That’s my understanding.
Absolutely. If you agree you owe the tax, say you are sorry and agree to pay it , the chance of prison time is very remote. That is normal.
The Gun charge is almost never prosecuted. It is basically a way to get a crook you dont have anything else- if you live in any weed-legal state and partake, you technically can not buy or own a gun.
I will also point out that there is no chain of evidence at all. The emails could easily be tampered with.
More or less true.
Correct.
They are correct. That box is bogus.
Which really helps.
Any chance that you have a link to the collection? I haven’t been following the Hunter story very much since most of the information is published in questionable sources and I don’t really care enough about what the relative of a person is doing. I’ve only read some stuff, near when the laptop was discovered, about the corrupt prosecutor in Ukraine, the WaPo updates on the laptop and the new announcement, and not much in-between.
The Post seems to think that the Big Guy is either Jim or Joe Biden, but I haven’t seen the emails nor the argument for a third, foreign party.
As already said, yes, in theory. But as DrDeth says or implies in #262, this was no sweetheart deal. So in reality, any adjustment by the judge would be downwards on punishment.
Here’s some support for what DrDeth wrote:
Let me clarify, I never read ALL the e-mails, I don’t think they’ve been published. But I’ve found contradictions in the published portions, as well as information that inducates that “the big guy” is a foreign national.
I’ll have to poke around more to see if I can find the story from 2020.
But here’s a recent story from the NY Post that goes to my point - and it’s also a commentary on the intelligence of the NY Post reader.
The story is about how the NY Post finds this one particular e-mail suspicious. They are suspicious because it sounds like it was written by a smart person that has done their homework on Ukraine - which goes against their narrative that Hunter Biden was a stupid, do-nothing wastrel who was collecting free money for sitting on the board of Burisma.
So it can’t be that Hunter Biden is intelligent and well-educated and actually doing real work in exchange for his paycheck from Burisma. They are convinced that the only explanation is that Joe wrote this e-mail for Hunter.
But there’s more. Hunter referred to “my guy’s upcoming travels”, and the e-mail was sent a week before Joe Biden went to Ukraine! So their “guy” must be Joe Biden, it’s not like anyone else has upcoming travel, right?
But if you actually read the entire e-mail, instead of just looking at it long enough to say “that was written by someone smart”, you will see the following, item 12 on the list of data points.
Our guy needs to set himself up as the anti-Victor Pinchuk ( coal and steel oligarch - pro Russian Yanukovych supporter ).
Does that really sound like they are talking about Joe Biden? It seems to me more likely that their “guy” is their boss, Burisma oligarch, Myron Zlochevsky.
Not to mention that they make reference to Hunter’s e-mail having 22 points, but they only see fit to publish a portion of the e-mail containing the first 12 points. I betting that there is something in the remaining 10 points that runs counter to their narrative.
I’ll see if I can find the pre-election story with the e-mails, but I clearly remember taking it apart exactly like I did with this one. And the Tony Bobulski narrative. And the bribery to fire a prosecutor. They’re all bullshit.
The conservative reporting on this story has been incredibly dishonest, even for conservatives.
Emphasis mine.
I don’t know why we even bother to add the qualifier anymore.
And thanks for doing the work.
I thought the whole Burisma BS narrative had already been soundly put out of its misery, but I guess they’re recycling it now as if they’ve found something new.
They haven’t. And it was bullshit the first time.
In regards to the New York Post, I would have to note:
First, their photo of the email seems to give the author as Robert Biden, not Hunter.
Second, if a guy is an oft-intoxicated drug addict, fluctuating levels of intelligence seems not-all-that-strange.
(And third, that language complexity scores predate AI and don’t depend on it.)
But, in regards to your theory, the “big guy” emails seem to have been in a set of communications about CEFC in China and seem to have been (at a quick Google) between James Gilliar and Hunter. The email chain that you’re discussing here is about Ukraine, and were between either Hunter or Robert Biden and Archer Devon.
I don’t know that we can reasonably infer from one set of conversation by group X about topic Y much about the favored terms for certain things when we then look at group S and their discussion on topic T. Hunter does overlap the two but, in my experience, nomenclatures tend to develop separately in separate groups.
I can see that point of view. If that’s the outcome it could be seen as fair. I’m thinking more of the whole gun control movement, show that we’re serious about enforcing existing gun laws. It would make some nutjob gun nuts’ heads explode to have to applaud enforcing gun restrictions…
(I’m actually a gun owner and have lots of fun blowing away paper targets, but also believe there’s a lot of room for tightening restrictions on who can own guns.)
Me, too.
Me three.
His legal name is Robert Hunter Biden.
OK, but what if he had a secret brother named Robert who was a love-child between Joe and a space alien? How would that affect the FBI case?
(I kid, @Sage_Rat, I kid!)
The Venn diagram for alcoholics/gun owners has a LOT of overlap…
Ah, I didn’t bother to check for any Roberts in the family. Woops. >.>
(The problem with the Internet is that the world doesn’t pause and hold off interrupting you when you’re on it.)
And watch out for any Rules of Order.
The Post does not seem to think that. Why are you making that claim?
It’s a reference to the New York Post, not the Washington Post.
If you have any doubts that the NY Post is doing this, just run a search for NY Post Big Guy.
Ok, that I believe.
I was confused because he refereed to The Post and then linked to a Washington Post article.
But yes, many notoriously untrustworthy right wing sources are claiming that Joe Biden is the Big Guy.
From the article:
I see that I misread. I was thinking that it said “10 for Jim” and then re-stated, “10 for the big guy”. It’s not restating, it’s offering a second 10.
The Post only proposes Joe Biden as “the big guy” and, as quoted, gives reason to doubt that.
Came in here to post this video that showed up in my youtube feed, from a CBS affiliate. I don’t know how common it is for supposedly balanced news organizations to make a news graphic that looks like a campaign ad sign?
Here’s the thumbnail I saw for this, just in case they change it:
The comments section of that video reads like youtube of old.