{"id":48462,"date":"2022-12-15T08:44:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48462"},"modified":"2022-12-15T08:44:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:44:05","slug":"going-on-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48462","title":{"rendered":"Going On Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Jonathan Turley posted an article at <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/11\/biden-allies-move-to-intimidate-witnesses-ahead-of-gops-coming-hunter-probe\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> indicating how the political left is preparing for the Congressional investigation of Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop that will surely occur after the new House of Representatives is sworn in. We need to remember that the political left is good at preemptive strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Just when you thought our politics could not get more poisonous, a recent meeting in California suggests the past is mere prelude. The Washington Post,\u00a0which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/some-hunter-biden-allies-making-plans-to-go-after-his-accusers\/ar-AA1571ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed the powwow,<\/a>\u00a0described it as Biden family \u201callies\u201d planning an offensive to blunt any investigation into the Bidens\u2019 alleged multimillion-dollar influence-peddling schemes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Republicans will see it more like the gathering of the Legion of (Democratic) Doom. Some of the most controversial political operatives are involved in the all-hands-on-deck effort to protect the Bidens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The California meeting\u2019s host was none other than <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/12\/meet-hunter-bidens-sugar-brother-lawyer-kevin-morris\/\">Hunter Biden\u2019s friend, agent and lawyer Kevin Morris<\/a>. After Hunter was placed under investigation for, among other possible charges, tax evasion, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/08\/hollywood-lawyer-kevin-morris-paid-off-over-2m-of-hunter-bidens-taxes\/\">Morris reportedly paid off as much as $2.8 million in back taxes for Hunter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Morris, per the Washington Post, called for a \u201cmore aggressive\u201d response to those seeking to investigate the alleged influence peddling. That plan includes hitting critics, such as Fox News, with possible defamation lawsuits. (For full disclosure, I appear as a legal analyst on Fox News.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The paper also reported Morris \u201coutlined extensive research on two potential witnesses against Hunter Biden \u2014 a spurned business partner named Tony Bobulinski and a computer repairman named John Paul Mac Isaac.\u201d \u201cSpurned\u201d is hardly the sole or most relevant description of Bobulinski: The businessman was recruited by the Biden family to manage foreign deals and later <a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2022\/11\/10\/washingtons-pandoras-box-the-opening-of-the-hunter-biden-laptop-could-expose-the-cottage-industry-of-influence-peddling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directly contradicted<\/a> President Biden\u2019s claims that he knew nothing of those dealings. His testimony could present a serious threat in the coming House investigation in establishing not only the president\u2019s knowledge but his possible receipt of proceeds from the deals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link to read the entire article.<\/p>\n<p>This move goes right along with Saul Alinsky&#8217;s Rules for Radicals. Rule number 9 states, &#8220;The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. &#8221; and Rule number 13 states, &#8220;Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. &#8221; I suspect we will see many examples of those two rules after the new House is sworn in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Jonathan Turley posted an article at The New York Post indicating how the political left is preparing for the Congressional investigation of Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop that will surely occur after the new House of Representatives is sworn in. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48462\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2523,13024,6254,9567,8321],"class_list":["post-48462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fox-news","tag-hunter-bidens-laptop","tag-jonathan-turley","tag-rules-for-radicals","tag-the-new-york-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48463,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48462\/revisions\/48463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}