The prospects for the re-election of Joe Biden to the presidency of the United States in 2024 are becoming less and less clear. The Democratic Party admits that the tactic, which involves only massive attacks on Mr. Biden’s potential rival, former President Donald Trump, is no longer working. Joe Biden’s ratings are negatively affected by economic problems, and the growth of crime, and the migration crisis, and scandals around the president’s son, Hunter Biden. Republicans in Congress intend to develop to the maximum the topic of the alleged illegal receipt by him and other people from Joe Biden’s entourage of more than $10 million from foreign companies, including from China. The US prosecutor’s office is also preparing to say its word.
As expected, the US Attorney’s Office will soon publish a decision that could affect the course of the election race. The question is whether Hunter Biden will be accused of violations related to his possible non-payment of taxes and the provision of false data when buying firearms. This decision will be the culmination of a four-year-long investigation that Republicans are keen to present as further evidence of the corruption of the Biden family.
The other day, one such piece of evidence was already made public – this time not by the prosecutor’s office, but by members of the US Congress. In the course of an investigation by lawmakers, it was found that the family of the American president allegedly illegally received more than $ 10 million from foreign companies, including structures in China and Romania.
According to statement House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, “Biden family members and business partners have built a network of more than 20 entities.”
Most of these companies came into being after Joe Biden became vice president. And this is no coincidence: Republican lawmakers suspect that people from Joe Biden’s entourage (at least nine people, including Hunter Biden) used their close ties with the vice president for personal gain.
It is reported that Mr. Biden’s associates received funds from “Chinese citizens and companies with significant ties to Chinese intelligence and the Communist Party of China.” And it was not the only foreign source of income. “While Vice President Biden was lecturing in Romania on corruption and ethics, the Bidens received (through a Biden family associate) more than $1 million from a company controlled by Romanian citizen Gabriel Popovic accused of corruption,” the Congressional website said. .
The sources of funding, according to congressional investigators, were tried to be hidden by creating national legal entities with limited liability, as well as by breaking down transactions into smaller ones.
During press conferences, devoted to the preliminary results of the proceedings, the members of the committee of the House of Representatives said: if the allegations are confirmed, those responsible for their deeds will have to go to prison. They admitted that they have not yet been able to prove that the funds received were transferred in some way to Joe Biden. But the congressmen are not going to give up, promising to continue looking for these connections.
Representatives of Hunter Biden did not particularly comment on the situation. Only his lawyer disparaged the report, calling it “a reformulated misrepresentation of perfectly legal meetings and affairs of private individuals” (the lawyer, without naming him, was quoted by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal).
And the White House called the entire investigation “another political stunt.” “Congressman Comer has a history of playing fast with facts and spreading unsubstantiated insinuations,” the agency said. AP White House spokesman Jan Sams.
Joe Biden, against this background, has ceased to remain silent and now convinces all that his son “did nothing wrong.” Moreover, the head of the White House recently took Hunter Biden on a foreign trip to Ireland.
Edition Politico notes that what is happening with the son of the President of the United States, regardless of how all these investigations end, “may have serious consequences for the presidential bid for re-election.”
It is curious that against the backdrop of accusations against the family of the American president, the investigations against his potential rival Donald Trump somehow faded. That the former president was found guilty by a jury in New York on Tuesday of 30-year-old sexual harassment and libel is hardly discussed in the media anymore. The Republicans, with their statement, nevertheless managed to shift the focus of the information agenda to Joe Biden and his family.
At the same time, family problems are far from the only thing that can make Americans even more disappointed in the president. They are worried about the predicted recession, the difficulties in raising the national debt ceiling, the sharp increase in crime in American cities, and the unprecedented migration crisis. And finally, in principle, the ability of Joe Biden to cope with his duties at such a venerable age. All this, even without an investigation by Congress, seriously spoiled the ratings of the US president, who announced plans to run for a second term.
As noted in a study by the Institute of Public Opinion Gallup, the popularity of Joe Biden at the end of April broke another anti-record – only 37% are satisfied with his activities as president. This is Mr. Biden’s lowest and one of the worst of any U.S. president in Gallup’s time.
Against this background, Joe Biden is losing support even among his fellow party members. And the candidate with a non-standard agenda for the Democrats, on whom no one seriously bet, Robert Kennedy Jr. has already won 19% of the former voters of the president over to his side, according to the results of the Fox News survey.
When it comes to a head-on collision with Donald Trump, things aren’t going smoothly either. Democrat supporters do not rule out that Mr. Trump, because of what is happening around Joe Biden, can win again.
Thus, a study conducted by ABC News / The Washington Post this week showed that the former president is ahead of Mr. Biden by 6 points (45% vs. 39%).
If at the start of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Democrats were full of optimism because of its too uncertain start, now Democratic strategists should be “damn worried,” the publication quotes The Hill one of them on condition of anonymity. Another continues that new approaches must be sought. “There is a gap between the Democratic Party’s consulting class and the voters,” he said. “They (consultants.— “uh”) think they can just run a bunch of ads about how crazy Donald Trump is and that will be enough. But this is no longer the case, ”the Hill interlocutor warned.
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2023-05-11 18:41:54
