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Intel contractors on CIA's payroll colluded with the Biden campaign to discredit Hunter's laptop as 'Russian disinfo,' bombshell report

MamboDervish said:
Seriously, Trump has a history of criminal financial shenanigans going back 3 or 4 decades. It's no secret. It's all a matter of public record. He and his "businesses" have already shelled out ten$-of-million$ of dolllar$ in fine$ for his criminal mischief. Anybody can look it up. He has paid million$ in fine$ for everything from tax evasion, to fraud, to libel, to money laundering. Nothing can be said of Biden that even remotely approaches that. Compared to Trump, Biden is squeaky clean.
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All of which have been addressed and adjudicated.

MamboDervish said:
You do understand what the Emoluments Claus refers to ..... right? It has to do with profiting off your businesses while you're in the Oval Office. It's purpose is to prevent corruption. In the past, presidents have put their assets into what is known as a "blind trust", which means that they don't make operating decisions, or run their businesses while sitting in office, because their legislative or executive acts can directly result in personal profit. It prevents having conflicts of interest.
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Again, this issue was raised and was adjudicated.

Supreme Court dismisses emoluments cases against Trump​

www.cnn.com

Supreme Court dismisses emoluments cases against Trump

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case concerning whether former President Donald Trump violated provisions of the Constitution that bar a president from profiting from a foreign government.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com

MamboDervish said:
For example, Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm into just such a "blind trust". Needless to say, Trump did no such thing with his various global holdings, and wound up profiting to the tune of $2.4 BILLION DOLLAR$ by the time he left office. In just one example I can recall, the Saudi's took over entire floors of Trump's hotels, and paid top rates for the rooms, even though nobody ever actually occupied them. That fits the definition of emoluments violations to-a-T.

www.acslaw.org

Profiting off the Presidency: Trump’s Violations of the Emoluments Clauses | ACS

The Framers of the Constitution were acutely aware of the dangers presented by foreign influence on the president.
www.acslaw.org www.acslaw.org
www.standrewslawreview.com

Donald Trump’s Violations of the Emoluments Clause

This article discusses Donald Trump’s breaches of the Emoluments Clause and the lack of justice served as a result of his impeachment
www.standrewslawreview.com www.standrewslawreview.com

So, yeah - more corrupt by at least several orders of magnitude.
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Seems more like you are shooting blanks.

MamboDervish said:
Why is it Trump's moronic minions are never bothered by him publicly promising, time after time after time, to release his tax returns like previous presidents have, repeatedly lying that they were being audited when they weren't, and yet right-wing-nut media, and Trump's idiot acolytes, never challenge him on it? Why is that?
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The losing argument always ends up resorting to ad homs and name calling. That's how you can tell it's the losing argument.
 
Callen said:
There concern was for the information being disseminated from the copy of the hard drive obtained by Rudy. At no time did they make any claim that the laptop itself or the original drive was fake. Of course they knew the laptop was real ...they had it and the original drive! The number of people who don't seem to know the difference between a laptop and a copy of it's hard drive is astounding!
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No, it’s intentional.

They know their base is uneducated.

And education is the only partial defense to professional manipulators.
 
eohrnberger said:
There's a difference between a legitimate business and not legitimate business.

Mueller did investigate Jarred's ME deal:

The statement came after NBC News reported that Mueller's team is investigating whether Kushner, who is President Donald Trump's son-in-law, used his position as the White House senior adviser to...​

Justice Department Ignores Kushner Part Of Court Order To Release Mueller Interview Notes​

Information won through a lawsuit by CNN and BuzzFeed is conspicuously missing the court-ordered records on Donald Trump's son-in-law.​
www.huffpost.com

Justice Department Ignores Kushner Part Of Court Order To Release Mueller Interview Notes

Information won through a lawsuit by CNN and BuzzFeed is conspicuously missing the court-ordered records on Donald Trump's son-in-law.
www.huffpost.com www.huffpost.com

This might be a clue as to why the media didn't cover this extensively:

Fox legal analyst Jarrett: Mueller investigation ‘illegitimate and corrupt’​

thehill.com

Fox legal analyst Jarrett: Mueller investigation ‘illegitimate and corrupt’

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett called special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation “illegitimate and corrupt” during an interview with Sean Hannity late Wednesday w…
thehill.com thehill.com

There was nothing there.

Can the same be said for said for the Biden's many LLCs the list starts on page 7 and goes on for a number of pages here:
Yet to be discovered or discussed any legitimate business activity these shell LLCs were meant to support.
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"After nearly a year of investigating President Joe Biden and his family, Republicans have substantial evidence from agencies across the Administration, including the White House, DOJ, FBI, and IRS; banks; and private citizens, all of which shows no wrongdoing by President Biden, let alone any impeachable offense. Rather than recognize these facts, House Republicans have repeatedly misrepresented witness testimony, mischaracterized records, and lied about the evidence and have been repeatedly fact-checked and discredited by news organizations across the political spectrum." (emphasis mine)

Facts on Republicans’ Sham Impeachment

Speaker Johnson is asking House Republicans to endorse Chairman Comer's nearly yearlong investigation of President Joe Biden and his family, which has been fueled by distorted and cherry-picked facts and long debunked conspiracy theories. To make sure Republican Members are fully informed of the...
oversightdemocrats.house.gov oversightdemocrats.house.gov

The only reason the GOP persists in their alleged "impeachment inquiry" is because they know that Trump's moronic minions will still desperately buy into anything that even hints at making Biden as much of a corrupt scumbag as Trump's legal record already proves he is.

Hey look - you can tap dance until you open on Broadway, but there is simply no way to tango around Trump's decades long criminal record of fraud. FRAUD! Seriously, why do you bother? Who do you think your audience is here on DP for deflection, distortion and defense of a career charlatan? Hmm?

Nothing you post here can ever hope to power wash the decades of shit stains and stink that completely permeate Donald Trump's life - public, private and business! Trump's record, and the ten$-of-million$ of dollar$ in fine$ that he has already paid, all speaks for itself. Nothing makes that go away. Certainly slandering and libeling Joe Biden won't do it.

Joe Biden =/= Donald Trump

😇 =/= :devilish:
 
eohrnberger said:
All of which have been addressed and adjudicated.


Again, this issue was raised and was adjudicated.

Supreme Court dismisses emoluments cases against Trump​

www.cnn.com

Supreme Court dismisses emoluments cases against Trump

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case concerning whether former President Donald Trump violated provisions of the Constitution that bar a president from profiting from a foreign government.
www.cnn.com www.cnn.com


Seems more like you are shooting blanks.


The losing argument always ends up resorting to ad homs and name calling. That's how you can tell it's the losing argument.
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Your post is complete bullshit. The Supreme Court didn't adjudicate the case -
THEY REFUSED TO EVEN HEAR IT !!

Go back to school and learn what adjudicate means.
 
MamboDervish said:
"After nearly a year of investigating President Joe Biden and his family, Republicans have substantial evidence from agencies across the Administration, including the White House, DOJ, FBI, and IRS; banks; and private citizens, all of which shows no wrongdoing by President Biden, let alone any impeachable offense. Rather than recognize these facts, House Republicans have repeatedly misrepresented witness testimony, mischaracterized records, and lied about the evidence and have been repeatedly fact-checked and discredited by news organizations across the political spectrum." (emphasis mine)

Facts on Republicans’ Sham Impeachment

Speaker Johnson is asking House Republicans to endorse Chairman Comer's nearly yearlong investigation of President Joe Biden and his family, which has been fueled by distorted and cherry-picked facts and long debunked conspiracy theories. To make sure Republican Members are fully informed of the...
oversightdemocrats.house.gov oversightdemocrats.house.gov
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So you swallow whole the load which the House Democrats are shoveling. OK.

You know, this doesn't support your false corruption accusation in the cases you mentioned.

MamboDervish said:
The only reason the GOP persists in their alleged "impeachment inquiry" is because they know that Trump's moronic minions will still desperately buy into anything that even hints at making Biden as much of a corrupt scumbag as Trump's legal record already proves he is.
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Either the oversight committees are going to find sufficient evidence to bring charges or they won't.
That doesn't change the facts of the case which have been brought to the public, nor what those facts implicate. For example:

Biden insists he’s not involved in his family’s business dealings. But his aides are a different story.​

The overlapping roles are under scrutiny as the president distances himself from his family’s dealings.​
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For years, Joe Biden shared a bookkeeper with his son, Hunter. He also shared a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim. And when Jim Biden wanted to know more about one of Hunter Biden’s associates, he hired the former head of Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail to investigate.​
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Since 2019, Joe Biden has repeatedly distanced himself from his family’s business dealings, saying that he has never so much as discussed them with his relatives or with anyone else. But House impeachment inquiry interviews, public records and emails reviewed by POLITICO show that members of his inner circle were regularly enmeshed in those dealings: Many of the president’s closest staffers and advisers have doubled as his relatives’ business associates, both during and after their stints working for the man at the center of the Biden family orbit.​
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Those overlaps reflect an all-in-the family approach to business and politicking that dates back a half-century to the president’s first Senate bid, run primarily by his parents and siblings. Since then, his political patrons have at times forged business ties with his relatives, who in turn have converted some of their business partners into campaign supporters. And over a lifetime in public life, some of the president’s aides have taken on roles as surrogate members of the tight-knit Biden clan.​

Nor does it remediate the fact that there are a large number of LLCs without any real business behind them, other than to shuffle foreign money around.

MamboDervish said:
Hey look - you can tap dance until you open on Broadway, but there is simply no way to tango around Trump's decades long criminal record of fraud. FRAUD! Seriously, why do you bother? Who do you think your audience is here on DP for deflection, distortion and defense of a career charlatan? Hmm?

Nothing you post here can ever hope to power wash the decades of shit stains and stink that completely permeate Donald Trump's life - public, private and business! Trump's record, and the ten$-of-million$ of dollar$ in fine$ that he has already paid, all speaks for itself. Nothing makes that go away. Certainly slandering and libeling Joe Biden won't do it.

Joe Biden =/= Donald Trump

😇 =/= :devilish:
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It was never my intent to wash anything away, more so to expose you to Joe Biden and the Biden family aren't any better. But I'll have to admit that you may not be able to actually see this nor come to grips with it. 🤷‍♂️
 
eohrnberger said:
So you swallow whole the load which the House Democrats are shoveling. OK.
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?? I provided the links. Feel free to parse them to your hearts content. I'm sure you can't refute it.
They include transcribed interviews with key players. You might try arguing with their sworn testimony, ... but not with me.

Fact v. Fiction: Biden Family Members' Bank Records Do Not Point to Any Wrongdoing by President Biden

In the News
oversightdemocrats.house.gov oversightdemocrats.house.gov

Fact v. Fiction: Loans from Joe Biden to His Brother James Biden

oversightdemocrats.house.gov oversightdemocrats.house.gov
eohrnberger said:
You know, this doesn't support your false corruption accusation in the cases you mentioned.
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?? Feel free to elaborate. What false corruption accusation in cases I made are you referring to?
eohrnberger said:
Either the oversight committees are going to find sufficient evidence to bring charges or they won't.
That doesn't change the facts of the case which have been brought to the public, nor what those facts implicate. For example:

Biden insists he’s not involved in his family’s business dealings. But his aides are a different story.​

The overlapping roles are under scrutiny as the president distances himself from his family’s dealings.​
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For years, Joe Biden shared a bookkeeper with his son, Hunter. He also shared a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim. And when Jim Biden wanted to know more about one of Hunter Biden’s associates, he hired the former head of Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail to investigate.​
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Nor does it remediate the fact that there are a large number of LLCs without any real business behind them, other than to shuffle foreign money around.
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?? None of which implicates Joe Biden in any criminal activity. So .... there's that.
eohrnberger said:
It was never my intent to wash anything away, more so to expose you to Joe Biden and the Biden family aren't any better.
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But clearly Joe Biden is better. Much better, in fact.
eohrnberger said:
But I'll have to admit that you may not be able to actually see this nor come to grips with it. 🤷‍♂️
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What I do swallow whole is Trump's decades long record of unrepentant recidivist criminal FRAUD.
Let me know when you are mature enough to finally address that. Until that time, no amount of attacking Joe Biden can hope to reduce the shame of supporting the likes of Donald Trump, whose record of criminal malfeasance SCREAMS for itself!
 
MamboDervish said:
?? I provided the links. Feel free to parse them to your hearts content. I'm sure you can't refute it.
They include transcribed interviews with key players. You might try arguing with their sworn testimony, ... but not with me.

Fact v. Fiction: Biden Family Members' Bank Records Do Not Point to Any Wrongdoing by President Biden

In the News
oversightdemocrats.house.gov oversightdemocrats.house.gov

Fact v. Fiction: Loans from Joe Biden to His Brother James Biden

oversightdemocrats.house.gov oversightdemocrats.house.gov
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This a long list of the same level as the 1/2 truths from the so called Jan 6th select committee, I'm sure.

MamboDervish said:
?? Feel free to elaborate. What false corruption accusation in cases I made are you referring to?
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You've forgotten your corruption accusation against Kushner's legitimate business in the ME?

MamboDervish said:
?? None of which implicates Joe Biden in any criminal activity. So .... there's that.
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'Nothing to see here' is rather overused and poor excuse for being willfully blind.
Cite where there's a legitimate business behind all those LLCs.

MamboDervish said:
But clearly Joe Biden is better. Much better, in fact.
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Personal and subjective.

MamboDervish said:
What I do swallow whole is Trump's decades long record of unrepentant recidivist criminal FRAUD.
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Which of those have not been adjudicated? Any?

MamboDervish said:
Let me know when you are mature enough to finally address that. Until that time, no amount of attacking Joe Biden can hope to reduce the shame of supporting the likes of Donald Trump, whose record of criminal malfeasance SCREAMS for itself!
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The only SCREAMING I'm detecting here is you.
 
anatta said:
Intel contractors on CIA's payroll colluded< let that sink in the CIA knew the laptop was real because the FBI had it and knew it authentic.
Blinken not only solicited the infamous "51 former INTEL officials" It looks like he overrode the CIA cautions because that came from the candidate .... Can you say ELECTION INTERFERENCE!! *big time*

www.dailymail.co.uk

Intel contractors on CIA's payroll colluded to discredit Hunter laptop

Some ex-intelligence officials were actively being paid by the CIA on a contract basis when they signed the letter that falsely claimed Hunter Biden's laptop was 'Russian disinformation.'
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
Morell was the one who organized the letter after a call from now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He said he did it to give Biden a 'talking point' in the lead-up to the 2020 election when Trump attacked him for the laptop that was later verified to be his son's.

high-ranking CIA officials were made aware of the letter before its publishing and some raised concerns about the political nature of the letter.

'The signatories’ decision to leverage their former intelligence community titles to promote a narrative about foreign election interference improperly embroiled the [CIA] in domestic politics,' the report states saying it.. 'underscores the potential dangers of a politicized intelligence community.'

claimed that damning pictures and messages found on Hunter Biden's laptop bore the earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign
allowed Joe to discredit the laptop and its damning evidence during presidential debates, town halls and other media appearances prior to his election.
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....Cammack continued: 'We know that the intel community never operates in absolutes and the fact that we had 51 come forward and try to put forward a narrative that this was disinformation, misinformation when everyone knew full well that it wasn't, that it was very real.'

She said the revelation is evidence of the weaponization and politicization of the Department of Justice (DOJ).
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Your source is a British tabloid.

Please find a valid source and try again.
 
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