# GOP House investigation of President Joe Biden follow along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 18, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111 "2022-11-18T00:25:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 129
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111/129 "2022-11-21T23:48:17Z")
> [@Wrenching\_Spanners](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > The linked article is paywalled, but I think that the title says it all. “Why hasn’t the rest of America?” Biden’s opponents have had complete access to the laptop and have claimed that it is chocked full of smoking guns that prove Biden Sr. is horribly corrupt, but the most we’ve seen so far is vague references to Mr. Big. If there were these giant smoking guns, they would have been made public. > > The question is whether there is evidence that Joe Biden acted in a corrupt manner. Did he do so by supporting his son’s activities to gain wealth using his last name and his influence with a powerful father? There’s very strong evidence that Hunter used his last name and relationship with his father to gain wealth. How far did Hunter’s influence impact Joe’s activities and decisions? The impact was non-zero - Joe met with people who paid Hunter for his connections. > > What’s the threshold for suspicious activity being worthy of Congressional investigation? Repeating myself, Democrats set an extremely low bar. Why shouldn’t a Republican HOR use the same threshold? What investigation do you feel “set a low bar?” The Mueller investigation, with its 23 indictments and multiple convictions? The Congressional investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election - which was way more damning than ? The investigation into Trump’s extortion of foreign President? The January 6th investigation? The Hunter Biden investigation is pure trollery, just another extension of the Trump/ Republican “hit them back ten times harder” philosophy. It’s abuse and bullying posing as political strategy. I understand the desire for political revenge. I understand that the adult children of high level public officials are subject to a heightened level of scrutiny, even if there is no intersection between their lives and the professional and political careers of their parents. But putting the full force of the legislative branch into bullying and harassing the troubled adult child of a President is a shitty thing to do, and the people that are doing so are shitty people with no sense of decency. It’s going to be a replay of the Durham investigation, because it will turn up nothing. Anything that happened while Joe Biden was in office as VP is well beyond the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution, and anything that happened after 2016 happened when Joe Biden was a private citizen and would’ve been perfectly free to engage in business deals, even though there’s no evidence that he did. I don’t think there’s anything remotely criminal in even the worst allegations. It’s not illegal to mention your famous father when you a negotiating a business deal, and it’s not illegal to introduce people to your father. And if it’s illegal to profit off your famous parent, one need to look no farther than the three oldest Trump children, who have never earned a dime that didn’t come from their father’s business or political enterprises. I’m just not sure what they’re going to prove. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-house-investigation-of-president-joe-biden-follow-along-thread/975111)._