candide

Again, you have nothing. What has Joe Biden done apart from shaking hands. There is no matter related to these partners which Biden could have influenced. They have not got a procurement from the government, they have not got a special authorisation from the government. All their business activities were related to private firms, not related to government.

What truth? What has Joe Biden done that deserves an investigation? What is hidden? His tax information has been published for 22 years and everyone can check it (unlike another politician I will not cite).

This gun case is actually interesting and paradoxal. Hunter may be accused of lying to the government because he declared he was not using drugs when he bought the gun. However, he may also avoid being convicted because he was using drugs.

As concerns drugs, which was the topic discussed, the most efficient way to reduce the amount of drug smuggled would be to better control the main flow of drugs: the one hiding drugs in shipments which are apparently legitimate: trucks and train carrying commercial and industrial shipments. Any suggestion?

Why this obsession with public viewing? Hunter is currently being investigated by a Republican prosecutor in relation with the IRS. Why should a private citizen who is neither a politician nor employed by the government be investigated by a House committee? And on matters which are not public matters?

I understand, but there's no "justification" in his post. Just expressing ( maybe not formulated in a precise enough way), that illegal goods are usually hidden inside shipments of goods which are not illegal.

How can you understand this as a justification for something illegal? Quote from Placeholder's post "drugs are mostly brought over via shipments of perfectly legitimate shipments of manufactured goods from Mexico."

You are being dishonest. He never claimed it was legal to ship drug. He claimed drug was hidden into shipments of legal goods. You should read posts before replying.

Obviously, who would trust anything brought up by Giuliani on face value?

So, if I understand well, you are advocating that, in case Hunter is not found guilty enough by a court (his financial activity is currently officially investigated, by a Trump appointee), he should be then be judged by the court of Public opinion, by disclosing his financial transactions with prostitutes to the public?

As already commented by Placeholder, that's not how drug enters the U.S. As they can easily be spotted and arrested, it's not a reliable way for drug traffickers.

Considering the current right-wing propaganda campaign about Hunter by distorting facts and by fake news, it is understandable they may not want documents to be used in such a distorted way, and would hand them over only to a House committee. Note that if it's only about oversight and not about propaganda, House reps are still allowed to investigate by reviewing these records: Quote: "Congressional staffers can now only review those records in-person and cannot make copies."

Has Hunters defense used it or is it just another speculation by the NYPost?

It had all the attributes of a Russian disinformation: found by a right-winger coming up with a strange story; brought by Giuliani (known for misinformation and his pro-Russia informers), only given to one single biased right-wing media, and not to all media, no metadata, etc... if the disclosers wanted to make it look like a disinformation, they could not have done it better! Not to mention the reputation of Trump and the right-wing from diffusing fake news and conspiracy theories: birtherism, pizzagate, etc..., including coming from Russia (INC/Crowdstrike). Not to mention either the Russian attempts to influence the previous elections. When people have a proven record of lying, they should be surprised when no one believes them.

As usual, Trump has been caught with pants on fire! ???? National Archives Calls Out Trump for Lying About George Bush Storing Docs in Chinese Restaurant https://news.yahoo.com/national-archives-calls-trump-lying-162721132.html

"New York population" and "Texas population" Census Bureau indicated as source

From this article, it seems the origin of the unproved claim that Hunter received $3.5 million from Russia is a Facebook post used by Trump. ???? "The president had raised the issue Sept. 27 in a news conference in which he said the allegations "are all questions that are very, very big on the internet." The claim was also posted by a Facebook user on Sept. 26. "How did Robert Mueller do a 2 yr investigation on Russia and miss a $3.5 million payment to the Biden family?," the user wrote, adding "#askingforafriend." And "USA TODAY asked the Facebook user who posted the claim for a comment but did not get an immediate reply." ????

You must have used another search engine than Google. First numbers on top of page are 28/8.

"The GOP will bring forward any evidence discovered during the planned, televised open investigations." So you acknowledge there is currently no evidence. We can at least agree on that.

The mess has been left by Trump. Trump had already nullified the U.S. negotiating power by signing this unbalanced agreement. There was no way it could be solved by Biden without bringing back troops and starting a fight. And no one in the U.S. wanted that. Had Biden done that, you would blame him for re-starting a conflict.

So as usual, Trump signed an agreement he could brag about and started withdrawing troops, while leaving the key issues as wishful thinking... It's not surprising it went wrong.

Someone claiming that Putin has been "taunted" by the U.S., at a time he is threatening to use nuclear weapons, is not off-topic. Even if stated by a previous POTUS.

And as usual, the orange guy is supporting his country! ???? "They actually taunted him, if you really look at it, our country and our so-called leadership taunted Putin," Trump said. "I would listen, I would say, you know, they're almost forcing him to go in with what they're saying. The rhetoric was so dumb." https://news.yahoo.com/trump-blames-us-almost-forcing-095031733.html

The Soviet Union has been dissolved in December 1991. Russia officially and legally exited the Soviet Union before that, in June 1991 (even before Ukraine in August). If promised have been made (this is contested, but never mind), they have not been made to Russia.

Or both.