Hans Blaster
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One of the common snarky retorts that many on the left will recite is "well, I'll make sure I don't vote for Hunter"... Yet, that same tone didn't seem to apply when media outlets wanted to run stories about how Ivanka and/or Donald Trump Jr. may or may not have used their family name (and implications of their father's position) to gain business leverage and make deals (which is thing Hunter is often under fire for).
The standard of "A person's family should be a refection of the person" should be a standard that's applied equally, or not applied at all.
Meaning, if you want to go after Don Jr. & Ivanka for being slimy and using their dad's position as a way of influencing deals...fine...it's accurate. But that means when Hunter ends up in a multi-million dollar position on the board of a company in a sector in which he has no experience, in a country whose language he doesn't speak, people are allowed to ask some questions.
Either family is fair game or they're not.
Except it's a little more than that. And you have to go back to the fathers:
Donald was a businessman. Starting from his early adulthood working for his father in the family business.
Joe is a career politician. He's been in federal office for the last 50 years, except for the 4 years Trump was president.
Hunter is a lawyer and businessman. Some of his best deals seem to have been those that he got at least in part because of who his father was.
With the exception of Ivanka's failed modeling career and fashion line, Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric have spent their entire careers working for their father's company (just like how Donald started). When Donald got a TV show, they all appeared on it. When he ran for president, they all worked on the campaign in one way or another. (Eric became more prominent in politics after Donald left office as he was apparently more involved in running the business, while Don Jr. put himself forward as a potential political figure.) Ivanka even workd at the White House.
As far as I know Hunter has never had any kind of public role related to Joe's campaigns. Until Trump's operatives decided to go after him in the middle of the Trump term, the only things I knew about Joe's family was that he had a son who died while he was VP (and kept him from running in 2016) and a son who was on the Amtrak board at some point. I couldn't have told how many children Joe Biden had. Perhaps those two sons were the same person. (I also had no idea how many children Donald had until they all started appearing as campaign surrogates.)
That's the difference realistically. Trump's children were and are very much involved in all of his public activities, where as Hunter was not.
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