The Biden Presidency

Project much? They're all the headlines from the Washington Post that mention Biden from the past two weeks. There was no selection or winnowing process. There's no need to read the articles, just the headline is enough. You said that the media is defending and protecting Biden, so in your mind, how are they doing that? Absolutely, your wish is my command, oh goal post mover, since now apparently how WaPo protects and defends Biden depends upon what they've said about Trump. Do you want DeSantis, too? All the Republican candidates? Anyway, here are all the Trump headlines from same last two weeks as the Biden list. Now you should be able to describe for us how WaPo is protecting and defending Biden.

• Indictment paints tale of Chinese interests and 2016 Trump campaign
  
• Trump-DeSantis not inevitable
  
• Trump attorneys ask Georgia courts to block election probe
  
• The staggering scale of Donald Trump’s speaking fees
  
• Trump Organization staffer told they could be charged in documents case
  
• Biden shows why he can be trusted on national security — and Trump can’t
  
• Trump came to Helsinki to kowtow to Putin. Biden came to stand up to him.
  
• Why Can’t Republicans Quit Trump?
  
• Neither Trump nor DeSantis will get the GOP nomination
  
• Trump reveals new details about $1 billion in earnings in revised filing
  
• An Iowa Christian leader clashes with Trump. Will he support DeSantis?
  
• Prosecutor analyzes request for Trump trial delay
  
• Trump reveals new details about $1 billion in earnings in revised filing
  
• Arizona escalates probe into alleged efforts to swing election for Trump
  
• Trump reveals new details about $1 billion in earnings in revised filing
  
• Judge Aileen Cannon faces her first Trump documents test
  
• Arizona escalates probe into alleged efforts to swing election for Trump
  
• A prosecutor analyzes Trump lawyers’ request for indefinite trial delay
  
• Trump reveals new details about $1 billion in earnings in revised filing
  
• Things Trump is trying to dodge: A video game
  
• Biden hails newest NATO member, drawing contrast with Trump Helsinki trip
  
• Trump conjures up a phony dispute with Ron DeSantis over China tariffs
  
• Judge orders former Trump aide Bannon to pay lawyers nearly $500,000
  
• DOJ will no longer intervene on behalf of Trump in Carroll defamation suit
  
• Trump attacks Iowa’s Republican governor. She’s not his first target.
  
• Trump’s GOP rivals struggling as they try hodgepodge of attacks on him
  
• New grand jury likely to decide Trump’s fate in Georgia election probe
  
• Biden is quietly reversing Trump’s sabotage of Obamacare
  
• Trump seeks major trial delay, citing 2024 campaign and legal factors
  
• Trump seeks trial delay, citing legal and political factors
  
• All the ways Trump, not his foes, sought to ‘weaponize’ the government
  
• The problem with the ‘it’s still early’ line from non-Trump Republicans
  
• Who might be Trump’s pick for vice president?
  
• Trump is controlling the strings
  
• Special counsel probes involving Trump cost $5.4 million through March
  
• Prosecutors in Trump classified documents case are facing threats
  
• Prosecutors in Trump classified documents case are facing threats
  
• Prosecutors in Trump classified documents case are facing threats
  
• Yes, Trump is getting more reckless on social media
  
• Trump aide Walt Nauta pleads not guilty in classified documents case
  
• New details of Trump Mar-a-Lago search warrant request unsealed
  
• The most capable Trump primary opponent isn’t in the race
  
• New details of Trump Mar-a-Lago search warrant request unsealed
  
• New details of Trump Mar-a-Lago search warrant request unsealed
  
• Trump raises $35 million in second quarter, advisers say
  
• What if Trump is successful in delaying his trial? Eugene Robinson answered your questions.
  
• You can’t be more conservative than Trump when he defines conservatism
  
• Iran-contra case shows risk of long delays in Trump’s trial are very real
  
• Trump company’s merger partner offers $18 million in settlement to SEC
  
• If anyone should know that primary voters change their minds, it’s Trump
  
• How Trump has flaunted sensitive information: A history
  

And there are Democrats who have become more conservative or joined the Republican party. How is politicians changing ideologies and affiliations evidence that Christopher Wray's have changed such that he is no longer a conservative or member of the Republican party, because he very much is still a conservative member of the Republican party.The Republican party is providing an excellent example of eating their own. Look at what happened to Republicans like Raffensberger in Georgia, and Geraldine Roll, Lisa Marra, Lynn Constabile and Leslie Hoffman in Arizona. Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer is suing Kari Lake over her vitriol and threats at the same time that she's receiving mention as a possible Trump running mate.For Republicans, when things don't go their way they blame the people who happen to be in change at the time, whether they did anything wrong or improper or not. As far as anyone can tell, in the vast majority of cases they were just doing their jobs when a Republican lost an election. Republicans now seem to believe that Republican candidates cannot lose an election unless something nefarious has taken place, and rather than accepting that there's no evidence of wrongdoing they instead turn these people's lives into a living hell. Some have had to go into hiding.Republicans are following the same playbook with Christopher Wray. He's just doing his job, but when the FBI was unable to find sufficient support for the many conspiracy theories Republicans have just made up out of thin air he was castigated before a House congressional committee.Republicans are just going to have to accept that Christopher Wray's FBI was unable to find the evidence they wanted because it doesn't exist and not because Wray has suddenly become a Biden supporting liberal. You can't just present a bare link. Please present the evidence for how the DOJ protected Hunter Biden and his father. I skimmed the article - good luck. It was found in the room where people taking White House tours are required to leave their cell phones. Aren't his committee's investigations still ongoing with no report released yet? Here's the latest press release I was able to find, from about a month ago: Comer: Oversight Committee’s Investigation into the Bidens’ Influence Peddling Continues:

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer:

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“Let’s be clear: the Department of Justice’s charges against President Biden’s son Hunter reveal a two-tiered system of justice. Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery. These charges against Hunter Biden and sweetheart plea deal have no impact on the Oversight Committee’s investigation. We will not rest until the full extent of President Biden’s involvement in the family’s schemes are revealed.”

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Given that Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene sit on the committee, it's no wonder it is high on innuendo and low on facts. Here are all the articles with Comer's name in the headlines at the Washington Post for the past few months. What do you believe was covered up?

• Comer prepares legislation that could allow Commanders stadium at RFK
  
• Comer releases contempt resolution targeting FBI Director Wray
  
• Comer cancels Wray contempt hearing after reaching agreement on document
  
• James Comer’s bribery allegations are out on a very shaky limb
  
• FBI director Chris Wray to face contempt of Congress vote, Comer says
  
• Rep. James Comer is looking for anti-Biden evidence. Also, his informant.
  
• Comer threatens to subpoena U.S. attorney ahead of oversight hearing on D.C.
  
• Comer sounds alarm about presidential family members not named Kushner
  
• Democrats allege Comer has withheld evidence, misrepresented witnesses
  
• Comer’s ‘oversight’ is focused on phony scandals
  
• James Comer is live-streaming his fishing expedition
  
• Comer stymies probe into Trump tax records, House Democrats say
  

I wish you made getting at the truth a higher priority than engaging in "a little more battle."--Percy

Just having fun. It's not really a goal post move, and it really does depend on how they've treated Trump. There was not ONE headline about Biden in your list that implied that he's ever done anything illegal or shady. There were a few political things about others disagreement with him, something that happens with all presidents of course, but nothing like;BIDEN TRIES TO UNCONSTITUNALLY FORGIVE STUDENT LOAN DEBT WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL.BIDEN MAKES NO STATEMENT CONCERNING COCAINE FOUND IN WHITE HOUSEBIDEN REVERSES COURSE ON DECISION TO SEND CLUSTER AMMUNITION TO UKRAINE.RECENT TESTIMONY SHOWS BIDEN LASHES OUT IN PROFANITY LACED TIRADES AGAINST WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS, AFTER EARLIER IN HIS ADMINISTRATION, HE SAID HE WOULD FIRE ANYONE WHO TREATED CO-WORKERS WITH DISRESPECT.That's about all I can quickly think about for the last 2 weeks, think of what that would look like if we went back two years.Now for the Trump headlines, roughly HALF of them imply illegality on Trump's part. Dozens of them in the Trump headlines, none in the Biden's headlines. I guess in the last 2 weeks there has been no new speculation about Biden's suspected foreign bribes,How the Bidens used shell companies to enrich themselvesI hope it's now clear on how the WaPo protects Biden. It's not because Trump did more things suspected of being illegal than Biden has, most of those Trump headlines were based on political speculation, not hardcore facts. The U.S. founders used the actual term BRIBE as a reason for impeachment. Biden is suspected of bribery by foreign nations much more than Trump ever was.

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Wray also faced questions about one of the most recent violations of FISA guidelines: the surveillance of a former Trump adviser during 2016 using faulty warrant applications.

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Wray offered virtually no insight into what the FBI is doing to investigate allegations of illegal foreign lobbying and money laundering by members of the Biden family, even as evidence of misconduct in that investigation mounts.

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Nine takeaways from FBI Director Christopher Wray's testimony | Washington ExaminerThen why do his recent actions suggest that he might be a Democrat now? Democrats don't do comparable things? One of the WaPo headlines was "Why can't Republicans quit Trump?" Polls show that a majority of Democrats don't want Biden to seek a second term. His ratings are currently below 40%. I didn't notice a headline "Why can't Democrats quit Biden?" That's just something you and I will never agree on, time might make the truth about Wray more clear in the next year or two.

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Between 2018 and 2023, you would not believe the acrobatics that Biden-friendly DOJ bureaucracy went through to try to kill the case.

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It's complicated, but it's summarized well in that link. You skimmed too fast. Yes, just like a lot of investigations into Trump were ongoing with no official report released, but that didn't stop the mainstream media from spending a lot of time giving the play-by-play, complete with their Democrat friendly speculation and guesses. That goes both ways of course, I feel the same way about committees with the likes of Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell. There hasn't been ONE WORD about any of it on ABC World News Tonight. And probably also not on CBS or NBC's evening news programs. The most powerful weapon the mainstream media has can be summed up in one word, "subliminal". Here's the definition;

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existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual:

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Subliminal Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.comThe danger in the liberal mainstream news isn't necessarily in the pages of the WaPo or the NY Times, or anyplace people go to specifically get their news. The evening news broadcasts have the power. A huge percentage of voters don't pay much attention at all to national politics. When they get home at the end of the day, their television comes on for them to get local news, local crime, road closures, weather reports. They don't care much about national politics, but the television stays on while the half hour national news recaps (har) come on. Some of them aren't paying enough attention to know that they're listening in the background to a liberal entertainment show, not a recap of actual national news. Their kids (future voters) might be playing on the floor, listening to climate change hype, and thinking that there have NEVER in history been extreme weather, or hot weather in summer. It terrifies them of course, and the Republicans whose fault they're told it is.Many Biden voters have said they'd have never voted for him if they'd have known about the Hunter Biden laptop story that the evening news broadcasts completely covered up. Those voters alone would have swung the 2020 election for Trump. ABC World News Tonight claims to be the most watched program on television. I'm sure that's right, but they can only go by the number of sets that are ON, not on whose watching it, or paying varying degrees of attention to it. Those people in the subliminal clutches of the evening news, have mostly forgotten about the southern border, inflation, etc. They'll quickly forget about cocaine in the White House. They sure wouldn't forget it if it had been found in the Trump White House.Gotta go now, almost time for the evening news. I'll now learn how hot it is due to Republican use of fossil fuels, and JANUARY 6TH, JANUARY 6TH, JANUARY 6TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on Marc, you remember the Nixon days, Chuck Colson, G. Gordon Liddy? That coke was a plant and only a motivated dickhead would deny this. And if it had been the Trump White House no one would have objected to blaming one of the Trump kids since that’s how they went through the campaign anyway. Yes Republicans! Subsidize that coal! More depletion allowance breaks on oil fields! Turn away from renewables. And always, always remember INSURRECTION, INSURRECTION, INSURRECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Damn the constitution! Full sedition ahead!

Oh, you're one of those, say something terrible and then follow it with, "Hey, just having fun," as if that makes it okay. So when you said the liberal media protects and defends Biden, what you really meant was that Trump has a great many legal difficulties for the news media to report on, while Biden has none, so you want the news media to report on the made up ones, like the ones we hear snippets of from the Comer committee. But Biden hasn't done anything illegal or shady. I can't find this anywhere on the web. Did you actually type this in yourself in all caps, including the misspelling of "unconstitutionally". Anyway, this issue is older than two weeks, that's why there was nothing about it on my list.But it's not uncommon for presidential initiatives to be challenged to the Supreme Court. There's nothing shady or illegal about it. The Supreme Court ruling came out a little over two weeks ago, and their argument that Congress controls the purse strings seems correct. Certainly there's some amount of presidential discretion, but it's not unlimited and the billions of dollars involved do seem like it should fall within the purview of Congress. And you conclude something shady or illegal about Biden not commenting? The Secret Service reported that about 500 people came through the cell-phone storage room in the applicable timeframe and that they saw no way to figure out who left the cocaine behind, given that there was no DNA found on the package. You find this illegal or shady? Shouldn't the concerns be more along ethical/moral lines? They're banned in 123 countries. WaPo reported in detail on the cluster bomb issue, there were four articles about it in my list, I don't see how you missed them. There's no WaPo article because it was an Axios scoop (Old yeller: Biden's private fury). Axios is a left leaning news outlet. It's disappointing to learn this, but it's not illegal or shady, though perhaps staff should register complaints with the appropriate department about a hostile work environment. That's because Trump is under criminal investigation in multiple jurisdictions and has been indicted in two, one in Manhattan for illegal business practices, and another in Florida for mishandling confidential government documents. The reason for the disparity in the number of reports of alleged illegal actions is, again, because Trump is being investigated in multiple jurisdictions and Biden is under investigation in none.And of course WaPo consistently reports on the Comer committee's activities. Is that what you wanted reported in the news, speculation? If evidence is uncovered of Biden accepting foreign bribes then it should be investigated and if found true then he should be held accountable. If he accepted bribes while in office then he should be impeached.But there's no evidence. There's only Republicans making up stories that they know will get their base really steamed.You next included a bare link and said nothing about it, I won't either. What's not clear is why you think you've shown this. Except that Trump is under investigation for multiple criminal activities and has already been indicted in two. Biden isn't under any criminal investigations, and he certainly hasn't been indicted. No, not most, and I explicitly stated that I included articles, columns and editorials. There's no evidence that Biden accepted bribes. He is not under any suspicion. If Comer's committee actually finds some evidence then Biden should be held accountable. Like I said, you Republicans like to eat your own. If you want to believe Wray is a closet Democrat now I won't try to dissuade you. WaPo has not been shy about reporting on Biden's polling numbers. Obviously support for Biden is fading among many Democrats. Is this the same as how the evidence that the 2020 election was stolen will be made public soon? It's still a bare link. If you'd like the article's arguments and evidence to become part of the discussion then you must describe them yourself. But I listed a bunch of WaPo articles about the Comer committee's investigation into Biden. It isn't the media's fault that Trump did so many things worth investigating. How many times have I explained to you the limited range of coverage a half-hour nightly news program can provide? You complain about them all the time, you must have a masochistic streak that keeps you watching them. I wouldn't know. You can only get a tiny sliver of news on a half-hour nightly news program. Your time might be better spent. The party terrifying people with fictions is the Republicans. There was nothing regarding illegalities on the Hunter Biden laptop. I think you're obsessed with television. Enjoy.--Percy

There's an apropos column in today's post: The MAGA persecution complex is eating itself to death. It echos what I was just saying. A few excerpts:

Columnist Greg Sargent at the Washington Post:

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) chaired a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week that purported to expose the FBI’s “weaponization” against conservatives. But GOP lawmakers floated so many allegations and conspiracy theories that the spectacle devolved into a haphazard, scattered mess with no storylines developed in meaningful depth.
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Blame it on the “MAGA persecution complex” — the vast array of outlets in the right-wing media ecosystem that incentivizes GOP lawmakers to pander to conservative victimization and grievance. It’s feasting on so many claims of persecution that it’s essentially eating itself to death.

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At last week’s hearing, Republicans alleged that the FBI investigated conservative parents at school board meetings. (That’s entirely baseless.) They insisted FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, a registered Republican, personally sicced the FBI on conservatives. (Wray called this “insane.”) They claimed the FBI has eagerly persecuted Trump. (The FBI has actually been rule-bound and cautious.) They railed that FBI plants incited the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. (The central evidence of this has collapsed.)

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Republicans even insisted the FBI is riddled with anti-Catholic bias based on a field-level memo about radical right-wing Catholics that is indeed problematic. But Wray admitted to a serious error, declaring it subject to internal review. Presenting one example of abuse at a huge agency as proof of another vast conspiracy is silly.

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The barrage of these allegations and others — the FBI is covering up President Biden’s bribery, it’s investigating would-be GOP informants, it’s colluding with social media giants to censor conservatives — is dizzying. Storylines eclipse each other before any can gel into something coherent.

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“Good oversight may start with a theory, but it gathers facts before reaching conclusions,” Brendan Buck, a former senior House GOP leadership aide, told me. “These committees are starting with conclusions and then trying — and mostly failing — to find facts to support them.”

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Terrible? It's just an ancient, outdated KKK greeting. Did that break forum rules? It's nothing compared some of the names I've been called here. But really, you should just lighten up. Learn to laugh at yourself. If you don't, I'll be glad to laugh at yourself. Nothing made up, Comer has bank records, he has evidence of Biden-created shell companies, the list is long. Tomorrow should be interesting, a hearing involving 2 whistleblowers, a 3rd FBI agent has recently corroborated what they've said. I won't have time to watch, but I'll get recaps of it. We'll see if the Democrats have anything besides anger.Trump has legal problems all right, floozies from decades ago claiming he stared at them too long. Much different than Biden's treason I guess. Very comparable to several derogatory Trump headlines from your list. "The staggering scale of Trump's speaking fees...", "Trump reveals new details about $1 billion in earnings..." several other headlines there. And if it would have happened in the Trump white house, they'd have figured it out. The bias in the FBI and DOJ do seem to be bleeding into the Secret Service. That wasn't the point. The phrase "REVERSES COURSE", was constantly used by the liberal pundits and the supposed unbiased news anchors every time Trump made a decision in reaction to changing events. That phrase is forgotten now when referring to anything Biden does. That, and the "fixer" reference to Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, (while Biden's personal lawyer Bob Bauer is / was NEVER referenced like that with Biden, or when he served under Obama for that matter.) It's this kind of cleverness and distortion by the news media that could have very well tipped the scales for Biden just as much as the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up did.Nothing can be done about this of course, in the end, it's the largely disinterested public's gullibility. And it's their fault. And you'll keep right on claiming that there is no bias in the mainstream media. And the public doesn't know about it, evening reports won't touch it. 15 minutes of the half hour reports would be all over it if it were Trump. And Biden is under criminal investigation for foreign bribery by the recently elected Republican congress. The public gets one blasted to them for the past 6 years, the other for the past 6 months? Not so much. How many points the angry Democrats score tomorrow will determine how much of that hearing the general public sees on the evening news. And the evening news, where so many voters get a glimpse of what's going on, never touch it. Why yes, there is / was tons of it when it came to Trump / Russian collusion. There's a lot of it in the anti-Trump headlines you posted above. Comer has bank records, and other evidence. The time will come when it will be all over conservative news, and the mainstream will have to report it one or two days at least, to keep from losing still more viewers and advertising revenue. Maybe tomorrow, then after a few days, back to JANUARY 6TH!!!! Just like the southern border a few months ago, just like cocaine in the white house. It's clear only by looking at the two lists of headlines you posted, that is, if the person looking doesn't live in the tiny mainstream news bubble, and doesn't know what's going on with Biden. They've had over 6 years to attack Trump, complete with indictments. Speaker Pelosi blocked any investigations of Biden the first two years of his presidency. Give it a little more time, starting tomorrow. Could be, just like evidence of how Trump / Russian collusion was proven a lie, oh wait it was!! Very quietly briefed to the public one or two days, then back to JANUARY 6TH!!!! How about this; between 2018 and 2023, the Biden-friendly DOJ, combined with the complicit news media, went through a lot of acrobatics to keep the public from seeing things about Biden they don't want them to see.Was that too short? Does that break forum rules? About as many times as I've explained how influential those half hour programs are, how many millions more get their recaps of news there, rather than headlines in newspapers, many of those headlines buried in the back pages. It's well spent, it's important to get some ideas of how voters get their news, about just how the biased news media misinforms and distorts. When legal action against them is or isn't taken. When legal action is taken against conservative news outlets. If there is bias in how the legal system treats different legal actions against different news organizations. Nothing but plenty of suspicion. I'm obsessed about cover-ups.
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Of course it echos, the mainstream media often has one person come up with a catch phrase that amuses them, and the entire news media goes wild with it. This week it's "eating their own", "eating itself to death", the "eating" term is now the favorite. Google it, you'll find CNN, MSNBC, many others are delighting themselves with it. Here you go;republicans eating their own - Google SearchFox shows varieties of those montages many times with the latest terms they all jump on, it's hilarious to watch. "Fixer" was a big one back during the Trump presidency.Just a moment...While "eating their own" is a fun one for them, does it really have any depth? Is is supposed to imply that prominent Republicans will fade into obscurity now? Or that Republican voters will now flock to the party of A.O.C. and John Fetterman? Did the Democrats "eat their own" when they were yammering about Trump / Russian collusion?Republican accusations of social media giants censoring conservatives is "dizzying", according to your c/p, when there was no secret of them censoring Trump when he was president? Twitter files prove that there really was conservative censoring of others besides just Trump. Is that proof dizzying?

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But GOP lawmakers floated so many allegations and conspiracy theories that the spectacle devolved into a haphazard, scattered mess with no storylines developed in meaningful depth.

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Republicans have a LOT TO DO, a lot to catch up on. With speaker Pelosi's blockage of any investigations during Biden's first two years, and all the corruption of Biden's eight years of his vice presidency, it only appears to be a "scattered mess" to those who are afraid of it. It will take some time, Democrats will really have to be on their toes to shield the public from it as much as they can.

Oh, an old KKK greeting with no smiley. Nothing terrible at all. What fun! Your sense of humor might need some calibration. Comer *says* he has "obtained thousands of pages of financial records revealing the Biden family and associates’ complicated network of companies set up during Joe Biden’s vice presidency and the millions the Bidens received from foreign sources." (Comer Reveals New Evidence in Biden Family’s Influence Peddling Schemes - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability). That was over two months ago and Comer's committee has still released no report. There's no data or evidence for the news media to examine.If Comer's committee is able to prove his allegations true then Biden should be held accountable. But the standard is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, not innuendo. By the way, here's a diagram of Trump shell companies drawn from information in his 2018 financial disclosure forms: When there's a similar diagram for the Biden family you let us know. You're referring to today's House Oversight and Accountability committee's Hearing with IRS Whistleblowers About the Biden Criminal Investigation. This document outlines what the committee will be doing today:

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Whistleblowers from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) who worked on and helped lead the Hunter Biden tax investigation have come forward to provide information to Congress regarding possible mishandling of the investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The two whistleblowers’ accounts indicate the investigation has not been handled in an appropriate and fair manner. The whistleblowers also allege retaliation by the IRS since they came forward to Congress to provide this information.

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If criminal and treasonous activities were carried on by the Bidens then I hope they are uncovered and the Biden's held accountable, but Comer still seems to be seeking the evidence that a couple months ago he claimed he already had. One gets the feeling that he just likes creating occasions where he can say things like "Biden crime family." Not sure if you're referring to Daniels or Carroll. If Carroll then that's something I've never mentioned, a civil case brought by Jeanne Carol against Trump for defamation, which Trump lost. She had previously brought a second case which is moving more slowly, and Trump is expected to lose that one, too.If you're referring to the Daniels case, then Trump is under state indictment in the Manhattan district for illegal business practices engineered to hide payoffs. And Trump is under federal indictment in Florida for mishandling confidential documents. You'll have to explain the similarity you're seeing because I don't think it's apparent to anyone else. A column about how much larger Trump speaking fees are than Biden or Clinton or about where he earned his money in his post-presidential period seems like a completely different animal from not commenting on cocaine found in a part of the White House with tourist access. Oh, yeah, the Trump White House was all-knowing and all-powerful. Why does it make sense to you that immature braggadocio like this has any credibility. You're engaged in "my dad can beat up your dad" level stuff, not informed discussion. I don't think anyone knows what you're on about. You believe "reverses course" had a negative connotation for Trump but not for Biden? How is a headline that includes the phrase "reverses course" an example of protecting and defending Biden? Most of the press I've seen about the cluster bomb decision has been neutral to negative. If the reasoning they provided is true, that they had to provide them in order that Ukraine have something to fire at the Russians because we're running out of normal munitions to supply to Ukraine then that reflects mismanagement of the supply effort, since the run rate is an obvious factor to track. Handling illegal payoffs to tryst mates is something fixers do, and it's what Michael Cohen did, so he's a fixer. What are you alleging Bauer did that would earn the label of fixer? Can I guess that it will be more innuendo? Until you have evidence of Bauer engaging in fixer type activities, there's no "cleverness or distortion" here. It's all in your mind. We're not talking about bias. You claimed that the mainstream media protects and defends Biden, and I asked for examples. You have yet to show any. Everything you've said so far seems like the emanations of a mind not thinking clearly and that doesn't understand the difference between evidence and innuendo. Many outlets picked up on the Axios scoop, for example:

• Don't f***ing bulls*** me': Biden has a 'furious temper in the White House and his staff try to avoid meeting him face-to-face because of his foul-mouthed rants'
  
• Biden’s expletive-laden rants at staffers behind closed doors revealed
  
• Biden privately curses out staffers leading some to avoid solo meetings with him: report
  
• ‘Nice guy’ Biden reportedly curses and fumes at staff behind closed doors: ‘No one is safe’
  
• Some terrified Biden aides so fearful of prez’s wrath that they don’t go to meetings alone: ‘Don’t f–king bulls–t me!’

This is the opposite of evidence of the press protecting and defending Biden. Except that that is totally false. This is getting tiresome. You've barely said one true thing in your entire post so far.Biden is not under criminal investigation in any jurisdiction anywhere, not local, state or federal. He is under investigation by the Republican led Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which has yet to release a report. I think you're obsessed with television news and way overrate its impact. Fox News is watched by the largest single segment of television news watchers, which is apparently around 50% of the country. Now you're just making stuff up. Russia wasn't mentioned in any of those headlines, and Putin only once. Go back and look at the list: Message 421.You're railing against speculation, obviously you don't like it, yet that's what you want the press to do to Biden because you believe that's what was done to Trump. You want tit-for-tat instead of honest reporting,
and you're so biased that you see Russia references in headlines that never mention Russia and only mention Putin once. It's one thing to claim to have evidence of wrongdoing and another to actually have it. When we see the evidence we'll know. For now we have only the word of a Committee chair with a history of unreliability who has put the cart before the horse by naming the crimes before he's found the evidence. Is this like, "The time will come when we'll have evidence that the 2020 election was stolen." Isn't it strange that after the Trump border rules finally lapsed that illegal entries are the lowest they've been in a long while? But Biden's asylum rules are being challenged in court today, and that so many are trapped in fetid camps just across the border in Mexico is a humanitarian crime. They are human beings. We should be working hard with Mexico to improve conditions and to expedite their transition back into civilization. Nobody else is seeing what you think you're seeing. You could look at a tree and see Biden bias. You're thinking is crazed with pro-Trump anti-Biden thinking with no room for reflection or objectivity. Once more you're claiming, "Just wait, the evidence will be there." I can tell you sincerely that if and when the evidence you claim will be produced actually *is* produced that I will be right there alongside you calling for Biden's head, but not before. So far all you have is innuendo and a drug-addled son behaving badly. There was no proof it was a lie. As the Mueller report made clear, the evidence was insufficient to prove conspiracy, noting that obstruction of justice made uncovering such evidence, if it existed, impossible. But there were numerous links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and evidence of those links is what initiated the investigation. For instance, the Trump campaign was able to coordinate with the release of the DNC emails stolen by the Russians and passed to Wikileaks because they were in communication with the Russians and Wikileaks through Roger Stone, pardoned by Trump, by the way. None of this is a lie. Trump was president for over half this period. How do you figure the DOJ was "Biden-friendly" while Trump was president? Why would the Trump DOJ even care about Biden, since through most of Trump's presidency he wasn't even considered a likely candidate? You need to stop saying this until you're able to make a coherent argument supporting it. Except so far there's nothing to see except innuendo and that he yells at his staff. More of them watching Fox News than any other. It's up to you how you spend your time, but that doesn't change the fact that only a tiny sliver of all the news can be squeezed into a half-hour news program. Every time you're challenged on this you fail to show it, just like in your recent posts, which are long on claims and short on any actual evidence. Your mind is obsessed with conspiracy-style thinking.
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I really don't know what you're on about. Of course the "eat their own" meme resonates, because it is so true. I provided a number of examples of it from the 2020 election. Trump is the biggest devourer of his own, doing his best to destroy many who used to work for him, like Omarosa Manigault, John Kelly, Anthony Scaramucci, James Comey, Michael Cohen and Alexander Vindman.The fact remains, the worst situation imaginable is to be a Republican election official in a district where a Republican loses a close election. The idea that Trump was censored during his presidency is absurd. He sought out cameras at every opportunity and received a remarkable amount of air time. The more outrageous his comments the more air time he got, and he knew it.--Percy

Once again, you have not a shred of evidence. For how many years are going to run on and on about the evidence being imminent?I keep telling you that when the criminal evidence becomes available that I'll be right there with you condemning the Bidens, but the signs don't look good that such evidence exists. Investigations that have substance tend to play things close to the vest (Robert Mueller, Jack Smith), while those that have little try to make as much noise as possible (John Durham, James Comer).--Percy

I'm replying to again to this part because I just saw a relevant CNN article: Oversight Committee to hear from 2 IRS whistleblowers Wednesday | CNN Politics The Hunter Biden investigator overseeing the Hunter Biden probe is US Attorney David Weiss, who was appointed by Trump. Many of the investigative decisions that the whistleblowers are calling attention to occurred while Trump was still in office.I expect that in keeping with the "eat your own" theme that you will blame this on a Biden-sympathetic DOJ that somehow existed under Trump at a time when Trump was constantly berating Attorney General William Sessions to become more active in attacking his enemies. The Hunter Biden probe began in October of 2018 and Sessions didn't resign until June 12, 2020, so Sessions was the AG for a year and a half of the Biden probe.Sessions was succeeded by Barr, an even stronger Trump supporter with of view of almost unchecked presidential power, and so for most of the remainder of the Trump administration US Attorney David Weiss worked under Barr. Adding it up, 2¼years of the Hunter Biden probe was conducted while Trump was still president.Merrick Garland was confirmed on March 10, 2021 and the investigation continued, and Biden has been president for about 2½ years. And so even though much of the investigation took place under the Trump administration which was hostile to Hunter Biden interests, many of the whistleblower complaints are from that period. It sounds like these whistleblowers have different views of what decisions should have been made. Legal disagreements seem a natural part of any legal process, and it's not clear why the whistleblowers think certain decisions rose to the level of actual improprieties. But if there are actual improprieties then many of them took place under Trump.What seems likely is that the Justice Department handled the Hunter Biden probe in a manner that was fairly consistent across the Trump and Biden administrations and that these whistleblowers simply disagreed with the way it was being handled. Again, why they felt these internal disagreements needed to become public and why they felt they needed whistleblower status is something we don't yet know.--Percy

I won't be able to do that, because the Biden's aren't business people - they don't / never have produced a product or service, unlike the Trumps. But they deal in millions of dollars. What is it that Biden sold for millions of dollars during his vice-presidency? We'll have to see how it plays out, but a big part of that will be how much of it is shielded from the public. The shielding we're starting out with is really unbelievable. Let's see, January 6th 2021 happened about 900 days ago. I'd estimate that most people who don't live under a rock have seen carefully edited footage of that day somewhere around 200 to 300 times. Monday evening, ABC's David Muir showed it yet again, as he was ejaculating all over himself about Trump's latest indictment. Tuesday morning, ABC's "Good Morning America" show , featuring former Clinton sidekick George Stephanopoulos did the same thing. No comments on either show about the upcoming Hunter Biden hearing. Wednesday morning and evening on those two shows, NO MENTION of the hearing. When the hearing started, I watched the first 15 minutes or so. Flipped around to all the other channels that had a chance of showing it. ABC, CBS, NBC, nothing. CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, even both C-spans, nothing. Though I don't know how C-span works, it might record these types of things and show them in detail later. But without Fox New, there would have been no real time coverage. Now about some other hearings from the past;

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However, the two liberal networks that carried every hearing involving Russiagate, the Ukraine scandal, Jan. 6 and both impeachments of former President Trump, declined to cover the IRS whistleblowers that fuel corruption allegations against the Democrat currently in the White House. They instead aired limited segments recapping the testimony.

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EVERY HEARING. Could there have been any innuendo from Democrats in those hearings?CNN, MSNBC skip live coverage of IRS whistleblower hearing on explosive Hunter Biden probe claims | Fox News That bag of cocaine was DESTROYED. No more evidence to worry about now, is there? And there's now a suspicion that the FBI destroyed Hunter Biden's laptop. NO REPORTS IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. I'm engaged in a concern of political bias in the FBI, DOJ, and Secret Service, not in "braggadocio", "my dad can beat up your dad", or anything else you made up for some reason. It's not hard to understand. When the news media constantly refers to Trump decisions as "reversing course" it implies that he made a blunder in his first decision. The Biden administration is full of blunders and course reversals, but the news media never refers to anything about it as "reversing course". Aaaand the FBI, DOJ, Secret Service, and mainstream media showing clear political favoritism is also what "fixers" do. Fox News isn't an over-the-air channel, it's not right beside over-the-air local news shows that millions of Americans depend on. Many Americans will never pay for premium television. People are flocking to Fox News of course, there's internet information about these hearings, more and more people are becoming aware of mainstream media cover ups. Especially when 90% of that news program is JANUARY 6TH!!!!!!!!! and climate change terror. That's the first true thing you've said, it really is getting tiresome. And if nothing I've said is true, you have defeated me!

People who have evidence deal in evidence. People who don't have evidence deal in innuendo. By dealing in innuendo you're creating the strong impression that there's no evidence for what you're saying. If there's any truth behind what you're saying then I suggest you begin dealing in evidence. I keep telling you this. Nice to see you buy in, except that next you say: In other words, if no evidence is uncovered of Biden crimes it's not because it didn't happen but because the evidence was kept from the public. You're following the Trump playbook, claiming things happened for which there is no evidence. "There was massive fraud in the 2020 election." "The FBI is responsible for January 6th." The lies just go on and on. You're projecting again. Not everyone is as obsessed with TV news as you. The Comer committee hearing featuring the IRS whistleblowers that interested you so much was thought of so little importance that it wasn't even on the page listing yesterday's House committee hearings. You had to click on "Click here for more" in order to see that one. From your description it sounds like the video news media thought it not worthy of live coverage. But print articles about it appeared yesterday afternoon in both the Post and the Times and undoubtedly many other outlets. It wasn't ignored.Don't you have better things to do than flip through channels looking for coverage of your favorite committee? Maybe a sport or hobby? That would be very impressive if CNN and MSNBC carried every hearing involving all those things, but whether they did or not, every one of those things seem far more important than two IRS whistleblowers who expressed concerns about things that happened as much under Trump as under Biden. Your link (CNN, MSNBC skip live coverage of IRS whistleblower hearing on explosive Hunter Biden probe claims) didn't mention that the same problems they were concerned about under Trump continued under Biden. Sounds like things were managed fairly consistently across the two administrations. These IRS employees were unhappy about how the investigation was conducted under Trump, and they remained unhappy about it under Biden.Your link also didn't mention that the lead investigator of the Hunter Biden probe, David Weiss, appointed by Trump, disagrees with the IRS agents and says that they have somehow arrived at misinterpretations of comments made at several meetings. I very much doubt that. Normally evidence is only destroyed by court order. Where does your information come from? Can I guess Trump? Yep, must have been Trump, because he mentioned the cocaine and Hunter Biden at the same time recently, saying, "THEY 100% KNOW WHO IT IS. If they don’t release information, it means they destroyed the tapes & the Cocaine was for use by Hunter, & probably Crooked Joe, in order to give this total disaster of a President a little life and energy!" But you misread it. Trump said they destroyed the tapes, not the cocaine.I very much doubt the Secret Service destroyed the cocaine or the security tapes. There's still a chance that information might come to light that would allow them to reopen the investigation, perhaps an anonymous tip.You come across as highly biased when drugs found in a tourist-accessible part of the White House leads you to such wild conclusions. And that's a good thing. They're getting better at ignoring Trump when he lies or makes things up. You're engaged in fabrications through rumor and innuendo. And about braggadocio, what else could "And if it would have happened in the Trump white house, they'd have figured it out" be except playground braggadocio. It's not hard to understand that you're very confused. You quoted a headline with "BIDEN REVERSES COURSE" in it and now you're contradicting yourself by claiming that the news media never says that Biden reverses course. That headline was about sending cluster bombs to Ukraine. Biden also reversed course on tanks and jets and the heaviness of the munitions we would send, and probably other things.Like I said, no one knows what you're on about. Changing one's mind and reversing course in a rapidly changing world seems fine to me, whether it was Trump or Biden or any leader. What matters is the quality of the decisions given the current facts on the ground.But Trump is very impulsive, and he reversed course constantly even when nothing had changed, except maybe that someone said something he didn't like. When your man reverses course for no reason you gotta own it. The Trump administration was chaos, and reporters were there to capture a great deal of it. It isn't as if you can pretend it didn't happen. Once again you're making accusations without evidence. Michael Cohen when confronted by the evidence pled guilty and served time in jail. You haven't presented any evidence of anything you've said. All you've got is innuendo and a promise that the evidence will show up someday, and that if it doesn't then that's proof of a coverup. You've got the Trump tango down pat. You're daft. Fox News is the top rated news show in the country. Again, why are you watching programs you find so objectionable? I still think you could find a better way to spend your time. You need evidence. It doesn't matter how high you pile innuendo, it still doesn't amount to a hill of beans.--Percy

This deserves extra attention.Well done Percy.