this is inconvenient: Joe Biden Once Recommended More Prosecutions For Those Who Lie On Background Checks. Has He Changed His Mind? https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/20/joe-biden-once-recommended-more-prosecutions-for-those-who-lie-on-background-checks-has-he-changed-his-mind/ excerpt: In any event, in the second section, the Biden proposal says (emphasis added to the last line): Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime: The Attorney General will work with all United States Attorneys to continue to ensure that every appropriate resource is focused on preventing gun violence. To this end, the Attorney General will ask all U.S. Attorneys to consider whether supplemental efforts would be appropriate in their districts, in areas such as prosecutions of people who have been convicted of a felony and illegally seek to obtain a firearm, or people who attempt to evade the background check system by providing false information. In a Google “fireside chat” at the time, Biden noted that it was vital to “enforce the existing laws we have” and repeated numerous times the importance of shoring up background checks. Obama would come back to Biden’s reform suggestions on numerous occasions over the years, promising to look into “what kinds of authorities do we have to enforce the laws that we have in place more effectively to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.” more at the link discussing this report: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/wh_now_is_the_time_full.pdf
This is a joke. The person that investigated this is someone that Trump choose. The Biden administration did not replace this person. According to the Prosecutor, Garland did not meddle or control the investigation. I am always open to the real possibility that anyone in power can abuse their power - every President going back to at least Carter has in at least some way. However, I see zero evidence at all that Biden or Garland interfered in anyway. For all the discussion of this magical laptop.... all that emerged was shameful pictures of Hunter Biden and a plead to a couple of low-level crimes.
Suddenly @Os Trigonum wants biden to influence the doj on their sentencing recommendations? Do I get that right? No more independence?
hey, I can't help it if President Tough-on-Guns loves his He-Didn't-Do-Anything-Wrong-Except-Smoke-Crack-and-Buy-a-Gun son
@Os Trigonum is this like your Viagra? I've never seen someone so obsessed with this subject matter...
Right, except no one can find any evidence that Biden or his administration interfered in anyway with the investigation or the sentencing. Is Biden supposed to make his son demand a harsher sentence? There is nothing wrong with Biden loving his son - I wouldn't want a President that didn't love his son. The issue is letting his son be involved in anyway with the government or government policy.
Yeah - it is pretty embarrassing for Joe Biden. I am sure he doesn't like the fact that his son has struggled with sobriety, his personal relationships and has broken the law. I wonder how much of that had to do with Hunter being in the same car wreck that killed his mother. Ultimately we all are responsible for our own mistakes - even Hunter Biden. I think all of the pictures and jokes, and investigations at this point only hurt Republicans. Everyone knows Hunter Biden sucks - everyone has heard or seen the pictures, know about all of the sordid personal drama - so going over it again and again starts to look classless - especially when it isn't the President with the bad behavior. This reminds me of some liberals in the past cheering when Scalia died - yeah, they didn't politically like him, but he was still a person.
Anyone that has any desire to be objective knows that Trump is at BEST sketchy, and at worst is a criminal.
I get all this, honestly I believe Biden didn't interfere with the investigation (other than maybe having it slow-walked), but I find it VERY hard to believe that Joe had no advice to give to his son, whatsoever, about taking this to trial, plea bargaining, what have you. But I suppose it's possible. On the other hand, there is a lot of hypocrisy and inconsistency between the President's "tough on guns" stance and the leniency shown to Hunter Biden. Remember the Roman general Manlius who had his own son executed for disobeying orders . . . not saying Hunter should have gotten the death sentence, but being allowed to plea OUT of the federal gun charge (one of several he might have been charged with) is not a good look for a tough-on-guns president
