The Biden Crime Family (a.k.a. "Biden is an honest guy"

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Originally Posted by whell

The fungible money has been circulating in the Biden family for years. Comer and company might not ultimately make the case stick in court. But there's plenty of evidence of political influence pedaling going back years. Here, in case you chose to ignore it in WaPo, just another example:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...be/ar-AA1lCEki

Scruggs turned to Biden’s younger brother James, an old acquaintance who ran a D.C. consulting firm with his wife, Sara.

Scruggs paid the firm $100,000 in 1998 for advice on passing the bill, Scruggs said in an interview at his office here — the first time he has disclosed the amount.

“I probably wouldn’t have hired him if he wasn’t the senator’s brother,” Scruggs said. (Joe) Biden eventually backed the bill, which ultimately failed to pass Congress.

“Jim was never untoward about his influence,” Scruggs said. “He didn’t brag about it or talk about it. He didn’t have to. He was the man’s brother.”

Once again, you're getting out over your skis. From the article:

James and Sara Biden’s ties to Scruggs also later brought them to the periphery of a sweeping federal investigation, one that eventually led to the trial lawyer’s epic downfall in 2008 over a bribery scheme...

Neither James Biden nor his brother was charged or accused of wrongdoing in the case, which led to prison for Scruggs and several of his associates, including James Biden’s would-be partners.

You seem to be naively unaware of how lobbying works in DC and how people use whatever connections they have, family or otherwise (or their own past Congressional service) to wield influence on K St. If you want an example of highly profitable lobbying by a Congressional family member, look no further than Tommy Boggs, perhaps the most successful and influential DC lobbyist for decades. His father was House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and his mother was Lindy Boggs who took her husband's seat after his death in a plane crash. Together they served in Congress from 1947-1991 and their son was one of DC's most powerful lobbyist for many of those same years. Such lobbying is a constitutional right (First Amendment's right to petition government), even for family members of politicians.

What isn't a constitutional right is a corrupt quid pro quo, something very difficult to prove (refer to the overturning of VA Gov. Bob McDonnell's conviction and Sen. Bob Menendez's 2018 acquittal). In both of these cases, charges were brought after lengthy investigations for what appeared to be profoundly corrupt conduct, but resulted in a mistrial and subsequent acquittal (Menendez) and reversal upon appeal (McDonnell).

In the James Biden case you link to, a lengthy investigation occurred but did not result in any charges against James Biden nor any evidence of any corrupt quid pro quo by Joe Biden. If you actually gave a shit about such things, you would have been on the barricades as a result of Trump's own conduct during his presidency and most certainly that of Jared Kushner. Instead, we heard nothing from you.

I'm content to let the facts play out on this 25 year old event, something very unlikely to occur under a dishonest and disingenuous clown like James Comer.