The Biden Crime Family (a.k.a. "Biden is an honest guy"

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

He's just doing a "tRump" by providing MAGAt's with talking points to spread all across the internet. Truth and facts have nothing to do with it. Said MAGAt's do so detest thinking for themselves.

Exactly. Trump sought to have Zelensky initiate an investigation against Biden just as he wanted his patsies in DOJ, Congress and the State of Georgia to initiate an investigation against Biden. Thankfully, these efforts were resisted by a handful of principled people. Now he has unprincipled clowns like Comer and Jordan to do his bidding by announcing an investigation.

The announcement of an investigation is all that's necessary for Trump. He and his minions will take it from there. After all, it does not take facts to convince people like Whell to rally behind Trump. They consume his lies like candy.

[RickeyM]

It's just an inquiry. An actual investigation would blow up in their faces if & when they came up empty. With an inquiry they can suppose and believe and suggest and assume and think they have something for months to come. After all, that's all they need to keep the MAGAt's distracted. Accusations play big on FAUX news. Although Steve Doocy seems to be willing to shoot holes in their balloon.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

He's just doing a "tRump" by providing MAGAt's with talking points to spread all across the internet. Truth and facts have nothing to do with it. Said MAGAt's do so detest thinking for themselves.

I postulate that they cannot think for themselves, not detest thinking. Why else would they want to live under authoritarian rule, especially ruled by a moron like Trump. I don't refer to Trump as a moron to put him down, truly believe that he is one from his behavior for the past seven years like stealing classified documents and letting multiple know he has them.

[Chicks]

James Comer's shady shell company makes clear that Republicans' Biden crusade is pure GOP projection
https://www.salon.com/2023/12/15/jam...re-projection/

As anyone smarter than a fence post knows…

[Chicks]

Fox News Host Drops The Mic On James Comer's Biden Hypocrisy
https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-host...083058447.html

The liberal commentator, on Thursday, pointed her “The Five” co-hosts to a report by The Associated Press that describes a shell company that Comer co-owns with his wife — Farm Team Properties — as functioning “in a similarly opaque way as the companies used by the Bidens.”

“So he’s been going on for months about the fact that people who are innocent of these things don’t have shell companies,” Tarlov said.

“But guess what? James Comer does.”

Does anyone (other than the idiot OP, of course) not see the hypocrisy here?

[RickeyM]

Comer Pyle can't quit now. At the next election he'd be kicked to the curb, his political career would be over. No more cushy job with lifetime benefits.

[whell]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Comer Pyle can't quit now. At the next election he'd be kicked to the curb, his political career would be over. No more cushy job with lifetime benefits.

The fungible money has been circulating in the Biden family for years. Comer and company might not ultimately make the case stick in court. But there's plenty of evidence of political influence pedaling going back years. Here, in case you chose to ignore it in WaPo, just another example:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...be/ar-AA1lCEki

Scruggs turned to Biden’s younger brother James, an old acquaintance who ran a D.C. consulting firm with his wife, Sara.

Scruggs paid the firm $100,000 in 1998 for advice on passing the bill, Scruggs said in an interview at his office here — the first time he has disclosed the amount.

“I probably wouldn’t have hired him if he wasn’t the senator’s brother,” Scruggs said. (Joe) Biden eventually backed the bill, which ultimately failed to pass Congress.

“Jim was never untoward about his influence,” Scruggs said. “He didn’t brag about it or talk about it. He didn’t have to. He was the man’s brother.”

[donquixote99]

So, one man's blatantly obvious impeachable wrongdoing is another man's baseless innuendo. Seems to apply equally and oppositely in the cases of Joe Biden and Clarence Thomas. Should be a political horse-trade possible here: Repubs vote to investigate Thomas and Dems vote to investigate Biden. Based on my opinion on where something real might exist, I'd go for that.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

The fungible money has been circulating in the Biden family for years. Comer and company might not ultimately make the case stick in court. But there's plenty of evidence of political influence pedaling going back years. Here, in case you chose to ignore it in WaPo, just another example:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...be/ar-AA1lCEki

Scruggs turned to Biden’s younger brother James, an old acquaintance who ran a D.C. consulting firm with his wife, Sara.

Scruggs paid the firm $100,000 in 1998 for advice on passing the bill, Scruggs said in an interview at his office here — the first time he has disclosed the amount.

“I probably wouldn’t have hired him if he wasn’t the senator’s brother,” Scruggs said. (Joe) Biden eventually backed the bill, which ultimately failed to pass Congress.

“Jim was never untoward about his influence,” Scruggs said. “He didn’t brag about it or talk about it. He didn’t have to. He was the man’s brother.”

Once again, you're getting out over your skis. From the article:

James and Sara Biden’s ties to Scruggs also later brought them to the periphery of a sweeping federal investigation, one that eventually led to the trial lawyer’s epic downfall in 2008 over a bribery scheme...

Neither James Biden nor his brother was charged or accused of wrongdoing in the case, which led to prison for Scruggs and several of his associates, including James Biden’s would-be partners.

You seem to be naively unaware of how lobbying works in DC and how people use whatever connections they have, family or otherwise (or their own past Congressional service) to wield influence on K St. If you want an example of highly profitable lobbying by a Congressional family member, look no further than Tommy Boggs, perhaps the most successful and influential DC lobbyist for decades. His father was House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and his mother was Lindy Boggs who took her husband's seat after his death in a plane crash. Together they served in Congress from 1947-1991 and their son was one of DC's most powerful lobbyist for many of those same years. Such lobbying is a constitutional right (First Amendment's right to petition government), even for family members of politicians.

What isn't a constitutional right is a corrupt quid pro quo, something very difficult to prove (refer to the overturning of VA Gov. Bob McDonnell's conviction and Sen. Bob Menendez's 2018 acquittal). In both of these cases, charges were brought after lengthy investigations for what appeared to be profoundly corrupt conduct, but resulted in a mistrial and subsequent acquittal (Menendez) and reversal upon appeal (McDonnell).

In the James Biden case you link to, a lengthy investigation occurred but did not result in any charges against James Biden nor any evidence of any corrupt quid pro quo by Joe Biden. If you actually gave a shit about such things, you would have been on the barricades as a result of Trump's own conduct during his presidency and most certainly that of Jared Kushner. Instead, we heard nothing from you.

I'm content to let the facts play out on this 25 year old event, something very unlikely to occur under a dishonest and disingenuous clown like James Comer.

[Rajoo]

Pretty soon the Republicans will be accusing of Biden of having blown through a red light sometime in his past. Does not matter what it is, where or when as long as the name Biden can be inserted in the alleged crime, which then will get amplified in the right wing echo chamber.

Here we have an ex-president who blatantly stole national secrets, shared them indiscriminately and he is trying to skate that, while the opposition goes digging for non existent dirt on Biden, our current president. How does this make sense in a rational world, but would a rational world choose Jesus Freak Johnson as their Speaker of the House, and he was a compromise candidate???