Why the Right Needs Hunter Biden

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2022/12/06/why-the-right-needs-hunter-biden/

Why the Right Needs Hunter Biden
December 6, 2022 at 11:54 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Mona Charen: “They desperately want Joe Biden to be corrupt and for the whole family to be, in Stefanik’s words, ‘a crime family’ because they have provided succor and support to someone who has encouraged political violence since his early rallies in 2015, has stoked hatred of minorities through lies, has used his office for personal gain in the most flagrant fashion, has surrounded himself with criminals and con men, has committed human rights violations against would-be immigrants by separating children from their parents, has pardoned war criminals, has cost the lives of tens of thousands of COVID patients by discounting the virus and peddling quack cures, has revived racism in public discourse, and attempted a violent coup d’etat.”

“They know it. It gnaws at them. That’s why the Hunter Biden story is their heart’s desire. But here’s something else they need to meditate on: Even if everything they’re alleging about Joe Biden were true; even if he did pull strings to help his son and even profited unjustly thereby, it still wouldn’t amount to a fraction of what Trump did.”

[gratuitous]

1. It's either stoke hatred and discontent or address actual issues

And that ship sailed so long ago, it's now called The Flying Dutchman.

[Botany]

2. The Hunter Biden and his laptop is a proven Russian talking point

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html



Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the United States. That’s been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S. Intelligence Community’s assessment of the 2020 election. The report, drafted by the CIA, the FBI, and several other agencies, was released in unclassified form on Tuesday, but it was presented in classified form on Jan. 7. In other words, it was compiled, written, and edited during Trump’s administration. It destroys his lies about the election, and it exposes him as a Russian asset.

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Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through “US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration,” the report says Russia’s intelligence services “repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his family’s alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine.” In this way, Trump’s circle “laundered” the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculated—and promoted by Russia’s online proxies—as American news.

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[brewens]

3. If we follow the republican playbook, Hunter is our nominee for President in a few years.

No one mentions how similar Hunter and "W" are. "W" got a DUI with a kid in the car back when even I, a hard drinking beer driver knew better than that.

"W" was AWOL from the National Guard. He also had an evidently no-show or no-work deal at Harkin Energy. That's similar to Hunter on the board of Burisma. "W" was also probably doing a lot of coke back in the day. He will never run for public office.

[JHB]

5. This isn't anything that liberals haven't already pointed out. Why are we quoting Mona Charen?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

6. A lot of this goes back to Nixon

The view expressed by many conservatives then has held true - they feel Nixon didn't do anything that LBJ didn't do - he just got caught. Then the Dems went after Reagan for Iran/Contra, which many found unforgivable. Then conventional political calculus failed them utterly when Bill Clinton was embroiled in an adultery scandal, but still went on to beat the President that oversaw the greatest military victory since WW II. As a result, they dogged Clinton over a variety of real and imagined scandals - Whitewater, Vince Foster, and Monica Lewinsky. The fact that Clinton escaped impeachment for lying to a Grand Jury, I believe, emboldened many Republicans to vote against both impeachments of Donald Trump. Now they need another scandal to show that Biden is somehow worse than their guy.

[raging moderate]

7. Also because Trump's older kids have obviously done wrong.

The GOP are afraid of what investigation of Trump's older kids would uncover.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. There is no "if". Independent analysis found zero evidence of crime/ethical problems by either Biden

[lame54]

9. If only he'd change his name to...

Hunter Benghazi then they would have it all

[heckles65]

10. The funny thing is...

if Hunter's last name was anything but "Biden" they'd be swooning all over him as a "job creator."

Hookers? Blow? Why, it's only what such people are entitled to!

[irisblue]

11. Mona Charen is right, in this. I cannot believe I'm agreeing with her. 🤦

[certainot]

12. as with clintons etc this would be nowhere without 1500 unchallenged radio stations barfing this

crap out all day

[11 Bravo]

13. Also, because the hew crop of brain-dead MAGAT asswipes can't spell BENGHAZI!