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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Wth? Is that a fucking joke? How much has that sack of shit given to Ukraine again? Disgraceful.

I read a moment ago we're over $113 billion now.

So she is posting on Joe's twitter account. Biden is a fraud even on twitter.


https://www.washingtonexaminer...esident-deleted-post

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made a bizarre statement on social media, claiming in a since-deleted post that she once ran for president of the United States.

"Investing in America means investing in ALL of America," read Jean-Pierre's statement on social media. "When I ran for President, I made a promise that I would leave no part of the country behind."

Well, not a surprise, but at least someone was looking when Toto pulled back the curtain.

Hunter Biden's lawyers were (are ?) claiming the "diversion agreement" was valid because the prosecutors had signed it. This document lets Hunter get off on future prosecutions.

but a report now argues the diversion agreement is also invalid.

two pages from the diversion agreement:





note that Margaret Bray had not yet signed it

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...deal-withdrawn-null/

Lawyers for the president’s son argued on Sunday that terms of the “diversion agreement” within their failed plea deal remained intact. The diversion agreement gave Hunter Biden immunity from potential future charges.

The lawyers also tried to force Weiss into a corner to abide by the irregular deal, claiming the government “reneged” on a “previously agreed-upon Plea Agreement.”

Prosecutors pushed back on those claims.

“First, the Government did not ‘renege’ on the ‘previously agreed-upon Plea Agreement,’ as the Defendant inaccurately asserts in the first substantive sentence of his response,” prosecutors wrote. “The Defendant chose to plead not guilty at the hearing on July 26, 2023, and U.S. Probation declined to approve the proposed diversion agreement at that hearing. Thus, neither proposed agreement entered into effect.”

“In sum, because Ms. Bray, acting in her capacity as the Chief United States Probation Officer, did not approve the now-withdrawn diversion agreement, it never went into effect and, therefore, none of its terms are binding on either party,” prosecutors wrote

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bid...enges-010345379.html

Biden shouts during speech, challenges anyone to name 'one thing' the US set out to accomplish and failed

Greg Wehner
Wed, August 16, 2023 at 8:03 PM CDT

President Biden on Wednesday changed his tone during a speech from the East Room of the White House on the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, challenging anyone to name a single objective the U.S. ever set out to accomplish and failed to do.

Biden touted his accomplishments, including what he considers a success in the Inflation Reduction Act.

But as he continued, Biden pointed to "our friends on the other side of the aisle," and commented that all his administration hears is how they claim what is wrong with America.

"They’re telling us America is failing," Biden said. "Let me tell you, they’re dead wrong. They’re dead wrong. America isn’t failing. America is winning. And I’ve said a thousand times…there is no quit in America."
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What a total, freaking, clueless, pants-shitting BUFFOON!!! JSMH...

Umm, Joe?

War on Drugs
War on Poverty
Vietnam War
Afghan War
Securing the Border

Every military intervention basically since Korea. We’ve failed a LOT, we aren’t some demigods…

The fact that that ass-hat is even sitting in the Oval Office is a COMPLETE failure of this country.

Hunter Biden Tax Charges Dropped by Delaware Judge

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...U6dCPNOvtGFi3XMeGXXv


A federal judge in Delaware dismissed misdemeanor tax charges against Hunter Biden on Aug. 17 in a move that was widely expected after his “sweetheart deal” with federal prosecutors was put on hold last month.

U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who was appointed by President Donald Trump and is presiding over the case, dismissed the charges against the younger Mr. Biden.

The decision came after special counsel David Weiss—the U.S. Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the federal prosecutor leading the case against Mr. Biden—earlier asked the judge to dismiss the charges, citing venue problems.

Dismissing the two misdemeanor tax charges against Mr. Biden potentially allows for new charges to be bought against him in another jurisdiction, such as California or Washington, D.C. , as part of Mr. Weiss’s ongoing probe.

“The Government, in the exercise of its prosecutorial discretion, is considering what tax charges to bring in another district and may elect to bring the same charges set forth in the instant information or different ones,” prosecutors said in court filings last week.

Mr. Weiss was appointed as special counsel on Aug. 11 by Attorney General Merrick Garland, meaning he will oversee the case, United States v. Robert Hunter Biden, as well as for any other matters that arise from the ongoing investigation into the president’s son, who is also being investigated for possible foreign lobbying violations.

“On Tuesday of this week, Mr. Weiss advised me that in his judgment, his investigation has reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a special counsel, and he asked to be so appointed,” said Mr. Garland in announcing Mr. Weiss’s appointment last week.

“Upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, I have concluded it is in the public interest to appoint him as special counsel. This appointment confirms my commitment to provide Mr. Weiss [with] all the resources he requests. It also reaffirms that Mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently, based only on the facts and the law,” Mr. Garland said.

Multiple Republican lawmakers have raised concerns that Mr. Weiss, who earlier signed off on the sweetheart deal for Mr. Biden, will not remain impartial in the case against the president’s son, while others have questioned whether or not he is qualified enough to hold the latest role.

Two IRS whistleblowers have also alleged that Mr. Weiss has been restricted by the Department of Justice from filing certain charges against Mr. Biden and that the president’s son has received preferential treatment.

Mr. Biden’s two misdemeanor charges stem from his failure to pay taxes on time in 2017 and 2018 and each carries a prison term of up to one year upon conviction.

Sweetheart Deal Crumbles
The president’s son had earlier this year agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax evasion charges and accept probation in a third charge in which he acknowledged lying on a federal firearm purchase form during a time when he was using illegal drugs.

Under an agreed diversion program, Mr. Biden, if he complies with the terms, would be able to avoid future prosecution and would not go on trial for the gun charge, which is a felony and would carry up to 10 years in prison.

However, the deal was rejected by Judge Noreika in July during a hearing amid confusion over a separate gun charge and questions about the immunity it would have granted Mr. Biden, who subsequently pleaded not guilty to the tax charges.

Despite the sweetheart deal being rejected, lawyers for Mr. Biden said last week they consider the arrangement is still in effect because both sides had signed it.

However, Mr. Weiss has said this is not the case and noted that the probation office did not sign off on the agreement.

“In sum, because Ms. [Margaret] Bray, acting in her capacity as the Chief United States Probation Officer, did not approve the now-withdrawn diversion agreement, it never went into effect and, therefore, none of its terms are binding on either party,” Mr. Weiss wrote in a court filing (pdf) earlier this week.

“Seeing that the parties were at an impasse, the Government informed the Defendant, in writing on August 9, 2023, that it was withdrawing the most recent version of its proposed plea and diversion agreements,” Mr. Weiss said. “That is why the Government has asked the Court to vacate its briefing order and has moved to dismiss the criminal tax information.”

The left- “so he mispronounced some things; not a big deal”.

If Trump had done the exact same thing- “he’s mentally incapable of being president! 25th amendment NOW!”.

Sickening.

https://twitter.com/Theo_TJ_Jo.../1692598451928785286

Chrystia Freeland, WEF Board Member , and also Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.

Listen to these words very carefully. She spoke this to our graduates at Northeastern University in Boston

video at link

She claims the great question is "Does capitalistic democracy still work ?"

"That is the question being asked at kitchen tables" what ????

And she says it is being asked in the trenches of the fighting in Ukraine what is she smoking ?

and if democratic society can rise to the existential challenge of climate change

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst were full of passionate intensity" (A 1920 quote from W.B. Yeats)

this language fits in w the WEF concept of "global leader" elitists dictating to the nations of the world to "save" humanity

To the wayback machine: 1934

part 1 of 2

NYT article reveals how critical the testimony was of Shapley

DoJ Weiss was willing to not charge Hunter at all , until the IRS whistle blowers came forward.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0...biden-plea-deal.html

long article, snips:

There were signs, subtle but unmistakable, that Hunter Biden’s high-stakes plea agreement with federal prosecutors might be on shaky ground hours before it went public in June, according to emails sent by his legal team to the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware.

Earlier this year, The Times found, Mr. Weiss appeared willing to forgo any prosecution of Mr. Biden at all, and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charges.

But the correspondence reveals that his position, relayed through his staff, changed in the spring, around the time a pair of I.R.S. officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation. Mr. Weiss suddenly demanded that Mr. Biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses.

Now, the I.R.S. agents and their Republican allies say they believe the evidence they brought forward, at the precise time they did, played a role in influencing the outcome, a claim senior law enforcement officials dispute. While Mr. Biden’s legal team agrees that the I.R.S. agents affected the deal, his lawyers have contended to the Justice Department that by disclosing details about the investigation to Congress, they broke the law and should be prosecuted.

“It appears that if it weren’t for the courageous actions of these whistle-blowers, who had nothing to gain and everything to lose, Hunter Biden would never have been charged at all,” a team of lawyers for one of the I.R.S. agents said in a statement

The documents and interviews also show that the relationship between Mr. Biden’s legal team and Mr. Weiss’s office reached a breaking point at a crucial moment after one of his top deputies — who had become a target of the I.R.S. agents and Republican allies — left the team for reasons that remain unclear.

Mr. Biden’s top lawyer has quit, and accused prosecutors of reneging on their commitments.

In January, Christopher J. Clark, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, arrived in Wilmington, Del., to push Mr. Weiss to end the investigation into the president’s troubled son that had, at that point, dragged on for more than four years.

Mr. Clark began by telling Mr. Weiss that his legacy would be defined by how he handled this decision.

Mr. Clark followed up with an even more dramatic gesture, reading a quote from a Supreme Court justice, Robert Jackson, who had been a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials: Prosecutors could always find “a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone” but should never succumb to pressure from the powerful.

think about the persecution of Donald Trump

Mr. Weiss told an associate that he preferred not to bring any charges, even misdemeanors, against Mr. Biden because the average American would not be prosecuted for similar offenses. (A senior law enforcement official forcefully denied the account.)

Four months later, on Monday, May 15, a familiar figure reached out to Mr. Clark: Lesley Wolf , a top Weiss deputy with whom Mr. Clark had developed a rapport over the previous two years. In a conference call with the Biden legal team, she acknowledged Mr. Clark’s core demand: that his client never be asked to plead guilty to anything.

She then made a proposition — a deal in which Mr. Biden would not plead guilty, but would agree to what is known as a deferred prosecution agreement.

Such a deal allows a person charged with a crime to avoid entering a formal plea if he or she agrees to abide by a series of conditions, like enrolling in drug treatment or anti-violence programs, relinquishing ownership of weapons or forgoing alcohol.

Part 2 of 2

By Thursday, Mr. Clark and his legal team sent Ms. Wolf their version of an agreement. It made no mention of a guilty plea, but included a promise that Mr. Biden would never again possess a gun and a pledge that he would pay his taxes.

The parties then turned to the most important provision of all, an issue that would ultimately unravel the deal: Mr. Clark’s sweeping request for immunity not only for all potential crimes investigated by Mr. Weiss, but also for “any other federal crimes relating to matters investigated by the United States” he might have ever committed.

Ms. Wolf appears to have discarded Mr. Clark’s language. Mr. Clark pushed back in a call with Mr. Weiss and the language was replaced with a narrower promise not to prosecute for any of the offenses “encompassed” in the statement of facts.

While Mr. Weiss concluded that there was not enough evidence to charge Mr. Biden with major crimes, not all his colleagues shared that opinion. The perception that Mr. Biden was being treated too softly spurred resistance among some investigators who believed that his office had blocked them from following all leads.

Few were more frustrated than Gary Shapley. A veteran I.R.S. investigator, he had worked major cases and helped take on big bankers. But every time he said he tried to pursue what he believed could be a major break in the Biden investigation, he felt stymied.

When investigators went to interview Hunter Biden, they were told they couldn’t approach the house. An attempt to serve a search warrant on Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s guesthouse? Denied. The request to search a storage unit belonging to Hunter Biden? Derailed.

It all began to explode into public view on May 15 — the same day Ms. Wolf contacted Mr. Clark — when it was reported that the investigative team that had worked on the case, including Mr. Shapley, had been removed. The next day the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee fired off a letter to the I.R.S. commissioner demanding an explanation.

On Tuesday, May 23, after four days of silence, Ms. Wolf delivered unwelcome news. Mr. Weiss had revised what he wanted in the deal, now demanding that Mr. Biden plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes. It crossed a red line for Mr. Clark.

By the middle of June, both sides were prepared to announce a deal.

Under the agreement, Mr. Biden would plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and avert prosecution on the gun charge by enrolling in a diversion program.

It was at this critical juncture that Ms. Wolf began to take a significantly reduced role, although it is unclear whether that had anything to do with the Biden case.

In their testimony, the I.R.S. whistle-blowers claimed that Ms. Wolf — who had made a couple of campaign donations to Democrats — had discouraged them from pursuing lines of inquiry that could lead to the elder Mr. Biden.

Around this time, Leo Wise — a senior prosecutor who had spent nearly two decades in the Baltimore U.S. attorney’s office — was quietly transferred to the department’s criminal division, then detailed to Delaware to add legal firepower to the relatively small Delaware office.

It was his name, not Ms. Wolf’s, that appeared on the plea deal. And it was Mr. Wise who was responsible for defending the deal, one he had not negotiated, in front of a federal judge who proved to be unforgiving.

Judge Maryellen Noreika, a Trump appointee, repeatedly informed the two sides that she would be no “rubber stamp.” She picked apart the deal, exposing substantial disagreements over the extent of the immunity provision.

Mr. Clark said the deal indemnified his client not merely for the tax and gun offenses uncovered during the inquiry, but for other possible offenses stemming from his lucrative consulting deals. Mr. Wise said it was far narrower — and suggested the government was still considering charges against Mr. Biden under laws regulating foreign lobbying.

In the video that sdy posted above, G-D Communist Freeland opens with this. . .

“Our time of tranquility is over, and we are living in an age of change.”

. . .and the blathers on like the Blithering Idiot the she is about some of what the GDC’s have in store for the little people under their tyrannical rule.

And now Joe wants to sell off the wall materials -- materials We The People have already paid for.

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Biden quietly auctions off border wall parts to stunt Republican effort to restart construction: report

Department of Defense selling off 'excess border wall materials' after Republican-sponsored FINISH IT Act clears Senate

FoxNews link

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"President Biden has no regard for taxpayer dollars -- or how his open border is bankrupting communities across the country that are footing the bill for his failures," Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., added.

^^^^^^
How in the F*** can that even be legal?????

FJB
LGB

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
^^^^^^
How in the F*** can that even be legal?????

May not be but that won’t stop the fuckwit!

Joe doesn't care what's legal.