So he was lying to a grand jury, and the feds, but suddenly we should believe him now that he has new, DoJ appointed defense lawyers and changed his story?
Sure….. 🙄
“Feds Claim Key Mar-a-Lago Obstruction Witness Has Flipped On Trump”
“In a court filing today on the issue of the D.C. Grand Jury and the need for a Garcia hearing, Special Counsel Jack Smith asserted in papers that Witness 4 has flipped on Trump and will give evidence of Trump’s involvement (emphasis added):
During these investigations, the Government gathered evidence that Trump employee Carlos De Oliveira tried to enlist the director of information technology for Mar-a-Lago (identified in the superseding indictment as Trump Employee 4) to delete Mar-a-Lago security footage after the grand jury in the District of Columbia had issued a subpoena for the footage. As set forth in the Government’s motion for a Garcia hearing (ECF No. 97 at 3), before Trump Employee 4’s appearance before the grand jury in the District of Columbia, the Government informed Mr. Woodward that his concurrent representation of Trump Employee 4 and Nauta raised a potential conflict of interest, and Mr. Woodward responded that he did not have a reason to believe that his concurrent representation of Trump Employee 4 and Nauta raised a conflict of interest.
When Trump Employee 4 testified before the grand jury in the District of Columbia in March 2023, he repeatedly denied or claimed not to recall any contacts or conversations about the security footage at Mar-a-Lago. In testimony before the same grand jury, De Oliveira likewise denied any contact with Trump Employee 4 regarding security footage. The Government’s evidence indicated that the testimony by Trump Employee 4 and De Oliveira was false.
On June 8, 2023, a grand jury in this district returned a 38-count indictment that charged Trump with unlawful retention of national defense information and charged Trump and Nauta with obstruction-of-justice offenses. The indictment did not name De Oliveira as a defendant or contain charges regarding the efforts to delete security footage. The Government thereafter continued to investigate the false statements by Trump Employee 4 and De Oliveira in the District of Columbia. On June 29 and July 11, 2023, the grand jury issued two subpoenas for footage from three security cameras at Mar-a-Lago that related directly to De Oliveira’s solicitation of Trump Employee 4 to delete security footage, as well as the false denials of the same by both witnesses. In addition, on June 20, 2023, the Government advised Trump Employee 4 (through Mr. Woodward) that he was the target of a grand jury investigation in the District of Columbia into whether he committed perjury there, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623. Trump Employee 4’s criminal exposure identified in the target letter was entirely due to his false sworn denial before the grand jury in the District of Columbia that he had information about obstructive acts that would implicate Nauta (and others).
The target letter to Trump Employee 4 crystallized a conflict of interest arising from Mr. Woodward’s concurrent representation of Trump Employee 4 and Nauta. Advising Trump Employee 4 to correct his sworn testimony would result in testimony incriminating Mr. Woodward’s other client, Nauta; but permitting Trump Employee 4’s false testimony to stand uncorrected would leave Trump Employee 4 exposed to criminal charges for perjury. Moreover, an attorney for Trump had put Trump Employee 4 in contact with Mr. Woodward, and his fees were being paid by Trump’s political action committee (PAC)….
Chief Judge Boasberg made available independent counsel (the First Assistant in the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the District of Columbia) to provide advice to Trump Employee 4 regarding potential conflicts. On July 5, 2023, Trump Employee 4 informed Chief Judge Boasberg that he no longer wished to be represented by Mr. Woodward and that, going forward, he wished to be represented by the First Assistant Federal Defender. Immediately after receiving new counsel, Trump Employee 4 retracted his prior false testimony and provided information that implicated Nauta, De Oliveira, and Trump in efforts to delete security camera footage, as set forth in the superseding indictment.
The Government anticipates calling Trump Employee 4 as a trial witness and expects that he will testify to conduct alleged in the superseding indictment regarding efforts to delete security footage. Trump Employee 4 will very likely face cross-examination about his prior inconsistent statements in his grand jury testimony, which occurred while Mr. Woodward represented him, and which he disavowed immediately after obtaining new counsel.
The rest of the filing concerns the propriety of using the D.C. grand jury.
Witness 4 has changed his testimony, so that will subject him to cross-examination as to whether he was lying then, or lying now. Happens frequently in criminal cases. But this is still a very significant development particularly if the feds have other proof that Witness 4 is telling the truth now, and that he went along with the cover up because his lawyer was conflicted.”
Earlier this month Andy Ngo’s civil trial against members of Rose City Antifa went to trial. As I explained here, the trial only involved two defendants, John Hacker and Elizabeth Richter, because three other defendants had been found “in default,” meaning they were found liable (the judge would determine the amount of that liability after the trial). One additional defendant had settled the case with Ngo prior to the trial. The trial of the remaining two defendants resulted in the jury siding with the defense.
After nearly a week of hearing testimony from witnesses, watching video footage and hearing from defendants, jurors concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to fault them for the attacks…
Hacker admitted he reacted out of anger that day at the gym, telling the jury he regretted his actions.
“I don’t think it was appropriate. I wasn’t thinking,” Hacker said. “I was just like, ‘I hate this guy. Fuck this guy.’”
Hacker said the gym incident was “a ridiculous way to resolve grievances” and apologized to Ngo in court.
While Hacker acknowledged his role in the 2019 incident, he and his attorneys said he doesn’t seek violence against political foes and wasn’t responsible for a group that jumped Ngo in 2021.
Ngo tried to have the verdict overturned given that Hacker had admitted the incident in the gym but the judge didn’t allow it.
Yesterday, the judge issued his decision on the remaining three people who’d been found in default prior to the trial. Each of them was ordered to pay Ngo $100,000.
Defendants Corbyn “Katherine” Belyea, Madison “Denny” Lee Allen, and Sammich Overkill Schott-Deputy were found liable by Judge Sinaplasai for assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
This court hearing was held in a virtual setting at the Multnomah County Courthouse on Monday after the three defendants were found in default on July 14 by the pre-trial judge for not responding to Ngo’s complaint, which is why they did not appear at the civil jury trial held earlier this month.
All three of the people mentioned are trans, though I’m not clear if all of them were at the time of the attack on Ngo.”
“There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.”
Those words from Inspector Jacques Clouseau may have to be emblazoned across the hearing room of the House Oversight Committee. It was a month ago that House Democratic members mocked the testimony of two whistleblowers who testified about the rigged investigation to protect Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden.
Now it appears that the controversial “sweetheart deal” was not the first choice of US Attorney David Weiss. He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge despite massive unpaid taxes, gun violations, and work as an unregistered foreign agent, among other alleged crimes.
The reason for his change at Justice, according to the New York Times? Those pesky whistleblowers.
One of the most insulting moments for the respected IRS agents came from ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who mocked the allegations as part of “this Inspector Clouseau-style quest for something that doesn’t exist [that] has turned our committee into a theater of the absurd, an exercise in futility and embarrassment.”
Raskin assured the public that these “disagreements” are “routine” matters in investigations (a position echoed by his junior colleague, Rep. Dan Goldman of New York). The IRS agents tried to object that they had never seen anything like what happened in this case.
Then the case became anything but a laughing matter for Democrats. The plea agreement with Hunter Biden collapsed within minutes of a federal judge asking a few basic questions.
When District Judge Maryellen Noreika balked at sweeping language on immunity, she asked the prosecutor if he had ever seen any agreement like this one. He answered “no” and the deal quickly fell apart, with Hunter Biden’s lawyer finally saying exasperatedly, “Just rip it up.”
The language was anything but routine.
Then an FBI agent spoke to Congress and confirmed testimony of the IRS agents, including that Hunter Biden was tipped off on an attempt to interview him. The agent said they were forced to sit a block away and told not to approach the house. The interview was then cut off. He described being “upset” and how this was not routine.
The New York Times, which has spent years downplaying the Hunter Biden scandal, has published an internal account of the investigation. The Times reported that US Attorney David Weiss was actually preparing to let Hunter walk “without requiring a guilty plea on any charges.” However, that “changed in the spring, around the time a pair of IRS officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation. Mr. Weiss suddenly demanded that Mr. Biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses.”
In other words, according to the Times, those two mocked whistleblowers prompted the Justice Department to prosecute. Why would that be?
Attorney General Merrick Garland insisted that no political pressure or political considerations would affect the investigation.
Yet it appears that the Biden team did raise the potential embarrassment for the president and the Justice Department if Hunter faced serious charges. New emails reveal that Hunter Biden’s lawyers told the prosecutors that, if there were serious charges, it would be President Biden in the spotlight.
Hunter’s lawyer Chris Clark (who just asked the court to be allowed to leave the Biden team) wrote Weiss and the prosecutors that the best thing for everyone was to just walk away: “This of all cases justifies neither the spectacle of a sitting President testifying at a criminal trial nor the potential for a resulting Constitutional crisis.”
So the Justice Department had the Biden team warning that it needed to avoid the embarrassment for the president from any trial while their own investigators were threatening to reveal embarrassing details on the special treatment afforded to Hunter.
The solution appeared to be a plea deal that would involve minor crimes with no jail time. The appearance of prosecution without any real consequences for the Bidens. No time would be served and, again, the investigation could be shut down without further complications or controversy.
Then the wheels fell off in court and left everyone in a bit of a muddle.
There was no way now to kill the case.
There was no way to ink the original plea deal.
Congress was calling Weiss and key Justice Department figures to answer questions about this investigation, the compromised investigation, and the sweetheart deal.
Weiss had agreed to supply answers when he thought the plea deal was a done deal. Now that “spectacle” was becoming more and more likely.
It got even worse. If Merrick Garland finally yielded to demands for a special counsel, the regulations specified that the person had to come from outside the Justice Department. That meant it could not be Weiss. That person would presumably start by reviewing not just the evidence but the crimes that might have been charged years earlier.
Yet the Justice Department reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run on major crimes, including the tax offenses related to the suspicious payments to Hunter Biden from Ukraine and other countries.
Garland decided to violate the regulations and appoint the most controversial person (with the possible exception of Hunter himself) to offer an independent examination of the case: Weiss.
While Weiss may be able to justify his actions or contest these allegations, he is clearly viewed as compromised by many in the public. He stands accused of running an allegedly fixed investigation and, now according to the Times, only pursued the “sweetheart deal” when whistleblowers moved to expose the allegations of special treatment for the president’s son.
The question is why, knowing the distrust over the past handling of the investigation, Garland would make an appointment guaranteed to further deepen that unease. According to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, almost half of Americans lack trust that the Justice Department will conduct the Hunter Biden investigation in a “fair and nonpartisan manner.”
For these Democratic members and Garland, the case has truly become the “theater of the absurd” that Raskin predicted … only no one is laughing.”
This is their end game, restrictions on how you live your life, and taking away your right to vote for who leads you.
Klaus Schwab wants a future of AI to replace democratic voting. He doesn’t want people to vote as they may vote in someone Schwab and the rest of the globalists find harder to make a puppet. pic.twitter.com/kpTTVPfScU
“The so-called “great” reset involves more than just giving up voting privileges. It calls for a steady loss of liberties until you “own nothing and are happy.”
The truly nauseating angle here is that a portion of our population can’t wait to surrender their freedoms, largely for no other reason than to “stick it” to those of us who respect the Constitution and the liberties it confers to We the People.
In other words, leftist harpies are willing to give up their cars, meat, coffee creamer, and whatever else it takes to look at us and say, “Ha-ha!” We’ll see who has the last laugh when Dylan Mulvaney and I are in a gulag, scrapping for the last rotting cabbage. Bring your A-game, dudette.
As I’ve reported before, the lizard people are hoping to eradicate meat and dairy consumption by 2030 completely. The prairie fairies want your car, too, because it’s easier to enslave people when they are both underfed and unable to escape.
There is a roster of globalist commie mayors from around the world, united together in a group called C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. This Marxist dream team has dedicated itself to fulfilling Schwab’s vision of ridding the world of cows and cars, and probably to fulfilling the rest of his Bond villain-like plans, which are even more ghastly. They want you to curtail your air travel. They claim it’s all to save the trees or something like that, but anyone with a few sparking neurons can recognize subjugation when they see it.
What’s worse, 14 American mayors are already on board with this global enslavement.
Here is the list of U.S. Marxist hell-hole mayors who are willing to deny their constituents the taste of meat, dairy for their coffee, and their privately-owned cars by 2030: Seattle, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Chicago, Miami, Boston, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C.”
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“Driving to get a cheesesteak sandwich isn’t the only fun the globalists are going after. They think your duds have to go, too, because the textile industry is somehow affecting the weather. As you can see on page 82 of the C40 blueprint for control, “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5ºC World,” the mayors of misery believe that, “progressively,” you should be able to purchase only eight articles of clothing per year, and “ambitiously,” only three items.
Page 90 reveals the globalist’s plan to “progressively” reduce your plane travel to one 932-mile trip every two years; “ambitiously,” every three years. Kiss your yearly romp to Vegas goodbye, and smooch grandma adieu as well if she isn’t within biking distance.
There’s no mention of those 1,040 private plane trips the silk stocking brigade took to the World Economic Forum meeting Davos, which, as per Greenpeace, is equal to roughly the emissions of 350,000 cars. I guess those emissions are somehow not dangerous.”
HUNDREDS of Parents are protesting LA City Hall AND marching to UTLA to demand PARENTAL RIGHTS, as bills in the state would strip parents rights across all schools, and schools are teaching LGBT+ curriculum for minors.
#BREAKING 🚨An unlawful assembly has just been ordered to the crowds gathered here in downtown Los Angeles as parents protest outside LAUSD HQ, and Antifa + pro LGBT activists clash.
#HAPPENINGNOW 🚨 | Two Pro-LGBT Revolutionary Communists have been arrested following a clash with police.
Police are clearing the street in front of LAUSD HQ, where parents are protesting LGBT curriculum for minors, and state bills stripping parental rights. pic.twitter.com/iw4xnxBrBC
This article itself is unreadable propaganda. Referring to a wildfire as a "climate reality." NPR loves to focus on wildfires because they can omit any explanation as to how they think climate change is causing wildfires and just imply that it got so hot trees caught on fire.
what they are doing to this generation of kids is absolutely unforgiveable.
10 years from now when the suicide rate among teens spikes, they'll demand more taxes to pay for "mental health services" when they're the damned ones causing the mental health disaster in these kids.
Biden’s “laser like focus” that took him 2 weeks to pay attention and actually have a comment on it.
I mean, visiting a disaster area is just part of the job description. If Biden can't discharge his responsibilities in a timely fashion because he is in poor health or distracted by personal issues, someone should let us know. https://t.co/9ZEXyEKQgR
Yeah you're right, Matt. The criticism of Biden over Maui missteps is a new kind criticism invented by republicans in 2023, and nothing like it has ever happened in prior admins. I guess uncritically supporting the team is easier to do when you dress it up as some comedy schtick https://t.co/ksjEAVSp8F
Maybe just a president who would send more than $700 per household to cover the funeral expenses of children burned alive in their home due to complete and utter government failure to prepare for disaster 🙂
Joe Biden, while speaking in Lahina, reminds everyone that his first wife and daughter died in a car crash then proceeds to compare his worries about his boys after the crash to Hawaiians' concerns about their missing children after the fire.
Primetime can now confirm that then-VP Joe Biden flew Hunter overseas on Air Force 2 at least eight times. These are trips we didn’t know about before, because Hunter avoided being caught on camera. But Primetime now has indisputable evidence that Hunter Biden was using Air Force… pic.twitter.com/uNUM5nrWiz
They will defend this narcissist to the enth degree yet never call out his non focus on the crisis these people find themselves in. It’s all about him…his loss of wife, his kitchen fire that almost burned down his whole house…he almost lost his cat for crying out loud!!! Focus on the majors and get to real journalism please:
Morning Joe stars kicked off the morning with a vehement defense of President Joe Biden over “right-wing media” attacks from “Trumpy outlets” they say falsely claim Biden fell asleep during his trip to disaster-torn Hawaii.
I shared this late yesterday, so for those who may have missed it. . .
“Conservative pundits falsely claim Biden slept during Maui fire memorial
Using low-quality video that distorts how Biden appears, pundits made the false claim go viral on social media.”
“Higher-resolution video from the nonpartisan network C-SPAN shows that Biden looked downward for about 10 seconds while he was seated at a table. In the video, Biden watches someone who’s speaking, coughs, looks downward and then nods in agreement with the speaker. Then he looks up again. He later delivered a speech to the same audience.
The higher-resolution video shows that Biden kept his eyes open for most of the time he was looking downward. His open eyes aren’t clearly visible in the lower-quality videos.”
I just don’t understand why the heck it matters whether he actually fell asleep or not! There are plenty of lying targets on both sides of the aisle but for some reason this sorry excuse for a president is being hedged and defended with “how dare you say he is sleeping”!!! It would be better if he would just sleep and quit pretending to actually care about Americans…and that goes for all Dems!
Sure he’s a crook, and he’s severely compromised, but don’t you accuse him of falling asleep. Then the folks like over at CSpan, who never mention his crime sprees, might get offended.
EXCLUSIVE: The “Robert L. Peters” email address Vice President @JoeBiden used to discuss #Ukraine with #HunterBiden in 2016, when he worked for Burisma, was hosted by @USDISA, an elite @DeptofDefense IT unit whose mission is “combat support” for warfighters. Watch my report. https://t.co/juCDThXaU5
Someone had to approve the creation of the email on a .gov network. The IT staff wouldn't randomly add an account to the GAL. There should be a paper trail. Just like HRC emails someone approved her email accounts.
The depth of corruption that originated in the Obama administration will be shown to be amongst the deepest in American history, but it will not be in our or their lifetime. It will be akin to archeological discoveries. Society does not have the stomach for such exposure as this.
DNC surrogate in Milwaukee: “I would suggest that anybody who thinks that this country is in decline — come to cities! Because Democrat mayors all across the nation are creating great places where people want to be!"
People can go ahead and mention the actual bad things Biden has done. But they don’t need to make up and spread petty things like that edited and manipulated video. It’s just petty and small to make and spread those. It’s also lying.
And yes, I made similar points on Facebook posts when Trump was president and some spread false stories about him.
I know a couple people who exaggerate the truth and outright lie on a regular basis, even about little, seemingly unimportant things. As a result, there are people – myself included – who disbelieve almost everything they say. As believers, we should be as careful about the “little things” as we are about the bigger issues.
Biden may or may not have been sleeping. I read somewhere that some reptiles sleep with their eyes open.. .some mammals too. So I guess we’ll just never know about Biden, whose behavior qualifies him for either category.
As a follower of Christ I find it saddening when blatant lies are spewed. Like” all those Capital police” being murdered on Jan 6 because the President encouraged the people to do to such…
Just let them keep on telling the lie, hide the evidence..like not keeping records of interviews and all that insignificant documentation of their “findings”. And let the “blatant lies” of corruption in the Biden family including sleepy Joe continue to be overlooked by Democrats or not due to their hatred of Trump. There are bigger fish to fry other than Biden’s sleeping habits. And it is quite clear he is mentally compromised and doesn’t give a hoot for America…his falling asleep certainly wouldn’t be a first and it won’t be the last…
Yes, whether or not Pres. Biden fell asleep is not a big issue compared to so much else going on. But apparently someone thought it was worth taking the time to edit the video and slow it down to mock him or whatnot, and others, including AJ, thought it was worth the time to share it.
If something is worth the time to share, than it is worth the time to learn that it was edited and manipulated.
We can disagree, even strongly, with his views and actions as president.
But that shouldn’t mean we can’t sympathize — as believers who are called to do so — with our shared humanity, his personal struggles and recognizing him as a fellow image bearer.
To me, the issue was not merely whether or not he was nodding on purpose or if he had nodded off. To me, the real issue was that it was a deceptively edited/manipulated video. As Christians who believe in truth, we are supposed to care about even “little” things like that. (And things like that are not as “little” as they seem on the surface.)
The scripture that comes to mind is Matthew 23:23:
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.”
While pointing out the very important things that the scribes and Pharisees should do, Jesus also says that the “little things” are still important.
I will leave it with this rather than belabor this back and forth.
I do not see the liberal left/Democratic party/Biden as Pharisees and Sadducee’s. In my estimation they focus upon themselves and consider not any religious focus upon their behavior.
Biden’s family has played in this farce since day one and I see that as tragic. They allow him to be used and have yet to step in and say it is enough. It is a shame. Having said that Biden has always been a deceiver and bloviator…he has always been focused upon himself as a government worker and that has not changed.
Little things grow into big things if not confronted. We are into big things now and the little ones seem to pale in comparison.
Sermonizing as to how we are to respond becomes wearisome….
Whether or not the video was edited, from my perspective, I saw it as a bit of comic relief from the gravity of our snowballing disaster. It was a moment to be distracted from peering into the pit into which we are falling and a chance of thinking how nice it would be to have rest, a nodding off from it all. In my work, in state government, we all knew of an older man who fell asleep at long board (bored) meetings. It was an endearing characteristic of the man. I was reminded of that and truly did not take it so seriously as some who are on the watch for such injustices and sins. I do see the point of it being a slippery slope, but here it could also be used as a test, an opportunity to give grace and forgiveness as one of the 70×7 times when one feels offended. Love covers a multitude of sins. Without love we are only a sounding gong. ❤
Wandering Views 
So he was lying to a grand jury, and the feds, but suddenly we should believe him now that he has new, DoJ appointed defense lawyers and changed his story?
Sure….. 🙄
“Feds Claim Key Mar-a-Lago Obstruction Witness Has Flipped On Trump”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/feds-claim-key-mar-a-lago-obstruction-witness-has-flipped-on-trump/
“In a court filing today on the issue of the D.C. Grand Jury and the need for a Garcia hearing, Special Counsel Jack Smith asserted in papers that Witness 4 has flipped on Trump and will give evidence of Trump’s involvement (emphasis added):
During these investigations, the Government gathered evidence that Trump employee Carlos De Oliveira tried to enlist the director of information technology for Mar-a-Lago (identified in the superseding indictment as Trump Employee 4) to delete Mar-a-Lago security footage after the grand jury in the District of Columbia had issued a subpoena for the footage. As set forth in the Government’s motion for a Garcia hearing (ECF No. 97 at 3), before Trump Employee 4’s appearance before the grand jury in the District of Columbia, the Government informed Mr. Woodward that his concurrent representation of Trump Employee 4 and Nauta raised a potential conflict of interest, and Mr. Woodward responded that he did not have a reason to believe that his concurrent representation of Trump Employee 4 and Nauta raised a conflict of interest.
When Trump Employee 4 testified before the grand jury in the District of Columbia in March 2023, he repeatedly denied or claimed not to recall any contacts or conversations about the security footage at Mar-a-Lago. In testimony before the same grand jury, De Oliveira likewise denied any contact with Trump Employee 4 regarding security footage. The Government’s evidence indicated that the testimony by Trump Employee 4 and De Oliveira was false.
On June 8, 2023, a grand jury in this district returned a 38-count indictment that charged Trump with unlawful retention of national defense information and charged Trump and Nauta with obstruction-of-justice offenses. The indictment did not name De Oliveira as a defendant or contain charges regarding the efforts to delete security footage. The Government thereafter continued to investigate the false statements by Trump Employee 4 and De Oliveira in the District of Columbia. On June 29 and July 11, 2023, the grand jury issued two subpoenas for footage from three security cameras at Mar-a-Lago that related directly to De Oliveira’s solicitation of Trump Employee 4 to delete security footage, as well as the false denials of the same by both witnesses. In addition, on June 20, 2023, the Government advised Trump Employee 4 (through Mr. Woodward) that he was the target of a grand jury investigation in the District of Columbia into whether he committed perjury there, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623. Trump Employee 4’s criminal exposure identified in the target letter was entirely due to his false sworn denial before the grand jury in the District of Columbia that he had information about obstructive acts that would implicate Nauta (and others).
The target letter to Trump Employee 4 crystallized a conflict of interest arising from Mr. Woodward’s concurrent representation of Trump Employee 4 and Nauta. Advising Trump Employee 4 to correct his sworn testimony would result in testimony incriminating Mr. Woodward’s other client, Nauta; but permitting Trump Employee 4’s false testimony to stand uncorrected would leave Trump Employee 4 exposed to criminal charges for perjury. Moreover, an attorney for Trump had put Trump Employee 4 in contact with Mr. Woodward, and his fees were being paid by Trump’s political action committee (PAC)….
Chief Judge Boasberg made available independent counsel (the First Assistant in the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the District of Columbia) to provide advice to Trump Employee 4 regarding potential conflicts. On July 5, 2023, Trump Employee 4 informed Chief Judge Boasberg that he no longer wished to be represented by Mr. Woodward and that, going forward, he wished to be represented by the First Assistant Federal Defender. Immediately after receiving new counsel, Trump Employee 4 retracted his prior false testimony and provided information that implicated Nauta, De Oliveira, and Trump in efforts to delete security camera footage, as set forth in the superseding indictment.
The Government anticipates calling Trump Employee 4 as a trial witness and expects that he will testify to conduct alleged in the superseding indictment regarding efforts to delete security footage. Trump Employee 4 will very likely face cross-examination about his prior inconsistent statements in his grand jury testimony, which occurred while Mr. Woodward represented him, and which he disavowed immediately after obtaining new counsel.
The rest of the filing concerns the propriety of using the D.C. grand jury.
Witness 4 has changed his testimony, so that will subject him to cross-examination as to whether he was lying then, or lying now. Happens frequently in criminal cases. But this is still a very significant development particularly if the feds have other proof that Witness 4 is telling the truth now, and that he went along with the cover up because his lawyer was conflicted.”
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Finally, at least a little justice for Andy.
Strange that a jury found 2 others not guilty, yet the judge clearly thinks an assault happened, hence the fines.
But the corrupt media doesn’t care, as he’s not one of them.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/08/22/judge-rules-three-of-andy-ngos-antifa-attackers-must-pay-him-100000-each-n572920
“A small amount of justice at last in this case.
Earlier this month Andy Ngo’s civil trial against members of Rose City Antifa went to trial. As I explained here, the trial only involved two defendants, John Hacker and Elizabeth Richter, because three other defendants had been found “in default,” meaning they were found liable (the judge would determine the amount of that liability after the trial). One additional defendant had settled the case with Ngo prior to the trial. The trial of the remaining two defendants resulted in the jury siding with the defense.
After nearly a week of hearing testimony from witnesses, watching video footage and hearing from defendants, jurors concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to fault them for the attacks…
Hacker admitted he reacted out of anger that day at the gym, telling the jury he regretted his actions.
“I don’t think it was appropriate. I wasn’t thinking,” Hacker said. “I was just like, ‘I hate this guy. Fuck this guy.’”
Hacker said the gym incident was “a ridiculous way to resolve grievances” and apologized to Ngo in court.
While Hacker acknowledged his role in the 2019 incident, he and his attorneys said he doesn’t seek violence against political foes and wasn’t responsible for a group that jumped Ngo in 2021.
Ngo tried to have the verdict overturned given that Hacker had admitted the incident in the gym but the judge didn’t allow it.
Yesterday, the judge issued his decision on the remaining three people who’d been found in default prior to the trial. Each of them was ordered to pay Ngo $100,000.
Defendants Corbyn “Katherine” Belyea, Madison “Denny” Lee Allen, and Sammich Overkill Schott-Deputy were found liable by Judge Sinaplasai for assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
This court hearing was held in a virtual setting at the Multnomah County Courthouse on Monday after the three defendants were found in default on July 14 by the pre-trial judge for not responding to Ngo’s complaint, which is why they did not appear at the civil jury trial held earlier this month.
All three of the people mentioned are trans, though I’m not clear if all of them were at the time of the attack on Ngo.”
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“Garland’s Theater of The Absurd: Why the Hunter Biden Scandal is No Longer a Laughing Matter”
“There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh, and this is not one of them.”
Those words from Inspector Jacques Clouseau may have to be emblazoned across the hearing room of the House Oversight Committee. It was a month ago that House Democratic members mocked the testimony of two whistleblowers who testified about the rigged investigation to protect Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden.
Now it appears that the controversial “sweetheart deal” was not the first choice of US Attorney David Weiss. He actually was planning to let Hunter walk without even a misdemeanor charge despite massive unpaid taxes, gun violations, and work as an unregistered foreign agent, among other alleged crimes.
The reason for his change at Justice, according to the New York Times? Those pesky whistleblowers.
One of the most insulting moments for the respected IRS agents came from ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who mocked the allegations as part of “this Inspector Clouseau-style quest for something that doesn’t exist [that] has turned our committee into a theater of the absurd, an exercise in futility and embarrassment.”
Raskin assured the public that these “disagreements” are “routine” matters in investigations (a position echoed by his junior colleague, Rep. Dan Goldman of New York). The IRS agents tried to object that they had never seen anything like what happened in this case.
Then the case became anything but a laughing matter for Democrats. The plea agreement with Hunter Biden collapsed within minutes of a federal judge asking a few basic questions.
When District Judge Maryellen Noreika balked at sweeping language on immunity, she asked the prosecutor if he had ever seen any agreement like this one. He answered “no” and the deal quickly fell apart, with Hunter Biden’s lawyer finally saying exasperatedly, “Just rip it up.”
The language was anything but routine.
Then an FBI agent spoke to Congress and confirmed testimony of the IRS agents, including that Hunter Biden was tipped off on an attempt to interview him. The agent said they were forced to sit a block away and told not to approach the house. The interview was then cut off. He described being “upset” and how this was not routine.
The New York Times, which has spent years downplaying the Hunter Biden scandal, has published an internal account of the investigation. The Times reported that US Attorney David Weiss was actually preparing to let Hunter walk “without requiring a guilty plea on any charges.” However, that “changed in the spring, around the time a pair of IRS officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation. Mr. Weiss suddenly demanded that Mr. Biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses.”
In other words, according to the Times, those two mocked whistleblowers prompted the Justice Department to prosecute. Why would that be?
Attorney General Merrick Garland insisted that no political pressure or political considerations would affect the investigation.
Yet it appears that the Biden team did raise the potential embarrassment for the president and the Justice Department if Hunter faced serious charges. New emails reveal that Hunter Biden’s lawyers told the prosecutors that, if there were serious charges, it would be President Biden in the spotlight.
Hunter’s lawyer Chris Clark (who just asked the court to be allowed to leave the Biden team) wrote Weiss and the prosecutors that the best thing for everyone was to just walk away: “This of all cases justifies neither the spectacle of a sitting President testifying at a criminal trial nor the potential for a resulting Constitutional crisis.”
So the Justice Department had the Biden team warning that it needed to avoid the embarrassment for the president from any trial while their own investigators were threatening to reveal embarrassing details on the special treatment afforded to Hunter.
The solution appeared to be a plea deal that would involve minor crimes with no jail time. The appearance of prosecution without any real consequences for the Bidens. No time would be served and, again, the investigation could be shut down without further complications or controversy.
Then the wheels fell off in court and left everyone in a bit of a muddle.
There was no way now to kill the case.
There was no way to ink the original plea deal.
Congress was calling Weiss and key Justice Department figures to answer questions about this investigation, the compromised investigation, and the sweetheart deal.
Weiss had agreed to supply answers when he thought the plea deal was a done deal. Now that “spectacle” was becoming more and more likely.
It got even worse. If Merrick Garland finally yielded to demands for a special counsel, the regulations specified that the person had to come from outside the Justice Department. That meant it could not be Weiss. That person would presumably start by reviewing not just the evidence but the crimes that might have been charged years earlier.
Yet the Justice Department reportedly allowed the statute of limitations to run on major crimes, including the tax offenses related to the suspicious payments to Hunter Biden from Ukraine and other countries.
Garland decided to violate the regulations and appoint the most controversial person (with the possible exception of Hunter himself) to offer an independent examination of the case: Weiss.
While Weiss may be able to justify his actions or contest these allegations, he is clearly viewed as compromised by many in the public. He stands accused of running an allegedly fixed investigation and, now according to the Times, only pursued the “sweetheart deal” when whistleblowers moved to expose the allegations of special treatment for the president’s son.
The question is why, knowing the distrust over the past handling of the investigation, Garland would make an appointment guaranteed to further deepen that unease. According to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, almost half of Americans lack trust that the Justice Department will conduct the Hunter Biden investigation in a “fair and nonpartisan manner.”
For these Democratic members and Garland, the case has truly become the “theater of the absurd” that Raskin predicted … only no one is laughing.”
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Of course.
This is their end game, restrictions on how you live your life, and taking away your right to vote for who leads you.
“14 American Cities Agree to Go Full-Marxist, End Dairy, Meat, and Cars by 2030”
https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2023/08/22/14-american-cities-agree-to-go-full-marxist-end-dairy-meat-and-cars-by-2030-n1721063#google_vignette
“The so-called “great” reset involves more than just giving up voting privileges. It calls for a steady loss of liberties until you “own nothing and are happy.”
The truly nauseating angle here is that a portion of our population can’t wait to surrender their freedoms, largely for no other reason than to “stick it” to those of us who respect the Constitution and the liberties it confers to We the People.
In other words, leftist harpies are willing to give up their cars, meat, coffee creamer, and whatever else it takes to look at us and say, “Ha-ha!” We’ll see who has the last laugh when Dylan Mulvaney and I are in a gulag, scrapping for the last rotting cabbage. Bring your A-game, dudette.
As I’ve reported before, the lizard people are hoping to eradicate meat and dairy consumption by 2030 completely. The prairie fairies want your car, too, because it’s easier to enslave people when they are both underfed and unable to escape.
There is a roster of globalist commie mayors from around the world, united together in a group called C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. This Marxist dream team has dedicated itself to fulfilling Schwab’s vision of ridding the world of cows and cars, and probably to fulfilling the rest of his Bond villain-like plans, which are even more ghastly. They want you to curtail your air travel. They claim it’s all to save the trees or something like that, but anyone with a few sparking neurons can recognize subjugation when they see it.
What’s worse, 14 American mayors are already on board with this global enslavement.
Here is the list of U.S. Marxist hell-hole mayors who are willing to deny their constituents the taste of meat, dairy for their coffee, and their privately-owned cars by 2030: Seattle, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Chicago, Miami, Boston, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C.”
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“Driving to get a cheesesteak sandwich isn’t the only fun the globalists are going after. They think your duds have to go, too, because the textile industry is somehow affecting the weather. As you can see on page 82 of the C40 blueprint for control, “The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5ºC World,” the mayors of misery believe that, “progressively,” you should be able to purchase only eight articles of clothing per year, and “ambitiously,” only three items.
Page 90 reveals the globalist’s plan to “progressively” reduce your plane travel to one 932-mile trip every two years; “ambitiously,” every three years. Kiss your yearly romp to Vegas goodbye, and smooch grandma adieu as well if she isn’t within biking distance.
There’s no mention of those 1,040 private plane trips the silk stocking brigade took to the World Economic Forum meeting Davos, which, as per Greenpeace, is equal to roughly the emissions of 350,000 cars. I guess those emissions are somehow not dangerous.”
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The globalist mayor website.
https://www.c40.org/
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The Democrats henchmen are at it again.
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Criminals?
No. These are reparation enthusiasts just getting their fair share.
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Gee, why can’t our children function as responsible adults?
Because they lack a real education. They’re indoctrinated, not educated.
The sheep says……
Baaaaaa……
https://twitter.com/UCS_Mark/status/1693968228823777583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1693968228823777583%7Ctwgr%5Ec55ddd65208bff640722c2598565373e43c212ea%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fbrettt%2F2023%2F08%2F22%2Fnew-jersey-students-learn-about-climate-change-in-ceramics-and-gym-classes-n2386501
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Matt is a lap dog, the water carrying kind.
Biden’s “laser like focus” that took him 2 weeks to pay attention and actually have a comment on it.
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America last.
So he’s now off to his 3rd vacation this month…..
Such a hard worker…. 🙄
Feel the empathy…..
Laser focused, right Matt?
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Obama knew Joe was corrupt.
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They will defend this narcissist to the enth degree yet never call out his non focus on the crisis these people find themselves in. It’s all about him…his loss of wife, his kitchen fire that almost burned down his whole house…he almost lost his cat for crying out loud!!! Focus on the majors and get to real journalism please:
Morning Joe stars kicked off the morning with a vehement defense of President Joe Biden over “right-wing media” attacks from “Trumpy outlets” they say falsely claim Biden fell asleep during his trip to disaster-torn Hawaii.
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NJ: He had to go on a couple of vacations before he ever got to Hawaii.
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I shared this late yesterday, so for those who may have missed it. . .
“Conservative pundits falsely claim Biden slept during Maui fire memorial
Using low-quality video that distorts how Biden appears, pundits made the false claim go viral on social media.”
“Higher-resolution video from the nonpartisan network C-SPAN shows that Biden looked downward for about 10 seconds while he was seated at a table. In the video, Biden watches someone who’s speaking, coughs, looks downward and then nods in agreement with the speaker. Then he looks up again. He later delivered a speech to the same audience.
The higher-resolution video shows that Biden kept his eyes open for most of the time he was looking downward. His open eyes aren’t clearly visible in the lower-quality videos.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/biden-maui-video-fake-asleep-falls-sleep-rcna101263
Here’s the fuller video:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5082027/user-clip-biden-hawaii-memorial
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I just don’t understand why the heck it matters whether he actually fell asleep or not! There are plenty of lying targets on both sides of the aisle but for some reason this sorry excuse for a president is being hedged and defended with “how dare you say he is sleeping”!!! It would be better if he would just sleep and quit pretending to actually care about Americans…and that goes for all Dems!
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Sure he’s a crook, and he’s severely compromised, but don’t you accuse him of falling asleep. Then the folks like over at CSpan, who never mention his crime sprees, might get offended.
https://twitter.com/SandraLogmein/status/1694384810385387922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1694384810385387922%7Ctwgr%5E710386d64720aa7eac1b6e2fa48bac01fcce3493%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fbrettt%2F2023%2F08%2F23%2Fjames-rosen-has-some-info-on-that-robert-l-peters-alias-used-by-joe-biden-n2386523
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Well, at least the left and NTers….
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Hahahaha….😂🤣😂🤣
Wait…. she’s serious….?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
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Come for the tourist traps, stay for the carjacking….
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People can go ahead and mention the actual bad things Biden has done. But they don’t need to make up and spread petty things like that edited and manipulated video. It’s just petty and small to make and spread those. It’s also lying.
And yes, I made similar points on Facebook posts when Trump was president and some spread false stories about him.
I know a couple people who exaggerate the truth and outright lie on a regular basis, even about little, seemingly unimportant things. As a result, there are people – myself included – who disbelieve almost everything they say. As believers, we should be as careful about the “little things” as we are about the bigger issues.
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Biden may or may not have been sleeping. I read somewhere that some reptiles sleep with their eyes open.. .some mammals too. So I guess we’ll just never know about Biden, whose behavior qualifies him for either category.
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As a follower of Christ I find it saddening when blatant lies are spewed. Like” all those Capital police” being murdered on Jan 6 because the President encouraged the people to do to such…
Just let them keep on telling the lie, hide the evidence..like not keeping records of interviews and all that insignificant documentation of their “findings”. And let the “blatant lies” of corruption in the Biden family including sleepy Joe continue to be overlooked by Democrats or not due to their hatred of Trump. There are bigger fish to fry other than Biden’s sleeping habits. And it is quite clear he is mentally compromised and doesn’t give a hoot for America…his falling asleep certainly wouldn’t be a first and it won’t be the last…
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Yes, whether or not Pres. Biden fell asleep is not a big issue compared to so much else going on. But apparently someone thought it was worth taking the time to edit the video and slow it down to mock him or whatnot, and others, including AJ, thought it was worth the time to share it.
If something is worth the time to share, than it is worth the time to learn that it was edited and manipulated.
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I think Biden will be persuaded, by family & party, to step aside. I strongly doubt he’ll wind up being the party’s nominee.
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We can disagree, even strongly, with his views and actions as president.
But that shouldn’t mean we can’t sympathize — as believers who are called to do so — with our shared humanity, his personal struggles and recognizing him as a fellow image bearer.
Life is hard.
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Splitting hairs on nodding heads while the nation is demolished . . . makes me scratch my head.
Pettiness begets pettiness and the circular dance continues, round and round we go . . .🙃
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To me, the issue was not merely whether or not he was nodding on purpose or if he had nodded off. To me, the real issue was that it was a deceptively edited/manipulated video. As Christians who believe in truth, we are supposed to care about even “little” things like that. (And things like that are not as “little” as they seem on the surface.)
The scripture that comes to mind is Matthew 23:23:
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.”
While pointing out the very important things that the scribes and Pharisees should do, Jesus also says that the “little things” are still important.
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I will leave it with this rather than belabor this back and forth.
I do not see the liberal left/Democratic party/Biden as Pharisees and Sadducee’s. In my estimation they focus upon themselves and consider not any religious focus upon their behavior.
Biden’s family has played in this farce since day one and I see that as tragic. They allow him to be used and have yet to step in and say it is enough. It is a shame. Having said that Biden has always been a deceiver and bloviator…he has always been focused upon himself as a government worker and that has not changed.
Little things grow into big things if not confronted. We are into big things now and the little ones seem to pale in comparison.
Sermonizing as to how we are to respond becomes wearisome….
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Whether or not the video was edited, from my perspective, I saw it as a bit of comic relief from the gravity of our snowballing disaster. It was a moment to be distracted from peering into the pit into which we are falling and a chance of thinking how nice it would be to have rest, a nodding off from it all. In my work, in state government, we all knew of an older man who fell asleep at long board (bored) meetings. It was an endearing characteristic of the man. I was reminded of that and truly did not take it so seriously as some who are on the watch for such injustices and sins. I do see the point of it being a slippery slope, but here it could also be used as a test, an opportunity to give grace and forgiveness as one of the 70×7 times when one feels offended. Love covers a multitude of sins. Without love we are only a sounding gong. ❤
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Kizzie,
No one edited the video I posted. You can see this by the people around him moving normally. If the video was slowed down, everyone else would be too.
But they weren’t. Joe was clearly nodding off, if not outright sleeping.
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Here’s the video I posted. Everyone is moving normally, except for Sleepy Joe, who appears to be nodding off.
The video was not doctored.
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