Possibly. But that would be because pardoning the J6 protestors will not come with the stench of hypocrisy.
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Those convicted and/or copped pleas and are serving time. Hunter Biden has not and has been given blanket immunity from future prosecution. That’s a big difference.
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Hunter Biden was prosecuted for a crime that the justice department very rarely prosecutes as a felony. That's the real difference.
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Yeah like tax evasion? The Dept of Justice let the statue of limitations run out on the years of the most egregious of tax evasion charges.
On the flip side Alvin Bragg and Tish James were in cahoots to prosecute Trump in New York-charges and crimes that are NEVER prosecuted and even without actual victims.
On the flip side Alvin Bragg and Tish James were in cahoots to prosecute Trump in New York-charges and crimes that are NEVER prosecuted and even without actual victims.
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Man admits running secret Chinese 'police station' in NYC
The site in Manhattan was used to help China identify pro-democracy activists, prosecutors say.
www.bbc.com
Is this happening here as well?
If another country was doing this it would be declared an act of war.
Hypocrits often are blind to their own hypocrisy
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April 19, 2023Man admits running secret Chinese 'police station' in NYC
The site in Manhattan was used to help China identify pro-democracy activists, prosecutors say.
Is this happening here as well?
If another country was doing this it would be declared an act of war.
There are multiple Chinese “police stations” operating in cities across the U.S., according to an investigative group who exposed the stations after the FBI arrested two people in connection with one of the operations this week.
The not-for-profit organization Safeguard Defenders said there is an additional station in New York City, one in Los Angeles, and other operations in San Francisco, Houston, and cities in Nebraska and Minnesota, the New York Post reported.
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The Chinese Embassy has said “there is no need to make people nervous” about the stations, which it said are staffed by volunteers helping Chinese nationals with routine tasks like renewing their Chinese driver’s licenses, as reported by the New York Times.
At least 6 more secret Chinese police stations in US, says report
There are multiple Chinese “police stations” in cities across the U.S., an investigative group has claimed.
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18 November 2022
According to the Spain-based NGO Safeguard Defenders, Chinese public security bureaus established the "overseas police service stations" in several continents, including two in London and one in Glasgow. In North America, it found stations in Toronto and in New York.
Last month, one of the Chinese "police stations" in the centre of the Irish capital Dublin was ordered to close by the government as a result of Safeguard Defenders' work.
Reports of Chinese police stations in US worry FBI
Similar stations have been ordered to close in other countries, including Ireland and Canada.
www.bbc.com
Dec 05, 2022
Safeguard Defenders, a Spain-based rights group, said it found more than 100 of the police contact points in over 50 countries, with the law enforcement proxies working under the auspices of authorities in four jurisdictions in eastern China.
Full list of China's unofficial police stations around the world
Undeclared Chinese police proxy points target suspected criminals and Chinese dissidents, Safeguard Defenders said in a new report on Monday.
www.newsweek.com
Good workApril 19, 2023
There are multiple Chinese “police stations” operating in cities across the U.S., according to an investigative group who exposed the stations after the FBI arrested two people in connection with one of the operations this week.
The not-for-profit organization Safeguard Defenders said there is an additional station in New York City, one in Los Angeles, and other operations in San Francisco, Houston, and cities in Nebraska and Minnesota, the New York Post reported.
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The Chinese Embassy has said “there is no need to make people nervous” about the stations, which it said are staffed by volunteers helping Chinese nationals with routine tasks like renewing their Chinese driver’s licenses, as reported by the New York Times.
At least 6 more secret Chinese police stations in US, says report
There are multiple Chinese “police stations” in cities across the U.S., an investigative group has claimed.
18 November 2022
According to the Spain-based NGO Safeguard Defenders, Chinese public security bureaus established the "overseas police service stations" in several continents, including two in London and one in Glasgow. In North America, it found stations in Toronto and in New York.
Last month, one of the Chinese "police stations" in the centre of the Irish capital Dublin was ordered to close by the government as a result of Safeguard Defenders' work.
Reports of Chinese police stations in US worry FBI
Similar stations have been ordered to close in other countries, including Ireland and Canada.
Dec 05, 2022
Safeguard Defenders, a Spain-based rights group, said it found more than 100 of the police contact points in over 50 countries, with the law enforcement proxies working under the auspices of authorities in four jurisdictions in eastern China.
Full list of China's unofficial police stations around the world
Undeclared Chinese police proxy points target suspected criminals and Chinese dissidents, Safeguard Defenders said in a new report on Monday.
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Thanks for that research.April 19, 2023
There are multiple Chinese “police stations” operating in cities across the U.S., according to an investigative group who exposed the stations after the FBI arrested two people in connection with one of the operations this week.
The not-for-profit organization Safeguard Defenders said there is an additional station in New York City, one in Los Angeles, and other operations in San Francisco, Houston, and cities in Nebraska and Minnesota, the New York Post reported.
*snip*
The Chinese Embassy has said “there is no need to make people nervous” about the stations, which it said are staffed by volunteers helping Chinese nationals with routine tasks like renewing their Chinese driver’s licenses, as reported by the New York Times.
At least 6 more secret Chinese police stations in US, says report
There are multiple Chinese “police stations” in cities across the U.S., an investigative group has claimed.
18 November 2022
According to the Spain-based NGO Safeguard Defenders, Chinese public security bureaus established the "overseas police service stations" in several continents, including two in London and one in Glasgow. In North America, it found stations in Toronto and in New York.
Last month, one of the Chinese "police stations" in the centre of the Irish capital Dublin was ordered to close by the government as a result of Safeguard Defenders' work.
Reports of Chinese police stations in US worry FBI
Similar stations have been ordered to close in other countries, including Ireland and Canada.
Dec 05, 2022
Safeguard Defenders, a Spain-based rights group, said it found more than 100 of the police contact points in over 50 countries, with the law enforcement proxies working under the auspices of authorities in four jurisdictions in eastern China.
Full list of China's unofficial police stations around the world
Undeclared Chinese police proxy points target suspected criminals and Chinese dissidents, Safeguard Defenders said in a new report on Monday.
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Here is a great article from Reason on the so-called hush money trial. Anyone paying attention knows it was bs from start to finish.
Trump's conviction suggests jurors bought the prosecution's dubious 'election fraud' narrative
A Manhattan jury on Thursday found Donald Trump guilty of falsifying 34 business records to aid or conceal "another crime."
reason.com
Prosecutors said the other crime was a violation of Section 17-152, an obscure, little-used provision of the New York Election Law. Section 17-152 makes it a misdemeanor for "two or more persons" to "conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means." But prosecutors never settled on any particular explanation of "unlawful means," and Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over the trial, told the jurors they could find Trump guilty even if they could not agree on one.
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That theory assumed three things: 1) that Trump recognized the Daniels payment as a FECA violation; 2) that he knew about Section 17-152, a moribund, rarely invoked law; and 3) that he anticipated how New York prosecutors might construe Section 17-152 in light of FECA. The first assumption is questionable, the second is unlikely, and the third is highly implausible. Yet you would have to believe all three things to conclude that Trump approved a plan to misrepresent his reimbursement of Cohen as payment for legal services with the intent of covering up a FECA-dependent violation of Section 17-152.
According to a second theory, Trump facilitated a violation of New York tax law by allowing Cohen to falsely report his reimbursement as income. Although that violation is described as "criminal tax fraud," Merchan said it did not matter that Cohen's alleged misrepresentation resulted in a higher tax bill. The judge noted that it is illegal to submit "materially false or fraudulent information in connection with any return," regardless of whether that information benefits the taxpayer.
Putting aside that counterintuitive definition of tax fraud, this theory required believing that Trump, when he reimbursed Cohen, not only contemplated what would happen when Cohen filed his returns the following year but also thought that "unlawful means" somehow would influence an election that had already happened. The logic here was hard to follow.
Likewise with the third theory of "unlawful means." Prosecutors suggested that Trump's falsification of business records was designed to aid or conceal the falsification of other business records. CNN reported that the latter records could involve, among other things, the corporate bank account that Cohen created to pay Daniels, Cohen's transfer of the money to Daniels' lawyer, or the Trump Organization's 1099-MISC forms for the payments to Cohen.
Since the 1099 forms were issued after the election, it is hard to see how they could have been aimed at ensuring Trump's victory. And although the other records predated the election, this theory involves a weird sort of bootstrapping.
Prosecutors said the records related to Cohen's dummy corporation, for example, were falsified because they misrepresented the nature and purpose of that entity, which by itself is a misdemeanor. That misdemeanor was the "unlawful means" by which Trump allegedly sought to promote his election, another misdemeanor. And because Trump allegedly tried to conceal the latter misdemeanor by falsifying the records related to Cohen's reimbursement, those records are 34 felonies instead of 34 misdemeanors.
The theory that Trump falsified business records to conceal the falsification of business records was "so circular as to produce vertigo in the jury room," George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said.
lol
And, whilst we are on the subject of using little-known or used laws and ridiculous pick and mix jury instructions to target people because of their name...
Key points from AP analysis of Trump’s New York civil fraud case
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump could potentially have his real estate empire ordered “dissolved” for repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders in violation of New York’s powerful anti-fraud law.
But an Associated Press analysis of nearly 70 years of similar cases showed Trump’s case stands apart: It’s the only big business found that was threatened with a shutdown without a showing of obvious victims and major losses.
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University of Michigan law professor William Thomas says he is worried the order might stick.
“Those who want to see Donald Trump suffer by any means necessary,” he said, “risk ignoring the very commitment to a rule of law that they accuse him of flouting.”
Key points from AP analysis of Trump's New York civil fraud case
Within days, Donald Trump could potentially have his sprawling real estate business empire ordered “dissolved” for repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders, adding him to a short list of scam marketers, con artists and others who have been hit with the ultimate punishment for v
apnews.com
Then we have the E Jean Carroll case...a case concocted by George Galloway at a cocktail party hosted by Molly Jong-Fast in honor of Kathy Griffin and funded by Democrat mega-donor Reid Hoffman. It was George Galloway the never-Trumper resistance hero that suggested the case and retaining #MeToo Democrat activist lawyer Roberta Kaplan. A 27 year-old allegation well beyond the statute of limitations. Further, Federal District Judge Lewis Kaplan oversaw the case and is connected to Carroll’s other attorney, Shawn Crowley. She was actually a law clerk for Judge Kaplan, and he officiated her wedding ffs.