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  1. Os Trigonum

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    You think it's okay for ivanka trump to have made hundreds of millions of dollars as an employee of trump administration in her business dealings in China but joe biden is a Crook bcz his son got money from Ukraine and China.

    It's just sad how utterly brainwashed and naive you are. Everything you accuse biden of doing is something trump did already but you're to dumb.
     
  3. Salvy

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    The only way you would know with out a single doubt as you keep guaranteeing is if you were there....

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  4. Salvy

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    Did not know The Bidens were Rockets and Astros fans, they must really enjoy the game threads...
     
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    Difference between you and I is that I'm not a partisan loser like you and @Os Trigonum . There's ZERO difference what ivanka jared and Hunter. They all used their dad's name to enrich themselves. Their all scumbags and should be held liable.

    There's ZERO evidence that Joe Biden ever received a dollar nor he influenced any policy decisions.
     
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    You can always prove that you pay 8.5% of your income in aca subsidies and I'll self ban myself for life. You'll never see me post on these forums again. Why can't you simply put up what you claim ? It's not because you lie is it?

    Folks on these forums are frauds and lies. It's a testament of where we are as a society.
     
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    This astro123 dude is doing the bidding for the Bidens using a bad version of the North Korea propaganda machine.
    Uh oh….looks like Joe B is lawyered up!
     
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    What's so hard about proving what I ask you all to prove?

    Show me where Joe Biden received this kickback or show me what actions he's influenced by the bribe and I'll never post on these forums again?

    What's so difficult about putting facts behind braindead conspiracies? Why can't you put up
     
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    It’s easy man, when the Republicans are done with their investigation and can muster some cojones, they will bring up charges against Joey B and the old fool will be indicted by the new AG. Trial dates shall be set and you will have your answer. It’s still early in the ballgame so you’ve got to be patient grasshopper!
     
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    You understand how stupid this makes you right? The attorney General AND Weiss the us attorney both confirmed that he had full authority to charge hunter with anything.

    The fact that the whistleblower is undercutting what the us attorney is claiming disproves the entire whistleblower!!! It proves he's a liar are you this stupid?

    Good God why is MAGA so dumb
     
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    https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter...misdemeanor-scheme-d8813133?mod=hp_opin_pos_1

    Hunter Biden's ‘Fair’ Tax Share
    IRS agents reveal details of the son’s scheming that mock the President’s tax moralizing.
    By The Editorial Board
    June 25, 2023 at 4:27 pm ET

    President Biden has campaigned far and wide that America’s rich should pay their “fair” share of taxes, and he’s giving the Internal Revenue Service billions more to enforce it. Does he include his son Hunter among the rich who should pay what they owe?

    The question is highly relevant after last week’s under-reported testimony from two IRS whistleblowers about their investigation of Hunter’s taxes. Hunter agreed to plead guilty last week to two misdemeanor charges of “willful failure” to pay some $200,000 in tax for years 2017 and 2018. But the two whistleblowers, testifying under oath before the House Ways and Means Committee, revealed details of Hunter’s tax maneuvering that make a mockery of his father’s tax moralizing.


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    The agents reported that an IRS team in January 2022 finalized a document of some 80 pages recommending that Hunter be charged with tax violations for each of his six tax returns from 2014 through 2019.

    IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley said Hunter’s 2014 and 2015 returns involved a “scheme to evade his income taxes through a partnership with a convicted felon.” At issue was the $83,000 a month Hunter received to sit on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company. The second (anonymous) whistleblower explained that in 2014 Hunter arranged a series of “sham” transactions so he “didn’t report any of the money he earned from Burisma”—about $400,000 in 2014.

    The whistleblowers say Hunter directed Burisma to pay his money to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, or RSB, an entity owned by his business partner Devon Archer, who was convicted of fraud in 2018. They say RSB would send the money to Hunter, who then “booked it as a loan.” One obvious tax problem, explains the second whistleblower, is that “you can’t loan yourself your own money.”

    Mr. Shapley says this loan ruse is a “textbook” evasion scheme, something “I learned at basic training.” When someone claims a payment is a loan for tax purposes, the IRS looks for three things: You’ve “got to have a promissory note, you got to have defined interest, and you got to have repayments,” Mr. Shapley says. In Hunter’s case, “none of those were included.” RSB also booked the payment as an “expense”—meaning that “even the two parties didn’t treat it the same way.”

    The committee also released an email showing that another Hunter business partner, Eric Schwerin, told Hunter in 2017 that Hunter had “unreported Burisma income” and needed to “amend your 2014 returns.” Hunter ignored the warning and later that year ended his relationship with Mr. Schwerin.

    The second whistleblower says 2014 records show RSB paid more than $10,000 in Hunter medical bills, and purchased a $142,000 Porsche for Hunter’s benefit via other money from a Kazakhstan businessman. The whistleblower says Hunter didn’t report this as income.

    The IRS team recommended that Hunter be prosecuted on felony charges of tax evasion for 2014 and false tax filings and a misdemeanor charge for 2015 of failure to pay tax. Yet because the U.S. Attorney waited so long to make a prosecutorial decision, the six-year statute of limitations expired. Hunter thus won’t pay taxes on more than $400,000 in unreported income for these years. Mr. Shapley says: “The purposeful exclusion of the 2014 and 2015 years sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material facts.”

    Also notable are Hunter’s filings in 2018 and 2019, for which the IRS team also recommended felony charges of tax evasion and false returns. The second whistleblower testified that Hunter underreported his income for 2018 by anywhere from $267,000 to $500,000—depending on how conservatively the IRS counted. He did this, claims the whistleblower, by falsifying “business” deductions.

    The whistleblower says this included deducting thousands paid to “no-show employees”—including “a prostitute” that Hunter claimed was a “West Coast assistant.” He deducted $10,000 for a “golf club member deposit,” money that IRS agents say “went to pay for a sex club.” He deducted $30,000 for a child’s Columbia University tuition. He also deducted a hotel room for who agents believed to be “one of his drug dealers,” hotel rooms for his girlfriend at the time, and two nights for “a hotel room for his dad, Joe Biden.”

    The IRS agents say they also saw correspondence showing Hunter in that year attempting to describe income as a “loan”—though this time his accountants rejected the request. All told, the IRS team recommended that Hunter face felony charges for 2014, 2018 and 2019. They also recommended misdemeanor charges for “failure to file or pay” for five of the six years.

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    Democrats defend Hunter by saying that he ended up paying much of his back taxes prior to this plea deal, thanks to a $2 million loan from a Hollywood lawyer. But the second whistleblower explained the IRS view of after-the-fact efforts to get straight with tax authorities. He was asked during testimony: “If someone meets all the elements for a crime of willful evasion and are found to, in conjunction with that, owe a liability, and they pay off that liability years later when they’ve been caught, has a crime still been committed?”

    The whistleblower’s response: “Yes.”

    The next time President Biden says too many people don’t pay enough taxes, refer him to the moral authority of Hunter.

    Appeared in the June 26, 2023, print edition as 'Hunter Biden's ‘Fair’ Tax Share'.



     
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    It’s 4D ♟️
     
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    Actually it’s Schrödinger’s Biden. He’s either an old fool with dementia or a criminal mastermind depending on what is on Fox News or the WSJ opinion page that day.
     
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    Happy Monday Morning from the NY Post! no rest for the weary ;)


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    It's going be hilarious when your hyped up whistleblower turns out to be a fraud again. You know how pathetic you look right?

    Another nut job whistleblower who's actually a right wing lunatic. "Whistleblower" my ass. These MAGA trolls will worship anyone @Salvy
     
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    IRS Whistleblower Emails Suggest David Weiss Misled Congress In Letter Claiming Charging Authority
    Either Weiss lied to his top investigators, or Weiss and Garland deceived Congress. There’s no other way around it.

    https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/26/irs-whistleblower-emails-suggest-david-weiss-misled-congress-in-letter-claiming-charging-authority/

    excerpt:

    Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss told the House Judiciary Committee he had “been granted ultimate authority” over prosecutorial decisions related to the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden in a June 7, 2023, letter obtained by The Federalist. However, Weiss’s letter to Congress — and Attorney General Merrick Garland’s earlier testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee that Weiss had “full authority” to charge Hunter Biden — directly conflicts with statements Weiss made to senior members of the team investigating the Biden son.

    So either Weiss lied to his top investigators, or Weiss and Garland deceived Congress. There’s no other way around it.
    more at the link
     

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