Let's look at the case against Hunter Biden and his laptop: A photo essay

[Carlos Danger]

8 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Yeah I get it…doesn’t mean Jared and Ivanka are clean of other malfeasance.

Let's pretend I agree with you....who do you think would be better at covering and making legal grey area moves Ivanka and Kushner or the smartest guy Joe knows? Again there is a list of 150 or so red flag financial transactions that even with a blindfold on the DOJ has found. I am all for going hard against the Trump family but you have to be equal in your application of the law and to that end let's see some Biden investigation.

[Mainecat]

180K on the taxpayer dime plus travel and protection costs…… should be stroke material for the rethugs here.

 

[Jimmy Snacks]

9 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said:

Let's pretend I agree with you....who do you think would be better at covering and making legal grey area moves Ivanka and Kushner or the smartest guy Joe knows? Again there is a list of 150 or so red flag financial transactions that even with a blindfold on the DOJ has found. I am all for going hard against the Trump family but you have to be equal in your application of the law and to that end let's see some Biden investigation.

Nobody is going to pay for anything…Biden, Trump….none of them. You know this.

[Snake]

 

[Carlos Danger]

14 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Nobody is going to pay for anything…Biden, Trump….none of them. You know this.

Right but I still want the sunlight to be cast on their mis deeds. Like with Hillary and her closet full of crap, I don't need her in jail but I don't need her in office either. If exposure is all the justice we are going get than let's insist we get at least that.

[Mainecat]

Hunter has admitted he’s a drug addict.

Not a peep out of trump when the Saudis bonesawed Kashoggi. Now we know why…..Jarred to the Saudi money trough for 2 billion dollars.

But yeah the laptop…lmao

[DriftBusta]

1 hour ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Nobody is going to pay for anything…Biden, Trump….none of them. You know this.

Cop out non answer.  As expected.

[Carlos Danger]

5 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Hunter has admitted he’s a drug addict.

Not a peep out of trump when the Saudis bonesawed Kashoggi. Now we know why…..Jarred to the Saudi money trough for 2 billion dollars.

But yeah the laptop…lmao

Why does a Chinese power generation company owned in part by the state need the Biden's as a ten percent share holder?

[01mxz800]

[Snake]

19 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Hunter has admitted he’s a drug addict.

Not a peep out of trump when the Saudis bonesawed Kashoggi. Now we know why…..Jarred to the Saudi money trough for 2 billion dollars.

But yeah the laptop…lmao

So why did Biden give them IMMUNITY?

Please, continue... this can only get better from here...

[Stephen Hawking]

54 minutes ago, Snake said:

So why did Biden give them IMMUNITY?

Please, continue... this can only get better from here...

You won't get a straight answer.

[Jimmy Snacks]

4 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Hey if Hunter Biden is guilty and convicted lock his ass up but to ignore what MC posted is simple partisan hackery.😉

 

3 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Nothing about you or what you post scares me in the least…I said  if he’s found guilty then lock him up. You or anybody else here saying he’s guilty doesn’t amount to a squirt of piss.

 

2 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Nobody is going to pay for anything…Biden, Trump….none of them. You know this.

 

1 hour ago, DriftBusta said:

Cop out non answer.  As expected.

Awwww…poor leg humper.😂

[XCR1250]

House Republicans are going after Hunter Biden. Here's why the White House should be worried.

Mattathias Schwartz 

Nov 18, 2022, 11:10 AM

 

 

 

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• The new GOP House majority will likely subpoena Hunter Biden as they dig into his business dealings.
• Much remains unknown about Hunter Biden's lucrative work as a consultant and artist.
• The Justice Department's criminal investigation into Hunter Biden is ongoing.

 

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The Republican House majority immediately went on the attack this week, promising subpoena-powered committee investigations into the business dealings of Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's 52 year-old son. 

In a joint press conference, GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer, the incoming chairs of the House oversight and judiciary committees, pounded the table with allegations of Hunter's influence peddling and alluded to broader corruption by "the Biden family." 

For those Americans who accept the lawful result of the 2020 election, the sight of these two election deniers talking about "whistleblowers," "schemes" and a dated laptop might bring to mind the Benghazi investigation into the 2012 death of four Americans that House Republicans turned into an obsessive score-settling exercise against then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

But Hunter Biden is not Benghazi. 

Benghazi was a fake scandal. The career of Hunter Biden, on the other hand, has all the earmarks of a real one. The fact that Trump-MAGA election deniers are lining up to push allegations of Hunter Biden's corruption does not make the evidence underpinning those allegations any less troubling. Nor will it protect the Biden White House from potential fallout stemming from the Justice Department's own criminal investigation of Hunter Biden, which is ongoing. 

Let's review what's already known and documented about Hunter Biden. During Joe Biden's vice presidency, Hunter Biden was openly trading on the Biden family name. As an international business consultant, he charged clients six and sometimes seven-figure fees for what appears to have been little more than Beltway access and high-powered introductions. One prospective partner reported that despite reports of Hunter's womanizing and substance abuse, he could still be a valuable partner due to his purported "access" to the State and Treasury departments as well as the "highest level" in China.

In 2013, Hunter accompanied his father on an official visit to Beijing, where Joe Biden shook hands with Jonathan Li, a Chinese venture capitalist. Li had already contracted with Hunter and his partners to start a private equity fund. Later, another Chinese magnate gave Hunter Biden a 3-carat diamond. "I knew it wasn't a good idea to take it," he told the New Yorker. And yet that's exactly what he did.

Other documents, derived from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop, suggest that his associates were managing some of Joe Biden's finances and paying the vice president's utility and Delaware home repair bills out of his son's accounts. A report in the New York Times pointed to a potential nexus between Joe Biden's diplomacy in Ukraine and Hunter Biden's lucrative role on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. In 2017, Hunter requested that his father have his own key to the Washington, DC office of his company, Rosemont Seneca. 

After his father won the presidency, Hunter reinvented himself as an artist and publicly addressed his substance abuse. But questions around his business dealings have persisted. The identities of the art patrons who pay six figures for his paintings remain unknown. The process for vetting them — conducted by Hunter's own legal team, not White House counsel — is opaque. Joe Biden has said there is an "absolute wall" between his policymaking and his family's business interests. According to the New Yorker, "an informal arrangement was established: Biden wouldn't ask Hunter about his lobbying clients, and Hunter wouldn't tell his father about them." What Joe Biden has not done to date is explicitly forbid family members from taking money from people seeking influence.

On Thursday, the House Oversight Committee released a 31-page "interim staff report." In addition to a rehash of public material, the document contained excerpts from purported Suspicious Activity Reports filed with the Treasury Department regarding some of Hunter Biden's financial transactions.

Treasury did not respond to a request for comment; a committee spokesperson told Insider the SARs were obtained from a "whistleblower."

A lawyer for Hunter Biden did not respond to Insider's request for comment Friday about the looming possibility of a congressional inquiry. In an email, a spokesperson for the White House counsel's office characterized the GOP effort as "politically-motivated attacks chock full of long-debunked conspiracy theories."

Why does any of this matter? 

First, the full extent of Hunter Biden's dealings with foreign clients remains unclear. With the GOP's new majority comes subpoena power, which can be wielded to unearth new documents and compel testimony. On Thursday, Comer said there was "a very good possibility" that Hunter Biden would receive a subpoena. 

One thing that is clear, however, is Joe Biden's approach to the many Hunter Biden controversies — reiterate unconditional love for the troubled son while disavowing any specific knowledge of or involvement with his dealings. That could backfire should hard evidence surface that Joe Biden was actually in the Rosemont Seneca loop, as opposed to just being mentioned by others. But so far, it hasn't. 

It's also worth remembering that previous efforts by Donald Trump and others to capitalize on Hunter Biden's vulnerabilities as a political strategy have ended in failure. Trump also tried and failed to coerce the Ukrainian president into investigating Hunter Biden. That attempt led to his first impeachment.

A lot of the influence peddling that happens around Washington is both sketchy and perfectly legal. It remains unclear whether Hunter Biden crossed the line. Even if he did, there is scant evidence that Joe Biden had much to do with it. But there are some who still believe that the first family should go beyond avoiding criminal liability and actually serve as an example. As Walter Shaub, who led the government's ethics office under President Obama told Insider last year, "'Less of a grifter than Trump' cannot become the standard."

[racer254]

3 hours ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Nobody is going to pay for anything…Biden, Trump….none of them. You know this.

But what about those tax returns?  Or what about maralago.  FFS, the stuff the doj is investigating on trump is childs play compared to the whole dem party crime syndicate or Biden's, Pelosi's, Clintons et all.

[Snake]

6 minutes ago, racer254 said:

But what about those tax returns?  Or what about maralago.  FFS, the stuff the doj is investigating on trump is childs play compared to the whole dem party crime syndicate or Biden's, Pelosi's, Clintons et all.

Immaterial.

[Badger**]

3 hours ago, Mainecat said:

180K on the taxpayer dime plus travel and protection costs…… should be stroke material for the rethugs here.

 

Trump was not the only president who had family members in his cabinet JFK comes to mind. 

[EvilBird]

2 hours ago, Mainecat said:

Hunter has admitted he’s a drug addict.

Not a peep out of trump when the Saudis bonesawed Kashoggi. Now we know why…..Jarred to the Saudi money trough for 2 billion dollars.

But yeah the laptop…lmao

 

[Carlos Danger]

8 minutes ago, Snake said:

Immaterial.

The FXT could get ugly for the Dems.

[racer254]

4 minutes ago, Badger** said:

Trump was not the only president who had family members in his cabinet JFK comes to mind. 

Yep, but the real deal is when they have family members and friends in the media to shape the narrative.  Here is just a small sampling of dems that are part of the media and dem administrations.

There is a pretty substantial symbiotic relationship between the political left in Washington and the media. While a few people went from the media to the Bush Administration, it was never like it was with Obama.

Jay Carney went from Time to the White House press secretary's office. Shailagh Murray went from the Washington Post to the Veep's office while married to Neil King at the Wall Street Journal. Neil King has left the Wall Street Journal to work for Fusion GPS. Linda Douglass went from ABC News to the White House and then the Atlantic. Jill Zuckman went from the Chicago Tribune to the Obama Administration's Transportation Department. Douglas Frantz went from the Washington Post to the State Department and Stephen Barr went from the Post to the Labor Department.

Ruth Marcus, who heads the Washington Post Editorial Board, is married to the Obama Administration's former Federal Trade Commission Chairman. Jonathan Allen had been at the Politico before going to work for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, then back to Politico before going to the left leaning Vox. Now he is at NBC News. Andy Barr worked for the Politico before leaving for Democrat politics. Michael Scherer was at both Salon and Mother Jones before going to Time. Laura Rozen was at Mother Jones and the American Prospect before Foreign Policy magazine. Even Nate Silver had started out at Daily Kos. Then, of course, there is Matthew Dowd, who worked for scores of Democrats before working for George Bush. That, though he later washed his hands of Bush, bought him street credibility with ABC News to become its senior politically analyst alongside George Stephanopoulos, formerly of the Clinton Administration.

[DriftBusta]

4 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said:

The FXT could get ugly for the Dems.

I hope people go to jail!  Here's to hoping   

[EvilBird]

3 minutes ago, racer254 said:

Yep, but the real deal is when they have family members and friends in the media to shape the narrative.  Here is just a small sampling of dems that are part of the media and dem administrations.

There is a pretty substantial symbiotic relationship between the political left in Washington and the media. While a few people went from the media to the Bush Administration, it was never like it was with Obama.

Jay Carney went from Time to the White House press secretary's office. Shailagh Murray went from the Washington Post to the Veep's office while married to Neil King at the Wall Street Journal. Neil King has left the Wall Street Journal to work for Fusion GPS. Linda Douglass went from ABC News to the White House and then the Atlantic. Jill Zuckman went from the Chicago Tribune to the Obama Administration's Transportation Department. Douglas Frantz went from the Washington Post to the State Department and Stephen Barr went from the Post to the Labor Department.

Ruth Marcus, who heads the Washington Post Editorial Board, is married to the Obama Administration's former Federal Trade Commission Chairman. Jonathan Allen had been at the Politico before going to work for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, then back to Politico before going to the left leaning Vox. Now he is at NBC News. Andy Barr worked for the Politico before leaving for Democrat politics. Michael Scherer was at both Salon and Mother Jones before going to Time. Laura Rozen was at Mother Jones and the American Prospect before Foreign Policy magazine. Even Nate Silver had started out at Daily Kos. Then, of course, there is Matthew Dowd, who worked for scores of Democrats before working for George Bush. That, though he later washed his hands of Bush, bought him street credibility with ABC News to become its senior politically analyst alongside George Stephanopoulos, formerly of the Clinton Administration.

 

[Mainecat]

And the whatabouts check in…..lmao

[EvilBird]

5 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

And the whatabouts check in…..lmao

Trump said pusssy !!!! 

 

[Jimmy Snacks]

18 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said:

The FXT could get ugly for the Dems.

Yessir..that looks to be a serious case of corruption, fraud, theft, money laundering…..whatever you want to call it. That Bankman-Fried  dude isn’t long for this planet IMO.

Edited November 20, 2022 by Jimmy Snacks

[ArcticCrusher]

Just now, Jimmy Snacks said:

Yessir..that looks to be a serious case of corruption, fraud…whatever you want to call it. That Fridman dude isn’t long for this planet IMO.

Ukraine is just a money laundering grift for the Dems.

Time to bring back firing squads.