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I dunno. The 200k payment looks pretty suspicious even to a lefty like me.
Yeah dude, I will never vote for Hunter Biden.
Liar. He wasn't even in office when the events took place.
because the events took place at his inauguration party, your “rebuttal” is hilarious.
TIL that Biden was inaugurated in 2018.
Go away, troll.
What office in the US government was Hunter Biden's inauguration for?
Bet it still had more people than Trump's. Even though it didn't even happen.
Yes, no, maybe. It's enough to investigate further.
Part of the problem is that bribery statues are extremely narrow. Merely getting "access" to a politician happens all the time to representatives from both parties. Biden probably didn't do anything legally wrong, or even all that out of place in Washington politics.
It is, however, troubling in a much broader sense than the law as written. Just not in a way any Republican would want to open up, because as soon as they do, literally all of them are guilty.
accurate as to how things work, for sure. we allow a lot of legal bribery. why? because concresss wants it, so they passed laws to allow it. their wealthy doners, aka the american oligarchy, want it even more.