Morning Jolt: The Indefensible, Shameless, Sordid Hunter Biden

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December 08 2023

The Indefensible, Shameless, Sordid Hunter Biden

On the menu today: A federal grand jury indicted Hunter Biden on nine charges, including three felonies, most of them related to not paying taxes on income, including payments from those shady foreign businessmen. But the indictment lays out all kinds of shocking and sordid details indicating that Hunter Biden is either extraordinarily shameless, extraordinarily stupid, or both. If you're going to hire a bunch of prostitutes, don't tell the Internal Revenue Service that those were legitimate business expenses. At this point, one of the most intriguing questions is how much the Obama team saw Hunter Biden as a PR bomb waiting to explode, and whether this played a role in Barack Obama's lack of enthusiasm for the Democratic Party nominating Joe Biden in either 2016 or 2020.

Hunter Biden's Destructive TendenciesThere is a tendency in the national media to describe the president's son, Hunter Biden, as "troubled," which is accurate enough as far as it goes, but somewhat insufficient. Trouble is not something that has randomly happened to him; trouble is something that occurs as a predictable and inevitable consequence of his decisions and ...

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