“The White House is bracing for the political fallout from the charging decision in the Hunter Biden case,” Politico reports.
“And they’ve concluded that Republicans will attack them over it whether President Joe Biden’s son is criminally indicted or not.”
“In conversations, Democrats and senior West Wing aides are downplaying the potential impact, arguing Hunter Biden was a factor in the 2020 election and voters elected his father anyway. They point out the president’s top rival, Donald Trump, was just indicted himself.”
“But people close to Biden still worry about the personal toll it will take on a father who has already felt anguish about a son’s struggles amid a long history of family tragedy. And they wonder how long he can compartmentalize personal anger with the attacks on Hunter and the political calculation that he’s better off not responding to it.”
