old salt wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2023 4:39 am
a fan wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 10:35 pm
old salt wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 9:47 pm
The old Soviet joke was that you pretend to work, and we’ll pretend to pay you. In this case, the Biden administration was pretending to investigate, and now it’s pretending to be independent.
The National Review is, as usual, lying. This was a Trump admin. operation from start to finish. Still is.
Weiss is a Trump appointee. And Barr was the man who put Weiss in charge, by splitting merging the IRS and DoJ cases by HIS order, and splitting where the work was done, instead of keeping it in DC, as the IRS whistleblowers pursue.
This is where the TinFoil comes in, OS:
these are all Trump's people running the show. The IRS, the FBI, and DoJ. All of them were Trump appointees.
It is factually incorrect to lay this at Joe Biden's feet, OS.
If you want to blame them for corruption? That's fine, I have no quarrel. But it's factually incorrect to label these men as "Joe Biden's crew". Nope. Total lie by RighWingMedia to spoon feed their clickbait BS.
You can only hide behind the Trump appointee canard for so long. Weiss was on the Hunter investigation as part of the Biden Admin DoJ longer than he was as a member of the Trump Admin DoJ. The SOLs were allowed to expire under the Biden Admin DoJ.
More evidence was turning up the whole time. The laptop stuff couldn't be used until it was corroborated by another source, like the other end of the emails. They had Tony Bobulinski but it took time to get Archer & Hunter's other partners & associates. The FD 2023 had to be verified. It was the Biden DoJ that denied the search warrant for Hunter's guest house residence & tipped off his attorneys of a pending search of his storage unit. It took time to get financial records, like Rob Walker's bank records that the House now has.
It's a pathetic dodge to blame the time it has taken on Barr & a weak excuse to be willfully blind & to ignore everything that took place under the Biden DoJ. Maybe Barr just didn't feel like they had a solid enough case yet by the time he left office.
How 'bout providing a source that I can read that explains your theories about what Barr did to bury or delay the Hunter investigation.
What are you reading that lays the failure to investigate Hunter at the feet of Barr ? I'd like to read it too ?
no, an "objective reading" of a fan would be the claim that Barr is "in on it", too. The IRS agents said that the investigation was being slow walked during Barr's tenure, they thought there was enough to prosecute at that point...they also think it's been slow walked since then.
Which means that Barr is "in on it", the slow walking...you know, actually having a provable case before prosecuting. Don't indict until you're fully convinced that a jury will be convinced to convict unanimously. In that respect, Barr probably was "in on it"...
The question is why we would think that "the Biden DOJ" is any more nefarious than the same careful decision making process? They left the US Attorney appointed by the former guy on the case to continue it, they said they'd be hands off, US Attorney has said they've been hands off...and that he's been able to exercise his judgment.
And Weiss was willing to accept a plea deal that limited the outcome...but IMO he either reneged on what had been communicated, given all the pressure he was feeling from the right in Congress...OR...they never actually had the deal locked down as tight as everyone was assuming...which is a big problem of lawyering on both sides...how was this not in writing, clear as a bell? Seems to me the first possibility is quite plausible and perhaps the deal was plenty clear before the judge started pushing the issue and exposing that the deal was supposed to conclude all matters versus just some. And that had become a hot potato...but then, Hunter's side apparently agreed to accept the lesser deal...and the only sticking point was who to trust to decide that Hunter had or had not abided by his probation.
But I dunno...neither does anyone else on here.
Meanwhile a firestorm kicked up by MAGA in Congress, claiming that the "Biden DOJ" has "interfered, has brought all sorts of politics into the process, necessitating AG Garland to agree to appoint Weiss a Special Prosecutor, formally insulating him from such specious claims.
And from Hunter's side, the MAGA firestorm only made more clear how crucial it is for him to not be subject to MAGA "retribution". Personally, I'd have zero trust in a future Trump DOJ if I was in Hunter's shoes...they've already made clear that career prosecutors will be out, and partisan storm troopers will come in, "throats will be cut"...this won't be a Barr taking the job, at best it'll be a Jeffrey Clark type, willing to do any bidding from Der Leader...who actually thinks the DOJ should be used as a personal weapon...
But hey, get Barr and Wray in there before Congress to explain why
they "slow-walked" the investigation and prosecution decisions...pretty sure their answer will be the same as would be anyone now...being careful and methodical is not nefarious, nor are partisan, unfounded, spurious claims of such proof that crimes have actually been committed and covered up for political purposes. Could simply be that there isn't proof of crimes of the sort being claimed at all...
But here's what I want to know...why the heck the IRS agents haven't brought a case forward on Trump's decades of tax evasion???
sure looks a whole lot more clear cut than that Joe Biden took bribes through Hunter...!!