THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY

[MD 5150]

Hunter Biden offers Alcoa Aluminum CEO information on Russian oligarchs for $55,000. Gee, I wonder who gave him the information.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...25af02e3c934b4

Nothing to see here....

[Sam Vs. Dave]

So what's Alcoa's role in this? Did they turn him in? Did they take the deal? Did they approach Hunter first?

I know this kind of stuff must happen all the time, but these companies need to be investigated too.

[bklynboy68]

Biden's Justice Department changes presidential pardons for the worse

The Biden administration has been working overtime to erase Donald Trump's legacy and now wants to nullify a clemency decision

January 31, 2023



The Biden administration has spent the last two years reversing almost every decision, executive order, or regulation put in his place by Donald Trump. This comes as no surprise on issues that largely break along partisan lines, such as climate change, gender identity and immigration. Elections have consequences, after all. But the Biden team has now taken their crusade to erase Trump’s legacy to absurd lengths, going so far as to nullify one of Trump’s clemency decisions.

Nowhere do presidents have more authority than when granting pardons and commuting prison sentences. Presidents turn to the clemency process to right a prosecutorial wrong, as President Trump did in the case of Philip Esformes. Now, the Department of Justice is trying to undo his clemency.

Esformes was indicted on 32 counts related to his healthcare business. During the trial, a magistrate judge strongly criticized the prosecutors’ unethical moves to uncover and utilize information that was clearly covered by the attorney-client privilege.


It’s easy to win a criminal case when you know the other side’s strategy. And that is exactly what happened. Pointing out that the Justice Department blatantly broke the rules and then tried to cover it up, the magistrate characterized the prosecutors’ conduct as "deplorable." Shockingly, the magistrate’s findings were ignored by the trial judge.


With the advantage of having illicit, insider information, the Justice Department was able to convict Esformes on 20 counts. The jury was unable to reach a verdict, however, on six of the charges. Phillip Esformes was then sentenced to two decades in prison.

Faith groups brought the Esformes case to Trump’s attention. Former Attorney-General John Ashcroft – certainly not a person who could be characterized as ‘soft on crime’ – called the prosecutorial misconduct in Esformes' trial "amongst the most abusive" he has ever seen.


Trump was asked to grant clemency to Esformes on the recommendation of numerous respected legal figures, including former Attorneys-General Edwin Meese, Alberto Gonzales, and Michael Mukasey, as well as former Deputy Attorney-General Larry Thompson. These former law enforcement officials saw the prosecutorial misconduct as fundamentally tainting Esformes’ conviction.

Looking to right a wrong, Trump commuted Philip Esformes’ sentence to time served. But that’s not the end of the story.


Still stinging from the criticism of prosecutorial misconduct two years later, the Justice Department is working feverishly to reverse Trump’s clemency decision. DOJ intends to re-try Esformes on the six counts where the jury couldn’t reach a verdict.

Prosecutors hate when presidents exercise their clemency powers. They view a grant of clemency as implicit criticism of their work. In the Esformes case, that is exactly what it was. This is an extraordinary move by government lawyers whose pride is hurt. In the annals of American history, no prosecutor has ever tried to reverse a presidential commutation in this manner.

The fact is Trump’s granting of clemency was intended to end the government’s prosecution of Phillip Esformes, according to those who understand the process. But with the Biden administration looking broadly to erase Trump’s record, those burrowed in at the Justice Department saw a three-pronged opportunity.

By retrying Esformes, partisan operatives at DOJ could further erode the legacy of the prior administration. They could rewrite the history of the case to cover up the misconduct identified by the magistrate. And they could set a precedent that fundamentally weakens Presidential clemency powers going forward.

The Justice Department’s move is audacious. But for those who believe in a strong chief executive, it represents an alarming attempt to undercut presidential authority to review criminal cases and address unfairness, overzealousness, and other miscarriages of justice.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/bide...-pardons-worse



Destroying the justice system at every level seems to be the goal. The man was pardoned, end of story. This also would not make it through a Supreme Court hearing.

[The Rover]

McCarthy Debt Ceiling Negotiations be like:

[The Rover]

SCHUMER: "Get on the Joe Biden express now because we're not stopping."

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/stat...89837093732352

https://media.tenor.com/8p5EjT69_OwA...iled-train.gif

[bklynboy68]

DOJ searching Biden Delaware beach home amid classified document investigation

FBI agents were sent to President Biden's vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware on Wednesday to conduct a search for additional classified documents, the president's attorney Bob Bauer said.

"Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is conducting a planned search of his home in Rehoboth, Delaware. Under DOJ’s standard procedures, in the interests of operational security and integrity, it sought to do this work without advance public notice, and we agreed to cooperate," Bauer said in a statement.

"The search today is a further step in a thorough and timely DOJ process we will continue to fully support and facilitate. We will have further information at the conclusion of today’s search," he added.

Sources confirmed to Fox News that FBI agents are on the premises and will be until a search is complete. There is no warrant.

The FBI and Special Counsel Robert Hur did not comment.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj...-investigation



what a joke

[MD 5150]

Should have searched all of Biden’s residencies at once.

[Dave's Dreidel]

Should have searched all of Biden’s residencies at once.

Then, I guess you support them searching all of Trump's residences as well?

What is getting lost in who agreed to be searched and who didn't, where they searched and where they didn't, is that our last two Presidents, one also as a VP and as a Senator, repeatedly and without regret violated the Espionage Act and other national security laws, regulations and guidelines.

And not a fucking thing will happen to either one of them because of it.

[bklynboy68]

Then, I guess you support them searching all of Trump's residences as well?

What is getting lost in who agreed to be searched and who didn't, where they searched and where they didn't, is that our last two Presidents, one also as a VP and as a Senator, repeatedly and without regret violated the Espionage Act and other national security laws, regulations and guidelines.

And not a fucking thing will happen to either one of them because of it.

Agreed to be searched? You’re seriously buying that? Joe was in that same location last week, and we just learned that they already searched his property in November. Which means all that crap they gave us a few weeks ago about searching was pure BS.

That makes this “agreed to search” narrative more pure bullshit.

[Dave's Dreidel]

Agreed to be searched? You’re seriously buying that? Joe was in that same location last week, and we just learned that they already searched his property in November. Which means all that crap they gave us a few weeks ago about searching was pure BS.

That makes this “agreed to search” narrative more pure bullshit.

You absolutely missed my point, I never said anywhere relating to what you are talking about. In fact, I specifically said that what you are upset about is unimportant.

[bklynboy68]

You absolutely missed my point, I never said anywhere relating to what you are talking about. In fact, I specifically said that what you are upset about is unimportant.

That wasn’t me you were responding to

[Dave's Dreidel]

That wasn’t me you were responding to

But you responded to me. Confused, but who cares.

[bklynboy68]

But you responded to me. Confused, but who cares.

Split it with ya

[bklynboy68]

Hunter Biden’s lawyers demand criminal probe into laptop leakers, Giuliani and others, admit laptop is his

Hunter Biden is facing his own investigations from House Republicans

February 2, 2023


Hunter Biden's lawyers called on federal and state prosecutors across the country to open criminal investigations into his critics on Wednesday – and in doing so, acknowledged that the notorious laptop is indeed Hunter's.

Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, wrote letters to the Justice Department and the Delaware attorney general calling for investigations into Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and John Mac Isaac, who owns the computer repair shop where Biden is said to have left his laptop. Biden's lawyers also sent cease and desist letters to others who obtained and disseminated the laptop's contents.

Lowell argued in the letters that Mac Isaac and the others had no right to inspect the contents of Biden's laptop, much less make copies of it to share with the media.

"This failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of Mr. Biden’s private and personal information," Lowell wrote in a letter. "Politicians and the news media have used this unlawfully accessed, copied, distributed, and manipulated data to distort the truth and cause harm to Mr. Biden."

The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.


The letter went on to accuse Mac Isaac of "theft of computer services," and Giuliani of "possession of stolen property.

"Mr. Mac Isaac chose to work with President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer to weaponize Mr. Biden’s personal computer data against his father, Joseph R. Biden, by unlawfully causing the provision of Mr. Biden’s personal data to the New York Post," Lowell wrote.

Despite the appearances, a source familiar with Lowell's move argued that Wednesday's letters do not constitute an admission of the laptop's validity. Biden's legal team argues that the versions of the laptop released to the public may have been tampered with.


The First Son's newfound legal aggression comes as Republicans on Capitol Hill are preparing their own investigations into both him and President Biden's family more generally.

An upcoming hearing for the House Oversight Committee will focus on Twitter's censorship of the New York Post's original story on the so-called "laptop from hell," which dropped just weeks before Election Day in 2020.


Other House investigations are expected to focus on Hunter's business dealings. Those investigations are likely to rely heavily on the contents of the laptop.


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hun...-rudy-giuliani


Nice try. So now it’s “Operation Protect Hunter”?

[MD 5150]

Poor Hunter and Joe, they don't like when the heat comes their way. They are getting a small percentage of what Trump got in the beginning, crybabies. There is much to say with Hunter's laptop, his business dealings and Joe's stash of classified documents that tie it all together.