Yeah, That's partially what I was thinking.
Hunter isn't the Swamp...... Because he is neither elected politician, appointed official or hired bureaucrat or registered lobbyist. And yeah, Joe is a corruptocrat, but I'd classify him as Swamp as well. You don't spend 47 years as a Senator / Vice President / campaigning for President in D.C. without being part of the Swamp.
Hunter is is merely the beneficiary of corruptocrat / Swamp money via his father. I doubt he could be part of the swamp even if he wanted to be. I doubt he is smart, or even with enough low cunningvto get elected or to get hired by the Deep State, much less become an 'operative'. He just gets the graft and bribes paid to his father deposited to his accounts so Joe can pretend to be 'clean'.
“so Joe can pretend to be ‘clean’. ”
All these decades ole Joe seemed to be pure and clean. People bought it. All lies.