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James Howard Kunstler
\nClusterfuck Nation<\/p>\n
Of course, Hunter Biden\u2019s fur-lined, gold-plated plea deal on firearm and tax charges got torn up this week by Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika, who discovered a sneakily hidden bit of legerdemain in it that would have left the First Son off-the-hook for any possible future charges such as a FARA rap for peddling his father\u2019s influence to Ukraine, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, and who knows how many other foreign governments for zillions of dollars.<\/p>\n
One thing the legal fireworks on Wednesday seemed to indicate is that the weaponization of the DOJ does not extend to every last court in America, not even the one in the Biden family fiefdom known as Delaware. The hearing left the lead US attorney in the case, David Weiss, looking like a chump hung out to dry \u2014 trying to pretend that there were \u201congoing investigations\u201d in the case when he was actually working overtime to shut them down. It\u2019s rumored that the rascally, discarded plea deal was cooked up by alpha blobette, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco herself, the Blob\u2019s consiglieri. Nice try, Sugar, but no cigar.<\/p>\n
Lisa Monaco is in place, you see, as AG Merrick Garland\u2019s puppeteer. For more than a decade Ms. Monaco has chiefly served as Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cfixer,\u201d the clean-up gal who makes problems magically go away. The problem here is that sooner or later news will enter some legal channel that Mr. Obama was not unaware of all the grifting going on around his vice-president\u2019s family, and might himself be inculpated as an accessory to acts of treason.<\/p>\n
The former president suddenly has another new problem: the family\u2019s onetime personal chef, Tafari Campbell, 43, was found dead around 10:00 o\u2019clock Monday morning in the Edgartown Great Pond off the Obama\u2019s Martha\u2019s Vineyard estate after a paddle-board accident. Mr. Tafari allegedly fell off the board and\u2026 thrashed a bit\u2026 then just disappeared\u2026 a hundred feet off-shore in eight feet of water, according to another paddle-boarder as yet unidentified who was either with Mr. Tafari or who happened to witness the accident around 7:45 Sunday evening July 23. Somebody, also unnamed, then made a 911 from the Obama house. Who was that? Early reports said that the Obamas were not home at the time.<\/p>\n
A later report said that Mr. Obama\u00a0might<\/em>\u00a0have been present at the estate that evening without Michelle. Was he Mr. Tafari\u2019s paddle-board companion? Did he make the 911 call? Mr. Tafari was reportedly no longer in the Obama\u2019s employ and was writing a book about his experiences as the first family\u2019s cook. One reported morsel attributed to the book is that Barack and Michele Obama almost never had meals together. What else was in it?\u00a0 Possibly Mr. Tafari had a book deal. Has anyone located the editor and asked to see the manuscript or interviewed him\/her\/they about what\u2019s in it? Mr. Tafari, who had videotaped his lap-swimming abilities previously, and was considered an able swimmer, was supposedly just visiting Martha\u2019s Vineyard for the weekend. How did he get through the Obama\u2019s Secret Service security to go paddle-boarding if the Obamas were out for the evening? Did he lug his own paddle-board to the scene, or borrow one from the Obama\u2019s equipment shed? Who let him in there? My goodness, what a busy gal Lisa Monaco must be these days. So much that needs a good fixing!<\/p>\n Anyway, after the Delaware courtroom fracas Wednesday, Hunter had to fall back on pleading not guilty as a place-holder while his lawyers and the Feds go back to square one negotiating something Judge Noreika might accept, which, conceivably, might be no plea deal at all, considering the insults already proffered to her by both sides in the case. In the meantime, would it amuse you to learn that part of Hunter Biden\u2019s pretrial release agreement stipulates that the First Son must make an earnest effort to\u00a0search for employment<\/em>? Do you know of some position in the real world (assuming there is a real world) where a person can show up for work with six secret service agents in tow? I didn\u2019t think so. He\u2019ll also be subject to periodic drug tests and is forbidden to indulge in alcohol. Good luck with that!<\/p>\n The chance that Hunter would actually go to trial, even on these rinky-dink tax and firearm charges, is about equal to the chance that Xi Jinping will serve a dim sum breakfast to the Biden family at Rehobeth Beach on Labor Day morning. But its looking like Judge Noreika will not let Hunter off-the-hook on the gargantuan hairball of potential influence peddling matters, which are the actual meat of the Biden family\u2019s legal problems \u2014 and that means \u201cJoe Biden\u201d is not off-the-hook either. Which means he might have to resort to pardoning Hunter and possibly himself for as-yet-unfiled charges of bribery, money-laundering and other extremely serious violations. If that happens, it is the end of the pretense that \u201cJoe Biden\u201d is a reelection candidate.<\/p>\n But, while all this melodrama unspools, there is also the creeping hazard of impeachment ahead. The Speaker of the House himself suggested it days ago. Rep. James Comer\u2019s House Oversight Committee has already assembled an impressive stack of bank records tracing the journeys of various multi-million-dollar payments \u2014 for no particular services rendered \u2014 through an unholy host of shell companies and is now rumored to be compiling records of previously hidden Biden family offshore bank accounts in places such as the Cayman Islands and Panama.<\/p>\n Biden Family foot-soldier Devon Archer is scheduled for a deposition this coming Monday, and since he was thrown under the bus by Hunter on a federal bond fraud rap a few years back, there is every expectation that he will unload a dumpster of ripe trouble on his former intimates. However, Monday is also the last day before the legislature\u2019s summer recess, which means not much of anything may happen to advance any of these matters until early September \u2014 and then it is possible that all hell busts loose for the republic as we enter the traditional season of hurricanes and financial fiascos, not to mention what looks like a mounting acknowledgement that our Ukraine proxy war project has utterly failed\u2026 and this overhanging threat of impeachment hearings.<\/p>\n Podcaster Scott Adams spun out an elegantly macabre possible scenario about how this works out which is worth repeating here: The House moves to impeach\u2026 Joe Biden retaliates by threatening the entire Deep State Blob with revealing a whole lot of dark info on their dastardly secrets, their sexual proclivities and adventures (think: the Epstein client list), and other incriminating deets-and-receipts that would, theoretically, bring ruin to scores of political celebrities. In which case, the Blob just up and offs dumb-ass \u201cJoe Biden,\u201d using their cunning\u00a0ways<\/em>\u00a0of arranging for him to die in his sleep\u2026 because,\u00a0he was old<\/em>\u2026\u00a0and it was his time<\/em>\u2026. Salutes to you, Scott, for that one! (And then, of course, there is all that follows that).<\/p>\n
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