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The Atlantic has a revelation: ‘It now seems quite likely’ that Hunter Biden broke some laws

August 25, 2023 | | Print Article

The Atlantic is evidently blaming President Biden for his son’s law-breaking endeavors, asserting that he thought it was okay to use influence-peddling in his foreign business dealings.

The headline that The Atlantic ran with was telling if not misleading, “Not Illegal, but Clearly Wrong.” The subheading was much more revealing: “The biggest problem with Hunter Biden’s access-peddling business may have been that his father, the president, thought it was fine.”

The author, Sarah Chayes, proclaims immediately that “it now seems quite likely that Hunter Biden has violated one or more U.S. laws.” That is an absolute about-face for the left.

“Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to convert the federal prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden into a special counsel ensures that Democrats will be fielding uncomfortable questions throughout the 2024 presidential campaign. They would do well to think before they speak. Asked one such question in a television interview in May, President Joe Biden insisted, ‘My son’s done nothing wrong,'” she wrote. “But is that true?”

“It now seems quite likely that Hunter Biden has violated one or more U.S. laws. And that’s not all the wrong he has done. There is a difference between what is technically illegal and what is wrong,” Chayes contended.

She specifically highlighted Hunter Biden’s former business associate Archer Devon’s testimony.

“Archer’s descriptions of the associates’ activities illustrate what I have found to be the typical modus operandi of such networks. His own corporate holdings, as well as those in which Hunter Biden had a stake, were subdivided and recombined in a dizzying array of similarly named entities that makes any attempt to trace money flows exceedingly difficult. The principals looked outside Europe, the U.S., and Singapore for markets ‘that were less sensitive,’ Archer explained, to public scrutiny of questionable business practices—such as Kazakhstan. ‘It was pretty wild,’ he bragged, citing a hastily assembled lucrative drilling project. ‘We pulled off a lot,'” Chayes noted.

And although the piece has a stridently leftist bent against the Supreme Court in general, the author had scathing commentary concerning the Bidens.

“Biden was supposed to be different. Yet his unconditional public support for everything his son has done serves to sanitize and reinforce a business model that provides image-laundering services for foreign kleptocrats and monetizes access to power—or the appearance of such access. For a president and a political party whose brand stresses integrity, that’s a self-inflicted wound,” Chayes asserted.

“As the barrage of discomforting questions intensifies, Biden and his party’s best defense is to take a stand not only for what is legal but also for what is right. Blurring the lines and sending double messages will only add to their difficulties. Worse, it will breed more corruption in our politics,” she concluded.

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