Media should have done more to straighten out Hunter Biden’s bizarre and erroneous application
In mid-January, a hullabaloo broke out about an application form Hunter Biden signed in 2018 to seek a rental in California. It listed the address on his driver’s license as Joe Biden’s house in Wilmington, Delaware, the same house where they just found classified documents. The form also suggested the “monthly rent” on his “current residence” was $49,910.
My first joke to co-workers was: how high was Hunter when he filled out this form? It sounds ridiculous he was paying $49,000 a month in rent for a residence. When conservatives started asking questions about why Hunter Biden was paying almost $50,000 a month at his father’s house with classified documents in the garage, you could be confident the liberal “fact-checkers” would leap to defend the Bidens, and they did.
PolitiFact and The Washington Post each went after Fox News, the Daily Caller, and other conservative journalists for jumping to conclusions — when they wanted no conclusions. You can easily find that PolitiFact has never evaluated any statement from the mouth or the pen of Hunter Biden. Glenn Kessler at the Post counted 30,573 false or misleading statements from Donald Trump, but he doesn’t count Biden lies. It’s all defense for Hunter Biden, and no offense.
Straightening out Hunter’s bizarre and erroneous application is important. It turns out the $49,910 “monthly” rent figure was a quarterly amount at the House of Sweden building in Georgetown, just across Rock Creek from the Kennedy Center, for his influence-peddling with the Chinese. The “fact-checkers” didn’t note Hunter repeatedly lied on the document, including when he was asked if he’s ever been convicted of a crime or had a charge expunged from his record. In 1988, Hunter was arrested for drug possession and the record was expunged.