SaintsInDome2006

Hm, yes, Biden traveled to Ukraine to have the good guy prosecutor fired to protect his son who was making somewhere around 30-50K per month, or $3-6 million per year. Qatar is an ally of Iran and backer of Hamas, and a known supporter of terrorists. Saudi Arabia was the home of 19 of the 20 hijackers in the 9/11/01 attacks. Now daughter Ivanka and son in law make, maybe hundreds of millions as the head of a KSA-UAE sovereign wealth asset fund. And Eric and Junior run Trump Org, and have just made deals with KSA, UAE & Qatar. And Trump has just been personally gifted with a 747. Trump is traveling to KSA, UAE and Qatar. Now using the "Biden Crime Family" theory of corruption, what is Donald looking for in exchange?

Well obviously Barron was on the board of directors for an energy company and.... hmmm, no that can't be it. Maybe some other reason?

WSJ ED Board just lashing Trump. Hilarious. Let's see if Donny can figure this out: Implement tariffs and double and triple down ===>>> market go down, baaaaaaad. Roll back tariffs and slink back quietly ===>>> market go up, gooooodddd.

Hannity railing about the president's son selling art, why one piece was priced at $50,000 in a gallery. I mean, man, that was bad.

Something crazy about this - if you took the absolute worst thing said about Joe Biden - the infamous '10% for the big guy' claim - which was after Biden left office, and which Bobulinski himself said never came to fruition anyway - even if you believe that happened it was 10% of 5 million, or $500,000. Like that was the maga fever dream of the absolute height of corruption. They thought that was a lot of money.

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As US Attorney. My point is that Holder prosecuted officials from his own party. He was a trial attorney for the DOJ Public Integrity Division as well. I don't underrate Pirros' trial experience, I wouldn't be surprised if she tried a hundred cases as an ADA, but she has no federal experience and no corruption prosecutions. What's more, her husband, who coincidentally represented Trump, was into some seriously crooked stuff while they were married.

I am all ears when it comes to corruption. I say call the DA, the US Attorney, the IG, the special prosecutor, investigate away when it comes to public officials. Weiss and Comer dug into every square inch and byte of Hunter Biden's finances, they even had hacked data dating back to 2009 to comb through. They found zip, zilch, nix, nada.

Which is why I'm sure the Republicans issued a letter calling for it. Why Ukrainians protested for it and why the Rada demanded it. Why the IMF wanted it and EU foreign ministers. It was why Shokin himself resigned. You see, everyone wanted to line Hunter Biden's pockets, so he would give money to Joe Biden in completely invisible ways.

Yet the perfectly lucid and bronzed current president sees fit to continue the same funding.

The Republicans, IMF, World Bank, EU, and the Dems, everyone and most especially Ukrainians, wanted Shokin fired.

Ok, on the first one - Trump did essentially that by demanding that Ukraine provide dirt on his opponent, where all this started. And he was impeached for that and was only saved from conviction by Mitch McConnell. Secondly, Comer investigated away, endlessly for four years on that. And it's pretty fair to say that if he had found evidence of Biden receiving so much as a dime he would have impeached Biden too - but he never did because he never could. Not only that but a prosecutor nominated by Trump, a Republican, prosecuted Hunter Biden and if he had found a scintilla of evidence of any of the corruption claims he would have sought indictment and impeachment too, and he obviously did not. Third, it's barred by the Constitution. This isn't even a "corruption" issue even if it's whataboutted to death.

Wow all of this and somehow Biden and every president before him managed to not stumble into a multi-million-dollar gold-gilded gift from a terror-supporting foreign state seeking to influence him.

Makes one think of Smeagol and his "birthday present."

The comp here would be a 1. child of Trump's, 2. who took a position, 3. paying millions, 4. with a company located in a nation affected by US policy. This is all of Trump's children from the 1st marriage (and maybe the President himself), who all worked for Trump Org, except Ivanka and SIL Kushner, who worked in the administration while making money.

LOL, whine? That would be the guy doing an hour plus of a Castro imitation in front of a captive live audience.

Thank you, good day to you as well, sir. Certainly looking forward to the denouement of this drama. At this rate it will end with Trump subsidizing everyone's drugs, legal and illegal.

I really get the sense that from health care to trade to executive power maga has really undertaken positions to the far, far left from the 1980s. It's weird stuff. Basically the accusation more and more is that power needs to be centralized and any ills can be resolved by Daddy State Trump.

I think it’s a question of values. There’s the constitutional, security & foreign influence issues which are totally separate. To me it’s something that should disqualify someone for office by itself. So for instance if there were factual findings about a president molesting minors - something more than online claims, some web of corporate entities, a lawsuit or mere close association with a convicted pedophile (as disgusting as that would be) - then I think such a person would & should be removed from office. But it goes way beyond that subject. I’m sure you think of yourself as a conservative, that’s a basic tenet of conservatism.

Maybe Comer & Vance were covering up for Biden.

Character in office & in public officials’ lives at all times is important, even to the extent that some should be forced from office if it’s egregious enough. Do you agree with that?

If anyone in the GOP believed this they would have impeached & driven Biden from office in 5 seconds. If anyone in the right wing blogosphere from Veritas to Rebel to Infowars believed this they would have published the diary. Now I do believe if *you thought that Trump had engaged in such behavior you’d insist he be driven from office. I’d like to think that.

These were the bad times.

Why not. Qatar, China & Russia could dump bags of cash onto The Resolute desk on live national TV and it wouldn’t matter.

IIRC after his career was ended, the president’s son was trying to sell paintings for as high as $50,000?