The ugly truth of why the Hunter Biden crime cover-up does matter in the 2024 election
Tiana Lowe Doescher
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Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, prices have risen by more than 15%, and more than 5 million foreign aliens have flooded the southern border, a crisis compounded by the president’s moronic push to rip up his predecessor’s Safe Third Country agreements, Remain in Mexico, and Title 42.
Despite the end of the pandemic emergency (total death toll under Biden: 700,000 Americans, nearly double of that under Trump), the federal deficit is up 63% from last year, on pace to reach nearly $2 trillion by the end of fiscal 2023. The Federal Reserve is being forced to make the problem worse, jacking up interest rates to 15-year highs just to fight back on the inflationary fiscal policy of the White House, and ordinary citizens are being made to pay the price.
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All that being said, the country has plenty of kitchen table crises to consider over the chaos that will constitute the 2024 election. But one tawdry, tabloid controversy has sadly but very surely become a more than trivial matter in Biden’s bid for reelection: not just the crimes committed by his drug-abusing, womanizing, influence-peddling son Hunter, but rather the Biden campaign’s cover-up of those crimes during the 2020 election.
On Earth Two, liberal feminists would be going apoplectic over revelations that Hunter Biden, who allegedly withheld payment from his female employees in exchange for sexual favors, was taking his illegitimate daughter to court to refuse her the right to the last name “Biden,” and the same ethicists appalled by Trump’s trampling of norms would revile a president’s son trading his family association to receive bags of cash from China to pay for prostitutes in Russia.
On Earth One, those liberals deny that Hunter Biden’s own crimes — which, according to federal investigators, may include tax fraud and firearms violations — matter when voters consider whether his octogenarian father deserves a second shot at the Oval Office. But as House Republicans are currently unearthing, the Biden campaign may have tried to cover up Hunter’s malfeasance with the specific intention of winning the 2020 election.
The crux of the original blockbuster New York Post story was that Biden, who claimed to “never” have spoken to Hunter about “his overseas business dealings,” actually had met an adviser to Burisma, the Ukrainian energy firm which paid Hunter $50,000 per month for nominally serving on its board. While obviously corrupt, Hunter’s influence peddling, which resulted in millions from Russia, China, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine, was not, on its face, criminal.
But the Biden campaign’s actions to silence and discredit the reporting into that story and all associated with the laptop was rank corruption, not just of Biden’s association with his son, but of Biden’s campaign itself.
The infamous letter from 51 intelligence officials declaring that the laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” was politically transparent garbage when it was first published by Politico. But now we know, thanks to the House Republicans investigating the Biden family, that the letter was deliberately orchestrated by the Biden campaign to influence the outcome of the 2020 election.
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The letter writers were not under oath, and lying is not a crime. But the letter, evidently a knowingly willful distortion of the reality the writers knew at the time, was allegedly orchestrated by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was then a member of the Biden campaign. Either Biden knew, condoning the weaponization of the intelligence community for personal gain, or he was genuinely in the dark, raising entirely separate questions about his age and executive competence. In this case, the cover-up was potentially worse than whatever crimes Biden knew that his son was committing.
The Hunter Biden saga was no more than a sordid personal tragedy when it was merely about a serial sexual harasser and adulterer who coasted on his last name to buy hookers and cocaine. But the moment the president’s campaign gets in on protecting the failson, it is indeed a matter of public interest, especially as it pertains to the 2024 election.