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White House bans New York Post from Biden event as Hunter indictment looms

  

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Via:  vic-eldred  •  11 months ago  •  123 comments

By:   Steven Nelson (New York Post)

White House bans New York Post from Biden event as Hunter indictment looms
The White House press office barred The Post from attending President Biden's only daytime public event.

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WASHINGTON — The White House press office barred The Post from attending President Biden's only daytime public event Monday as federal prosecutors near a decision on criminally charging first son Hunter Biden for tax fraud and other crimes.

The Post has closely covered the president's ties to his relatives' foreign dealings and first reported in October 2020 on files from Hunter's abandoned laptop that link Joe Biden to ventures in China and Ukraine.

Biden, who falsely characterized The Post's reporting as Russian disinformation, appeared with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to talk about airline policies in the White House-adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Biden ultimately took no shouted questions at the venue, which houses the set of a "fake" White House and about 50 theater-style seats for reporters — about 20 of which were empty Monday.

In the same room this February, Biden chose to answer The Post's query about whether his family's links to China compromised his ability to steer US policy. He fumed about the lack of "polite" reporters and stormed out.

The Post has the fifth-largest news website by US readership — or fourth when excluding aggregator MSN. It is the nation's second-most-read newspaper online and as of last year, The Post had the fifth-largest print circulation.

In a Monday email, however, White House staff said: "We are unable to accommodate your credential request to attend the Investing in Airline Accountability Remarks on 5/8. The remarks will be live-streamed and can be viewed at WH.gov. Thank you for understanding. We will let you know if a credential becomes available."

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The White House did not allow The Post into a press event with the president. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock There were about 20 empty press seats at Biden's Monday event.Diana Glebova


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The email does not claim that the exclusion is due to "space limitations" — an excuse that was used until recently to justify the press office's mysterious prescreening of reporters let into large presidential events, which under past administrations were open to all journalists on White House grounds.

In June 2022, 73 journalists representing nearly two-thirds of White House briefing room seats signed a letter demanding the end of the mysterious prescreening process for events. But the unprecedented access restrictions remained in place and press officers refuse to explain the criteria for selection even to leaders of the White House Correspondents' Association.

The criminal investigation of Hunter Biden, meanwhile, appears to be nearing its end. His legal team met with Justice Department lawyers on April 26 in Washington in what could be a final step before a charging decision.

President Biden attracted attention by attending church in Washington Sunday with his younger brother James Biden, who partnered with Hunter on a variety of international dealings.

On Friday, the president declined to take reporter questions by falsely claiming he would host a "major news conference" that afternoon — two days after House Republicans subpoenaed the FBI for a file that a whistleblower said alleged that Joe Biden took bribes.

Instead, Biden sat for a Friday night interview with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle, who gently approached investigations of the first family's business dealings.

"While there's no ties to you, your own son could be charged by your Department of Justice … how will that impact your presidency?" Ruhle asked.

Biden replied, "It will not because he has done nothing wrong. And I'm proud of him."

There actually are extensive ties between President Biden and his son's business dealings — and congressional Republicans have subpoenaed bank records of Biden family associates and reviewed bank Suspicious Activity Reports in an effort to track the flow of funds.

The ban comes as federal prosecutors decide whether to indict Hunter Biden.

Hunter and James Biden allegedly involved their powerful relative in many business relationships.

In 2013, Hunter co-founded with Chinese state entities BHR Partners, which was registered 12 days after he joined then-VP Biden aboard Air Force Two for an official trip to Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reported. Hunter introduced his dad to BHR CEO Jonathan Li during the trip to China's capital and Joe Biden later wrote college recommendation letters for Li's children. The current status of Hunter's 10% stake in the firm, which says it manages nearly $2.2 billion in assets, remains unclear.

In a different Chinese venture, Hunter and James Biden received at least $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018 from CEFC China Energy. Joe Biden was referred to as the "big guy" in a May 2017 email that said he was due a 10% cut, and an October 2017 email from first son Hunter Biden's laptop identifies Joe Biden as a participant in a call about CEFC's attempt to purchase US natural gas.

The Post has extensively reported on Hunter Biden's business dealings.

In 2015, Joe Biden hosted his son's Mexican business associates at the vice president's residence in Washington. In 2016, Hunter Biden emailed one of them, Miguel Aleman Magnani — apparently while en route to Mexico aboard Air Force Two with yet another business associate — complaining that he hadn't received reciprocal business favors.

At an April 16, 2015, dinner at DC's Cafe Milano, then-VP Biden joined his son and a small group including Vadym Pozharskyi of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma — which paid Hunter up to $1 million per year to serve on its board — a three-person Kazakhstani delegation and Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina and her husband, former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov.

Baturina allegedly paid $3.5 million to a firm associated with Hunter Biden in February 2014 as she sought out US property investments. Baturina and another Russian billionaire who sought out US property investments with Hunter Biden have avoided President Biden's sanctions against Russia's business elite over the more than one-year war in Ukraine.

The family's overlapping political and business dealings began even before Biden's eight-year vice presidency.

In 2006, when Biden was the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, James Biden openly boasted about selling influence on his brother as he and Hunter Biden sought to take over a hedge fund based in New York, according to the book "The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power" by Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger.

"Don't worry about investors," James Biden allegedly told a corporate executive. "We've got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden … We've got investors lined up in a line of 747s filled with cash."

After his father assumed the presidency, Hunter Biden launched an art career seeking as much as $500,000 for his novice works. The House Oversight Committee is demanding that Hunter's Manhattan art dealer Georges Berges hand over a list of buyers.

The White House did not respond to questions from The Post about the exclusion from Monday's presidential event. At least two other journalists initially were barred, but the press office relented and let one of them in.

In addition to prescreening reporters let into Biden's events — which critics say sets a troubling precedent for press access — the White House moved Friday to close a longstanding legal loophole that prevented authorities from stripping reporters of press badges and unveiled a formal process to do so.


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Vic Eldred
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1  seeder  Vic Eldred    11 months ago

They can censor the news and news outlets but come tomorrow the nation will hear about a document that the FBI has been sitting on since 2020....since before the election. Joe's supporters in the government can't keep covering for him at this pace. Tomorrow, he takes a big hit.

Is this why Susan Rice left recently?

 
 
 
Ronin2
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1.1  Ronin2  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    11 months ago

Even rats are smart enough to flee a sinking ship. 

She will be back of course- rats always return as well.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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1.1.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Ronin2 @1.1    11 months ago

I'm not sure that rats would like being compared to progressives, but I think it's a fair analogy.

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.2  devangelical  replied to  Vic Eldred @1    11 months ago

no POS alt-right or murdoch owned media belongs in the white house press corp. those chairs are reserved for legitimate journalists and news organizations.

 
 
 
Snuffy
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1.2.1  Snuffy  replied to  devangelical @1.2    11 months ago
those chairs are reserved for legitimate journalists and news organizations.

LMAO - do let us know when any show up.  There's a reason why public trust in news organizations has fallen to 34% which is only five points more favorable than the public trust in Congress.  News organizations today are only interested in their bottom line and pushing their agenda to improve their bottom line and journalists are quick to learn how to do business in their organizations or are quickly shown the door.  

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.2.2  devangelical  replied to  Snuffy @1.2.1    11 months ago

be sure and let us all know when the $787.5 million benchmark for defamation has been exceeded.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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1.2.3  Texan1211  replied to  devangelical @1.2    11 months ago
no POS alt-right or murdoch owned media belongs in the white house press corp. those chairs are reserved for legitimate journalists and news organizations.

Didn't you really mean no press willing to tell the truth about the Bidens belong there, lest they embarrass the President with the truth?

 
 
 
Jasper2529
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1.2.4  Jasper2529  replied to  devangelical @1.2    11 months ago
no POS alt-right or murdoch owned media belongs in the white house press corp. those chairs are reserved for legitimate journalists and news organizations.

Your statement seems to indicate that you approve of censorship and that you are against the First Amendment and a free press.

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.2.5  devangelical  replied to  Jasper2529 @1.2.4    11 months ago

if they're going to lie about what he says, why can't they lie about being there in the first place?

 
 
 
Snuffy
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1.2.6  Snuffy  replied to  devangelical @1.2.2    11 months ago
be sure and let us all know when the $787.5 million benchmark for defamation has been exceeded.

Just as soon as you let us know when an honest journalist and news organization shows up to the White House.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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1.2.7  Texan1211  replied to  Snuffy @1.2.6    11 months ago
Just as soon as you let us know when an honest journalist and news organization shows up to the White House.

Probably won't happen as long as Biden is President. You know the press has been shilling for Biden for years now.

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.2.8  devangelical  replied to  Snuffy @1.2.6    11 months ago

like compared to any murdoch owned media outlet?

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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1.2.9  Greg Jones  replied to  devangelical @1.2.5    11 months ago

The lies are being told by Biden...none are being told about him

 
 
 
Jasper2529
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1.2.10  Jasper2529  replied to  Greg Jones @1.2.9    11 months ago

Thanks for clarifying my simple comment to comment 1.2.5 .

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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1.2.11  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Greg Jones @1.2.9    11 months ago
The lies are being told by Biden

Biden administration has spread misinformation at least 27 times in the last two weeks

 
 
 
Texan1211
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1.2.12  Texan1211  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @1.2.11    11 months ago

Uh, oh.

Here, I will save us all some time:

Nuh-uh! Right wing lies! Trump did it! Fascists!

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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1.2.13  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Texan1211 @1.2.12    11 months ago

I think they'll take the childish route and attack the source.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
1.2.14  Texan1211  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @1.2.13    11 months ago
I think they'll take the childish route and attack the source.

That would fall under "right wing lies".

But I am confident they will use all of them eventually.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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1.2.15  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Texan1211 @1.2.14    11 months ago

Either way it all sounds like sniveling of children.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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1.2.16  Tessylo  replied to  devangelical @1.2.2    11 months ago

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Sean Treacy
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2  Sean Treacy    11 months ago

I’m old enough to remember when democrats defended the press.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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2.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Sean Treacy @2    11 months ago

That was back when the ACLU & the old liberals fought for civil liberties.

Oh ya, those days are long gone.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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2.1.1  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1    11 months ago

ACLU nowadays = American Civil Leftist Union.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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2.1.2  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @2.1.1    11 months ago

Now it's all radical left causes and the ACLU has enriched itself because of that very move.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
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2.1.3  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Vic Eldred @2.1.2    11 months ago

It is also whatever they consider to be high profile enough to generate significant publicity. Several years ago I was terminated from a position at a small rural hospital due to my age. I went to the local ACLU office here in Arizona hoping to file a age discrimination lawsuit. When I explained my case the representative leaned across his desk and told me point blank that they would not even consider my case as it was just not high profile enough. So much for a organization that started out with the idea of trying to protect and look out for the people on the lower end of the spectrum. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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2.1.4  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @2.1.3    11 months ago

Even the lying Times had to admit it:

An organization that has defended the First Amendment rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan is split by an internal debate over whether supporting progressive causes is more important.



That debate is long over

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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2.2  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Sean Treacy @2    11 months ago

And they cried that is was a suppression of the 1st amendment when a news outlet wasn't permitted access to specific events.

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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3  Greg Jones    11 months ago

I saw that interview...his speech was slurred and he appeared to be drugged.

The day of reckoning is near.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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3.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Greg Jones @3    11 months ago

He also mentioned Memorial Day weekend.

It's confusing.... What did he say?

 
 
 
Jasper2529
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3.2  Jasper2529  replied to  Greg Jones @3    11 months ago
his speech was slurred and he appeared to be drugged.

That's how he almost always is ... unless he's shouting at us or aimlessly wandering. Sundowning, for sure.

What is sundowning?

Sundowning is the name for a group of behaviors, feelings and thoughts people who have Alzheimer's or dementia can experience as the sun sets. The behaviors start or get worse around sunset or sundown. However, this delirium can potentially occur at any time, not just at sunset.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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4  JohnRussell    11 months ago
an oldie but a goodie -
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@politico Gateway Pundit, a conservative site known for spreading hoaxes, joins the White House press briefing room http:// politi.co/2kxJ1mV
 
 
 
JohnRussell
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4.1  JohnRussell  replied to  JohnRussell @4    11 months ago

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Vic Eldred
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4.1.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @4.1    11 months ago

What has the Gateway Pundit got to do with this, John?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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4.1.2  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @4.1.1    11 months ago

I'm just wondering. You like to complain about the media and the white house. Did you complain when Trump gave White House credentials to a conspiracy and fake news site which is so extreme it is banned by Newstalkers? 

Just wondering. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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4.1.3  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @4.1.2    11 months ago

Oh, that's your point!

So you are defending censorship?

And you are also wrong to compare the New York Post to the Gateway Pundit.

Wrong for 2 reasons.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.1.4  Texan1211  replied to  Vic Eldred @4.1.1    11 months ago
What has the Gateway Pundit got to do with this,

Gee, isn't the WHOLE article about THAT???

SMH

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
Professor Principal
4.1.5  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Texan1211 @4.1.4    11 months ago

Some people need to divert our attention when the Biden administration acts like an authoritarian regime.

Others like to call that obvious truth "stupid."

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
4.1.6  Texan1211  replied to  Vic Eldred @4.1.5    11 months ago
Some people need to divert our attention when the Biden administration acts like an authoritarian regime.

They do tend to deflect every time someone criticizes Biden for anything.  

And somehow, they always try to make it out to be TRUMP'S fault for what the BIDEN Admin. does.

It's just flat out CRAZY!

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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4.1.7  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Texan1211 @4.1.6    11 months ago
And somehow, they always try to make it out to be TRUMP'S fault for what the BIDEN Admin. does. It's just flat out CRAZY!

Do they know that CNN invited Trump to a town hall and Trump accepted?

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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4.1.8  Right Down the Center  replied to  JohnRussell @4.1.2    11 months ago

Just wondering.  Why are you deflecting from the actual article.

 
 
 
Jasper2529
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4.1.9  Jasper2529  replied to  JohnRussell @4.1.2    11 months ago

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Texan1211
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4.1.10  Texan1211  replied to  Jasper2529 @4.1.9    11 months ago
MBFC is a far-left "fact checking" site. It's not surprising that it ranks every site right-of-center as fake news conspiracy. LOL!

It is farcical that it is considered the Bible here.

 
 
 
devangelical
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4.1.11  devangelical  replied to  Texan1211 @4.1.10    11 months ago

it's more fact based than the thumper owner's manual...

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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4.1.12  Greg Jones  replied to  JohnRussell @4.1    11 months ago

Deflection and denial...it's all you've got.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
4.1.13  Texan1211  replied to  devangelical @4.1.11    11 months ago
it's more fact based than the thumper owner's manual...

Is YOUR 'thumper owner's manual" fully updated?

let me guess what it includes:

Trump...Trump.....Trump.....fascist....fascist.........fascist.......thumper,,,,,thumper....thumper.

So, how long have you 'owned' a thumper?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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4.1.14  JohnRussell  replied to  devangelical @4.1.11    11 months ago

The dumbest people here think they are clever. It is a mystery. 

 
 
 
cjcold
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5  cjcold    11 months ago

The New York Post is a right wing rag owned by Rupert Murdoch who is the architect of anthropogenic climate change denialism. News Corp/Fox News is nothing but a far right wing propaganda outlet.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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5.1  Sean Treacy  replied to  cjcold @5    11 months ago

Yet its accurate reporting is censored..

An honest person would probably rethink what the propaganda outlet is at that point, but some people persist in dishonesty.  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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5.2  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  cjcold @5    11 months ago
The New York Post

The New York Post was 100% right about the Hunter laptop story.

You know, the one the dishonest media and our dishonest government suppressed.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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5.3  Texan1211  replied to  cjcold @5    11 months ago
The New York Post is a right wing rag owned by Rupert Murdoch who is the architect of anthropogenic climate change denialism

Look, I think we all get how painful it is for the NY Post to have been right about the Hunter laptop story while liberals tried to imagine it never happened and even got former intelligence officers to LIE about it being Russian disinformation, all while most of the mainstream media was complicit in the cover up.

And I mean painful for liberals and Biden sycophants.

 
 
 
cjcold
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5.3.1  cjcold  replied to  Texan1211 @5.3    11 months ago

The Hunter Biden laptop story is a complete right wing fabrication related to Russian disinformation. Far right wingers will do anything to discredit our President.

How sick is it that the American far right is now in Putin's pocket?

 
 
 
Snuffy
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5.3.2  Snuffy  replied to  cjcold @5.3.1    11 months ago

Are  you really trying to stick with that story?   

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
5.3.3  Texan1211  replied to  cjcold @5.3.1    11 months ago
The Hunter Biden laptop story is a complete right wing fabrication related to Russian disinformation.

Sure, stick with THAT story you've been fed by your 'sources'.

LMAO!

Some people see Russians everywhere----except when they have Bidens in their pockets!

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
Professor Principal
5.3.4  Sean Treacy  replied to  cjcold @5.3.1    11 months ago
How sick is it that the American far right is now in Putin's pocket?

Buddy, If you want to see who's doing Putin's work for him, take a look much closer to home. 

You are literally pushing disinformation that every informed person knows is disinformation. Yet you persist. 

Fascinating. 

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
5.3.5  Texan1211  replied to  Snuffy @5.3.2    11 months ago
Are  you really trying to stick with that story? 

Looks like somebody fell into the trap that Biden handlers wanted them to.

I am so glad I personally am not so damn gullible!!!!!

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
5.3.6  Texan1211  replied to  Sean Treacy @5.3.4    11 months ago
You are literally pushing disinformation that every informed person knows is disinformation. Yet you persist. 

Somebody has successfully swallowed every lie from the left wing media idiots.

Maybe that can be attributed to TDS.

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
5.3.7  Jasper2529  replied to  Snuffy @5.3.2    11 months ago

Amazingly, yes. Even the NYT and WaPo disagree with comment 5.3.1 !

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
5.3.8  Texan1211  replied to  Jasper2529 @5.3.7    11 months ago
Amazingly, yes. Even the NYT and WaPo disagree with comment 5.3.1 !

Even those liberal bastions of 'journalism' were forced to admit the sad truth. In a pathetic, sad little attempt to salvage what is left of their biased reputations.

Hey, it only took a year or so!!

 
 
 
Tessylo
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5.3.9  Tessylo  replied to  Snuffy @5.3.2    11 months ago

it's true

 
 
 
Snuffy
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5.3.10  Snuffy  replied to  Tessylo @5.3.9    11 months ago

Isn't it amazing that while every news organization that promoted that story has corrected themselves and said the letter was not true, we still have a few people on this board that stand by their blind beliefs.   I would ask you to provide evidence that the letter was true but I realize that providing evidence is something that is just not in your wheelhouse.  What color is the sky in your world?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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5.3.11  JohnRussell  replied to  Snuffy @5.3.10    11 months ago

You are not going to beat Joe Biden by obsessing about Hunter Biden. Nobody cares about this except the right.

 
 
 
Snuffy
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5.3.12  Snuffy  replied to  JohnRussell @5.3.11    11 months ago

LOL,   can't follow the conversation so you fall back on an old attack scheme.  I'm not obsessed with Hunter and I definitely don't have any obsession as hard-wired as you have.  I just want it all investigated and cleared up.

But my response was in direct reply to someone who also backed up that the letter signed by the 50 "intelligence" experts that stated Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation has been disproven.  Yet we still have people who refuse to acknowledge that even CNN and MSNBC have printed retractions on the story.  If they cannot even accept that truth then there's truly no hope left for them.

And I won't beat Joe Biden because I'm not running for President.  But just like Trump and his mouth, Joe Biden is his own worst enemy.  You can stand by him all you want but I predict that he will not have an easy time of it this go around if he is the Democrat nominee.  And I strongly suspect if the Republican nominee is anybody other than Trump then Biden could easily lose.  

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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6  seeder  Vic Eldred    11 months ago

John seems to be saying that certain news sites should be banned from even asking questions.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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6.1  Sean Treacy  replied to  Vic Eldred @6    11 months ago
eems to be saying that certain news sites should be banned from even asking questions.

It's deflecting from what he knows is  indefensible.  

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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6.1.1  JohnRussell  replied to  Sean Treacy @6.1    11 months ago

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Vic Eldred
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6.1.2  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @6.1.1    11 months ago

John, why the need to get personal?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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6.1.3  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.1.2    11 months ago

People dont care about Hunter Biden. 

Are we going to have to listen to endless right wing manufactured news about him? 

The New York Post is the newspaper version of Fox News Channel on television. It is far more biased than the New York Times is. 

Trump once kicked a CNN reporter out of a white house briefing WHILE IT WAS GOING ON, because he didnt like the line of questioning. Did you complain about "freedom of the press" at that time? 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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6.1.4  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @6.1.3    11 months ago
People dont care about Hunter Biden. 

You keep saying that, but it's about fucking JOE!


Are we going to have to listen to endless right wing manufactured news about him?

Right now we just want the FBI to turn over a document. There will also be a statement tomorrow.


The New York Post is the newspaper version of Fox News Channel on television. It is far more biased than the New York Times is. 

That's 3 times you were wrong in a single sentence.


Trump once kicked a CNN reporter out of a white house briefing WHILE IT WAS GOING ON, because he didnt like the line of questioning.

You mean DEBATING. Trump faced a very hostile press corps. The same assholes that let the moronic Karine Jean-Pierre make ridiculous statements.


Did you complain about "freedom of the press" at that time? 

The press has only been denied by Obama and Biden. The left, now that it is in power, no longer believes in basic freedoms.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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6.1.5  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.1.4    11 months ago

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Vic Eldred
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6.1.6  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @6.1.5    11 months ago
Are you going to make me laug

There is the healing power of laughter!

 
 
 
Jasper2529
Professor Quiet
6.1.7  Jasper2529  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.1.4    11 months ago
The same assholes that let the moronic Karine Jean-Pierre make ridiculous statements.

KJP has repeatedly and blatantly LIED to the press and America, Vic. Speaking of moronic, she recently said that Memorial Day is all about family visiting each other.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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6.1.8  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Jasper2529 @6.1.7    11 months ago
she recently said that Memorial Day is all about family visiting each other.

AND that is all the voters are focused on right now: Memorial Day!

 
 
 
Jasper2529
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6.1.9  Jasper2529  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.1.8    11 months ago

Voters are focused on a hellova lot more than Memorial Day right now. Sad that the Biden Administration doesn't care.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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6.1.10  Tessylo  replied to  Jasper2529 @6.1.9    11 months ago

Nah, no one cares about the alleged Hunter Biden indictment - I mean, how many years has this alleged indictment been 'looming'?

lol

 
 
 
Jasper2529
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6.1.11  Jasper2529  replied to  Tessylo @6.1.10    11 months ago
Nah, no one cares about the alleged Hunter Biden indictment - I mean, how many years has this alleged indictment been 'looming'?

I hope you'll take a moment to reread comment 6.1.9 , because I never mentioned Hunter Biden.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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6.1.12  Tessylo  replied to  Jasper2529 @6.1.11    11 months ago

No, I won't

 
 
 
Ozzwald
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6.1.13  Ozzwald  replied to  Tessylo @6.1.10    11 months ago
I mean, how many years has this alleged indictment been 'looming'?

It's not their fault.  They are too tied up working on the Hillary indictment which will come out any day now.....

 
 
 
Texan1211
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6.2  Texan1211  replied to  Vic Eldred @6    11 months ago
be saying that certain news sites should be banned from even asking questions.

Oh, no liberal wants Biden to be QUESTIONED about his son and business dealings.

Must hide any evidence or deflect mightily when Biden is called out on ANYTHING!

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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6.2.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Texan1211 @6.2    11 months ago
Oh, no liberal wants Biden to be QUESTIONED about his son and business dealings.

They don't have to worry about that. Joe Biden says he NEVER, EVER talked to his wonderful son about the business dealings that were returning millions to the family.

And besides we are constantly told that nobody cares about Hunter Biden.

 
 
 
1stwarrior
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6.2.2  1stwarrior  replied to  Vic Eldred @6.2.1    11 months ago

Uhhh - wait a minute.  You mean when Joey and Hunter and buds flew to China prior to 2020 to discuss future business opportunities and expansion of Chinese imports - they didn't talk business on that 8 hour flight coming and going???

Don't know - just don't believe Joey/Hunter coulda kept their mouths shut about the opportunities.  

Ya think???

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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6.2.3  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  1stwarrior @6.2.2    11 months ago
they didn't talk business on that 8 hour flight coming and going???

Not a word / S


Don't know - just don't believe Joey/Hunter coulda kept their mouths shut about the opportunities.  

Ya think???

The entire family somehow became wealthy. We need to hear from all these whistleblowers. We need to know how well Biden's DOJ is investigating Joe's son.

 
 
 
cjcold
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6.3  cjcold  replied to  Vic Eldred @6    11 months ago
certain news sites

Certain news sites only exist to provide far right wing propaganda and outright lies.

 
 
 
cjcold
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6.3.1  cjcold  replied to  cjcold @6.3    11 months ago

I am 100% in favor of revoking Rupert Murdoch's U.S. citizenship.

He has done more harm to America than anybody else ever.

 
 
 
cjcold
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6.3.2  cjcold  replied to  cjcold @6.3.1    11 months ago

Rupert Murdoch weaponized America's sub 90 IQ fascists.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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6.3.3  Texan1211  replied to  cjcold @6.3.2    11 months ago

All three of these comments are ignorant.

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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6.3.4  Greg Jones  replied to  Texan1211 @6.3.3    11 months ago

In addition to being stupid.

 
 
 
Jasper2529
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6.3.5  Jasper2529  replied to  Greg Jones @6.3.4    11 months ago

and Texan 6.3.3

Whether people like it or not, in 1985 Rupert Murdoch renounced his Australian citizenship and became a naturalized US citizen. The DoJ has  very specific reasons as to how a naturalized citizen could lose his/her citizenship, and none of them include we don't like him :

 
 
 
Texan1211
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6.3.6  Texan1211  replied to  Jasper2529 @6.3.5    11 months ago

Hey, YOU are smart enough to know that, I am smart enough to know that, and Greg is smart enough to know that.

Am I leaving anyone out?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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7  JohnRussell    11 months ago

It seems that the White House feels like it is in a "feud" with the New York Post.

Is that desirable? No.

Is it evidence of stifling of freedom of the press? No. 

This sort of thing has happened many times before with other presidents. 

But the right gets overhyperventilated about it. 

I particularly like the irony of this one

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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7.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @7    11 months ago
Did you complain about "freedom of the press" at that time? 

You got to give it up John. Nobody here has ever vouched for the Gateway Pundit as being a news source. The New York Post IS a NEWS SOURCE.

And John, it is being barred because it TOLD THE TRUTH.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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7.1.1  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @7.1    11 months ago
You got to give it up John. Nobody here has ever vouched for the Gateway Pundit as being a news source.

Donald Trump vouched for Gateway Pundit as a news source. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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7.1.2  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @7.1.1    11 months ago

Donald Trump IS NOT A MEMBER HERE!

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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8  JohnRussell    11 months ago

Trump press ban: BBC, CNN and Guardian denied access to briefing

This article is more than 6 years old

The Guardian, New York Times, CNN and more were barred from ‘gaggle’ hours after Trump once again called much of the   media an ‘enemy of American people’

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Give it a rest. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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8.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @8    11 months ago

Melania Trump says it would be “a privilege” to serve as first lady again

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Many independents are now saying we have seen both sides now. Now we know what we are voting for!

 
 
 
Ronin2
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8.2  Ronin2  replied to  JohnRussell @8    11 months ago

You give it a rest.

The Democrats and leftists screamed bloody murder when that happened.

Democrats are supposed to be better than Republicans- instead they are far worse hypocrites.

Free speech = only speech that leftists agree with. Freedom of the press = only press that gives good coverage to Brandon and Democrats. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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9  JohnRussell    11 months ago

This is going to be my last comment on this seed because it is getting boring

'The Blacklist': Here are the media outlets banned by Donald Trump

by Tom Kludt and Brian Stelter       @CNNMoney June 14, 2016: 12:52 PM ET

The Washington Post is not the first. Donald Trump has been denying press credentials to news outlets for nearly a year.

It's become known in media circles as "the blacklist" -- a running catalog of newsrooms deemed by Trump to be unfair and banned from his campaign events accordingly.

The list includes an assortment of digital outlets, the largest Spanish-language broadcaster in the country, a premiere local newspaper and --   now, with The Post   -- one of the most prestigious news organizations in the world.

In some cases, reporters from the offending outlets can still attend Trump campaign rallies as members of the general public, but without the access and privileges that press credentials provide. In other situations, like press conferences, the reporters cannot attend at all.

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Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks declined to comment for this story, but aides have previously said the practice of banning certain reporters is a logical response to what they consider to be unfair treatment. But a wide array of news media advocates have condemned the behavior and expressed concern that it could have a chilling effect on other outlets' coverage of Trump. The Clinton campaign does not have an equivalent pattern of revoking press credentials.

Here's a look at the news outlets Trump has blocked:

· Univision   was first banned by Trump due to the candidate's litigation against the company last summer. His $500 million lawsuit was prompted by Univision's decision to   cancel the broadcast   of Trump's Miss USA pageant.

The two sides settled the lawsuit in February, but Univision's access has still been limited. A spokesman for the Spanish-language broadcaster said that reporters there have only been granted credentials twice.

Most of the time, Trump's aides ignore Univision's requests, and if the campaign does respond, it's typically to say that the request was too late, the network says.

· BuzzFeed   was probably doomed before the campaign even started. In 2014, political reporter McKay Coppins penned a lengthy profile of Trump that infuriated the former reality TV star.

Now that he's followed through on his White House bid, Trump has gotten revenge on BuzzFeed with a steady denial of access. Editor-in-chief Ben Smith said the site's reporters have "never been credentialed," and have been routinely turned away from Trump events throughout the campaign.

"I think McKay's profile holds up extremely well, and I'm proud that we've chosen not to compromise our coverage in any way in exchange for access," Smith said.

· Politico   found itself on the "blacklist" back in March when reporter Ben Schreckinger was denied entry to a Trump press conference in Florida. The campaign never provided an explanation, but Schreckinger was denied after writing a story about concerns surrounding the temperament of Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

Schreckinger had a similar run-in earlier this month when he was ejected from a Trump event in California by a campaign staffer and private security guard. The reporter attended the event with a general admission ticket because he had already been denied a press credential.

It apparently goes beyond Schreckinger. Politico editor Susan Glasser said that the site's journalists "have repeatedly been denied credentials by the Trump campaign."

"We now appear to be subject to a complete blacklist," Glasser said. "We believe this is nothing more and nothing less than an attempt to stop independent coverage of the campaign and steps on the basic rights of journalists to exercise their constitutionally protected role in our political system."

·   The Daily Beast   has been subject to what Noah Shachtman, the executive editor, calls a "slow rolling blacklist."

"We were never a Trump favorite, but things got very frosty after we published a story last year about allegations that Ivana Trump made and later walked back about Donald Trump," Shachtman said. Tim Mak, who wrote the story, "was the first of our reporters to be cut off," he said, and "by the time the New Hampshire primary rolled around, even our freelancers were getting cut off."

Like the other news outlets on this list, The Daily Beast continues to cover the Trump campaign without receiving press credentials for events.

·   The Huffington Post   has seen its reporters shunned by the Trump campaign from almost the beginning. The liberal-leaning news site infuriated Trump when it placed all coverage of his campaign in the entertainment section. Last July, Trump's campaign stop credentialing Scott Conroy, then HuffPost's senior political reporter. In September, a reporter covering the GOP primary for HuffPost was denied credentials at a Trump campaign event in Iowa.

HuffPost stopped covering Trump in the entertainment section in December, but the campaign's credential ban has persisted. It's safe to predict it will continue now that the site has hired Michelle Fields, who had Trump's campaign manager charged with battery, to cover the presumptive GOP nominee.

"None of us get credentialed," Grim said at the time of the hire last month. "I assume that'll be the case for her."

·   The Des Moines Register   traditionally plays an outsized role in presidential election coverage, given its status as the preeminent newspaper in the important state of Iowa. But with the 2016 campaign just getting warmed up last July, the paper was denied press credentials to a Trump event.

The Trump campaign didn't dance around the reason why. That same week, the Register had published an editorial calling on Trump to drop out of the race.

"We're not issuing credentials to anyone from The Des Moines Register based on the editorial that they wrote earlier in the week," Lewandowski said in a statement at the time.

Amalie Nash, executive editor and vice president for news and engagement at the paper, said Tuesday that the ban "continued throughout the duration of the caucus cycle. We were never granted credentials to another event after publishing this editorial last July."

Since Trump has not been back in Iowa, "we haven't had occasion to apply for credentials since the caucuses," Nash said.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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9.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @9    11 months ago
a running catalog of newsrooms deemed by Trump to be unfair and banned from his campaign events accordingly.

Do you even read what you post?

a running catalog of newsrooms deemed by Trump to be unfair and banned from his campaign events accordingly.

You and your whatabout BS. Don't you know the difference between a presidential press conference and an election campaign?

 
 
 
Texan1211
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9.1.1  Texan1211  replied to  Vic Eldred @9.1    11 months ago

Now, seriously, why would you expect people who somehow think Trump is the topic here to decipher that?

They have one-track minds----Trump, Trump, Trump.

they can barely carry on a conversation about any other topic without blurting out like little obedient sheep----"TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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9.1.2  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Texan1211 @9.1.1    11 months ago

It's too bad that Biden couldn't be more like Trump when it came to being a president.

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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9.2  Right Down the Center  replied to  JohnRussell @9    11 months ago

Ah. The ole but but but Trump defense. For someone that hates trump so much it seems you defend biden because trump did it alot.

Give it a rest.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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9.2.1  Sean Treacy  replied to  Right Down the Center @9.2    11 months ago

It is amazing how trump is the democrats new standard of acceptable behavior.  

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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9.2.2  JohnRussell  replied to  Sean Treacy @9.2.1    11 months ago

He's always been the Republican right's standard for acceptable behavior. 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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9.2.3  JohnRussell  replied to  Sean Treacy @9.2.1    11 months ago

I wonder if Biden came out and said its ok for him to molest women because its been going on "for a million years" and he's a star,  what would be the conservatives reaction to that. They had no reaction when Trump said it so I assume they would say nothing about Biden either. /s

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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9.2.4  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Sean Treacy @9.2.1    11 months ago

Not really amazing at all.  The left has been fawning over him for years.  

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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9.2.5  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @9.2.2    11 months ago

e's always been the Republican right's standard for acceptable behavior.

Do those people spend their time obsessively calling Trump a threat to Democracy, the worst President in history, a traitor etc..?

Because if you believe those things, which you obviously don't, than it would be unthinkable to cite Trump as precedent. Your problem with  Trump is just that he didn't run with a D after his name. 

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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9.2.6  Right Down the Center  replied to  Sean Treacy @9.2.5    11 months ago

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Right Down the Center
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9.2.7  Right Down the Center  replied to  JohnRussell @9.2.2    11 months ago

He's always been the Republican right's standard for acceptable behavior. 

Yet you always seem to use what he has done as a standard for if it is OK when a Dem does it.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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9.3  Tessylo  replied to  JohnRussell @9    11 months ago

I DO BELIEVE THAT'S CENSORSHIP JOHN

 
 
 
Texan1211
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10  Texan1211    11 months ago

Is it me, or do some folks appear to not have comprehended what the article is actually about?

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
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10.1  Just Jim NC TttH  replied to  Texan1211 @10    11 months ago

It isn't you my friend...............

 
 
 
Texan1211
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10.1.1  Texan1211  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @10.1    11 months ago

It's just more of that famed TDS exhibiting itself again.

And again.

And again.

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
11  JBB    11 months ago

Hunter Biden filed his taxes late a couple of years though he has since remedied that situation. Also, he is supposedly being investigated for a vague gun charge. None of these would be much of a big deal if he wasn't Biden's son and they certainly do not indicate any wrongdoing by the President!

President and Jill Biden's taxes have been made public for the last twenty years and there is no credible proof they ever profited unlawfully...

Unlike the former President and his lawless klan.

 
 
 
Snuffy
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11.1  Snuffy  replied to  JBB @11    11 months ago
Hunter Biden filed his taxes late a couple of years though he has since remedied that situation.

With the help of a rich Hollywood lawyer...   

President Joe Biden's eldest son Hunter Biden had help from a big-time Hollywood lawyer to pay off $2 million in overdue taxes, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Wealthy entertainment attorney Kevin Morris — who once negotiated a reported $550 million landmark licensing deal for the creators of the hit animated show "South Park" — has been financially supporting Biden, according to the Times.

It must be nice to have rich friends help you out even if they don't want ANY HELP from his dad...

they certainly do not indicate any wrongdoing by the President!

I would hope that you would agree that it should be investigated however.  Biden promised during his campaign that his would be the most transparent administration but he has yet to meet that promise.

A client of Hunter Biden's now-defunct firm visited the White House multiple times during the Obama administration, including visits with then-Vice President Biden and a top Biden aide, in addition to spending "a lot of time" with Biden during a casual New York City meeting arranged by the younger Biden, according to a series of emails reviewed by Fox News Digital 

Nicolas Rohatyn, a Biden donor and the founder and CEO of The Rohatyn Group, met with Biden and visited the White House several times when Biden was vice president and when Hunter's now-defunct Rosemont Seneca Partners (RSP) was overseeing his hedge fund accounts. 

Rohatyn’s business relationship with Hunter appears to have started in March 2010, when Hunter and Eric Schwerin, RSP's then-president, discussed inviting him to a "Mexico Lunch." The Mexico State Dinner at the White House was held on May 19, 2010, so it appears the lunch occurred around this time. 

 
 
 
Tessylo
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11.1.1  Tessylo  replied to  Snuffy @11.1    11 months ago

I can't believe anyone uses faux 'news' as a source

 
 
 
Snuffy
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11.1.2  Snuffy  replied to  Tessylo @11.1.1    11 months ago

I guess when one have nothing *** to add all they can do is attack the source.  Either prove the articles are wrong or fuck off.

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
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11.2  Just Jim NC TttH  replied to  JBB @11    11 months ago
President and Jill Biden's taxes have been made public for the last twenty years and there is no credible proof they ever profited unlawfully... Unlike the former President and his lawless klan.

And you killed your whole comment with one final unfounded steaming pile sentence. Stick with memes.

 
 
 
Texan1211
Professor Principal
11.3  Texan1211  replied to  JBB @11    11 months ago
President and Jill Biden's taxes have been made public for the last twenty years and there is no credible proof they ever profited unlawfully..

Even Biden handlers know it would be stupid to list payoffs on their income taxes.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
11.4  Tessylo  replied to  JBB @11    11 months ago

the former 'president' and his criminal enterprise of an administration also.

 
 
 
freepress
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12  freepress    11 months ago

Now do Trump and DeSantis. If Hunter Biden broke any laws charge him. The Trump family has already stolen from charities for cancer, animals, veterans and other fake charities where they had to admit guilt and take remedial courses in how to run a charity to avoid prosecution. So if Hunter Biden did worse then charge him and throw the book at him. The problem with how right wing voters look for any "gotcha" moment is that they never want to deal with Republican corruption. Democrats say have at it no matter who it is.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
12.1  JohnRussell  replied to  freepress @12    11 months ago

The Republicans dont give a damn about Hunter Biden. They want to stretch this out for the next year and a half so it remains an "issue" in the presidential race. That is all they want. If they cared about corruption we wouldnt be plagued with the Trump family in politics. 

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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12.1.1  Greg Jones  replied to  JohnRussell @12.1    11 months ago

What the Republicans are doing is trying to find any kind of evidence of corruption  and malfeasance by Biden and Hunter as they can.  There is likely to be some there, thus the need for an depth investigation. You're trying delink father and son, but they're in this together as a family

 
 
 
Texan1211
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12.1.2  Texan1211  replied to  Greg Jones @12.1.1    11 months ago
but they're in this together as a family

Looks like more than one family member has profited off selling influence.

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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12.1.3  Right Down the Center  replied to  JohnRussell @12.1    11 months ago
hey want to stretch this out for the next year and a half so it remains an "issue" in the presidential race. 
I can't imagine where they could have gotten an idea like that

 
 

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