Over the weekend, the allegations returned to the fore, and for good reason. The New York Times reported on Saturday:

John F. Kelly, who served as former President Donald J. Trump’s second White House chief of staff, said in a sworn statement that Mr. Trump had discussed having the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies investigate two F.B.I. officials involved in the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia. Mr. Kelly said that his recollection of Mr. Trump’s comments to him was based on notes that he had taken at the time in 2018. Mr. Kelly provided copies of his notes to lawyers for one of the F.B.I. officials, who made the sworn statement public in a court filing.

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62 points

If any other person were even accused of some of these actions it would be arrest first then we figure out the full story.

Put them all in prison, Hunter Biden, Trump, Fucking all of them I don’t give a shit about any identity politics, break the laws? Go the fuck to jail!
No one should be above the law.

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Let’s be clear, Hunter Biden hasn’t actually been formally accused of anything.

After this much time of people searching for anything, yet there still isn’t enough evidence to make a clear accusation, seems kind of obvious that he doesn’t deserve to go to prison. Unless someone can provide some kind of evidence of criminal activity, but I won’t hold my breath.

This isn’t a “both sides are the same” thing. Not even close.

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Additionally, Hunter Biden is a private citizen, and did not take an oath to uphold the Constitution nor did he have access to classified information that he could mishandle, nor did he have influence over our government’s most powerful arms of justice. There is no comparison between what Hunter Biden and Trump are alleged to have done - but the right would sure like for you to think that they are equivalent.

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Oh they know Hunter did absolutely nothing wrong. They just need a scapegoat for when people point out the obvious crimes Trump committed so they have a “both side” argument.

They don’t seem to understand nobody cares about Hunter and his “laptop”. It’s just Hillary’s emails 2.0 … with less credibility because they aren’t even targeting a politician 😆

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Meanwhile Trumps children and Jared Kushner did have much of that and they’re likely criminals. But of course if these people could think, they wouldn’t be Trump supporters.

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I get what you’re saying, but Hunter did recently plead guilty to tax crimes.

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not paying his taxes makes him smart. or so i was told.

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He pled guilty to lying on a form about his addiction while purchasing a firearm and not paying taxes for two years while he was an addict (through he paid the back taxes after that eventually I think).

I honestly appreciate the fact that everyone was transparent about this and chose to be upfront and take responsibility rather than do all the shit that republicans do when accused of something.

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Oh so is the GOP going to start disparaging people for tax crimes? Usually that doesn’t hurt their opinion of people.

Tax crimes by a private citizen do not warrant the resources being used up during this witch hunt.

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He did. It was a plea bargain that included dropping the charges of improper gun ownership.

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My comments were more along the lines of no one is above the laws Democrats and Republicans.

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Yeah but Republicans break those laws so much more often and to such a greater degree that it’s a false comparison.

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Don’t think that’s what the comment said… And I’m pretty sure Hunter pled guilty to a felony firearm charge and willfully failing to pay hundreds of thousands in taxes so, yeah, sounds like they’re both dicks. The argument that “your dick is bigger than my dick” is hilarious though.

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Jesus fuck

One side had a guy tax fraud and owning a firearm

One side had a guy try to violently overthrow the government in order to install himself as dictator

Gee, you’re right, they’re both equally bad WHAT THE FUCK HOW DUMB ARE YOU?

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oh no some one took a plea deal. no if it can be shown he got special treatment as the presidents son, that i can outraged at. but people take plea deals all the time.

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I mean fuck the GOP but the idea that Hunter is just some guy caught up in it all is ludicrous. The dude has been trading on his father’s name for his entire adult life. There was a federal investigation into a fund that he and his uncle had set up where they explicitly said they were going to trade access to Biden. That was at least twenty years ago but still.

so many people say, “if he’d actually done anything unethical he should be punished” while completely ignoring that he essentially acts the exact same as one of the Trump kids - useless as fuck, makes bank on connections gained through nepotism and corruption.

look at the list of companies this guy has been involved in. probably most of their kids are like this.

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Sure, it’s not entirely ethical and a nepo baby, but to still compare him with Don Jr who is still continuing to spout election denialism and misinformation is a bit disingenuous. I agree, if Hunter committed any crimes he should pay just like anyone else, but him being a nepo baby isn’t the conversation we’re having right now.

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