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Hunter Biden has gone on the offensive against his Republican critics, arguing in a new lawsuit that although he is the son of the president of the United States, he shouldn't be treated differently than any other American. The lawsuit against the IRS is only the latest in a series of counterpunches by the president's son. But while Hunter Biden's lawyers might think that an aggressive approach is the best legal strategy for Biden the son, that might not be what’s best for Biden the father as he seeks reelection and tries to keep the public focused on his policy achievements. The president has had little to say about his son's legal woes — which now include a felony indictment — beyond that Hunter did nothing wrong and he loves his son. The White House strategy has been to keep the elder Biden head-down and focused on governing, reasoning that that’s what voters will prioritize, while working to keep Hunter's troubles at arm's distance. There's one hopeful school of thought among the president's allies that even if all the headlines about Hunter Biden aren't a plus for the president's reelection campaign, the legal process could ultimately clear the air in a positive way. “Obviously, the White House and Hunter’s teams are looking at it from different perspectives,” said Democratic political strategist David Brock. “It’s important for the facts to reach the public, and when that happens, I think ultimately that’s beneficial to the president.” But privately, some Democrats are concerned that Hunter Biden’s legal problems could harm Biden heading into 2024 and pose difficulties for Democrats in tight House races, according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The lawsuit that Hunter Biden filed Monday against the IRS maintains that two agents who testified as whistleblowers violated his privacy by publicly disclosing his tax data as part of a probe by House Republicans into his business dealings. Hunter Biden’s team last week sued a former Donald Trump aide over his alleged role in publishing emails and embarrassing images of the younger Biden. And his team also has asked state and federal agencies to open a criminal probe into Trump allies for accessing and spreading his personal data. Hunter Biden agreed in June to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and avert prosecution on a gun charge by enrolling in a diversion program. But the agreement unraveled following a July 26 court hearing that was meant to end the case, and the younger Biden was then indicted for a felony weapons charge. His legal woes have increasingly complicated matters for the president, who also faces an impeachment inquiry by House Republicans seeking to link the president to the business dealings of his son. While Hunter Biden did broker on his family name in business dealings, Republicans have so far unearthed no significant evidence of wrongdoing by the elder Biden, who spoke often to his son as vice president and did stop by a business dinner with his son’s associates. Biden hasn't had much to say about the impeachment drive. And he also has kept his distance from the Justice Department prosecutions of both his son and Donald Trump. Now, Hunter Biden could be heading to trial in the midst of his father’s reelection effort. That suits Republicans, who are eager to distract from the multiple criminal indictments of Trump, the early GOP primary front-runner, whose trials could be unfolding at the same time. Hunter Biden's allies have argued the plea deal fell through in part because Justice Department officials bowed to pressure from Republicans who claimed he was getting a “sweetheart deal" to end a five-year investigation into his tax and business dealings. “This is just the beginning and far from the end of Hunter and his team going on offense and fighting back,” said Michael LaRosa, a former special assistant to the president. Their previous strategy of "being unresponsive has only led to Republicans filling a void with disinformation, smears, lies, and conspiracy theories that have severely damaged the president’s image and reputation, as you can see in poll after poll. Somebody has to be out there correcting the record and fighting back,” LaRosa said. Polling reflects the impact on the president of the drumbeat of negative headlines. Roughly 1 in 3 Americans are highly concerned about whether Joe Biden may have committed wrongdoing related to his son’s business dealings, according to a recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About half of Americans say they have little or no confidence that the Justice Department is handling its investigation into Hunter Biden in a fair and nonpartisan way. The political divide on these points is stark: 66% of Republicans — and just 7% of Democrats — are very or extremely concerned about whether Joe Biden committed wrongdoing when it comes to his son’s business dealings. The headlines are likely to continue given the impeachment inquiry that's just ramping up and the special counsel's decision to file federal gun charges against Hunter Biden. He is accused of lying on the forms he completed to buy a gun when he stated that he wasn’t a drug user at the time of the purchase. Hunter Biden, according to his memoir, tumbled into drug addiction after the death of his older brother, Beau, in 2015. Earlier this year Hunter Biden hired high-profile attorney Abbe Lowell, a legal heavyweight known for also representing Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Shortly after, the criminal referral was requested. In March, Hunter Biden sued a Delaware-based computer repairman who was said to have a laptop that belonged to the president’s son and who disseminated data from it. Five days ago, he sued the Trump aide over the publishing of the data. And on Monday, he sued the IRS. “Mr. Biden has no fewer or lesser rights than any other American citizen, and no government agency or government agent has free rein to violate his rights simply because of who he is," the lawsuit against the IRS states. Prosecutions for lying on a federal gun application are uncommon, particularly when there's no allegation that the gun was bought to carry out a crime, experts said. There are also questions about the constitutionality of the federal ban on gun possession by people who use drugs in light of a Supreme Court ruling that expanded gun rights. Hunter Biden’s lawyers have signaled they will try to argue that an agreement sparing him prosecution on a felony gun charge should remain in place even though the plea deal on misdemeanor tax offenses largely unraveled. If the case goes to trial, it could be a tough sell to a jury. “Addiction is something that touches a lot of Americans and the notion that this person who was in trouble with drug use and for 11 days owned a firearm that was never used for anything whatsoever, that's not going to sit well at a federal felony criminal trial with a lot of jurors,” said Jennifer Rodgers, a former federal prosecutor. “And it is not even touching on the issue of whether people think that he is being prosecuted because he’s Hunter Biden," she said.
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Over the weekend, Politico published the latest in a tidal wave of stories about President Biden’s dwindling prospects for re-election. Under the headline “The Polls Keep Getting Worse for Biden,” the article pointed out that Biden is trailing the presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in a large majority of the latest polling. The trend is dire, Politico reports. “The president’s standing in head-to-head matchups with Trump is falling: Among the latest surveys this month from 13 separate pollsters, Biden’s position is worse than their previous polls in all but two of them.” He continues to slip in key swing states. The outlook is now grimmer than ever, but the big divide between Biden’s low popularity and public support for the Democratic Party overall was clear a year ago, despite the hype giving Biden credit for midterm election results in November 2022. Back then, the New York Times reported that one House Democrat offered a more candid assessment: “Biden’s numbers were ‘a huge drag’ on Democratic candidates, who won in spite of the president not thanks to him, the lawmaker said on the condition of anonymity to avoid antagonizing the White House.” Our RootsAction.org team had no reason to avoid antagonizing the White House. Immediately after the 2022 election, we launched the Don’t Run Joe campaign. Last winter, it included TV ads in New Hampshire and other early primary states as well as in DC. We also placed full-page ads in print editions of The Hill newspaper, widely read on Capitol Hill; one depicted congressional Democrats as having their heads in the sand. A steady flow of news releases went out, citing data on Biden’s electoral vulnerabilities. A mobile Don’t Run Joe billboard circled the Capitol and White House when Congress reconvened in January. After Biden formally filed as a candidate seven months ago, Don’t Run Joe transitioned into Step Aside Joe. The campaign has continued to be adamant that Biden should voluntarily be a one-term president. But elected Democrats, loyal boosters and allied organizations stuck with the party line. Apparently, they couldn’t imagine being independent enough to call for a candidate who could champion a progressive agenda and be a stronger contender than the anemic Biden in the 2024 race. Now the president is scrambling to sell his accomplishments and scold pundits out of any critical assessments. “I think they’re just misreading what’s going on,” the president said of his critics at a Colorado campaign stop on Wednesday. “They can be surprised as much as they want.” Ironically, we were often told that shining a critical spotlight on Biden’s re-election chances or his corporate militarism would help Donald Trump or another Republican to win in 2024. But the opposite has been the case. Biden’s amen-corner enablers — going along to get along rather than risk disapproval from the White House — have been unwitting helpers of the upcoming GOP ticket. The bleak poll numbers might actually understate the problem, as they measure only voter discontent and not activist discontent. For months next summer and fall, Democratic activists will be needed to win over undecided voters and mobilize occasional voters. But many activists who worked hard to elect Biden over Trump in 2020 now have little enthusiasm for the president, due to his policies on climate, racial justice, Gaza and other vital concerns. After Biden formally filed as a candidate seven months ago, Don’t Run Joe transitioned into Step Aside Joe. The campaign has continued to be adamant that Biden should voluntarily be a one-term president. “The truth remains that a president is not his party’s king and has no automatic right to renomination,” a statement from Step Aside Joe said in April. “Simply crowning Joe Biden as the 2024 nominee is unhealthy for the Democratic Party and the country. In the face of clear polling that shows he is ill-positioned to defeat a Republican nominee, Biden is moving the Democratic Party toward a likely disaster in 2024. As the Democratic standard bearer, Biden would represent the status quo at a time when ‘wrong track’ polling numbers are at an unprecedented high.” But Joe Biden and his coterie of backers continue to insist that he wear a crown. The fascistic forces behind Donald Trump are surely delighted.
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President Biden allegedly profited from his brother’s fraudulent business deals, according to a new witness in the House impeachment inquiry. James Biden, 74, often leveraged his elder brother, including a promise of access to “a future Biden administration” to cash in on lucrative and sometimes shady business deals. House investigators now have followed the money trail into the president’s bank account. According to new witness testimony, the source of a $200,000 check that James Biden paid to his brother in March 2018 could have come only from predatory loans or senior citizens’ money fraudulently invested by James Biden’s business partner Michael Lewitt. The House impeachment inquiry is homing in on James Biden as investigators dig into whether the president pocketed money from his family’s lucrative business deals during his time as vice president in the Obama administration and after leaving office. The House voted to formalize the impeachment investigation into the president this month and subpoenaed James Biden to appear in December for a closed-door deposition. The two sides are still negotiating a date for him to testify, Republican aides said. On Monday, House investigators interviewed Carol Fox, the U.S. trustee for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings for Americore Health LLC. The struggling rural hospital operator partnered with James Biden specifically to help expand the business through his political connections. Ms. Fox sued James Biden in 2022 for failing to “deliver on a promise” he made to Americore to use “his last name” to help the company win a large investment from the Middle East. According to a source familiar with her testimony to House investigators, Ms. Fox “identified no services James Biden provided to Americore,” yet the company paid the president’s brother $600,000, which Americore identified as a loan. Of that sum, $200,000 ended up in President Biden’s bank account from a check James Biden sent to his brother on March 1, 2018. The president said his brother sent him the money to repay a loan. James Biden wrote “loan repayment” on the check. House investigators have received no documents backing up the claim. Ms. Fox “identified only two possible sources” of the money: predatory loans or senior citizens’ money fraudulently invested by Mr. Lewitt, an Americore investor and James Biden’s business partner. Ms. Fox said Mr. Lewitt “pulled money that elderly Americans had placed in an investment fund” and transmitted it to Americore, which then paid James Biden. On the same day Americore sent $200,000 to James Biden, he wrote a check to his brother for the same amount. A Democratic source disputed the readout of Ms. Fox’s testimony, which has not been released. “Republicans pushed Fox to make a series of speculations layered upon each other, based on false and misleading premises, which Fox admittedly had no firsthand knowledge of and made clear that she could not corroborate Republicans’ speculation for that reason,” the Democratic source said. Ms. Fox, the source said, had no direct knowledge about the source of the money paid to James Biden from Americore and said she saw no evidence Mr. Biden was involved in his brother’s business deals. Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who has spent years investigating Mr. Biden’s involvement in his family’s business deals, suspects the president was involved in helping his family profit stemming from his days as vice president. “It’s not surprising that more evidence is surfacing on a regular basis,” Mr. Johnson told The Washington Times. House investigators and court documents reviewed by The Times show James Biden promised Americore “access to a future Biden administration and the highest levels of government … and that his brother, Joe Biden, had been made aware of the business, which would be made profitable when it could become part of the Biden platform.” Congressional investigators said a witness in the lawsuit stated that James Biden, in phone conversations with Americore executives, would “explain that Joe Biden was in the room with him and James had been explaining the deal to him.” Americore charged in court that James Biden never delivered on his promise to bring in large investments from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, where he allegedly developed relationships during his brother’s time as vice president. The company said James Biden failed to repay the $600,000 loan they provided at his request. James Biden settled with Americore for $350,000 in September 2022. Ms. Fox told House investigators that she saw no records or documentation showing Americore had given James Biden a loan, as the $600,000 payment was referenced. She said the president’s brother helped procure “an ill-advised bridge loan” that pushed Americore into bankruptcy after he failed to come through on the promises of large investments from the Middle East. David Randolph Smith, a lawyer who represented James Biden in the lawsuit, did not respond to a request from The Times. He told The Wall Street Journal in 2022 that the president’s brother “provided extensive financial and consulting services to Americore” and “had a vision of revitalizing failing rural hospitals.” The president and congressional Democrats have rejected Republicans’ claims that Mr. Biden played any role in his family’s business deals, despite witness testimony that he phoned in to or stopped by son Hunter Biden’s business meetings dating back to his time as vice president. Mr. Biden copied in his son and son’s business partners on White House emails, shielding his own identity with pseudonyms. White House counsel Richard Sauber, in a letter sent last month to House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, Kentucky Republican, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, said the Republicans’ requests for documents and subpoenas of Biden family members are unjustified. Mr. Comer and Mr. Jordan have subpoenaed Hunter Biden, who has refused to appear for closed-door testimony and now faces a contempt of Congress vote in the House. House lawmakers have sought interviews with additional Biden family members and their associates. House investigators say Biden family members and their business partners pocketed $24 million from foreign business deals. All of the family members, Mr. Sauber said in his letter to Mr. Comer, “are private citizens.” Mr. Sauber said the Republican investigation has refuted “baseless allegations against the president.” The House impeachment inquiry’s focus on the president’s brother follows a report by The Washington Post that the FBI had secretly recorded James Biden in an unrelated bribery probe of Mississippi trial lawyer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs in 2008. The president’s brother was not the subject of the investigation, but the FBI recorded him finalizing plans to create a consulting firm with an associate of Mr. Scruggs who simultaneously began delivering bribes to judges on Mr. Scruggs’ behalf. A decade earlier, Mr. Scruggs paid James Biden $100,000 for help persuading then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden to support the massive tobacco settlement agreement in 1998. “I probably wouldn’t have hired him if he wasn’t the senator’s brother,” said Mr. Scruggs, who served six years in federal prison on the bribery scheme.
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First lady Jill Biden says the president’s age isn’t a liability, but “an asset.” “He’s wise. He has wisdom,” she told Mika Brzezinski in an interview that aired Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Brzezinski, noting the 81-year-old president would be 86 at the end of a second term in the White House, asked Biden if there was a part of her “that is worried about his age and health.” “Can he do it?” Brzezinski asked. “He can do it. And I see Joe every day. I see him out, traveling around this country. I see his vigor, I see his energy, I see his passion every, single day,” the commander in chief’s wife of 46 years replied. “I say his age is an asset,” she said. “He is experienced. He knows every leader on the world stage. He’s lived history. He knows history,” Biden, 72, said. “He’s thoughtful in his decisions,” she added. “He’s is the right man, the right person for the job at this moment in history.” A Wall Street Journal poll conducted last August found that 73 percent of registered voters considered Biden “too old to run for president.” Forty-seven percent of those polled indicated that age was also an issue for Biden’s potential Republican 2024 opponent, 77-year-old former President Trump. “We have to win. We must win. We cannot let go of our democracy,” Biden said of her husband’s reelection bid. “And if you don’t?” Brzezinski asked. “I don’t know,” Biden responded. “I can’t think about it,” she said.
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When Jill Biden wants to insult President Joe Biden during a fight, she lets her fingers do the talking. The first lady explained her penchant for “fexting” ― fighting by text ― when staff and security are around, as part of an interview shared Thursday with “Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski. We’ll let FLOTUS explain: “So when you’re in the car and you’re texting and you’re fighting with your husband and there are two Secret Service agents in the car with you, you can’t say, ‘You’re a whatever.’ So you’re texting, ‘You’re a whatever!’ It’s fighting over text because you can’t verbalize it.” Brzezinski, who’s married to “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough, could relate. “I think I might have done that a time or two in my life,” she said in the interview, which took place during a “Know Your Value” event at the White House. Jill Biden previously said she and her husband agreed to begin fexting when Biden was vice president to help preserve their privacy. But a spat in 2022 might have really put their pact to the test. The first lady told Harper’s Bazaar that when she vented, the president warned her: “You realize that’s going to go down in history. There will be a record of that.” “I won’t tell you what I called him that time,” she said. While “fexting” is a thing, it’s not the best way to air out conflicts in a relationship, according to Cosmopolitan. Sex therapist Jenni Skyler told the magazine last year that the potential for miscommunication is greater via text.
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{Biden 2024} When Jill Biden wants to insult President Joe Biden during a fight, she lets her fingers do the talking.
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The art dealer who sold Hunter Biden’s paintings told Congress that President Joe Biden both called and met him at the White House as he was pitching Hunter's artwork and that the first son also made an unusual request to be informed about who bought his pieces, according to testimony that directly undercuts the White House narrative on the sales. The Biden White House repeatedly told the public that Hunter Biden’s art sales were covered by an ethics agreement to ensure they were arms-length and that the first family -- Hunter included -- was blinded to the identity of buyers. But George Berges, owner of the prestigious Berges art galleries based in New York and Berlin that sold Hunter Biden’s painting from 2020 to 2023, told congressional impeachment investigators that the first son likely knew the identity of 70% of the buyers – the largest who were Democrat donors – and that Hunter Biden’s first contract made an unusual request when the relationship started. “I believe in the first contract, he was—he was able to know who the buyers were,” Berges told investigators for the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees in a transcribed interview last week that was reviewed by Just the News. “…I don’t know how it was phrased or—but I remember that there—that that was the difference.” “Is that normal or unusual, or where’s that? Is it a normal kind of contract?” Berges was asked. “That part was different. Normally, the gallerist does not let the artist know who the collectors are,” the art dealer answered. Berges said a subsequent art sale deal with the first son dropped the requirement for Hunter Biden to be informed. “The first one was that I was required to disclose who the buyers were. In the second one, I was required to not disclose the buyers,” he explained. Berges was also asked how many of the 15 artists he represents now – except for Hunter Biden – wanted to know the identity of purchasers. “None,” he answered. Berges also revealed that he no longer represents Hunter Biden for art sales, saying the commercial relationship ended last fall. “I haven't represented him for four months now, and I think that also says something,” Berges said. “And I still talk to him as a friend.” Hunter Biden is still listed on Berges' website. Not only did Hunter Biden know many of the buyers, Joe Biden apparently knew about the gallery selling Hunter Biden’s art and had two contacts with Berges, according to the testimony. “Have you spoken to President Biden?” a House investigator asked at one point. “Yes,” Berges answered. “Okay. And was that in person or on the phone or both?” the investigator pressed. “Both,” he answered. “Can you tell me about the in-person meeting, where that was, when that was?” the questioner inquired. “At the White House wedding during Hunter's - Hunter's daughter getting married,” the art dealer explained. “Okay. And then on the phone?” the congressional investigator asked. “My daughter finished camp and he called to, you know, wish her, congratulate her for finishing camp and I answered the phone,” he said. Berges’ account mirrors that of an earlier Hunter Biden business partner, Devon Archer, who gave explosive testimony to Congress last summer revealing that Joe Biden as vice president got on about two dozen calls with his son’s foreign business associates and had at least two dinners with them. The president had denied any contact with Hunter Biden associates. Berges’ testimony also confirmed earlier reporting that: Hollywood superlawyer and Democrat donor Kevin Morris bought some of Hunter Biden’s art work: Berges put the total at at least $875,000; Democrat donor Elizbeth Naftali, who Joe Biden appointed to a federal commission, bought art work as well. Berges said she bought bought one painting before her federal appointment and one after her appointment; Joe Biden fundraiser Lanette Phillips made the connection between Hunter Biden and Berges that led to the art sales deal; Berges sold his first piece of art for the first son in December 2020, just before Joe Biden took office; and Berges had two art sales agreements with Hunter Biden, one in 2020 and another about a year later. But the art dealer’s most consequential testimony for the impeachment proceeding involved Joe Biden and his White House. Berges said in addition to meeting and talking with the president while helping Hunter Biden, he had never had any contact with the White House over the supposed ethics agreement. “When you’re seeing in the press that the White House is putting in certain safeguards regarding an ethics agreement but you’ve had no conversations with [the] White House, I mean, did you ever say to Hunter Biden, ‘Hey, where’s this coming from?’” a congressional investigator asked. “I might have. I probably did, yeah,” Berges said. “And do you remember what he said to you?" the investigator continued. “I don’t . . . . I do remember being surprised,” Berges explained. “Why were you surprised?” he was asked. “Because I hadn’t had any communication with the White House about an agreement,” Berges answered.
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:will there even be debates the better question is whether rfk jr will be allowed to participate in them hilariously enough he might actually be able to pressure trump into doing a one on one debate just because itll be harder for trump to call biden a coward if theres another debate on the table trump isnt participating in either
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Mr. Speaker. Man, Mike Johnson was a nobody just weeks ago — now he’s Neville Chamberlain. Madam Vice President. Oy. Our first lady — you hottie! And our second gentleman. Members of Congress, leaders of our military, justices of the Supreme Court. And you, my fellow Americans. My report is this: The state of my mental competency is strong. And the union’s OK, too. You think I’m forgetful? Take a look at the other guy — he can’t even remember who Nancy Pelosi is, and that gal is the best speaker in United States history! You know what I remember? I remember how to lift people up, not tear them down and pit them against one another. I remember how to tell the truth when my lips move. I may be 81, but it’s not about your chronological age. It’s about how old your ideas are. Donald Trump wants to yank us back on women’s rights, the environment, mail-in voting — actually, all voting. He’s undermining NATO, the strongest alliance ever. I’m trying to build a high-speed train from Vegas to L.A., baby! I remember very well that, three years ago, our economy was reeling. Our administration has created nearly 15 million jobs and helped fund 46,000 infrastructure projects. Unemployment has been under 4 percent, and the inflation rate has gone down. My boy Hunter made mincemeat out of the House Republicans. His Irish was up, and he told those clowns there was no corruption on my part. I see you down there, Matt Gaetz, you lying, dog-faced pony soldier! When you tried to quiz Hunter about his drug use, he made quick work of you. Pot calling kettle! How could you give Hunter a hard time when you’re under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for sexual misconduct and using illicit drugs? Lots of luck with that, man! Hunter is my hero. He is trying to stay sober to help me — and keep our democracy from falling off the wagon. My family grifts a little, but what White House doesn’t? The Obamas, but other than that …. The Clintons left with a moving truck of government property. And look at the Trump syndicate, man! I’m still on top of my game, folks. Here’s the deal: I’ve always had gaffes. That’s my thing. Like back in 2006 when I said, “You cannot go into a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” I haven’t been perfect, Lord knows. I’m in a time warp in terms of how I see Israel, and I should have reined in Bibi sooner to stop the Gaza tragedy. I’ve been too slow to fix the border, but you Republicans don’t want it fixed anyway. Still, I feel I deserve re-election, folks. I don’t think I get enough credit for my achievements. They said bipartisanship was such a 20th-century concept, but I worked across the aisle to help pass the largest infrastructure investment in history and the manufacturing bill bolstering chips and semiconductors. We are faced with a moment of extraordinary challenge. If we can meet our crises at the border and in Ukraine and Gaza, if we can manage the out-of-control Bibi and the psychotic Putin, we will be a nation of limitless possibility. I may not have a long future, but America does. Our children and grandchildren do. We do not want to let one man’s checkered past drag down our shining future. We cannot let our country be ripped apart by retribution and vengeance. I’m proud of the 51 years I’ve spent in this town. I’m honored that millions of people across this country want me to continue to lead them. But I tell you tonight: I will not be a candidate for president this fall. I don’t want a debate over my age to be an impediment to America’s progress. It’s eclipsing the things that we should be focused on. After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided that I need to spend my final chapter devoting my full attention to our thorny challenges. I was serious, folks, when I called myself a bridge to a new generation, a transitional figure. I’ll release my delegates this summer at the Chicago convention to vote for the candidate they feel can carry our banner into the future. I know our country — and the world — has been through a difficult time. Divisive politics. A withering pandemic. A murderous Putin. But as I leave you tonight, I want you to know that America has faced and navigated every challenge for over 247 years. Let us join hands. Now is the hour of responsibility. Our character is formed. Our purpose is found. Our future is forged. It’s never, ever been good to bet against America. God bless you all — even you, Gaetz. And God save the queen, man!
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Platystemon posted:Don’t forget the widely trumpeted “toughest sanctions yet against Israel”, levied against a total of four people. also his increasingly harsher sanctions against all the important russian oligarchs except the ones who gave hunter biden money
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Toplowtech posted:Wait until they realise that:
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its not yelling its leadership
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https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1780686618589897094 thread title plz
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