Hunter Biden’s Conviction and Trump’s Risk to the Justice Department in 2024
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 15 June 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos analyze the impact of Hunter Biden’s criminal conviction and how the trial turned the spotlight on the Biden family’s private struggles through grief and addiction. Plus, how Trump supporters are waging an attack on the justice system and making its integrity one of the core issues of the 2024 Presidential election.
This week’s reading:
- “Happy Seventy-eighth Birthday, Mr. Ex-President,” by Susan B. Glasser
- “Is Hunter Biden a Scapegoat or a Favored Son?” by Katy Waldman
- “Hunter Biden and the Mechanics of the ‘Scandal Industrial Complex,’ ” with Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos
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