“For posterity’s sake.” Those words from President Joe Biden sum up the crushing impact of the leaked audiotapes from the interview between then-President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur. Not only did they remove any serious doubt over Biden committing the federal crimes charged against President Donald Trump, but they also constituted what is akin to a political racketeering indictment against much of the Washington establishment.
The interview from Oct. 8-9, 2023, has long been sought by Congress, but was kept under wraps by the government even as Biden campaigned for a second term.
Many of us balked at Hur’s conclusion that no charges were appropriate despite the fact that the President removed classified material for decades, stored it in grossly negligent ways, and moved it around to unsecure locations, including his garage in Delaware.
Given President Donald Trump’s indictment for the same offenses, it was hard to imagine how the Special Counsel could not recommend the same criminal charges (presumably after he left office).
Instead, Hur declared it would have been hard to get a jury to convict Biden because he was “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
It appears that Trump, on the other hand, was presumptively not sympathetic or well-meaning and possessed a good memory for prosecution.
The contrast was glaring and only reinforced the view of many citizens that there are two tracks for justice in Washington.
Soon after the report’s release, President Biden gave an irate press conference in which he lied about the findings of his culpability and lashed out at any suggestion that he had gapped or stumbled in the interview.
For example, when reporters raised how Biden forgot when his son Beau died, Biden angrily responded, “How in the hell dare he raise that?” Frankly, when I was asked the question I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
However, it was not Hur but Biden himself who raised the death of his son, and he forgot a wide array of dates, including when he served in office.
Nevertheless, media outlets like the Atlantic followed the lead of the White House in attacking Hur for “misleading” the public on Biden’s memory.
The interview shows that in 2023 it was clear that Biden was mentally diminished despite claims from many allies and former aides that there was a sudden loss of capacity just before the disastrous debate in 2024. It is now undeniable that the White House staff actively hid the president’s incompetence from the American public. That includes questions over the assurances of White House press secretary Jen Psaki (who left her post in May 2022) and Karine Jean-Pierre who portrayed Biden as sharp and running circles around the staff.
Of course, the media is now covering the story after the public saw the truth in the debate. Figures like CNN’s Jake Tapper have even written books that belatedly pursue the question despite previously insisting that there was no evidence of a diminishment in Biden’s mental state.
Tapper repeatedly dismissed the claim and even mocked Lara Trump for raising it. In one interview, he pushed a White House talking point that such suggestions were mocking Biden for a childhood stutter:
“It’s so amazing to me- a ‘cognitive decline.’ I think you were mocking his stutter. Yeah. I think you were mocking his stutter and I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline. I would think somebody in the Trump family would be more sensitive to people who do not have medical licenses diagnosing politicians from afar.”
When Lara Trump insisted that this was clearly evidence of a “very concerning” cognitive decline, Tapper dismissed her statement by saying “Thank you, Lara. I’m sure it’s from a place of concern. We all believe that.”
Keep in mind that others beyond Lara Trump were raising this issue and there were tapes showing physical and mental diminishment. The media simply refused to seriously pursue the story until the cover-up no longer mattered after the debate.
Over on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough was equally apoplectic at those raising the issue and stated
“start your tape right now because I’m about to tell you the truth. And F— you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I have known him for years…If it weren’t the truth I wouldn’t say it
This media effort continued all the way up to the debate itself. On CNN, Oliver Darcy wrote, “Right-wing media figures are desperately pushing conspiracy theories about Biden ahead of the debate.”
Once the public found out, the media was ready to tell the story when there was no longer any advantage or ability to deny it. Articles began to appear with the same realization of “Oh you meant THAT mental decline. Well sure.”
It was the same belated acknowledgment that came, after the election, with Hunter Biden’s laptop. The media just moved on with a shrug and a collective “our bad” concession.
As for the President himself, the one moment of clarity in the interview may have been his most incriminating line. When asked why he removed classified material on Afghanistan, Biden admitted “I guess I wanted to hang on to it for posterity’s sake.”
That is precisely what critics on CNN and MSNBC accused Trump of doing: removing material as types of keepsakes or trophies.
One president was indicted for that and one was sent along his way to a second term in office.
The real indictment that comes out of these tapes is a type of political racketeering enterprise by the Washington establishment. It took a total team effort from Democratic politicians to the White House staff to the media to hide the fact that the President of the United States was mentally diminished. If there were a political RICO crime, half of Washington would be frog-marched to the nearest federal courthouse.
Of course, none of this complicity in the cover-up is an actual crime. It is part of the Washington racket.
After all, this is Washington, where such duplicity results not in plea deals but book deals.
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.”
This column ran in Fox com
And now all this “racketeering” you mention has leached its way into the judiciary, which will prevent the dismantling of the corrupt. The corrupt are insatiably feeding at the delicious trough of tax’s, tax’s, tax’s. They don’t hate Trump they hate the exposure.
They hired a PR firm who represented some notorious people, which indiciates they are worried the book will be a flop. Not a good launch! If the Left hate Tapper and Thompson for having a “vendetta” against Biden, and the rest of us know Tapper and Thompson lie by default, not even putting lipstick on it is going to make it attractive.
presstitute: A member of the media who will alter their story and reporting based on financial interests.
Reports: Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson hire Risa Heller for crisis PR ahead of Biden book launch
WASHINGTON: CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson have hired crisis PR specialist Heller Co.
Some commenters in President Donald Trump’s party were critical of Tapper and Thompson, saying Tapper and Thompson were complicit in a “media cabal” that protected Biden from public scrutiny of his age. Meanwhile, some defenders of Biden said the two authors have a vendetta against the former president and are focusing too much on his age and health.
Heller Co., previously known as Risa Heller & Co., represented former CNN chief Jeff Zucker, convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and former Rep. Anthony Weiner D-NY).
https://www.prweek.com/article/1918238/reports-jake-tapper-alex-thompson-hire-risa-heller-crisis-pr-ahead-biden-book-launch
Estovir: As far as I could see, there was never any appreciable questioning or resistance, let alone a “vendetta,” against Biden, and that’s the problem with a book that reveals what most already knew, barring the mentally ill extreme-left. If certain commentators find the late revelations about Biden’s lack of mental acuity—AFTER THE FACT—troublesome, it is because the ability to self-examine, reality check, in their paradigm does not exist. It’s a closed system in which there is no way to drain the dirty water—oh hey, that sounds like the swamp. Swamp? No wonder far-left democrats are stark raving triggered at the prospect of losing their exclusively leftist-populated agencies. But I digress.
The scrutiny, and I’d rather call it the exculpation, of Biden’s age was less of a problem than the actual senility. There are many octogenarians who can and do perform with mental cogency, like Thomas Sowell. The will to put Biden in power had more to do with pushing out the Bernie than any other factor. Goes to show just how shallow the bench was (and is).
The scrutiny, and I’d rather call it the exculpation, of Biden’s age was less of a problem than the actual senility.
the Left used the “age” angle to win sympathy and employ the “ageist” counter-attack. There are / were celebrities (Morgan Freeman, 87), politicians (Charles Grassley, 91), popes (Benedict XVI, 95, Francis, 88), famous directors (Martin Scorsese, 82) who were older than Biden, or his age, and no one ever questioned their neurocognitive abilities. Well, maybe Jane Fonda, (age 87) but that’s always been a problem for her since her 20s.
“it is because the ability to self-examine, reality check, in their paradigm does not exist. “
We should thank CNN for revealing that, instead being investigators like a news agency, they are skilled parrots—trained only to repeat the words of their masters.
Professor Turley writes, “If there were a political RICO crime, half of Washington would be frog-marched to the nearest federal courthouse.”
Our Professor has written a powerful and accurate indictment of the D.C. establishment.
As I’ve said many times, D.C. must be broken up and shipped to different parts of the Country. That federal courthouse needs to have juries that are not coconspirators.
Exactly what I proposed in an undergrad paper in the 90’s. Build a federal city around East St Louis and Forgottonia. Move Dept of Interior, BLM, and Dept of Ag there along with elements of transportation.
Works for me.
” D.C. must be broken up and shipped to different parts of the Country.”
Drain Core
“The interview from Oct. 8-9, 2023, has long been sought by Congress, but was kept under wraps by the government even as Biden campaigned for a second term.”
Professor,
Do you care to name any individuals that were part of the “government?”
hint: Merrick Garland
Jonathan: “For Posterity Sake” what is the point of regurgitating and beating a dead horse about the Pres. Biden/ Robert Hur interview? It’s a subject you covered in several other prior columns. Is there something new you want to offer? Nope. I hate to repeat myself but the reason Hur did not charge Biden had nothing to do with Biden’s failing memory. Unlike DJT, Biden did not refuse a subpoena or obstruct the DOJ/FBI investigation of the docs in his home. He willing complied with the investigation and even sat down for an interview with Hur. DJT did none of that. Jack Smith had ample evidence to charge DJT because the former president lied and moved boxes of top secret docs around Mar-a-Lago to avoid detection. That’s why DJT got charged and Biden did not.
So why now do you want to revisit the Biden doc case? I think it’s a distraction from discussing DJT’s corruption tour of the Middle East and his acceptance of a $400 million “flying palace” gift from the Qatar royal family. It’s also because you don’t want to discuss the latest bombshell decision from the SC yesterday. The Court once again in a 7-2 ruling told DJT in no uncertain terms he cannot send immigrants to the gulag in El Salvador without giving them the right to a due process hearing. This is the 4th straight ruling by the courts on this issue, including the 9-0 decision by the SC involving Abrego Garcia. Now I would think you might want to discuss the blatant violation of the Emoluments Clause by DJT or his continued violation of court orders. I guess not. You rather distract us by discussing ancient history.
But there is one person who did take notice of the SC’s latest ruling. DJT was so upset and crying that he posted this unhinged and fact free post yesterday:
“The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane…and not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted, and expensive Legal Process…And one that will allow these people to commit many crimes before they see the inside of a Courthouse…The Supreme Court…is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do…This is a bad and dangerous day…”.
DJT forgets one important fact. Being elected President does not give you the right to ignore the constitutional requirement of due process. DJT also forgets he took the oath of office that requires him to make sure the laws are faithfully executed. That means ALL the laws. DJT was apparently napping when Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath of office–for the second time!
Yes, the DC social circuit you have compromised yourself for all these years.
That’s funny: “Jonathan: “For Posterity Sake” what is the point of regurgitating and beating a dead horse about the Pres. Biden/ Robert Hur interview? ”
Dennis seems to have gotten the same message repeated multiple times by Schumer and other politicians and corporate news. “We are looking to the future” rather than think about our past crimes.
I wonder who prepares and disseminates these scripts to the robot minds?
Ancient History, unless there’s a current book written by a so-called reporter, currently taking back previous dishonest and blatantly misleading statements, statements that aided in long-term and damaging results, especially for those who were forced to regroup, and quite without “due process,” around a silly candidate in Biden’s place. This had lasting implications (poor example of “due process”) for the left, so this part of the story needs to be beaten until the dead horse cries, uncle!
Other than that, you’ve got some good points, regardless of the bent. DJT is doing just as the Obama Administration taught by example about disregarding the Constitution and the courts, a practice in which Biden’s handlers also excelled, with the ridiculous student-loan-forgiveness pander in which SC defiance was proudly on display with all kinds of tough rhetoric from the finger-wagging, teeth-baring, geezer in chief.
““For Posterity Sake” what is the point of regurgitating and beating a dead horse about the Pres. Biden/ Robert Hur interview?”
This is NOT about the Hur interview – it is about the coverup of Biden’s gross cognative impairment and all those who participated in that.
This story is not going away soon.
The left, the MSM, democrats and YOU lied egregiously when you told us Biden was competent, and when you told us he was actually acting as president.
Biden was not competent in 2016 – there are serious cognative issues in the tapes from his biographer. He was worse in 2020 and worse still in 2022.
“It’s a subject you covered in several other prior columns.”
Stories about conspiracies to cover things up tend to have long leggs.
Regardless, this story is NOT about Biden.
It is about the people who lied about Biden, and the people who beleived those lies.
“Is there something new you want to offer?”
Something new to me ? Nope. I knew Biden was not competent in 2020.
New to you ? Yes, you were still arguing Biden was competent right up to the June Debate.
“the reason Hur did not charge Biden had nothing to do with Biden’s failing memory.”
1), Hur could not charge Biden – sitting presidents can not be charged.
He did not recomend charges – because incompetent people can not be tried.
It is as simple as that.
“Unlike DJT, Biden did not refuse a subpoena or obstruct the DOJ/FBI investigation of the docs in his home. ”
Of course he did – you really are unfamiliar with the facts. There was a more than year long coverup of the Biden Classified Docs theft.
Further Biden took classified docs as a senator – there is absolutely no defending that.
That is a clear violation of the espionage act.
He took classified docs as a VP – there is a very very tiny defense for that. Not much, VP’s do not come close to the powers of PResidents with regard to classified docs. But they do have more power than Senators.
Trump was president – the presidents power to do as he pleases with classified information is limitless.
The whole case was a farce from the start.
“He willing complied with the investigation and even sat down for an interview with Hur.”
Some classified docs were in his posession for 40+ years.
Others from his presidency were stored without security in the UofP Biden center funded by China for years.
Trump’s classified docs were all in a SCIF at MAL.
That is if you accept the claim they are even classified.
If the president removed them with the intention of making them available to him after he was president – they are declassified.
“Jack Smith had ample evidence to charge DJT because the former president lied”
Nope.
“moved boxes of docs around Mar-a-Lago”
They are his property.
“So why now do you want to revisit the Biden doc case?”
No one is revisiting the Biden Docs case.
They are examining new information about Biden’s cognative failure as evidenced by Hur’s interview.
“It’s also because you don’t want to discuss the latest bombshell decision from the SC yesterday. The Court once again in a 7-2 ruling told DJT in no uncertain terms he cannot send immigrants to the gulag in El Salvador without giving them the right to a due process hearing. ”
That is NOT the decision. The decision is that they have to be given notice, and an oportunity to get an attorney, and if they WAnt a Habeuas hearing.
Trump’s DOJ did NOT oppose any of those things. There was this ludicrously stupid set of claims by the plantiffs that SOME justices but that there was an emergency that they produce no evidence of. DOJ assured eachj and every court as this climbed the ladder, that TdA members would get notice, an oportunity to contact an attorney and a Habeaus hearing if they wanted.
This case reached SCOTUS because 2 TdA members requested a Habeus hearing and got it.
And their lawyers – istead of proceding with a habeaus hearing – which would have been short and resulted in deportation, asked for a preliminary injunction, did not give the court time to deny it, did the same to the appeals court, and then got SCOTUS to take a case it should have remanded back to the lower courts.
These plantiffs were NOT entitled to a TRO, they were entitled to a habeaus hearing – which would have been over long ago, and they would be long deported.
SCOTUS’s order directed the lower court to determine if there is an actual class for a class action lawsuit. The lower court already determined there is not. SCOTUS did NOT opine on that decision, they just blindly vacated it and directed the court to do what it had already done as if it never did it. As numerous scholars have pointed out – there can not be a class action habeuas lawsuit. If you admit you are a TdA member – the Habeaus inquiry is over and you are deported immediately. If you deny being a TdA member – that is an INDIVIDUAL fact dependent claim and can not be adjudicated in a class action lawsuit.
The other issue the court remanded to the lower court was establishing the requirements for notice. SCOTUS did NOT reject the DOJ’s arguments – it just sent them back to the TX court to decide. The TX judge can decide that 48 hours is enough notice, or that 7 days are needed or that 21 days are needed. But SCOTUS did NOT decide that.
SCOTUS also absolutely affirmed that nothing in their decision goes beyond the AEA.
That all these people can still be deported under the INA. It will just take a few days longer.
The plantiffs in this case will likely be deported under the INA before the case completes in TX,
after which the case becomes moot.
Contra your claims – this was a win for Trump.
The court 9-0 said once again – the AEA is good law, that Trump’s use of it is likely going to prevail on the merits.
They also affirmed once again that appeals to the AEA are limited to Habeaus.
You clearly no very little about Habeaus. But in these cases a habeaus hearing will be alleged TdA members getting possibly a hour of the courts time to try to prove they are NOT TdA members. That is it.
I would further note – most of these people are unlikely to file Habeaus petitions. But Trump will be happy to use Executive funds to bankrupt leftwing lawfare groups who want to fight all these cases – if they can even get TdA members to try and fight.
“This is the 4th straight ruling by the courts on this issue, including the 9-0 decision by the SC involving Abrego Garcia.”
Where is Garcia ? Sure looks like Trump won. Did SCOTUS order Garcia’s return ? NOPE,
They directed Judge Xinis to tell DOJ – “pretty please Try to get Garcia back.”
They also affirmed that Trump is likely to win on the AEA and that Habeaus is the only remedy.
You keep trying to paint decisions where Trump does not win every single point as losses.
“Now I would think you might want to discuss the blatant violation of the Emoluments Clause”
This nonsense about the emoluments clause died in the prior Trump term – you lost.
You do not understand the plain language of the emoluments clause.
“DJT or his continued violation of court orders.”
What order has been violated ?
We have judges ranting because DOJ/ICE/DHS did what they actually said – not what they wished they had said. or because the judges rushed cases without bothering to notify the DOJ.
In the Boasberg case – the ACLU rushed to court on behalf of 5 plantiffs. ICE removed those 5 plantiffs from the planes – before there was any order.
Boasberg than reconstituted the case into a class action without doing the required analysis, and he did so Sua Sponte which he can not do, and then issued an order stopping the planes after they had already left,
No one disobeyed him.
Can you name another instance you think the court was not obeyed ?
These cases are all dead bang losers. Yet still DOJ and the president are obeying courts they KNOW will be overruled.
Trump is upset – many of us are.
While the SC ruling is NOT some great loss for Trump.
The decision itself is a muddled mess.
The only issues it sort of settled where those in favor of Trump.
It essentially told the lower courts to do exactly what they had already done – but more slowly.
But it did not specify that tey did anything wrong.
“The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane…and not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted, and expensive Legal Process…And one that will allow these people to commit many crimes before they see the inside of a Courthouse…The Supreme Court…is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do…This is a bad and dangerous day…”.
This scotus decision wa actually a muddled mess – which is to be expected as Alito and Thomas pointed out the court did not follow its own rules. Nor did it actually find that lower courts did not follow the rules. As I said above – it directed the TX district court to do what it has already done – more slowly.
The TX court is NOT going to certify a class. That means anyone who has not alrady filed a habeaus claim gets deported. The 5 plantiffs in court will get their Habeaus hearing and the IJ’s deportation order will be affirmed, and they will be on their way to CECOT.
“DJT forgets one important fact. Being elected President does not give you the right to ignore the constitutional requirement of due process.”
Correct – DOJ has not. LEft wing nuts are making up due process requirements that do not exist.
Again READ the supreme court decision – SCOTUS again affirmed this is a CIVIL not criminal case. It AGAIN affirmed that the AEA is likely valid and that the administration is likely to win an as applied challenge to its use of the AEA. That obliterates efforts to attempt a TRO.
The Civil Criminal distnction go RIGHT TO THE HEART of your idiotic due process claim.
There is no right to a jury trial in a habeaus claim.
There is no presumption of innocence in a Habeaus claim, in fact the burden or prove is on the PLANTIFF – the alleged TdA member.
A TdA member that requests a Habeaus hearing – gets ONE oportunity to prove they are not a TdA member – and the burden is on them – and if they can not – they are deported.
That is the Due Process required.
That degree of due process has been given to every alleged TdA member who decided to challenge their deportation – which is only about a dozen total.
None of them have had Habeaus herarings because the plantiffs lawyers and judges keep granting TRO’s rather than hearing the case.
TdA members are entitled to their day in court – nothing more.
But they are NOT entitled to delay it forever.
If these few Habeaus hearings ever happen – they will be short and swift.
And then these guys are GONE.
SCOTUS did screw up – beyond a muddle decision – Trumps post got it right.
The courts are engaged in Lawfare. They are acting outside the law.
While the SCOTUS decision was more a victory for Trump than a loss, It was also SCOTUS making up new law as they go and failing to follow their own rules or the rules of judicial procedure.
The worst case for Trump is eventually these cases end up before SCOTUS on the merits.
At that time they will be fully briefed. Many lower court opinions will be available for SCOTUS, The facts will be well established. And The adminsitration is going to win.
What SCOTUS did demonstrates WHY it needs to reign in lower courts and get things back to following the rules of judicial procedure.
You keep ranting about due process – and that is what these cases are about.
The efforts of the left to manufacture criminal due process in a civil case.
These people are being sent HOME. Many of them would prefer to spend time in a US jail at US tax payers expense rather than be sent back where they came from where they will likely end up in even worse jails.
“DJT also forgets he took the oath of office that requires him to make sure the laws are faithfully executed. That means ALL the laws.”
There are only two laws involved here.
The first is the INA which says hat if you are not in the US legally ICE is to deport you.
That is what Trump is doing.
The second is the AEA which says that if you are in the US as part of a foreign incursion – you can be deported even quicker.
That too is a law Trump is trying to enforce.
“DJT was apparently napping when Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath of office–for the second time!”
Actually it was Roberts that was napping.
There are 3 oppinions in this decison – the only one that follows the constitution, the law and past precident was that of Alito.
The majority issued a very muddled opinion that accomplishes little more than giving the plantiffs a do over. SCOTUS did NOT decide a single issue – they just sent this back to the lower court to do exactly what it did before more slowly.
The administration repeatedly told the courts – including SCOTUS that they will be happy to NOT deport anyone using the AEA until after they have had a Habeaus hearing – if they want one – and most do not. What the administration wants is none of this nonsense filling TRO’s to AVOID having a hearing. Eventually SCOTUS is going to get bored with this.
But the worst opinion – the most lawless was Kavanaughs.
While I fully understand and even like his reasoning – and I am sure DOJ does too.
Kavanaugh wrote that SCOTUS should just convert this emergency appeal to a TRO into a writ of CErt for the actual issues on the merits and SCOTUS shoudl take briefs on the AEA and what constitutes appropriate due process etc.
The problem with that is that SCOTUS is not a trial court. It is supposed to review the decisions of lower courts benefiting from many decisions in many courts.
I suspect Kavanaugh thought he was doing Trump a favor.
There is very little doubt about the eventual decision in these cases.
Kavanaugh wants to just get it over with – and much of the country sympathizes.
But not only must presidents follow the law – so must courts – including SCOTUS.
And SCOTUS did not. Frankly this decision stinks of Roberts – who tries incredibly hard NOT to ever decide anything and NOT to offend anyone. And this is that kind of decison.
But that is not why we put the alleged best of the best on the supreme court.
We put them there to make hard decisions.
Not to make a mess of things.
John Say,
Great comment and excellent take down of the dimwitted Dennis who claims to be a lawyer, is the poorest one ever.
Dennis – this is likely hard for you to grasp, but while the country loses from all this lawfare.
Trump benefits. He wins even if he loses.
He is going to lose the birth right citizenship case – and he should.
But the political benefits for him are positive.
Most people do not understand why the child of an illegal immigrant is a US citizen.
And they are not happy with courts that continue to say otherwise.
Trump used to joke he was one indictment from a landslide.
But the truth is – your lawfare made him MORE popular.
And that is what it is doing NOW.
If things do not change – it is likely democrats lose the midterms – that would be highly unusual.
But democrats are far far far more unpopular than Trump – and their popularity is actually declining.
You are doing yourselves in.
I disagree with this and several other SCOTUS and other court decisions.
But they wrong, not necescarily bad. And certainly not bad for Trump.
John, you’ve got some salient induction going on, far more than Dennis and his sbroken record’s repeated scratch, “Trump corruption” : If anything, Biden was more bought, corrupt and controlled, than most modern presidents, visibly handled.
The “Trump benefits” of case-losses (and all the other TDS law-fare), are quantifiable and obvious. Biden’s “pass” or “handicap,” concerning his own, knowing-and-illegal, taking, moving, and non-securing of classified documents may be excusable to the feeble mind, for there’s a rudely-selfish and recalcitrant belief that nothing democrats can think to perpetrate is “out of bounds.” With this particular “dead horse,” they also fail to see how past performance indicates future practice, what we all understand as “setting precedent, precedents in which these extreme-liberal democrats have been blazing the trails ever since the Obama-suasion! The utter lack of conscientiousness and critical thinking, understanding consequences and forward thinking, is stunning….
With wild eyes, manic flourishes, flying tears and saliva, extreme-left democrats dearly wanted Trump prosecuted and imprisoned, failing to see that their own insistence upon equity (equal outcome) would necessarily put Biden in the same cross-hairs as Trump, if not worse. Yet, they car-wash and excuse everything-Biden with a simple figure of speech, not susceptible of any proof. Dead horses, indeed.
I’m sorry for using the word “induction,” your treatise in no wise reveals mere induction, but factualities. Great analysis, John!!!
Here is Glenn Greenwald addressing the disaster of the democratic party
https://youtu.be/PiP3R9Dmehk
Dimwit Dennis, is it not that this is new, news. It confirms what half the country knew, that Joe Biden was mentally impair and not fit to be president. It confirms that you, MSM, and the Democrat party are all liars. It confirms someone other than Biden was running the country . . . straight into the ground. It confirms all of Biden’s EOs and pardons are not legal. You cannot be mentally impaired and sign EOs, pardons, laws. Whoever had control of the autopen was running the country. And that is the biggest story, the biggest scandal of the century.
But of course. As if…
Prof. Turley – if this was Conduct by Trump – Democrats would have zero problem ginning up a crime prosecuting and convicting.
What is truly disturbing is that almost half the country still votes democrat despite and incredibly long string of absolutely egregious lies, as well as horrible and often criminal conduct.
While I appreciate your article – there is nothing in it that a person of ordinary intelligence should not have been able to conclude in 2020.
I would be sympathetic to Joe Biden’s cognative impairment – no one deserves that.
But the left converted 1600 Pensylvania avenue to the most expensive memory care unit in the nation. And some allegedly 74M people voted for someone who was CLEARLY suffering from cognative issues.
The tapes of his interview with his biographer – which are older than the Hurr interview showed signs of cognative decline in 2016,
This is not something that suddenly appeared in 2024.
It is not something that suddenly appeared in 2022.
Or 2020, there was ample evidence of gradual mental decline in 2016.
Regardless we can add another item to the long long list of lies, frauds and falsehoods of Democrats, the left and the media.
Anyone who trusts those who were wrong about the collusion delusion is a moron.
But we have 10s of millions of people that were decieved by the Collusion delusion hoax, the russian disinformation hoax, the Biden is competent hoax, the covid came from a wet market hoax,
The Fauxi did not fund the research that likely resulted in the pandemic hoax,
The masks will stop covid hoax. The vaccine is safe and effective hoax, and on and on.
They are like cockroaches scurrying to a hiding place when the light is turned on.
Turley’s article is great.
But very little of it is new. Many of the commenters here have wisely remarked on these issues before. And all of it is worth repeating many times.
More than expressing justified anger it is time for justified action.
Ed Martin has announced that he is going to investigate the Autopen pardons to determine whether they should be given legal effect.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/justice-is-coming-for-bidens-autopen-pardons-and-trumps-doj-just-put-them-on-notice
That is welcome news. The scoundrels may be stripped of their shields and exposed to the wrath of the law.
Beyond this is a much bigger question: who has been acting illegally as president during Biden’s mental absence?
Martin hopefully will find out who has been using the Autopen and with what authority.
President Autopen [whoever he may be] may face criminal trial. And all his works condemned as forgeries. What happens if you are caught forging a Will? Should it be any less when you forge an executive order that impacts the entire country?
We should also remember that President Autopen, without any legal authority, may have nudged us closer to nuclear war.
Sundance has more on it.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/05/17/with-biden-hur-tapes-released-the-question-is-who-was-running-the-country
Who was running the country?
Back in the day we thought it amusing and appalling when the Soviet Deep State propped up a diminished Brezhnev.
We never imagined that the same could happen in America.
But it did.
Thank you, Young.
Trump claims that he has secured $14 trillion in new investments in the US since coming into office.
This includes $4 trillion from his recent Middle East trip.
This is a straight out lie.
This cannot possibly be true.
He says that Qatar has promised $1.2 trillion. Let’s think about that.
Qatar has a population of 3 million people and a GDP of around $250 billion. This means that every single dollar earned by every single Qatari citizen, for the next 5 years would have to go to the US.
He says that Saudi Arabia has pledged another $1 trillion. Let’s think about that.
Saudi Arabia has a GDP of around $2 trillion,so they have supposedly pledged about half of their GDP. Saudi Arabia’s only significant source of revenue is oil. The IMF calculates that the Saudis need an oil price of $96 a barrel at current production rates, in order to balance their budget. Remember, Saudis citizens do not have to work. They are paid a monthly salary, they do not pay taxes, housing and education are free. The current price of oil is around $60, way below the price they need to maintain their expenditures.
The Saudis have just announced that they will increase oil production by a million barrels a day starting in June. That is about a 10% increase, quite substantial.
They have to maintain their revenues, and with oil prices so low they have no choice but to increase production. This will drive down the price of oil, but they don’t care. They have to increase total revenue, and this is the only way they can do it.
As a side note, the price of oil will go down, and so gas prices will probably go down, and Trump will then proclaim victory in his pledge to lower prices. However, he is too stupid to realize that lower oil prices mean that domestic oil companies will curtail exploration and drilling because it will not be economically viable. So much for drill baby, drill.
Back to the Saudis. The Saudis are currently in a revenue crunch because of low oil prices. They do not have cash flows on hand for investment, but they do have about $1 trillion in assets in their sovereign wealth fund. But this is not cash that is sitting in a vault somewhere. The fund is almost fully invested and does not hold much cash.
In fact the Saudis have just announced a 20% reduction in spending through the sovereign wealth fund for 2025.
“The sovereign wealth fund belt-tightening comes as falling oil prices have contributed to Saudi Arabia’s government widening fiscal deficit, expected to be 2.3% of GDP in 2025, revised up from 1.6% in its 2024 budget. Saudi oil giant Aramco has cut its expected total dividend payment for 2025 to $85.4bn, meaning less of this money will flow to the government budget (82%) and PIF (16%), according to a Fitch analysis based on their equity stakes.”
“Saudi Arabia has a twin deficit for 2025 with mounting pressure of economic slowdown, lower oil revenues and what has created lower trade surplus as imports for government projects surged,” says Karen Young, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, a think tank.
https://www.fdiintelligence.com/content/db050aad-a74e-4a16-a8e2-a7970aa767ad
So the Saudis are currently running a deficit that is getting bigger, while their revenues drop due to low oil prices. They have to start pumping more oil to raise money. This will lower the oil prices even more.
The bottom line is that they are currently tightening expenditures.
There is no possible way that they could invest $1 trillion in the US as Trump has claimed.
So it is plainly obvious that Trump’s claims are completely false.
To be fair, he is probably not the one who is actually lying about this.
Clearly The Saudis and Qataris are lying about their plans to invest all these trillions of dollars that they do not have, in order to curry favor with Trump.
The problem is that Trump is too stupid to realize that they are lying to him.
I am a 81 year old college graduate w/ excellent hearing. What I heard was most of the pledges were made to happen in the next 10 years.
OK.
Over 10 years that would be a total of $400 billion per year.
Still completely unrealistic and impossible.
In the case of Qatar, that would be $120 billion per year for 10 years
That would be 50% of their GDP per year for 10 years.
Completely impossible.
In the case of Saudi Arabia. that would be $100 billion per year for 10 years.
That would be less of a burden, but still would require investing 10% of their GDP per year.
Highly unlikely that they would have that much money to spare, given that their deficits are increasing and they have announced major cuts in government expenditures.
THEY. ARE. LYING.
Well I guess Americans will be manufacturing turbans, huh?
ATS – I addressed your nonsense in detail. in another post.
The only LIES are YOURS.
First the announced investments were $1.2T TOTAL. not 1.2T EACH.
Next without any regard for anything else you ranted about – over 4 years SA and Qatar can meet this obligating by shifting EXISTING investments from say the EU to the US.
Such as
Sell Airbus stock buy Boeing stock.
They could do it overnight rather than over 4 years – except that it would likely tank european markets if done quickly.
Next – despite announcemments – this was going to happen regardless.
For all our problems – most caused by the left, the US remains a better investment than most of the world.
Prince Salmon has a trillions stashed in Switzerland. Normally he wears 3 piece suits and a derby or jeans and a pork pie but not for the cameras.
Gail, you like the saying, “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.” Fair enough. So far, ~$1 trillion is real. The rest? No guarantees, but momentum is strong, and it’s building.
Biden had four terrible years. Trump’s not even four months in, and already outperforming the expected. Thank you, Donald Trump.
ATS has apparently never had a job, a mortgage, expenses and managed investments at the same time.
Contra to his claims – even with HIS facts – most of which are erroneous what SA and Qater committed to is trivially accomplish and likely would have happened anyway.
The US will likely get MORE investment because Trump is president. Biden was an economic disaster – inflation negatively impacts investments while making it appear they are performing well. Adjust Biden’s stock market numbers of inflation and you have a good first approximation of REAL GDP growth. Biden may have performed worse than Obama after inflation.
Regardless, Trump is at most ACCELERATING trends that were inevitable.
“Regardless, Trump is at most ACCELERATING trends that were inevitable.”
I’m not sure what you’re trying to argue. Nothing is inevitable. There are only three directions: reverse, neutral, or forward. If Democrats had stayed in power, those so-called “inevitable trends” wouldn’t even be on the table. A President stuck in neutral lets the world push and pull without taking a stand. Most Presidents barely manage forward motion. Trump isn’t just moving forward, he’s driving it. Don’t pretend anyone could or would do the same.
Ah yes, the term.
Are you leaving out term? The term may be 10 years or 20 years. It means they’ll try to buy American made goods. Good luck. There aren’t any. Sell high to Saudis and buy low from Sri Lanka except people don’t want imports. Guess that’s all there is.
The commitment was 4 years. But the Term does not actually matter.
Contra ATS the Saudis and Qataris have the money to invest NOW.
he does not understand what a sovereign wealth fund is.
And all the little termites will be termiting their sabotage…
“Trump claims that he has secured $14 trillion in new investments in the US since coming into office.”
So ?
“This includes $4 trillion from his recent Middle East trip.”
That is not what Trump told the press and public at the announcements I listened to.
“This is a straight out lie.”
Given you have not produced evidence that Trump or ANYONE has said exactly that – it is not a lie. But if someone did say that – it is likely an exageration.
“This cannot possibly be true.”
It probably isn’t, and you have produced no evidence anyone said that.
“He says that Qatar has promised $1.2 trillion. Let’s think about that.”
At the conference I listened to he said that Qatar promised $600B
so it appears that YOU are exagerating.
“Qatar has a population of 3 million people and a GDP of around $250 billion. This means that every single dollar earned by every single Qatari citizen, for the next 5 years would have to go to the US.”
They have a current soverign wealth fund with approx. $600B in it.
“He says that Saudi Arabia has pledged another $1 trillion.”
Again the conference I heard had Trump saying a TOTAL of 1.2T from SA and Qatar.
Wikipedia reports the SA investment announcement was 600B over 4 years.
“Let’s think about that.
Saudi Arabia has a GDP of around $2 trillion”
SA has a soverign wealth fund of almost $1T
“so they have supposedly pledged about half of their GDP”
No they have essentially pledged that 100% of their investments will be in the US.
They have $1T in hand to invest.
” Saudi Arabia’s only significant source of revenue is oil.”
According to Wikipedia Oil is 30% of SA’s GDP.
” The IMF calculates”
You can stop there. There is no reason to trust the IMF.
There is also no reason to trust YOUR claims about what the IMF has said.
“that the Saudis need an oil price of $96 a barrel at current production rates, in order to balance their budget. Remember, Saudis citizens do not have to work. They are paid a monthly salary, they do not pay taxes, housing and education are free. The current price of oil is around $60, way below the price they need to maintain their expenditures.”
Someone capable of critical thinking would ask – how can we test your claims ?
As you say the price of oil is currently arround $60/bbl, and SA is still experiencing 3% GDP growth. With a government budget deficit of 50B expected to decline to 30B by 2027.
The US has an economy about 10 times larger and a budget deficit of 1.8T or almost 5 times larger on a prorated basis.
“The Saudis have just announced that they will increase oil production by a million barrels a day starting in June. That is about a 10% increase, quite substantial.”
This also points out your inability to do critical thinking. Saudi oil revenues are about $600B/yr.
A 10% increase in production – absent a decline in price would lead to revenue of $660B/yr.
Put simply your IMF claim does not sound like any claim anyone competent at math would make.
Further your purported IMF claim is obviously stupid.
If global production increases – prices decline.
If global production decreases – prices rise. SA increasing its oil price o 96/bbl would result in a larger deficit not a smaller one – they would sell much less oil.
“They have to maintain their revenues, and with oil prices so low they have no choice but to increase production. This will drive down the price of oil, but they don’t care. They have to increase total revenue, and this is the only way they can do it.”
They do not “have to” do anything.
SA has the worlds 2nd largest reserves of oil and the largest reserves of NG – but it does not export NG, and it only uses about 80% of the NG it produces domestically, Al current NG production is as a by product of oil production.
SA does not currently have the fascilities needed to export NG – if it had it would have made a fortune replacing Russian NG to Europe. SA is in the process of ramping up NG infrastructure and expects to be exporting significant NG by 2030.
NG is either transported by pipeline – and SA is not located anywhere near countries with high NG demand and low NG production so pipelines are not feasible.
The alternative is to convert to LNG and transport by Ship.
The US replaced about 80% of the Natural Gas that Europe previously received from Russia, via LNG from the US. It takes as much as 5 years for LNG infrastructure to be built – Biden and Europe were fortunate that as the Ukraine War started – Trump had approved the construction of US LNG fascilities during his first term enabling US LNG from the east coast fields in PA to replace lost NG from Russia. Otherwise Europe would have frozen and their economy collapsed.
Regardless, NG demand globally is steeply increasing and SA has massive NG reserves.
Fossil Fuel production costs in SA are the lowest anywhere in the world.
Oil and NG in SA are shallow, and under pressure.
It costs about $6/bbl for each barrel of oil placed on a Tanker.
US Fracking costs are approx $20/bbl in the Permian basin as an example.
“As a side note, the price of oil will go down, and so gas prices will probably go down, and Trump will then proclaim victory in his pledge to lower prices.”
Correct. That is exactly what Trump intended – higher oil and NG production and lower prices.
“However, he is too stupid to realize that lower oil prices mean that domestic oil companies will curtail exploration and drilling because it will not be economically viable. So much for drill baby, drill.” As noted above US oil production casts in the Permian are about $20/bbl – that is significantly higher than SA, BUT SA oil must e shipped to gulf ports, While Permian basis oil is piped to US refineries – which is much cheaper.
The Saudis tried to crush US frackers a decade ago – driving the price of oil down to about $30/bbl or less to try to put US frackers out of business. The Saudi’s did succeed in shutting down alot of US production, but it all came back the moment prices rose.
Regardless, Oil can be produced in the US profitably down to about $20/bbl – and that price declines everytime there is a price war as US producers decrease production costs.
The big loser in an oil war is Canada – the Canadian Tar Oil is expensive to produce and expensive to refine.
Regardless, as is typical of left wing nuts Trump’s goal is NOT to maximize the profits of US oil companies. It is to reduce the energy costs to US consumers. If the Saudis produce so much oil that US frackers stop selling as gas prices drop to $2/gal. Trump will be happy.
And when global prices rise – US frackers will reopen shop and have plenty of left to sell in the future.
“Back to the Saudis. The Saudis are currently in a revenue crunch because of low oil prices. They do not have cash flows on hand for investment, but they do have about $1 trillion in assets in their sovereign wealth fund. But this is not cash that is sitting in a vault somewhere. The fund is almost fully invested and does not hold much cash.”
Investment by definition means money NOT kept as cash in a vault. But you are clueless most investments are MORE liquid than cash in a vault. SA can sell stock in European companies and buy stock in US companies. That is investing in the US.
You keep citing a variety of experts – who may or may not be real – it is not like YOU are trust worthy. Who may or may not be right.
And who even if they are – that does not change anything.
As YOU noted SA has a soverign wealth fund of $1T – no that is not cash in a vault – it is many things. but mostly it is stock investment in companies arround the world.
SA can meet its 600B over 4 years commitment to Trump buy selling $150B in non US stock and buying $150B in US stock each year.
“So the Saudis are currently running a deficit that is getting bigger”
Actually SA forecasts have that deficit declining. Regardless as a percent of GDP the SA defficits are 1/5th that of the US. It is always wise for a country NOT to run deficits except in times of war or emergency. But just like people i the US borrow money and pay it back over time AND raise their standard of living while paying off debt, the same is true of countries.
“The bottom line is that they are currently tightening expenditures.”
True – just as Trump is trying to do in the US.
“There is no possible way that they could invest $1 trillion in the US as Trump has claimed.”
Not a single thing you have said – even if True would actually lead to that conclusion.
“So it is plainly obvious that Trump’s claims are completely false.”
No it is plain that you have never had a job, paid a mortgage and increased your investments all at the same time. Which most everyone on their 40’s and 50’s does ALL THE TIME.
“Clearly The Saudis and Qataris are lying about their plans to invest all these trillions of dollars that they do not have, in order to curry favor with Trump.”
But they DO have that money.
I would further note that if you wanted to criticize Trump – most of that investment would come to the US regardless of Trump’s trip.
For all the many and stupid fiscal mistakes of the US govenrment – expecially under Biden.
Despite are massive and way to high deficict and debt.
The US is still the best low risk high return investment in the world. And will be for a long time.
While Trump is making it MORE attractive – it has always been attractive.
“The problem is that Trump is too stupid to realize that they are lying to him.”
The problem is that you do not seem to be able to manage a budget.
The only lie here is that but for Trump none of this would happen.
The Saudis and Qatar were going to do some of this no matter what.
They did not invest as a favor to Trump.
They invested because the US is a good low risk high return investment.
Unfortunately John Say is just making stuff up as he listens to the voices in his head.
First he claims that Trump did not say that Qatar pledged $1.2 trillion by themselves, and that this was the TOTAL commitment from SA and Qatar, according to the reports he listened to. Unfortunately, those reports he listened to were actually the voices in his head.
Here is the official White House release stating:
” Today in Qatar, President Donald J. Trump signed an agreement with Qatar to generate an economic exchange worth at least $1.2 trillion.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-historic-1-2-trillion-economic-commitment-in-qatar/
John Say goes on to claim that Qatar pledged only $600 billion (provably false by White House statement), and that they could easily do that because, and I quote John Say, ” They have a current sovereign wealth fund with approx. $600B in it.”
WRONG!!!
They have a sovereign wealth fund with about $600 billion in ASSETS. They most definitely do not have a fund with $600 billion in cash. The investments are mostly tied up in real estate and other fixed assets.
John Say also says about the Saudi SWF, without any evidence, and I quote, ” They have $1T in hand to invest”
No they don’t. Where is your evidence.
They have a sovereign wealth fund with $985 billion in ASSETS, not cash.
Again, the fund is mostly invested in real estate, fixed assets and unlisted companies.
You also make nonsensical claims that SA can meet its $600 billion pledge over 4 years simply by selling $150 billion of non-US stocks and buying $150 billion of US stocks per year.
That would be nice if they actually had stocks worth that amount, but they don’t.
The assets they hold in the fund are mostly real estate and other fixed assets
You seem to think that the Saudi fund is invested, and I quote, ” mostly it is stock investment in companies around the world.”
False!!!!
Common stocks represent a minimal component of the fund. In fact they have been actively divesting stocks. Last year they cut their equity holdings by 50%, and now have only $25 billion in US stocks.
https://13f.info/13f/000101143825000303-public-investment-fund-q1-2025
All your other claims are nonsensical made up drivel and delusional thinking.
You seek to rationalize clearly absurd claims by Trump with irrational, delusional wishful thinking that is completely disconnected from reality.
Your claims are nothing more than an absurd collection of theoretical “what if” scenarios that are completely devoid of factual evidence.
“Qatar has . . . a GDP of around $250 billion.”
Just, wow! I’ve never seen *private* investments based on a country’s GDP. (For that one, alone, you get credit for creative lying.) And I’ve never seen a country’s citizens being responsible to pay for those investments. (For that one, you get credit for ignorant lying.)
Qatar’s commercial banks have total assets of over $2 *trillion*. That, along with other *private* investments, is the source of Qatar’s commitments.
The only “straight out lie” (yet again) is your willfully dishonest and deceptive comment.
Sam
Profoundly ignorant and stupid comment.
You are obviously not aware that the assets held by a bank BELONG TO THEIR CUSTOMERS.
The assets of the Qatari commercial banks do not belong to the government.
What you seem to be suggesting is that the Qatari government can simply take $1.2 trillion of the $2 trillion held in private commercial banks and give it to the US.
That would be the equivalent of Trump simply taking 60% of the assets of Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase and so on, to “invest” in whatever takes his fancy, such as his worthless cryptocurrency.
You are profoundly delusional, and completely and utterly disconnected from reality.
But you are in the MAGA cult, so that is not surprising.
You intentionally butchered the facts of the deals. You, yet again, tried to intentionally deceive people.
For example, “Qatar has [*not*] promised $1.2 trillion.” The deal with Qatar is an economic exchange agreement. (Look it up.) And the deals with the ME involve *private* companies, such as: Google, Alphabet, DataVolt, Oracle, GE, and many others.
You MO is typical of those who are intellectually dishonest and manipulative: Start with a desire (to smear Trump). Then concoct BS to satisfy your desire.
Exceptionally brilliant piece, Prof. JT! It describes Washington DC government and political life to a T! I witnessed more than a few times in my 30+ years working there.
The only bit of good news that comes out o this is that hardly anybody reads books anymore.
But the related question is: Do these “journalists” work as news reporters, or do they work as book authors?
I would suggest to any of these news organizations that they should have a code of ethics that would include these elements:
1 If you work in the news division, your work includes providing current material to the audience through the medium we operate;
2 You are forbidden from using your work materials for personal gain outside the organization;
3 All work materials are the property of the organization;
4 You may not accept offers that would result in the use of any of your work materials from another organization if they have not been presented in full through our organization first.
This is not an all-inclusive list, but it would be a good start for these news organizations to apply for their on-air talent. And I recognize that there are some of these news organizations that are also connected to book publishers, like Fox and Harper-Collins. Such cases require that those be treated as different organizations for this code of ethics, such that they can’t claim that there is just one organization being represented in these issues. But just like previous eras, the news division has to be kept separate from the advertising sales office.
Kevin beck
first implement those moon lighting rules for politicians. In addition their staff must be included. No more the likes of Dana Perino, George Stephanopulus, Donna Brazille, etc as the “insider perspective”. Every media should be the opposition to any politician challenging every word they say, every policy they sign. Which politician today, Would you want your 12 year child to act like or repeat their performative statements so that you could be proud of your child.
Since the people that were pardoned by the auto pen, now have no rights. Why can’t we haul those people into court and have them testify. They cannot plead the 5th. They HAVE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
“[The White House staff actively hid the president’s incompetence . . .” (JT) MAGA is a threat to democracy. Trump is a dictator. Homan deports citizens to death camps — and you’re next.
The D’s suffer from two types of mass neurosis:
Mass delusion — where a large group of people share a belief that is false
Mass hysteria — where a large group of people engage in bizarre behavior based on a threat that is not real
The D’s don’t need ideas, a platform, leadership. They need therapy (and maybe meds.)
Canada, you have wonderful universities, and home-grown world-class scholars. Why on earth would you involve yourself with this couple and their feelings. You will not be able to avoid having to deal with their very, very big feelings, all the time.
Yale, well played.
This racketeering has been exposed, and nothing will be done about it.
You can’t see the forest for the trees.
What about the complete nullification of the Constitution and the imposition of the unconstitutional principles of communism?
Article 1, Section 8, and the right to private property have been voided; American freedom no longer exists.
Communists have implemented every act and program they want.
When the Founders established their country in 1789, was there Social Security and Medicare? Were there admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, CRT, DEI, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, PBS, NPR, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.?
H— no!
Why is communism here now?
1789? Do you mean when individuals enjoyed maximal freedom and government was severely limited, restricted, and infinitesimal; when the clear meaning and intent of Article 1, Section 8, and the absolute 5th Amendment right to private property were in full force and effect, when America was America?
It’s like the communist revolution in China, huh? The dems have inserted themselves in leadership roles and add 2+2.
The obvious arrests are bidens cabinet.
Punish Fascists Dems with a Nuremberg Trial, Germans LEARNED!
Jail by 1000’s across gov., (Judges, congress, etc) for their crimes
– Lawfare Trump and his people
– helping Illegals
– protecting Bidens and his people
– Sex change minors
– Cheating voting
– Taking Bribes
– COVID
So let’s just run the scenarios. Say you’re a pol who can’t deny, at least to him/herself, Biden’s dementia. You’ve seen it, up close and personal, on multiple occasions.
At least some of the persons in this situation may have fleetingly entertained the idea that he/she had a duty to try to effectuate Biden’s resignation or involuntary removal.
1. First problem: That would put that an untested, word-salad-spewing scaredy cat in the Oval Office. I am not being sarcastic: Maybe a propped up corpse was the least bad option.
2. Second problem: Speaking the truth likely would cost you your own political career, your reputation, your wealth, and even, possibly, your liberty. The return fire from that White House, would have been 100% dirty and absolutely withering.
Maybe they would have stolen a page from the Hillary campaign book, and commissioned a fabricated a dossier of BS, and sent their lawyer in to a good ole boy buddy in the FBI to open an investigation against you.
Maybe they would have had their media handmaidens flog that investigation incessantly, uncritically, as if they had not a brain in their head.
Across the nation, we would see the familiar multi-stage floor show: “spontaneous protests” erupting featuring paid protestors carrying the same mass-produced placards and overnighting in the same handed-out tents. They would chant their slogans from a script.
They would have found a way to charge you with something, anything. Maybe they would have got a stoned, has-been sex columnist to say you assaulted her in a New York department store dressing room 20 years ago. Or was it 21 years ago? Or maybe 24? And the charge would stick. Because NYC.
Or you could be the one person ever, in the history of the world, prosecuted for one of the rampant liar loan practices that half the country engaged in, with Barney Frank’s barking encouragement.
——–
Okay, it’s possible that you would merely be drummed out of politics, as was the ONE brave Democrat who campaigned on “Biden will be too old.”
Dean Phillips, you were the only one who tried to do something. And somehow you are still rich and not hated. I’m glad they didn’t turn the destruction machine on you full bore.
From the highest hills and halls for 4 years all you could hear was “I’m not a Cretan” from the Democrats. Their profuse denial of facts from the silly (daft) to the dire, leaves one wondering how much deeper does the concealment extend into the Deep State of Washington DC , aka (The Swamp)?
In my opinion there is but one fact that will determine if the United States of America and its guiding principles will survive, it is the Debt and its continued expansion. In all financial transaction there is a tipping point where drastic measures will be required, and in a governmental situation enforced restraint of citizens would not be a surprise to be one of many outcomes. The USA is not TOO BIG TO FAIL!
Or…, a sitting president openly solicits bribery while you finger pop your ass and ignore it, Turls. But hey, the money was good for the Biden character assassination campaign while it lasted, ayy?
Just admit you were wrong all this time. You have been proven wrong, again. You claimed Biden did not have a dementia. He was not mentally impaired. And now, with overwhelming evidence, you still refuse to admit you were wrong. Again. How does it feel that the good professor was right all the long while you were wrong. Again. How does it feel that you proved yourself to be a loser time and time again? We noticed your other loser friends are absent today.
GROW UP ANON!!