The Biden family received millions of dollars from foreign nationals.

 

Joe and Hunter Biden. Fox News/AFP.

Joe Biden's family received as much as $10 million from foreign nationals while Biden was Vice President. Fox News. The information was subpoenaed from various banks by the House Oversight and Responsibility Committee. The Committee concluded that the Biden family had attempted to hide where the money came from via shell corporations. It was shown that large deposits were made into these shell companies while smaller deposits were made into Biden family accounts from the shell companies. Some of the money has come from China. The Committee says it is already possible that the money was used to influence policy as one of Hunter Biden's companies got $1 million from a Romanian named Gabriel Popoviciu, who was under investigation for corruption. Joe Biden met with Romanians shortly afterwards. It is unclear if any criminal charges will come from the probe. 

My Comment:

Despite the seriousness of these allegations I don't know if there are going to be any charges in this case. I'm not an expert on corruption law so I don't know if they can prove corruption without an explicit finding of quid pro quo between the Biden family and the foreigners offering them money. Right now the Republicans on the Committee don't have a smoking gun.

But I think there is a circumstantial case that the Biden family is corrupt. There have been rumors about Biden and his corruption for years now. The fact that his family members had millions of dollars poured into shell corporations is suspicious as hell. This certainly looks suspicious. 

Of course none of this is new. Biden was accused of something similar with the prosecutor in Ukraine. Indeed, Ukraine always appeared to be a money laundering operation for the Biden team. These new accusations are just an expansion of the old ones. 

I think the general reaction will probably be the same as the ones from before. No matter how outraged the Republicans are about this, do they have the power to actually do something about it? Do they even have the will? House committees are basically jokes and any prosecution of the Bidens has to go through the Justice Department, which is firmly in control of the Democratic Party. 

That could change if there is some kind of smoking gun found, but I struggle to think what Democrats would accept as rock solid proof. There is the old political saying that they wouldn't accept anything short of Biden being caught in bed with a dead woman or live boy and I'm not even sure that is true anymore. Even a smoking gun might not be enough these days. 

But there still isn't a smoking gun here. The case against the Biden family is circumstantial. There isn't direct evidence of a quid pro quo and without that I don't think there is a case. And going after someone without strong evidence is harmful. Just see how much it backfired against the Democrats after they charged Donald Trump! He's more popular than ever. One of the few things that could possibly turn things around for Biden is if people think he's a victim of a witch hunt. Without better evidence, that's what people might think this is. Right now they have the Bidens cold on looking suspicious, but you need a lot more than that to actually convince Biden's supporters that he and his family is corrupt. 

I personally believe that Biden is corrupt as hell and I don't think that is all that controversial. Can we prove it in court? I don't know. But what I do know is that the Republicans don't have anywhere near the votes to impeach and remove Biden from office. And that won't chance unless this committee finds something a lot more solid then they have now.