PROTECTING MAYORKAS

 

                                              BY BILL JUNEAU

                           He is an obedient and obsequious Democrat with full protection from the Party of the Jackass and its head mule, the lame-thinking and befuddled President, Joe Biden.

                          And so, the deserving impeachment trial of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas by the House of Representatives has been trashed and rejected by the Senate, depriving the citizenry of hearing how the Cuban-born, and law-breaking Mayorkas, opened up America's borders to everyone, including drug pushers, felons, general trouble makers and USA haters. 

                           Pursuant to the Constitution, impeachments are proposed and set forth in articles voted by the U.S. House, the lower body of Congress.  Those articles are then sent to the Senate for trial and vote.  Conviction and removal of cabinet members require a two-thirds guilty vote of sitting senators  which today has 51 democrats and 49 republicans. Also, the Senate has the power to preclude a trial by a majority vote of senators

                           Mayorkas, 64, is the nation's Secretary of Homeland Security, and his outrageous open-border conduct has pleased the brain-damaged President Biden who appointed him to his cabinet after taking office in 2021.  Under Mayorkas and Biden, some 8 to 10 million uninvited and illegal immigrants have come onto American soil in three-plus years.  They have waded across the narrow Rio Grande river alongside the southern section of Texas; and they have snuck in from behind bushes and crawled over rocky sections of the terrain.

                          Border horsemen who tried to discourage their arrival were disciplined by Mayorkas and accused of using their reins as a whipping instrument on immigrants fording the river. Subsequently, an investigation determined that the border squad using horses had acted properly and the use of reins was to control the horses and was not out of animosity and was not wrongful.   Nevertheless,  Mayorkas, with Biden's approval,  disciplined them with a suspension accusing them of using "harsh" language on black interlopers from Haiti.

                         Generally, illegal immigrants are detained and interviewed when nabbed by border agents and told to report back for a hearing on their asylum claims.  At the same time, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions,  paid their cartel chauffeurs, and sneaked into America untouched, and then made their way to unknown destinations. Illegals given court dates seldom return for a hearing, and simply blend in and hoodwink authorities into giving them  green cards allowing for permanent residency. 

                         They are "non-citizens and we respect them," said the smug, shiny-pated Mayorkas.  The word "alien," and "illegals" has been scrubbed from all USA forms and is not to be used, he explained.  Shelter and transportation is often provided to these   "non citizens."  Some are bussed to army barracks or upscale  hotels or put on air planes destined for requested cities. There is no vetting and new "non citizens" are never checked for possibly carrying the covid virus.  

                         Mayors from major cities like New York and Chicago are complaining that they are being inundated with illegals creating problems and requiring millions of dollars to accommodate them. The illegal immigrants are committing crimes and pushing fentanyl and innocent persons are dying at their hands.  

                          Pregnant migrants are taken to hospitals where they deliver, and the new infants immediately become American citizens deserving of social security benefits; and the attending family is provided shelter and sustenance.  Women who want abortions are accommodated by trained physicians.  Illegals have come to the United States from scores of different countries, with all continents well-represented.  Chinese immigrants, in escalating numbers, are among new residents.

                           On February 13, in a 214 to 213 vote, the U.S House voted two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas in the face of the 8 to 10 million illegal entries over the past three-plus  years.  In addition to disregarding provisions of the Immigration and Nationality act, and in disregard of border crossing laws, Mayorkas had directed that persons unlawfully present in America is not of itself  sufficient reason for their removal. Criminal convictions, he said, are not enough to warrant arrest. 

                           At hearings last year before committees of the  House, Mayorkas testified that "Yes, the southern border is secure."  That was a demonstrable lie to Congress and when he told it, North Carolina Representative Daniel Bishop was infuriated and told the  stone-faced Mayorkas that "you are a sure fire candidate for impeachment." 

                          After the Biden election in 2020, Mayorkas was nominated to take charge of the border as Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Obama, he had served as a deputy secretary of the department.  Despite some opposition questioning his fitness for the position, the Senate approved the new cabinet member by a vote of 56 to 43.   

                         Some anti-Mayorkas congressmen and women have recalled how the late Sen. John McCain and Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn had opposed his appointments in the Obama administration where he had served as deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.  Senators  McCain and Coburn opposed Mayorkas claiming that he had mismanaged the operation of a visa program for wealthy foreign investors and that the matter had been flagged by the Inspector General.

                         Mayorkas was only the second impeachment of a cabinet member in U.S. history.  The first was in 1876 when the House impeached Secretary of War William Worth Bellnap for  bribery and other misdeeds.  Bellnap resigned upon passage of the articles, but the Senate nevertheless held a trial, and acquitted him of all charges. 

                          To Democrats, it is all a political game, and right and wrong conduct is irrelevant. Majority Leader of the Senate, Chuck Schumer of New York, the same Democratic boss who insisted on two impeachment trials of former President Trump when there was no evidence of any misdeed or misconduct by him, had the Senate which is controlled by a narrow Democrat majority,  vote to reject both articles of impeachment against Mayorkas.  The action proscribed a trial in which there would be evidence of the Mayorkas open border incompetence and of his lying to Congress.  Also, the Democrat majority foreclosed on any debate for Americans to hear, weigh and consider concerning the secretary's alleged misfeasance and malfeasance.   

                          Schumer said that articles did not meet the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors set forth in the Constitution, and that going ahead with a trial would "set a dangerous precedent."  Votes defeating each article of impeachment were cast on a partisan line.

                        It was ugly, raw politics with Schumer doing the bidding of Biden so as to protect Mayorkas and the open border policies. It effectively concealed Mayorkas' lying to Congress, law breaking and the open border policies endorsed and pushed by the corrupt, slow thinking 81-year-old Biden. 

                      

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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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