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2023-08-13 Home Front: Politix
'Shoeless Joe' Weiss and the fixing of the Hunter Biden game
[THEHILL] Roughly 100 years ago, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson admitted that, as a player for the reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
White Sox, he and seven other teammates had intentionally lost the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in 1919. When a kid stopped him outside of the grand jury room and asked "It ain’t true, is it, Joe?" Jackson responded "Yes, kid, I’m afraid it is."

This is not a case of history repeating itself. After being confronted by allegations of a fixed investigation, Attorney General Merrick Garland just sent Shoeless Joe back into the game.

The appointment of Delaware David Weiss as the new special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden left many with the same disbelief as that kid in Chicago. This is, after all, the same Weiss who headed an investigation that was trashed by whistleblowers, who alleged that his investigation had been fixed from the outset.

It is the same Weiss who ran an investigation in which agents were allegedly prevented from asking about Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
, obstructed in their efforts to pursue questions and compromised by tip offs to the Biden team on planned searches.

It was also the same Weiss who reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run out on Hunter’s major tax offenses, even though he had the option to extend it.

It was the same Weiss who did not indict on major tax felonies and cut a plea deal that brushed aside a felony gun charge.

It was the same Weiss who inked a widely panned "sweetheart" deal that caused a federal judge to balk and trash a sweeping immunity grant — language that even the prosecutor admitted he had never previously seen in a plea deal.

That is why many asked Garland to "say it ain’t so."

The Weiss appointment definitively established Garland as a failure as attorney general. As someone who initially praised Garland’s appointment, I now see that he has repeatedly shown he lacks the strength and leadership to rise to these moments.
Or he's a corrupt Dem Partisan hack, and always has been
This is why the Justice Department is now less trusted by the public than it was under his predecessor, Bill Barr. During Barr’s tenure, Pew found that 54 percent of the public viewed the department favorably, and 70 percent had a favorable view of the FBI. Under Garland, the department’s favorability had declined to 49 percent as of March, before many of the recent failures. The FBI’s favorability has fallen by 18 points to just 52 percent.
Posted by Fred 2023-08-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [24 views ]  Top

#1 The most annoying part of the entire fiasco is when the news hosts drop the “Trump appointed” caveat on Weiss. We aren’t suckers. We know that for an appointment to get out of committee in the Senate, the clown would have had to be rubber stamped by both Delaware Senators who are Dems. The Bidens own the Delaware machine the same way MvcCain owned Arizona and McConnell owns Kentucky. There isn’t an anti-Biden lawyer in Delaware at this point not in hospice. Joe has been around that long. The tell is that at inauguration, when all those guys are canned, Weiss was kept on. Figure the odds of Joe keeping on a Trump guy. Any news clown tacking on the “Trump appointed” addendum is beginning their statement with misdirection. Why listen to more?
Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-13 07:52||   2023-08-13 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Spot-on analysis, SH.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-13 08:12||   2023-08-13 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Excellent indeed. I just wish I had a solution to the dilemma we face with these scoundrels.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-13 09:23||   2023-08-13 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Make all judges and prosecutors circuit riders in the old style. No cozy connections to the local pols and LE. Assign all cases totally at random.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-13 10:17||   2023-08-13 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 In this case, we need people to point out the truth that Hunter’s Special Prosecutor has a deep conflict of interest and has already tried to amnesty him.

We also need Comer to continue the onslaught at a doubled intensity. Jordan needs to open up on the Weiss front. Ideally, we want Hunter, Joe, Weiss, Monaco, Garland, Wray and the IRS inside the same salient or caldron until they starve or surrender. It needs to be an unrelenting artillery barrage of subpoenas, Contempt of Congress votes, criminal referrals and impeachment inquiries.

The only reason why they are mortaring Trump is because we refuse to make them dig fox holes.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-13 11:00||   2023-08-13 11:00|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ You are on a roll today, sir.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-13 11:16||   2023-08-13 11:16|| Front Page Top

#7 ^
Ditto
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-08-13 12:35||   2023-08-13 12:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Weiss' handiwork has only just begun. His task is to silence congressional efforts at getting to the bottom of the Biden Crime Family affair.

Any one of thousands of qualified lawyers could have been selected for this appointment. Weiss was selected for good reason.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-13 12:43||   2023-08-13 12:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes. Get the ol' subpoena shotgun out and tell everyone so served that they "can't speak of an ongoing investigation" if called before congress.

Mission accomplished.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-13 12:52||   2023-08-13 12:52|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Exactly correct. We won't have to wait long to to see it happen either.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-13 12:54||   2023-08-13 12:54|| Front Page Top

#11 It needs to be an unrelenting artillery barrage of subpoenas, Contempt of Congress votes, criminal referrals and impeachment inquiries.

Don't forget defunding.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-08-13 16:47||   2023-08-13 16:47|| Front Page Top

#12 ^defunding as well. McCarthy will balk, but primaries are coming. If constituents begin to call, DC will become pressurized like a 50 ounce can of baked beans hidden in a scout campfire.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-13 18:40||   2023-08-13 18:40|| Front Page Top

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