{"id":107127,"date":"2023-02-12T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=107127"},"modified":"2023-02-12T18:35:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:35:39","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-february-3rd-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=107127","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, February 3rd, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Friday, February 3rd, 2023…but before we begin, Jim Geraghty details…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hunter Biden\u2019s Utterly Ridiculous Prosecution Demands<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

What Is This, On-Demand Investigations and Prosecutions<\/span><\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/h3>\n

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“I don\u2019t think Hunter Biden has thought this latest move through.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Matt Viser of the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0reports:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyers, in a newly aggressive strategy, sent a series of blistering letters Wednesday to state and federal prosecutors urging criminal investigations into those who accessed and disseminated his personal data \u2014 and sent a separate letter threatening Fox News host Tucker Carlson with a defamation lawsuit.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The string of letters, which included criminal referrals and cease-and-desist missives aimed at critics and detractors, marked the start of a new and far more hard-hitting phase for the president\u2019s son just as House Republicans prepare their own investigations into him.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Abbe Lowell, a recently hired lawyer whom Biden enlisted about a month ago, sent lengthy letters to the Justice Department and Delaware\u2019s attorney general requesting investigations into several key players who were involved in disseminating data from a laptop that Biden is said to have dropped off at a repair shop in Wilmington, Del.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As the\u00a0New York Post\u00a0gleefully points out<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>, in these letters to prosecutors about his own \u201cpersonal data,\u201d Biden is confirming that the laptop is his.<\/span> This isn\u2019t really in dispute anymore, as several news organizations, independently of the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0but considerably later, had forensics experts study the available data from the laptop and they concluded that it was genuine. The\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0did so in March of 2022, and CBS News did so\u00a0in November of 2022.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But for several years now, Hunter Biden has tried to sow doubts about whether the laptop was his. Back in April 2021, while promoting his memoir, the younger Biden\u00a0insisted to CBS News\u2019 Tracy Smith<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u00a0that he simply didn\u2019t know if the laptop was his, and that it could be Russian disinformation<\/span><\/strong>…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

…<\/span>These new letters confirm that Hunter Biden lied<\/em><\/span> \u2014 or, at minimum, was evasive and misleading \u2014 about whether the laptop and its contents were his.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The missives from Biden\u2019s lawyers further affirms<\/em><\/span> that the October 2020 letter from 50 former national-intelligence officials, declaring that the discovery of the laptop \u201chas all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation<\/a><\/em><\/span>\u201d was deceptive nonsense from the start<\/em><\/span>,\u00a0and Hunter Biden knew it<\/em><\/span>.<\/span> What\u2019s more, Joe Biden went out on a presidential-debate stage and insisted the Russian spies had planted the laptop as part of a disinformation effort.\u00a0During the second 2020 presidential debate<\/a><\/em><\/span>, Biden barked, \u201cThere are folks who said that what he\u2019s accusing me of is a Russian plant.<\/span> Five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he\u2019s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it, except his good friend Rudy Giuliani!\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

At minimum, Hunter Biden misled his father and let him go out and lie on his behalf and allowed 50 former national-security officials to mislead the rest of the country.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Second, how does Hunter Biden think it is going to look if the son of the sitting president demands that federal prosecutors bring criminal charges against a bunch of Republicans and conservatives, and then those prosecutors comply?<\/span> He might as well write,\u00a0\u201cDear Deep State, please save me from the consequences of my own actions<\/span>.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span>…”<\/p>\n

We know desperate times call for desperate measures, but Jonathan Turley puts just\u00a0how<\/span><\/em> desperate into proper perspective:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Discovery in that case\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/PzfFtGFh4X<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Publius Maximus (@MaximusPublius) February 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n