It's Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. You can call it Huntergate, you can

call it Bidengate, you can call it whatever you want to call it, but the stink surrounding

the president's son is only getting stinkier. Hunter Biden is actually the president's

second son. His first son, Bo Biden, died, that is to say, the elder of the two boys,

and their lives have been entwined with Joe Biden's political career from the very beginning.

And it began with tragedy. It was a tragedy in which Mrs. Biden, the first Mrs. Biden

was involved in a horrifying car crash that led to her death and the death of their infant

daughter leaving the two boys injured. Hunter Biden has basically never known a time when

his father wasn't in politics, either as the United States senator from Delaware or

as vice president of the United States, or now, of course, as president of the United States.

But Hunter Biden is basically never been known to the American public as anything other

than the center of a kind of scandal. A certain kind of scandal. The question is, what

kind of scandal is it? We now know a great deal more about what it is. Now, as Christian

citizens look at this, we need to recognize that this is a family situation. We are talking

about a father and a son. This is a moral context. It is a political controversy. There

are people who, for their own political purposes are going to say there is more here than

meets the eye. And there are people who are going to say, what are you looking at? Nothing

is going on here. Nothing to see. Just move on. Well, by now, the American people have

figured out this is not something from which we can just move on. That was made graphically

clear in the unexpected, but very disruptive breakdown of a plea agreement that had

been arranged between the team working for the U.S. Attorney there in Delaware and the

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