AG Garland: Trust Me
Despite desperately trying to let Democrat Pres. Joe Biden’s son Hunter off the hook, while zealously pursuing any excuse to prosecute Republican Former Pres. Donald Trump, Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland says Americans should trust him.
On Sunday, in an interview with “60 Minutes,” AG Garland continued to repeat his claim that there is not a two-tiered justice system employed by his Biden Administration Justice Department:
“We do not have one rule for Republicans and another rule for Democrats. We don't have one rule for foes and another for friends. We don't have one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless, for the rich or for the poor, based on ethnicity.
“We have only one rule. And that one rule: we follow the facts and the law and we reach the decisions required by the Constitution, and we protect civil liberties.”
Yet, despite a growing mountain of evidence against Hunter Biden of influence-peddling while his father was vice president and of potential tax violations, the Justice Department has declined to undertake any genuine prosecution – and even allowed the statute of limitations to lapse, in some cases, whistleblowers have testified.
Nonetheless, Attorney General Garland told 60 Minutes that Americans should trust, not only him, but all the career prosecutors at the Justice Department:
60 Minutes: “Are you essentially saying as attorney general to the American people trust me?”
AG Garland: “Well, in the end, I suppose it does in the end come down to trust.
“But it's not just me. It's decades of the norms of this department that are part of the DNA of the career prosecutors who are running the investigation and supervising the investigations that you're talking about.”
And, despite launching trials of Trump at the times they would do the most harm to his run for president in 2024, AG Garland repeated his claim that Justice Department prosecutors are nonpartisan:
60 Minutes: “Your critics say that it's time to ruin Mr. Trump's chances in the election.”
AG Garland: “Well, that's absolutely not true. Justice department prosecutors are nonpartisan. They don't allow partisan considerations to play any role in their determinations.”
In one of the most egregious violations of the public’s trust, Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith made a false statement stemming from his altering of an email in connection with the submission of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) application used to obtain permission to surveil then-Pres. Trump in furtherance of the unfounded “Crossfire Hurricane” Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
Clinesmith pled guilty, as a result of an investigation by Special Counsel John Durham.
Meanwhile, the list of evidence that Biden’s Justice Department (DOJ) is practicing a two-tiered system of justice continues to grow:
- While at least 88 crisis pregnancy centers have been firebombed, vandalized or set ablaze since last July, Biden’s DOJ has initiated only one prosecution – while aggressively seeking to jail and fine non-violent pro-life protestors,
- In June, former President Donald Trump was indicted for a second time – for the same conduct (mishandling classified documents) that Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton engaged in, without consequence.
- Four of five voters (79.3%) now say there’s a two-tiered justice system.
- A series of politically-motivated investigations and episodes of malfeasance from both the FBI and IRS in particular over the last decade have given Americans good reason to cast doubt on the integrity of beltway institutions.
- Multiple whistleblowers within the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service have charged the DOJ with deliberately slow-walking investigations into Pres. Biden’s son, Hunter.
- Biden’s DOJ raided the home of a pro-life pastor for pushing a threatening pro-abortion agitator away from his young son, while militant abortion activists firebombed Christian pregnancy clinics.
- Biden’s DOJ charged a man with homicide for defending subway riders from a threatening vagrant, but do nothing to stop criminals who terrorize law-abiding citizens.
- Biden’s DOJ tried to give Hunter Biden a sweetheart plea deal that would’ve allowed him to avoid jail on tax and gun charges.
- A letter by three House committee chairman sent to AG Garland on August 28 cites 11 instances of special treatment given by U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ office – before Garland appointed Weiss to be the special counsel probing Hunter Biden’s potential crimes.
‘Tony Blinken Is Either a Naif, a Fool or Spreading Misinformation About $6B Sanctions Relief for Iran’: Victor Davis Hanson
“Do they think we are that stupid?” Historian and Author Victor Davis Hanson asked Sunday, as the Biden White House tried to rationalize giving $6 billion to Iran, in light of Hamas’s attack on Israel.
“But the more it spins, the clearer its culpability,” Hanson said in a social media post Sunday:
“Does [the Biden Administration] really believe that the long-agreed-upon U.S. green-lighting of $6 billion in sanctions relief to Iran has had no role in Iran’s terrorist support of Hamas, whether psychological or material or both? Do they think we are that stupid?”
“Even a first-grader” understands that, if a terrorist state knows it has $6 billion coming, it’ll be more emboldened to send arms to terrorists – and that those who give that terrorist state the $6 billion are also culpable.
Unless it’s spent directly on an item by its initial owner, money is interchangeable (“fungible”), like grain or wheat. Once it’s given to a third party and mixed in with other dollars, it can’t be said that any particular dollar in an account was spent on one specific thing and another dollar was spent on something else, Hanson explains.
“In short, (Sec. of State) Tony Blinken is either a naif, a fool, or to use his words ‘misinforming,’” Hanson says. “These administration megaphones who deny such fungibility always end up mouthing the same arguments as the lying and murderous theocracy in Tehran.”
“And are we really to believe, as told, that resumption of hundreds of millions dollars in aid to the Palestinians was also not fungible and used to aid the current murderous agendas of Hamas?” Hanson adds.
Americans need to realize that, when it comes to the Biden Administration, actions speak louder than words, Hanson says:
“Americans should not listen to what Biden’s team now conveniently says, but instead to what it actually does in the upcoming weeks when it is under fire by its base in the new woke Democratic Party, as the Israelis have to go into Gaza, end this toxic death machine, and confront the Hamas global propaganda machine.”
“A hard rain is soon going to fall abroad. And the United States better get its house in order,” Hanson warns, urging the Biden Administration to:
- Shore up the nation’s oil and gas supplies,
- Secure its borders,
- Un-woke the military, and
- Recalibrate faulty and politicized intelligence bureaus.
“We the American people should demand not one more American cent to these Gestapo and SS killers,” Hanson declares in a separate Sunday post.
Watch (LYING GAMER LAWYER) Mayorkas Mislead Americans on Border Wall
President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief is trying to quell progressive outrage and GOP glee after he announced he would build another 17 miles of President Donald Trump’s 450-mile border wall.
“There is no new administration policy with respect to the border wall,” Cuban-born Alejandro Mayorkas insisted at a press conference in Mexico on Thursday.
“The law requires the government to use these funds for this purpose,” he said.
But Mayorkas is a careful lawyer and politician.
He picks his words carefully as he tries to calm left-wing anger over the 17 extra miles of border wall — while also trying to persuade swing voters that the Biden administration has not opened the border.
His political zigzag is spotlighted in this sentence: “From Day One, this administration has made clear that a border wall is not the answer.”
\Left-wingers were pleased by Mayorkas’s claim that “a border wall is not the answer.” They include Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who demanded Mayorkas’s agency pull down the existing wall.
But his “not the answer” statement also allows ordinary Americans to falsely believe that Mayorkas wants to stop illegal migration.
The statement tricks Americans into thinking that Mayorkas is answering the public’s question — How do we stop illegal migration? — responded John Feere, a former top enforcement official in President Donald Trump’s administration.
In reality, Feere said, Mayorkas believes his most important question is, “How do we welcome mass illegal immigration?”
So Mayorkas is really “telling us that a strong border wall won’t impede his efforts to welcome mass illegal immigration,” Feere said.
“And it is true,” Feere added. For example, Mayorkas has opened numerous legal loopholes along the border that let millions of economic migrants walk past, sneak through, and fly over the border wall.
Voters are “confused, and the reality is the [migrants] are still coming,” Feere said.
On the same press conference stage as Mayorkas, Biden’s pro-migration Secretary of State Antony Blinken sketched the question facing Mayorkas:
Under the [2022] Los Angeles Declaration … at the last Summit of the Americans, we’re charged with taking coordinated actions [Added: so what must we do?] to stabilize flows, to expand regular pathways, to humanely manage all of our borders.
A top White House official at the press conference also described the border challenges and questions facing Mayorkas. Immigration czar Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall said:
We have discussed the importance of developing approaches that enable us to tackle the human [Added: not economic] crisis of irregular migration. That is both a humanitarian challenge, a public health challenge, and environmental challenge, and a security challenge [Added: but not an economic challenge] for the entire hemisphere.
The term “irregular migration” does not include the migrants invited through loopholes by Mayorkas.
On multiple occasions, Mayorkas has publicly described his goal of “expanding regular pathways” so employers can get all the foreign workers they want without offering higher wages to Americans.
“Regrettably, our legal immigration system is not designed to meet the needs of employers here in the United States,” Mayorkas told the Senate’s judiciary committee in May. He continued:
We have employers who are striving to hire, to find people who could fill jobs to contribute to our country’s economic prosperity. Regrettably, regrettably, our legal immigration system is not designed to meet that need of employers here in the United States, despite the fact that individuals from other countries want to come here to work — even seasonally, even temporarily — earn the money that they can bring back to their home countries and support their families there.
In December 2022, Mayorkas told ElPasoMatters.org:
We look to our partner to the north that has a much more nimble immigration system that can be retooled to the needs at the moment. For example, Canada is in need of 1 million workers and they have agreed that in 2023, they will admit 1.4 million … immigrants to fill that labor need that Canadians themselves cannot. We are stuck in antiquated laws that do not meet our current needs. And they haven’t been working for many, many years.
Canada’s cheap labor migration policy has been disastrous to millions of ordinary Canadians who have been damaged by falling wages and higher housing prices.
But Mayorkas “does still believe that there is some political value” to building more walls, Feere laughed, adding:
All of these people at Fox News [are] talking about “Oh, its really a border wall! It’s really a border wall” when in reality it doesn’t matter at all, and that [fuss] is a political distraction [from Mayorkas’s migration].
Since 2021, Mayorkas has made much progress in his effort to flood Americans’ labor market with migrants.
For example, he has allowed more than 4 million migrants through the border. That flood has helped to cut wages, spike rents, and reduce inflation. In September, he also won a court battle that will allow him to import many more foreign graduates for the Fortune 500 white-collar jobs needed by American graduates.
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans, because the population replacement allows elites and the establishment to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elite opinion about “the values of our country” Mayorkas claims.
Migration — and especially, labor migration — is unpopular among swing voters. A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “Invasion” majority included 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.
Blinken: ‘No U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Were Involved’ in Iran Support of Hamas Terror Attack
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that none of the $6 billion released by the U.S. for humanitarian aid in Iran was used to help fund Hamas’ attack against Israel on Saturday, which resulted in hundreds of deaths.
Anchor Dana Bash said, “While we’re talking about Iran, I have to ask you to, if you want to respond to what we’re hearing from Republicans who are over and over since this happened using word appeasement when it comes to Iran and they criticized the decision to unfreeze $6 billion in Iranian funds. I know and want to state that that money has not yet been unfrozen. Iran does not yet have it. But the accusation is that…your administration posture towards Iran has helped contribute to this. I want to give you a chance to respond.”
Blinken said, “Well, there are two things here. First, with regard to the funds that you mentioned, that were made available to Iran for humanitarian purposes. As part of getting Americans back who were being held or detained in Iran. Let’s be very clear about this and it is deeply unfortunate that so many are playing politics when Israel is under attack.”
He continued, “The facts are these, no U.S. taxpayer dollars were involved. These are Iranian resources that Iran has accumulated from the sales of oil that were stuck in a bank in South Korea. They have had from day one the right to use these monies for humanitarian purposes. They were moved from one account to another in another country to facilitate that use. As of now, not a single dollar has been spent from that account. The account is closely regulated by the U.S. Treasury Department. It could only be used for things like food, medicine, medical equipment. That is what this is about.”
Blinken added, “By the way, the previous administration set up a very similar mechanism so enable Iran to use its oil proceeds that were blocked in various places for humanitarian purposes. So, people are either misinformed or they’re misinforming and either way it is wrong.”
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