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Yep, still don’t care about Hunter or how wild he is. He isn’t working in the white house, he’s not a government employee, he’s just the president’s son. Do better AP.

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He’s very similar to Trump’s kids in that he repeatedly tries to leverage his father for stuff he’s undeserving of. We should care a bit, because we should care about nepotism, even if it’s not his father’s nepotism.

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Trump literarily installed his children in the government. Don’t you dare bOtH sIdEs this bullshit.

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You know the FBI investigated hunter and his uncle for trying to start a financial firm where they tried to sell access to Biden, yeah? Sure, this was decades ago, but come on. This shit is shady as hell and the fact that he’s become a partisan football to the degree that democrats are standing up for pretty obvious nepotism is gross. You think hunter fucking Biden is deservedly getting on boards of major companies? Sure it’s not the level of corruption of the trump family but that means it’s okay?

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I’m sure he doesn’t want to draw further attention to poor Hunter, who is persecuted for no reason by Republicans, and perhaps cause his granddaughter to be harmed.

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But for her sake, at least he’s acknowledging her. Imagine growing up and being called the one that grandpa wouldn’t mention. This removes that from her, which I think is important, and I hope he at least recognized.

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Also true, you are correct. I just fear for that child because the Republicans are so weirdly obsessed with Hunter.

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She probably will be hounded by the media, but at least she won’t have to deal with this too.

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There is no world where any of this is in Navy’s best interest. Republicans are harping on it because they think it will hurt Biden, Biden is “publicly acknowledging for the first time” to prevent it from being a drain on that same campaign.

We don’t know any of the interpersonal relationships at work here and certainly what is “publicly acknowledged” now vs in December 2024 is not going to cause psychological harm to a 4 year old.

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I said it before and I’ll say it again. I will never vote for Hunter Biden!

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Did we time travel? Are we now in Victorian England where an out-of-wedlock grandchild is some kind of scandal?? LOL

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This is not at all political. Try harder.

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