{"id":1847673,"date":"2023-02-15T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1847673"},"modified":"2023-02-15T08:08:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:08:33","slug":"media-busts-out-but-trump-excuse-amid-mounting-biden-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-busts-out-but-trump-excuse-amid-mounting-biden-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Busts Out &#8220;But Trump&#8221; Excuse Amid Mounting Biden Scandals"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmedia-busts-out-but-trump-excuse-amid-mounting-biden-scandals%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=1847673&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<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/52680355582_95d15f6ca2_o-scaled-e1676324521192.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\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>\u00a0They featured anti-Trump information in their pages and 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<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Now that Trump is running for President again, national security experts and former White House officials are concerned that Trump and Kushner may have used their offices to profit from the relationship with the Saudis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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>\u00a0The Trumps merit 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\">Real reports<\/a>\u00a0Permanent\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<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"OlS5TzonaNsEWveGX8fY3NCJkxBeD95nAtQAc4IQRMrjWY4b3vVyzR6Vbol8Fh9upxdcd0Kj\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\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><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>The Political Enemy Playbook<\/h2>\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\">A cut was made<\/a>\u00a0His dad?\u00a0Joe Biden is the epitomai and youngest son of his father?\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> The corrupt corporate media and Democrats want Trump and his family dead.<\/p>\n<p>Yet publications such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/03\/30\/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0And\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/03\/30\/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/17\/after-throttling-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-with-hacked-and-russian-disinformation-lies-propaganda-press-quietly-admit-it-was-completely-legit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0Worked overtime\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.trk-washingtonexaminer.com\/lnmkzlfjgghrqhzgrdfjdrfcpjrldwywpsjphfdqhjqkn_ysklfvlmmcbnsgfbkqmgkk.html?a=Byron+York%27s+Daily+Memo+%2803172022%29&#038;b=03%2F17%2F2022&#038;c=WEX+-+Alerts+-+York&#038;d=24920087&#038;e=da8b073deb612779100a009a95c0b66d7ec6011dc8dc665d17aa25ab57789674\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Downplay<\/a>\u00a0To save the Biden patriarch, and to avoid criticism and loss in 2020 elections, we mischaracterize the findings.<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t want the public to know that when Biden was vice president and overseeing the Obama administration\u2019s Ukraine relations, Hunter received a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/31\/how-can-hunter-biden-say-he-did-nothing-unethical-but-wouldnt-take-the-seat-on-burisma-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A staggering $50,000 per month<\/a>\u00a0He was not qualified to serve on the board for a Ukrainian energy company. They didn\u2019t want the public to hear that Hunter also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/09\/23\/hunter-biden-took-3-5-million-from-ex-moscow-mayors-wife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Millions of dollars were raked in<\/a>\u00a0from the wife of the former Moscow mayor, and they certainly didn\u2019t want Americans to discover that just two weeks after he traveled to communist China on his dad\u2019s Air Force Two jet, Hunter helped his Chinese business partners secure a deal that gave them control of a cobalt mine in Congo.<\/p>\n<p>For the media, it was not politically advantageous to expose that\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/29\/senators-release-receipts-showing-direct-payments-from-foreign-oligarchs-to-hunter-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an arm of the Chinese government<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/u-s-senators-reveal-ccp-controlled-company-funneled-millions-to-biden-family-to-represent-spy-chief-of-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funneled<\/a>\u00a0Hunter received money directly from a company to compensate him for providing legal representation to Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping who is the vice-chairman of Chinese energy company CEFC. \u201cspy chief of China.\u201d They had no good reason to communicate with Ho, who was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arrest and Charge<\/a>Eventually, he was convicted and sentenced for spending millions of dollars on his own. \u201cbribe top officials of Chad and Uganda in exchange for business advantages for CEFC,\u201d made a phone call to James Biden, Joe\u2019s brother.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of covering bombshell news about the questionable acts of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/04\/05\/983385027\/hunter-biden-says-his-family-never-gave-up-on-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tight-knit family<\/a>\u00a0The propaganda media is still fixated on Donald Trumps, whose patriarch is in charge the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>When they aren\u2019t going after the former first family, the media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/3849308-white-house-hits-house-gop-for-bizarre-political-stunt-with-hunter-biden-twitter-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">They are amplifying<\/a>\u00a0the current president\u2019s excuses and shilling for his son, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/03\/that-didnt-age-well-read-the-most-clownish-takes-about-the-laptop-hunter-biden-admits-was-his\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a>\u00a0through his lawyers that the infamous laptop exposing the Biden family\u2019s foreign dealings was his. They claim that the investigation was a fraud.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByBrianBennett\/status\/1625168836759625729?s=20&#038;t=yEEpHAoIfHfer6F71ralZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Over\u00a0<\/a>And\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1624239954405519362?s=20&#038;t=yEEpHAoIfHfer6F71ralZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Over<\/a>\u00a0And\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theMRC\/status\/1612478050301579264?s=20&#038;t=yEEpHAoIfHfer6F71ralZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Over\u00a0<\/a>And\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/02\/06\/hunter-biden-investigation-house-hearing\/11162407002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Over<\/a>\u00a0And\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/17\/1137197668\/republicans-have-won-the-house-now-theyre-promising-to-investigate-the-bidens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Over<\/a>It is politically motivated. But it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<h2>It\u2019s About Joe, Stupid<\/h2>\n<p>House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has repeatedly declared Republican investigators are interested in Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cknowledge of and role in his family\u2019s foreign business deals to assess whether he has compromised national security,\u201d Hunter is not the right word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvidence obtained in our investigation reveals the Biden family business model is built on Joe Biden\u2019s political career and connections. Biden family members attempted to sell access around the world, including individuals who were connected to the Chinese Communist Party, to enrich themselves to the detriment of American interests,\u201d Comer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/comer-widens-investigation-into-bidens-involvement-in-his-familys-business-schemes%EF%BF%BC\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\u00a0Last week, in a statement. \u201cIf President Biden is compromised by deals with foreign adversaries and they are impacting his decision making, this is a threat to national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"is5Nx2t0kX1E6pvGLhTULtjqKvZT9nHz7GXwVrUC3InsS8edWZgl9yarM7BmuDFbuHm\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">EXCLUSIVE &#8211; Incoming House Oversight Committee chair ahref=&#8221;https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJamesComer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>@RepJamesComer<\/a> (R-Ky.), says that an investigation into Hunter Biden would not be conducted &#8220;political.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comer: &#8220;Let me be clear. We&#8217;re not investigating Hunter Biden. We&#8217;re investigating Joe Biden.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4PkqNej5OT\">pic.twitter.com\/4PkqNej5OT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeetThePress\/status\/1612128046022017024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Despite the corporate media\u2019s attempts to distract from, stifle, and smear Republicans\u2019 investigation into the Biden family business by going after Trump again, the GOP can\u2019t give up. This legitimate, evidence-based investigation, unlike the one in which Democrats used their partisan network against Trump to paint him as a Russian asset is crucial to determine if U.S. security has been compromised from the top.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n Jordan Boyd is a staff writer for The Federalist. She also co-produces The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work was also featured in The Daily Wire (Fox News), RealClearPolitics, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University, where she studied journalism and political science. Follow Jordan Boydtx on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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. The Washington Post\u00a0published an article last &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1846720,"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":[547],"tags":[8074,3620,18162,9743,4188,4147,7169,3634],"class_list":["post-1847673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-but","tag-biden","tag-busts","tag-excuse","tag-media","tag-mounting","tag-scandals","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\/1847673","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}