There is only one question that matters, one question that ought to be riveting our attention, and Congress\u2019 attention, regarding what is deceptively labeled the \u201cHunter\u201d Biden investigation: When President Barack Obama made his vice president, Joe Biden, the point man for US policy regarding such authoritarian, anti-American regimes as China and Russia, and such notoriously corrupt regimes as Ukraine, why did agents of those regimes believe it was in their interest to pay millions of dollars to the Biden family?
\nThe president\u2019s troubled, unstable son is beside the point, except to the extent that his supposed business acumen was the pretext for these money flows.
\nWhat we need to know is: What did the Chinese believe they were buying?
\nHunter is in the news, playing the victim, trying to make it all about him. In this, he\u2019s got a lot in common with the Biden administration, which would have you believe that the Justice Department\u2019s seemingly endless criminal investigation is all about Hunter, not about President Biden\u2019s knowledge of and participation in the lucrative Biden family business of cashing in on his political influence.
\nThese are quite intentional distractions.
\nThe critical matter in the Biden probe is not the possible criminal liability of Hunter \u2014 or, for that matter, any other Biden. Potential prosecution is a second- or third-order issue, at best. The thing that matters most is the national security of the United States. The material question is whether American policy toward hostile regimes is being influenced by the millions of dollars that agents of those regimes paid the Bidens.
\nHunter has finally conceded that the laptop from hell is his. Who cares? There was never any real doubt that it was his. It was patent from The Post\u2019s reporting more than two years ago that the emails and documents were authentic. That conclusion was only bolstered by deceitful FBI agents and former security officials, who were clearly in the tank for Biden and who insisted \u2014 in the absence of any evidence \u2014 that the laptop could be Russian disinformation. It was worse than nonsense. It was what prosecutors refer to as false-exculpatory statements that tend, in their desperation and incoherence, to prove guilt.
\nNow, a new Republican majority controls the House and wields its subpoena power. With Democrats no longer able to bury the matter, Hunter Biden has no place to hide. So, finally, he is conceding the undeniable \u2014 the trove of emails and files detailing corruption and depravity is his.
\nBut, in signature Biden bluster, he audaciously claims that he is the wronged party because the trove was published without his consent \u2014 as if what matters is how we found out about the laptop rather than the damning information on the laptop.
\nAgain, who cares? On its face, the erratic and unreliable Hunter\u2019s story seems implausible. He abandoned the laptop at a repair shop and ignored the repairman\u2019s calls to retrieve it. Legally, his consent was no longer relevant. More to the point, as far as the investigation is concerned, Hunter\u2019s pining would only matter if the government stole his laptop. That\u2019s not what happened.
\nStill more significant: The government and Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson were already investigating Hunter Biden\u2019s shady activities before the laptop came to light. To be sure, there would be nothing wrong with prosecutors using laptop evidence to bolster their case; but they hardly need that evidence to prove tax violations (over which there were longstanding liens on Hunter\u2019s properties), and to prove that he made a false statement on an application that gun purchasers must complete, by representing that he was not an illegal drug user.
\nBecause Hunter is just a sideshow, though, let\u2019s cut to the chase \u2014 President Biden. Under our law, constitutional violations are personal. That is, only the person whose privacy has been violated by, say, an illegal search has the right to seek suppression of that evidence. As we\u2019ve seen, Hunter has no credible claim in that regard because there was no illegal search by the government. Even he doesn\u2019t claim that it was the feds who took his laptop from him and then publicized the contents.
\nBut here\u2019s the main point: Even if Hunter had a valid legal claim along those lines, the only person who could raise it would be Hunter, in the confines of a prosecution against him. No one else has any standing to seek suppression of the damning laptop evidence.
\nAs to Joe Biden, his brother Jim, and other Bidens whom the laptop evidence exposes raking in big foreign bucks, the only question is whether the laptop\u2019s contents are authentic \u2014 and, as we\u2019ve noted, that\u2019s not a question at all, as even Hunter concedes authenticity. The other Bidens have no basis to suppress the laptop. Prosecutors are free to use the evidence against them.<\/p>\n
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