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SharonClark

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Fri Oct 23, 2020, 02:55 PM Oct 2020

That should make him president: Joe Biden shows up -- and shows he's learned the lesson of 2016

Excellent article including more about the WSJ's "Biden corruption" editorial followed by WSJ reporters debunking it.

The bar was set so low — yet Donald Trump still failed to clear the mark. In his final debate performance of the 2020 campaign (and with any luck, his last one ever), the president fumbled the one attack line that his campaign had prepared against Joe Biden for years.

It was like he whiffed at tee-ball.

The first time Trump tried to hit the former vice president over his son Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, the senior Biden defended Hunter with the compassion and empathy he so often conveys while recalling the loss of his other son, Beau Biden, or of his first wife and infant daughter in a 1972 car accident. Clearly hesitant to queue up another softball for his opponent, Trump was forced to tread lightly on Thursday night, even though his campaign has revved up its wild Biden-centric conspiracy theories through the right-wing media echo chamber. Indeed, it was Biden who baited Trump into bringing up Hunter first, illuminating what the Biden campaign — after prepping the nominee extensively for days — thinks of the Trump campaign's last-minute gambit.
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This entire concoction is several layers of stupid, as demonstrated to perfection by the pre-debate release of a Wall Street Journal editorial alleging that the former vice president allowed Hunter to sell access to him, followed by the post-debate debunking of those claims — by the Wall Street Journal's news division. It would be comical if it weren't so dangerous.


more at https://www.salon.com/2020/10/23/that-should-make-him-president-joe-biden-shows-up--and-shows-hes-learned-the-lesson-of-2016/
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That should make him president: Joe Biden shows up -- and shows he's learned the lesson of 2016 (Original Post) SharonClark Oct 2020 OP
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