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Ah yes, when he held the extremely influential and prestigious governmental office of checks notes former vice president
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Okay. If this was an example of influence peddling, let's pursue it. Let's also investigate the billions of dollars the Saudis invested into Kushner while he was operating from the White House.
I’m not in favor of investigating things frivolously when there is no reason to think there’s any wrongdoing.
Apparently Congress is tho.
Only while Republicans hold the majority.
and only when the target is a democrat
Hey that reminds me, did they ever figure out how many babies Hillary Clinton ate in Benghazi?
Bet it's on Hunter Bidens lappytahp
The Laptop thats in the child sex dungeon of a pizza place?
I get that. This is another nothingburger from Republicans to create the illusion that they've found criminal activity on the part of the President. They're very conspicuously not mentioning how this took place in 2018 while Biden was a private citizen and hadn't announced his candidacy for President.
But if they really want to follow evidence of clear influence peddling with breathtaking bribes, they could look closer at Jared and Ivanka during their tenure in the White House.
This is another nothingburger from Republicans to create the illusion that all political investigations are nothing burgers. The hope is the next time a Republican in being charged for actual crimes people will dismiss it as nothing more than the Joe Biden investigation. 'It's just what political parties do'.
Don't forget the copyrights that Ivanka had approved while her father was in the Oval Office. She had unsuccessfully tried to get those for years and they were worth millions, but they mysteriously got approved once daddy was President.
But the GOP thinks all this is totally fine while screaming "HUNTER BIDEN."
Don’t forget the copyrights that Ivanka had approved while her father was in the Oval Office.
Yeh, don't see this one talked about enough.
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Republican's couldn't grasp the concept of anyone paying off a debt.
Yeah 200 thou is so much money he needs to prove it was actually loan repayment.
Now if it was 2 million dollars from the Saudis…. Well that’s totally different!
Billion with a B.
Only off by 1000x. A tiny mistake, really.
What is the difference between 1 million and 1 billion?
About 1 billion.
Are you undervalueing your assets again for tax purposes!?
It's understandable, there's just so many zeros.
Or 130 thousand of funnel money to pay for a ..... thing.
These allegations apply way more to Trump than Biden. The hypocrisy is real
That's why they're making such weak accusations: to make people tired of the whole exercise so that when credible accusations are made against Trump "moderates" can say 'both sides! this is just what political parties do against their opponents' and ignore the strength of the evidence.
“Does he have documents proving he lent such a large sum of money to his brother,”
My guess would be a cancelled check for $200,000. This should not be considered all that unusual for a guy worth roughly $10 million.
Comer said in a video, “and what were the terms of such financial arrangement?”
None of his freaking business.
The crime appears to be that President Biden didn’t charge his brother interest.
Crime against capitalism, the worst kind of crime
One day they're gonna get one of these right and not know how to deal with it.
Objection your honor, conjecture.
Oh shit, my bad this is the court of public opinion.
We must start holding our politicians accountable.
lol, these fucking idiots.
Go figure.
Who writes a personal check for $200,000? It's been a really long time since I've written a check, but I think that 3rd '0' would trigger my anxiety, I would start sweating on the 4th, and the 5th one would make me break down and cry.
It’s nothing to the rich, they lend each other what we consider crazy sums all the time but to them it’s not a big deal since they have more than they’ll ever need. Joe isn’t fuck you rich, but he’s certainly comfortable enough that floating a sibling a house worth of cash isn’t out of question
I didn’t know for sure but $200k sounded cheap for house money. I looked it up - the median home price in the us is about 350k. Jesus.
Not in 2017. I had to look it up, but the U.S. median home price in 2017 was $235,000.
200k gets you a pretty decent place in some parts of the country even today, but in 2017 it was a nice house in many parts of the country
That money is used as the down payment on a commercial loan.
To be fair, even middle class people lend or give each other big sums of money when it’s family. It’s hard to afford a down payment, pay for college, or start a business without help from family.
I wrote a $450K check when I bought my house.
We have a wealthy land owner over here. I bet they can even vote
I mean, I did it and quite a bit more when I bought a house. That down payment check was the largest I ever wrote.
I mean at Biden's level you don't. You call your financial advisor and have them shuffle money around and print the check.
They see 1,000,000 the way most folks see 1,000.
How many is this now? Got to be close to triple digits
Knowing them not a huge shock.
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