Ignore Biden corruption but cry for Hunter drug woes

After a high-level IRS agent blew the whistle on the Justice Division’s makes an attempt to guard Hunter Biden, and by extension, his presidential daddy, the media — taking a tip from President Joe Biden himself — rapidly set to work making an attempt to persuade the general public the actual story isn’t the blatant corruption however that Hunter is a tragic drug addict and his father nonetheless loves him anyway.

Aww!

Sorry, however the truth that Hunter is an admitted cokehead and prostitute hound is only a salacious facet story; the clearly extra pressing matter is that he, utilizing his father’s high-government connections, raked in cash by doing favors for overseas actors.  

And that as a substitute of any critical prosecution to see if he broke the legislation, DOJ gave him a junk plea deal whereby Hunter will get probation and should pinky promise to remain sober and by no means purchase one other gun.

It’s one of many greatest scandals of latest years, but ignore all of it: Nicholas Kristof of The New York Instances writes that the “major takeaway” is that the president affords the nation “a wonderful mannequin of the love and assist that individuals with addictions want.”

That echoed the information write-up his paper did final week, drumming up sympathy for Hunter by noting that the IRS’s investigation “targeted on a very chaotic and unseemly interval in Hunter Biden’s life when he was hooked on crack cocaine.”

Poor factor.

Ana Navarro of ABC’s “The View” practically broke down in tears Monday to say “the Hunter Biden story — the scandal, the this, the that — can be the story of a father’s love.”

And The Washington Publish ran a syrupy article beneath the headline, “The sophisticated relationship between a presidential father and a struggling son.”

Sure, it’s all very sophisticated.

IRS supervising investigator Gary Shapley produced a 2017 display screen shot of a textual content message whereby Hunter tells a Chinese language Communist Celebration official that he’s “with my father” at that second and that if a sure “dedication” isn’t fulfilled, “I’ll make sure that between the person sitting subsequent to me and each particular person he is aware of and my capability to eternally maintain a grudge that you’ll remorse not following my path. I’m sitting right here ready for the decision with my father.”

MSNBC Authorized Analyst Barbara McQuade known as that ditty “awfully flimsy” so far as utilizing it to launch any extra investigations by Congress. “It simply merely is a few type of puffery by Hunter Biden.”

The WaPo described “a posh relationship between a presidential father and a son recovering from dependancy.”

Hunter’s name-dropping his then-former vp dad to the Chinese language isn’t complicated. It’s Rolodex.

And if this can be a story a couple of debilitated son down on his luck, then the tens of millions of {dollars} Hunter was pulling in from China, Ukraine and others absolutely couldn’t have been due to his experience within the area or intelligence.

It was extra clearly than ever as a result of his daddy was a excessive curler.

No one wanted Hunter. They wanted his father. And Dad’s connections and affect.

DOJ didn’t wish to deal with that, irrespective of how incriminating it’d’ve been.

The proof is overwhelming: Shapley, the IRS agent who was a part of the probe into Hunter’s shady streams of overseas earnings, has testified to Congress beneath oath, with names, dates and emails, that the DOJ blocked and dropped leads that will have probably led to massive felony expenses towards the president’s son.

He mentioned there gave the impression to be a disinterest in uncovering any materials that will show Joe Biden was immediately concerned in any of Hunter’s abroad enterprise dealing.

The sworn testimony extensively particulars and paperwork Shapley’s expertise “investigating” Hunter, with impediment after impediment thwarting the probe.

Shapley mentioned the method was “inconsistent” with previous process and, in impact, that Legal professional Common Merrick Garland’s sworn testimony that Delaware US Legal professional David Weiss had full authority over the matter was a giant fats lie.

“Regardless of the motivations, at each stage selections had been made that had the impact of benefiting the topic of the investigation,” Shapley mentioned, referring to Hunter.

“These selections included slow-walking investigative steps, not permitting enforcement actions to be executed, limiting investigators’ line of questioning for witnesses, deceptive investigators on charging authority, delaying any and all actions months earlier than [the 2020 election] to make sure the investigation didn’t go overt effectively earlier than coverage memorandum mandated the pause.”

The media need this to be a sob story about drug dependancy. If solely it had been.

Eddie Scarry is a columnist for The Federalist.