{"id":35839,"date":"2020-11-10T19:27:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=35839"},"modified":"2020-11-10T19:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T23:31:19","slug":"criminal-joe-biden-now-violating-the-logan-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=35839","title":{"rendered":"Fraudster Joe Biden Now Violating the Logan Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Obama Security Adviser Admits Biden Is Already Talking With Foreign Leaders; A Breach Of The Logan Act<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>This is the exact same scenario that Obama advisers accused Gen. Flynn of being in<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Watson<br \/>\nSUMMIT News<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35840\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35840\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GettyImages-1229559888.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GettyImages-1229559888.jpg 800w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GettyImages-1229559888-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GettyImages-1229559888-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WILMINGTON, DE November 9, 2020:<br \/>President- elect Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Queen in Wilmington, DE on November 9, 2020.<br \/>(Photo by Demetrius Freeman\/The Washington Post via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes admitted Monday that Joe Biden is already speaking with foreign leaders as if he is the next President, a move that some believe to be a breach of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Logan-Act\">the Logan Act<\/a>, the same law that President Trump\u2019s former national security adviser Gen. Mike Flynn was prosecuted under.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rhodes made the comments during an MSNBC interview in which he slammed Trump for contesting the election:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1325911981304504321&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fsummit.news%2F2020%2F11%2F10%2Fobama-security-adviser-admits-biden-is-already-talking-with-foreign-leaders-a-breach-of-the-logan-act%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1325911981304504321\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to have the pageantry already of the president-elect announcing his advisory board. He\u2019s going to start announcing cabinet secretaries. The center of political gravity in this country and the world is shifting to Joe Biden. Foreign leaders are already having phone calls with Joe Biden, talking about the agenda they\u2019re going to pursue January 20th,\u201d said Rhodes.<\/p>\n<p>This is the exact same scenario that Obama advisers accused Gen. Flynn of being in prior to Trump\u2019s inauguration, when the former national security advisor was purportedly communicating with foreign officials, including the then Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/13\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-national-security-adviser-michael-flynn.html\">forced to resign<\/a>\u00a0after his conversation was exposed by the FBI, which was monitoring Trump campaign officials\u2019 communications at the behest of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, notes made by former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, which were later made public by the Justice Department, suggested that it was Joe Biden himself who suggested using the Logan Act against Flynn, although the claim was denied by former FBI head James Comey.<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mike-flynn-to-plead-guilty-to-lying-to-the-fbi-1512138539\">initially pleading guilty<\/a>\u00a0to making false statements to the FBI, Flynn retracted the plea in January of this year after claiming that the terms of his plea deal had been violated by government officials.<\/p>\n<p>The case is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/judge-not-ready-throw-out-michael-flynn-case-n1241399\">still ongoing<\/a>, and under review after documents pertaining to it were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/23\/judge-orders-justice-department-to-verify-its-filings-in-flynn-case-431600\">discovered to have been altered.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If indeed Biden is speaking off the record with foreign leaders, it adds to the charges stemming from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/posts\/biden-nothing-to-hunter-biden-laptop-story-my-sons-an-honorable-man\/\">Hunter Biden laptop case<\/a>, which allegedly proves that Joe Biden was involved in dodgy foreign business deals with Chinese and Russian government agents.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/11\/10\/obama-security-adviser-admits-biden-is-already-talking-with-foreign-leaders-a-breach-of-the-logan-act\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/11\/10\/obama-security-adviser-admits-biden-is-already-talking-with-foreign-leaders-a-breach-of-the-logan-act\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Security Adviser Admits Biden Is Already Talking With Foreign Leaders; A Breach Of The Logan Act<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}