The good news is that it appears that a majority of adults are beginning to understand that Trump committed serious crimes. However, even though the republicans have yet to produce any evidence or witnesses to prove that Hunter Biden committed any crimes related to Burisma Holdings, much less President Biden, a majority of adults believe President Biden either acted illegally or unethically in regard to foreign business entanglements. A majority of adults think inflation is terrible and that the economy is not doing well. This is seriously bad news, unfortunately. More of us and more democrats in Congress as well as President Biden and Vice President Harris need to push back on the allegations that President Biden did anything wrong in regard to foreign affairs and that the grand juries were politically motivated and that the economy is terrible.
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When it comes to his son’s business dealings, 38% feel President Joe Biden did something unlawful, about the same as in March when 36% felt that way. Twenty-five percent feel he did something unethical but not illegal, while 34% say he didn’t do anything seriously wrong.
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MAGA Republicans are MAGA Republicans and are going to believe whatever Fox News tells them to believe. So, I know that they are lost causes. However, the people who anger me are those who are swallowing this propaganda when it is clearly false. The truth of the matter is that this shows that these people lost their moral compass and don't give a shit what is true. You don't need a secret password or secret handshake in order to figure out the truth of these matters.
It appears, because of these idiots, that, in most cases , it is impossible for the truth to be supported by a majority of the truth is being contested by the Republican Party. It also appears impossible for a president who is a member of the Democratic Party to gain majority approval. All republicans will believe or at least spread and promote false republican claims and propaganda and will oppose any president who is a member of the Democratic Party. All conservative independents will do the same. And we lose a quarter of our own voters to this crap. And, thus, the Republican Party gets a majority of the voters to believe their false propaganda.
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That poll found 62% of respondents disapprove of Biden's handling of inflation, compared to 34% who said they approve. Inflation has remained stubbornly high in the U.S. with Americans spending hundreds of dollars more each month than they did two years ago.
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The same survey revealed a drop in the number of voters who think the Department of Justice’s “treatment” of the former president “is politically motivated,” from 55 percent in June to 51 percent this month. Parallel to those findings, there was a rise in those who said the department’s actions against the former president are not “politically motivated.”
In a recent Fox News poll, a majority of registered voters, 53 percent, said they think Trump “did something illegal” related to “efforts to overturn the 2020 election.”
The survey released Wednesday also found that 20 percent of registered voters think Trump “did something wrong” but “not illegal.” Another 24 percent said the former president “did nothing seriously wrong.”
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Some indicators suggest the U.S. economy has been recovering better than other countries from the worldwide instability and rising prices brought on by the Covid pandemic. However, just 30% of the American public believes that. In fact, 32% say the U.S. economy’s recovery from this situation is worse than other countries and another 33% say the U.S. recovery is about the same as the rest of the world.
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Devon Archer says Joe Biden discussed ‘nothing’ important with Hunter Biden business associates, transcript shows
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Rather he said that Hunter Biden was giving the false impression to executives of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company where he served as a board member, that he had influence over US policy.
Asked by Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, “In other words, Hunter Biden would take credit for his father’s actions, even though he had no role or influence in those actions?”
Archer replied, “He would take credit for them.”
Goldman asked, “So is it fair to say that Hunter Biden was selling the illusion of access to his father?”
“Yes,” Archer replied.“Once again, Committee Republicans’ priority investigation into President Biden has failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden,” Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland said in a statement after the complete testimony was released.
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Key Witness Doesn’t Back Up G.O.P.’s Biggest Allegations on Bidens
The testimony of Devon Archer, a Hunter Biden associate, paints an unflattering portrait of Hunter’s business dealings, but contradicts reports of bribes or material involvement by the president.
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Devon Archer said the opposite of what Republicans claimed
On Thursday, the Oversight Committee released a transcript of Archer’s testimony — testimony for which Comer wasn’t present. What Archer said not only doesn’t comport with the presentations made by Comer and Jordan on television (which were obviously wrong from the outset), his testimony undermines the idea that Burisma wanted Shokin fired, that Zlochevsky paid any bribe — and, crucially, that Joe Biden was involved in any of this.
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There is no evidence that Joe Biden received any payments from Ukraine.
Senior congressional Republicans have acknowledged the allegation is unverified.
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In 2018 Donald Trump sent Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, a likely political opponent. In 2019, a source republicans claimed was "highly credible" repeated a story that he claimed that he was told in 2016. Despite the fact that it was simply second hand and that the second hand source had none, zero, no evidence to substantiate the claims, Guliani pushed the second hand source to the claim to the FBI in 2019. He did so. Donald Trump was president then, Bill Barr was attorney general, Chris Wray was the FBI Director, and David Weiss was appointed by Donald Trump to investigate this claim and Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. All of them were and remain partisan republicans. They were, therefore, very motivated to find evidence to support the claim. They had two years to investigate this claim and find evidence to support him. The claim was that Joe Biden, then a private citizen like Hunter Biden, extorted five million dollars from an executive at Burisma Holdings for himself and five million dollars for Hunter Biden by threatening to use a corrupt public official to harm the company. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, claimed to have strong witnesses to back up this claim and tapes. However, the main person upon whom they were relying upon was indicted for arms trafficking last November. Devon Archer, a former friend and business partner of Hunter Biden, testified under oath that President Biden NEVER discussed any business matters on the telephone calls.
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Hunter Biden didn't pay his taxes on time, but he did eventually pay them fully including penalties and fees. Apparently, when Hunter Biden applied for a gun, he incorrectly filled out the form, intentionally giving false information that claimed that he did not use narcotics or drink alcohol when he did. However, Hunter only had the gun for two weeks and then he disposed of the gun. Of course, this type of offense is almost never charged unless there is some others offense or crime committed. This makes sense since neither the government nor prosecutors would have knowledge of this apart from an investigation into other matters. While Shapely might have been mad at Weiss for supposedly ruining his chances at a promotion and, therefore, claims that Weiss was undercharging Hunter Biden on the tax issue, DOJ Tax signed off on this and Weiss is a Trump nominee. Furthermore, no matter what they have claimed on Fox News, they have NEVER produced any of the so-called tapes or any evidence of wiring money to President Biden.
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Although several presidents who were members of the Democratic Party have turned around the economy and created a strong job producing economy, the economy under President Biden's leadership is the best economy we have had in some sixty years. The pattern that has held prior to Donald Trump's administration and President Biden applies to our current economy. The pattern is a republican is elected president, they cut taxes for the wealthy and take down regulations, inequality increases, tax revenue decreases, the deficit increases, the social safety net is cut, consumer spending shrinks, the gross domestic product shrinks, and job losses ensue. Then a member of the Democratic Party is elected president and the voters give that new president a Democratic Party controlled Congress, some sort of strong economic legislation is passed, after a year the legislation stimulates job growth and consumer spending, tax revenue increases, the social safety net is improved, the rate of growth of inequality slows down a little, the deficit shrinks, and gross domestic product grows, and strong job growth takes place.
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Petroleum cost increased due to both the pandemic, but especially because of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The rate of the increase of the cost of petroleum has been consistently decreasing over the last year. The rate of inflation increased due to supply chain issues caused by the pandemic. In July of 2022, the rate of inflation was 9%; it was very high. The rate of inflation has decreased every month for a year straight. Inflation is now 3%. President Biden shepherded The American Rescue Plan and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 through Congress and these pieces of strong economic legislation have dramatically improved the economy in the United States. The US has a lower rate of inflation and has stronger GDP growth than any other nation in the G7. When President Biden took office, the unemployment rate was 6.7%. Over thirteen million jobs have been created during the Biden administration. 800,000 manufacturing jobs have been created during President Biden's first term so far. The deficit was cut from $2.6T to $1.4 T. This is the longest period of a continuous sub 4 percent unemployment rate in sixty years.
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Why is the Republican Party doing this? They know that even though President Biden won about seven million more votes than Donald Trump, President Biden only won the electoral college vote by about 45,000 votes. The easiest way to change who won the electoral college vote is to switch Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin from President Biden's column to Donald Trump's. President Biden won Arizona by about 11,000 votes, he won Georgia by about 12,000 votes, and he won by Wisconsin by about 20,000 votes. If those three states were flipped from President Biden to Donald Trump, then the electoral college vote would have been tied at 269 each. The tiebreaker is broken by whichever political party has the most state delegations in the House of Representatives. As an example, let's consider the state delegation of Georgia in the US House of Representatives. Suppose Georgia has 15 electoral college votes. Then Georgia has 13 US Representatives. So, the question becomes which political party has more of those 13 US Representatives for Georgia? Suppose Georgia has 7 US Representatives who are Republicans and 6 US Representatives who are members of the Democratic Party. Then the state delegation of Georgia would be counted for the Republican Party. Then they would move onto the next state until all 50 states have been considered. The Republican Party would have won that tiebreaker in 2020. So, a little less than 45,000 votes would have altered who won the 2020 presidential election. The point is that these republicans know that if they can simply hold onto republican voters despite the indictments, then there is a reasonable chance that they could win the 2024 presidential election. They are doing this primarily to retain republican voters who are concerned about Donald Trump's crimes. They know that almost all republican voters exclusively watch right wing propaganda media sources like OANN NewsMax and Fixed Noise and that on these propagandist media sources, claims that President Biden committed crimes just as serious or more serious than the ones that Donald Trump committed but that President Biden was somehow able to hide the evidence. They also know that these same media sources are going to hype inflation and criticize the economy. That's why Republican Party leaders in Congress and Trumper fluffers in the media are pushing this nonsense; they are doing it to prevent defections from among republican voters because they know that if they can just prevent these defections then there is a reasonable chance that Donald Trump can or will win the 2024 presidential election.
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It's good that a majority of voters or at least a strong plurality understand that Donald Trump committed serious crimes when he attempted a coup and when he illegally retained classified national defense documents. It's very bad that a plurality of voters seem to falsely believe that either President Biden acted unethically or acted illegally in regards to his son's foreign business interests and that the economy is terrible. Leaders in the Democratic Party in Congress and President Biden and Vice President Harris and all non right wing media and all of us need to push back against the lies that the right wing media is pushing. Defending democracy is not just up to democrats in government or even those members of the media who are not right wing nut jobs. This is a time for all hands to be on deck. Defending democracy is up to all of us!
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