Why Jared Kushner is the real criminal, not Hunter Biden

Congressman James Comer (R-KY) is going to use his political power to hunt President Biden’s surviving son, and assassinate his pursuit of happiness because Hunter Biden is an easy target in the graceless world that demands his destruction for political sport. Here is what Comer had to say on yesterday’s edition of ‘This Week:’

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COMER: The difference between Jared Kushner and Hunter Biden is that Kushner actually sat down and was interviewed. STEPHANOPOULOS: I think we only learned of the $2 billion Saudi investment from the Washington Post

Hunter Biden is a troubled man who has been marked for destruction because he is the president’s son. This rancid era prizes viciousness over grace, and power over service. The congressional investigations against him are a form of perverse entertainment for the predatory profiteers of Fox News and the vast interconnected division enterprises that have spun gold from conspiracy, insanity, division, hatred, racism and xenophobia. Hunter Biden has been stripped of his humanity by the MAGA movement because it serves the cruel pleasure of that movement’s leader, who wants vengeance against anyone who dared oppose his claims on unearned power. There is no person higher on his list than the better man who bested him in 2020, President Joe Biden. 

Trump is a master of obfuscation who has long manipulated the media into covering the outrageousness of his schtick at the expense of its consequences. It allows him to argue that any charge against him is hypocritical because somewhere someone has done something. It is a ludicrous standard that has been applied over and over again by the American political media, which can’t seem to sort through the fundamental distinction between Trump and everyone else.

Before continuing, I will offer no defense whatsoever regarding Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China or Ukraine. They are exactly what they appear to be. The stench of a well-connected and powerful political figure’s children trading on the family name and access for profit is considerable. That applies to Hunter Biden and any child of a US senator, governor, House member or cabinet secretary who believes that their parent’s high office is an entitlement to cash in. It is not. It is unseemly and perfectly paired to other outlandish and larcenous behavior in Washington, DC, where insider trading is A-OK for members of Congress. 

There is, however, a great distinction between Hunter Biden and the Trump children that is glaring, though muddied by latter day inquisitors like Comer. Hunter Biden has never held, and will never hold, a position of public trust and responsibility. He holds no titles and yields no power. He holds no office, and has received no commissions or appointments. Hunter Biden is a private citizen who is being hunted by public officials for blood sport.

On the other hand, Jared Kushner was a high-ranking public official whose misconduct and outrageous receipt of $2 billion in Saudi Arabian cash — personally approved by MBS — is a scandal of enormous magnitude that has been met with stunning indifference by the American political media and Congress. George Stephanopoulos of ‘This Week’ was a rare exception when he raised the issue, which was covered by The Washington Post.  I, too, have written about this egregious conduct. Of course, Comer tried his best to ignore a simple and searing question, which is as essential a question that could conceivably be asked in this moment. What did the murdering Saudi Crown Prince get for his $2 billion “investment” into Jared Kushner’s “investment” fund? 

Even worse than the action is the total indifference to the obvious breach of national security by the revelations of such staggering financial payouts. The professional managers who run the Saudi investment fund shared something in common with America’s security agencies that denied Kushner a top secret clearance. They also said, “no way.” The Saudi tyrant said, “yes” to the money like Trump said “yes” to the secrets. The relationship between Trump, Kushner and the Saudis is an abomination that continues to unfurl through their mutual partnership in the Saudi propaganda front called LIV Golf that has been rejected from decent places, and left to bottom dwell at the Trump courses that were rejected by the PGA Tour.

The attacks on Hunter Biden serve a singular purpose. They are the great fog machine designed to obscure the greatest looting of a political office in American history by its greatest grifter and fraud, Donald Trump and his family of notorious extremists, liars, lesser frauds and opportunists. 

The appointments of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to senior White House positions was grotesque, and in the end, deadly. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died of Covid because Jared Kushner was in charge of the federal response. He made hundreds of millions of dollars alongside his wife during their White House service, and it appears that it ended in betrayal — specifically, Kushner’s betrayal of America to Saudi Arabia in some corrupt bargain around which the details have not been revealed. 

The Saudi Arabian penetration of American politics, business and media is profound and alarming. That is a scandal worth investigating. It is real, present and dangerous. 

The president’s son has lived a life filled with tragedy. His life has worth and purpose. His destruction is an unacceptable price — not just for his family — but for the country because if it could happen to Hunter Biden, it could happen to anyone. The story is not Hunter Biden’s sins no matter how salacious they may be. The scandal is the abuse of power. It is deplorable.