Flotsam and Jetsam - Before Whistleblowers Weiss Intended to Let Hunter Off

 According to the NYT, which makes it a little bit suspect, although this runs counter to their usual goal of supporting the Bidens come hell and high water. Capt, Ed at Hat Hair, NYT: Weiss wanted to let Hunter off scot-free -- until IRS whistleblowers fought back. From Breitbart, NYT: DOJ Planned to Let Hunter Biden Off the Hook Until Whistleblowers Emerged. Even Althouse cites the NYT, "Earlier this year, The Times found, Mr. Weiss appeared willing to forgo any prosecution of Mr. Biden at all..." Madeleine Hubbard at JTN reports that IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley's lawyers say latest Hunter Biden probe reports confirm his testimony, "This is exactly the sort of preferential treatment these IRS agents blew the whistle on to begin with." At PJM Matt Margolis thinks it's HUGE: Hunter Biden’s Legal Team Used Joe Biden to Blackmail DOJ. NYPo reports Hunter Biden’s lawyers threatened to put president on the stand. 'Bonchie' at Red State says New Emails Provide Stunning Evidence of DOJ and Hunter Biden Corruption. LI's Fuzzy Slippers has the Report: As VP, Joe Biden Used Email Aliases To Loop Hunter In On Ukraine, Government Business. "“Then-Vice President Biden emailed Hunter under the aliases ‘Robin Ware,’ ‘Robert L. Peters’ and ‘JRB Ware’ between 2014 and 2016, keeping his son abreast of scheduled talks with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Kyiv Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.”"

From Twitchy, Miranda Devine shares DAMNING evidence Hunter Biden was involved in Trump's Ukraine impeachment (thread). The divine Ms. Devine, Miranda Devine@mirandadevine, "And this curious fact: Hunter was involved in the Trump impeachment over Ukraine. In the summer of 2019, he tells an adviser he has an all-day meeting “with impeachment lawyers”. After 5 years, he still has not been interviewed by Weiss’ team or testified before the grand jury." Dan Greenfield at Front Page notes how Hunter Biden’s Broken Car Cost Taxpayers $139 Million. "Did the Big Guy help provide a loan to a Hunter-backed car company?" Breitbart has a report from Hunter Biden's Lawyer: He Won’t Testify Before House Committees. Yeah, I wouldn't either, if I were him. James Lynch at Da Caller, Three More Of Hunter Biden’s Attorneys Move To Withdraw From His Case, probably because the cases are moving, and These Are The Biggest Lies Joe Biden Told About Hunter’s Foreign Influence Peddling. Town Hall's Sarah Arnold figures out Hunter Biden Was Living At the WH the Same Time Cocaine Was Found In the West Wing. 

From the Center Square, More voters say Biden untrustworthy, a poor leader, "2 of 3 voters say nation is heading in wrong direction." At the Free Bacon, Legal Experts Call For Investigation Into Biden's Favorite Super PAC Over 'Serious' Financial Discrepancies. "Future Forward, which the Biden White House has endorsed as the "pre-eminent super PAC" supporting the president's reelection bid, in 2021 claimed it received just $3.4 million in cash from its affiliated dark money group. But that group, nonprofit Future Forward USA Action, reported in its 2021 IRS tax return that it provided $15.3 million to the super PAC that year. The missing $12 million is one of several errors in the group’s finances, errors that experts say are egregious enough to warrant a federal probe." Is Hunter anywhere close to the scene, $12 M buys a lot of coke. I&I claims Biden’s Drug Price ‘Transparency’ Rule Is Just Back-Door Price Controls

At Am Think, Sean Ross Callaghan thinks The Corrupt DoJ has Charged Trump with a Fake Crime and Tom Swift thinks about Reasonableness and the Trump Indictments. Stacey Matthews of LI has a  Flashback to 2016 when Democrats Pressured Trump Electors to Flip to Hillary. “They aggressively targeted & harassed me with the goal of me committing to being 1 of the 37 ‘Faithless Electors’… […] My personal info was posted and I received tens of thousands of letters to my mailbox, emails, and calls/texts at all hours of the night for weeks.” Thad McCotter at Am Great insists Trump Isn’t Just the Target, He’s the Pretext. Vicky Taft at PJM explains Here's How Trump Beats the Georgia Indictment "So what must be done? The move by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows is the way forward for Trump. Meadows has claimed immunity under the Supremacy Clause and asked for all charges to be dropped, or, at the very least, for the state case to be stayed while he pursues his federal court claim." If nothing else, it would send the libs into higher dudgeon. At Da Fed, Tom Crist explains Why Democrats’ Get-Trump Crusade Will End In Disappointment, Not Delight. "Depression will set in when Trump, even if convicted of something, lives free for the rest of his life while his appeals against the bogus convictions succeed one at a time." Tim Graham is amused by journolists Presenting Trump’s Democrat Prosecutors as Nonpartisans "How you can easily tell which side the "objective media" is on." 'Bonchie' thinks Mark Meadows Just Complicated Donald Trump's Defense in the Classified Docs Case, "According to reports, Mark Meadows testified that he was not aware of any standing order to declassify any materials that the former president took with him to Mar-a-Lago." Kash Patel says otherwise. 

Breitbart has a Poll: Trump Posts Biggest Lead Yet over DeSantis, Other 2024 Rivals. Never-anybody-but-Trump sundance at CTH crows Sunday Talks, CBS Poll Shows President Trump Extending Lead Ahead of First-Loser Debate. Atop Da Hill, Senate Republican says Trump should drop out of presidential race. "Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) . . . one of the seven GOP senators to vote for conviction in the second Trump impeachment trial." At Da Wire, Democrat Gov. Says Trump, Republicans Have ‘Poisoned’ The System, Responsible For Low Biden Support. Democrats always accuse you of doing exactly what they're doing. 

Althouse, hears the NYT whine, "[Ron] DeSantis, 44, is not the first Republican politician of his generation to rail against his own Ivy League degrees while milking them for access and campaign cash." "But now, as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination, he is molding his entire campaign and political persona around a vengeful war against what he calls the country’s 'ruling class': an incompetent, unaccountable elite of bureaucrats, journalists, educators and other supposed 'experts' whose pernicious and unearned authority the governor has vowed to vanquish...." She comments "Again, what's bad about criticizing your alma mater?" Hat Hair's Dave Strom considers DeSantis Listless vessels comment. At Twitchy, KA-POW! Cuccinelli BLASTS Kasie Hunt over deceptively edited DeSantis 'listless vessels' video "Cuccinelli pointed out a HUGE chunk was cut out of the video." At Fox, Ramaswamy changes tune from previous comments on Trump ahead of GOP debate: ‘Not the same Donald Trump,’ "Ramaswamy says he's 'fine' with Trump skipping debate despite previous criticism." I would think he would be. Eddie Scarry at Da Fed call Nikki Haley Hillary 2.0. "Nikki Haley has microwaved Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and made her own all about being a woman, as if Republicans care." John Solomon at JTN hears Christie says he’s willing to change Social Security, Medicare to save them "Former NJ governor proposes means testing and raising the eligibility age for people under 50." He's right, but it's not a great way to win a campaign. Althouse, Who's the "most normal" in this "pretty weird group"? "On "Meet the Press" yesterday, the Democratic Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, was invited to talk about the Republican Governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, who is running for the Republican nomination for President. Walz had recently said — at the Iowa State Fair — "I'm not a Republican. And I'm not going to vote in the Republican primary. But if I did, I'd vote for him." Take that as a warning. 

ABC whines that Republicans want the next GOP president to curb election security agency that angered Trump.  CISA was itself a source of misinformation. At TNP,  X is Hiring Staff To ‘Combat Election Disinfo’.  But it's our turn to whine as ET reports Federal Judges Strike Down Parts of GOP-Backed Election Integrity Laws in Georgia, Texas. "In Texas, U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez nixed a provision in state law that required officials to reject mail-in ballots with ID numbers that don't match the ones on voter registration forms, according to a summary judgment issued on Aug. 17." Appeal please. At Da Fed, Shawn Fleetwood notes Democrats Want Their Private Security Looking Over GOP Poll Watchers’ Shoulders.

At Town Hall Matt Vespa points out Oh, So That's What the Media Got Wrong in Their Latest Hit Piece Against Clarence Thomas. Da Caller points out Clarence Thomas Says ‘Unreported’ Yacht Voyage With Oil Baron Seized On By Liberal Media… Never Actually Happened. And records back him up. 

ET reports Jim Jordan Subpoenas Citibank Amid Probe Into Alleged Sharing of Jan. 6 Bank Records With FBI. At Am Think Brian Joondeph thinks The Real Insurrection Began with an Escalator Ride. At Front Page, John Nantz sees The FBI as Grand Inquisitor "The American people need the truth, not political theatre." I&I, Left-Wing Rage: Don’t Pretend It Doesn’t Exist.

Charlotte Hazzard at JTN reports Florida fines Medicaid providers for using tax dollars to cover gender-affirming care for minors "Some of the procedures that were paid for by taxpayer dollars include a double mastectomy on a 16-year-old girl and puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones being given to minors." NewsBusters is amused by a PBS Reporter Alarmed Oklahoma Is ‘Narrowing Definitions’ for ‘Man,’ ‘Woman.’ At HE, Rachel Levine praises clinic that pushes the term ‘Egg Producers’ for MOTHERS. It would. From ET, Transgenderism Has ‘Parasitized People’s Emotions,’ Says Expert. Mark Tapson at Front Page is concerned that The Gender Revolution is Dehumanizing Our Kids. "Welcome to the brave new world of gender hybrids." Via Hat Hair, AUS: What's at stake is freedom of belief - either I'm forced by the state to believe a man is a woman, or I'm not

“Everyone can identify however they want, I don’t care, that is a free society. But the moment you’re forcing other people to believe it, we’re not in a free society.” pic.twitter.com/6bfooXGG2A

— Sall Grover (@salltweets) August 20, 2023

Also from Twitter via Hat Hair, This is both ridiculous and hilarious

This video just got removed from my tik tok for violating community guidelines but I literally didn't say a word 😭😂 https://t.co/Fgadqq9fpR

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) August 18, 2023

John Green at Am Think has Some Advice for the T in LGBT. "I tend to be quite libertarian in my outlook on life.  I don't care much what people do with their lives, as long as they don't infringe on anyone else's pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.  Having said that, if Mr. "XY" wants to get implants, mutilate his privates, shop at Victoria's Secret, and make believe he's suffering from menstrual cramps, I still won't be bullied into taking him seriously.  Regardless of Mr. "XY's" mental peculiarities, he is not actually Mrs. "XX."" Hollywood in Toto wonders Why Are Children Being Exposed to John Waters Films? "Academy museum fetes filmmaker with drag queen story hours and more."

Via Twitter, at Hat Hair, Rogan on why woke won't fly in rural areas. D. Parker at Am Think thinks The ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ Are the Baddies. 

 

Hugh Fitzgerald at Front Page asks Will Princeton Remove a Jew-Hating Blood-Libel Text From a Syllabus? Probably not. At Da Caller, One Of America’s Greatest Role Models Snubbed By Woke School District, Ben Carson.  

At Da Fed, Evita Alfonso-Duffy reports These 14 American Cities Have A ‘Target’ Of Banning Meat, Dairy, And Private Vehicles By 2030 "C40’s dystopian goals can be found in its “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World” report, which was published in 2019 and reportedly reemphasized in 2023. The organization is headed and largely funded by Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization, and its American members include Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle."