“Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks but he will never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people.”
“Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? I thought she was going to be here — to help
make this a reality.” (Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., had died in a car crash two months prior.)
Two IRS whistleblowers tes- tifi ed before Congress in June that an IRS team in January 2022 fi nalized a document of some 80 pages recommending that Hunter be charged with tax violations for each of his six tax returns from 2014 through 2019.
Republicans also charge that
Attorney General Merrick Garland lied when he denied the Depart- ment of Justice had interfered with the probe of Hunter Biden that was conducted by David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware. There was also a leak of a highly
charged 2017 WhatsApp message from Hunter to a Chinese busi- nessman demanding money while invoking his father: “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the com- mitment made has not been ful- fi lled.” Even the liberal Puck magazine
noted: “The Biden administra- tion, which has always said the president had no knowledge of Hunter’s business activities, has tweaked that language, now saying that fl atly ‘the president was not in business with his son.’ “That may be a small distinc-
tion, but it’s a gap big enough for reporters to drive a truckload of annoying questions through.” A lot more may be uncovered
about Hunter Biden’s dealings with foreign entities in the com- ing months, as some media outlets have belated guilt feelings about being spun by the Biden campaign to discredit and ignore the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop just before the 2020 election. And some reporters now feel
that Biden is a real liability for the Democrats in 2024 and should be eased off the stage.
FOREIGN POLICY Doubts about his stamina to respond to a world crisis
F
oreign policy could create no end of headaches for the
Biden administration between now and the 2024 election. Biden receives some of his worst
grades for his handling of border security, receiving just 33% approval for his performance in a June poll by Fox News. More than half
— 51% — of respon- dents said things are worse at the bor- der than they were two years ago, while just 11% think they are better. Drug cartels
“Now we have over 120 million dead from COVID.”
“Don’t turn me into a dog-faced, lying pony soldier . . . God Save the Queen.”
amid into
an investigation possible mishandling
of classifi ed information — said in late autumn that Iran was only weeks away from having enough fi ssile material to produce a nucle- ar weapon.
On North Korea, U.S. and South
Korean offi cials aren’t holding out much hope for eff orts to control that country’s race to a nuclear weapon to succeed. And then there’s China. In ad-
Biden received some of his worst grades for his handling of border security, garnering just %
33
and human smug- gling operations are exploiting chaos at the border and overwhelming the Border Patrol. Cartels are placing migrants in
peril, traffi cking in deadly narcot- ics, and bringing criminals into the United States. In Ukraine, prospects for peace
look slim as Russian troops en- trench their positions inside the country. On Iran, both U.S. and Iranian
negotiators have conceded that talks are all but over. Biden’s spe- cial envoy for Iran, Rob Malley — who was placed on leave in June
approval for his performance in a June poll by Fox News.
dition to its saber rattling over Taiwan, Biden will have to confront a growing body of evidence that many of the subsidies in his Green New Deal are actually funding the Chi- nese solar panel and semiconductor industries. “The American
people crave stabil- ity and steadiness overseas,” says Democrat poll- ster Doug Schoen, who has worked
for both Bill Clinton and Michael Bloomberg. “They are not seeing enough
of that under Biden, and they worry about his stam- ina and ability to respond to world crises.” All four of these issues — health,
the economy, Hunter, and foreign policy — are real danger signals for Biden, and could grow into serious issues that force him to retire or be pushed out of the way as Johnson was in 1968.
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