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I thought I'd read somewhere that Romney might be connected in some way to the type of nepotistic crony-capitalism that the Bidens were engaging in.
Just posted this in this thread..fake news with no legs
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Romney’s vote in the impeachment saga came on Feb. 5, and days later, he found himself the target of Trump’s retweets.
One of the posts the president retweeted was a meme that makes the unfounded claim “Romney’s son” — as well as the sons of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Secretary of State John Kerry — “are all on the board of directors for energy companies doing business in Ukraine.” We looked into those assertions in October and found no evidence that any of those political leaders’ sons worked for energy companies based in, or “doing business in,” Ukraine.
Romney has five sons, who work in finance, real estate and radiology, as we explained. The senator’s office declined to comment when we wrote that story, saying only that the claims were “fake news from random online trolls.”
We reached out to Romney’s office again, now that the president has spread the viral meme, but we haven’t received a response.
Trump also retweeted a post from the conservative site Big League Politics, which claims Romney is “tied” to Burisma because a former adviser to his 2012 presidential campaign was on the company’s board. That’s an awfully thin “tie.”
The linked story, posted in September, notes that Joseph Cofer Black — a “special adviser” under the Romney campaign’s foreign policy and national security team — joined the Burisma board in 2017. Black, a former director of the CIA’s counterterrorist center and State Department coordinator for counterterrorism who served under both the George W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations, did join the Burisma board in 2017, as reported in the Kyiv Post.
This is a classic guilt-by-association claim. There’s no evidence Romney had anything to do with Black getting a position on Burisma’s board five years after his presidential campaign. Black was one of 24 special advisers to the campaign on foreign policy and national security.
The Big League Politics post credited the conservative site the American Thinker with discovering these so-called “connections” between Romney and Burisma.
These claims went viral in the fall, after Romney had expressed concern about the president’s actions. On Sept. 22, after news reports said Trump had pressured Zelensky to investigate Hunter Biden in a July 25 phone call, Romney said on Twitter that “it would be troubling in the extreme” if Trump had asked for an investigation, “either directly or through his personal attorney.” Romney added: “Critical for the facts to come out.”
Four days later, the American Thinker and Big League Politics posts attempted to link the senator to Burisma.
The Washington Post wrote in October about the spread of such claims online and through social media, saying the episode “serves as a preview of the viral attacks likely to be unleashed on GOP lawmakers if they buck their president during an impeachment showdown that Trump has denounced as a ‘coup.’” And, in fact, after Romney voted for one article of impeachment, these dubious claims are spreading again, getting a boost from the president.
Well, President Trump will make sure Hunter Biden dominates the General Election, that is for certain.
And without an investigation, President Trump and Rudy Giuliani will supply all the facts.
Good for Romney, who has shown a spine and refuses to bend the knee like the rest of the Republican wimps in congress. Waste of government time and money. Trump and his administration are trying to weaponize federal government resources to dig up dirt on his opponent.
I have one question for Trump voters: Fat Donny has been president for over three years now. Why is it that.... just in the last 6-8 months, (right around the time when Biden was floating the idea of running for president and was also expected to be the frontrunner), Trump decided to suddenly investigate Joe and Hunter Biden?
Where were these investigations over the last three years? But when it appears that Biden might be Trump's opponent in the 2020 election, all of a sudden Trump and the repubs are whining for a bunch of investigations into them?
Think it thru, if the previous president of Ukraine and his government were engaged in corruption, then trying to get the man behind the corruption to investigate himself and his cronies would not bear any fruit. So maybe we needed to wait until last year, when that president was out of office, before we start any investigations???
You do not always have to assume the worst about Trump, and run with it. Try analyzing the situation and digging into it with an open, neutral mind.
Just posted this in this thread..fake news with no legs
Sorry, my habit is to read the OP, and then provide a fair and unbiased comment on it. That way I'm not influenced by any of the comments, since they might influence me to make an unfair criticism from the point of a 20/20 hindsight. Did that make sense?
Nepotism is partiality to family & cronyism is partiality to friends or associates. You just described Trump to a tee.
Trump's daughter, for example, works for him for free. So how is having his daughter filling an advisory role, on her dime, considered nepotism, exactly?
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