We know a fair amount about this criminal investigation because trump's allies have had these emales from the laptop for some time. The closest they've got is that joe byden gave a really sweeping denial about how he's never spoken to his son about business ever. So it doesn't sound like much of this is going to touch the president of the united states directly. Is that fair? We never know what we don't know, of course.
Hunter Biden may not be the archcriminal that conservatives describe, but his actions present problems for his father (the president of the United States). Vox's Andrew Prokop explains.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and edited by Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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