Hunter Biden’s latest media dance was less confession and more confessionary dodge, but the substance is damning all the same: during congressional testimony and interviews he tried to insist his father had nothing to do with his foreign deals, even as new evidence shows he openly invoked Joe Biden’s name when pushing for big payouts. The man who once pleaded for pity as a “broken” addict gave answers this country can’t afford to ignore, and Americans deserve straight talk, not soft-soap from sympathetic anchors.
The evidence that conservatives have flagged for years resurfaced in stark detail — a 2017 WhatsApp message in which Hunter demanded payment and wrote “I am sitting here with my father,” followed within days by millions wired to accounts linked to him. That’s not the fuzzy “optics” the left keeps yammering about; it is the exact kind of influence-peddling conservatives warned would happen when elites treat public office like a family business.
Even depositions and transcripts show contradictions: Hunter admitted his father briefly mingled with his foreign business associates at dinners, yet he tried to downplay any real involvement when pressed under oath. Memory lapses and blame on addiction only go so far when the paper trail and communications paint a different picture — and the American people can see who’s being protected by the media playbook.
That dissonance is why House GOP leaders have referred Hunter and others for criminal charges to the Justice Department; when testimony, messages, and wire records don’t line up, accountability is not optional, it’s required. Washington can’t keep operating on one standard for patriots and another for political royalty — if our institutions mean anything, they must act without fear or favor.
The rest of the establishment press will continue to pretend this is a partisan “inquiry” rather than a mountain of records showing repeated contact and email exchanges between Hunter’s companies and the vice president’s office. That official record — thousands of emails and unexplained transfers — is why citizens rightly distrust the media’s reflex to look the other way when powerful families are involved.
Americans who work for a living see the rot: influence sold in back rooms, polite denials on cable TV, and sham outrage when anyone raises the obvious questions. It’s past time for real reporting, full transparency, and real consequences — not more excuses and cable smiles — because no one, not even a president’s son, should be above the law or the judgment of the voters.
