What effect with the increasingly bad revelations about Hunter Biden have on Slow Joe and his administration? There are two lines of thought. On one hand, some argue that Hunter and Joe weren’t working together, so whatever Hunter did won’t reflect (that) badly on Joe. On the other hand, the revelations are pretty bad and it very well could be that Hunter and Joe were working together, something that many think could spell disaster for Slow Joe.
The first example was perhaps best articulated by the Washington Post (never thought I’d write those words). It, in an article on what has been discovered so far about the Hunter Biden situation, wrote that:
Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden.
The Post did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020.
But the new documents — which include a signed copy of a $1 million legal retainer, emails related to the wire transfers, and $3.8 million in consulting fees that are confirmed in new bank records and agreements signed by Hunter Biden — illustrate the ways in which his family profited from relationships built over Joe Biden’s decades in public service.
So, on one hand, it very well could be true that Biden didn’t know what Hunter was up to, (continued)
This post originally appeared on The Blue State Conservative.
