Quote (Goomshill @ 18 May 2019 03:53)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/17/exclusive-2016-arizona-police-report-cocaine-pipe-found-in-car-rented-by-joe-bidens-son-hunter-biden-authorities-declined-to-prosecute/

Breitbart got their hands on a legit scoop
basically the TLDR:

• Hunter Biden had previously been kicked out of the Navy after failing a drug test, and his wife in divorce filings cited how he blew through money on drugs and hookers
  
• In 2016 Hunter Biden and a friend drops off a rental car in a hurry because he's 'sick'
  
• Rental company finds inside it Hunter Biden's drivers license, his credit cards, delaware attorney general's badge with his name, secret service card with his name, a cocaine pipe and bag of cocaine
  
• Two police departments, city and county attorneys, FBI & Secret Service all got involved in the response, and created exceptionally detailed police reports
  
• The county declined to prosecute the drug offenses citing as a reason that they would only be able to get possession to stick, which they leave up to city prosecutors
  
• The city magically declined to prosecute the drug offenses, with no cited reason. And the whole affair vanished into thin air

Reminds me of how Woody Kaine was caught red-handed in an Antifa riot in MN, on video participating in the mob violence. And he magically got all of his serious charges dropped and pled to the most minor offense that gave him a $150 fine and year of probation

Quote (Black XistenZ @ May 17 2019 08:58pm)

the question is to which degree we should hold politicians accountable for the missteps or the privileged treatment of their family members.

Quote (Skinned @ 18 May 2019 04:02)

Corruption of blood is prohibited in the constitution.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ May 17 2019 09:07pm)

sure, but that's referring to law.

the son of a former VP getting preferential treatment by authorities certainly does reflect on his father, particularly at a time when this father is running for president on a platform of being "all-American Joe" and appealing to the little man.
I'm just not sure to which degree it should.

Quote (Goomshill @ 17 May 2019 21:53)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/17/exclusive-2016-arizona-police-report-cocaine-pipe-found-in-car-rented-by-joe-bidens-son-hunter-biden-authorities-declined-to-prosecute/

Breitbart got their hands on a legit scoop
basically the TLDR:

• Hunter Biden had previously been kicked out of the Navy after failing a drug test, and his wife in divorce filings cited how he blew through money on drugs and hookers
  
• In 2016 Hunter Biden and a friend drops off a rental car in a hurry because he's 'sick'
  
• Rental company finds inside it Hunter Biden's drivers license, his credit cards, delaware attorney general's badge with his name, secret service card with his name, a cocaine pipe and bag of cocaine
  
• Two police departments, city and county attorneys, FBI & Secret Service all got involved in the response, and created exceptionally detailed police reports
  
• The county declined to prosecute the drug offenses citing as a reason that they would only be able to get possession to stick, which they leave up to city prosecutors
  
• The city magically declined to prosecute the drug offenses, with no cited reason. And the whole affair vanished into thin air

Reminds me of how Woody Kaine was caught red-handed in an Antifa riot in MN, on video participating in the mob violence. And he magically got all of his serious charges dropped and pled to the most minor offense that gave him a $150 fine and year of probation

Quote (excellence @ May 17 2019 08:37pm)

just another privileged lefty showing how rules do not apply to them. isn't this the same son of Biden who stepped out on his wife with his deceased-brother's wife?? pathetic..

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President Donald Trump on Friday added fuel to his claims that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe was designed to undermine his presidency with a tweet musing why intelligence officials did not inform him they were investigating Michael Flynn before tenure as national security adviser.

Court records released Thursday showed that Flynn assisted Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump and his allies obstructed justice by interfering with the special counsel’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

The court filings also detailed Flynn’s extensive cooperation with Mueller’s investigation of WikiLeaks' dumping of stolen Democratic emails and the interaction between Trump's transition team and Russia.

Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to making false statements to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador before Trump was inaugurated. In a December 2016 call, which was intercepted by U.S. intelligence, Flynn discussed the Obama administration’s newly imposed sanctions on Russia — and encouraged the Kremlin not to retaliate, with Trump poised to take office.

“It now seems the General Flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge,” Trump said in a tweet Friday. “It would have been impossible for me to know this but, if that was the case, and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was I not told so that I could make a change?”

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According to the good folks over at Raw Story, Trump was fully aware that Flynn was in over his head and double-dipped in Russian sauce, so much so that even former President Barack Obama tried to warn Trump not to have him around.

From Raw Story:

President Barack Obama warned the president-elect against having Flynn serve in his administration during a 90-minute meeting held shortly after the November 2016 election, but Trump administration officials believed Obama was joking about one of his more vocal critics.

Rep. Elijah Cummings sent a letter to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who led the transition team, in November 2016 warning that Flynn’s work for Turkey and a speech he gave in Russia could violate the campaign’s code of ethics if he advised Trump on those two foreign nations.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump ignored warnings from Chris Christie about Flynn—and that kind of makes sense considering that Kushner hates Christie for sending his father to jail. But the power couple with top-level security clearances also ignored other top officials’ warnings about Flynn, “who the president’s son-in-law reportedly instructed to make contact with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and offered the retired general any administration job he wanted,” Raw Story reports.

On Jan. 4, 2017, Flynn told then-White House lawyer Don McGahn that he was under investigation and his lawyer discussed the case with Trump’s transition lawyers a few days later.

Also from Raw Story:

Acting attorney general Sally Yates then notified McGahn on Jan. 26, 2017, that the Justice Department was concerned Flynn was vulnerable to blackmail from Russia due to his contacts with Kislyak.

Flynn took part two days later in a phone call between Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin, and on Jan. 30, 2017, the president fired Yates.

Trump kept Flynn on the job until Feb. 14, 2017, after a senior administration official authorized the leak of Yates’ warning to the White House about the national security adviser.

If all of this wasn’t enough, in July 2016, after Trump became the Republican presidential nominee, the FBI even warned his campaign that Russia might use someone, like say a national security adviser, to infiltrate his campaign.

Trump folks never notified the FBI that Donald Trump Jr. and other high-ranking officials on his team met with a Russian attorney promising dirt on Hillary Clinton because, much like stealing the election, it favored the Trump campaign.

Quote (excellence @ May 17 2019 09:37pm)

just another privileged lefty showing how rules do not apply to them. isn't this the same son of Biden who stepped out on his wife with his deceased-brother's wife?? pathetic..

Quote (Goomshill @ May 17 2019 09:41pm)

I thought his brother in the hospital dying of brain cancer while Hunter was banging his wife
Maybe I got the timeline mixed up

Quote (Black XistenZ @ May 17 2019 09:44pm)

a compassionate brother-in-law doing his best to console a soon-to-be widow - how coldhearted do you have to be to take offense in such an admirable act of self-sacrifice? ^_^