Roundup
(1) About that wire transfer to Joe Biden’s address in 2019.
(2) Kevin McCarthy is demanding border control prior to passing a continuing resolution:
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is going all-in on border issues as he takes a second shot this week at passing a GOP-only short-term funding bill that would pair an extension of government funding with a swath of border policy changes.
McCarthy is racing against a competing continuing resolution (CR) unveiled in the Senate on Tuesday and a Saturday government shutdown deadline. …
In addition to the border measures, McCarthy said the bill would also cut discretionary funding for duration of a CR to a top-line spending level of $1.471 trillion — the number from the House GOP’s “Limit, Save, Grow” partisan debt limit bill from earlier this year that was consistent with fiscal 2022 levels. Republicans in a conference meeting last week also discussed creating a commission to examine the national debt.
(3) William Jacobson on the Trump fraud decision. From a comment there:
Lenders are responsible for doing their own due diligence. The idea that an owner can just make up a number and a lender accepts it at face value is laughable.
Basically, this court is declaring all negotiations to be illegal, since there is only one fair price and any discussions of prices other than the one true fair price are fraud.
This is crazy.
(4) Andrew C. McCarthy writes about Hunter Biden’s suit claiming that Giuliani “hacked” his hard drive:
It used to be that Hunter, while caviling about the invasion of his privacy, would not admit that the infamous laptop data actually belonged to him.
Now, in his latest round of vexatious litigation — this time, a lawsuit against 2020 Trump campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani, as well as Robert Costello, Giuliani’s former lawyer and fellow former federal prosecutor — Team Biden’s position is marginally less incoherent. …
While acknowledging that the data is his, the ne’er-do-well first son does not admit — though, cutely, does not deny — that he gave Delaware computer repairman John Paul Mac Isaac the infamous laptop from hell on which the information was stored.
Why play this silly game? Because Hunter’s lawsuits risibly allege that his stored digital information was hacked — if not by the Russians, then by Mac Isaac, Giuliani, Costello, former Trump aide Steve Bannon, and who knows who else.
Implicit in the concept of hacking — computer theft — is that access to data was obtained without the owner’s permission.
Hence, if Hunter admits that he brought a damaged laptop to Mac Isaac, with the precise understanding that Mac Isaac would gain access to its data for purposes of extraction and preservation, then it becomes numbingly obvious that the stored digital information was not hacked.
(5) Biden made a cameo appearance on the UAW picket line.
I love the idea of tying border control to the budget. Except I wish the House had completed the budget about three months ago. I am SO tired of last-minute budget negotiations taking place starting September 15. And now Chuck Schumer is coming up with a proposal that is nothing more than a spoiler. But it will be held up by Democrats and the legacy media as an “honest negotiation”. Can’t the Republicans do anything right?
“NY State Judge Finds Trump Organizations Repeatedly Provided Fraudulent Valuations to Lenders and Insurers”
I used to work on the Cape Canaveral missile range and still travel there every year for vacation and to visit friends. The judge valued Trump’s Mar-a-Lago properties at $18million, but vacant lots in the area are going for $400 million. I would subpoena the courts appraisers and ask them about their experience.
The decision to strip Trump’s corporations of their charters (I take this to mean, at minimum, ending their ability as non-NY corporations to conduct business in NY; or it may mean dissolving their corporate status entirely) is IMHO unprecedented. Certainly on these facts or alleged facts (“fraud” when there doesn’t appear to be any) and this course of litigation (a vendetta by an openly hostile AG). The judge may be too thick to understand what an atrocity this is, but maybe he will learn how shamefully he’s acted.
If I were advising corporations active in NY, I would send them all an urgent memo to leave town, do not pass go. It will be irrefutable evidence of negligence by their boards of directors if they do not immediately depart the state.
I knew we were headed for the dogs, but I did not think we’d get there quite this soon.
yes its kangaroo with extra mittens, they chose the lowest valuation, but they accepted the highest millage, it makes no sense, new york will eventually be like that opening scene in ‘i am legend’
Demanding border control in the budget proposal. YES!!
My wife, daughter, and I were in eastern Washington over the last few days. We stopped in a McDonalds near the Yalima Valley. It made me think we might as well be in Tiajuana. Most everyone was speaking Spanish and had the Latino look.
Eastern WA has always had a large illegal/semi-legal population of ag workers, but it seems to have grown rapidly in the last two years or so. At least they’re not invading Seattle…….yet.
I heard someone say that we now have about 50 MILLION illegal aliens in the country. Something has got to be done.
As to the Trump fraud. Did any of the lenders sue the Trump organization for fraudulent valuations to back loans? No! The only fraud taking place is the fraud on ethical legal conduct that this judge is guilty of. It’s the judge and the Attorney General who ought to be charged with malpractice. “Book ’em Dano.”
So basically the judge is economically illiterate and claiming things have intrinsic value. IE One of the most basic concepts in economics is value is in the eye of the beholder. Note I don’t actually believe the judge thinks this even though a lot of people do. (The judge is more likely demonstrating that he/she has no scruples.)
Most of the commenters at LI agree with the one Neo cited and with Owen’s comment here.
My favorite is this one: Dubya Dubya 1 day ago
“Hunter could’ve avoided all of this If he simply remembered to pick up his laptop and pay the $85 bill. And Hunter is the smartest man Joe Biden says he knows…”
Indeed.
My question — unanswered in any post so far — is this: the Bidens went to great lengths for decades to cover up Joe’s involvement and their own shenanigans, with multiple shell accounts, dissimulation about phone calls, aliases for The Big Guy, etc etc etc; why did they in this case operate so blatantly in the open?
Complacency? Mistake in a drunken fog? At the insistence of the Chinese for some reason?
Help me out here!
Whoops — mistake in a fatigue fog: Neo cited a comment at LI, not the NYP.
That was still my favorite Hunter quip.
With regard to the Trump Organization decision, however, the LI commenters were generally dismissive of the judge’s legal and economic acumen.
And agreed with Owen: time to run away from NY if you value contracts, property, or sanity.
“…fatigue fog…”
AKA Cloward-Piven-“Biden”‘s theory of “PLAGUE them with Crises, CHASTISE them with Lies…” is being tested to the max.
IOW, DECLARE WAR on the people you rule;
BAMBOOZLE them BACK BETTER into deep despair;
CONFUSE them into sordid submission…
Time to take a step back, the better to view their entire panorama of evil…the better to understand what We the People are arrayed against:
“The Wicked Carnival They Started in 2020: It’s Exit Time”—
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/09/28/the-wicked-carnival-they-started-in-2020.aspx
On (3) – I don’t believe that nominating Trump is the correct response to this, but I certainly understand why others do. What I cannot understand is that there are surely a lot of people on the left intelligent and perceptive enough to recognize the vendetta against Trump will achieve nothing short of the destruction of the justice system by turning into just anohter petty political tool.
Do they truly not understand what they’re doing? Is this really what they want?
he’s a low rent ambulance chaser, with no such expertise,
this is how erdogan collected scalps, as did putin re berezovsky,
Re the Hunter lawsuit. These are crazy times. And once honored professions like the law reflect and enhance it.
Urban crim seen today has Elon Musk wondering if these aren’t the American version of “The Fall of Rome.”
https://fortune.com/2023/09/27/elon-musk-retail-theft-philadelphia-looting-walmart-target-rite-aid/amp/
And seeing that the President of Costa Rica has declared a national emergency because of illegal aliens’ invasion on their way to the USA…well, Then why not a “Camp of The Saints” moment, too.
Biden doesn’t want the votes for the continuing resolution enough to end his Continuing Revolution.
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Hunter will get a judge like the one Letitia James got in New York and will win his lawsuit.
Because Orange Man and Rudy bad.