Posted on 12/08/2023 1:37:55 AM PST by Libloather
After a California grand jury handed down an indictment of first son Hunter Biden, political analysts predicted the bombshell would put President Biden in a self-constructed "trap" after he again claimed allegations he was in influence-peddling cahoots with his brother and son were "lies."
A grand jury empaneled in the Central District of California – which comprises Los Angeles – handed down an indictment against Hunter Biden.
"I think a lot of people felt … that David Weiss was going to let these charges skate and Hunter Biden would never be held accountable for making millions of dollars overseas. And a lot of people will say that was inappropriate," former Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., said.
An excerpt from the indictment obtained by Fox News said "the defendant engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019."
Duffy also surmised that if legal conditions worsen for the Bidens in this Los Angeles case, that Democrats are going to seek an "off ramp [and] look to the hair-gel governor" there in 2024.
George Washington University Law Prof. Jonathan Turley told Fox News the indictment may rhetorically box-in President Biden, due to his long-held denials of knowledge or participation in his son's foreign business dealings.
Turley riffed that there's some similarity between Biden's denials and former President Clinton's famed attestation, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," during the 1998 Whitewater-Lewinsky scandal.
"I mean, basically [Biden is] saying ‘I did not have interactions with those people’," Turley said.
"It didn't work for Clinton. And it's even more insulting here," he added, pointing to polling showing a majority of Americans including a swath of Democrats telling pollsters they don't believe Biden on this front.
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"To boldly go..."
When you can get away with splitting infinitives, any barbarism is possible.
What is now needed are indictments at the state level. This protects against a general pardon by Joe B. at the federal level.
Seems likely
LOL!!!
But it’s not funny.
And shame on Star Trek.
People start splitting all over the place, next thing you know, we get a government that is totally corrupt.
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