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Deflecting much? And for what it's worth, your 50% figure is false. Unless you're comparing prices during the covid pandemic.,

And you can't even get your facts straight. The alleged "big deposit from China." had nothing to do with the loans, The money for the loan repayment didn't come from China.

Well, I agree that I argued about it too much. But that I was proved wrong, not so. And no, I'm not going to discuss it further.

Cherry-Picking ‘Influence’ Payment from James to Joe Biden “These bank records show that in 2017 and 2018, while President Biden was not in office, he provided two short-term loans to his brother, James, who repaid each loan within two months,” Raskin said in a press release on Oct. 20. FactCheck.org obtained an Excel spreadsheet of wire transfer records and check images that are consistent with Raskin’s account. Those records show two wire transfers from Joe Biden to a joint account for James and Sara Biden, one for $40,000 on July 28, 2017, and one for $200,000 on Jan. 12, 2018. https://www.factcheck.org/2023/10/cherry-picking-influence-payment-from-james-to-joe-biden/

Three days before he met his destiny, Abraham Lincoln stepped through a door where no president had gone before—he openly supported the granting of political rights to African Americans. In this his last public address, the president commented on the Reconstruction of Louisiana and its impact on the newly emancipated and other persons of color. Despite demands from certain “Radical” Republicans in Congress and appeals from black elites in the state, in spite of a gentle and clandestine suggestion from the president himself, Louisiana had rejected the idea of African American inclusion in the body politic. Lincoln took the opportunity provided by those assembled in celebration of Lee’s surrender, to convey his belief that the right to vote be “now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers.” Although disappointed by the state’s decision to deny suffrage, he remained hopeful that black men would soon be allowed to join their white counterparts in the exercise of one of the most sacred duties and rights of citizenship. Skulking in the crowd that night was John Wilkes Booth, who upon hearing Lincoln offer support for black voting rights supposedly exclaimed: “That means ni**er citizenship. No, by God! I’ll put him through. That is the last speech he will ever make.” https://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/lincoln-s-evolving-racial-views/

The check written to Biden was for repayment of a loan.

Yes, he did a good job because he followed the recommendations of the Office of the Pardon Attorney. He didn't do a runaround. I don't know if any President in US history did more of a runaround than did Trump.

During Trump's tenukre, William Barr and John Durham tried their best to dig up dirt and find criminal conduct in the Dept of Justice and elsewhere. They came up with nothing.

No "Maybe" about it.

I should have noted that whenever I see the phrase "Everybody knows..." most likely a pile of raw fertilizer is about to be shoveled.

Obama pardoned people recommended by the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Not his friends or associates.

I'm not going to continue with this as I noted when I first commented here I attach no importance to Lichtman's prediction. Unlike Fox News which did until the prediction was actually made.

Not only a shady character but a clairvoyant one, too.

I think you should read the comment again. It runs exactly counter to what you are claiming: This story has been updated with a correction. It has been corrected to read that Prof. Lichtman’s 13 Keys system predicts the winner of the presidential race, not the outcome of the popular vote.

The fact is the Bush and Trump pardoned people who might have been able to testify against them. Please share with us the cronies and associates that Obama spared. Obama followed the recommended procedure and only pardoned those recommended by the pardoning system. Bush went outside of that system. Trump even more so.

Well, there must be some reason why American University retracted the claim that that's what Lichtman predicted. This was not an after-the-election retraction. And, Victor Morton the Washington Times columnist, makes an assertion but doesn't back it up with evidence.

JD Vance To Join Tucker Carlson After Carlson Hosted Nazi Apologist On His Show The former Fox News host recently platformed Darryl Cooper, a Nazi apologist who said Winston Churchill — not Adolf Hitler — was the "chief villain" of WWII. Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance plans to join former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a live event following Carlson’s hosting of a Nazi apologist on his program. Vance will be in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 21 as part of Carlson’s “Live Tour,” according to PennLive. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-to-join-tucker-carlson-on-show_n_66d9cbcce4b00f05eae4c392

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), the Republican vice-presidential nominee, declined to distance himself from right-wing talk show host Tucker Carlson for hosting a Holocaust distortionist who called Winston Churchill the “chief villain” of World War II, but spoke out against the crackpot guest whom he follows on his X accounts. Carlson has drawn unusually fierce criticism from several elected Republicans over his decision to host Darryl Cooper, a self-proclaimed podcast historian, on his program. Carlson described Cooper as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States,” and declined to push back on any of the false claims made during their conversation. https://jewishinsider.com/2024/09/j-d-vance-declines-to-criticize-tucker-carlson-over-his-friendly-conversation-with-holocaust-denier/

Republican nominee Donald Trump played up Russian President Vladimir Putin jokingly endorsing his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, during a campaign stop on Thursday. Donald Trump jabs back after Vladimir Putin jokingly backs Kamala Harris “I don’t know if I’m insulted or he did me a favor," Trump said of Putin while outlining economic proposals to a group of New York City and Wall Street officials. Four years ago, Putin said he preferred then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden over Trump, something he noted when he discussed Harris during an economic conference this week in Vladivostok. "We will support her," Putin said ahead of the 2024 United States elections, according to published reports, adding: "She laughs so expressively and infectiously that it means that everything is fine with her." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/05/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-kamala-harris/75064403007/

Also, Lincoln was a politician. I don't know what his private opinions were, or if there is any record of them, but to state that he believed Black people were just as good as white people, or at least deserved the same rights, probably would have doomed him politically. Anyway, his comment was irrelevant to the lack of importance he assigns to the abolition of slavery.

Bigoted yes. A supporter of slavery, no.

Congress could have ended slavery? Even if the Constitution would have allowed for it, how do you think the South would have reacted? In fact, the reason that the South seceded was that it was clear the as new states were added, slave states would be more and more outnumbered.

Trump and his advisers once envisioned an ambitious electoral map that would take the presidential race through blue-tinted states and provide the Republican nominee more paths to the White House. In May, surrounded by donors at his Mar-a-Lago club, Trump presented his plans to compete for Minnesota and Virginia. His campaign maintained an office in New Hampshire and even held a rally on the Jersey Shore. The final stretch of the race for the White House, though, is setting up to be fought over much more familiar ground. https://www.aol.com/trump-said-expanding-battleground-map-090915366.html

You're repeating yourself. Just an empty assertion. You've got no answer for all the evidence that Biden does love his son. Maybe Biden won't do the honorable thing. Maybe he will succumb to his love for his son. Maybe he will pardon his son. But this is a nation where laws are supposed to be applied equally. Pardoning his son would set a terrible example. We've already had some bad presidential pardon examples set. George H.W. Bush pardoned officials for participating in the Iran Contra fiasco to protect himself. And Donald Trump did the same fur lowlifes like Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, who also were in a position to possibly incriminate him.

Did he? Not according to this story dated sep 26, 2008 which explicitly made this correction: Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with a correction. It has been corrected to read that Prof. Lichtman’s 13 Keys system predicts the winner of the presidential race, not the outcome of the popular vote. https://www.american.edu/media/news/092616-13-keys-prediction.cfm