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Republicans push conspiracy theories after Hunter Biden verdict: ‘A fake trial’
(www.theguardian.com)
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It is funny the timing of all this. Republicans went after Hunter Biden because they were convinced that they could make Joe Biden look bad if he had a criminal son.
But very little of Hunter's issues have meaningfully rubbed off on Joe, outside of the more conspiratorial conservatives whose opinions of Joe Biden were bad to begin with.
But now that they got what they wanted, and Hunter is a convicted felon, it has completely taken the wind out of the "Joe Biden controls the justice system to persecute his rivals" narrative that they want to push after Donald Trump's felony conviction.
And they can't even lay into Hunter Biden as a distraction because he was convicted of gun crimes.
Conservatives moving goalposts is nothing new.
Why do you think they buy such ridiculously large vehicles? It's to make moving the goalposts faster.
Says who? When in their entire history have they been logically consistent? They'll still argue it's rigged even if every single Democrat was arrested because one of their own got caught too.
Look, stupidity is a spectrum, and the less traction the lie has, the fewer stupid people will believe it. I'll take what I can get.