Wednesday, August 16, 2023

SAVE AMERICA - VISUALIZE IMPEACHMENT AND IMPRISONMENT - And doing so while overtly flaunting their egregious actions to protect and cover-up for the incumbent president who has been exposed as potentially complicit in massive bribery and fraud.

 WE CAN'T SAVE AMERICA UNTIL WE 

GET RID OF JOE BIDEN!!!

The Democrats are Certain They Will Never be Held Accountable for the Trump Indictments and Biden Cover-Up

Never in the 235 years since the ratification of the Constitution has an administration premeditatively and blatantly prosecuted, on specious and conjecturable charges, the titular leader of the opposition party and leading candidate for president.  And doing so while overtly flaunting their egregious actions to protect and cover-up for the incumbent president who has been exposed as potentially complicit in massive bribery and fraud.   In any previous election cycle, these overt and unabashed actions would have been the death knell for the incumbent president’s campaign and his party.

Yet the Democrats are blatantly unconcerned, supremely confident that they will prevail in 2024 regardless of who they nominate.  What underlies this inordinate arrogance?

  • Is it because they know their alliance with the deep state, the legacy media, and social media allows them to use, without consequence, any unethical or border-line illegal means to destroy and hamstring Donald Trump or any Republican nominee as well as protect their candidates and officeholders?
  • Is it because they believe they can successfully manipulate the voting process in the battleground states to ensure a win regardless of whether it is Biden or whoever they nominate? 
  • Is it because they are confident, due to the lawfare they are waging against Trump, that the Republican primary voter will make certain that Donald Trump is the nominee, as the Democrats are convinced that independents and moderates in the swing states will never vote for him in the general election? 
  • Is it because they are certain Trump will be found guilty of at least one out of 78 (plus 13 in Atlanta) criminal charges which would precipitate a massive schism in the Republican Party as nearly half of Republicans would not vote for him in the primaries if he is convicted of a crime, thus, eventuating in massive numbers of Trump voters staying home in November?
  • Or is it all the above?

The unprecedented hubris of the Democrats is undergirded by their all-encompassing alliance with the legacy and social media.  These allies willingly attack the Democrats’ political adversaries but, more importantly, censor and deliberately suppress any negative news that might affect the party, it’s hierarchy or their candidates, most notably, Joe Biden and a corrupt Justice Department. 

As the past eight years have confirmed, the onslaught directed at Donald Trump from this cabal has been withering, unrelenting and frequently misleading.  Unfortunately, these tactics have oftentimes been successful in affecting the mindset of a sizable percentage of the American people.  With this media behemoth unequivocally supporting them, it is little wonder that the Democrats are so shameless in persecuting Trump and protecting Biden.  

The success of the Democrat cabal in unconstitutionally changing state voting laws, ballot harvesting and legalizing mass mail-in voting dramatically altered the voting landscape of this nation in 2020.  These steps together with the usual ballot fraud and manipulation by the Democrats in every election cycle resulted in the disputed and questionable win by Joe Biden. 

In the wake of the 2020 debacle, many red states shored up their election laws and made changes to mail-in voting.  The blue states have done essentially nothing to ensure voting integrity.   Thus, the solid red states will remain Republican, and the solid blue states will remain Democrat. 

Therefore, the 2024 presidential election will hinge on five battleground states:  Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.  And it is these states that the Democrat machine will focus on in 2024 as any Republican candidate for president must prevail in three of the five states in order to win the presidency.   

In 2022 because of a lack of coherent messaging, get-out-the-vote campaigns by Republican candidates, and a coordinated effort to offset Democrat ballot manipulation, in four of the battleground states the Democrats won the governorships and three-out-of-four Senate races.

Further, Democrat confidence is buoyed by the fact that in each of the four battleground states in which the Democrats won the governorships they defeated a Trump-endorsed candidate, and in the fifth, Georgia, the  incumbent Republican governor easily defeated the Trump-endorsed candidate in the primary.  The same scenario applied to the Senate races as the three the Democrats won were also against Trump-endorsed candidates.  

The lack of success of Trump-endorsed Senate and governor candidates in the swing states in 2022 further reinforced the Democrats’ mindset that Trump is unduly polarizing; thus they believe it will be easy for them to reprise 2020’s voting manipulation.

Lastly, from the Democrats’ perspective, there is no downside to their unconscionable abuse of the judicial system in attacking Trump.

The Democrats believe just one conviction would destroy any chance he might have of swaying independent and moderate voters.  If they succeed in finding Trump guilty of one out of 91 specious criminal charges, they think the national drumbeat for Trump to drop out of the race will be deafening. 

But, more importantly, it would precipitate a massive schism in the Republican Party as the party would be portrayed as supporting a nominee that has been convicted of a crime.  Further, the party may well be faced with potentially no viable alternative, as the primary field may have been marginalized and politically destroyed in the primary process.  Additionally, the Democrats are assuming many Trump voters would not show up on Election Day if Trump is not the nominee.

On the other hand, if the trials are delayed until after the election or in the unlikely event that Trump is found not guilty of all 91 charges, the Democrats are confident the ever-growing litany of charges and subsequent public trials will so incense the Republican base that Trump will easily win the nomination and be so damaged among the general electorate that he will be overwhelmingly defeated in November of 2024.

The Democrats are maliciously prosecuting Trump and mindlessly defending Biden because they are certain there will be no consequences for doing so.  In their hubris and addled mindset, they are convinced they will not lose the 2024 election. 

That arrogance is underscored by their support for an addlepated, incompetent, and venal Joe Biden despite upwards of 70% of Americans believing he should not run for re-election.  If Biden should drop out of the race, they are confident they can win in 2024 with a blundering narcissist in Gavin Newsom or, if necessary, an inarticulate blithering buffoon in Kamala Harris.

What should Donald Trump, the other Republican presidential candidates, and the Republican Party hierarchy be doing to deflate Democrat arrogance and overconfidence? 

All the Republican candidates, in particular Trump, need to stop maliciously denigrating each other and focus on winning the general election.   This they do by exposing the American people to the Democrats’ contempt for the citizenry.

The Republican establishment must awaken from its coma and begin unmasking the Democrats’ reign of terror in supporting violence against their political adversaries, calling for the removal of candidates from ballots, forcefully silencing dissenting opinion, attempting to imprison political opponents and violating constitutional protections against anyone opposed to their agenda that they target.

Meanwhile, the Republican party hierarchy must singularly focus on voter turnout, ballot harvesting where legal, and early voting in every state as well as precinct by precinct observers in all of the battleground states.

If these steps are not taken then the Democrats will be right, there will be no consequences for their actions and they will win in 2024.


Biden Junta Goes Full-on Stalinist Against Trump

With William Barr as Andrei Vyshinsky.

The Biden DOJ keeps hitting Donald Trump with new indictments, including one that could possibly draw the draw the death penalty. These mounting attacks on the former president have drawn comparisons to a banana republic or third world dictatorship. A new development suggests a different dynamic is in play.

Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr was recently asked if he would be willing to testify against Trump. “Of course,” Barr responded. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case was “challenging,” but Barr does not think it “runs afoul of the First Amendment.” That runs afoul of Bruce Thornton, who makes a strong case that quashing free speech is what Smith’s inquisition is all about.

As Robert Spencer contends, “we’re racing past” the banana republic stage and America is “heading toward becoming a new Stalinist regime in which critics of those in power are arrested by the regime itself, tried on false and fabricated charges, and executed.” Spencer evokes the Moscow Trials of the 1930s, and those sessions pack more verisimilitude than people might think.

As the late Sidney Hook recalled, “the news of the Moscow Trials burst like a bombshell. The principal defendants were all old Bolsheviks, Lenin’s comrades-in-arms who had previously been glorified as the heroes of the October Revolution. Chief among the defendants was Leon Trotsky, then in forced exile, who at one time had been acknowledged by Stalin himself as the architect of the Petrograd insurrection that brought the Bolsheviks to power. The charges were mind-boggling.”

The old Bolsheviks were accused of assassinating Sergei Kirov and planning to kill Stalin himself. They had also “allegedly conspired with the fascist powers, notably Hitler’s Germany and Imperial Japan, to dismember the Soviet Union.” Some defendants were charged with “having been agents of the British military intelligence at the very time they were storming the bastions of the Winter Palace.”

Victims included Yuri Piatakov, Karl Radek, Nikolai Bukharin, Gregory Zinoviev, and Lev Kamenev. Stalin and his secret police controlled the trials from behind the scenes and the outcome was preordained. Stalin’s prosecutor, Andrei Vyshinsky, referred to the defendants as “a foul-smelling heap of human garbage” and Bukharin as “the damnable cross of a fox and a swine.” The accused “must be shot like dirty dogs!” and they were, replaced by a corps faithful to Stalin.

As Hook recalled, the Moscow trials were also “a turning point in the history of American liberalism.” High-profile liberals such as Corliss Lamont, Theodore Dreiser, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Nathanael West, Newton Arvin, Malcolm Cowley, and Granville Hicks, perceived the trials as a model of justice. In some cases, praise for the trials and the USSR “went beyond anything the Kremlin itself ever claimed.”

Defenders of Trotsky organized a Commission of Inquiry Into the Truth of the Moscow Trials, but it got a chilly reception from Roger Baldwin, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.  Joseph Davies, US ambassador to the USSR, took the trials at face value and Walter Duranty of the New York Times, who covered up Stalin’s terror famine in Ukraine, claimed it was all true.

In similar style, the establishment media was all-in with the charge that Donald Trump had colluded with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election. Deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe raised the possibility that Trump was a “Russian asset,” and Rep. Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee said Trump was “acting like a person who is compromised.”

As former FBI boss Robert Mueller confirmed, there was no collusion and Trump was not a Russian asset. Special Counsel John Durham has now confirmed that the Russia hoax was a product of the Hillary Clinton campaign, and fully abetted by the FBI. As this comes to light, Trump faces charges of mishandling classified information.

Biden’s DOJ alleges that Trump may have violated the Espionage Act by keeping classified documents at his residence. Hillary Clinton, and former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie have also harbored classified documents, without facing espionage charges. Joe Biden has classified documents strewn about his garage, and the papers he donated to the University of Delaware have become inaccessible, even in the face of FOIA requests.

The Espionage Act criminalized dissent against U.S. involvement in World War I. Its invocation against Trump again raises the specter of conspiracy with “foreign powers,” the  “Russian asset” charge, and so forth. As Spencer notes, this comes at a time when Donald Trump is the principal opponent of Joe Biden. As with the Moscow Trials, supporters reach for their bullhorn.

Adam Schiff, prime-time promoter of the Russia hoax, hailed the “stunning” detail of the indictment, showing that Trump had “malign intent.” The indictment was “another affirmation of the rule of law” and Trump “should be treated like any other lawbreaker.”

Democrat Stacey Plaskett, delegate from the Virgin Islands, said Trump “needs to be shot,” which she quickly amended to “stopped.” That is hard to top but former Attorney General William Barr was up to the task.

If even half of this is true, he’s toast,” Barr told reporters. Like police captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) in Casablanca, Barr claimed he was “shocked by the degree of the sensitivity of these documents, and how many there were.” The former president was peddling “big lies,” including his declassification authority, and claims that Trump is a victim are “ridiculous.” And so on.

A former U.S. Attorney General suspends the presumption of innocence and judges a case before the trial. Barr also backed the unprecedented FBI raid on Trump’s residence, proclaiming “it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay?” And in Barr’s view it was the government that was being “jerked around.” This is the same William Barr who in 2020 found no evidence of election fraud, without conducting any investigation or audit of the proceedings.

As he explained in One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General, Barr started his career with the CIA. The author praises Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who appointed Robert Mueller to investigate Trump.

“Few can appreciate the complexities Rod faced during that tumultuous time,” writes Barr, and even fewer will know the important contributions he made to the administration and the country.” Barr also “made it clear that neither President Obama nor vice president Biden were in [John] Durham’s crosshairs.”

Special Counsel Jack Smith may be handling the case against Trump, but in William Barr, Biden has a shrill pro-bono Vyshinsky. In the best Stalinist style, Barr pronounces Donald Trump “toast” before his trial has even started, and “of course” he will testify against the former president he allegedly served.

“The Left may not plan to murder Trump,” Robert Spencer contends, “but they’re certainly trying to execute him politically.” On the other hand, the possibility of actual murder cannot be discounted. Consider the murder cases of DNC operative Seth Rich and DHS whistleblower Philip Haney, both unsolved as the FBI withholds crucial evidence.

Don’t forget presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, murdered in 1968, and President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, murdered in 1963. JFK’s nephew, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., thinks it’s “beyond a reasonable doubt” that the CIA was involved.

Democrats have not exactly welcomed RFK Jr. to the presidential race, and the Biden Junta is denying Secret Service protection for Kennedy. As 2024 approaches, the people have plenty to ponder.

“In the end, they’re not coming after me,” Trump explains. “They’re coming after you — and I’m just standing in their way.”

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Lloyd Billingsley is the author of Yes I Con: United Fakes of America, Barack ‘Em Up: A Literary Investigation, Hollywood Party, and numerous other works.

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‘Clockwork’: Four Trump Indictments Drop After Four Damning Biden Business Revelations 

President Joe Biden laughs as comedian Roy Wood Jr., a correspondent for "The Daily Show," speaks during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Saturday, April 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Four damning news cycles about the Biden family business bombshell revelations were each immediately followed by four indictments of former President Donald Trump, causing conservatives to question if the synchronization was just a coincidence.

On Monday night, a grand jury in Georgia indicted Trump for a fourth time. Trump’s first indictment was in New York State, and two more federal indictments followed in Florida and Washington, D.C.

Each indictment immediately changed the news cycle focused on Hunter Biden and the Biden family business revelations. The indictments enabled the establishment media to ignore growing allegations of impropriety of President Joe Biden and to focus on “getting” Trump.

Below is the timeline:

First:

March 16: Hunter Biden admits the “Laptop from Hell” was his after years of denial

March 18: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office leaks the news of the first indictment

Second:

June 8: House Oversight Committee Republicans confirm an FBI FD-1023 file in which an FBI informant claimed to possess two pieces of evidence that show President Joe Biden received $5 million after threatening to withhold aid to Ukraine until a prosecutor probing the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings was fired

June 9: Special Counsel Jack Smith releases grand jury indictment of Trump in the documents case

Third: 

July 31: Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s best friend in business, testifies before the House Oversight Committee that then-Vice President Joe Biden participated in more than 20 business phone calls to sell the Biden “brand” to associates.

August 1: Special Counsel Jack Smith releases Trump’s January 6 indictment

Fourth: 

August 11: Attorney General Merrick Garland designates a special counsel in the Hunter Biden case

August 14: A Georgia grand Jury indicts Trump for questioning the 2020 election

Conservatives told Breitbart News the timeline seems very suspicious and suggested Democrats are trying to keep the spotlight off the Biden family.

“Every one of these nonsensical, politicized, and unconstitutional indictments against President Trump has been designed not only to hurt his chances come 2024 but also to coverup and deflect attention from the far more serious and egregious crimes of President Biden’s son and partner-in-crime, Hunter Biden,” Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republican Club, told Breitbart News.

“While Hunter committed real crimes that are being brushed under the rug, President Trump is being charged for speaking his mind, consulting with lawyers, and following the law,” he added. “Based on the latest indictment in Georgia, it seems the next thing these activist DAs will try to criminalize through precedent is mere thoughts that buck the leftist consensus.”

Luke Mahoney, a veteran digital strategist, told Breitbart News the “unprecedented lawfare” indictments occurred like clockwork.

“At this point, it’s like clockwork,” he said. “Every time there is a major revelation in the Biden investigation, the very next day President Trump gets indicted, which shifts the focus of the Republican donor base from defeating Biden and Congressional Democrats in 2024 to defending President Trump from this unprecedented lawfare.”

A conservative commentator who requested anonymity due to fear of retribution from the Hunter Biden legal team told Breitbart News that “Joe and Hunter Biden have to be the luckiest people in the world.”

“Every time bombshell revelations about the Biden Crime Family are revealed — from the Bidens taking millions from Russian and Chinese oligarchs or millions in bribes from the Ukrainian gas company Burisma — there’s another far-left prosecutor ready to hand down the latest indictment against Donald Trump,” he said.

“The Bidens can count on the corporate media covering the Trump news while ignoring the ever-growing mountain of evidence regarding the multitude of Biden family criminal enterprises,” he added.

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WATCH: Hunter Biden’s Lawyer Says DOJ Wanted Plea Deal and ‘Maybe They Still Do’

Hunter Biden's lawyer said Justice Department prosecutors wanted the president's son to avoid trial on tax charges, and he suggested they might still work out a plea deal to save Biden from facing trial.

"We were trying to avoid [a trial] all along," Biden's lawyer Abbe Lowell said in a CBS News interview on Sunday. "And so were the prosecutors who came forward to us and were the ones to say, 'Can there be a resolution short of a prosecution?' So they wanted it and maybe they still do want it."

Biden and the DOJ initially agreed to a plea deal that would have seen the first son dodge prison time for tax and gun charges. But U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika last month rejected the proposed plea deal, raising concerns over its legality and the scope of immunity it offered Biden.

Lawyers for Biden said in a late Sunday court filing that prosecutors reneged on the plea deal, days after the prosecutors said Biden may be headed for a criminal trial.

Lowell in the CBS interview said a trial for the first son is "not inevitable."

The case has become a political lightning rod as Republicans in Congress raise the possibility of impeaching President Joe Biden over his son's business dealings and accuse the Department of Justice of giving him a "sweetheart deal."

(Reporting by Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in Bengaluru and Jack Queen in New York; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman, Robert Birsel)

Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Claim Part of “Sweetheart” Deal Still Intact

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, right, exits federal court in Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. A hearing over Hunter Biden's plea agreement with prosecutors regarding his tax crimes, drug offenses and a firearm violation ended today without a resolution, after a judge refused to sign off …
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Hunter Biden’s lawyers maneuvered to keep the terms of the “diversion agreement” within their failed plea deal intact after Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss was appointed special counsel in the case.

On Friday, prosecutors disclosed that plea negotiations fell apart, and Attorney General Merrick Garland named Weiss special counsel to continue the ongoing probe into Hunter Biden’s potential tax, gun, and FARA violations.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers wrote in a court filing on Sunday that the Justice Department (DOJ) decided to “renege on the previously agreed-upon plea agreement,” but that the diversion agreement, providing Hunter Biden broad further immunity, is still in effect and binding.

“The Defendant’s understanding of the scope of immunity agreed to by the United States was and is based on the express written terms of the Diversion Agreement,” the lawyers wrote. “His understanding of the scope of immunity agreed to by the United States is also corroborated by prosecutors’ contemporaneous written and oral communications during the plea negotiations.”

“[T]he Defendant intends to abide by the terms of the Diversion Agreement that was executed at the July 26 hearing by the Defendant, his counsel, and the United States, and concurs with the statements the Government made during the July 26 hearing,” the lawyers continued, “and which the Government then acknowledged in its filings agreeing to the public disclosure of the Plea and Diversion Agreements2—that the parties have a valid and binding bilateral Diversion Agreement.”

The court filing was in response to Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika’s request after Weiss asked the judge to dismiss the case.

Hunter Biden was expected to plead guilty last month.

But after the irregular plea deal broke down upon scrutiny from Judge Noreika, the prosecutors said Friday they expected the case to go to trial, indicating they wanted to try the case elsewhere, outside Delaware and away from the judge.

According to the Washington Post’s Editorial Board, the plea deal appeared to give Hunter Biden “special treatment,” an exception that Hunter Biden’s lawyers still claim is in effect and binding.

Critics argue that Weiss should not have been appointed special counsel due to his “sweetheart” plea deal, which collapsed under scrutiny.

The president's son is reportedly under investigation for tax fraud, money laundering, and gun and foreign lobbying violations by Trump-appointed United States Attorney David C. Weiss.

United States Attorney David C. Weiss. (Screen shot/CBS News)

“Special counsels should not be appointed lightly. They have tended to overspend and overreach,” the Post‘s editorial board wrote. “One temptation in the Hunter Biden case might be to investigate the president himself, as many of his critics wish. So far, the record suggests President Biden’s behavior was not spotless — but also not criminal.”

The DOJ’s probe into Hunter Biden could implicate Joe Biden. A witness who testified before the jury was reportedly asked to identify the “big guy.”

A DOJ official declined to comment on whether President Joe Biden is under investigation.
 Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.

WATCH HOW THE GAMER LAWYERS GAME IT!

THE HUNTER BIDEN INVESTIGATION HOAX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmRNsaoopjs



California Bar Opens Ethics Probe into Kevin Morris, Hunter Biden’s Lawyer 

Kevin Morris and Hunter Biden
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The California State Bar opened an ethics investigation into Kevin Morris, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, for allegedly spying on the My Son Hunter movie set.

My Son Hunter is a film that chronicles Hunter Biden as he navigates a tangled web of prostitution, partying, business dealings, drugs, sex, Chinese spies, Ukrainian oligarchs, and his responsibilities to the leader of the free world.

Morris, a high-powered Hollywood attorney who has been retained by Hunter to “craft legal and media strategy,” flew to Serbia under the guise of filming interviews for a documentary that plans to portray Hunter Biden as a victim.

During his visit to the My Son Hunter set, Morris allegedly failed to disclose he was Hunter Biden’s legal representative, according to producer Phelim McAleer, who filed the ethics complaint with the California State Bar.

Morris is under investigation for the incident, which could result in “investigation or prosecution,” a letter from the California State Bar obtained by the New York Post shows. Morris remains in good standing with the Bar.

Peter Schweizer, a senior contributor to Breitbart News, told the Post the problem is that “no one really knows what Kevin Morris’ motive is,” regarding his interest in helping Hunter Biden.

“It’s possible that Kevin is not using his own money,” Schweizer added, continuing:

His powerful friends in Hollywood could be funneling their money through Kevin to help Hunter. Morris is a Hollywood insider-slash-lawyer-slash-agent but in the context of this Biden story he is an absolute mystery.

The problem here is that you have millions of dollars flowing to the first family of the US who are embroiled in foreign controversy. But there is zero transparency. We’re just supposed to do this guessing game.

Morris has emerged as a main character in the Hunter Biden investigation. Breitbart News first reported in April that Morris took control of Hunter Biden’s ten percent stake in BHR Partners through Skaneateles, LLC, an entity originally created by Hunter Biden.

The Bank of China, a state-owned bank, controls BHR Partners, which claims it maintains 22 billion Chinese yuan (RMB) in various portfolio companies, translating to more than three billion US dollars.

Hunter Biden allegedly divested from BHR Partners after increased pressure due to a conflict of interest upon President Joe Biden’s assuming the White House.

As a longtime Democrat donor, Morris met Hunter Biden in 2019 after the Hollywood lawyer donated to then-candidate Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, the New York Times reported. Morris since earned the reputation of being Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother” and “fixer.”

The entertainment lawyer is at the center of Hunter Biden’s new-found career of painting modern art, an occupation connected to the art market, which is known for corruption. Morris helped Hunter forge a framework to sell art to anonymous buyers through a dealer with ties to the Chinese art market. Morris was also involved in Hunter’s controversial 2021 memoir. According to the New York Post, Morris and Hunter Biden are represented by the same agents.

In 2022, news reports surfaced that Hunter Biden retained Morris to oversee his public relations and media strategies. In turn, Morris reportedly paid Hunter’s over two-million-dollar IRS tax delinquency.

Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.


House Democrat Says Hunter Biden Called His Father During Business Meetings

Joe Biden claimed he 'never discussed business' with Hunter

July 31, 2023

Hunter Biden often called his father, Joe Biden, on speakerphone during business meetings, a Democratic lawmaker said Monday, contradicting the president's repeated claims to have "never discussed business with my son."

Rep. Dan Goldman (D., N.Y.), a member of the House Oversight Committee, made the remarks following the panel's closed-door hearing with Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer. Although Goldman maintained there was nothing improper about the father-son phone calls, his apparent recognition that they occurred amounted to a major concession by one of Joe Biden's leading defenders.

"It was clear that it was part of the daily conversations that Hunter Biden had with his father, and it sounded like most of the time now-president Biden didn’t even know who the people were with at dinner and was just asked to say hello and he would talk about the weather," Goldman said to reporters.

Goldman's comments are bound to create more headaches for the Biden administration, which has told a shifting story about his knowledge of his son’s business ventures. Joe Biden said in August 2019 that he has "never discussed business with my son" and scolded a Fox News reporter the next month for asking if he talked to Hunter Biden about his foreign business.

Evidence has since emerged that Biden attended at least two meetings to discuss Hunter Biden’s work in China. Last week, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre denied only that Joe and Hunter Biden were ever "in business" together.

Republicans have alleged for years that Joe Biden helped enrich his son—and possibly himself—through a variety of business schemes. Democrats have in recent months desperately tried to paint any scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s business dealings as a dead end.

Archer met with the House Oversight Committee on Monday to offer testimony about his relationship with the Biden family. A full transcript of his sworn testimony is not yet public.

Neither Archer nor Biden’s attorneys immediately responded to a request for comment.

Archer planned to tell lawmakers that Biden frequently dialed his father during business meetings, the New York Post reported. One of those alleged meetings was with executives from Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy firm where Biden and Archer served as directors. Biden during a December 2015 meeting called his father to say the energy firm "needs our support," Archer reportedly planned to say.

Archer, who awaits sentencing for his 2018 conviction for defrauding a Native American tribe in a $60 million bond scheme, has spoken to a federal grand jury, the Justice Department, and other federal agencies as part of "investigations concerning the Biden family," his attorney told the Washington Free Beacon.

Archer’s testimony is the latest dramatic development concerning Biden. A plea deal Biden struck with federal prosecutors over charges related to not paying taxes and illegal firearm ownership fell apart last week under scrutiny from a federal judge.

Republicans have criticized the Department of Justice for giving Biden "sweetheart deal," and IRS whistleblowers have said that investigators and prosecutors recommended felony charges against him. Biden is expected to be back in court sometime next month.

Goldman also stepped on his party's messaging during the IRS whistleblowers' testimony before Congress earlier this month. While questioning one of the whistleblowers, veteran investigator Gary Shapley, Goldman inadvertently affirmed that Joe Biden had spoken to Hunter Biden about his business with China.

It is unclear whether Archer and Biden remain on good terms. After Archer’s conviction was temporarily overturned in 2018, Biden expressed support for his longtime friend.

"Thank fucking god! First good news in way too long my friend. I am so happy for you," Biden wrote Archer in November 2018, according to text messages found on a copy of the former’s laptop.

But Archer voiced frustration with Biden months later, according to text messages.

"Why would they try to ruin my family and destroy my kids and no one from your family’s side step in and at least try to help me," Archer asked in a March 2019 text. "I don’t get it. And I’m depressed. Bunch of these Asians getting in my head asking me the same."

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On the Impeachment of Joseph R. Biden

Under our Constitution, impeachment and removal from office is not a criminal proceeding. It is a fiduciary accounting for abuse of office. In Joe Biden’s case it would be for abuse of the office of President. His fault would be having been unfaithful to his trust as President.

To assume his office, Biden promised the American people that he would “faithfully execute the office of President.”

This rule of faithful best efforts on the part of every President was applied in the article of impeachment of Richard Nixon as follows:

In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.

Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.

(This language was adopted by Special Counsel John Doar in part to follow my research into the history of impeachments when a student at Harvard Law School in 1974, research which was later published in the Georgetown Law Journal: “Public Office as a Public Trust: a suggestion that a fiduciary standard is implied in Impeachment for High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Georgetown Law Journal, 1975)

Our constitutional standard for what is right and what is wrong when holding an office of public trust was set in the Old Testament in Ezekiel 34:

Thus says the Lord God: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?  You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.  The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them… Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.

Fiduciary law holds that when a President is accused of self-dealing to serve himself and not the American people, such a President must attempt to prove himself innocent by making full disclosure of all the relevant facts to the Congress.

In an impeachment inquiry, there is no presumption of innocence to protect the defendant. Impeachment is not a criminal proceeding. A president under impeachment has no due process privileges such as the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.

Quite the contrary, where self-dealing is alleged, the accused has the obligation to come forward with evidence proving innocence. If he or she cannot do so, they deserve impeachment and removal from office.

(This rule of law as to proving one’s innocence when accused of self-dealing applies to all private trustees as well.)

Further, a president under impeachment may not invoke the familiar privilege of keeping his communications secret from public knowledge. If he refuses to disclose what he said or wrote in private, he will not meet the demands placed on him to prove his innocence. And so he may be impeached by the House of Representatives acting as a grand jury and then convicted by the Senate acting as a jury deciding on the facts. In such a case, silence alone provides sufficient grounds for holding the accused guilty of self-dealing as charged.

In Joe Biden’s case, his self-serving behavior contrary to his oath of office and the duties placed upon him by his presidential public trusteeship include: 1) failure to come forward with the facts as to his and his family’s financial gains when he served as Vice-President of the United States, which personal avarice compromised the national security of the United States; 2) participation in a conspiracy to have the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the IRS withhold from the American people facts regarding his family’s corrupting financial transactions; 3) authorizing use of the prosecutorial authority of the United States to harass and oppress his political rival Donald J. Trump; 4) authorizing and condoning government suppression of free speech in furtherance of his own political interests  contrary to the First Amendment to the Constitution

In these ways did Joseph R. Biden personally profit from the use of his official authority contrary to his duties as President.

Given the facts already disclosed in the media, the burden to prove that he is innocent of these charges has now shifted to Joe Biden personally. Should he not provide evidence in his own defense, he should be impeached forthwith.  That is the law.

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The Democrats exploited the Covid-19 pandemic to unconstitutionally manipulate state voting laws, expand and abuse mail-in voting, and orchestrate unfettered ballot harvesting in order to place in office perhaps the most incompetent, corrupt, and bribable president in American history.  They cannot feign ignorance as virtually every Washington insider knew Biden was an unprincipled buffoon since his early days in the Senate.

How did the Clintons, Obamas, and Bidens get rich? And how did Trump?

With all the focus on President Trump and his legal woes, the question arises: How did Trump get rich? And how did the Democrat elites persecuting him now get rich?

Let's start with the Clintons:

How did the Clintons get rich?

The Clintons took no risk, made no investments, and didn't borrow money. Nope, they just used Hillary's powerful position slurping from the public trough to sell access to all comers, for huge amounts of money. 
 
See here:

Clintons charge big fees to small groups

...and...
 

Clinton's cash for access diplomacy

Clinton ran a pay-to-play program at the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State.

 
The media and Justice Department didn't care about this corruption any more than they cared about her mishandling of classified documents, destroying documents and computers, obstructing justice, or perpetuating a massive fraud in the 2016 election with the Russian dossier. 
 
Now let's move on to the Obamas.
 
How did the Obamas get rich?
 
Without going through Congress, Obama used the FCC in 2015 to implement net neutrality which he claimed was meant to help the little guy but it saved the big users of bandwidth on the internet huge amounts of money because they didn't have to reimburse the internet providers for their investments. 
 
Network neutrality, often referred to as net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, offering users and online content providers consistent rates irrespective of content, websiteplatformapplication, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication (i.e., without price discrimination)
 
The biggest users of internet bandwidth are Google, Netflix, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon, who consume more than 43% of the bandwidth, so those huge companies got huge savings because of Obama's actions. Trump got rid of net neutrality and Biden is trying to bring it back
 
Democrats love to pretend they write policies for the little guy but they essentially are puppets for big companies. Google essentially had an office at the White House during the Obama, Biden years. 
 

THE ANDROID ADMINISTRATION

Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House

Over the past seven years, Google has created a remarkable partnership with the Obama White House, providing expertise, services, advice, and personnel for vital government projects.

Precisely how much influence this buys Google isn’t always clear. But consider that over in the European Union, Google is now facing two major antitrust charges for abusing its dominance in mobile operating systems and search. By contrast, in the U.S., a strong case to sanction Google was quashed by a presidentially appointed commission.

 

As soon as Obama was out of office, the Obamas were rewarded with a huge contract with Netflix, despite having no product and no experience.

Obama Netflix deal explained

After completing their two terms as president and first lady, Barack and Michelle Obama have signed up for some pretty lucrative projects.

The first, announced in February 2017, was a joint deal worth an estimated $65 million to publish their memoirs.

They care so much about the little guy. 

I bet the writers and actors on strike are pretty jealous that they are so low-paid while the Obamas just slurped from the public trough for years, rewarded Netflix with net neutrality, and got a huge kickback worth millions so they could buy multiple mansions. 

Obama, his justice Department, and other Democrats knew how corrupt the Clintons and Bidens were as they lined their pockets with foreign money but have never cared as they campaigned for them, covered up for them, and continually targeted President Trump for destruction. 

But they are supposedly outraged that conservative supreme court judges have rich friends they take trips with.

And the media sees nothing wrong with this massive amount of money the Obamas got from Netflix.

Now let's look at the Bidens: How did the Bidens get rich?

It appears they took political corruption to a new level.

Joe and Hunter traveled the world in government jets, gathering up kickbacks. They set up a large number of shell corporations to gather and distribute the money to several family members and some "business associates."

It does not appear that they took any risk, made any investments, borrowed any money, or hired more than a few people in these shell companies, such as Hunter's stripper girlfriend, who was hired for a while. 

But according to most of the media, Justice Department, and other Democrats inconceivably say they can't spot any evidence that Joe Biden did anything wrong. 

Of course, they also aren't interested in Joe illegally having and mishandling classified documents, no matter how long he had them, how many times they were moved and what they were. 

Now let's look at President Trump:

How did Trump get rich?

He took massive risks, made huge investments, and borrowed lots of money while building casinos hotels, and golf resorts.  He created tens of thousands of jobs, paid huge sales, property, payroll, and other taxes. 

And for that, the media and other Democrats have targeted him with witch hunts and claimed that he was corrupt. 

They even went after Trump because some foreign government officials stayed at his hotels, heaven forbid, but massive kickbacks to the Clintons and Bidens from foreign parties is perfectly O.K.

A federal appeals court tossed out a lawsuit by congressional Democrats who had sued President Donald Trump for allegedly violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause.

That clause bars presidents from receiving money from foreign governments.

 
Moral of the story: Powerful Democrats can do whatever they want to get rich while sucking off the public teat because they love big government but Republicans who are capitalists, and who have policies to give power, freedom, and money back to the people, must be stopped because they are the threat to the leftist agenda and the powerful bureaucracy, the deep state.
 
On a related note:
 
The media and prosecutors are now worried about who is paying Trump's legal bills on their multiple witch hunts.    
 

Donald Trump’s political group is financing legal work that has prompted questions from prosecutors about potential conflicts of interest

    
 
I bet the media and prosecutors aren't worried at all about where Hunter is getting his money to pay all his high-paid lawyers or any potential conflicts of interest since they don't seem to care about anything Joe or Hunter do.
 
Hunter said he needed to lower child support for his child with former stripper Lunden Roberts, the four-year-old Navy, so where is the money coming from? He hasn't appeared to have had a real job for years, only kickbacks. 
 
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Maureen Dowd can't seem to figure out who the liar-in-chief is

Whenever I see a column in the New York Times by Maureen Dowd, writing about our liar-in-chief, I assume that she is talking about the current commander-in-chief who has been a congenital liar his entire life. 

The Moment of Truth for Our Liar in Chief

After all, Joe Biden has lied continuously throughout his Washington career.

He lies about big and little things.

Here is a small sample:

He lied about his college rank and grades at law school. 

He plagiarized a speech as he ran for president in 1988.  The media chased him from that race

  • Joe Biden has plagiarized from speeches, essays, and policy positions throughout his entire life
  • As a student at Syracuse Law School in 1965, Biden plagiarized 5-pages from a law review journal "without quotation or attribution"
  • During his failed 1988 presidential campaign, Biden plagiarized from speeches by British politician Neil KinnockRobert Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy

He continues to lie about what Trump said in Charlottesville to gin up racial hate and division.

He lied when he said that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation during a debate with Trump. (he clearly knew the truth)

He continues to lie that no one in his family ever made money from foreign sources and that he never talked to Hunter or anyone in his family about their business dealings.

He continues to lie that he inherited a bad economy. The economy was growing rapidly when he took office. 

He lied that there were no vaccines available when he took office.

He lied that inflation was caused by Russia and the supply chain when inflation took off as soon as he forced his radically destructive government spending on the American people. 

He lied that the border was under control.

And he continues to lie that his policies cut the deficit in half. 

But nope, the column in the Times was talking about Trump, not Biden.

Maybe Maureen Dowd also thinks Trump won in 2020 and is still the chief. 

Here are a few excerpts from Dowd's column: 

A man is running to run the government he tried to overthrow while he was running it, even as he is running to stay ahead of the law.

Would Trump have authorized National Guard troops to the Capitol if he really wanted to overthrow the government? Sadly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't do her job to secure the Capitol and sadly, the media never cared about the truth. 

 

A Capitol Police timeline of the days and weeks surrounding Jan. 6 shows former President Donald Trump’s Department of Defense (DOD) offered the National Guard’s assistance in the days leading up to the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, validating claims from Trump administration officials that were said to be false by liberal fact-checkers.

Would Trump have told the people at his January 6 rally to march peacefully and patriotically if he wanted the rally to be violent? The media and other Democrats, along with some Republicans, also bury that truth.

I do not recall the media saying that Democrats wanted to overthrow the government when they challenged the 2000, 2004, and 2016 election and supported riots.

Dowd then asks:

The question now is: Has Trump finally run out of time, thanks to Jack Smith, who runs marathons as an Ironman triathlete? Are those ever-loving walls really closing in this time?

Dowd loves all the leaks and charges from Smith's office but doesn't care that the current commander-in-chief illegally took classified documents and mishandled them. Why are there no leaks and charges from Biden's special counsel since no one is supposedly above the law and everyone is treated equally by this "independent Justice Department?

We were expecting an epic clash when Robert Mueller was appointed in 2017 as a special counsel to head the investigation into ties between Trump’s campaign and Russia and his potential obstruction of justice. It was the flamboyant flimflam man vs. the buttoned-down, buttoned-up boy scout.

Mueller, who had been a decorated Marine in Vietnam, was such a straight arrow that he never even deviated to wear a blue shirt when he ran the F.B.I.

Amid the Trump administration chaos, Mueller ran a disciplined, airtight operation as special counsel, assembling a dream team of legal talent. But regarding obstruction of justice, the final report was flaccid, waffling, legalistic.

And Dowd loved Mueller’s dream team, filled with Hillary supporters, who did a two-year witch hunt on Trump searching in vain for fictional Russian collusion.

After all, the media, Justice Department, and other Democrats had spread the lie to the public that Trump had colluded with Russia and surely these leftists could find it or create it.

Trump always told the truth that it was a hoax, yet he is called the liar.

The reason the Mueller dream team didn’t leak is because the leaks would have had to be how many Justice officials had lied to the FISA court and that Hillary and the DNC had perpetuated a massive fraud on the American people with the fictional Russian dossier.

What this article does not show are any lies by Trump.

Anyone who believed the Russian collusion story probably still believes that Biden never talked to Hunter about his business dealings. They must be toting off the same bong as Hunter’s friend and benefactor.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5j4rC7Aobg


HOW MANY OF THESE PIGS ARE LAWYERS?

(ALL BUT THREE)



HOW MANY OF THESE PIGS ARE GAMER LAWYERS ON THE TAKE?

 “Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation  (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?)  and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK) corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY GAMER LAWER TONY BLINKEN AS WELL AS CON MAN ADAM SHIFF).    BRIAN C JOONDEPH


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It's time to prosecute the prosecutors

The farther we drift from the constitutional rule in this country, the less shocking the shocking will become.

A few years ago, the notion of an incumbent American president prosecuting his political opponent for so-called "crimes" involving the opponent's speech would have shocked America's conscience.

This totalitarianism tactic happens in Russia, where Putin jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, or Venezuela, where Nicolás Maduro arrests opposition leaders like Leopoldo López, or Cambodia, where opposition leader Kem Sokha was convicted of "treason," got 27 years in prison, and was banned forever from running for office.

But not in America.  Not in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Imagine Ronald Reagan prosecuting Walter Mondale, or George H.W. Bush prosecuting Bill Clinton, or Bill Clinton prosecuting Bob Dole.

The shocking thought of such foolishness would never have been tolerated by the American people.

But no more.  Once the shock value wears off, and once the wide gates of banana republicanism are thrown open, there's no turning back.  How ironic that Putin-obsessed Democrats are acting just like him.

Afraid your opponent might beat you at the polls?  Is his rhetoric a little too hot to handle?  No problem.  Just prosecute him.  The Russians, Venezuelans, and Cambodians do it.  So why not the Democrats?  The ends justify the means, say the Marxists.

The Democrats over the last eight years have pushed the envelope ever closer to the unthinkable.  Never let a crisis go to waste, as Rahm Emmanuel famously advocated.  The Democrats create their crises, and then create their own heavy-handed, unconstitutional solutions to the crises, with the ultimate aim always the same: more power.

In other words, set the fire, and then solve it by pouring on the gasoline.

In 2020, they used COVID to generate chaos and bend election rules, ignoring established ballot verification requirements, arbitrarily changing voting deadlines, and shutting down counting in the middle of the night in places their guy was losing badly, all to achieve their desired electoral result.

With their lies about masks, vaccines, and lockdowns all exposed, another pandemic won't work, because nobody's buying that trick again.  So now, it's banana republic prosecutions against the Republican frontrunner, on multiple, coordinated fronts.  Note the timing here — not two years ago, but right before the election.  What a coincidence!

By bringing these prosecutions, Smith and Garland are breaking federal law by violating the Hatch Act, which states that a federal "employee may not ... use his official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election."  But the unfortunate fact remains that few legal tools or weapons exist to hold rogue prosecutors accountable for these wild shenanigans.

Violators of the Hatch Act, for example, face a maximum $1,000 fine and debarment from working for the government for a maximum of five years.  But does anybody think a thousand-dollar fine will deter Smith and Garland from their rabid anti-Trump fixation?

Come on.

Without criminal sanctions, the Hatch Act's slap-on-the-wrist, "fine and ban" approach provides no real deterrent against prosecutors like Smith and Willis and their insatiable thirst for power.

If Dracula were a prosecutor, he'd be Jack Smith — a blood-sucking prosecutor whose goal isn't just acquiring short-term political power, but the ultimate destruction of the Constitution, which, at least on paper, remains a theoretical barrier to totalitarianism

Smith and his banana republic prosecutions assault our constitutional republic and attack the Constitution itself.  Their goal: to first criminalize Trump's right to free speech, and then to criminalize ours.

They concoct flowery language, with pompous terms causing CNN to slobber — terms like "obstruction," "racketeering," and "the Espionage Act."  But that doesn't change the fact that these prosecutions are all, at their core, aimed against Trump because of his speech.

They don't like that he said on January 6, "You'll never take back our country with weakness.  You have to show strength, and you have to be strong."  They don't like that he called Brad Raffensperger to ask about suspicious circumstances in Georgia's electoral process.

They despise the fact that Trump would use his words to dare challenge their power or call their party into question.

Like what Bobby Kennedy, Jr. said last week before Jim Jordan's committee, when 102 Democrats tried censoring his appearance in a hearing about censorship, "The First Amendment was not written for easy speech. It was written for the speech that nobody likes you for."

Democrats prosecute Trump because they don't like the way he talks.  They don't like him complaining or asking questions about an election, which, frankly, should still be questioned.  So they attack the Constitution, hammering the right of free speech with their prosecutions.  They take dead aim against the Constitution hiding their motives under cleverly invented flowery language, like "inciting a riot," or "insurrection," or "Espionage Act," and MSNBC dutifully oohs and aahs.

But flowery language or not, and despite CNN's excited mouth-foaming over all this, at the core, theirs is an attack on the First Amendment.

Trump has a constitutional right to raise questions, as does every American concerned about the appearance of an election gone off the tracks, where Democrats changed rules in the middle of the game.

It's not Trump, but rather these Democrat prosecutors who directly threaten the Constitution.  Their prosecutorial assault against the Constitution is so serious that something must be done to shut them down in their tracks.

To protect the Constitution, Congress must bring down the hammer to create a deterrent so that the likes of Smith, Willis, and Bragg will think twice about political prosecutions in the future.  Congress must pass "rogue prosecutor laws" so that a prosecutor who prosecutes a political opponent, if that prosecution is primarily for political motives, can be prosecuted himself.

Under these laws, that prosecutor should face felony charges and years in prison for bringing a political prosecution.

Does this mean that all prosecutions of politicians must end?  Certainly not.  A prosecution involving a clear "meat and potatoes" crime, like murder, assault, or larceny — that's one thing.  But a prosecution where a defendant faces prison time for words spoken is quite another.

The issue is the prosecutor's motivation.  All these prosecutions against Trump take aim at his speech, which, unlike robbery, murder, assault,  and child prostitution — or whatever the Democrats were doing on Epstein Island — is constitutionally protected.

Targeting a political opponent's speech is prima facie evidence of a politically motivated prosecution, and at the end of the day, prosecutors who bring these types of cases should wind up in jail.  Why?  Because after paying lip service to their oaths to the Constitution, they seek to destroy it.  They use their offices to abuse the judicial process, transforming the process into a political weapon to grab power, threaten the Republic, and threaten our freedoms.  In doing so, they make a mockery of the criminal justice system.

No one, not even federal prosecutors, is above the law, and these political prosecutions of Trump based on his words, and nothing more, threaten us all.  Once they succeed in imprisoning Americans for words spoken in the political arena, our Constitution dies.  We will have become Russia, Venezuela, and Cambodia.

Garland, Smith, Willis, and Bragg must understand that what goes around might eventually come around.  With rogue prosecutor laws in place, a Republican attorney general might review their conduct one day.

To Speaker McCarthy and Republicans in Congress, pass rogue prosecutor laws to stop the lunacy.  Do it now.  It's time to prosecute the prosecutors.

Don Brown, a former U.S. Navy JAG officer, is the author of the book Travesty of Justice: The Shocking Prosecution of Lieutenant Clint Lorance and CALL SIGN EXTORTION 17: The Shootdown of SEAL Team Six, and the author of 15 books on the United States military, including three national bestsellers.  He is one of four former JAG officers serving on the Lorance legal team.  Lorance was pardoned by President Trump in November 2019.  Brown is also a former military prosecutor and a former special assistant United States attorney.  He can be reached at donbrownbooks@gmail.com and on Twitter at @donbrownbooks.

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The Democrats exploited the Covid-19 pandemic to unconstitutionally manipulate state voting laws, expand and abuse mail-in voting, and orchestrate unfettered ballot harvesting in order to place in office perhaps the most incompetent, corrupt, and bribable president in American history.  They cannot feign ignorance as virtually every Washington insider knew Biden was an unprincipled buffoon since his early days in the Senate.


The Democrats’ Dilemma: How to Convince Joe Biden to Drop out of the Race

As the 2024 presidential election is beginning to cast a growing shadow over the American political landscape, many in the party establishment are quietly looking into replacing Joe Biden as the Democrat Party nominee. But who will they choose to replace Biden and how are they going to force him to either resign or drop out of the race without creating political turmoil for the party?

Biden’s physical and mental incapacity is becoming increasingly pronounced and the Republican House, with the assistance of numerous whistleblowers, is revealing evermore damning evidence of potential criminality by both Joe and his son, Hunter.   The pressure to either force him to resign or drop his candidacy and remain in office is accelerating as the Democrats become increasingly fearful of losing the presidency in 2024.

Finding someone to replace Biden is perhaps the least of their problems.  While a number of names have been bandied about, an exceedingly flawed Gavin Newsom appears to be the current front-runner.  However, there is another potential candidate that sets many Democrat hearts aflutter: Gretchen Whitmer, the 51-year-old, well-spoken and telegenic Governor of Michigan. 

On July 6, 2023, Politico Magazine published a fawning article extolling Governor Whitmer.   Within the article, Whitmer claimed she has no interest in running for president, however:

A subsequent announcement, however, made it clear she’s willing to try.  Whitmer is creating a federal PAC, called “Fight Like Hell,” to boost Biden and congressional candidates next year….

This step could also allow her to assume the role of a leading candidate for the 2024 Democrat nomination, replacing Joe Biden.

Jonathan Martin, the author of the Politico article also reveals that many backstage conversations have been taking place with Whitmer.  He further exposes the Democrats’ increasingly shaky strategy of Biden easily winning again in 2024.

These backstage conversations have taken place as Biden’s approval ratings show little sign of improvement and increasingly appear impervious to external events, for good or ill.  Of course, Democrats are betting that the most significant external event of all—Republicans renominating a candidate with more baggage than O’Hare [Airport] at Thanksgiving—will tip the election again to Biden.

Yet even their assumedly strong odds in such a rematch have not soothed Democrats.

The angst now percolating among the Democrat hierarchy is also reflected among the rank-and- file Democrat voters, as over 50% are saying they do not want Biden to run for the nomination.

If the Democrat establishment succeeds in getting Biden to resign or drop out of the race and the choice is between Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer, Whitmer would, in all likelihood, be the preferred nominee as she will be a formidable presidential candidate pitted against Donald Trump.  But finding a new candidate to replace Joe Biden is the easy part, getting him to resign or drop out of the race without triggering a political firestorm may prove to be far more difficult.

The Democrats exploited the Covid-19 pandemic to unconstitutionally manipulate state voting laws, expand and abuse mail-in voting, and orchestrate unfettered ballot harvesting in order to place in office perhaps the most incompetent, corrupt, and bribable president in American history.  They cannot feign ignorance as virtually every Washington insider knew Biden was an unprincipled buffoon since his early days in the Senate.

By foisting this reprobate on America, they also, per the Constitution, granted him the unlimited power to grant pre-emptive pardons to whomever he chooses.  Joe, in order to protect himself and his family, will, at some point, exercise his presidential prerogative to issue these pardons. 

Coupled with the unthinkable specter of Donald Trump winning the 2024 presidential election, the power to pardon also serves as a potential extortion tool in the hands of an unscrupulous Joe Biden in his dealings with Democrat party elites.

The revelations emanating from the House of Representative and multiple whistleblowers of Joe and Hunter Biden’s alleged criminality have been devastating.  A July 12, 2023 poll reveals 56% of Americans (and 40% of Democrats) believe Biden likely took bribes from sources tied to various foreign governments.  There is little likelihood these polls, coupled with many that are now showing Trump beating Biden, will change as more potential criminality is being exposed and the White House remains unable to offer any viable explanations.

With this evolving political disaster for the Democrats, they will, of necessity, have to either force Joe Biden out of the White House as soon as possible or induce him to drop out of the race and remain in office.

The Democrat establishment’s reluctance to compel a dangerously incapacitated and compromised Joe Biden to resign is the product of both the buffoonish incompetence of his VP successor, Kamala Harris, and of Biden’s pardon power.   If the Democrats and the legacy media succeed in forcing Biden to resign, he will issue pardons for himself and Hunter et al on his way out the door.  Thus, creating a potential political firestorm as the bulk of the citizenry would be incensed over this egregious self-dealing.  Resulting in the Democrat Party and its down-ballot candidates being negatively impacted in the 2024 election.

Additionally, a Biden resignation would thrust an extraordinarily unpopular Kamala Harris, who is losing to Trump by double digits in every poll, back into the presidential sweepstakes creating potentially more problems for the Democrats among minorities if she is forced off the 2024 ticket.

Thus, the Democrat elites would prefer any arrangement which allows Biden to drop out of the race and remain in office.  Their ideal arrangement would be to give Biden whatever he wants if he agrees to wait until after Election Day November 5, 2024 to issue pre-emptive pardons.  After which the Party elites could feign outrage at his actions.

Their anticipation would be that once Joe is out of the race, he will no longer be the center of attention in the campaign.  The Democrats and the legacy media would then focus on manipulating the electorate into ignoring the allegations of Biden family criminality by making certain the American people fixate on Trump’s specious legal predicaments and the Democrats’ shiny new candidate running for president. 

While this cabal is losing faith in Biden’s chances in 2024, they are still convinced that regardless of the circumstances surrounding Biden, almost anyone they nominate, but in particular Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer, could win as long as Donald Trump, entangled in their treacherous web of indictments and trials, is the Republican nominee.

There is, however, a high-stakes risk in the strategy of convincing Joe Biden to drop out of the race and remain in office.   Can the Democrats and the legacy media keep a lid on the ongoing revelations about alleged bribes and fraud for the next 15 months without exposing their duplicity, thus, infuriating the bulk of the electorate?

An ever-increasing percentage of the citizenry is becoming aware of the potential criminality of Joe Biden and the cover-up by the Democrats and the legacy media.   If the Republicans do not waver and continue to aggressively investigate and open an impeachment inquiry as well as expose Biden’s Democrat enablers, it is highly unlikely that this cabal will be able to control the narrative for an extended period of time. 

 After premeditatively foisting Joe Biden on the American people, it is a supreme irony that the Democrat party elites and the legacy media are now being hoisted on their own petard.

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How Investigative Journalists Have Become Cover-Up Promoters

After the highly touted, shamelessly self-promoted Washington Post "investigative" Watergate journalism, thousands of aspiring young people sought to become, like the legendary Woodward and Bernstein, fearless speakers of truth to power, uncovering corruption and cover-up without fear or favor.  But fifty years later, these supposed investigative journalists have become the corrupt actors whom they promised to expose.  Have our vaunted good guys become dirty cops?  It sure looks like it. 

While this evolution from clean to corrupt has been proceeding apace for fifty years, there is no better incarnation of this perverse role change than the recent journalism concerning ostensible Biden family corruption. 

There is much room for legitimate, good-faith debate about the strength of evidence against Hunter Biden and, separately, his father Joe.  But the debate is properly about the unseemly activities of Hunter and the practiced neglect of same, at the least, by his father.  Whatever the strength of evidence, all of it is ugly, worrisome, problematic.  There is no way to sugarcoat this: there is a noisome stench emanating from Bidenville that cries out for further investigation.

This tableau of potential Biden family corruption amounts to a test of the bona fides of modern "investigative" journalists.  Will they investigate facts in a dispassionate way, or will they act as partisan publicity agents covering up wrongdoing, perhaps treason?

What results has this test thus far returned? 

To decide this question, let's first recapitulate the evidence that seems to be uncontroverted, even if not publicized in detail by these supposed watchdogs. 

In the throes of the "Maidan Revolution," by late 2014, Ukraine had been turned upside-down.  To tamp down endemic corruption, which portended the country's demise, the United States took a firm anti-corruption stance, which it could enforce as the main player in granting foreign aid.

Vice President Joe Biden then volunteered to be the Obama administration point man for the troubled country.  Before he flew to Ukraine, he had a multi-hour White House meeting with Devon Archer, his son's partner in apparent influence-peddling.

As Hunter and Archer thereafter maneuvered to pitch potential Ukrainian clients, Hunter sent a lengthy memorandum one such client, the energy company Burisma, which sounded suspiciously, with jargon, as if it had come directly from a classified analysis of U.S. policy on oil and gas exploration in and around Ukraine.  

Soon, Attorney General Eric Holder, along with U.K. officials, heralded the London seizure of $23 million in Burisma funds directed to Cyprus for the personal benefit of a Burisma owner and apparent embezzler, Mykola Zlochevsky.  After British officials attached the funds, all that was needed was certification by a Ukraine prosecutor that the gain was ill-gotten, in which case the Court would return the money to Ukraine.

But, oddly, no Ukraine official, to the British magistrate's stated frustration, ever claimed the money, which was reluctantly forwarded to Cyprus, for the benefit of Hunter's new client. 

Another Hunter client, Igor Kolomoisky, carried out massive thefts with no apparent pushback.  After $1.8 billion in foreign aid was sent to Kolomoisky's large, prominent PrivatBank to help stabilize the Ukrainian banking system, PrivatBank immediately lent that money to shell companies through deposits to PrivatBank's branch in Cyprus, secured by nonexistent contracts — monies never again seen.  All in all, PrivatBank was looted for $5 billion under Joe Biden's nose, all of which had to be reflated through foreign aid.

When President Trump later called on new Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden corruption, this was not an empty, partisan request, notwithstanding the president's awkward coloration of it.  But Trump likely did not realize that President Zelensky's major benefactor was Igor Kolomoisky, in hindsight rendering Trump's initiative blackly comical, however appropriate.  (Kolomoisky, in spite of looting his country's major bank, and stealing foreign aid, did not flee the country until late 2016, as Vice President Biden was leaving office, to return only after Zelensky was elected.)

In early 2016, after prosecutor Viktor Shokin, spurred by U.S. ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, raided Zlochevsky's home in an anti-Burisma investigation, Joe Biden famously had him fired — strong circumstantial evidence of the vice president's corruption.  A recently unearthed FD-1023 report of a credible informant confirms that Hunter Biden and his father were each promised five million dollars for getting Shokin fired.  While the cover-up spin is that Shokin was a shakedown artist, in fact, after he was fired, the strong cases against Burisma were settled for a paltry $7 million.

Shifting to China, it is well established that (a) Hunter had a strong relationship with the globally corrupt Chinese energy arm CEFC, on record as a company that bribed foreign officials, and (b) was given ten-percent ownership in the lucrative multibillion-dollar Bohai Harvest Fund, which invested funds from the Bank of China.

When Hunter wrote an email threatening a CEFC official who was late in paying him, he warned that his father was sitting next to him.  Whether Joe Biden was in fact sitting next to Hunter, the CEFC official was certainly under the impression that Joe was in on the deal, failing which his presence would be a meaningless threat.

Now, as specific evidence emerges fleshing out this obvious influence-peddling scheme, the only question is the degree to which Joe Biden willingly participated since, after all, Hunter's clients were purchasing that participation.  But in any case, aren't these issues that investigative journalists should be tackling?

Let's hark back to Watergate.  Richard Nixon was forced out of office by powerful journalism — not because he was guilty of the underlying criminal burglary, but because he enabled and participated in the cover-up.  His most palpable crime was importuning the CIA to call the FBI off, briefly, its "Mexican money trail" investigation — a minor cover-up, but criminal, nonetheless. 

Showing stronger culpability, the emerging evidence from credible whistleblowers verifies that the Biden administration, through its Justice Department, fixed the prosecution of Hunter, refusing indictments both in D.C. and Los Angeles, allowing statutes of limitation to expire, and refusing proper investigative steps recommended by IRS agents.

Given all the above, there is plenty of grist for the mill of our vaunted investigative journalists — you know, those same sleuths who breathlessly seized on every morsel suggesting that Donald Trump may have spoken to people with Russian accents. 

A few examples of the accumulated evidence should suffice.  In addition to two credible, experienced whistleblowing IRS agents, and the FD-1023 informant's report, Gal Luft, an American-Israeli think-tank director, in 2019 in Brussels had personally provided DOJ lawyers and FBI agents with specific facts detailing corruption by China of both Bidens.

In 2022, to both forestall and impeach Luft's testimony, Biden's Department of Justice issued a sealed indictment of Luft as an unregistered foreign agent violating FARA.

When the Luft indictment was recently unsealed, not coincidentally as Luft came forward with an incriminating video, did our watchdog media scream "cover-up" and "witness intimidation"?  Not exactly. 

Former White House spokesman Jen Psaki wondered aloud to Democrat congressman Jamie Raskin whether Republican James Comer had been "co-opted by a foreign agent."  Unsurprisingly, Raskin eagerly agreed.

The Democrat-leaning Raw Story article, "Theater of the absurd': Raskin compares GOP's Hunter Biden quest to 'Inspector Clouseau" by Brandon Gage, went farther.  Rather than viewing the Luft indictment as proof of a Biden retaliatory cover-up, its pundit saw that the indictment "damaged the credibility" of the case against Biden. 

To Arthur Delaney of the HuffPost, the indictment of Luft for FARA violations demonstrated how weak any FARA claimwould have been against Hunter Biden.  The reasoning?  Unlike Luft, Hunter did virtually nothing for his pay!  How can we say he's a foreign agent if he got his money without providing any apparent services?  Thus, according to investigator Delaney, there is a large "hole" in the case against Hunter Biden.  We are not making this up.

Now that it is to some degree probable that the Bidens were bribed to fire Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokin, wouldn't our watchdog media perk up and at least begin an investigation?  Well, no.  Rather, ace investigators for the New York Times Adam Entous and Michael S. Schmidt summarized the growing evidence in a way that would make a criminal defense lawyer blush:

Despite their years of efforts-including Mr. Trump's attempts to muscle Ukraine into helping him sully the Bidens, an escapade that led to his first impeachment-Republicans have yet to demonstrate that the senior Mr. Biden was involved in his son's business deals or took any action to benefit him or his foreign partners.   

Here is the take on the specific report of a credible informant that both Bidens were bribed to fire Shokin, as seen by Delaney and the HuffPost:

Republicans have dubiously claimed that the Burisma connection prompted then–Vice President to push for the ouster of Ukraine's prosecutor in 2016 in order to protect thecompany.

What is not noted by the Times or the HuffPost is the evidence that such a claim would be "dubiously" made or that the Shokin firing did not benefit Hunter's business partners.

How does the New York Times, per Glenn Thrush, depict Luft's explosive video testimony? 

In a video published by the New York Post last week, Mr. Luft claimed — without offeringevidence — that he had informed the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation officials of wrongdoing by the Biden family, prompting what he cast as his persecution.

When Mr. Thrush notes that Mr. Luft does so "without offering evidence," it may shock him to learn that when a witness offers his own observations of an event, this is what lawyers and judges call "evidence."  Indeed, Luft was offering eyewitness testimony, which constitutes strong direct evidence. 

This deception is not an isolated misstatement.  Riddled throughout reports of the New York TimesCNNMSNBCNewsweek, and other outlets is the frequent assertion that there is "no evidence" of corruption against either Biden.  Kara Scannell of CNN Politics gives the typical conclusion: "But there's no evidence Joe Biden abused his office to enrich his family."

But here is just one piece of evidence for these journalists to chew on.  On his laptop from hell, Hunter self-pityingly confides to his daughter that she need not share her income with her father as Hunter himself must.  To be sure, Hunter may at the time have been under the influence of some substance.  But nonetheless, this is direct evidence against Joe Biden — an admission by a co-conspirator properly in evidence against his co-conspirator father.

Common sense tells us that corrupt actors do not pay millions for influence without proof of delivery of the influence sought.  The millions going to Joe's relatives through a middleman cutout, Rob Walker, laundered through numerous shell companies, is itself evidence of corruption. 

What conclusions can be drawn about the state of modern, major media investigative journalists?  We can safely conclude that these "journalists" see their role as at a minimum aiders and abettors of corrupt partisan cover-ups.  But going farther, they seemingly vie, like slippery criminal defense counsel, to create false cover stories behind which corrupt politicians can hide and defraud the public. 

So, if some wish to assess the lasting impact of Watergate journalism, they should consult our allegedly most trusted news sources, such as the New York Times.  But not for the investigations they do, but for those they choose not to do.  And in doing so, please keep in mind the dominant trope of Watergate: it's not the crime; it's the cover-up. 

John D. O'Connor is a former federal prosecutor and the San Francisco attorney who represented W. Mark Felt during his revelation as Deep Throat in 2005.  O'Connor is the author of the books Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate and Began Today's Partisan Advocacy Journalism and The Mysteries of Watergate: What Really Happened.

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