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Hunter Biden opens impeachment testimony: ‘I did not involve my father in my business’ (thehill.com)

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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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[-] blazera@kbin.social 68 points 6 months ago

This whole fiasco is a disgrace to the rule of law. Hunter is a private citizen, he is not and has never been an elected official. Somehow his legal cases are going through congress, which is reserved for investigating crimes of elected officials. This is not supposed to be allowed, congress does not have the authority to hold court for private citizens. They're not gonna have the authority when they try subpoena'ing his documents related to his cases

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Not only that.

But their primary witness and source of information in all this, was a Russian operative, and these people were warned in 2020 by our own intelligence operatives that the information they were getting from him was sketchy at best and stunk of Russian operations.

And even now, their star witness and the very foundational block they have built all this on has been arrested, has fully outright admitted the lies and that he was spreading lies on Russian orders, and Republicans are still like "Just because the core of our case is gone doesnt mean the core of our case is gone!"

Because its not about rule of law. Its not about whats right. Its not about investigations. Its not about these imaginary payments

Its about twisting the mechanisms of government into a Republican political campaign to hurt Biden to the benefit of Trump. Its about slinging shit at the wall 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to see what sticks, and to flood the airwaves and news media with a torrent of bullshit in the hopes that just a tiny fraction of it will stick in someones head and influence their vote away from Democracy.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It’s already been downplayed as him only having a very minor role in whole thing.

[-] mister_monster@monero.town 2 points 6 months ago

He's not the one being charged though, he's been subpoenaed as a witness. The president is the person that's being investigated.

[-] blazera@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

Its been nothing but investigating Hunter.

[-] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

And showing off his dick pics.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

I think that's a good trial strategy.

And then demand the evidence as, it seems, they ran out.

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