Posted on 02/26/2024 8:41:28 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Hunter Biden not doing crack is a “fight for the future of democracy,” the president’s son told Axios Monday in reference to former President Donald Trump’s bid for reelection.
Hunter’s attempt to somehow tie the fate of the nation to his legal imperative to abstain from drug use fits his long-running narrative of victimhood.
Hunter pleaded not guilty to gun charges in October and underwent random drug testing. Judge Christopher Burke released him on several conditions, including that he not use alcohol or ingest controlled substances.
“I have something much bigger than even myself at stake,” Hunter said about his legal battles. “We are in the middle of a fight for the future of democracy.”
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So who’s going to do the drug testing?
He’s making no sense. Sounds like he’s on drugs.
Selfish and self centered…..just because he’s not using doesn’t mean he’s sober
If Donald Jr said this it would be 24/7 on all the Marxist Media outlets.
We would never hear the end of it.
Exactly.
And all of the useful idiots in Tinseltown would have a field day with the mockery.
Wow, I’ve fought all my life and never knew!
Hunter Biden not doing crack is a “fight for the future of democracy,”
The heart is a lonely Hunter
We need to give Hunter a break. He’s making as great a sacrifice as did Lincoln for the future of the Republic!
sarc
What a moronic dolt.
“...dying on the battlefields of Iraq like Beau...”
Joe? Is that you?
So it *must* be true that everything he says and does is coming to him directly from Rat Party Headquarters.
If only Hunter can keep his nose clean past November, Our Democracy will be saved.
Hunter’s giving up crack for Lent, in order to save democracy. That deserves a medal at the State of the Union.
How far we’ve descended...
President Trump cannot return soon enough.
Keep in mind that this guy was on the board of directors of Amtrak and several other companies. It boggles the mind.
jonathanturley.com
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The problem is that Hunter appears to have a flexible perspective on his addiction, bringing it up depending on the political value it brings to a given case or controversy.
The gun indictment, for example, alleges Biden certified on a federally mandated form “that he was not an unlawful user of, and addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, and any other controlled substance, when in fact, as he knew, that statement was false and fictitious.”
However, Biden’s counsel, Abbe Lowell, maintained that “at the time that he purchased this gun, I don’t think there’s evidence that that’s when he was suffering.” Lowell said that Biden had already emerged from rehabilitation when he signed the form.
That is a shift from the previous year during which Hunter’s addiction was used as a final line of defense. At the start of this scandal, many in the media insisted that Hunter was a legitimate businessman who brought his skills and expertise to foreign businesses.
As it became clear that Hunter acquired millions in a raw influence-peddling scheme, many turned to the addiction defense. Hunter released a book, Beautiful Things: A Memoir, that was heralded by many as a brave account of his drug addiction. Reviewers gushed about “an astonishingly candid and brave book about loss, human frailty, wayward souls, and hard-fought redemption.”
Suddenly, Hunter’s addiction to cocaine and other drugs was the conversation stopper for anyone who did not want to seem insensitive to the struggles of an addict. Gone was Joe Biden’s mantra that “my son did nothing wrong.”
Instead, in an 2022 interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, the president declared that Hunter “fought an addiction problem. He overcame it. He wrote about it.”It was all about addiction …........ until now, apparently, it isn’t any longer.
Even before the latest 360 degree correction, the addiction defense only heightened the concerns over Hunter’s corrupt influence-peddling. When foreign figures were giving him millions of dollars, Hunter admits that he was a crack addict and alcoholic, writing in his book that “Drinking a quart of vodka a day by yourself in a room is absolutely, completely debilitating” as was “smoking crack around the clock.”
Yet Hunter was not some junkie in Times Square snatching purses to feed his addiction.
<><>He was flying around the world mooching off taxpayers on A Force Two,
<><>he was vacuuming up millions selling influence
<><>he was allegedly distributing the money to various Biden family members
<><>he was organizing a labyrinth of shell companies and LLC accounts
<><>he was selling out America left and right.
The addiction defense also begged the question: Why would these corrupt figures want an addict like Hunter on their boards or involved in their businesses?
Nevertheless, the Biden-obeisant media embraced the “lovable but troubled-son-of-the-president” narrative. Hunter’s prostitutes, the tax evasion, the gun violations, and other alleged crimes were just the “face of the addiction.”
However, we are told that Hunter surfaced, sober as a judge, just in time to sign a federal gun form.
The problem is that Hunter’s book discusses how his addiction <><>continued into his father’s presidential campaign and
<><>required an intervention by his family.
<><>despite attacks from the Trump campaign and the liability to his father’s campaign,
<><>Hunter remained an addict in 2019. (The gun form, remember, was signed in late 2018.)
There is an added problem with moving back the date of his addiction. It would mean that Hunter no longer has the “7% solution” to other problems.
For example, in the summer of 2019, Hunter allegedly continued to receive huge transfers of money from Chinese sources. Notably, House Republicans say, he received two wire transfers totaling $260,000 that listed President Biden’s Delaware home as the beneficiary address for the funds.
Yet, in October 2019, a few months later, Hunter denied the receipt of any such money from China — echoing the repeated denials of his father. When ABC News asked if he received any money from the Chinese deals, Hunter said “no, no.” He was then asked, “Not one cent?” and replied “Not one cent.”
That was a dead-cold sober lie.
The Biden campaign undoubtedly will try to thread this needle. It is the criminal defense version of airline blackout dates
<><>where you cannot make allegations against Hunter when he was allegedly blacked-out with drugs
<><>While he was still influence-peddling on a global scale, those dates are addiction dates.
However, it turns out that Oct. 12, 2018, was a moment of sobriety — and thus Hunter apparently was telling the truth in denying the use of drugs.
In his book, Hunter wrote that he has never used the tragedies of his life as an excuse for his addiction because “that would be a cop-out.”
Indeed, in a change for his counsel and the media alike, sobriety is now Hunter’s final line of defense.
Temporarily.
Well then Hunter...what was that crack cocaine doing in the White House? It was there to aid in our “democracy”. Which is it?
Good heavens, when Trump wins this time he will need a host of drug sniffing dogs to comb the place and Melania will have to have the exorcism done all over again.
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