An array of groups preparing to defend Hunter Biden from an onslaught of House GOP investigations are reportedly at odds over strategy and at risk of not having a coordinated approach.
There are two competing strategies dividing the people and groups allied with President Joe Biden and his 52-year-old son, according to a Washington Post report published Saturday. The first approach, pushed by prominent Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris, is to be more aggressive. The second, backed by several sources anonymously in the report, would be to have Hunter Biden keep his head down as the White House, Democratic National Committee, and Democratic lawmakers and groups paint the Republican investigations as baseless and partisan.
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The approaches were discussed at a strategy session last September, during which Morris argued that Hunter Biden’s team needed to go on offense. The attorney, who is a personal friend and financial benefactor of the younger Biden, laid out defamation lawsuits the team could pursue against top critics of the president’s son, including Fox News, Eric Trump, and Rudy Giuliani. Morris also outlined extensive research on two of the House Republicans‘ potential witnesses against the younger Biden: Tony Bobulinski, an ex-business partner, and John Paul Mac Isaac, a computer repairman with whom Biden allegedly left his infamous laptop.
“The meeting was a glimpse into a sprawling infrastructure that is rapidly, almost frantically, assembling to combat Republicans’ plans to turn Hunter Biden into a major news story when the GOP takes over the House next year,” the Washington Post report said. The risk for Hunter Biden, and possibly for President Biden as well, is that this hodgepodge of efforts is not fully coordinating and does not share a unified approach.”
Hunter Biden and Morris have a “team of researchers” at the ready, according to the report, which also revealed that the president’s son has retained two other attorneys: Chris Clark to handle the federal criminal investigation into his business dealings and Joshua A. Levy to handle the House investigations.
Their aggressive response strategy has been met with opposition from others in the Biden orbit, including reportedly from the White House, which prefers that the younger Biden stays out of the limelight. Those backing this approach have expressed concern that putting Hunter Biden in the spotlight could backfire.
“No one thinks this strategy of putting Hunter Biden front and center is smart,” one Democrat involved in the broader effort told the Washington Post. “No one, including the White House, thinks this is a smart strategy.”
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The White House and DNC, meanwhile, have “developed their own strategies for dealing with what could be a political firestorm around the president’s son.” The president has hired Bob Bauer, White House counsel under former President Barack Obama, to represent him in a personal capacity should the need arise. In addition, a trio of Democratic-aligned outside groups has agreed to provide rapid response and other communications services.
One thing all the groups are in agreement on, however, is the need for closure in the federal investigation into his taxes and a 2018 gun purchase, though the case remains open.
