MSNBC Legal Analyst Dismisses 'Awfully Flimsy' Hunter Biden Text

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6. The whistleblowers' testimony itself undermines the Joe Biden involvement

theme Mitchell wants to push.

Mediaite: Mr. Shapley, in fact, also told Congress that his investigation had uncovered some evidence that some of the claims of the elder Mr. Biden’s involvement were mere “wishful thinking.”

He told of an interview conducted with Hunter Biden’s business associate Rob Walker, who told investigators that it was “projection” that former Vice President Biden would get involved in their business ventures.

“I certainly never was thinking at any time the V.P. was a part of anything we were doing,” Mr. Walker said, according to Mr. Shapley.

Hunter Biden at the time was addicted to crack cocaine, engaging in tawdry and self-destructive behavior, and facing financial pressures.

One thing I believe as well as I can, his father had nothing to do with this, or anything remotely similar to it. That's one advantage of a half century's scrutinized record in politics. Later, when Obama sent him to Ukraine to represent the U.S. in removing deep-seated Russia-supported corruption from Ukraine's government, he brought a long earned and well known reputation for good character to the task.