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Joe Biden's Family Has Been Getting Rich off His Political Career for Decades
pjmedia.com ^ | 10/9/2019 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 10/09/2019 2:07:43 PM PDT by rktman

On Wednesday, The Intercept published a lengthy and detailed exposé on how Joe Biden's family has financially benefited from his career in politics. While Democrats pursue impeachment of Trump for defeating Hillary in 2016, the Democrats are ignoring a huge problem: when Hunter Biden’s career is scrutinized, it clearly shows "that he, along with Joe Biden’s brother James, has been trading on their family name for decades, cashing in on the implication — and sometimes the explicit argument — that giving money to a member of Joe Biden’s family wins the favor of Joe Biden."

In 1973, one year after Joe Biden was elected to the Senate at age 29 , James Biden opened the nightclub Seasons Change with what Politico, referencing contemporaneous local reporting in Delaware, called “unusually generous bank loans.” When James ran into trouble, Joe, as a senator, later complained that the bank shouldn’t have loaned James the money. “What I’d like to know,” Biden told the News Journal in 1977, “is how the guy in charge of loans let it get this far.” The paper investigated, and sources at the bank said that the loan was made because James was Joe’s brother.

James, in the ’90s, founded Lion Hall Group, which lobbied for Mississippi trial lawyers involved in tobacco litigation. According to Curtis Wilkie’s book “The Fall of the House of Zeus,” the trial lawyers wanted James Biden’s help pushing Joe Biden on tobacco legislation.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; grifters
Pffffttttt. Why is it called CONgress? Turning dumbasses into millionaires for decades.
1 posted on 10/09/2019 2:07:43 PM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Yep. Politicians have ALWAYS used their position to enrich themselves


2 posted on 10/09/2019 2:13:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

WUT?!


3 posted on 10/09/2019 2:15:03 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

btt


4 posted on 10/09/2019 2:30:35 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: rktman

Biden’s so stupid he thinks that’s the way it’s supposed to work. How can anyone support this ignorant fool?


5 posted on 10/09/2019 2:32:45 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: rktman

True, and it’s wrong.


6 posted on 10/09/2019 2:36:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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To: rktman

They hate organized crime, they hate the competition


7 posted on 10/09/2019 2:55:52 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: rktman

I don’t understand. Is that not the goal of becoming a politician?

Not coincidentally, the word “statesman” has fallen into disuse. Well, it was sexist anyway...


8 posted on 10/09/2019 3:13:32 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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To: The Antiyuppie

“... Is that not the goal of becoming a politician...” Uh, ‘aoc’? Just sayin’. Guess she’s sew stoopid she doesn’t no she just boreded the biggist gravee train there is?


9 posted on 10/09/2019 3:17:02 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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In November 2010, James Biden joined a construction firm. Seven months later, that firm that would go on to win a $1.5 billion contract building homes in Iraq.

The corruption is deep and pervasive.

10 posted on 10/09/2019 3:25:48 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

In case you forgot.
Read all the links......................................incredible and he is running for what?

When he was the Vice President, he did the most STUPID, unthinkable thing for a man in his position. He revealed the names and the unit that killed Bin Laden;”On May 3 2011, at a national event in Washington, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. did the unthinkable, he publicly revealed the identity of the special-operations unit responsible for bin Laden’s killing, just to show that he “is in the know”.

His reckless action put at risk the lives of every member of Seal Team 6. The Taliban and other jihadists eager to avenge bin Laden now knew which unit to target. Stunned and shocked, Seal Team Six members immediately realized they were going to be hunted by al Qaeda sympathizers.

Soon after Biden’s reckless idiotic speech, an American CH47 Chinook was shot down by a rocket propelled grenade in the Tangi Valley, Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan, all 38 aboard were killed including most if not all of Seal Team Six, this incident became known as Extortion 17... After Biden had let the identification out, and before the Chinook was shot down, members of Seal Team 6 had called their families and told them to wipe out all connection to them, including social media, and disassociate themselves as far away from them as possible because they too would be in grave danger as the Taliban would attempt to find them in retaliation...and Biden, well he didn’t even drop a sweat over any of it, and the was just too stupid to realize what he had done.”

Added extra links relative to this. It’s easy enough to look up the information yourself as well. These were just a few of many.

https://youtu.be/lMA1T9QWEI4

https://m.washingtontimes.com/…/the-betrayal-of-the-navys-…/

https://www.americanthinker.com/…/bidens_betrayal_of_seals_…;

https://special-ops.org/…/the-betrayal-of-navy-seal-team-6/…;

This smiling idiot is responsible for the deaths of most Seal team 6 by the Taliban because he let them know which team killed bin laden. What an irresponsible moron.


11 posted on 10/09/2019 3:25:50 PM PDT by chopperk (ms)
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Why does anyone tell that idiot anything classified?


12 posted on 10/09/2019 4:46:49 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: rktman
It ain't just Biden...and it ain't just Dims.....

I want TERM LIMITS...for all.

13 posted on 10/09/2019 4:53:18 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: chopperk

THAT MUST BE PUT ON EVERY THREAD ! PLEASE!!
I had forgotten that it was Biden who told the world that Seal Team 6 was responsible for Bin Laden’s death!! He got ALL those peop,e KILLED!!
Biden has BLOOD on his Hands!


14 posted on 10/09/2019 5:46:45 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: rktman

It’s not just Biden....all of them get rich through corruption. I swear, the last honest politician was President Truman.


15 posted on 10/10/2019 4:41:27 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( Be kind to your children. They will determine where you live when you get old.)
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