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Joe Biden’s Friends and Backers Come Out on Top—at the Expense of the Middle Class
Nation,com ^ | Noember 7,2019 | Joseph N. DiStefano

Posted on 11/08/2019 1:10:20 PM PST by Hojczyk

The Delaware Way looks a lot like what Gilded Age Tammany Hall politicians used to call legal graft. Following the Supreme Court’s 2016 decision in McDonnell vs. United States, which made it tougher to prosecute politicians for taking gifts unless they resulted in “official acts” like legislation or administrative decisions, such arrangements may actually be legal.

And given the Trump family’s penchant for mixing personal and official business, it’s tempting to dismiss the Biden clan’s affairs as no crime, no foul. But Biden’s friends and backers have won victories that cost the middle-class Americans he claims to champion dearly.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: biden; corruption; delaware

1 posted on 11/08/2019 1:10:20 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

There is a lot of other stuff about Biden here...the author I assume is a Trump hater..and wants Biden out for someone else


2 posted on 11/08/2019 1:11:44 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk
The Delaware Way looks a lot like what Gilded Age Tammany Hall politicians used to call legal graft.

Delaware politics was always known to be extremely corrupt, Biden is in it up to his eyeballs.

3 posted on 11/08/2019 1:13:04 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

The hardcore socialist Left (of which The Nation is certainly a part) is trying to purge the old-school corporate Dems from the party.


4 posted on 11/08/2019 1:27:56 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Hojczyk

Joe Biden is safe.

No investigation Trump could ever ask for could endanger Joe.

Hunter on the other hand...

I’m sure some drug dealer might want a pardon.


5 posted on 11/08/2019 1:37:39 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: 1Old Pro

Joe’s only worry is Elizabeth Warren’s filing cabinets.

She probably has many credit card horror stories.


6 posted on 11/08/2019 1:39:51 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Hojczyk
The Delaware Way looks a lot like what Gilded Age Tammany Hall politicians used to call legal graft

Only if done by a democrat. If a conservative does it he will have to resign. Now. I don't actually have a problem keeping conservatives honest, but when has that actually worked out - RINO Ryan any one?

7 posted on 11/08/2019 1:49:27 PM PST by AndyJackson
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When I was in College, there were many students from Maryland in my class.
Others thought/joked that we could go to MD and take it over in a week or two.
Then we met a guy from Delaware! Wow, maybe a few hours?


8 posted on 11/08/2019 2:09:23 PM PST by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya?)
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