The committee, led by Chairman James Comer, said in the report that it plans to continue to investigate Biden to find evidence of corruption, even as it acknowledged that it had no evidence that he financially benefited from the myriad foreign business dealings of his son Hunter.
The problem with the defense being offered by the White House and being repeated by most of the non-conservative press is that it rests on, there’s no direct tit-for-tat ergo no corruption. Problem is, when politico’s palms get greased (at least if they’re smart) it never goes direct, family members and close associates are always used as the go-betweens.
The real problem for Republicans here is that they’ve made their own bed and then have to lie in it with regards to DC corruption. They spent four years screaming “Nothingburger!” over every Trump scandal, which created a desensitization to scandal, and now they’re finding that they can’t switch people back to be scandalized.
Of course, the Democrats have their own issue in this in that they made Trump out to be this extreme abnormality from the DC status quo. If it turns out that it’s more like, Trump was just too stupid to do DC corruption in the usual discrete ways, it undermines that rationale for keeping Trump out of the White House.
The problem with your equivocating is that the Republicans haven’t even been able to turn up the usual “DC status quo” corruption. The absolute worst they’ve been able to find so far is that Hunter promised (but never actually delivered) access to his dad, lied on his taxes, likes his nose candy, and is hung like a horse. Nobody’s scandalized over this because there’s nothing to be scandalized over. Hunter isn’t part of the administration, there’s no evidence he ever discussed business with his dad, and he’s getting punished for the crimes he’s committed. The real scandal is how much he’s been harassed over nothing, up to and including people sending out fucking revenge porn to their followers.