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It is now known that Hunter Biden sent a threatening WhatsApp message to a Chinese communist party official demanding payment for past deals, telling him that Joe Biden is "sitting right next to me" also waiting for that money, and threatening to use Joe Biden's political connections to burn the Chinese communist official down if he didn't pay up.
Hunter Biden's lawyer, acting in Joe Biden's interests and not Hunter's, claimed that we can't rely on Hunter Biden's words for proof that his father was in the room with him, because Hunter Biden was high on crack and was therefore either lying or couldn't distinguish reality from literal Pipe Dreams.
I say that this is a statement designed to help Joe Biden because, well, it is. He threw his client under the bus as a crack addict who literally cannot be trusted even about the most basic facts because is brain is too rotted by crack and meth.
Gee I wonder who's paying this lawyer.
Jonathan Turley calls Hunter Biden's lawyer's claim that he's too high on crack to be trusted on devastating information about Joe Biden "the 7 percent solution," referencing Sherlock Holmes' addiction to a 7% solution of cocaine.
He notes that the "crack addict defense" has some problems.
On one hand, the Biden Crime Family wants to claim that Hunter Biden was a capable man who deserved the $50,000 per month he was receiving from Burisma.
On the other hand, the Biden Crime Family is claiming that Hunter Biden was literally such a shambles that he routinely lied about his father or sometimes just hallucinated his presence.
In the first few years of the scandal, Biden associates -- and Hunter himself -- emphasized that he was a highly educated lawyer with executive-level experience to offer these companies. Back then, he was insulted by the notion that he was unqualified to sit on boards for companies like Burisma. He told ABC News reporter Amy Robach to "say it nicer" when she raised the subject of allegedly using his connections to his father.
Another problem is that Hunter did not appear to have any chemical-based challenge in allegedly maintaining what has been described by accusers as a global, multimillion-dollar influence-peddling scheme. As I noted last year, the fact is you can be an addict or an alcoholic and still be capable (or culpable).
Even more troubling is how members of the Biden family apparently continued to work with him on these deals despite his reported addiction. Before becoming the designated defendant of the Biden family, he was the conduit for millions in revenue, including alleged transfers to other Biden family members.
The Justice Department also appears to have latched on to the 7% solution. Rather than prosecuting Hunter Biden for a felony in lying on a federal gun form, it is sending him into a diversion program due to an addiction that he says he was able to break years ago.
Now, however, he is portrayed as a junkie emailing threatening messages to foreign figures, demanding (and apparently receiving) millions of dollars. It is little more than an elite version of an addict panhandling in Times Square -- except that Hunter apparently panhandled effectively in different countries for almost a decade, reportedly using a web of more than 20 LLC corporations and banking accounts.
Hunter Biden's 7% solution won't do much to help the public resolve what really happened here -- but it may help those in Washington who prefer to discuss addiction instead of corruption.
Former Biden spokesman, now Biden spokesman on MSNBC, Jen Psaki similarly claims that Hunter Biden's presence at a state dinner for the Indian PM Modi "was absolutely not good optics," but the invitation was justified by the frail degenerate gangster "wanting to show that he loves his son."