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I have no problem believing that Hunter Biden is a scoundrel. I have never heard anything that suggests that his deeds and misdeeds have been a matter of public concern,
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He's the son of a President who was receiving Croesan sums for no show board seats of Ukrainian energy companies? Maybe that's a tad newsworthy? Maybe, just maybe? And maybe what you think is immaterial, as it's what the public in general thinks.
Are we seriously having this discussion?
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but I have seen the Trump campaign essentially tell the media that they planned to smear Joe Biden, and I have heard about how Trump tried to use weapons shipments to Ukraine -- weapons shipments to Ukraine, to, you know, defend themselves against Russia! -- to extort Ukraine to manufacture dirt on the younger Biden for political purposes.
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Also newsworthy. Hugely newsworthy. Now let me ask you, did Twitter preclude that story?
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Oddly, that doesn't seem to bother you at all, or even creep into your consciousness.
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How could it bother me? It was reported upon everywhere. We even had an impeachment about it. I think I heard all of the facts about that kind of newsworthy thing. It was not barred from discussion on Twitter, or anywhere.
(By the way, for a guy who routinely chides others for whataboutism and asserting false equivalencies, to hear "What about Trump?" is a surprising argument from you. Almost as surprising as it is misplaced.)
