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Home Front: Politix

The Bidens don't get a free pass

2019-11-27

[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Despite the best efforts of the media, the underlying facts in the current impeachment effort must not go unnoticed. While Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
Joe <q>Foreign Policy Whiz Kid</q> Biden

Joe <q>Foreign Policy Whiz Kid</q> Biden

...The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
was the sitting vice president, his son, Hunter Biden, received a very lucrative job as a board member of a corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company, despite not having any expertise in this area.

During the time of Hunter’s employment, the activities of the company were investigated for corruption by the Ukrainian government. Joe Biden used his political power to threaten to withhold billions of dollars from the Ukrainian government if they did not fire the prosecutor who was, as it happened, investigating the allegedly corrupt company that had hired Hunter.

These are the hard and true facts, and they speak to the only quid pro quo we are certain of in this entire spectacle. There are even video tapes of Joe Biden bragging about the deal he made with the Ukrainians to get this prosecutor fired.

Are these facts beyond investigation because Biden is a Democratic candidate for president? Should the Trump administration ignore his blatant quid pro quo because Hunter Biden has some kind of special privilege that no other American citizen possesses ‐ the "my dad is the vice president" privilege?

Currently, Democrats in Congress are attempting to impeach Trump because he suggested that the Biden father-son duo’s corrupt deal with Ukraine be investigated. They are using the "my dad is veep" privilege as a partisan weapon. They are asserting, or at least implying, that people in the political class can’t be investigated for wrongdoing.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
any investigation into a political candidate can be viewed as "politically motivated" when the investigation comes from the other side of the political aisle. That fact cannot and should not be the determining factor in whether an investigation takes place. The real question should be, "Is the inquiry about this candidate a legitimate one?"

Criminal law is clear about this question. Subjective motivations are irrelevant. The court only considers whether there was a legitimate objective reason to believe criminal conduct occurred.

Was there a legitimate and objective reason to believe Hunter Biden was engaged in corruption and his father ‐ in his official capacity as the vice president ‐ threatened foreign officials in order to stop the investigation into his son? If you are objective, the answer to that question is very clear.

Posted by:Fred

#11 The question I have is: why did the Obama administration want to give this money, (and much larger numbers have been bandied about) to the government of Ukraine?
The claim has been made that that government was terribly corrupt, and the money was given as loan guarantees, which does not give us the ability to monitor what the loans were, and where the loan money went. This is very different from javelins that Trump delivered, that had the immediate effect of cutting down on the fighting.
What was the quid for that quo, or quo for that quid?
It has been claimed that much of that money filtered to corrupt entities (Government cronies including the head of Burisma). If so, did some of that filter back to parties in this country?
Was there another motivation for bathing the corrupt government in cash?
Of course no one can rationally believe in any story one sees anywhere from anyone these days, so the assumptions here may be all wet.
But Biden is on record for claiming most of this himself.

Posted by: Daniel 2019-11-27 16:41

#10 * co-exist

Posted by: Lex 2019-11-27 13:23

#9 Bloomberg's entry into the race scrambles everything for the pols and their media whores. He can't come-exist with Biden: one or the other must fall.

Or both.

Posted by: Lex 2019-11-27 13:23

#8 as the GOP might finally get a spine to look into the corruption in their midst.

It's a nice thought, but given that so many in the GOP were active participants in the malfeasance, I don't hold much hope for more than a token culling.

For example, ever wonder why there's never been a serious look into the attacks on the Tea Party movement?

It's because McCain, Graham, Boehner and Ryan were pushing those attacks as much as the Dems were.

And so it is with all the other scandals.

Posted by: charger 2019-11-27 13:20

#7 "Booyah?"
HOO-vah! Hoovah Biden, he's our man!

Posted by: Lex 2019-11-27 13:16

#6 I suspect that if the GOP wins in a landslide in 2020 a large number of lefty politicians will be moving to non-extradition locations as the GOP might finally get a spine to look into the corruption in their midst.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-11-27 13:11

#5 Why only Ukraine?
Throw China in there too!

Posted by: Skidmark 2019-11-27 10:28

#4 Hey hey ho ho Quid pro Joe has got to go.

Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 2019-11-27 06:24

#3 The Bidens corruption will be covered with a pillow by the MSM..

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-11-27 03:42

#2 Replace "don't" with "shouldn't, but will"

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-11-27 02:56

#1 Search "don't", replace with "shouldn't" for more accurate headline.

Posted by: charger 2019-11-27 00:29

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