Posted on 09/21/2019 1:54:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An extended discussion about his son’s business dealings isn’t helpful to Biden’s electability argument.
Joe Biden had a chance to excoriate Donald Trump on Friday after a blockbuster report detailed how the president pushed Ukrainian investigators to investigate Biden’s son.
Instead, Biden was circumspect and measured in a comment to reporters.
Only hours later, after Biden and his advisors weighed more facts and after Democrats renewed calls for impeaching Trump, did the former vice president’s campaign issue a broader and stronger statement.
The time it took Biden to unleash his tougher comments – which stopped just short of urging impeachment — offered an insight into the political sensitivities surrounding the situation.
Despite the outrage that greeted reports of the president’s actions, Biden’s immediate response was no simple matter. His son Hunter Biden’s lucrative contracts with Ukraine — at the same time the vice president was in charge of U.S. policy toward the country raised — raised the prospect of fueling a narrative with downside political risk for Biden.
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Previous DOJ decided it was a closed case...would have looked bad for Barr to selectively reopen it....but Biden couldn't leave the gift horse be.
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