The witnesses and Republicans on the panel argued that more bank records from Biden and his son Hunter Biden are needed to determine whether a crime might have been committed.

Comer said in his opening statement that Biden family members and their associates “raked in over $20 million between 2014 and 2019” from foreign sources. “What were the Bidens selling to make all this money? Joe Biden himself,” he said.

  • Snorf@reddthat.comOP
    14·
    1 year ago

    I mean, he didn’t have much power during this time, and most of it he didn’t even have a job. I would be making money off of my name, too. Isn’t that what all politicians do when they aren’t in office?

    • bemenaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      If it that were true, which isn’t tied to this case, nothing that has been done is illegal. There is no payment to Joe Biden, period.

    • underisk@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      Being a politician or related to one doesn’t give you the right to take barely veiled bribes just because you dont want to get a real job like some peasant.

      Do all politicians do it? Yeah. Do I think that makes it right? No. Is this just a blatantly hypocritical republican smear campaign that ultimately won’t go anywhere? Absolutely.

      • m0darn@lemmy.ca
        10·
        1 year ago

        What do you allege Joe Biden or his family was bribed to do while Joe Biden was a private citizen?

        • underisk@lemmy.ml
          3·
          1 year ago

          Bribes don’t have to be for a specific thing you want right this second dude. Garnering favor with those close to or in power doesn’t need an explicit predefined goal. Just because he wasn’t literally holding public office at the time doesn’t mean he didn’t have any political power, or that it was somehow unlikely that he’d ever hold a public office again.

          • m0darn@lemmy.ca
            5·
            1 year ago

            Bribery has to be for something specific.

            Garnering favor with those close to or in power doesn’t need an explicit predefined goal. Just because he wasn’t holding public office at the time doesn’t mean he didn’t have any political power, or that it was somehow unlikely that he’d ever hold a public office again.

            I agree, but it’s not bribery of Joe Biden if someone gives a gift to his son.

            • underisk@lemmy.ml
              1·
              1 year ago

              Well they couldn’t exactly hire Joe himself. Giving his embarrassing son a well paying do nothing job far away from the US to keep him out of trouble could be seen as a gift, depending on his level of involvement.