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\nThe predatory, political and contrived nature of the indictments against Trump, and the degree to which Jack Smith and his team had to strangle statutes and reality to arrive at a predetermined conclusion is not lost on Americans.
\nThe straightforwardness of the Biden family\u2019s influence peddling operation makes it easy for all but the most rabid Democrats to understand.<\/p>\n
Unlike the Trump indictments, the case against Biden is straightforward.<\/a><\/p>\n Those of us who follow the news for a living understand the details of the three indictments to date against former President Donald Trump. The average American understands only that he\u2019s been indicted three times and that a fourth is likely on the way in Georgia. Those who get their news from legacy media sites are told that Trump threatens the very fabric of our democracy. But from there, it gets nebulous.<\/p>\n On the other hand, the accusations against President Joe Biden and his knowledge of and involvement in his son\u2019s overseas influence peddling business are far more straightforward. The average American understands bribery, greed, and lies, concepts that are as old as mankind.<\/p>\n Evidence is mounting that, during Biden\u2019s tenure as vice president, his son was on a mission to exploit his ability to sway U.S. policy for the family\u2019s financial gain. At the right price, Joe Biden\u2019s influence was for sale.<\/p>\n Special Counsel Jack Smith\u2019s case against Trump shows how wildly he had to wrestle with the truth to arrive at an indictment.<\/p>\n Smith may have jumped the shark with his latest indictment. Especially since it came the day after Hunter Biden\u2019s former business partner and longtime friend Devon Archer reportedly confirmed that Hunter had put then-Vice President Joe Biden on speakerphone at least 20 times during meetings with his foreign business associates.<\/p>\n Paramount among Archer\u2019s statements was that Hunter was \u201cselling the brand,\u201d meaning access to the second most powerful man in the U.S. government on a moment\u2019s notice. Now that\u2019s impressive.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to a committee\u00a0press release<\/a>, \u201cDevon Archer testified that the value of adding Hunter Biden to Burisma\u2019s board was \u2018the brand\u2019 and confirmed that then-Vice President Joe Biden was \u2018the brand.\u2019 \u2026 Archer admitted that \u2018Burisma would have gone out of business if the brand had not been attached to it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n I imagine that outside of Biden\u2019s base, the implication of these phone calls in a pay-to-play scheme wasn\u2019t missed.<\/p>\n Democrats such as Rep. Freshman Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), who is quickly becoming the Adam Schiff of the Biden influence-peddling scandal, was the lead attorney in the Democrats\u2019 2019 impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. (He\u2019s also an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.) He spoke to reporters immediately after hearing Archer\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n \u201cThe witness was unequivocal and stated very clearly that they never discussed any business on [those] phone conversations,\u201d Goldman\u00a0said<\/a>. \u201cThere were niceties. And there was a hello. And [they] talked about the weather or whatever it was, but it was never any business.\u201d<\/p>\n Goldman suggested that Hunter Biden and his father were in constant contact because they were grieving Beau Biden\u2019s May 2015 death. He said, \u201cThe witness described in vivid detail about how devastating that was to both Hunter Biden and to Joe Biden, and how their communications picked up dramatically in the aftermath.\u201d<\/p>\n A pathetic defense to say the least. That\u2019s not how influence peddling schemes work and Goldman knows that. Following Archer\u2019s testimony on Monday, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley\u00a0explained<\/a>\u00a0that Joe Biden was the \u201csubject\u201d or the \u201cobject\u201d of the influence peddling scheme meaning he doesn\u2019t get involved in the \u201cbusiness\u201d end of the deal.<\/p>\n Turley said:<\/p>\n This is how you influence influential people in Washington. You give money to their siblings, their spouses, their children. And that\u2019s what happened here.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [While Hunter\u2019s] influence peddling and business dealings in Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan, and Russia might be legal, it is corrupt.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [This is] perhaps one of the largest influence-pedaling schemes we\u2019ve seen in Washington, which is considerably a long list of examples.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Now, the question is, is there more? Does this violate the criminal code? Clearly the U.S. Attorney\u2019s office thinks it might have. There\u2019s a long line of people still going into the grand jury.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Sunday on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d that \u201cno matter what Hunter may have done, it is a \u2018private matter\u2019 and has no connection to President Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n Turley responded:<\/p>\n Now, the statement that this has nothing to do with the president simply ignores reality. I mean, the president is referred to in many of these e-mails. And while the press has agreed that the laptop is legitimate, they have really tried to avoid talking about what is on the laptop.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n And those e-mails refer to the president under code names like \u201cCeltic\u201d and \u201cThe Big Guy.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In one e-mail, a person is told not to use the president\u2019s name.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n But there are plenty of details there involving money that may have gone to the president to pay for expenses and an office that was allegedly being arranged for his use and the first lady\u2019s use. Those are all connections. But the biggest connection is that this was an influenced pedaling scheme, and he was the object. He was the reason people were giving millions to these various firms, to his son.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n And so it\u2019s bizarre to claim that this was an influence-peddling scheme where the object was entirely irrelevant.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The predatory, political and contrived nature of the indictments against Trump, and the degree to which Jack Smith and his team had to strangle statutes and reality to arrive at a predetermined conclusion is not lost on Americans.<\/p>\n The straightforwardness of the Biden family\u2019s influence peddling operation makes it easy for all but the most rabid Democrats to understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BLUF The predatory, political and contrived nature of the indictments against Trump, and the degree to which Jack Smith and his team had to strangle statutes and reality to arrive at a predetermined conclusion is not lost on Americans. 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