By Mark Antonio Wright
Friday, August 18, 2023
The growing Joe Biden–Hunter Biden influence-peddling and corruption scandal has surprised me. Not, I should be clear, because I thought that Joseph R. Biden — the lifelong pol and Democratic Party hack — was clean as a whistle; I’m surprised the story has developed the way that it has because I have long thought that any truly damning evidence of the scandal would be buried under a mountain of indifference on the part of the mainstream press and by a Biden Department of Justice patently uninterested in looking into the facts.
There are two reasons we now know as much as we do: First, Hunter Biden’s gonzo incompetence in abandoning his “laptop from hell” in a Delaware computer repair shop has caused a drip-drip-drip of salacious news that has kept this story alive, and, to their credit, House Republicans have done yeoman’s work in uncovering one bit of evidence after another. And it’s worth remembering that the House GOP has done this work on a razor-thin margin of seats in the chamber. If a half-dozen races had gone the other way in November 2022, and Hakeem Jeffries was speaker rather than minority leader, we probably wouldn’t be having this conversation.
As it stands, with yesterday’s report that Joe Biden, while vice president of the United States, communicated via pseudonym — “Robert L. Peters” — with his son, Hunter Biden, and his son’s business associates, I think the time is rapidly approaching when Democratic Party leaders are going to have to make a decision: Do we ride into the next election with an octogenarian, unpopular, and increasingly tainted nominee, or do we change horses?
Perhaps [House Oversight chairman James] Comer’s claim is factually incorrect. But, assuming it’s not, the obvious next inquiry is: Why? Why did Joe Biden do this? What could the innocent explanation be? Why did he deny having anything to do with his son’s business if he knew that he had sent emails under a pseudonym?
If this allegation is proven to be accurate, what could the defense possibly be?
If this allegation is true, there would be no innocent explanation that would be broadly accepted by the public, and the press will not be able to ignore it — and I believe that Democrats know this.
I’m ready to put a marker down: I predict that Joe Biden will not be the Democratic Party’s nominee in 2024.
It is August 2023 — we’re still six months from when the first votes will be cast. Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and, most importantly, Barack Obama know that the American people are not going to want to reelect a man who would be 86 years old were he to serve a full second term, especially if that man will be increasingly viewed as not just old but corrupt by an ever-growing portion of the public when he faces the voters. At some point this fall, those men will walk into the Oval Office and tell Joe Biden that the game is up. Yes, of course, it will be spun as Biden retiring and riding off into the sunset, the metaphorical “bridge to the next generation of leaders” who saved his country from the pandemic and a Trump second term.
But watch — they’re going to ditch him.
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