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demesisx@infosec.pub 2 days ago
The politicians of the US took massive payouts from the banking industry in exchange for commodifying anything and everything that people need. Back in 2008, Biden himself took a $250,000 bribe from MBNA to make it illegal to escape student loans even in bankruptcy.
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 2 days ago
MBNA didn’t even exist anymore in 2008. It was bought out and subsumed by Bank of America in 2006.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBNA#Mergers_and_acquisit…
If you have information on that bill/law post it. I’m curious what it actually said.
demesisx@infosec.pub 2 days ago
cbsnews.com/…/mbna-paid-bidens-son-as-biden-backe…
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Good lord you need work on your reading comprehension, or did you just look at the headline and ignore the very first line of the article?
Hunter Biden was working and being paid as a consultant for MBNA and had no direct ties to any kind of lobbying. That’s just what consulting work is. How much was paid never gets disclosed, especially to the public.
Is there other shetchy shit? Sure, but direct bribery from MBNA isn’t one of them and now we’d have to veer off into a discussion of campaign finance and corporate contributions to politicians in a post-citizens United world.
Be accurate in your criticism or nobody will take you seriously.
demesisx@infosec.pub 2 days ago
I’m shocked that you’d make the typical overly generous assessment of actual bribery to excuse any and all of your team. /s
Do some more research. This is just the tip of the fucking iceberg. Biden has a long track record of quid pro quo besides this event that you clearly are purposely looking the other way on.
I could literally show you video of Biden accepting a bribe and you’d find a way to excuse it.
…house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline…
…house.gov/…/evidence-of-joe-bidens-involvement-i…
reason.com/…/theres-plenty-of-evidence-of-corrupt…
propublica.org/…/bidens-cozy-relations-with-bank-…
gazette.com/…/article_ff57a793-140b-5d88-8996-a21…
congress.gov/…/HHRG-116-JU08-20201202-SD006.pdf
politico.com/…/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-bro…
theintercept.com/…/does-joe-biden-have-a-corrupti…
www.npr.org/transcripts/93954519
washingtonexaminer.com/…/the-mbna-tales-when-joe-…
motherjones.com/…/biden-bankruptcy-president/
vox.com/…/hunter-biden-trump-corruption-outsider