The proposed deal between the Justice Department and Hunter Biden went public today. A weapon's charge (as he was not supposed to own one as an addict) and tax evasion (which he has since repaid will bring him a total of two years of probation plus an additional two years of rehabilitation (and I do believe that he got off easy, if not easier than other white millionaires have in recent eyars). The Re-Trump-Agains have spent the day referring to this as a travesty of justice. To be clear, they are not specific about what Hunter Biden has done wrong, just that it involves corruption.
Meanwhile the charges against Donald Trump have been tremendously clear. He has now been indicted twice and is facing even more in the relatively near future. However, somehow the Re-Trump-Agains entirely ignore the corruption of this former President which has enough evidence to lead to these charges in actual courts of law (as opposed to the political theater of Congressional investigations). It amazes me that these Trump-supporters are so blinded by this obvious smoke-screen considering that Trump had even told people that the way to win a political fight is to accuse the other person of what you are guilty of doing (a playbook that he has held to tightly).
Here are some of the specifics against the former President:
Trump's organization has already lost at trial for tax evasion, and he is now under indictment for deliberate misuse and misrepresentation of funds. Much of this (but not all) is tied to the hush-money he sent to a porn star to stay quiet about his extra-marital affairs with her prior to the 2016 election.
He lost a civil court case due to his sexual assault on a woman and is facing further criminal indictments due to his defamation of her.
He has been indicted for violation of the Espionage Act. Among the issues is that he knowing kept highly confidential information (including force deployments, ongoing military strategies, and nuclear technology) and shared it with people.
He is under investigation (and it looks like the indictment will be announced this year) for using the office of President to interfere in the 2020 federal election in Georgia.
He is under investigation by a special prosecutor for his part in inciting the January 6th, 2021, riot on the Capitol with the intent of overturning a valid election.
He is being investigated (although charges are less likely, not due to a lack of evidence, but due to the international aspect of it) for improperly using the office of President to increase his and his family members' personal wealth--specifically through deals with the Saudi royal family. [Note, Re-Trump-Agains accuse the Bidens of receiving millions of dollars in bribes but completely ignore that it's public knowledge that two of Trump's children received billions from the Saudis.]
I don't believe that the Bidens are clean--far from it. I don't want to get into how corrupt I believe that the Clintons were and are. However, Trump took all of it to extraordinary new levels and has somehow done so while making millions of deluded individuals believe that he is somehow the victim. Frustratingly, that's not even the worst of what his Presidency cost America--but that is a slightly different topic.
Meanwhile the charges against Donald Trump have been tremendously clear. He has now been indicted twice and is facing even more in the relatively near future. However, somehow the Re-Trump-Agains entirely ignore the corruption of this former President which has enough evidence to lead to these charges in actual courts of law (as opposed to the political theater of Congressional investigations). It amazes me that these Trump-supporters are so blinded by this obvious smoke-screen considering that Trump had even told people that the way to win a political fight is to accuse the other person of what you are guilty of doing (a playbook that he has held to tightly).
Here are some of the specifics against the former President:
Trump's organization has already lost at trial for tax evasion, and he is now under indictment for deliberate misuse and misrepresentation of funds. Much of this (but not all) is tied to the hush-money he sent to a porn star to stay quiet about his extra-marital affairs with her prior to the 2016 election.
He lost a civil court case due to his sexual assault on a woman and is facing further criminal indictments due to his defamation of her.
He has been indicted for violation of the Espionage Act. Among the issues is that he knowing kept highly confidential information (including force deployments, ongoing military strategies, and nuclear technology) and shared it with people.
He is under investigation (and it looks like the indictment will be announced this year) for using the office of President to interfere in the 2020 federal election in Georgia.
He is under investigation by a special prosecutor for his part in inciting the January 6th, 2021, riot on the Capitol with the intent of overturning a valid election.
He is being investigated (although charges are less likely, not due to a lack of evidence, but due to the international aspect of it) for improperly using the office of President to increase his and his family members' personal wealth--specifically through deals with the Saudi royal family. [Note, Re-Trump-Agains accuse the Bidens of receiving millions of dollars in bribes but completely ignore that it's public knowledge that two of Trump's children received billions from the Saudis.]
I don't believe that the Bidens are clean--far from it. I don't want to get into how corrupt I believe that the Clintons were and are. However, Trump took all of it to extraordinary new levels and has somehow done so while making millions of deluded individuals believe that he is somehow the victim. Frustratingly, that's not even the worst of what his Presidency cost America--but that is a slightly different topic.
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