Democrats Don’t Know How to Handle the Biden Corruption Allegations

For months, the American Right has complained about the media “blackout” around the scandalous revelations involving Hunter Biden’s nefarious dealings, which increasingly appear to have involved his father in ways the president and his allies have long denied. It isn’t as though the press has wholly ignored these revelations. Rather, what the Right’s media watchers have noticed is the conspicuous lack of saturation coverage and analysis around these revelations, similar to what we might expect if a Republican president (or, for that matter, a Republican lawmaker) were accused of similar misdeeds. But media professionals are taking their cues from Democratic officials, and Democrats don’t have a coherent counternarrative to the one Republicans are weaving.

At the end of June, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee claimed that they had uncovered evidence thoroughly rebutting what were at the time still vague accusations of corruption involving the whole Biden family. At the time, Representative Jamie Raskin announced that Mykola Zlochevsky, the co-founder of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, asserted in a 2019 questionnaire that he had no contact with Joe Biden when the president served in the Obama administration. Moreover, Zlochevsky insisted that he received no assistance from the then-vice president’s staff in his dealings with Hunter Biden.

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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For months, the American Right has complained about the media “blackout” around the scandalous revelations involving Hunter Biden’s nefarious dealings, which increasingly appear to have involved his father in ways the president and his allies have long denied. It isn’t as though the press has wholly ignored these revelations. Rather, what the Right’s media watchers have noticed is the conspicuous lack of saturation coverage and analysis around these revelations, similar to what we might expect if a Republican president (or, for that matter, a Republican lawmaker) were accused of similar misdeeds. But media professionals are taking their cues from Democratic officials, and Democrats don’t have a coherent counternarrative to the one Republicans are weaving.

At the end of June, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee claimed that they had uncovered evidence thoroughly rebutting what were at the time still vague accusations of corruption involving the whole Biden family. At the time, Representative Jamie Raskin announced that Mykola Zlochevsky, the co-founder of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, asserted in a 2019 questionnaire that he had no contact with Joe Biden when the president served in the Obama administration. Moreover, Zlochevsky insisted that he received no assistance from the then-vice president’s staff in his dealings with Hunter Biden.

About the Author

Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.