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2024 US Presidential Election
This reeks of them trying to set up one of Trump's kids as the fall guy for daddy.
And this next bit is important...
Jack Smith reveals sweeping scope of bid to debunk Trump election machine claims
In a new filing, his team described interviewing more than a dozen of the top intelligence officials in Trump’s administration.
www.politico.com
He Who Must Not Be Named: The Hunter Biden Indictment is Itself a Model of Evasion
Saturday, Dec 09, 2023 - 02:30 PMAuthored by Jonathan Turley,
Below is my column in the New York Post on the second indictment of Hunter Biden. The tax evasion charges were brought in a type of Voldemort indictment, skillfully detailing millions acquired from influence peddling without mentioning “he who must not be named.” Indeed, it says nothing of how or why millions were sent to Hunter.
Here is the column:
The 56-page indictment of Hunter Biden for tax evasion makes for racy reading, with the special counsel describing a four-year criminal pattern directed at maintaining Biden’s “extravagant lifestyle.”
That lifestyle included massive expenses for strippers, sex clubs, fast cars and other distractions.
The steps taken by Hunter to evade taxes are impressive, but not nearly as impressive as the efforts of the Justice Department to evade any direct implications for his father, President Biden.
In that sense, the indictment itself is a marvel of evasion.
There are three glaring omissions in the indictment that tend to shield critical payments and conduct that implicate the president.
The Burisma-Ukrainian money
First, the special counsel only indicts tax evasion that occurred in recent years.That’s because the long “investigation” into Hunter inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to expire on the most controversial payments starting around 2014 from Ukraine gas company Burisma.
Recent testimony from IRS whistleblowers suggests that wasn’t an accident. Investigators were stonewalled, they claimed, and the Justice Department was previously moving to reject any charges against Hunter Biden.
Exploring those earlier Ukrainian payments opens up questions about Hunter’s influence peddling and would have highlighted the conflict in his father’s extraordinary move to force the Ukrainians to fire a prosecutor investigating Burisma by holding back a billion dollars in aid for the country.
There is still no explanation why special counsel David Weiss would allow the statute of limitations to run out.
But this recent indictment keeps the focus squarely on taxes not paid, not how the money was “earned” in the first place.
Hunter the foreign agent
Also missing in the indictment is any charge against Hunter Biden as an unregistered foreign agent.Recently, the Justice Department added a charge to the indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) that he ran afoul of FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act. FARA also was used to go after Donald Trump associates such as Paul Manafort.
The problem with charging Hunter with FARA is obvious.
It opens up questions about the millions of dollars going to the Biden family from foreign sources, a topic that Attorney General Merrick Garland has spent years avoiding.
In the second indictment, Weiss spends more time detailing the salacious use of this money rather than how and why it was given to the Bidens.
He just matter-of-factly describes millions flowing through these accounts from China, Romania, Ukraine, Russia and other countries.
The unindicted co-conspirator
By focusing on tax evasion alone, Weiss again avoids any direct reference to the focus of the influence-peddling used to raise these millions of dollars.Even without mentioning the president, the implications of the indictment are devastating for the narrative and denials of Joe Biden.
The president has continued to maintain that he had no knowledge or interaction with these dealings. Those statements are clearly and knowingly false.
The president also maintained that his son has “never done anything wrong” and never accepted any money from China.
That is also untrue, according to the Justice Department and Hunter himself.
Yet Weiss continues to avoid any need to address the person who was the selling point of the influence peddling.
It was the same person who repeatedly called in to dinners and meetings, repeatedly attended events, and held meetings and photo shots for these clients.
Instead, Weiss indicts the failure to pay taxes on the proceeds of these dealings without addressing that underlying corruption.
It is akin to arresting a bank robber for speeding away from the crime scene without mentioning the reason for his flight.
In a scandal with dozens of references to the presidents and millions sent for influence and access, it took a steady hand for Weiss to avoid ever touching on President Biden’s role.
This was a truly Homeric feat — unseen since the Greek hero Odysseus won a competition by shooting an arrow through the tiny hole in a dozen ax heads.
It takes perfect aim not to avoid any contact. It is itself the very model of evasion.
Everything Biden said was a lie and totally made up.
Joe Biden’s mom died in 2010 and the Amtrak conductor, Angelo retired in 1993 – 22 years before Joe Biden hit 1 million miles on AF2.
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Joe Biden’s mom died in 2010 and the Amtrak conductor, Angelo retired in 1993 – 22 years before Joe Biden hit 1 million miles on AF2.
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liar in chief.
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this one is chock full of shit, per usual.
it'll be enough to beat The Chump, just like last time. he'll flail and cry AGAIN, but will have no more luck than before.
Brother Nature
Well-known member
I really doubt that it will hippy, the democrats have continuously proven how out of touch with their constituents they are over and over again, they only were lucky that Biden wasn’t trump, he’s done literally nothing to warrant being elected again except for the fact he’s not trump. Your country is in serious trouble and it’s not just due to the right.
that will be quite enough in my opinion. that's the only reason that millions of folks (including myself and other Republicans) voted for him last time. he is STILL the safest choice by a long shot. and now Chumps mask has slipped further, revealing his malignant desires to even more of the electorate.
Fascism is sexy to quite a few Americans these days.
Say what you will about fascism, it's still an ethos.
GasD
Member
Neither one of these geriatric fuck sticks should be president or any American politician for that matter. Until the bribery that is lobbying is made illegal and the electoral college is no more, none of this shit matters.
People on here rant and bitch about Biden's lies and Trump's dictatorial tactics but fail to see that they are one in the same. They're simply figureheads made to ignite stupidity, emotion, and violence among the working class. All while their rich and powerful backers and parties pass legislation.
Legislation that cuts education. Making their cheap labor force increasingly less intelligent. Legislation that cuts programs that aid small business owners, laid off workers, disabled people, the elderly, and many more. This in turns forces these people to take any job they can find no matter how low the wages, thus feeding their machine and pocketbooks. Legislation that promotes big pharma and privatized healthcare. Again forcing any one who needs medical care to take whatever menial job the can find that will give them horrible insurance with horrible rates. These are only a small percentage of the fallacies these "leaders" have committed against their own citizens. Yet we continue to argue and fight over which party is better.
We're the idiots, doing exactly what every politician expects. No party is better. It's beyond time that people realize a piece of paper written 250 years ago is not relevant in today's society. The technology that has been created should give us more freedom than ever before. Instead, it shackles the mind and fuels conflict between us.
People on here rant and bitch about Biden's lies and Trump's dictatorial tactics but fail to see that they are one in the same. They're simply figureheads made to ignite stupidity, emotion, and violence among the working class. All while their rich and powerful backers and parties pass legislation.
Legislation that cuts education. Making their cheap labor force increasingly less intelligent. Legislation that cuts programs that aid small business owners, laid off workers, disabled people, the elderly, and many more. This in turns forces these people to take any job they can find no matter how low the wages, thus feeding their machine and pocketbooks. Legislation that promotes big pharma and privatized healthcare. Again forcing any one who needs medical care to take whatever menial job the can find that will give them horrible insurance with horrible rates. These are only a small percentage of the fallacies these "leaders" have committed against their own citizens. Yet we continue to argue and fight over which party is better.
We're the idiots, doing exactly what every politician expects. No party is better. It's beyond time that people realize a piece of paper written 250 years ago is not relevant in today's society. The technology that has been created should give us more freedom than ever before. Instead, it shackles the mind and fuels conflict between us.
