“They are trying to, in their most illegitimate … but rational way, they’re trying to destroy a presidency,” he said in the episode of Moby Pod.

“What they’re trying to do is they’re trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle, and so therefore destroying a presidency in that way,” he said, adding that they want him to relapse to drug abuse.

“It’s not about me,” he continued, adding that “these people are just sad, very, very sick people that have most likely just faced traumas in their lives that they’ve decided that they are going to turn into an evil that they decide that they’re going to inflict on the rest of the world”. He also accused conservative news outlets of “harassing” him.

Mr Biden added: “I’m gonna survive it clean and sober, is because I am not gonna let these [expletive], OK, use me as just another example of why people in recovery are never gonna be OK, never to be trusted, they’re all degenerates.”

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    Ignoring the fact that it is extremely unusual to be indicted for tax fraud (usually just ends up with large fines and it looks like that this is done, because they desperately want something on his father), he is actually talking that they literally want to kill him. Biden was totally devastated when his other son died of cancer. That’s why he didn’t run in 2016.

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      unusual to be prosecuted for tax fraud

      That’s the problem, right here officer. Fucking make it usual. Make it foreseeable, like in Billions (I practically wanna jerk of to that scene lol) where the DA’s rich buddy’s crying cuz his old friend is already writing the closing statement he’s gonna need to put his pal in prison for his financial crimes

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        I want tax evasion to be prosecuted more aggressively, but not nearly as much as I want the legal system to treat all defendants equally. Throwing the book at one particular defendant and then going back to business as usual serves no legitimate purpose, especially when the motivation is so obviously political.

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          Hunter’s gonna be fine, worst case he’s looking at like 2 years in the plushest of Club Feds. He’s gonna be just fine, like Martha Stewart. She’s got more street cred than Snoop for God’s sake

          She’s gangsta as—well, you know how it go

          Edit: The Trump “boys” tho, well, they are in for a world of hurt and free shelter for a good long while. I don’t even wanna think about their well-deserved sentencing guidelines once their party train really gets rollin’

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        Well, the GOP is pushing this and at the same time pushing to remove funding to IRS that allows to go after rich fucks.

        I don’t have a problem with going after tax fraud, but this won’t solve anything if it is an exception to a rule rather than a rule.