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by RickJWagner 201 days ago
I’m afraid you are hopelessly across the wall.

Hunter was paid $500k per year by a gas company. He has no expertise in the domain, and does not even speak the language. To pretend this is not corruption is amazing.

I believe you know this, but are not mentally acknowledging it because that would lead to uncomfortable internal reckonings.

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What special deals did Burisma get for having Hunter Biden on their board?

Nothing about the right wing obsession with Hunter makes me uncomfortable. He has never held public office and was investigated for multiple years (along with his family) by Congress.

It’s odd that you complain about untraceable transactions in Trumps favor, but hold Biden blameless in spite of amazingly obvious corruption.

The icing on the cake is Bidens conviction on tax evasion and gun charges ( against a Democrat! The irony is too rich ). Of course Joe Biden issued a pardon, so Hunter did not go to prison.

(1) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-guilty-verdict-tax...

Yet you see crimes only on one side. The crimes of the Biden family are invisible to you. How does your brain do it?

Did you miss the part in that article where he paid back all taxes and penalties? We got a real criminal on our hands! Untimely tax payments because you were a drug addict? Straight to jail.

The gun charges were the result of a fishing expedition; rarely is anyone ever charged with those things stand-alone[0].

But that's okay, keep ignoring my questions and applying the highest scrutiny to a former drug addict and private citizen who has never held public office. Trump might give you a medal for your service in deflecting to Hunter Biden slop anytime Trump's unprecedented corruption is brought up.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

Hunter Bidens crimes ( which he was convicted of ) had a 17 year sentence associated with them. Yes, that was serious jail time.

You overlooked an important aspect, one that a fair view would reveal.

Hunter Biden was central to all the business deals with foreign interests. He introduced people to Joe Biden, he brought Joe onto phone calls with them, he received and distributed millions of dollars. Hunter Biden had intimate knowledge of all these visibly corrupt dealings with President Joe Biden.

And he faced 17 years in prison. A drug addict with a history of indiscretions, yet central in all these shady dealings.

Of course he never saw jail for the crimes he was convicted of. Joe Biden pardoned his business partner. His weak link business partner.

Did that thought ever cross your mind? You throw fits about things you can’t prove about Trump, but find ways to justify and diminish anything bad about ‘your side’. Your brain is playing tricks on you.

All of what I have written is provably true. Yet you will find ways to ignore, justify, diminish.

It’s not uncommon, many people do it. For either side.

The pardons were completely justified in the face of endless political witch hunts done by Republicans in Congress and the upcoming (at the time) revenge tour from the second Trump administration.
I’m sorry, I truly believe you are incapable of seeing truth when it is in front of you. It is an amazing phenomenon of today’s bifurcated political culture.