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I know that Hunter Biden did nothing wrong (Original Post) packman Dec 2022 OP
I have no clue whether Hunter Biden did anything wrong or not. Chainfire Dec 2022 #1
Yup. The law has to be applied equally... COL Mustard Dec 2022 #6
He showed his dick Temeret Dec 2022 #8
Do we know that for a fact? niyad Dec 2022 #10
I saw a couple of photos by a sneaking photographer that showed him at a nude panader0 Dec 2022 #16
Considering how easy it is to photoshop images today, I distrust such photos when used for Lonestarblue Dec 2022 #22
Same here! niyad Dec 2022 #24
That's how I feel. Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2022 #9
I read his book Skittles Dec 2022 #27
And, he would have been convicted while Barr was the AG. GoCubsGo Dec 2022 #2
It's not important that he did nothing wrong. Aristus Dec 2022 #3
And here we have Cruz posting the pictures, sheshe2 Dec 2022 #28
Cruz is a pig yankee87 Dec 2022 #29
Benghazi Part II Freddie Dec 2022 #4
Not one peep about Ivanka getting preferred status childfreebychoice Dec 2022 #5
Hopefully their ranks decimated by the roles on J6th GreenWave Dec 2022 #14
If you tell a Trump voter Trump committed a crime they will say this. fightforfreedom Dec 2022 #7
Incompetent, perhaps question everything Dec 2022 #11
Faux news is responsible for this nothing burger staying alive. rubbersole Dec 2022 #12
At any hearings the House holds about Hunter Biden... albacore Dec 2022 #13
And neither has his father. Over anything. Period, full stop (n/t) Seeking Serenity Dec 2022 #15
What did the Saudi government pay Jarrod Kushner 2 BILLION dollars for? onecaliberal Dec 2022 #17
His investing skills. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2022 #18
Hunter never worked in the WH. Ivanka was point person in this Trump Panama tower grift. mackdaddy Dec 2022 #19
It's not about crimes Mz Pip Dec 2022 #20
Republicans require a bogeyman dlk Dec 2022 #21
LIKE republianmushroom Dec 2022 #23
Hunter Biden is not a politician. Mr. Sparkle Dec 2022 #25
In today's GOP, the rule of law went bye bye a long time ago. Initech Dec 2022 #26
 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
1. I have no clue whether Hunter Biden did anything wrong or not.
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 11:22 AM
Dec 2022

Nor am I sure just how much that matters. If he is a crook, prosecute him or shut up; exactly the same issue we face with Trump.

COL Mustard

(8,218 posts)
6. Yup. The law has to be applied equally...
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 12:22 PM
Dec 2022

Or else we’re not a society of laws. If Hunter committed crimes he needs to be held accountable. But so does T*ump…as do his spawn.

panader0

(25,816 posts)
16. I saw a couple of photos by a sneaking photographer that showed him at a nude
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 01:09 PM
Dec 2022

swimming party. You know, skinny dipping. Yikes, the horror of the human form. Nothing was focused
on his dick.

Lonestarblue

(13,480 posts)
22. Considering how easy it is to photoshop images today, I distrust such photos when used for
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 01:33 PM
Dec 2022

political purposes. For that matter, whatever was on Hunter’s laptop could be nothing more than fake files.

Whether Hunter benefitted financially and illegally from his famous name is something for the DOJ to decide, not the Republican Party.

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,526 posts)
9. That's how I feel.
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 12:33 PM
Dec 2022

I'd be the same way if Joe Biden did something horrible, and there was strong EVIDENCE that it happened.

Truth is more important than alliances for me, which is the opposite of how most Republicans have behaved for several decades now.

My own mother immediately shouted "Send him to jail!" after I got in trouble with some friends in high school for throwing eggs at cars. Then a cop at the station raised his eyebrows and told her it wasn't THAT serious! And I was an honors-student in high school too, who had mostly behaved well except for that particular night of "excitement" for me. So it's no wonder that I'm that way, because my parents were the same.

Skittles

(171,707 posts)
27. I read his book
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 06:57 PM
Dec 2022

he is every open about his addiction and the depths of despair he sunk to but insists the repuke "laptop scandal" is much ado about nothing

GoCubsGo

(34,914 posts)
2. And, he would have been convicted while Barr was the AG.
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 11:50 AM
Dec 2022

They had plenty of time to arrest, try, and convict him. The problem for them was that the one thing they lacked was that pesky evidence of wrongdoing. Not that it matters, because Hunter Biden is not, nor has ever been a government employee, so who gives a rat's ass either way?

Aristus

(72,187 posts)
3. It's not important that he did nothing wrong.
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 11:53 AM
Dec 2022

All the Republicans have to do is hold televised hearings and say his name over and over as many times as they can.

They know no one is going to jail. They just want to derail the Biden Presidency.

sheshe2

(97,622 posts)
28. And here we have Cruz posting the pictures,
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 08:13 PM
Dec 2022

A sitting Senator did this:

NEW LOW: Ted Cruz stoops to posting nude photo of Hunter Biden

Senator Ted Cruz, on the day after Elon Musk giddily released information about Twitter’s content moderation processes, took it upon himself to publicly post nude photos of the current president’s son.

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Republicans, however, prefer to go for the salacious and have produced a photo that was allegedly found on the laptop that they say is Hunter’s, although their atrociously lax chain of custody makes it unlikely the public will ever know the truth of the real contents.

In this photo, the subject — reportedly Hunter — is lighting a pipe, lying nude on a couch, with genitals visible in the shot.

It’s hardly a surprise that a tabloid or the lowest of political operatives would be happy to publish this as an attack on the president (although the tabloid, at least, would probably censor it), but in this case, a sitting U.S. Senator seems to have decided it would be an appropriate thing to share on his Twitter timeline.

https://washingtonpress.com/2022/12/03/new-low-ted-cruz-stoops-to-posting-nude-photo-of-hunter-biden/

Cruz is one sick man.

yankee87

(2,824 posts)
29. Cruz is a pig
Mon Dec 5, 2022, 11:16 AM
Dec 2022

Cruz is a POS and is another in a long list of republicans who are disgusting.

Freddie

(10,104 posts)
4. Benghazi Part II
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 12:10 PM
Dec 2022

That they will harp on endlessly for the next 2 years, while ignoring the true crimes committed by their Dear Leader.

childfreebychoice

(476 posts)
5. Not one peep about Ivanka getting preferred status
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 12:21 PM
Dec 2022

For Chinese patents for fr clothes, to coffins, to voting machines, and Jared strong arming Qutar for loans, or what he gave SA, in ret for 2 bil. Wish sen judiciary committee would look into that, but won't hold my breath

 

fightforfreedom

(4,913 posts)
7. If you tell a Trump voter Trump committed a crime they will say this.
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 12:24 PM
Dec 2022

What about Hunter Biden? Every fucking time. It's hilarious.

question everything

(52,132 posts)
11. Incompetent, perhaps
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 12:49 PM
Dec 2022

IF, a big if, he left a personal computer at a repair shop with personal and business data and forgot about it

I never did figure it out..

rubbersole

(11,223 posts)
12. Faux news is responsible for this nothing burger staying alive.
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 01:02 PM
Dec 2022

"Just say you're conducting an investigation and let us take care of the rest."

albacore

(2,747 posts)
13. At any hearings the House holds about Hunter Biden...
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 01:03 PM
Dec 2022

...it is important to remember that minority (Dem) members will get a chance to speak.
The Repubs don't want that.
Gym Jordan is practically foaming at the mouth to start impeachment hearings, but he may bite off more than he can chew.

mackdaddy

(1,976 posts)
19. Hunter never worked in the WH. Ivanka was point person in this Trump Panama tower grift.
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 01:15 PM
Dec 2022

I remember this Richard Engel NBC report that this was a money laundering operation and Ivanka was put personally in charge of this project.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/panama-tower-carries-trump-s-name-ties-organized-crime-n821706

Much of the sale of apartments in this building was Russian and other dirty money, and came up in the "Panama Papers Scandal" in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers

So if they are going to investigate President's family members, let's make sure we get the ones who actually worked IN the government. Not just private members who's data was leaked/hacked/stolen.

Mz Pip

(28,454 posts)
20. It's not about crimes
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 01:16 PM
Dec 2022

It’s about humiliating Biden and his family.

If the FBI has had the laptop all these yesrs and there was anything criminal on it, Hunter would be referred for prosecution.

dlk

(13,247 posts)
21. Republicans require a bogeyman
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 01:17 PM
Dec 2022

Whether it was the fiction of Hillary’s emails or now Hunter’s laptop, Republicans will latch onto someone to hate. It’s in their DNA.

Mr. Sparkle

(3,710 posts)
25. Hunter Biden is not a politician.
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 02:04 PM
Dec 2022

It just shows they have no morality . I wonder can he sue for harassment given he is not a public figure or in the public eye.

Initech

(108,782 posts)
26. In today's GOP, the rule of law went bye bye a long time ago.
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 05:54 PM
Dec 2022

It's now about authoritarian rule and absolute power, and they don't care who they stomp on to get it. It's what Fox News, AM radio, and radical Christian megachurches want.

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