Hunter Biden lawyer accuses prosecutors of ‘bowing to Republican pressure’
Hunter Biden lawyer accuses prosecutors of ‘bowing to Republican pressure’
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Hunter Biden lawyer accuses prosecutors of ‘bowing to Republican pressure’
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Honestly, it's probably pretty accurate that the prosecutors bowed to Republican pressure. Hunter Biden initially got the same "eh, I don't really want to open this can of worms" treatment that Matt Gaetz and Jared Kushner got. Then the Republicans got involved, and now he's getting treated like a normal person who broke the law.
Is that a bad thing? To me, not really. Now do Gaetz and Kushner.
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Damn right. Rich or famous people who commit serious crimes should go to prison just like normal people do.
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Rich or famous people who commit minor crimes should also face the same repurcuasions.
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EXCEPT, what is the real issue with Hunter’s behavior?
Best I’ve been able to tell Hunter is guilty of being privileged and well off. Not really anything unlawful.
Meanwhile Gaetz supposedly trafficked a minor and paid said minor via Venmo.
Sorry I just don’t see the equivalence.
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What?
The indictment alleges that from tax years 2016 through 2019, Hunter Biden didn't pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes, and that he filed false returns for tax year 2018 in order to evade the assessment of taxes. The indictment alleges that the president's son "subverted the payroll and tax withholding process of his own company by withdrawing millions outside of the payroll and tax withholding process; spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills; in 2018, stopped paying his outstanding and overdue taxes for tax year 2015; willfully failed to pay his 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 taxes on time, despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes; willfully failed to file his 2017 and 2018 tax returns, on time; and when he did finally file his 2018 returns, included false business deductions in order to reduce the very substantial tax liability he faced as of February 2020."
That's according to NPR.
Is that worse than paying a minor for sex? Honestly, I don't care; they're both crimes, so charge both of them.
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They were drawing comparisons as to the process, not the substance or severity of the crimes.
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Isn't it tax and child support evasion? Pretty vanilla, but it occasionally lands prison time.
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Let's just convict both Hunter and Donald for tax fraud, give them the same sentence, make them roomies, and everything. However long, I don't care. Make everyone happy.
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No matter how many times they want to make this man newsworthy I still won't care.
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And by don't care, I really don't give a damn what happens to some dude not in office.
I'm far more concerned about the fascist who tried overthrowing a free and fair election.
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You're not supposed to say that part out loud.
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True.
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He's been indicted on gun charges, so the NRA is going to leap to his defense. Right?
They better, lol
Narrator: They didn't.
Philando Castile has entered the chat.
And it is a precedent the right really should not want set.
Sadly, they've already set it. Someone else mentioned Philando Castile. Legal gun owner, did nothing wrong, cops still shot him for having a gun. The NRA had nothing to say about it.
Not Russian Agents