Below is my column in The Messenger on the vote to hold Hunter Biden in contempt and the need for Democrats to seriously reconsider the costs of voting against the resolution. On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee voted to hold Hunter in contempt with every Democrat opposing the motion. Once again, the party is short selling an institutional asset that they are likely to need in the near future if they retake the House.
Here is the column:
This week, the Republican-controlled House will begin contempt proceedings against Hunter Biden with a vote expected as early as this week. That alone will be an historic moment for Congress to declare that the son of a sitting president may have committed a federal felony. However, the costs may not be borne by Hunter alone. If the Democratic members, as expected, unanimously oppose the contempt sanction, the party could fundamentally undermine its position in future investigations.
The Democratic leadership has made a series of similar decisions in the last decade that have cost the party dearly by opting for immediate political benefits over long-term interests. They are acting as the political version of short sellers who have given away institutional positions, only to find later that the costs were prohibitive.
That was the case when Democrats repeatedly undermined the Senate filibuster. Many of us warned Democratic senators that they would rue the day that they killed the rule. Nevertheless, in 2013, Democrats pushed through a rule change allowing most presidential nominees (but not Supreme Court nominees) to be confirmed by a simple majority vote. Then in 2017, when Republicans controlled the Senate, they extended the simple-majority rule change to justices, too — and when Democrats wanted the filibuster to block the High Court nominations of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh or Amy Coney Barrett during the Trump administration, it was gone.
Likewise, when Democrats first sought to impeach President Donald Trump, they held only one hearing in the House Judiciary Committee and discarded the development of the type of evidentiary record used in past impeachments. I warned that the record guaranteed an easy acquittal in the Senate and undermined the process of impeachment. They ignored such warnings and quickly impeached, then lost the case in the Senate. In a second impeachment, they went even further, using what I called a “snap impeachment” with no hearing of any kind.
Now, after using the first snap impeachment in history, Democrats are implausibly arguing that House Republicans have failed to support impeachment efforts against President Joe Biden and objected to the lack of hearings with particular witnesses.
They also have encouraged President Biden to act unilaterally in a host of areas, including his attempt to give away a half-trillion dollars in student loan debts.
When House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was targeted for removal by a handful of GOP members, many people urged Democrats not to support such a dysfunctional move when the nation had serious problems to address. Yet Democrats voted with the rebellious Republicans to oust McCarthy, and the whole effort caused weeks of disruption. It shattered a certain detente in such motions to vacate— and Republicans are very likely to return the favor during any future revolt against a Democratic speaker.
The political culture of short selling is nowhere more evident than in the “ballot-cleansing” efforts of Democratic officials and activists to remove Trump’s name from 2024 ballots as well as to remove primary opponents against Biden. The immediate satisfaction of blocking potential voters ignores the long-term costs of this distinctly anti-democratic measure. When presented with those implications, anti-Trump pundits often express anger. MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, for example, called such concerns “laughable” and told critics to “spare me the anti-democratic lectures.”
Now, Democrats are about to do another short sell. They are expected to unanimously oppose holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress despite his flagrant violation of a subpoena to appear for a standard closed deposition. It is the very same demand made by Democrats in prior congresses, before witnesses subsequently appeared for public hearings on controversies like the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) declared this week that there “is no precedent for the U.S. House of Representatives holding a private citizen in contempt of Congress who has offered to testify in public, under oath, and on a day of the committee’s choosing.” Raskin said that Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) “repeatedly urged Hunter Biden to appear at a committee hearing, and Hunter Biden agreed” — without mentioning, of course, that Hunter set his own conditions on any appearance.
So House Democrats — all of them — are expected to oppose holding a witness in contempt for openly defying a subpoena and instead holding a defiant press conference outside the Capitol. In doing so, Raskin and his colleagues will establish that in the future, when Democrats are in control, witnesses will be able to unilaterally refuse to appear for depositions with committee staff and to dictate the conditions under which they will appear for testimony.
No impartial judge would support such an absurd claim — but it will become the position of the Democratic Party going forward.
For real short sellers, the idea is to leverage money to buy stock or shares while betting that the stock or shares will decline in value. By selling them and then buying the cheaper securities, the short seller can return the cheaper shares to the lender while pocketing the difference. Of course, the problem is when the value of the things you are selling goes up.
That is precisely what has happened to past Democratic short sells, from Senate filibusters to House impeachments. The institutional rules they sold out proved to be very valuable within a couple years, when Republicans took control — leaving them with little beyond hypocrisy in crying foul.
What is most impressive, however, is the lack of criticism by party members or the media. These were costly mistakes, but the “lenders” seem entirely comfortable with the losses; they are enabling these bad trades for a party of short sellers.
With the Biden contempt vote, Democrats once again will be asked to think beyond the political moment or the next election. At some point, the costs of shielding the Bidens from an alleged corruption scandal will become prohibitively high. And, eventually, the Democratic Party will find itself one short-sell short of political and ethical bankruptcy.
Jonathan Turley, an attorney, constitutional law scholar and legal analyst, is the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at The George Washington University Law School.
Letter from Abbe Lowell to Comer today, arguing “the November 8 and 9, 2023, deposition subpoenas to Mr. Biden and the contempt resolutions approved by your committees on January 10, 2024, based on those subpoenas were and are legally invalid,” and stating “If you issue a new proper subpoena, now that there is a duly authorized impeachment inquiry, Mr. Biden will comply for a hearing or deposition. We will accept such a subpoena on Mr. Biden’s behalf.”:
https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/letter-from-a-lowell-to-chairmen-comer-and-jordan-hunter-biden-contempt-subpoenas-january-12-2024.pdf
This is yet more posturing by Hunter.
The initial subpoena is valid since the committee has subpoena powers.
(See the post by Sam below which shows an example of Bannon and Navarro getting indicted.)
It is more of Hunter playing games, hedging their bet.
As it is… Hunter could sit in the committee’s closed door hearing and plead the 5th under the advice of counsel.
Then they would only have to deal with the spin of implied guilt.
Dumb move on Hunter’s part and this is an attempt to walk some of it back.
-G
Sounds like somebody is worried about going to jail
Steve Bannon defied a congressional subpoena (issued by D’s). The result? Indicted and convicted.
Peter Navarro defied a congressional subpoena (issued by D’s). The result? Indicted and convicted.
Hunter Biden defied a congressional subpoena (issued by R’s). The result? The Left protects him.
The obvious conclusion? To the Left, the “law” is merely a political cudgel used to destroy the opposition. (As if we need yet another example.)
(Save the BS about Jordan, et al. Those are not the comparables. The three *private* citizens are. Further, the hypocrisy “argument” is a thinly veiled ad hominem — and has zero bearing on whether justice demands holding HB in contempt.)
(And save the deflections about Hunter offered this and that. And Comer offered this and that. Those are all a deceiver’s attempt to throw sand in peoples’ faces, to blind them to the *only* fact that matters: Subpoena. HB defied it.)
The DOJ has to get a referral from the House before they can indict on failure to respond to a House subpoena. The House has not voted to refer HB. Will they?
“The DOJ has to get . . .”
Thank you, Captain Obvious, for making a point that is completely irrelevant to my comment. Though it is a nice attempt, yet again, to deflect from that comment.
You might want to read Abbe Lowell’s letter to Comer today, arguing “the November 8 and 9, 2023, deposition subpoenas to Mr. Biden and the contempt resolutions approved by your committees on January 10, 2024, based on those subpoenas were and are legally invalid” for reasons he lays out at detail in the letter, and stating “If you issue a new proper subpoena, now that there is a duly authorized impeachment inquiry, Mr. Biden will comply for a hearing or deposition. We will accept such a subpoena on Mr. Biden’s behalf”:
https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/letter-from-a-lowell-to-chairmen-comer-and-jordan-hunter-biden-contempt-subpoenas-january-12-2024.pdf
Again this is more posturing by Hunter.
The hope is that they get a new subpoena issued which isn’t going to happen.
The old one stands.
Now if the DoJ decides not to go after Hunter claiming it was a defective subpoena… that would be very interesting.
If that happens, it’s yet another negative against the Biden Administration.
-G
Your opinion that it’s posturing. My opinion that it isn’t. Time will tell what happens legally.
Hunter’s contempt of Congress and the Democrats contempt of the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the rules and laws they enforced when they were in power, are a reflection of a deadly cult unmoored from reality. Their cult, espoused by their heroes Stalin, Mao and Castro, is a pernicious pathology incompatible to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Harvard, once the flagship institution of “veritas” in America, has become thoroughly irrelevant much like the religious, DEI, CRT, BLM, ANTIFA, Woke dogmas of the Left. The evil desperation of the Left, as seen in all sectors of American life, will not abate until it is destroyed in the same manner Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan articulated with Communism.
Marxism is here in America and spreading under the veil of Anti-Semitism globally. e.g. a former mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa posts online a picture of himself holding an assault rifle accompanied with the words “we stand with Hamas,” before quickly pulling it offline. The since-deleted post by Thapelo Amad read: “We stand with Hamas, Hamas stands with us, together we Palestin [sic] and Palestin [sic] will be free. Without souls, without our blood, we will conquer Al AQSA,” screen captures of it show.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-mayor-of-johannesburg-posts-photos-holding-rifle-praising-hamas/
Teach your children, form their conscience, role model for them and others what virtue looks like. Start within and work outwardly like in the parable of the Good Samaritan. We are in a battle against evil, nothing more, nothing less. We ignore it at our peril.
……
Bill Ackman
@BillAckman
Yesterday, @Harvard was sued by a group of students due to pervasive antisemitism on campus.
The complaint is best described as devastating.
Based on the alleged facts which are consistent with what I have heard from students and faculty on campus, and what I have seen with my own eyes, I expect that Harvard will lose.
The complaint can be found below. It is a must read:
https://kasowitz.com/media/unxcnvpo/harvard-complaint.pdf
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
1. Harvard, America’s leading university, has become a bastion of rampant anti- Jewish hatred and harassment. Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and slaughtered, tortured, raped, burned, and mutilated 1,200 people—including infants, children, and the elderly—antisemitism at Harvard has been particularly severe and pervasive. Mobs of pro-Hamas students and faculty have marched by the hundreds through Harvard’s campus, shouting vile antisemitic slogans and calling for death to Jews and Israel. Those mobs have occupied buildings, classrooms, libraries, student lounges, plazas, and study halls, often for days or weeks at a time, promoting violence against Jews and harassing and assaulting them on campus. Jewish students have been attacked on social media, and Harvard faculty members have promulgated antisemitism in their courses and dismissed and intimidated students who object. What is most striking about all of this is Harvard’s abject failure and refusal to lift a finger to top and deter this outrageous antisemitic conduct and penalize the students and faculty who perpetrate it.
2. Harvard’s antisemitism cancer—as a past Harvard president termed it—manifests itself in a double standard invidious to Jews. Harvard selectively enforces its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment, hires professors who support anti-Jewish violence and spread antisemitic propaganda, and ignores Jewish students’ pleas for protection. Those professors teach and advocate through a binary oppressor-oppressed lens, through which Jews, one of history’s most persecuted peoples, are typically designated “oppressor,” and therefore unworthy of support or sympathy. Harvard permits students and faculty to advocate, without consequence, the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel, the only Jewish country in the world. Meanwhile, Harvard requires students to take a training class that warns that they will be disciplined if they engage in sizeism, fatphobia, racism, transphobia, or other disfavored behavior……
NEVER forget in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn vs [SATANIC] Cuomo, that it says, “Not only is there no evidence that the applicants (Catholics) have contributed to the spread of COVID-19, but there are many other less restrictive rules that could be adopted to minimize the risk to those attending religious services.” But see, PUG FACE Andrew Cuomo was targeting Catholics. Like the targeted Christians. Now he’s targeting JEWS. This is how they start, these you know what they are. THEY ALL HAVE ANTI-GOD in common. The CUOMOS of the world HATE Christians, Jews and Catholics because all three of these religions believe in the only REAL GOD. All other religions are of the devil. TRUTH. Though it’s also trues some Jews and catholics and christians aren’t “saved” because they don’t really believe in the real God, but are only playing church, Perhaps this is why bible says NARROW is the way that leads to life, and few find it, but WIDE is the road of destruction and MANY are on it. Choose wisely, even if you don’t understand. Always choose God, JESUS IS LORD> Holy Trinity. TRUTH. Way. Life. Don’t be fooled. Do not take that mark on your hand or forehead. EVER> Covid vaccines were NOT the mark of beast. Calm down already. BUt it was a test run to see compliance. Don’t panic. Choose wisely There is no other name under heaven by which man or woman or trans or anyone can be saved…..only JESUS can save. No joke. Yes, you feel like laughing while reading this…omg this person is nutso, a lunatic…but oh no, it’s true….everything said here is truth. Believe it or not. It’s your choice MO FOS. Wee……………Big wheels keep on turnin’, proud Mary keeps on….rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ on a river. h oh wowman like totally you get that they like be trying to figthisoutmanandwtfmanthisaint no1963baaaabbbby.
Earlier today:
Reporter: Do you agree with what your lawyers argued that you could not be prosecuted if you ordered Seal Team Six to kill your political opponent?
Trump: If a President of the United States does not have immunity, he’ll be totally ineffective.
Remember, the reason Trump’s lawyers let themselves fall into that legal trap on Tuesday is because Trump believes that is a scenario for which he believes he should have immunity.
Do Americans want a president who believes he can’t be prosecuted for executing people who disagree with him?
Find out this November!
Yes
Next stupid question
No. Biden will win, just like he won in 2020, and Trump will end up in prison.
He is down eight points in Michigan according to a poll published yesterday. He can’t win again without Michigan.
Which doesn’t tell us about November.
My prediction: the Court of Appeals will rule against Trump on criminal immunity, and SCOTUS will likely deny cert. The DC criminal case will move forward, and Trump will be found guilty … because he’s guilty of the crimes alleged.
And the electorate will choose Biden in November.
Maybe I’m wrong about that, but I’m right that a lot can happen between now and November, and a poll now doesn’t tell us much.
A lot will happen. It’s sink or swim time.
The DoJ Office of Legal Counsel has maintained for decades a ‘sitting president’ cannot be indicted. Thus, for better or worse, shifting the burden of responsibility onto Congress in removing scurrilous Executive malefactors through impeachment.
Granted, the impeachment process has never met with much success, but 0-2 for Trump smacks of over-zealous spite.
There’s a big difference between ‘immunity’ for staging a ‘Stop the Steal’ rally and for ordering Seal Team Six to assassinate your political opponent.
*afaict, only the Obama/Biden admin. assassinated American citizens without due process . .. one can only assume they were ‘political opponents’.
“There’s a big difference between ‘immunity’ for staging a ‘Stop the Steal’ rally and for ordering Seal Team Six to assassinate your political opponent.”
I agree. But on Tuesday, Trump’s lawyer, Sauer, agreed with Judge Pan that Trump’s position is “a President is immune from criminal prosecution for any official act that he takes as President, even if that action is taken for an unlawful or unconstitutional purpose,” with one exception, “if the President is impeached and convicted by the United States Senate.” (quoting from the oral argument)
Sauer said on Tuesday that if the President were to order Seal Team 6 to assassinate a rival (keeping in mind that legally, giving an order to Seal Team 6 is an official act), the President could only be prosecuted if he’d first been impeached and convicted, and if he hadn’t been impeached and convicted, there was nothing the courts could do. So, you know, just assassinate a rival and then resign, and you get away with it. Or assassinate a rival, and then assassinate a bunch of Senators so that you don’t get convicted in the Senate. Can you admit that this is a ludicrous position that Trump’s lawyers are arguing on his behalf?
There is no way that the DC Court of Appeals is going to agree.
Maybe they’re going to say that they can’t take up an interlocutory appeal yet, and push the ruling on immunity til after the trial. Or maybe they’ll say that Presidents do not have absolute immunity for criminal acts even if they’re official. But they’re not going to agree that a President has absolute immunity for criminal acts as long as they’re official acts or within the outer perimeter of official acts.
And no, al Awlaki was not a political opponent and he was not assassinated; he was a terrorist and was killed to combat his terrorism, not for political reasons. For better or worse, the President’s war powers allow him to do things in a war in another country that would be illegal if done in the US.
>”Sauer said on Tuesday that if the President were to order Seal Team 6 to assassinate a rival (keeping in mind that legally, giving an order to Seal Team 6 is an official act), the President could only be prosecuted if he’d first been impeached and convicted, and if he hadn’t been impeached and convicted, there was nothing the courts could do.”
If a president is not impeached and removed from office for ordering Seal Team 6 to assassinate a rival .. . I doubt anything the courts could do would be an effective remedy.
*al Alwaki, iirc, and his 16 year old son were American citizens. Any [alleged] allegations of criminal/terrorist conduct requires a public defense in a U.S. court of law.
I know that they were American citizens. So was his daughter, killed in a raid authorized by Trump (though like his son, not targeted).
The ACLU filed suit in Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta. It was dismissed in 2014 and the family decided not to appeal. If you want to read the court’s ruling: https://casetext.com/case/al-aulaqi-v-panetta-2
And there it is. Thx, I’d lost track of that case. .. they should have appealed, as a matter of general principle.
The ruling makes no distinction whatsoever drawn between ‘criminal’ activity, punishable by a jury of peers, and a classified ‘terrorist’ designation, punishable by hell-fire drone. If Obama/Biden say you’re a ‘terrorist’, bombs away.
Just declare war on ‘terror’, and 2,000 years of hard-won jurisprudence and civil rights thrown out the window like yesterdays curdled milk.
*I can see how that would be a strong precedent for Trump’s ‘immunity’ defense.
It’s not a strong precedent, which is why it wasn’t cited in Trump’s briefs. Trump’s alleged crimes occurred in the US.
And immunity from prosecution prevents imbeciles like you for deciding which is which
Little dreamer
Sounds like you want a king who has absolute immunity, not a President who takes an oath to uphold the Constitution.
So, yes, you want a president who believes he can’t be prosecuted for executing people who disagree with him.
Wow. Should Biden take Trump supporters up on that?
Oh look, Gigi is back
Come back soon Gigi, i love these little chats.
So far I’ve watched 3 hours of the Oversight Committee’s Wednesday hearing. The Democrats are a joke to say the least. they tried all sorts of deflections such Jan 6th, the failure of 3 Rs to respond to J6 subpoenas, the disengenousness of saying well Hunter was here we could of questioned him today (Wed), (Rs carefully explained why a closed door deposition was needed)Trump’s alleged violation of the emoluments clause. Trump is the first President that I know of who actually owned a business while in office. as one of the Rs noted the Bidens didn’t have a business whereas Trump did/does
This was a 3 ring circus and the Democrats embarrassed themselves
“Trump is the first President that I know of who actually owned a business while in office.”
Nope. There have been Presidents before Trump — like Jimmy Carter, who put his business into a blind trust while in office.
Trump made millions from foreign governments while in office. And he said that he got paid for providing services. But the Cult of Trump doesn’t care about that.
Steaming turd from Svelaz, still posting here after being banned.
^^^^Coprophilic commenter
^^^^Steaming turd from sex fetish turd eater
Steaming turd from lying coward lawn boy, still here after promising to leave.
Estovir, explain to us why ‘you’ aren’t banned. Because if ‘anyone’ should be banned it is ‘you’ beyond a doubt.
Because you’re a kunt. Next question?
Because if Estovir is banned, i will still be here to skvll fvck you, you little paranoid delusional twat
Necrophiliac^^^^
Brain dead is still a warm body, Lawn Boy fetish tracker.
We love profits.
America was established to facilitate the generation and acquisition of profits.
Profits are good.
Greed is good.
Slovenliness, dependence and parasitism is bad, comrade.
Government has the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and general Welfare (i.e. all, or the whole, well proceed), and the power to regulate ONLY the value of money, the flow of commerce, and land and naval Forces.
You only like some parts of the Constitution. You don’t like the emoluments clause.
Rent is not a payoff.
Depends on who it comes from and what they get in return.
It doesnt depend who it comes from you ignorant cvnt
And rent is self explanatory what its for except for ignorant cvnts
Peter K is Tom/Estovir.
Anonymous is turdrunner who used to be brandrunner until he lost his scrotum in a run in with Tom
I think the J6 Committee referral to the House Ethics Committee was an appropriate response to the failure of 5 House Republicans to comply with a J6 Committee subpoena. The Ethics Committee should provide a public and substantive response to the referral.
Trump’s civil fraud trial ended today. The judge got a bomb threat at his house this morning.
L. Luppen: “In an ordinary media environment, there would be some kind of pressure for Trump to denounce the bomb threat against the judge in his civil case, urge his rabid supporters to be peaceful, and reflect on the way he inspires terrorist violence. But we don’t live in that world.”
Guess he shoulda thought about that before he decided to become a sycophant. Fvck that pedophile. He has admitted violating the constitution. I have no sympathy.
And that leticia james. Look at that fvcking smirk on her face in the courtroom. Why was she there? We all know. Then afterwards claimed its not political or personal. As if we havent seen all of her “get trump” videos from before she was elected.
Trump owes nothing to these evil people.
Judge Engoron is not a pedophile, nor has he violated the Constitution. Why lie?
As for your opinions about James, opinions aren’t facts.
Judge Engoron will be the one to determine what Trump owes in disgorgement. Don’t bet on him owing nothing.
Since mara lago is “worth only 18 million”, the smirkler could take half and charge Trump 9 million.
The smirkler will suddenly get over value syndrome, a crime, according to the smirkler, when he tallies up his thievery disgorgement amounts.
Shakdi is Tom/Estovir’s antisemitic puppet. Look for Shakdi to use ‘jew’ as a smear.
So I’m only allowed to post facts, and not my opinion?
Or do we all just hold our breath waiting for you to parse which is which.
Like i said, the videos are there. Its personal. It became political when she ran on it. That smirk may not tell you anything, but you just lost your credibility for parsing anything.
i didnt just say he violated the constitution. I said he admitted it. Go watch the video or stfu about it. And unless you spent every minute of the last 50 years with Engmoron, him not being a pedophile is just your opinion, not a fact.
He is an unconvicted pedophile. See dennis for how thats a thing.
So you’re an unconvicted pedophile, thanks for letting us know.
Fair enough. And so are you. The difference is, you cornhole little boys, and i dont.
The final story will unfold in the appellate court.
The issue raised in the OP — “In an ordinary media environment, there would be some kind of pressure for Trump to denounce the bomb threat against the judge in his civil case, urge his rabid supporters to be peaceful, and reflect on the way he inspires terrorist violence. But we don’t live in that world.” — is not a matter for the Appeals Court.
Trump could condemn the person who called in the false bomb threat against the judge. But he won’t. Trump finds nothing wrong with people threatening a judge he dislikes. He is a malignant narcissist.
“Trump could condemn . . .”
And the Left could have condemned the “summer of love” riots. Instead, they supported them.
Keep shedding your crocodile tears.
BS. Plenty of people on the left condemned the violence. Examples that came up in a quick search: Biden, Harris, Obama, Pelosi, Rep. Clyburn, the Democratic Mayors of Chicago (Lori Lightfoot) and Portland (Ted Wheeler).
Will you accept that you wrong?
“As for your opinions about James, opinions aren’t facts.”
That she ran for AG on a campaign of “get Trump” is not an opinion. It’s a fact.
In a just world, that alone would disqualify her from this case.
Yeah, god forbid that someone say in their campaign that they’re going to bring a law-breaker to justice.
In an ordinary media environment, there would be pressure on everyone to denounce Letitia James for bringing this prosecution.
Why? Trump was already found liable for fraud. Her job is to prosecute people who break the law.
Turley is so pathetically predictable: “If the Democratic members, as expected, unanimously oppose the contempt sanction, the party could fundamentally undermine its position in future investigations.” You mean, like Republicans failing to do anything about Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry and Andy Biggs, each of whom ignored J6 Committee subpoenas? AND, the crucial difference is this: there is NO evidence that Joe Biden ever benefitted from anything Hunter Biden did or failed to do, but there’s massive evidence against the Republicans who participated in and/or supported the insurrection. Republicans and Turley have lost all credibility.
Gigi, Professor Turley, an academic, has a peculiar tendency to cherry pick the facts.
The truth is that Turley’s day-job, as Law Professor, conflicts with his sideline as Fox pundit. In that latter capacity, Turley is a lawyer defending rightwing talking points.
^^^^ Steaming turd, from dennis, posing as anonymous
Instead of simply admitting she was wrong, and meant to say that hunter never held a public office, she doubles down on her pathetic dose of unreality and lies AGAIN.
Pathetic
Being a member of the military is NOT “holding a public office “.
You are the epitome of white privilege, coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. What are you afraid of? You have no balls.
– Rep. Nancy Mace, a woman with bigger balls than Elvis bug’s Wallyturdrunner
🍒
Da Stooge: you mistake her brain for her “balls”–her brain being the approximate size of human “balls”. She’s nothing but a lying, loudmouth ignoramus–she declared Hunter Biden guilty, despite the fact that she knows there’s no evidence of any wrongdoing by JOE Biden. Yeah, she wants Hunter to be summarily jailed, but ignores the fact that her fellow Republicans, including Jordan, McCarthy, Perry and Biggs, all of whom participated in and/or supported the insurrection, all ignored Congressional subpoenas.
Where is America headed with the likes of Hunter Biden and “Mr. Fundamentally Transforming the United States of America,” Barack Hussein “Barry ‘I-Have-A-Statue-In-Jakarta’ Soetoro” Obama in attendance?
The Prentis Cycle
From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to courage; from courage to freedom; from freedom to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency ; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to fear; from fear to dependency; and from dependency back to bondage once more
– Henning Webb Prentis Jr.
“DEMOCRACY CAN EXIST ONLY UNTIL DEPENDENT PEOPLE VOTE THEMSELVES LARGESS OUT OF THE PUBLIC TREASURY”
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy–to be followed by a dictatorship.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville
I don’t like typing this. Mr. Turley you lost my respect first paragraph- second word in the fourth sentence. You are playing the word manipulation game. The democrat political party are not the democratic political party, and you know this.
Jonathan: As it turns out DJT was allowed to make some brief remarks during the closing arguments in his civil fraud case before Judge Engoron–who insisted DJT confine himself to the facts. DJT ignored that part and told the Judge: “Well, I think your honor that I think this case goes outside just facts”. Then DJT went on to complain that “the facts are the financial statements are perfect [No, they were fraudulent!], that there are no witnesses against us” [No again, a number of witnesses testified against DJT]…and the case is a “political witch hunt”, etc., etc..
So Judge Engoron bent over backwards to give DJT a chance to speak–not so much for the court but for his supporters. DJT’s remarks won’t matter in the end. DJT will lose his real estate “empire” in NY and everything that goes with it!
Today, outside of the courthouse, Trump claimed Letitia James drove Exxon out of New York after they paid billions of dollars in taxes in NY. In reality, Exxon relocated their corporate HQ’s from NY to Texas in 1989. James became NY AG in 2019.
Yep, Trump is an full blown expert at going outside of the facts.
Anonymous: thank you. And, do Trumpsters care about this new lie and yet another baseless attack? Uh, no.
Maybe he just read that in Vox, gigi, so its not really a lie, he was just repeating what he was told.
Kunt
Who are the victims of this purported fraud?
Congress should vote Hunter in contempt.
Congress should vote Nikki Haley in contempt.
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“Everybody knows it’s true. Chaos follows him. We have to stop the chaos, but you can’t defeat Democrat chaos with Republican chaos, and that’s what Donald Trump gives us.”
– Nikki Haley
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“Donald gives us!”
Oh, —- yes!
Nikki Haley totally missed the illegal and unconstitutional Obama Coup D’etat in America against Real President Donald J. Trump, which was and is the “chaos” that Haley refers to.
The “temp,” Rod Rosenstein, started the ball rolling with “Russia, Russia, Russia,” which John Durham found to be phantom, false and “fake.”
How’d that “Mueller thing” work out for the communist (liberal, progressive, socialist, democrat, RINO, AINO) American, Deep Deep State “Swamp” “Regime,” Barack, Hillary et al.?
The Obama Coup D’etat in America continues with all the Obama recruits and allies, including the “Justice Sistas,” AG Leticia James and DA Fani Willis, grossly and egregiously abusing power and falsely and maliciously prosecuting Trump for what consistently and in every instance is ultimately revealed to be no discernible criminal activity.
Chaos indeed, Niksta, chaos indeed.
An impartial and objective DOJ and FBI, dedicated to discharging their duties and responsibilities, would have already opened investigations of James and Willis.
Federal and State constitutions address crimes of high, medium, and low office.
Certainly, the offices of the NY AG and Fulton County DA are among the lowest in America.
“Fundamentally transforming the United States of America” IS insurrection, subversion, sedition, and treason.
Joe: “Hunter is the smartest person I know.” Based on what America has seen since 01.20.21, he is probably right. That makes once.
I’d be interested to know what Joe thinks about his son flipping off Congress twice and what did he advise in advance. Pretty bizarre behavior for a 53-year-old lawyer. Apparently the next scheme to make money off the Biden name is a documentary. Work is for us little people I guess.
From today’s WSJ:
“At the time Jan. 6 witnesses were defying subpoenas, President Biden was asked what should be done. “I hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable criminally,’’ he said. He later said this was a decision for the Justice Department, but his public statement had already sent a signal to prosecutors about what to do. Someone might ask the President if he’s still for accountability—or believes his son is an exception.”
I am a lifelong Independent, I do not think republicans are inherently better. I do believe in our Constitution and the rule of law. Decades ago, so did democrats. That is no longer the case. I no longer vote for democrats; haven’t for years and will not ever again. Your ideology is absurdity, and you have passed it onto your kids in a distillate that might as well be, ‘Blah, blah, blah *gay black person, give us money*. I never will again. You all are the tyrants we were warned about; those of you who are just voters are so myopically asleep it’s like you don’t exist as a human on earth; and if you don’t realize it, you need to get the heck off your phone and out of your bubble. Find that compassion you brag about when it’s convenient and extend it to the actual people in front of you suffering.