[FOX] A former U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to desertion after leaving his post while deployed in Afghanistan and was subsequently captured and tortured by the Taliban had his court-martial conviction vacated Tuesday.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton in Washington D.C. said that military judge Jeffrey Nance, who presided over the court-martial of Bowe Bergdahl,
...that’s former Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who deliberately left his base to meet up with the Taliban in 2009, for which he was charged with desertion and some other things before President Obama decided to trade him for some high value Talibs who were taking up space in Guantanamo. After five years as a Taliban prisoner he was traded for Mohammad Fazl, Khairullah Khairkhwa, Abdul Haq Wasiq, Norullah Noori, and Mohammad Nabi Omari. All five went on to high positions in the Taliban government...
failed to disclose that he had applied to the executive branch for a job as an immigration judge, creating a potential conflict of interest.
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This new ruling makes sense only if it is established that Bowe Bergdahl applied to the Taliban for citizenship status. Otherwise the conflict is a non sequitur.
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Why bother to have a separate military justice system at all?
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Walton presided over the Scooter Libby case. He has been promoted by Reagan, both Bushes, and John Roberts. He got his law degree from American University in D.C.
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AyPee
Bloomberg
Rooters
Scripps
Yahoo News (insert 98% of the rest here)
The list goes on......
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News outlets have carried the water for their favored politicians since the foundering of our country. Turns out this time it was urine. Joe Biden gave the entire country a golden shower and told us it’s raining. A very few news outlets handed us the needed umbrella.
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FauxNews was anti-Trump enough to give Joe some backhanded assistance too.
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It's not prostitution. It's teamwork.
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"Unrealistic scheduling". I can't wait to see what is considered "realistic". Lemme guess: the Coastal corridors with some occasional jumps to Chiraq.
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Just when you think buttboy can't be any more incompetent and stupid.
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How hard can it be to make the jump from gender studies to avionics?
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Free Flight School voucher with your COVID booster shot!
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Yep, nothing a good ol "investigation " won't fix.
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Magoo or Clouseau would be an upgrade.
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My first commercial flight as a passenger was on a Convair 580, then ID'd as MSP to SAN. All pax were nicely dressed and respectful to the aircrew and one-another. Nowadays, well, we've all seen the Vids.
It's gonna' be "fun" when pilots with advanced EEOC and ESG ratings take the left seat. Some of the flights will be, er, spectacular, I'm certain.
I predict thence fast adoption of ground-controlled, ala drone, flight crewing. Once the (then armed?) stews are done away with, Mad Max in a tube time.
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This is a product of the military drawdowns. I went to flight school in 1990. We had a new flight class every 2 weeks. After the Gulf War and the European drawdown we had six classes per year. We knew this would happen, raised the flags on it and was met with silence and the "Let the market sort it out" comments. Get used to it. If they fixed the flight school today it would take 10 to 15 years to get them as captains...
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If they forgave everyone who left because of vaccine mandates, the problem wouldn’t be nearly so dire.
In the meantime, a young Marine of my acquaintance, who recently left after his four years was up, plans to become a commercial pilot in two years, thanks to the GI bill and the skills he acquired while wearing the uniform.
I'm not part of the culture, but you'd think that *somebody* would have said "Bad optics here, boss. This needs to be fixed" and so on up the food chain until you get to the person who can do it from petty cash.
Or are the Marines not doing "Improvise, Adapt and Overcome" anymore? Too much toxic masculinity, I suppose.
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This is like spreading a mayonnaise of stupidity on the giant cow pie of failure that was the withdrawal of Afghanistan. Any competent politician would be scrambling with the urgency of a reactor scram to shut down all discussion of that debacle. Stiffing a Gold Star family is not the way to bury the Kabul sniper stand down order.
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In totally unrelated news, the military continues to have difficulty meeting its recruitment targets.
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^ More of that bad luck? (Gaulic shrug)
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The most shocking part for me was cost. I understand that the DoD flew the body to Roseville, CA for a family ceremony, presumptively at the family's wishes. Subsequently, they wanted her buried in Arlington, so in essence the outrage is about the second transport of from Roseville, CA to Arlington for burial, not being paid for by DoD. It is not unreasonable to have a policy that provides burial transportation to Home of Record or equivalent, but not subsequent movement. In this case, special efforts might have been sage given the egregious waste of her life through layers of incompetence and politics. The shock for me was a transportation cost of $60,000 to move the body from California to DC! Something about that just reeks of dishonesty or ridiculous excess.
Google search gave the following:
"How much does it cost to transport a casket by plane?
As mentioned above, ground transportation is a per-mile charge, whereas air transportation is a set airline shipment for a flight. Airline cargo funeral shipment fees within the U.S. can range between $600 - $3,000. It is important to note that ONLY a known shipper can make arrangements to ship a dead body by cargo."
[NYPOST] First son Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to federal tax and gun charges Wednesday, a dramatic about-face after his wrist-slap, probation-only plea deal fell apart Wednesday over his demand for blanket immunity from accountability for all criminal conduct — including alleged illegal foreign lobbying.
The stunning turn of events came more than 90 minutes into the hearing at the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Del., where Hunter was expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay taxes and enter a diversion program on a felony federal weapons charge.
Prosecutors admitted under questioning from US District Judge Maryellen Noreika that President Biden’s 53-year-old son still could be charged with offenses including failing to register as a foreign agent for lucrative dealings in countries such as China and Ukraine that allegedly involved his father.
"As far as I’m concerned, the plea agreement is null and void," defense attorney Chris Clark reportedly told the court in response a little before noon.
Both sides then tried to move forward with a revised plea deal that specified Hunter would face no additional charges linked to tax crimes from 2014 to 2019 — or any counts involving his drug use and associated gun ownership crimes. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... Noreika indicated she needed more information about the new deal, forcing the first son to enter a pro forma plea of not guilty before the hearing was adjourned.
[PJMedia] Well, well, well, if it isn’t another day in the life of Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, where even his legal team seems to have caught the ’Biden Bug’ of bending the rules when it suits them. This time, they’re facing possible sanctions over accusations of lying in a criminal tax case. Just wonderful.
The Delaware judge presiding over the case, Maryellen Noreika, has threatened Biden’s legal team with sanctions over allegations of lying to the clerk’s office. Apparently, they’ve been accused of avoiding proper court procedures to get information about IRS whistleblowers removed from the docket. But hey, who needs proper court procedure when you can just pick up the phone and ask the clerk to seal the information, right?
Specifically, a lawyer from Hunter’s legal team, Jessica Bengels, is accused of misrepresenting who she was when asking to remove amicus materials from the docket. Now, I’m no lawyer, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how it’s supposed to work. But then again, when you’re part of the Biden entourage, who knows what the rules are?
The judge’s order read, "It appears that the caller misrepresented her identity and who she worked for in an attempt to improperly convince the clerk’s office to remove the amicus materials from the docket." But, of course, Biden’s legal team insists it was all just an "unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication." Ah, the old "miscommunication" excuse. Classic.
In a correspondence that Fox News managed to acquire, Biden’s legal representatives assured the judge that the attorney who had contacted the clerk had truthfully stated her association with her legal firm. They wrote, "We have no idea how the misunderstanding occurred, but our understanding is there was no misrepresentation." Well, that clears it up then, doesn’t it? Bengels certainly didn’t lie to get her way — of course not! Why would she do that?! It’s not as if Hunter and his friends are used to getting away with lies, deceit, and blatant corruption. Or is it?
Meanwhile, on Wednesday (today), Hunter Biden will plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax going back to 2017 and 2018. He "forgot" to pay more than $100,000 in taxes those two years. But hey, who hasn’t forgotten to pay a hundred grand in taxes? I’m sure it was truly an innocent mistake. Twice.
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While Hunter was in court Joe Biden was attending a methane gas emissions party....the first ever at the White House.
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Stunning details of how corrupt the deal was in a tweet by Sol Weisenberg:
Sol Wisenberg
@WisenbergSol
This just in: The judge won't accept the proposed plea deal at least for now.
Some thoughts: Now we know why DOJ didn’t show us the plea agreement terms. What didn't they want us to know ahead of time? A) a global immunity deal for Hunter; B) A binding plea (that is, the judge must accept the specific terms if she accepts the agreement); C) Misdemeanor probation; D) Other unusual plea terms.
1. A global immunity deal for Hunter while the overall investigation is “ongoing”, is stunning—a super-sweetheart deal.
2. A binding plea is extremely unusual in the vast majority of federal jurisdictions. It means for example, that if the agreement calls for probation the judge must give Hunter probation. It is binding.
3. That the prosecution and defense would disagree about the terms of the agreement in open court is a joke. Ambiguous terms in a plea agreements are construed against the government! There should be no room for disagreement on the key terms of the agreement. So, this was either astounding incompetence or corruption on DOJ’s part. I think it is corruption. This looks like a wink and a nod deal (as
@shipwreckedcrew
has noted) where DOJ would have plausible deniability if the judge asked no questions and accepted the deal. The scope of immunity is the most important feature of a plea deal. It is inconceivable that the prosecutors were incompetent here. Leo Wise has an excellent reputation for competence.
4. Think about this. DOJ was about to sanction a plea deal where Hunter would get misdemeanor probation on serious tax charges plus pretrial diversion (no time served or criminal record) on the felony gun charge. Hunter would also get complete immunity on all other charges. And he would not have to cooperate with the government’s ongoing investigation. Totally disgraceful. Merrick Garland and David Weiss should be ashamed. And where is Lisa Monaco? Why hasn't she been called to testify?
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I think the DOJ realized that this was not going to wash with the American people.
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These are all federal charges, right? So the president has the power to pardon Hunter on all charges, present and future. So why doesn't he just do that and tell the DOJ to concentrate on Trump like they were told to do?
Yeah, yeah. I know. People will be upset because Hunter got a REAL sweetheart deal. No time, no record, not even probation. So what?
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Maybe some DoJ people are starting to grasp there will come a day when Bidet is not prexident anymore.
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This was the avenue to clear Hunter without a pardon. The pardon will make the actual impeachment vote interesting. What would Romney and Murkowski do?
The idea of the plea deal was to clear Hunter in a way that was acceptable to the CNN hosts. This adds full to the heat under Joes chair. He now has to pardon himself, Hunter and Archer. Archer is not going to want to do a long time in jail before he is sprung.
This leads to an interests set of questions that they are likely war gaming. How soon to resign? Who else needs pardons? Does he pardon the foreigners? Will a Republican president charge the CCP operatives rather than sanction them?
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I think their polls are telling them Kamala-lala-ding-dong would be beaten in 2024 by PeeWee Herman.
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New Conditions of Release-This should be interesting!
Hunter must also, "if directed by the pretrial services office or supervising officer," participate in a "program of inpatient or outpatient substance abuse therapy or counseling."
That means Hunter Biden is now, potentially, subject to random testing to ensure compliance with his conditions of release which, again, prohibit any consumption of alcohol or use of illicit drugs.
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Stupidest thing in the deal was if Hunter messed up his probation, the Judge would have to bring charges which in the US only law enforcement and prosecutors in the US bring charges, not Judges. That is why the Judge said the deal was unconstitutional and the defense attorneys quickly withdrew the deal. The idiots were caught hoping the Judge was stupid.
[NY Post] Pardon Time!
First son Hunter Biden’s plea agreement was collapsing Wednesday as federal prosecutors declined to rule out charging the political scion with other crimes in the future.
The stunning turn of events came more than 90 minutes into the hearing at the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Del., where Hunter had been expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay taxes and enter a diversion program on a felony federal weapons charge.
But prosecutors told US District Judge Maryellen Noreika there was still a possibility the first son would be charged with offenses including failing to register as a foreign agent
Biden had appeared confident ahead of his plea hearing Wednesday, showing up alongside his "sugar brother," attorney Kevin Morris.
Morris, a Hollywood-based lawyer and Democratic donor, was spotted smoking a bong last week outside his Los Angeles home while Hunter, a recovering drug addict, paid a visit.
Hunter Biden agreed last month to plead guilty to failing to pay at least $100,000 on more than $1.5 million in earned income in both 2017 and 2018.
He also agreed to admit to lying about his crack cocaine use on a federal firearm purchase form in 2018.
He faces a maximum sentence of two years’ probation for the tax crimes and 10 years in a federal prison for lying on the gun purchase form.
Under the diversion agreement for the gun charge, Hunter must remain sober, submit to drug testing and avoid committing other crimes for two years.
He also may not own a firearm again.
Morris has been a central — and mysterious — figure in Hunter’s orbit since they met at a December 2019 Biden fundraiser.
He reportedly loaned Hunter about $2 million last year to pay off back taxes in a bid to reduce the likelihood or severity of charges for allegedly evading about $2.2 million in tax payments on $8.3 million in foreign income from 2014 to 2019.
As Hunter cried poverty to reduce child support payments to his 4-year-old daughter Navy Joan Roberts, he used Morris’ private jet in May to travel to a court appearance in Arkansas.
Morris is also among the buyers of Hunter’s novice artworks, according to a Monday report by Business Insider.
And a purportedly leaked business record says he assumed control of Hunter’s 10% stake in Chinese state-backed investment fund BHR Partners, which drew negative headlines and questions about conflicts of interest for Hunter and his dad.
IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley, who led the tax fraud investigation of Hunter for more than three years, suggested in a recent Fox News interview that he was skeptical about the relationship between the men.
"Well, to say [Hunter Biden] paid [back taxes] is a misnomer, right? Because it was an individual, Morris, that he met at a campaign finance event and then he immediately starts giving Hunter Biden money to pay off tax debts, to pay living expenses," Shapley said.
Morris was spotted last week smoking a bong outside his Los Angeles home while Hunter, a recovering drug addict, paid a visit.
"The money that was given to Hunter Biden by Morris showed up on his tax returns as a loan to him. So, when you have a person that you meet at a campaign finance event, then he’s, all of a sudden, giving you millions of dollars and ... it’s a loan to you, I wouldn’t necessarily say that the subject paid those taxes."
Hunter Biden’s plea deal has been derided by Shapley, primary IRS case agent Joseph Ziegler, and Republicans in Congress as a "sweetheart" deal.
President Biden’s Justice Department appointees allegedly blocked more serious charges while prosecutors allegedly impeded standard investigative steps and barred agents from asking about the president’s role in foreign dealings in countries such as China and Ukraine, despite communications that implicate him.
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So maybe they get another chance to get all charges dropped… the goal being to incite people into doing something they can use as an excuse to implement emergency powers.
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Hnter's team wanted ALLcurrent and future unrelated charges ruled out with his wrist slap. Still requires a DOJ that is willing to investigate/indict. POS Garland won't, but FARA and tax charges are in order
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Frank, the correct legal term for all this is Calvinball
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Up next, 'Judge Shopping'
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I think the next thing will be "Judge Noreika is a threat to Our Democracy and must be impeached." The point being to make sure she doesn't give Hunter jail time, which is richly deserved here.
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Useful comments, guys — y’all are doing the other thing Rantburg does best.
CNN report after the hearing — updated at 1:41 p.m. EDT:
Hunter Biden failed to pay between $1.1 million and $1.5 million in federal taxes before the legal deadlines and was poised to plead guilty to two tax charges with prosecutors agreeing to recommend a sentence of probation.
But before the original plea could be entered, the deal began to unravel and a revised agreement reached during the hearing was not accepted by the judge.
“I cannot accept the plea agreement today, said District Judge Maryellen Noreika.
Noreika said she had “concerns” about the parties seemingly linking the tax plea agreement to resolving a felony gun charge. During the proceedings, prosecutors confirmed that the investigation into Biden was ongoing.
After negotiations, the president’s son then agreed to plead guilty to the two tax charges in a deal that only includes conduct related to tax offenses, drug use and gun possession. The two sides agreed that this deal does not shield him from potential future charges. But the judge wasn’t satisfied.
“What if it is unconstitutional?” she asked. “I’m trying to exercise due deliverance and consideration to make sure we don’t make a misstep.”
After the discussion, Hunter Biden entered a not guilty plea.
Noreika – a Donald Trump appointee who was confirmed unanimously by the Senate – presided over Wednesday’s hearing and has the sole authority to decide Hunter Biden’s ultimate punishment.
While the investigation was ongoing, Hunter Biden fully paid his federal tax bill, along with interest and penalties, his lawyers have previously said.
The Trump-era Justice Department started investigating Hunter Biden in 2018, and the probe steadily expanded to examine whether he violated money laundering and foreign lobbying laws with his multimillion-dollar overseas business dealings. Federal investigators also looked into Hunter Biden’s unpaid taxes and lavish spending, which came amid a struggle with addiction.
US attorney David Weiss has led the investigation. He was appointed by Trump, and Joe Biden kept him at his post so he could continue handling the probe. There is no public indication that Joe Biden or the White House ever tried to intervene in the probe.
A bizarre legal clash between a top Republican lawmaker and Hunter Biden’s lawyers, which erupted on the eve of his court appearance, did not come up at Wednesday’s hearing.
The dispute revolves around whether a member of Hunter Biden’s legal team lied to the court about her identity so they would remove a Tuesday filing from GOP Rep. Jason Smith, the House Ways and Means Committee chair, about alleged political interference in the probe.
In a late twist, the judge threatened to sanction Hunter Biden’s lawyers over the matter. They denied the claims and called the incident an “unintentional miscommunication” by court staff.
Questions about the probe
Hanging over the plea hearing are recent claims from two IRS whistleblowers who helped lead the investigation that the Justice Department gave preferential treatment to Hunter Biden beginning when Trump was president in 2020.
Their claims dovetail with the GOP-fueled narrative that Hunter Biden got a “sweetheart deal,” even though it’s fairly common for first-time offenders to avoid incarceration in a misdemeanor-only case.
The career IRS agents told Congress that Justice Department officials undercut their attempts to further scrutinize Biden family members, slow-walked requests for subpoenas and search warrants and blocked Weiss from filing the felony tax evasion charges that they had recommended.
The relevant parties – including Weiss, Attorney General Merrick Garland and other senior Justice Department officials – have publicly refuted the whistleblowers’ claims of politicization.
In letters to Congress, Weiss has maintained that he has “been granted ultimate authority over this matter, including responsibility for deciding where, when and whether to file charges.” And earlier this week, he offered to testify at a public House Oversight Committee hearing, likely sometime this fall.
House Republicans have zeroed in on Hunter Biden’s finances as part of their broader oversight probes into the Biden family. They are seeking testimony from Weiss about the criminal probe, and the House GOP’s right-wing flank is already clamoring for a possible Garland impeachment.
Hunter Biden’s lawyers called the IRS whistleblowers “disgruntled agents” with “an axe to grind.”
They’ve also said their client is pleading guilty because he believes “it is important to take responsibility for these mistakes he made during a period of turmoil and addiction in his life.”
This story has been updated with additional developments.
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Fix WAS in, but they F'd it up. Unravels all the delicate sweeping under the carpet. As I said before: Pardon Time is the only answer and Joe would have to pardon his family and himself. Constitutional SHTF
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Joe's bearhug involvement in his son's criminal activity puts him well beyond "trying to pick up a turd by the clean end" territory.
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[NYPOST] The White House sharply changed its tune on Monday, saying that Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... "was never in business" with his son.
For nearly three years, the president has insisted that he didn’t know anything at all about Hunter’s dodgy foreign grift, let alone do business with him.
... if the president and his media lackeys were willing to lie so blatantly for three years, why should we believe anything he says
Why the change of tune? Because the lies are finally starting to fall apart.
On Monday, The Post revealed upcoming bombshell testimony from Hunter Biden’s ex-biz partner Devon Archer, who says the first son threw his then-VP dad on speaker during shady business calls as many as two dozen times just in Archer’s presence.
Archer says the president didn’t always realize he was on speakerphone.
Even that’s dubious, but assuming it’s true, Biden — a sitting vice president — surely knew what Hunter was doing generally and did nothing to stop it.
And if the president and his media lackeys were willing to lie so blatantly for three years, why should we believe anything he says on the subject now as the waters lap closer to the White House lawn? Why believe them on any subject at all?
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And yet the masses (real and/or manufactured) will vote for him in 2024...if he runs again.
It's almost the inverse of the old Dem policy that the dead cast their votes for living people. This time it would be living people voting for the dead.
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Eventually, they will wordsmith the statement, “Joe Biden has never been in a legitimate business with his son, Hunter.” I think we can all agree on that one.
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The Archer testimony delays are likely pardon negotiations with the Biden Administration. I believe that everyone will agree that an Archer pardon will qualify as a Quid Pro Quo.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The investigation into the corruption case, which involves US President Joe Biden and his son Hunter , requires initiating the impeachment of the head of state, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy told reporters .
According to him, such a move will allow Republicans and Democrats to gain access to all the necessary information. McCarthy stressed that this is the only way to get to the bottom of the truth.
On July 21, U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) criminal investigator Joseph Ziegler told a congressional hearing that Hunter Biden and his business partners received $17 million from foreign sources, including $7.3 million from Ukrainian energy company Burisma. He clarified that the organization paid $6.5 million to all participants in the corruption scheme.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of dollars more were transferred to the Blue Star Strategies consulting firm, which collaborated with Burisma. Ziegler also spoke about the evidence obtained in the Hunter Biden tax evasion case. The follow urged Congress to appoint a special counsel to investigate further.
In February, Joe Biden expressed confidence that the investigation into his son and brother would not go far . The president accused his political opponents of launching an investigation to put pressure on him.
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Who is McCarthy calling for an impeachment of Joe Biden? That’s like Gordon Ramsey calling DoorDash for an omelet from Denny’s. Make it yourself. Do your job.
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[Politico] Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged that he "should’ve been more careful about what I said" after he received backlash for suggesting that Covid-19 could have been genetically engineered to reduce risks to Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.
Hundreds of attendees — supporters, protesters and onlookers — came to hear Kennedy speak Tuesday evening in New York City on fighting antisemitism and supporting Israel with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, an author and commentator. The two-hour conversation was part of a presidential candidate series hosted by The World Values Network, which Boteach runs.
Kennedy, who’s running a longshot campaign against President Joe Biden, said that there are interests who want "to damage my candidacy and want to silence me," adding that anything he says is "going to be weaponized against me."
Earlier this month, the New York Post reported that Kennedy claimed without evidence that there is "an argument that [Covid-19] is ethnically targeted" at white and Black people, and that "the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese." Jewish organizations criticized Kennedy for the comment, as did members of his family and the White House.
Kennedy denied the comments and called the report a "mainstream media playbook to discredit me as a crank." In a congressional hearing last week — one that more than 100 House Democrats tried to get him uninvited from, saying that he has "repeatedly attacked two groups that have long been subject to deadly discrimination" — he denied being anti-vaccine, antisemitic or racist.
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"claimed without evidence" is their new favorite phrase, even though, as with the Russia Collusion hoax, there is evidence.
RFK Jr is off his rocker on this one, though
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Without the Juice, no good conspiracy theory.
He could, of course, just have apologized instead of whining that stupid and antisemitic things he says are "going to be weaponized" against him.
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A lot of people who should know better are getting emotionally invested in this guy's run.
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Number of times I've been reminded by rantburg about what a horrible antisemitic thing Robert Kennedy Jr. said: One zillion.
Number of times I've seen on rantburg over the past four years that Ecohealth Alliance's Peter Daszak's father was staff at the Janowski Concentration Camp?
(You know, this guy:
BTW, I have a cleaner version of this on my home comp, as well as the whole damn hearing on CSPAN this was taken from.)
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RFK Jr seems to makes statements of fact where it might be more appropriate to ask the questions that Americans want asked? Why were we funding research in a CCP Military associated lab that would have been illegal in the US? What were we studying in the labs in Ukraine that Sen Rubio has no curiosity about?
RFK thinks that he has a fact pattern from his research that allows him to make the statements that he makes. He has followers that are familiar with the information that backs up his statements. I am not one of his followers so, to me, he seems to be teleporting ahead where I need to see the flagstones of a path. What he is saying seems outrageous, but I need a believable expiation for the Ukraine labs to discount his assertion.
In short, RFK Jr has followers but he needs the American people to understand and support him if his aim is to get elected and not just screw Biden.
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81 million "voters' in America say "We don't need no steenkin' answers..."
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I don't understand how the assertion that covid did not affect Jews is anti-Semitic. It might have been a stupid thing to say but it doesn't mean that Jews were in on the gain-of-function effort at WIV. Democrats are going after RFK Jr. and ignoring the real villain here: Dr. Anthony Fauci. But then, that's just how Democrats operate.
No, I have no emotional investment in RFK Jr's candidacy. I don't think he stands much of a chance just because listening to his voice grates on my ears. Maybe it's just my ears. I dunno. But I don't think we need another Kennedy in the White House anyway. I do believe it would be funny if he beats the crap out of Biden/Harris/Newsom in the Democrat primaries. I'm stocking up on popcorn for that.
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#8 I don't understand how the assertion that covid did not affect Jews is anti-Semitic. It might have been a stupid thing to say but it doesn't mean that Jews were in on the gain-of-function effort at WIV. Democrats are going after RFK Jr. and ignoring the real villain here: Dr. Anthony Fauci. But then, that's just how Democrats operate.
I could go and look up what RFK/Jr. actually said as opposed to what it was reported he said and even if I win, I lose because the Everyone Who Disagrees With Me Is Hitler mechanism kicks in and y'all will ignore the actual massive crimes committed thanks to Fauci and Daszak's gain of function and sequelae.
[Federalist] When President Donald Trump released the transcript of his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019, The New York Times and The Washington Post were eager to manipulate the text to craft a convenient narrative. That narrative, of course, was designed to fuel the impeachment passed by House Democrats weeks later.
Trump released the transcript of his call in question immediately after an anonymous White House whistleblower filed a gossip-ridden complaint, with help from some of the same corrupt actors who pushed the deep state conspiracy to smear the president as a Russian agent during and after the 2016 election. The whistleblower, whose identity remained protected by the press and congressional Democrats throughout the entire saga, was identified as Eric Ciaramella by RealClearInvestigations.
According to Trump’s opponents, the transcript of the call revealed the commander-in-chief exploiting presidential privileges to pressure a foreign government into investigating a top political opponent. Trump, the story went, unilaterally held $400 million in military aid until Zelensky pledged to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden’s activities in Ukraine.
California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who presided over the House as speaker during both impeachments, said on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday that "when the president made that phone call in terms of Ukraine, there was no choice."
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They are propagandists posing as journalists. There is proof that the government was controlling what they were saying. With respect to Covid there is proof that the government was paying for the propaganda. We all saw the commercials where an unidentified health care worker begged us to do the right thing and get vaccinated because the ICU’s of the unnamed hospitals well being overwhelmed with people, all of them unvaccinated.
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Allowing foreigners to take careers in child psychology and mechanics “is a betrayal,” said Kevin Lynn, the director of Project for Immigration Reform told Breitbart News, adding:
It’s a complete fracture of the social contract. You know, somehow somewhere there has to be the expectation that the government and our institutions … are working in the best interests of the American citizen. This is proof that they’re not.
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Sorry Beso, it ALL makes sense if you look at it from the right perspective. They hate America and want to steal any and all power and wealth that they can.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FOX] A former U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to desertion after leaving his post while deployed in Afghanistan and was subsequently captured and tortured by the Taliban had his court-martial conviction vacated Tuesday. 
[NYPOST] First son Hunter Biden 
...46th president of the U.S. SOld, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
[Federalist] When President Donald Trump released the transcript of his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019, The New York Times and The Washington Post were eager to manipulate the text to craft a convenient narrative. That narrative, of course, was designed to fuel the impeachment passed by House Democrats weeks later.
