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2025-07-16 Government Corruption

Here We Go. Obama Under Investigation for Corruption Scandal

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Posted by Fairbanks 2025-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [308 views ] Top

#1 Obama’s blunt message for Democrats: ‘Toughen up’

'View' hosts lash out at Obama, Cuban for scolding Democrats

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-16 02:00|| 2025-07-16 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Believe it when I see it working.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-16 02:02|| 2025-07-16 02:02|| Front Page Top

#3 ^^ Ditto!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-07-16 03:13|| 2025-07-16 03:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Remember SCOTUS gave Trump a pass as long as the things he did when he was president. Same applies to Obama, but not his lackeys.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-16 07:13|| 2025-07-16 07:13|| Front Page Top

#5 An attempt at a regime change was it? Who does that type of work ?

Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-16 07:22|| 2025-07-16 07:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Loyal Jill Biden aide arrives for sworn deposition in Comer's cover-up probe

Bernal was originally slated to appear last month for a voluntary transcribed interview, but he and his lawyers backtracked after the Trump administration announced it was waiving executive privilege rights for him and several other former White House staffers.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-16 10:20|| 2025-07-16 10:20|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ He plead the 5th on any and all questions

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-16 10:39|| 2025-07-16 10:39|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ I donno, I've blamed a fifth for some of my actions, that I remember.

Biden chief of staff reportedly gave approval for autopen pardons on final day in office

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-16 12:48|| 2025-07-16 12:48|| Front Page Top

#9 @Skidmark

I am not familiar with US laws but approval by an _unelected_ official of autopen pardons isn't that usurping a prerogative given to the President ONLY and shouldn't it lead to decades behind jails?

Posted by JFM 2025-07-16 13:27|| 2025-07-16 13:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Good to see you, JFM!

Procopius2k asked the same question yesterday, so I consulted my in-house contracts specialist. ;-) The answer I posted yesterday:

I asked Mr. Wife, who spent the last third of his career negotiating outside projects for his international Fortune 100 employer. He says that he did, and still does use, autopen/electronic signatures for contracts emailed back and forth, often Adobe PDFs and other contract programs. They are perfectly legal. I can even sign for him — not work but household stuff — because I hold his power of attorney, and I’ve signed such things in my own right for contracts for our house, most recently to remove squirrels from the attic and seal the entry holes.

BUT, wherever the signature is not actually witnessed it can be challenged if there is a question of validity. If it’s his signature, for instance, but it can be proved that that day he was in a car accident and undergoing surgery at the time that he was supposedly clicking the signature block in the form on his computer screen.

Added today: In the old days, when even unimportant people had personal secretaries, a secretary could sign a letter or document when so directed by her boss by adding a /initials at the end of the name to indicate she had done so. How do we prove that someone who now is senile and cannot remember giving an informed order was then either not informed or was incapable of giving the order? Just because we all know his brain was then a rotting turnip is not the same as proving it retrospectively now.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-16 18:02|| 2025-07-16 18:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Throw traitor Barr into that mix. But still nothing will happen.

Posted by Woodrow 2025-07-16 23:56|| 2025-07-16 23:56|| Front Page Top

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