# The Hunter Biden Investigation {thread started in 2019}, Hunter Pardoned on December 1, 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 28, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964 "2019-09-28T19:54:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 50
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/983 "2024-01-13T01:25:22Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > No one is bothered by the fact that the vaunted ‘protections’ Joe talked about were a lie? To back this up you need cite that shows Joe Biden talked about these vaunted ‘protections’, not someone else. What particular lie did Joe Biden tell about this that should bother us? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/984 "2024-01-13T01:45:35Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Okay, so 70% by value, not 70% of the people. That makes so much difference. He knew who the big spenders were. And isn’t that only who the art dealer said he knew? No one knows how many people told him on the side, “I’m the guy who bought painting X for $42,000.” There was no legal document drawn up as promised. You could, of course, admit you were wrong, and promise to try to do better. Or you could glide over your error and immediately go back on the attack with more uncited claims. Whichever you choose, we’ll notice. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/985 "2024-01-13T01:54:14Z")
I swear I’m not going to vote for Hunter Biden in any election. I am also aware that Hunter Biden has a penis. Does that make everything OK now? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/986 "2024-01-13T01:56:03Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Does that make everything OK now? No. You did not say you wouldn’t elect to buy a painting of Biden’s penis (Hunter’s or Joe’s). ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/987 "2024-01-13T01:59:25Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I swear I’m not going to vote for Hunter Biden in any election. > I am also aware that Hunter Biden has a penis. I can’t vote for a presidential candidate if I don’t like the look of his son’s junk. Now Kermit Roosevelt, for example - that was a president’s son with a dick and balls that America could be proud of! Not like that limp-needled Allen Hoover. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/988 "2024-01-13T02:26:59Z")
The Right’s obsession with Hunter Biden is equal parts embarrassing, hypocritical, and pathetic. It’s incredibly transparent that the majority of the country views Joe Biden as a “good guy,” even if they don’t love him as President, and all this Hunter noise is just trying to get some of his bullshit to stick to his Dad so they can point and say “both sides are equally bad.” As I said: pathetic. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/989 "2024-01-13T04:51:29Z")
MTG has a picture of the penis of Hunter. She likes to show it off in congress. I bet she doesn’t fondle it the same way she fondles the life size poster of trump. Or maybe she does, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/990 "2024-01-13T05:41:29Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I am also aware that Hunter Biden has a penis. > > Does that make everything OK now? It does in some of the more backwards parts of Georgia. Maybe parts of Alabama and Florida as well ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/991 "2024-01-13T14:35:59Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Hunter Biden has a penis. Not only does he have a penis (larger than mine, as far as I can see through the censoring) but he has had a LAPTOP!! That’s the point. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/992 "2024-01-13T15:21:53Z")
> [@Lance\_Turbo](#): > > No thank you. Because you can’t? Can anyone here explain how that question is a gotcha? ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/993 "2024-01-13T17:31:49Z")
I declined your request. Please accept that and move on. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/994 "2024-01-13T17:56:07Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I am just asking if someone said, “I move that …” Yes, yes I believe that this phase was uttered at some point. Oh, you mean, in response to representative Moskowitz saying > [@](#): > > The witness accepted the chairman’s invitation. It just so happens the witness is here. Let’s vote. Let’s take a vote. Who wants to hear from Hunter right now, today? No. I don’t believe anybody then said “I move that…” once this suggestion was presented to the committee. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/995 "2024-01-13T18:02:44Z")
Ah ha! So you admit, then, that Joe Biden is guilty! ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/996 "2024-01-13T18:48:14Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > No. I don’t believe anybody then said “I move that…” once this suggestion was presented to the committee. I believe you are correct. The committee failed to make a proper motion. It’s on them. They were presented with the opportunity to ask questions of Hunter Biden and failed to take actions with proper procedure. Were they just stupid? Possibly. Or did they not want to make the motion, because they have another purpose for this whole sad clown show? Most likely. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/997 "2024-01-13T19:07:57Z")
In this particular committee, Comer rarely will allow a vote to happen, motion or not. The members of his caucus tend to show up for their 5 minutes of questions and then fuck off to be on Fox News or right wing YouTube shows. There’s almost never a time where there’s enough Republicans present to win a vote, so Comer never calls one. Prearranged things like holding Hunter Biden in contempt excepted. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/998 "2024-01-13T22:11:51Z")
How do you know this? Asking out of curiosity, not disbelief. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/999 "2024-01-14T19:34:39Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > But they could have arrested Hunter there today and litwrally [sic] held him in contempt. There would have been a delicious irony in being held in contempt by a contemptible committee. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/1000 "2024-01-14T19:50:05Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I’d move my mental mark on him a little bit in the positive direction, but not by a ton. Directions aren’t typically measured in units of mass (or weight). You have a unit of length we could visualize instead? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/1001 "2024-01-14T19:58:11Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > > [@Stratocaster](#): > > > > It was kind of all over the news. > > The link says that a Moskowitz, in a period of a few seconds went from saying “Let’s call the witness” to “You refuse to call the witness” without giving anyone a chance to answer. > > I’m not seeing a reference to any actual vote, nor vote result. On one of those clips, I heard someone assert that the motion (to question him then and there) was “out of order.” Coulda been the committee chair, coulda been someone trying to be a junior mod. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964/1002 "2024-01-14T20:12:55Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > If the committee votes that Hunter is free to go, then he’s free to go. ISTM that he’s free to go anyway. They didn’t summon him to that particular hearing, and absent their decision to place him under oath (or even to place him in the hot seat), they don’t have the privilege to grant or to withhold dismissal. The fact is that he placed himself at the committee’s disposal, and the committee did not see fit to take him up on it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964.md?page=49) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunter-biden-investigation-thread-started-in-2019-hunter-pardoned-on-december-1-2024/840964.md?page=51)