Posted on 12/08/2023 1:37:55 AM PST by Libloather
After a California grand jury handed down an indictment of first son Hunter Biden, political analysts predicted the bombshell would put President Biden in a self-constructed "trap" after he again claimed allegations he was in influence-peddling cahoots with his brother and son were "lies."
A grand jury empaneled in the Central District of California – which comprises Los Angeles – handed down an indictment against Hunter Biden.
"I think a lot of people felt … that David Weiss was going to let these charges skate and Hunter Biden would never be held accountable for making millions of dollars overseas. And a lot of people will say that was inappropriate," former Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., said.
An excerpt from the indictment obtained by Fox News said "the defendant engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019."
Duffy also surmised that if legal conditions worsen for the Bidens in this Los Angeles case, that Democrats are going to seek an "off ramp [and] look to the hair-gel governor" there in 2024.
George Washington University Law Prof. Jonathan Turley told Fox News the indictment may rhetorically box-in President Biden, due to his long-held denials of knowledge or participation in his son's foreign business dealings.
Turley riffed that there's some similarity between Biden's denials and former President Clinton's famed attestation, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," during the 1998 Whitewater-Lewinsky scandal.
"I mean, basically [Biden is] saying ‘I did not have interactions with those people’," Turley said.
"It didn't work for Clinton. And it's even more insulting here," he added, pointing to polling showing a majority of Americans including a swath of Democrats telling pollsters they don't believe Biden on this front.
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What difference does it make?
The Clintons got away with everything.
The DEMOCRATS, not just Clinton / Biden, are criminals.
Call me cynical, but the timing of this prompts me to think it’s some sort of tactic to provide a plausible legal excuse for Hunter to avoid having to submit to the Congressional subpoena. Not sure what the argument will be, but I imagine some variant of the “can’t comment on an ongoing investigation” dodge used by the DOJ. Maybe it’ll just make pleading the 5th look reasonable.
Meanwhile, actual prosecution of the charges will be slow-walked and bungled in the run-up to the election.
Joe is like a toddler - denying doing something that everyone just witnessed him doing.
Oh, and still in loaded diapers.
(not to knock the sick and elderly but he says he is neither.)
I think you nailed it.
The party has used Joe to get what they want, now they are through with him. He is becoming a problem.
Newsome will become the candidate by some obscure made up rule.
Delaware types let The Biden Crime Family get away w/ con games for so dam long.......
Joe Biden forgets at his own peril, we’re not all from “The Fool Me Again State.”
And, not one question about where the money came from.
Amazing, isn’t it?
Don’t buy this at all:
This is a BS indictment to prevent Humper from responding to a congressional subpoena.
It will drag out beyond the 24 election and be negotiated down to a handful of paybacks for avoided taxes and a meager fine from his enormous Biden grift fund.
RLTW
I guess Charlie didn’t pass his grammar course:
A small correction, BUT typical of the lunatic left wing, who thinks they are sooooo smart.
Looks like the Obama cabal is pushing Joe out the door.
Hunter spent a lot of money on loose women and the rest of it he just wasted.
“Forgot” to pay taxes on it and now the taxman’s coming calling.
Joe pardons himself and his family and steps aside. No way he stays in his basement and does no debates or anything and wins.
Don’t buy this at all:
This is a BS indictment to prevent Humper from responding to a congressional subpoena.
It will drag out beyond the 24 election and be negotiated down to a handful of paybacks for avoided taxes and a meager fine from his enormous Biden grift fund.
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I believe you are correct on this. Since when is Biden’s DOJ just?
Yes, I’m afraid we’re in for the mother of all distractions next year. Pray the country survives these distractions. It’s already been wounded by them.
It’s an indictment in California... Light wrist slap will be the punishment if it’s not thrown out entirely.
Ripe for a pardon!🤔😠
Ditto ripe and the case is ripe in more ways than one...
Hunter’s dying to tell, too............snx.
Yes, BOTH LIED thru their teeth and both times the media didn't even blink or question it.
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