JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME IS IN FULL GEAR.BY THE DEMOLIBNUT MEDIA.
THE
COMMUNIST NAZI MEDIA. CBC-COMMUNIST BROADCASTING IN
CANADA.CNN-COMMUNIST NAZI NETWORK.CNBC-COMMUNIST NAZI BROADCASTING
CENTER.AND ALL THE OTHER LIBERAL HEMEROID FAKE NEWS MEDIA. ARE OUT OF
THE THERAPY SHOPS AROUND THE WORLD. AS EVERY SECOND OF THE TRUMP DRIVE
FROM MARA-LARGO TO THE AIRPORT. TO MIAMI PLANE RIDE . TO TRUMPS HOTEL IN
MIAMI WERE HE WILL BE STAYING OVER NIGHT TO BE IN THE COURTROOM IN
MIAMI TOMORROW FOR HIS FAKE CHARGES AGAINST HIM. BY THE TRUMP
DERANGEMENT SYNDROME LIBERAL CRIMINAL CARTEL OF BIDEN AT THE WHITE
HOUSE. THEY CLAIM 37 COUNTS AGAINST TRUMP. TO BE ARRESTED TOMORROW IN
MIAMI. AND THE CRIMINAL CARTEL MOVED THE ARREST TO MIAMI. ITS PROBABLY
ILLEGAL TO CHARGE TRUMP ANY WHERE ELSE IN AMERICA.SO TRUMP WILL BE
ARRESTED FOR SO CALLED TALKING ABOUT THE DOCUMENTS HE HAS THE RIGHT TO
UNCLASSIFY AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE PIT OF HELL CRIMINAL CARTEL AT THE
WHITE HOUSE COUP. WHY DID THEY COME AFTER TRUMP NOW. OVIOUSLY TO GET HIM
OUT OF THE RUN FOR 2024 ELECTION. AND BECAUSE MILLIE SAID TO SOME
LIBERAL MEDIA THAT TRUMP WANTED TO NUKE IRAN AND CHINA.BUT IN AN
INTERVIEW WITH SOMEBODY TRUMP TOLD THE HOST THAT MARK MILLIE LIED ABOUT
HIM WHEN HE SAID TRUMP WANTED TO NUKE IRAN AND CHINA. DONALD JOHN SAID
HE HAS PROOF OF THE LIE IN AN UNCLASSIFIED DOCUMENT. HE HAS. THIS IS THE
MAIN REASON THE BIDEN WHITEHOUSE CARTEL WANTS HIM PUT IN JAIL. TO STOP
HIM FROM BECOMING PRESIDENT AGAIN. TO ARREST ALL THESE LIARS INCLUDING
GAY BOY OBAMA MAMA AND HIS WIFE BIG MIKE. JOAN RIVERS REVEALED THIS TO
THE WORLD. SHE WAS AT THE WH AND A QUESTION THROWN AT HER AS SHE WAS
LEAVING. SAYING IS OBAMA THE FIRST GAY PRESIDENT. JOAN RIVERS SAID YES,
AND MICHELLE OR BIG MIKE SOME CALL HIM/HER. OBAMA IS THE FIRST GAY
PRESIDENT AND MICHELLE IS THE FIRST TRANSEXUAL IN THE WHITE HOUSE. MIKE
ROBINSON WAS MICHELLE OBAMAS REAL NAME. UNTILL HE CHANGED INTO MICHELLE.
OBAMA EVEN ACCIDENTALLY AT SOME CEREMONY SAID HIM AND MIKE THANK YOU
WHATEVER CEREMONY THEY WERE AT.
Amazon’s Alexa
confirms Michelle Obama “was born Michael LaVaughn Robinson. "Michael
and I also want to acknowledge," Obama says at a lectern.
The
last time that General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, spoke with President Donald Trump was on January 3, 2021. The
subject of the Sunday-afternoon meeting, at the White House, was Iran’s
nuclear program. For the past several months, Milley had been engaged in
an alarmed effort to insure that Trump did not embark on a military
conflict with Iran as part of his quixotic campaign to overturn the
results of the 2020 election and remain in power. The chairman secretly
feared that Trump would insist on launching a strike on Iranian
interests that could set off a full-blown war.THEN MILLIE DONE A TREASON
ACT AGAINST AMERICA. HE WARNED CHINA THAT TRUMP WAS GOING TO NUKE THEM.
BRAIN
DEAD BIDENS SHUTTING HIS MOUTH ABOUT QUESTIONS ABOUT HIM AND HIS FAMILY
MEMBERS BEING TREASONOUS IS BECAUSE HE SO DUMB NOW. HE FALLS ALL THE
TIME. HE NEVER KNOWS WERE HE IS. AND HES A PUPPET AS WELL AS THE LEADER
OF THE WHITE HOUSE CRIME SYNDICAT CARTEL.AND BESIDES HIM AND COMEY,
CLINTONS, OBAMA MAMAS, AND MANY OTHER CARTEL LIBERAL MEMBERS WILL BE
JAILED FOR LIFE. IF HE OPENS HIS MOUTH.LOOSE LIPS SINK CARTELS OF
AMERICAN TREASOIN AND COUPS RIGHT CHINA JOE.
Fox Business
November 3, 2016-Lou Dobbs: "Both the Clinton cartel and the Obama White
House are exemplars of the corruption that has overwhelmed Washington.
We have to end it. We have to reverse and find the courage to take on
the very real demons that control too much of our nation.
Her list,
called "The Clinton Body Count: Coincidence or the Kiss of Death?" then
contained the names of 34 people she believed had died suspiciously and
who had ties to the Clinton family.
In September 2016, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation made public documents relating to its now-closed
investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a
private email server for government business, posting them to its public
document platform known as The Vault.
SPEAKING
OF MURDERERS O.J SIMPSON GOT HIS MOUTH OF IF THE GLOVE DOESN'T FIT, YOU
MUST AQUIT. IN SAYING YOU MUST WORSHIP THE BIDEN CRIMINAL CARTEL AND DO
WHATEVER THE LIBERALS LIKE HIMSELF SAY AND OBEY. THIS LIB TARD SHOULD
HAVE DIED IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR YEARS AGO FOR MURDERING BROWN AND
GOLDMAN. INSTEAD OF TELLING AMERICAN CITIZENS TO WORSHIP HIS BEST
CRIMINAL CARTEL BUDDY $20 BILLION CHINA JOE TREASON BOY BIDEN.
DADDYS LITTLE LIBERAL BOY IN CANADA JUDAS ESCARIOT JUSTIN TRUDUMP WILL LOVE SEEING TRUMP ARRESTED ALSO.
GOP
Rep. Ogles introduces impeachment articles against Biden, Harris-Rep.
Andy Ogles’ impeachment articles come as Biden faces a special counsel
investigation into his handling of classified documents after leaving
the vice presidency-Houston Keene-By Houston Keene | Fox News
Ogles’
articles accuse Biden of having "weaponized" the presidency, both in
his tenure as president and vice president, to "shield the business and
influence peddling schemes of his family from congressional oversight
and public accountability."Additionally, the articles accuse Biden of
acting in a "manner contrary to the public trust and subversive of
constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law
and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United
States" with his handling of the southern border crisis.Ogle's effort
will likely face an uphill climb in the House, where a small minority of
Republicans have pushed for Biden's impeachment. CNN ANALYST SHOCKED BY
HUNTER BIDEN CASE BEING SLOW-WALKED BY JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: ‘THIS IS
PREPOSTEROUS!’Republican Tennessee Congressman Andy OglesTennessee
Republican Rep. Andy Ogles’ articles of impeachment accuse Biden of
having "weaponized" the presidency, both in his tenure as president and
vice president, to Harris’ impeachment articles take aim at her track
record as vice president as well as her handling of the southern border
crisis, accusing the vice president of having "extraordinary
incompetence in the execution of her duties and responsibilities and an
indifference to Americans suffering as a result of America’s ongoing
southern border crisis.""Joe Biden hasn’t just failed the American
people with his abysmal excuse for ‘leadership’ — he’s violated his
sworn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the
United States," Ogles told Fox News Digital."Joe Biden has repeatedly
abused his position of power, both as vice president and president, to
cover up his illicit family business dealings and exploitation of
taxpayer resources," the Tennessee Republican continued."The American
people know they can’t depend on the so-called ‘Department of Justice’
to investigate the Biden family’s corruption, and so it’s up to the U.S.
Congress to hold him accountable once and for all," Ogles added.Ogles
said "Biden is a disgrace tO the Oval Office and should be stripped of
his position and held responsible for his high crimes against the United
States" and said that his "accomplice" Vice President Kamala Harris
"has demonstrated her extraordinary incompetence time and again." (Anna
Moneymaker/Getty Images)-Ogles said, "Biden is a disgrace to the Oval
Office and should be stripped of his position and held responsible for
his high crimes against the United States" and that his "accomplice"
Harris "has demonstrated her extraordinary incompetence time and
again.""She has allowed the land invasion at our southern border to
continue unchecked, threatening the livelihoods of millions and the
lives of thousands who have been murdered at the hands of illegal aliens
and died from illicit fentanyl," Ogles said.
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(Original Signature of Member)-118TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. RES.
ll-Impeaching President Joseph Robinette Biden, President of the United
States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. OGLES-submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
Committee on lllllllllllllll RESOLUTION Impeaching President Joseph
Robinette Biden, President of the United States, for high crimes and
misdemeanors.Resolved,That Joseph Robinette Biden, President of 1 the
United States, is impeached for high crimes and mis- 2 demeanors and
that the following articles of impeachment 3 be exhibited to the United
States Senate: 4 Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of 5
Representatives of the United States of America in the 6 name of itself
and of the people of the United States of 7 America, against Joseph
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maintenance and support of its impeach-1 ment against him for high
crimes and misdemeanors.2 ARTICLE I 3 In his conduct of the Office of
President of the 4 United States, Joseph Robinette Biden, in violation
of his 5constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Presi-6
dent of the United States and, to the best of his ability,7 preserve,
protect, and defend the Constitution of the 8 United States, and in
violation of his constitutional duty 9 to take care that the laws be
faithfully executed, has pre-10 vented, obstructed, and impeded the
administration of jus-11 tice, in that:12 Joseph Robinette Biden has
weaponized the Execu-13 tive Office of the President and his years of
service in the 14 White House, to include his service as Vice President,
to 15 shield the business and influence peddling schemes of h s16
family from congressional oversight and public account-17ability.18 His
conduct has included the following:19 (1) A failure to comply with
numerous congres-20 sional requests for information and documentation,21
violating a personal commitment to transparency. 22 Members of Congress
had sent numerous oversight 23 requests and inquiries to key officials
within the 24 Biden administration in furtherance of Congress’25
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g:\VHLD\061223\D061223.111.xml (885025|2) 3 included a letter to
Secretary Yellen, requesting Sus-1 picious Activity Reports for the
Biden family and 2 business associates, a letter to the Director of the 3
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Wray, 4 requesting
information about Hunter Biden’s con-5nection to members of the Chinese
ommunist 6 Party, and a letter to then Acting Archivist of the 7 United
States, Debra Steidel Wall, regarding the 8 Biden family’s use of Air
Force Two to facilitate 9 business transactions with Chinese
nationals.10 (2) Several companies created after January 11 20, 2017, by
Biden family members and the busi-12 ness associates of those family
members were estab-13 lished as limited liability companies; these
companies 14 and others were used to funnel millions of dollars to 15
Biden family members in intricate financial webs in-16 tended to deceive
the public and obscure the sources 17 of those funds. In early 2017,
the Biden family re-18 ceived $1,065,000 in payments over a 3-month
pe-19 riod from Rob Walker, a family associate; those 20 funds were part
of a larger $3,000,000 payment 21 from State Energy HK Limited (a
Chinese com-22 pany) to Rob Walker’s company.23 (3) In 2016, then-Vice
President Biden told 24 then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that
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$1,000,000,000 in loan 1 guarantees unless the Ukrainian President fired
2 Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Mr. Shokin was 3 investigating
Burisma Holdings at the time, a 4 Ukrainian company that paid Hunter
Biden more 5 than $50,000 a month to sit on its Board.6 (4) The Biden
administration withheld a critical 7 FD–1023 form until threatened with a
congressional 8subpoena. The FD–1023 form, made available to the 9
Members of the House Oversight and Accountability 10 Committee in June
2023, reportedly details a brib-11 ery scheme in which members of the
Biden family,12 including Joseph Robinette Biden, received 13 $5,000,000
each to assist Burisma Holdings. The 14 confidential human source of
this form has been 15 used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a
re-16 liable source of information since 2010.17 In all of this, Joseph
Robinette Biden has acted in 18 a manner contrary to the public trust
and subversive of 19 constitutional government, to the great prejudice
of the 20 cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the 21
people of the United States.22 Wherefore Joseph Robinette Biden, by such
conduct, 23 warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and 24
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enjoy any office of honor, 1 trust, or profit under the United States.2
ARTICLE II 3 In his conduct of the office of President of the
United 4 States, Joseph Robinette Biden, contrary to his oath faith-5
fully to execute the office of President of the United States 6 and, to
the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend 7the Constitution
of the United States, and in violation of 8 his constitutional duty to
take care that the laws be faith-9 fully executed, directly facilitated
the ongoing southern 10 border crisis and endangered the people of the
United 11 States, in that: 12 (1) In the first five months of fiscal
year 2023,13 106,000 pounds of drugs were seized at the south-14 west
border, including 11,000 pounds of fentanyl.15 The first five months of
fiscal year 2023 saw a 16 179.3 percent increase in fentanyl seizures
over the 17 same time frame in fiscal year 2022.18 (2) The U.S. Customs
and Border Protection 19 Agency ‘‘encountered’’ 251,978 illegal aliens
at the 20 southwest border in December 2022, the highest 21 monthly
total ever recorded; this represented 10on-22 secutive months of over
200,000 illegal alien ‘‘en-23 counters’’.24 (3) Despite these large
numbers, Joseph 25 Robinette Biden refuses to utilize powers provided to
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by Congress, specifically those de-1 scribed in section 1182(f) of
title 8, United States 2 Code.3 (4) Since the creation of the Department
of 4 Homeland Security, the number of monthly ‘‘en-5 counters’’ had
never crossed the 200,000 threshold;6 the Biden administration is
responsible for the 6 7 highest and 8 of the 10 highest months ever re-8
corded.9 (5) The ongoing border crisis has inflicted 10 harrowing costs
on the welfare of women and chil-11 dren. The number of unaccompanied
alien children 12‘‘encountered’’ by the U.S. Customs and Border 13
Protection Agency at the southwest border in fiscal 14 year 2017 was 48
681. In fiscal year 2022, that 15 number stood at 152,057, a 212 percent
increase.16 Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children have 17 been
‘‘encountered’’, trafficked, and smuggled across 18 the southwest border
in the 2 years since President 19 Biden took office, representing
hundreds of children 20 every day. 21 (6) Due to rampant drug
trafficking at our 22 southern border, the leading cause of death for 23
Americans aged 18–45 can now be attributable to 24 fentanyl overdoses;
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Americans in this age1 group than COVID–19, car accidents, cancer, and 2
suicide.3 In all of this, Joseph Robinette Biden has acted in 4 a
manner contrary to the public trust and subversive of 5 constitutional
government, to the great prejudice of the 6 cause of law and justice and
to the manifest injury of the 7 people of the United States.8
Wherefore, Joseph Robinette Biden, by such conduct,9 warrants
impeachment and trial, removal from office, and10 disqualification to
hold any enjoy any office of honor, 11 trust, or profit under the United
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Trump
calls prosecutors 'deranged' and 'thugs' Trump, loyalists step up
efforts to undermine criminal case in lead-up to hearing-Former US
president calls for protests outside Miami courthouse ahead of
appearance; failed Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake: To get to
Trump, they have to ‘go through me’ By Eric Tucker and Jill ColvinJUN
12,23-Today, 2:43 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump and his
allies are escalating efforts to undermine the criminal case against him
and drum up protests as the former president braces for a
history-making federal court appearance this week on dozens of felony
charges accusing him of illegally hoarding classified
information.Trump’s Tuesday afternoon appearance in Miami will mark his
second time in as many months facing a judge on criminal charges. But
unlike a New York case, some legal analysts derided as relatively
trivial, the US Justice Department’s first prosecution of a former
president concerns conduct that prosecutors say jeopardized national
security and that involves Espionage Act charges carrying the threat of a
significant prison sentence in the event of a conviction.Ahead of his
arraignment, Trump ratcheted up the rhetoric against the Justice
Department special counsel who filed the case, calling Jack Smith
“deranged” and his team of prosecutors “thugs” as he repeated without
any evidence his claims that he was the target of political
persecution.He called on his supporters to join a planned protest at the
Miami courthouse Tuesday, where he will be arraigned on the charges.“We
need strength in our country now,” Trump said, speaking to his longtime
friend and adviser Roger Stone in an interview on WABC Radio. “And they
have to go out and they have to protest peacefully. They have to go
out.”“Look, our country has to protest. We have plenty of protest to
protest. We’ve lost everything,” he went on.He also said there were no
circumstances “whatsoever” under which he would leave the 2024 race,
where he’s so far been dominating the Republican primary.Other Trump
supporters have rallied to his defense with similar language, including
Kari Lake, the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate in
Arizona who pointedly said over the weekend that if prosecutors “want to
get to President Trump,” they’re “going to have to go through me, and
75 million Americans just like me. And most of us are card-carrying
members of the NRA.”Trump’s calls for protest echoed exhortations he
made ahead of a New York court appearance last April, where he faces
charges arising from hush money payments made during his 2016
presidential campaign, though he complained that those who showed up to
protest then were “so far away that nobody knew about ’em.” Just like in
that case, he plans to address supporters in a Tuesday evening speech
hours after his court date.Trump is expected to depart for Miami on
Monday and will spend the rest of the day in Florida, huddled with
advisers. After his court appearance, he will return to New Jersey,
where he’s scheduled a press event to publicly respond to the
charges.Trump supporters were also planning to load buses to head to
Miami from other parts of Florida, raising concerns for law enforcement
officials who are preparing for potential unrest around the courthouse.
Mayor Francis Suarez was expected to announce additional details Monday
about the preparations though there was little police presence near the
courthouse as late as Sunday afternoon and barricades hadn’t yet been
erected nearby, a stark contrast to New York City where police planned
for protests for weeks even though no violence ultimately happened.The
Justice Department unsealed Friday an indictment charging Trump with 37
felony counts, 31 relating to the willful retention of national defense
information. Other charges include conspiracy to commit obstruction and
false statements.The indictment alleges Trump intentionally retained
hundreds of classified documents that he took with him from the White
House to his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, after leaving the White House
in January 2021. The material he stored, including in a bathroom,
ballroom, bedroom, and shower, included material on nuclear programs,
defense and weapons capabilities of the US and foreign governments, and a
Pentagon “attack plan,” the indictment says. The information, if
exposed, could have put at risk members of the military, confidential
human sources, and intelligence collection methods, prosecutors
said.Beyond that, prosecutors say, he sought to obstruct government
efforts to recover the documents, including by directing personal aide
Walt Nauta — who was charged alongside Trump — to move boxes to conceal
them and also suggesting to his own lawyer that he hide or destroy
documents sought by a Justice Department subpoena.Some fellow
Republicans have sought to press the case that Trump is being treated
unfairly, citing the Justice Department’s decision in 2016 to not charge
Democrat Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified information
through a private email server she relied on as secretary of state. But
those arguments overlook that FBI investigators did not find any
evidence that Clinton or her aides had willfully broken laws regarding
classified information or had obstructed the investigation.New Hampshire
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, speaking Sunday on CBS News, said there
was a “huge difference” between the two investigations but that it “has
to be explained to the American people.”The Justice Department earlier
this month informed former US vice president Mike Pence that it would
not bring charges over the presence of classified documents in his
Indiana home. A separate Justice Department special counsel
investigation into the discovery of classified records at a home and
office of US President Joe Biden continues, though as in the Clinton
case, no evidence of obstruction or intentional law-breaking has
surfaced.Trump’s own former attorney general, William Barr, offered a
grim prediction of Trump’s fate, saying on Fox News that Trump had no
right to hold onto such sensitive records.“If even half of it is true,”
Barr said of the allegations in the indictment, “then he’s toast. I
mean, it’s a pretty — it’s a very detailed indictment, and it’s very,
very damning. And this idea of presenting Trump as a victim here — a
victim of a witch hunt is ridiculous.”
Analysis-Biden adopts
strategy of silence as Trump indicted-President has little to gain by
commenting on his rival’s legal woes, with many Trump supporters already
believing the former leader is a victim of a ‘deep state’ conspiracy-By
Sebastian Smith-JUN 12,23-Today, 9:04 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) —
What does US President Joe Biden have to say about Donald Trump? The
golf match playing on Air Force One television screens on the day of
Trump’s indictment made it clear: nothing.With his main 2024 challenger
due in court Tuesday to face unprecedented charges for an ex-president
of obstructing justice and illegally hoarding top secret documents,
Biden finds himself in a politically precarious position.After all, it
is a Justice Department headed by a man he appointed, Attorney General
Merrick Garland, that will oversee the prosecution of an opponent.Say
anything — even express interest — in the fate of the far-right former
president, and Biden will fuel fires already blazing among Republicans
who believe Trump’s conspiracy theory that he is the victim of some
“deep state” persecution.Hence, switching televisions to the Golf
Channel on Air Force One during a presidential trip to North Carolina on
Friday — instead of the usual CNN, which that day was buzzing with
images, reports, commentaries, and frantic chyrons about the
just-unveiled indictment.Asked about the case by reporters traveling on
the plane, Biden’s answer was an emphatic, “No comment.”Asked if he had
even spoken with Garland, Biden also said no.“And I have no comment on
that.”Under longstanding custom, the Justice Department is independent
from the White House. Adding a further remove from politics, the man
actually prosecuting Trump, Jack Smith, is a special counsel operating
on a kind of legal island all of his own.But in a United States where
Republicans and Democrats have lost trust in each other and where the
Republican leader, Trump, built his re-election campaign on the lie that
Biden did not beat him in 2020, such gentleman’s agreements count for
little.Hence Biden’s strategy of staying clear of the biggest political
development in the country — and from the man he will probably have to
beat to win a second term next year.“I think that President Biden’s
behavior so far has been perfectly appropriate,” Carl Tobias, a law
professor at the University of Richmond, said.“The special counsel has
not had any contact with Garland or Biden on this case since he was
appointed. Biden should continue to resist offering any public comment
on the case. As president, he should leave that task to others, and
allow the special counsel to prosecute the case.”Loose lips? A problem
with Biden’s keep-it-quiet strategy is that Biden has a tendency of
saying things that many, not least his nervous staff, think he
shouldn’t.There was that time last year when an impassioned Biden,
referring to President Vladimir Putin and his bloody invasion of
neighboring Ukraine, said: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in
power.”The White House made clear after that it was not US policy to
remove Putin.Then there are the several occasions when Biden has gone
further than standard US public statements on the commitment to defend
Taiwan from Chinese attack — geopolitical thunderclaps routinely
followed up by the White House with assurances that nothing has
changed.Maintaining radio silence on the Trump scandal may get
exponentially more difficult as the campaign develops.It is possible
that the Republican may be on trial at the height of election season
next year, making the subject near impossible to avoid — especially when
Trump turns his trial into a vehicle to convey damaging conspiracy
theories about supposed White House abuse of power.Political scientist,
and author of a book on the presidency, Lara Brown said Biden is doing
the right thing — and that trying to address the issue would in any case
be futile.“Nothing good can come from him speaking publicly about the
matter. The legal process will play out over the next many months, and
whatever results come about will be statement enough,” she said.“Trump’s
supporters dislike and distrust Biden. Heck, many even fail to believe
that he is the legitimate president.“And there is nothing that can be
said by any Democrat, let alone President Biden, to convince them that
the Justice Department is acting in the interests of the rule of law and
the American people.”
