There are moments in public life so perfectly absurd that fiction writers would reject them as too on the nose. Hunter Biden logging onto X on the Fourth of July to deliver a sermon about political corruption is one of those moments.
As USA Journal reported, the man who collected $83,000 a month from Ukrainian energy company Burisma while his father ran Obama's Ukraine policy, who raked in millions from Chinese Communist Party-linked firms, and who received a presidential pardon so sweeping it covered conduct going all the way back to 2014, decided HE was the guy to call out the Trump family for corruption. On Independence Day. You know, for dramatic effect.
Hunter compared the Trump family to King George III, writing that "in just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur." He listed Trump family business dealings, sprinkled in the word "corruption," and apparently expected the internet to stand up and clap.
The internet did not stand up and clap.
Instead, people showed up with receipts. Burisma. CEFC China Energy. The infamous "10% for the big guy" reference. The laptop that went through more identity crises than a soap opera character (it does not exist, it is not mine, it contains nothing damaging, and finally: okay fine it is real). Thousands of emails and financial records detailing what investigators described as an extensive influence peddling operation.
Hunter also claimed investigators "found nothing" after six years of looking into his business activities and that he made "about $200k a year selling paintings" while his dad was president. What he neglected to mention is that federal prosecutors found enough to convict him on federal gun charges for lying on a firearms form, and enough to determine he underpaid his taxes. Hence the pardon. The one Joe Biden signed himself. Along with preemptive pardons for other family members nobody had even publicly accused of anything. Totally normal behavior from a family with nothing to hide.
The responses on X were immediate and ruthless. "What happened to your painting sales and energy company advisor roles, Sparky?" one user asked. Another wrote: "It's not Trump's fault you chose cocaine [and] hookers instead of investing [and] building. Cry harder." Former military officer Buzz Patterson chimed in with: "Dude, you are the absolute last person on the planet that should be flapping your cocaine-destroyed, gun smuggling, hooker-banging gums."
Here is the thing Hunter conveniently skips over in his Fourth of July manifesto. There is a meaningful difference between a business family whose patriarch entered politics and a sitting government official whose family members were actively monetizing his government position while he shaped foreign policy toward the very countries writing the checks. That is not a subtle distinction. That is the whole enchilada.
Hunter closed his post with "Long live the King," apparently casting himself as some kind of revolutionary truth teller. This is a man who spent the better part of a decade opening doors with his last name that would have remained welded shut for anyone named anything else. He is not a whistleblower. He is a guy whose dad pardoned him for crimes that had not even been fully investigated yet, which is the kind of thing you do when you are very confident the investigation was going to turn up nothing. Wait.
The rake was sitting right there in the grass. He stepped on it. Again. And the internet made sure he heard the sound.
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