Notes from the Resistance
The IRS on Monday removed the “entire investigative team” from its long-running tax fraud probe of first son Hunter Biden in alleged retaliation against the whistleblower who recently contacted Congress to allege a cover-up in the case, The Post has learned. [More]
I remember that scene…
“Where’s the media outrage,” you ask…?
[Via Michael G]
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
Despite showing nine Biden family members allegedly receiving funds from corrupt figures in Romania, China and other countries, The New Republic quickly ran a story headlined “Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden.” [More]
And that’s why I call ’em the DSM.
[Via bondmen]
The report, coming almost four years to the day since Durham’s assignment began, will probably be derided by Democrats as the end of a partisan boondoggle. Republicans will have to wrestle with a much-touted investigation that has cost taxpayers more than $6.5 million and didn’t send a single person to jail, even though Trump once predicted that Durham would uncover the “crime of the century.” [More]
Just because this is another flaccid Kraken doesn’t mean Trump was wrong.
It just means the possibilities for peaceful revolution keep getting sabotaged by those who believe they are in power.
Some family members showed up Wednesday night hoping for answers to their questions, including the most pressing one — with 376 law enforcement officers at the school May 24, why did it take them more than 70 minutes to confront and kill the gunman? [More]
Horshack looks like he’s gonna bust.
[Via bondmen]
Federal prosecutors have considered four possible charges against Hunter Biden – Possible charges are two misdemeanor counts for failure to file taxes, a single felony count of tax evasion and a felony count related to a gun purchase. [More]
If they do choose the latter — and I doubt they will — find one report that specifically called out lying on a 4473 that came out before this one. Being “just a blogger” and not a #realreporter, I don’t want to claim anything that turns out not to be true.
The multinational software company Oracle is cutting ties with the Global Disinformation Index, a State Department-funded group that the Washington Examiner revealed has been secretly blacklisting conservative media outlets. [More]
That DOJ hasn’t slapped this down hard from the outset is all I need to see to know what we’re dealing with.
[Via Michael G]
DOJ Openly Ignores Hunter Biden’s Ties to International Arms Trafficker Who Sold Grenade Launchers, Anti-Tank Missiles [More]
HEY, LOOK EVERYBODY: STORMY DANIELS! And the thought strikes that she hasn’t done anything to advance her career that Kamala Harris hasn’t done to advance hers. That and Merrick Garland’s the bigger whore.
[Via bondmen]
With Only Minutes To Spare Biden Administration Appeals Bump Stock Case to SCOTUS [More]
Let’s hope they take it before Bragg finds a way to charge Thomas…
A point of order– if they can win on these arguments, the next case should challenge Congress having the authority to infringe.
Independent journalist Steve Baker says he was recently warned that his aggressive reporting and commentary about Jan. 6 have created growing ire at the U.S. Department of Justice that could lead to his prosecution for being at the Capitol on that fateful Wednesday in 2021. [More]
Well, if he’s an “independent,” he’s not an “Authorized Journalist” then, is he?
And scary official threats of retaliation for reporting the truth… where have we seen that before?
[Via bondmen]
The Court ORDERS that Defendants and their officers, agents, servants, and employees are enjoined from implementing or enforcing against Polymer80, Inc. or its customers, in any manner, the provisions in 27 C.F.R. § 478.11 and 478.12 that this Court has determined are likely unlawful. [More]
Garland again,
This didn’t age well, did it, Leon?
[Via Jess]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that struck down a federal law preventing people under domestic violence-related restraining orders from having guns. [More]
Because how better “to secure the Blessings of Liberty” than to deny rights to people who haven’t even been charged with anything, let alone convicted?
[Via bondmen]
A coalition of 14 attorneys general condemned payment networks majors including Visa Inc, American Express Co and Mastercard Inc for pausing work on a merchant code to help detect suspicious gun sales in the United States. [More]
That tells me everything I need to know.
Why is Reuters calling state attorneys general “U.S. attorneys general”?
[Via Jess]
Related UPDATE
Senators Menendez, Warren urge regulators to support new gun sale code [More]
And that tells me everything I need to know, too.
[Via Steve T]
Biden DOJ Crusade to Jail Young Man for Anti-Hillary Memes Just Got Much Uglier [More]
If this is not First Amendment protected then nothing is.
The FBI Targeted Patriotic Conservatives Exercising Their First Amendment Rights: ‘They’re All Bleeping Terrorists’ [More]
Right. The object here is to send an unmistakable intimidating message about who’s in charge in case anybody else is getting any ideas. That and smear any opposing ideology as the stuff of domestic terrorists.
I wonder if the people who really could be in charge, and in short order, are ever going to realize the disparity in numbers…?
[Via bondmen]
Report: FBI Was Against Mar-a-Lago Raid, Argued With DOJ Prosecutors [More]
But in the end, they were only following orders.
