This Biden scandal is a major issue. In the Federalist, columnist Margot Cleveland analyzes how the legacy press is spinning at least 4 narratives seemingly to help out the beleaguered President.

From the Federalist. With House oversight committees now in the hands of Republicans, the Biden administration can no longer spurn demands for documents and answers to questions related to President Joe Biden’s involvement in and profiting from his son Hunter’s international financial entanglements. Add to that long-ignored scandal the incoming flood of questions concerning the discovery of three separate batches of unsecured classified documents dating back to his time as vice president, and we have a perfect storm set to destroy Biden’s presidency. . . .

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No matter the scandal, the Democrat-defending media reflexively run with the “Republicans pounce” formula, and so the coverage of the investigations into Biden’s financial dealings and his mishandling of classified material predictably followed that approach. The story became about Republicans’ reaction to the scandal, not the scandal itself. . . .

The New York Times’ nearly 6,000-word tome also introduced the prominent “poor Hunter” spin, hoping pity for the surviving Biden son would diminish the scandals — or at least sidetrack readers.  . . .

On and on the New York Times went, adding details of Hunter’s failed marriage, his unsuccessful stints in rehab, and his toxic relationship with Beau’s widow. Then, once softened up by the sob story, the Times took to transcribing the Biden version of Hunter’s financial dealings and President Biden’s supposed lack of involvement in the pay-to-play scandals. . . .

One approach the corrupt media seems convinced will work to vindicate Joe Biden, though, is to focus on Donald Trump. The corporate press immediately resorted to this tactic to dampen the scandal swirling around Biden’s mishandling of classified documents from his time as Obama’s vice president. . . .

Legacy media outlets are likewise framing the forthcoming investigations of FBI malfeasance as about Donald Trump. “The new House Republican majority plans to create a special committee that could serve as a one-stop shop for investigating perceived wrongdoing by the federal government against conservatives, including former president Donald Trump,” NBC News opened its piece reporting on the establishment of a Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The network then quoted at length Democrats who framed the committee as nothing but a Trump “MAGA Grievance Subcommittee.” . . .

A fourth narrative the complicit press is pushing to advantage their Democrat friends seeks to silence the scandals entirely by pretending that any investigation interferes with Congress’s ability to solve the serious problems facing our country.  . . .

But it is not an either-or proposition: Republicans and the House can address inflation and corruption at the same time. And the focus of the House Oversight Committee is just that: oversight. Likewise, the new subcommittee’s focus on the weaponization of the FBI and the rest of the bureau’s friends in the federal government takes nothing away from Republicans attempting to address serious problems our country faces.

Nonetheless, the corrupt media will likely push the narrative that any Republican investigation distracts from addressing the country’s real problems. But as disingenuous as it is, at least that narrative acknowledges the reality of the mess America is in thanks to the Biden administration.

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(Excerpt from the Federalist. Photo credit: Getty Images.)