With each new piece of shocking evidence that Joe Biden, as vice president, engaged with his son in a foreign bribery scheme, the national media react with something along the lines of, “But, ya know, in the end, Republicans haven’t yet proven anything in their Republican-y investigations.”
Devon Archer, a former business partner of Biden’s son Hunter, testified Monday to Congress that Joe Biden had been included on calls between the two partners by speakerphone. That’s in contradiction to the president’s repeated claim that when it comes to Hunter’s unreal professional life, he’s Helen Keller in a burka. Those speakerphone calls happened at least 20 times, according to Archer’s testimony. (And there are roughly another 180 times that evidence indicates Biden may have met with his son’s other business associates.)
The New York Times reacted to that explosive development with a shrug. “Republicans have claimed repeatedly — and so far without proof — that the investigations implicate the president in corruption and crimes,” the paper’s post-testimony article said.
Still no proof! That’s all, folks! Everybody can go home!
Mike Allen of Axios was similarly unmoved. “In closed-door House testimony yesterday,” he wrote, “Hunter Biden’s former business partner didn’t give Republicans the smoking gun they’d hoped would show President Biden and his family used government connections for profit.”
It’s funny. I don’t recall every news item about the forever-long Russia-collusion story coming with an equivalent disclaimer about how Democrats had once again fallen short of proving anything. Where were the underwhelming
