Posted on 09/20/2023 8:53:51 AM PDT by CFW
I was expecting a lively exchange when Mike Gallagher invited me to debate the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen on his “No Interruptions” podcast last week. Instead, I was gobsmacked as the former New York Times reporter abruptly hung up the phone after some 15 minutes.
[.....] Risen’s breaking point came when I questioned his reporting on Hunter's foreign business dealings.
Before we get to that, Risen, who now reports for The Intercept, does deserve some backhanded praise: In the few minutes he spoke on Mike Gallagher’s podcast, Risen delivered a master class in concision, echoing most every major talking point fashioned by Biden’s handlers and the mainstream media to defend the president.
The Loving Father: Risen framed his defense of Joe Biden by asserting that the president’s major fault may be that he loves his son too much. Young Hunter and his brother Beau were in the car that December morning in 1972 when his mother and his baby sister died. This trauma, armchair psychologists suggest, set the stage for Hunter’s later drug abuse and his father’s boundless efforts to support his troubled son – whose problems were deepened by Beau’s death from cancer in 2015. Risen said Joe’s compassion probably led him to be too “permissive” toward his prodigal son, implying that he did what any good parent would.
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Jared Defense: Risen also worked to normalize Hunter’s shady dealings by suggesting that familial influence-peddling is common in the nation’s capital. Suddenly changing his definition of evidence from proof to conjecture, Risen pointed to the $2 billion the Saudi government “gave” Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner a few months after Trump left office. In fact, the Saudis did not give Kushner $2 billion; they placed that sum with him to be invested – ....
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The Jared Kushner accusation is an obvious "cut and paste" talking point that has been sent out to Biden supports because I've seen almost word for word "but what about Kushner's 2 billion" in comments at multiple sites.
Butt, butt, butt...........the IBEW loves him.
If I had a son like hunter the pos I’d disown him. Love only goes so far.
Bkmk.
Lefties always walk away when confronted with the truth.
How could creepy Joe Biden ever disown the son who supports him financially as a bagman?
Joe has a new alias?
Neilia saved Amy from getting a shower with Ol' Rumpelforeskin - but was unable to save Hunter and Beau.
This trauma, armchair psychologists suggest, set the stage for Hunter’s later drug abuse
Their true trauma came during the Biden Family Syndicate shower initiations with Old Sniffer.
Imagine the anger of Pedo Pete when he realized that Neilia and Amy had escaped.
My thoughts she was trying to get the kids away from pedo joe.
YOU ROLL FRESH HORSE TURDS IN POWDERED SUGAR-—BUT THEY ARE NOT EDIBLE
That’s not all these perverts are blowing.
Drop off $40 million. We'll chat. Love isn't off the table.
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