<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1976230257004568497WordSection1"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Spike  <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1976230257004568497WordSection1"><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>… you have seen no indication that the current POTUS is acting like a king in ways that no other American president ever has before?</span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><span style="font-size:14pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>John if the current POTUS was acting like a king, he could force reopening of the government. </font></i></span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>He's not a king yet<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> but he<span class="gmail_default" style="">'s</span> certainly <span class="gmail_default" style="">a </span>king wannabe<span class="gmail_default" style="">, and he no longer even attempts to hide that fact. He already staged an unsuccessful coup d'état to stay in office after his first term ended and I think he will be more successful when his present term is supposed to end, and he will only leave the oval office when he assumes room temperature.  </span></b></font></div><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1976230257004568497WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1976230257004568497WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>the FBI, which had already been caught falsifying evidence by that time,</i></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Please tell me more, this is news to me. </b></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1976230257004568497WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u></span></b></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…It turned out that in late 2019 the FBI had verified it but that fact had not been made public…</span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Sheesh that’s quite the admission. </i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>A<span class="gmail_default" style="">n a</span>dmission that has absolutely<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>nothing to do with the New York Times<span class="gmail_default" style=""> and the accuracy of their news reporting which was what we were talking about. </span></b></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1976230257004568497WordSection1"><span style="font-size:14pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif">The FBI could have verified that story for it has legal access to metadata. </font></i></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>The FBI is not in the business of publicly<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>releasing data that is on somebody's laptop computer that they happen to have access to unless there is evidence a crime has been committed and they believe the evidence is strong enough that they think they could get a conviction.  If those hurdles have been passed then the next step is to present some (but usually not all) the evidence that they have to a grand jury in an attempt to get an indictment. And is exactly what happened in 2023. Why did it take so long to bring charges against him? Probably because the gun charges were pretty minor and the justice department only has a finite number of lawyers, and they had bigger fish to fry.  </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>The indictment came after a plea deal fell apart which would have allowed Hunter Biden <span class="gmail_default" style="">to</span> plead guilty in exchange for avoiding<span class="gmail_default" style=""></span> prison time, it was unusual that such a deal <span class="gmail_default" style="">would fall</span> apart, a deal like that<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>usually happens for minor charges of this sort so <span class="gmail_default" style="">that </span>the government doesn't have to go through all the trouble and expense of a trial. And that deal would almost certainly not have fallen apart if he had not been the son of the president. </b></font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1976230257004568497WordSection1"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…<b>And what did we learn from that laptop? Not much except that Hunter Biden liked pornography…<u></u><u></u></b></span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>We already knew that, don’t care.</i><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…and cocaine…</span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>We already knew that, don’t care.</i><b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></b></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1976230257004568497WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u></span></b></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>…And that he bought a gun illegally…</span></b></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1976230257004568497WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>But wasn’t prosecuted for some unknown reason, ja we knew that.</i></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><b style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Untrue. Not only was Hunter Biden prosecuted for that, he was convicted for that, and it all happened while Joe Biden was still president. </font></b></font><b style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large">Today it is inconceivable that the son of He Who Must Not Be Named (who also likes cocaine and pornography) could ever be indicted for anything, much less convicted. </span><span style="font-size:large">Biden later gave his son a presidential pardon and that will always be a serious blot on his presidential record, but that pardon was not nearly as bad as the many hundreds of pardons that He Who Must Not Be Named gave to various thugs, nazis, swindlers, and traitors. </span></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1976230257004568497WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>… And that he tried to cash in on the fact that he was the son of the president of the United States… <span class="m_-1976230257004568497gmaildefault">John K Clark</span></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>We DO care about that,</font></i><br></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Spike, </span>I can only assume that you are joking.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:14pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Once the legal system gets weaponized as a political tool, that might be impossible to stop. </font></i></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>At last<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> something that you and I agree on<span class="gmail_default" style="">! </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1976230257004568497"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-1976230257004568497WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>