Hunter Biden claimed that by ‘weaponizing’ his addiction, Republicans were making it harder for Americans struggling with addiction to get help.
Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, has accused Republicans of “weaponizing” his “mistakes” and struggles with drug and alcohol addiction by engaging in a supposed “vile and sustained disinformation” campaign against his father.
The GOP-led House Oversight Committee has been investigating President Biden for allegedly profiting off his family’s business dealings, something the president has repeatedly denied.
But Republicans aren’t buying President Biden’s denials, with the committee continuing to release on a regular basis evidence—including questionable payments to the president from members of his family—suggesting President Biden was lying.
The steady trickle of evidence, which includes bank records, has been weighing on public opinion, with a recent poll showing that a majority of Americans believe that President Biden acted either illegally or unethically in how he handled the international business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden.
Not only that, but House Republicans have launched an impeachment inquiry into President Biden over his alleged ties to his son’s business affairs.
In light of all the investigative—and reputational—pressure facing the president, Mr. Hunter Biden penned an op-ed published in USA Today on Nov. 2, accusing Republicans of going after his father via “political weaponization” of “my mistakes” and struggles with addiction.
“My struggles and my mistakes have been fodder for a vile and sustained disinformation campaign against him, and an all-out annihilation of my reputation through high-pitched but fruitless congressional investigations,” he wrote.
While “high-pitched” may be on point—after all the House Oversight Committee has been vocal about the findings of its corruption investigation into the president—but Mr. Hunter Biden’s charge that the probe has been “fruitless” is harder to defend.
The House Oversight Committee has released over 20 examples of evidence tying the president to his son’s business dealings.
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Further, Mr. Hunter Biden claimed in the op-ed that, by “weaponizing” his addiction, Republicans were making it harder for Americans struggling with addiction to get help.
By Tom Ozimek
