George Washington University law school professor Jonathan Turley slammed the Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s Office for bringing its criminal case against former President Donald Trump during an interview this week, saying that it was an &#8220;embarrassment&#8221; to the justice system.
Turley made the remarks during a interview where he discussed the opening statements of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;hush money&#8221; trial.
&#8220;If you polled people and ask if Trump was responsible for the bubonic plague, we would end up with the same 35%. We have these hard numbers on either end of the poll when it comes to Trump. They don&#8217;t move no matter what the subject is,&#8221; Turley said. &#8220;What&#8217;s clear is in this case, Trump is right. I mean, this is an embarrassment. I mean the fact that we are actually talking about this case being presented in a New York courtroom leaves me in utter disbelief.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, the arguments today did in fact capture all the problems here,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You know, you had this misdemeanor under state law where, that had run out, this is going back to relate it to the 2016 election, and they zapped it back into life by alleging that there was a campaign finance violation under the federal laws that doesn&#8217;t exist. The Department of Justice doesn&#8217;t view it this way.&#8221;
Turley concluded, &#8220;On top of that, you got these tough factual issues that were laid out well by the Trump team. Saying someone else designated this as a legal expense. He was actually paid far in excess of this because this was a legal account. Keep in mind, this is what Hillary Clinton&#8217;s people did. Remember, when they funded the Steele dossier — which they denied to reporters — they put it as a legal expense. And then they fought the eventual fine they received from the federal government saying that it was a legal expense. Now you&#8217;ve got some of the same Democrats supporting this bizarre theory.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonathanTurley</a>: &#8220;In this case, Trump is right. This is an embarrassment. The fact that we are actually talking about this case being presented in a New York courtroom, leaves me in utter disbelief.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/k3oLBt8N8x">pic.twitter.com/k3oLBt8N8x</a>
— MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/MAGAIncWarRoom/status/1782476018076295446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2024</a></blockquote>

Former President Donald Trump’s Hush-Money Criminal Trial

Law Professor Defends Trump As Trial Gets Underway: ‘Trump Is Right’

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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley weighed in on the recent fraud verdict against former President Donald Trump and made it clear that he was not impressed.
Turley shared his thoughts with Fox News anchor John Roberts, arguing that the $355 million fine imposed by Judge Arthur Engoron was excessive considering there was no measurable financial damage incurred by any of the “victims” — and those “victims,” instead of seeing themselves as such and seeking restitution, had instead sought to do more business with Trump.
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Jonathan Turley: “There’s not a single dollar lost by these ‘victims’. In fact, the people that James calls the victims actually wanted to do more business with Donald Trump. They said they made a lot of money and&#8230;viewed him as a whale client—they wanted more loans with him.” <a href="https://t.co/aC6KLPD1fY">pic.twitter.com/aC6KLPD1fY</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1759980738093707540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Turley noted — as a number of critics have — that the banks Trump was supposed to have defrauded by giving an inflated estimate of the value of certain properties and assets had not considered themselves to be the victims of fraud. Rather, since the loans taken out based on those valuations had long since been repaid and in full, they had viewed Trump and his company as a “whale” — a high-dollar client with whom they would like to continue to do business.
“Part of the disconnect here is that you have what will be over $455 million if you include interest and then, on the other side of the ledger, you have $0,” Turley explained.
”There’s not a single dollar lost by these victims,” he continued. “In fact, the people that [Attorney General Letitia] James calls the victims actually wanted to do more business with Donald Trump. They said they made a lot of money and they viewed him as a ‘whale’ client, they wanted more loans with him.”
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Despite the fact that the banks had never raised any concerns about fraud, Attorney General Letitia James (D-NY) — who ran on a platform of “getting Trump” — asserted victimhood status on their behalf and filed charges against the former president. She took to X to gloat the morning after the ruling, saying, “So, how’s everyone feeling today?”
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So, how’s everyone feeling today?
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House Judiciary Committee Holds First Impeachment Inquiry Hearing

‘Not A Single Dollar Lost By These Victims’: Jonathan Turley Blasts Trump Fraud Verdict

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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley torched the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-supreme-court-rules-trump-not-eligible-to-run-in-2024-removes-him-from-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado State Supreme Court</a> over a Tuesday decision that removed former President Donald Trump from the state&#8217;s presidential ballot.
Turley took to X to voice his assessment of the decision, which was based on a ruling stating that — despite the fact that Trump has been neither charged nor convicted with participation in an insurrection — the former president was ineligible to run because he &#8220;engaged in an insurrection&#8221; on January 6, 2021.
&#8220;The Colorado Supreme Court has issued an unsigned opinion disqualifying Trump from the ballot: &#8216;The sum of these parts is this: President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three; because he is disqualified,'&#8221; Turley began.
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&#8230;This ends a string of losses for advocates of this dangerous novel theory. They finally found a court that would embrace what the court admits is a case of &quot;first impression.&quot; My first impression remains that same. The court is dead wrong in my view&#8230;<a href="https://t.co/lGhv9je2a7">https://t.co/lGhv9je2a7</a>
&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1737254882615136613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This ends a string of losses for advocates of this dangerous novel theory. They finally found a court that would embrace what the court admits is a case of &#8216;first impression.&#8217; My first impression remains that same. The court is dead wrong in my view,&#8221; he continued.
Turley warned that the argument was so broad that it left the door open for any future candidates to be removed for almost any reason.
&#8220;It is striking that the court relies on Schenck v. U.S., where the Court upheld the denial of core free speech rights of a socialist opposing a war. The opinion of the Colorado Supreme Court is so sweeping that it would allow for tit-for-tat removals of candidates from ballots.&#8221;
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&#8230;The opinion is remarkable in how the four justices adopted the most sweeping interpretations to get over each barrier. The result is lack of a limiting principle. I view the opinion as strikingly anti-democratic in what it now allows states to do in blue and red states alike.
&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1737264763485229461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The opinion is remarkable in how the four justices adopted the most sweeping interpretations to get over each barrier. The result is lack of a limiting principle. I view the opinion as strikingly anti-democratic in what it now allows states to do in blue and red states alike,&#8221; Turley concluded.
The Colorado Republican Party has already threatened to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colorado-republican-party-to-cancel-primary-if-trump-kept-off-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancel the state&#8217;s primary</a> entirely if Trump is kept off the ballot — and the former president has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-blasts-co-supreme-court-ruling-banning-him-from-ballot-banana-republic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a statement</a> as well.
&#8220;BIDEN SHOULD DROP ALL OF THESE FAKE POLITICAL INDICTMENTS AGAINST ME, BOTH CRIMINAL &amp; CIVIL. EVERY CASE I AM FIGHTING IS THE WORK OF THE DOJ &amp; WHITE HOUSE. NO SUCH THING HAS EVER HAPPENED IN OUR COUNTRY BEFORE. BANANA REPUBLIC??? ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!&#8221; he posted.

‘Strikingly Anti-Democratic’: Jonathan Turley Shreds Colorado Over Trump Ballot Ouster

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> investigators may have received a new line of inquiry in their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-votes-to-formally-authorize-biden-impeachment-inquiry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newly-authorized</a> impeachment probe after President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s son <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> defied a subpoena for a deposition, according to George Washington University law professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-level-of-denial-jonathan-turley-rips-into-wapos-last-defense-of-russian-collusion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Turley</a>.
In an op-ed published by <a href="https://themessenger.com/opinion/hunter-biden-contempt-of-congress-subpoena-white-house-impeachment-prosecution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Messenger</a> on Thursday, Turley suggested that contact between father and son about Hunter Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-shows-up-to-capitol-defies-subpoena-for-house-deposition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">holding a press conference</a> on Wednesday outside the U.S. Capitol before the younger Biden refused to show up for a scheduled deposition could be grounds for obstruction.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1735030307974242508" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told reporters</a> that President Biden was &#8220;familiar&#8221; with what Hunter Biden was going to say at his press conference — during which the first son stated that he would appear for a public hearing, but not the deposition. Jean-Pierre declined to offer any more details when pressed on whether the commander in chief tried to talk his son out of violating a congressional subpoena.
With impeachment investigators now saying Hunter Biden will face contempt of Congress proceedings for defying the subpoena, Turley wrote that Jean-Pierre&#8217;s remark &#8220;suggests that the president spoke with his son before his act of contempt and discussed his statement.&#8221; Turley argued this could be a &#8220;breathtaking mistake&#8221; for the Bidens.
&#8220;One of the four most obvious potential articles of impeachment that I laid out in my <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2023/10/02/four-biden-impeachment-articles-and-what-the-house-will-need-to-prove/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prior testimony</a> was obstruction. There already are questions over special treatment potentially being given to Hunter in the form of alleged felonies being allowed to expire, warnings about planned federal raids, and sweetheart deals,&#8221; Turley wrote, referring to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-file-new-criminal-case-against-hunter-biden-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">separate criminal investigation</a> into Hunter Biden run by the Department of Justice — a probe that is being looked at as part of the impeachment inquiry.
&#8220;In addition, President Biden has enlisted White House staff to actively push challenged accounts of his conduct and attack the House Republicans’ investigative process. Such acts could legally bootstrap prior misconduct into his presidency under abuse-of-power allegations,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;If this latest allegation is true, the president was speaking with his son about committing a potentially criminal act of contempt,&#8221; Turley continued. &#8220;Hunter was refusing to give testimony focused not on his own role but on his father&#8217;s potential role in the alleged influence peddling. The House can pursue evidence on that conversation and how the president may have supported his son’s effort.&#8221;
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Much of the rest of the op-ed from Turley, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/turley-testifies-evidence-insufficient-to-impeach-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave testimony</a> in the impeachment probe earlier this year, made a case for how Hunter Biden may have &#8220;opened a new potential front for prosecution&#8221; for resisting a subpoena with his &#8220;bizarre public display.&#8221;

Turley Says Biden May Have Just Given House Impeachment Probe A New Lead

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Disney acknowledged risks due to a “misalignment” between the company’s products and the public that are hurting its bottom line in recent filings with the government.
Disney filed its annual <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001744489/000174448923000216/dis-20230930.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SEC report</a> for the year ending on September 30 last week. George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley pointed out the report in a column with <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/4326247-happy-birthday-adam-smith-the-invisible-hand-just-slapped-disney/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a> on Saturday.
“We face risks relating to misalignment with public and consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment, travel and consumer products, which impact demand for our entertainment offerings and products and the profitability of any of our businesses,” the SEC filing states.
Disney says that the “success of our businesses depends on our ability to consistently create compelling content.” One of the chief hurdles it faces is “consumer tastes and preferences that change in often unpredictable ways,” the filing says.
“Generally, our revenues and profitability are adversely impacted when our entertainment offerings and products, as well as our methods to make our offerings and products available to consumers, do not achieve sufficient consumer acceptance. Further, consumers’ perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals, often differ widely and present risks to our reputation and brands,” the filing says.
The SEC report shows that “Disney appears concerned that [the] ‘invisible hand’ of Adam Smith is effectively giving the ‘House of Mouse’ the middle finger,” <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1729093315792920639" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> Turley.
The filing comes after Disney postponed the release of its remake of the classic children’s fairy tale “Snow White” following public backlash to a characterization of the film by its lead actress, Rachel Zegler. A photo release of the seven dwarves for the live-action remake drew skepticism, as well.
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“She’s not going to be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love,” Zegler said of the film earlier this year. “She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true.”
Turley notes that Disney has gone through a rough series of releases.
“Disney has reportedly lost a billion dollars just on four of its recent ‘woke’ movie flops, productions denounced by critics as pushing political agendas or storylines. Yet until now, the company has continued to roll out underperforming movies as revenue has dropped,” Turley said.
“For shareholders, it may seem counterintuitive that corporate executives would trade off profits for political or social agendas. However, it does serve as a rationale for individual corporate executives who are professionally advanced when they champion such causes,” the law professor continued.

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George Washington University law professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jonathan-turley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Turley</a> knocked down claims on Thursday that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> must have received payment directly to be liable in his family’s overseas business dealings.
Turley suggested that while evidence of the president receiving money from a foreign agent would be the strongest proof, there is no standard in law that suggests Biden would have had to receive a bribe directly to be found guilty of illegal behavior.
“There’s been repeated statements that you need to show that President Biden accepted direct money in order for this to constitute a benefit even under criminal cases, the deal with bribery, extortion, the Hobbs Act. The courts actually have rejected that and said that money going to family members is, in fact, a benefit,” said Turley while he testified in front of the House Oversight Committee on Thursday.
“Obviously, the strongest case is if you have a direct payment, but this idea that you can have millions going to a politician&#8217;s family and that&#8217;s not a benefit, I think is pretty fallacious,” the legal scholar said.
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Professor Jonathan Turley: &quot;This idea that you can have millions going to a politician&#39;s family and that&#39;s not a benefit, I think is pretty fallacious.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/C7edZ3Nnu3">pic.twitter.com/C7edZ3Nnu3</a>
&mdash; TheBlaze (@theblaze) <a href="https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1707422911475200476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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No direct payment to Biden made by a foreign agent has been found, though some evidence has suggested that the president had knowledge of, and may have played a role in, his family’s business schemes.
One of Hunter Biden’s former business partners, Devon Archer, has said that much of the family’s business revolved around selling the “illusion of access” to the Biden family patriarch, who has been one of the top officeholders in the United States government for decades. Archer also said that the president had at times spoken and walked into meetings his son was holding with foreign businessmen.
Earlier this week, House Republicans released evidence that Hunter <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-received-250k-wire-from-beijing-with-beneficiary-address-listed-as-joe-biden-delaware-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received</a> more than $250,000 in 2019 from Chinese business partners. The money came in the form of a wire transfer that listed the president’s Delaware address as the beneficiary. At the time, Hunter had been living in California.
The president has denied having any involvement in his son’s or other members of his family’s business dealings with foreign agents. When House Republicans released hundreds of pages of IRS whistleblower documents earlier this week, the White House continued to downplay the evidence against the president.
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“House Republicans have again cried wolf and provided no evidence tying President Biden to wrongdoing,” a White House spokesperson told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/27/hunter-biden-private-documents-released-00118483" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>. “Instead of wasting time with media stunts trumpeting half-baked conspiracy theories, House Republicans should realize the clock is ticking — it’s time they stop trying to distract and start focusing on priorities that matter to the American people, like doing their jobs to prevent a government shutdown that would inflict real pain on working families.”

Jonathan Turley Knocks Down Claims That Joe Biden Has To Receive Bribe Directly: ‘Pretty Fallacious’

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Multiple media outlets ran with one comment from George Washington University law professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/turley-testifies-evidence-insufficient-to-impeach-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Turley</a> — treating it like a &#8220;bombshell&#8221; revelation and using it to suggest that the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden was unfounded — but they left out one important part of his assessment.
Turley, who has served as an expert witness in prior impeachments, did so again as House Republicans led by Rep. James Comer (R-KY) opened their impeachment inquiry on Thursday — and media outlets ran with one line from his <a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20230928/116415/HHRG-118-GO00-Wstate-TurleyP-20230928.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prepared statement</a>: &#8220;I do not believe that the evidence currently meets the standard of a high crime and misdemeanor needed for an article of impeachment.&#8221;
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<li><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/evidence-support-articles-impeachment-turley-103565322" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a>: &#8220;Evidence so far does &#8216;not support&#8217; articles of impeachment: Turley&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/gop-witness-jonathan-turley-tells-congress-current-evidence-does-not-support-biden-impeachment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mediaite</a>: &#8220;GOP Witness Jonathan Turley Tells Congress ‘Current Evidence’ Does Not Support Biden Impeachment&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/09/28/biden-impeachment-inquiry-gop-witness-turley-admits-theres-not-enough-evidence-to-impeach-biden-yet/?sh=1ebeb7ca4a1d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes</a>: &#8220;Biden Impeachment Inquiry: GOP Witness Turley Admits There’s Not Enough Evidence To Impeach Biden—Yet&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://themessenger.com/politics/gop-impeachment-witness-no-evidence-yet-to-oust-president-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Messenger</a>: &#8220;GOP Impeachment Witness: No Evidence Yet to Oust President Joe Biden&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/175841/republican-biden-impeachment-witness-turley-debunk-evidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New Republic</a>: &#8220;Republicans’ Key &#8216;Biden Corruption&#8217; Witness Torches Their Entire Claims&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-impeachment-hearing-house-oversight-09-28-23/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>: &#8220;GOP witnesses say there&#8217;s not enough evidence yet to impeach Biden&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-hold-first-hearing-biden-impeachment-inquiry-rcna117657" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>: &#8220;House GOP’s impeachment witnesses say there&#8217;s no evidence yet Joe Biden committed a crime&#8221;</li>
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A congressional reporter went with the same excerpt in a post shared via X: &#8220;Jonathan Turley in his submitted testimony for today&#8217;s Biden impeachment hearing: &#8216;I do not believe that the evidence currently meets the standard of a high crime and misdemeanor needed for an article of impeachment.'&#8221;
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Jonathan Turley in his submitted testimony for today&#39;s Biden impeachment hearing: 
&quot;I do not believe that the evidence currently meets the standard of a high crime and misdemeanor needed for an article of impeachment.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/O3Bp1507X1">https://t.co/O3Bp1507X1</a>
&mdash; Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1707394139363447204?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;PBS Newshour&#8221; correspondent Lisa Desjardins went with the same line as well: &#8220;Evidence? Not enough, says GOP&#8217;s first impeachment witness, Jonathan Turley. He opens the hearing by saying this an inquiry is an important right of Congress and influence peddling is corruption. But says also, clearly, that current evidence does *not* support impeachment.&#8221;
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Evidence? Not enough, says GOP&#39;s first impeachment witness, Jonathan Turley. 
He opens the hearing by saying this an inquiry is an important right of Congress and influence peddling is corruption. 
But says also, clearly, that current evidence does *not* support impeachment.
&mdash; Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1707406492419207501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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And while Turley did say that he did not believe the threshold had been met for an article of impeachment — and said that he would vote no if presented with one based on the evidence presented thus far — that was far from all that Turley said (emphasis added to show the small part of Turley&#8217;s statement that was highlighted by media outlets).
<blockquote>It is important to emphasize what this hearing is not. It is not a hearing on articles of impeachment. The House has launched an impeachment inquiry, and I am appearing to discuss the history and purpose of such inquiries. I have previously stated that, while I believe that an impeachment inquiry is warranted, I do not believe that the evidence currently meets the standard of a high crime and misdemeanor needed for an article of impeachment. The purpose of my testimony today is to discuss how past inquiries pursued evidence of potentially impeachable conduct.
My testimony also reflects the fact that I do believe that, after months of investigation, the House has passed the threshold for an inquiry into whether President Joe Biden was directly involved or benefited from the corrupt practices of his son, Hunter, and others. Since my testimony focuses on the historical and legal aspects of this inquiry, I will leave much of the discussion of the evidence to my fellow witnesses and to the Committee members themselves. However, I believe that the record has developed to the point that the House needs to answer troubling questions surrounding the President. As discussed below, polls indicate that most of the country shares those concerns while expressing doubts over the Biden Administration investigating potential criminal conduct.</blockquote>
And while most of the outlets covering the impeachment hearing did include Turley&#8217;s full remarks in the copy, their headlines left context to the imagination.
Turley went on to outline the key points that he said pointed directly to the need for further scrutiny in the form of an impeachment hearing.
&#8220;Turley said, in [the] same breath, &#8216;I also believe the House has passed the threshold for an impeachment inquiry.&#8217; He cited &#8216;three inescapable facts&#8217;: i) Speaking &#8216;falsely&#8217; about business dealings; ii) Biden was &#8216;focus&#8217; of influence scheme; iii)&#8217;Biden may have benefited&#8217; from scheme,&#8221; RealClearNews White House reporter Philip Wegmann said.
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Turley said, in same breath, &quot;I also believe the House has passed the threshold for an impeachment inquiry.&quot; 
He cited &quot;three inescapable facts&quot;: i) Speaking &quot;falsely&quot; about business dealings ii) Biden was &quot;focus&quot; of influence scheme iii)&quot;Biden may have benefited&quot; from scheme <a href="https://t.co/MA9jmx96sq">https://t.co/MA9jmx96sq</a>
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Media Outlets Run With ‘Bombshell’ Jonathan Turley Comment — But They Leave Out One Thing

Media Outlets Run With 'Bombshell' Jonathan Turley Comment — But They Leave Out One Thing

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Attorney and law professor Jonathan Turley raised serious legal questions about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s path to convicting former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-seek-gag-order-against-trump-after-social-media-post-if-you-go-after-me-im-coming-after-you" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
In an <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4137650-even-lies-are-protected-speech-new-trump-indictment-bulldozes-the-first-amendment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> published Saturday by The Hill, Turley warned that the latest indictment of Trump relating to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot threatens the First Amendment by giving the government an unprecedented power to criminalize false statements. Trump was indicted earlier this week on four charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.
“Trump was not charged with conspiracy to incite violence or insurrection,” Turley wrote. “Rather, he was charged because he ‘spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won.’ In order to secure convictions for this, Special Counsel Jack Smith would need to bulldoze through not just the First Amendment but also existing case law holding that even false statements are protected.”
“The government acknowledges that the Constitution protects false statements made in campaigns, but it insists that Trump must have known that his statements were false and therefore was engaged in fraudulent statements to obstruct or challenge electoral results,” Turley continued.
The legal expert noticed one problem, however. “If Trump actually did (or does) believe that he did not lose the election, the indictment collapses,” he wrote, adding that the indictment seeks to show that many people were telling Trump his stolen election claims were false.
“I was one of those voices,” Turley wrote. “Trump did not listen to me, most legal analysts or even his White House counsel. Instead, he listened to a small group of lawyers who assured him that a challenge might succeed and that there was evidence of massive election fraud.”
Trump has the freedom to seek “enablers who tell him what he wants to hear,” the law professor wrote. Turley argued that even President Joe Biden has done this, such as when he issued an executive order on an eviction moratorium based on “a single law professor’s say-so to justify an obviously unconstitutional executive action” that was later blocked by the Supreme Court. Turley also pointed to Democrats, such as Hillary Clinton and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), whose speech was protected by the Constitution when they falsely claimed Trump’s 2016 election victory was illegitimate.
Even if Trump knew the claims he was making were false, it would still be controversial to link his claims to the actions of anyone who challenged the election, according to Turley.
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In United States v. Alvarez, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that it is unconstitutional to criminalize lies, Turley wrote. The 2012 case involved a politician who knowingly lied about his military decorations, but the high court prevented Congress from criminalizing lies about one’s military service.
“So even assuming that Smith can prove Trump lied, there would still be constitutional barriers to criminalizing his false statements,” Turley wrote. “That is why the threshold constitutional claims in this indictment should be addressed by the courts before it goes forward.”

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Turley Raises Questions About Case Against Trump: Jack Smith ‘Would Need To Bulldoze’ First Amendment To Convict

Turley Raises Questions About Case Against Trump: Jack Smith 'Would Need To Bulldoze' First Amendment To Convict

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Law Professor Jonathan Turley is not letting President Joe Biden off the hook even though the president finally acknowledged his seventh grandchild — all the while blaming his neglect on Hunter&#8217;s legal battles with the child&#8217;s mother.
The Bidens finally recognized their youngest granddaughter in an online article for PEOPLE Magazine at 5:00 p.m. ET on a summer Friday night right before Joe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-take-a-break-from-doing-nothing-hits-the-beach-for-10-days">hit the beach.</a> 
Here&#8217;s the statement the Bidens provided the media:
<blockquote>&#8220;Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward. This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter. Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.&#8221;</blockquote>
That statement may have smoothed things over for Legacy Media and other Democrats, but Turley was livid in an opinion column for Fox News.
&#8220;Even for those of us who merely followed this saga from the beginning, the statement was maddening and frankly insulting,&#8221; Turley <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/joe-jill-biden-acknowledge-7th-grandchild-obnoxious-reason" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;It suggested that there was some reason, until now, that prevented the Bidens from acknowledging the existence of their fifth granddaughter. That is false.&#8221;
Those who read or listen to the George Washington University professor, frequent Fox News guest, and writer know that that&#8217;s about as fired up as Turley gets. He went on to argue that it wasn&#8217;t just the Bidens&#8217; written statement alone that made the Friday night news dump so appalling.
A source told PEOPLE that the Bidens were simply following Hunter’s lead — for reasons that remain unclear.
“You have to remember there were some fairly contentious legal proceedings between Navy’s parents happening until just a few weeks ago. As grandparents, the Bidens are following Hunter’s lead,” the anonymous source told the magazine. “They are — and have been — giving Hunter and Lunden the space and time to figure things out.”
As Turley said in his op-ed, &#8220;There was no legal, or even tactical, reason for the refusal of the first couple to acknowledge Navy for four years.&#8221;
Turley, who has lived in D.C. for years, also suggested that the Bidens&#8217; treatment of Navy went far beyond the normal callousness people in the District were accustomed to.
&#8220;Washington is a hard town,&#8221; Turley said. &#8220;I have lived and worked here for decades and I am still amazed by the cold calculations of many in this city. Long-standing values and associations are routinely jettisoned for personal advantage. Here the moral strictures of the rest of the nation are flipped; vice is a virtue and integrity is a weakness.&#8221;
&#8220;Yet, even in this place of utter personal corruption, the Bidens shocked the local population,&#8221; he said.
He also speculated that the Bidens relented on this issue due to pressure from fellow Democrats and to try and squash the issue before diving into the 2024 campaign trail.
&#8220;In other words, for the first couple, it is a political not a family matter,&#8221; he said.
To put in perspective how incredulous the president and first lady handled this issue over the years, consider that the two appeared to care more about the negative press their misbehaving dogs would garner than they did their forgotten granddaughter.
&#8220;The Bidens spent more time fretting over the<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/jonathanturley.org/2023/07/26/master-and-commander-what-is-the-liability-for-president-biden-in-the-latest-dog-attacks/__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!1tWFPbS9H6qZcYcetJ6fVnqGfZTdrPONE3PiboqkFoLp-n44roD7z6lkFgg0-484qez5Qu6vZcKMLuavAhBecF_C8w%24"> &#8216;pressure&#8217; of the White House</a> on Major and Commander than they did the emotional impact on a four-year-old child who was prevented from even calling herself a Biden,&#8221; Turley said.
It can&#8217;t get much lower than that. 
 
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘Frankly Insulting’: Law Professor Slams Biden’s ‘Obnoxious Reason’ For Finally Recognizing Hunter’s Daughter

'Frankly Insulting': Law Professor Slams Biden's 'Obnoxious Reason' For Finally Recognizing Hunter's Daughter

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George Washington University law professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-level-of-denial-jonathan-turley-rips-into-wapos-last-defense-of-russian-collusion">Jonathan Turley</a> issued a warning about the FBI, making the argument that the bureau is fixated on protecting the Biden family.
The legal expert appeared on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; and reacted to a clip of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-x-is-a-gay-democrat-hopes-to-be-good-example-for-lgbtq-people">Joseph Ziegler</a> saying that he had not seen the recently-disclosed FD-1023 form outlining allegations of bribery scheme <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rfk-jr-calls-for-investigation-into-biden-over-bribery-allegations">involving</a> Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, while working as lead IRS case agent in the criminal case against the First Son.
“It increasingly seems like the FBI is the place where evidence goes to die,&#8221; Turley said, adding that any evidence with the Biden name &#8220;dies a very rapid death.&#8221;
His comments underscore a feeling of trepidation among conservatives who have warned of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordan-threatens-funding-unless-new-fbi-hq-leaves-dc-area-and-he-has-a-suggestion">politicization</a> in the FBI, a fear driven by various controversies in recent years, including the use of the so-called <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/steele-dossier">&#8220;Steele dossier&#8221;</a> in the Trump-Russia investigation.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonathanTurley</a> on the FBI evidence Grassley released showing Biden corruption: “It increasingly seems like the <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> is the place where evidence goes to die.” <a href="https://t.co/FB9ir6WDJw">pic.twitter.com/FB9ir6WDJw</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1683218133828399106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-obtains-and-releases-fbi-record-alleging-vp-biden-foreign-bribery-scheme">released</a> a lightly redacted copy of the FD-1023 form last week, a day after Ziegler and his supervisor and fellow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/whistleblower">whistleblower</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irs-whistleblower-says-story-from-hunter-biden-prosecutor-has-been-changing">Gary Shapley</a> testified to lawmakers with allegations that the criminal inquiry into Hunter Biden had been slow-walked in a way that may have shielded the First Son from more serious charges <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-reaches-plea-deal-over-tax-crimes-report">than the tax and gun counts that are subject to a potential plea deal.</a>
The document contains notes from 2020 about a confidential human source&#8217;s claims to the FBI regarding an alleged bribery scheme worth millions of dollars involving Joe Biden at a time when he was vice president and a Ukrainian business executive at Burisma Holdings, the gas company where Hunter Biden served on the board for several years.
Both Ziegler and Shapley <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/23/delaware-u-s-attorneys-office-buried-biden-bribery-allegations-ag-barr-sent-for-investigation/">have attested</a> that they were not provided the notes before they were removed from the Biden probe. Former Attorney General William Barr <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/08/bill-barr-rips-confused-rep-raskin-over-biden-bribe-probe/">has said he sent</a> that information to be vetted by a prosecutor in Pennsylvania, and after it was <a href="https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/06-9-2023/barrs-raskin-dustup/">determined</a> that there was &#8220;no basis to believe this was disinformation,&#8221; the claims were relayed to Delaware, where U.S. Attorney David Weiss has been leading the Hunter Biden inquiry.
GOP lawmakers, including Grassley, have raised questions about what, if anything, was done to <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/remarks/grassley-fbi-redacted-references-to-recordings-in-biden-allegation-shared-with-congress">corroborate or dismiss</a> the informant&#8217;s claims. Weiss, in a recent statement that sought to push back on the idea that he had ever been denied the authority to bring charges in the Hunter Biden matter, said he could not respond to questions about allegations regarding a bribery scheme contained in the FBI FD-1023 form because they related to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-prosecutor-denies-being-refused-authority-to-bring-charges">“an ongoing investigation.”</a>
Turley said the &#8220;key&#8221; takeaway from the FD-1023 form was that it &#8220;mirrors perfectly&#8221; the trove of financial records being scrutinized by GOP congressional investigators concerned about a pattern of millions of dollars flowing to Biden and his relatives from foreign nationals under suspicious circumstances.
Democrats in Congress have dismissed the inquiries into the Biden as politically motivated while President Biden has called allegations of corruption <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-plans-to-bring-in-key-witnesses-in-biden-family-probe">&#8220;a bunch of malarkey.&#8221;</a> The <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4108911-fbi-expressly-opposed-gop-release-of-unverified-biden-tip/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CToday's%20release%20of%20the%201023,by%20The%20Hill%20on%20Thursday.">FBI released a statement lamenting</a> how its efforts to &#8220;protect the physical safety of confidential human sources and the integrity of sensitive investigations&#8221; were squandered by the FD-1023 form&#8217;s release.

Jonathan Turley Torches The FBI: ‘Where Evidence Goes To Die’

Jonathan Turley Torches The FBI: 'Where Evidence Goes To Die'

George Washington University law professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-level-of-denial-jonathan-turley-rips-into-wapos-last-defense-of-russian-collusion">Jonathan Turley</a> said a House Democrat &#8220;tripped the wire&#8221; on President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/parental-discretion-is-advised-mtg-breaks-out-lewd-hunter-biden-images-at-whistleblower-hearing">during a hearing Wednesday</a>.
The legal expert argued that an exchange between Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and one of the witnesses, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/internal-revenue-service-irs">Internal Revenue Service (IRS)</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/whistleblower">whistleblower</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irs-whistleblower-says-story-from-hunter-biden-prosecutor-has-been-changing">Gary Shapley</a>, undermined the president&#8217;s denial that he ever spoke to his son Hunter about the younger Biden&#8217;s business dealings.
Goldman pointed to a moment in <a href="https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Whistleblower-1-Transcript_Redacted.pdf">Shapley&#8217;s prior testimony</a> in which he quoted Hunter Biden <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2023/06/23/takeaways-from-the-hunter-biden-wars-00103510">business associate Rob Walker</a> informing the FBI that Hunter Biden told his father at a lunch meeting with executives at the Chinese energy firm CEFC, &#8220;I may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, let me ask you something,&#8221; Goldman said. &#8220;That doesn&#8217;t sound much like Joe Biden was involved in whatever Hunter Biden was doing with the CEFC, if <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden">Hunter Biden</a> is telling him that he&#8217;s trying to do business with them, does it?&#8221;
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Goldman: So you not only have no direct evidence connecting Joe Biden to any of Hunter Biden&#39;s business deal. You actually had proof that he wasn&#39;t involved. That is the proof that you had. <a href="https://t.co/GYyYhlQDDb">pic.twitter.com/GYyYhlQDDb</a>
&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1681785381719515142?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In response, Shapley said, &#8220;No but it does show that he told his father that he was trying to do business and he was talking to his father about the business.&#8221;
At that moment, Goldman threw his hands into the air and said, &#8220;Okay, well that is true. Hunter Biden does try to do business. That&#8217;s correct.&#8221;
On Twitter, Turley <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1681784176893198338">said</a> Goldman &#8220;just tripped the wire on Joe Biden,&#8221; adding, &#8220;In trying to grill the whistleblowers to show that there is no evidence that Joe Biden was involved, he elicited an answer that the witnesses established that Joe Biden did discuss business deals of Hunter with the Chinese.&#8221;
&#8220;Goldman was trying to show that the witnesses did not mention a substantive role of Joe Biden, Shapley immediately noted that it did mean that he came to discuss one of the Hunter&#8217;s deals. The President continues to deny that fact,&#8221; he added.
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&#8220;Goldman prompted a sworn statement from the investigator that Biden did indeed discuss his son&#8217;s business deals,&#8221; Turley said. &#8220;In doing so, Goldman may have delivered one of the most damaging moments in the hearing for the Bidens.&#8221;
After Shapley made his point about Joe Biden talking to his son about business, Goldman went on to state that the IRS agent had &#8220;no direct evidence&#8221; connecting Joe Biden to Hunter Biden&#8217;s business deals before moving on with his questioning.
Turley, in ending his Twitter thread, said if Goldman had continued his line of inquiry about the Biden business deals for a few more minutes, it would have &#8220;sealed the case&#8221; for the appointment of a special counsel.

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Turley Explains How Dem ‘Tripped The Wire’ On Joe Biden In IRS Whistleblower Hearing

Turley Explains How Dem 'Tripped The Wire' On Joe Biden In IRS Whistleblower Hearing

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George Washington University law professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-level-of-denial-jonathan-turley-rips-into-wapos-last-defense-of-russian-collusion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Turley</a> said on Tuesday that he did not expect Hunter Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morning-joe-panel-spins-hunter-indictment-as-good-news-for-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plea deal</a> to &#8220;satisfy a lot of folks,&#8221; arguing that many critics were likely to feel he had walked away with little more than a slap on the wrist.
Turley shared an <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2022/08/03/the-art-of-scandal-implosion-the-political-and-media-establishment-prepare-to-drop-hunter-biden-in-a-controlled-demolition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> he had written a year earlier, predicting that the embattled son of President Joe Biden was likely to strike such a deal — one that avoided prison time but admitted culpability to lesser charges that could not be tied to his father — and said that for many, that was not likely to be enough.
&#8220;The Post is reporting that Hunter sealed a deal similar to the one that I discussed last year as a way to defuse this scandal. It is a plea on tax and gun charges that could now close out the scandal without jail time,&#8221; Turley tweeted.
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The Post is reporting that Hunter sealed a deal similar to the one that I discussed last year as a way to defuse this scandal. It is a plea on tax and gun charges that could now close out the scandal without jail time. <a href="https://t.co/WwoRzM2iHO">https://t.co/WwoRzM2iHO</a>
&mdash; Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1671148960549838848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Hunter will admit to illegal possession of the gun but enter a diversion program — usually an avenue to avoid jail and allow expungement,&#8221; Turley continued. &#8220;Years of investigation into Hunter appear to have evaded any serious inquiry into the influence peddling operation of the Biden family. For critics, it will be like ticketing the get-away driver after a bank hold up.&#8221;
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Turley went on to explain that legacy media outlets — many of which had been content to ignore or even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-just-a-right-wing-media-story-cnn-is-suddenly-worried-hunter-biden-could-derail-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actively scuttle</a> any stories related to Hunter Biden — now faced a far more difficult landscape to navigate.
&#8220;After years of burying the story, the media is now attempting an even more precarious exercise. It is called controlled demolition: the implosion of a scandal to limit any blast effect on nearby structures or individuals,&#8221; he said, <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1671154949496139780" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggesting</a> that the goal of such an exercise would be to protect the president from any possible repercussions.

Jonathan Turley Tears Into Hunter Indictment: ‘Not Gonna Satisfy A Lot Of Folks’

Jonathan Turley Tears Into Hunter Indictment

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