Of note, a commentator pointed out that he allegedly already had two cars. One was the the oft-mentioned Porche that he got as a "gift". And then there was another car in his possession that shows up in some of his laptop images. And if he needed a car, he also could have sold that big diamond that a Ukrainian or someone gave him. This is a guy who was paying 20K a month in rent for a place in California.
BREAKING NEWS Here we go gang. Hunter being indicted in California. And as I said in the above quoted post- as part of that long repetitive discussion on Hunter's proposed open committee versus closed session testimony- it ain't gonna happen either way. No fucking way his attorney is going to let him testify with pending charges. It's all a bluff. Fifth Amendment invocation coming right up. Tree Frog Trader post on November 28: "The reality is that there is no way on earth that Hunter is going to fully testify before either committee or privately without invoking the Fifth." Let me know when he testifies in either closed or open. Not saying he won't appear but he will plead the fifth if/when he does and then not testify.
Hunter Biden Indicted on Tax Charges The Justice Department charged President Biden’s son after a long-running and wide-ranging investigation with substantial political repercussions. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/us/politics/hunter-biden-indictment.html The special counsel investigating Hunter Biden charged the president’s son late Thursday on nine counts stemming from his failure to pay his federal taxes on time on millions in income from foreign businesses, the second indictment against him this year — and the latest development in a case Republicans have made the cornerstone of a possible impeachment of President Biden. A grand jury in the Central District of California charged Mr. Biden with three counts each of evasion of a tax assessment, failure to file and pay taxes, and filing a false or fraudulent tax return, according to the 56-page indictment. Mr. Biden “engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019” wrote the special counsel, David C. Weiss, who first began investigating the president’s son five years ago as the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware. The charges come after Mr. Biden had appeared this summer to be on the verge of a plea deal that would not have led to jail time and in the view of his lawyer at the time would have granted him immunity for potential crimes stemming from his business dealings. But the deal collapsed at the last minute, and in September he was indicted on separate charges stemming from his failure to acknowledge his drug use when he purchased a handgun in 2018. The new indictment also comes on the cusp of a vote by the Republican-led House to formalize its impeachment inquiry into President Biden, which is based almost entirely on unsubstantiated allegations that he benefited from his son’s lucrative consulting work for companies in Ukraine and China. The decision to file criminal charges against the president’s troubled son was an extraordinary step for Mr. Weiss, who was named a special counsel in August by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland after the dramatic last-minute collapse of the plea deal that would have resolved the long-running investigation without Mr. Biden serving any prison time. The Hunter Biden case sits at the crowded intersection of America’s colliding political and legal systems. There is now a very real prospect that President Biden’s son will be defending himself in two federal criminal trials during a presidential election year — as former President Donald J. Trump, his father’s likely opponent, confronts two possible trials in his federal documents and election interference cases. Republican leaders in the House released draft text of a procedural impeachment resolution against President Biden on Thursday, just hours before word of the new charges started to percolate through official Washington. It is not clear what effect the indictment will have their inquiry.
Correct. In a normal DOJ investigation they would move from the income side over to the source side to investigate that and determine whether there are criminal issues there and to determine whether there were FARA violations. As they did with Mannafort. If they do not do that- and they won't- then it is yet more special treatment for Hunter. In any case, those investigations need to occur, which is why the House needs to pass the impeachment inquiry resolution so that it can be done in that forum with those resources. It is not as good as a DOJ/FBI investigation but it is understood that they are protecting Hunter and Joe to the extent that they can. Hunter is only being charged now on a small fraction of his crimes because a judge and whistleblowers stepped up so solidly that the DOJ goons were not able to protect him. This can happen with other issues too as we go forward. Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Jim Biden and others should be in prison.
The Trump side shows what happens after an investigation is done. The Biden side shows what you have before the investigation is done
I am pretty sure that those pee-pee tapes are somewhere over there in the trump locker. We heard about them non-stop for years and the lefties were beside themselves with joy over the possibility so that must mean they exist. OR NOT.