GOP Reps Have a Familiar Strategy for Trump Trial: Whatabout Hunter Biden?

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GOP Reps Have a Familiar Strategy for Trump Trial: Whatabout Hunter Biden?
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As Trump starts his first criminal trial, GOP allies are laying the groundwork for a potential foil to the central hush money issue. Surprise—it’s Hunter Biden again.

begins on Monday, the former president’s defenders have been lodging a familiar list of complaints about why the case against him is misguided and unfair.to adult film star Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 election—prompted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. to bring

Dan Weiner, a former attorney with the Federal Election Commission and director of elections and government at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, told The Daily Beast that “whataboutism isn’t a defense.” If key details are excluded—like timing, intention, evidence, and judicially established criminal culpability—the Biden accusations do, superficially, seem to echo Trump’s charges: a lawyer making payments on behalf of a politically significant client, quashing potentially embarrassing information from surfacing in the atmosphere of a presidential election.

Brendan Fischer, a campaign finance law specialist and deputy executive director of watchdog Documented, called the Republicans’ legal theory a “stretch.”

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