Todd Frets GOP’s Hunter ‘Whataboutism’, Worries About Bad Biden Optics

On NBC’s Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd openly fretted to Maryland Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin that the upcoming general election for president will be filled with what he described as “whataboutism” from Republicans pointing to the mountain of crimes by Hunter Biden as a way to distract from the indictments of Donald Trump. Todd worried that the appearance of what Hunter is accused of “is not good.” To Todd, it’s all about optics, not the actual crimes by both Hunter and Joe Biden. 

“We’re gonna have a campaign that is gonna be filled with a lot of ‘whataboutisms’. We know the Republicans are gonna talk about Hunter Biden here,” Todd worried. “And I know that the—a lot of the technical defense of the President with Hunter Biden is well, the President didn’t do anything wrong.”

Todd then observed that “Michael Kinsley once said: the real scandal in Washington is not what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal.” Turning to Raskin, he then asked: “should there be a code of conduct, something for family members here? Because the appearance of what Hunter Biden did is not good.”

The partisan anchor chose to ignore all the evidence of actual wrongdoing by the Biden crime family and instead focused on the optics. 

Raskin wasn’t much better. He just suggested it was typical Washington DC business as usual: “We know that there is a lot of, you know, influence in Washington that’s based on people’s family connections.”

“Last names matter a lot on K Street, as you know,” Todd added in agreement with Raskin.

The leftist media is all too willing to look the other way when Democrats are involved in scandals.

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NBC’s Meet the Press
8/6/2023
10:32:34 a.m. Eastern 
1 minute 12 seconds

CHUCK TODD: We’re gonna have a campaign that is gonna be filled with a lot of ‘whataboutisms’. We know the Republicans are gonna talk about Hunter Biden here. And I know that the—a lot of the technical defense of the President with Hunter Biden is well, the President didn’t do anything wrong. But as Michael Kinsley once said: the real scandal in Washington is not what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal. Should there be a code of conduct, something for family members here? Because the appearance of what Hunter Biden did is not good. 

REP. JAMIE RASKIN: Yeah, I mean we know that there is a lot of, you know, influence in Washington that’s based on people’s family connections. 

TODD: Last names matter a lot on K Street, as you know. 

RASKIN: And I have repeatedly asked chairman Comer on Oversight Committee, for us to look at that in a serious and substantive and methodical and nonpartisan way. But instead he’s decided to just pursue the Hunter Biden thing as a one-off as a way to score cheap political points. He doesn’t want to talk about Jared Kushner, who brought back $2 billion. Not million, $2 billion from Saudi Arabia to a company he created the day after the Trump administration ended, when there’s still blood all over the capitol.