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There's a loophole in US law that a family member can receive bribes, in this case $1 billion from the CCP and Ukraine, which is what Hunter did while Joe was V

There's a loophole in US law that a family member can receive bribes, in this case $1 billion from the CCP and Ukraine, which is what Hunter did while Joe was VP. However, obviously corruption is corruption. Hunter has no useful skills, so what possible reason would the CCP even talk to him, let alone give him $1 billion, aside from influencing Joe?

mhh__ 6y ago
> Hunter has no useful skills, so what possible reason would the CCP even talk to him, let alone give him $1 billion, aside from influencing Joe? Money. It lets them whitewash their investments; It's the system by which Theranos had all kinds of Randoms on the board. https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/22/hunter-biden-and-china-sorting-through-murky-busin/ https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/22/hunter-biden-... The idea that they just gave him a billion dollars in his current account and said toodle-pip is literally just propaganda from the Trump campaign. To put one thing to bed, he shouldn't have been in China in the first place, but the idea that Joe Biden is going to suddenly start doing China's bidding is ridiculous. What does he gain from doing it? The risk/reward is terrible. As with everything Trump accuses anyone of, it's just projection because he has been consistently criticized and threatened with litigations over his business dealings - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/donald-trump-chinese-bank-account https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/donald-trump-chinese... his companies have hundreds of millions in completely dark debt, secret bank accounts in china etc. If you read the art of the deal, it's his entire MO - trust no-one, always attack when attacked and so on and so forth. That's why he said "No puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet" in the debate rather than actually contesting the argument.
- ralph84 6y ago
  > the idea that Joe Biden is going to suddenly start doing China's bidding is ridiculous The idea that Biden will take a hard line on China is equally ridiculous. He's been in the federal government since before Mao died. If he was going to take a hard line on China he had decades to do it and never did.
  - mhh__ 6y ago
    > The idea that Biden will take a hard line on China is equally ridiculous. As I've said elsewhere, politicians can be remarkably flexible. Ignoring that there is no realpolitik for him to have been hard on china while the country was liberalizing, close to 90% of Republicans and a supermajority of democrats thinks China is a strategic enemy of the US - you gain nothing from being soft on china in today's political climate.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  > but the idea that Joe Biden is going to suddenly start doing China's bidding is ridiculous. What does he gain from doing it? The risk/reward is terrible. To protect his son. The CCP has all kinds of video on Hunter, who's a drug addict. https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/how-hunter-biden-s-addiction-battle-became-a-high-wire-act-for-joe-biden-120103100235_1.html https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/how-... > As with everything Trump accuses anyone of, It's not Trump making the accusations here. It's the DOJ and U.S. Senate Committee, documentation and emails on his laptop, as well as Hunter's former business partner. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/hunter-biden-tax-investigtation/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/hunter-biden-tax-inv... https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Rep... Seriously, why are you defending the Bidens? The Democrats spent 4 years making baseless treason charges against Trump via the Mueller probe, while the Bidens had just moved a billion dollars around for them and the CCP. Are you really that partisan that you would sell out America? Virtually every leftist comment on HN is contradicted with online evidence deliberately skipped by the MSM.

mhh__ 6y ago

> Hunter has no useful skills, so what possible reason would the CCP even talk to him, let alone give him $1 billion, aside from influencing Joe? Money. It lets them whitewash their investments; It's the system by which Theranos had all kinds of Randoms on the board. https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/22/hunter-biden-and-china-sorting-through-murky-busin/ https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/may/22/hunter-biden-... The idea that they just gave him a billion dollars in his current account and said toodle-pip is literally just propaganda from the Trump campaign. To put one thing to bed, he shouldn't have been in China in the first place, but the idea that Joe Biden is going to suddenly start doing China's bidding is ridiculous. What does he gain from doing it? The risk/reward is terrible. As with everything Trump accuses anyone of, it's just projection because he has been consistently criticized and threatened with litigations over his business dealings - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/donald-trump-chinese-bank-account https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/donald-trump-chinese... his companies have hundreds of millions in completely dark debt, secret bank accounts in china etc. If you read the art of the deal, it's his entire MO - trust no-one, always attack when attacked and so on and so forth. That's why he said "No puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet" in the debate rather than actually contesting the argument.

ralph84 6y ago
> the idea that Joe Biden is going to suddenly start doing China's bidding is ridiculous The idea that Biden will take a hard line on China is equally ridiculous. He's been in the federal government since before Mao died. If he was going to take a hard line on China he had decades to do it and never did.
- mhh__ 6y ago
  > The idea that Biden will take a hard line on China is equally ridiculous. As I've said elsewhere, politicians can be remarkably flexible. Ignoring that there is no realpolitik for him to have been hard on china while the country was liberalizing, close to 90% of Republicans and a supermajority of democrats thinks China is a strategic enemy of the US - you gain nothing from being soft on china in today's political climate.
redis_mlc 6y ago
> but the idea that Joe Biden is going to suddenly start doing China's bidding is ridiculous. What does he gain from doing it? The risk/reward is terrible. To protect his son. The CCP has all kinds of video on Hunter, who's a drug addict. https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/how-hunter-biden-s-addiction-battle-became-a-high-wire-act-for-joe-biden-120103100235_1.html https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/how-... > As with everything Trump accuses anyone of, It's not Trump making the accusations here. It's the DOJ and U.S. Senate Committee, documentation and emails on his laptop, as well as Hunter's former business partner. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/hunter-biden-tax-investigtation/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/hunter-biden-tax-inv... https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Rep... Seriously, why are you defending the Bidens? The Democrats spent 4 years making baseless treason charges against Trump via the Mueller probe, while the Bidens had just moved a billion dollars around for them and the CCP. Are you really that partisan that you would sell out America? Virtually every leftist comment on HN is contradicted with online evidence deliberately skipped by the MSM.