If the Biden campaign was so willing to ask former Intel officials to weaponize their former positions to spread a blatant lie for political purposes, imagine what the Biden admin is doing now.https://t.co/hf8nIs1ntR
— Ronna McDaniel (@RonnaMcDaniel) April 21, 2023
It’s been 1,481 days since fake news hustler John Solomon published an opinion piece titled “Joe Biden’s 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived” a piece that at the time The Hill labeled as “opinion” because he failed to meet their already not particularly high standards of journalistic ethics. Then after he was fired the next year, the Hill corrected the piece to add that Yuriy Lutsenko, the Ukrainian prosecutor Solomon was citing, had just a month later said he wasn’t investigating Hunter Biden. And that Lutsenko had been fired and indicted on corruption charges.
And this is what Jim Jordan and his buddies are barking at now: That Antony Blinken had gotten a bunch of intel experts to sign a letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop story was probably Russian disinformation during the 2020 campaign, which… Well, so fucking what? How is that illegal?
The best part of this is that it’s coming the same week that NBC News is reporting that federal prosecutors have considered charging Hunter Biden with two misdemeanor tax crimes, one felony tax evasion count, and a federal weapons charge because he lied about having a drug problem while filling out a permit application. Then there’s the possibly less credible Wall Street Journal report that a whistleblower inside the IRS is alleging pressure to slow down their investigation into Hunter.
It would probably be giving too much credit to Jordan’s clown car to surmise that maybe they don’t want to hype the tax shit so much since they’ve been screaming about “87,000 IRS stormtroopers” smashing down the doors of innocent Americans, or that they don’t think having a drug problem should prevent a person from buying a gun. It’s not like they care looking hypocritical about literally anything else. Or even that they might be worried that asking out loud why he hasn’t been charged yet might expose that the Trump-appointed holdover Delaware US Attorney doesn’t have a case he’s confident that will get 12 jurors to convict. “Overpromise and underdeliver” might as well be the official motto for how this House Republican majority treats its fan base.
The likeliest explanation is that they know Hunter’s personal fuckups have pretty much nothing to do with Joe Biden and, by extension, Donald Trump and the 2020 election. Gymbo and pals can’t make an irresponsible crackhead’s indiscretions into some grand socialist plot against regular Americans, so why bother using his committee post to call in the Delaware US Attorney – something Jordan is very much legitimately empowered to do so – and make him answer questions on why he hasn’t moved forward on prosecuting Hunter? It just doesn’t put asses in the seats the way accusing the current Secretary of State of somehow interfering in the 2020 election does.