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  1. astros123

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    Roger stone a trump ally got caught with over 2 million in tax evasion and he got less of a sentence than hunter. Who gives a **** about the facts when you can spin low braindead conspiracies to your dipshit cult.

    The right expects people to respect them when they act like utter morons

    https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily...ife-agree-to-2-million-settlement-in-tax-case
     
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    https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter...eller-donald-trump-26596b5a?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

    Hunter Biden, FARA and Unequal Justice
    A bad law used against Trump associates now haunts President Biden’s son.
    By The Editorial Board
    July 30, 2023 at 4:35 pm ET

    Unequal justice has emerged as a theme in the Hunter Biden plea deal, and one example came last week when Judge Maryellen Noreika asked the prosecution and defense in court if their agreement meant the President’s son could still be prosecuted for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Hunter’s lawyers said no, but the prosecutor said yes, and Hunter can thank Robert Mueller if he is prosecuted under that statute.

    FARA is a long-ignored law dating to 1938 that special counsel Mueller brought out of mothballs in an attempt to pry information out of Donald Trump’s associates. It requires Americans acting as an “agent of a foreign principal” under most circumstances to register with the U.S. government. As we noted at the time, in the nearly half-century up to 2016 the Justice Department brought only seven criminal FARA cases and won three convictions. The rarity of prosecutions created much confusion about how and when the law applies.

    That didn’t stop Mr. Mueller. As special counsel investigating nonexistent Russia collusion, he used FARA to prosecute Trump associates who were mostly accused of lying about their work on behalf of foreign governments.

    This is how he nailed Paul Manafort, who took money from the Ukrainians. Michael Flynn admitted to making false statements in documents filed pursuant to FARA regarding his work on behalf of the Turkish government. FARA also ensnared Greg Craig—a high-powered Democratic lawyer and former White House counsel to President Obama—who was prosecuted as an offshoot of the Mueller investigation into Mr. Manafort’s deals with Ukraine.

    As long as FARA was targeting people in the Trump orbit, Democrats cheered these prosecutions. They weren’t even fazed when a federal jury acquitted Mr. Craig on FARA-related charges that we and others believe should never have been brought.

    They may regret that legal standard now that federal prosecutors have confirmed to Judge Noreika that FARA charges could still be lodged against the President’s son. Based on Mr. Mueller’s prosecutions, Hunter is vulnerable.

    We know Hunter set up a shell company to do business with CEFC China Energy, and that he didn’t register as a foreign agent. Shell companies are a common strategy for disguising ownership, and accepting money from a foreign entity would normally require FARA registration. Similar questions remain about Hunter’s dealings in Ukraine.

    A FARA prosecution has political implications for President Biden. To have his son acting as a foreign agent while they were travelling to the relevant foreign countries together on Air Force Two would make the President’s claims of ignorance about Hunter’s business even harder to believe. This is guaranteed to be an issue in his 2024 bid for re-election—not least because staffers in the Obama Administration sent up red flags about Hunter’s lucrative work on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company.

    FARA has never been clearly defined and is used selectively. That is the definition of a bad law that is too easy for prosecutors to exploit against their political enemies.

    Democrats have reason to say that if everyone in Washington who violates FARA were prosecuted for it, half the lobbyists would be out of business. But this would be a more persuasive argument if they had made it when Robert Mueller was busy using it against their political enemies.

    Appeared in the July 31, 2023, print edition as 'Hunter, FARA and Unequal Justice'.




     
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    Why should twitter not put a warning on this tweet claiming its disinformation? Why the hell would it be "censorship" when you're posting low iq bullshit.

    You MAGA boomers want free reign to spin conspiracies all day. You folks are the most dangerous folks
     
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    It's funny how you have no response to your bullshit. You just posted some grand conspiracy that the doj wants him arrested before he speaks but somehow you forget that an appeals court denied his appeal.

    Somehow it's "censorship" that your bullshit lies get exposed. You're such a joke seriously.

    You'll just pivot to the next conspiracy. Pathetic humans
     
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    You can deflect as much as you want from the fact that you literally just posted a braindead conspiracy that you thought was a cool "gotcha." It just shows the massive information bubble you live in.

    You're a professor yet have no shame that you spin lies and spread propoganda all day. You do a disservice to every educator out there. You're a utter disgrace to your profession.
     
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    You can quote me as much as you want or call me whatever you want. It doesn't change the fact that you post whatever braindead conspiracy you find on Twitter without using 1 second to research the topic.

    Like I said you're a disgrace to every educator out there who prides themselves on truth and facts.
     
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    Every maga republican is outright lying about this complete fabrication based on devines complete fabrication. But who can be shocked at anything maga republicans do anymore

     
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    It took twitter 5 hours and almost 20 million views afterwards to put a community note and clear the conspiracies. How many will even see the community note? Once the conspiracies and lies are out its game over.

    We are so ****ed as a society and it's insane that everyone here can't see it. We have half the country in our everyday lives believing absolute bullshit conspiracies bcz of right wingers.

    We are so ****ed and we just don't know it as a country. It's such scary times.

    Depressing the state of this nation
     
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    What if I told you .... that nobody cares about Hunter Biden.
     
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    @Space Ghost go read below the comments of Paul post and if that doesn't depress the **** out of you then I'm not sure what to tell you.

    These people play with people's emotions. You can't spin conspiracies all day and expect people not be livid and mad. The right lies to their base on purpose and feeds off hate and I just don't get. I just don't get it honestly. I don't understand why one has to lie and spin conspiracies to anger people for political reasons. I literally don't get it.

    The reason why I dispise @Os Trigonum is that educators have a sworn duty to uphold the truth. My mom was a teacher for her entire life and she would take such pride in telling facts and truth.

    It's just depressing the utter decay of society from every level.
     
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    Bcz I see the right literally destroying people's lives and playing with their emotions over conspiracies and its going to absolutely destroy this country. January 6 didn't happen by mistake. It's endless conspiracies and it'll only get worst.

    It's perfectly okay not to like Joe biden nd think he's bad. Nobody is asking people to unconditional like biden. If you don't think Biden is up for the job or think he's too old then that's absolutely fine. I would never attack someone for their political disagreement.

    My issue is the lies and conspiracies that rile up people's emotions. Playing with people's emotions over poltiics when you know what you're saying is a lie is so absolutely sad and awful.
     
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    someone's hair is on fire
     
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