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Democrats Pounce on Illegal Behavior of (giggle) Republicans
What do Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden have in common? They would not have gotten a security clearance unless they were elected to high office. Those are four people with legal problems, and concerning histories of questionable friends, allegiances, and finances.
Joe and Hillary obviously excel in this realm, but every one of them would have had difficulty getting security clearances were it not for their elected positions. Joe Biden is an obvious criminal with concerning financial relationships with enemies of the United States. But can you really deny a security clearance to the President of the United States?
Anyway, I know that the NYC District Attorney is an important man. But he’s not THAT important. There is just no way that he decided to indict a former President of the United States on questionable charges without first clearing it with President Biden. There is no way he would even consider trying that. President Biden just HAD to approve this, in one way or another.
So if you had Joe Biden’s legal problems, and if every other prominent Democrat had similar (although less spectacular) legal problems, would you allow the weaponization of the judicial branch in electoral politics? Or would you think, “Well, Trump’s a jerk, but perhaps attempting to jail political opponents is not a great idea. Sure, he may have used campaign funds to pay off a stripper, but Hillary used campaign funds to pay a Russian spy for a fake dossier, in an attempt to cheat in an election. Perhaps we should leave these legal cards left unplayed. This may not turn out well for us…“
Watching Trump’s legal problems, do you think Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden are concerned for themselves?
Of course not. And that is what is truly terrifying.
That’s the whole story, in my view. That’s it.
President Biden approved the use of the legal system to destroy political opponents. And it never occurred to him that this weapon could be used against him, despite his long history of criminal behavior.
And he’s right – our legal system is no threat to him. Because he’s a Democrat.
And that’s it.
Game over.
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They are trying to force a civil war.
Ask yourself, what one outcome would all of these actions fostered by Democrats be in service of? Why would they be doing things that don’t make sense? The ‘sense’ is, they want to control, punish and provoke. It’s now obvious.
This is beyond “double standards” this is outright tyranny.
All they have to do is to keep winning elections, and as nothing is being done to reduce election fraud, that’s going to happen.
Welcome back, Franco! You were missed.
Baloney.
Flicker used your spot in the parking garage in your absence, and he’s pissed that he has to go back to parking on the street with the rest of us lowlifes.
Don’t listen to him, Franco…
Doc, you are so cynical! (And I agree with you.)
This Trump chapter reminds me so much of what the Italian liberals–their version of our Democrats–did to the brilliant businessman Silvio Berlusconi who was a center-right leader. They hounded him for years. It was horrible. I fear for Trump:
Don’t take the accusations in the passages above too seriously. They were largely fabricated out of little tiny things.
All Berlusconi ever wanted to do was put Italy on sound financial footing.
As has been explained to me all the time recently. Nobody is above the law and Trump has broken the law. He has a right to prove his innocence before he is convicted.
Such calumny. I surrendered it. And that’s just an honorific puddle of Guinness poured out in his old spot.
I think people who haven’t had security clearances are ignorant of just how egregious (felonious, treasonous) Hillary Clinton’s “private” (wide-open, unsecure) server was as SoS. There is simply NO WAY the head of the State Department did NOT disclose the nation’s most sensitive secrets to our enemies — I don’t care what her damned “intentions” were. It is likely that agents of America died because she didn’t want the Intelligence Community to be able to scrutinize her “work.” I’ll never get over the fact that she’s a free woman when people who had much milder infractions spent time in prison.
In another time (one of actual law and order and patriotism), she would have faced a firing squad. Seriously.
It’s one thing to live in a two-tiered justice system. It’s another to let domestic enemies hold cabinet positions and betray the country to our worst enemies (China, Russia, and Iran). And Democrats aren’t even pretending anymore. It’s full on political persecution and tyranny.
About time you showed up.
Yeah Dr. B but he does show up on CtLaw’s Monday rants. That’s something. Him and Henry C. Need more than lawyers on it. Hey Red when are you and Robert going to show up again?
I didn’t know that Guinness had a lager
Not to mention how Biden secured all of those classified documents in his garage, his home, his offices at Penn State, etc.
I don’t understand why the CCP felt they needed to bribe the Biden gang, the state secrets were just lying around for anyone to peruse.
Maybe they would have been more careful if they weren’t being paid.
It’s a byproduct from their asphalt manufacturing.
They do. It´s called “HopHouse13” and it´s really good. As you´d expect. And don´t they also own Harp?
It’s important we just don’t exclude the Republicans in this damnable list .
Every last freaking Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence .
Mark Warner Virginia
Marco Rubio Florida
James Risch Idaho
Susan Collins Maine
Tom Cotton Arkansas
John Cornyn Texas
Jerry Moran Kansas
James Lankford Oklahoma
Michael Rounds Oklahoma
Special mention Mitch Turtle McConnel -> Head of during Russia Russia Russia , Ukraine Ukraine Ukrain , Impeachment 1 and 2 . Spying on Trump campaign , Spying on Trump Administration .
These people are tasked as the gate keepers of the deep state. They know all the crimes that are nodded and winked away . They decided who Trump could appoint . etc . etc .etc
Every last one of them are guilty as hell . If this is not cleaned up (it won’t be ) all the things that are destroying the Republic will succeed .
So, you’ve already convicted him . . .
We lost the so-called Fourth Estate. There is not a single significant media enterprise that is not completely committed to the support and advocacy of the democrat party. Neither Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden are concerned with their own potential legal problems because they know that the mainstream media and the heads of the justice (sic) functions of the federal government are all in bed with them.
The solution would be to create a truth-telling media enterprise, which once was FoxNews. However, over time and even threats from the so-called federal justice function and continued battering from all of the forces of business, media and law, they succumb to the powers that be. Rupert Murdoch tired of the fight and the decline in his fortunes as he waged this battle.
Journalism is dead. And Hillary and Joe are its beneficiaries.
Just to clarify the nature of the so-called crime Trump has been charged with:
In other words, Cohen–not Trump–paid this woman $130,000. Trump later reimbursed Cohen but out of his own checkbook, not his campaign’s. And that’s the key to the indictment: out of his own checkbook rather than the campaign’s checkbook.
The intent is the only “crime” here. Apparently, for some obscure reason, Trump was obligated to repay Cohen out of his campaign funds, not his personal funds.
The charge is so stupid that everyone else, even people who would love to cause pain and suffering for Donald Trump, has refused to prosecute, up until now.
My money is on Costello getting on the stand and putting an end to this nonsense. He has had some clear and enlightening things to say about his former partner Cohen.
That is how the Democrats run. Especially in there areas. Has been all my life.
https://www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi-blasted-over-statement-that-trump-can-prove-innocence-1791739
Harp.
I approve of beer.
Yes, but still insufficiently cynical.
Nothing “occurs” to Him (Biden). Seriously.
The operation is being run by others.
If the Trump charges are dropped immediately due to the fact that the statute of limitations ran 5 years ago, Trump will have escaped “on a technicality.”
If the judge allows the trial to proceed in spite of the statute, it and/or the appeal(s) can drag on for a couple of years because there is no way a Manhattan jury will acquit.
If any Trump supporter so much as gives somebody the stinkeye during a protest we’ll hear about how violent and hateful his white supremacist base is.
If the House gets some traction in hearings related to CCP/Russian/Ukrainian payments to the Bidens, we’ll hear how it’s perfectly legal for Hunter to have a job and if he wants to share it with his relatives (just like the rich relative in any successful family) that’s legal too. Direct actual quid pro quo is much easier to “prove” in the court of public opinion than in a real court, as we’ve seen. Hunter is practically Warren Buffett. No matter how bad it looks, Trump’s indictment will be a counterweight (choose your phony witch hunt.)
The MSM and DOJ will support the narrative, whatever it needs to be. I don’t see much Democrat downside to Bragg’s trash indictment.
Anything is better for Biden than having to run on his record.
And they’ll keep him in a basement again. I am curious if they’ll even have a primary. Any other candidates will make him look like Fetterman.
Xi will insist that he dump Kamala for Fetterman. Just for the fun of it.
or how compromised Biden and Kerry (remember Chris Heinz, Kerry stepson was Hunter’s partner in influence peddling)
We have been told how linking things back to Soros is a tinfoil hat idea, but what if things almost always do link back to Soros?