The basic case in favor of impeachment is simply that he should be impeached because the President has been shown beyond any reasonable doubt to have been a central conspirator in a bribery scheme between government actors. At this point, the lawyers should sit down, and politicians ought to stand up.
A return to “normalcy' -- really?
I suspect many Democrats, Independents, and perhaps a few Republicans voted for Joe Biden in the last presidential election because they were tired of the “mean tweets” and the erratic behavior (at least as portrayed in the mainstream media) of President Donald J. Trump. Like many naïve creatures, they would prefer to stick their head in the sand and let the world unfold around them. Many were led to think the election of Joe Biden as the nation’s Commander in Chief would return the nation to a state of “normalcy.”
Since he assumed office, President’s Biden’s “normalcy” has included vilifying half of the nations’ electorate as evil MAGA Republicans; opening our once secure borders to a flood of illegal aliens and fentanyl while at the same time providing a booming business to Mexico’s cartels; a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan promoting Putin to invade Ukraine, which I suspect will also serve as a green light for China to seize Taiwan; “Bidenomics” and with it runaway inflation and a downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating due to concerns over the state of the country's finances and its debt burden; the frequent tapping of our strategic petroleum reserve to artificially depress consumer gasoline prices etc. etc. If this is the new “normal” I will take the mean tweets any day !
Those of us old enough to live through the Watergate scandal remember that President Richard M. Nixon was not aware of nor authorized the break-in of the Democratic National Committee but rather he attempted to cover it up once the scandal was broken in the Washington Post by reporters Woodward and Bernstein. Rather than face possible impeachment, Nixon resigned and did not put the nation through the turmoil of a prolonged trial in the Senate. After the tumultuous years of the Vietnam conflict, America did not need to be divided again. Like Nixon or not, he made the right and honorable gesture by stepping down for lying while in office.
Similarly, through congressional testimony it is now apparent that Joe Biden has repeatedly not spoken the truth regarding his knowledge of his son Hunter’s business dealing with foreign business interests. Even the left-leaning Washington Post finally acknowledged the most obvious falsehood of the decade: Joe Biden, during the 2020 Presidential Debate, denied his son had made money in China, earning him the Post’s four “Pinocchio’s.” In addition, Hunter’s admission in court, before lawmakers privately interviewed his former business partner Devon Archer, who, according to accounts by both Democrats and Republicans, said that Hunter put his father on speaker phone with business associates about 20 times over the course of a decade. Again, this is in direct contradiction to candidate Biden’s assertion during the debate that he had no knowledge of his son’s business dealings.
So, if the “new normal” is that our nation’s chief executive can lie to the American people I would prefer the mean tweets any day. Perhaps it is time for President Biden to do the honorable thing for the good of the country and step aside aside as did his predecessor in 1974.
Image: National Archives
Brooks: ‘I Can’t Even Imagine’ Massively Distrusting Government, But it ‘Probably Is Justified’
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that while deep distrust of the government “probably is justified” by the government’s behavior, looking at D.C.’s “glorious and inspiring buildings, and thinking, that’s full of monsters, all that’s illegitimate, it’s all a fraud. To me, I can’t even imagine that mindset, to be honest.”
Brooks said, “Well, to me, the number one most important statistic in my life covering this stuff has been, two generations ago, you asked people, do you trust government to do the right thing most of the time? And 75% said, yes. And now, what is it, 12%, 19%? It bounces around, but it’s phenomenally low. And so, imagine walking around the city where I live in Washington, D.C., looking at all — what I think of as glorious and inspiring buildings, and thinking, that’s full of monsters, all that’s illegitimate, it’s all a fraud. To me, I can’t even imagine that mindset, to be honest. But it is a mindset that a lot of people have, and, frankly, because of things that have happened over the last 30 or 40 years, a lot of people feel is justified. It probably is justified, because of the failures of a lot of things that have happened in this country over that time.”
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“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, GEORGE SOROS RENT BOY,AS WELL AS CON MAN ADAM SHIFF) AND HIS CORRUPTNESS BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON.
BRIAN C JOONDEPH
Kevin McCarthy Delivers Bombshell Impeachment News To Biden - White House In A Panic
HOW MANY OF THESE PIGS ARE LAWYERS?
(ALL BUT THREE)
DID you SEE this?
VIDEO:
WHAT TO DO WITH BIDEN?
VICTOR DAVIS HANSEN
everyone will be WIPED out in 1 week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8ZWnJShcW4
Biden is, and has always been, a pathological liar of the worst kind, the kind who lies to boost his own ego no matter how easy it is to prove his dishonesty PATRICIA McCARTHY
HOW CORRUPT IS OUR GOV THAT THIS COULD HAVE GONE FOR SO MAN YEARS??
Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo 7/23/23 | BREAKING FOX NEWS July 23, 2023
The Biden Crime Family Comes Undone
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-crime-family-comes-undone-daniel-greenfield/
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The Biden family is notorious for being the crookedest clan not only in Delaware, but in D.C.
The Worst President in the Last 100 Years" - Victor Davis Hanson
The Essential Impeachment
“There comes a time in the life of every man when he must take the bull squarely by the tail and face the situation.” —W.C. Fields
Our elected representatives in D.C. are faced with just such a circumstance. To impeach Joe Biden or not to impeach Joe Biden. This is almost always presented in an either/or metaphor: Scylla and Charybdis, a rock and a hard place, and so on. The essence of these arguments is that impeachment/no impeachment offers no good option. I submit that this is a form of the Fallacy of the Excluded Middle.
The basic case in favor of impeachment is simply that he should be impeached because the President has been shown beyond any reasonable doubt to have been a central conspirator in a bribery scheme between government actors. At this point, the lawyers should sit down, and politicians ought to stand up.
Bribery is listed in the Constitution as a cause for impeachment, so there can be no argument that this satisfies the first criterion. But now Democrats will object that there must be evidence of present bribery because Joe wasn’t President when he got paid, and there’s no evidence that he’s getting paid right now. But they leave out a key element of bribery. The person being bribed promises some action in favor of the person bribing. These actions offer occur after the bribe is paid. In the interregnum known as 45, Joe got lots of payola in anticipation of being able to do favors from the White House later. Since those favors are arguably continuing, the bribery continues.
Image: Joe Biden. YouTube screen grab.
We don’t need to rely on that most famous case where Joe bragged on camera about getting rid of Victor Shokin, the prosecutor investigating Burisma. That happened while Biden was VP. In the language of the law, it shows a pattern of bribery and impeaches any testimony in his defense. And there’s lots of evidence that his pattern of “favors for fins” is ongoing, particularly with China. And, as the Bard says, “Aye, there’s the rub.” What do we do about it? The Constitution seems to provide for impeachment as the only check on a corrupt President. It’s political act, and legal action can only come after removal from office.
The argument against impeaching Biden is rather simple. We won’t get a two-thirds vote to convict in the Senate since Democrats are in the majority, and they won’t convict their guy. So why bother? We’d be wasting time. On the flip side of this are the two Trump impeachments. The Dems knew they wouldn’t ever convict him, but they wanted to throw enough mud at him to make him look dirty in the election. They’ve continued this pattern in New York, Georgia, Mar-a-Lago, and J6. Do I sense a pattern here?
The mantra against impeachment is, “It’s political!” Of course it is. It’s the only constitutional avenue available. But Democrats want that to sound bad, as in, “The only reason you’re pursuing impeachment is that you don’t like Joe.” And lots of low-information voters will hear only that. So, the invertebrates in the “R” caucus will wilt like snowflakes and oppose the inquiry. But let us consider what will result if two things happen.
First, suppose the House does a televised proper inquiry similar to the Watergate special committee. All questioning of witnesses is done by attorneys selected by the two sides. Republicans bring their big guns, and Democrats get a full opportunity to respond in kind. Standard rules of evidence apply, and a retired judge (Justice Anthony Kennedy, perhaps?) sits as the judge on all issues of procedure and propriety. All angles of evidence are presented and cross-examined. Once the process is complete, the matter is put to the House for a vote.
We should note that Donald Trump was not afforded any of this sort of due process in either of his impeachments. Presenting Joe Biden with this degree of legal protection would show that the Republican majority is interested in determining the facts of the matter, not simply rushing forward as Nancy Pelosi did in the second Trump indictment. As you may recall, the House did zero investigation, declaring that none was needed. The optics of that resemble a schoolyard fight.
Having been particularly careful to provide Joe with all legal safeguards, a vote to impeach would begin with a serious presumption of correctness. And since the largest part of the charges would revolve around bribery, Democrats would be unable to hide behind the “high crimes and misdemeanors” term of art. Bribery is a crime at all levels, and it’s very easy for the average citizen to understand. They’ve seen too many TV shows with crooked cops taking dirty money to ignore it when the Chief Executive is directly involved. And this puts Senate Democrats in a bit of a bind.
Democrats clearly have enough votes to block a conviction if they want to. But do they want their vulnerable members to be seen as approving of obvious corruption? There’s a lot of fodder for their opponents in that. If they deep-six Corrupt Joe, they’ll look virtuous to undeclared voters. It’s a win! But that win comes at a price. They elevate VP Harris to the White House, and she’s the most un-serious prominent officeholder in the history of DC. With two or three hysterical cackles, she will fritter away all that Democrat goodwill that came from dropping Joe. On the other hand, if they refuse to send Joe packing, then the undecided middle will see the Dems as the party of official corruption, approved by the party apparatchiks. That’s not a good look for them, either.
It does not matter what the Senate does. The House will have done a very serious job of evaluating the stench from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Having determined that it’s a real sewer and not some whoopee cushion aroma, they will have shown America that at least one party in D.C. does not subscribe to a two-tier system of justice. That would be such a breath of fresh air that many in the middle will decide that it’s time to expand the right side of the aisle.
Ted Noel MD is a retired Anesthesiologist/Intensivist who podcasts and posts on social media as DoctorTed and @vidzette. His Doctor Ted’s Prescription podcasts are available on many podcast channels.
“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, GEORGE SOROS RENT BOY,AS WELL AS CON MAN ADAM SHIFF) AND HIS CORRUPTNESS BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON.
BRIAN C JOONDEPH
THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY
American people deserve to know what China was up to with Joe Biden, especially when Beijing had already shelled out millions of dollars to Biden family members — including millions in set-asides for “the big guy.” What else is on that infamous Hunter Biden laptop? The conflicted Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to engage in any meaningful oversight on this issue. We need a special counsel now.
TOM FITTON - JUDICIAL WATCH
Hunter Biden Bragged Chinese Mogul Loves Him for His 'Last Name'
Hunter Biden bragged in a 2011 email to his former business partner Devon Archer about how a Chinese businessman who scored them a deal loved his "last name."
"Your question—‘why does Super Chair love me so much?’ is easily answered. It has nothing to do with me and everything to do with my last name," Biden wrote to Archer in September 2011, referring to businessman Che Feng who helped Biden partner with a Chinese firm. Biden's comment, which was revealed by the New York Post, appeared in an email found on his abandoned laptop.
Biden added that another reason for Feng's admiration is that Biden brings "very handsome Aryan godlike men wherever I go."
Archer, who sat on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings with Biden, met with the House Oversight Committee on Monday and testified that Biden called his father more than 20 times during business meetings to sell the Biden "brand."
Feng helped Hunter's company score a high-paying deal, the New York Post reported:
Feng — who was referred to as "The Super Chairman" by both Hunter and Archer — helped Biden’s firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, and James Bulger’s Thornton Group LLC partner with Jonathan Li’s Bohai Capital and lateral launch Bohai Harvest RST, the emails indicate.
The email chain began two days earlier, when Bulger’s co-founder Michael Lin forwarded Hunter and Bulger the terms of the joint venture fund.
Lin also namechecked Feng as playing a key role in securing favorable terms for the deal.
"Good news from Jonathan after his meeting with Super Chairman in [Hong Kong]…We three’s ownership of the fund management co. 20% while Jonathan’s 10%. (Still very very good for you two and me!)," he wrote.
Hunter forwarded the terms of the deal to Archer and expressed his joy at the prospects of the deal.
"I don't believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman," Hunter said to Archer.
Biden last week admitted in court to accepting Chinese money, despite his father President Joe Biden's repeated denials that his son profited from China.
"I started a company [in 2017] called Hudson West, your Honor, and my partner was associated with a Chinese energy company called CEFC," Hunter Biden said last week in a Delaware federal courthouse.
Biden confirmed a point made by the prosecution that he had made $664,000 from a "Chinese infrastructure investment company," according to the court transcript, reported by Fox News.
"Who was your partner?" the judge in the case asked the first son.
"I don't know how to spell his name, Yi Jianming is the chairman of that company," Hunter Biden said. Yi has disappeared since being taken into custody by Chinese officials in 2018.
The president has made repeated claims that his son did not take money from Chinese entities.
"My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China," Joe Biden said to then-president Donald Trump in an October 2020 debate.
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