Hello and welcome to another edition of the Byron New York Show, the no-chit-chat podcast.

We like to get right into it and what we're going to get right into today is Hunter Biden

or more specifically, something that the former attorney general William Barr said about

Hunter Biden just this week.

He said that the Hunter Biden case represented shameful self-dealing.

That's the quote, shameful self-dealing by the Biden family.

So let's get into that.

Some Republicans obviously want a special counsel appointed to investigate Hunter Biden's

shady business dealings in Ukraine and China and elsewhere.

So the calls started, as you know, in the last months of the Trump administration, when

there were revelations about Hunter Biden's activities and suspicions that his father,

now the president, Joe Biden, might have been involved or certainly had knowledge of those

activities.

And these revelations began to emerge in the weeks and months before the 2020 election.

Now these were of course the revelations that some big news organizations tried to downplay

and some social media giants Twitter and Facebook tried to suppress, actively suppressed.

So the attorney general at the time, Bill Barr, declined to appoint a special counsel.

He explained at the time that the case was being handled, quote, responsibly and professionally

within the Justice Department by the US attorney's office in Delaware.

So this week, Barr, who's been out of office now a year and a half, said he still believes

his decision was the correct one.

But he made these remarks before the American Enterprise Institute.

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