It was a big week for both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as far as legal challenges go – though news of Trump’s third indictment of the year drowned out the most recent developments in the Hunter Biden case.
While the cases are worlds apart, many Republicans tried to link them together.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told FOX News host Sean Hannity the difference was “night and day,” citing a plea deal for Hunter. However, that plea deal fell apart this week.
“When it comes to Donald Trump, they make up lies,” Graham claimed. “They push to a court, a dossier that’s absolutely Russian disinformation. They manipulate the stream of evidence, and nothing happens. So, if you’re sitting at home and you’re mad, you have a right to be mad.”
According to The New York Times, members of the GOP are deflecting the very serious charges against Trump – a total of 78 felony counts this year across the three indictments – by bringing up the current president’s son. Alyssa Farah Griffin, who resigned as director of White House strategic communications after the 2020 election, even said as much.
“It’s a deflection tactic to avoid having to admit what virtually every Republican knew on Jan. 6, 2021 — Donald Trump’s actions were unfit and wrong,” she said.
In a Tuesday post on X she also said: “My brothers & sisters in Christ: 2 things can be true at once: Hunter Biden engaged in impropriety & likely corruption.
It also has zero to do with Trump’s actions related to 1/6 that led to this indictment. Breathtakingly bad spin. Completely devoid of intellectual honesty.”
CNBC also noted this week that “numerous GOP lawmakers and other supporters of Trump were quick to link,” the testimony of Devon Archer this week in the Biden case with Smith’s indictment. In his testimony, Archer – a former business associate of Hunter Biden – provided no evidence that the president was connected to the allegations against his son.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) linked the cases Tuesday when he asserted that the Department of Justice’s charges were “attempt to distract from the news and attack the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.”
Others who compared the Hunter Biden legal proceedings to Trump were House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), who said the DOJ was “cutting sweetheart deals for Hunter” while “trying to persecute his leading political opponent,” and House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik of New York, who said Trump’s third indictment was “yet another desperate attempt to distract attention away from the mounting evidence of Joe Biden’s direct involvement in his family’s illegal influence peddling scheme.”
Trump’s own son, Donald Trump, Jr., said in an X post that “corrupt beurocrats [sic] of the Biden regime charge Trump literally the day after every single disastrous Biden crime family story.”
Hunter Biden is facing charges related to taxes and firearm possession and the latest indictment accuses Trump of trying to overturn the results of a presidential election and more.
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