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The Hunter Biden Scandal Is Breaking Through

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Hunter Biden departs federal court after a plea hearing on two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to pay income taxes in Wilmington, Del., July 26, 2023.

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Buried at the bottom of ABC News’s write-up of the poll it commissioned with Ipsos — a dispatch that covers the waterfront of public opinion surrounding all the many sordid affairs that involve Donald Trump — lies a shocking bit of news about how the public is responding to Hunter Biden’s scandalous conduct and how his father’s administration is handling it:

According to Ipsos, the survey showed that fewer than one-third of Americans believe the Justice Department is conducting the investigation and prosecution of Hunter Biden in a “fair and nonpartisan manner.” In plainer words, a plurality of Americans see — or, at least, are not willing to dismiss — the appearance of corruption in the administration’s handling of the allegations that the president’s son enriched himself by retailing access to the highest echelons of the American government.

Noah Rothman

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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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