Hunter Biden’s ridiculous legal letter trying to distract from real scandal — Joe Biden
nypost ^ | 2/2/2023 | andrew c. mccarthy
Let’s keep our eye on the ball, kids. Hunter Biden is a sideshow.
There is only one question that matters, one question that ought to be riveting our attention, and Congress’ attention, regarding what is deceptively labeled the “Hunter” Biden investigation: When President Barack Obama made his vice president, Joe Biden, the point man for US policy regarding such authoritarian, anti-American regimes as China and Russia, and such notoriously corrupt regimes as Ukraine, why did agents of those regimes believe it was in their interest to pay millions of dollars to the Biden family?
The president’s troubled, unstable son is beside the point, except to the extent that his supposed business acumen was the pretext for these money flows.
What we need to know is: What did the Chinese believe they were buying?
Hunter is in the news, playing the victim, trying to make it all about him. In this, he’s got a lot in common with the Biden administration, which would have you believe that the Justice Department’s seemingly endless criminal investigation is all about Hunter, not about President Biden’s knowledge of and participation in the lucrative Biden family business of cashing in on his political influence.
These are quite intentional distractions.
Hunter Biden is a sideshow.
The critical matter in the Biden probe is not the possible criminal liability of Hunter — or, for that matter, any other Biden. Potential prosecution is a second- or third-order issue, at best. The thing that matters most is the national security of the United States. The material question is whether American policy toward hostile regimes is being influenced by the millions of dollars that agents of those regimes paid the Bidens.
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