Former president Donald Trumpthe ex-niece of Mary Trumpresponded Sunday in four words to an article by Jonathan Turley, lawyer and legal analyst, on the president’s “criminal history.” Joe BidenHe’s the great-great-grandfather.
Historian David J. Gerleman recently discovered through documents held at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., that Biden’s great-great-grandfather, Moses J. Robinette, had been charged with attempted murder, between other charges, but was later pardoned by then-President Abraham. Lincoln.
Turley, professor at George Washington The university’s law school and outspoken critic of the Biden family, promoted his new opinion piece published by The Hill in an article on X, formerly TwitterSaturday, writing: “The Hill is out with my column on a recent discovery of Joe Biden’s great-great-grandfather’s criminal history. It turns out that evasion of responsibility may be something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection.
Mary Trump, who has been a vocal critic of her uncle, responded to Turley’s post on Sunday: “Now do my family.”
Trump, who is the Republican Party’s favorite in the 2024 presidential election, was criminally charged four timesstemming from allegations of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, seizing classified documents and then preventing the government from recovering them, and hiding secret payments to an adult film actress. Stormy Daniels.
The former president has pleaded not guilty to all charges and claimed the accusations against him were politically motivated.
Turley’s X-rated post received backlash from others on the social media platform.
Joyce Vance, a former American lawyer under the Barack Obama administration and current MSNBC The legal analyst responded to Turley on Sunday: “It’s a travesty, isn’t it?”
“Do you realize how truly disturbed you look?” MSNBC host Chris Hayes wrote.
Turley confirmed to News week via email on Sunday that his comment about However, both humor and reason are foreign to an age of rage. The column made ironic, non-genetic comparisons to the current allegations.
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In Turley’s editorial, titled “Before Joe, James and Hunter, There Was Great-Great-Grandfather Moses,” he reiterates Gerleman’s findings. Robinette scuffled with fellow Union Army civilian employee John J. Alexander in March 1864. Robinette cut Alexander several times with a penknife and later claimed he pulled a knife on Alexander in self-defense, but military judges found him guilty of all. charges except attempted murder.
Robinette was sentenced to two years of hard labor, but during his incarceration, three army officers who knew Robinette asked Lincoln to pardon him, a request that was approved by then-newly elected West Virginia Senator, Waitman T. Willey, then granted by Lincoln.
Turley wrote in reaction to Robinette’s resurfaced story: “Whatever the true merits, it showed the importance of having friends in high places. Or, as the president once put it more bluntly, “Nobody fucks with a Biden.” .’ It is a family scripture that goes from Moses to James via Joseph. »
The legal analyst added: “After generations, the Bidens still demonstrate the same agile qualities of great-great-grandfather Moses. Indeed, they could replace the legend on their family crest with Manus manum lavat, “one hand washes the other”. “
News week contacted the Trump and Biden campaigns via email for comment. He also contacted Mary Trump via Facebook direct message for comment.
Home Republicans to have launched an impeachment investigation on Biden’s alleged involvement in his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings. The president has been accused of profiting from his son’s connections, while the White House has repeatedly denied that the president was involved in such dealings.
Last week, Alexander Smirnov, a formerFBI informant who played a crucial role in the Biden impeachment inquiry, was accused of making false statements and the fabrication of false documents regarding the Biden family’s business dealings in Ukraine.
That put a damper on the House Republicans’ investigation. Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who is a ranking member of the House Oversight Committee leading the impeachment inquiry, said the investigation is “essentially over.”
Meanwhile, the representative Jim Jordanan Ohio Republican who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, who worked with the oversight committee in the investigation, said Smirnov’s indictment does not change the basic facts the basis of the Biden impeachment inquiry.
Hunter Biden, meanwhile, currently faces three federal gun-related charges, all of which he has pleaded not guilty to. The charges include lying about his drug use on a federal form to purchase a handgun in October 2018. He also faces tax charges from the Department of Justice. Department of Justice (DOJ) in a case that alleges he evaded at least $1.4 million in federal taxes between 2016 and 2019. He has also pleaded not guilty to all of those charges.
Updated 2/25/24, 8:51 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with additional information.
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