The New York Times is to blame for publishing Nick Kristoff's piece claiming that all of the corruption surrounding Hunter Biden was really just the story of a father's love for his son. Hunter's a troubled kid (in his 50s) and an addict, but Joe Biden has stood by him all the way, including lying about talking business and refusing to acknowledge Hunter's daughter. The media is trying to see this image of Biden as a loving family man, but it's a tough sell with all the crap that Biden has said and done. I guess we're all supposed to forget Biden's decades in the Senate, him slandering a man as a drunk driver, lying about his son dying in Iraq …
The Washington Post hasn't embarrassed itself enough yet, so it asked White House reporter Tyler Pager to "shed light on the father-son relationship" that Joe and Hunter share.
A day after striking an apparent plea deal, Hunter Biden stayed at the WH for two weeks, reports @tylerpager in a piece that sheds light on the father-son relationship even amid Hunter's legal woes: https://t.co/G8HVAvhQT1
— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) August 17, 2023
"A day after he reached a tentative plea deal with Justice Department, Hunter Biden began two-week stay at the White House, underscoring President Biden’s fatherly attachment despite his son’s troubles," reads the sub-heading. And is it really a two-week stay? He's been hiding out there for months, it seems.
Pager writes:
For President Biden, who aides say speaks to his children and grandchildren almost every day, the apparent conclusion of his son’s legal troubles marked a welcome end to a painful chapter for the Biden family, that of Hunter’s struggles with addiction and the scrutiny his actions have drawn from federal prosecutors.
The feeling of closure was premature, however. The plea deal unexpectedly collapsed, leading Attorney General Merrick Garland last week to appoint the prosecutor investigating Hunter, U.S. attorney David Weiss, as special counsel to continue the criminal probe.
Hunter’s extended stay at the White House this summer, which has not previously been reported, was a fresh reminder of the president’s continued closeness with his 53-year-old son despite his legal troubles and the intensifying political scrutiny Hunter is receiving from Republicans as Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign gets underway.
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For Biden’s aides and advisers, the president’s fatherly attachment has been both understandable and complicating to the campaign, particularly his reticence to strategize or even discuss his son as the political issue he has become.
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But Hunter’s struggles are of a different nature, involving the ongoing legal and personal struggles of a middle-aged man. The child support case in Arkansas highlighted how Hunter initially, and falsely, denied paternity in a case involving a relationship he says he barely remembers. What appear to be nude photos of the president’s son, often using drugs or in sexually provocative positions, have been distributed on the internet and were featured at a recent congressional hearing. And House Republicans are now probing Hunter’s business deals and whether he improperly used his father’s name in pursuing them. They have yet to present any evidence of wrongdoing by the president.
"They have yet to present any evidence of wrongdoing by the president." How about Robert L. Peters? Look into it, WaPo.
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Obviously, the media are scared that the Biden family business is going to come up during reelection season. Heck, look how they prevented you from even sharing the laptop story before the 2020 election. "What appear to be nude photos of the president's son, often using drugs" … they appear that way because it is Hunter Biden naked and smoking crack with hookers.
As Robert Turley noted today, are the press going to determine that Robert L. Peters was corrupt but Joe Biden wasn't?
Hunter ought to be in prison for felony gun possession. The fact that he's not has nothing to do with "love."
Why is Hunter living at the White House anyway? Doesn't he have a home? A nice one? Why is he flying around on Air Force One to tour Ireland? Where does he work on his art at the White House? Does he have a studio there?
Quit treating this guy like he's 17. He's a grown man and a scumbag.
At key moment in case, Hunter Biden moved into the White House for a couple of weeks, giving him many, many more opportunities not to talk business with his father. https://t.co/8rxi4FIpRb
— Byron York (@ByronYork) August 17, 2023
Or get their stories straight.
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