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But the person they voted for is normalizing these sorts of things, they voted FOR more corruption and self-dealing.

Do you mean the people who voted for Donald Trump or the people who voted for "Fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma which gave a lucrative position to Hunter Biden" or "10% for the Big Guy held by H"? Just to clarify what you're talking about when you talk about voting for more corruption and self-dealing

I mean the guy that is shaking down law firms and countries and universities and immigrants. The guy that launched a multi billion dollar pump and dump crypto scheme on the eve of his inauguration. The guy that is almost certainly selling pardons to people like the former CEO of Nikola. The guy that is possibly tipping off his friends and donors about when a tweet of his will send the stock market up 10%.

I don’t give a shit about Hunter Biden, he wasn’t the president. Nepotism happens everywhere, good luck stopping it. Hunter Biden is a crackhead and shouldn’t have had the position he did, but he is a sideshow to distract you. Trump himself was impeached for withholding foreign aid from Ukraine to try and boost his reelection chances, but you conveniently left that part out. I’ll admit it was partly political, but it still happened.

If the Biden family was doing corrupt things like receiving bribes, by all means prosecute them. If there’s evidence Joe Biden got kickbacks from Burisma, the DoJ should file charges. There’s not a personality cult for Biden like there is for Trump.

Trying to compare an actual convicted felon who is nakedly corrupt in public vs a guy who has a few accusations is ridiculous in the same way as presenting young earth creationism as equally valid as the universe being 13.7B years old. It’s “but both sides!” at its worst. Joe Biden is no saint, he’s a politician after all, but he’s not even close to Trump. Bob Menendez (D, NJ) is much closer to Trump than Biden, he was actually tried and convicted for corruption. I’m glad he was found guilty.

We can't prosecute the Biden family because they all got pre-emptive pardons. https://youtu.be/4EpUpC9fCSg Did Trump actually withhold foreign aid from Ukraine, or did he threaten to do so? https://youtu.be/UXA--dj2-CY Because if it was threatening to cut funding this is a pot calling the kettle black situation https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/us/politics/trump-ukraine... And checking this NYTimes timeline, they say that the funds were released on September 20th. So the funding to Ukraine was not withheld, but delayed. The exact same thing that Joe Biden was doing. Saying in all caps "It's a great time to buy" before the stock market goes up 10% isn't insider trading, it's a politician delivering on his promises immediately.

Interesting that you're concerned about a guy who allegedly nepo'd his son into a job but not concerned about the guy who openly nepo'd multiple children/relatives into federal government positions.

Seems like if you genuinely cared about the Biden molehill you'd care even more about the Trump mountain?

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