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Comer’s Latest Biden ‘Bombshell’ Appears to Be Nothing More Than Hunter Repaying $4,000 in Car Payments

www.mediaite.com Comer’s Latest Biden ‘Bombshell’ Appears to Be Nothing More Than Hunter Repaying $4,000 in Car Payments

James Comer released a new piece of "evidence" claiming that Hunter Biden was funneling money to Joe Biden, but a tiny bit more investigating proved it wasn't much of a bombshell after all.

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What this actually proves is that Hunter Biden made good on a loan from his father, and kept track of these repayments on an actual spreadsheet.

No wonder Republicans are so upset, this might establish a precedent that people ought to repay loans, and not just leave others on the hook for them
- That’s what they already think. See student loans and Biden.
  
  And here I thought they were for predatory loans driving people into bankruptcy but not allowing them to offload the debt unless it's a corporation.
  
  See Biden and student loan forgiveness.
  
  Which paradoxically differs from how they view PPP loans. Or is it hypocritically?
- Clearly, the Republicans must impeach Biden now. Do you know how much this could hurt Trump if "people have to pay back their debts" catches on?!!!
- Clarence Thomas is whistling as he passes by.
  
  Brett Kavanaugh is sobbing as he passes by.
- Not quite. Tehy want people to mostly repay loans, but clearly not rich people!!!
I'm actually impressed. The Republicans are managing to strengthen my faith in Biden by trying, and failing miserably, to dig up any sort of scandal. While I wasn't expecting billions in China money or anything, I really was just expecting literally every politician to have some level of financial fraud. I was going to vote for Biden again anyway because A. Solid tract record with Infrastructure Act, Green New Deal, and Safer Communities Act, and B. Not Trump, but I would actually even say I'm rather happy with him compared to my (admittedly very low) expectations.

Now, if only I could say the same for a large chunk of congress.
- You've also not been an international laughing stock these last few years which always helps.
So... wait... if Hunter was so low on cash that his dad was having to cover his car loan, and Hunter repaid back that money... then doesn't that mean he WASN'T getting millions and millions from China?
- You're expecting this to be rational.
So Hunter paid Joe about $4100 over three months when neither of them were government employees or office holders.

Next they'll bring out evidence Joe paid for hunter's orthodontics in 82 and that proves they've been in cohoots the whole time.
- No way, these people are exchanging gifts like they're family or something. What has this world become?
  
  What, giving gifts to family instead of stealing from them?!?
  
  #NotMyPresident
You mean to say their blatant attempt to finger point and shift focus away from their party's misdeeds turned out to be nothing?

Shocked.
Let's be fair, I can see how Republicans would find it unusual or strange to pay back a debt.
- Or that an exchange of money can be done without needing to cover something up
how much time and money have been wasted on this effort lead by conservatives?
- It's not wasted if it gets their constituents to vote for them.
- Don’t call them conservative, they don’t conserve fucking shit.
  
  I like to refer to them as Republicunts, but I switch it to Republicants when I want to be polite.
  
  Extremist Reactionaries or Regressives works for me.
- More of both than it would take to keep medicare, medicaid and social security solvent in perpetuity.
  
  universal healthcare would be cheaper than what we pay now.
  
  but both conservatives and democrats dont want universal healthcare.. now go figure out why
I'm not a fan of Biden. I held my nose when voting for him. But if all these investigations can't turn up ONE thing besides for Hunter's huge cock then the Biden's are way less corrupt then I thought. That's a pleasant surprise!
- How huge are we talking? Asking for a me.
  
  Big enough that MTG, known swinger, entered pictures of it into the Congressional record. Shes got her eyes on that dick.
- So what exactly made you think he was corrupt to begin with?
Everything they do is a fucking joke.
Worthless fucking degenerates.
It's disappointing how the selective omission of information can make something innocuous seem so damning.
- Hunter Biden's whole life was turned inside and out in 2014 when he joined the board of Burisma. The Republicans tried to make it a scandal then but he was cleared of any wrongdoing or nepotism by the Office of Government Ethics in 2014. I literally cannot even find those stories anymore because of how the media resurrected the story and saturated the public record to create a fake scandal. Like yeah, he probably got the job because of his last name, but the only reason Burisma wanted his last name is because this was a company dedicated to the sole goal of getting Ukraine off of dependence on Russian oil and for that it needed credibility in the West, who cares about that?
I want to comment on that website. Did it just back load 3 or 4 more articles i had to back out of to leave the site? thats fucking new... It used those weird blue bars to hide the loading i think?

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