The Hunter Biden story has been around a while. Do any level of websearch and it shows up several times, over time. It is not new. This range of Israeli elections is new, as is what will result as the next working government of that nation. But Hunter Biden - and the questionable story:
A "whistleblower" filed a complaint over a phone conversation Trump allegedly had with the new Ukrainian top politician in which Trump "suggests he may have mentioned and discussed Hunter Biden." Trump calling the "whistleblower" "a partisan," without knowing who the person is.
All this leaked to an eager but lazy press corps.
They jump it and wave it about hither and yon; and lo, a dormant story of possible Biden misconduct goes from moribund to front page. Trump manipulated the press to get that story out now, not letting it sit until after the Dems have chosen a candidate for the 2020 general election. Gun for Biden now, and it sets an ongoing theme and raises a lasting cause to doubt Biden. Yet the Biden name gets coverage leading into a primary cycle where Biden was starting to fade. Casual voters, uninformed but voting their prejudices anyway, will recognize the Biden name even more, for better or worse.
Does this mean Biden is "feared" by Trump more than Bernie, more than Warren?
Bernie is the one the establishment fears most, and in the Democratic Party there is a Clintonian grudge against Bernie because he sullied the run of the Queen. Never mind he ran then as the only major candidate with a chance yet with a sympathy for the people who the other two disdain. The inner party hacks who profit off the campaign flaking they do in exchange for contributor money, the campaign being merely a conduit for their cash flows with those cash flows being what matters - the beltway consulting class - they did not like the Bernie insurgency because he used different people than the regular consulting class members.
And Warren was literally begged to run then as an option for the people against Wall Street, and demured. Only Bernie stepped up to the job of offering a true option to Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, who must be remembered as in the November 2016 lead-up, the two most unpopular candidates of all time.
So, now, Bernie and Warren have bona fides, Booker is facing cash burn, Bullock is not well known, and Harris is replete with warmed-over Clinton candidate left overs while Joe serves corporations and nobody with any sense of anything doubts that for an eye blink.
Has Trump broken any law by seeking dirt against Biden? So, Trump had managed to kick to the front page the Hunter Biden story, for reasons we can only speculate about, while there is this whining outcry, "Impeach" whereas nobody has identified any correlaton between what Trump did, the phone call, and any one of the gross multiplicity of things federal criminal law criminalizes. Thus saying, "I did nothing wrong, it was a great phone conversation," is derisive of those clucking over the call, but without any basis in law mentioned yet in things to say his clear act of politics was criminal conduct. No statute cited, as yet, unless one has been mentioned with press types too lazy to look it up and report.
So it surely looks as if Trump wins this one. All the Pelosi House can do is call witnesses which will keep the name "Hunter Biden" in the news. Bright step for anti-Biden people, except that Biden is the establishment-corporate honey, and such a Pelosi House fox-chase will only cut against their favorite.
And it keeps Bernie frozen out of mainstream media mention, even though it is more likely Bernie has a greater popular following than Warren. Trump won this round because the press did as his manipulation was aimed. The effort to "front page" Hunter Biden succeeded, while the Biden name recognition gets a big upward kick from an already strong name recognition position. It does seem that Trump prefers a 2020 run against Biden than against Bernie. Against Bernie he'd have to be on defense as to his lying promises leading up to the 2016 vicdtory, whereas against Biden it would be finger pointing at one another as "a worse choice than me." Bernie has integrity to the point Trump has nothing to attack - Bernie's ideas being what polls continuously show as popular well beyond fifty percent. So Trump goes anywhere near that and Bernie says it is what you had promised, in your lying. Not a good thing, for Trump to respond to. So the game is dodge Bernie, sling Hunter Biden at dad Joe, and just feel that because he is a man Trump could handle Warren, because she's a woman, and hence a lesser power, in the Trump sexist worldview.
Back to the bottom line: either Bernie or Warren could easily defeat Trump and then be the best President of my lifetime - which goes back to Truman. THAT IS WHY CORPORATE AMERICA, THE POWER CLASS, THE MONEY MONGERS ALL WANT TO SCUTTLE BERNIE FIRST, WARREN SECOND. THEY UNDERSTAND WHICH SIDE THEIR BREAD IS BUTTERED. THEY SPEND FOR POLITICS, SEEKING A GREAT RETURN ON THEIR INVESTMENT. LAST CYCLE IT WAS INVEST IN CLINTON OR TRUMP, EITHER BEING A CAPTIVE CANDIDATE. THIS CYCLE, MARGINALIZE AS FEASIBLE THE PAIR, BERNIE AND WARREN. IT WILL PLAY OUT ON THE TV OF EVERY VOTING OR NON-VOTING CITIZEN, EVERY CHANNEL AVAILABLE, ALL OF THE TIME.
UPDATE: An image of what the nation's moneyed class wants to see as the 2020 final November voting choice. It is an image used more than once on the Down With Tyranny website - http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/
