Words have turned into deadly political weapons to be used against Democrats. Professor Jonathan Turley has a few choice observations, just as Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer is getting ready to tell Congress everything he knows. He and Hunter served together on the Board of Directors at Burisma.
Words as weapons
Jonathan Turley couldn’t help passing along some words which fell from the mouth of “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan. “I wonder after this plea happens if you would advise your party to move on?” She quizzed Chris Christie. Turley is still chuckling to himself over the way network media is going spastic about the Biden corruption scandal.
Devon Archer is actually scheduled to testify under oath to Congress. His family has been getting death threats warning him not to talk. The plea she’s talking about is generating drama of it’s own at the last minute.
An allegedly corrupt federal prosecutor and his equally compromised assistants turned a five year investigation by the IRS and FBI into a joke, by only filing misdemeanor charges and asking for probation. it’s been called “the sweetheart plea deal of the century.” When the investigators found out, they came unglued and blew the whistle.
As evidence and public interest increase, it is a bit late for spin or shiny objects. This week, the scandal is likely to be even more serious for the Bidens and the country…https://t.co/bTiCHBxqjE
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 25, 2023
They had some explosive words for the House Ways and Means Committee. Then, they testified to Congress. Hunter’s deal is set to be rubber stamped on July 26. On July 25, the committee sent a letter to the judge. Hunter’s lawyers got sneaky, called the judge pretending to be the committee and asked them to take it back down, sorreeee… They’re facing charges in court for that in the morning.
As professor Turley notes, “the media’s desire to “move on” from the scandal is reaching an almost frantic level, as millions in foreign payments and dozens of corporate shell companies are revealed, and incriminating emails are released.” That echoes what we heard from Democrats at the hearing. Words are powerful and those hearings are mostly meant to generate “soundbites.”
Left-leaning members of the committee “discussed everything from the Emmett Till murder in 1955 to whether the term ‘two-tiered justice system’ is racially insensitive. And of course, Donald Trump.” One Democrat got bit by his own question.
Trip a wire
The reason Democrats are sticking to generalities is because specifics would blow their head’s off. They all know their words can and will be used against them when conservatives are proven right.
“Any question would now trip a wire on the Bidens, so most avoid the allegations in favor of talking about Trump or other shiny objects.” Most, but not all. Dan Goldman learned the Marcia Clark lesson of never asking a question you don’t want to hear the answer to.
Goldman must have been smoking something from the platinum tier that morning. He “bizarrely raised one of the most damaging new pieces of evidence in the investigation.”
Professor Jonathan Turley slams FBI as 'the place where evidence goes to die' | Just The News https://t.co/BMN2vUGrA6
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) July 25, 2023
Words have consequences, he learned by asking about a “lunch where Joe Biden came to say hello at the Four Season’s hotel” One Hunter was “having with CEFC executives.” He opened the door and IRS Supervisory Agent Gary Shapley kicked it in.
Slyly, Goldman set up the question like a trap by reading into the record “how Biden associate Rob Walker described the origins of the meeting with the Chinese officials to get his dad to stop by.” Hunter “told his Dad that ‘I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys.‘”
Then grinned as he demanded to know, “now let me ask you something, that doesn’t sound much like Joe Biden was involved in whatever Hunter was doing with the CEFC, if Hunter Biden is telling him that he is trying to do business with them, does it?” Shapley’s words blew him away. “No, but it does show that he told his father that he was trying to do business and…” He got chopped off but the point had been made. Democrats can’t deny that Joe knew about Hunter’s business deals.
