On Wed., Nov. 8, NBC News hosted a debate in Miami amongst five Republicans seeking their party’s nomination in the next presidential election. Upon being mocked for his presence on Tik Tok, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the participants, turned on Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina, pointing out that her daughter Rena was an avid user of that same platform. Ron DeSantis was appalled, suggesting it was awful to drag the children of a political opponent into the political arena.
None of this would seem particularly consequential save that two NBC commentators, Alex Tabet and Alec Hernandez, saw it as an opportunity to attack DeSantis, who has repeatedly cited the sins of Hunter Biden in his criticisms of the sitting President. You must understand that DeSantis, as a staunch “conservative” unwilling to be silenced by the host of insults weaponized by the Left, is second only to Donald Trump as a target of its derision. Hence the article posted by NBC, suggesting his indictment of Ramaswamy was shamelessly hypocritical given his own abuse of the very same tactic. One of a rational perspective, however, might point out that the Florida Governor’s frequent references to Hunter Biden were categorically more justified than Ramaswamy’s attempt to embarrass Nikki Haley because her 25 year old daughter is enamored of Tik Tok.
Hunter is 53 and hardly a child. His financial dealings in China and the Ukraine, inasmuch as they most likely entailed access to the influence of his father as Vice President under Obama, would no doubt have incited widespread calls for the contemporary President’s indictment were his last name Trump. Suspicious, is it not, that Hunter, who had no expertise in the energy sector, was hired by the energy company Burisma to be a member of its ruling board. While Joe has repeatedly said he had nothing to do with his son’s business ventures, the N.Y. Post cited evidence that he had in fact encouraged the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor intent on exposing the widespread corruption of Burisma’s dealings. Indeed in a message sent on April 17, 2015, Vadym Pozharsky, a Burisma advisor, thanked Hunter for allowing him to meet his father in person.
Joe’s lies about his involvement in his son’s dealings come as no surprise to those familiar with the circumstances of his failure to win the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. Moreover ample evidence suggests that his family’s coffers profited by millions as a result of Hunter’s seemingly questionable business skills. While the criminal guilt of all involved remains a matter of conjecture due to the not yet completed investigation of special counsel David Weiss, it would seem that the NBC reporters who accused Ron DeSantis of hypocrisy for attacking Hunter Biden after he had suggested the children of politicians ought not to be dragged into the political fray, were clutching at straws in their loathing for DeSantis. Rena Haley’s presence on TikTok is less than insignificant in comparison to the possible repercussions of the Biden family’s corruption, yet the NBC article implied that the Florida governor’s frequent references to Hunter were no less petty and hypocritical than Ramaswamy’s attempt to embarrass Nikki Haley through the actions of her daughter. Was the article in question a brazenly Leftist attempt to discredit the second most hated Republican in America, or an example of honest rational analysis? You be the judge.