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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Epstein Follies

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Epstein Follies

March 9, 2025 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

There appears to be a good chance that Trump and his people have concluded that there is a fine line between attacking the Deep State and going along with it. Eleven days ago, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi hyped her office’s imminent…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Biden Family of Liars

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Biden Family of Liars

December 5, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Given Joe Biden’s apparently intimate involvement in Hunter’s dealings, it follows that his intent in pardoning his son is effectively to secure a pardon for himself.   This is the sixth in Consortium News’s series on the extensive criminal allegations leveled at…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hunter Biden’s Charge of Lying Under Oath

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hunter Biden’s Charge of Lying Under Oath

June 19, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

The June 5 criminal referrals are indication enough that the Oversight and Judiciary committees are far from done, spent, or at a dead end. This is the fifth in Consortium News’ series on the congressional investigation into President Joe Biden’s allegedly…

IMPEACHMENT: A Rapid Succession of Events

IMPEACHMENT: A Rapid Succession of Events

March 8, 2024 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence on the indictment of key witness Alexander Smirnov; the under-reported testimony of Jason Galanis from a federal prison; and Hunter Biden’s testimony under oath.  This is the fourth in Consortium News’ series on the congressional investigation into President Biden’s allegedly corrupt…

IMPEACHMENT: Biden Under Formal Investigation

IMPEACHMENT: Biden Under Formal Investigation

December 17, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence writes that Joe Biden, a.k.a. “the Big Guy,” will be formally investigated on accumulating evidence he participated and benefited from his son Hunter’s years of manifestly criminal conniving.  It is now two and a half months since the…

IMPEACHMENT: Innuendo and Evidence

IMPEACHMENT: Innuendo and Evidence

September 29, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Consortium News‘ Patrick Lawrence will be daily covering the U.S. House inquiry into the impeachment of President Joe Biden. This is his first report. Ten months after Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives and eight months after the…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Rape of Lady Justice

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Rape of Lady Justice

June 12, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

This is an open-and-shut case of the judiciary being misused to keep Trump out of the political process. Unlike during the Russiagate years, liberal authoritarians know they are operating in broad daylight this time.  It is getting hard to keep track of the charges…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Secret Stash

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Secret Stash

January 23, 2023 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

If this president didn’t know he was in possession of classified documents, in some cases for more than a decade, he simply is not qualified to hold any public office allowing him such access. There are two things I love about the…

THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 7— Crimes Revealed at Guantánamo Bay

THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 7— Crimes Revealed at Guantánamo Bay

June 24, 2020 · by Patrick L. Smith · in Articles, Consortium News

“Gitmo Files” lifted the Pentagon’s lid on the prison, describing a corrupt system of military detention resting on torture, coerced testimony and “intelligence” manipulated to justify abuses at the base, writes Patrick Lawrence. Today we continue our series The Revelations of…

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