MAGAs claim Hunter's Conviction is more proof of bias against Trump
Yes, we live in upside down world now -- truth are lies, white is black, nonsense is fact.
Wherin AOC makes it clear that Justice was served in both the Hunter Biden and Trump cases.
But then Speaker Johnson claims convicting Hunter was legitimate, but somehow convicting Trump was not.
"Every case is different," Johnson told CNN's Manu Raju (video below) when asked if "the president's son being convicted on three counts" undercuts the Republican Speaker's claims of a "two tier system of justice."
Johnson added, "clearly the evidence was overwhelming" in the Hunter Biden prosecution, one which some legal experts said should not have been brought and at least one member of the jury who spoke to CNN said was a waste of the taxpayers' dime.
"I don't think that's the case in the Trump trials, and all the charges that have been brought" against Trump "have been obviously brought for political purposes. Hunter Biden is a separate instance."
Yeah, that makes sense. Trump’s signature was on the checks. Trump was the one who called David Pecker to set up the catch-and-kill in the first place. Trump deputized Michael Cohen to represent him with Pecker. Pecker testified that Cohen “wouldn’t pay for lunch” without Trump’s approval. Hope Hicks testified that “Cohen was not a charitable person.” There’s no scenario here where Cohen would volunteer to pay for an NDA with Stormy Daniels without Trump knowledge and consent. None. This plan was started by Trump and implemented by Trump. Period.
Somehow that case is illegitimate because reasons, and also, the conviction of Hunter is just a “distraction.”
As written by Greg Sargent.
Republicans should, in theory, be relieved and vindicated over Hunter Biden's conviction on federal gun charges. But many of them are not satisfied, and are alleging it's all a vast government conspiracy to protect against the real crimes committed by President Joe Biden, wrote Greg Sargent for The New Republic.
And there's a reason for that, he argued: the guilty verdict is actually causing their whole "sleazy scam" of attacking the criminal justice system to fall apart."Incredibly, they are declaring that this guilty verdict slapped on Biden’s son also proves that the system is rigged against Trump. Which reveals something essential about how dependent the MAGA worldview is on elaborate fantasies about the movement’s alleged persecution," wrote Sargent. These reactions range from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) criticizing the gun law under which he was charged, to MAGA student activist Charlie Kirk calling it a "fake trial," to former Trump adviser Stephen Miller claiming, "This is all about protecting Joe Biden and only Joe Biden."
What they all really mean, wrote Sargent, is, "How the heck are we going to raise money off of this? The law being applied equally to the president’s son is an utter disaster for us!"
How exactly is convicting his son of gun charges about “protecting Joe Biden?” That is just plain nonsense. Republicans have been on this crazy witch-hunt for corruption by Joe Biden ever since Russia Spy Andriy Derkash started whispering dark nothings in Rudy Giuliani’s ear.
Derkach’s dossier was not flagged for officials inside the State Department until months later, when Derkach began holding press conferences and Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, reiterated the same talking points as Derkach on a range of issues. But officials inside the U.S. intelligence and national security apparatus, with the help of officials on the ground in Kyiv, had drafted reports warning that Russian proxies, including Derkach, were attempting to undermine the 2020 election process in America.
Seven current and former U.S. officials spoke with The Daily Beast about Derkach, his relationship to Trump loyalists, and the escalating warnings about Derkach’s activities. Those warnings extended to leaders on Capitol Hill who learned that Ukrainians with ties to Russia were inserting themselves in the U.S. election. Last week, the Treasury Department blacklisted Derkach as an “active Russian agent.”
It’s been the contents of that dossier from Derkach that have been driving GOP Politics for the last 9 years. Claims that Joe Biden corruptly displaced a Ukrainian prosecutor, and that he, his son Hunter and his brother James were involved in a foreign influence peddling scheme.
This is the white rabbit they’ve been hunting for — but they haven’t found it yet, and they won’t give up the chase.
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