{"id":2088092,"date":"2023-11-02T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-seeks-sympathy-slams-gop-for-weaponization-of-my-addiction-in-self-serving-op-ed\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T18:29:44","slug":"hunter-biden-seeks-sympathy-slams-gop-for-weaponization-of-my-addiction-in-self-serving-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-seeks-sympathy-slams-gop-for-weaponization-of-my-addiction-in-self-serving-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden criticizes the GOP for exploiting his addiction in a self-serving op-ed."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fhunter-biden-seeks-sympathy-slams-gop-for-weaponization-of-my-addiction-in-self-serving-op-ed%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=2088092&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--><h2>It was only a matter of time.<\/h2>\n<p>Lying low didn\u2019t take\u2063 off the heat.\u2062 Acting like an artist backfired. The evidence kept piling\u2062 up against him. What to do?<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden is now playing\u200d the victim card. In an opinion piece in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/voices\/2023\/11\/02\/hunter-biden-addiction-substance-abuse-not-political-ploy\/71332255007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a> published Thursday, the son of President Joe Biden claimed he was \u201cnot a victim\u201d and then listed a litany of grievances against the bullies he claims are weaponizing his addiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver four \u2064years ago, I chose life over the slow strangle-death grip of addiction, which in \u2063my case consisted each day of a bottle of vodka and as many\u200b hits\u200d on \u200ba crack pipe as possible. I am \u2064prouder of that choice and of my recovery than anything I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d Biden wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good \u2062for him.<\/strong> It\u2019s not easy to beat \u2063a\u200b vodka\/crack habit from hell. He\u2019s lucky to be alive.<\/p>\n<p>The Op-Ed, however, smacks of\u200d self-serving hypocrisy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/musk-says-thinking-hunter-bidens-art-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> quickly lumped himself in with\u200c \u201cat least 20 million Americans\u201d who struggle \u2064with\u200c substance abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know a family that hasn\u2019t been impacted in some way \u200bby addiction,\u201d he\u2064 opined. \u201cWhat is distinct about my situation is that I\u2019m \u2064the son\u200b of\u200c the president of the \u200bUnited States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Being one of many who suffer from addiction\u2062 combined with the uniqueness \u2064of being the son of President Joe Biden is a \u200bstrategic \u2063move. It\u2019s what the left calls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/intersectionality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intersectionality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intersectionaljustice.org\/what-is-intersectionality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Intersectional Justice<\/a> defines intersectionality as\u2062 \u201cthe ways in which systems of inequality \u2062based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual\u2064 orientation, gender identity, disability, class and other forms of\u2064 discrimination \u2062\u2018intersect\u2019 to create unique dynamics and effects.\u201d I wish I was kidding, but\u200d this is \u2062the world in which we live.<\/p>\n<p>It might seem like a \u200cstretch for Hunter Biden to play the intersectionality card, but desperate is \u200bas desperate \u200ddoes. Biden\u2019s disability is addiction,\u2064 and \u200bit intersects with his belonging to the elite \u200cof\u2062 the elite class to produce the\u2063 ultimate poor little rich boy.<\/p>\n<p>And those fiendish \u2063conservatives are bent on bullying the \u2064poor \u2064little rich boy\u2019s \u2064reputation to death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy struggles and my mistakes have been \u200cfodder for a vile\u200b and sustained disinformation campaign against \u200chim[[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/found-oversight-chair-highlights-suspicious-direct-payment-made-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>]and an all-out\u200c annihilation of \u2062my\u2064 reputation through\u2063 high-pitched \u200cbut fruitless congressional investigations,\u201d Biden vented in USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFruitless congressional investigations\u201d?\u200c In September, the <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/blog\/evidence-of-joe-bidens-involvement-in-his-familys-influence-peddling-schemes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Committee \u2063on Oversight and Accountability<\/a> published a report on the Biden\u2064 family\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deeply-corrupt-and-a-congenital-liar-an-exclusive-interview-with-the-woman-who-reviewed-hunter-bidens-laptop-firsthand\/\" title=\"\u2018Deeply Corrupt And A Congenital Liar\u2019: An Exclusive Interview With The Woman Who Reviewed Hunter Biden\u2019s Laptop Firsthand\">influence-peddling scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is \u2064mounting evidence that Joe Biden was involved in his \u200cfamily\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-gop-committee-chairman-to-treasury-hand-over-info-on-biden-family-business-deals\/\" title=\"New GOP Committee Chairman To Treasury: Hand Over Info On Biden Family Business Deals\">influence peddling schemes<\/a>, \u200cincluding while he served as Vice President,\u201d it said. \u201cHowever, \u200cDemocrats \u200dand their corporate media allies continue to ignore this overwhelming\u200c evidence\u2064 as they seek\u2062 to distract the American people\u2062 from the Biden family\u2019s corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report lists \u201cover 20 examples of Joe Biden\u2019s involvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden, of course, doesn\u2019t mention any of this. It \u200bdoesn\u2019t\u2063 fit \u2063the narrative he and his handlers are trying to sell. He fails to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-seeks-sympathy-slams-gop-for-weaponization-of-my-addiction-in-self-serving-op-ed\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden criticizes the GOP for exploiting his addiction in a self-serving op-ed.\">address shady overseas business \u200cdealings<\/a> and the 10 percent for the \u2063\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/newly-released-fbi-report-confirms-big-guy-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Guy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he moans about an \u201call-out annihilation of my reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The strategy of the opinion piece is for Biden to seize the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-will-be-enraged-after-wsj-reveals-latest-trend-of-layoffs-in-the-workplace\/\" title=\"Leftists Will Be Enraged After WSJ Reveals Latest Trend of Layoffs in the Workplace\">moral\u200b high ground<\/a> by lecturing\u2062 those who would hold \u200dhim accountable. Never mind \u2064the deep state and the left-leaning mainstream \u2062media that \u2064have run cover\u200c for him for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat troubles me is the \u2064demonization of addiction, of human frailty, using me as its avatar and the devastating consequences\u2063 it \u200chas for the millions struggling with addiction, desperate for a \u2064way\u2062 out and being bombarded by the denigrating and near-constant\u2062 coverage of\u200d me and my addiction on Fox News,\u201d the president\u2019s son wrote as if he were a preacher at a podium.<\/p>\n<p>Finally \u2063\u2014\u2062 and shamelessly \u2014 Biden played the go-to family tragedy card of his brother Beau\u2019s death. \u201cAfter what I have gone through since my brother died in 2015, and the perpetual\u2064 public humiliation of me, I am now certain I can survive anything (except a drink or \u200da drug),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s missing there? Biden made \u200bno mention of sleeping with <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/politics\/hallie-bidens-father-says-he-supports-her-relationship-with-hunter-biden-her-late-husbands-brother\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his\u200c brother\u2019s widow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the thing about leftist narratives. They thrive on half-truths and lies. They are not to be believed.\u2063 They are to be reviled.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>A Note from Our Founder:<\/h3>\n<p>Silicon Valley \u200band the Big Tech tyrants have done \u2062everything they can to put The\u200c Western Journal out of business. Our faithful members have kept us going.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never chosen to become a\u2063 member, let me be honest: We need\u200b your help today.<\/p>\n<p>I \u200balso want to send you an autographed copy of \u201cCounterpunch,\u201d\u200c which will give you a plan to fight back for our\u2064 beloved country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><strong>Join right now<\/strong><\/a>  \u2013 The Western Journal stands for truth in this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please stand with us by becoming a member today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Floyd G. Brown<br \/>\nFounder of The Western Journal<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hunter-biden-seeks-sympathy-slams-gop-weaponization-addiction-self-serving-op-ed\/\">Hunter Biden Seeks Sympathy, Slams\u200d GOP for &#8216;Weaponization of My Addiction&#8217; in\u2063 Self-Serving \u200dOp-Ed<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u2062How does \u2062Hunter Biden&#8217;s history with substance\u2064 abuse and high-profile position as the son of the President impact the development of his addiction story?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Evelopment\u200c of\u200d Hunter Biden&#8217;s addiction story \u2063is not surprising. Given his history with substance abuse and his high-profile position as the son\u200b of the President, it was only a matter \u200dof \u200btime before he would address these issues publicly.<\/p>\n<p>In an opinion piece published in USA \u200bToday, Hunter Biden claims\u200c that he is &#8220;not a victim&#8221; and proceeds to list his grievances against\u200d those \u2064he accuses of weaponizing his addiction. He proudly shares that he\u200b made the choice to prioritize his recovery over the destructive habits that once consumed \u200chim. While his recovery is commendable, his article \u200dreeks of self-serving hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>Biden attempts to \u200calign himself with the millions\u200d of Americans who struggle with substance abuse, presenting his situation as distinct\u2062 only because of his familial connection to the President. This tactic is a calculated \u200cmove, utilizing the principle of intersectionality to garner sympathy and deflect criticism. Intersectionality, as defined by the Center for Intersectional Justice, refers to the ways \u2064in which various systems of inequality intersect to create unique \u2062dynamics and effects. By positioning \u2063himself\u200b as a member of both the addiction-afflicted population and \u2063the elite class, Biden portrays himself as a poor \u200dlittle rich boy.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Biden accuses conservatives of launching a \u200cdisparaging campaign against him, resulting in the \u200bannihilation of\u200c his reputation. \u200bHowever, he conveniently fails to address the mounting evidence \u2064and \u200callegations surrounding his family&#8217;s \u200cinfluence-peddling schemes, as highlighted by the House Committee on Oversight and\u2063 Accountability&#8217;s report. It is disingenuous of him to \u2063claim victimhood while disregarding these serious concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of Biden&#8217;s opinion piece \u2062is clear: to establish\u2063 moral high ground by lecturing those who seek to hold him accountable. He\u200c bemoans the demonization \u200bof addiction and human frailty, portraying himself as a figurehead for those struggling with addiction. However, \u2062he conveniently overlooks the support he has\u2064 received from the deep state and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanford-medical-professor-on-desantis-covid-success-because-hes-very-well-informed-better-than-most-epidemiologists\/\" title=\"Stanford Medical Professor On DeSantis: COVID Success Because He\u2019s \u2018Very Well Informed,\u2019 Better Than \u2018Most Epidemiologists\u2019\">left-leaning media<\/a> all these \u200byears.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it is evident that Hunter Biden&#8217;s attempt to portray himself as a victim and deflect attention from the allegations\u2064 against\u2062 him is a \u200bcalculated strategy to salvage his\u2062 reputation. While his recovery deserves applause, it is important not\u200d to \u200dlose sight of the serious concerns surrounding his family&#8217;s actions. It remains\u200d to be seen \u2063how the public will perceive his narrative and whether his claims of\u200b victimization will hold \u200dwater in the face of\u200b mounting evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was inevitable. Laying low failed to cool things down. Posing as an artist had unintended consequences. The evidence continued to mount against him. So, what&#8217;s the plan? Hunter Biden has resorted to playing the victim. 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