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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Biden/s Sttatement on the Pardon
Date: 12/02/24 6:19 PM
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Lol, I can't resist. So what about all of the willful and knowing tax evasion that Trump has committed ?? :-)

The willful and knowing tax evasion that prosecutors don't have evidence of? Seems pretty likely that if prosecutors - state or federal - had actual evidence that could support a criminal charge of tax evasion against Trump personally (rather than cases against his companies), they would have brought those charges.

If Trump deserved to be prosecuted for his white collar crimes, then so did Hunter. I've spilled a lot of virtual ink on these boards defending the decisions to prosecute Trump for the provable crimes he committed, arguing that one shouldn't get a pass because of a political dimension to an otherwise straightforward criminal case. Yes, Trump was in the spotlight because he was super-famous and under a lot of scrutiny - but if that scrutiny reveals a crime, then it is just and appropriate to prosecute the crime even if he would have had a chance to fly under the radar and not get caught if he had been less famous.

For Biden Sr. to now claim that DoJ did something wrong in prosecuting Hunter - or that there's any aspect of DoJ's pursuit of Hunter's case that merits a Presidential pardon apart from him being the President's son - is just wrong. And it undermines DoJ's claim that it functions as an neutral law enforcement agency independent of politics in making its prosecution decisions, at the very time when they most need that message to be heard and believed.
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