I mean seriously... Politico, WaPo, NYT just "mention" Russia and their faithful followers fall into lockstep. I actually recall one of our liberals here "linking" to this story as a means to "fact check" the idea that Hunter Biden was under investigation.
Even with this latest headline, Politico fails to report that the Justice Department's real interest is possible international money laundering and other names involved include both the President-elect (Hunter's dad) and Kamala Harris.
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Joe Bosso:
“Here are the 17 states we must boycott. Don't visit them. Don't give them one dime of tourism cash. Fuck 'em.
Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia.”
n October, 7 officials in the Texas Attorney Generals office called for Paxton to be investigated. They wrote in a statement, “We have a good faith belief that the attorney general is violating federal and/or state law including prohibitions related to improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other potential criminal offense.”
The Supreme Court has yet to decide whether they will look at the case or not.
He's hoping to get a pardon
can't even stay on topic on THIS thread, eh alky?
man, your brain must REALLY be fucking pickled.
More Arab-Israeli peace
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that the North African Muslim-majority nation of Morocco would normalize relations with Israel, marking yet another massive diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East thanks to Trump’s strategy and negotiations.
Worst Hitler ever
Cronyism?
Meet the U.S. Attorney
David C. Weiss
David C. Weiss was appointed by President Trump to serve as the United States Attorney for the District of Delaware.
How convenient? The lame duck President has been trying to handicap the next President from the day of the election.
How convenient???????????????????
And investigate Kamala Harris.
The District Attorney from Delaware could be doing the bidding of the lame duck President!
And why aren't they going after his computer hardrive?
Your getting worse every day Scottie
"I've been a critic of the president. I've spoken out against him. I was on both committees that worked to impeach him," Swalwell said in an interview on Tuesday. "The timing feels like that should be looked at."
Swalwell added: "What it appears though that this person — as the story reports — was unsuccessful in whatever they were trying to do. But if intelligence officials are trying to weaponize someone's cooperation, they are essentially seeking to do what this person was not able to do, which is to try and discredit someone."
It’s bad orange man’s fault he was banging a Chinese spy. Is there anything Trump can’t do?
Several hours later, Politico reported that the investigation "has been more extensive than a statement from Hunter Biden indicates," to include "potential money laundering and Hunter Biden's foreign ties." The New York Times reported that the money laundering part "failed to gain traction after FBI agents were unable to gather enough evidence for a prosecution."
The investigation apparently began in 2018 and remained a secret until this week. Besides raising questions about Hunter Biden's conduct -- it's not surprising that taxes are an issue for a person who has gotten large sums of foreign money under suspicious circumstances -- it also raises questions about the politics and media coverage of the president-elect's son.
Traitors according to rrb
Next Monday, 538 Americans will convene in state capitols across the country, swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, and cast the most consequential yet utterly anticlimactic votes of the 2020 election.
These are the electors, the members of the Electoral College, who will take one of the final, formal steps in making Joe Biden the 46th president of the United States and ending President Donald Trump’s desperate bid to overturn the results of the November election. These 538 people will mark small pieces of paper and drop them in ballot boxes; once counted, the votes in each state—preordained by the election—will be transmitted to the Senate, and on January 6, Congress will meet to tally the results and declare a winner to be inaugurated two weeks later. Despite Trump’s fervent wishes, the system will work just as it has in the past.
Hang them
i for one would love to see swalwell's career, and hopefully his life, destroyed.
and after him, adam schiff.
This looks like Scott stole it
President Biden won't use the Department of Justice for his own purposes like the lame duck President did.
If he does, I will speak out in opposition.
Adam Schiff is a great lawyer and politician.
adam schiff is such a piece of shit he needs to die trapped in a car fire.
I’d prefer a Winnie Mandela necklace for Schiff
The “Intellectual” Right’s Assault on Democracy. Thecoldheartedtruth is a prime example!
Politicians have constituents to please, but what about the “thinkers” of the Trumpist right?
by LINDA CHAVEZ
DECEMBER 10, 2020
The politics of intimidation has worked well for Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president in 2015. Every critic of any note within the party eventually succumbed to his prolific attacks, amplified by those of his most ardent followers. The few who stood up—Jeff Flake, Francis Rooney, Denver Riggleman, and others—retired, grew silent, changed party, or were drummed out of office. So it’s no mystery why the bully-in-chief thinks he can pull off a coup to stay in office past noon on January 20 by alternately cajoling and threatening state and federal legislators to overturn the election, ignore the 81 million voters who chose Joe Biden as president, and appoint electors in key states who will acquiesce to his plot.
What is surprising, however, is how few conservatives are willing to stand up to the most direct threat against electoral democracy in living memory. Sure, there are the brave few in Georgia and Arizona, but their courage has been met with threats against them and their families amid utter silence from most Republicans in Congress. We might expect this from the likes of Sen. Ted Cruz, who embraced Trump even after he implied Cruz’s wife is ugly and suggested his father was an assassin. But what about those on the “intellectual” right?
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Former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett, whose best-selling Book of Virtues made him rich, regularly appears on Fox News giving credence to some of Trump’s wild claims of a stolen election. “I believe this election was fixed,” he said this week, noting “systematic corruption” and “statistical anomalies” that made it improbable that Biden won.
Roger Kimball, who is publisher of Encounter Books and won the prestigious 2019 Bradley Prize “for advancing liberty and preserving democratic culture,” has amplified claims of suspicious vote tallies in multiple jurisdictions, mostly cities with large black populations.
Leading the pack of Trump apologists, the Claremont Institute’s scholars and publications have not only echoed Trump’s claims of a fraudulent election, but even “testified” that the 2020 elections violated state laws and the Constitution before “hearings,” which were in reality nothing more than get-togethers that Rudy Giuliani organized with a handful of state legislators.
John Eastman, a law professor who leads Claremont’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, issued a blanket claim that Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin violated Article II of the U.S. Constitution by allowing some absentee ballots to be counted in the 2020 presidential election, and that their state legislatures should, therefore, nullify the election and appoint their own slates of electors to choose the next president. Eastman praised the dubious lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general (who is currently under indictment for fraud and is accused of bribery by his top deputies), which would disenfranchise voters in those states as well—and the professor has now even filed a motion to intervene in the case for Donald Trump. The Supreme Court will decide by Thursday whether to hear the case, but the Court has already shut the door on the other conspiracy case to reach it this week, brought by Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly and a handful of other Republicans in the state.
The intellectual dishonesty here is breathtaking. For individuals and organizations that champion the rule of law and claim the mantle of the founding principles of our nation to call for overturning an election reeks of hypocrisy. It was one thing for them to advocate for so flawed a man as Trump to lead our nation. But the American people have spoken and to continue to claim that the election was stolen, that votes were fraudulently counted, is to attack the very foundations of our democratic institutions. They sow distrust in democracy itself—formerly the provenance of the far left. Politicians may fear the wrath of Trump’s legion of followers if they speak out, but what is it that drives the “thinkers” like Bennett and Eastman? They should know better than to parrot insane conspiracy theories and promote specious legal arguments.
On January 20, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. But we should never forget the role of those who tried to subvert the peaceful transfer of power. They deserve ignominy, not because they opposed Biden’s election, but because they tried to undermine democracy.
Linda Chavez
Linda Chavez is a former Reagan White House official and director of the Becoming American Initiative.
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There are many good Republicans, but they are a minority.
I quote Republicans to remind what Scott used to be
I quote Republicans to remind what Scott used to be
The only person here who is a fraction of what they used to be is the guy who went from a happily married man with a house and car, to a broken old fart hidden away in a nursing home.
Linda Chavez is a former Reagan White House official.
Lynch her?
Scott, seriously, I'm here because I fucked up my life.
But I got help and I'm not a demented old man.
I'm still strong and intellectually capable.
But you because a cultist Scott, and you are no longer Thecoldheartedtruth I knew years ago before Trump came down the escalator birther campaign.
Indy is right about you.
This is how you avoid being caught!
The only person here who is a fraction of what they used to be is the guy who went from a happily married man with a house and car, to a broken old fart hidden away in a nursing home.
An insult instead of addressing my point!
Indy is right about you.
he's right about you too alky, since he called you a FUCKING MORON.
Indy. I make mistakes and he called me out but he's right about Scott asshole
I wish!
Prediction:
On 01/20/2020 Trump will be aboard Air Force 1 on his way to a "rally" in an attempt to avoid facing justice. Trump will exit the plane some time after Biden is sworn into office and will find himself surrounded by federal officers, where he will be hand-cuffed and driven off to face federal charges for his many crimes against America and its citizens.
Wow Lil Schitty calling the kettle black....him with a mail order bride half his age thinks he is hot shit!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! Yeah......alreeady taken to the cleaners with his first wife, kids abandoned, he has no idea the fucking he will get with a child bride with a temper!!!!!!!
Missouri, 5 more states ask to join Texas Supreme Court election case against Georgia, others
That’s 24 states y’all
An insult instead of addressing my point!
Well you demanded that I was not the "same person I used to be" by making up a lie about how I am some sort of a "Trump cultist"... which you do not see as an insult.
I basically factually describe events of your life, which you suggest is an insult? Has your life actually been an insult, Roger? Are you really just shooting the messenger?
his latest headline, Politico fails to report that the Justice Department's real interest is possible international money laundering and other names involved include both the President-elect (Hunter's dad) and Kamala Harris.
They failed to report because it is Lil Schitty's fake made up headline!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!
Sorry Denny...
My only minor child lives full time with me, as he and his mother (my ex) do not get along. I pay his health insurance, car insurance, and everything else. My other son is 23 and is coming tonight to stay here while I am in Seattle (I leave in the morning).
Meanwhile, their mother has accepted a job in Texas and is moving down there, while I still live 1500 miles apart from my wife to make sure my kids are taken care of.
Also... as explained before. My wife grew up on Bloomington Minnesota. I met her a little over 20 years ago, and reconnected when I went to Seattle for a wedding....
But hey, it's always nice and "racist" of you to suggest the fact that my wife is "Asian" must mean she is a "mail order bride". Really shows us how liberals think.
I am sure Roger and the Reverend stand behind your assumption that "Asian" = "Mail order"... as they are also good little racist liberals.
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! Sure Lil Schitty.... with your history of nothing but lies, expecting me to believe otherwise is most amusing!!!!!!! You live 1500 miles from your wife because she has an injunction against you!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!1 You married a child half your age.....sorry sport, you can rationalize anyway you like....I don't care....but I sure like pulling your chain to see how far you will go to explain your shortcomings......BWAAAAAAAAAA Yep, a mail order child bride.......is your problem not mine!!!!!!!!!!
BTW.....77% of republicans in current poll say there was wide spread fraud in the election!!!!!!!!! Yeah the same idiots who mostly voted for trump and accepted all the congressional wins.......>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! What a bunch of dumb fucks!!!!!!!
Well Denny the mathematician.
I am 57 years old...
My wife is 42 years old...
How is that "half" my age.
Not my fault that you are a racist idiot who thinks all Asian women are "mail order brides". At least I still don't live in my mother's basement like you do!
Although Ohio does not endorse Texas’s proposed relief, it does endorse its call for a ruling on the meaning of the Electors Clause. More precisely, Ohio urges the Court to decide, at the earliest available opportunity, whether state courts and state executive actors violate the Electors Clause when they change the rules by which presidential elections are run. In late October, Justice Alito predicted that the Court’s failure to decide that question in another case had “needlessly created conditions that could lead to serious post-election problems.” Boockvar, 592 U.S. __, slip op. at 1 (Statement of Alito, J.). Unfortunately, he was right. In many States, citizens voted for President under rules created by state judiciaries and state executive actors rather than state legislatures. See, e.g., id., slip op. at 1–2; Moore v. Circosta, 592 U.S. __, slip op. 1–2 (2020) (Gorsuch, J., dissenting from denial of application for injunctive relief); Tex. League of United Latin Am. Citizens v. Hughs, 978 F.3d 136, 151–52 (5th Cir. 2020) (Ho, J., concurring). Because this Court has never decided whether the Electors Clause permits such alterations to the method for choosing presidential electors, Americans are left to wonder whether the process by which they voted for President was consistent with our country’s founding charter. Those doubts will linger, “robbing the winners of” a victory that all Americans will deem legitimate, and “the losers of the peace that comes from a fair defeat.” United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744, 802 (2013) (Scalia, J., dissenting).
Battleground States Issue Blistering Rebuke of Texas Case
4:32 pm EST
“Each of the four battleground states targeted by a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn President Trump’s election defeat issued blistering briefs at the Supreme Court on Thursday, with Pennsylvania officials going so far as to call the effort a ‘seditious abuse of the judicial process,'” CNN reports.
“The court filings from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin come a day after Trump asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) seeking to invalidate millions of votes in their states.”
Ohio Attorney General Opposes Effort to Overturn Election
4:02 pm
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court opposing a Texas lawsuit seeking to effectively delay the Electoral College from voting Joe Biden the next U.S. president, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
“Yost stated in the brief that the Supreme Court lacks authority to order state legislatures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to appoint presidential electors.”
Wow ......Lil Schitty still explaining his child bride!!!!!!! bwaaaaaapaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!! Too funny!!! Must suck to be you being soooooo sensitive to your mail order girl.......too fucking bad!!!!!!
And yet just above I posted the Ohio AG argument
Idiot
Pedo where where is the evidence the SD state senator was in DC unmasked?
Just admit you got caught lying, yet again
President Trump is right – he’s actually understating it. All across this great country, people are talking about the 2020 election being stolen by senile Joe Biden and his gang of corrupt Anti-American goons.
http//www.gateway.com
Also amusing the racist who supports the racist trump calling me a racist due to his choice of a mail order child bride....RICH!!!!
Jimmy Hitler said that my wife Lydia was a mail orders bride.
I never said that about you and your wife . Your lucky she's very pretty.
F.D.A. Advisory Panel Gives Green Light to Pfizer Vaccine
The blessing of these experts means that the agency will OK the vaccine’s use, paving the way for health care workers to begin getting shots next week.
I'm only 12 years older than you!
Hitler said that my wife Lydia was a mail orders bride.
SHOCKING!!!!!!!! His hypocrisy is boundless!!!!!!!
Sedition is a serious felony punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison and it refers to the act of inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority with the goal of destroying or overthrowing it. Every single Senator or House Member that has signed their name to rid state votes should be tried and found guilty, and removed from office!!!!
Didn’t we already do this back in March?
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announces new COVID-19 restrictions
Sedition is a serious felony punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison and it refers to the act of inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority with the goal of destroying or overthrowing it.
You mean like when Antifa attacked Government buildings, ICE locations, and took over part of Seattle... all with the expressed intent of overthrowing or destroying the local and federal authorities?
Scum
WASHINGTON — Ben Carson, Chris Christie and Donald J. Trump are not the sturdiest candidates to conquer the coronavirus: older, in some cases overweight, male and not particularly fit. Yet all seem to have gotten through COVID-19, and all have gotten an antibody treatment in such short supply that some hospitals and states are doling it out by lottery.
Now Rudy Giuliani, the latest member of Trump’s inner circle to contract COVID-19, has acknowledged that he received at least two of the same drugs the president received. He even conceded that his “celebrity” status had given him access to care that others did not have.
“If it wasn’t me, I wouldn’t have been put in a hospital frankly,” Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, told WABC radio in New York. “Sometimes when you’re a celebrity, they’re worried if something happens to you they’re going to examine it more carefully, and do everything right.”
Cali said,
"Pedo where where is the evidence the SD state senator was in DC unmasked?
Just admit you got caught lying, yet again"
______________
No, I will not admit that I got caught lying. Because I do not lie.
I did, however, confuse something I remembered seeing about the woman standing with others unmasked "on the capitol steps," and because I had not read carefully, as I should have, I jumped to the conclusion, based on faulty memory, that I had seen a reference to her earlier standing unmasked on the capitol steps in DC.
As politicians say, I misspoke. It was a stupid mistake, inexcusably wrong, but it was not a lie. I do not consciously lie.
You, however, consciously, knowingly lie every single time you call me a pedo.
You lied, pedo or you want us to believe you’re too stupid to confirm the 2 senators a state has
Your choice
Scott the President and his team are trying to #overturn the election. That is sedition against the government.
Sedition is a serious felony punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison and it refers to the act of inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority with the goal of destroying or overthrowing it..
Property damage is not sedition
They are demanding the right to vote. And against systematic racism. It protected by the first amendment rights asshole
Your words pedo
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
Cali, are you really so "stupid an ass" (to quote you) as to be incapable of seeing that the whole point of the article was that she dined WITH the governor and others, and posed maskless, and now there is the possibility that others and possibly the governor herself have been infected?
She had even earlier been present at other gatherings in Washington, DC and could have picked the virus up there.
DUH!
Stick to copy and pasting when you go on your own, you shit the bed
attacked Government buildings
is a felony.
Demanding police reform is not a crime.
I found where the racist rodent bastard posted
While Eric Swalwell Was Sleeping With a Chinese Spy Adam Schiff Put Him in Charge of CIA Oversight.
Redstate.com
act of inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority
So damaging government buildings isn’t inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority
Do you comprehend how stupid that is?
Texas Lawsuit Becomes New Conservative Litmus Test
7:04 pm
“The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail,” the AP reports.
“The last-gasp bid to subvert the results of the Nov. 3 election is demonstrating President Donald Trump’s enduring political power even as his term is set to end. And even though most of the signatories are far-right conservatives who come from deep red districts, the filing meant that roughly one-quarter of the U.S. House believes the Supreme Court should set aside election results.”
David Graham: “This embrace of the president’s attempt to overturn the results of the election is both shocking and horrifying… Republican officials have gone from coddling a sore loser to effectively abandoning democracy.”
____________
The GOP will go a long, long time trying to live this down in the history of America.
Why are there no intelligent women posting here?
You three effems almost make a woman
And probably because, you lie
Your understanding of the law, is childish
The Godfather Presidency lollipop
Once the president arrived in Washington, however, he upended tradition. On the day of his inauguration, Trump filed paperwork for his reelection, allowing himself to continue raising money from supporters while he served. As other people filled his campaign coffers, Trump sat back and watched, never donating to the reelection effort. Instead, he did the opposite, taking money out of his campaign by charging for things like rent, food, lodging and legal expenses. In doing so, the president managed to shift $2.7 million from his supporters to his businesses between his first day in office in 2017 and Election Day in 2020, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission filings.
The $2.7 million represents a tiny sliver of the $785 million that the Trump campaign took in from January 2017 to November 2020. It remains a mystery why Trump, who is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, didn’t just cover the costs by making a donation.
The bulk of the money flowed through Trump Tower. About a month after Trump became president, his campaign paid $159,000 to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, the entity through which he retained his 100% stake in Trump Tower. The building had served as headquarters during the 2016 campaign, and even though the Trump team opened another headquarters in the D.C. area, the campaign continued to spend about $40,000 a month on Trump Tower space through the 2020 election. The rent payments ultimately added up to $1.6 million.
Other entities also collected large sums. In May 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller to serve as special counsel, authorizing him to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election. The timing could be a coincidence, but the next month, the Trump campaign paid $90,000 for “legal consulting” to a company called the Trump Corporation, also owned by the president. Trump’s financial disclosure reports describe that entity as a “management company.” It is unclear why a management company would be providing legal advice. Regardless, the Trump Corporation continued charging for legal work throughout the campaign and eventually expanded its offerings to include I.T. services. By Election Day, it had taken in $293,000 from the Trump campaign, according to the analysis of filings.
In November 2017, the reelection campaign began making mysterious payments to another one of the president’s companies, named Trump Plaza LLC. That entity controls property in New York City that includes a garage, retail space and two brownstone apartment buildings. Federal filings categorized the payments as “rent,” but it’s not clear what exactly the Trump campaign was renting. None of the storefronts served as campaign shops. A parking operator seemed to be leasing the garage. And residents of the brownstones said they had not seen any sign of the campaign. In August 2019, the reelection effort abruptly stopped paying rent to Trump Plaza LLC, after having already handed over $84,000.
An additional entity named Trump Restaurants LLC—also owned entirely by the president—charged rent to the campaign. That company appears to be connected to basement of Trump Tower, which includes several eateries. It seems likely that the payments to Trump Restaurants LLC covered the rent for a small souvenir stand, near Trump Grill and Trump’s Ice Cream Parlor. The money arrived month after month, usually $3,000, even after COVID slowed down foot traffic at brick-and-mortar shopping venues. By Election Day, Trump Restaurants LLC had collected $129,000 from the campaign.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Democratic areas have experienced more COVID-19 deaths; in recent months, GOP areas have been hit harder
A similar pattern to those seen with the urban-rural and racial composition of each district emerges in the relationship between the partisan leanings of a district and deaths attributable to the coronavirus. In the early stages of the pandemic, the hardest hit districts were overwhelmingly “blue” parts of the country. COVID-19 deaths in the March through May period were more than four times as high in strongly Democratic districts (where Republican congressional candidates received less than 25% of the vote in the 2018 midterm elections) as in districts where Republican candidates won more than 60% of the 2018 vote.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/12/08/the-changing-geography-of-covid-19-in-the-u-s/
The Trump campaign’s and Thecoldheartedtruth's arguments have relied on unverified accounts by poll watchers, Republican observers and ordinary voters who claimed to have witnessed malfeasance at the polls or in the ballot-counting process, and on complicated mathematical calculations meant to prove that a Biden win was statistically improbable. While there is no actual data, collected either before or after the election, that shows it was impossible for Trump to lose, or that Trump received more legal votes than Biden in swing states like Michigan, in an alternate universe where one person reserves the right to be the sole arbiter of what constitutes “fake news,” evidence itself seems beside the point.
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Nothing but "Unity".
" "to undo every single damn thing this guy has done by executive authority." Dark Winter President Biden
Pitch Perfect
"Caliphate4vrDecember 10, 2020 at 6:36 PM
You three effems almost make a woman."
Hunter Biden Probe Broader Than Indicated
December 10, 2020 at 6:26 am EST omments
The federal investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter has been more extensive than a statement from Hunter Biden indicates, Politico reports.
“In addition to Delaware, the securities fraud unit in the Southern District of New York also scrutinized Hunter Biden’s finances, according to the person with direct knowledge of the investigation. The person said that, as of early last year, investigators in Delaware and Washington were also probing potential money laundering and Hunter Biden’s foreign ties.
“In addition to the probe into Hunter Biden, federal authorities in the Western District of Pennsylvania are conducting a criminal investigation of a hospital business in which Joe Biden’s brother James was involved. Federal officials have asked questions about James Biden’s role in the business.”
New York Times:
“The tax issues came to the attention of F.B.I. agents after they opened the money laundering investigation into Hunter Biden’s financial affairs in late 2018, under the attorney general at the time, Jeff Sessions.”
Barr Kept Hunter Biden Probes from Public View
December 10, 2020 at 10:16 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
“Attorney General William Barr has known about a disparate set of investigations involving Hunter Biden’s business and financial dealings since at least this spring and worked to avoid their public disclosure during the heated election campaign,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Republicans and President Trump have pressed Mr. Barr for months to pursue Mr. Biden, especially as his father, Joe Biden, gained momentum in his ultimately successful bid for president. Mr. Barr has staved off pressure from Republicans in Congress for information into the investigations, without elaborating on his actions.”
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named TIME's Person of the Year for 2020.
Biden, the Democrat who defeated incumbent President Donald Trump in the 2020 election to become just the 11th candidate in U.S. history to defeat a president seeking reelection, was part of a historic ticket with Harris, who will become the nation's first female vice president and first one of color.
@therealdonaldtrump will scream on Twitter
TIME'S PERSONS OF THE YEAR
HOORAY!
THEY DEFEATED THE WOULD BE FIRST AMERICAN DICTATOR!
Does Donald Trump really believe he lost the election? NO!
By Michael D'Antonio
December 10, 2020 CNN
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the presidential election in Pennsylvania. Hours later, the defeated President was back to spreading lies and conspiracy theories about being robbed of victory in an election that he lost to Joe Biden by more than seven million votes.
The madness of Trump's they-stole-it-from-me crusade grows more obvious every day. And it raises a question that has been asked about him for years: Does he really believe what he says?
When Trump was just a businessman and TV celebrity, the answer didn't matter. But now it does.
The man who occupies the highest office in the land is traveling the country in Air Force One, bringing along his Secret Service protectors and his presidential seal, and spreading his nutty claims.
At a rally last week in Valdosta, Ga., he tells his followers, "We're winning!" even as one court after another, in state after state, tosses out his frantic attempts to upend the election by lawsuit. Ranting endlessly on Twitter and Facebook, he insists that victory was stolen from him. But the "evidence of fraud" that he says "is overwhelming" is actually NONEXISTENT.
It's all very crazy. It is also dangerous.
The danger became obvious when, on the night when Trump spoke in Georgia, armed protesters gathered outside a Michigan state official's home to chant and shout obscenities. Their cries of "Stop the steal!" were obviously inspired by the President's delusions. .On Saturday Trump put it this way: "We're all deeply disturbed and upset by the lying, cheating, robbing, stealing that's gone on with our elections."
Michigan was also the place where, authorities said, the governor was the target of a kidnapping plot foiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Fourteen men were arrested. Authorities allege that they talked about executing the governor and burning down the state Capitol. Part of what motivated them, according to court records, was (Trump's other favorite obsession) state restrictions to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Even as cases, hospitalizations and deaths have climbed to new heights across the country, the President has persisted in attacking state and local officials who are fighting the pandemic with scientifically sound methods -- mask requirements and limits on public gatherings. In Georgia, Trump said cities and state "should open up" to business as usual.
That view has put tens of thousands of people -- like the supporters who stand should-to-shoulder without face coverings at his rallies -- at risk of debilitating illness and death. One study by Stanford University estimated that Trump rallies were responsible for about 30,000 extra infections and 700 deaths as of Oct. 30.
Nevertheless, people seem to take pride in putting their lives on the line for Trump, to show they agree with him when he says things like, "Don't be afraid of Covid."
Why would Trump downplay the coronavirus risk and put his supporters in danger? Well, it seems he believed that the business shutdowns many experts recommended to fight the pandemic would hurt him politically. The Washington Post reported Trump felt this way back in July when America had recorded three million cases and 130,000 deaths.
As the US death count more than doubled and cases rose nearly five-fold, other nations fared better with stringent shutdowns and mask requirements. One could only conclude that Trump's continued public call to loosen public health measures was not sincere.
In a similar way, the President's claims about the outcome of the 2020 election seem more an act intended to inspire the faithful to cheer and donate money than a matter of genuine belief.
With his court losses piling up and his lawyers reduced to presenting oddball witnesses at legislative hearings, Donald Trump knows he lost the election. CNN reported weeks ago that he has said so himself. However, by furiously insisting he was cheated and filing lawsuits across the country, he has been able to freeze fellow Republicans, who would otherwise congratulate Biden, and raise scads of money with appeals for a so-called Election Defense Fund.
Of the more than $200 million raised by Trump during the time he has bellowed about being cheated, only a reported $8.8 million has been spent on the lawsuits, according to figures released by the campaign last week and reported in the Washington Post. The rest may be put into a so-called leadership political action committee, which can fund all sorts of activities Trump might enjoy after leaving the White House.
Trump's public denials about the election results will also help him escape the blow to his ego that might come with having to admit he lost fair and square.
Having long established that he thinks that there's little worse in life than losing, Trump's image requires that he refuse to acknowledge a genuine defeat. Instead he will proclaim the American election system to be corrupt, and rally his followers to believe him, even though he knows this is not true.
So where does this leave us, as we consider whether Donald Trump believes the outrageous stuff he says? The only answer is that he doesn't believe it, but he doesn't care what damage he does to his country. Even if it makes people suffer and die, or leads them to take up arms against make believe enemies, he will keep it up for as long as the cash flows in and the faithful tell him he's a winner.
LOSER!
Senator Ben Sasse on Thursday said he expects the Supreme Court to throw out a Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory.
“I’m no lawyer but I suspect the Supreme Court swats this away,” Sasse said in a statement.
“From the brief, it looks like a fella begging for a pardon filed a PR stunt rather than a lawsuit – as all of its assertions have already been rejected by federal courts and Texas’s own solicitor general isn’t signing on,” the Nebraska Republican said.
Eighteen states joined the lawsuit, filed Monday in the Supreme Court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, which seeks to block presidential electors in four battleground states from casting their votes for Biden.
The lawsuit argues that the electoral vote should be delayed in Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania as investigations into voting irregularities continue. Texas and the other states are requesting an emergency order to invalidate millions of ballots in the four swing states.
The legal claims in the Texas lawsuit have largely been heard already in lower courts over the course of various cases filed by the Trump team and its allies since the election. All 50 states have already certified their election results.
On Wednesday, the attorneys general of seventeen states Trump won last month filed an amicus brief in the case. The red states that joined that brief are Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
Arizona’s Republican attorney general Mark Brnovich filed his own brief expressing his support for the lawsuit despite Biden’s victory in Arizona.
The lawsuit comes on the heels of the Supreme Court’s rejection on Tuesday of a similar lawsuit from Pennsylvania Republicans seeking to invalidate the state’s presidential vote results.
Sasse has been critical of the Trump campaign’s refusal to concede the presidential race and was one of the first Republican senators to recognize Biden as president-elect.
He refused to commit sedition against the Constitution!
https://news.yahoo.com/sasse-predicts-supreme-court-toss-180600825.html
Below is the list of names of the traitorous trash U.S. Reps who signed on to the Texas lawsuit as Amicus Curiae, ie, "friends." Look and see who might be one of the turncoats against democracy in your state, then call them up, and as Harry Truman would say, "give 'em HELL"!
Bradley Byrne: Alabama.
Gary Palmer: Alabama.
Mo Brooks: Alabama.
Andy Biggs: Arizona.
Debbie Lesko: Arizona.
Bruce Westerman: Arkansas.
Rick Crawford: Arkansas.
Doug LaMalfa: California.
Ken Calvert: California.
Tom McClintock: California.
Doug Lamborn: Colorado.
Ken Buck: Colorado.
Daniel Webster:Florida.
Gus Bilirakis: Florida.
John Rutherford: Florida.
Mario Diaz-Balart: Florida.
Matt Gaetz: Florida.
Michael Waltz: Florida.
Neal P. Dunn, M.D.: Florida.
Ross Spano: Florida.
Ted S. Yoho: Florida.
A. Drew Ferguson, IV: Georgia.
Austin Scott: Georgia.
Earl L. “Buddy” Carter: Georgia.
Rick W. Allen: Georgia.
Mike Simpson: Idaho.
Russ Fulcher: Idaho.
Darin LaHood: Illinois.
Mike Bost: Illinois.
James R. Baird: Indiana.
Jim Banks: Indiana.
Trey Hollingsworth: Indiana.
Steve King: Iowa.
Roger Marshall, M.D.:Kansas.
Ron Estes: Kansas.
Clay Higgins: Louisiana.
Mike Johnson: Louisiana.
Ralph Abraham: Louisiana.
Steve Scalise: Louisiana.
Andy Harris, M.D. Maryland.
Bill Huizenga: Michigan.
Jack Bergman: Michigan.
John Moolenaar: Michigan.
Tim Walberg: Seventh Michigan.
Tom Emmer: Minnesota.
Michael Guest: Mississippi.
Trent Kelly: Mississippi.
Ann Wagner: Missouri.
Blaine Leutkemeyer: Missouri.
Jason Smith: Missouri.
Sam Graves: Missouri.
Vicky Hartzler: Missouri.
Greg Gianforte: At Large Montana.
Adrian Smith: Nebraska.
Jeff Fortenberry: Nebraska.
Elise Stefanik: New York.
Lee Zeldin: New York.
Dan Bishop: North Carolina.
David Rouzer: North Carolina.
Gregory Murphy, M.D.: North Carolina
Richard Hudson: North Carolina.
Ted Budd: North Carolina.
Virginia Foxx: North Carolina.
Bill Johnson: Ohio.
Bob Gibbs: Ohio.
Brad Wenstrup: Ohio.
Jim Jordan: Ohio.
Robert E. Latta: Ohio.
Kevin Hern: Oklahoma.
Markwayne Mullin: Oklahoma.
Dan Meuser: Pennsylvania.
Fred Keller: Pennsylvania.
Glenn “GT” Thompson: Pennsylvania.
Guy Reschenthaler: Pennsylvania.
John Joyce: Pennsylvania.
Mike Kelly: Pennsylvania.
Scott Perry: Pennsylvania.
Jeff Duncan: South Carolina.
Joe Wilson: South Carolina.
Ralph Norman: South Carolina.
Tom Rice: South Carolina.
William Timmons: South Carolina.
Chuck Fleischmann: Tennessee.
David Kustoff: Tennessee.
John Rose: Tennessee.
Mark Green: Tennessee.
Tim Burchett: Tennessee.
Bill Flores: Texas.
Dan Crenshaw: Texas.
Kenny Marchant: Texas.
Kevin Brady: Texas.
Lance Gooden: Texas.
Louie Gohmert: Texas.
Michael C. Burgess: Texas.
Michael Cloud: Texas
Mike Conaway:Texas.
Randy Weber: Texas.
Roger Williams: Texas.
Ron Wright: Texas.
Ben Cline: Virginia.
Rob Wittman: Virginia.
Cathy McMorris Rogers: Washington
Dan New: Washington.
Alex X. Mooney: West Virginia.
Carol D. Miller: West Virginia.
Tom Tiffany: Wisconsin.
Traitors
We now have 106 louis gohmerts in congress!!!!!! Does the GOP really hate democracy or are they all afraid of the fat assed trump????????
BTW......According to Lil Schitty and the trump slurper rat, masks don't work for the trump flu.....!!!!!!! How does wearing a mask diminish your freedom??????? BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!
3100 dead americans a day and the GOP fiddles with a bullshit fraud claim..... the worst congress ever while Jowls Mitch ignores the needy in his shit hole state of Ky!!!!! GOP is only in it for itself and would rather have trump than democracy!!!!!
Wonder if our Juvenile leader has tweeted about the Time person of the year????? He probably shit a brick in his gold toilet when he got the news and will now have another thing to complain about instead of leading the country!!!!!!!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named TIME's Person of the Year for 2020.
LOL.
now that's just fucking perfect.
a drooling idiot in late-stage dementia, and the skankiest whore to ever walk the streets of DC.
my how far we've fallen as a nation when these two ass bags are held in such esteem.
LOL.
thanks alky!
And the drooling asshole from NY files another complaint about about not getting enough of trumps dick stuck up his ass!!!!!!! bwaaaaaapaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
“The January 2017 email suggests Hunter Biden made anywhere from $833,614 to more than $2.5 million a year in the second term of the Obama-Biden administration as he and his partners pursued global business deals in Ukraine, Russia, China and other foreign countries. But it also raised questions about his finances and accounting beyond the alleged Burisma tax payment that was overdue. Schwerin’s email suggested Hunter Biden borrowed money from his company, and also had claimed as income monies he did not receive. “You didn’t receive this in cash and it is in reality ‘phantom income,'” Schwerin wrote Hunter Biden in explaining some transactions.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/hold-email-given-fbi-states-hunter-biden-hadnt-paid
and "The Big Guy" sweeps this under the fucking rug in 5, 4, 3, 2...
🤡President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named TIME's Person of the Year for 2020.🤡
Like the Lost Years President being given the participation metal.
Worthless Journalism.
Something curious
Person of the Year
2004 Bush
2008 Obama
2012 Obama
2016 Trump
But 2020, it's both Biden and Harris. This reinforces the theory thst Biden is just a figure head. Why wouldn't he get this by himself? Because the left doesn't really think much of him. He won't last the entire term.
So now that the hunter Biden story is real, will we see Leslie stahl apologize to president Trump for acting like a condescending bitch to him?
I doubt he makes it to the Mid-term Election.
Which is more likely?
A, He resigns
B, The Dems kneecap him using the 26th Beloved Amendment
Balls, the Left never Apologizes.
They never think themselves as doing wrong.
Look at The Three Socialist Effeminate of CHT.
There are tens of millions of Trump voters mad as hell at the media, big tech collusion to hide the Biden corruption story until after the election. This country seems headed for a serious civil war.
The whole donk part has dementia
Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats
THE BIG THING THAT TRUMP GOT RIGHT AND BIDEN CAN’T AFFORD TO SCREW UP
http://www.newgeography.com/content/006874-the-big-thing-that-trump-got-right-and-biden-can-t-afford-screw-up-again
Now it turns out that my phone call to the President of Ukraine, which many, including me, have called “perfect”, was even better than that. I predicted Biden corruption, said to call the A.G., who perhaps knew of the corruption during the impeachment hoax?
Facebook tirade
When the electoral college votes for Biden the right wing nutcase websites will issue a call to arms.
Ballsless will support it because he doesn't believe in the Constitution
Trump and his odyssey of stupidity is the end of democracy in the US.....GOP used to scream state rights and now 14 states and 106 congressmen hold up the middle finger to the states and the election process!!!!!! ESAD trumpites!!!!!!!
Wow mouth of the south.....once again a day late and a buck short......that Diane problem has been going on for weeks culminating in schumer taking her off the committee.....Seems to me your drinking is affecting your stupidity more than I thought!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!!
BTW mouth of the south ....your hero chuck grasselly is a whole 3 months younger than Diane......Moscow mitch is not too far behind either.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats
she is a fucking cognitive mess, i'll give you that, but even on her worse day she's sharper than the alky on his best day.
And rat the dim bulb is a retarded ag school drop out with no future!!!!!! Funny how quick you are to jump on the crazy train of GOP hysteria BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Maybe you can comment on Susan Collins tremors and shaky voice....all indicators of mental decline!!!!!!!
Blogger anonymous said...
Maybe you can comment on Susan Collins tremors and shaky voice....all indicators of mental decline!!!!!!!
she seems to be exhibiting all the symptoms of parkinson's BWAA. she shakes like the alky coming off a three day bender.
and i've never been a collins fan. i'm not a fan of anyone who makes a big fucking theatrical production out of doing the right thing, like with her Kavanaugh vote.
she's john mcstain with tits. never to be trusted.
john mcstain
in rat's book a loser because he got shot down and captured, not a hero who refused to leave prison in 'Nam unless others could.
"she is a fucking cognitive mess, i'll give you that, but even on her worse day she's sharper than the alky on his best day."
Bingo
The Three Socialist Effeminate of CHT.
James, Roger and Denise, so angry.
But , why, you all won.
I hear in a landslide.
Media disgraceful in trying to suppress Post’s Hunter Biden reporting.
By Sohrab Ahmari
December 10, 2020 | 6:26pm | Updated
AP
In high-school journalism classes, teenaged would-be reporters are taught to value curiosity and independent thinking above all. Question powerful people, they’re told, and don’t trust anything anyone says, even if it’s Mom telling you she loves you.
Too bad most actual, adult reporters and editors these days don’t follow these rules when it comes to covering powerful liberals.
MORE ON:HUNTER BIDEN
Witness the reaction of nearly all mainstream media to The Post’s bombshell reporting on the Hunter Biden Files, which recently garnered yet another boost of verification — this one courtesy of the illustrious vice-presidential son himself, who revealed that federal authorities are probing his “taxes.”
The Biden Investigation is real.
The failed media called it a "Russian Disinformation campaign ".
Shame on them and those that believed them.
mcstain was the ted kennedy of fighter pilots, a liar and a fraud.
oh, and he dumped his first wife because she became disfigured in a horrible accident.
a real piece of shit. by the way, is his funeral still going on?
NY Gov. closes indoor dining again.
Masks work, right?😷😂
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449
mcstain was the ted kennedy of fighter pilots, a liar and a fraud.
And loved the country he served unlike an ingrate like you, asshole!!!!!!
What did you do during the Viet Nam war other than get out of diapers???????
Dennis, do you own a DD 214?
oh, and pederast?
pappy mcstain was AGAINST making MLK Jr.'s birthday a national holiday.
there's your fucking "hero."
mcstain was AGAINST making MLK Jr.'s
Like him being against MLK in 1983 is a sign of what?????? It was a different time and he did modify his position much later you fucking dope!!! What did you ever do to serve your country????? Shitstain asshole .....
John McCain remains a war hero.
rat stays a rat.
What does the Hunter Biden investigation actually tell us?
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 3:46 AM ET, Fri December 11, 2020
Hunter Biden says he is under tax investigation
(CNN)On Wednesday, we learned that Hunter Biden, the son of President-elect Joe Biden, is under investigation by federal prosecutors in Delaware regarding several financial questions that have arisen as a result of his business dealings in foreign countries -- most notably China.
"I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs," Hunter Biden said on Wednesday. "I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors."
Republicans -- led by President Donald Trump -- rushed to argue that the investigation, which has been reportedly ongoing since 2018, was proof positive that Hunter Biden should have been a bigger issue in the just-concluded 2020 campaign.
"'10% of voters would have changed their vote if they knew about Hunter Biden.' Miranda Devine @nypost @TuckerCarlson," tweeted Trump on Wednesday night. "But I won anyway!"
(Fact check: He didn't.)
Spin aside, it's worth asking the question: How much trouble could Hunter Biden actually be in?
The short answer is we simply don't know yet. And the reason is, at least in part, because it's just so hard to differentiate the spin from the facts.
(Worth noting: Joe Biden is not implicated in any way in the investigation.)
What we know is that Hunter Biden had dealings with Chinese companies both during and after his father served as vice president. Consider:
* In 2013, he became involved with and eventually was placed on the board of a directors of a Chinese investment fund management company known as BHR. He resigned from that role in October 2019 and, in a letter posted to Medium by his lawyer, insisted he had never received any sort of compensation for his role.
* In 2017, Hunter Biden worked on securing a deal with CEFC China Energy to invest in US energy companies. That same year, the founder of CEFC gave Hunter a 2.8-karat diamond during a business meeting in Miami. Hunter Biden told the New Yorker in 2019 that he hadn't kept the diamond. "I knew it wasn't a good idea to take it," he told the New Yorker. "I just felt like it was weird."
What we also know is that in 2019, the FBI seized a laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden and alleged to include business documents and other personal materials.
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani steered that information to media outlets in the closing days of the 2020 presidential race, insisting -- again, without any proof -- that the laptop was evidence of Hunter Biden's shady dealings with China, among other countries.
As CNN's Evan Perez and Pamela Brown wrote of the back-and-forth:
"The involvement of Trump lawyers in the published news stories on the purported Biden laptop led to a flurry of activity by Republican lawmakers and the Trump campaign looking to amplify allegations of corruption ahead of the election. The FBI met with a former Hunter Biden business associate who publicly made claims about potential wrongdoing. The FBI issued a statement at the time saying that 'as a general matter when contacted, the FBI reviews information from the public for consideration of any violations of applicable federal laws.'"
And well, that's about it. (Yes, we also know that Hunter Biden has struggled with addiction, but that seems to have very little to do with the investigation into his business dealings in China.)
So, what can we conclude based on those facts?
Well, first and most obviously, it's never a good thing to be the subject of a federal investigation. Like, you would rather not be under federal investigation -- all other things being equal. (For those who think they see the hidden hand of Attorney General -- and Trump consigliere -- Bill Barr in this, the investigation reportedly predates Barr's time as the nation's top cop.)
And we know -- and have known -- that it was a bad look for Hunter Biden to be sitting on the boards of foreign companies (Hunter was also on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company) while his dad was the sitting vice president of the United States.
Hunter acknowledged as much in an interview with ABC News in October 2019.
"I did nothing wrong at all," Hunter Biden said. "However, was it poor judgment to be in the middle of something that is -- it's a swamp, in many ways? Yeah. Did I do anything improper? No, not in any way. Not in any way whatsoever." Later in the interview he added this: "You know what? I'm a human. And you know what, did I make a mistake? Well, maybe in the grand scheme of things, yeah. But did I make a mistake based on some unethical lapse? Absolutely not."
That is the point on which all of this rests. While it may have been a mistake from a perception standpoint for Hunter Biden to sit on foreign boards, that doesn't mean that any laws were broken. What passes for guilt in the court of public opinion often would get you laughed out of a court of law.
So that's where we are.
The investigation is ongoing. We need to wait to see what it turns up -- if anything. Only then will we be able to definitely ascertain how much trouble Hunter Biden is actually in.
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