The sheer desperation runs rampant through the Democrat Party as various members try in vain to ward off the inevitable coming disaster facing Joe Biden and his grifter son Hunter Biden. As the Biden “family business” scheme continues to unravel, it’s a beautiful thing to watch. And it’s going to get far worse.

One popular tactic — selectively and hypocritically practiced on both sides of the political aisle — is playing the #whataboutism card at drop of a hat in hollow defense of the growing scandal.

MSNBC legal analyst, former Trump impeachment prosecutor, TDS-riddled Daniel Goldman beautifully played </sarcasm> the #whataboutism card on Monday. Goldman sure doesn’t want to hear another word about the Hunter scandal, but dammit, he really wants to hear more about a Saudi business deal made by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — six months after he and Trump left the White House.

I don’t want to hear another word about Hunter Biden.

But I would like to hear about congressional investigations into this investment.

Memo to Goldman: Careful, your hypocrisy is showing; this is not an “either-or” zero-sum game.

I don’t want to hear another word about Hunter Biden.

But I would like to hear about congressional investigations related to this investment. https://t.co/PXWx5ruH0z

— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) April 11, 2022

To be sure, the Kushner deal was questionable, if only because he secured a $2 billion investment from a fund led by the Saudi crown prince, a close ally during the Trump administration, despite objections from the fund’s advisers about the merits of the deal. But that is not mutually exclusive with investigating an unraveling Biden family scandal that very well could have breached national security and has Joe Biden’s fingerprints all over it, nor the fact that his continuing lies are demonstrably false.

Here’s more on the Kushner-Saudi deal, as reported by The New York Times:

A panel that screens investments for the main Saudi sovereign wealth fund cited concerns about the proposed deal with Mr. Kushner’s newly formed private equity firm, Affinity Partners, previously undisclosed documents show.

Those objections included: “the inexperience of the Affinity Fund management”; the possibility that the kingdom would be responsible for “the bulk of the investment and risk”; due diligence on the fledgling firm’s operations that found them “unsatisfactory in all aspects”; a proposed asset management fee that “seems excessive”; and “public relations risks” from Mr. Kushner’s prior role as a senior adviser to his father-in-law, former President Donald J. Trump, according to minutes of the panel’s meeting last June 30.

But days later the full board of the $620 billion Public Investment Fund — led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler and a beneficiary of Mr. Kushner’s support when he worked as a White House adviser — overruled the panel.

The NYT noted that “ethics experts” say such a deal “creates the appearance of potential payback for Mr. Kushner’s actions in the White House — or of a bid for future favor if Mr. Trump seeks and wins another presidential term in 2024.” Let’s be honest: a valid point, whether it holds any truth or not.

Um… so let’s revisit a few details about the Biden family scandal we’ve learned so far; not as #whataboutism per se, but to point out Goldman’s blatant hypocrisy.

• Hunter Biden was reportedly paid $1 million per year — cut in half after two months after Joe Biden left the vice-presidency — ostensibly to help Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma handle bad press in the U.S., along with other potential ramifications, although he failed to register as a lobbyist. What were his qualifications? How much of his windfall was kicked to “the big guy“?
• Hunter had introduced then-Vice President Joe to a top Burisma executive less than a year before Biden the elder pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.
• A Chinese energy company presumably with links to the Chinese communist government paid Hunter Biden and his uncle Jim Biden at least $4.8 million over 14 months, according to The Washington Post. Why? What were the expectations of Biden’s son and what were his qualifications? Again, how much was skimmed by “papa”?

There are plenty more details where these came from and plenty of more shoes to drop — all of which continue to paint a scenario from which I see neither Hunter nor “The Big Guy” emerging unscathed.

As to desperate Democrats like Daniel Goldman who continue to play the fool as they shill themselves silly in ineffectual defense of the Biden family syndicate, let’s hope they continue. Their #whataboutism and other efforts to deflect will not work, and as I said at the top, it’s a beautiful thing to watch.