Republicans announced Friday that they had uncovered a “direct payment” to President Joe Biden — exactly the kind of evidence they’ve sought linking Biden to his family’s foreign business deals.
But the March 2018 payment came from Joe Biden’s brother James, not a Ukrainian oligarch or Chinese tycoon, and the check was marked as a “loan repayment.”
Still, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), who obtained the records via subpoena, said the $200,000 check looks suspicious for the president.
“Does he have documents proving he lent such a large sum of money to his brother,” Comer said in a video, “and what were the terms of such financial arrangement?”
2018
Ah yes, when he held the extremely influential and prestigious governmental office of checks notes former vice president
Okay. If this was an example of influence peddling, let’s pursue it. Let’s also investigate the billions of dollars the Saudis invested into Kushner while he was operating from the White House.
Don’t forget the copyrights that Ivanka had approved while her father was in the Oval Office. She had unsuccessfully tried to get those for years and they were worth millions, but they mysteriously got approved once daddy was President.
But the GOP thinks all this is totally fine while screaming “HUNTER BIDEN.”
Don’t forget the copyrights that Ivanka had approved while her father was in the Oval Office.
Yeh, don’t see this one talked about enough.
Chyna
I’m not in favor of investigating things frivolously when there is no reason to think there’s any wrongdoing.
Apparently Congress is tho.
Only while Republicans hold the majority.
and only when the target is a democrat
Hey that reminds me, did they ever figure out how many babies Hillary Clinton ate in Benghazi?
Bet it’s on Hunter Bidens lappytahp
The Laptop thats in the child sex dungeon of a pizza place?
I get that. This is another nothingburger from Republicans to create the illusion that they’ve found criminal activity on the part of the President. They’re very conspicuously not mentioning how this took place in 2018 while Biden was a private citizen and hadn’t announced his candidacy for President.
But if they really want to follow evidence of clear influence peddling with breathtaking bribes, they could look closer at Jared and Ivanka during their tenure in the White House.
This is another nothingburger from Republicans to create the illusion that all political investigations are nothing burgers. The hope is the next time a Republican in being charged for actual crimes people will dismiss it as nothing more than the Joe Biden investigation. ‘It’s just what political parties do’.
Republican’s couldn’t grasp the concept of anyone paying off a debt.
Yeah 200 thou is so much money he needs to prove it was actually loan repayment.
Now if it was 2 million dollars from the Saudis…. Well that’s totally different!
Billion with a B.
Only off by 1000x. A tiny mistake, really.
What is the difference between 1 million and 1 billion?
About 1 billion.
Are you undervalueing your assets again for tax purposes!?
It’s understandable, there’s just so many zeros.
Or 130 thousand of funnel money to pay for a … thing.
These allegations apply way more to Trump than Biden. The hypocrisy is real
That’s why they’re making such weak accusations: to make people tired of the whole exercise so that when credible accusations are made against Trump “moderates” can say ‘both sides! this is just what political parties do against their opponents’ and ignore the strength of the evidence.
“Does he have documents proving he lent such a large sum of money to his brother,”
My guess would be a cancelled check for $200,000. This should not be considered all that unusual for a guy worth roughly $10 million.
Comer said in a video, “and what were the terms of such financial arrangement?”
None of his freaking business.
The crime appears to be that President Biden didn’t charge his brother interest.
Crime against capitalism, the worst kind of crime
One day they’re gonna get one of these right and not know how to deal with it.
That was Monica Lewinsky and all it did was make the GOP seethe for a decade.
Yeah, but nothing about the Lewinsky scandal was actually illegal. It’s not illegal to cheat on your wife. They only found out about Lewinsky because they were looking for evidence related to the Whitewater scandal. The only thing criminal Bill Clinton provably did was lie under oath about getting a hummer in the oval office. That’s a pretty minor lie, tbh, and they never connected him to any illegal activity related to Whitewater. They tried to make a huge scandal out of a clandestine blowjob, and the only people who cared were religious purists who never would have voted Democrat anyway. Instead, Republicans made fools of themselves on a national stage, and it cost them elections.
I’m not really disagreeing with you here, except to say the Republicans didn’t really “get it right” with Lewinsky. They did seethe and writhe and dig their heels hard into religious fascism. But I thought it worth highlighting that the Lewinsky scandal was not as scandalous as they wanted us to believe, nor was it even the thing they were trying to pass off as scandalous in the first place. It was an excuse to open an investigation in the hopes it might reveal something that would stick. That’s the same thing they’re doing now. They know there’s no connection here. They know there’s no evidence. But it appeals to their waning voting base and gives them an excuse to find something that makes Biden look as bad as Trump.
You’re overlooking some things here. Just a few years prior, Clarence Thomas had just undergone an intensive and public trial for sexual harassment of Anita HIll. Meanwhile, a sea change of public opinion against sexual harassment in the workplace was underway in practically every corner of the country. At that time, if you were a federal employee, you could get in serious trouble for abusing your position of power like that. But of course, the President isn’t a federal employee.
This was not just a minor lie and a clandestine blowjob. It was someone in a position of power taking advantage of a subordinate, in the workplace, and doing irrevocable harm to that subordinate’s reputation in the process.
Finally, just because something isn’t a criminal offense doesn’t make it acceptable. Nor does the fact that the Republicans seized on this for political gain make it less wrong.
Here’s how hard the Republicans were digging for dirt on Clinton:
When they started the Whitewater investigation, Monica Lewinsky did not yet work at the White House. It was literally an ongoing investigation looking for a crime.
I do think the Lewinsky thing paid it’s dividend in 2016 because it made it harder to respect Hillary who was still with Bill after the most famous case of being cheated on. There were a lot of factors that went into that election going the way it did, but with it so close in the end, each factor ended up being important.
If she’d divorced him, they would have used that against her instead.
Yeah, it set up a lose/lose situation that I’m not sure Hillary could have found an angle out of that wouldn’t turn some people against her. It didn’t get Bill removed but it did help block Hillary when the Democrats bet on her.
Objection your honor, conjecture.
Oh shit, my bad this is the court of public opinion.
We must start holding our politicians accountable.
lol, these fucking idiots.
Go figure.
Who writes a personal check for $200,000? It’s been a really long time since I’ve written a check, but I think that 3rd ‘0’ would trigger my anxiety, I would start sweating on the 4th, and the 5th one would make me break down and cry.
It’s nothing to the rich, they lend each other what we consider crazy sums all the time but to them it’s not a big deal since they have more than they’ll ever need. Joe isn’t fuck you rich, but he’s certainly comfortable enough that floating a sibling a house worth of cash isn’t out of question
I didn’t know for sure but $200k sounded cheap for house money. I looked it up - the median home price in the us is about 350k. Jesus.
Not in 2017. I had to look it up, but the U.S. median home price in 2017 was $235,000.
200k gets you a pretty decent place in some parts of the country even today, but in 2017 it was a nice house in many parts of the country
That money is used as the down payment on a commercial loan.
I wrote a $450K check when I bought my house.
We have a wealthy land owner over here. I bet they can even vote
To be fair, even middle class people lend or give each other big sums of money when it’s family. It’s hard to afford a down payment, pay for college, or start a business without help from family.
I mean, I did it and quite a bit more when I bought a house. That down payment check was the largest I ever wrote.
I mean at Biden’s level you don’t. You call your financial advisor and have them shuffle money around and print the check.
They see 1,000,000 the way most folks see 1,000.
How many is this now? Got to be close to triple digits
Knowing them not a huge shock.
