Joe Biden and Donald Trump are set for a debate on June 27, and expect trials to be a topic. Not only Mr. Trump’s legal travails—it will finally be time to talk about Hunter Biden.
The nation was largely denied information about the Biden family business in 2020, thanks to a compliant press corps, the censorship of social media, and a partisan cabal of former intelligence officials. Asked during the 2020 presidential debates about his son’s foreign business dealings, Mr. Biden said Hunter “has not made money” in China, that stories about Hunter’s work for the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma had been “totally discredited,” that “50 former national intelligence folks” had pronounced claims about Hunter to be Russian disinformation, and that his interactions with his son had never been “unethical.”
The nation won’t be denied the facts this time. The laptop is real. House investigations have documented Hunter’s financial gains in Ukraine, China and elsewhere. Those probes have released sworn testimony that the deals were aided by Joe’s winks, nods, calls and meetings with his son’s clients. IRS whistleblowers have provided evidence of Hunter’s complex web of shell companies and deals. Those facts have been backed up by federal felony indictments—for a gun-related charge as well as tax evasion and filing false tax returns.
More will spill out during Hunter’s trials, now due to kick off next month. Hunter lawyer Abbe Lowell keeps scrabbling to push the proceedings off, and this week he tried again to convince Judge Maryellen Noreika to stall the June 3 federal gun trial in Delaware. No dice.
via www.wsj.com
Kimberly Strassel
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