Hunter Biden Fights Back

[applegrove]

Hunter Biden Fights Back

July 1, 2023 at 11:49 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 201 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/07/01/hunter-biden-fights-back/

"SNIP.........

Hunter Biden’s lawyer sent a blistering letter Friday to the Republican chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, accusing him of trying to undermine the law and feeding “the misinformation campaign to harm our client, Hunter Biden, as a vehicle to attack his father,” Axios reports.

........SNIP"

[Deep State Witch]

1. Good

Good. He's had his problems, but they're nowhere near Javanka level.

[Mr.Bill]

2. Never forget that every time they attack Hunter Biden

it's because they can't find any wrong-doing by President Biden. Good for Hunter for calling them out on this.

[calimary]

21. Yep. That's all they've got.

They've got NOTHING on Biden. But then again, they wouldn't recognize a squeaky-clean politician if he or she held up a big neon sign about it.

And yes, I'm glad Hunter Biden and his lawyer are fighting back. There are always some people who'd conclude that "he's not saying anything in his own defense, guess he must be guilty then."

Nope. With these assholes, you HAVE to fight back.

And NEVER let 'em get the last word.

[onetexan]

35. THIS!!☝️

[PortTack]

3. I hope he sues them for defamation!

[Pisces]

8. He can't sue for defamation because he actually did text those things.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

15. Yep

The way people run to the defense of Hunter Biden amazes me.

[niyad]

19. Read the linked article in post 11.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

31. No article

Is going to change my opinion that Hunter Biden is a lowlife.

Does that make it right that they’re trying to go after his dad through him? Of course not.

But the way people defend him baffles me.

[True Blue American]

37. Hunter was also a drug addict

Something millions of families got through.

[True Blue American]

38. Hunter was also a drug addict

Something millions of families got through.

[niyad]

18. Read the linked article in post 11.

[emulatorloo]

29. Here's a link to the Axios article w more details of the lawyer's letter.

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/30/hunter-biden-lawyer-letter-irs-whistleblower

[Snarkoleptic]

33. Sure about that?

The text (actually a WhatsApp message R's are currently lurching to) is purportedly a right-wing rat-fugg attempt.
Snip from the letter by Hunter Biden's attorney.

[DoBW]

4. Tell em to shove it

[applegrove]

5. I like it.

[ShazzieB]

24. That was great!

[calimary]

27. Welcome to DU, DoBW!

Hey, where'd you get that trump-at-the-trough graphic before the guy started singing? He really should put some clothes on...

VERY cool song! Easy-to-remember lyrics, too!

[malaise]

6. About time

Rec

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. I would really love to see defamation suits proliferate. Enough of this BS.

Not just Hunter. Anyone! The lying needs to have consequences.

[AllaN01Bear]

9. good on him. i can stands no more .

[KentuckyWoman]

10. I remember when they could not find anything to trash Carter with

So they trotted out Billy with a beer can to try and trash Jimmy. Instead of backing up, Bill Carter partnered with various breweries to get Billy Beer out on the market. As of 2018 it is still on the market.

The GOP is great at picking the wrong side. Yes, Hunter picked a hard road. Fortunately he's got a Dad that will not bail him out, but instead will be by his side while he goes through the consequences. That type succeeds more often than not.

[Bev54]

11. There is a good article at Empty Wheel about the republicans and their manufactured

evidence against Hunter Biden. She is not only critical of the republicans in the house, who are immunizing these so called whistle blowers, who are themselves committing crimes, making it difficult for the DOJ to charge them, but also equally or more critical of the media that parrots them without considering the credibility of their sources.

It is finally someone willing to call them out, showcase what they are doing that has so been needed in this media environment. This is a quote from a 2020 article about the Hunter Biden nonsense by Insight.org that continues to be true today:

"The media is still under some illusion that fairness and balance means devoting equal attention to allegations about, and stories potentially damaging to, both candidates--rather than devoting proportional attention to allegations and stories according to their credibility, scale, scope and importance."

Here is a link to the article at Empty Wheel

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/07/01/republican-house-chairmen-are-resorting-to-immunizing-crimes-to-gin-up-their-fake-scandals/

[LessAspin]

17. Mate

Emptywheel was a very good follow on twitter before that app crashed and burned.

You know she's on the right track when useful idiots like Aaron Maté constantly attack her.

PAUL MANAFORT REMAINS A BIGGER SCANDAL THAN HUNTER BIDEN
June 30, 2023/35 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, 2022 Mid-Term Election, Financial Fraud, Foreign Influence, Hunter Biden, Mueller Probe /by emptywheel
I haven’t had the time to dig into Gary Shapley’s purported whistleblower claims about the case against Hunter Biden, which several US Attorneys have already disputed.

My read, thus far, matches Andrew Prokop’s: after IRS investigators tried to take steps during a pre-election prohibition period last year, someone in their vicinity leaked to Devlin Barrett, as right-wingers do every pre-election period. That led Delaware US Attorney David Weiss to (justifiably) remove the suspected leakers from the case. As other right wing officials have before, they then ran to Congress and belatedly claimed whistleblower status. ...

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/06/30/paul-manafort-remains-a-bigger-scandal-than-hunter-biden/

Peterrsays:
June 30, 2023 at 9:38 am
The other comparison that keeps coming to my mind is (a) Hunter/Ukraine and (b) Ivanka/China & Jared/Saudi Arabia&UAE&Qatar. If the right wing insists on criminalizing presidential family members of trading improperly on the family name with foreign sources, let’s compare them all.

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emptywheelsays:
June 30, 2023 at 9:47 am
Yup.

As I was doing this, I was thinking I probably need to do one for Jared.

But this one sticks in my craw, given how the GOP claims to care about tax crimes all of a sudden.

[Bev54]

23. As a Canadian, I do not read Aaron Mate so I was unaware of his criticism of Marcy

but I don't doubt it, him and Glenn Greenwald (another critic) are not on my reading list, whereas Empty Wheel is one of my must reads.

[iluvtennis]

12. Exactly, using Hunter to sully his dad. n/t

[Warpy]

13. Ah HAH, let the games begin!

All right wing ranters need to be told to put up or shut up.

Good for Hunter Biden. This should have been done decades ago.

[Hekate]

14. Good. Best of luck to him.

[NowISeetheLight]

16. Sadly

They can't be sued for anything they say while in the performance of their duties. It's like a LICENSE TO LIE, DEFAME AND SLANDER.

Legislative Immunity needs to be voided if someone is blatantly lying.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legislative_immunity#:~:text=A%20legal%20doctrine%20that%20protects,without%20fear%20of%20outside%20interference.

[spanone]

20. 👍🏼...K&R...👍🏼

[The Unmitigated Gall]

22. Like someone on DU pointed out, what I most want to know about the whole Hunter Biden thing...

Is What The Fuck Jared Kushner did to get two BILLION dollars from Saudi Arabia.

[calimary]

25. Well, I certainly want to know what Jared was up to!

How come there’s never been even an inquiry?

I still want answers to that. Especially considering how quiet things are around him these days. Makes me wonder what ELSE he’s up to now.

All’s Quiet on the Grifter’s Front.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

26. Right??? With that kind of baksheesh,

Thin Man and Sparkle Pony can afford to keep their heads down!

[calimary]

28. "Thin Man and Sparkle Pony"! I like that, T.U.G.!

[uponit7771]

32. +1

[SYFROYH]

30. I would prefer Hunter Biden and lawyers to just go away.

Even this response by his lawyers makes it more likely for the media and voters to be talking about Hunter and not Joe.

[marble falls]

34. And the chair replied, "yeah, so?"

[cstanleytech]

36. I dont care one way or another about Hunter but I find it disgusting how the Republicans are

only doing this for spite Biden and the Democrats in the House and Senate who tried to do what the Republicans refused to do which is to hold Trump responible for his actions.