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Democrats Need to Be More Vociferous in Countering Republicans’ ‘Influence Peddling’ Canards
“Hunter Biden”.
Just those two words has the power to provoke apoplexy in random samples of right-wing hate media consumers.
Elections have consequences, and a predictable consequence of this fall’s election with republicans reclaiming the majority in the House of Representatives is spurious conspiracies about anything and anyone sans an “R” next to his or her name, substantive legislation be damned.
The corporate media, despite most of it being labeled “liberal,” sees the potential for ratings when a sitting president’s son is the subject of “scandal,” no matter how specious the accusation of it may be.
But how much has the billionaire-funded media dedicated to suspected influence peddling “the former guy’s” family committed?
We’re speaking, of course, specifically of Donald Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner, whose private equity firm, Affinity Partners (A Fin Management), received $2 billion from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in apparent exchange for classified documents.
