Investigative reporters and GOP operatives have dived deep into the question of whether Joe Biden ever used his official power to do favors for special interests shoveling money to his family and found no proof of this. In the case of Ukraine, it’s likely that Biden’s actions as vice president, in demanding the firing of the country’s top prosecutor, did more to hurt his son’s company than anything else. …the entire media turns a blind eye.' – /g11jUsT5M3 Hunter Biden 'didn't know anything about the industry he was in, he didn't have any discernible duties, and he's getting paid $50,000 a month? And then he gets a billion five from China?

Republicans, though, have no such qualms, and have made clear that smearing the Bidens as corrupt will be central to Trump’s reelection campaign. The Trump approach is utterly without shame or irony, with attacks even coming from failson Eric Trump. Democrats have been loath to give any credibility to the wild rantings of Trump or his bagman Rudy Giuliani, leaving them to sidestep the question of Hunter Biden’s ethics or decision-making, and how much responsibility Joe Biden deserves. The problem for Democrats is that a review of Hunter Biden’s career shows clearly that he, along with Joe Biden’s brother James, has been trading on their family name for decades, cashing in on the implication - and sometimes the explicit argument - that giving money to a member of Joe Biden’s family wins the favor of Joe Biden. While Democrats pursue the impeachment of President Donald Trump for pressuring foreign countries to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden, they are left making an argument that is at once true and electorally and ethically compromising: What Trump did - and continues to do - was an impeachable abuse of power, and it should be considered separately from the question of what Hunter Biden did. Photo: Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images for World Food Program USA Hunter Biden, left, and his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, attend the World Food Program USA’s annual McGovern-Dole Leadership Award ceremony on April 12, 2016, in Washington, D.C.

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