Remember a week or so ago, in reference to the significant delay in implementing any kind of fix for the border crisis (which I believe was politically motivated), when I said you are able to explain away anything? That continues to be true. Millions of dollars from China? No loan docs, no obvious service being provided... Well, here's some info on SARs.... nothing to see here.
1. I'm able explain away bullshit. If you come here with non-bullshit I won't try to explain it away. Essentially, you are complaining that the world is more complicated than you would like. Sorry, buttercup, it doesn't work that way. The world is what it is. It's complex. If you want to understand it, you have to put in some effort. Otherwise, you are just an easily manipulated rube.
The reality is that you are advancing a conspiracy theory. Literally hundreds of people looked into this stuff. There was a whole House committee that did pretty nothing but investigate Hunter Biden for two years, and they found NOTHING. Remember they had the witness who was going to spill the beans, except it turned out HE was under indictment and fled the jurisdiction? And then they found some documents, but the documents actually said the opposite of what they thought? And then they called Hunter's business partner, who they thought would spill the beans but the partner told them that nothing happened.
And here I am explaining to you why your suppositions about supposedly damning evidence are incorrect, and you're waving your arms frantically. Notice that my explanation of the world (i.e. SARs mean nothing on their own) and the reality of the world (nobody ever found any dirt at all that stuck to Biden other than the gun, drugs and tax things) coincide, whereas your explanation runs counter to available facts.
2. SARs are rarely useful for initiating investigations. Typically, they are used by prosecutors who have already indicted a suspect (or are in the process of indicting them), and the SARs provide a roadmap for where to look for additional evidence. They mean nothing in and of themselves. Like I said, a lot of people on this board have been the subject of SARs. If you don't like that reality, it's a shame I guess, but you can't change reality by denying it.
3. I thought we agreed after much conversation that there was no significant delay in implementing the border fix, since we agreed that DHS was already working on the new rule before the Title 42 authority expired. I even showed you the rulemaking documents from early 2023, and then I explained how rulemaking works, and why it takes time. On average, it takes years to go from the "president tells the cabinet agency head to draft a rule" to "rule becomes law." Years. Sometimes decades, if the courts get involved. This was actually a pretty quick turnaround.
Trump and social media have created for you an impression that the president can snap his fingers and do things. That's actually not how it works at all. Sometimes I think the press should be barred from reporting on executive orders, because nobody understands them. Executive orders do not make law, no matter how many times Trump insists they do. The Administrative Procedure Act covers virtually all agency action, and it's only through agency action that the executive branch has any authority to set policy. The president, for instance, cannot impose ambient air quality standards. Only the EPA can do that, because the law gives that authority to the EPA. So the president can staff the EPA with the people he wants, that he thinks will make the policies that he wants; he can instruct them about regulatory priorities and direct them work on some issue or another; but the president cannot make the law.
4. I have no idea what you're talking about with millions from China. Please post a non-paywalled version of this story from a reputable source. I don't subscribe to the WSJ and anyway the WSJ is not exactly a neutral source when it comes to Hunter Biden. But I'll give you a preview: literally dozens of similarly sourced allegations against Hunter have proven false or misleading. There's really no reason to think this will be any different.
