If Joe Biden was sitting next to his son as he sent the message as it suggests, it would be a fatal blow to the president’s
repeated claims that he never discussed overseas business deals with his son, and the photographs of Hunter Biden at what appears to be a family gathering at the Delaware home is the strongest indication that he was in close proximity to his father when he threatened the Chinese businessman. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
A photograph on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop places Hunter Biden at his father Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Del., residence on the same day he invoked the president in threatening text messages to his Chinese business partner.
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With this evidence no one should pretend there is not enough probable cause for an investigation.
While that could be probable cause to look into it more, I wouldn't get too excited about it being a "fatal blow" to the Biden's claims that he never discussed overseas business with his son.
Nor does "being at his house when sending the message" mean he was actually sitting next to him.
That implication may be true if they had a "normal person's house", but this is a 7,000 sq ft. $2 million home we're talking about.
Also, the threat to the Chinese businessman was via whatsapp, not a phone call, I send text messages all the time while being in the same room with someone and they have no idea what I'm sending to other people.
To clarify, I'm certainly not a "Hunter defender", I lean toward the side of being skeptical of the Biden family claims that Joe was completely detached from his son's business dealings and think that the chances are pretty good that there was some level of involvement. However, sending a message in a chat app while being in a massive estate at a time when your dad is also in the house doesn't really prove anything.
For example, I'm sure there's probably some drug dealers who message with potential customers while in the same house with unaware family members, it wouldn't automatically implicate them.
The more times people trot out flimsy, easy-to-dismiss "proof" and treat it as if it's the "smoking gun", the lesser the chances that people will take it seriously if/when they actually find something more concrete.
I think conservatives are doing themselves a disservice on this one by grasping at any old tenuous link they can find rather than waiting till they have an actual bombshell to drop.
