Jay Norvell, HC Colorado St….
not for the glasses comment (cuz who cares?)

not going for TWO in the first OT?? (After CSU scores the tying TD)
WTF?!?!?!

on the road….23 point underdog….THREE YARDS to take the Win?!?!?

HATE it when the kids play their hearts & guts out, and the coach CHOKES.
BONEHEAD move.

As expected ...

Did rivals shut down the main board?

Trump reportedly told aide, ‘You don’t know anything about the boxes’​

Donald Trump didn't just reportedly use classified materials as scratch pads, he also allegedly told an aide to play dumb when talking to the FBI.


Sept. 19, 2023, 7:00 AM CDT
By Steve Benen

By any fair measure, all of the criminal cases against Donald Trump are serious, though one seems like it’ll be the easiest to prosecute. As Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana recently put it, the former president’s classified documents case looks like “a slam dunk.”

And while that assessment seemed more than fair under the circumstances, that doesn’t mean the scandal can’t get worse. ABC News reported that the Republican’s longtime assistant, Molly Michael, told federal investigators that he “repeatedly wrote to-do lists for her” on documents marked as classified.

As described to ABC News, the aide, Molly Michael, told investigators that — more than once — she received requests or taskings from Trump that were written on the back of notecards, and she later recognized those notecards as sensitive White House materials — with visible classification markings — used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls with foreign leaders or other international-related matters.

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In other words, according to ABC News’ reporting, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, Trump had a habit of using classified materials as effectively scratch pads.

But as remarkable as these allegations are, there was another element in the story that stood out for me:

The sources said Michael also told federal investigators that last year she grew increasingly concerned with how Trump handled recurring requests from the National Archives for the return of all government documents being kept in boxes at Mar-a-Lago — and she felt that Trump’s claims about it at the time would be easy to disprove, according to the sources. Sources said that after Trump heard the FBI wanted to interview Michael last year, Trump allegedly told her, “You don’t know anything about the boxes.”

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Just so we’re all clear, “the boxes” referred to the containers filled with sensitive materials that Trump improperly took to his glorified country club after leaving the White House. His longtime assistant was almost certainly familiar with “the boxes,” which makes it all the more notable that the former president allegedly told his aide, “You don’t know anything about the boxes” after learning that Michael was poised to speak to the FBI.

It’s almost as if Trump was concerned about his assistant telling law enforcement the truth, so he took the legally dubious step of subtly encouraging her to play dumb.

Indeed, it’s reminiscent of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson being told, “The less you remember, the better,” as part of her Jan. 6 testimony.

Last month, after Trump tried to publicly discourage Georgia’s former Republican lieutenant governor from testifying before a Fulton County grand jury, New York magazine’s Jon Chait noted, “What can certainly be ascertained, without any legal training, is that this is not the behavior of an innocent man.” Similarly, innocent people — who have no idea that they’re engaged in wrongdoing — generally don’t feel the need to tell assistants, “You don’t know anything about the boxes” before they talk to the FBI.

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As previously explained, I don’t believe Willis’s racketeering-conspiracy charge states a crime. A conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit a crime — meaning a statutory offense. If the agreement is aimed at achieving a lawful objective, it is not a criminal conspiracy — period. If people who agree to a lawful objective commit crimes while pursuing that objective, then they are guilty of those crimes; that, however, does not transmogrify the lawful objective into a criminal conspiracy. Let’s say you and I agree to buy a house; finding ourselves without sufficient funds, we defraud a bank to try to get the money we need. That makes us guilty of bank fraud. We are not guilty of conspiracy to buy a house, because buying a house is not a crime.

Seeking the reversal of a presidential election is not a crime. Hence, agreeing to pursue that objective cannot be a criminal conspiracy. In fact, state law anticipates challenges to the outcome of presidential elections. So does federal law — see, e.g., Section 5(c) of presidential-election law, which provides that a state certification of electors could be “revised by any State or Federal judicial relief” prior to the meeting of the Electoral College.

Furthermore, the Constitution protects the right of citizens to petition the government, which obviously includes petitioning state legislatures and election officials. And as any Democrat who has pleaded with President Biden to cancel student debt could tell you, it is not a crime to petition the government to do something lawless. As Representative Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) could tell you, the Constitution even enables partisan-hack congressmen, in blatant violation of federal election law, to petition the vice president not to count state-certified electoral votes.

Willis, nevertheless, seeks to criminalize such constitutionally protected activity by framing it as the Georgia crime of solicitation to commit a felony. The notion is that these state legislators and election officials would not just have been flouting the civil law but would have been guilty of a criminal offense if they had taken official action to undo the election result — notwithstanding that those officials would have had immunity for even wrongheaded actions taken within their official duties.

McCarthy Capitulates Again as House GOP Implodes Spectacularly Over Spending Bill​

Members didn’t hold back from trashing their colleagues in public over the doomed plan to avoid a government shutdown.

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Rachel Olding​

Breaking News Editor
Updated Sep. 19, 2023 5:20PM EDT / Published Sep. 19, 2023 10:59AM EDT



Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appeared to capitulate for the second time in as many weeks on Tuesday, scratching a procedural vote on a spending bill after his party descended into full-on open warfare.

The short-term stopgap bill to fund the government through Oct. 31 was negotiated by leaders from across the party and was supposed to be McCarthy’s big show of unity. Instead, it descended into a nasty, public spat Monday when at least 16 Republicans pulled their support and trashed their colleagues in the process.

“It’s an unmitigated disaster right now on the majority side,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) told MSNBC on Monday as the bill unraveled in real time.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who opposed the bill’s continued funding of the office of Trump prosecutor Jack Smith, took potshots online at one of the bill’s sponsors, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who shot back, “You’ll need more than tweets and hot takes!!” Meanwhile, The Hill reported that Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) blamed “weak Speaker” McCarthy, who hit back by calling Spartz a quitter for deciding to retire at the end of her term to spend more time with her family. Gaetz called McCarthy’s response “disgraceful.”

With the bill likely doomed just 11 days out from a shutdown, and his speakership looking increasingly shaky, McCarthy pulled a scheduled 2:30 p.m. Tuesday vote that would have allowed the so-called continuing resolution proposal to move forward.

He left open the possibility of pressing ahead with a vote later in the week. “I’m just recircling it,” he insisted to reporters, “We have people talking together.”

But it comes just a week after McCarthy caved to far-right pressure by unilaterally opening an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, just another chapter in what Politico called “ultraconservative fever gripping House Republicans.”

It’s also the third time Republicans have had to pull a spending bill in as many months due to in-fighting largely fanned by hardline flame-throwers.

“Put me in the very unhappy column today,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) fumed to Fox News on Tuesday when asked if she was happy with the job McCarthy was doing.

“The conference is still heavily divided,” Womack added, according to Politico. “I think there are personality conflicts at work involving certain members and the speaker. And this is coming down to a situation where they want to fight the speaker.”

Chief among those “certain members” is Gaetz, who had made no secret of his ultimate goal of pushing McCarthy out of the speaker’s chair.

“We will likely have to endure some degree of a shutdown,” he said Tuesday as he vowed to do everything possible to defeat the continuing resolution.

The proposed stopgap bill would have funded the government until Oct. 31 while cutting federal spending in all departments bar Defense and Veterans Affairs by 8 percent, and restoring a border crackdown bill passed earlier this year. The 16 holdouts objected to various aspects, particularly the smaller-than-desired cuts to spending levels.

“I find it extremely difficult to explain or defend opposition to an 8 percent cut over 30 days in exchange for the most conservative and strong border security measure we’ve ever passed out of this body,” one of the bill’s authors, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), said, according to The Hill. “I think that is inexplicable. I think it’s malpractice.”

The party tried to hash out a way forward in a closed-door meeting on Tuesday but even that was waylaid by in-fighting, according to reports. Lawmakers reportedly lined up to ream their colleagues for sabotaging the proposal without presenting better alternatives.

Gaetz simply shrugged as he left the room, saying, “More of the same.”

While McCarthy dared his colleagues last week to “****ing try” removing him from the speakership, he’s now left trapped between emboldened ultraconservatives and moderate members who appear fed up with constantly catering to their hardcore conservative colleagues.

Somebody Left a Motion to Remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker in House Bathroom​

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AJ McDougall​

Breaking News Reporter
Published Sep. 19, 2023 4:02PM EDT

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Talk about a leak. Some House Republican is likely shuffling around the halls of the U.S. Capitol missing their draft resolution to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House, because that’s exactly what was found on a baby-changing table in a bathroom under the House floor on Tuesday.

The folded motion was discovered by Matt Laslo, an independent journalist, who posted about the find to X, formerly known as Twitter. The abandoned resolution is being put forth by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who has been threatening to force a vote to snatch McCarthy’s gavel if the speaker is not brought into “immediate, total compliance” with his demands.

In an abnormal outburst last week, McCarthy dared Gaetz to try and “file the ****ing motion.” The draft found in the bathroom is dated Sept. 15, a day after McCarthy’s expletive-studded remark.

It was unclear Tuesday to whom the motion belonged, and whether it had been left in the bathroom on purpose.

Russia has turned food, energy and even children into weapons against Ukraine, Zelenskyy says at UN​

BY JENNIFER PELTZ AND DEREK GATOPOULOS
Updated 3:24 PM CDT, September 19, 2023

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Russia is “weaponizing” everything from food and energy to abducted children in its war against Ukraine — and he warned world leaders that the same could happen to them.

“When hatred is weaponized against one nation, it never stops there,” he said at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual top-level meeting. “The goal of the present war against Ukraine is to turn our land, our people, our lives, our resources into weapons against you — against the international rules-based order.”

The war in Ukraine has deepened major global supply disruptions caused by the pandemic, driving a huge spike in food and energy prices, jolting the global economy and increasing hardship in many developing countries.

Decades-old energy supply channels to Europe from Russia, a major oil and gas producer, were halted or severely disrupted by the war due to sanctions, trade disputes, pipeline shutoffs and a major push by Western countries to find alternative sources. Both Russia and Ukraine also are major grain exporters, and Russia withdrew this past summer from a deal that allowed shipments of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.

Zelenskyy pointed to the food and fuel crunches, and he highlighted what Ukraine says were kidnappings of at least tens of thousands of children taken from Ukraine after Moscow’s invasion: “What will happen to them?”

“Those children in Russia are taught to hate Ukraine, and all ties with their families are broken. And this is clearly a genocide,” Zelenskyy said in remarks that ran 15 minutes — the meeting’s often-disregarded time limit.

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant in March for Russian President Vladimir Putin and another official, accusing them of abducting children from Ukraine. Russian officials have denied any forced transfers of children, saying some Ukrainian youngsters are in foster care.

Russia gets its chance to address the General Assembly on Saturday. Deputy U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky sat in Russia’s seat during Zelenskyy’s address.

“Did he speak?” Polyansky said with a wry smile when an Associated Press reporter asked about his reaction to the address. “I didn’t notice he was speaking. I was on my phone.”

Zelenskyy took to the world stage at a sensitive point in his country’s campaign to maintain international support for its fight. Nearly 19 months after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion, Ukrainian forces are three months into a counteroffensive that has not gone as fast or as well as initially hoped.

Ukraine and its allies cast the country’s cause as a battle for the rule of international law, for the sovereignty of every country with a powerful and potentially expansionist neighbor, and for the stability of global food and energy supplies.

“We must stand up to this naked aggression today and deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow,” U.S. President Joe Biden told the assembly Tuesday in his own speech. As he pledged support to Ukraine, there was a round of applause, including from Zelenskyy.

Russia insists its war is justified, claiming that it is defending Russian speakers in Ukraine from a hostile government and protecting Russian interests against NATO encroachment, and more.

The war has raged longer and losses have been greater than Russia hoped, and the fighting has spurred widespread international condemnation against Moscow.

But the Kremlin also has influential friends that haven’t joined the chorus of censure: China and India, for instance, have staked out neutral positions. So have many Middle Eastern and African nations. Many Latin American and Caribbean countries prefer to focus world attention on other global issues, including climate change and conflict in Africa.

Moscow is keen to display its global influence and its relationship with China and insists that it cannot be internationally isolated by the U.S. and its European allies.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is concerned that backing from its allies may be ebbing. They have supplied billions of dollars’ worth of arms but fear that their stockpiles are shrinking and that defense contractors are struggling to boost production lines.

Hours before Zelenskyy spoke at the U.N., allied defense leaders convened at a U.S. military base in Germany to discuss next steps. Some nations pledged further money and weapons. But a key sticking point is whether to supply longer-range missiles that Kyiv insists it needs.

The U.S. Congress is weighing Biden’s request to provide as much as $24 billion more in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, amid a growing partisan divide over spending on the conflict. Zelenskyy is scheduled to spend time Thursday on Capitol Hill and to meet with Biden at the White House.

After landing Monday in New York, Zelenskyy suggested that the U.N. needs to answer for allowing his country’s invader a seat at the tables of power.

If there is still “a place for Russian terrorists” in the United Nations, “it’s a question to all the members of the United Nations,” Zelenskyy said after visiting wounded Ukrainian service members at Staten Island University Hospital.

Russia is a permanent, veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, which is entrusted with maintaining international peace and security.

Zelenskyy took the United Nations to task even before the war. In one memorable example, he lamented at the General Assembly in 2021 that the U.N. was ”a retired superhero who’s long forgotten how great they once were.”

A former comedian and actor who took office in 2019, Zelenskyy later became a wartime leader, wearing military fatigues, rallying citizens at home and appearing virtually and in person before numerous international bodies.

At the Staten Island hospital, he awarded medals to military members who had lost limbs. With help from a New Jersey-based charity called Kind Deeds, 18 troops have been fitted for prostheses and are undergoing outpatient physical therapy, hospital leaders said.

“We all will be waiting for you back home,” Zelenskyy told those he met. “We absolutely need every one of you.”

How ‘Special’ Counsel David Weiss Handed Hunter Biden a Second Amendment Defense​

Andrew C. McCarthySeptember 19, 2023 12:56 PM
Hunter Biden departs federal court after a plea hearing in Wilmington, Del., July 26, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)none

Many things can be said about the Hunter Biden case. One is that it has been a clinic in bad lawyering. Here, I’ll focus again on the prosecution side: Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss, the faux special counsel who finally indicted the younger Biden on gun charges last week.

As we’ve observed, Hunter’s best hope of beating the indictment’s felony gun charges is the originalist-leaning Court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence. This has to be uncomfortable for President Joe Biden, a longtime anti-gun-rights demagogue who stands to be embarrassed as his son attacks the constitutionality of laws he has championed for decades.

Are there really five votes on the Supreme Court to gut the federal firearms laws? I don’t think so, for reasons I’ll outline in a separate post. For now, though, the point is that the president can thank Weiss for his predicament. If Hunter’s gun case had been competently prosecuted, there would be no Second Amendment issue.

Trump says it was his decision to describe the 2020 election as ‘rigged’​

“You know who I listen to? Myself,” Trump said during an interview on NBC.

By KELLY GARRITY
09/17/2023 12:44 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump said Sunday that he didn’t respect lawyers and members of his campaign who told him he lost the 2020 presidential election, and that it was his decision to buy into the theory that the election was rigged.

“In many cases, I didn’t respect them,” Trump said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when asked why he decided to ignore his lawyers and advisers who told him he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. “But I did respect others. I respected many others that said the election was rigged.”

Trump, the current frontrunner in the GOP presidential primary, is facing indictments related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In the federal case against him, prosecutors cited the fact that Trump was told repeatedly by his lawyers that he had lost the election. Trump’s campaign lost dozens of lawsuits trying to challenge his 2020 defeat in the weeks after the election, with their baseless conspiracy theories swatted away.

When pressed about how he came to the conclusion that the election was rigged, Trump said it was his own decision.
“You called some of your outside lawyers — you said they had crazy theories. Why were you listening to them? Were you listening to them because they were telling you what you wanted to hear?” NBC host Kristen Welker asked.

“You know who I listen to? Myself. I saw what happened. I watched that election, and I thought the election was over at 10 o’clock in the evening,” Trump said. “It was my decision. But I listened to some people. Some people said that,” he added later.

US surpasses 500 mass shootings in 2023

What else is there to say at this point? We know how to stop this bloodshed, but Republicans have unilaterally and proactively decided that this is precisely the kind of country we should all live in. It's good for the Thoughts and Prayers™ industry, at least.

Federal Reserve is poised to leave rates unchanged as it tracks progress toward a ‘soft landing’​

BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Updated 10:33 AM CDT, September 18, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — Since Federal Reserve officials last met in July, the economy has moved in the direction they hoped to see: Inflation continues to ease, if more slowly than most Americans would like, while growth remains solid and the job market cools.

When they meet again this week, the policymakers are likely to decide they can afford to wait and see if the progress continues. As a result, they’re almost sure to leave their key interest rate unchanged when their meeting ends Wednesday.

The cooling of inflation suggests that the Fed is edging toward a peak in the series of rate hikes it unleashed in March of last year — the fastest such pace in four decades, one that has made borrowing much costlier for consumers and businesses.

The focus for Wall Street investors and analysts now is shifting toward what comes next. Some clues could come in the updated interest rate projections it releases each quarter and at a news conference with Chair Jerome Powell.

Another rate hike this year will likely remain on the table, and Fed officials may project fewer cuts in their key rate next year than they did in June. This would underscore the Fed’s determination to keep rates elevated well into next year as it strives to get inflation down to its 2% target.

Inflation pressures showed signs of persistence in two government reports last week, adding some uncertainty to the outlook. Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist, said she thinks a “soft landing,” in which the Fed manages to curb inflation without causing a recession, remains possible. But she cautioned that inflation might stay higher for longer than the central bank expects. Or, she suggested, the cumulative effects of the Fed’s 11 rate hikes could ultimately tip the economy into recession.

“We are at a point where things could plausibly go in a lot of different directions,” Sahm said. “They’re going to react as it unfolds.”

Still, most economic data in the past two months has pointed in a positive direction. Inflation in June and July, excluding volatile food and energy prices, posted its two lowest monthly readings in nearly two years.

And signs have grown that the job market isn’t as robust as it had been, which helps keep a check on inflation: The pace of hiring has moderated. The number of unfilled openings fell sharply in June and July. And the number of Americans who have started seeking work has jumped. This has brought labor demand and supply into better balance and eased the pressure on employers to raise pay to attract and keep workers, which can lead them to raise prices to offset higher labor costs.

“That was a hell of a good week of data we got last week,” Christopher Waller, a member of the Fed’s Board of Governors who is close to Powell, said in an interview on CNBC this month. “It’s going to allow us to proceed carefully. There is nothing saying that we need to do anything imminent anytime soon.”

Powell’s own speech late last month at the Fed’s annual conference of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, stressed his belief that the Fed can act in a measured fashion.

“We will proceed carefully,” he said, “as we decide whether to tighten further or instead to hold the policy rate constant and await further data.”

Last week’s inflation data underscored, though, that even a soft landing may not be a smooth one. On a monthly basis, consumer prices jumped 0.6%, the most in more than a year and 3.7% from a year earlier, the second straight such increase.

The updated projections the Fed will issue Wednesday will include estimates of where its policymakers think their key rate is headed. In June, they projected two more hikes, and in July they imposed one of them, raising their benchmark rate to roughly 5.4%, its highest level in 22 years.

Last week’s inflation readings might lead the Fed to forecast one additional rate hike this year. And some economists say the policymakers may forecast just one or two rate cuts in 2024, fewer than the three they envisioned in June, in part to dispel any overly optimistic expectations on Wall Street for deeper rate reductions.

“They’re going to want to hedge that risk,” said Jose Torres, chief economist at Interactive Brokers. “Market participants are just a little too optimistic about inflation.”

Even some moderate members of the Fed’s interest-rate committee have said recently that they may have more work to do to conquer inflation.

“I expect we’ll need to hold rates at restrictive levels for some time,” said Susan Collins, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. “And while we may be near, or even at, the peak for policy rates, further tightening could be warranted, depending on the incoming data.”

But even more hawkish officials — those who typically prefer higher rates to fight inflation — are acknowledging that the Fed risks acting too aggressively and causing a recession. That represents a shift from even a few months ago, when the Fed’s hawks worried more about doing too little to fight inflation.

Lorie Logan, president of the Dallas Fed, said that “we must proceed gradually, weighing the risk that inflation will be too high against the risk of dampening the economy too much.”

This week’s Fed meeting comes as central banks around the world are mostly raising rates to fight inflation, which spiked after the pandemic hampered global supply chains, causing shortages and higher prices. Inflation worsened after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sent oil and other commodity prices spiking.

The European Central Bank raised its benchmark rate last week for the 10th time to 4%, the highest level on record since the euro was established in 1999, though it signaled that it could be its last hike. The Bank of England is also expected to increase its rate when it meets Thursday. The Bank of Japan, which meets Friday, is under less pressure to boost rates, although it has taken steps to allow Japanese long-term rates to tick up.

Rising rates overseas have led to higher yields on U.S. Treasurys, which are needed to attract investors.

“Globally, monetary policy is on a tightening track, and that puts some upward pressure on rates in the U.S.,” said William English, a former senior Fed official who is now a professor at Yale School of Management.

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Biden Lawyer Parrots Joe's Lies, Then Offers the Most Ridiculous Defense of 'The Big Guy' Yet​

Anyway, last Thursday, during an appearance on CNN, Lowell again declared that Hunter Biden "did not share" his business or his profits with Joe, while making the most ridiculous excuse yet to justify Biden's interactions with Hunter's "business associates."

I can tell you that Hunter did not share his business with his dad. I can tell you that he did not share money from his businesses with his dad. And as the evidence out there, his dad, like all good parents, tried to help Hunter when Hunter needed that help.

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Have you stopped laughing at that last line?

Perfect. Let's repeat it: "[L]ike all good parents, [Joe] tried to help Hunter when Hunter needed that help."

Really, Mr. Lowell? That's it?

As a member of the Biden-Harris campaign’s National Advisory Board, I wanted to reach out about the Republican debate that's coming up next week here in California.

None of the extreme MAGA candidates who will be on that stage have any real agenda to help everyday Americans. That's why they're hellbent on dividing us -- because we know their ideas are unpopular, their policies are out of touch, and their radical message is a threat to our democracy.

While the Republican presidential candidates use their airtime to divide voters, I have an important message: Californians don't care for your hateful and divisive ideology, and we're united to defeat you in 2024.

Extreme Republicans’ views are from a frightened minority who are unwilling to accept that the future of this country is stronger when we're diverse and give everyone -- regardless of their background, income, or ZIP code -- a chance to succeed.

Together, we’ll refuse to stand by and let their extreme agenda take over.

Special Counsel to Seek Hunter Biden Indictment This Month: DOJ​

AJ McDougall​

Breaking News Reporter
Published Sep. 06, 2023 5:34PM EDT



The special counsel overseeing the federal investigation into Hunter Biden said he intends to seek an indictment on gun charges by the end of the month, the Justice Department said in a Wednesday filing.

“The Speedy Trial Act requires that the Government obtain the return of an indictment by a grand jury by Friday, September 29, 2023, at the earliest,” David Weiss’ prosecutors wrote. “The Government intends to seek the return of an indictment in this case before that date.”

Biden, 53, is expected to be charged with two felony counts related to a gun he purchased in 2018, when he was an admitted drug user, according to Politico. The looming indictment comes after a plea deal he’d struck with prosecutors—in which he agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax charges—fell apart after a judge questioned the agreement in July. Weiss, who was named special counsel in the case last month, may also seek other charges against Biden in Washington, D.C. and California.

After Weiss’ filing on Wednesday, a lawyer for Biden filed an update saying he has followed and will continue to comply with the requirements for his pretrial release.

As impeachment becomes inevitable, the President's defense schemes are predictable​

The strategies of saving the Biden presidency from an impeachment and a Senate trial despite overwhelming evidence of his corruption are starting to emerge.

• The Family is confronted with damning evidence from the laptop,
• from the testimonies of Hunter’s business associates Bobulinksi and Archer,
• from Ukrainian oligarchs and Viktor Shokin,
• from IRS whistleblowers,
• from FBI writs, 1043D
• from a likely pseudonymous Biden trove of 4,000 emails to his son and associates,
• and from the absolute paranoia of a White House that must constantly change its narrative of denials to adjust to a growing portrait of utter corruption, bribery, and perhaps even the treason of warping U.S. policy to fit Biden family interests.

Here's the defensive DEEP dive.

Features Lincoln Riley and Raesjon Davis. Full transcript after the interviews.


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