WTF? CNN just said that the DOJ's "investigation into HUNTER BIDEN is picking up steam."

[panader0]

So the kingpins of J-6 seem to be escaping investigation, but a guy who had zero to do with the
insurrection is facing mounting scrutiny. Now if our POTUS replaces Garland he'll definitely look
crooked, doing it only to protect his son, and not because of the lack of progress against the
former administration.
Something is pretty weird.

[Emile]

1. If this is true, this country is in deep trouble. Fascism

is taking over our government.

[3Hotdogs]

3. Change "is taking " to "took" and ya got

post of the year. (Second sentence).

[JohnSJ]

23. We are in deep trouble, but not because of this. This is not new, and has been going on for some

some time, regarding Hunter Biden’s business dealings. It has nothing to do with President Joe Biden, and why CNN is highlighting this now, even though it is old news, is for the same reason that CNN thought it important to say “the email investigation has been reopened, 11 days before the election, even though that was untrue, and to parade every right wing pundit across they screen perpetuating that lie”

It stirs things up, and they can push their “breaking news” oled burn-in logo, every chance they get, to attract viewers.

The biggest risk we have is that Democrats don’t stay United at the polls, and they don’t bother to vote

[JonAndKatePlusABird]

26. OLED Burn-in Logo

Laughed out loud at that one. My OLED has MSNBC’s “breaking news” banner burned in. Haven’t watched MSNBC in months either, that sucker is burned in and not going anywhere!

[JohnSJ]

30. Thanks. That is one reason, besides cost, why I didn't jump into an oled set because of the

potential for burn-in.

Plasmas had similar issues

[uponit7771]

53. +1, on that front was reading a RECENT MAGA MEDIA polls were Dems are within MOE on generic ...

... ballot and only 7 points down on interest in voting.

That's GREAT for a prez who's approval is in the low 40s and RTWT is in the 70s.

We have a chance

[JohnSJ]

55. As long as we stay United and GOTV, absolutely

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. The far right doesn't have much to fight with. Their

Arguments and conspiracy theories are falling apart. Making as much noise about Hunter as rhey can is about all they have.

[Aristus]

40. Just like with HRC, the repukes don't have to have anything substantive.

They just have to shout the words “Hunter Biden” and “investigation” as often as they can on TV.

[Celerity]

4. CNN link

Federal investigation of Hunter Biden heats up

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/hunter-biden-federal-investigation-heats-up/index.html

Washington (CNN) A Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden's business activities has gained steam in recent months, with a flurry of witnesses providing testimony to federal investigators and more expected to provide interviews in the coming weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

The probe, led by the US Attorney in Wilmington, Delaware, began as early as 2018 and concerns multiple financial and business activities in foreign countries dating to when Biden's father was vice president. Investigators have examined whether Hunter Biden and some of his associates violated money laundering, tax and foreign lobbying laws, as well as firearm and other regulations, multiple sources said.

To do so, law enforcement has gathered information from lobbyists connected to Hunter Biden, from his business partners, and from others who've observed his financial engagements, including a woman with whom he had a child. Hunter Biden has not been charged with any crimes and has denied any wrongdoing. His father, President Joe Biden is not being investigated as part of the probe of his son's business activities, according to sources who have been briefed.

But the ongoing investigation has persistently raised questions about the ethics and behavior of the President's son and fueled right-wing political attacks. In 2019, then-President Donald Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate the Bidens over Hunter's work for Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, eventually leading to Trump's first impeachment.

snip

[Vinca]

5. This has to be BS that was originally pulled from the Tucker Carlson rectum.

They should be focusing on the upper levels of the food chain that tried to take down our government. Elie Mystal made a great comment on MSNBC a couple of days ago. They were talking about January 6 and Elie said something like "Shhhh, you might wake up Merrick Garland." That feels about the size of it. Does the AJ sit in his office and count paper clips all day or what????

[gab13by13]

6. It was not Garland who started investigating Hunter.

The Feds have been investigating Hunter since 2018. I know, I'm not supposed to know that because DOJ doesn't leak.

[uponit7771]

36. Garland didn't stop the bullshit either, that's the point. We KNOW this is pointless bullshit ...

... throughout the article there is NOT ONE charge that relates to actions of Biden's son

[kairos12]

66. Exactly.

I think this investigation has gone on longer than Muellers.

What a bunch of horseshit.

[pwb]

7. I say it is not.

So who is right? Cable just spews out shit to see what sticks for the days talkers to discuss. I cant watch the puke owned cable news and C-span anymore. They are all against us, all of them.

[Celerity]

8. Btw, there is almost zero chance Biden replaces Garland before 2025, and likely not then

[FBaggins]

11. Certainly not based on this

It would obviously seem highly trump-esque to fire the AG because he was investigating your son and hadn't arrested your political opponents.

[gab13by13]

19. Garland did not investigate Hunter,

the investigation began under Barr.

[FBaggins]

32. He didn't BEGIN the investigation, but he hasn't stopped it either

Firing him at this point would clearly be associated by many with the decisions he's made re: the two investigations (one desired by the right and the other by the left).

And... of course... that would precisely fit why some are calling for his replacement.

[abqtommy]

9. Color me sceptical. CNN is not on my personal list of approved news sources. nt

[FBaggins]

10. The story actually refutes your impression

Ignoring the relative truth behind the two stories - whatever happened with Hunter Biden that DOJ might be investigating happened years before the events of J-6. The fact that the first might be "picking up steam" before the second is evidence that the "TFG should have been in jail 24 hours later!!" crowd doesn't understand how the DOJ operates.

[uponit7771]

35. Please stop, you know that's not the totality of ire with DOJ. people are hurting enough

[Johnny2X2X]

14. Sarcasm?

There is no laptop he left at some repair shop run by a blind man. That was simply invented by Right Waing conspiracy nuts.

[Azathoth]

15. There's no laptop?

Does this come from the same sources who revealed the microchips being put in vaccines?

[Johnny2X2X]

17. LOL

Are you a troll? Yes, there was no laptop left at a small repair shop run by a blind man 3,000 miles away from where Hunter Biden lives. You're peddling Tucker Carlson conspiracy theories, Tucker said someone was sending Hunter Biden's laptop to him, but it got lost in the mail.

[NutmegYankee]

18. A receipt for 3 Mac Books, $85

Ridiculously low repair cost for one. Second, Apple uses a different file format for hard disks than windows. Windows will not run an Apple formatted drive. Giuliani was showing off an LG laptop running windows. It doesn’t compute.

Keep in mind, if I hack your mail server account, I can download emails to any computer. I can then put anything on that computer and say it was yours.

[brooklynite]

13. "So the kingpins of J-6 seem to be escaping investigation"

We've decided that not only is Trump not going to be prosecuted, he's not even being investigated? Care to share your evidence?

[panader0]

20. Well Brooklyn, I have no evidence except what has so far come to pass.

And, by the way, I said "seem to be", not "are escaping". When CNN has a headline like
that (picking up steam), it is distressing to me. You must admit that when the DOJ leaks
that H B is being investigated, and nary a word, so far, that Trump is, it seems hinkey.
I have been one of those who was in the 'wait and see' mode about the DOJ, but with this
news I am starting to lose patience. It's past time now for news about the kingpins of J-6,
not some bs story about the POTUS's son.
I think I've been a patient Democrat, but I'm losing my patience, and I'm not alone. Even the
members of the J-6 committee are losing it too.

[brooklynite]

24. I posted AG Garland's interview with NPR; should I believe his comments or not?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

37. So you seem to be saying that the evidence is that there is no evidence?

That's what I'm taking from your post.

[panader0]

38. There's a boatload of evidence against Trump, and not just about J-6.

Basically zero against H Biden (that I'm aware of). But who gets the headline?
My patience is getting thin. How about your patience?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

63. You misunderstand me,

I meant that you seem to think that just because you haven't heard from the DoJ on the progress of the investigation, then there is no investigation happening.

[JohnSJ]

16. Here is the link to the CNN report

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/politics/hunter-biden-federal-investigation-heats-up/index.html

This has nothing to do with Joe Biden, and has been going on for a while

Typical of CNN to try and cast shade on the President by implication, when this is nothing new, and has nothing to do with Joe Biden

I guess because recent reports about trump’s son have been in the news, Commercial filled CNN saw the need to play both side risks.

Today, Bloomberg has someone named Greg Valliere spewing how Biden will be a one-term president, blaming his catering to the progressive agenda as the problem.

“No tax bill, urban crime, inflation, etc. The progressives have failed completely on their agenda. No defund the police, no Medicare For All, no wealth tax, so the idea that Biden should try and ingratiate himself makes no sense. He has to move to the center and stay in the center.” According to Valliere, AGF investments chief US policy strategist”

Bloomberg asked Valliere the question, “isn’t that what most analysts/commentators outside the party like yourself say, he went too far, while most progressives in the Democratic Party say he didn’t go far enough? However, when you compare them to the republicans, yes there is a fringe group in the republicans that a lot of lifelong republicans do not like, and they are taking the republicans in the wrong direction, except the republicans are more unified that the Democrats will never be during the election”

Valliere responded “that the biggest risk for the republicans is that they over play their hand, on issue after issue, gay rights, abortion, a wide range of things, along with more scandals coming to light on trump, and the biggest enemy of the republicans is themselves, and they cause themselves self-inflicted wounds”

It is a pretty bleak assessment, and no doubt Valliere seems quite bias for a centrist policy, but the one point he unintentionally suggested, is if the Democrats stick together, like the republicans do, in spite of disagreements at election time, we can prevail.

Tom Keene then made the following observation. “The number of republicans in California used to represent about 30% of the state’s population, a minority in a Democratic state, however, Keene noted that registered republicans in California have decreased to 24%, which is a 17% decline in registered republicans in California in 4 or 5 years, and Keene’s point was that the calculus for the upcoming elections are anything but normal, and anything can happen.

[LiberalFighter]

21. What happened to the DOJ not commenting on cases?

[kairos12]

67. You forget the Comey Rule.

Only comment on Democrat cases.

[samsingh]

22. the justice department can't investigate repubs but has a lot of time for Hunter Biden

[we can do it]

25. This makes me sick.

[uponit7771]

34. +1, if this is true I'm so ... sooooooooooooooo fuckin done

[doc03]

27. So Trump asked Putin to get dirt on Hunter Biden, the next morning we hear

DOJ's investigation into Hunter Biden is picking up steam.

[Cosmocat]

31. Right?

mere coincidence, I am sure ...

[former9thward]

41. The story has been out there, just not on CNN

Recent developments date from February. This is from the Wall Street Journal

Prosecutors Advance Tax Probe of Hunter Biden
Grand jury heard witness in February about past drug use, spending habits of president’s son

A federal tax investigation into Hunter Biden is gaining momentum as prosecutors gather information from several of his associates about the sources of his foreign income, including from Ukraine, and examine President Biden’s son’s relationship with a company that handled some of his finances, according to people familiar with the matter.

In recent weeks, prosecutors from the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware have sought information and grand-jury testimony about the money Mr. Biden received several years ago from Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings Ltd., and how he used that money to pay some obligations, one of those people said.

Last month, prosecutors also extensively questioned at least one other associate of Hunter Biden about Mr. Biden’s drug and alcohol use, spending habits and state of mind in 2018, another person said, suggesting prosecutors are exploring whether such activity would present a defense against a potential criminal tax case.

Prosecutors often seek to get such testimony on the record to secure it before the defense gets a chance to present it more favorably at trial. “It doesn’t necessarily mean an indictment is imminent, but it is indicative of trying to lock in testimony with an eye towards a potential trial someday,” said former federal tax prosecutor Matt Mueller, of the law firm Fogarty Mueller Harris, who isn’t involved in the investigation.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/prosecutors-advance-tax-probe-of-hunter-biden-11648465200

There may be a paywall on this, I don't know.

[Blaukraut]

61. Exactly. Funny, that. n/t

[PRETZEL]

28. I'm calling BS in every sense of the word

Let's see,

Trump appointed USA in 2018,

Investigation started shortly thereafter,

The same laptop where they can't verify Hunter Biden's signature (let alone verify he came all the way from CA just to drop it off to a repair shop he didn't know),

The same laptop where people claim it was his because it had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it,

The same laptop that Rudy Guilliani suppoesedly to to New York,

The same laptop that only comes up when it's convenient to deflect from Trump stories,

Yeah, I believe every word of this story

[Arazi]

39. I think they're investigating but the chain of custody issues will sink it

No way can they verify the chain of custody on any laptop purported to be Hunter Biden’s.

Rudy Giuliani probably did get shitty Hunter Biden emails from the Russians (another reason #Traitor is asking for more) but how they got on a hinky laptop run thru a shady computer repair shop won’t pass the sniff test

[Arazi]

29. DOJ either has leaks of investigations or it doesn't. Which is it?

Been scolded for MONTHS that DOJ doesn’t leak, have patience, Garland is on the case!!$&@

Now we have this leak on Hunter Biden… 🧐

Which I actually believe is happening. Hunter Biden spent a few seriously addicted years where he made a lot of massively bad judgement calls.

Joe Biden’s right to let any investigation proceed. Hunter is his own grown man who is facing his own demons. It’s not pretty.

I’m hoping he didn’t cross the legal lines but addiction fucks people up.

[former9thward]

42. The DOJ does not have to leak.

There are witnesses to Grand Juries and they leak. Their lawyers leak. The lawyers for a potential defendant leak their versions. There is nothing stopping anyone from leaking. That is how these stories get out.

[Arazi]

43. But nothing about J6 investigations... how convenient

[former9thward]

44. I don't think there are any serious investigations going on about J6

That is to say nothing above the nobody losers that were arrested and no one really cares about. We certainly do know about those cases.

[uponit7771]

33. omfg, if this is true we're fucked as a country ... omfg, I'm so done ... so deflated if this is tru

[Blue Owl]

45. I bet Don Jr. is drinkin' cocaine this morning

[AngryOldDem]

46. This is why I'm more convinced by the day that Trumpworld won't be held accountable.

This is just one more smokescreen and also a confluence of too many strange things: Prosecutors who come close to having enough evidence to file suddenly back off, but admit probable criminality — they can’t seem to even bust Trump on blatant fraud. This development. Merrick’s seeming inaction. The apparent impotence of the Jan. 6 committee and its myriad contempt citations.

The clock is ticking on this. And, as you say, if this is indeed true, Biden’s hands are tied in terms of moving this along.

I’m tired of being told to just wait and have faith in the process, that three-dimensional chess is being played, that there’s stuff going on behind the scenes. Show some of these hands, already. It’s increasingly clear to me that we’re fucked, and the system has been truly destroyed from within.

ETA: Morning Joe played a clip of Trump on a right-wing news channel, and he was directly asking Putin to pass on any information on Hunter Biden. Just like with HRC’s e-mails. The balls on this guy are huge, but is it any wonder he says shit like this? It’s because he gets away with it!

[uponit7771]

49. +1, the investigation into HB is 100% MAGA Media bullshit that the DOJ should not even be ...

.. involved in federally because at the most they are misdemeanor charges if he was guilty of all of it.

No seriously, they're investigating where HB got 45k to pay a tax lein !!!

Like someone with HBs money can't get access to 45k !!!

The "gun" accusation is LITERALLY should HB have access to a gun while he was additicted to drugs ?!?!!

WTF ?! That's not even a federal level offense !!!

The other BS is "allegations" HB was being overpaid at Burisma when CLEARLY there were others being pair MORE than him !!

The DOJ is spending 2 seconds on this stupid shit vs investigating Putrids Whore asking him for more help yesterday !!!!

[AngryOldDem]

50. You saw the Morning Joe clip?

My god, the audacity — on so many levels.

[uponit7771]

51. TFG? Yes, and just for emphasis I'm wondering how much time they'll spend on TFGs treason vs ..

... Biden saying what all decent human beings think policy or not !?

The M$M ... NO DOUBT ... has a anti Biden bias after claiming the Poland speech gaffe was news worthy.

[Demsrule86]

57. It wasn't a gaffe and he did not walk it back and I agree that Putin needs to go...we can't do it

but I sure hope someone in Russia can.

[uponit7771]

58. +1,

[Demsrule86]

60. Thank you...this sort of thing makes me sick. And I know Biden wants to save justice by not

making it political but I think the guy needs to go for leaking.

[UCmeNdc]

47. DOJ cannot investigate Trump or his relatives but can investigate Biden's relatives easily?

Wow!

[Mike Nelson]

48. I think...

... this will be like Hillary's emails. The investigation into Hunter Biden will go on for years. If Republicans win in November, expect more investigations. They will say it's tied to Joe Biden. There will be calls for an impeachment...

[Takket]

52. I was just coming here to post that article

I read it and I’m absolutely LIVID right now. Look if Hunter broke the law and DOJ wants to look into it, fine, go ahead. He deserves the same treatment as anyone else.

But at the same time after over a YEAR of absolute CRICKETS on the insurrection masterminds, somehow THIS leaks out??? This is HEATING UP????

WHAT THE FUCK!!!

[uponit7771]

54. Same, I'm more angry than hurt that the DOJ has resources for this level of MAGA Media stupidity ..

... which wont even amount to misdemeanor charges !!

[Demsrule86]

56. This is a puke holdover...Trump appointed him. I think Biden should fire him for the leak.

[uponit7771]

59. +1, ... the DOJ is wasting resources on bullshit MAGA Media allegations

[Emile]

62. Kicking

[andym]

64. Hunter Biden case removes the 'DOJ is biased' excuse when Trump and his men are indicted

so there is a positive aspect-- no man is above the law under Joe Biden's DOJ. Even the media will be forced to admit the neutrality of the DOJ.

[kairos12]

65. Well-now we

know that the DOJ is actually quite busy.

Apparently.

[Wingus Dingus]

68. LOL.