US law professor suggests Biden is genetically predisposed to commit crimes

[shelshaw]

There really is no bottom….
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]

1. Turley is predisposed to being a turd and lying.

[Think. Again.]

15. I see what you did there (and I love it!).

[bullimiami]

2. Fucking Turley? Really. What a crock of useless shit.

[bhikkhu]

3. Ok, let's do Trump now...

Of course the whole premise is absurd anyway, especially given how far back he had to go.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Turley Has Gone Completely Nuts

Genetic predisposition to be a criminal? Wonder what crazy eugenics bookhe read that in?

[Biophilic]

13. Really. Who the heck are these people?

They just seem to keep crawling out of the swamp and saying the most ridiculous things they can think of.

[Rebl2]

20. Then trump

must be genetically predisposed to being a dictator and a lying cheat.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Let's Go With That!

His dad was a tax cheat, too. So yeah, genetically predisposed.

[Conjuay]

35. You left out rapist

Grandpa had a brothel, after all.

[WA-03 Democrat]

5. Lying Lawyer says what?

The Hill + Turley the Turkey = smoking hot BS

[eShirl]

6. Irish Need Not Apply?

[tanyev]

7. Well, sure. His grandfather got deported for avoiding military service

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]

8. Turley has more missing bolts than a Boeing 737 Max.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Genealogy shows us every family has ancestors who were saints and sinners.

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]

10. Turley! Who else?!

Would love to see Larry Tribe debate him.

[TheKentuckian]

11. What a crock! Turdley makes Bozo on a bender seem like a serous person.

[spooky3]

12. Not only is he an incompetent lawyer, he apparently is an incompetent

Biologist and psychologist.

[A_Woman_from_MI]

14. How did I know it was going to be Turley?

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.]

16. Can't wait to see...

...what turns up in turley's family tree (cuz ya know someone's gonna search it now).

[3catwoman3]

17. What a crock of crap. Joe Biden is...

...one of the most thoroughly decent people on the planet.

[Hekate]

18. Turley's comments suggest he is genetically disposed to public collapse of reputation. Sad.

[Rebl2]

19. Oh Lordy

What an idiot.

[Cha]

21. Pres Lincoln Pardoned Pres Biden's Great Great

Grandfather.

This is just 4 paragraphs.. It's All really Interesting!

*Snip*

They testified that Robinette had, from the outbreak of the war, been “ardent, and Influential … in opposing Traitors and their schemes to destroy the Government.”

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 Robinette’s punishment “a hard sentence on the case as stated.” Lincoln’s 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.

Holt’s 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.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18701820

[edhopper]

22. That University

Has just lost it's credibility as a Law School.

[spanone]

23. There was a time when I actually listened to Turley...

I now find him an embarrassment.

[karynnj]

24. Aside from it being unlikely to be genetic, compare Biden to Trump

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]

25. Biden had a great-great grandfather who committed a crime (and was pardoned),

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]

26. So is higher education good or bad now? Conservatives

Outside of that, unless this Professor has done actual GENETIC analysis of Biden with peer reviewed research he should STFU.

[appleannie1]

27. On my dad's side they were circus people. My grandfather and 2 of his brothers were an aerial act.

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]

28. At one time long, long ago I used to enjoy his contributions.....now??

He’s a wind bag and just full of shit. 🤬 🤬 🤬

[JohnSJ]

29. WTF. Are we now pushing republican talking points? The Independent is a tabloid rag

[RainCaster]

30. I'm genetically predisposed to urinating on him

Can I get a research grant for that?

[SoFlaBro]

34. I agree. Time to piss on that fucking turd.

[Dr. Strange]

38. Hmmm.

Username kinda checks out, I suppose.

[Deuxcents]

31. TSF is gonna run with this crap.

[UTUSN]

32. Huh?! - TURLEY's been a sleeze forever but this is breaking new ground for him.

[PCIntern]

36. Somebody must have the goods on Turley...

pictures of him with his private part in his mouth is my guess.

Keeping it "clean".

[DFW]

37. According to Turley, so am I

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.