Ivanka Trump Has Been Grifting Her Way Through Her Father's Presidency. But It's Hunter Biden We Want to Investigate?

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The Republican party is obsessed with Hunter Biden, his laptop, his other laptop, his photos, his taxes, his divorce. Entire conservative news cycles have been crafted completely of Hunter Biden’s mysterious Wilmington computer repair guy. Tucker Carlson even did a bizarre “the dog ate my homework” monologue about a UPS package that purportedly had in it irrefutable evidence about some wrongdoing by Hunter Biden. Unsurprisingly, the evidence was never produced nor did Tucker explain how it might be damaging to the presidential campaign of Hunter's dad, Joe Biden.

Over the past year, Donald Trump and his supporters have invested a lot of energy maligning Hunter Biden, going back to those unsubstantiated charges about his dealings with Ukraine. So obviously they were delighted this week when news broke that Trump’s Justice Department is now investigating Hunter for his taxes.

The rebirth of the Hunter Biden story made the right wing media giddy (and perhaps distracted them momentarily from the news of yet another rebuke by the Supreme Court over the increasingly fantastical attempts by Trump supporters to overturn the 2020 presidential election). This was it, they practically crowed—the vindication that we've been seeking. On Fox News, both Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham devoted large chunks of their prime time programs to the Hunter Biden news—perhaps desperate to reclaim the Trump-rabid audience they are losing to Newsmax and OANN—and Ingraham continued to hammer away on Twitter this weekend.

An entire conservative outrage news-cycle was inspired by this news of a federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes. “I’m not going to turn a blind eye on this,” Ron Johnson, Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin told Fox News on Wednesday. “We’ll keep digging.” And Republican Representative Ken Buck wrote to Attorney General William Barr, "This investigation is critical to defending the integrity of our Republic and ensuring a potential Biden Administration will not be the subject of undue foreign interference."

In response, Hunter Biden released a statement on Wednesday: “I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs.” He added: "I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors." (The investigation came up briefly at at the end of a Joe Biden press briefing on Friday, “Did Hunter Biden commit a crime? Have you spoken to your son, Mr. President-elect?” a reporter shouted, as Biden began to walk away. Without turning back, Biden responded, “I’m proud of my son” and continued walking.)

inthelu1 on December 12nd, 2020 at 19:30 UTC »

Bombshell NYT report: Trump writes off money he gives to Ivanka by calling her a "contractor" https://www.salon.com/2020/09/28/bombshell-nyt-report-trump-writes-off-money-he-gives-to-ivanka-by-calling-her-a-contractor_partner/

an_actual_lawyer on December 12nd, 2020 at 19:00 UTC »

All of them should be accountable for any criminal actions.

It is that simple.

NoFascist on December 12nd, 2020 at 18:50 UTC »

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