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‘Really Astonishing’: Jonathan Turley Says ‘All Of’ Hunter Biden’s Trial ‘Defenses’ Quickly ‘Collapsed’
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By JASON COHEN
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday he was shocked by how quickly Hunter Biden’s various defenses in his gun trial have “collapsed.”
Biden’s trial began Monday and he is confronting three federal gun charges brought by Special Counsel David Weiss in September, which include providing false statements and knowingly possessing a gun while being addicted to drugs. Turley asserted on “America’s Newsroom” that the prosecution effectively countered Biden attorney Abbe Lowell’s argument that his client’s laptop, which is a key piece of evidence in the trial, is not fully authentic as well as the argument that Biden was not using drugs when he signed paperwork to purchase a gun.
“The prosecution is doing an amazingly good job in my view,” Turley said. “This is a very disciplined case. What’s really astonishing is how fast all of the defenses put forward by Abbe Lowell collapsed within 48 hours. There was a long argument that the laptop was tampered with. They put on an agent saying there’s no tampering here. This is real and authentic. They said that Hunter Biden wasn’t doing drugs when he signed that. They have a text of him the next day trying to score drugs from a guy named Mookie, and a day after that, doing drugs on the hood of a car, according to a text.”
Corporate media, Big Tech, former intelligence officials and then-candidate Joe Biden cast doubt on the laptop’s authenticity in October of 2020, but now prosecutors are using it as important evidence during the trial.
“And all these other witnesses saying ‘of course he was an addict, he was doing crack every 20 minutes when I knew him.’ They then said well, ‘maybe someone else filled out the form.’ You had Mr. Cleveland say ‘I watched him fill out the form. I told him to take his time.’ So every one of these defenses collapsed shortly after they were stated by the defense. And that leads to this question of why, why isn’t he just pleading guilty? This is an open and shut case,” Turley added.
“It’s obvious he was doing drugs and that he had signed the form falsely,” he continued. “That might keep him out of jail. It certainly would have avoided an embarrassing trial. The answer is, this is Biden town. This is a Biden who is standing trial in his hometown and this is the opposite of Manhattan. Here the jury pool could not be better for the defendant. I think the defense is using a nullification strategy.”
Prosecutors obtained messages and material from Biden’s abandoned laptop, which is now considered real despite the previous assertions before the 2020 election, showing it to the jury as evidence of the defendant’s drug use around the period of purchasing the gun in 2018, according to CNN. Criminal defense attorney Bernarda Villalona suggested Biden plead guilty on Monday, asserting Weiss’ evidence against him is “strong” and that it may be his “best” course of action to evade incarceration.
From LifeSiteNews
The Justice Department attorney did not mention the Trump FDA’s recent admission linking the COVID shots to at least 10 child deaths so far.
The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to dismiss a whistleblower case against Pfizer over its COVID-19 shots, even as the Trump Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is beginning to admit their culpability in children’ s deaths.
As previously covered by LifeSiteNews, in 2021 the BMJ published a report on insider information from a former regional director of the medical research company Ventavia, which Pfizer hired in 2020 to conduct research for the company’s mRNA-based COVID-19 shot.
The regional director, Brook Jackson, sent BMJ “dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails,” which “revealed a host of poor clinical trial research practices occurring at Ventavia that could impact data integrity and patient safety […] We also discovered that, despite receiving a direct complaint about these problems over a year ago, the FDA did not inspect Ventavia’s trial sites.”
According to the report, Ventavia “falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial.” Overwhelmed by numerous problems with the trial data, Jackson filed an official complaint with the FDA.
Jackson was fired the same day, and Ventavia later claimed that Jackson did not work on the Pfizer COVID-19 shot trial; but Jackson produced documents proving she had been invited to the Pfizer trial team and given access codes to software relating to the trial. Jackson filed a lawsuit against Pfizer for violating the federal False Claims Act and other regulations in January 2021, which was sealed until February 2022. That case has been ongoing ever since.
Last August, U.S. District Judge Michael Truncale dismissed most of Jackson’s claims with prejudice, meaning they could not be refiled. Jackson challenged the decision, but the Trump DOJ has argued in court to uphold it, Just the News reports, with DOJ attorney Nicole Smith arguing that the case concerns preserving the government’s unfettered power to dismiss whistleblower cases.
The rationale echoes a recurring trend in DOJ strategy that Politico described in May as “preserving executive power and preventing courts from second-guessing agency decisions,” even in cases that involve “backing policies favored by Democrats.”
Jackson’s attorney Warner Mendenhall responded that the administration “really sort of made our case for us” in effectively admitting that DOJ is taking the Fair Claims Act’s “good cause” standard for state intervention to mean “mere desire to dismiss,” which infringes on his client’s “First Amendment right to access the courts, to vindicate what she learned.”
Mendenhall added that in a refiled case, Jackson “may be able to bring a very different case along the same lines, but with the additional information” to prove fraud, whereas rejection would send the message that “if fraud involves government complicity, don’t bother reporting it.”
That additional information would presumably include the FDA’s recent admission that at least 10 children the agency has reviewed so far “died after and because of receiving COVID-19 vaccination.”
“The truth is we do not know if we saved lives on balance,” admitted FDA Chief Medical Officer Vinay Prasad in a recent leaked email. “It is horrifying to consider that the U.S. vaccine regulation, including our actions, may have harmed more children than we saved. This requires humility and introspection.”
The COVID shots have been highly controversial ever since the first Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed initiative prepared and released them in a fraction of the time any previous vaccine had ever been developed and tested. As LifeSiteNews has extensively covered, a large body of evidence has steadily accumulated over the past five years indicating that the COVID jabs failed to prevent transmission and, more importantly, carried severe risks of their own.
Ever since, many have intently watched and hotly debated what President Donald Trump would do about the situation upon his return to office. Though he never backed mandates like former President Joe Biden did, for years Trump refused to disavow the shots to the chagrin of his base, seeing Operation Warp Speed as one of his crowning achievements. At the same time, during his latest run he embraced the “Make America Healthy Again” movement and its suspicion of the medical establishment more broadly.
So far, Trump’s second administration has rolled back several recommendations for the shots but not yet pulled them from the market, despite hiring several vocal critics of the COVID establishment and putting the Department of Health & Human Services under the leadership of America’s most prominent anti-vaccine advocate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Most recently, the administration has settled on leaving the current jabs optional but not supporting work to develop successors.
In a July interview, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary asked for patience from those unsatisfied by the administration’s handling of the shots, insisting more time was needed for comprehensive trials to get more definitive data.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ’60 Minutes’ interview reveals power struggle between populists and RINOs
From LifeSiteNews
The Republican Congresswoman said that President Donald Trump has turned his back on those who helped get him elected.
Outgoing firebrand Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s combative interview with 60 Minutes anchor Leslie Stahl is the perfect encapsulation of the war being waged between grassroots conservatives and establishment RINOs currently seeking to suppress the America First movement and reassert their dominance over the GOP.
Stahl interviewed Greene when her popularity was at its highest several years ago. She has always been the voice of what President Donald Trump once called “the Swamp” in Washington D.C. Her line of questioning toward Greene during their conversation that aired earlier this month revealed her biased agenda. At one point during the interview, a fed-up Greene hit back, “You’ve contributed to (the toxicity in politics) as well, with your own … accusatory … questions (toward me).”
Greene’s decision to step down from Congress sent shockwaves across the U.S. when she announced she would resign this coming year. A true believer in the MAGA cause right from the start, she told Stahl that Trump has turned his back on those who helped get him elected.
“He passed the crypto bill that helped out all the crypto donors. He has served Israel’s interest, even attacking Iran. He has served Big Pharma, he didn’t take away the COVID vaccines that we want to see taken away,” Greene exclaimed. “We want to see action on areas for the American people, not for the major industries and the big donors.”
True to form, Stahl brought up the fact that Greene has called Israel’s bombing of Gaza a genocide while also noting she voted against the “anti Semitism Awareness Act.”
“Since I’ve been a member of Congress, we’ve had several resolutions that constantly denounce anti-Semitism,” Greene explained. “I’ve already voted denouncing anti-Semitism many times before. It becomes an exercise that they force on Congress, and I simply got tired of it.”
“Is there no value in having the United States Congress reaffirm the fact that they denounce anti-Semitism in the face of a growing issue, a growing problem?” Stahl replied.
“We don’t have to get on our knees and say it over and over again,” Greene shot back.
“Well, most members of Congress disagree with you,” Stahl responded.
“Well, most members of Congress take donations from AIPAC and I don’t.”
Over the past year, Greene and fellow Republican Congressman Thomas Massie have boasted about the fact that they don’t take donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. For their efforts, they have been increasingly targeted by Trump as well as by Miriam Adelson, an Israeli-born Zionist mega-donor to the president who is funding a PAC to prevent Massie’s re-election next year.
Massie, meanwhile, is not backing down. “Israeli citizen Miriam Adelson bought the Dallas Mavericks for $3.5 billion; now she’s buying politicians. She’s spending millions in Kentucky to buy Ed Gallrein, my primary opponent, a Congressional seat in Kentucky. Why? Because I won’t vote to send your tax dollars overseas,” he explained.
Greene further told Stahl that Trump’s decision to attack her is all the more hypocritical given his decision to not want the Epstein files released and welcome multiple politicians who share nothing in common with conservative principles to the White House.
“He did this in the same time span where President Trump brought in the al-Qaeda leader that was wanted by the U.S. government (Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa), who is now the President of Syria. Then within a week, he brought in the Crown Prince (of Saudi Arabia) who murdered an American journalist. And then he brought in the newly elected Democrat socialist mayor of New York (Zohram Mamdani). That was the time span that he called me a traitor.”
Greene has repeatedly said she will not be running for office in the coming years. The system is broken, essentially, and it cannot be fixed. And she’s right. For many decades, U.S. politicians have not served the will of the people but rather an elite, technocratic donor class that wants to use America’s influence to wage foreign wars and promote a globalist agenda. President Trump knew that once and promised he would bring it to an end but now it seems he won’t be one to put a stop to it. Greene, like millions of Americans, believed he would. She’s right to step down and spend her life doing something other than fight a losing battle.
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