Rightwing politicians repeat unfounded theories that gun trial verdict is a ‘distraction’ from worse Biden crimes
Republicans responded to Hunter Biden’s conviction on Tuesday of lying about his drug use to buy a gun by doubling down on conspiracy theories that many senior party figures have been using to try and damage his president father.
Despite the fact that Joe Biden’s son could now face a hefty jail sentence, Donald Trump’s election campaign and its surrogates repeated unfounded attack lines that the conviction was part of a conspiracy to deflect attention from more serious crimes and represented the use of the Department of Justice (DoJ) as a political weapon.
Republicans have long sought to use Hunter Biden’s woes and business dealings as a political weapon against Biden, ignoring the fact that Trump himself is also now a convicted felon whose own business empire has been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for fraudulent practises.
That tactic continued in the wake of Hunter’s guilty verdict.
This is why what Republicans might say should never factor into what rational people do.
No matter what happens, they’re gonna make up some bullshit to fearmonger.
They call Biden a communist extremist that will make college free, tax the rich, and give us free healthcare…
So like, why not just run someone that actually wants all that stuff for Americans?
Even if Dems don’t fight for, republicans will say we are.
Because the great mass of politically uninformed people sometimes believe them, so we have to pay attention to what they say.