Hunter Biden - Constitutional Hero

[N35t0r]

Problem is, for NK to open up you need the Kims gone, and most of the power structure to completely change. That's not happening, much less on the short term, except perhaps if there's a military coup with pretty widespread support along the military in favour of joining with South Korea (kind of like how the German states that used to form the DDR joined the BRD)

[Berzerker]

So much for that, Hunter will get a slap on the wrist and pay a couple tax related fines. Not a hero today

[-Jrabbit]

So after all Jim Durham's hard work and Jimmy Dore's valiant reporting, they couldn't make anything stick and had to settle for a couple misdemeanors -- for filing late in '17 and '18. Oh, and guilty of owning a gun while on drug probation; I'm sure that provokes mixed feelings.
Sorry it makes you sad.

[Berzerker]

I'm sad because the gun rights of drug users are selectively and hypocritically violated. Durham didn't look into Hunter, he was investigating how the federal govt interfered in our election.

[N35t0r]

That's more than trump's kids will get.

[-Jrabbit]

Here's a political historian's perspective: Prof. Heather Cox Richardson, in her daily letter:

June 20, 2023 (Tuesday)

After years of accusations and rumors swirling around Hunter Biden, the 53-year-old son of President Joe Biden, the Department of Justice has reached a tentative deal with the younger Biden: He will plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of failing to file income tax returns for 2017 and 2018 by the filing date, for which he owed more than $100,000 each year. Biden’s representatives say he has since paid the Internal Revenue Service what he owed. Prosecutors will ask for two years’ probation.

Biden will also admit to the fact that he possessed a firearm as an addict, for which he and prosecutors have agreed he will enter a pretrial diversion agreement that will require that he stay clean for two more years, after which the charge will be removed from his record.

Representative James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Oversight Committee, promptly accused “the Bidens” of “corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery” and called the deal “a slap on the wrist.” Throughout the day, right-wing figures have insisted that the deal is proof that President Biden is using the Justice Department to shield his family and to persecute his enemies.

In fact, Biden worked hard to reestablish the independence of the Justice Department after Trump had used it for personal ends. Trump broke the tradition that FBI directors should serve out their ten-year term—a term chosen to emphasize that the position should not be political—by firing FBI director James Comey when Comey refused to stop the bureau’s investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russian operatives; Biden tried to reestablish the guardrails around the position when he declined to replace FBI director Christopher Wray, appointed by Trump.

Biden also left in place the U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware—the person overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden that began in 2018—to make the independence of the investigation clear. That Trump appointee, U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss, is responsible for the deal. Georgetown University policy professor Don Moynihan pointed out that [B]Weiss has been investigating Hunter Biden for five years and “est they could do is tax charges which rarely get this level of attention. If Comer has anything real, the prosecutor would have used it.”

Indeed, rather than going easy Roger Sollenberger, a senior political writer for the Daily Beast, explained that “Roger Stone and his wife settled a $2 million unpaid taxes civil case with DOJ last year—they weren't charged criminally, unlike Hunter Biden, so they didn't even get probation.” Justice reporter for NBC News Ryan Reilly noted that it is very rare for prosecutors to bring the addict in possession of a weapon charge they used against Biden. In the past it has been used to find a charge that will stick or alongside charges concerning violent crime.

As right-wing leaders, including House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), nonetheless attacked the Justice Department for what they claimed was a “two-tiered justice system” that went easy on Biden, Greg Sargent of the Washington Post noted, "The right doesn’t seem to care about the legal process—they care about the results. Their aim is the destruction of the independence of federal law enforcement in favor of a weaponized justice system, and they will keep creating new pretexts until they get it."

Link: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson

[EPW]

Please don't bring "facts" or "common sense" or "reasoning" into this -jRabbit.

[BeBMan]

But...but...shouldn't there be hordes of NRA folks defending Hunter Biden's right to own guns when being on drugses?

[Berzerker]

Here's a political historian's perspective: Prof. Heather Cox Richardson, in her daily letter:

Link: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson

"In fact, Biden worked hard to reestablish the independence of the Justice Department after Trump had used it for personal ends. Trump broke the tradition that FBI directors should serve out their ten-year term—a term chosen to emphasize that the position should not be political—by firing FBI director James Comey when Comey refused to stop the bureau’s investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russian operatives; Biden tried to reestablish the guardrails around the position when he declined to replace FBI director Christopher Wray, appointed by Trump."

Biden was VP when Obama's FBI was lying to a fisa court to spy on Trump before and after the election. Biden was in the meeting with Obama and Comey when they decided to go after Flynn, an action Comey admitted was not 'traditional'. Trump was trying to get rid of these partisans and was repeatedly accused of obstructing justice for his effort. Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, Comey, et al are rotten to the core and thats why they got fired. That investigation Comey refused to end has been exposed as baseless and illegal by Durham. Mueller, Horowitz and Durham learned those ties were a fabrication by Clinton and Obama, perhaps our historian will get around to reading their reports.

[Berzerker]

Your historian is rewriting history. What more is there to mention about Hunter, his lawyer's threat to challenge the constitutionality of the law is moot now.

[-Jrabbit]

Dr. Richardson is a traditional Republican, a Lincoln scholar, and a passionate supporter of American democracy.

Your out-of-hand rejection of any information that conflicts with your worldview is quite concerning.

[Berzerker]

I didn't reject her information out of hand, I corrected her version of history with facts

[Serb]

A country which calls itself a "beacon of freedom' is run by the family of imbecile, corrupt, drug addict pedophiles, because of the electional fraud!


Way to go, America!

[Serb]

A country of brainwashed imbeciles!