{"id":52991,"date":"2023-12-10T17:42:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T22:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52991"},"modified":"2023-12-10T17:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T22:42:23","slug":"providing-the-appearance-of-justice-while-avoiding-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52991","title":{"rendered":"Providing The Appearance Of Justice While Avoiding Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/mike_miller\/2023\/12\/08\/a-marvel-of-evasion-hunters-indictments-carefully-written-to-avoid-implicating-joe-biden-n2167341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red State<\/a> posted an article about the indictment of Hunter Biden. The article quotes\u00a0George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Turley notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;There are three glaring omissions in the indictment that tend to shield critical payments and conduct that implicate the president,&#8221; Turley wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Burisma-Ukrainian money<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>First, the special counsel only indicts tax evasion that occurred in recent years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>That\u2019s because the long \u201cinvestigation\u201d into Hunter inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to expire on the most controversial payments from Ukraine gas company Burisma.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Recent testimony from IRS whistleblowers suggests that wasn\u2019t an accident. Investigators were stonewalled, they claimed, and the Justice Department was previously moving to reject\u00a0<em id=\"isPasted\">any\u00a0<\/em>charges against Hunter Biden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Hunter, the Unregistered Foreign Agent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Yep, nowhere to be found in the indictment. Here&#8217;s Turley:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"isPasted\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Recently, the Justice Department\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2023\/10\/14\/how-about-hunter-the-justice-department-adds-fara-charge-to-menendez-prosecution\/__;!!F0Stn7g!F-elLBHlmO8TY0t6Er9cpb7YtI8BsWKGLmBTP4XalPlazeMH8lWbAQjXYp3aj2EA3jOhYGFjKnS-1XLjyUM$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added a charge<\/a>\u00a0to the indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) that he ran afoul of FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act. FARA also was used to go after Donald Trump associates such as Paul Manafort.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>The problem with charging Hunter with FARA is obvious.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>It opens up questions about the millions of dollars going to the Biden family from foreign sources, a topic that Attorney General Merrick Garland has spent years avoiding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Hunter, the Unindicted Co-Conspirator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;By focusing on tax evasion alone,&#8221; wrote Turley, &#8220;Weiss again avoids any direct reference to the focus of the influence-peddling used to raise these millions of dollars.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>However, he opined:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Even without mentioning the president, the implications of the indictment are devastating for the narrative and denials of Joe Biden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"isPasted\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>The president has continued to maintain that he had no knowledge or interaction with these dealings. Those statements are clearly and knowingly false.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>The president also maintained that his son has \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2023\/05\/08\/the-trouble-with-hunter-president-biden-repeats-claim-that-his-son-has-done-nothing-wrong\/__;!!F0Stn7g!F-elLBHlmO8TY0t6Er9cpb7YtI8BsWKGLmBTP4XalPlazeMH8lWbAQjXYp3aj2EA3jOhYGFjKnS-t-xCYcE$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">never done anything wrong<\/a>\u201d and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/08\/01\/biden-said-his-son-earned-no-money-china-his-son-says-otherwise\/__;!!F0Stn7g!F-elLBHlmO8TY0t6Er9cpb7YtI8BsWKGLmBTP4XalPlazeMH8lWbAQjXYp3aj2EA3jOhYGFjKnS-IH4r21g$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">never accepted any money from China<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>That is also untrue, according to the Justice Department and Hunter himself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12805163\/President-Biden-attorney-Mel-Monzack-company-Hunter-Chinese-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The U.K. Daily Mail<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mel Monzack, 83, Joe Biden&#8217;s personal lawyer who is authorized to act on the president&#8217;s behalf in financial matters, is LINKED to Hunter&#8217;s newly filed criminal indictment<\/h1>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Corporate records obtained by DailyMail.com reveal links between Joe Biden&#8217;s confidante who has his power of attorney and Hunter&#8217;s business deals<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Mel Monzack&#8217;s law firm was listed as the registered agent for Robinson Walker LLC \u2013 a company owned by\u00a0business partner and Biden family friend, Rob Walker<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The payments from Robinson Walker LLC are part of new criminal tax charges against the First Son filed Thursday in a California federal court\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am wondering if Mel Monzack will be the fall guy in this mess with President Biden claiming his lawyer\u00a0 handled everything and he had no idea where the money came from<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Red State posted an article about the indictment of Hunter Biden. The article quotes\u00a0George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley. 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