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Hunter Biden Pardon Starting From 2014 Raises Burisma Questions (www.newsweek.com)

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Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
CounterPunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made
Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine

It’s a big, bipartisan imperialist club, and you ain’t in it.

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

Does it really though? Or have the Republicans already shown they want to go after any and everything they can to tarnish Biden so he just said "Fuck it, y'all get nothing!"

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Kinda, not really.

According to the indictment, Hunter Biden engaged in a four-year scheme in which he chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns. As alleged in the indictment, to further this scheme, Hunter Biden:

https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/robert-hunter-biden-convicted-three-felony-tax-offenses-and-six-misdemeanor-tax-offenses

10 years is about right to clear him of all that, and prevent his political opponents from continuing to use him for their political propaganda going into the future.