{"id":1990538,"date":"2023-08-04T03:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-loving-father-excuse-for-joe-bidens-role-in-pay-for-play-biz-is-gross\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T03:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T07:58:18","slug":"the-loving-father-excuse-for-joe-bidens-role-in-pay-for-play-biz-is-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-loving-father-excuse-for-joe-bidens-role-in-pay-for-play-biz-is-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden&#8217;s use of the &#8216;Loving Father&#8217; excuse to justify his involvement in pay-for-play business is repugnant."},"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-loving-father-excuse-for-joe-bidens-role-in-pay-for-play-biz-is-gross%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=1990538&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Evidence is dropping by the week \u200cpointing to Joe Biden\u2019s involvement in a pay-for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-loving-father-excuse-for-joe-bidens-role-in-pay-for-play-biz-is-gross\/\" title=\"Joe Biden's use of the 'Loving Father' excuse to justify his involvement in pay-for-play business is repugnant.\">-play scheme trading political\u2062 favors<\/a> for foreign bribe money, with\u200c his \u2062bumbling son Hunter playing shady \u2064international go-between. But we can\u2019t \u2062fault <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/29\/people-magazine-acknowledges-navy-biden-after-getting-the-ok-signal-from-joe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">selective family man<\/a> Joe \u2064for his poor judgment \u2014\u200b he really just loves his son Hunter very much, and the two were\u200d working \u2064through their \u200bshared\u2064 grief about the death of Biden\u2019s elder son, Beau. Some father-son duos bond over \u200bfishing and golf \u2014 who are we to judge if the Biden men sought solace in some good old-fashioned influence-peddling and an obsessive <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/02\/how-about-that-weather-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meteorology<\/a> \u200dhobby?<\/p>\n<h2>Corporate Media&#8217;s Defense<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s the memo of choice for \u2063the corporate media, apparently. \u2063On \u200dTuesday, Jonathan Lemire of MSNBC and \u2063Politico defended revelations that then-Vice President Joe\u2062 Biden spoke to Hunter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-met-with-hunter-bidens-foreign-business-associates-while-he-was-vice-president-reports\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Met With Hunter Biden\u2019s Foreign Business Associates While He Was Vice President: Reports\">foreign business associates<\/a> on the phone dozens of times, after Biden spent\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-high-speed-covid-boosters-are-here-without-human-testing\/\" title=\"New High-Speed COVID Boosters Are Here, Without Human Testing\">years denying<\/a> that he ever discussed business with Hunter \u201cor anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1101255077\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1bca36741be29773597b87c51ee9e2cb fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1bca36741be29773597b87c51ee9e2cb\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe should put this in context; this\u2062 is \u200dthe time when Beau Biden, the president\u2019s other son, was ill and \u200dthen dying\u2064 and then passed away. So perhaps he was not as\u200d attentive to what he should have been,\u201d Lemire said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u200b know how important family is to the president,\u201d Washington Post\u2063 columnist Eugene Robinson agreed. \u201cDo you hang up\u200c on your son?\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\"> <span class=\"D1mkzg8Ftdr9Q7bo2BVniefqjpWc0xIYOhH5XR6yE\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Morning\u200c Joe defends Biden &#038; Hunter&#8217;s working relationship:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lemire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Lemire<\/a>: &#8220;We should put this in context; this is the time when Beau Biden, the\u200d president\u2019s other son, was ill \u2062&#038; dying &#038; then\u2062 passed \u200daway. So perhaps he wasn\u2019t as attentive to what he should have been&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eugene_Robinson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Eugene_Robinson<\/a>:\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N47jSklbrC\">pic.twitter.com\/N47jSklbrC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1686335051087134721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the media talking points mirrored those of congressional Democrats. \u201cLet\u2019s put this in context,\u201d Rep. Dan Goldman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1686347337277300736?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">urged<\/a> on the same\u2062 network. \u201cBeau Biden\u200c got very sick\u200d in early 2015. He died in the spring of 2015, which was right in the middle\u200d when Devon Archer had his business\u2062 dealings with Hunter Biden. At that point,\u2063 Joe Biden and Hunter Biden began to speak every day because they were both devastated by Beau\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Washington Post&#8217;s Admission<\/h2>\n<p>Not to be outdone by cable news, on Tuesday, The Washington Post printed an opinion piece that admitted, albeit gently, the problems\u200c with the president\u2019s \u201crampaging compassion for a troubled child\u201d \u2014 under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/08\/01\/hunter-biden-joe-mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> \u2062\u201cHow Joe Biden\u2019s compassion for his son blew up\u200c in his face.\u201d \u200c <em>See guys? Biden\u2019s only problem is that he\u2019s just too loving a father!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-da020536c854369761a26991ccf60e45 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-da020536c854369761a26991ccf60e45\"><\/div>\n<p>For its\u2063 part, The New York\u2062 Times\u2063 has\u2062 been preaching about how Biden \u201cAnguishes Over \u2018My Only Surviving Son\u2019\u201d since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/30\/us\/hunter-biden-joe-biden-relationship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">before<\/a> Joe Biden became president.\u2064 In June,\u200c the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/20\/us\/politics\/joe-biden-hunter-plea-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recounted<\/a> a time when Joe \u201cchased\u201d an angry and struggling Hunter \u201cdown the \u200bdriveway, grabbed him and cried.\u201d Even if the Biden family business might have been unseemly, the White House takes \u201csolace in the belief that many Americans understand a father\u2019s love for his son,\u201d the \u2062Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/27\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a> a week later.<\/p>\n<p>The excuse is\u2063 obviously \u200dirrelevant. Loving \u200cyour family members doesn\u2019t give\u200d you a pass to help them commit murder, nor does working through grief mean you can freely steal all the \u200dtubs of Blue Bell from your local grocer. It\u2019s a gross \u200dinsult to Americans\u2019 \u200csensibilities, asking them to wave away serious allegations\u2062 of\u2064 compromising \u2064criminal behavior with the conclusion that Biden\u2019s only crime was being too compassionate.<\/p>\n<p>But the excuse also fundamentally misunderstands \u2063what real familial love looks like. The most loving way to treat a \u2063wayward family member \u200cisn\u2019t to take advantage of his vulnerability by exploiting his dirty work for your own financial benefit. (Recall the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/02\/how-about-that-weather-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">text<\/a> \u2062 found on Hunter\u2019s laptop suggesting \u201cPop\u201d made Hunter \u201cgive\u200b [him] half\u2063 [Hunter\u2019s] salary.\u201d) That would be like encouraging your drug dealer son in his life of crime so you could take\u2063 a cut of his profits, then defending your behavior as an act of love and \u200dconcern for his wellbeing. You don\u2019t have to\u2063 be Father of the Year to understand that enabling your\u2063 son\u2019s crippling lifestyle for your own enrichment isn\u2019t the same thing as\u2062 compassion.<\/p>\n<p>Normal people \u2014 whom the Bidens are\u200b not,\u2063 for all the condescending schticks of Scranton Joe \u2014 also don\u2019t deal with grief by selling out their country. Where I\u2064 come from, we bring\u2064 casseroles \u2063and swap nostalgic stories and rejoice in \u2063the hope of Heaven. But I guess someone had better tell all those schmucks \u2063who\u2019ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=arrested+selling+secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested<\/a> for selling secrets to our global enemies the news: \u201cNot\u200d guilty by\u2063 reason of bereavement\u201d is our legal system\u2019s hottest new plea!<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6427de1b6470d0b0d67390d419e31b5b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6427de1b6470d0b0d67390d419e31b5b\"><\/div>\n<p>This ridiculous excuse-making for the Bidens is all the more brazen, \u200cof course, when you remember that it\u2019s running concurrently with a news \u200ccycle about how Joe and Hunter, along with the \u2063rest of the family, spent four\u2063 years denying the existence of\u2064 Hunter\u2019s young \u2063daughter Navy, whom he conceived with Lunden Roberts\u200d in 2018. Joe\u2063 Biden \u200dis such a loving and compassionate family guy that \u2062he <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/23\/biden-grandchild-no-7-magnifies-the-male-privilege-of-joe-and-his-boy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iced out<\/a> his innocent 4-year-old granddaughter until the bad \u200cpress\u200d outweighed the nuisance of having to acknowledge her. <\/p>\n<p>Its implications\u2062 for the country\u200b aside, a father-son influence-peddling scheme is about as\u200d unhealthy a way to cope with tragedy as you \u2062can get. The only thing that \u2062might be more\u200d toxic would be if Hunter <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/politics\/hunter-biden-talks-romance-with-brother-beau-widow-hallie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dealt<\/a> with his brother\u2019s untimely death \u200dby sleeping with his widow.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence continues to mount against Joe Biden&#8217;s alleged involvement in a pay-for-play scheme, exchanging political favors for foreign bribes. His son, Hunter, has been implicated as a dubious intermediary. Despite this, it&#8217;s difficult to blame Joe, as he simply adores his son and may have exercised poor judgment due to his paternal love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1990539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-1990538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1990538","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\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1990538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1990539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1990538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1990538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1990538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}