and pardons
Prosecute every one of them
Remarkable that people like you attack a person giving an opinion instead of the content expressed. I thought Karen was succinctly on point. You say there is no evidence of Biden’s nefarious activities while he was the VP? There is a mountain of it. There is no traction because most media shrugs it off, ignores it, or keeps repeating there’s nothing to see here. No informed public outrage = no follow up. It’s really as simple as that. This has lead to the spiraling death of legacy media. They just cannot fool most people anymore. Except you and a few others.
Gigi,
If Comer produced video of Burisma handing gold bars to Joe Biden and making specific demands of Govenrment actions in retur
You would tell us there is no evidence.
Is Joe Biden the most corrupt politician ever ?
Not by a long shot.
Is he the most corrupt president ?
Unlikely.
Is he and his family criminally corrupt without any doubt.
Absolutely.
The evidence that already exits would get a conviction in 85% of the courts in this country.
If you left the facts the same and changed the name Biden to Trump, you would probably get a conviction in all of the country.
HOWEVER that is NOT the real standard.
Biden is President,
He was VP,
Before that he was Senator.
The real question is the evidence sufficient to preclude him from further public office.
That is a far lower standard.
There is little to distinguish Sen. Menendez;s conduct from Biden’s – except that Biden’s was worse, and that Menedez was caught with gold bars under his bed.
Regardless while there is substantial damning evidence regarding the Biden’s .
Some of the most damning is that there is not a single member of the Biden family that has a real job,
Much less one that would pay 10’s of millions of dollars.
There is ZERO doubt WHO Paid Hunter Biden.
There is ZERO doubt WHY they paid him.
Your claim that no proof exists regarding Joe REQUIRES beleiving atleast 3 impossible things.
That myriads of witnesses and even emails from Hunter, and photographs, and … all confirming that Joe was aware of and participated in Hunter’s openly selling his ability to get Joe to do what clients wanted, – that was all bogus, that the emails and photos – some by official WH photographers are all Russian fakes, that the testimony is all perjured.
That Hunter was selling a massive fraud to all the people who were paying him tens of millions – there is ZERO doubt what Hunter was selling. The only open Question is whether he delivered. That these people kept paying more and more money without getting what they wanted.
And the final thing you must believe is that, all the instances in which what those paying Hunter asked for, was delivered by Joe as all pure coincidence.
If you know of oportunities out there where I can lie to people about what I can deliver for them, and get tens of millions over decades for failing to deliver – please refer me.
I would love to get “money for nothing”
Wait a minute. Did you not just read the story?
The projection is strong with this one!
All you MAGAts have been worshipping at the feet of Elon Musk for liberating Twitter and restoring “free speech”.
He just suspended Laura Loomer’s account because she dared to criticize him.
Ya gotta love it when MAGAts turn on each other.
I’m sure Turley will provide us with an exhaustive analysis of this example of how Musk is a champion of free speech.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: BOUGHT AND PAID FOR.
pirategurrl: Would you mind explaining to me just how a photo of Biden with some Chinese men proves he was “bought and paid for”? How much was paid, and what benefits were conferred–why haven’t Republicans been able to come up with anything resembling proof of a quid pro quo? If you can’t answer these questions, then you are just a MAGA stooge who believes lies.
If you want to see a (fake) President “bought and paid for” look no further than Trump–it’s out in the open. Musk bought him for $300 million, and Trump is letting him play president–going around threatening members of Congress with getting primaried if they don’t approve his pixx-poor nominees, especially Hegseth, Gabbard and Kennedy, plus throwing his weight around and talking tough. Then, there’s the other billionaires who are receiving nominations and ambassadorships, plus the billionaire donors that Trump just can’t wait to reward with huge tax cuts that will drive the national debt to new records, and which will be paid for by cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, school lunch programs and the Department of Education. These facts are not speculative–it’s out in the open, and to soften the effect of such obvious skullduggery, Murdoch pays Turley to write crap like today’s piece.
Joe Biden claimed he never met nor knew about Hunter Biden’s business schemes or partners. The photos show this was not true. The recorded messages show this was not true. The payments show this was not true.
What, precisely, does this photo show? Tell us. Who are these people? Whatd is their connection to JOE Biden? What proof do you have that this was any thing other than, “let’s take a picture with Joe Biden”? Turley is trying to create some nexus by means of this photo, which proves NOTHING. Karen S.–there were NO PAYMENTS. Republicans tried and tried to drum up proof, but fell flat on their faces. There wasn’t any benefit given by Joe Biden to anybody at Burisma either. What were “Hunter Biden’s business schemes”? Do you have any proof?–no. So, why don’t you admit this is some BS you got off of MAGA media.
BIDEN too senile to prosecute!! LAME excuse.
@Gigi What, precisely, does this photo show? Tell us.
Well thankfully, it doesn’t show what you put on display with those straddle legged gaping crotch shots in those poses you provided Hunter Biden for pictures on his porn channel Gigi.
A mauve G-string that looks like it’s covered in black mold is the best you owned for your Hunter Biden photo shoot? We can smell it over the Internet!
When Hunter Biden said to you “Gigi, I’m going to make you famous”, he didn’t mean it in a good way.
Hunter Biden Laptop Online: Gigi Does Hunter
https://bidenreport.com/#p=231
Given the explicit nature of the text and pictures of the Biden Laptop, this online version of the laptop contents is for an adult readership only.
ISBN: 978-1-7371866-3-2
@2022 by ICU, LLC
“What proof do you have that this was any thing other than, “let’s take a picture with Joe Biden”?”
Because these recent Photos as well as White House Visitors logs, establish that these people were brought to the WhiteHouse.
No president has invited me to the WH. You do not get into the WH easily. You do not get in the same room with the President without a compelling reason.
You especially do not if you are chinese nationals with ties to China’s spy services.
“there were NO PAYMENTS.”
There were tens of millions in payments.
These were received by Hunter into various shell companies, moved around and distributed to the Biden family.
Further in most instances we KNOW what the payments were for. We have the emails from the payees to Hunter and Hunter to the Payees negotiating how much money in return for What.
And the “what” is services that can only be delivered by the VP of the United states.
We also have load repayments to Joe – without actual loans.
And finally we have the services demanded – which only Joe could deliver on, being delivered.
If two men go into a room alone, you hear a gun shot, and one comes out alive the other shot to death, you do not need video in the room to convict of murder.
Give me a break, lady. You say there’s no proof that’s all over this message board. Believe a rumour about Trump or he raped a lady in a store dressing room 30 years ago in broad daylight and crowded department store give me a break you fool Trump head paparazzi follow him everywhere he went that would’ve created a big crowd in a crowded department store. Republicans impeach him because they’re part of the unit party. Two witnesses died mysteriously and two were arrested and charged with crimes they Biden dead. Two years ago I seen Ukrainian parliament brought up all this evidence against Joe Biden and Hunter their associates and they said Joe Biden was considered nothing more than a mobster if you ask your Ukrainian walking down the street I saw that on Twitter before it was banned. I don’t have no reason to lie
There is plenty of evidence.
He was referred for prosecution…but, of course his own DOJ wouldn’t do it. Not that there wasn’t good reason.
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2023/12/19/mountains-of-evidence-show-joe-biden-was-complicit-in-hunters-global-influence-peddling-scheme/a
your link has a slash a at the end so it doesn’t work properly, let’s see, this fixes it
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2023/12/19/mountains-of-evidence-show-joe-biden-was-complicit-in-hunters-global-influence-peddling-scheme/
Oh my, who is buying the kool-aid? Going a bit off track aren’t you? Making things up is simply silly.
Gigi, the photo does not prove Biden was bought and paid for – various Hunter Biden emails prove that.
The Photos (many more than one) FIRST proves that Joe has LIED repeatedly about his involvement with the people Hunter was soliciting bribes from.
And next corroborates lots of testimoney that Joe – even a President, was actively involved in soliciting those bribes.
Musk contributed about 250M to a superPAC that Musk controlled that spent money on the 2024 election.
That is about 1/10th the money Harris recevied and about 1/100th the money spent on the 2024 Election – 2/3+ of which went to Democrats.
If there is a party owned by big business and Billionaires that would be would be democrats.
Your post proves you’re ignorance you fool. You can use AI Democrats are the ones that have been borrowing from Social Security for years Biden is the one who cut Medicare insurance PPO. My benefits were reduced twice this year. Starting next year anyone after 1960 will lose $162 a month from Biden. People in Maui in North Carolina at 700 to lose everything hundred dollars of food stamps and thousands in cash. You cried about kids and cages Biden lost 300,000 whistleblower left administration after they were sent to known travellers for slave labour and you know what else. give me a break lady.
* it’s what Joe chose to do. He could have stepped away.
Jonathan: There is a P.S. to my comment yesterday about Jeff Bezos’ move to Indian Creek Village near Miami. It turns out Bezos is responsible for high inflation on the island–something DJT promises to reduce.
Bezos bought his three properties on the island for about $237 million. Next door to one of his properties is an empty lot. The owners of this property bought it for $27.5 million in 2018. They now want to sell the property. Asking price? A cool $200 million! The real estate agent representing the sellers says “Those prices just didn’t exist before he [Bezos] came to Indian Creek”. Just shows what living next to the second richest person in the world can do to the value of your own property. And there are other neighbors of Bezos on the island who will benefit. It’s Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, friends of Jeff. They bought their mansion on Indian Creek last year for only $24 million. You can imagine what their property is now worth courtesy of Bezos.
Why mention Ivanka and Jared? It’s because you constantly discuss the vast “corruption” of the Biden family without once discussing the corruption scandal right under your nose in the WH during DJT’s first term. When Jared and Ivanka went to work for dad’s administration they made somewhere between $172 million and $640 million in outside income during those 4 years. (See a report in CREW, 2/8/21). Kushner’s main job in the WH was to protect the interests of the Saudi royal family. He performed well. Shortly after leaving the WH Jared received a $2 billion “investment” by the Saudi’s in his new equity investment business. It was basically a bride or payoff by the Saudi Crown Prince for Kushner’s work protecting him from any investigations that would reveal Prince Salman’s many violations of human rights.
So the first DJT WH was rife with nepotism, self-dealing, conflicts of interest and other corruption. Yet, you didn’t bother to cover that in your columns. You decided to write about the vast “corruption of the Biden crime family”–that pales in comparison to what happened under DJT No. 1. Why is that?
Were either of them strung out on crack at the time?
Isnt Bezos a denocrat?
Dennis
If i print $6T and inject it into the economy, who ends up with it???
That would be Jeff Bezos, ya fvcking retard.
Dennis: the answer is the fat paycheck Turley receives from Rupert Murdoch. I’ve asked several times how much he receives because I’d like to know the going rate to purchase a law professor. We know the going rate for a POTUS is between $250 and $300 million. Shell it out and you get to play POTUS for a day, week, month or whatever, going around threatening to primary any Republican who dares to comply with the oath to protect and defend the Constitution and to “advise and consent” regarding cabinet heads, keeping in mind the oath to their constituents. They are being bullied to look the other way regarding Hegseth’s sexcapades and misogyny, plus his, Gabbard’s and RFK’s lack of anything resembling leadership experience, Gabbard’s very concerning ties to Syria and RFK, Jr.’s obvious mental illness, including the bad advice that left 83 people, mostly children, dead in Samoa due to spreading fear about vaccinations.
@Gigi I’ve asked several times how much he receives because I’d like to know the going rate to purchase a law professor.
What’s the going rate Hunter Biden pays you to be his crack whore and spend your spare time (when you’re not flat on your back or on your knees servicing Bidens) deflecting from his dad, Bribery Biden?
We keep asking you how much sluts like you get per month (aside from the drugs), but you never answer.
Why is that?
And how much did they pay you to pose for those gaping wide slimy crotch shots Hunter Biden took and that are on page 231 of the Biden Bribery Laptop?
Hunter Biden Laptop Online
https://bidenreport.com/#p=231
Given the explicit nature of the text and pictures of the Biden Laptop, this online version of the laptop contents is for an adult readership only.
ISBN: 978-1-7371866-3-2
@2022 by ICU, LLC
Hunter Biden is not the President, has never run for any office, and doesn’t intend to. NO ONE CARES about Hunter’s laptop. Republicans have tried, for years, to drum up some connection between what they claim are crimes, but couldn’t come up with anything resembling proof that Joe Biden did anything wrong or was bribed, or whatever, because there isn’t any. But MAGA media and Republicans just can’t stop.
OTOH, Trump is a convicted crook, he stole from a charitable foundation, was adjudicated liable for sexual assault, defamation, falsifying business records to cover up sexual liaisons, brags about getting away with sexually assaulting women, did a lousy job pretending to be president, and lied, engaged in misogyny, racism and xenophobia to cheat his way back into office. His BS candidacy has been supported by billionaires who set up MAGA media to convince gullible people to vote for Trump, to push back against those who point out his lies and incompetence, to portray him as a victim of a “deep state” and “lawfare”–an investment to get massive tax breaks and rolling back of consumer and environmental protections. How to tell that MAGA media is just propaganda–the fact that it constantly tries to convice people that mainstream media cannot be trusted–mainstream media that has been around as long as broadcasting has been around, and which adheres to journalistic standards. Murdoch has said he founded Fox News because he thought that if there had been alternative media to accuse Woodward & Bernstein of bad motives, or of being liars, or to intimidate witnesses who told the truth about Nixon and Watergate that Nixon’s presidency could have been saved. MAGA media exists to foster the aims of the billionaire class, and they do it by shoving chum to gullible people, attacking Democrats, and defending losers like Trump, Gaetz, etc..
Why are you incapable of responding with facts instead of sleazy sexual innuendoes?
If 250M is the going rate for Potus – what did Billionaries get for the 2.5B that was spent trying to elect Harris ? Or the 10B plus that was spent trying to elect demovcrats.
Democrats today are Fully OWNED by big business and Billionaires. For every Dollar that that Republicans get from Musk or Edelson or …. Democrats get 2-3 From Sorros, or the rest of the DAVOS crowd.
No one is being primaried for defending the constitution.
But they may be primaried for voting against the Republican Platform – WHICH BTW is a RETURN to constitutional limited government.
We have a president who showered with his teen daughter, groped the breasts of SS and other staff and wives, and sniffs the hair of women and chilfren and likely raped Tara Reade.
And you want to complain about Hegsoth ?
ANYONE is preferable to Fauxi or the idiots that Biden has appointed.
Please tell me what the Biden “Brain Trust”/A Team has gotten right ?
If these are the people you think are qualified – Please bring in the JV team.
It would be near impossible for Hegsoth to do worse than Austin
Avril Haines is DNI she WAS incredible well respected for a Democrat – she has been a disasterous failure under Biden.
Either that or she was completely ignored.
It does not take an IQ over 100 to KNOW that talk of Ukraine joining NATO would result in Putin Invading.
The last time there was such Talk – Putin Invaded Crimea.
Talk of Georgia Joining NATO lead to the invasion of Georgia in 2008.
Putin does not Bluff. If Haines did not tall Biden – that Putin WILL invade Ukraine if you keep this nonsense about Ukraine joining NATO up
Then she is a Moron.
I would note that the US threaten to Invade Cuba over Russian Missiles in CUBA. And the US agreed to REMOVE US missles from Turkey to End the Cuban Missle crisis.
The US also promised Russia that NATO would NOT get withing 1000miles of the Russian border.
That promise was made in order to secure the NUKES of the USSR as the USSR was collapsing.
While Putin’s invasion of Ukraine can not be excused – the US under Bush, and Obama and Biden has been a BAD ACTOR with regard to Russia.
We have NOT kept our promises, and we have constantly tried to provoke Russia.
RFK is certainly more qualified than Becerra
Beccera has no Health or Human Services experience – he was the CA AG previously – he is an attorney and Politician – Nothing more.
Conversely RFK is also an attorney and has been litigating cases in the health care domain for decades and has written books on the subject.
Further idiots like you oppose RFK for views and policies that HE DOES NOT HOLD.
RFK jr. is NOT as an example an antivaxer. He and all of his children have been fully vacinated.
RFK is however opposed to blind faith in the idiots in public health who have made innumerable major errors over my lifetime.
There is no proven link between the MMR vaccine and Autism – but there are a few CDC run studies – that CDC has BURRIED that contradict the studies that claim no link.
It is FALSE to claim that the MMR vaccine causes autism. It is EQUALLY false to claim it does not.
Regardless RFK was instrumental in getting Thimerisol removed from the MMR vaccine as well as gettin parents the oportunity to get individual MMR vaccines instead of all in one.
I and most people 100% support CHOICES even where there is no clear right answer.
It is in fact the people FIGHTING RFK who are the “anti-vaxers” – One Size fits all government rules result in FEWER not more people getting Vaccinated.
I do not know whether RFK is right about his views on Food aditives over the past 40 years.
I DO KNOW that he is correct that we are eating far less healthy, and we are overall far less healthy – especially our kids than in the past, and that
public health – both Drugs and Food have been BADLY driven by Big Pharma and Big Food.
I suspect I will be at offs with some of What RFK seeks to do – not because he is Wrong about health and food, but because the RIGHT answer is always FREEDOM not Goverment.
But we shall see. It would be HARD for him to do worse than those in HHS over the past 40 years.
There is no connection between RFK and the Samoan deaths.
A Better connection would be past progressive who have taken a paternailzing view of indiginous people and are responsible for Experimenting on them for decades.
There is undeniably excellent reasons for minorities to distruct progressives.
Buck Vs. Bell is the product of PRGRESSIVES, The Tuskegee Syphilis experiments on Blacks is a result of PROGRESSIVES.
The myriads of paternalistic nonsense done by those on the left to various minorities was done by PROGRESSIVES.
The most dangerous people in the world are those who not only think they are right, but beleive they are entitled to impose their rectitude on others by FORCE.
That has for centuries been PROGRESSIVES.
Gabbard has no ties to Syria. What she has is a willingness to meet with and hear out others.
That is a far better choices than War.
Syria is a mess. While the defeat of Assad severely limits Iran’s ability to cause chaos in the mideast,
It INCREASES the power of ISIS.
One of the problems in the Mideast is there are very few good guys and none of them have consequential power.
In Syria we have replaced on Bad Guy with another. That may be an improvement. But historically it has not turned out well for us.
Need I list all the countries in the world where US meddling has ultimately resulted in WORSE that before we started ?
Stay away from Amazon like the plague. It’s hacked.
Leave it to Denis to come up with “What about Pluto ?”
All price increases are not inflation.
Inflation is something very specific – it is an increase in the average price of everything, and it can only be caused by an increase in money supply.
The War in Ukraine cut the supply of Oil, Natural Gas, grain and Fertilizer.
That increase the price of everything that depends on oil, NG, Fertilizer and grain. That is the law of supply and demand in action.
BUT with constant money supply increases in some prices require either decreases in the prices of other things or decreases in demand of those things whose prices rose.
Again NOT inflation,
This is actually important because price increases caused by supply shortages ALWAYS self correct in time.
Energy prices are still higher than when Trump left office in 2021, but they are way below their peak. Yet the drop in energy prices has resulted in a decrease int eh RATE of inflation.
It has NOT resulted in deflation – as would happen with a fixed money supply and supply disruptions.
MAL today is worth 1-2B not the 18M that Judge Enmoron decided. It is worth that because the free MARKET decided that.
The free market is people freely chosing what they will or will not pay for something.
Did prices on Indian Creek Village rise because Bezo boght 3 properties there – maybe.
They also may have risen because Jared and Ivanka bought there and now Bezos must pay premium prices.
I DOUBT Bezos paid a penny more than he Had to. If he did – he would NOT be the 2nd richest person in the world.
Regardless, you missed our shot – you should have invested in property in Indian Creek Village a few decades ago.
Regardless every single thing you are claiming is proof of Corruption by Trump or his family is entirely free and entirely private exchanges of private value for private value.
There is not a use of federal government power – by DJT, Jared or Ivanka in 100 miles.
While many of us suspect hidden payoffs in Hunter’s art sales, these are still free exchange and absent proof that the Art comes with an excercise of presidential power as a kicker, people are allowed to overpay for Hunter’s art.
The Clintons fairly blatantly use the Clinton Foundation to launder Money. Regardless a wide array of dubious characters including Russian oligarchs give hundreds of millions to CF – a portion of which funds the Clinton’s lifestyle, and the rest provides sinequrs for out of work democrat bureaucrats.
We are all free and justified in being suspicious – but absent proof that the CF benefactors received preferential treatment by Government in return for their donations,
this smells bad, but is perfectly legal, and you can not make it illegal without violating the constitution.
Members of congress invest and purportedly out perform the market in those investments by a factor of 10.
But Absent proof that they are engaged in insider trading, this is perfectly legal and can not be made illegal without violating the constitution.
One of the obvious reasons the rich get richer is because they are incredibly good investors – if they were not, they would not be rich.
For those who lied about Joseph Biden’s cognitive impairment, it seems that the Uniform Code of Military Justice might apply. Perhaps some of the attorneys on here can comment.
10 U.S. Code § 894 – Art. 94. Mutiny or sedition
a) Any person subject to this chapter who—
(1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;
(2) with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;
(3) fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(b) A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/894
The President Who Wasn’t There
Peggy Noonan
Dec. 26, 2024
We button up the astounding year with the scandal of 2024, which won’t take on its true size and historical significance until some time passes. Its facts—who did what, starting when, how it worked—will be fully reported not by journalists but by historians.
The story is the decline of Joe Biden’s mental acuity, a word we use because it sounds both clinical and polite, and by which we mean the president has been in apparent cognitive decline for some years, perhaps since before taking office, and wasn’t fully up to the job. His family and friends, top White House staff and other administration officials covered it up.
The Wall Street Journal
You think it takes a lawyer to explain the the UCMJ applies only to active duty, reserve, and retired military???
I thought you were a smart guy??
Does the UCMJ apply to “Screamin’ Lil Bow Wow,” Glorious Airborne Warfighter; does he even know what it is?
Does your probation officer know you’re violating the terms of your probation agreement by posting anonymously on the internet and contacting those little boys among the base brats that you molested?
(a) Any person subject to this chapter who—
Idiot
Rupert Murdoch OWNS The Wall Street Journal and Fox fake News. Joe Biden has strugged with stuttering all of his life, and he, like most people his age, is slowing down. However, he has done a remarkable job reversing the damage Trump did the first time around. Having difficulting speaking, slurring words or slowing down is proof of cognitive decline. I posted a piece written by actual experts in dementia and Alzheimer’s that addresses this. Where’s the proof that he “wasn’t fully up to the job”? What, exactly, did he fail to do that he could or should have done, and WHO says so? Why do you MAGAs always believe unattributed stories attacking Joe Biden and Democrats?
Thanks to Joe, we finally beat Medicare.
Joe Biden brought us the highest inflation in 40 YEARS Gigi! Also let in 15 MILLION unvetted at the border -crime exploding. Gigi’s phony crime stats are a lie.
Trumps tax cuts helped the middleclass the most IRS and others confirm. Get a life GIGI!
Reality is inflation is 300 to 400 %. I lb of chocolate is now 4 oz. Every baker, cook knows it.
What damage do you think President Biden reversed from Trump’s presidency?
Under President Trump, we had lower taxes, fuel prices, rent, grocery prices, no new wars, and a fraction of the illegal immigration we have today.
Under Joe Biden, inflation soared. Inflation calculations don’t even include the price of essentials like groceries, gas, and rent, because those are considered more volatile. Groceries, gas, and rent have all increased far more than inflation figures.
When Biden took office, there was the absolute route in Afghanistan, the total abandonment of millions of dollars in cutting edge military equipment that fell into the hands of the Taliban, which has been sold to terrorist organizations, the US failed to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan and told them to just figure it out themselves, it took civilian organizations to rescue as many Americans as possible, the US abandoned Afghans who worked for the US as translators so they faced certain death by the Taliban, Russia invaded Ukraine, Hamas declared war on Israel and began a genocide, the US completely abandoned Americans held hostage by terrorist gang rapists Hamas, pirates targeted American and Israeli shipping, China began threatening to seize Taiwan, Syria is now being scavenged by various terrorist organizations as one despot has been replaced by more despots, and he opened the border to more than 10 million illegal immigrants, who then proceeded to crash the benefits infrastructure in many states.
After posting figures that showed crime was declining, the FBI quietly adjusted those crime statistics to show crime increased under Biden. https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-demands-transparency-from-fbi-about-quietly-revised-crime-statistics/#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20the%20FBI%20initially,a%20staggering%206.2%20percent%20change.
Polls prior to the 2024 election showed most Americans thought the US was headed in the wrong direction.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
Karen S., honey, the reason prices were lower when Trump was stinking up the White House is that we had the WORST RECESSION since the Great Depression. You want to know one big cause–Trump is NO leader. He lied about COVID over and over again, which caused it to spread worse than it needed to. He had no plan for vaccine distribution, and lied about fake cures like Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. He threw out the pandemic playbook left by Obama. He fought with infectious disease doctors because they wouldn’t back up his lies. According to the “BBC”, reporting on statistics compiled by the World Health Organization: “The report concludes that, although the US was not the worst hit country in the world by this measure, it remained in the top five in terms of overall numbers of deaths.
According to the WHO, in 2020 and 2021 the US recorded more than 930,000 excess deaths, behind India (4.7m), Russia (1.1m) and Indonesia (1m).
The WHO’s numbers are largely consistent with statistics from the Economist which run into 2022, as well as other excess death studies.
When adjusted for population size, the US slips down the rankings with 140 excess deaths per 100,000 people. But it remains a long way above the global average of 96 per 100,000 – and it’s also one of the worst performing among the most developed nations.”
Yes, the United States, under Trump was one of the top five worst countries for COVID deaths–and he is to blame. We are the worst for a developed nation. Schools, businesses, restaurants were closed down. We kept setting new daily records for infections and deaths. People weren’t driving to work or going on vacation, and many lost their jobs. There were long lines at food pantries. That’s why prices were so low.
Comer’s lies about crime won’t fly either. According to PolitiFact: “Echoing a common conservative media talking point, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., posted a video to X in which she said that crime had exploded under President Joe Biden.
“Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country,” Mace said in the March 30 post.
Federal data shows that the overall number of violent crimes, including homicide, have declined on Biden’s watch.
Nationally, property crimes are up — mostly driven by motor vehicle thefts — but have not “skyrocketed” under Biden.
“Reported crime has not surged since 2021, when Biden took office, and the best data on the subject shows declining reported violent crime and massively declining murder rates,” said Jeff Asher, a data analyst and co-founder of the firm AH Datalytics.”
James Comer is not trustworthy–he is a partisan hack.
Polls prior to the 2024 election indeed showed that Americans thought the US was headed in the wrong direction–do you know why? Gullible people like you who rely on MAGA media who indoctrinate them into believing lies–like the lie about crime “exploding”, and that the economy was on the brink of a recession–substantial numbers of people believe it. Here’s what “Fact Check.Org” reports about Biden’s economy:
“President Joe Biden isn’t running for reelection, but his record will still be on the ballot in the fall. Here we look at how the U.S. has performed under the Democratic president:
The economy added 15.7 million jobs. The number is now 6.3 million higher than before the pandemic.
The unemployment rate dropped back and has stayed lower, longer than at any time during the previous administration.
The U.S. economy has continued to expand under Biden, growing at 2.8% in the second quarter estimate released July 25 — double the rate of growth in the first quarter.
Violent crime has gone down. Figures from large cities show a 9.1% drop in murders from 2020 to 2023, and data from more than 200 cities show a continuing decline so far this year.
Fewer people lack health insurance. The uninsured went down by 2.1 percentage points or 6.6 million people.
Crude oil production increased. The daily average for the most recent 12 months is 15.3% higher than the average in 2020, and it’s higher than the pre-pandemic average.
Apprehensions of those trying to cross the southern border illegally are up 273% for the 12 months ending in June, even as the monthly figure for June dropped significantly.
The average number of refugees admitted per month is 117% higher than the average under his predecessor.
Corporate profits are up 36%.
The number of people receiving food stamps has decreased by more than half a million.
The debt held by the public has grown by 28.5%
The S&P 500 has increased 42.9%.”
Karen-don’t you know that it was Trump who drew down our troops in Afghanistan from 14,000 to 2,500, turned loose 5,000 Taliban and failed to arrange for any land or air base from which to withdraw people? Why didn’t Trump remove our equipment–he had 4 years to do it? He left Biden with a no-win situation. How was he supposed to get out all who needed to leave after Trump opened up prisons and turned loose twice the number of Taliban than we had troops to fight them off? And, he didn’t involve our Afghan allies in the “negotiations” either, so they just gave up. Why didn’t Trump get everyone out first?
And the other nonsense you believe about Biden somehow being responsible for Hamas attacking Israel, Russia invading Ukraine and “threats” from China and Syria is more of the MAGA media BS you prefer to believe. The entire rest of the world knows who is the weakling here–it’s Trump–a malignant narcissist who was purchased by Elon Musk, who is going around pretending to have the power to “primary” any Republicans who dares not to vote for his lousy choices for HHS, Defense and the Intelligence Agencies. How do you think that looks to other world leaders? They know that Trump can be bought, and that he is vulnerable to flattery–they also know that he’s hungry for attention and power and can easily be manipulated because of his weak mental health. OTOH, Biden has forged decades of relationships with other countries. NATO is stronger than ever. Putin has been stopped, for now.
Karen you are the one who doesn’t know the difference between MAGA media slop and facts.
Biden came up with what for COVID??? More died under Gigi’s SAINT BIDEN!!!!
WHO got together the resources needed for vaccine distribution? Trump didn’t. There were shortages of PPE, those ultra-cold freezers needed for vaccine had not been sourced, nor was there a plan for priortizing the order in which people received vaccines. Biden did all of this, which is how COVID got under control so we could get schools, businesses, restaurants, etc up and running again. All Trump did was divert money to Pfizer and Moderna for vaccine development and promise to pay even if the vaccines were not effective. Oh, and he lied about Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin and asked about using bleach internally to kill the virus.
Karen S., honey, the reason prices were lower when Trump was stinking up the White House
Gigi, you slut: why can’t you just bring yourself to admit that Bribery Biden has been lying to you while in office since the day you were born?
But for Auld Lang Syne, give us another rendition of “The Trump Russia Dossier is verified intelligence agency product that proves Trump conspired with Putin to steal the 2016 election”.
US Inflation rates by year.
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/
The Inflation rate under Trump was 2.1, 1.9, 2.3, 1.4 2% is the FED target rate
During Biden’s presidency Inflation was 7, 6.5, 3.4, 2.7 respectively
Hmmmm…. Afghanistan withdrawal, leaving behind $86Billion in American property for use by an adversary. That is to start.
Gigi is deaf dumb blind!
ROFL
@Natasha
I liked you better with the Bullwinkle reference. You sounded like my five year-old niece then, too, but at least there was some acknowledgement that you live on earth with the rest of us and have lived a while. Now you could easily just be a random five year-old, interjecting while the grownups are talking. Yes, we hear you, Natasha. Now go play. 🙄
The president is a civilian
The president is a civilian but he also can’t be tried for crimes given his neurocognitive disorder, as Robert Hur argued. However, those who do serve in the US military and advise Biden can, hence my question,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Navy Adm. Christopher W. Grady
other members of Joint Chiefs of Staff
United States Assistant Secretary for Health
Admiral Rachel Leland Levine United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (falls under 42 U.S. Code § 213, Military Benefits )
Surgeon General
Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
numerous military members serve under Biden, and if they had knowledge of his disability, they too should be investigated under UCMJ .
There’s nothing for it; it’s like trying to get Al Capone, but with global layers of protection. All we can do is our level best to keep these people from ever having power again, and I do not believe any ‘pivots’. Lying and gaslighting are what the modern left do best, and they would just stomp us under foot again after regaining control in spite of their pretty words. They really do think they are superior and they really do think we are stupid. We are NOT. Over the next four years we really need to fortify the principles that allowed us to turn the tide at all while other Western countries without our Constitution flounder and/or burn.
One thing is for sure: the Obama/Clinton/Soros era is winding down whether people across the globe acknowledge their insanity and malfeasance or not. This time it is US, you and me, saying: ‘Let them eat cake.’. Or ice cream, as it were.
I wonder if everything that Biden has signed since July when he was proven to be incompetent can’t be nullified? If you are incompetent you cannot sign a contract. Why can a president who has no clue what he is doing be allowed to sign things that effect the country?
For four years the major decisions affecting this country and the world have been made by a shadow government behind the Biden facade (think: “end of quote, repeat the line”). Only they know who they are, and they are unaccountable at the ballot box since they never stood for election nor will they ever. Every decision has therefore been illegitimate but I don’t see how the toothpaste can be put back into the tube. Our best shot at a remedy will be Trump’s actions to limit the damage and set us back on the right path.
100%
Yeah, right and Jesus is coming.
Yes, joe admitted the shadow was in charge and scripted his words.
* the shadow could be as simple as all the presidents men. Ron klain has been there since Clinton, Obama and Biden. He stepped away in 23 most likely when the wind was blowing toward scammala.
BINGO!!!!! As a Commander in Chief, Biden is not a “legal, competent authority”, as per the UCMJ. One cannot assume a different standard of competence between “CinC”, and “President”.
Dennis McIntyre, ringmaster for The Three Democrat Marxist Stooges brought the opening lines of today’s episode: “Please Believe Us, Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes™”
Jonathan: That’s certainly “influence peddling” but not a crime and certainly not the crimes you allege Joe Biden committed when he was VP.
It isn’t a crime! Just like Biden said My son has done nothing wrong and I will not pardon my son! Dennis was pushing that as well – just before that 50 year old “kid” pled guilty and Biden pardoned his son!
Dennis will never give us an explanation of why, if it wasn’t a crime, that there were over ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY Suspicious Activity Reports filed with the Obama DoJ by over a dozen American banks concerning bribery, influence peddling, etc concerning Obama VP Biden’s millions of dollars funneling into his pockets through dozens of interwoven anonymous LLCs.
We will never get an explanation of (if those tens of millions of Chicom and Putin oligarch money were legal) why there was a rational business case to conceal the money trail of those tens of millions of Chicom money between Beijing government pockets to White House VP Biden’s pockets.
Just as we will never get an explanation of why Dennis McIntire cosplays as his host’s friend to do performative political theater here as a filthy freeloading parasite using this blog as though it were his own.
Inexplicably, acting as though Dennis believes the audience here actually grants him some tiny shred of credibility.
Old Airborne Dog
@Gigi:
Did Biden lie to voters?
Oh yeah! Here you go, Gigi-moron, the one minute long Coles Notes video version to bring you up to speed:
47 Years Of Lyin’ Joe Biden’s Lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM3svGMR-pg
Can you recognize a lie NOW, Gigi-moron?
Gigenius
Did Biden lie when he said he would be the great reconciler, and went on to call half the country a threat to democracy?
Did Biden lie when he said he would have the most transparent admin ever and then held 6 press conferences and had his press secretary refuse to answer legitimate questions or outright lie?
Did Biden lie when he said inflation was 9% when he took office? A lie you repeated here and then denied saying.
Did Biden lie when he said he never spoke to Hunter’s business partners but Devon Archer says he met with him on MULTIPLE occasions, including at the Naval Observatory with a client and several more times at the White House?
Biden is a liar and you know it. Why do you feel compelled to lie for him?
Jonathan: They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So now you post a photo of Joe Biden, Hunter and the latter’s Chinese business partners. What does it prove? What we knew already. That Hunter traded on the family name and his dad to get business deals. That’s certainly “influence peddling” but not a crime and certainly not the crimes you allege Joe Biden committed when he was VP. You urged the House to impeach Biden for crimes like “bribery”. But Jim Comer could never come up with the goods. No evidence Biden ever financially benefited from his son’s business dealings.
It’s all guilt by association. Allowing your photo to be taken with your son and his business partners somehow proves Joe Biden is guilty of “corruption”. The photo doesn’t prove anything of the sort. But now you bizarrely claim Joe Biden’s pardon of Hunter was an attempt to cover up “possible crimes that might implicate not just Hunter but his father in corruption”. Really? The use of the words “possible” and “might” don’t count. To charge someone with a crime there must be “probable cause” and there is nothing in your many columns or anywhere is the record of Comer’s Committee to establish any crimes by the Biden family.
All along you and the MAGA Republicans tried to prevent Joe Biden from being re-elected by pushing the “Biden family corruption scandal”. And then suddenly Joe dropped out and puff–your whole strategy went up in smoke. Kamala Harris lost to DJT so what useful purpose would be served by still going after the Biden family? Please explain that one to us!
Dennis McIntyre, ringmaster for The Three Democrat Marxist Stooges brought the opening lines of today’s episode: “Please Believe Us, Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes™”
That’s certainly “influence peddling” but not a crime and certainly not the crimes you allege Joe Biden committed when he was VP.
It isn’t a crime! Just like Biden said “My son has done nothing wrong” and “I will not pardon my son”! Dennis was pushing that as well – just before that kid pled guilty and Biden pardoned his son!
Dennis will never give us an explanation of why, if it wasn’t a crime, that there were over ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY Suspicious Activity Reports filed with the Obama DoJ by over a dozen American banks concerning bribery, influence peddling, etc concerning VP Biden’s millions of dollars funneling into his pockets through dozens of interwoven anonymous LLCs.
We will never get an explanation of (if those tens of millions of Chicom and Putin oligarch money were legal) why there was a rational business case to masquerade the money trail of those millions of Chicom money between Beijing government to VP Biden’s pockets.
Just as we will never get an explanation of why Dennis McIntire cosplays as his host’s friend to act as a filthy freeloading parasite using this blog as though it were his own.
Inexplicably, acting as though Dennis believes the audience here actually grants him some tiny shred of credibility.
Old Airborne Dog
Joe’s code name is the argonaut…he found the golden fleece.
After dealing with he Bidens (and the Clintons before them) and seeing how the American power structure has defended and protected them (on, in the case of Republicans, failed to do anything), the Chinese Communists are now justified in believing: 1) American politicians, esp. Democrats, are happy to sell out their country; 2) our assertions about “the rule of law” are meaningless; and 3) we are unlikely to defend S. Korea, Japan or Taiwan if push comes to shove. When a totalitarian state has contempt for a democracy, war is almost certain. Perhaps Trump can restore our reputation somewhat, but it is a monumental task, like swimming upstream in the Niagara River.
Nailed it! Great article.