Most Republicans will NOT spend much of anytime fronting the story like the media has….
Voters with kids probably will sympathise with Joe Biden and having a kids with problems……
Donald Trump keeps flogging the Hunter Biden saga to cast President Joe Biden as the head of a crime family. Earlier this week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy floated the idea of moving forward with impeachment proceedings over the matter.
But as the Hunter Biden case came to a head in recent days — with Biden pleading not guilty to tax and gun charges on Wednesday as a plea deal fell apart — some prominent Republicans were questioning the effectiveness of going after the president’s son on the issue, at all….
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In a sign that strategists see other arguments as more effective with voters, Republicans aren’t putting money behind Hunter Biden attacks.
A POLITICO review of political ads on air and digital platforms over the last three months showed that only one candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, has spent any money on the Hunter Biden line of criticism — and it was just $907, for a digital ad in late June criticizing the plea deal, according to AdImpact, a media tracking firm.
Virtually no one else in the conservative thought sphere is bothering to put money there, either. A review of television and digital advertisements that have run this year shows that the only national conservative group paying for Hunter Biden messaging is Judicial Watch, which has spent less than $3,000 on a digital ad….
image….Us Weekly
White House reports the President will NOT pardon his son in his current situation…
Absent something we don’t know?
No ,this likely won’t be a major issue in the presidential race,but to headline it as “going away”is way over the top.
Congressional Republicans will keep at it and Hunter Biden faces some real legal jeopardy here .So it will remain a major story for awhile .
I agree they will try ..
But like almost every other effort to drag down Biden and Democrats?
It WILL go away
Even this case will go away when the lawyers get their act together and follow the jugdes suggestion on how do the plea agreement..,
Jack is right, the House Republicans won’t let it go away since they have Committee authority and have absolutely no trouble lying and making shit up.
It won’t go away because lots of people are desperate to believe the worst about the Biden family and Hunter is basically a mess.
It won’t go away and January 6th is coming closer in the rear view mirror.
Keith is right. Hunter is a mess. But a lot of Republicans will not be happy until he kills himself.
If CG were still around he would be clutching his pearls at that comment but I truly believe it. They have no interest in his recovery or rehabilitation.
Yes Scott, they see Hunter as a campaign issue and their only counter argument as Trump goes down the legal crapper day after day.
Yes, the moralist would have been all over this like he was with Al Franken and the faux crime of appearing to touch a woman’s breast (remember that one, oh the good old days).
We’ve now graduated to condoning insurrection and the theft of classified materials that could be sold to the highest bidder. No, no outrage from the Republicans on that one. But let Hunter Biden film himself naked with a gun and MTG will delight in showing you pictures of his dick at a Congressional hearing. Well, at least we can be sure it works.
AS I pointed out in this post…..
Outside the Beltway?
Away from us political junkies?
This is NOT a story folks….
It WILL certainly NOT be a deal breaker for the President who will suffer under the screwups his son has done…..
And yes Keith is right…..
It’s just making the RightWingNuts Happy and busy…….
They want to to keep away from looking and dealing with their head crook’s more coming arrests .…
It’s a story for the MAGA Republicans, a majority of the Republicans, and it’s an issue for Trump so it’s not going away as long as he is the nominee. He needs to deflect and everyone here sees that except one. So yes, it’s an issue, a phony issue, but one the Republicans desperately need.
Both siderism has been here since Nixon, it’s a staple of Republican bullshit – the old, “they’re all crooks”. It was used to defend Nixon and paint our institutions as corrupt – “drain the swamp!” So, the story is crap, but it’s not going away and it’s not isolated.
You will hear it from every Republican.
James is well known for his ,shall we say ,“ unique perspective“on matters that are fairly obvious to the rest of us.
No, the Hunter Biden story will not “ go away” soon.
It also behooves us to remember that he has been predicting Trumps political demise for seven years or so.Accordingly, his predictive abilities are open to a degree of skepticism.
One day Trump will exit the scene and the Hunter story will finally fade away and when these events happen? I am quite sure he will be here with the headline…
SEE I WAS RIGHT!
He, he, he….
Tell youself whatever….
The story IS Mickey Mouse and the judge WILL accept a well defined deal when presented to the court….
‘The story is crap’…..
We ALL agree….
Crap melts away as this story will….
The story may be Mickey Mouse, but the reaction to it is pure Republican drama.
They have to find some type of equivalency to counter the avalanche of legal shit falling on Trump.
The answer: “The Biden Crime Family!”
Today I watched an hour of Fox while I ran on the treadmill. Guess what was the only topic? Hunter Biden and how he made his dad rich.
Republicans are committed to their Great White Hope and will believe and spread any story that “excuses,” since all politicians are crooks, Donald Trump.
This is emails 2.0!
Doesn’t matter if it’s true, it gives the racist Republican masses a mental excuse to ignore what is right before their eyes.
Expect more hearings and more gun stories involving Hunter, and more Fox wall to wall coverage.
If someone doesn’t see that then they know nothing about politics.
I agree Keith….
But as soon as the lawyer’s fix the plea agreement the judge WILL accept it…..
And YES….
The crazies will contiune ….
Lower in volume as they search for the new Hunter fuck-up….
And talk about impeaching Biden, which won’t happen an d other things as u correctly point out steers the media from Trump’s criminal enterprises and coming convictions…..
The Ukrainian situation before Zelenskyy’s election was so murky and so corrupt that no doubt the Internet Research Agency and fellow trolls (the children of Guccifer 2.0_ will release their “well-documented” version of all the shady lobbying, dealing and stealing at just the right “Access Hollywood II” moment when their useful idiot puppet DJT most needs a public distraction (“See, they all do it!”). Say, when the January 6th indictment finally comes down. And of course, it will all show how the entire Federal government has been weaponized against patriotic America’s Last Best Hope.
Biden acknowledges his ‘seven’ grandchildren in interview
…Biden first acknowledged that he is the grandfather of Navy, Hunter’s daughter from his affair with Lunden Roberts, in a statement on Friday.
The shift follows the conclusion of a messy court proceeding that settled in Arkansas last month. Roberts filed the suit against Hunter in 2019, which ultimately proved that he was the father through DNA testing. Court filings did not state the amount of child support Navy received…
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