爪哥按語：

折騰吧，不把美國折騰成 shit hole country，得了失心瘋的美國兩黨，全不善罷甘休！

民主黨：不把川普這個違法亂紀的瘋子關進監獄，誓不為驢！

共和黨：不把拜登這個裡通外國的痴呆關進監獄，誓不為象！

美國老百姓：拜託，還是把川普拜登這倆貨一起投入監獄吧！

（ZT）突發新聞：拜登父子將被檢察官逮捕起訴

正當曼哈頓地方檢察官，民主黨人布拉格對前總統川普進行起訴之際，兩名共和黨檢察官也正在着手研究如何起訴現任總統拜登和他的家人。

這一重磅消息是由眾議院監督委員會主席詹姆斯·科默在4月5日透露的。

科默說，他昨天接到了兩個電話，一個是肯塔基州的縣檢察官，另一個是田納西州的縣檢察官，他們都是共和黨人，這兩個州也都是共和黨州。他們正在研究如何追捕拜登父子。

科默正在領導一項眾議院共和黨人的調查，調查總統拜登在其家族在中國和烏克蘭等國家的國際商業交易中所扮演的角色。眾議院的工作人員最近審查了有關銀行向美國財政部提交的關於拜登家族可能從事犯罪活動的可疑活動報告。

有許多可能跡象表明，拜登總統及其親屬可能面臨地方檢察官的刑事指控。

拜登總統已經接受聯邦特別檢察官羅伯特·胡爾的調查，原因是他涉嫌在擔任副總統期間以及參議院任職期間的機密文件處理不當。拜登在擔任副總統八年期間和之後，還多次捲入兒子亨特以及拜登弟弟的對外業務關係。這也是檢察官對亨特進行聯邦刑事調查的重點。

53 歲的亨特多年來一直受到特拉華州美國檢察官辦公室的調查，罪名是稅務欺詐、洗錢、非法外國遊說以及在購買槍支時謊報吸毒等。亨特在他丟失的筆記本電腦中曾寫道，他將收入的“一半”交給了父親。自 2019 年 12 月以來，這台筆記本電腦一直被聯邦調查局保存。

共和黨法律活動家上周表示，在曼哈頓地方檢察官布拉格通過對前總統提起有史以來第一起刑事案件創造歷史之後，他們預計共和黨檢察官將目標對準拜登父子。或許共和黨檢察官會效念布拉格那樣，援引未被起訴的聯邦罪行。

司法觀察主席湯姆菲頓說：你可以肯定，現在佛羅里達州和得克薩斯州都有共和黨檢察官正在尋找州法律來調查拜登家族。如果他們不這樣做，他們就沒有做好自己的工作。

前參議院司法委員會提名首席顧問兼第三項目主席邁克戴維斯提出了可能起訴拜登及其家人的法律理論依據。

戴維斯說：“我認為我們的共和黨檢察長和檢察長應該發揮創意，”

“你只需要可能的原因。大陪審團可以起訴火腿三明治。我們剛剛在紐約看到了這一點。拜登一家實際上犯下了真正的罪行。這些都是拜登父子犯下的真實罪行。有確鑿證據表明，拜登父子與中國和烏克蘭寡頭之間的商業腐敗和非法交易。”

戴維斯指出，亨特和拜登的弟弟詹姆斯在 2017 年和 2018 年與中國的一家能源巨頭 CEFC有商業合作夥伴關係，據稱拜登也涉及其中，這是潛在的指控理由。

亨特的筆記本電腦在 2017 年 10 月發出的一封電子郵件表明 ，拜登參與了有關 CEFC試圖購買美國天然氣的活動。這筆交易與路易斯安那州和德克薩斯州都有企業聯繫。2017 年 5 月的一封電子郵件提到這位“大人物”在商業合作夥伴關係中獲得 10% 的分成，據稱拜登在同月會見了兒子亨特的一位合作夥伴。

“我知道拜登父子可能與得克薩斯州有一些石油和天然氣交易。我認為也許得克薩斯州總檢察長肯帕克斯頓應該開始審視這個漫長而艱難的問題......以及路易斯安那州與[共和黨州檢察長傑夫]蘭德里也要開始着手調查此事。如果你能找到一條線索，並且任何明顯的非法行為發生在這些州中的任何一個，你就可以提出指控。”

根據華盛頓郵報對筆記本電腦記錄的評論，亨特和詹姆斯拜登最終在 2017 年和 2018 年從CEFC能源公司獲得了至少 480 萬美元 。

拜登在作為副總統時還會見了來自墨西哥、哈薩克斯坦、俄羅斯和烏克蘭的一些企業老闆，這些人都與兒子亨特有着商業合作關係。

戴維斯補充說，共和黨檢察官應該審查他們的司法管轄區是否有“長臂”腐敗法規，以及拜登家族是否可能因在其境內開展的工作而欠州稅。（轉自紐約華人圈公眾號）

英文版在這裡：

WASHINGTON — Thursday’s indictment of former President Donald Trump has set a precedent enabling Republican prosecutors to seek criminal charges against President Biden, conservative legal experts told The Post Friday.

“All bets are off. You can expect grand jury indictments of leftist politicians like Biden, [former House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer as surely as night follows day,” said Tom Fitton, president of the conservative legal group Judicial Watch.

“You can be sure that there are prosecutors across Florida and Texas right now who are looking for a state law hook into the Biden family,” he added. “And if they’re not, they’re not doing their jobs.”

Trump, 76, is the first former president to face criminal charges as he seeks a 2024 rematch against Biden. The sealed indictment reportedly stems from a novel document-falsification theory pushed by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg regarding Trump’s 2016 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

“Republicans need to learn how to take off the gloves and put on the brass knuckles and break glass jaws — politically and legally, not physically,” Mike Davis, a former chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee and president of the Article III Project, told The Post.

“If New York can turn a routine settlement of a business dispute seven years ago into a felony, I think our Republican AGs and DAs should get creative,” added Davis, who briefly worked as a federal prosecutor before clerking for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. “Two wrongs don’t make it right, but it makes it even.

“You just need probable cause. A grand jury can indict a ham sandwich. We just saw that in New York. And the Bidens actually committed real crimes. These are real crimes that the Bidens committed. There is smoking gun evidence that the Bidens were corruptly and illegally on Chinese and Ukrainian oligarchs’ payrolls.”

The recognition of the likely fallout from the Trump charges — and the sea change to US legal norms — spanned the political spectrum.

“The Republicans will be furiously seeking revenge and may try to pin Biden with something,” predicted left-wing social commentator Noam Chomsky, a professor emeritus at MIT, though the 94-year-old added that some cases — such as war crimes charges — would still be considered off-limits to partisans.

Trump ally Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., said he believes the legal system has a “double standard” against Republicans such as Trump, who in 2017 gave his first pardon to the controversial lawman in a criminal contempt case.

“The criminal justice system is not always fair, believe me, and this is an example,” Arpaio said.

“This sets a little precedent,” said the ex-sheriff of America’s fourth-most-populous county. “Now the word is out that you can go and indict an ex-president and a current president and they opened another door. But now everybody’s going to flex their muscles and use this case. So now we’re gonna threaten all presidents or ex presidents.”

Arpaio predicted that prosecutors wouldn’t actually bring a case against any president or ex-president “unless his name is Donald Trump,” but said the he could imagine finding enough evidence to charge Biden or even former President Barack Obama, whose Hawaii birth certificate Arpaio notoriously claimed was a “computer-generated forgery.”

Davis, who oversaw federal judicial and prosecutor nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee between 2017 and 2019, laid out specific ideas for a Biden prosecution.

“I understand the Bidens may have had some oil and gas deals that deal with Texas. I think maybe Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton should start looking at this long and hard … and Louisiana with [Republican state Attorney General Jeff] Landry,” Davis said.

“Paxton and Landry, they need to look at this,” he added. “And if you can find a conspiracy and any of the overt acts of a conspiracy are committed in any of those states, you can bring charges.”

An October 2017 email from first son Hunter Biden’s laptop identifies Joe Biden as a participant in a call about Chinese energy company CEFC’s attempt to purchase US natural gas in an effort that appears to have had corporate links to both Louisiana and Texas.

Trump is expected to present himself for arrest and arraignment next week in Manhattan. Additional criminal charges could follow as a result of an investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith of the former president’s alleged mishandling of classified records after leaving office, as well as investigations of his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election.

Biden, 80, is preparing to launch a re-election campaign as early as next month and, like Trump, faces a federal special counsel investigation of his apparent mishandling of classified records at his Delaware home and post-vice presidency DC office amid GOP congressional investigations of his role in his son Hunter and brother James Biden’s international business dealings.

Hunter Biden reportedly is under criminal investigation by the US attorney’s office in Delaware for possible tax fraud, illegal foreign lobbying, money laundering and lying about his drug use on a gun-purchase form.

Hunter wrote in documents retrieved from his abandoned laptop that he paid as much as “half” of his income to his father, whom he often involved in his business relationships during and after his vice presidency.

“You’re looking at the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, bribery, tax evasion, gun charges, conspiracy, obstruction, espionage with using stolen classified records from the Obama White House for his Ukrainian and Chinese deals,” Davis said of potential charges against Joe Biden.

“Biden was broke when he was a senator. He was broke when he left. And all of a sudden he’s very wealthy. It’s not because of his brilliance or his charm. How did he make that money?”

The Post exclusively reported in October 2020 that Hunter’s laptop included a May 2017 email from associate James Gilliar proposing that the “big guy” get 10% of proceeds from the partnership with CEFC. A whistleblower, former Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski, says that he met with Joe Biden the same month to discuss the CEFC arrangement and both Bobulinski and Gilliar have identified Joe Biden as “the big guy.”

Hunter and James Biden ultimately received at least $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018 from CEFC — a since-defunct arm of Beijing’s foreign-influence “Belt and Road” initiative — according to the Washington Post’s review of laptop records.

Joe Biden also met as vice president with his relatives’ associates from Mexico, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine — and Hunter’s boss from a different Chinese business venture called BHR Partners.

“Maybe these states have a long-arm statute when you’re dealing with foreign corruption. Who knows? Maybe New York and Florida and places like that can start looking into this,” Davis said before suggesting state tax fraud charges as another possible avenue.

“If you are making money in a state and you’re liable for state taxes, you’re not paying them — sure,” he said. “These Republican state attorneys general and Republican DAs and Republican prosecutors need to make sure that any and all allegations against the Bidens get a full and fair consideration.”

The Manhattan indictment against Trump is expected to include charges for falsifying business records linked to the 2016 payment to Daniels, whom Trump says was extorting him, and another payment the same year to former Playboy model Karen McDougal. That charge ordinarily is a state misdemeanor with a two-year statute of limitations, but under Bragg’s reported theory it would be elevated into a felony by alleging it was done in commission of a federal campaign finance violation.

Even if the Trump case emboldens Republican prosecutors in some deeply conservative areas, it’s unlikely Delaware prosecutors would go after Joe Biden, who was the state’s senator for 36 years.

Attorney John Garey, a Republican who served as Delaware’s deputy attorney general from 1987 to 2003, told The Post that “as it relates to Delaware, I don’t believe that that’s going to happen.”

“In Delaware, we don’t have local DAs, we have a state attorney general who handles the local state prosecutions,” explained Garey, meaning “we don’t have an elected county DA” equivalent to Bragg, who was elected from one of the deepest-blue counties in America.

“Delaware is different and we pride ourselves on being different,” Garey added. “And I don’t believe we would ever get to a point where there would be any type of prosecution for purely political motivations.”

But elsewhere in the country, charges aren’t beyond conception.

“Obama is going to go down in history as the last US President not to be indicted after leaving office,” tweeted George Mason University law professor Eugene Kontorovich.

Davis said Republican retribution should amount to a “dead chicken strategy” — recounting a story that he said Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas once told him over lunch.

“[Thomas] talked about growing up on the farm in Georgia. When dogs killed chickens, you would wrap those dead chickens around the dog’s necks. And as those chickens rotted around those dogs’ necks, those dogs lost the taste for chicken,” Davis said.