1blackman1 - You keep defending a LOSER with losing arguments. It doesn't matter whether Joe Biden did or didn't break the technical letter of the law. "Corruption" is like "fraud" - an elastic term that can encompass lots of activities. The SCOTUS ruling in McDonnell v. US (2016) made it harder to send politicians to jail for corruption. But it didn't make it harder for voters to revolt and throw them out of office. Influence-peddling fits everyone's textbook definition of corruption, even if it's not technically a crime in the absence of an explicit quid pro quo.
You can try to shrug off Hunter's unseemly conduct as the actions of a third-rate grifter/con artist. You can keep yelling "who gives a shit?" until the cows come home. But the simple truth is these Hunter family shenanigans don't pass the smell test for the vast majority of Americans, who expect Presidential families to be above such corruption, petty or otherwise.
So why do you keep defending an obviously senile, tone-deaf LOSER?
Originally Posted by lustylad
Hunter shenanigans. Exactly. Hunter ran a grift that worked like a charm.
You’re kidding yourself if you think people care at all about presidents or their families being corrupt. If they did, Trump would not be the leading Republican. That’s proof positive corruption is accepted and people don’t actually care.
It’s not a matter of defending Biden. If people are going to claim he has committed some crime, provide some actual proof. Not innuendo or “I just believe”. The likes of Bambi and Salty can’t put a single cogent argument together to show that Biden did anything. HF writes 1000s of lines parroting Tucker Carlson without any clue what “proof” looks like. He’s running around thinking that Bubbles is proof because Bubbles thought Joe was involved, which is asinine but he’s entitled to believe as he likes.
People run grifts all the time and it can easily be made to look like they are involved even when they aren’t. I’m just awaiting some actual proof that Biden was involved in some way, which we’ve not seen at all.
I remember when I was a younger lawyer in Maryland/DC. There was this guy that ran a great scam for about 2 years. He was an older lawyer that was known to have been friends with several judges in DC, Mint Co and B’more. From time to time he was offer an attorney at the beginning of a trial or a particularly important hearing “help” by having a talk with the judge and getting them a favorable ruling. He’d charge 5K and would go back into the judges chambers. He’d then sit through the trial and hearing giving a nod or signal to the judge from time to time. If the judge ruled positively he’d keep the money because he needed to pay the judge 2500. If they lost he’d return 4000 and give an explanation that the judge didn’t think he could maintain a favorable decision on review but he had to give the judge 1000 to keep the line of communication open.
The Baltimore State’s Attorney ran an investigation and even got taps of the judges chambers and ran a sting over the course of 4 months. They found that the guy was in fact going back to the judges chambers. However, he never spoke once about the cases. It was just casual convo. There was never any exchange of money to judges or anything even close.
He was running a pretty savvy grift. When things went the attys way it looked like he got the guys help and it was worth the 5K and made them chance it again when needed or tell friends.
Guy made a killing. But even though they thought the judges were involved none were.
