THE BOWE BERGDAHL STORY CONTINUES

                                                       

                                   BY BILL JUNEAU

                            You may have figured that you'd heard the last of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who deserted his regiment in Afghanistan and subsequently was convicted of the offense in a court martial at which he plead guilty.  But the story of the ex-sergeant has taken a new turn as Bergdahl is doing his best to shake loose of his mistakes and misconduct.

                            Last July, a district judge in Washington D.C. vacated the conviction and dishonorable discharge ordered against Bergdahl because of a "conflict of Interest" on the part of the  sentencing military judge, Col. Jeffrey Nance. 

                            The government and the army is appealing, but in the meantime, Bergdahl is just another ex soldier entitled to  medical and real estate benefits and backpay.  He is at present a deserter in a time of war who walks free  

                            After joining the army, Private Bergdahl was deployed  to Afghanistan as war with the Taliban raged. On a cold night in 2009, he abandoned his post and fellow soldiers and surrendered  himself to America's enemy, the Taliban. Held in Taliban shelters for the next five years, he learned to speak the Arabic language and found ways to stay on the good side and mingle with America's enemy in the country which was a training center for terrorists in the 9-11 attack in New York. 

                          Reportedly, he became fluent in the Arabic language, and seemingly was treated with tender hands for his five years in their campgrounds in the mountainous country in the Middle East.  

                           Bergdahl's desertion became the subject of massive publicity in America and was scorned by patriots and other soldiers.  In 2014, President Obama arranged to bring the soldier home after negotiating with the terrorists.  In return for releasing Bergdahl, America released five terrorists being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.  The five returned, it was reported, to the battlefield and resumed the Taliban mission to kill Americans. 

                           Obama was commended for bringing Bergdahl home, though the fact that he had negotiated with the terrorists and had failed to inform Congress of his backroom deal brought calls for  Obama's impeachment by prominent Republicans and GOP reps in the lower House of Congress. 

                            Now holding the rank of Sergeant, Bergdahl was welcomed home in 2014 in a ceremony and party on White House lawn. The soldier's parents from Hailey, Idaho, were among guests.  Bergdahl's father, John, had grown a thick, Taliban-style beard and speaking with emotion in the Arabic language, praised Allah for his mercy in bringing his son home.  As he spoke, President Obama reacted by laying his hand affectionately on his shoulder.  

                              Shortly thereafter, Obama's  National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, appeared on network television stations and lauded Sgt. Bergdahl by telling Americans the fiction that the non- commissioned officer had served his country with  "honor and distinction." This, of course, was an enormous lie, but reportedly had been okayed by President Obama whose concern for the nation's military has always appeared questionable.   

                          In December, 2015, Bergdahl was charged with desertion, and  misbehavior before the enemy and a general court martial at Fort Bragg was scheduled. He awaited trial while working at a desk on a Texas army base.  Army Col. Jeffrey Nance, who was nearing retirement, was named as the presiding judge at the upcoming military tribunal.  

                                 As the trial approached in the fall of 2017, President Trump called Bergdahl a traitor and opined that he ought to be shot.  Also, the late Arizona senator, John McCain, who spent five years as a prisoner of war during the Viet Nam fighting, and was considered a true american hero, lambasted Bergdahl for his  dishonor to America and called for his punishment. 

                                  On October 17, 2017, Bergdahl pleaded guilty to all charges against him and in emotional testimony explained that he regretted his actions and would be forced to live his life in the face of being a deserter.  Judge Nance entered a conviction against Sgt. Bergdahl for desertion and ordered him dishonorably discharged and fined $10,000.  Also he stripped the soldier of all benefits given to veterans who have served their country. 

                                  But Judge Nance was merciful and kind in pronouncing the sentence. Rather than send the young soldier to prison for life or for many years, he allowed him to go home and rebuild his life.  

                                 Judge Nance who was on the verge of retiring from active duty as a soldier had applied for a job with the Justice Department under President Trump who had railed against Bergdahl as a "traitor," even suggesting that he be executed.  Nance's application for the job had not been disclosed publicly.

                                 In June of 2020, attorneys for Bergdahl filed a lawsuit in the district court in Washington seeking to have  the  convictions vacated since Col. Nance's application for a job in the Trump government constituted a conflict of interest which threatened his ability to be impartial.

                                Last July Judge Reggie B. Walton , in a 563 page ruling, agreed with the petition, and vacated all charges against Bergdahl, allowing him to walk free with credentials as an ex-soldier entitled to benefits and backpay.  

                              Bergdahl's motion for dismissal "specifically referenced the former president’s desire that the plaintiff be convicted and how he should be punished," Walton wrote.

                             "Thus, the Court concludes that, based upon the military judge’s job application to an executive branch position -- a situation in which he might reasonably be expected to appeal to the president’s expressed interest in the plaintiff’s conviction and punishment -- 'it would appear to a reasonable person,' 'knowing all the circumstances,' 'that [the judge]’s impartiality was in jeopardy,'" Walton wrote, citing in quotes precedents from previous decisions.

                              Actually, the question of Nance's impartiality was answered in the punishment he imposed, which included no jail time, and was merciful, and allowed for Bergdahl to return home and rebuild his life. Very likely, President Trump was in favor of a much tougher sentence. 

                             According to records, it appears that the justice Department's efforts to reinstate Bergdahl's  convictions are ongoing.                                     

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TONY BOBULINSKI, IGNORED BY THE FBI

 

                                                        BY BILL JUNEAU

                             The Biden family history of selling its influence to some of this nation's greatest enemies appears to have only one chance of fully coming to light, and that is the current impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives. 

                            The history of this simmering scandal, and how it has been squashed again and again, began in October of 2020, when Anthony "Tony" Bobulinski came forward on a Fox News show with Tucker Carlson and told of the corruption of Joe Biden, a candidate for President and a former Vice President to Barack  Obama. 

                            Carefully questioned by Carlson, he told of the operations of Biden's son Hunter, and Biden's brother James in which they leaned heavily on other countries for contracts using the "Biden" name.  It brought in tens of millions of dollars with much of it coming from Communist China and the Ukraine, and chunks of money were, according to Hunter's writings,  earmarked for "Pop" or the "Big Guy," affectionate names for the dad who was making it all happen. 

                             That same month, Bobulinski hand delivered to the Washington Field office of the FBI several phones containing years of  encrypted messages he had with members of the Biden family and with other associates of Hunter and James. Sadly, there was no  follow up investigation by anyone in law enforcement or government, and the befuddled Joe Biden skated free and won the election as the FBI looked the other way, Bobulinski has asserted. 

                            Bobulinski, 51, a former naval officer with a high- level security clearance, had associated with Hunter and James Biden and was helping run their companies, which included Sinohawk Holdings, and Oneida and apparently other companies, when he saw the dishonesty being perpetrated with the help of then Vice President Joe Biden.  

                            Bobulinski had details, with papers and documents, photos and tapes, to back up the story of Biden family corruption which he had personally witnessed while associated with Hunter and James. He was ready, he said, and anticipated and looked forward to interviews by agents under FBI  Director Christopher Wray to  investigate his allegations. He said that he was well aware that his testimony would be given under oath, and that he knew of the the penalties for perjury. 

                           Much was at stake, he said,  as Joe Biden was a candidate for President in the scheduled November, 2020, election. But Joe Biden, with his fingers in corrupt activities masterminded by his son Hunter, and brother, James, was a "compromised leader,"  Bobulinski said, adding that Americans deserved to know of his mendacity and his dealings with his son, Hunter, a cocaine addict who had been kicked out of the navy; and his brother James.

                           The FBI and Director Wray, who had been appointed by President Trump in 2017, and the Biden Department of Justice led by the owlish, lying Attorney General, Merrick Garland, simply ignored Bobulinski and the evidence which he endeavored to reveal to the voting public. Biden defeated incumbent President Donald Trump by a narrow vote,  and the shameful story of Biden's family shakedown of other countries was quietly put in the FBI's "File 13" for review at "some later date."

                           "For nearly four years," said Bobulinski,  "I tried to tell the American people the truth about serious corruption at the very top of their government. "In return, I was falsely accused of being a purveyor  of 'Russian disinformation' and a political surrogate. My continuous efforts to inform the American people of the facts were actively suppressed by both the U.S. government and the so-called mainstream media."

                            But the story of the Biden's back alley dealings and the significant accusations of dishonesty from Bobulinski was blanketed and Joe Biden was elected the nation's 46th President in what former President Trump and others describe as a controlled and "stolen" election.                                

                             In 2022, Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives and subsequently Bobulinski was called to testify before congressional committees where he told  of the Biden family corruption, and how the DOJ and the FBI had concealed the Biden back door schemes and contracts being used to generate tens of millions of dollars .  

                            "I want to be crystal clear---From my direct personal experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was 'the brand' being sold by the Biden family.   His family's foreign influence peddling operation---from China to Ukraine and elsewhere--sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States  government.  Joe Biden was more that a participant in and beneficiary of his family's business;  he was an enabler despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability." 

                              His statements that he had no profit making fingers in the businesses of Hunter and James and never ever discussed with them their activities is a "complete lie."  

                            "I know because I met and spoke with Joe Biden more than once," he insisted.

                       "Joe Biden's immediate family members were enriched to the tune of tens of millions of dollars from some of our most dangerous adversaries, including the Chinese Communist party and players from Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Kazakhstan and other foreign nations and entities," Bobulinski said under oath, providing documents and tapes and other materials to substantiate and authenticate his statements

                      In 2019, the FBI had confiscated a lap top computer owned by Hunter Biden.  The hard drive with its hundreds of messages written by Hunter, revealed Hunter's debauchery and the dishonesty of the Biden family.  

                             In a debate in 2020 between Biden and incumbent President Trump seeking reelection, Biden lied and indicated that the computer story was solid fiction promoted by Russia working to assist the reelection of President Trump. Former Atty Gen. William Barr has said that Biden "lied" in the debate, and knew full well that the computer was in the hands of the  FBI under Director Wray, who was partnering with Democrats on behalf of the slow witted and malleable Joe Biden. 

                             Currently, the House of Representatives under Speaker Mike Johnson is conducting an impeachment inquiry and Congress reportedly has the evidence it needs to vote in favor of articles of impeachment against the fumbling President Biden. Along with others, Bobulinski is a key witness to the Biden family corruption machine in which money from contracts with foreign nations was doled out from shell corporations to various members of the Biden clan. 

                              Asked about his participation in his son's businesses, President Biden says, "It's all lies." Democrats have rallied to his side and are saying that there is no evidence connecting Joe Biden with the activities of his son, or to anything illegal or corrupt.  Accusations that the President took million dollar bribes from Ukraine in return for special treatment has been "debunked," Biden allies assert.  

                                        Impeachment by the House is on the table and representatives say that the evidence is in hand.  If articles of impeachment are voted by the house, the charges will  be sent to the Senate for a trial presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme court. Conviction by the Senate is improbable since the upper House of Congress is controlled by Democrats. However, a trial would allow the airing of sworn testimony and the paper trail evidencing Biden malfeasance.  At least it wouldn't be swept under the carpet any longer and Americans would know the real truth about their President and his family.

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THE ASHLI BABBITT LAWSUIT

  

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU

                             Although the story seems to have been buried by the Democratic Party-controlled media, the Judicial Watch organization recently filed a $30 million lawsuit against the U.S. Government on behalf of the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a Capitol police lieutenant on January 6, 2021.

                             Judicial Watch is well-known as a conservative and bipartisan watchdog organization which insists on transparency, and integrity from government officials. The group frequently calls upon the courts to enforce constitutional laws and  to right obvious wrongs.

                           Ashli was an unarmed Air Force veteran who was shot and killed by Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd inside the capitol during the disorder by supporters of former President Trump. The suit has been filed in Federal District Court in California with claims for Babbitt's wrongful death and for assault, battery and the negligent behavior of police.   

                          The incident prompted the Biden Department of Justice and the FBI under Director Christopher Wray to do their best to mitigate all comment about the shooting.  For eight months, authorities declined to even identify the shooter of the woman and said only that a capitol policeman had simply done his duty in the face of the so called "insurrection," and needed to be protected from undeserved scorn and ridicule for "just doing his job as he was trained to do."

                           In August following the shooting, Byrd appeared on the Lester Holt TV show and was interviewed.  Acknowledging that he had shot Ms. Babbitt, he said that “I followed my training, and I spent countless years preparing for such a moment."   At that moment, he stated,  Babbitt “was posing a threat” to lawmakers in the House Chamber.

                       The shooting had  overtones which contradicted a liberal attitude that racist white policemen are bigoted and prone to kill black men for little or no reasons.  

                        Lt. Byrd, 55,  is black, and has been a capitol policeman for about 30 years.  Ashli Babbitt was a 35-year-old white woman who had served her country honorably in the Air Force. The  incident of a black cop shooting a white, unarmed woman is contrary to the Democrat and mainstreeting media stories of how racism against blacks runs rampant in American police departments. 

                       The  belief  that all white cops are looking for innocent black men to shoot was given national credence after George Floyd, a hardened black ex-convict with a lengthy police rap sheet, died while being arrested by a white Minneapolis patrolman in the spring of 2020.                        

                       This Ashli Babbitt killing does not fit the left wing narrative, and consequently, it was, and still is, being hushed up and kept in a darkened  closet where embarrassing  faux pas committed by Democrats get stashed away and left to wither and die without public awareness and fallout. 

                        Approximately 1,000 participants in the Capitol disorder have been arrested, tried and jailed for their participation and alleged violence on January 6, but none was every charged with carrying a weapon or being an insurrectionist. 

                       Byrd has a record of miscues and service violations as a policeman, but was never disciplined or fully investigated for the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt which was the only incident of gun violence in the melee of January 6.  

                         According to the lawsuit, Ashli and others had been directed by a woman police officer to walk toward the House side. Ashli arrived at a hallway outside the Speakers lobby where two individuals had dislodged glass panels in lobby doors. Lt. Byrd, commanding the police unit on hand, shot Ashli on sight as she raised herself up into the opening of the broken door. the lawsuit charges.  

                        Byrd has said that he shot Ashli, the lawsuit contended, without ever seeing her hands or assessing her intentions or after even identifying her as a woman. She was "ambushed" and "had posed no threat to anyone," the suit has charged.   Multiple persons who witnessed the shooting by Byrd, who was not in uniform and never identified himself as a policeman, screamed at Byrd---"you just murdered her," the lawsuit said. 

                        Witnesses have said that Ashli never even saw Byrd; and the lawsuit stated that the plain clothed officer never gave her any warnings or commands before shooting her dead with his Glock pistol.  The medical examiner later determined that the manner of Ashli Babbitt's death was "homicide." 

                         The suit further alleged that Byrd had a service record of being reckless with his Glock 22 pistol and that Congress and his superiors  "knew or should have known that Byrd was prone to behave in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner." 

                         In 2019, the airy-headed Byrd had left his loaded Glock on a bathroom counter in the Capitol Visitor Center complex (CVC). It was found during a routine security sweep later the same day by another officer.  Reportedly, 15,000 to 20,000 people pass through the CVC  center each day during the warm months.  Reportedly Byrd apologized for his negligence, but was never disciplined.

                        Byrd, who reportedly has been promoted to captain,  had his police powers revoked for brief periods on more than one occasion prior to January 6 for failing to meet firearm qualifications, the suit charged.  Byrd reportedly had a reputation among peers for not being a "good shot." 

                       On another occasion, Lt. Byrd's car was stolen and Byrd fired multiple shots into the fleeing vehicle in a suburban area. Stray bullets struck the side of homes nearby, and a subsequent investigation found that his use of force was not justified. His firearm privileges reportedly were revoked for a period as a disciplinary measure. 

                       Ashli Babbitt was 35 years old and resided with her husband, Aaron, in San Diego, California.  Together, they operated a  successful pool business. 

                      Ashli had  traveled alone to Washington, D.C. from the west coast because she “loved her country and wanted to show her support for President Trump,” the suit states. “She was there to exercise what she believed were her God-given, American liberties and freedoms."

                       The wrongful death lawsuit, with depositions and discovery, could well open up the behind-the-scenes maneuvering to shield the full and factual story of the Ashli Babbitt shooting.  

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GOV. CHRISTIE'S "BACK FLIP"

 

                                                     BY  BILL JUNEAU 

                                                               Chris Christie, 61, is a former Republican  governor from the hardwired Democratic state of New Jersey.  He has the reputation as a GOP bull dog, but lately he has become more understanding of the Party of the Jackass with whom he shares strong opposition to the reelection of President Trump. 

                                         In 2016, while still the governor of that  deep blue state which abuts New York where hating Donald Trump is a career, he was one of some 18 candidates who scrambled without success to become the GOP candidate for President. He was again on debate stage as a candidate for the upcoming November, 2024,  presidential election---- but only briefly--- as the popularity of the former Republican president overshadowed his weak candidacy in polls and in primary elections.  

                                       Following his unimpressive appearances in a good many 2016 primary debates, and having become somewhat of a goat because of films showing him hugging Democratic President Obama, Christie dropped out of the race.  He envisioned greener fields and announced with enthusiasm his support for Donald Trump who subsequently became the GOP nominee. Trump went on to win the election over Democrat Hillary Clinton, and was sworn into office in January of 2017.  

                                     With many achievements benefiting Americans of all races and colors and in maintaining a secure border with new programs and 450 miles of a steel wall, Trump completed his four year term in 2020, but lost in his bid for a second term to Joe Biden. The Biden win was controversial and President Trump contended that the election was dishonest and had been "stolen" by lying Democrats and a media which covered up evidence of improper procedures and corrupt Biden conduct. 

                                      In preparation for the 2024 election next November, Christie spent  only a short time as an announced Republican candidate.  Quickly, he saw  the writings on the wall and withdrew from contention.  But he did so with a "backflip" and an attack on President Trump whom he had supported without reservation four years earlier.

                                   Announcing his withdrawal, he tore into the ex- President, accusing him of being a "lonely, self-consumed mirror hog" who poses a threat to the republic; and who was responsible for the January 6 "insurrection" and "that he should be impeached again." 

                              In 2016,  Christie had proclaimed that he was solidly in Trump's corner and following the election, he headed the Trump Transition Team in finding and recommending competent men and women with a conservative, Christian  attitude to serve in the new president's administration.    

                                       In 2016 and 2017, Christie never held back in his praise of Donald Trump.  Also, it was reported that he and his wife, Mary Pat had for 10 years or more been close friends with Trump and the Trump family.  He will be an outstanding President, said Christi, who had governed New Jersey from 2010 to 2018, and prior to the governor's office, had served for eight years as a United States attorney for New Jersey, appointed by President Bush.  So what made Christie change?

                                          Christie, who nursed his visage as a GOP attack dog, wanted a spot in the Trump cabinet.  Attorney General;  Homeland Security Director; Chief of Staff, or even Secretary of State were acceptable offices in the Christie  playbook for his future. In the end, however, Christie was never appointed to a cabinet position and his enmity for being ignored apparently grew and festered. Today, Christie is the harshest and loudest Republican critic of Donald Trump, his old friend.  

                                          In one of his money making new gigs, Chris Christie has become a political talking head, and has joined hands with the liberals at the ABC News desk. Nowadays, Christie is apparently still licking his wounds and getting even by talking up the negative aspects of former President Trump.  He is swapping, chatting and sharing criticisms with Trump haters in interviews and at the televised round table. "He must never be president again," asserts Christie, as he muckrakes the former president. At one talk session, he opined that Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a Democrat, would make for a good president.                                                             In 2017, after President Trump sacked his FBI director, James Comey, for incompetence and for sneaky plans to make Trump look like a water carrier for Russian President Vladimir Putin,  he picked Christopher Wray for the job, and the disingenuous Wray allowed the FBI to undermine President Trump.  Wray had represented Christie in the so-called New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, and had kept him from culpable involvement and going to jail; and correspondingly, Christie became  the key force to President Trump recommending Wray's appointment as FBI Director. 

                                          "If Trump becomes the GOP nominee for President in next November's Presidential election, it would amount to a "death sentence" for the GOP, said Christie. His brother- commentator at ABC, George Stephanopoulos, certainly agreed.  In fact, after withdrawing as a 2024 candidate, the rotund Christie gave his first post-candidacy interview to Stephanopoulos, one of the media's most dedicated, liberal  Democrats, who had earned his silver spurs as a defender and mouthpiece for Bill and Hillary Clinton.                                          

                                           You might wonder how Trump feels about having appointed Christopher Wray as director of the FBI in 2017, replacing James Comey who he fired. It was Christie who told him of the political smarts and loyal, down-the middle-legal prowess of Wray;  and Trump bought it all and appointed him to head the world's most respected police agency, and the Senate gave its approval.  

                                           In office, Director Wray allowed his subordinates to attack Trump in a variety of ways.  He allowed the concealment from the public of the Hunter Biden laptop computer which had been confiscated by FBI agents. Hunter's computer  contained messages incriminating his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, now President Biden, for taking money from ill-gotten contracts with Red China and Ukraine.  Hunter  frequently referred in his emails to his father as the "big guy," and that money was being earmarked for him. 

                                          Wray has remained in good standing with the Biden administration, and is a malleable pawn for the lying Merrick Garland, Attorney General, but it is inconceivable that he would ever  remain as the FBI director if Trump is reelected to a second term in the coming November. 

                                          Trump has been guarded in comments about his "old friend," Chris Christie, who continues to hang with  liberals around ABC News, badmouthing President Trump at every opportunity. Trump has summed up his feelings for the pear-shaped Christie by describing him as "a bum."

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THE BIDEN OF OUR TIMES

 

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU 

                                                                 The aged and broken mind of President Joe Biden  has been laid bare for all Americans to see.  But then, it is not the first time that Biden's brain waves, or lack thereof, have been displayed, and very likely it will not be the last.

                      

                         After five hours of interviews by Robert Hur,  a special counsel who investigated President Biden's alleged criminal mishandling of classified documents by leaving them scattered about in his dirty, oily garage in Delaware, Hur concluded that Biden had indeed broken criminal laws and was a candidate for  prosecution, notwithstanding any controversy over whether a sitting President can be indicted and tried for an offense.

                                  However, the investigating Hur found that the 81-year-old Biden, the nation's 46th President, was a  pathetic, "elderly and forgetful" man who lacked the poise and brain power to defend himself in a formal trial.  Consequently, he was given a pass from prosecution. 

                                 No question but that it is sad and depressing for trusting citizens to be informed by an unassailable source that their President, "Good Old Uncle Joe,"  is actually a moron. 

                                 Those that have watched him stumbling and bumbling on television in interviews; and have seen him fall on steps and wander aimlessly on a stage looking for an exit, are wondering why it took so long for a publicized  assessment of his acuity, and how this mindless shell, who used Covid as an excuse to hide in the basement of his Delaware home instead of  campaigning, was ever elected to the office of United States President.    

                                 Millions of Americans believe that the 2020 election was "stolen" with the help of the FBI and its director Christopher Wray, who concealed evidence of Biden's bribe taking and corrupt practices; and by virtue of an unmonitored mail-in ballot program; and the counting of tens of thousands of ballots for Biden when the paper ballots were blank except for a single mark for a candidate; and that candidate was Joe Biden.  

                                   Forty-five other men have served as President of the United States over the past 250 years, and now, for the first time, a card-carrying liar and a corrupt airhead was  elected and given access to  the Oval Office of the White House;  and to the keys and buttons which could trigger nuclear aggression. 

                                           Joe Biden is 81 years old.  For 36 years he was an elected U.S. Senator from Delaware and in 2008 he signed on as Barack Obama's Vice president.  In 2021, he was sworn in as the nation's 46th President.  His plan, he has said, is to run for a second term as President in November, 2024, against Republican Donald Trump, Biden's predecessor as President. 

                                          No one knows what Biden's IQ is, although he has boasted that it is high. Former classmates of his at Syracuse Law school where he finished close to last in his class, reportedly have described him as the "dumbest S.O.B in the school." Some say that he has never taken a standardized IQ test.  President Trump has called Biden a "Whacko with a low IQ," and the notorious and disliked North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, has called Biden a "low IQ idiot."     

                                         Navy Admiral Ronny Jackson, now a Texas congressman, served as the White House doctor to Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump; and he was in a position to observe the  goings and comings of Joe Biden in his conduct as a senator, and a vice president; and now as the nation's 46th President seeking reelection in 2024. 

                                         Said Rep. Jackson:  "President Biden is  totally incompetent and does not know what he is doing.....and is dangerous."  Others, he has said,  pull his strings from behind a curtain, and Biden uses crib notes and a teleprompter at press conferences. It has become  obvious to many press conference observers that Democratic party-controlled newsmen  do the bidding of their party and  shield him from the tough questions.

                                        After joining congress, in 2020, Dr. Jackson authored a letter to Biden requesting that he take a "cognitive" examination which would provide insight as to his acuity and ability to function as President.  Biden has never answered the letter which was cosigned by more than a dozen congressmen.  Newsmen have consistently declined to ask him about the letter. 

                                        After President Trump was elected in 2016, reporters demanded that he take a cognitive test.  He complied, and made a prefect score. 

                                        Victor Davis Hanson is a military historian and a retired professor, widely known and highly respected on all sides of the political spectrum, who has been writing political commentary for many years for major publications.   In interviews, he has provided the following assessment of Biden's acuity: 

                                         "Joe Biden is tragically suffering a mental eclipse and is sliding away at a geometric rate. Understandably, his handlers have kept him out of sight whenever possible. Often, Biden cannot finish a sentence. Names are vague eddies in his mind’s river of forgetfulness."   

                                            We can look back, said Hanson,  at  his plagiarism of a speech in 1987 which forced him to withdraw as a presidential candidate;  and at the racism of Biden’s riffs about a “clean” and well-spoken Obama; and his unforgettable and foolish "Corn Pop" stories.  Those are the trademarks of Joe Biden, who in past years was at least alert when compared with his "current catalepsy." 

                                         Dr. Hanson noted that if Donald Trump can be at times  ungrammatical, Biden is A-grammatical.  "He  simply streams together half-thoughts without syntax and then abandons the sentence entirely."                                                                                                                                                        President Biden has been around Washington for about 55 years.  His IQ has always been an issue, and he has been called the "Lamborghini of Gaffes," by the far left Washington Post. He will turn 82 next November, insisting that he has earned a second term. Pollsters are saying that if the race of Trump v Biden was held today, Biden would be defeated by a heavy number.                     

                                                  Some insiders believe that Biden will never be a candidate in 2024, because even Democrats recognize that he is mentally deficient. Some are predicting that he will be removed beforehand from the office of  President via the 25th Amendment, and that Vice President Kamala Harris will take his place; and that she will name a vice president who will then be maneuvered into becoming the Democratic candidate for President, running against former President Trump. 

                                               A  campaign for President by Kamala Harris, who has been largely invisible during a time when a strong vice president was sadly needed, is strongly resisted by Democrats  who consider her dumb, unlikeable and unpopular. 

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DEFAMATION NONSENSE AND E. JEAN CARROLL

 

                                      BY BILL JUNEAU

                        Behind every anti-Trump story, there appears to be the political fingers of Democrats, with the customary clapping  from the media. This extraordinarily, suspicious story line involves Ms. E. Jean Carroll, a journalist and author, who sued the former President for  rape and for defamation of character and won  judgments totaling $88.3 million dollars. 

                       The ex-President says it is all part of the continuing witch hunt against him.  Many lawyers are predicting that the nonsense of the case and the lame partisan rulings from the bench will never withstand the scrutiny of an honest appellate court. So what's it all about?

                       Ms. E. Jean Carroll's main forte in life was dispensing advice to love-torn women via her column, "Ask E. Jean"  in the "Elle" magazine. She provided her wisdom to unhappy and struggling women for some 26 years before retiring in 2020. 

                      Somewhere around late 1995 or early 1996, Carroll isn't sure, she tells of bumping into real estate mogul Donald Trump inside the fashionable Bergdorf Goodman department store across the street from Trump Towers on Fifth avenue in Manhattan.  She related her story in a written article and in her book, 'What do we need men for: A Modest Proposal" published in 2019; and later in testimony in a federal court in New York.  

                        Carroll has said that they hit it off on a friendly note, and chatted over Trump's desire to find a nice gift for a lady friend.  E.Jean, is now 80, but then was in her 50s. She has noted that she was a couple of years older than the "handsome," wealthy, and well known real estate pro. He asked her "advice" for an appropriate  gift, and she agreed to help. They talked of possible gifts, and E Jean admits to being a bit flirty as they made small talk and discussed the airy possibility of Trump's purchase of a "lace bodysuit."  

                          With laughs about who will try on a bodysuit, they made their way to the lingerie department and into a dressing room  where customers try on clothes. Carroll has said that they ribbed  each other about who would actually try on the bodysuit.   

                        The next moment, Carroll said, Trump did an about face.  Still wearing his business attire composed of a shirt, tie, and jacket, under an overcoat, she said, he opened the overcoat, unzipped his pants, pulled down her underclothing,  and forced his fingers around her private area....and "thrusts his penis halfway or completely, I’m not certain — inside me."  The whole episode lasts no more than three minutes...."

                              She has written:  " I am wearing a pair of sturdy black patent-leather four-inch Barneys high heels, which puts my height around six-one, and I try to stomp his foot. I try to push him off with my one free hand — for some reason, I keep holding my purse with the other — and I finally get a knee up high enough to push him out and off and I turn, open the door, and run out of the dressing room onto fifth avenue."  The busy store was practically empty at the time, she recalled. 

                            She did not report the attack to police, and subsequently was told there were no cameras which could verify her story. Big stores in Manhattan generally have cameras all around but Carroll said she was told there were none there.  Unlike President Clinton's situation in past years, Carroll had no "blue dress" which would confirm her story.  She kept the attack secret for 22 years, but has said that she did share the story with two close friends.  One told her to inform authorities of the attack, and the other advised her that making a police report would invite unnecessary problems.  At her trial, her two friends testified and said, yes, they remember Carroll telling them of Trump's attack more than two decades ago.    

                           Carroll's book actually revealed tales about a score of unsavory and unlikeable men she has known through the years.   The President, she said,  was not the only man who had gone after her sexually.  In fact, E. Jean told of other men, who had  sexually made a move on her. One. she identified as Leslie Moonves, former CEO of CBS Television.  She announced in her writings that  Moonves had accosted her "in an elevator," after she had interviewed him for a story and began kissing her and attempted to force his tongue into her mouth.   

                                  Moonves vehemently denied the allegation and the story of his attack ran out of steam in short order. The allegation and denial  prompted speculation of a settlement by Moonves to make the story go away. 

                                When Donald Trump learned of the story and the allegations against him, he was the nation's 45th President.  From the White House, he exploded with loud public denials, and said he had never met the "Elle" columnist and that the story was fiction and that "E. Jean" was pursuing a big pay day.  She is a "liar" and a "whack job," said Trump. It is just more of the same old political witch hunt;  along with efforts to sell her book. 

                                  In the face of Trump's denunciations of Carroll who hid her "story" for almost a quarter of a century, Carroll reportedly consulted a well-known Trump-hating New York lawyer who recommended that she sue the President for the assault and for defamation for calling her a "liar and a whack job." It was a "smoking hot" story about the menacing Donald Trump and New York has the citizenry and judges and politicians eager to endorse  that type of lawsuit. 

                                   The Donald Trump advance on an innocent woman, a former Miss Indiana university in the 1960s,  was filed as a civil suit seeking monetary damages  and it went to trial in Federal District court in spring of 2023.  A  New York jury heard Carroll's story of the attack, but the President declined to testify, and E. Jean was victorious. The jury assigned damages for defamation and sexual abuse at $5 million.   

                                    Yes, Trump had abused E. Jean sexually in that tiny room, the jury found, and never even took off his heavy overcoat or suit coat. Trump's alleged humping and pumping,  and E. Jean's muffled cries in the busy. fifth avenue store never drew notice, asserts Carroll.  The New York jury was chosen in a city where Trump detractors dominate in overwhelming numbers.  Citizens in the Big Apple will never forget how the anointed Hillary Clinton, known to Trump as "Crooked Hillary," went down in defeat in the 2016 presidential election. It was a "get Trump" yarn which New Yorkers loved, and a new chance to put Trump down and get even on behalf of Democrats.   

                                    There has been a good deal of criticism of the jury's finding of defamation in light of Trump's right to speak out and  criticize the plaintiff with First Amendment protection. Many aspects of E. Jean's allegations are questionable and are part of the President's pending appeal to a higher court.                                                                                                                             Following the jury verdict in the first civil litigation, the 80-year-old Carroll was a guest at CNN and she told how the President had raped her and then defamed her.                                                                                                                                                          In response, Trump again tore into E.Jean calling her a "liar" and and a "whack job" out to sell her book.  In response to the President's upbraiding Carroll again, anti-Trump legal experts persuaded her to file a second complaint  for defamation seeking actual and punitive damages. 

                         Trump then countersued E. Jean for defamation against him noting that she had lied on CNN claiming that she had been raped when the jury declined to make that finding.   She had maliciously defamed him and knew she was lying, Trump charged.  

                                   The second case was tried before a New York jury and was presided over by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan who was  appointed to federal bench in 1994 by President Clinton after recommendation by Democratic New York Senator Patrick Moynihan. 

                                  The jury, relying upon challenged rulings of the judge concerning defamation law, awarded plaintiff Carroll $16 million for actual damages to her reputation and $65 million in punitive damages.  With the earlier judgment against him, Trump became indebted to Carroll for a total of $88.3 million. Trump's countersuit for defamation was thrown out by Judge Kaplan who declared it to be a tactic for delay, according to news reports.                                                                                                                           Trump is appealing both jury decisions to higher courts and is confident that the judgments will be overruled.   

                                    Trump and his lawyers maintain that the President has a right of free speech in accord with the First Amendment.  Words alone and name calling do  not constitute defamation, and plaintiff Carroll never suffered any loss of income or humiliations as a result of calling her a "liar" looking for money. Her "actual" damages as a result of the so-called defamation,  are nothing,  according to attorneys for Trump.

                           The findings that Trump assaulted Carroll who he had never known, are not based upon provable evidence. The punitive award is grossly excessive and is a political judgment  designed to weaken him and prevent him from running for another term of President in 2024.                              

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THE GAY BALLOON THAT EXPLODED

                                       BY BILL JUNEAU 

                                            Claudine Gay, 53, dived into the Harvard presidency last July 1, and received praise for her intellectual superiority, and for her dedication in advancing DEI  (diversity, equity and inclusion) in the halls of academia. But she sank like a rock in water just six months later, after being exposed as a woke-minded proponent who believes that it is permissible for students on campus to call for the "genocide" of Jews; and as a plagiarist whose "scholarly" writings contained the unattributed rhetoric of others. 

                                 She created a Harvard raging controversy on the following Dec. 6 when she delivered anti-Semitic comments  before a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.  In response to a question, Gay indicated that schools should not restrict students participating in demonstrations on campus from calling for the killing of Jews. Her words drew a firestorm of complaints about her all-around leadership as president of the nation's most prestigious university. Most Americans, it appeared, do not share with Gay her woke-minded opinion that free reins should be given to universities, consistent with the First Amendment,  to encourage the elimination of an entire race. 

                                Gay's outrageous comments caused critics to question her background and ability to serve as president of the nation's foremost  university.  Her remarks touched off an inspection of her writings and her PhD thesis which  revealed some 20 to 50  instances in which Gay had apparently plagiarized the writings of others and, without attribution, had in some cases used word-for- word rhetoric as her own. 

                         Her anti-Semitic comments and her plagiarism caused a national drumbeat of criticism, which led to her resignation on Jan. 2, some four weeks after her congressional appearance, and about six months into her presidency.

                         Yet in Dr. Gay's mind, it is neither her willingness to let her students advocate in favor of wiping out Jews, nor her cheating on her thesis and other scholarly writings, that caused the loss of her exalted job.  No, in her letter of resignation, Dr. Gay  blamed  "racial animus," for her quitting.  Several days later, she sent a letter to the NYT saying that she was a victim of a "well laid trap." 

                               In her letter of resignation, Gay said that she was stepping down from the presidency with a "heavy heart" and in the best interests of Harvard..... "It has been distressing, she wrote,  "to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor- two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am; and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus." 

                                Her identity as an African American, the key factor which led to her appointment as Harvard's first black woman president, was not powerful enough to help her keep the job.

                              Behind the curtain, it has been widely reported,  former U.S. President Barack Obama, a Harvard alum, had importuned everyone he could find to help save the lofty position for this remarkable woman of color.  But he was unsuccessful in turning around the massive criticism which flowed from her asinine and immoral comments, which she had delivered publicly.  

                             The Rev Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist who seldom misses an opportunity to charge "racism," expressed outrage at Gay's resignation.  In a statement, he said that her quitting as president is an "attack on every black woman in this country who has put a crack in the glass ceiling." Also, he accused some Gay critics of  having a "racial animus and a repugnant racist vitriol" against her.

                             Liberal DEI enthusiasts were probably hoping to hear from President Biden who is a vocal supporter of  identity politics and the woke philosophy. But the fumbling Biden has remained quiet. It was not surprising, though since Biden, himself, was a well-documented plagiarist while attending Syracuse Law school, and then as a U.S. Senator from Delaware.  Those shameful credentials, no doubt, got in the way of his going to bat for Gay.                            Dr. Gay was the first black female president out of the 30 presidents who have held office at the 388 year-old Harvard.  She will continue there as a tenured professor of government and African American studies.  As President, she reportedly was to be paid  $879,000 a year.  As a professor, her annual salary will be $226,300.  

                              To many critics it was Gay's strong embracing of so-called DEI that was responsible for all the criticism and unpopularity. Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, now "X," has posted that DEI is "just another term for 'racism' and-- shame on anyone using it.                                                                                                                                Bill Ackman, a billionaire Harvard donor and a hard line critic of Gay, is on the same page as Musk.  He wrote on Twitter that he believed that DEI efforts were "racist and dangerous" with the racism in this case against whites.  He also said that DEI was a "powerful movement" that has not only pervaded Harvard, but the educational system at large and needs to be opposed.                                                  In response to Gay's assertion that she was a victim of a "well laid trap," Elise Stefanik, a New York congresswoman, said that Gay's exit from Harvard was not a "well laid trap," but rather was Gay's "own cataclysmic failure." It was Stefanik who had questioned Gay at the congressional hearing which had been scheduled as a means of exploring the reasons for anti Semitic rhetoric by students on American campuses.

                                When Gay testified before Congress, she was one of three university presidents who appeared as witnesses.  With Gay, was Dr. Liz Magill, president  of the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT.  Like Gay, Dr. Magill  has resigned her presidency while Kornbluth appears to be holding   tight to her job.                                  

                                 Alan M. Garber, an economist and physician who is Harvard's provost and chief academic officer, will be serving as the interim President.   

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