We reported earlier on how Hunter Biden was under federal investigation and wrote about the statement that he released.

But I wanted to comment on a little of the backstory surrounding the release of the statement and why it’s problematic in and of itself.

Biden announced that he was under investigation for “tax affairs” by the U.S. Attorney for Delaware. The Biden transition team issued a statement that “‘President-Elect’Joe Biden is deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger.”

Hunter Biden in a new statement: "I learned yesterday for the first time that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware advised my legal counsel, also yesterday, that they are investigating my tax affairs." pic.twitter.com/bweC2o5OKt

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 9, 2020

But naturally that wasn’t quite true.

Here are some more details as @evanperez reported.
– Investigation started back in 2018
– Has to do with business dealings in China.
-Investigation was put on hold around the election because of DOJ policy. -New investigative actions began after the election.

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) December 9, 2020

At least one of the matters investigators have examined is a 2017 gift of a 2.8-carat diamond that Hunter Biden received from CEFC's founder and former chairman Ye Jianming after a Miami business meeting, one person briefed on the matter said. @PamelaBrownCNN @evanperez

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) December 9, 2020

The investigation was about the dealings with China. But they stopped investigating because of the election. Imagine how insane that is. Notice how they didn’t do that when the FBI was trying to hook someone, anyone in the Trump administration on imaginary collusion. Imagine if the public had known. We don’t have to imagine. Enough already said that they wouldn’t have voted for Joe Biden.

Gee, you mean Hunter didn’t tell the truth and tried to spin it, as did his father Joe? Who would have thought?

And since when did Hunter emerge stronger? He’s been hiding out and barely seen.

They may have thought they would completely skate since they’ve gotten away with this so far.

But a few other points about this statement.

According to Jake Tapper, CNN’s Evan Perez approached Hunter Biden and his father and asked for a comment about the story which they were writing before his announcement. They delayed giving a response to CNN, saying they would answer them later. Instead, they planned this statement and released it first, to try to one up and blunt the story CNN had.

Tapper was furious that the Biden people did that to CNN.

CNN’s @evanperez was working on the story about the US Attorney investigation and reached out to Hunter’s legal team for comment Monday. They spoke on Tuesday and said they would get back to him today.

They didn’t.

Instead the transition team issued a press release. https://t.co/34WKTZXkOX

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 9, 2020

.@PamelaBrownCNN was working on this with @evanperez.

Note to Biden transition team: if your strategy to deal with bad news is to falsely promise a comment to journalists operating in good faith then issue a press release, you will end up getting called late in the process. https://t.co/HplcU8tJ0M

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 9, 2020

So he’s disturbed that CNN got jacked over by the Biden team, but he had no problem jacking over Americans in general by not covering this story when it was out there to be covered prior to the election. No sympathy at all for him now being upset. Every reason to know that Biden was covering up before and they aided it.

They even had a known Senate investigation as Sen. Chuck Grassley points out, and still the media ignored it because it benefitted Biden.

For over 1yr I led review of Hunter Biden's biz deals overseas w big focus on China but many Dems/news orgs dismissed/ignored Some even baselessly said it was foreign disinfo Now those same orgs report IRS/FBI subpoenaing Hunter Biden in tax fraud probe over his China ties

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) December 10, 2020

This story broke in October.

You didn’t do it then.

Were you instructed to ignore it until after the election? https://t.co/IZTsCRtywm

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 10, 2020

But there’s another problem here to which Mike Davis, the former Chief Counsel for Nominations to the Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, points. That’s that the Biden transition team who screamed to be recognized and get transition monies are now using those monies, our tax dollars, to promote Hunter’s defense. Not only do they have Biden’s statement, which should be separate from the transition team’s general work, but also Hunter’s statement which should very definitely be separate.

Why is @joebiden using federal-government resources to issue public statements for his son Hunter Biden, related to his personal legal problems?

Is this legal?

This proves @JoeBiden will use his power to protect his son — and himself.

Special Counsel.https://t.co/bYVVBhOXjT

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) December 9, 2020

Great point by @mrddmia: Hunter is using official gov recourses (the transition and its website) to spin his personal issues which arose from him using his father’s Senate office for personal business.

BTW the transition statement at the bottom is not attributed to anyone. Why? pic.twitter.com/vtqtAz5M50

— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) December 9, 2020

HT: Twitchy