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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-biden-jonathan-turley-crimes-b2502821.html
A US law professor has bizarrely suggested that Joe Biden and his family may be genetically predisposed to commit crimes, pointing to a distant relative of the president as supposed evidence.
In an opinion article for The Hill, Jonathan Turley, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School, said that the skirting of recent legal troubles by the Bidens was something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection.
LiberalFighter
(51,094 posts)Think. Again.
(8,418 posts)bullimiami
(13,104 posts)bhikkhu
(10,724 posts)Of course the whole premise is absurd anyway, especially given how far back he had to go.
ProfessorGAC
(65,191 posts)Genetic predisposition to be a criminal? Wonder what crazy eugenics bookhe read that in?
Biophilic
(3,694 posts)They just seem to keep crawling out of the swamp and saying the most ridiculous things they can think of.
Rebl2
(13,557 posts)must be genetically predisposed to being a dictator and a lying cheat.
ProfessorGAC
(65,191 posts)His dad was a tax cheat, too. So yeah, genetically predisposed.
Conjuay
(1,401 posts)Grandpa had a brothel, after all.
WA-03 Democrat
(3,055 posts)The Hill + Turley the Turkey = smoking hot BS
eShirl
(18,503 posts)tanyev
(42,618 posts)and then made a living by running a brothel. And then his father got rich from a lot of shady business deals, not to mention his own numerous mafia ties.
OH WAIT, THAT'S NOT BIDEN.
Emile
(22,925 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,423 posts)I do quite a bit of genealogy for other people and I see it all the time.
To say that if you had an ancestor who went to prison you will be a criminal is just plain wrong.
This attorney needs to stick to the law and leave DNA ancestry to the experts.
no_hypocrisy
(46,191 posts)Would love to see Larry Tribe debate him.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)spooky3
(34,481 posts)Biologist and psychologist.
A_Woman_from_MI
(165 posts)Whenever a "law professor" is spouting bullshit, seems like it always turns out to be Turley. I once thought he could not sink lower, but am now convinced there is no depth of depravity or deceit to which he will not kneel down and partake of, with a tongue thirsty for any shiny, new lie to spew forth.
He truly disgusts me.
Think. Again.
(8,418 posts)...what turns up in turley's family tree (cuz ya know someone's gonna search it now).
3catwoman3
(24,051 posts)...one of the most thoroughly decent people on the planet.
Hekate
(90,824 posts)Rebl2
(13,557 posts)What an idiot.
Cha
(297,692 posts)Grandfather.
This is just 4 paragraphs.. It's All really Interesting!
*Snip*
The letter concluded with an emotional flourish: Think of his motherless Daughters and sons at home! [Praying for] your interposition in behalf of the unfortunate Father and distressed family of loved Children, Union Daughters & Union Sons.
The missive did not go straight to the White House, but first landed on the desk of Waitman T. Willey, a newly elected senator from the recently admitted state of West Virginia. He endorsed the plea, calling Robinettes punishment a hard sentence on the case as stated. Lincolns private secretary, John G. Nicolay, promptly requested that the judge advocate general, Joseph Holt, send over a report and the trial transcripts for presidential review.
Holts report arrived in late August, and Lincoln made his decision, writing, Pardon for unexecuted part of punishment. A. Lincoln. Sep. 1. 1864. Shortly thereafter, the War Department issued Special Orders No. 296, freeing Robinette from prison.
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edhopper
(33,616 posts)Has just lost it's credibility as a Law School.
spanone
(135,880 posts)I now find him an embarrassment.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)We know Trump's grandfather ran a brothel and his father was arrested at a KKK meeting and was guilty of breaking nondiscrimination laws in renting appartments. It is easier to find some similarities with their descendant !
What is more important is the resume, history and character of the two men and they could not be more different ... and explain why one has 91 indictments.
Ocelot II
(115,858 posts)and that's where the alleged "genetic predisposition" comes from? Each generation doubles, and a great-great grandfather would be the fifth generation back, so Biden might have 32 ancestors of that generation. One of them committed a crime. What about his descendants? Are they criminals, too? Is there also a hint of anti-Irish prejudice here? Anyhow, the notion that criminality is a hereditary trait was debunked decades ago.
I have some dodgy characters in my family tree, too, including Vikings and smugglers. I also have clergymen, soldiers and doctors. I don't think I "inherited" tendencies toward any of those occupations. I don't plunder or smuggle, nor do I preach, wage war or perform surgery. But somehow it was no surprise to find out that this nonsense came straight from the sorry mind of Jonathan Turdley. He used to be relatively respectable; WTF happened to him?
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)Outside of that, unless this Professor has done actual GENETIC analysis of Biden with peer reviewed research he should STFU.
appleannie1
(5,069 posts)I can't even ride a bike and I can't walk across a bridge or ride a Ferris wheel because of my fear of heights.
Turley is full of bull pucky.
a kennedy
(29,709 posts)Hes a wind bag and just full of shit. 🤬 🤬 🤬
JohnSJ
(92,409 posts)RainCaster
(10,916 posts)Can I get a research grant for that?
SoFlaBro
(1,945 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,925 posts)Username kinda checks out, I suppose.
Deuxcents
(16,341 posts)UTUSN
(70,743 posts)PCIntern
(25,584 posts)pictures of him with his private part in his mouth is my guess.
Keeping it "clean".
DFW
(54,437 posts)After all, one of my grandfathers, the one born in the North, was descended from some deadbeat Mississippi River Boat gamblers who fled north to escape their debts.