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The entire lot is feral, why would you expect the dog to be different?


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Saw a little video on one of Biden's gaffs today and someone commented on how Biden has brought dignity and integrity back to the White House and fixed the economy.

Roll Eyes


Yet another example of the dignity Biden has brought to the White House. Maybe they need to keep the dogs away from the white powder.




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What tha FUCK?!

Biden claims he effectively 'ended cancer as we know it'
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"One of the things I'm always asked is why Americans have sort of lost faith for a while in being able to do big things. If you could do anything at all Joe, what would you do? I said I'd cure cancer. They looked at me like why cancer? Because no one thinks we can. That's why and we can. We ended cancer as we know it," the president declared.
When the Emperor holds court, he can claim anything he wants, the truth be damned, and none in attendance will challenge him. That's what we've come to: a press which has completely abdicated their responsibility to the truth and who don't merely stand idly by, mute; they excuse outrageous, complete lies such as this and protect His Majesty without question.
 
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That sack of shit is cancer, ass cancer..
 
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Seems Hunters lawyers tried to pull a fast one a bit ago. If it was an actual lawyer, they could potentially be disbarred...

By JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 17:49 EDT, 25 July 2023 | UPDATED: 19:11 EDT, 25 July 2023


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...explain-tonight.html

EXCLUSIVE:
Hunter Biden's lawyers face SANCTIONS after being accused of lying to the clerk in his criminal tax case as judge orders First Son's attorneys to explain themselves by tonight
-Hunter Biden's legal team is accused of lying to the clerk in his criminal case
-The alleged dirty trick was a ploy to remove testimony from IRS whistleblowers from the court docket
-Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika ordered Hunter's attorneys to explain themselves by 9pm today or be sanctioned

Hunter Biden's lawyers face potential sanctions after allegedly lying to the clerk in his criminal case.

Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika ordered the First Son's attorneys to explain themselves by 9pm Tuesday or be sanctioned.

The alleged dirty trick was a ploy to remove testimony from IRS whistleblowers about the Justice Department's lackluster criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's tax offenses from the court docket.

Earlier today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith filed a brief to Judge Noreika, suggesting that she toss Hunter's 'sweetheart' plea deal with Delaware prosecutors due to claims they gave the President's son preferential treatment.


It is claimed that someone from Hunter's attorney Chris Clark's former law firm later called the Delaware clerk – pretending to be from the office of Smith's attorney, Theodore Kittila – asking them to remove the original filing and, with it, 448 pages of Congressional testimony from the two IRS investigators who worked on the case.


Basically, the US House added some of their findings to the case in a brief, and Hunters lawyers tried to trick the court clerk into removing them... That's not going to help their case, obviously, and the judge does NOT have to accept the plea deal. This might be just the nudge the judge needs to toss the deal.


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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Here is another article on that subject that is a little easier to understand.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/...al-damning-evidence/


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stoic - This is such a dirty trick, I thought it might be good to include more from your article


Earlier today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith filed a brief to Judge Noreika, suggesting that she toss Hunter's 'sweetheart' plea deal with Delaware prosecutors due to claims they gave the President's son preferential treatment.

It is claimed that someone from Hunter's attorney Chris Clark's former law firm later called the Delaware clerk – pretending to be from the office of Smith's attorney, Theodore Kittila – asking them to remove the original filing and, with it, 448 pages of Congressional testimony from the two IRS investigators who worked on the case.

The documents were then taken down and sealed.

Kittila, quickly filed a second outraged letter to the judge.

'We promptly contacted the clerk's office, and we were advised that someone contacted the court representing that they worked with my office and that they were asking the court to remove this from the docket,' Kittila wrote to the judge.

'We immediately advised that this was inaccurate.'

In a fiery email exchange with Kittila about the apparent skullduggery, Hunter's lawyer Clark hit back, denying any improper conduct and claiming 'the clerk took the filing down on their own accord'.

But the top Republican's lawyer included in his filing a copy of an email from the Delaware clerk, backing up his claims.

'The woman who called was a Jessica Bengels,' he wrote adding her phone number.

'She said she worked with Theodore Kittila and it was important the document was removed immediately,' the clerk, Sam Grimes, wrote to Kittila.

According to Grimes's email, the alleged trickster is New York-based Latham & Watkins litigation services director Jessica Bengels.

Bengels' LinkedIn page says she has been 'litigation services counsel' at the firm since January 2023, and has worked there since 2006. She went to Brown University then Fordham law school.

Clark worked for Latham & Watkins up until April this year.

Hunter's lawyers claim that the filing contained 'personal tax information' and should be sealed, despite the same documents being publicly released online by the House Ways and Means Committee a month ago.

'Your attempts to publicly file my client's personal financial information with no protections are improper, illegal and in violation of applicable rules,' Clark wrote to Kittila. 'I stand by all of my statements.'

Judge Noreika appeared displeased, issuing an order on Tuesday afternoon over the alleged dirty trick giving Hunter's lawyers just hours to justify themselves.

'It appears that the caller misrepresented her identity and who she worked for in an attempt to improperly convince the clerk's office to remove the amicus materials from the docket,' the order said.

 
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Here is another article on that subject that is a little easier to understand.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/...al-damning-evidence/
A tad easier, yes. thanks sdy and wcb6092

Also, at the 1st link, all the correspondence is presented.

Wasn't this supposed to be decided tomorrow?


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If Ms. Bengels did that, either on her own or in concert with someone, sanctions is the least of her problems.

Judges like skilled litigation but they won't stand for stuff like this. Ms. Bengels is in a heap of trouble if the call came from her.

The clerk has already said who it was and the representation was made that she was working with the other firm. Judges will back their clerks until the end of time and the clerk's word will be gospel.
 
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The Daily Mail article added the following update: PUBLISHED: 17:49 EDT, 25 July 2023 | UPDATED: 21:31 EDT, 25 July 2023

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Hunter Biden's lawyers have responded to allegations that they conspired to lie to a court clerk in the First Son's criminal case in Delaware.

Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika had ordered the First Son's attorneys to explain themselves by 9pm Tuesday or be sanctioned.

Just before the deadline, Hunter's Latham & Watkins lawyer Matthew Salerno filed a response claiming the incident was down to 'an unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication.'

It was alleged that Hunter's lawyers sought to remove testimony from IRS whistleblowers about the Justice Department's lackluster criminal investigation into his tax offenses from the court docket.

'The matter under consideration appears to stem from an unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication between a staff member at our firm and employees of the Court. We have no idea how the misunderstanding occurred, but our understanding is there was no misrepresentation,' Salerno wrote to Judge Noreika on Tuesday evening.

He claimed that Jessica Bengels, the Latham staffer accused of pretending to be from another law firm, has a phone number which should show up as 'LATHAM' on the clerk's caller ID.

Salerno attached an affidavit from Bengels, in which she claimed she initially called a different court clerk, ‘Julia’, from her Latham phone, identified herself truthfully, but was later called back by the first clerk, Samantha.

‘At around 11.54am, another Court employee called my Latham & Watkins phone number (which I believe she knew through caller ID) to let me know she would be removing the material from the docket,’ Bengels wrote. ‘She did not ask which law firm I was affiliated with, and at no time during this call did I mention anything about my law firm affiliation.

‘I believe there may have been some confusion when Julia passed the information on to the other Court employee, resulting in a mistaken understanding that I had called from Mr. Kittila’s firm.

‘I am completely confident that I never indicated that I was calling from Mr. Kittila’s firm or that I worked with him in any way.’
Regarding the last 2 lines, sure, uh huh, where would she have got that idea from... Roll Eyes


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'The matter under consideration appears to stem from an unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication between a staff member at our firm and employees of the Court. We have no idea how the misunderstanding occurred, but our understanding is there was no misrepresentation,' Salerno wrote to Judge Noreika on Tuesday evening.




Sheeeeeeeeeeeiiiiit


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I hope this judge throws out this entire sweetheart deal they had planned for this scumbag.


 
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Yeah, that doesn't pass the sniff test. Not even close.

Hunter's firm is claiming that in both calls, it wasn't mentioned, hinted or said that Bengels was associated with the Kittila firm. The clerk wouldn't document who was calling and why? That's BS. Clerks document everything.

And court clerk just made that up?

The whole thing is counting on the Caller ID saying Latham? That feature can be turned off and on again with just a couple of strokes. That call was made without Caller ID and Bengels turned it off.

All she's really saying is that in the first call, Caller ID should have tipped off the clerk that it said Latham and in the second call, no mention was made of her firm ID.

But the bottom line is that her firm represents Hunter and she unilaterally tried to get documents thrown filed by a friend of the court without filing a noticed motion.

None of this happened by accident or chance. Bengels knew exactly what she was doing and I hope the judge roasts her for it.

This was purposeful and the court will see right through this charade of an excuse.
 
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What tha FUCK?!

Biden claims he effectively 'ended cancer as we know it'


My late father-in-law had early onset dementia, hastened by industrial chemical exposure. When he was visiting one time, he thought he was on a business trip to Mexico. This was 10 years after he retired. One time he thought aliens had landed in the yard. Each weekly visit was another adventure.

Joe is equally demented.
 
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Biden claims he effectively 'ended cancer as we know it'


He sounds more and more like Dr. Evil's father.



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Was he a mole in the prosecutor's office?


Hunter Biden investigation: Close Biden political aide worked for Weiss when inquiry began

https://www.washingtonexaminer...al-aide-weiss-hunter

A close associate of the Biden family appears to have spent years working in the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office, including during the months when whistleblowers said the office took up an investigation of Hunter Biden.

Alexander Mackler served as press secretary in Joe Biden’s Senate office and, later, as legal counsel in his vice presidential office. Mackler managed the late Beau Biden’s successful campaign for Delaware attorney general in 2010.

And Mackler served on the Biden-Harris transition team in 2020, helping the Biden administration create the blueprint for its Justice Department.

Mackler also appeared to have a close personal relationship with Hunter Biden. In emails found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, Mackler corresponded frequently with Hunter Biden and his business associates and even referred to Hunter Biden fondly as a “brother” in October 2018. Mackler was working under U.S. Attorney David Weiss in the office at that time, according to his LinkedIn page, which lists him as having worked in the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office from August 2016 to May 2019.

According to testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee from Joseph Ziegler, a top IRS agent on the Hunter Biden case for years, the Delaware office had an investigation into Hunter Biden’s financial dealings by January 2019.

The close relationship between Hunter Biden and a former member of the prosecutorial office investigating him could come under scrutiny as House Republicans dig into the reasons why members of Weiss’s team appeared to slow or block key elements of the Hunter Biden investigation.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf featured prominently in the testimony of two IRS agents who spent years working on the Hunter Biden investigation. Both Gary Shapley and Ziegler, the IRS whistleblowers, said Wolf intervened to stop multiple investigative steps from moving forward, including by preventing FBI agents from asking witnesses any questions about Joe Biden’s involvement in foreign business affairs and by tipping off Hunter Biden’s attorneys about a planned search of his storage unit.

Wolf worked alongside Mackler in the U.S. attorney’s office before Mackler’s departure. She and Mackler prosecuted a major case together, for example.

How their relationship may have factored into the decisions by Wolf that whistleblowers found inexplicable remains unclear.

Mackler now works under Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings. In February, Hunter Biden’s attorneys implored Jennings to open an investigation into the Delaware computer repair shop owner who helped publicize the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, as well as the Donald Trump associates who helped spread the laptop’s contents.

Jennings’s office did not respond to a request for comment about Mackler’s relationship to the Biden’s, as well as whether her office did ultimately open the investigation into the dissemination of the Hunter Biden laptop.

Jennings herself has extensive ties to the Biden family. She endorsed him almost immediately upon his entry into the presidential race in 2019, boasting to social media that she has known the Biden family “for most of my life.”

Mackler’s deep connections to the Biden family raise questions about whether he should ever have come close to an investigation involving the Bidens.

He emailed with Hunter Biden and Eric Schwerin, one of Hunter Biden’s business partners, on what appears to be the first day of his new job at the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office to talk about the office’s email retention policy.

Schwerin joked to Mackler that his response was “the last email you ever receive from me.”

Days after Mackler had started working for the U.S. attorney’s office, he was still working with the Bidens, according to Hunter Biden’s emails.

Mackler helped edit public statements related to the launch of an institute in Joe Biden’s name at the University of Delaware while working for the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office, for example.

In late August 2016 — after, it would seem, Mackler began his job at the U.S. attorney’s office — Mackler fired off an email to Hunter Biden and Schwerin opining on the public perception of Hillary Clinton’s lucrative work with the Clinton Foundation. He argued that there should be a distinction between powerful people who make money once out of office and those who appear to be monetizing their current or future access to government power.

“When someone leaves public life and they or their spouse no longer hold prominent government positions … they can do almost whatever they want and take money from almost anyone they can personally stomach and who passes their personal barometer,” Mackler wrote. “That's the point (and the good news for us).”

House Republicans are gearing up to conduct a potentially explosive interview next week with Devon Archer, a former business partner of Hunter Biden’s who, facing a conviction and prison time on fraud charges, could have more of an incentive to divulge details to congressional investigators than other witnesses in Hunter Biden’s orbit.

Archer is reportedly poised to testify that Joe Biden frequently spoke to Hunter Biden’s prospective foreign business partners on speakerphone as his son sought to flex his access to his powerful father in the course of negotiations — a clear departure from Joe Biden’s denials of ever having discussed business matters with his son.

The Justice Department said Monday that it would make Weiss available to testify as soon as Sept. 27 — one week after Attorney General Merrick Garland is slated to appear before Congress.

That time frame could clash with what congressional investigators have planned, however; in a letter to the Biden administration last week, House Republicans said they wanted to conduct transcribed interviews with other witnesses, including Wolf, before they held a hearing with Weiss.


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Hunter Biden plea deal falling apart as prosecutors keep future charges alive

First son Hunter Biden’s plea agreement was collapsing Wednesday as federal prosecutors declined to rule out charging the political scion with other crimes in the future.

The stunning turn of events came more than 90 minutes into the hearing at the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Del., where Hunter had been expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay taxes and enter a diversion program on a felony federal weapons charge.



Judge must nix Hunter Biden’s plea deal to show her court won’t approve a blatant miscarriage of justice
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GOP readies DOJ subpoenas as Hunter Biden accepts ‘sweetheart’ deal
But prosecutors told US District Judge Maryellen Noreika there was still a possibility the first son would be charged with offenses including failing to register as a foreign agent

Biden had appeared confident ahead of his plea hearing Wednesday, showing up alongside his “sugar brother,” attorney Kevin Morris.

Morris, a Hollywood-based lawyer and Democratic donor, was spotted last week outside his Los Angeles home while Hunter, a recovering drug addict, paid a visit

Hunter Biden agreed last month to plead guilty to failing to pay at least $100,000 on more than $1.5 million in earned income in both 2017 and 2018.



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Got to wonder how much impact that attempted slight of hand yesterday played into this. Not that I care all that much as long as their "deal" gets put on hold, or at least reduced. Wink


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Now that the gift is off the table, make the next offer 10 YEARS IN PRISON, the minimum sentence on the gun charge, plus felony sentences for tax fraud and FARA and ITAR violations.

That would result in one of two outcomes:

1. Pedo Joe pardons his crackhead son, or

2. Hunter betrays the Big Guy to avoid decades in prison.





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