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"I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
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Originally posted by firstfloor View PostYou are a witness to the attempted murder of your democracy by Donald J Trump and the right-wing propaganda machine. I think you need to take this ongoing crime a little more seriously. History and God Himself will judge you too if you neglect your country in its hour of need.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by dirtfloor View PostIt is authoritarian censorship across all government agencies. The banana republic goes bananas.
Only news favorable to the dear leader ......Last edited by Mountain Man; 11-14-2019, 06:12 PM.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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The evidence and testimony is pretty clear that the President didn't commit a crime, so Democrats are again trying to change horses midstream. The new narrative is that Trump is guilty of "attempted crimes".
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...uster-hearing/Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostHunter Biden graduated from Yale Law School, then worked at a banking company for 4 years where he quickly worked his way up to the senior management team. He then took a position as an economic adviser in the US Department of Commerce, then co-founded a lobbyist firm. He served on the board of Amtrack for 3 years. He resigned from his existing positions after his father became VP, to avoid any conflicts of interest, and went and worked at a law firm, and also founded a global venture capitalist firm. After five years of working for those firms, he made a brief attempt to be a Navy Reserve officer but was discharged after a month for testing positive for cocaine (which, if rumors are to be believed, enjoys a very high use rate among people in the US financial industries). He then founded another venture capitalist firm with a focus on the investment of Chinese money abroad. A year later he agreed to serve on the board of Burisma.
So his CV going into the Burisma board job ticked the five boxes that people are usually looking for when they select people to serve on boards:
- Past experience serving on a board (3 years on the board of Amtrack)
- Legal knowledge (Legal degree + 5 years working as a lawyer)
- Experience in company management (worked in the senior management team of a banking company, founded multiple companies of his own)
- Experience in how companies are funded (worked with venture capitalist firms, a banking firm, a legal firm, founded his own companies)
- Has a web of personal contacts that might be useful to the company with regard to working with other companies going forward (worked with numerous people over the years in banking, his law firm, his venture capitalist firms)
In this case, the company owner also wanted famous board members to give the appearance of stability at a time when Russia was taking bites out of Ukraine. In that sense, Hunter Biden getting the job due to being famous is no worse that a celebrity getting a job to appear in an advertisement due to being famous.
Hunter Biden: The Most Comprehensive Timeline
From being appointed senior MBNA vice president (two years out of law school), to a gift of a 2.8-carat diamond from a Chinese energy tycoon, to Burisma Holdings . . .
Hunter Biden: The Most Comprehensive Timeline
By Jim Geraghty
September 30, 2019 6:30 AM
From being appointed senior MBNA vice president (two years out of law school), to a gift of a 2.8-carat diamond from a Chinese energy tycoon, to Burisma Holdings . . .
NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE
Late Summer 2006: Hunter Biden and his uncle, James Biden, purchase the hedge fund Paradigm Global Advisors. According to an unnamed executive quoted in Politico in August, James Biden declared to employees on his first day, “Don’t worry about investors. We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.” At this time, Joe Biden is months away from becoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and launching his second bid for president.
The unnamed executive who spoke to Politico charged that the purchase of the fund was designed to work around campaign-finance laws:
According to the executive, James Biden made it clear that he viewed the fund as a way to take money from rich foreigners who could not legally give money to his older brother or his campaign account. “We’ve got investors lined up in a line of 747s filled with cash ready to invest in this company,” the executive remembers James Biden saying.
Both James and Hunter Biden have denied to Politico that James had ever made these comments.
Up until that time, Hunter Biden had been employed as a consultant to the Delaware bank MBNA, with a $100,000-a-year retainer, according to the New York Times. The bank hired him fresh out of law school and in less than two years promoted him to senior vice president. Biden also separately worked as a lobbyist until 2008, founding the firm Oldaker Biden & Belair, where he represented mostly universities and hospitals but also drug companies such as Achaogen Inc. and Pulmatrix Inc., and the music-sharing company Napster and online gambling sites.
Hunter says he has never lobbied his father on any client matter. But the potential for the appearance of a conflict of interest allegedly troubled the senator at one point. According to court records in a lawsuit filed by former business partner Joseph Lotito, Joe Biden wanted Hunter Biden to find a different line of work because his presidential campaign would be greatly complicated if he remained the father of a Washington lobbyist.
January 5, 2007: Lotito sues James and Hunter Biden, contending that they cut him out of the purchase of Paradigm Global Advisors. Lotito’s suit claims that the firm is paying Hunter Biden an annual salary of $1.2 million. While Biden has worked for MBNA, he has never worked for a hedge fund or investment firm before....
The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by JimL View PostLook in the mirror, buddy.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Esther View PostI am certainly not a Trump hater. In fact I find him especially amusing as I can just imagine how apoplectic the liberal left gets at whatever he is saying or doing. I have also written down a list of why I like him and many of his policies. (It is quite long lol).
It is therefore very difficult to concede that after watching quite a bit of the impeachment hearing on the BBC News last night, I think the crux unfortunately is this: If your country does X, for ME, then my country will do Y for you/your country. Ouch! I wish very much this was not so. It is the X for ME that is problematic. It would be perfectly in order if it was X for my COUNTRY.
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostThe president is the elected representative of his country. You're attempting to draw a distinction between the man and his duties when it doesn't exist in this scenario.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostYou can get all the news you want digitally, ff. Come into the 21st century. Eliminate paper waste!!!
But you won't be able to line the bottom of your birdcage with the Washington Post.
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostThe president is the elected representative of his country. You're attempting to draw a distinction between the man and his duties when it doesn't exist in this scenario.
None of the principles have testified - and with no resolution the House Dems are willing to test in court and nothing to be gained by testifying (unless Bolton is out for blood - which I kinda doubt) maybe none ever will.
I wouldn't have thought that until yesterday - and I'd already expected this thing to be DOA."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostThe evidence and testimony is pretty clear that the President didn't commit a crime, so Democrats are again trying to change horses midstream. The new narrative is that Trump is guilty of "attempted crimes".
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...uster-hearing/
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