Hunter Biden Fights Back

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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.