爪哥按语：

折腾吧，不把美国折腾成 shit hole country，得了失心疯的美国两党，全不善罢甘休！

民主党：不把川普这个违法乱纪的疯子关进监狱，誓不为驴！

共和党：不把拜登这个里通外国的痴呆关进监狱，誓不为象！

美国老百姓：拜托，还是把川普拜登这俩货一起投入监狱吧！

（ZT）突发新闻：拜登父子将被检察官逮捕起诉

正当曼哈顿地方检察官，民主党人布拉格对前总统川普进行起诉之际，两名共和党检察官也正在着手研究如何起诉现任总统拜登和他的家人。

这一重磅消息是由众议院监督委员会主席詹姆斯·科默在4月5日透露的。

科默说，他昨天接到了两个电话，一个是肯塔基州的县检察官，另一个是田纳西州的县检察官，他们都是共和党人，这两个州也都是共和党州。他们正在研究如何追捕拜登父子。

科默正在领导一项众议院共和党人的调查，调查总统拜登在其家族在中国和乌克兰等国家的国际商业交易中所扮演的角色。众议院的工作人员最近审查了有关银行向美国财政部提交的关于拜登家族可能从事犯罪活动的可疑活动报告。

有许多可能迹象表明，拜登总统及其亲属可能面临地方检察官的刑事指控。

拜登总统已经接受联邦特别检察官罗伯特·胡尔的调查，原因是他涉嫌在担任副总统期间以及参议院任职期间的机密文件处理不当。拜登在担任副总统八年期间和之后，还多次卷入儿子亨特以及拜登弟弟的对外业务关系。这也是检察官对亨特进行联邦刑事调查的重点。

53 岁的亨特多年来一直受到特拉华州美国检察官办公室的调查，罪名是税务欺诈、洗钱、非法外国游说以及在购买枪支时谎报吸毒等。亨特在他丢失的笔记本电脑中曾写道，他将收入的“一半”交给了父亲。自 2019 年 12 月以来，这台笔记本电脑一直被联邦调查局保存。

共和党法律活动家上周表示，在曼哈顿地方检察官布拉格通过对前总统提起有史以来第一起刑事案件创造历史之后，他们预计共和党检察官将目标对准拜登父子。或许共和党检察官会效念布拉格那样，援引未被起诉的联邦罪行。

司法观察主席汤姆菲顿说：你可以肯定，现在佛罗里达州和得克萨斯州都有共和党检察官正在寻找州法律来调查拜登家族。如果他们不这样做，他们就没有做好自己的工作。

前参议院司法委员会提名首席顾问兼第三项目主席迈克戴维斯提出了可能起诉拜登及其家人的法律理论依据。

戴维斯说：“我认为我们的共和党检察长和检察长应该发挥创意，”

“你只需要可能的原因。大陪审团可以起诉火腿三明治。我们刚刚在纽约看到了这一点。拜登一家实际上犯下了真正的罪行。这些都是拜登父子犯下的真实罪行。有确凿证据表明，拜登父子与中国和乌克兰寡头之间的商业腐败和非法交易。”

戴维斯指出，亨特和拜登的弟弟詹姆斯在 2017 年和 2018 年与中国的一家能源巨头 CEFC有商业合作伙伴关系，据称拜登也涉及其中，这是潜在的指控理由。

亨特的笔记本电脑在 2017 年 10 月发出的一封电子邮件表明 ，拜登参与了有关 CEFC试图购买美国天然气的活动。这笔交易与路易斯安那州和德克萨斯州都有企业联系。2017 年 5 月的一封电子邮件提到这位“大人物”在商业合作伙伴关系中获得 10% 的分成，据称拜登在同月会见了儿子亨特的一位合作伙伴。

“我知道拜登父子可能与得克萨斯州有一些石油和天然气交易。我认为也许得克萨斯州总检察长肯帕克斯顿应该开始审视这个漫长而艰难的问题......以及路易斯安那州与[共和党州检察长杰夫]兰德里也要开始着手调查此事。如果你能找到一条线索，并且任何明显的非法行为发生在这些州中的任何一个，你就可以提出指控。”

根据华盛顿邮报对笔记本电脑记录的评论，亨特和詹姆斯拜登最终在 2017 年和 2018 年从CEFC能源公司获得了至少 480 万美元 。

拜登在作为副总统时还会见了来自墨西哥、哈萨克斯坦、俄罗斯和乌克兰的一些企业老板，这些人都与儿子亨特有着商业合作关系。

戴维斯补充说，共和党检察官应该审查他们的司法管辖区是否有“长臂”腐败法规，以及拜登家族是否可能因在其境内开展的工作而欠州税。（转自纽约华人圈公众号）

英文版在这里：

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.