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No, Hunter Biden isn't a 'troubled child'
Washington Examiner ^ | 8/24/23 | Peter Laffin

Posted on 08/25/2023 2:48:13 AM PDT by Libloather

Liberal pundits are descending to ever greater depths of self-abasement in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election . On this past weekend's edition of Fox News Sunday, senior political analyst Juan Williams made his case to become D.C.'s swampiest commentator by attempting to spin the Hunter Biden saga into an occasion of sympathy for President Joe Biden . Behold this tour-de-force of sycophancy:

It’s not clear to me that the current president’s wayward son and whatever he did… it’s not as clear as what the former president has done. There’s a difference between saying you’ve got a troubled child in your family, that that might even generate some sympathy from parents in this country, and saying, this man has been indicted four times (emphasis mine).

To be sure, such comments could only emerge from someone with no respect for the intelligence of his audience. In order to accept Williams's spin on the Hunter Biden saga - that he is a mere "troubled child" and that President Biden deserves sympathy as a result — one would need to know almost nothing about it in the first place.

For starters, describing a 53-year-old as a “troubled child” is the stuff of Will Ferrell movies, not real life. In this warped fantasy, Hunter Biden’s “troubles” are just an unfortunate family matter to which ordinary Americans can relate.

After all, who doesn't know someone who served on the board of a Ukrainian oil and gas company that paid $1 million per year in exchange for access to the vice president of the United States? Or someone who threatened Chinese nationals with retribution from his vice presidential father if payments weren't transferred to his account by sundown? Or someone who secured at least $20 million in foreign cash for his family spread out across...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: biden; bribes; child; hunter; hunterbiden
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They better start asking Hussein about what he knows.
1 posted on 08/25/2023 2:48:13 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

A troubled child doesn’t pay a tithe to his dad.

Unless the trouble is the dad.


2 posted on 08/25/2023 3:04:42 AM PDT by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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To: Libloather

That would be a good idea.


3 posted on 08/25/2023 3:04:49 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: cockroach_magoo

True dat!


4 posted on 08/25/2023 3:09:04 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Libloather
Liberal pundits are descending to ever greater depths of self-abasement in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.

It's not self-abasement if they are soldiers fighting for the Marxists trying to overthrow our government and establish a dictatorship.

They are not self-abased. They are the enemies of freedom (even if they are just useful idiots).

5 posted on 08/25/2023 3:09:36 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: Libloather

this is true- but Freeper women said the same about Prince Harry when he hooked up with Markle “ But his mommy died sooo young he can’t help it, being confused and all”
so while i think both grown men are responsible for their own actions, many do not.


6 posted on 08/25/2023 3:35:20 AM PDT by ronniesgal (The bidens are actually more white trashy than the Clintons, and that's sayin' something)
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To: Libloather

he’s a common criminal.......


7 posted on 08/25/2023 3:42:56 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: All

In this feel-good warped liberal fantasy, 53 year old cokehead Hunter Biden’s “troubles” are just “an unfortunate family matter” to which all of us ordinary Americans can relate. After all, who doesn’t have a son or relative, maybe a second cousin, twice removed:

<><>who was a Ukrainian energy company board member?
<><>someone paid $1M p/y in exchange for access to the VP of the US?
<><>someone who threatened Chinese nationals with retribution from his VP father?
<><> someone who demand payments be transferred to his account by sundown?
<><>someone who secured at least $20 million in foreign cash for his family, even the VP grandkids?


8 posted on 08/25/2023 3:50:21 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...

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9 posted on 08/25/2023 3:51:05 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: Libloather

It is my understanding that:

The son took ‘dirty’ money and gave some to his daddy.

Daddy knew his son took ‘dirty’ money.


10 posted on 08/25/2023 3:59:22 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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To: Libloather

consider:

“The International Court of Justice (ICJ) concluded separately that there was no evidence linking him to genocide committed by Bosnian Serb forces during the Bosnian War, but did find that Milošević and others in Serbia had violated the Genocide Convention by failing to prevent the genocide from occurring and hold those involved accountable.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87

People are alleging that Joe Biden, a federal officer, failed to hold his son accountable.


11 posted on 08/25/2023 4:05:53 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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To: Libloather

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12 posted on 08/25/2023 4:09:14 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: Libloather
Juan Williams reminds me of George Costanza trying to explain to the fire men why he had to push all the women and children out of the way so he could get out of the fire first. One of the fire men asks him "how do you live with yourself ?"

Same question for Juan.......

13 posted on 08/25/2023 4:09:16 AM PDT by Mopp4 ("It is a cruel world, Herr Hauptman. You said it yourself.")
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To: Libloather

No doubt he WAS a troubled child after witnessing what his father was doing to his sister Ashley, or perhaps even to himself, with a stepmother who looked the other way,

The hypersexualization and drug abuse in the Biden “ children” seemingly have familial roots


14 posted on 08/25/2023 4:22:30 AM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: silverleaf

After all, what kid doesn’t nickname his Dad “Peter Pedo” ?


15 posted on 08/25/2023 4:24:52 AM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Libloather

The propa-press wants to excuse Hunter and give parental excuses for Joe Biden, but in reality, he is scared to death of what Hunter will say, perhaps even turning against him. If you were the head of criminal organization, your biggest fear would be that a compromised, crackhead, out of control underboss who knows where all of the bodies are buried. Perhaps Hunter is blackmailing his daddy. Wouldn’t be the first time.


16 posted on 08/25/2023 4:57:16 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: Libloather

No, but he’s a very troubled adult.


17 posted on 08/25/2023 5:17:51 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Liz; FRiends

Other than the $20 million in my ‘offshore account,’ I really can’t relate to anything else Hunter/Brandon have done. *SNORT*

I guess his next card to play will be that ‘Dear Old Dad’ was sexually molesting him, too? That part I might even believe.

These people are degenerate trash. DESTRUCTIVE, degenerate trash. ANTI-AMERICAN, destructive, degenerate trash.

How far America has fallen. :(


18 posted on 08/25/2023 5:18:50 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: ronniesgal
this is true- but Freeper women said the same about Prince Harry when he hooked up with Markle “ But his mommy died sooo young he can’t help it, being confused and all”

Not all of us. Matter of fact, I don't recall seeing that lame excuse at all.

Don't broad brush all FReeper women.

19 posted on 08/25/2023 5:19:35 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Libloather

The Biden family was and still is immersed in Joe’s political career, which came before anything else. It was all about public image, power, money and Joe.

In private, I am betting Joe was a very angry and controlling husband and father, possibly mentally and physically abusive. Everything was about image and promoting Joe Biden. His hobby and sport was politics, his wife and kids were and are his props. He is a fraud, which is why he continually tries to reinvent himself. His kids didn’t have a chance.


20 posted on 08/25/2023 5:45:52 AM PDT by Toespi
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