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In It to Win It

(8,275 posts)
Fri May 20, 2022, 01:56 PM May 2022

Tucker Carlson asked for Hunter Biden's help to get his son into Georgetown University, WaPo

The Guardian via Yahoo News

As Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for help getting his son into an elite Washington university in 2014, the Fox News host’s wife, Susie, reportedly wrote in an email: “Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”

Since the 2020 election, however, Carlson has fueled rightwing attacks on Joe Biden’s son, particularly over business affairs in which he allegedly benefited from his father’s position.

The existence of emails about getting Buckley Carlson into Georgetown has been known for some time, thanks to a laptop once owned by Hunter Biden that was obtained by Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and pushed to media in 2020.

On Thursday the Washington Post revealed new emails and said analysis by security experts confirmed their authenticity.

The emails, the Post said, “reveal the extent to which Carlson was willing to turn on a former associate as he thrives in a hyper-partisan media world in which conservatives have made Biden a prime target for attack”.

“They also show how Carlson once sought to benefit from the elite political circles in Washington that he now regularly rails against as the ‘ruling class’.”

Carlson told the Post that in 2014, when Joe Biden was vice-president, “Hunter Biden was my neighbor. Our wives were friends. I knew him well.

“I talked to him many times about addiction, something I know a lot about. And I’ve said that. I think that Hunter Biden is an addict and that’s why his life is falling apart, and I feel bad for him. I’ve said that many times, and I mean it.”

He also said he would not comment on the emails, as they “were described by our [intelligence] community as Russian disinformation. So why would I? And I read that in the Washington Post”.
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Tucker Carlson asked for Hunter Biden's help to get his son into Georgetown University, WaPo (Original Post) In It to Win It May 2022 OP
I am shocked shocked to find gambling going on here. nycbos May 2022 #1
Kickin' Faux pas May 2022 #2
They talk? nt Tickle May 2022 #3
This was, I think, in 2014. This little weasel didn't mind asking other "elites" for Carlitos Brigante May 2022 #4
Tucker Carlson is a snake. Kingofalldems May 2022 #6
This is crazy odd. Baitball Blogger May 2022 #5

Carlitos Brigante

(26,501 posts)
4. This was, I think, in 2014. This little weasel didn't mind asking other "elites" for
Fri May 20, 2022, 03:28 PM
May 2022

help,when his dipshit son needed it. So that he could stab him in the back when it became convenient.

Baitball Blogger

(46,753 posts)
5. This is crazy odd.
Fri May 20, 2022, 03:31 PM
May 2022

I wonder if Hunter can consider civil charges against Hunter. Defamation being a possibility. This looks very personal and malicious.

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