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What Did the Feds Know and When Did They Know it About Biden’s Secret Documents
They’ve found that Biden had at least two groups of secret documents in unsecured locations from when he was VP. As VP, he could not declassify documents. Thus, he violated the law.
The claim is that this was discovered on November 2, 2022. Thus, Merrick Garland knew about this when he appointed a special prosecutor later that month but did not disclose this vital information.
Garland needs to be removed from office and this would just be cited as one example of the Biden high crime and misdemeanor.
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There are a lot of reasons Garland needs to be removed from office tout de suite. This is another one.
But surely you don’t think the law applies to Democrats!
I agree. If people don’t start seeing real consequences, the Republic is lost. I’m sick of it. I mean Trump was president and had the authority to declassify them. Biden did not.
Mollie makes a pertinent observation.
Look, I agree 100% with the conclusions made in the OP. But here are the realities at hand:
1. There is little possibility that the House will conduct an impeachment investigation of Garland (or Mayorkas, or any other Biden appointee), still less that it will vote to impeach.
2. There is ZERO chance the Senate will conduct a trial, even in the very small chance the House did bring articles of impeachment. Schumer will simply ignore them. McConnell will complain that such attempts demonstrate why the House GOP members are the “wrong sort of Republicans,” and campaign for the “right kind” to be elected.
I don’t know what the solution is. It’s possible there is no solution, other than for honest people of integrity to put as much distance between themselves and the Federal government as possible.
You mean via secession? ; )
Or is the solution to forcibly remove the criminal element from our government. Though that may leave us with no government at all.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
The point is to force the media to cover it. This House may act. We’ll see. Of course, this may be orchestrated by Ds wanting to be rid of the Groper.
I’ll never get over Hillary sharing national security secrets with our enemies via an unsecure server. Until she’s frog-marched in an orange jumpsuit into federal prison, I will not believe in our “justice” system.
That this is coming out at all in the MSM makes it likely it’s a gambit to keep Biden from running for reelection. As if anyone else Dems run will be better.
Our government is incredibly corrupt. Banana republic might be a fair description.
pffft. This will disappear from the news cycle in…. Oh wait, already gone. GAS STOVES! Lions Tigers BEARS!
Squirrel.
The mar a lago papers were nothing burgers, these are too.
You will never be disappointed if you have zero expectations that GOPe Rhinos will ever do anything.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Now they’ll find another Hunter laptop and another Hillary server too.
They will both get impeached. I agree with you that Senate will ignore any impeachment. This guy says it is legal to ignore.
It is important to note that Biden violated criminal law. A former president is not subject to criminal mishandling of documents. Some believe that Team Biden discovered the documents long ago and then ginned up the charges against Trump and then dropped them to set up a precedent of not prosecuting. I don’t believe they are capable of such planning and execution.
Too late for Obama to pardon him. But remember when people were just certain that Trump was going to pardon himself? Maybe they were setting that up for Biden too.
I think it’s fair to say “they” have known all along (maybe not the particulars, but the likelihood) because it’s a common practice. On the continuum? I’ll say Bidens are worse than Clintons and that’s saying something. For example – most “donors” pay for the honor of naming a building.
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It is time for some Jeffersonian “watering”.
I am not for succession. We need to control the resources of a continent to beat China. The Tories will just have to
This is my husband’s theory.
I don’t think this is the case. He’s the perfect front for what they’re doing behind the scenes. They can blame everything on him. Without him there, they have no shield.
However, I am surprised that this has come to light at all, apparently thanks to some of Joe Biden’s own staffers.
I’m more in your camp, Drew. Biden works for them as the perfect cover. It’s all just maddening.
Life is interesting. Karma?
Trump was on his way to being re-elected when COVID-19 hit. Trump lost the 2020 election.
Trump was on his way to be indicted when the Biden records issue came up. Even though the Biden and Trump cases can be distinguished, I highly doubt that either Trump or Biden will be indicted on the classified records issue.
In my church, our minister would say that everything is in divine order.
There is a rough justice about the above two twists and turns. Trump was defeated in 2020, but will not be indicted for the classified records issue.
My life is so much more peaceful now that I am avoiding both FNC and MSNBC. It seems like all they want to do is to whip up people to keep them watching.
Blessings.
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A bit of a tangent on the theme of karma, the power of prayer and divine intervention.
Europe was facing a very cold winter and Germany was facing economic devastation this winter due to the lack of Russian Natural Gas. And then a miracle happened. Europe is having one of the warmest winters on record. If this lasts, Germany’s industries won’t need to close down.
People make plans. God laughs.
The Rs have taken over the House and appear to be serious. Get stuff out now and appear to be on the side of the angels. You can always claim that it’s old news if the Ds decide to keep the Groper as president.
Try the Ted Cruz podcast.
If you want something very agreeable, subscribe to all of the principles first Twitter feeds. lol
I agree that most of the Dems are fine with keeping rutabaga in place as a figurehead. However the fringe that wants him gone in an environment where leaking is the preferred weapon can do a lot of damage.
That is great. People should listen to that whole clip.
Gangster Government, for sure.
This is a very good summary of what is going on.
No counselor, he was just talking about it with the FBI and the library endlessly before he was raided.
This seems like a pretty good thread.
Does it matter? The permanent bureaucracy always wins.
They knew the Steele Dossier was garbage, but they pushed it anyway.
they knew Hunter’s laptop was NOT Russian disinformation and they pushed that narrative.
they will cover for Biden Inc – DC covers for their own
This makes no sense to me at all.
The story that you link said that Garland “presumably” knew certain things, apparently about the Biden documents. Did he or didn’t he? Even if someone in the government knew, as of November 2, 2022, that Biden had unlawfully removed classified documents, this would not demonstrate that Merrick Garland knew.
Do you have any evidence that Garland actually knew what you claim he knew? If not, then you should retract your statement.
Further, I see nothing “vital” about this information relating to the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the Trump documents. Biden purloining classified documents would be legally irrelevant to the issue of whether Trump did so, also. Both might be crimes, of course.
By the way, news reports today indicate that Garland is appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the Biden documents.