Hunter Biden's Conviction Backfires On Trump

Trump has been pushing Hunter Biden as a campaign issue for years, but when the President's son was convicted, it exposed the ex-president's lie-filled defense.

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The Trump Campaign Downplays Hunter Biden’s Conviction

The Trump campaign is trying to spin Hunter Biden's conviction as an intentional distraction from President Joe Biden.

The Trump campaign said in a statement, "This trial has been nothing more than a distraction from the real crimes of the Biden Crime Family, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine. Crooked Joe Biden’s reign over the Biden Family Criminal Empire is all coming to an end on November 5th, and never again will a Biden sell government access for personal profit.”

Trump now appears to be getting his election strategy from House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer. The same James Comer who has spent almost two years investigating President Biden only to come up with absolutely nothing in terms of wrongdoing or evidence.

The signals being sent are that Trump wants Reps. Comer and Jordan to make a criminal referral of President Biden to the Department of Justice, so that he can run on the “crimes” of Joe Biden.

Since Trump is trying to run the exact same campaign that was used in 2016 against Hillary Clinton, there is probably some truth to this line of thinking. Eight years ago, Trump was able to deflect coverage of his behavior away from himself by getting the media to chase Clinton’s emails.

The ex-president was impeached while in office the first time for trying to extort Ukraine by withholding congressionally appropriated aid unless they fabricated dirt on Joe Biden, so Trump has been on a quest to find a Biden allegation that he can use as a shield for years.

Trump is so committed to running the 2016 playbook again that he recycled the “crooked” nickname and hung it on Biden.

The Trump campaign is pushing the idea that the Hunter Biden conviction is really a conspiracy against Trump, but as we will discuss below, the criminal conviction of the President’s son is a moment that undercuts Donald Trump.