Biden :

“If I win, I will make my choice for the Supreme Court— not as part of a partisan election campaign —but as prior presidents did,”

"Only after consulting Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Senate—and seeking their advice before I ask for their consent.”

“As everyone knows, I have made it clear that my first choice for the Supreme Court will make history as the first African American woman justice.”


https://www.foxnews.com/politi...-nomination-election

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A DEM openly proclaiming his SC nominee would be an African American woman is about as partisan as it gets

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A DEM openly proclaiming his SC nominee would be an African American woman is about as partisan as it gets

That, and since when does a president ask both sides if its alright to nominate a particular person. It's the president's role to nominate who he wants for the job. Then the senate gets a crack at them from there. This urine soaked mental midget relic is little more than a bad joke at this point.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Biden :

“If I win, I will make my choice for the Supreme Court— not as part of a partisan election campaign
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“As everyone knows, I have made it clear that my first choice for the Supreme Court will make history as the first African American woman justice.”

Yeah, nothing partisan about that. What a buffoon

Ouch. Watch Biden try to explain away the Burisma issue.

https://twitter.com/TheFirston...-the-reason-n2576896

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Ouch. Watch Biden try to explain away the Burisma issue.

https://twitter.com/TheFirston...-the-reason-n2576896

"Come on, man!"

He literally can't avoid using it when confronted.

After dementia Joe said in an interview the other day that he entered the senate 180 years ago, this photo was uncovered

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
HA! That's great.

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Ouch. Watch Biden try to explain away the Burisma issue.

The original Axios story, from Dec 8, 2019, is actually pretty bad for Biden, considering that the Axios' reporter, Mike Allen, doesn't follow up with any specifics.

Biden promises restrictions on Hunter, family if elected
Dec 8, 2019 -

Former Vice President Joe Biden, in an interview with "Axios on HBO," promised to prohibit his son Hunter, and other family members, from cashing in on his name and position overseas if he wins the presidency.

Why it matters: Questions may intensify as impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump move to the Senate and the Iowa caucuses approach. Biden already has drawn scrutiny for allowing his son to get paid handsomely by a Ukrainian business while the VP led the Obama administration's anti-corruption push in Ukraine.

The big question: Will Biden move away from a posture of defending his son's honor to acknowledge and address legitimate concerns about his own judgment among some Democrats and swing voters?

Biden told Axios' Mike Allen that Hunter did nothing wrong — but that he has not dug into what Hunter actually did while working in Ukraine.
“I don't know what he was doing. I know he was on the board. I found out he was on the board after he was on the board and that was it,” Biden told us.
Asked whether he wants to get to the bottom of it, Biden said, "No. Because I trust my son."

Biden said his family will be banned from making money overseas if he wins, faulting the president's family members' government and business conflicts of interests — not Hunter’s work — for the need for a formal guardrail.

“They will not be engaged in any foreign business because of what's happened in this administration.”

Axios' Alexi McCammond, who spent time on Biden's Iowa bus tour this week, said after he called a man a "damn liar" at one event for making unsubstantiated claims about Hunter's work, Biden told reporters the next day that he "probably shouldn't have challenged him to pushups" and doesn't want to stoop to Trump's level in terms of engagement with critics.



https://www.axios.com/joe-bide...09-de6243c9d21d.html

"You know there's not one single bit of evidence... not one little, tiny bit ... you know that, yet you keep asking me these questions"
Yet, at the same time: “I don't know what he was doing."
Yeah... OK, Joe. If you bury your head in the sand and pretend not to know or notice, it will all go away.

Joe Biden Claimed He Attended Historically Black University; University Disagrees

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...niversity-disagrees/

Delaware State University (DSU) has refuted Joe Biden’s claim that he attended the historically black institution — the latest example of Biden being caught embellishing his academic credentials.

Biden made the little-noticed claim in October 2019, as he was campaigning in South Carolina:


Carlos Holmes, director of news service for Delaware State, said that Mr. Biden was never a student, although he has made appearances twice on campus for commencement speeches at the public university in Dover, one of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

“Vice President Biden did not attend DSU,” said Mr. Holmes in a Thursday email. “However he was the Commencement keynote speaker in 2003 and [2016], and during the former he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree.”

Mr. Biden made the claim ahead of the South Carolina Democratic primary during a town hall held Oct. 26, 2019, at historic Wilson High School in Florence, which was founded in 1866 by the Freedmen’s Bureau for Black children seeking an education.

“I got started out of an HBCU, Delaware State — now, I don’t want to hear anything negative about Delaware State,” Mr. Biden told the audience, drawing laughter, as shown on video. “They’re my folks.”

In his 2007 biography, Promises to Keep, Biden never mentioned Delaware State University, though he described his experience at the University of Delaware.

The university’s website notes:

DSU enjoys a long history as one of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Founded in 1891 as the State College for Colored Students, DSU is proud of our heritage as one of the country’s first land-grant educational institutions. Today, we’re a welcome center of learning for students from many backgrounds. Our current population includes a 63% African-American enrollment and an increasing number of Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian and other international students.

Public statistics suggest that nearly 10% of the student body today is white.

Biden’s false claims about his academic record helped destroy his first presidential campaign in 1987. Among other claims, Biden said he had graduated in the top half of his law school class. He graduated near the bottom.

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"You know there's not one single bit of evidence... not one little, tiny bit ...

Because people get million dollar board positions every day who have zero knowledge and/or experience in the the business sector they are being asked to participate in. Happens all the time. This reporter is hopelessly weak in pushing this issue and asking follow up questions.

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Yet, at the same time: “I don't know what he was doing."

So you were acting incompetently or corruptly given you had personal responsibility for Ukraine and it was your responsibility to know what your family members might be doing there. Pick one. Or maybe both apply. Again, this reporter simply lets this archaic mental midget off the hook with zero follow up. For god sake, give me 10 minutes with this creep and he'll shit himself and end up curled up on the floor in the fetal position. This isn't rocket surgery.

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This reporter is hopelessly weak in pushing this issue and asking follow up questions.

Yeah, bigdeal, that's right.
But even though he's a friendly reporter, trying to help Biden, Biden still comes across as someone with something to hide.

Backlash Builds After Biden Compares Trump To Nazi Propagandist Goebbels

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ropagandist-goebbels

Democratic candidate Joe Biden is getting a lot of heat for his outrageous comments comparing President Donald Trump Saturday to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. The backlash against those comments has been fierce on Twitter, with many people asking for an apology for the insulting and inaccurate comment.

Biden made the comments during an interview on MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle. She asked how he would handle and respond to Trump’s repeated claims that the Democratic Party, along with Biden, were pushing a Marxist, socialist agenda.

Trump is like “Goebbels,” said Biden.

“You say the lie long enough, keep repeating it, repeating it, repeating it, it becomes common knowledge…I think people see very clearly the difference between me and Donald Trump.”

“Trump is clearing protests in front of the White House that are peaceful, you know, with the military,” Biden went on to say.

“This guy is more Castro than Churchill.”

Adam Milstein, a well-known and well respected Jewish philanthropist, said in a Tweet, “Goebbels helped carry out the systematic murder of more than six million Jewish people.”

“This is unacceptable, offensive and demeans the memory of the Holocaust,” Milstein, who is also a friend of mine for full disclosure stated. “Biden must apologize!”

The tragedy, in my opinion, is that many anti-Trump Biden supporters also seem to be perpetuating these dangerous comments. Moreover, there are also many antiSemitic tweets on Twitter and the platform is doing little to stop that propaganda. SAD!

Biden should be ashamed of himself and like Milstein has demanded, along with many others, he must apologize.

"Joe Biden, boxers or briefs?"
"Depends!"

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“You say the lie long enough, keep repeating it, repeating it, repeating it, it becomes common knowledge…I think people see very clearly the difference between me and Donald Trump.”

Excuse me... the Democratic party has been doing this since early 2016. This is the biggest bunch of BS I think I've ever heard out of them!

I'm calling them the Despair Party© from now on.

seen at CTH

SDY....when you see that graphic pop up on the MSM you will know their days are numbered. Until then I'm not holding my breath.

Porky Pig ain't got nothin' on this sumbitch.

Biden's bid to oust Ukraine prosecutor followed intense pressure by son's Burisma firm

https://justthenews.com/accoun..._campaign=newsletter

Six high-level meetings included a previously undisclosed contact with U.S. ambassador in Kiev, records show.



Hunter Biden and representatives of Burisma Holdings secured at least six high-level meetings with senior Obama administration officials in the weeks just before Vice President Joe Biden forced the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the gas company, according to newly disclosed memos and testimony.

During some of the meetings, a Democratic firm called Blue Star Strategies that was representing Burisma repeatedly pressed U.S. officials to help end corruption allegations that long had dogged the Ukrainian gas firm, which appointed Hunter Biden to its board in 2014.

In one previously undisclosed contact in December 2015, Blue Star secured a meeting with then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt in which the Burisma lobbyists made a case that the gas firm should not be prosecuted any longer.

The meeting came at a sensitive time. Pyatt just a few months earlier had given a speech demanding that Burisma and its owner Mykola Zlochevsky be prosecuted for corruption, and Ukrainian prosecutors had begun stepping up activity in the case, including sending evidence to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau for further investigation and eventually securing a new asset forfeiture against Zlochevsky.

The New York Times also had just reported a story saying Hunter Biden's presence on Burisma's board during the investigation was undercutting U.S. credibility in the fight against Ukrainian corruption. State Department officials divulged Joe Biden also made the first effort to fire the lead prosecutor in the Burisma case that same month.

Amos Hochstein, a senior energy policy official at the State Department and confidant of Vice President Biden, told Senate investigators he took meetings with Blue Star in late 2015 and again in March 2016. He also met once with Hunter Bidem during the same time frame to discuss Burisma.

In the latter of its meetings with Hochstein, Blue Star argued there was no longer a reason to pursue the gas firm or its founder Mykola Zolchevsky, Hochstein testified.

"They told me that they believed that Zlochevsky was tried, prosecuted, and the charges against him were dismissed by the U.K. and, therefore, there was no reason to hold him responsible since the judicial system worked," Hochstein said, describing the March 2016 meeting.

"I was very clear about my views that I disagreed," he added. "… They clearly did not agree with me, and I expressed my disappointment."
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2020-09-17-Hochstein Interview with Exhibits.pdf

Hochstein, Pyatt and former Undersecretary of State Catherine Novelli all got pressured by Blue Star and testified they held the U.S. line that Zlochevsky and Burisma should be prosecuted by then-Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.

By mid-March 2016, Blue Star had gotten a clear message: The State Department was not budging and planned to let the prosecution of Burisma proceed.

Then in late March 2016, Vice President Biden took an extraordinary step. By his own admission on videotape, Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in badly needed aid to Ukraine unless then-President Petro Poroshenko fired Shokin.

Ukraine caved, and Shokin was sent packing by the Ukrainian legislature on March 29, 2016.

Shokin has long claimed he was fired at Joe Biden's insistence because he would not drop the Burisma probe. Joe Biden denies he was trying to help Burisma, and instead pressed for Shokin's dismissal because the international community wanted a change in the prosecutor's office.

Shokin had only been in the job about a year when he was canned, and during last year's impeachment hearings Democrats and their allies in the news media claimed Shokin was fired for corruption.

But State officials testifying before the Senate Finance and Homeland Security committees' joint investigation of Hunter Biden and Burisma could not corroborate the corruption claims.

George Kent, who was a senior State official in Kiev during the time, repeatedly was asked whether Shokin ever took any bribes, including from Burisma. Kent answered he had no knowledge of such corruption and that Shokin was dimissed after just a year on the job because he was deemed ineffective.

"I can assess that Viktor Shokin did not seriously advance any case of corruption against any known corrupt individual during his tenure," Kent testified.
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2020-09-17-Hochstein Interview with Exhibits.pdf

Whether Biden forced the firing of Shokin for good or nefarious reasons, the removal of Shokin gave Burisma and its Blue Star lobbyists an extraordinary opening which ultimately benefitted Hunter Biden's firm.

Shokin's successor as prosecutor general, Yurii Lutsenko, settled the allegations against Burisma with almost no penalty, pleasing both Blue Star and the gas company.

Kent testified how disappointing the final outcome was.

"What Mr. Lutsenko claimed, and did, was settle the charges against Zlochevsky, downgrade it from money-laundering to nonpayment of taxes, and accept a settlement and a payment that allowed Mr. Zlochevsky to return to Ukraine after that payment was made," he said.

In other words, the pressure campaign by Burisma ultimately succeeded even though U.S. officials believed Burisma had been corrupt for years and had even paid a $7 million bribe in 2014 to Ukrainian prosecutors under Shokin's predecessor.

Obama administration officials in their testimony defended Joe Biden's effort to fire Shokin, saying there was widespread support to do so. But their records also indicate that the vice president veered from the U.S. messaging on Burisma.

During a December 2015 visit to Ukraine, Joe Biden and his staff decided they would not call Zlochevsky corrupt, like Pyatt, Hochstein, Kent and so many others did.

"I'm not going to get into naming names or accusing individuals," Biden was instructed to say in talking points prepared by his staff.

Whether intentional or not, Joe Biden's demurral on Zlochevsky and his pressure to fire the Ukrainian prosecutor leading the probe of Burisma ultimately benefited the firm that had hired Hunter Biden and had lobbied so hard through Blue Star to drop the prosecution.