Jonathan Turley Knocks Down Claims That Joe Biden Has To Receive Bribe Directly: ‘Pretty Fallacious’ | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley knocked down claims on Thursday that President Joe Biden must have received payment directly to be liable in his family's overseas business dealings.

    Turley suggested that while evidence of the president receiving money from a foreign agent would be the strongest proof, there is no standard in law that suggests Biden would have had to receive a bribe directly to be found guilty of illegal behavior.

    "There's been repeated statements that you need to show that President Biden accepted direct money in order for this to constitute a benefit even under criminal cases, the deal with bribery, extortion, the Hobbs Act. The courts actually have rejected that and said that money going to family members is, in fact, a benefit," said Turley while he testified in front of the House Oversight Committee on Thursday.

    "Obviously, the strongest case is if you have a direct payment, but this idea that you can have millions going to a politician's family and that's not a benefit, I think is pretty fallacious," the legal scholar said.

    No direct payment to Biden made by a foreign agent has been found, though some evidence has suggested that the president had knowledge of, and may have played a role in, his family's business schemes.

    One of Hunter Biden's former business partners, Devon Archer, has said that much of the family's business revolved around selling the "illusion of access" to the Biden family patriarch, who has been one of the top officeholders in the United States government for decades. Archer also said that the president had at times spoken and walked into meetings his son was holding with foreign businessmen.

    Earlier this week, House Republicans released evidence that Hunter received more than $250,000 in 2019 from Chinese business partners. The money came in the form of a wire transfer that listed the president's Delaware address as the beneficiary. At the time, Hunter had been living in California.


    The president has denied having any involvement in his son's or other members of his family's business dealings with foreign agents. When House Republicans released hundreds of pages of IRS whistleblower documents earlier this week, the White House continued to downplay the evidence against the president.

    "House Republicans have again cried wolf and provided no evidence tying President Biden to wrongdoing," a White House spokesperson told Politico. "Instead of wasting time with media stunts trumpeting half-baked conspiracy theories, House Republicans should realize the clock is ticking - it's time they stop trying to distract and start focusing on priorities that matter to the American people, like doing their jobs to prevent a government shutdown that would inflict real pain on working families."

poll#201

Considering what real news is available for all to witness, and in great specificity, should one pursue what is true outside of the channeled realm of the corrupt corporate /legacy media, and: Is Institutionalized Corruption real, and is it a hindrance to sustaining our Constitutional Republic now, and for future generations of American citizens?

  Yes

  No

  Not sure

475 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

poll#183

Considering that the 2024 Presidential Election has fully begun, and the Biden Administration has consequently fully weaponized the Biden DOJ /FBI to attack all political opponents under the penalty of felonious judgement for many of the same alleged crimes, or worse, committed by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden himself: Are you comfortable with this level of overt corruption within the Executive Branch?

  Yes; if Democratic Socialists are to complete the remaking of this "Democracy," the End will Always Justify the Means.

  No; in a Constitutional Republic, the Rule of Law is paramount, which means the law MUST be administered evenly

  Who cares; I am just so ambivalent to all this grown-up stuff.

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poll#204

After nearly 8 months of the United States House of Representatives' Oversight Committee hearings, House Speaker Mike Johnson is pursuing an Impeachment Inquiry into the strong allegations of Bribery, Influence Peddling, Money laundering and possible Treason regarding the Biden Family Shell Corporations' business dealings with foreign nations that are adversarial to our survival: Is it prudent and wise for the Republican controlled U.S. House to investigate this Democratic Socialist President?

  No, Democratics should never be investigated because they are so superior to their Republican counterparts, and care so much more.

  Yes, in a Constitutional Republic, bound by the Rule of Law, no one is above the law, and that law must be applied evenly.

  Not sure ... Now, what got all this started?

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poll#165

In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

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