@Hank Scorpio: I don’t remember a President Hunter Biden.

@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: really what crime last did Hunter Biden commit? The ones where his sweetheart deal was thrown out by the judge when she seen how sweet it actually was? The tax fraud? That one? Living about being a drug user when buying a gun? That one? Or when that gun was thrown in a skip, a skip across from a school? Will you take that as “what crimes”?

@mainmsam: Now do Trump’s kids

@mainmsam: Lets remember Hunter Biden is not running to become the next President or has a desire to become a Politican, However to counter…
A sweetheart deal is a crime?
Tax fraud? It was a tax crime by failing to pay his tax on time (Like millions of other Americans)
His sister in law/lover threw the gun in a trash can,
But dont let facts get in your way while you talk about some ordinary everyday American citizen.
(Well what about his laptop/Hillarys emails) Blah blah blah.

@mainmsam:
1) There was no tax fraud.
There was a charge of late filing of taxes. Which I believe is classed as a misdemeanour in the US.
2) Although he had signed a form when purchasing a gun that stated he was not a drug user, that charge is no longer valid. It is no longer valid because a recent appeals court case – a different case with different people – found that law to be unconstitutional.

They were the only charges against him.

Charges brought by a Republican investigator, and investigator appointed by Trump.

The investigation was so flawed, the investigator “dirtied his bib” so much that apparently the plea deal should not have been agreed to by Hunter.

But Fox wont tell you about these things.
Instead they will manufacture outrage among the gullible.

Now, about that $2 billion given to Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump’s husband…

Any thoughts?

@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: paying it up any way you like, the judge threw the deal out & he’ll face his crimes

@mainmsam: Ah, the old “whataboutery” argument from the usual suspects.

@mainmsam: The judge threw the plea deal out, alright.

And he is now more likely to walk free than face any further charges.

@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: not a hope. The deal wanted to ensure he could never be charged with any crimes related to these ie the tax charge

@Iano C: have a peep at the comment I replied to Iano

@mainmsam: The deal that dealt with the misdemenour of filing taxes late?

Yea, that’ll send him up the river for life.

But here’s the thing – if Hunter Biden has committed offenses, then he should be held accountable.

That’s the way it should be.

Don’t you agree?

Just as EVERYONE who commit offenses should be held accountable.

Don’t you agree?

Let’s assume that Hunter Biden did all those things that the RWNJs say he did.
He should be investigated, and evidence for criminality should be presented to a jury, and a jury allowed to come to a verdict.

Don’t you agree?

Now, why wont you accept the same for the Trumps?

Jared Kushner got $2 billion from the ME.
Can you agree that warrants investigation?
Can you agree that that is an elephant compared to ANYTHING Hunter Biden has been accused of?

And that is only 1 of the many, many downright shady deals pulled off by that family.

So, don’t you agree that the entire Trump clan’s activities warrant the closest scrutiny?
After all, they were in positions where abuses of power could bring them great wealth.

Now, when you finish trying to come up with an excuse why the Trumps are somehow immune, please go look up Manafort, Parnas, and their plans with the russians to smear the Bidens to assist Trump, the russian asset.

@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: anyone who does wrong should be investigated no doubt about it. Sweetheart deals that clear you for life don’t & should not come into it though. The DOJ are up to their necks in this with fingers in plenty of pies. Pies that belong to their boss

@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: I wholeheartedly agree!

@mainmsam: That sweetheart deal that concerns you was done by a Republican prosecutor appointed by Trump to ‘get’ Hunter Biden, by hook or by crook.

It seems he chose the latter course, which has landed him in hot water.

But we shall see where this goes.

Unlike the Trump DOJ which DID interfere with investigations, there is no evidence that Biden has done anything other than have a hands-off approach to the DOJ, which is the way it is supposed to be.

Are you really trying to suggest that the agencies responsible for investigating crime in the US should ignore crime, crime that was committed in broad daylight, under our noses?

Or are you trying to suggest that Republicans are above the law?

They have conducted investigations. They have uncovered evidence. They have presented that evidence to grand juries. They have given the suspects of their investigations the chances to show the grand juries why they should not be indicted. The grand juries have issued indictments – note, not any justice department, but grand juries examining evidence have determined there are prima facia cases for indictments.

And juries of ordinary people will in due course reach verdicts.

That is the way it is supposed to be, it is not?

Or do you believe that Republicans should be above the law?

@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: point out where I said anyone is above the law. You’ve already asked me that & it’s been answered. Hunter Biden, according to whistleblowers has had the DOJ’s arm around him for some time. The special counsel was only appointed after the whistleblower came forward

@mainmsam: The whistle blower that had no evidence when questioned by congress?

The DOJ is not involved in the investigation of Hunter Biden. That task was passed to a special prosecutor appointed by Trump, as you should know.

That special prosecutor seems to have breached the law in his investigations.

Your replies make it quite clear that you do not want to see Trump and his minions prosecuted. That means that you believe they should be above the law.
Yet you want people not connected with government prosecuted, prosecuted for misdemeanours, while wanting those that committed gross violations to go free of any consequences.

@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: I was a guy who was going around Europe collecting bags of cash on his fathers name to face his tax charges & then wait on the can of worms that opens up. If you don’t take your blinkers off you will actually fall over

@mainmsam: According to whom?

Fox, and others of that kind?

Please!

Don’t you know Fox has been sued many times for the lies it tells?
Don’t you know the defense they have used, and were successful with until recently – that ‘no reasonable person would believe what they broadcast’?
A defense that a judge agreed with.
So, from a court ruling in the US, anyone who believes what Fox (and by extension those others who propagate the same lies) says is not a reasonable person.

That is not me saying that – that is a ruling from a US court.

But it is up to you whether you want to live a life of lies.
Or whether you want to make the lives of others better, or at least less bad.
And improve your own well being as a result.

That, by the way, is the way of Christianity.

@Iano C: RFK Junior has his hat in the ring

@mainmsam: He’s an unusual character. A little out there, especially on his poorly researched stance on vaccines and their links to autism but let’s see how he gets on!

Perhaps I should clarify: it’s not necessarily his age but his apparent decline in mental faculties. How do you feel about Biden?

@Iano C: Apparent decline in mental faculties?
You just keep saying things but dont back up anything you say with evidence.
Do tell.

@Eric Gaffney: WOW, just wow!