The Republican obsession with Hunter Biden has reached a new low
Arwa Mahdawi
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s tawdry act in Congress may have broken federal laws – fitting for a truly bankrupt individual
Sat 22 Jul 2023 23.00 AEST Last modified on Mon 24 Jul 2023 21.20 AEST
‘Hunter doesn’t always come off as the most sympathetic figure – but absolutely nobody deserves what Greene just put him and his loved ones through.’ Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP
Greene demonstrated some restraint: there were black boxes covering genitals and the faces of the women involved. Still, the photos were graphic. They were accompanied with the caption: “Hunter recorded multiple sex tapes with a prostitute he had paid for out of his law firm’s bank account.”
While Greene warned that “parental discretion is advised” before showing this imagery to the entire room – and the camera crews in it – she didn’t explain that she was going to be exhibiting porn. That left the media outlets streaming the hearing with the awkward job of blurring out the poster boards as quickly as possible. The right is obsessed with the idea that liberals want to force ideas .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/05/teachers-groomers-pedophiles-dont-say-gay/ .. about sexuality on to children – yet they’re the ones beaming porn into unsuspecting living rooms around the country. And, not content with showing the pictures just once, Greene also included the images .. https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/1681809267236433921?s=20 .. in her official email newsletter, whose subscribers may very well include minors. As well as potentially violating Georgia’s revenge porn statute (which defines nudity as including “the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid .. https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/1681812650995380225?s=20 .. state”), she might have broken federal laws that ban distributing obscene material to minors.
What was the point of this – potentially illegal – stunt? Apart, of course, from humiliating Hunter Biden, and his father, the president? Ostensibly, to provide “evidence” that Hunter Biden was involved in sex trafficking and committed tax fraud by deducting payments to prostitution as business expenses. The subject of Wednesday’s hearing, which featured two IRS whistleblowers, was whether a federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax crimes .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/20/hunter-biden-guilty-case-plea-charges-explained .. was unfairly lenient. The Republicans argued that Hunter, who has pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor tax crimes .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/20/hunter-biden-guilty-case-plea-charges-explained , was treated with kid gloves during a five-year investigation into his dealings because of family connections. Democrats, meanwhile, argued the investigation, which was headed up by a Trump-appointed attorney, was extensive and thorough. Greene’s little show-and-tell, which wasn’t backed with any real evidence, added nothing of value to this discussion.
While these are very real concerns, some Democrats may have overcorrected when it comes to the subject of Joe Biden’s prodigal son. There are certain liberals who seem to think Hunter’s business dealings aren’t anyone’s business. He’s not in public office, one argument goes, so why should anyone care how he makes money? Whenever Hunter Biden .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/hunter-biden .. is trending on Twitter, which is often, you’ll see a chorus of screeches of ‘WHO CARES….WHAT ABOUT JARED AND IVANKA?!’ from liberals.
This sort of hyper-partisanship isn’t healthy. The normalization of nepotism (and it’s hard to argue that nepotism didn’t play into Hunter’s art career .. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/17/why-would-anyone-pay-500000-for-a-painting-by-hunter-biden .. and lucrative board positions) isn’t healthy. Hunter Biden may be a private citizen, but he’s still the president’s son. Like it or not, his behaviour, and allegations that he made money by trading on his last name, have an impact on people’s trust in government. And the way in which his behaviour is covered has an impact on people’s trust in media. He may not have a government position, but that shouldn’t shield him from scrutiny.
While there are certain aspects of Hunter Biden’s past that are tricky to discuss, I’ll tell you one thing that is inordinately clear: his sex life is nobody’s business. Unless there was criminality involved, nobody needs to know anything about what Hunter does in bed. Hunter doesn’t always come off as the most sympathetic figure – but absolutely nobody deserves what Greene just put him and his loved ones through.
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