I did not involve my father in my business. Not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an artist. Never,

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      It doesn’t look like it. The NYT says it is a closed deposition. It looks like he made the decision to give the closed testimony the Republicans wanted. Although maybe he thinks that after their main informant was exposed as a Russian stooge, he can better control the narrative.

      I bet he prepared this statement, and then released it himself right as he was giving his testimony, to make sure Republicans couldn’t hide it.

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        Open or closed doesn’t matter.

        trump supporters will claim he’s guilty and Biden shouldn’t be president.

        Biden supporters will say Hunter is 100% innocent of any crimes ever, even when he’s self admittedly broken lots of laws.

        The majority of the country won’t give a shit except wanting all wealthy connected criminals to be held accountable regardless of their “team”. But no one is going to listen to us.

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          Biden supporters will say Hunter is 100% innocent of any crimes ever

          No one is saying that. Anywhere.

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            You don’t remember the sawdust thing from a week ago?

            A picture of sawdust that was texted to Biden from an addiction specialist he was seeing was erroneously included as evidence, and everyone was acting like that proved he was innocent. And didn’t lie of the gun forms

            Despite the fact that Hunter literally wrote a book about all the drugs he was doing at the same time he bought the gun.

            trump supporters literally do the same thing, show them 1,000 pieces of evidence and they’ll claim one thing you accidentally included invalidates everything and proves Trump is innocent.

            Maybe this gas company really didn’t get any preferential treatment by hiring Hunter, but it’s hard to believe someone thinks he got his position off his own abilities.

            If there’s no crime, cool. But that’s why we have trials in the first time.

            Wealthy people do shady shit all the time. I’m not going to excuse Hunter because his dad is president, that’s what republicans do.

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              I’m basically serially online and I have literally never seen anyone defending Hunter Biden. All I’ve seen is disbelief that Joe Biden would in anyway be involved in Hunters missteps and potential crimes.

              Joe has been a politician for like half a century. He knows better than to in anyway associate with shit that can and will bite him in the ass politically. That said literally no one is squeaky clean, everyone at least parks unsafely or drives to fast or similar misdemeanors at least a few times at the bare minimum. I’m sure Joe has done quite a few questionable things but something blatantly criminal? Unlikely but if there is some actual evidence I would join in with the notion that he pays for his crimes like everybody else should.

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                He knows better than to in anyway associate with shit that can and will bite him in the ass politically

                Yeah, that’s why he went around Congress so Israels bombs for their genocide wouldn’t be delayed…

                Because Biden is to smart to do stupid shit that jeopardizing he’s chances…

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                  Classic gish gallop here. Stick to the topic at hand instead of throwing a new “talking point” into every reply.

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                  No that is clearly his politics. He has always been a staunch supporter of Israel. I don’t particularly like that but it’s not out of character for him.

                  I meant in the private sense. He wouldn’t pull a favor for a relative when that favor would be questionable not only ethically but legally, it’s just not worth it if you’re angling for the higher echelons of political power.

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              Hunter Biden isn’t a politician. I don’t give a shit about his books and coke parties.

              Imma break it down for you:

              No one is a Biden stan, and no one cares about Hunter.

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                Hunter Biden isn’t a politician. I don’t give a shit about his books and coke parties

                Lots of Americans are tired of the wealthy getting away with shit…

                If that’s not you, you’re in the privileged minority. Congrats.

                And I have zero idea how you can claim with a straight face Biden has no “stans” as you call them