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What's weird is that the "what even is the crime here" and "they aren't real felonies" spiel only ever applies to Trump. If Biden tried to hide hush money paym
by krapp 2y ago
What's weird is that the "what even is the crime here" and "they aren't real felonies" spiel only ever applies to Trump.
If Biden tried to hide hush money payments to a porn star to keep a scandal about tax dodging and campaign finance law violations out of an election cycle you'd be calling for his head.
I mean that's basically what the whole Hunter Biden laptop story is supposed to be, isn't it? There isn't even any there there but Trumpists act like it's the biggest scandal since Watergate.
- ty6853 2y agoBiden pardoned the whole family for every federal non-violent crime, and hunter for violent ones too. HN comments historically, true or not, love to say accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt.
- tim333 2y agoI'm not that up on the US stuff as I'm a Brit but it's the only case I'm aware of of let's make up a new crime to get the guy that's made it into the British press. I mean Trump is probably guilty of real crimes, especially the confidential documents one but the stuff he was convicted of is kind of lame. I'm not a Trump fan but as a strategy to stop Trump getting elected it didn't work very well.