Rightwing politicians repeat unfounded theories that gun trial verdict is a ‘distraction’ from worse Biden crimes

Republicans responded to Hunter Biden’s conviction on Tuesday of lying about his drug use to buy a gun by doubling down on conspiracy theories that many senior party figures have been using to try and damage his president father.

Despite the fact that Joe Biden’s son could now face a hefty jail sentence, Donald Trump’s election campaign and its surrogates repeated unfounded attack lines that the conviction was part of a conspiracy to deflect attention from more serious crimes and represented the use of the Department of Justice (DoJ) as a political weapon.

Republicans have long sought to use Hunter Biden’s woes and business dealings as a political weapon against Biden, ignoring the fact that Trump himself is also now a convicted felon whose own business empire has been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for fraudulent practises.

That tactic continued in the wake of Hunter’s guilty verdict.

  • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They cannot celebrate his conviction because that would undermine their assertion that the trump trial was rigged.

    In a twisted way, their reaction makes sense, and for me, was predictable. The cult must be constantly managed for it to remain intact.

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      You’ve gotta think they had two folders for “Talking points if Hunter is found Not Guilty” and “Talking points if Hunter is found Guilty”.

      And both folders contained the same message: “The system is rigged!”

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      The collective confusion and mental gymnastics to twist it when Republicans heard about the Hunter Biden conviction cost the US billions in lost productivity.

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        We could have unlimited free energy if only we could figure out how to harness it from republicans doing mental gymnastics

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    9 months ago

    “republicans cause more problems for no reason because they are fucking jackasses and a threat to America.”

    Fixed the headline.

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    So the prosecution of Trump is a political move, meant to create negative attention on Trump. And the prosecution of Hunter Biden is a political move, meant to draw attention away from Trump.

    Ok.

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    This is why what Republicans might say should never factor into what rational people do.

    No matter what happens, they’re gonna make up some bullshit to fearmonger.

    They call Biden a communist extremist that will make college free, tax the rich, and give us free healthcare…

    So like, why not just run someone that actually wants all that stuff for Americans?

    Even if Dems don’t fight for, republicans will say we are.

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      Because the great mass of politically uninformed people sometimes believe them, so we have to pay attention to what they say.

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      But it did go their way, they’re just pissed because the timing of when it went their way totally undermines their talking points about Trump and his trial.

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        Yeah sorry I should have been more clear that’s what I meant, but it didn’t go exactly the way they imagined in their head

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      9 months ago

      “Everything is a conspiracy” is the go-to method they use to not cope with reality, ever since trump got them hooked on conspiracy theories.

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    If they weren’t consistently stupid, the MAGAt’s would really have nothing to bind them.

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    God damn this is just so embarrassing. I hate both of these idiots and hope they drown in a grease trap, but I would feel less bad for them if they cut off their own hand on live TV.