USA Today: Hunter Biden’s Alleged Influence Peddling, Underage Hooker Hopping, Tax and Gun Charges Are Mere “Foibles”
You can’t make this stuff up.
The hacktivist Democrat media’s attempt to save Joe “I am the Democratic Party” Biden from his son’s alleged wide-ranging lawlessness, some of which implicates Joe himself, didn’t work. Apparently, Americans aren’t buying the whole “Joe’s just a loving father” line, so now, the media is up and spinning again. This time USA Today references Hunter Biden‘s alleged law-breaking and myriad legal woes as “foibles.”
Seriously. I’m not kidding.
Hunter Biden's foibles provide ammunition for Republicans who want to inflict harm on Joe Biden ahead of 2024 presidential campaign. https://t.co/5eQkuBpIJJ
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 29, 2023
USA Today “reports” (archive link):
The White House and congressional Democrats suspect the GOP is using Hunter Biden to advance its own political agenda: To damage Joe Biden heading into next year’s election. Hunter Biden, a 53-year-old attorney and businessman, holds no public office and has no official role in his father’s government — unlike Ivanka Trump who held a policy job out of the White House as did her husband Jared Kushner. But his foibles have provided ammunition for those who want to inflict harm on Joe Biden and his presidency.
“Hunter Biden, I want to remind the (Republican) majority, is actually not the president of the United States,” Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said recently during a GOP-led congressional hearing in which two IRS whistleblowers claimed the Justice Department interfered in an IRS investigation into the president’s son.
. . . . While the GOP investigations into Hunter Biden often have seemed like a mud-slinging contest, they have raised legitimate questions about what involvement, if any, Joe Biden had in his son’s business dealings, Kendall said. But Republicans don’t help their case when they pull stunts like waving Hunter Biden’s nude photos in front of television cameras, he said.
They even use “foibles” as a subheading in the article. Surreal.
Hunter Biden’s foibles fuel GOP attacks
Hunter Biden’s personal and professional transgressions – which range from substance abuse and fathering a daughter out of wedlock to questionable business dealings in China and Ukraine and legal issues over his taxes – have provided sensational grist for his and his father’s Republican agitators.
. . . . House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., ratcheted up the rhetoric even further, suggesting last week that Republican investigations into Hunter Biden’s business dealings could trigger an impeachment inquiry against his father.
Republicans have been trying to tie Joe Biden to his son’s overseas business dealings and point to unverified claims that Hunter Biden put his father, who was vice president at the time, on the phone with foreign business associates. Three GOP-led committees also have opened a joint investigation into the Justice Department’s handling of the tax charges against Hunter Biden amid what they claim is improper interference in the case.
Needless to say, people have thoughts.
Nothing like referring to shakedowns, influence peddling for millions, tax evasion and other criminality as “foibles.” https://t.co/hxI2Pi0KJ6
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) July 29, 2023
Masterpiece. The description of Hunter Biden’s crimes as “foibles.” The framing of the story as being actually about Republicans. The insinuation of “pouncing.” 10/10. https://t.co/rogLbDliRj
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 29, 2023
"Foibles".
Federal gun charges are now "foibles".
This is why the MSM has become a laughingstock. https://t.co/9IlZCi88O9
— Blue State Snooze (@BlueSnoozeBlue) July 29, 2023
Influence peddling, bribery, drug possession and use, failing to pay taxes for at least two years, illegal firearms possession, and failing to register as a foreign agent when required by law aren’t “foibles.” They are crimes. And the DOJ’s clear corruption in trying to bury it…
— stevemur (@stevemur) July 29, 2023
Wow. Legacy media is beyond pathetic.
— Dewayne A Marino (@I_Knew_It_Was_U) July 29, 2023
— Jacob Bloom (@JacobBloom31) July 29, 2023
Foible?
Is that when a pedo smokes crack with naked underage girls while selling political influence to foreign governments?
— Average Person (@Average_Persone) July 29, 2023
Apparently it includes tossing guns in dumpsters at a school, perjury, banging underage hookers while smoking crack and holding a pistol, tax evasion, and laundering money for his family.
— TexasSloopy (@SloopyTexas) July 29, 2023
The propaganda press summed up in one laughably absurd headline https://t.co/VTHYD7s14u
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) July 29, 2023
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Comments
Re: the so-called legacy media – “I used to be disgusted. Now, I’m just amused.”
The legacy media (formerly “mainstream media”) has no – repeat no – credibility anymore. And I don’t see any way that they can regain credibility; not in my lifetime, at any rate (I’m 66)
When I was a travelling road warrior and the hotel would shove a USA Today under the door, I’d just toss it on the trash …. Where it belonged.
Next up … USA Today praises Biden showering with his daughter as “water conservation, green activism, good for the environment”. Go for it, USA Today.
What about Janes Biden’s influence peddling? Or was he incapacitated, too?
If were talking about someone celebrating their 21st b-day in Vegas then maybe you shoehorn in the hookers, drugs, drinking and hell it’s Vegas Baby so throw in a gun violation and put under foibles.
Instead this a man in his 50’s with an extensive history of these sorts of behavior who was peddling the family name and political power for cash. Get outta here with ‘foibles’ USA Today. The man isn’t eccentric the man is an addict who got tossed out of the Navy.
Fuzzy, sorry to be off topic but I have a request for LI. I was going to use the contact button but it kept trying to get me to change my email provider or so it seemed.
I began following LI because of the great job the site did in analysis of cases where leftist DA’s and the media tried to railroad Defendents accused of murder in self-defense cases.
The coverage this site did on the George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse prosecutions was outstanding and likely contributed to the support they gained from average Americans appalled at the unfair treatment they received from the DA’s and the Corporate media.
I think a similar deep dive into the J6 prosecutions would be extremely valuable both in the interest of equal justice and to expose evidence which has likely not been seen by the American public.
Obviously, there are hundreds of cases but perhaps just selecting a few examples from the following categories:
Oath Keepers and/or Proud Boys accused of violent crimes and seditious conspiracy.
Defendents accused or convicted of entering the capital (that were not waved in by police). No charge or evidence of violence of property damage.
Defendents accused or convicted of entering the capital with no charge or evidence of violence or property damage that were waved in by police.
Lastly it would be good to see analysis of the comments by judges chastising the Defendents for their support of a Trump or their continued belief that the election was compromised by fraud and manipulation of the mail in and ballot harvest rules and/or enforcement.
Mahalo,
Those are good topics, and I wish we could dig deeper into more cases like we did with Zimmerman and others. One of my big regrets is not getting into the J6 prosecutorial abuses, but we simply don’t have the funding to hire people to do it. Unlike the government, we have to live within our means.
Joe and Hunter have engaged in the most egregious crimes possible. Taking bribes in exchange for influence of the US Government is actually enumerated in the Constitution as a crime that demands removal from office. Comer has essentially proven that Biden is guilty of this crime.
It appears that the US Government has sent upwards of $100B in cash and military hardware to Ukraine at the behest of Biden and the Democrats. I suppose the Hawks in the Republican party too.
No American can be certain that these large transfers of wealth to Ukraine are not an effort to hide Biden’s corruption.
Erronius
“Comer has essentially proven that Biden is guilty of this crime.”
Ssshhhhh! He still has years and years more hearings to hold before actually DOING anything!
Fluffing cushions for team Biden is just the tryout; the lead role as Hunter’s personal Barcalounger is the prize.
#badgurrrljournalist
Yes, they are mere foilbes. Now charge him and his father and execute them both for their foibles, which are punishable by death under federal law.
Foibles. Fiery but mostly peaceful riots and arson binges. Hottest Day EVER!!!
The MSM is well connected to the truth as they wish it to be.
“Hunter Biden, I want to remind the (Republican) majority, is actually not the president of the United States,” Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., said recently…”
No, he’s the president’s cutout and bagman.
Which also means that he isn’t protected by the difficult process of impeachment. He can be indicted, tried and executed via normal process of law.
So Hunter likes to get his foibles off. C’mon man!
Can Trump use the same excuse with Smith and Fani?
He’s a Republican, of course he can’t use any of these silly!!
Didn’t John Mitchell go to prison because he was Nixon’s bag man for political donations? Didn’t Agnew resign because he was convicted of taking bribes as Governor of Maryland? Hunter has foibles?Eh no, Hunter is an addict. Hunter is the centerpiece of a wide ranging influence peddling scheme that involves the President’s brother too. 20 she’ll companies to launder money is not a foible, it’s a criminal enterprise. FJB
My money says that the pretentious New Yorker will eschew foibles in favor of peccadilloes.
A great question is who and what is lining up to fill in and defeat USA Today?
Daily Wire is pretty good and getting better but does have a problem with being too associated with the right to capture the middle.
Fox is going to flip left the moment Rupert Murdoch dies or yields more of his empire to his children, and much of the senior staff is likely leftwing anyway so isn’t that interested in capturing the middle.
The various networks that made their division from Fox based on not accepting the results of the 2020 have already discredited themselves as news sources by refusing to accept news they didn’t like.
Like it or not the middle does exist, and unless Daily Wire makes a successful play for it (which is easier said than done because) we aren’t in much of a position to take advantage of the media beclowning themselves.
This is a long-standing problem. How do we break the hold that the hactivist Democrat media has on the center of this country? And how long would they stay in the center if they ever heard the truth about what Democrats are doing? How do we on the right break through? I don’t know the answer, but it’s a problem every right-leaning outfit thinks about and wishes they had a solution for.
The only thing that would for sure work is if some billionaire righty bought a major outlet and fixed it. The NYT, USA Today, Whatever.
We already got Twitter (and he wasn’t even a righty), I doubt we can hope for two lightning strikes.
Twitter is part of the public square, it is not the entire public square and even if it was just being in it doesn’t mean people are going to listen to us.
I do 1000% agree with what you said, I would go further that we all should be extremely grateful to Elon Musk for what he did for us and for the fact that it is definitely grace.
However just showing up is only the first step. If as a teacher a student showed up in your class but didn’t do any homework you assigned you wouldn’t give that a good grade would you? We have some extremely tough homework to do.
I am glad we agree.
Unfortunately I can’t think of any easy answers. There are many easy answers but I can’t think of any easy answers to media.
Don’t misunderstand I do love the good that Daily Wire investigative reporters have achieved, but taking the center requires so much more than what Daily Wire has even if it wasn’t doing anything else.
I don’t know it can be “fixed”. As long as their lives are going OK, the people in the “center” want to hear comfortable narratives, and want to think about politics as little as possible. And they want to be able to get abortions for themselves and their daughters – and that’s it!! There is a reason that none of the existing right wing outlets, including long standing ones like the NY Post, have connected with these people.
Do you have an explanation for Glenn Youngkin? Or an explanation for why follow the news at all if you have already given up?
“Fox is going to flip left the moment Rupert Murdoch dies…”
They don’t have very flipping far to flip.
Compare right vs leftwing content released by Fox News.
The firing of Tucker for taking an anti-war stance in the context of the Ukraine War…….was there a point in time Rupert Murdoch did not hate Russia? I think he has always made it clear Russia hatred was one of his beliefs.
News about how the AMERICAN managers at Fox force their employees to act behind closed doors shows what Fox will become in the future when an Australian mogul isn’t wagging his finger at them. As of right now however what Fox turns out is right wing content, almost all in favor of Trump.
Call it whatever you like. Interesting to see what some people care so much about.
Bottom line is that, no matter what you call it, the Big Guy is going to face an impeachment inquiry that will show the country what a lovely family the Bidens are.
Does anyone actually subscribe to USA Today?
Enough do to keep it afloat.