{"id":1846715,"date":"2023-02-14T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1846715"},"modified":"2023-02-14T12:42:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:42:01","slug":"to-distract-from-gops-biden-family-business-investigation-media-dredge-up-more-but-trump-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/to-distract-from-gops-biden-family-business-investigation-media-dredge-up-more-but-trump-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"To Distract From GOP\u2019s Biden Family Business Investigation, Media Dredge Up More \u2018But Trump\u2019 Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fto-distract-from-gops-biden-family-business-investigation-media-dredge-up-more-but-trump-excuses%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=1846715&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-->\n<p>One of House Republicans\u2019 first steps after regaining the majority was to launch an investigation into President Joe Biden\u2019s role in the Biden family\u2019s lucrative pay-to-play business. Corporate media, however, are trying to distract from the first family\u2019s scandals by conflating them with the conduct of the Trump family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/12\/after-helping-princes-rise-trump-kushner-benefit-saudi-funds\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0published an article last week, during the height of buzz about the House Oversight Committee\u2019s investigation into the Biden family\u2019s influence-peddling operation, pointing the corruption finger at former President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn investment fund overseen by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is backing ventures that profit the former president and his senior adviser, raising questions of conflict,\u201d This is what the article says.<\/p>\n<p>Within days of the report\u2019s publication, corporate media outlets such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/13\/opinions\/house-gop-kushner-trump-ivanka-obeidallah\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mehdirhasan\/status\/1625325495913938944?s=20&#038;t=yEEpHAoIfHfer6F71ralZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MSNBC<\/a>You can even get it!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/trump-kushner-saudi-prince-money-conflict-interest-1234678351\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rolling Stone<\/a>\u00a0You can find anti-Trump information on these pages and in their networks.<\/p>\n<p>Amplifying the report serves two purposes. First, it gives the media and their Democrat allies more ammo against Trump\u2019s third presidential run. The Washington Post says so:<\/p>\n<p>Two former White House officials and national security experts are now concerned about Trump&#8217;s potential run for the presidency again.<\/p>\n<p>Second, reports about the Trumps give anyone looking to escape conversations about the Biden family\u2019s well-documented history of enriching their bank accounts with funds from foreign oligarchs an excuse to pivot to their favorite scapegoat.<\/p>\n<p>Already, leftist commentators claim that the Biden family is being attacked by them\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveSchmidtSES\/status\/1625148109251551233?s=20&#038;t=yEEpHAoIfHfer6F71ralZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cdeserves grace,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0While the Trumps are worthy of investigation. Despite the numerous allegations,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/media\/majority-media\/johnson-grassley-release-report-on-conflicts-of-interest-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Actual reports<\/a>\u00a0Continuous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/28\/hunter-bidens-laptops-are-now-an-active-national-security-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal investigations<\/a>\u00a0into the Biden family\u2019s affairs, MSNBC\u2019s Mehdi Hasan even bizarrely asserted there is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mehdirhasan\/status\/1625325495913938944?s=20&#038;t=yEEpHAoIfHfer6F71ralZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cno real evidence\u201d<\/a>\u00a0that the Biden family business leveraged Joe Biden\u2019s status for personal profit.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The president &#038; a close family member making a ton of money off their dealings with a foreign country, peddling access to enrich themselves. It&#8217;s an outrageous abuse of power. But I\u2019m not talking about Hunter Biden. I&#8217;m talking about Jared Kushner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NK9cnPqbMz\">pic.twitter.com\/NK9cnPqbMz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mehdirhasan\/status\/1625325495913938944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2023<\/a> The Political Enemy Playbook <\/p>\n<p>Even before Trump\u2019s White House tenure, the corporate media did everything in their power to make him look like a corrupt politician who was sold out to foreign governments. When they weren\u2019t amplifying the Russia hoax, a fake scandal created and paid for by Democrats, the propaganda press scrutinized Trump\u2019s tweets, twisted his words, and tried to undermine his presidency with lies that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/04\/trump-russia-collusion-was-a-hoax-and-every-pulitzer-for-it-should-be-rescinded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won Pulitzers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They also helped Democrats organize two sham impeachments of Trump, who they claimed was guilty for treason. These political attacks were sustained with plenty of negative press coverage of Trump\u2019s sons, daughters, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/29\/media-freaks-out-over-jared-kushners-new-firm-but-could-not-care-less-about-hunter-bidens-questionable-art-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">son-in-law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where was the media\u2019s outrage about White House familial corruption when Hunter exploited his father\u2019s political reputation to strike business deals with oligarchs in Ukraine and China and then likely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hunter-biden-china-email-source-verifies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The cut<\/a>\u00a0To his father?\u00a0Joe Biden and his youngest child are the epitomais of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/22\/8-joe-biden-scandals-inside-hunter-bidens-macbook-that-corporate-media-just-admitted-is-legit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Corruption and scandal<\/a> Trump is the only thing Democrats and the corrupt corporate media want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate media are trying to distract from the Biden family scandals by conflating that corruption with the Trump family&#8217;s conduct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1846718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8074,3620,4284,15174,18619,14662,3881,4743,3976,4188,3634],"class_list":["post-1846715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-but","tag-biden","tag-business","tag-distract","tag-dredge","tag-excuses","tag-family","tag-gops","tag-investigation","tag-media","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}