Republican Obsession About Hunter Biden Is a ‘Whopper of Whataboutisms’
Actions by president's son said to be "shameful without being illegal"
Obsession among congressional Republicans and others on the political right over the business dealings of President Biden's son, Hunter, is clearly coming into focus as misplaced and overblown, according to observers on both sides of the political spectrum.
Led by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky), Republicans have been focused on trying — without evidence — to tie Hunter Biden's business activities to some sort of corruption by his father, the current president of the United States.
They have — baselessly — been referring to the “Biden crime family.”
Although the younger Biden appears to have tried to create an illusion of official access to his father, when Joe Biden was still vice president, there's no evidence that the older Biden went along with any corruption.
Testimony has revealed that Hunter Biden would put his father on speakerphone in the presence of his business associates but that Joe Biden's conversation only ran towards topics like the weather and fishing.
Hunter Biden's associate, Devon Archer, recently told members of Congress that there was no corruption.
“What we saw from the Archer testimony was a very unflattering portrait of Hunter Biden’s judgment and business dealings, but no material involvement from Joe Biden himself,” said Rep Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass). “Again, no material involvement from Joe Biden himself. It is smoke, it is smoke, it is smoke that the Republicans are trying to gin up, and yet no fire, and they’re desperately trying to redirect Americans' attention away from the most important indictment in American history, which is Donald Trump’s.”
Hunter Biden's business activities can be unseemly without being criminal, according to William “Bill” Barr, the Republican who served as attorney general in the Trump administration.
“You know, things can be shameful without being illegal. And, yes, I think it’s grotesque, the cashing in on the office like that, apparently,” Barr said.
Attempts to tar Hunter Biden is simply an attempt by Republicans to try to deflect attention away from Trump's alleged crimes, Auchincloss said.
“If Hunter Biden committed crimes, Hunter Biden should face justice and accountability for those crimes. Which, by the way, is a sentence I have heard very few Republicans say about Donald Trump for much more massive crimes,” the congressman said. “This focus, this obsession, I would say, on Hunter Biden is really just a whopper of a whataboutism because the Republicans are trying to deflect, to diminish, to defend Donald Trump from the grave crime of conspiracy against the Constitution of the United States.
“They want the American public to focus on anything other than the man who swore to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, the Constitution I upheld as a marine officer and a member of Congress, that he instead tried to overturn our very democracy,” Auchincloss added. “We do not have to accept that premise. The American public deserves justice for Donald Trump. And they also should expect that Hunter Biden face justice as well for the mistakes that he made.”
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