That's Mr. Halper's argument, and he substantiates it with a compelling survey of China's emerging relations all over the world.
When complaints are substantiated it is almost unheard of that officers are prosecuted.
He determined to substantiate it with all the cash he could raise and all the expertise he could muster, because the alternative was ridicule, or worse.
Friends with better memories and better shorthand tell me that the peer and his team did not make this allegation against Tom Baldwin at the time, though he promises to substantiate it.
This sounds like a hyperbolic charge, ludicrously overblown — but he goes far toward substantiating it.
"It could be a true abduction, or the boyfriend theory is possible, although we haven't been able to substantiate it," he said.
"I knew everything that was going on, but I couldn't substantiate it with proof," he said.
Trump lobbed the allegation in an early March tweet, and so far, he and his administration haven't been able to substantiate it.
But Varoufakis substantiates it with quotes – some gleaned from the tapes of conversations and phone calls he was, unbeknown to the participants, making at the time.
That's because, he explains, "Diaspora unsettles and mobilizes....He was born a Nigerian, and he is a Nigerian, but if we look for the content of that fact, if we try to substantiate it, we will come up empty.
Vines said of the comments he made to Sky: "It's something I said off my own back and I'm quite sure I can substantiate it.
