Rightwing politicians repeat unfounded theories that gun trial verdict is a ‘distraction’ from worse Biden crimes

Rightwing politicians repeat unfounded theories that gun trial verdict is a ‘distraction’ from worse Biden crimes

Republicans responded to Hunter Biden’s conviction on Tuesday of lying about his drug use to buy a gun by doubling down on conspiracy theories that many senior party figures have been using to try and damage his president father.

Despite the fact that Joe Biden’s son could now face a hefty jail sentence, Donald Trump’s election campaign and its surrogates repeated unfounded attack lines that the conviction was part of a conspiracy to deflect attention from more serious crimes and represented the use of the Department of Justice (DoJ) as a political weapon.

Republicans have long sought to use Hunter Biden’s woes and business dealings as a political weapon against Biden, ignoring the fact that Trump himself is also now a convicted felon whose own business empire has been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for fraudulent practises.

That tactic continued in the wake of Hunter’s guilty verdict.

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
      4·
      5 months ago

      Yesterday as I was helping someone with their computer a couple of coworkers were talking about how the hunter biden trial was super quick compared to trumps and yadda yadda yadda. Its mind boggling. Like, guys you got what you wanted. You can legally say Hunter is a criminal without it being libel/slander. Hes a felon now. What did this accomplish exactly now that hes a criminal? Hes still not on any ballot. Hes still a fail son, but like he’s not doing anything.

      • palordrolap@kbin.run
        4·
        5 months ago

        In their minds, being the antithesis of Trump, a man who clearly doesn’t give two hoots about his own kids, Joe Biden must therefore care so much that it would destroy him for his son to be a felon.

        To those, Biden not stepping down or suffering some kind of breakdown after the verdict must have been at least a momentary confusion.

        OR, more likely, it’s as simple as they’re running “Like father, like son” in reverse. Son’s a criminal, therefore so is Joe.

        Of course if they themselves have criminal offspring, that’d be completely irrelevant. Merely a hiccup.