Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

I'd have been surprised if Merrick Garland had told the truth: Joe Biden is an important politician, of course we slow walked this and gave Hunter Biden a slap on the wrist!   We here in Washington protect our own.  Why would you expect anything different?

Jim,
Apparently you are refractory to facts. Weiss, the prosecuting attorney, has the consummate authority to prosecute this case and bring the charges that he believes are warranted by the evidence. And it's not what some IRS agent thinks that determines when and what charges are brought, it's what the prosecutor thinks he can prove. Weiss works out of Vermont, not Washington, and has no vested interest in protecting Washington's own, as you put it. He's about as far away from being some sort of political hack as it can possibly be. 

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I watched an exchange on Hunter Biden's so-called "sweetheart deal" on CNN last night and I found ex-federal prosecutor Eli Honig's explanation quite informative.
First, on the so-called "slow walking" of Hunter Biden's case" as alleged by the whistleblower. Honig pointed out that at least half of this "slow-walking" occurred under the Trump administration.  So, if there was some sort of political bias favoring Hunter Biden, it would have to have come from an opposition party and that, obviously, just isn't the case. Honig agrees the case should, in general, have proceeded more quickly through the system but unless you or somebody can give a rational explanation as to why it would have been "slow-walked" by the Trump folks, this allegation of political favoritism fails on its merits.
Second, as regards to the lack of felony prosecutions in the Hunter Biden case, Honig said it's not unusual at all and, in fact, it's very common for an IRS agent to recommend a felony prosecution while the federal prosecutor looks at the case and decides otherwise. He saw this all the time in these types of cases. And, of course, there was no political pressure applied in any of them to do otherwise. And, I'll again remind you that it was a Trump appointed attorney who decided what charges to bring in this case...

Now we have a statement from the DOJ AG, Merrick Garland:
"Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday rejected claims that the Justice Department interfered in the yearslong criminal probe into Hunter Biden, saying that the United States attorney in Delaware, a Trump appointee, had “complete authority” over the investigation."
“Mr. Weiss had, in fact, more authority than a special counsel would have,” Garland added. “He had and has complete authority, as I said, to bring a case anywhere he wants in his discretion.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/23/politics/merrick-garland-hunter-biden/index.html

I watched an exchange on Hunter Biden's so-called "sweetheart deal" on CNN last night and I found ex-federal prosecutor Eli Honig's explanation quite informative.
First, on the so-called "slow walking" of Hunter Biden's case" as alleged by the whistleblower. Honig pointed out that at least half of this "slow-walking" occurred under the Trump administration.  So, if there was some sort of political bias favoring Hunter Biden, it would have to have come from an opposition party and that, obviously, just isn't the case. Honig agrees the case should, in general, have proceeded more quickly through the system but unless you or somebody can give a rational explanation as to why it would have been "slow-walked" by the Trump folks, this allegation of political favoritism fails on its merits.
Second, as regards to the lack of felony prosecutions in the Hunter Biden case, Honig said it's not unusual at all and, in fact, it's very common for an IRS agent to recommend a felony prosecution while the federal prosecutor looks at the case and decides otherwise. He saw this all the time in these types of cases. And, of course, there was no political pressure applied in any of them to do otherwise. And, I'll again remind you that it was a Trump appointed attorney who decided what charges to bring in this case...

Originally Posted by Maurice Clark

Hi Jim, 

My concern regarding this lawsuit against Trump is that if somehow it fails for whatever reason, Trump will scream vindication and it will cement his control over the republican party and their nomination. 

Biden against Trump again  is not much of a choice for your president. 

Maurice 

Trump's strategy is always the same: delay. 
He wants to run out the clock with the hope that he gets re-elected so all of this goes away including any potential upcoming indictments. And since he can't be elected  for a third term, he'll be free to do whatever he wants to do so cementing control over the Republican party, which he has already done, isn't even a question...
PS: What's your beef against Biden? 

Originally Posted by James Brown

You know darn well that Schiff sold a much deeper and much more false collusion conspiracy theory involving Trump himself.  The Manafort nit is revisionist history.  The Mueller investigation was not launched and sustained by anything Manafort did.

It's more like Schiff talking like a lawyer. Who'd have thought?
The Manafort findings from the Republican led committee in the senate came after the Mueller investigation concluded and they were damning:
"Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to try to help now-U.S. President Donald Trump win the 2016 election, a Republican-led Senate committee said in its final review of the matter on Tuesday."
"The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence alleged Manafort collaborated with Russians, including oligarch Oleg Deripaska and “Russian intelligence officer” Konstantin Kilimnik, before, during, and after the election."
"The panel found Manafort’s role and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence, saying his “high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services... represented a grave counterintelligence threat.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-senate/senate-committee-concludes-russia-used-manafort-wikileaks-to-boost-trump-in-2016-idUSKCN25E1US

Originally Posted by James Brown

Schiff lied to the American people every day for years when he said on a daily basis that he had compelling, irrefutable evidence of Russian collusion by Trump.  Google it.  There are hundreds of instances.  Durham and Mueller demonstrated that there never was any evidence because there never was any collusion by Trump with Russia.   Schiff knew this all along.

Like this?
https://schiff.house.gov/view/rep-schiff-on-cnn-evidence-of-collusion-is-clear-mueller-will-find-out-if-theres-been-a-crime

Originally Posted by James Brown

Schiff beat the drum of Trump's fictitious "Russian Collusion" for years.  He was the primary proponent of the second biggest lie of the millennium (so far).  He also knew Russian Collusion by Trump was BS when he was selling it to the American people on every media outlet available.   I don't think John Durham and Robert Mueller are MAGA fan-boys.  Do you?  

So what specific charges did either Durham or Mueller recommend or bring against Schiff? And which specific statement and accusation that you can cite with a link that substantiates lying on Schiff's part? In other words, other than conducting a congressional probe, in essence, a congressional investigation that parallels portions of what Durham and Mueller covered in their own investigations, can you cite that specifically state Schiff's words that demonstrates he was lying about something in the congressional probe?  

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Probably because of one stubborn juror or two who despite the mountains of damning evidence in the documents case will force a hung jury.
I have no illusions that trump will be convicted, but I surely don't want to see him as the GOP nominee either with a chance of regaining the presidency. What I would like is to have the old GOP, that one I complained about so much, back with real conservatives who want what's best for the country, not what's best for trump, their pocketbook, and the maga base.

I couldn't believe a recent poll that found 62% thought the charges are "politically motivated". Have they not seen the pictures of boxes of documents in the shower, bathroom and ballroom? Have they not heard the tapes of Trump discussing classified material that he didn't declassify? And, of course, there's no way they even bothered to look at the actual indictment. 
That said, Schiff has been honest and objective in assisting/directing the investigations he partook in and this nonsense about him lying about this or that is just made up MAGA malarkey...

I hope he wasn't a stowaway on that submersible. Looks like it was a catastrophic implosion. If so, they all went quick, probably in much less than a second. From what I heard last night from a retired navy doctor on CNN, the death from CO2 narcosis would have been far more horrific in that you slowly see the tunnel vision occurring and you're aware of what's happening as the brain is starved of oxygen along with other nightmarish symptoms. 
Looks like the ex-employees who warned the titanium hull was two inches too thin were right...  

Yeah, I started thinking the worst and thought about someone in the area calling the police and doing a welfare check on him. But he does have family, a brother and sister that we know of from his postings so I'd think they'd be checking if they hadn't heard from him.