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I don't understand how anyone can justify this perspective. If a crime is committed, there should be consequences. I don't care who it is or what their status is.

Instead of accepting it as status-quo, we should be going after everyone at every level, even more fiercely towards politicians.

It's like the political equivalent of digging through someone's comment history on social media, looking for something that can be weaponized to cancel them.

If power balances shift slightly I'm sure the new regime will be able to find a crime Biden committed and indict him for it. And so on and so forth with revenge indictments everytime power shifts to the other party

Great! I'm all for it! People that break the law should be punished.

Why is this a problem for you or I?

It's not directly a problem for you or I per se, but it is a new form of political warfare that will further polarize and destabilize the nation...

Well, a crime doesn't need to have been committed. You just have to find someone in power willing to bring charges. This could very well be the start of a cycle of "when the power shifts, prosecute the last guy for whatever it is you think you can make up." How many shots have they taken at the man so far? Plenty. Should this cycle start, look for it to consume a lot of resources, attention, political willpower, and so on, while various Actual Trouble gets overlooked because it just doesn't have that wow drama factor.

We've had six years of sore losers (whose own "pied piper strategy" fouled them up) endlessly vacuuming up mindshare while a lot bigger things are going down.

Of all the things we waste tons of time and money on, this is near the top of the list for you?

I simply don't care. They could go after every single former president for the rest of time and I wouldn't lose a minute of sleep over it.

please note that for the future, during the point when the Hunter Biden Laptop thing reaches some kind of courtroom, if ever.

How can it? The fools who handled it bungled every single step. They passed it around, completely destroying any chain of evidence, and started modifying the copies that they made.

The most damning thing on it was homemade porn, effectively making their publishing of it run afoul of revenge porn laws. Other than that, there's one email that can't even be verified that mentions "the big guy" which is meaningless.

The BBC's The Coming Storm podcast did an episode on the subject:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001f4h5

I can't imagine a continual cycle of chasing after ex-Presidents to find something to charge them with would be a good idea

I can't imagine that justice could be a bad thing.

Well there are those pesky pictures of Hunter smoking crack while saying he's clean on a federal gun background check. Thats a biggie.

Also, unless he was in Reno, paying for prostitutes is illegal.

Were these photos from the laptop? If so, as I said, the chain of evidence was destroyed through incompetence.

Do you understand that nobody is saying not to charge Hunter or his father? By all means, do so if you believe that a crime has been committed, but I don't see that you have sufficient evidence.

His autobiography.

My take: If we want to keep electing criminals as president, then we should be willing to keep charging them with crimes.

This isn't a parking ticket, it's misusing campaign funds to help get oneself elected president.

This is my feeling. Just feels like a can of worms has been opened here.

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