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‘Fake, Republican scandal’: Media Matters ripped for ‘weak ploy’ attempt to smear Herridge’s report on Hunter Biden

April 8, 2022 | | Print Article

The self-appointed fact-checkers over at Media Matters for America have set their eyes on CBS News Senior Investigative Correspondent Catherine Herridge for promoting “a fake Republican-driven scandal from when Joe Biden wasn’t even in office,” despite recent confirmations from The New York Times and The Washington Post that the information contained on Hunter Biden’s infamous “laptop from hell” is authentic.

Following a Thursday news segment on “CBS Mornings” in which Herridge, formerly of Fox News, discussed the investigation led by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, Media Matters blasted Herridge, calling her “a mouthpiece for fake Republican outrage” and accusing her of contributing “to the fabrication of a political scandal.”

At issue for Media Matters is the investigation’s look into business deals made by Hunter and James Biden, President Joe Biden’s brother, in 2017 and 2018 — a time when Donald Trump was President and Joe Biden was out of office.

“Thus, the two men could not have plausibly had any political influence to sell, even if they’d wanted to,” Media Matters states.

Furthermore, Media Matters claims, “The insinuations that the Biden family were influence-peddling also lace a key ingredient: Herridge and Grassley cannot point to any policy decisions supposedly influenced by these business ventures — which would, of course, have been completely impossible during those years.”

In the segment, Herridge brought up former President Trump’s continued ownership of his businesses while in office and noted that “China awarded Ivanka Trump’s fashion brand new trademarks while she was a senior advisor to her president father” — a point one would expect the liberal-leaning Media Matters to applaud. Instead, it dismissed the point as “a disingenuous comparison” that compared “this fake scandal to a real one.”

“In that case, obviously, Ivanka Trump was making foreign business deals while her father was president, and while she was working in the White House herself,” Media Matters states. “By comparison, Hunter Biden was making business deals while his father did not hold any public office at all and it seemed unlikely that he ever would again.”

“Somehow,” Media Matters adds, “Herridge thinks these two things are equivalent.”

But what Media Matters fails to address at all are the tens of millions of dollars the Biden family has allegedly received from “Chinese elites” and the implications of Grassley’s findings on today’s America.

As American Wire News reported earlier this week, author Peter Schweizer has detailed transactions valued at $31 million with Chinese businessmen who have demonstrable ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and Senator Grassley is concerned the lucrative deals may have opened a door to Biden blackmail opportunities now that Joe Biden is — however “unlikely” it may seem to many — President of the United States of America.

“What I and Senator Johnson have done at this point is bring out the facts and the bank records that prove that there was a close relationship between Hunter Biden, maybe James Biden, and business people in China that have close contacts with the Communist Party and with the military there,” Grassley told Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” on Monday. “And, so, what’s concerning to us, we release all these documents. What’s concerning to us is — is there any sort of blackmail opportunity for China against the United States because of those close working relationships?”

Not only did Media Matters fail to acknowledge the authenticity of the information gleaned from Hunter Biden’s laptop, it didn’t even bother to deny that the numerous shady deals — punctuated by introductions by Hunter to his father in China while the elder Biden was absolutely in office (father and son rode to Beijing aboard Air Force Two) — occurred.

Luckily, many on social media have seen straight through Media Matters’ attempt to smear Herridge and dismiss the Hunter Biden investigation as a Republican conspiracy theory.

Have a look:

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13 thoughts on “‘Fake, Republican scandal’: Media Matters ripped for ‘weak ploy’ attempt to smear Herridge’s report on Hunter Biden”

  2. Please this is hilarious. Just a mouthpiece for the DNC to deflect their sheep into still believing nothing happened when all the evidence shows it did. If they say it often enough and loud enough the sheep will follow. The gullibility of democrat voters is amazing.
    And just to clarify since Ivanka was dragged into this. She divested herself from her company completely before taking the White House job. Yes her company had a contract with China, sadly like millions of clothing companies. But it sure didn’t advance to political clout. China hates trump. But they sure have paid the Biden.

  8. You know you are over the target when you start taking flak.
    Truth everywhere is always targeted by, wait for it ………. evil.

  9. Why would anyone listen to an organization that engages in fraudulent articles and is run by a sodomist.

  10. Catherine Herridge is not only top notch investigative reporter…She is one hell of a human being…

  11. Catherine Herridge is one of the few completely honest reporters in America, and the Clinton Controlled Media Matters is attempting to smear her. Knowing the Clintons are involved, shows the world how corrupt Media Matters is. I am surprised that CBS allowed this story on the air. Maybe they have figured out that they will get more viewers by telling the truth about the Bidens than by trying to cover up their corruption. It may be that the new management at CNN, who say they want to do straight, honest news is making the management at CBS nervous, so they are trying to build up a reputation as being more honest. However it is, Kudos to Catherine, and the CBS management, for getting the truth out

  12. When you are close to the bulls-eye they always come after the people who speak the truth. Americans are zeroing in on their targets, and they are spot on! Soon they will be surrounded by that ring of fire.

    1. Lets hope your right. However since the PRC controls about everything there is in China , you would be hard pressed to find anything or anyone who didnt have deep deelings with the gov. Its the same with businessmen in high places here in the USA also. Just remember they have a B.S. favored trading status with the U.S. This should never have happened. They shouldnt even bee in the U.S . They shouldnt even be in the U.N. with all their human rights scandals.. Thats why Biden is now referred to as Xiden, as we all know. If the right to dobusiness with China was fully investigated most of the CEOs in this nation would be going to prison and they (the DNC) cant have that after years and years of laying ground work so that they could launder as much money as possible. If you want to see why America is going broke just look at where all our money , (including tax moneys paid by us) are going to.

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