Income tax returns show interest deductions from loans.
It doesn't show the details, though.
Moreover, the emoluments clause pertains to the president not Congress.
Sure, and an emolument is a payment or title or something like that from a foreign STATE, not from a foreign company giving a loan.
What you wrote about the Bidens is pure speculation and widely disputed.
So is everything you say about Trump. However, we have emails regarding the business deal, and the testimony of one of the business partners that Biden was the Big Guy. We have at least as much supporting that as anything you bring up about Trump's foreign deals. Your side wants to impeach him for having thought about building a structure in Moscow, which isn't illegal, happens all the time, and doing business in Moscow is normal - Apple, Coke, McDonalds, Starbucks, etc., all do business in Russia. Nothing wrong with it.
This
WaPO article discusses this.
Excerpt:
The Wall Street Journal said that it had reviewed corporate records and found no role for Joe Biden.
Sure, he's not an officer and director of a company. That's not what "10% to the Big Guy" means - there wouldn't be a "corporate record" of a payment like that. You'd need his bank records, and testimony from guys like Bobulinski, to track the payments.
The Washington Post, in an extensive report on the CEFC dealings, also did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC.
Sure, they didn't find evidence that Trump colluded with Russia, either, but you believe that. Yet here we have an email and testimony of a witness regarding Biden, and you think because the WaPo didn't "find evidence" that Biden "personally benefitted" (the payment would, in any normal world, be made to an entity controlled by Biden, not Biden himself), and did not review bank records or other information that would contain the evidence, that the case is open and shut. Give him a proctological exam like y'all gave Trump. Look at his tax returns, and his bank records, and subpoena everything - call witnesses, especially those who hate him with a passion. Then see what we find out.
The Biden campaign at the time denied he had any role.
Oh, they denied it? Case closed, then.
You are over-influenced by right wing radio and conspiracy theories. The sources that you deride are far more reliable than the ones you currently use.
Nope. I am applying the same standard to both sides. You are applying a biased standard, where you accept every unsupported claim against one side, and you apply pure skepticism to the other.
I have no doubt that Trump does whatever he can to make as much money as he can. But there is no evidence to date - after 5 years - that he earned money from a foreign power. Yet, you are convinced of it. And, you don't advocate for the same microscope to be applied to Biden.
I've not said Trump is an innocent lamb. I've just accurately stated that Biden, a 50 year career politician who clearly enriched himself and his family on the public dime, until 2008 not making more than $170,000 salary, lol, and having supported every war and every weapons program and otherwise done the bidding of the Military Industrial Complex and the Security State, is a scumbag too, and in a much worse way - as he contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, passed things like the superpredator law, opposed gay marriage, opposed integration and busing -- he's a ****ing scumbag, and yet he's raised up as some sort of honorable guy? Not a chance.
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