What are we doing? Significantly, as a rustic, what the intense eff are we doing right here??
The DOJ introduced on Thursday one more crime on the planet of politics, one we weren’t conscious of in any respect — only a fully gross, despicable heist: the theft of the diary of the President’s daughter.
It sounds just like the plot of an Olsen Twins film or one thing, proper? But it surely’s all too actual. Two Floridians — Aimee Harris, 40, and Robert Kurlander, 58 — pleaded responsible, in accordance with the Justice Division, to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property — that stolen property being the diary of Joe Biden‘s daughter.
All simply to assist Donald Trump win the election. Ugh.
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Ashley Biden‘s identify wasn’t talked about within the official assertion, however a number of sources have confirmed what the stolen property was. US Legal professional Damian Williams detailed:
“Harris and Kurlander stole private property from an instantaneous member of the family of a candidate for nationwide political workplace. They offered the property to a corporation in New York for $40,000 and even returned to take extra of the sufferer’s property when requested to take action.”
How did this occur?
Apparently Ms. Harris was staying at a personal residence Delray Seaside, Florida — the house of a former boyfriend — in July 2020. She discovered that Ashley Biden had beforehand been staying there through the pandemic — and had saved a private, handwritten journal there when she left in June. Along with some very private entries, Ashley, then 39 years previous, additionally apparently had some tax data and household pictures there in a bag she deliberate to come back again and get at a later date.
When Harris realized what was there, she stole the journal — and tapped Kurlander to assist her promote it. However who would purchase such a factor?? Proper wing media, clearly. As a result of that’s the place we’re.
The inaccurately named Venture Veritas, who have been caught trying to fake other political scandals up to now, had been hoping to provide you with some type of story that would “destroy” Biden’s daughter’s life, in accordance with one of many defendants. Why? The primary objective, after all, was to “attempt to have an effect on the election.” Sigh.
We do not know how a lot the precise wing’s concentrate on Hunter Biden has modified anybody’s opinion of the POTUS. Frankly we’ve at all times discovered it type of boring — he’s admitted to a number of terrible conduct, he even wrote a e book about it. It’s clear he’s obtained some extreme issues… however he’s not the president! However there actually should be these on the market who consider the insinuations that Biden broke the regulation to assist out his son. And that’s clearly what Venture Veritas hoped for. One other Hunter they might write tales about to attempt to even the enjoying discipline with the numerous, many, many authorized and moral scandals of Donald Trump and his household. They usually had been prepared to purchase stolen property of a authorities official’s member of the family to do it?
In accordance with courtroom paperwork, the pair had been paid $20,000 every for the diary. They usually had been apparently inspired to go get extra. Per the docs:
“Throughout that assembly, Harris described the circumstances of how she had obtained the property, and offered the property to the Group. After the assembly, and on the Group’s request, HARRIS and KURLANDER returned to Florida to acquire extra of the Sufferer’s property as a way to present it to the Group.”
Will Venture Veritas face fees for purchasing the property they allegedly knew to be stolen? We’ll must see, we guess, however it doesn’t seem like it. We imply, why wouldn’t they cost them on the identical time? For what it’s value, the group launched a press release on Thursday in response to the information of the responsible pleas, saying:
“Venture Veritas’ information gathering was moral and authorized. A journalist’s lawful receipt of fabric later alleged to be stolen is routine, commonplace, and guarded by the First Modification.”
Yeah, none of this sounds moral in any respect. However we’re guessing except Harris and Kurlander may show they had been instructed to steal extra, they’re most likely within the clear? They by no means printed any of the journal’s contents, although it’s not clear if that’s as a result of they thought higher of it or as a result of there was nothing salacious sufficient. One other conservative website apparently did publish the contents two weeks earlier than the election. We guess nobody observed? It’s the primary we’re listening to of it anyway. Like we stated, it simply wasn’t salacious sufficient we guess.
Talking of salacious, apparently the pair went to a different group to promote the data: the Trump marketing campaign!
In accordance with the docs, Harris and Kurlander attended a fundraiser “with the intent of exhibiting the Sufferer’s stolen property to a marketing campaign consultant of Candidate-2, hoping that the political marketing campaign would buy it.” The marketing campaign consultant turned them down, per the docs:
“A consultant of Candidate-2’s political marketing campaign conveyed to AIMEE HARRIS and ROBERT KURLANDER, the defendants, that the marketing campaign was not concerned with buying the property and suggested HARRIS and KURLANDER to offer the gadgets to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
Effectively, that’s one thing we guess.
The very fact Venture Veritas was prepared to shell out huge bucks for a lady’s stolen diary — not even to seek out proof of an present crime they had been monitoring down or something, simply because they hoped to seek out one thing scandalous — is simply so gross.
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