Just over a month ago, the Repub U.S. attorney that Repub President Trump’s admin had originally appointed to investigate Hunter Biden in 2020 had to issue a statement denying that he requested special counselor status: (Source: ABC News)
In a letter sent Monday to the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Weiss confirmed for the first time that he did not request a special counsel designation in the probe, contrary to one of the main assertions from the whistleblower, which Republicans on Capitol Hill have seized on to claim improper interference from Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Today, AG Garland said Weiss had requested special counselor status and been granted it, and Repubs are pissed off about that: (Source: The Hill — and special thanks to valued commenter Dorothy A. Winsor for flagging it in the previous thread)
“This action by Biden’s DOJ cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigations or whitewash the Biden family corruption,” McCarthy said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “If Weiss negotiated the sweetheart deal that couldn’t get approved, how can he be trusted as a Special Counsel? House Republicans will continue to pursue the facts for the American people.”
IIRC, every special counselor appointed by both Repub and Democratic administrations — ever since Nixon fired Archibald Cox — has been a Repub until Jack Smith, who is registered as an independent. No FBI director has ever been a Democrat either.
Democrats are barred from both roles. I don’t make the rules, but I recognize them when I see them.
As I said in the thread below, since Trump appointed Weiss, I will assume Weiss is a partisan hack until he proves otherwise. Repubs are probably yapping about him in the press to create pressure. I am not a lawyer, but from what I understand, the so-called “sweetheart deal” was far from it. If anything, Hunter Biden got harsher treatment than most taxpayers in his position would have received.
This is worrisome though. If Weiss is indeed a partisan hack, there’s a possibility this could get ugly fast because he now has the power to open many cans of worms and showboat about findings in the press.
I’m confident Joe Biden didn’t do anything wrong, but Hunter Biden was a drug-addicted sleazebag until pretty recently, and no one on earth has had his digital privacy more thoroughly violated, by whatever means. (Russian hacking is my guess — the story about the MAGA repair shop guy who took the “abandoned” laptop to Rudy Giuliani always sounded fishy, but who knows?)
My sense is most people think Joe Biden is a decent guy who loves his son, and they don’t hold the fact that the son was a major fuck-up against the father, nor should they. All but the most heartless sympathize with the tragedies the family have endured, and even if you don’t think that excuses the son’s behavior, it explains it in a way that doesn’t reflect poorly on Joe Biden, IMO.
But if Weiss intends to abuse the special counselor role as his Repub predecessors have done, we could be in for a long, tawdry year. Here’s hoping Weiss has a sense of integrity not yet evident in anyone ever tangentially associated with Donald Trump.
Open thread.
Baud
It’s hard for a Dem to get the gig, because the only DOJ that would appoint a Dem would be a Dem DOJ, and it would be to investigate a Dem in the administration, which actually may controversial on our side of there is actual criminality.
I’m pleased that Garland didn’t appoint a Republican for Trump. Not sure if he would have done it for Biden is Weiss wasn’t already on the case.
Kent
I think you are conflating special counsel with independent counsel. They are separate things. As I understand it, this basically allows him to take his investigation beyond Delaware. It doesn’t turn him into Ken Starr.
Keith P.
If this was Don Jr., Trump would have already pardoned him under the Witch Hunt Doctrine.
John Revolta
This changes everything.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@John Revolta:
How?
smith
IANAL, but it seems to me that the stuff the GQP most wants to pin on Hunter Biden is all derived from either the famous laptop, which has got to be the most thoroughly compromised piece of evidence in the history of jurisprudence, or on witnesses who turn out to be dead, or missing , or imaginary, or who testify to the exact opposite of what the Rs have been screaming about. Is there actually anything there beyond the tax evasion and gun possession that Hunter was ready to cop to? Things that a Republican in his place would not even be investigated for?
I realize that Ken Starr made a lot out of not much more, but what I wonder is, even if Weiss turns out to have a similar agenda, can he really do anything with no legally useful evidence?
matt
it was a ‘sweetheart deal’ because it wasn’t a show trial and execution.
catclub
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): It is Biden’s Katrina, silly.
cain
@Kent: So, Dr. Jeckyll doesn’t turn into Mr. Hyde?
Feathers
They real scandal here is that there isn’t a special prosecutor looking into Jared Kushner’s deals with Saudi Arabia.
Anonymous At Work
Right now, the tax stuff would get a similar sentence, all things being equal. He didn’t pay taxes, he’ll pay them back with interest.
The gun charge will likely be removed because of pending Supreme Court litigation. Nothing in 1776 prevented habitual opium users from purchasing a musket, so someone with cocaine and cocaine trafficking convictions can be an AR-15.
The part where the plea bargain fell apart and the big question mark is the potential unregistered foreign lobbying. The plea bargain, to Hunter’s thinking, included taking that stuff off the table. To USA Weiss, it did not. The judge rightly asked and got conflicting answers on that, and she rightly blew up the deal.
I don’t know enough to know whether there is more solid evidence than what Devon Archer gave previously (“Hunter would call his dad during dinners and talk about the weather”). If there is more solid evidence, I don’t know. It could get wild because what “evidence” has slithered out from Comer’s hearings has been heavy on hearsay run through Rudy Guiliani.
UncleEbeneezer
They have failed to get the public to care about their Hunter Biden witch-hunts. I don’t think they will be successful in doing so when Trump will be in multiple courthouses defending against serious, criminal charges. This is a time when the Media only caring about ratings/clicks will actually be a good thing, because nothing in the Hunter Biden story is gonna even come close to what the public is going to find out in Trump’s trials.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Feathers: I think at this point that would still be the province of Congress rather than the DoJ– it stinks to high heaven but there’s no evidence, that I’ve seen, of a case for opening a criminal investigation (IANAL). I know Carolyn Maloney started an investigation, I’m sure it was shut down last January. I can’t imagine she wouldn’t have kicked whatever she had over to the Senate but…. two whom? Which committee? Claire McCaskill was on MSNBC last night calling for a Senate investigation, but she didn’t say who should be doing it.
UncleEbeneezer
@Kent: This too. This isn’t going to be Whitewater Hearings all over again. It will be more like Durham. Ken Starr was a Special Counsel, but iirc, the verbiage and rules on Special Counsel vs. Investigator, was changed precisely to prevent another Ken Starr type of political witch-hunt.
Jay
@smith:
you forgot the whistle blower category of arrested and charged Foreign Agent,
Ocotillo
Howler monkey brigade is saying Weiss has been illegally appointed. Citing some reg that says special counsel must come from outside of government.
Baud
@Anonymous At Work:
It’d be nice if the Supreme Court upheld that law, regardless of the effect on Hunter, but you are probably correct.
Baud
@Ocotillo:
Seems like a good reason to replace him with a Dem.
Jay
@Anonymous At Work:
Hearsay = Ruzzian Disinfo and exiled or arrested Ukrainian Ogliarch lies.
Anonymous At Work
@Baud: I have NO EFFING CLUE what Roberts and ACB were thinking about the ghost gun ban they upheld, but it could either be reigning in Reedie’s habit of nation-wide injunctions OR it could be a realization of how non-existent firearms laws were in 1776 and how badly that will look at next election.
What I suspect is that Weiss won’t bring that charge now, might try to hold it abeyance pending Supreme Court AND Statute of Limitations. If the SOL tolls first, he’ll charge it and deal with appeals.
Ocotillo
@Baud: I understand that nice email lady is no longer part of government and is a lawyer.
Baud
@Anonymous At Work:
Yeah, when is the SOL on this stuff? It seems like everything happened a long time ago.
Anonymous At Work
@UncleEbeneezer: Starr was empowered under a since-expired statute that specifically exempted Special Prosecutors from AG oversight and subject to being named, appointed, and maintained by an all-Republican panel of retired judges. The purpose was to avoid another Saturday Night Massacre but ended up creating a monster.
Baud
@Ocotillo:
Heh.
Anonymous At Work
@Baud: IAAL but not a practicing one. Bug Marcy, she is NAL but keeps better records than I do.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Anonymous At Work: Oy. Allison Gill should do a podcast where she walks Normies through the weeds Marcy Wheeler lives in. But it would take like four episodes a day.
TriassicSands
Question for Republicans: If Joe Biden really has dementia, as you constantly claim, just how effective as a crime boss could he be? And if being inarticulate is a sign of dementia, then Biden has always had dementia, so how exactly was he able to assemble and run his international crime syndicate with a son who was addicted to drugs and probably pretty unreliable? I’m asking for a friend who is a drug addict and wants to set up an international crime syndicate with his father who has Alzheimer’s.
Anonymous At Work
@Jay: Yup, basically. The IRS “whistleblowers” were pissed that they were big-game hunting and weren’t going to be the ones to nail the trophy animal. Their boss made sure to paper their evidentiary files with lots of problems like how third-hand this stuff was, how the witnesses were never going to be available for cross-examinations, etc. This stuff is now going to Hunter to use in trial prep, can’t be slow-leaked by Comer, and Weiss won’t bring use it since it’s a can of worms beyond anything Fear Factor ever tried.
UncleEbeneezer
I would also that while Robert Mueller is a Republican, the vast consensus of former DOJ/FBI people I follow (Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, etc.) is that he did his job professionally and didn’t serve as a GOP ratfucker, but was simply hamstrung by Bill Barr and the existing OLC memo prohibiting indictment of a sitting President. Mueller’s team ended up fueling convictions of: Roger Stone, Mike Flynn, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos, Michael Cohen etc. So it’s not like Republican Special Counsels can’t put their politics aside and end up indicting other Republicans. They aren’t automatically political hacks. It’s just that some (like Durham) transparently are.
Betty Cracker
@Kent: I am totally conflating special and independent counselors. What’s the difference at the federal level that would constrain Weiss from becoming a Starr, if that were his aim?
Ryan
This is the Benghazi hearings all over again, except Hunter isn’t and has never been a government official.
UncleEbeneezer
@Anonymous At Work: That’s it! Thanks for the clarification. But I believe one of the reasons it was allowed to expire was because of the Ken Starr shitshow.
MattF
I don’t think the Hunter Biden stuff matters. It struggles to rise to below-zero relevance. Maybe I’m just sitting in a libtard bubble but I’ve seen Fox News talking heads arguing on camera over whether anything in the story actually implicates Joe Biden with anything besides loving his son. The Foxies disagree vehemently with each other and they look unhappy about it.
Jeffro
I’m thrilled that even when the Rs get what they want, they’re still mad as hell. L to the Ooooo-L
Do the world a favor and stroke out, MFs
Roger Moore
The whole thing about Hunter’s laptop is completely fishy. Marcy Wheeler (AKA EmptyWheel) has made a pretty good case that someone hacked Hunter’s Apple account and downloaded a disk image of his laptop. They then presumably installed that image on a new laptop, added whatever nefarious additional files they wanted, and gave it to the repair shop. Given that Hunter was apparently consorting with Russian prostitutes around that time, it seems extremely likely that the Russian mob was involved. Since the Russian mob is barely distinguishable from the Russian government, it also seems highly likely the whole thing was orchestrated by Russian intelligence.
Jeffro
Man, talk about coincidences…
Lapassionara
OT, and since I am technically illiterate, I cannot provide links, but it appears that the hearing in Judge C’s courtroom went well, from Smith’s perspective.
different-church-lady
I’m more doubtful than ever Hunter Biden is going to get the nomination.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Roger Moore: one thing that has stuck with me from a long article I slogged my way though about the laptop– NY Mag, as I recall– was that the famous blind computer repairman consulted his father, who further consulted his uncle, two retired USAF colonels, which made me think of people like Flynn and Kellogg
Mr. Bemused Senior
@TriassicSands:
Probably BJ is not the best place to ask for advice on this subject. I understand there are some social media sites that might be more forthcoming. Or you could try writing to the FTFNYT.
OzarkHillbilly
I’m not worried about this.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think I just heard a reporter on MSNBC say that this could go to trial “soon”. My understanding had been that this would actually slow the whole thing down considerably. Is that soon/slowed down compared to the plea deal that is, apparently, gone?
Jeffro
TriassicSands
No, but Hunter is consiglieri to international “crime boss” Joseph Biden, the most infamous crime boss since Al Capone. When compared to, or should I say contrasted with, Saint Donald Trump the results are stark indeed. Saint Trump has never uttered a falsehood in his life (ignore the 30,000+ documented on the Washington Post during Saint Donald’s term as president), or tried to steal an election (ignore the 2020 election), or assaulted women (ignore, Jeez, all his accusers including E. Jean Carroll), or paid off a porn star (ignore Stormy Daniels’ false claims) the way Biden has. Despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary, all accusations against Saint Donald are part of a witch hunt. Despite no evidence of wrongdoing on Biden’s part (except, of course, loving and caring about his son, Hunter) it is obvious that Joe is a truly horrendous criminal.
TriassicSands
@Jeffro:
Yeah, life is really strange, huh?
Jackie
Poor AG Garland… he just can’t make the Repugs happy. At all.
“The undersigned request that you provide U.S. Attorney Weiss the full protections and authorities of a special counsel.”
— Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on September 16, 2022.
“There may be others who would be a worse pick than U.S. Attorney Weiss to be special counsel, but based on the prosecution of Hunter Biden to date, he has got to be close to the worst pick. This is unbelievable.”
— Johnson, in a tweet today.
rikyrah
Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) tweeted at 3:18 PM on Fri, Aug 11, 2023:
BREAKING: Ohio Supreme Court unanimously rejects a GOP lawsuit seeking to block an abortion rights amendment from the November ballot. This decision makes certain that voters will have the chance to enshrine reproductive freedom in the Ohio Constitution.
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(https://twitter.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1690095455760232449?s=02)
Jeffro
Btw this whole “COVERUP! CORRUPTION!” whine-fest on the right is both the #1 and #4 story right now on Fox News dot com.
Here’s hoping the nation’s ERs have braced themselves b/c there’s gonna be a whole lot more strokes, heart attacks, etc this weekend. Have at it, wingnuts!
TriassicSands
@Mr. Bemused Senior:
Um, oh never mind.
Baud
@Jackie:
Heh.
trollhattan
@different-church-lady: Name recognition off the charts for 2028.
MattF
@TriassicSands: Laura Ingraham thinks so. That Grand Canyon national monument thing is just a sneaky way to funnel money to the Biden Crime Family from Kazakhstan, she says.
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly: Me either.
Elizabelle
@Feathers:
Yes. And his alleged profiteering off the Covid pandemic.
I am not blind to Hunter Biden’s transgressions, but they are so small in comparison to the Trump family’s self-dealing (aka corruption, if you can prove it and if — and this is the sad part — if it’s illegal).
I have no doubt the rightwingers are trying to get Joe to forego a second run by attempting to destroy Hunter. Right down to driving him back to drug abuse, or to suicide.
I am sick of the double standard.
Maybe we can get Fred Ryan (former WaPost publisher) right on this. Isn’t he some poobah with an organization that promotes civility?
eclare
@rikyrah:
Yay for Ohio!
Lyrebird
@Ocotillo: Sorry to be thick.
Do you mean the nice lady that did some work leading the Dept of State?
eclare
@zhena gogolia:
Same here, not worried.
Well, except for Hunter’s mental and physical health having to go through all this bullshit.
zhena gogolia
@MattF: This is where being normies works to our advantage. They hear, Hunter Biden is not running for office or working in the government, and they say, so why should I care?
tobie
I’m betting money that Weiss will be as much of a dud as John Durham. He’s had over 4 years to investigate and produced nothing significant. Bring the so-called whistleblowers as witnesses to court. Abbe Lowell will eat them for breakfast.
Elizabelle
@Ryan:
And Hunter is way more fragile than Hillary Clinton. It is cruelty directed at Joe and Jill Biden.
Anonymous At Work
@Jeffro: Weiss is USA in Delaware. The tax charges against Hunter cannot be brought against him in Delaware. So, either Weiss hands the case off to a Democrat OR he gets a Special Prosecutor designation to bring charges in California or DC, outside his appointment as USA. Going straight by book with no wiggle room for dark insinuation.
Elizabelle
Besides which:
we are talking about Hunter Biden right now.
And we should be talking about Clarence Thomas. And Ginni Thomas.
Shiny object.
UncleEbeneezer
@MattF: Agreed. What made Benghazi and Emails dangerous was that even some Liberals/Progressives bought into them to some extent (especially the latter). Nobody is taking the bait on the Hunter Biden bs.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
All other humans are more fragile than Hillary Clinton.
UncleEbeneezer
@Jeffro: Special Counsel also means that if Garland did decide to intervene squash suggested charges from the SC, he’d have to explain his decision before Congress.
Bill Arnold
@Ocotillo:
Wouldn’t the procedure be for Weiss to arrange to put his government service on hold at the moment (well, nanoseconds before) the special counsel designation is granted?
TriassicSands
@MattF:
Yes, I saw and heard Ingraham. And she did it all with a straight face. Who says she isn’t talented? Stupid? Yes. A fascist? Yes. But what acting ability. Somehow, despite her incomparable talent (to make stuff up), I didn’t believe a word of it.
Anonymous At Work
@tobie: Weiss won’t call them. Their pursuit of Hunter was nonpartisan but targeted. They wanted to run down, kill, stuff, and mount a gigantic trophy for their den. And in pursuing Hunter so hard, they created an evidentiary record full of holes, errors, and hearsay.
I imagine that the following is a more credible version of their testimony: “Yuri the Icepick told the vory on Russian deathrow about a story Ivan The Cannibal had told him that he had overheard while murdering some people for Yevgeny Prigozhin on Putin’s orders about what Russian intelligence knew about Hunter. And that’s part of an email that Guiliani sent us.”
Roger Moore
@Elizabelle:
It’s also an implicit threat to any Democrat who would run for higher office that the Republicans have no compunctions about coming after their family members, even if they aren’t involved in government at all.
tobie
@Anonymous At Work: Hey, at least there’s some poetic justice in this universe. And I like your fictional account of how many layers of hearsay were involved in Ziegler’s and Shapley’s testimony.
Bill Arnold
@Roger Moore:
It (the “HB” “laptop”) certainly has the appearance of a Russian hack-N-dump.
Is there a picture/image available of the (actual) said laptop?
smith
@Bill Arnold: Is there any credible evidence that it’s even Hunter Biden’s laptop?
Jay
@smith:
MTG’s penis pics,………..
Betty Cracker
Bullshit, but it would be hilarious performance art if HB registered as a Repub, waved the voter ID card at every TV camera and complained about a partisan witch hunt. Their heads would explode!
Bill Arnold
@Jackie:
Thanks. Linked that request for special council status for Weiss in a reply to R Johnson’s tweet.
TriassicSands
Nothing is shinier than Clarence and Ginni, but Republicans have special matte lensed glasses for looking at themselves and their aiders and abettors.
In the future, all relatives of Democratic presidents will simply have to be locked up in solitary for 4-8 years for the duration of a parent’s term in office. Otherwise, every child will be on the GOP’s hit list. Imagine if we get another youngish president with a young child or children:
Breaking News: Six-year-old Seth Jones, eldest son of President Jones, is accused of running a child pornography and trafficking ring by Republican senators and representatives. They also cast suspicion on four-year-old Sally Jones, saying she is frequently seen with a stuffed teddy bear that has a curious bulge in the abdomen. “What is she hiding,” asked Marjorie Taylor Greene? Leaders of the party said that two-year-old Jacob Jones is also under suspicion. He drools a lot said Representative Lauren Boebert, “A sure sign of drug addiction. Does his dad supply him with drugs?”
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
If he were a Republican, he’d actually be guilty of crimes.
MattF
OT, I guess. Sam Bankman-Fried, the former FTX crypto king, violated his bail conditions (witness intimidation, it says here) and is going to prison in advance of his trial.
smith
@Jay: Couldn’t those have been hacked from somewhere else, and planted on the laptop? I have no expertise in this, but I saw a suggestion somewhere that a cloud account may have been hacked as part of this operation. In any case ,it has passed through so many hands, with no documentation as far as I can see, so it might as well be an artifact produced by Russian security services using material stolen from various sources. I have about as much proof of that as they have that it’s Hunter Biden’s laptop in its pristine and original configuration.
Jay
@Baud:
if he were a Rethuglican, he’d be running for office, and the front runner at that.
Roger Moore
@smith:
That depends on what you consider to be credible evidence. The laptop does contain Hunter Biden’s files, which is at least prima facie evidence that it was his. AFAIK, though, there’s no evidence that he ever bought that particular laptop, and it really should be possible to track that kind of information. They have the serial number, and most computer sales track the serial number. It would take a little bit of leg work and possibly a subpoena or three, but it should be possible to figure out when and where that particular laptop was sold. If it was purchased with a credit card, it should be possible to track the buyer’s information. On the flip side of that, one could check Hunter’s credit card receipts to see if the purchase shows up there.
If it were a well-run intelligence operation, I would expect whoever did it to take care of those details. For example, they could have bought it with cash from a shady reseller who didn’t track when he sold each laptop. Even then, though, there would be a record of when Apple sold the laptop to the reseller. If they were really good, they would have hacked his credit card at the same time they hacked his Apple account so they could create a legitimate-looking sale. If the main goal were to create a scandal in time for the election, though, they might have gotten sloppy and let those details slip, figuring it wouldn’t matter in the long run if anyone figured out it was an operation as long as Trump got elected. The rest of the details surrounding the laptop, like the less than credible story for how Giuliani got hold of it, make me think they were that sloppy.
Jay
@smith:
it was snark from the Clinton impeachment,…..
“But let’s not forget the time the Arkansas state employee Paula Jones signed an affidavit in which she testified to the size, circumference and unique angle of Bill Clinton’s penis, described by The Independent as “rather like a finger bent at the joint.”
and her poster board kiddie porn postings during the ReThug’s “hearings”.
Bill Arnold
@MattF:
Clearly, Laura Ingraham is just covering up for her cannibalistic pedophilia. I mean, so F-ing tempting to start throwing out random accusations anonymously.
Old School
@Jay:
And why not? It would mean he couldn’t possibly be prosecuted until after the election.
UncleEbeneezer
Edit mine:
Baud
@UncleEbeneezer:
Honestly, the 45% are the more culpable.
laura
@MattF: this cossetted soft-palmed entitled louche dochebro edgelord is so overdue for the comeuppance he so richly deserves.
UncleEbeneezer
@Baud: All of ’em, Katie.
Dan B
@MattF: It’s poetic that SBF is locked up on the day that Judge Chutkan rules on TFG witness intimidation.
sdhays
Has it ever been established that the “laptop” in question was actually Hunter Biden’s? The last I knew, Hunter has never claimed it as his own and initially I thought there was evidence he wasn’t even in the state when it was supposedly brought in for repair. That’s fishy!
It just pisses me off that it’s referred to as “Hunter Biden’s laptop” when it hasn’t been established that it is, in fact, his laptop. I understand that it seems to have real data on it, but that doesn’t make it “Hunter Biden’s laptop”. The media failing to qualify this as “alleged” or “supposed” or something is really ridiculous when they’ll couch crimes Trump clearly did as “alleged” or “critics accuse”.
It kind of reminds my how “Al Gore said he invented the internet” became a statement of fact in the shitty 90’s media when he actually said no such thing.
sdhays
@Bill Arnold: Oh, I’ve heard that too. Apparently, Friday dinner at the Ingraham house isn’t complete without a roast leg of human, complete with tennis shoes still on and lightly seasoned with rosemary, sage, and the tears of infants.
I don’t know if it’s true, of course, but it’s out there, you know?
Jay
@sdhays:
Baby slippers, not shoes.
eclare
@Jay:
Nice touch!
Jay
@sdhays:
the “Hunter Biden Laptop”, is not Hunter Biden’s laptop.
It’s a laptop hard drive that has some documented files of Hunter Biden’s, other files that can’t be proven to be Hunter Biden’s, and a chain of provenance and custody that cannot be documented.
In court, it’s worthless.
Even the penis picks that MTG is so obsessed over, can’t be proven to be his. MTG should spend more time on PornHub and less time obsessing over Hunter Biden’s alledged penis,
Jackie
@Bill Arnold: Let us know his response lol!
Another Scott
Meanwhile, yet another example of how Betty Cracker is better than the rest of us – she has 3 Senators.
Grr…,
Scott.
JPL
@Another Scott: lol
Elizabelle
@MattF: Sam Bankman-Fried this weekend. Trump next.
Return Trump to government housing. No, not THAT housing.
hitchhiker
Hunter Biden traded on his dad’s name, which isn’t a crime. I think that the more they try to make it seem despicable, the lighter it ends up looking, and the more petty and stupid they make themselves seem.
Trading on family members’ names and positions is very American; it’s hard to make non-political types rend their garments over some guy saying, “Hey, my dad’s an important dude.”
brantl
@Anonymous At Work: Hunter has ALREADY paid back the taxes, before the charges were ever brought.
JCNZ
@TriassicSands: insert huge “like” emoji here!😂😂😂
brantl
@Baud: Not Jake Smith
brantl
@smith: not really.
Uncle Cosmo
@Another Scott: Oh, that Dummy GooberVile!
brantl
@brantl: Sorry Jack Smith.
sab
@Roger Moore: They have no compunction throwing their own families under the bus.
Mary Taylor, former Lt. Gov. of Ohio under Kasich, decided she wanted to be Gov, and so ran against DeWine in the Republican primary. She held a press comference to clearup problems early so that opposition research wouldn’t get her. She announced then that both of her sons were heroin addicts and struggling with rehab.
They were both in their early twenties., and their own mother did that to them. She only got about 30% in the Republican primary, so it was all a wasted sacrifice.