packgrad said:
caryking said:
Civilized said:
These statements further confirm that they don't have any evidence of illegality by Joe.
These shells weren't empty companies with no business purpose. They were foreign investments and consulting arrangements, mostly Hunter's, with clearly defined business purposes and activities.
There is currently zero evidence that consequential money flowed to Joe in a way that demonstrates corruption or influence-peddling.
Hunter's a hot mess and the optics aren't awesome. And there are many reasons why Joe shouldn't be president again.
Maybe this changes over time but as it stands right now the Pubs are slinging political mud not turning up actual evidence of corruption.
How can you make this post after the response, of my post above? The money, for the lifestyle Joe lives, came from somewhere…. Whether it's with Hunters dealings, or not, the guy has been paid.
Now, take packgrad's examples, just above, and the stench is just awful!
Oh, please parroting the left-wing talking points…. You know… zero evidence..
It's so apparent, zero evidence, was passed around, and used by these people. Narrative control!!
Without a doubt. Civ just parrots the cnn msnbc narrative. Wonder where he got the info that the shell companies were ALL legitimate. Notice he never sources his claims.
ZZZZZzzzzzzzz. I post links in here all the time.
Ton of detail in these two articles:
NYT:
What to know about the impeachment case against Biden WaPo:
How Republican overhype the findings of their Hunter Biden probeFrom the second article:
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For instance, the second staff memo never says that Hunter Biden used "shell" companies a term often associated with shady or illegal activity, even though a shell company is a legitimate entity. Comer once described such an entity as "a fake company … they don't make anything. They don't produce anything. They don't provide a good or service." He is not wrong about many shell companies, but the memo lists real companies, with active websites and real business functions. (The third staff memo refers to just one "shell" company, which we will describe later.)
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As for the $20 million in payments, Comer and other Republicans invoke this figure often. A close reading of the memos, however, finds that only about $7 million can be directly attributed to Biden family members, mostly Hunter, while the rest went to "associates," according to the memos. Yet Comer and other lawmakers misleadingly suggest all of the money went to the Biden family or, as some label it, "the Biden crime family." No evidence has emerged that any of these funds can be traced to Joe Biden himself.
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Virtually all of the companies (many of which now are defunct) had legitimate business interests. Others had clearly identified business investments. Digging through the records, we find only three whose business purpose remains vague; one (Rosemont Seneca Global Risk Services, LLC) may not even be related to Hunter Biden, according to an email found in Hunter Biden's laptop. The memos do not list any payments that flowed through these three companies.
Again, Hunter is a complete mess that's been charged and will be convicted of or will ultimately plead out to gun, drug, and tax crimes.
That said, he and his business activities have been investigated for the last 5 years. If there was a sweater string to pull that led to evidence of illegal Biden Crime Family activity my suspicion is that it would have been discovered already.
But no harm in continuing to investigate. Leave no stone unturned. Like I've said a million times on here, I don't want him as our next President so it's not going to bother me a bit if he ends up going down (although I hope that it just disqualifies him from being our next President; as much as I don't want him to be President I REALLY don't want him to have to step down and Kamala to sit in the grown-up's chair).
I just think Pubs in Washington are full of **** when they're acting RIGHT NOW like they have evidence of criminal activity that reaches Joe. They're grandstanding just like Dems would do if the situation were reversed (and frankly, just like Dems did when they tried to make the leap from Trump fellating Putin and obviously reveling in Russian interference to him having actively colluded with Russia).
There was smoke there but ultimately no fire and I think that's the most likely outcome here too.