‘Lock her up’ redux? Biden’s son becomes the right’s new target

Politico ^ | 5/03/19 | Alex Thompson

[Libloather]

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The suggestion of illegal behavior and the specter of putting a political opponent behind bars sounded familiar to some senior campaign aides to Hillary Clinton, who believe Trump and his allies are running a version of their “Crooked Hillary” playbook from 2016.

“Last time, he had the right-wing conspiracy media to boost his chants of ‘lock her up,’ but this time he's going to actually weaponize the federal government against our nominee,” said Jesse Ferguson, a senior spokesperson on the Clinton campaign.

The attacks on Biden pivot off the lucrative business activities of his son Hunter during the Obama administration, most notably Hunter’s work on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings. As part of a long campaign to pressure Ukraine to combat corruption in 2015 and 2016, then-Vice President Biden leveraged financial aid to the country in order to persuade the government to fire the country’s top prosecutor.

[Libloather]

Hunter Biden could not be reached for comment, but he told the Times in a statement, “I have had no role whatsoever in relation to any investigation of Burisma, or any of its officers … I explicitly limited my role to focus on corporate governance best practices to facilitate Burisma’s desire to expand globally.”

Wasn't it journalists, a few years back, who told us to never use the word 'target' while writing about politicians?

[digger48]

They’ve been called out so many times for “Republicans POUNCE”, they’ve had to break out their Thesaurus

[sauropod]

Wipe your chin Pollutico!

[Sarah Barracuda]

The commie left should pretend that Hunter Biden is Trump’s son than watch how fast they consider Ukraine a scandal

[jdsteel]

“...but this time he’s going to actually weaponize the federal government against our nominee,”

Absolutely no sense of irony.

[gaijin]

Didn’t he hump and impregnate his dead brother’s wife?

Then he did a bunch of other stuper sh*tty stuff to her..?

Oh, and he was married, at the time.

And got thrown out of the Navy. For coke.

And other stuff.

[gaijin]

[gaijin]

Hunter humped Hallie.

Kids are cute as all hell, though.

[gaijin]

[Robert DeLong]

Major problem with this story is that Hillary did and still does deserve to be locked up. Now with Biden's son, the same probably does apply as well. Certainly an investigation is called for, after all if President Trump's children got a lucrative deal from any foreign entity, especially an entity where the kind of deal Hunter got was unprecedented Democrats would be calling for him and his children to be locked up. Even conservatives might call for the same. Hypocrites extraordinaire, are the press & the Democrats.

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[Flaming Conservative]

Apple, meet tree.

[richardtavor]

Wow. Talk about projection.

[Robert DeLong]

On top of that he had little to no financial investing history as one of the company's first major deals was with China. Many financial firms that had long established proven track records never got a deal like that from China. I mean there is plenty of smoke there, so according to the Democrats there must be fire somewhere. It's a legitimate concern, except to the leftist reporting firms in this country.

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[digger48]

The girl in front of Jill looks like she’s being held hostage

[bgill]

“Shark Tank” is on (no, it wasn’t my choice) and Mark Cuban, along with the entire “Shark Tank” corporation, just had a political ad for Biden.

[VRW Conspirator]

One characteristic of liberals that is not talked about...They are among the greediest of people.