Hunter Biden Probe Could Hang Over 2024 Election – Hunter Biden could loom large over the 2024 election.
Democrats had hoped the Justice Department would have given them an out.
Judge Maryellen Noreika’s decision to nix the “sweetheart” plea deal threw their plan to blunt Republican attacks against Hunter Biden as an irrelevancy out the window.
Suddenly, the outrage against the deal forced the administration to appoint Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel has given the story new legs.
“This will have a sizable impact on the re-elect. They run the risk of constantly getting knocked off message. Every time someone goes before a grand jury or is subpoenaed, the press will keep asking about it. Biden wants to talk economy, guns, national security and he’ll be less able to,” a senior Democrat told Reuters.
Investigation Could Have Blowback Against Joe Biden
Hunter Biden faces investigation for violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) amid questions about how and why the Biden family amassed at least an alleged $20 million from corrupt foreign actors.
“Special counsels always find things they don’t expect to find. (The probe of former President Bill) Clinton started as an investigation into a real estate deal he and Hillary did when he was governor and ended with Monica Lewinsky,” the senior Democrat said.
This could particularly be true should be forced to investigate the FBI FD-1023 report from June 2020 and interview Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky. If Zlochevsky were to corroborate the allegation that he paid two $5 million bribes to Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, it could be politically devastating.
Joe Biden likely will find it increasingly difficult to dodge reporters’ questions about how and why he was involved. Devon Archer’s testimony made Joe Biden’s denial of having involvement in his son’s business dealings more incredulous.
He will have to answer for his participation in dinners at Washington, D.C.’s Café Milano with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina and Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev in 2014 and 2015.
Hunter Biden’s China deals could also have blowback against Joe Biden.
Archer noted that Joe Biden met with Jonathan Li during his December 2013 trip to Beijing. Li formed a partnership with Hunter Biden called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) which had a partnership in 2013 with his firm Bohai Capital. BHR was controlled by the Bank of China Limited. Then Vice President Joe Biden met with Li, according to Devon Archer’s congressional testimony.
Li was tied to the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), which a July 2022 report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), described as “the coordinating force behind China’s most prominent mechanisms of state and local influence’ in the United States.”
Perception of Corruption Could Hinder Joe Biden
In contrast with former President Donald Trump, who will have the advantage of being able to cast the prosecutions against him as a political witch hunt, Joe Biden will have few places to hide. Biden will have to face the perception that he is corrupt. A recent Gallup poll shows that only 42% of Americans regard the Biden administration as ethical.
Should Weiss or a potential Republican impeachment inquiry unearth further evidence of corruption, Joe Biden could face an uphill fight despite Trump’s legal problems.
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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