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Biden family accused of bribes, critics claim double standard with Hunter's pardon.

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The Biden family is accused of taking foreign bribes, with Hunter allegedly pardoned to cover it up, while critics claim there would be outrage if his last name were Trump.
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To date, the Biden family and its associates have received over $20 million USD in payments from foreign entities, according to the US Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Evidence of bribery exists in the foreign entities themselves (e.g. Mykola Zlochevsky of the energy firm Burisma). It does not, however, reasonably exist with regards to Hunter Biden. An ex-FBI informant, Alexander Smirnov, was charged in February 2024 by the Justice Department for creating a fictitious record in an attempt to incriminate Hunter Biden of taking bribes. The assumption that if Biden's name was Trump, major media sources would have a volatile reaction is hypothetical and cannot be objectively proven nor disproven.

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