• anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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      21 days ago

      I bet more than half of us didn’t want him to go to jail for something that no one else would have gone to jail for if they weren’t a political pawn.

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          21 days ago

          Right, Hardly anyone goes to prison for tax evasion. Especially once it’s paid off.

          You could be liable for UP TO 5 years. Which means your have to be pretty fucking flagrant.

          Also he pled guilty, it wasnt the “minimum” bullshit you claim.

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            21 days ago

            Sure, but it was also the minimum they could convict him with in hopes to stop the investigations before they implicated the president and the rest of the family. He was the sacrificial lamb.

            It’ll be interesting to see if Congress calls him back to testify next year, since presumably he has no 5th amendment rights to claim to prevent testifying. And if he lies, his pardon won’t cover that or other future crimes.

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                21 days ago

                Maybe at the state level. Not federal.

                Are you pretending to be wildly uninformed, or just a bad actor refusing to acknowledge the alleged influence peddling operation this entire thing was about?

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              20 days ago

              it was also the minimum they could convict him with in hopes to stop the investigations before they implicated the president

              Literally what are you talking about. This wouldn’t have stopped future investigations, and unless you’re suggesting Biden held Hunter Biden’s hand and helped him grasp the pen that checked that box, there’s no sense in which he was implicated.