Posted on 10/25/2020 4:28:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
When you get to make the rules, they always favor you. Parents can do things they forbid their kids from doing, bosses can take long lunches while insisting you not return late, and politicians can take pay-offs while…actually, there isn’t much of a private sector equivalent for that one.
The word “bribe” has an obvious, legal meaning that, through a few tricks built into the system by the politicians who wrote the laws, helps them avoid breaking them while taking what amounts to bribes.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a bribe as “1: money or favor given or promised in order to influence the judgement or conduct of a person in a position of trust; 2: something that serves to induce or influence.”
Hiring the otherwise unemployable, crack smoking son of the vice president of the United States in the hope of gaining favorable opinion or treatment from the government of the United States, for example, would seem to go a long way toward fitting that definition. Actually getting that favorable treatment would complete that definition.
That’s the short version of what Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma did with Hunter Biden. The firing of the prosecutor pursuing a corruption investigation of the company’s business practices and owner at the insistence of Hunter’s dad, the then vice president, is the unambiguous second part of that hypothetical transaction.
But it’s not a bribe, not legally. Not even a pay-off. It’s a perfectly legal coincidence.
Hunter was making a fortune with no skills, knowledge, or abilities, but it was a drop in the bucket compared to the net worth of the company. From their perspective, it was a smart and cheap investment.
It was also legal. As was all the other sweetheart deals Hunter got out of Russia, China, and who knows where else.
How? Because, unless there is a paper trail of Joe Biden saying he’d do something in exchange for cash, any favorable treatment Hunter’s sugar daddies got can be chalked up to coincidence.
Any illegal activity on behalf of Joe would come from him getting a piece of the action and hiding the money. While there are strong indications and insinuations that Joe was wetting his beak, he knows the law and it would be unlikely to be found out. This is compounded by the fact that no one is looking. Journalists aren’t interested, neither, it seems, is the FBI. If he wins next week, the story will disappear faster than Tara Reade’s name from newspapers.
What the Bidens appear to have done is not new. Direct payments of bribes is a thing of the past. Today’s politicians now engage in corruption by proxy.
Pioneers in this new bribery were none other than the Clintons. Bill and Hillary raked in a fortune through their “charities,” and lived quite well off that money.
When you think of bribes you think of very specific asks - do this and I’ll give you that. In international politics, bribes are ways to curry favor to get better treatment in the future. Saudi Arabia didn’t give $20 million to the Clintons’ charities because they wanted to provide mosquito nets to Africa. To do that, Saudi Arabia could have simply purchased $20 million worth of mosquito nets and sent them there directly. They wanted to be in the good graces of who they, and the world, thought would be the next president of the United States. The same is true for most of Hunter’s business deals.
The only difference between the shady dealings of the Clintons and the Bidens is the Clintons had the good sense to give it the cover of charity. The Bidens, just as corrupt as Bill and Hillary but not nearly as sophisticated, went right for profit; for cash payments.
Proving a bribe when filtered through others is nearly impossible; someone would have to roll. People in power know the rules, they wrote them. The public would be shocked if they knew exactly what is legal.
A member of Congress facing virtually no challenge in a safe district can’t take campaign cash and put it in their pockets because that would be illegal. They can, however, hire their spouse and pay them almost $3 million for “consulting,” or 70 percent of their campaign spending, and it’s perfectly legal. Ilhan Omar did just that. She couldn’t take the money herself, but she could pay her husband’s consulting firm $2.7 million and he could put his chunk of that money in their joint bank account and *poof* it’s legal.
There likely isn’t a cashed check or findable bank account with Joe Biden’s name on it. Even Joe is too smart to have signed anything. But Switzerland and many Caribbean countries don’t have strict banking laws and pride themselves on secrecy.
Joe has made millions since leaving office in 2017, so it’s not like he needs the money, especially at his age. Still, you make hay while the sun is shining. He likely wants to take care of his family after he’s gone. The motive is clear, the details are foggy, and the truth is most of what we’re likely to ever learn about it is quite possibly "legal."
Exactly.
I believe it is too.
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Does the Biden Crime Family Have Offshore Bank Accounts?
Apparently Joe Biden has been involved in money laundering and monetary gain from influence peddling, as well as treasonous activity in compromising his office with foreign govts, it stands to reason that the money involved has to go somewhere. Yes, this is true for his son, his brother, and others in the Biden crime family, too. But, where does Biden stash his take?
h/t tallguy The British Virgin Islands, right next door to the USVI, are a well known money hiding haven...... I noticed unusual activity at the Divi Carina Hotel, St Croix. Bartender said Farrakhan was in the secure part of the property, “The Bungalows” and that Joe Biden comes down every year with S/S detail and satellite communication trucks and takes over the Bungalows for a couple of weeks.
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REFERENCE Secret Service records show that the 411 trips to foreign countries and territories visited by Hunter Biden, between June 2009 and May 2014, included the Virgin Islands
The S/S records were also provided, but were not made public, to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson in a response to a request the senators sent to Secret Service Director James Murray on February, 2020
In the S/S's cover letter to Grassley and Johnson, which was included in the records we received, the Secret Service said that the senators’ request was time and labor intensive, and they could only provide a limited amount of information by the senators’ imposed turnaround time of February 19. Given the Burisma-Ukraine-China influence peddling scandals, Hunter Biden’s extensive international travel during the Obama-Biden presidency, including at least 5 trips to China, will certainly raise additional questions.
According to reports, Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden flew on Air Force Two for the official trip to Beijing in December 2013. The records we obtained show Hunter Biden arrived in Tokyo on December 2, 2013, and departed for Beijing two days later. While it is typical for the families of the president and vice president to travel with them, questions have been raised about whether Hunter Biden used the government trip to further his business interests. NBC reporter Josh Lederman, who was one of four reporters on the December 2013 trip, noted in an October 2, 2019, report that, “What wasn’t known then was that as he accompanied his father to China, Hunter Biden was forming a Chinese private equity fund that associates said at the time was planning to raise big money, including from China.” His travel is only one of our inquiries.
During the last year and a half of the Obama administration, Hunter Biden served on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings while his father was heading up Ukraine policy. We are seeking records through six lawsuits and dozens of FOIA requests related to Hunter Biden’s dealings with the Ukrainian Burisma Holdings and the Chinese BHR Partners.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/tom-fittons-weekly-update/biden-scandal-update/
We may come to blows with Biden's ChinaCom partner. That will make him a TRAITOR.
Hangmans noose, firing squad, headsmans axe -- pick one.
It was so big a story that not even the NYT could avoid writing about it.
It's not at all unlike the talk out of school that Slow Joe made about the involvement of Seal Team 6 in the 2011 Abbottabad raid. 30 Americans and 8 Afghans gave their lives in Extortion 17, for which Joe no one has yet paid a price.
On the biblical scale, concerning Team Barry releasing to the Iranians $150+B, allegedly to cover-up the extreme mishandling and lies told surrounding the Abbottabad raid, it has escaped few people's notice that that money has for the ensuing decade been used to finance an continuous stream of terrorism, even against the Iranians' own dissidents and from within the Iranian diplomatic corps (see Belgian bomb plot).
UNCOVERED: How Joe Biden Got Millions In Foreign Bribes |
Rudy Giuliani | Ep. 80 (video - 30 mins) / youtube |
FR Posted by RoosterRedux
Rudy goes through the 4 major cases against Joe Biden and provides details and narrative.
Damning stuff. Dangerous stuff.
It deserves to be in on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Exactly, what he said. And that gives all of the corrupt politicians and ‘news’ media cover to say “ it’s not verified” when the truth is so blindingly obvious.
.Because nearly half of the population only follow “SQUIRREL “ or “SHINY “.
Quite the cynic, Derek Hunter.
But Rudy Giuliani knows crime when he smells it, and he is explaining it to anyone with ears.
Listen to the following, and if you’re pressed for time, the “main event” starts at the 10-minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axVq7yWg6KA
This is not true.
A paper trail makes corruption easier to prove, but it is not an element of the offense. For example, bribery can be proved by testimony or by inference from behavior.
Congress redefined the term to exclude bribery involving politicians. You can go to jail for bribery, but the law can't touch them.
What bill and Hilary have gotten away with Biden has done the same, only diff is Hillary had her enemies marked for untimely deaths
Unfortunately, you are right! We have a legal system that allows Congress to take advantage of insider trading - legally. Congress can outright lie about anyting or anybody in the well of there respective chambers - legally. Congress can pass bills that apply to everyone but exempt themselves - legally. Politicians can keep and bank their remaining campaign contributions - legally. This could be millions of dollars. Etc., etc., etc.
Our government is corrupt, through and through and sadly, the institutions that legalized this corruption are the ones needed for reform.
Legal for Democrats. Illegal and prison for ordinary people and all conservatives or Republicans.
Money laundering. RICO.
Father and son pedophiles. Now incest.
EXPLOSIVE: Biden Daughter’s Diary Details ‘Not Appropriate’ Showers With Daddy Joe as a Child: ‘Was I Molested? I Think So’
https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-source-biden-daughters-diary-details-not-appropriate-showers-with-joe-as-child/
Writer is a deep state stoge.
Members of congress
They can, however, hire their spouse and pay them almost $3 million for “consulting,”
And some people wonder why congress is held by democrats so often.
Or slightly pregnant.
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