A day after the Republicans on the House Oversight Committee presented the evidence of President Joe Biden’s financial participation—including a photo of the $40,000 check made out to “Joe Biden”—in his son’s extortion schemes, Hunter Biden’s op-ed appeared in USA Today on the “vile and sustained disinformation campaign against my father.” There one learns that the investigation of the influence-peddling of the Biden family is the “political weaponization” of Hunter’s addiction, “the demonization of addiction, of human frailty, using me as its avatar and the devastating consequences it has for the millions struggling with addiction, desperate for a way out and being bombarded by the denigrating and near-constant coverage of me and my addiction…. The weaponization of my addiction by partisan and craven factions represents a real threat to those desperate to get sober but are afraid of what may await them if they do.”
Clearly, if addicted Americans leave a trail of criminal acts of selling political influence, or other felonious activities, they may also rightly be afraid of what may await them. However, the spin that Hunter Biden (or his public relations team) employs to deal with his legal and political problems is not the sort of defense that addicted Americans are in need of.
