The New York Times reports that Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt privately recorded his intentions to give Donald Trump money in order to advance his business interests in the United States. Pratt wrote, “If Potus is having his election party at mar Lago I’ll book as many rooms as available,” because doing so would not only help Trump win the election but also “be good for business.”
The Times reports that, according to witness testimony to federal prosecutors, Pratt “spent $1 million to attend the party, well in excess of the normal charge.” That is to say, Pratt was not merely indulging himself in amenities offered by Trump’s private club but consciously using those payments as a vehicle to pay Trump directly.
While there is no evidence this alleged scheme violates any criminal statute, the colloquial term for this behavior is bribery.
Meanwhile, House Republicans are continuing to circulate allegations that President Biden was connected to his son Hunter’s influence-peddling business. Representative James Comer has made a series of uncorroborated allegations that the conservative media have uncritically promoted, insinuating that Joe Biden personally benefited from his son’s business. Republicans have produced communications between Hunter Biden and his father, which might be expected between a father and a son, but no clear evidence that Joe Biden received any payments stemming from Hunter’s work.
They are attempting, so far without success, to show Biden did what Donald Trump is proven to have done.
Every accusation is a confession.
Yeah, they don’t “think” Biden did anything, they’re just trying to find something to justify what they did so when they get caught they can say “but what about…” Then the media gets to blissfully keep insisting that the parties are the same, so they can justify not running stories about all the terrible things their corpoRate owneRs keep doing.
They’re flooding media and their followers (they aren’t acting for constituents) so that when they get found out for doing X they can say it’s them dems just mirroring everything
Every Trump headline announces to the world that American politics is a joke
For all the “Hunter Biden” cries, the right sure doesn’t care that Ivanka got a lot of money from China (copyright deals that were held up until her father became President) or that Jared got billions from the Saudis for a job he had never done.
When Trump children use their father’s position to make money, the right says they are just being “smart business folks.” If Hunter Biden so much as sells a glass of lemonade, the Republicans want a Congressional investigation to see if Joe was involved in any way.
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Like being in a family with a narcissistic parent (the GQP), and the Golden Child who can do no wrong (who always breaks every rule).
It’s always projection.
Has anything been done about Trump forcing the secret service to stay at his hotels?
How this will be received: “yeah because both sides are the same.”
It’s all part of whataboutism. It’s okay that Trump did it if they can prove (or make everybody believe) that Biden does it too.
Conservatives are pathological liars who are not capable of honesty. Every word uttered by a conservative is either dishonesty or manipulation. Every word.
Never believe the word of a conservative. Never.
I think you mean pathological liar:
https://short-q.com/is-compulsive-lying-a-mental-illness/You’re right. Thank you. I will edit the comment.
Every accusation is a confession.
Gaslighting
Obstruction
ProjectionI’m gonna have to borrow this.
Congratulations on being one of today’s lucky 10,000.
I hate to tell you, but I’m already over 30. So I guess you can stick me in the dumb fuck bucket.
How could you have had a chance to hear it every day over the last thirty years when the meme has only been around half that, if that much?
Huh?
You haven’t had 30 years to learn that GOP meme. You’re not as stupid as you’re saying.
Well thanks kind internet stranger. Have an upvote, for it is all I have to give.
This just in: bears found to defecate in the woods.
We’re all adults here.
You can say “poopy.”
Yeah… I’m not sure if this is obvious but it does not matter to right wingers what crimes trump committed. Trump aligns with the right wingers morals. Regardless of the consequences caused to the future it simply not matter to them.
It’s called malignance. I see many treating right wingers as stupid when their just willfully malignant.
If you want to know what Trump is doing, it’s anything he says the Democrats are doing.
Jared Kushner very openly accepted 2 Billion in Saudi investment the receives 25 million annual fees from, and whose collaborative policy has led to a once in a generation international crisis. It’s very goofy,
Anyone else remember when Jared Kushner’s security clearance was denied over and over and over until Trump personally stepped in to override our intelligence agencies for this exact fucking reason?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner-security-clearance.html
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person that remembers all this shit.
guys. he’s a crook. that’s not even in doubt. he had a set price for pardons for christsake. you think he stopped there? his e tire life and fortune was and is thanks to corruption of every kind available to him at whatever level he was at. why would he stop when he hit the bigtime? he didn’t. (obviously, this comment is addressed to those saying otherwise. if that’s not you, congrats on having some common sense.)
It’s ALWAYS projection with the right wingers.
as they say, “every accusation is a confession.”
I dunno. The 200k payment looks pretty suspicious even to a lefty like me.
Yeah dude, I will never vote for Hunter Biden.
Liar. He wasn’t even in office when the events took place.
because the events took place at his inauguration party, your “rebuttal” is hilarious.
TIL that Biden was inaugurated in 2018.
Go away, troll.
What office in the US government was Hunter Biden’s inauguration for?
Bet it still had more people than Trump’s. Even though it didn’t even happen.
Yes, no, maybe. It’s enough to investigate further.
Part of the problem is that bribery statues are extremely narrow. Merely getting “access” to a politician happens all the time to representatives from both parties. Biden probably didn’t do anything legally wrong, or even all that out of place in Washington politics.
It is, however, troubling in a much broader sense than the law as written. Just not in a way any Republican would want to open up, because as soon as they do, literally all of them are guilty.
accurate as to how things work, for sure. we allow a lot of legal bribery. why? because concresss wants it, so they passed laws to allow it. their wealthy doners, aka the american oligarchy, want it even more.
