(09-28-2019, 10:18 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(09-28-2019, 06:48 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Remember when Obama asked Ukraine to investigate a guy with Trump's campaign?  And Paul Manafort is doing time because of that investigation.  Why are Hunter Biden's crimes untouchable?

1) Manafort was already under investigation in both countries before he attached himself to the Trump campaign. The guy was evading taxes starting before Trump became a candidate.

2) as I've been saying, investigating Hunter Biden is in-bounds, but, what law did he break, and in which country? 

Joe had the power to corruptly send Hunter money.  Maybe he did so.  If so, it was an abuse of his power.  The remedy for abuse of power is removal from office.  Joe is out of office so it's moot.

As for Hunter, it probably wouldn't have been illegal in either country for him to accept the board position or the money.  

I do think the public needs to know about serious allegations of corruption against Joe Biden. Trump could have used campaign funds to hire an investigative journalist or two and get it out there. Nothing would have been unethical about that.

Don't try to strong arm the new president of the Ukraine into doing that, though.

Why do u feel the compulsive need to lie?  I mean one or two times is forgivable but this is getting quite silly.  

The new president shares trumps enthiasm about drainibg the swamp.  Just read the texts.  A.) Reports are coming out now that he didnt even know about the hold on the aud b.) He wants to get to the bottom of the sllegations just like everyone.

As for manafort, it had slready been determined that his case lacked evidence, then are Ukrainian lawmaker connected to the Clinton campaign illegally leaked, already convicted in Ukraine, stories suggesting a ledger of payments that still has not been verified. It was then reopened under the auspices of the special counsel investigation using a convoluted legal theory that by not registering as a foreign agent that would make all monetary gains associated with his business dealings some form of illicit profit. Normally when someone fails to register as a foreign agent they're giving notice and allowed to make the proper registration. This was a gross over step as a pretext for putting a campaign manager for the president of the United States in solitary confinement to try and prompt him to make up stories about the sitting president of the United States.

As for Hunter Biden I've said before and I will continue to say if he is the recipient of illicit payments to influence the office of the Vice President of the United States he is a material accomplice to fraud and potentially treason. In the case of Joe Biden it's not only removal from office if it's demonstrated that someone committed a crime in this case the misappropriation fraud relating to billions of dollars and United States Aid and extortion of a foreign government. In that case Not only would you be removed from office but you would also face criminal prosecution and the public has a right to know that you betrayed the public trust in violation of your oath of office.

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