Oh, look! A Hunter investigation
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/hunter-biden-tax-investigtation/index.html
After pausing in the months before the election, federal authorities are now actively investigating the business dealings of Hunter Biden, a person with knowledge of the probe said. His father, President-elect Joe Biden, is not implicated.
Now that the election is over, the investigation is entering a new phase. Federal prosecutors in Delaware, working with the IRS Criminal Investigation agency and the FBI, are taking overt steps such as issuing subpoenas and seeking interviews, the person with knowledge said.
Activity in the investigation had been largely dormant in recent months due to Justice Department guidelines prohibiting overt actions that could affect an election, the person said.
CNN contacted Biden's attorney and the campaign this week seeking comment about the investigation. On Wednesday, they released a statement acknowledging the probe.
"I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs. I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors," Hunter Biden said in a statement. -
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@Mik said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
The whole thing is sad, but Joe should have known this was not a good thing.
I really don't know if Joe is involved or not, but as the old saying goes, "Avoid the appearance of impropriety."
And our media betters did their damnedest to bury the story.
And now that Joe's the presumptive nominee, the story bubbles to the top, because it won't change anything, presumably.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Mik said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
The whole thing is sad, but Joe should have known this was not a good thing.
I really don't know if Joe is involved or not, but as the old saying goes, "Avoid the appearance of impropriety."
And our media betters did their damnedest to bury the story.
And now that Joe's the presumptive nominee, the story bubbles to the top, because it won't change anything, presumably.
@George-K said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
And now that Joe's the presumptive nominee,
You mean President-Elect?
You were warned.
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@George-K said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
And now that Joe's the presumptive nominee,
You mean President-Elect?
@jon-nyc said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
@George-K said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
And now that Joe's the presumptive nominee,
You mean President-Elect?
Yes, my error. I should have typed "now that Joe WAS the presumtive nominee.
Or, "presumptive President-Elect", since he hasn't been elected yet, has he?
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Has it ever been the practice to wait until the electoral college meets before using that term?
Or are you doing that in deference to a certain man’s ego?
@jon-nyc said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
Has it ever been the practice to wait until the electoral college meets before using that term?
Just picking nits with the guy who refused to say, other than on one occasion, "President Trump."
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@George-K said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
And now that Joe's the presumptive nominee,
You mean President-Elect?
@jon-nyc said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
@George-K said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
And now that Joe's the presumptive nominee,
You mean President-Elect?
He's not the President elect.
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Byron York writes:
"There is absolutely no evidence to indicate that either Biden did anything improper," former FBI number-two Andrew McCabe said on CNN on September 20, 2019, as the impeachment battle began. "There is absolutely no evidence any of these allegations are true," said CNN correspondent Jessica Dean the next day, September 21, 2019. "We need to state here explicitly, there is absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe Biden or his son Hunter Biden," said CNN anchor Victor Blackwell a day later, on September 22, 2019. The talk went on through September, October, November and beyond. "There absolutely no evidence that either did anything wrong," said CNN anchor Don Lemon on November 6, 2019.
Those confident statements that there was "absolutely no evidence" of Hunter Biden wrongdoing were made without having actually investigated Biden's conduct. Indeed, they were made to argue that there should not be such an investigation as part of the impeachment process.
Impeachment came and went. Then, in the last weeks of the presidential campaign, came the Hunter Biden laptop. Reports in the New York Post, based on the contents of Biden's computer, suggested that Biden repeatedly used his father's status in his efforts to make hundreds of thousands of dollars from foreign sources.
The media reaction was to suppress the story and attack the New York Post. In some media circles, the laptop story became The Thing That Cannot Be Said. Facebook limited access to it. Twitter froze the New York Post's account. Many top media organizations simply buried the story. Now, we know that law enforcement examined the laptop, although it is not clear whether its contents have contributed to the current investigation. But the fact that investigators inspected the laptop is part of the story.
The bottom line is that all the time the public was being told that there was "absolutely no evidence" to support any accusation of Hunter Biden misconduct, prosecutors were in fact looking at evidence to support an accusation of Hunter Biden misconduct. All those reports were wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Does anyone believe that Joe wasn't connected with the Hunter scandal?
At a minimum he had to know.
If nothing else, Mr. Biden is well connected.
@Copper said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
Does anyone believe that Joe wasn't connected with the Hunter scandal?
At a minimum he had to know.
If nothing else, Mr. Biden is well connected.
A man who has credited himself with his foreign policy chops, who brought Hunter to Ukraine and China, a man who lost his other son and family, a man who lifted Hunter to many boards in the past...is largely unaware of his son’s doings.
Good thing Occam’s razor was cancelled.
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Piers Morgan (Piers Morgan!)
I mean imagine if Trump had actually won fair and square and was now preparing to be inaugurated for his second term of office?
Then imagine that his victory was quite narrow, like Biden's, and came down to a few thousand votes in the swing states?
And then imagine that just before the election, a major US newspaper had published an explosive story about his son Donald Trump Jr. based around the contents of his personal laptop that revealed extensive dodgy dealings with people from foreign countries, some very unfriendly to the United States, and which even suggested his father may have been involved in some of those dealings?
Now imagine that in this eventuality, and with none of the key elements of the story denied by the Trumps, 90% of America's mainstream media deliberately refused to cover the story, and social media giants like Twitter and Facebook actively suppressed it altogether?
said at the time that the media's abject failure to properly report the New York Post's scoop about Hunter was a shameful dereliction of journalistic duty driven by the inherent liberal bias of much of the US media – and I said it as a liberal myself.
Predictably, and equally shamefully, the media responded by then trying to censor me too: I was dropped from an appearance on Brian Stelter's CNN media show after going on Fox News and lambasting news organisations like my former CNN employers for refusing to follow up the Post's Biden exposé.
They were happy to buy into Joe Biden's line that it was all a hoax driven by nefarious Russians to discredit him.
Now the same CNN is reporting that the federal investigation is 'examining multiple financial issues, including whether Hunter Biden and associates violated tax and money laundering laws in business dealings in foreign countries, principally China.'
CNN also reports that the investigation had been 'largely dormant in recent months' due to Justice Department rules that prohibit taking legal actions in cases that could affect an election.
That tells me there's enough meat on the bone of the investigation to warrant genuine concern in the Biden camp.
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Piers Morgan (Piers Morgan!)
I mean imagine if Trump had actually won fair and square and was now preparing to be inaugurated for his second term of office?
Then imagine that his victory was quite narrow, like Biden's, and came down to a few thousand votes in the swing states?
And then imagine that just before the election, a major US newspaper had published an explosive story about his son Donald Trump Jr. based around the contents of his personal laptop that revealed extensive dodgy dealings with people from foreign countries, some very unfriendly to the United States, and which even suggested his father may have been involved in some of those dealings?
Now imagine that in this eventuality, and with none of the key elements of the story denied by the Trumps, 90% of America's mainstream media deliberately refused to cover the story, and social media giants like Twitter and Facebook actively suppressed it altogether?
said at the time that the media's abject failure to properly report the New York Post's scoop about Hunter was a shameful dereliction of journalistic duty driven by the inherent liberal bias of much of the US media – and I said it as a liberal myself.
Predictably, and equally shamefully, the media responded by then trying to censor me too: I was dropped from an appearance on Brian Stelter's CNN media show after going on Fox News and lambasting news organisations like my former CNN employers for refusing to follow up the Post's Biden exposé.
They were happy to buy into Joe Biden's line that it was all a hoax driven by nefarious Russians to discredit him.
Now the same CNN is reporting that the federal investigation is 'examining multiple financial issues, including whether Hunter Biden and associates violated tax and money laundering laws in business dealings in foreign countries, principally China.'
CNN also reports that the investigation had been 'largely dormant in recent months' due to Justice Department rules that prohibit taking legal actions in cases that could affect an election.
That tells me there's enough meat on the bone of the investigation to warrant genuine concern in the Biden camp.
@George-K said in Oh, look! A Hunter investigation:
(Piers Morgan!)
It's worth pointing out that the delightful Mr. Morgan is typically so far up Trump's ass that he can swap spit with Sean Hannity.
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A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of President-elect Joe Biden’s son.
The breadth of the subpoena, issued Tuesday, underscores the wide-angle lens prosecutors are taking as they examine the younger Biden’s finances and international business ventures.
Hunter Biden’s ties to Burisma in particular have long dogged the policy work and political aspirations of his father, Joe Biden, now the president-elect of the United States. It’s unclear whether Hunter Biden’s work at the Ukrainian company is a central part of the federal investigation or whether prosecutors are simply seeking information about all his sources of income in recent years.
