Like trumps kids? Look, Hunter was a real lawyer who had served on quite a few companies and boards. It is not uncommon to hire someone who yes- can do the job- but whose names makes the company look better.
Yes, Hunter did not pay the taxes he owed, He now has. And where he spent the money is not relevant.
He was getting paid for being a Biden. I don’t think this is a mystery for anyone. So far, all that’s been proven is that Hunter was skilled at using his name to make money. There’s no evidence that Joe was involved in any way whatsoever.
Breaking News! Child of a politician banks on parent’s name! The world is stunned!
Or as CCR put it:
It ain’t me, it ain’t me
I ain’t no senator’s son, son
It ain’t me, it ain’t me
I ain’t no furtunate one, no
Man, remember when those two goons were arrested at the airport as they were fleeing the country? What a scene! And that entire Presidential impeachment stuff, where POTUS threatens an ally to falsify evidence against his political opponent? Fantastic writing.
I just don’t understand how the writers came up with this ending. “Guilty of checking the wrong box”, wow, how dramatic. I don’t know about you, but I nearly snoozed during the last 15 minutes. And it was confusing - the President literally tried to fake an election, but it was his opponent’s son who was charged at the end?
Started so strong, and then evaporated more than any film in recent memory. Just a terrible waste of celluloid and bits.
Yes, but also he was qualified.
How much did trumps kids get paid- and they were not qualified?
Relevant to his guilt, or relevant to the tabloids? Trump’s trial for falsification of business records didn’t require any details of what happened between him and Stormy Daniels. It only required evidence that paying for her silence was not a legitimate legal expense. I read zero about legal expense accounting but more than I wanted too about what happened between them in Trump’s hotel room.
What “Ukrainian political influence” could the Bidens have been exerting during the first half of Trump’s presidency?
For what? Hunter Biden was manifestly unqualified for the corporate governance advisement he supposedly supplied to Burisma in Ukraine, but that was pre-2017. The allegation I posted above implies that HB was continuing to earn millions from 2017 to 2019. What output was he supplying to earn those millions and what made him qualified to produce that output?
And you base this on…?
He was being a Biden, and thus lending a patina of legitimacy and power to the company. Like it or not, that can be worth a lot of money.
No idea. You’re quoting a CBS article, not me. I don’t know what Hunter Biden was doing from 2017 to 2019 to get paid millions. I’m speculating that news organisations will be interested in that question in the next few months, and the answers won’t be mundane.
Of course they will.
But I’m not seeing, yet, how that’s going to be relevant to his; six misdemeanor counts of failure to file his tax returns and pay taxes, one felony count of tax evasion and two felony counts of filing a false return cases.
And his specific day-to-day duties in that position were…?
Point is, you don’t really know what was required of him in that role. But I’m sure flinging mud can be fun.
In an ideal world, prosecutors would concentrate on evidence and testimony of Hunter Biden’s income for the period in question and on the taxes he paid and explain to the jury why the taxes he didn’t pay constituted a crime. In the world we live in, it’s much more interesting to hear the salacious details of where the money came from. I’m betting the prosecution’s going to be interested in the world hearing the salacious bits.
In that case I’d bet this is going to set a new record in; Objection, revelancy. Sustained.
This is wrong.
It did require the details of what happened between him and Stormy Daniels, because what happened between him and Stormy Daniels was the predicate event that then required the payment of hush money.
The prosecution offered to stipulate that the affair had happened so that the details of what happened between Trump and Stormy Daniels didn’t need to be proved to the jury. Trump declined to stipulate, claiming instead that the incident never happened. That’s what necessitated the airing of the salacious details.
Actually I do know a bit about corporate governance. I also know that if a Ukrainian company at that time wanted to hire a UK based Russian speaking compliance officer with experience in the energy sector, there were plenty around. For lawyers in general, there are heaps of lawyers who’ve worked on deals involving Ukraine or Russia and BP, Shell, Exxon, etc. with Gazprom as the counterparty. Their were many more resources available with much better experience and much lower prices than Hunter Biden. They just lacked the Biden parentage.
Right, so he was getting paid to be a Biden. There’s no evidence of anything else.
I think it’s common to have people on the board who may have little or no experience with what the company does. It seems like many corporate boards have people whose skills are related to things like the ability to attract investors or facilitate networking with well-connected people. I would agree that Biden was hired for that purpose, but it’s not like he’s the the only person added to a board just because they are well-connected or have a recognized name. Or that adding such a person to a board is a sign of corruption. If someone really objects to that practice, I would expect them to be upset at many corporations for doing exactly the same thing as the Ukrainian power company.