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old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:32 am

a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:29 am

old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:21 am You need to think long & hard as to why Trump is about to be nominated again. ...& don't believe your initial response.

You need to think long and hard as to why Biden was nominated and elected. Obama, too.

YOU are the reason Biden got elected. Obama, too.

I was OK with Obama being elected. Biden was not a worthy successor, imo.

old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:13 am

a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:05 am

old salt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:23 pm This is how we now campaign in our politically criminalized Banana Republic. Enjoy the freak parade.

That's right. And you've been cheering for all of it....Benghazi..... investigating Hunter for five years before he's investigated even more by new government entities...SIX FULL investigations into your Deep State, and clamoring for more and more.

You're the biggest cheerleader for this stuff, OS. You know this. If you and your fellow Republicans don't like it?

All you have to do is stop. Best part, if you can manage to put the pipe down? Your once great party will return.

Because in case you didn't notice, you're about to nominate Trump to lead your party. Again.

Yeah. Shame on us for investigating Benghazi, trying to figure out how & why 4 of our bravest were abandoned to die on a rooftop, so Hillary could come visit for a photo op. Just like 13 were sacrificed on a wall in Kabul, so that Uncle Joe could have his 9-11 birthday photo op.

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:35 am

old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:13 am

a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:05 am

old salt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:23 pm This is how we now campaign in our politically criminalized Banana Republic. Enjoy the freak parade.

That's right. And you've been cheering for all of it....Benghazi..... investigating Hunter for five years before he's investigated even more by new government entities...SIX FULL investigations into your Deep State, and clamoring for more and more.

You're the biggest cheerleader for this stuff, OS. You know this. If you and your fellow Republicans don't like it?

All you have to do is stop. Best part, if you can manage to put the pipe down? Your once great party will return.

Because in case you didn't notice, you're about to nominate Trump to lead your party. Again.

Yeah. Shame on us for investigating Benghazi, trying to figure out how & why 4 of our bravest were abandoned to die on a rooftop, so Hillary could come visit for a photo op. Just like 13 were sacrificed on a wall in Kabul, so that Uncle Joe could have his 9-11 birthday photo op.

you sound deranged

NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:11 am

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:35 am

old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:13 am

a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:05 am

old salt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:23 pm This is how we now campaign in our politically criminalized Banana Republic. Enjoy the freak parade.

That's right. And you've been cheering for all of it....Benghazi..... investigating Hunter for five years before he's investigated even more by new government entities...SIX FULL investigations into your Deep State, and clamoring for more and more.

You're the biggest cheerleader for this stuff, OS. You know this. If you and your fellow Republicans don't like it?

All you have to do is stop. Best part, if you can manage to put the pipe down? Your once great party will return.

Because in case you didn't notice, you're about to nominate Trump to lead your party. Again.

Yeah. Shame on us for investigating Benghazi, trying to figure out how & why 4 of our bravest were abandoned to die on a rooftop, so Hillary could come visit for a photo op. Just like 13 were sacrificed on a wall in Kabul, so that Uncle Joe could have his 9-11 birthday photo op.

you sound deranged

Mission Accomplished!

old salt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 6:04 pm

MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 6:30 pm MY objection is trying to compare this to anything remotely akin to the corruption of the Trump Admin, Trump personally, numerous Cabinet members, his children on the government payroll and granted security clearances over the objections of the IC vetting process.... Just ain't remotely close.

You make all these accusations but never back them up with specifics. Jared & Ivanka were not "on the government payroll" -- check your facts.

you are correct that Jared and Ivanka waived a government salary...yet they DID continue to make 10's of millions, with some estimations way higher than what is described below. And I am correct that they were government employees while doing so.

They and Donald did NOT put their assets into a blind trust, rather they openly continued to promote their value based on their access inside the White House, and with specific policy portfolios. Including security clearances over the objections of the intelligence community. This is blatantly corrupt, though not prosecuted as illegal. And massively larger than anything Hunter, not a government employee, and with no policy portfolio, is accused of doing.

I'm quite critical of Hunter...why are you not of Jared and Ivanka?

Are you truly unaware of their corruption?

did Ivanka, Eric and Don Jr serve on the Trump Foundation Board?
Did they work for the Trump organization?...
you know, these entities found guilty of fraud of various sorts?

These are NOT honest people. And yes, ultimately their personal brand has suffered because the dishonesty became so visible. Cache with law abiding folks was lost...not so with the Saudis and some others, but hmmm...

And more important than Jared and Ivanka, Trump himself is massively corrupt, a cheater, a liar, a grifter, before during, and after his time in office...or are you denying this reality, too?

As Biden would say "come on, man"...this ain't remotely close.

sure, go ahead and be disgusted by the sleazy way that so much of Washington works...join me...but darn sure puke at what the Trump family has done relative to the Biden family. Just not remotely close.

And, oh yeah, no 4 years of any Presidency at least in the past 150 years, and perhaps ever, has had so many Cabinet officials turnover due to corruption scandals. Is this an accident? Just bad hiring? I think not, I think it's because corruption and dishonesty attracts and permits corruption and dishonesty.

One could argue the Nixon second term was worse, but actually not as many caught up, and not for perks of office (Agnew being a striking exception).

But come on, man...



The Trumps had established businesses before & after. Some were damaged by the foray into politics. Trump was openly & successfully selling his brand before he entered politics. Businesses & investors paid to put his name on their buildings, developments or products because of a perceived cache that attracted customers & other investors. That cache, image & appeal has been tarnished & devalued due to Trump's govt service -- rightfully so. His DC Hotel flopped.

So far, Jared's private equity venture appears to be legit & was started after he left govt service. Do you think Kushner still has any influence inside the govt ? Any specific allegations (or leaks) about Kushner having compromised anything due to his security clearance ? Kushner contributed significantly to improved ME diplomatic relations which are now deteriorating under Biden with his attempted reacharounds to Iran.

What Security Clearance did Navy Ensign drug addict Hunter receive ? What did his SF-86 look like ?...no mention of that in the msm.
Hunter used the same DC lawyer (Abbe Lowe) for several issues that Kushner used for his security clearance issue.
Who got Hunter the waivers (age & prior drug record) he needed to get his bogus PAO Navy Commission ?

What product or service did the Biden family provide ? How did the money flow, to who, how was it accounted for & taxed ? How were the loans secured & collateralized ? Have any loan repayments started yet ?
We found out about Manafort, we need to find out about the Bidens.

https://fortune.com/2021/02/03/ivanka-t ... ite-house/
Ivanka and Jared took a massive income hit in their final year at the White House

BY SOPHIE ALEXANDER, BILL ALLISON AND BLOOMBERG
February 3, 2021

Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner reported as much as $120 million in income for 2020 in their final financial disclosure forms as White House advisers, a more than 20% drop from what they reported a year ago.

The couple, both of whom waived government salaries, said they had income of at least $23.8 million and as much as $120 million during 2020 and the first 20 days of 2021. That compares to the figure of as much as $156 million for the same period a year earlier. Officials are only required to disclose the value of their assets and their non-governmental income in broad ranges.

Overall, the disclosures suggest Trump and Kushner, though still extremely wealthy, lost ground or tread water economically during their controversial stints in her father’s administration. In 2017, shortly after joining the White House staff, they reported income of as much as $195 million, but that initial disclosure covered a longer period of time than the ones that followed.

The couple’s assets appreciated only modestly, if at all, over the last four years, during which the stock market climbed more than 60%. In their most recent disclosure, they listed assets worth between $206 million and $803 million, compared to a 2017 figure of between $241 million and $741 million. They listed assets worth between $203 million and $783 million last year.

The pair — scions of family real-estate empires — have extensive holdings in businesses hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Kushner reported as much as $117 million in income, mostly from rent or royalties tied to residential and commercial properties he owns. He also reported $1.8 million from Westminster Management, the Kushner Company’s management firm for multifamily housing in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia & Tennessee.

Family Ties
Kushner’s disclosure shows he still holds a stake valued at between $25 million and $50 million in Cadre, the real estate technology company he co-founded. He had originally said he would divest from Cadre to eliminate a potential conflict of interest but never did.

Trump’s form disclosed her many ties to the family business, showing $1.5 million from her stake in the Trump International Hotel in Washington — down from about $4 million a year earlier — and another $1.5 million from several limited liability companies. Like her father, she also has a pension with the Screen Actors Guild due to her appearances on “The Apprentice.”

The form also lists Trump’s many trademarks and licensing contracts for her fashion, home goods and other businesses, but those brought in as little as $0 or up to $200. She shut down her eponymous fashion line in 2018 after retailers like Nordstrom dropped it.

The couple listed artwork valued from between $5 million and $25 million. Most of the couple’s debt comes from Kushner, who holds credit lines jointly with his father, Charles Kushner.

Kismet wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:42 pm AG Garland granted Weiss' request to be made a Special Counsel.
Word is Hunter's plea deal of off and likely will now go to trial.

As Special Counsel Weiss isn't going to appear before any Congressional committees.

He is required to issue a written report to the AG at the conclusion of his investigation.

Will predict Saltine will remain unhappy.

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:30 am

NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:11 am

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:35 am

old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:13 am

a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:05 am

old salt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:23 pm This is how we now campaign in our politically criminalized Banana Republic. Enjoy the freak parade.

That's right. And you've been cheering for all of it....Benghazi..... investigating Hunter for five years before he's investigated even more by new government entities...SIX FULL investigations into your Deep State, and clamoring for more and more.

You're the biggest cheerleader for this stuff, OS. You know this. If you and your fellow Republicans don't like it?

All you have to do is stop. Best part, if you can manage to put the pipe down? Your once great party will return.

Because in case you didn't notice, you're about to nominate Trump to lead your party. Again.

Yeah. Shame on us for investigating Benghazi, trying to figure out how & why 4 of our bravest were abandoned to die on a rooftop, so Hillary could come visit for a photo op. Just like 13 were sacrificed on a wall in Kabul, so that Uncle Joe could have his 9-11 birthday photo op.

you sound deranged

Mission Accomplished!

I was on record for saying Trump was going to turn the USA into a Banana Republic……Old Salt was cheering every step of the way…..now he’s blaming Joe….. absurd.

ggait wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:28 pm Comer and Jordan now complaining that the appointment of a special counsel is just a whitewash by the Biden doj.

FYI they’ve previously demanded an sc.

There’s just no pleasing some people.

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:31 pm

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:30 am

NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:11 am

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:35 am

old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:13 am

a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:05 am

old salt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:23 pm This is how we now campaign in our politically criminalized Banana Republic. Enjoy the freak parade.

That's right. And you've been cheering for all of it....Benghazi..... investigating Hunter for five years before he's investigated even more by new government entities...SIX FULL investigations into your Deep State, and clamoring for more and more.

You're the biggest cheerleader for this stuff, OS. You know this. If you and your fellow Republicans don't like it?

All you have to do is stop. Best part, if you can manage to put the pipe down? Your once great party will return.

Because in case you didn't notice, you're about to nominate Trump to lead your party. Again.

Yeah. Shame on us for investigating Benghazi, trying to figure out how & why 4 of our bravest were abandoned to die on a rooftop, so Hillary could come visit for a photo op. Just like 13 were sacrificed on a wall in Kabul, so that Uncle Joe could have his 9-11 birthday photo op.

you sound deranged

Mission Accomplished!

I was on record for saying Trump was going to turn the USA into a Banana Republic……Old Salt was cheering every step of the way…..now he’s blaming Joe….. absurd.

Trump just handed the baton off to Joe and he redefined his own version of a banana Republic.

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:52 pm

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:31 pm

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:30 am

NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:11 am

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:35 am

old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:13 am

a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:05 am

old salt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:23 pm This is how we now campaign in our politically criminalized Banana Republic. Enjoy the freak parade.

That's right. And you've been cheering for all of it....Benghazi..... investigating Hunter for five years before he's investigated even more by new government entities...SIX FULL investigations into your Deep State, and clamoring for more and more.

You're the biggest cheerleader for this stuff, OS. You know this. If you and your fellow Republicans don't like it?

All you have to do is stop. Best part, if you can manage to put the pipe down? Your once great party will return.

Because in case you didn't notice, you're about to nominate Trump to lead your party. Again.

Yeah. Shame on us for investigating Benghazi, trying to figure out how & why 4 of our bravest were abandoned to die on a rooftop, so Hillary could come visit for a photo op. Just like 13 were sacrificed on a wall in Kabul, so that Uncle Joe could have his 9-11 birthday photo op.

you sound deranged

Mission Accomplished!

I was on record for saying Trump was going to turn the USA into a Banana Republic……Old Salt was cheering every step of the way…..now he’s blaming Joe….. absurd.

Trump just handed the baton off to Joe and he redefined his own version of a banana Republic.

even more stupider

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:19 pm

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:52 pm

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:31 pm

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:30 am

NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:11 am

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:35 am

old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:13 am

a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:05 am

old salt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:23 pm This is how we now campaign in our politically criminalized Banana Republic. Enjoy the freak parade.

That's right. And you've been cheering for all of it....Benghazi..... investigating Hunter for five years before he's investigated even more by new government entities...SIX FULL investigations into your Deep State, and clamoring for more and more.

You're the biggest cheerleader for this stuff, OS. You know this. If you and your fellow Republicans don't like it?

All you have to do is stop. Best part, if you can manage to put the pipe down? Your once great party will return.

Because in case you didn't notice, you're about to nominate Trump to lead your party. Again.

Yeah. Shame on us for investigating Benghazi, trying to figure out how & why 4 of our bravest were abandoned to die on a rooftop, so Hillary could come visit for a photo op. Just like 13 were sacrificed on a wall in Kabul, so that Uncle Joe could have his 9-11 birthday photo op.

you sound deranged

Mission Accomplished!

I was on record for saying Trump was going to turn the USA into a Banana Republic……Old Salt was cheering every step of the way…..now he’s blaming Joe….. absurd.

Trump just handed the baton off to Joe and he redefined his own version of a banana Republic.

even more stupider

What goes around comes around.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/ ... s-a-farce/

Garland’s Special-Counsel Appointment in the Biden Probe Is a Farce

By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY, August 11, 2023 4:06 PM

To begin with, Weiss is not eligible to be a special counsel under the special-counsel regulations. To be clear, the attorney general has all the authority he needs to assign Weiss to the case (and, indeed, Weiss has been assigned to it throughout Garland’s tenure). But under the regulations that Garland purports to be applying, what makes a special counsel special is that he or she is a lawyer brought in from outside the government, not just outside the Justice Department. As Section 600.3 of the regulations states without ambiguity, “the Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.” The point of the exercise is to bring in a scrupulous, experienced former prosecutor who does not work for the incumbent administration, because there is a connection between the president and the investigation that creates a profound conflict of interest for the Justice Department. There could not be a more serious, blatant conflict of interest than a situation in which the president’s Justice Department is conducting an investigation of the president’s son that implicates the president in potentially impeachable conduct.

Of course, if he were to deign to answer questions (as he declined to do today), Garland would point out that that last of the regulations, Section 600.10, makes clear that no one can sue him for refusing to follow the regulations. And that’s right: This is all theater. He is pretending to follow regulations while not following them, hoping you don’t notice but aware that even if you do notice there’s nothing you can do about it. Got that?

Weiss is an official of the government and the Biden Justice Department. In his statement this afternoon, Garland confirmed not only that Weiss had been asked in February 2021 to stay on with the Biden Justice Department, but that — notwithstanding today’s farcical appointment — Weiss will be continuing on as the Biden Justice Department’s top prosecutor in Delaware.

That is to say: Weiss is the vehicle by which the Biden Justice Department intends to maintain tight control over the so-called Biden investigation.

No surprise there. Weiss has all along compliantly acted as the vehicle by which the Biden Justice Department protects the president, and thus the president’s son, from a credible investigation.

It is Weiss who has already allowed the statute of limitations on any offenses arising out of the 2014–15 corruption — such as the Bidens’ dealings with Burisma — to lapse. Weiss well knew, when he was given the investigation in 2018, that the statute of limitations for the relevant tax counts was six years, and for other potential crimes it was five years. Because of the way Weiss has handled the investigation, any criminal offenses that occurred while Joe Biden was vice president are now time-barred. As I noted when the House Oversight Committee released its latest report on the $20 million-plus the Biden family raked in from agents of corrupt and anti-American governments, much of the conduct — and money — committee investigators have uncovered comes from transactions that took place prior to 2017.

It is Weiss who has never indicted Hunter Biden, even though his tax-evasion and gun crimes are straightforward and have been well known for many years. Weiss’s strategy is to resist obtaining a grand-jury indictment because such an indictment would stop the statute-of-limitations clock from lapsing on those crimes. The most outrageous revelation in the testimony of the whistleblower IRS agents who worked the Biden case was that Hunter’s defense lawyers were willing to waive any statute-of-limitations objections in the interest of getting a global plea agreement that would give him an immunity bath for all conduct from 2014 forward. It is Weiss who decided to just let the statute of limitations lapse instead.

It was Weiss’s subordinates who instructed agents to avoid asking witnesses questions about “the big guy” and “dad,” in order to ensure the investigation didn’t incriminate the president. It was Weiss’s subordinates who tipped off Hunter Biden’s lawyers that Hunter had transferred relevant documents to a storage locker for which Weiss knew the IRS agents were planning to seek a search warrant, thus frustrating the investigators’ ability to seize key evidence.

It was Weiss who, on behalf of the Biden Justice Department, collaborated with Hunter Biden’s lawyers in the design of an indefensible plea agreement that, in violation of Justice Department standards, sought to trade away the government’s capacity to indict Hunter Biden in exchange for his admission of guilt to two misdemeanor tax offenses — in connection with which Weiss promised to recommend a sentence without jail time, in addition to the eventual dismissal of a gun felony punishable by up to ten years in prison.

It was Weiss’s prosecutors who told Judge Maryellen Noreika that they were running an “ongoing investigation” in which Hunter Biden could still be charged. Hunter’s lawyers objected that he had been promised immunity, which is what blew up the plea bargain. And we know Hunter’s lawyers were telling the truth about the terms: No prosecutor who had a serious political-corruption investigation on his hands would, in the midst of that supposedly “ongoing investigation,” gift one of its main subjects a plea to two misdemeanor tax charges.

It was Weiss who agreed to a factual recitation in Hunter’s plea proceeding that stated that the millions of dollars Hunter took in came from his legitimate work as a high-end lawyer and consultant, and that Hunter failed to pay his taxes because he was drug-addled. This would never conceivably be agreed to by a prosecutor who was running an “ongoing investigation” that indicated that the millions of dollars actually came from bribery and influence-peddling, and that Hunter didn’t pay his taxes as part of an overarching strategy by which the Bidens tried to hide the sources and amounts of the money transfers.

I could go on, but the bottom line is that Weiss is not eligible under the regulations to be a special counsel. He has been abra-cadabra stamped as one so he can continue killing the “ongoing investigation” he is running.

And why “special counsel”? Because unlike normal Justice Department prosecutors, special counsels get to write a final report. Weiss’s appointment is designed to allow him to write a report that says President Biden had no involvement in the yearslong Biden-family influence-peddling scheme of profiting from his power — a scheme that that could not have gone on for two days if the now-president had honored his public trust, followed government ethics rules, and told his family to knock it off.

Joe Biden never did that because he is the business. Garland has now branded Weiss a special counsel to persist in his thus far very effective job of burying that fact.

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:53 pm

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:19 pm

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:52 pm

cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:31 pm

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:30 am

NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:11 am

Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:35 am

old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:13 am

a fan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:05 am

old salt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:23 pm This is how we now campaign in our politically criminalized Banana Republic. Enjoy the freak parade.

That's right. And you've been cheering for all of it....Benghazi..... investigating Hunter for five years before he's investigated even more by new government entities...SIX FULL investigations into your Deep State, and clamoring for more and more.

You're the biggest cheerleader for this stuff, OS. You know this. If you and your fellow Republicans don't like it?

All you have to do is stop. Best part, if you can manage to put the pipe down? Your once great party will return.

Because in case you didn't notice, you're about to nominate Trump to lead your party. Again.

Yeah. Shame on us for investigating Benghazi, trying to figure out how & why 4 of our bravest were abandoned to die on a rooftop, so Hillary could come visit for a photo op. Just like 13 were sacrificed on a wall in Kabul, so that Uncle Joe could have his 9-11 birthday photo op.

you sound deranged

Mission Accomplished!

I was on record for saying Trump was going to turn the USA into a Banana Republic……Old Salt was cheering every step of the way…..now he’s blaming Joe….. absurd.

Trump just handed the baton off to Joe and he redefined his own version of a banana Republic.

even more stupider

What goes around comes around.

The longer you are around, the stupider you get.

old salt wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 5:15 am

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/ ... s-a-farce/

Garland’s Special-Counsel Appointment in the Biden Probe Is a Farce

By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY, August 11, 2023 4:06 PM

To begin with, Weiss is not eligible to be a special counsel under the special-counsel regulations. To be clear, the attorney general has all the authority he needs to assign Weiss to the case (and, indeed, Weiss has been assigned to it throughout Garland’s tenure). But under the regulations that Garland purports to be applying, what makes a special counsel special is that he or she is a lawyer brought in from outside the government, not just outside the Justice Department. As Section 600.3 of the regulations states without ambiguity, “the Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.” The point of the exercise is to bring in a scrupulous, experienced former prosecutor who does not work for the incumbent administration, because there is a connection between the president and the investigation that creates a profound conflict of interest for the Justice Department. There could not be a more serious, blatant conflict of interest than a situation in which the president’s Justice Department is conducting an investigation of the president’s son that implicates the president in potentially impeachable conduct.

Of course, if he were to deign to answer questions (as he declined to do today), Garland would point out that that last of the regulations, Section 600.10, makes clear that no one can sue him for refusing to follow the regulations. And that’s right: This is all theater. He is pretending to follow regulations while not following them, hoping you don’t notice but aware that even if you do notice there’s nothing you can do about it. Got that?

Weiss is an official of the government and the Biden Justice Department. In his statement this afternoon, Garland confirmed not only that Weiss had been asked in February 2021 to stay on with the Biden Justice Department, but that — notwithstanding today’s farcical appointment — Weiss will be continuing on as the Biden Justice Department’s top prosecutor in Delaware.

That is to say: Weiss is the vehicle by which the Biden Justice Department intends to maintain tight control over the so-called Biden investigation.

No surprise there. Weiss has all along compliantly acted as the vehicle by which the Biden Justice Department protects the president, and thus the president’s son, from a credible investigation.

It is Weiss who has already allowed the statute of limitations on any offenses arising out of the 2014–15 corruption — such as the Bidens’ dealings with Burisma — to lapse. Weiss well knew, when he was given the investigation in 2018, that the statute of limitations for the relevant tax counts was six years, and for other potential crimes it was five years. Because of the way Weiss has handled the investigation, any criminal offenses that occurred while Joe Biden was vice president are now time-barred. As I noted when the House Oversight Committee released its latest report on the $20 million-plus the Biden family raked in from agents of corrupt and anti-American governments, much of the conduct — and money — committee investigators have uncovered comes from transactions that took place prior to 2017.

It is Weiss who has never indicted Hunter Biden, even though his tax-evasion and gun crimes are straightforward and have been well known for many years. Weiss’s strategy is to resist obtaining a grand-jury indictment because such an indictment would stop the statute-of-limitations clock from lapsing on those crimes. The most outrageous revelation in the testimony of the whistleblower IRS agents who worked the Biden case was that Hunter’s defense lawyers were willing to waive any statute-of-limitations objections in the interest of getting a global plea agreement that would give him an immunity bath for all conduct from 2014 forward. It is Weiss who decided to just let the statute of limitations lapse instead.

It was Weiss’s subordinates who instructed agents to avoid asking witnesses questions about “the big guy” and “dad,” in order to ensure the investigation didn’t incriminate the president. It was Weiss’s subordinates who tipped off Hunter Biden’s lawyers that Hunter had transferred relevant documents to a storage locker for which Weiss knew the IRS agents were planning to seek a search warrant, thus frustrating the investigators’ ability to seize key evidence.

It was Weiss who, on behalf of the Biden Justice Department, collaborated with Hunter Biden’s lawyers in the design of an indefensible plea agreement that, in violation of Justice Department standards, sought to trade away the government’s capacity to indict Hunter Biden in exchange for his admission of guilt to two misdemeanor tax offenses — in connection with which Weiss promised to recommend a sentence without jail time, in addition to the eventual dismissal of a gun felony punishable by up to ten years in prison.

It was Weiss’s prosecutors who told Judge Maryellen Noreika that they were running an “ongoing investigation” in which Hunter Biden could still be charged. Hunter’s lawyers objected that he had been promised immunity, which is what blew up the plea bargain. And we know Hunter’s lawyers were telling the truth about the terms: No prosecutor who had a serious political-corruption investigation on his hands would, in the midst of that supposedly “ongoing investigation,” gift one of its main subjects a plea to two misdemeanor tax charges.

It was Weiss who agreed to a factual recitation in Hunter’s plea proceeding that stated that the millions of dollars Hunter took in came from his legitimate work as a high-end lawyer and consultant, and that Hunter failed to pay his taxes because he was drug-addled. This would never conceivably be agreed to by a prosecutor who was running an “ongoing investigation” that indicated that the millions of dollars actually came from bribery and influence-peddling, and that Hunter didn’t pay his taxes as part of an overarching strategy by which the Bidens tried to hide the sources and amounts of the money transfers.

I could go on, but the bottom line is that Weiss is not eligible under the regulations to be a special counsel. He has been abra-cadabra stamped as one so he can continue killing the “ongoing investigation” he is running.

And why “special counsel”? Because unlike normal Justice Department prosecutors, special counsels get to write a final report. Weiss’s appointment is designed to allow him to write a report that says President Biden had no involvement in the yearslong Biden-family influence-peddling scheme of profiting from his power — a scheme that that could not have gone on for two days if the now-president had honored his public trust, followed government ethics rules, and told his family to knock it off.

Joe Biden never did that because he is the business. Garland has now branded Weiss a special counsel to persist in his thus far very effective job of burying that fact.

old salt wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 5:15 am

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/ ... s-a-farce/

Garland’s Special-Counsel Appointment in the Biden Probe Is a Farce

By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY, August 11, 2023 4:06 PM

To begin with, Weiss is not eligible to be a special counsel under the special-counsel regulations. To be clear, the attorney general has all the authority he needs to assign Weiss to the case (and, indeed, Weiss has been assigned to it throughout Garland’s tenure). But under the regulations that Garland purports to be applying, what makes a special counsel special is that he or she is a lawyer brought in from outside the government, not just outside the Justice Department. As Section 600.3 of the regulations states without ambiguity, “the Special Counsel shall be selected from outside the United States Government.” The point of the exercise is to bring in a scrupulous, experienced former prosecutor who does not work for the incumbent administration, because there is a connection between the president and the investigation that creates a profound conflict of interest for the Justice Department. There could not be a more serious, blatant conflict of interest than a situation in which the president’s Justice Department is conducting an investigation of the president’s son that implicates the president in potentially impeachable conduct.

Of course, if he were to deign to answer questions (as he declined to do today), Garland would point out that that last of the regulations, Section 600.10, makes clear that no one can sue him for refusing to follow the regulations. And that’s right: This is all theater. He is pretending to follow regulations while not following them, hoping you don’t notice but aware that even if you do notice there’s nothing you can do about it. Got that?

Weiss is an official of the government and the Biden Justice Department. In his statement this afternoon, Garland confirmed not only that Weiss had been asked in February 2021 to stay on with the Biden Justice Department, but that — notwithstanding today’s farcical appointment — Weiss will be continuing on as the Biden Justice Department’s top prosecutor in Delaware.

That is to say: Weiss is the vehicle by which the Biden Justice Department intends to maintain tight control over the so-called Biden investigation.

No surprise there. Weiss has all along compliantly acted as the vehicle by which the Biden Justice Department protects the president, and thus the president’s son, from a credible investigation.

It is Weiss who has already allowed the statute of limitations on any offenses arising out of the 2014–15 corruption — such as the Bidens’ dealings with Burisma — to lapse. Weiss well knew, when he was given the investigation in 2018, that the statute of limitations for the relevant tax counts was six years, and for other potential crimes it was five years. Because of the way Weiss has handled the investigation, any criminal offenses that occurred while Joe Biden was vice president are now time-barred. As I noted when the House Oversight Committee released its latest report on the $20 million-plus the Biden family raked in from agents of corrupt and anti-American governments, much of the conduct — and money — committee investigators have uncovered comes from transactions that took place prior to 2017.

It is Weiss who has never indicted Hunter Biden, even though his tax-evasion and gun crimes are straightforward and have been well known for many years. Weiss’s strategy is to resist obtaining a grand-jury indictment because such an indictment would stop the statute-of-limitations clock from lapsing on those crimes. The most outrageous revelation in the testimony of the whistleblower IRS agents who worked the Biden case was that Hunter’s defense lawyers were willing to waive any statute-of-limitations objections in the interest of getting a global plea agreement that would give him an immunity bath for all conduct from 2014 forward. It is Weiss who decided to just let the statute of limitations lapse instead.

It was Weiss’s subordinates who instructed agents to avoid asking witnesses questions about “the big guy” and “dad,” in order to ensure the investigation didn’t incriminate the president. It was Weiss’s subordinates who tipped off Hunter Biden’s lawyers that Hunter had transferred relevant documents to a storage locker for which Weiss knew the IRS agents were planning to seek a search warrant, thus frustrating the investigators’ ability to seize key evidence.

It was Weiss who, on behalf of the Biden Justice Department, collaborated with Hunter Biden’s lawyers in the design of an indefensible plea agreement that, in violation of Justice Department standards, sought to trade away the government’s capacity to indict Hunter Biden in exchange for his admission of guilt to two misdemeanor tax offenses — in connection with which Weiss promised to recommend a sentence without jail time, in addition to the eventual dismissal of a gun felony punishable by up to ten years in prison.

It was Weiss’s prosecutors who told Judge Maryellen Noreika that they were running an “ongoing investigation” in which Hunter Biden could still be charged. Hunter’s lawyers objected that he had been promised immunity, which is what blew up the plea bargain. And we know Hunter’s lawyers were telling the truth about the terms: No prosecutor who had a serious political-corruption investigation on his hands would, in the midst of that supposedly “ongoing investigation,” gift one of its main subjects a plea to two misdemeanor tax charges.

It was Weiss who agreed to a factual recitation in Hunter’s plea proceeding that stated that the millions of dollars Hunter took in came from his legitimate work as a high-end lawyer and consultant, and that Hunter failed to pay his taxes because he was drug-addled. This would never conceivably be agreed to by a prosecutor who was running an “ongoing investigation” that indicated that the millions of dollars actually came from bribery and influence-peddling, and that Hunter didn’t pay his taxes as part of an overarching strategy by which the Bidens tried to hide the sources and amounts of the money transfers.

I could go on, but the bottom line is that Weiss is not eligible under the regulations to be a special counsel. He has been abra-cadabra stamped as one so he can continue killing the “ongoing investigation” he is running.

And why “special counsel”? Because unlike normal Justice Department prosecutors, special counsels get to write a final report. Weiss’s appointment is designed to allow him to write a report that says President Biden had no involvement in the yearslong Biden-family influence-peddling scheme of profiting from his power — a scheme that that could not have gone on for two days if the now-president had honored his public trust, followed government ethics rules, and told his family to knock it off.

Joe Biden never did that because he is the business. Garland has now branded Weiss a special counsel to persist in his thus far very effective job of burying that fact.

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old salt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:23 pm This is how we now campaign in our politically criminalized Banana Republic. Enjoy the freak parade.

That's right. And you've been cheering for all of it....Benghazi..... investigating Hunter for five years before he's investigated even more by new government entities...SIX FULL investigations into your Deep State, and clamoring for more and more.

You're the biggest cheerleader for this stuff, OS. You know this. If you and your fellow Republicans don't like it?

All you have to do is stop. Best part, if you can manage to put the pipe down? Your once great party will return.

Because in case you didn't notice, you're about to nominate Trump to lead your party. Again.

Yeah. Shame on us for investigating Benghazi, trying to figure out how & why 4 of our bravest were abandoned to die on a rooftop, so Hillary could come visit for a photo op. Just like 13 were sacrificed on a wall in Kabul, so that Uncle Joe could have his 9-11 birthday photo op.

you sound deranged

Mission Accomplished!

I was on record for saying Trump was going to turn the USA into a Banana Republic……Old Salt was cheering every step of the way…..now he’s blaming Joe….. absurd.

Trump just handed the baton off to Joe and he redefined his own version of a banana Republic.

even more stupider

What goes around comes around.

The longer you are around, the stupider you get.

Right back atcha dude. If I ever find myself thinking like you do...just effing shoot me and put me out of my misery.