Posted on 10/14/2020 6:56:53 PM PDT by Enlightened1
President Donald Trump blasted rival Joe Biden's family after new emails said to be from Hunter Biden's laptop were revealed, calling the family 'grifters.'
Trump used the 'grifter' term – which critics including Rep. Adam Schiff recently applied to the president himself – following the release of emails that have unmasked some of Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine at a time when his father had an influential role with the country as vice president.
'They're crooks, they've always been crooks. They're grifters and crooks, and this is what we're running against,' Trump told the conservative NewsMax network. 'And it's a disgrace. It's a disgrace,' he continued.
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Trump's comments stoked the story amid a furious denial by the Biden camp, even as his lawyer Rudy Giuliani was signaling days of additional revelations, and thousands of additional emails and photos.
The Washington Post first reported that the Justice Department had ended its probe into whether Obama administration officials improperly 'unmasked' associates of Trump mentioned in intelligence reoprts, two Congressional sources told Reuters Wednesday.
It found no wrongdoing, one of the sources said.
Unmasking refers to the naming of U.S. citizens whose identities were blacked out in reports from the National Security Agency that captured their communications with a foreign national.
Trump and his allies have sought to portray the use of the process during the administration of his Democratic predecessor, President Barack Obama, as a misuse of government authority.
It is a routine practice, and Trump administration officials have made thousands of such requests, government statistics show.
The Justice Department in May appointed John Bash, a federal prosecutor from Texas, to lead the inquiry after Republican senators unveiled a declassified list of U.S. officials who made requests that ultimately disclosed intercepted conversations between Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn and
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Just do it!!!
Pam Bondi is part of Trump’s legal team. I’ve been on many flights with her to and from DC. I don’t think she’s got the patience for the politics, she’s just a really sharp legal mind.
I would wholeheartedly encourage his firing. The lard ass son of a bitch has not done anything except sit around with his finger up his ass looking pretty. While the Republic is under attack from all sides 24/7.
It’s The Daily Mail - take it with a block of salt...
Play the bagpipes slowly...
Do you?
Do you realize that Trump is on his second nominated and confirmed AG and has presided over three acting AGs in the past 3 1/2 years? All of whom are turning out to be duds. When is he going to get it right?
I voted for Trump so Ive earned the right to criticize him when warranted. Hes not God. He makes mistakes. We cant survive another bad AG.
Perhaps the Barr defenders can weigh-in...
The only possible good outcome is if it is a smokescreen for something before the election.
I thought the same, but the pattern indicates otherwise.
He worked for the CIA at a young age, probably still entangled with them. Got to get rid of this Ruby Ridge snipper defender. Red flags were there.
Not Rudy. 25 years ago, Hell Yeah! Not now.
Time effects us all, even me.
Maybe when you realize Trump doesn’t pick his AG, Turtle does, you’ll cut him some slack. Fire Barr...Turdle confirms another swamp dweller, and no one else.
Trey Gowdy. He has a lot of tread left on him.
Trump has very few choices in the people he appoints. If they have the skills necessary they do not have the knowledge and vice versa. And learning that people who have reputations that are sterling for integrity are still Establishmentarians and when they are faced with the prospect of dismembering that Establishment they must go wobbly, as the Brits say.The Establishment co-opts the necessary talent right out of the universities. Trump has an extremely limited pool of talent who are both very talented and not part of the swamp. Giuliani was the obvious first choice but he refused to take it on.
Wow. What a sentence. I'm still trying to get my head around it.
You guys are way too much.
Please no! She was going along with the BS on the Trayvon Martn case. She would be worse than both Sessions and Barr.
I think Barr is hedging his bets in case Biden wins. The left would definitely come after him if he didnt back down.
I was disappointed in Trump that Rudy wasn’t his first pick for AG back in 2016. If he was, Trump’s presidency would have looked even better than it does now.
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