Biden Suggests Accusations Against Son, Who Is Under Multi-Year Criminal Probe, Are "Kind Of Foul Play"

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Democrat Joe Biden claimed without evidence during an interview on
Thursday that accusations being made against his son, who is under
federal criminal investigation, were "foul play" being used to damage
him politically.

Biden made the remarks during an interview with comedian Stephen
Colbert, who teed up softball questions for the 78-year-old Biden.

"Case in point, I know you want to be as bipartisan and reach across
the aisle, but as much as you don't want it to happen, you know that
the people who want to make hay in Washington are going to try to use
your adult son as a cudgel against you," Colbert said to Biden. "How do
you feel about that, and what do you have to say to those people?"

"Well, look, we have great confidence in our son," Biden responded. "I
am not concerned about any accusations made against him. It's used to
get to me. I think it's kind of foul play, but look, it is what it is,
and he's a grown man. He is the smartest man I know, I mean, from a
pure intellectual capacity."

Joe Biden on ongoing Federal Investigations into Hunter:

"It's used to get to me. I think it's kind of foul play,
but, look it is what it is. And he's a grown man. He is the
smartest man I know. I mean, from a pure intellectual capacity
and as long as he's good , we're good."
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- Benny (@bennyjohnson) December 18, 2020

Biden implying that the matter was somehow politically motivated does
not stand up well to scrutiny.

The federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's financial
dealings began in 2018. Joe Biden didn't even announce that he was
running for president until April 2019. So, at a minimum, the
investigation into Hunter Biden was at least four and a half months old
before Joe Biden announced his presidential run.

Biden's claim that this ordeal is "foul play" designed to "get to" him
also fails to take into account news reports from last week that
revealed that Attorney General William Barr knew about at least two
federal criminal investigations into Hunter Biden for many months and
refused to disclose the investigations to the American public because
he refused to interfere in the 2020 elections, which is standard
Department of Justice protocol.

"If media reports are correct, you've got more than one investigation
into Biden family members. So, I don't think the grand jury is foul
play; the United States Attorney's office is not foul play," former
federal prosecutor Trey Gowdy told Fox News. "Now, you're welcome to
pick on Republican politicians, but you've got two criminal
investigations. That ain't foul play, that's called probable cause,
Joe, not foul play."

Fox News reports that the "Biden transition team" claimed "that Biden
was not referring to the investigation as `foul play,' but rather was
referencing Republicans who have used Hunter Biden's business dealings
to go after the president-elect for months."

Joe Biden's brother, James Biden, is also reportedly caught up in a
separate federal criminal investigation.

--
Joe Biden went from stealing someone's wife, to stealing speeches, to
stealing money, to stealing an election.
He has really grown as a politician.
-- Michael Moore