Let's look at the case against Hunter Biden and his laptop: A photo essay

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Let's look at the case against Hunter Biden and his laptop: A photo essay
Walter Einenkel
Daily Kos Staff
Friday November 18, 2022 · 3:54 PM EST
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Less than 24 hours after it became official that the Republican Party would now control the House in 2023, they held their first press conference to warn America that they were about to roll up their sleeves and solve America's problems! You might be wondering how they plan to do this. Are they going to propose a policy to tackle inflation? No. Are they going to make sure these elections—those they keep denying are real—are more secure? Nope! Are they going to launch a federal investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, because of his experience with addiction? Yes.

That’s what they are going to do. They also made it clear that this would be the GOP’s jumping-off point to investigate just about everything unrelated to policymaking they can find.

According to the Republicans on the dais, there is a very compelling case against Hunter Biden and governmental corruption. So why don’t we look at the case against the Bidens.

First, we have these devastating images worthy of indictment against Hunter.

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LOTS more...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/18/2137131/-A-photo-essay-of-all-the-times-Hunter-Biden-used-his-influence-to-make-that-big-money

[LakeArenal]

1. Those were fantastic.

[yardwork]

2. Gosh. I wonder why the media never mentions this... /sarcasm

[a kennedy]

3. 👏 👏 👏

[onecaliberal]

4. Yes! ALL of this!

[Walleye]

5. We need to make a law that everyone officially working in the White House has to take a salary

That’s how the trump’s got around the very sensible anti-nepotism law that was put in place after Robert Kennedy’s appointment as Attorney General

[blm]

6. #jaredslaptop

[OMGWTF]

17. Ivana's coffin!

[Initech]

7. Conservatives don't care. They've basically become content creators for right wing talk shows.

[SlimJimmy]

8. I certainly get your point, but whataboutism won't work here.

Hunter is in some real legal peril here. Unless you think he is completely innocent. In my opinion, he cannot simply explain some of these deals away.

[Lonestarblue]

23. The DOJ is already investigating Hunter Biden. There is no additional need for the House to

do so other than causing embarrassment for President Biden and try to weaken him for 2024. If Hunter is guilty of some crime, the DOJ will prosecute. It will be Benghazi all over again, with multiple hearings just for political theater.

[SlimJimmy]

24. The DOJ has been investigating Hunter Biden for nearly three years.

You would think they'd either drop it or move to indict. I'm not so sure they will prosecute the President's son. What do you think?

[COL Mustard]

33. Yes, Hunter is in some legal trouble. And he, like every other American citizen, should be

Accountable under the law. No exceptions. Now let's look at Javanka's finances, and of course, Daddy's.

[SlimJimmy]

37. Of course, thats only fair. And was the general point I was making.

Personally, I'm damn tired of the elite having a different standard than the rest of us.

[uponit7771]

9. K&R,

[Traildogbob]

10. Gym needs his office taped up with these photos.

God I hope Dems slam GQP and trump with this 24/7.

[yankee87]

11. Red meat for the mouth breathers

Trying to make another Benghazi, No one cares, and we learned to never let story get out in front of us. Voters categorically rejected this kind of BS.

[calimary]

12. I find myself wondering whether Ivanka ever had neck-lengthening surgery.

Every time I see photos of her.

I’m sure there’s no such procedure, but I swear, it looks abnormal. SHE looks abnormal.

Btw, I was just wondering aloud with my husband in the room. He responded with “her dad fucked a giraffe.”

[jmowreader]

16. I think it was more like...

“Her mom fucked a giraffe.” She isn’t shaped like either of her parents.

[diane in sf]

22. Barron is tall too, tallness is recessive. Her original nose is just like Ivanka's and her original

chin, or lack thereof came straight from Mango Mussolini.

[Straw Man]

25. It's not that her neck is long ...

It's just that she has a little teeny head.

[COL Mustard]

34. You owe me a new keyboard!!!!

I'll never get the coffee out of it!!!!

[Genki Hikari]

39. The neck can be extended

Some African and Asian cultures do it by putting more rings around the neck over time:



The bones don't change, but the muscles, tendons and all that can be altered if you do it consistently and long enough.

[Botany]

13. Everytime "they" talk about Hunter Biden's laptop "they" are giving out Russian talking points.

A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.
(this report was from the senate intelligence committee which at that time was run by republicans)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

As to Russia, the report leaves no doubt: In 2020, as in 2016, “President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations” to help Trump and hurt his Democratic opponent. For example, “Shortly after the 2018 midterm elections, Russian intelligence cyber actors attempted to hack organizations primarily affiliated with the Democratic Party.” Then, in late 2019, Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, “conducted a phishing campaign against subsidiaries of Burisma holdings, likely in an attempt to gather information related to President Biden’s family.” Throughout the 2020 election, agents “connected to the Russian Federal Security Service,” FSB, planted negative stories about Biden. Internet operatives working for the Kremlin, including the troll farm that had boosted Trump in 2016, continued to promote “Trump and his commentary, including repeating his political messaging.”

Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through “US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration,” the report says Russia’s intelligence services “repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his family’s alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine.” In this way, Trump’s circle “laundered” the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculated—and promoted by Russia’s online proxies—as American news.

[Hekate]

14. Excellent layout. Pass around widely.

[republianmushroom]

15. Nailed it

[NCjack]

18. Damn you Hunter Biden -- oh, wait. That's the Trump kid.

You are OK, girl. Just keep walking. No Problem.

Hunter Biden for President!

[bluboid]

19. this has got to be the most BRILLIANT RESPONSE of all time...

[GoCubsGo]

20. And, here is a photo of Hunter Biden's alleged laptop:

[rubbersole]

21. Every former government "employee" who then becomes a lobbyist...

..or employee of a government contractor needs to be exposed to the level of scrutiny that people who have "top secret" clearances get. Conflict of interest would be the norm. Marketing influence is what DC is all about. Not going to change anytime soon.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. K&R

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. Tell me again about Hunter and Joe Biden.

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[sellitman]

28. Good stuff

The crazies are about to take over and make this seem normal.

[CaptainTruth]

29. As someone who spent a couple decades in IP licensing...

...including running the global trademark licensing program for a popular & well-known set of trademarks, which at least 90% of you (perhaps 100% of you) have in your homes, it still pains me how many people don't understand the concept of defensive trademark registrations, & are steadfastly determined to purposefully not understand the concept of defensive trademark registrations.

What is a defensive trademark registration? It's when you register your trademarks in territories for classes of goods & services (COGS) that you have no intention of making, but you do it to prevent other companies in those territories from registering the same or similar trademarks in those COGS, which would imply that they're your products, when they're not. It's purely defensive & it's done all the time.

For example, our trademarks applied mainly to consumer & professional electronics technologies, but we had a laundry list of trademarks registered in China (& elsewhere around the world) for things like clothing & furniture, things we didn't make, purely as defensive registrations to ensure that no Chinese company could register similar trademarks in those COGS & create market confusion & trademark dilution by implying that they were our products.

If anyone is involved in politics & has a brand (for example the "Trump" brand) any brand manager who isn't a total idiot would advise them to make defensive trademark registrations for things in politics-related COGS like voting machines, to prevent a Chinese company from selling "Trump Voting Machines." This is standard business practice by any smart brand/IP manager & it's done all the time. It would be IP mismanagement & malpractice if they DIDN'T do it.

Which is the source of my frustration. I know Trump is slimy & there may be more to the registrations than standard everyday good IP management, & if there's something nefarious then YES I want to know about it, but I & my company & thousands of other American companies have spent decades doing the exact same thing... so are we all automatically involved in some evil plot with China? The number of people who just jump to that conclusion without understanding the reality of the situation, while showing absolutely no desire to understand the situation, is what is truly distressing.

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Thanks, that was informative.

Don't think any better of 45 because of it, but then nothing could do that.

[cstanleytech]

30. I predict that this stunt by the Republicans will not fly well with moderate voters which is what

they need to win over if they do not want a repeat of the ripple in a kiddie pool that they had with the 2022 elections.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

32. Very good. Wish D's would actually use this approach. Jr, Eric, Jared & Ivanka

did X,. Where is the evidence that HB did this ???

[Rebl2]

35. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[SWBTATTReg]

36. Poor laptop has got to be obsolete by now, and unable to even hold 1/100th of the data that

republican scumbags claim it holds. And more importantly, is there even a laptop? I doubt it.

[SlimJimmy]

38. According to the FBI, it exists. Ymmv.

And more importantly, is there even a laptop? I doubt it.

[Genki Hikari]

40. At this point, any defense lawyer

would get the laptop thrown out as evidence over the glaring chain of custody problems it has. No telling what happened to it between Hunter supposedly dropping it off until it got into the hands of a legit investigator. Too many people with a motive got their grimy hands on it in between.

Without the laptop, the case will fall apart.

I don't think Hunter Biden did anything other than what children of well-connected people have also done. The r thugs are simply being their typically whiny, desperate and dishonest selves.