Maybe a January 6 Committee–style subpoena could straighten all this out.
Jim’s Jolt bangs it out of the park today and ought to be the last word on Hunter Biden’s laughable “the best defense is a good offense” ploy — which is effective only when you actually have a good offense.
For the president’s son to be pleading with the president’s prosecutorial cronies and appointees to weaponize law enforcement against people who have exposed him, while he and his father are under criminal investigation, makes one wonder if he’s giving up his career as the next Rembrandt to become an RNC operative.
Particularly hilarious is the 180 that Team Biden is already pulling less than 24 hours after rolling out this new, er, strategy. Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich reports that Hunter is not actually admitting that the laptop from hell contained his data — only that it was alleged to be his data by the people he wants prosecuted . . . evidently for stealing his property that, on second thought, wasn’t really his property . . . if you can follow this dizzying argument.
Yet, here’s Hunter lawyer Abbe Lowell in yesterday’s demand letter (as reported by Fox News, with my italics):
This failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of Mr. Biden’s private and personal information. . . . Politicians and the news media have used this unlawfully accessed, copied, distributed, and manipulated data to distort the truth and cause harm to Mr. Biden.
As Jim relates, this may not be the most thoroughly thought-through gambit we’ve ever seen, but considering that it’s a Biden gambit that isn’t all that surprising. (See, e.g., coverage of Joe Biden, 1973–2023 and counting.)
Hunter himself previously acknowledged that the laptop data “absolutely” could be his. As we observed time and again when the New York Post broke the story two years ago, the data on its face appeared authentic; it was easily verifiable by comparing events and transactions; a witness — Tony Bobulinski — did in fact corroborate the laptop’s details about the Biden family’s lucrative dealings with CEFC (essentially, a Chinese intelligence op); and neither Hunter nor the Biden campaign challenged any particular email, photo, or document as phony. Once the 2020 election was over, with Joe Biden safely in office, there was no longer reason for media outlets to embarrass themselves with the “Russian disinformation” bunk, so one after another they conceded the data’s authenticity — as if there had ever been any doubt.
There’s not much else to say, except this: If I were running a House committee, and I’d been listening to the media–Democratic complex swoon for over a year about how effective and invaluable the January 6 Committee was, I’d be awfully tempted to take a page out of that committee’s book. You know: Subpoena Hunter, disregard his lawyers’ inevitable protest about the unfairness of it all, and then do a video interview to see if the son of the president of the United States would testify about his activities and his father’s involvement in them, or if he’d instead decide it might be better to take the Fifth a couple of hundred times. As the January 6 committee illustrated, that’s the sort of thing prime-time viewing was made for.
Just a thought.