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DNI Tulsi Gabbard made her case to the media in repeatedly asking them to actually read the declassified evidence. However, there were few takers. This was the same group that promulgated the original false Russian claims and refused to consider such opposing evidence...
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Not only did the tapes remove any serious doubt over Biden committing the federal crimes, but they also constituted what is akin to a political racketeering indictment against much of the Washington establishment…
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…Of course, none of this complicity in the cover-up is an actual crime. It is part of the Washington racket. After all, this is Washington, where such duplicity results not in plea deals but book deals.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren is the latest to struggle to explain why she praised Biden as "sharp" up to the time that he withdrew from the race. Warren's new defense: "Look, he was sharp. He was on his feet." So, Biden was possibly incompetent but upright. https://www.foxnews.com/media/elizabeth-warren-squirms-when-pressed-about-defending-bidens-mental-fitness-podcast-interview
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“No matter how big, rich or powerful you think you are, no one is above the law.” Those words of Letitia James may echo loudly this week as James finds herself the subject of a criminal referral for alleged financial fraud ... https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/16/no-one-is-above-the-law-new-york-ag-letitia-james-accused-of-alleged-mortgage-fraud/
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...For an attorney general who just prosecuted Trump for everything short of ripping a label off a mattress, the irony is crushing. Indeed, the greatest danger is that the Letitia James standard could be applied to Letitia James.
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Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) just criticized the pardons on CNN by saying "He has unfortunately pardoned police killers. Five police officers died that day." It is a claim made by other senators. Only one person died that day: protester Ashli Babbitt https://jonathanturley.org/2025/01/08/police-officers-were-injured-and-killed-klobuchar-repeats-common-false-claim-about-january-6th/
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...There are good-faith arguments that can be made against the scope of these pardons. Many of us denounced the riot and still view it as a disgraceful day for our democracy. https://jonathanturley.org/2021/01/10/a-crisis-of-faith-why-we-should-be-worried-more-about-a-desecration-than-an-insurrection/ However, the repeated claim that officers died that day distorts the record. ...
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...Even among the critics of the DOJ "shock and awe" policy, the scope of the pardon was broader than many expected. That is a worthy debate. However, the claim of multiple deaths on that day does not advance that debate.
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The repeated use of this false claim is a disservice to the public and a misuse of this national tragedy. This repetition is referred to by psychologists as creating the "illusion of truth." ... https://jonathanturley.org/2025/01/08/police-officers-were-injured-and-killed-klobuchar-repeats-common-false-claim-about-january-6th/
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...Klobuchar has long supported censorship and, on misinformation, pushed social media companies to “take this crap off.” She stressed “how lethal misinformation can be and it is our responsibility to take action.” Ironically, in this case, the lethality was the misinformation.
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Clinton's call to arrest people for disinformation was a crushingly ironic moment since it was her campaign that funded the infamous Steele dossier and spread false stories of Russian collusion during her presidential campaign...https://jonathanturley.org/2024/09/18/a-better-deterrence-hillary-clinton-calls-for-the-arrest-of-americans-spreading-disinformation/
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After being sued, the World Federation of Advertisers has announced that it will be shutting down GARM, its blacklisting operation. That is a win for free speech, but it is doubtful that WFA has abandoned its interest in blacklisting...https://jonathanturley.org/2024/08/06/the-garms-race-the-house-moves-forward-with-its-investigation-of-blacklisting-company/
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Rep. Raskin is arguing that the DOJ can force Justices Thomas and Alito to recuse themselves. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4692965-raskin-argues-doj-can-force-recusals-of-alito-thomas-in-jan-6-cases/ It is an argument that shows how detached from reality the attacks on these justices have become...
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...While such arguments clearly hold political, if not recreational, appeal, they are demonstrably unsupportable. I guess the Court is much the same as how Oscar Wilde described life as being "far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
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The Court's decision to hear oral argument in the immunity cases has unleashed the same voices of rage, even suggesting that the justices are now part of an insurrection. https://jonathanturley.org/2024/02/29/craven-and-insurrectionists-msnbcs-rachel-maddow-and-other-denounce-the-supreme-court-for-granting-review-of-presidential-immunity/
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...Despite the Court (including three Trump appointees) repeatedly ruling against Trump and conservative causes in past cases, the same voices declared that the Court was a cabal of politically compromised lickspittles.
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The order of Judge Anil Singh stays the ban over Trump from taking out loans from New York banks and the ban on serving as an officer of a New York company. That leaves him with an astronomical bond burden but gives him more leeway in financing this critical deposit...
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...Notably, the witnesses for banks said that they did not lose any money on the prior deals and wanted more business with Trump. This will give banks that opportunity. Notably, a bond would still cost Trump a considerable amount even if he prevails. https://jonathanturley.org/2024/02/21/nothing-succeeds-like-excess-new-yorks-perverse-incentive-in-pricing-trump-out-of-an-appeal/
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...The problem with the full deposit demand is that there is limited time remaining and the added $90 million for the Carroll case appeal. It is not clear if or how Trump can collateralize his properties for a loan to avoid a distress price sale of properties...
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...This remains a daunting burden. Banks may have to weigh the merits of a novel case to judge the risk. Ordinarily, such risk or unknowns impact the conditions of the loan. Trump could take a further appeal on the deposit issue but he is presumably working the market for a loan or bond.
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The NY Post is out with my column on the poison pill contained in the recent $455 million judgment against Trump. In order to appeal, he has to come up with that amount or a bond for that amount. Justice Engoron proved that "nothing succeeds like excess.” https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/opinion/democrats-weaponized-justice-system-to-punish-trump-in-business-case/
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...Of course, Gov. Hochul is suggesting that you have nothing to fear from such confiscatory actions unless you are Trump in New York. However, if the only protection in New York is the discretion of figures like James, few businesses would relish the future.
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Dozens of Democratic members have already called for the disqualification of up to 126 Republican colleagues under the same sweeping theory used against Trump. These efforts could easily place this country on a slippery slope to political chaos. https://jonathanturley.org/2024/01/05/ballot-cleansing-democrats-are-moving-to-bar-republicans-from-ballots-nationwide/
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...The move against Rep. Perry is only the latest warning sign for the Court as it considers review of the theory. Until the court rejects this antidemocratic theory, it will metastasize throughout our body politic.
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I have updated the analysis over the Senate porn video in light of the firing of Sen. Ben Cardin's aide Aidan Maese-Czeropski, 24. The termination will not prevent any Capitol police investigation. Yet, the former aide is making public comments... https://jonathanturley.org/2023/12/16/capitol-police-investigating-porn-video-shot-in-senate-committee-room/
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......He stated on social media that "This has been a difficult time for me, as I have been attacked for who I love to pursue a political agenda." When one films a porn scene in a Senate hearing room, the resulting anger is likely focused on the conduct rather than the identity of the parties. A heterosexual tryst would produce the same obvious objections. Indeed, the incident occurred after the recent controversy over Democratic candidate Susanna Gibson posting sex "for tips" videos on the Internet.
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...The public comments may only worsen an already bad situation. There are potential criminal charges that could be investigated. While the gay site did not appear to be revenue generating (which is a good thing legally for the former aide), he should speak with counsel before making additional public comments.
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Smith's deafening attacks on free speech are only matched by Garland’s utter silence. The Attorney General seems to believe that removing himself entirely from the case is more important than guaranteeing that the DOJ protects core constitutional rights. https://themessenger.com/opinion/trump-gag-order-aclu-first-amendment-jack-smith-garland-doj
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Newly released evidence reveals over $20 million coming from 23 separate countries on four continents to at least nine Biden family members. Not only are the Biden transfers becoming clear, so is the Biden family tree in this lucrative form of corruption.
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I have been asked about my reference to the ten facts or developments that led to my conclusion that an impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Biden is now warranted. Here are those ten reasons fro my written testimony.
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Problems continue to pile up for Gov. Grisham in her flagrantly unconstitutional order suspending Second Amendment rights. Now the sheriff is declaring “as an officer of the court, I cannot and will not enforce something that is clearly unconstitutional.”
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So now Hunter is suing people who accessed the laptop even though he continues to refuse to confirm that the laptop is his or its contents are authentic. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.898532/gov.uscourts.cacd.898532.1.0.pdf He “doth protest too much, methinks.”
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The NY Times made another valiant effort to extricate Joe Biden from the influence peddling of his son. The Times reported that Biden "has at times been too deferential to his younger son." That is hardly exonerating...
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...If President Biden "deferred" to his son in selling influence and access, it is neither reassuring nor exculpatory. Rather it is the latest effort of scandal implosion. https://jonathanturley.org/2022/08/03/the-art-of-scandal-implosion-the-political-and-media-establishment-prepare-to-drop-hunter-biden-in-a-controlled-demolition/
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...Now, dispensing with the "Hunter was a tragic addict" defense, the Times is going with "Joe was a tragic loving Dad." The paper reported that “Mr. Biden’s devotion to his son means that he has long followed Hunter’s lead."...
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...When that "lead" takes you to a multimillion dollar influence peddling scheme, it is not a parental but public problem. This was not some elder abuse of a conniving son at a nursing home but a massive corruption scheme involving corrupt figures from China to Ukraine.
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Miranda Devine just wrote about a meltdown in an interview involving the Washington Post's Philip Bump after being asked to address his prior controversial claims. Bump offered one of the most vivid examples of the new media and it is chilling... https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/01/you-dont-listen-to-the-press-im-telling-you-washington-post-columnist-philip-bump-strikes-out-at-those-who-question-prior-false-claims/
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...I recently wrote how the Washington Post issued a statement that declared that the newspaper was “standing by” columnist Philip Bump on his proven false claims on subjects ranging from Lafayette Park to Russian collusion... https://jonathanturley.org/2023/08/29/washington-post-stands-by-philip-bumps-false-claims-on-lafayette-park-and-other-disproven-claims/
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...As shown by Miranda Devine and this podcast interview with Noam Dworman, https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/americans-are-getting-wise-to-joe-bidens-corruption-despite-his-media-gatekeepers/, It appears that, if “Democracy dies in darkness,” journalism more often dies in the light of day.
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Brian Kilmeade just said on Fox that Viktor Shokin told him in the interview that no one had asked him for an interview despite his central role in the alleged Biden corruption scandal...
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The Messenger is out with my column on the coverage of the fourth indictment of Donald Trump and the dismissal of any constitutional or free speech concerns over the charges.
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The files are chilling but familiar. They include the government's insistence on the censoring official and true information on the side effects of the Covid vaccines as well as the origin of the virus. Even jokes were censored at the government's behest.
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Digesting the extraordinary interview with Trump, the most significant legal element is the stating of his defense to the audiotape. Trump will argue that there was never a document with the Iranian attack plan and that he was referring to material referencing the plan...
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...On the tape, Trump says "As president I could have declassified, but now I can't...Except it is like, highly confidential. Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this. This was done by the military and given to me."...
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...So he will argue that this was a reference to a document that he did not have and could not now declassify it. The DOJ will push back on the language and could call the two individuals in the meeting on their own impressions...
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...They may also have a specific document in mind, but they have not indicated that they have proof of its removal. That could be part of the case to come. However, we now know Trump's account of the audiotape.
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... Notably, the court barred Trump from discussing classified evidence in cases. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-grants-doj-protective-order-bars-trump-disclosing-alleged-evidence-classified-documents-case However, Trump is denying that this document existed at Mar-a-Lago and he does not discuss the content...
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...Notably, Baier said twice that it was an Iranian attack plan and Trump did not deny the subject while denying that he had the document at Mar-a-Lago.
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So CUNY's Hunter College refused to fire Rodríguez after she trashed a pro-life table. https://jonathanturley.org/2023/05/21/youre-triggering-my-students-hunter-college-professor-trashes-pro-life-display/ However, it said it would not tolerate another incident. How about holding a machete to a reporter's neck and saying that she will chop him up? https://jonathanturley.org/2023/05/21/youre-triggering-my-students-hunter-college-professor-trashes-pro-life-display/ https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/nyc-college-professor-shellyne-rodriguez-holds-machete-to-post-reporters-neck/
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Various crimes come to mind but we can start with P.L. 120.14 and menacing in the second degree given the use of deadly weapon. https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/120.14
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...Of course we have previously had professors who criminally assaulted pro-life advocates, pleaded guilty, but were not fired and even supported by faculty and students. https://jonathanturley.org/2018/10/17/california-professor-who-assaulted-pro-life-advocates-is-featured-by-oregon-to-help-students-embrace-the-radical-potential-of-black-feminism-in-our-everyday-lives/
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...We also recently discussed an Albany professor who shutdown a pro-life display and resisted arrest. https://jonathanturley.org/2023/05/04/shes-a-professor-albany-professor-arrested-after-obstructing-pro-life-display-and-resisting-arrest/ There has been no reported discipline and she was also heralded as a hero. https://jonathanturley.org/2023/05/04/shes-a-professor-albany-professor-arrested-after-obstructing-pro-life-display-and-resisting-arrest/
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...Rodríguez describes her work as “depict[ing] spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.” I suppose nothing says survival tactics like a machete to the neck of a reporter. https://jonathanturley.org/2023/05/21/youre-triggering-my-students-hunter-college-professor-trashes-pro-life-display/#more-205195
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...It appears that, while trashing a pro-life table was not something Hunter College would fire a professor for doing, holding a machete to the neck of a reporter was considered a tad too much for Hunter College and CUNY. https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/nyc-college-professor-shellyne-rodriguez-holds-machete-to-post-reporters-neck/
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...So now we just have to figure out if there is anything short of a machete attack that would motivate CUNY to fire a professor in an incident involving pro-life or other dissenting voices on campus.
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The Durham report sheds light on the false claims involving the "pee-tape" which it describes as a "salacious sexual activity." They found no basis for the claim that was widely reported in the media. Indeed, the key sources contradicted themselves...
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...However, the Clinton-funded team seemed eager to include the allegation: "Danchenko flew from Moscow ot London and met with Christopher Steele on the following day. Three days later, in Steele Report... [the] allegation appeared that described salacious sexual activity."
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...The report discusses the DOJ and FBI being politically manipulated. The evidence vindicates Trump that this was a well-orchestrated hit job by the Clinton campaign and government officials with a "predisposition to investigate Trump."
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...Durham states clearly that there was no basis for the FBI to launch this investigation despite the claims made by James Comey.
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The Durham report states that Clinton General Counsel Marc Elias "declined to be voluntarily interviewed by the Office." Elias was recently severed by the Democratic National Committee from representation. The campaign was fined by the FEC for his hiding the funding of the dossier as a legal expenditure. https://jonathanturley.org/2022/03/31/fec-fines-the-clinton-campaign-and-dnc-for-the-steele-dossier/
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The House Oversight presser just began with Chair James Comer announcing "astonishing" findings from the last four months of investigation including the transfer of money to the Biden family, including during the period when Joe Biden was Vice President.
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...Comer began with new disclosure of $1 million that went to the Biden family from Romania while Joe Biden was working on Romanian issues. Comer noted that this money ended when Biden left the vice presidency.
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...Comer also claims that they have uncovered millions sent from Chinese interests through companies to the Biden family. He details the use of an array of different companies and different banks to transfer money from China in allegedly an effort to conceal the transfers.
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...Comer is also addressing the 1023 form that they are seeking from the FBI on the alleged bribery allegations made against the President. Comer says that the whistleblower's allegations is "consistent" with the Committee's own investigation, including information from banks.
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...Comer says that over 20 companies have been identified at limiting liability companies created during this period to transfer as much as $10 million from foreign sources...
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...Comer is listing new legislative efforts being considered. That could be key to any fights in court to show legitimate legislative interest in these records and documents...
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...Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Az) is adding details on the movement of money to Biden family accounts through a complex network of accounts and companies. He said that Rob Walker paid Biden members more than $2 million from his account. He claims that the payment showed a one-third pattern that would go to the Bidens.
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...Rep. Nancy Mace (R, SC) is detailing the findings of shell companies being used to send money to up to nine Biden family members not just from China but Romania. The Romanian details are new...
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...She is suggesting that these "layering schemes" were made complex to keep others from "following the money."
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...She is also noting that there is a pattern of 30 percent being repeatedly carved out for the Biden family. Mace taunted DOJ and said it needs to "get off its a**" since they have now done the work for them...
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...Rob Walker features greatly in these transfers. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) detailed how Walker was paid $3 million from a Romanian figure known for corruption and bribery. One third was then sent to the Bidens...
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...During this period, Biden in May 2014 was speaking about corruption in Romania. In Sept. 2015, Biden welcomed the Romanian president to Washington. Five weeks later, money flowed to Biden associates through multiple accounts. Haley Biden received some of this money.
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...The $3 million payment from Romania is clearly a focus of the Committee. Armstrong saying that the Romanian payments followed a pattern with the Chinese payments....
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...Rep. Byron Donalds (R, FL). has said that a review of documents showed "many people" were concerned about these transactions and sought to conceal them through a web of LLCs...
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...He says that at least 16 companies were created while Biden was Vice President and that number is now at least 20. Many of the same people were involved in the LLCs like Rob Walker...
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...He says that the Committee (and as someone who worked in banking) believes that there was no legitimate purpose in creating this array of LLCs beyond the effort to conceal money transfers...
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...Chairman Jordan (R, OH) says the Committee has reviewed 170 suspicious activity reports and that shows this array of LLCs funneling money to the Biden family...
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...Jordan just said that the Biden team gave Morell the name of a reporter that they wanted the Hunter Biden letter to be sent to first.
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...Comer started questions by calling on the NY Post, noting that it was recently "banned" from a White House event. Notably, MSNBC is not covering the presser live.
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...CNN is also not covering it live but just ran a clip.
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...Comer is calling on the Bidens to produce receipts and bills to show what legitimate business was being performed by all of these family members received money transfers.
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...A reporter just asked why the Trumps are not being investigated. The problem is that many of us have long supported investigations into Trump transactions, but the media is remarkably disinterested in the same concerns over the Bidens.
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Comer just listed the family recipients currently known as President's son, President's brother, his brother's wife, Bo Biden's widow, Hunter's Biden ex-wife, Hunter Biden current wife, and Hunter Biden's children.
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Because they had insufficient votes to secure gun control, President Biden believes that they were justified in preventing legislative work to be done by the majority. https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/25/biden-praises-tennessee-legislators-for-standing-up-for-democracy-by-stopping-the-legislative-process/
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After offering the perfunctory acknowledgment that free speech is “super important,” one professor added “we know that the intent was antagonism. I do think there should be consequences for that. It’s not about free speech.” https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/20/between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-kent-state-petition-seeks-to-punish-students-for-painting-what-is-a-woman-on-free-speech-rock/
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The investigation into the Bidens has made many in the Beltway uncomfortable. Influence peddling has long been the favored form of corruption in this city, but few families have cashed into the extent of the Bidens. https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/18/then-there-were-nine-comer-alleges-a-wider-range-of-potential-biden-beneficiaries-from-possible-influence-peddling/
