Joe Biden was ‘Central Element’ of Brother’s Foreign Influence-Peddling to Middle East

It has been a constant refrain among defenders of ‘President’ Joe Biden that his family benefiting from foreign influence-peddling abroad took place without his knowledge and participation. A new report from Politico, as establishment a publication as one can find, shatters that already precarious defense. While the president’s defenders have often pointed to Joe Biden’s involvement in the troubled affairs of his son Hunter Biden as illustrating a case of a father’s love, rather than the aiding and abetting of illicit activity that compromises national security, the new report involves a different and often-overlooked person in the Biden corruption scandal:…