Hunter Biden indicted on nine tax charges, adding to gun charges in special counsel probe

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

If all of that is happening you’d think there’d be some evidence of it after a year-long House investigation. There isn’t. And you all clearly don’t know what FARA is.

There's evidence because he is being charged. And Daddy is up next. The walls are falling.

You sound like whiny Dems fussing about Russia and collusion. Get over it. Daddy ain't being charged.

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Anonymous wrote:MAGA is going to be so upset when Hunter has more indictments than Trump. Wouldn't be surprised if Hunter ends up the GOP front-runner in 2028.

He will need to swear allegiance to the Kremlin first …. And drape himself in the US flag while hugging assault rifles …

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Anonymous wrote: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. [u]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. [/u]

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.

No evidence to support impeachment of Biden unlike the 90 felony indictments against Trump who just accuses political rivals of actions akin to his own crimes - apparently like Rep Corner from Kentucky.

It’s literally all they have. So sad.

Trump’s cult followers have never let evidence or reality get in the way of believing whatever revenge addled crazy mud stories he flings to deflect culpability for his and his children’s own profound misconduct …

If only the Republicans would actually use their house majority to actually get constructive governance done.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

If all of that is happening you’d think there’d be some evidence of it after a year-long House investigation. There isn’t. And you all clearly don’t know what FARA is.

There's evidence because he is being charged. And Daddy is up next. The walls are falling.

He’s standing outside saying “I’m here to go under oath as long as it’s public” and republicans are saying no. Because they know they’ll be embarrassed by their immature games.

Oh yeah, that must be it.

That’s exactly it. Why do you think the House Republicans don’t want him to testify in public before all of Congress after begging him to do that for a year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

If all of that is happening you’d think there’d be some evidence of it after a year-long House investigation. There isn’t. And you all clearly don’t know what FARA is.

There's evidence because he is being charged. And Daddy is up next. The walls are falling.

"I’m going to just follow the facts where they are. And the facts haven’t taken me to that point where I can say that the president is guilty of anything." - Chuck Grassley

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

If all of that is happening you’d think there’d be some evidence of it after a year-long House investigation. There isn’t. And you all clearly don’t know what FARA is.

There's evidence because he is being charged. And Daddy is up next. The walls are falling.

He’s standing outside saying “I’m here to go under oath as long as it’s public” and republicans are saying no. Because they know they’ll be embarrassed by their immature games.

Oh yeah, that must be it.

Yes, that’s it. Public hearings will expose 1) that Hunter is cooperating and 2) that the investigation has found nothing. Therefore, the republicans will be exposed as the dumbasses they are, wasting all this time any money.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

If all of that is happening you’d think there’d be some evidence of it after a year-long House investigation. There isn’t. And you all clearly don’t know what FARA is.

There's evidence because he is being charged. And Daddy is up next. The walls are falling.

He’s standing outside saying “I’m here to go under oath as long as it’s public” and republicans are saying no. Because they know they’ll be embarrassed by their immature games.

Oh yeah, that must be it.

Yes, that’s it. Public hearings will expose 1) that Hunter is cooperating and 2) that the investigation has found nothing. Therefore, the republicans will be exposed as the dumbasses they are, wasting all this time any money.

And somehow not dealing with immigration, an issue they treat as a crisis.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

If all of that is happening you’d think there’d be some evidence of it after a year-long House investigation. There isn’t. And you all clearly don’t know what FARA is.

There's evidence because he is being charged. And Daddy is up next. The walls are falling.

He’s standing outside saying “I’m here to go under oath as long as it’s public” and republicans are saying no. Because they know they’ll be embarrassed by their immature games.

Oh yeah, that must be it.

That’s exactly it. Why do you think the House Republicans don’t want him to testify in public before all of Congress after begging him to do that for a year?

This is a beautiful slap in the face of Republicans.

[Anonymous]

I miss the days before cable news. When most people who were incapable of understanding the complexities of government and politics were bored by the evening news and kept their opinions to themselves. Now every idiot thinks he’s an expert.

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Anonymous wrote:I miss the days before cable news. When most people who were incapable of understanding the complexities of government and politics were bored by the evening news and kept their opinions to themselves. Now every idiot thinks he’s an expert.

There are pluses and minuses but agree the cons outweigh the pros.

For me the worst is that people who do not check news sources are credible and fact checked have the strongest opinions and denounce fact checking as well as science.

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Today starts the gun trail. Wonder if he will get a fair trail, especially with all those MAGA's in Delaware

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Anonymous wrote:Today starts the gun trail. Wonder if he will get a fair trail, especially with all those MAGA's in Delaware

Is this a jury trial?

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Anonymous wrote:Today starts the gun trail. Wonder if he will get a fair trail, especially with all those MAGA's in Delaware

Allow me to predict what will happen.

1) Trial concludes and HB is found not guilty. MAGA says: the system is rigged!

2) Trial concludes and HB is found guilty and charged (he faces ups to 25 years in prison but sentences are typically shorter). MAGA says: a) the sentence was too short or not harsh enough and/or b) his father will pardon him anyway.

The one thing MAGA will never say is that the judicial system works, even though the charges against HB were brought by a Trump-appointed special counsel and the trial will be presided over by a Trump-appointed judge.

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Anonymous wrote:Today starts the gun trail. Wonder if he will get a fair trail, especially with all those MAGA's in Delaware

Is this a jury trial?

Yes it is. Both sides will have the opportunity to select or reject jurors as they did in the recent Trump case in New York. The presiding judge is a Trump appointee.

Some more details.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/live-blog/hunter-biden-gun-trial-live-updates-rcna154957

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And again: WHO CARES. Hunter Biden is not his father, nor is he running for the presidency this year.