{"id":1748826,"date":"2022-11-23T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T11:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748826"},"modified":"2022-11-23T06:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T11:33:19","slug":"the-gops-hunter-biden-probe-is-legitimate-even-if-the-biden-family-apologists-dont-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-gops-hunter-biden-probe-is-legitimate-even-if-the-biden-family-apologists-dont-like-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP&#8217;s Hunter Biden Probe Is Legitimate &#8211; Even If the Biden Family Apologists Don&#8217;t Like It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-gops-hunter-biden-probe-is-legitimate-even-if-the-biden-family-apologists-dont-like-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748826&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-22-at-10.35.14-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As a tactical concern, the House GOP\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DHfKB3GlkXM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decision<\/a> to open an investigation into Biden family corruption is questionable. It promises limited political return. It would serve Republicans, and the country, far better if the House focused on a hyper-politicized Justice Department that targets the political opposition, labels concerned parents \u201cdomestic terrorists,\u201d and ignores violence aimed at pregnancy centers, for starters.<\/p>\n<p>None of that, however, means there isn\u2019t sufficient circumstantial evidence suggesting Joe Biden not only lied about knowing his son was favor-trading on the family name with corrupt autocracies, but that he was a beneficiary of those business dealings. Indeed, precedent says we Republicans have a duty to \u201cdemocracy\u201d to investigate. Yet, Greg Sargent over at The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theplumlinegs\/status\/1593683392813563905\">warns<\/a>: \u201cIf Republicans can obliterate the distinction between congressional investigations done in good faith and ones that weaponize the process in bad faith they win.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>You see, only Democrats can launch investigations in \u201cgood faith.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Pathological partisanship can lead to cosmic shamelessness. And you almost have to admire the chutzpah. These are the very same people who spent years championing one of the most unethical investigations in American history. We now know that Russia \u201ccollusion\u201d hysteria was predicated on partisan oppo research and disinformation meant to delegitimize the 2016 election. There were a grand total of zero indictments related to 2016 election \u201ccollusion.\u201d So rickety was the evidence, that guardians of our sacred norms never even tried to impeach Donald Trump over this alleged sedition. I\u2019ll spare you the slew of blown one-source anonymous \u201cscoops\u201d spread by major media organizations in concert with the FBI and Democratic Party. Sargent highlighted them all.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s also remember, when the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop story, virtually the entire left-wing media complex <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1594734782768123908?s=46&#038;t=BBwcRogtmgwyJbfzoB1_Ug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regurgitated<\/a> the risible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a> of former intelligence officials \u2014 including known liars James Clapper and John Brennan \u2014 that the entire kerfuffle was just Russian \u201cdisinformation.\u201d Sargent dismissed the news as a \u201cfake scandal\u201d and worked to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theplumlinegs\/status\/1317948063848271879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discredit<\/a> the story.<\/p>\n<p>The Hunter <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/12\/one-year-later-the-posts-hunter-biden-reporting-is-vindicated-but-still-buried\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">story<\/a> always had far more journalistic substantiation than the histrionic and fallacious Russia-collusion investigations that Sargent and his paper peddled for five years. Post reporters had interviewed the owner of the Delaware computer shop where Hunter had abandoned his computer. They had Biden\u2019s signature on a receipt. They had on-the-record sources with intimate knowledge of his interactions. They had Tony Bobulinski, one of two former business partners of Hunter Biden who contend that \u201cthe big guy\u201d was Joe.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s certainly possible that computer shop owner and Bobulinski, a Navy veteran and former chief technology officer at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command who made campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/search?q=Tony+Bobulinski&#038;type=donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contributions<\/a> to progressives like Ro Khanna, were  part of an elaborate fascistic cabal spreading \u201cdisinformation,\u201d but now Congress can put them under oath.<\/p>\n<p>Later, emails implicating the president as a participant in Hunter\u2019s schemes were <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/29\/cybersecurity-expert-authenticates-hunter-biden-burisma-email\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">authenticated<\/a> by forensic specialists. Yet virtually the entire censorious journalistic establishment, with the help of tech giants, limited the story\u2019s exposure to help their preferred candidate win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocracy,\u201d indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the issue of the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dXvmLeIXoBA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claiming<\/a> he knew nothing about Hunter\u2019s leveraging of the family name for influence-peddling and never personally \u201cprofited off\u201d any of his son\u2019s schemes. What did the president think Hunter was doing when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/biden-s-trip-china-son-hunter-2013-comes-under-new-n1061051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hitched a ride<\/a> to secure deals with the Chicoms on Air Force Two in 2013? Does Joe not remember that two Obama administration officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/republican-probe-finds-hunter-bidens-ukraine-work-raised-concerns-with-obama-officials-11600859178?mod=mktw&#038;adobe_mc=MCMID%3D42015057830563893093283662016377594980%7CMCORGID%3DCB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1603294085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raised concerns<\/a> about Hunter\u2019s relationship with the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma? When finally asked about his son, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/biden-contradicts-son-insists-family-170913814.html?guccounter=1&#038;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&#038;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKzG5huhAC7wC4XdAdjh9ycqWhiUMToCQCcdPjOt26TuGWFvfHwTIU98v2u_s9LiJU1FH_LIMqfPpHC6pCw5Ya_UxwvfJ9wzwK_6sdmzrL9eiLx-5A-EBVTuRvZpkFLfAsoL4RseazB48J6vBzVydwuHXZMVM1wQbKYgX6kUYKf3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> the \u201cvast majority of the intelligence people have come out and said there\u2019s no basis at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His buddies lied. Just like they had during the Russia collusion hysteria. This week \u2014 only two years late \u2014 CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1594703980436881417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmed<\/a> that the Hunter Biden emails were all genuine. Just like everyone knew they were. Now we have authenticated emails showing an executive from Burisma thanking Hunter for facilitating a meeting with the vice president.<\/p>\n<p>If Joe were a Republican, Adam Schiff would not only have opened an investigation, he would have claimed to be in possession of irrefutable proof that the 2020 election had been bought by the Chinese. Sargent would be churning out one hyperbolic piece after the next. We would all be watching another thermonuclear meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, nearly every congressional investigation in history is to one extent or another undertaken in \u201cbad faith,\u201d <em>and that\u2019s fine<\/em>. One of most beneficial roles of political parties is that they will hold the opposition accountable. But Sargent, and other advocates of one-party rule, only see legitimacy in their objectives \u2014 which is one of the numerous reasons their claim to be democracy\u2019s defenders is so laughable.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. He has appeared on Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News and radio talk shows across the country. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a tactical concern, the House GOP\u2019s decision to open an investigation into Biden family corruption is questionable. It promises limited political return. 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