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Hunter Biden indicted on nine tax charges, adding to gun charges in special counsel probe
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Anonymous
You have this much excitement over Jared Kushner's shenanigans? |
Anonymous
| "The Biden Crime Family Operation." You people make me laugh. Such projection. |
Anonymous
Seriously. It's even more ridiculous than the whole Mueller investigation BS. This country is currently dealing with some serious problems. Hunter Biden ain't one of them. |
Anonymous
Hunter defied the congressional subpoena. The same thing Steve Bannon did and was prosecuted in court for. |
Anonymous
No one cares what Steve Bannon and Hunter Biden did or didn't do. They are irrelevant to everyone except themselves. |
Anonymous
Really? 18 pages on this forum: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1014552.page If you search Bannon, you get 9,900 hits. But no one cares, right? |
Anonymous
There are some misguided lost souls out there |
Anonymous
Also the same thing Gym Jordan did and wasn’t prosecuted for. |
Anonymous
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December 14, 2023
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON (historian) Today is one of those days when the main story is not what’s on the pages, but what the stories say when they are themselves seen as a pattern. This morning the Associated Press ran a story by national political reporter Brian Slodysko titled “The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden has his own shell company and complicated friends.” It told the story of how Representative James Comer (R-KY), the chair of the House Oversight Committee, has a financial history that looks a great deal like that of which he accuses the Bidens, including a shell company that appears to ethics experts to have problematic connections to a campaign donor. Comer is leading the House impeachment effort against President Joe Biden, an effort that Philip Bump of the Washington Post eviscerated today when he took apart Republicans’ accusations point by point. The Associated Press story is interesting not because it tells us something we don’t know—the story of Comer’s shell company is what led him to attack Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) as a “Smurf” last month—but because of how far and wide it spread. By this evening, Slodysko’s story had been reprinted by ABC News, the Los Angeles Times, and a number of smaller outlets. The strength of that story, after years in which the Republican narrative was largely unchallenged in popular political culture, reminds me of the rise of the so-called muckrakers of the Progressive Era. That is, journalists from the 1870s onward wrote a lot about the shift in power during the Gilded Age toward the very wealthy and the politicians they bought. But it was only in the 1890s that journalists, writing for magazines like the landmark publication McClure’s Magazine, began to gain traction as cultural leaders. Key to that shift was the sense that those who had been directing the country for decades were vulnerable, that they might lose their perch on top of the political, social, and economic ladder. The vulnerability of the dominance of today’s MAGA Republicans has been exposed in part by the fecklessness of House Republicans, whose lack of interest in governing is evident from their focus on passing bills loaded with extremist demands that signal to their base but are nonstarters for actually passing the Senate and getting the president’s signature. Yesterday those same House Republicans voted unanimously to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden although they are unable to identify any reason for that inquiry. The Larry, Moe, and Curly aspect of their leadership seems to have made them appear to be low-hanging fruit for investigative journalists. When Hunter Biden yesterday stood in front of the U.S. Capitol and called House Republicans out for not daring to let him testify in public while they were using their privileged positions to show naked pictures of him in a hearing, he did the same thing McClure’s writers did: he personalized politicians’ abuse of their power. That, in turn, makes it easier for people who might not otherwise note the large swings of politics to understand exactly what the Republicans are doing. The vulnerability of the MAGA Republicans showed up in another way, today, too. Today is the eleventh anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in which a 20-year-old murdered 20 children between the ages of six and seven years old, and six adult staff members. In that wake of that mass shooting, Americans demanded background checks for gun purchases, a policy supported by 90% of Americans. But the measure was killed in the Senate by lawmakers who represented just 38% of the American people. Since then, Republicans have blocked legislation to regulate guns and have instead offered thoughts and prayers after each mass shooting. |
Anonymous
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Here’s a link to the AP story about Comer’s own shell company. Shell companies for me, but not for thee!
https://apnews.com/article/6fde28673d5dced307b95cab8425c7ba |
Anonymous
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Amazing the desperate spin on here by the blind partisans. It doesn't matter the Bidens were grifting and getting paid enormous sums from weird overseas entities because *insert reason here* (and make up a bunch of irrelevant reasons while ignoring all the valid testimonies, the banks flagging money transfers, Joe's changing story, the fact that Hunter B is being prosecuted).
Ok... fine. |
Anonymous
The blind partisans are the ones trying to convince people that it’s somehow illegal or impeachable for your son to earn money in a foreign country. |
Anonymous
When you're meeting with intel agents in the other country, setting up shell companies to wash and launder from four countries, and getting large checks for nothing in return and daddy is making decisions based on that money, that's FARA violations, tax violations and influence peddling. |
Anonymous
And the blindest of all partisans are the ones who blithely overlook many of their leader's documented crimes and the stench of a $2B "investment" in said leader's SIL's new company 6 months after the leader left office. |