On Capitol Hill, Democrats are dismissing attempts to compare Hunter Biden’s trial with former President Donald Trump’s conviction last week.
“Hunter Biden is not running for president. President Donald Trump’s running for president,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland. He also noted that Democrats have not rushed to Hunter Biden’s defense in this criminal case, or alleged that the trial is a “sham” in the way that Republicans did with the Trump trial.
“They do that because of the extraordinary cognitive dissonance that a party – which claims to be representing religious piety – has wrapped itself around in an adjudicated sexual assailant and fraudster who just got convicted by a jury of his peers for paying $130,000 in hush money to a porn star right after his fifth child was born. That’s where their party is.”
Rep. Robert Garcia of California agreed: “He’s not the president of the United States, he’s not a public figure.
“So Hunter Biden should be held accountable for whatever he’s done,” he said, adding that this “is not comparable to the multiple crimes that clearly Donald Trump has committed.”
Pressed on how Hunter’s trial could affect his father’s chances in November, Garcia replied, “I think the President loves his son. And I think that we all agree that Hunter’s made some mistakes, and he’s got to be held accountable for those. I don’t think they have anything to do with his election for president.”