Can't argue with their logic. The Bidens are definitely crooks; on the other hand, our President is too senile to understand that...haha.
Trump on the other hand belongs in Belleview. Just kidding, he could do the patriotic thing and step in front of a bus.
Trump Is Saving Biden From the Hunter Laptop Scandal
The media is why the 2024 presidential debates should be hosted by codependents anonymous.
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., WSJ
Politicians have perfectly legal and decorous ways to cash in. A problem in history, though, has been the son or daughter, cousin or uncle who lacks the same incentive for discretion and restraint.
Vice President Biden’s Ukraine adviser warned him as early as 2015 that his son’s activities were compromising U.S. interests. Here we are.
Joe Biden’s political career may already be over and he doesn’t know it. If so, it won’t be because of the tax behavior of his son, allegedly writing off sex-club memberships and prostitutes as business expenses. It won’t be the possibility, as yet unproven, that Joe himself benefited financially. It won’t even be the strained efforts of the Biden Justice Department to avoid noticing the worst of Hunter’s alleged offenses.
It will be because Joe Biden has ceased to be a compelling antidote to Donald Trump and the supposed chaos and corruption of Trumpism.
Most parents love their children. Any politician had better do the same if he wants the public’s votes. But this line of excuse-making, which has come to dominate on MSNBC and CNN, is redolent of the intelligence community’s desperate intervention when Hunter’s laptop surfaced in the 2020 campaign.
The 51 spy veterans who participated, including three former CIA chiefs, had to know they would in short order be shown to be liars. The FBI already possessed the laptop and knew it wasn’t a Russian plot.
Why this willingness to risk not only personal reputation but America’s trust in its intelligence establishment? Was it worth it?
Many in the establishment will now have to ask that question all over again. IRS whistleblowers have come forward to describe a story with a similar arc: The Biden Justice Department bent over backward to ignore egregious alleged tax evasion related to Hunter’s earnings from a questionable Ukrainian gas company at a time when his father was in charge of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.
On a separate front, GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley reports that the FBI received credible information that the Ukrainian gas company’s founder recorded telephone dealings with Hunter and his father. If the FBI seems unkeen to follow up, perhaps that’s because the next question, if the allegation proves correct, would be: Does the Zelensky government in Ukraine have copies of the recordings? Does the Putin government in Russia?
To any realistic person, it’s hard to imagine Joe being so reckless as to angle for a 10% secret “big guy” stake in one of his son’s schemes. It’s hard to imagine him standing at Hunter’s elbow while he shakes down a foreign muckety-muck for a million-dollar “retainer” using WhatsApp.
Not hard to imagine is Dad looking away while Hunter recklessly invokes his father’s name because offering a direct financial connection to the Biden who matters is a tempting way to finance a drug addiction.
Remember FBI chief James Comey’s explanation for bigfooting the 2016 election by reopening the Hillary Clinton email investigation days before the vote? He said it was the right thing to do and he believed Mrs. Clinton would win anyway. Would he have made the same decision if he thought Mr. Trump would win? Um, er, maybe not, he said.
Case closed. To imagine such decisions can be made without political consideration is unrealistic.
We might as well also acknowledge a second reality. When the GOP nominated Donald Trump, perhaps inevitable was a reciprocal abandonment of “norms” by his enemies in the press and bureaucracy. Mr. Trump gets no remission of sin from me, but he was the one who received a mandate from voters for boundary-pushing. If I recall correctly, Joe Biden received a mandate for the opposite.
The irony has lately become rich: The very paucity of Mr. Trump’s Russia connections the media now must cover up by pretending the collusion hoax didn’t happen; the breadth and heedlessness of Hunter’s effort to cash in on his father’s role in Ukraine, China and elsewhere the media must also cover up to protect Joe Biden’s re-election.
Maybe I’m Panglossian, but the contradiction is too deep and even our absurd national press won’t be able sustain it. Even more so because the guiding imperative of the Biden administration has so clearly been to prop up not one but two candidacies, Mr. Trump’s as well as Mr. Biden’s.
Mr. Biden’s is shakier than it seems, and perhaps ceases to exist without Mr. Trump’s. Indeed, Mr. Trump could provoke panic in the Biden camp tomorrow by dropping out. But don’t hold your breath. Not only have Democratic prosecutions boosted his numbers, he needs to be able to point to his GOP frontrunner status and claim “election interference.”
Codependency is a you-know-what, especially for the American people, yet that’s what they get from the problematic duo of Messrs. Trump and Biden.
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