I really don’t like the President of the United States. Joe Biden has spent his life working tirelessly toward one thing more than anything else: to convince people he is a good man. He is not and never has been, as evidenced by how it took four years and political pressure from New York Times columnists to acknowledge the existence of one of his grandchildren. Now that people are beginning to notice and ask questions about things like how he got so rich, Joe has defaulted to the only defense left for him: He’s not corrupt, he’s just a horrible parent and brother.
It's an odd case to make, but it’s all Joe Biden has left. The evidence is mounting that he got huge sums of money from his degenerate son Hunter, who has no skills and offers zero in the way of goods or services for the pay. The only marketable thing the Biden family has ever had was Joe’s position in government, and they’ve milked that cow to the bone.
When asked about his involvement with the family business, Joe Biden has defaulted to what is not only the least believable answer – that he never talked to anyone in his family about their businesses – but also the answer that makes him look like the most enormous pile of garbage father ever.
“I have never discussed with my son or brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses, period,” Joe said many times. He then went on to say he went this “never” extreme to prevent even the appearance of a conflict of interest. “That’s why I never talked with my son or my brother or anyone else, even distant family, about their business interests, period,” he’s repeatedly said.
Does that pass the smell test? Of course not. But he’s reduced to arguing he’s a horrible father and brother, taking zero interest in the lives of his own family members so he can avoid what must be assumed to be the temptation to use his position in government to help make them money, right? That’s the only way to hear it.
Biden told a local reporter in 2019, “And because I don’t discuss things with my son and my family, because I don’t want to have any knowledge of any, I don’t want to be accused of ‘Well, you talked with your son’ or ‘You talked with your whomever,’ and so, the fact is, though, everybody’s looked at that…he did nothing wrong. Zero. Period.”
If you believe him, the fact that he deliberately told his family he didn’t want to talk about their businesses is an acknowledgment that he knew they were conducting business that he had the power to impact directly. Forced ignorance does not excuse corruption, especially when you’re wetting your beak from their businesses.
Joe refusing to educate himself about what his family does for money doesn’t mean they didn’t bring it up with him, it just means he wouldn’t have known if they did. He’s already declared Hunter to be the “smartest man I know,” what kind of idiot wouldn’t seek the advice of the most intelligent person in their orbit?
So, we’re supposed to believe the junkie son of a dimwitted politician, even if he’d never told his father who he was working for, and never brought up any of the topics of interest to his patrons? Never? Because why, no one is as trustworthy as a degenerate druggie?
Hunter accompanied Joe on official government trips now and when he was Vice President. Hunter didn’t attend official functions in China, he was off-cutting deals to rake in even more cash. What did Joe think Hunter was on the trip for? Was there a hooker and blow convention in Beijing that week?
But we’re told Joe never asked why his son came along but did his own thing while there. Did taxpayers pick up the check? We paid for Hunter’s Secret Service escort to court this week, why wouldn’t we suspect we paid for his trips to “escorts” elsewhere?
And Joe never asked about any of it? Never cared enough to bother?
I’d be inclined to believe Joe is a cold dad to his surviving kids; he seemed to have his favor shining on his eldest son and indifference to the rest. That’s bound to screw up a kid, as evidenced by both having addiction issues.
But it’s one thing to be a bad father; it’s another entirely to use that as your defense against corruption. Especially when your fortune comes from your kid.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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