Hunter Biden’s federal indictment left MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell fretting over “gritty details from Hunter’s own memoir” being quoted in the filing.
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Accustomed to glossing over, turning a blind-eye or outright denying the wrongdoing of their preferred sect of society, corporate media was left in a bind after special counsel David Weiss included accounts from the younger Biden’s own memoir “Beautiful Things” as part of the indictment regarding charges of tax evasion.
Friday on MSNBC, host Andrea Mitchell found herself steered head-on into a collision with the reality of the allegations brought against the president’s son, as well as his own account of his illicit past that appeared to support the federal case against him.
“The president’s son Hunter is now facing a second federal indictment and not the misdemeanor tax charge he thought he was being handed with the plea deal that collapsed in June,” she began with a reference failed sweetheart deal that aimed to connect tax charges to federal gun charges. “This time, nine charges with three felony counts on an alleged criminal scheme to avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars in income.”
“The president himself is not named in the indictment, but it could help weaponize House Republicans with their upcoming vote to open an impeachment inquiry into Mr. Biden, with enormous political implications for the re-election campaign. The president ignoring reporters’ questions about his son just moments ago as he left Washington for a campaign swing out west,” continued Mitchell.
It was then that the host appeared to lament Biden’s own words could implicate him as she noted, “Special Prosecutor David Weiss quoted gritty details from Hunter’s own memoir to build his case.”
“The filing also alleges that Hunter Biden misreported expenses on his returns, claiming a payment listed as a golf club deposit was actually a sex club membership,” she stated. “That’s alleged fraud.”
The indictment specifically laid out, “Unbeknownst to the CA Accountants, in his memoir, the Defendant described 2018 as being dominated by crack cocaine use ‘twenty-four hours a day, smoking every fifteen minutes, seven days a week.'”
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The filing went on to note how that same year Hunter said in the memoir he “paid for an entourage of: ‘thieves, junkies, petty dealers, over-the-hill strippers, con artists, and assorted hangers-on, who then invited their friends and associates and most recent hookups. They latched on to me and didn’t let go, all with my approval. I never slept. There was no clock. Day bled into night and night into day.'”
That was hardly the only point Mitchell had to report about the allegations as she was also left having to provide some detail on the younger Biden’s cozy relationship with this “sugar brother,” Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, from whom IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler testified Hunter had garnered $4.9 million to cover “personal expenses.”
“The indictment also highlights the relationship between Hunter Biden and his entertainment lawyer Kevin Morris, who also happens to be a Biden presidential donor. Apparently, he did not know Mr. Morris very well,” stated Mitchell. “He’s a major Democratic donor and he came through with the tax payment belatedly.”
So unaccustomed to confronting the alleged wrongdoings of Democrats were her viewers, Mitchell was accused of doing “Fox propaganda” for her sanitized report on the indictment.
Wow MSNBC please remove Andrea Mitchell, she sounds like Fox propaganda doing a hit job on Hunter Biden and family.
— Donna (@donnagv7) December 8, 2023
All the serious problems we are facing in this country yet @mitchellreports Andrea Mitchell can talk of nothing but Hunter Biden. She’s useless @MSNBC
— Linda Camara (@LcamaraLinda) December 8, 2023
STFU, Andrea Mitchell. If I want to be bored by endless discussions of Hunter Biden, I’ll watch Fox.
— J Neo Marvin (@JNeoMarvin) December 8, 2023
Search “Andrea Mitchell” on X right now. She just did a segment about Hunter and it was beyond delicious. Her viewers are having a normal one lol… pic.twitter.com/hBCB8EaPZY
— Rick Hinshaw (@RickHinshaw) December 8, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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