The verdict undermines their claims that the U.S. Department of Justice has been “weaponized” against Donald Trump and his supporters.

The verdict undermines their claims that the U.S. Department of Justice has been “weaponized” against Donald Trump and his supporters.

Several prominent Republicans said they were not impressed by the guilty verdict against President Joe Biden’s son on Tuesday, complaining that the government should have busted him for worse crimes.

A Delaware jury found Hunter Biden, 54, guilty on three counts related to a gun purchase in 2018 when he was addicted to crack cocaine. Hunter Biden’s crimes carry a prison sentence of up to 25 years.

“This trial has been nothing more than a distraction from the real crimes of the Biden Crime Family, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine,” Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Donald Trump’s Republican presidential campaign, said in reaction to the verdict.

  • MedicsOfAnarchy@lemmy.world
    70·
    5 months ago

    I’m such an underachiever. Here is “Sleepy Joe Biden”, a doddering fool who even tries to sit where there is no chair, yet who also is the criminal mastermind behind an entire crime family and who easily controls all government and media for his own diabolical schemes. I mean, pick a lane, Republicans!

    • wanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      5 months ago

      Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak”. On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

      It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      18·
      5 months ago

      They don’t need to pick a lane, their base eats it up either way. My entire life Republicans have said immigrants are both lazy welfare leaches and simultaneously stealing all the jobs.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
        4·
        5 months ago

        both lazy welfare leaches and simultaneously stealing all the jobs

        They’re half right, and I wanna talk about that.

        I’ve worked with a lot of Romanian kids in I.T, and these people are the most effective, skillful, professional and happy I.T people I’ve seen. I’m none of those things, some days.

        They’re stealing jobs by being so fucking heroic, and I know I can’t compete.

        They represent super well. That’s all I gotta say. Hire more Romanian kids for I.T, and I’ll be down at the bread line, because der takin meh jerb.

        • Kiernian@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          Where do you get Romanians in IT?

          Also, I’d like it if we all adopted the process of CAPITALIZING OUR SURNAMES in email signatures.

          I’ve only ever seen Romanians do it, but it’s genius.

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
      17·
      5 months ago

      They do that with everything. Haha look at these soyboy vegan leftist who can’t even lift a GUN. Watch out for these scary leftists, they are dangerous.