Sunday’s Meet the Press was the first since Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed David Weiss as special counsel to oversee the investigation into Hunter Biden. Due to this big news, it was impossible for moderator Chuck Todd to ignore the mounting investigations into Hunter Biden’s multiple crimes and he was therefore forced to discuss it with his assembled roundtable. Things got so dire for the assembled leftists that one of them admitted the investigation could damage Biden “pretty seriously.”
Todd fretted that Donald Trump had succeeded in dragging down the “Biden brand” and suggested somehow that Trump was responsible for the appointment of Weiss due to sending former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine.
“It's like Donald Trump has been trying to bring Biden's brand down to him,” Todd worried. “It goes back to 2018 when he sent Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine. He's been desperate and he did it.”
Todd added that “it's Joe Biden's own Attorney General that just announced the investigation.”
I mean it’s basic politics. Trying to turn your opponent’s strength into a weakness. And one of the things that I think Joe Biden was elected to do was to clear out the mess in the White House, bring ethics and decency back and this is clearly an effort to do that.
NBC political analyst and former advisor to former House Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan Brendan Buck pointed out that what Republicans are allegedly doing is “basic politics. Trying to turn your opponent’s strength into a weakness.”
“I think the White House and the President's re-election need to take this a bit more seriously than what they're doing,” Buck observed. “It was very easy for a long time for Democrats to just say, well that's stuff on the crazy right.”
But now, Buck continued, “if it's going to be in trial, it’s going to be in front-page news everywhere. I think they can appreciate that this could damage him pretty seriously.”
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The transcript is below:
NBC’s Meet the Press
8/13/2023
10:40:27 a.m. EasternCHUCK TODD: You know though, Brennan, you can't help, but watch all this play out and it’s like Donald Trump has been trying to bring Biden's brand down to him. It goes back to 2018 when he sent Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine. He's been desperate and he did it.
BRENDAN BUCK: Yeah.
TODD: And it's Joe Biden's own Attorney General that just announced the investigation.
BUCK: Yeah, I mean it’s basic politics. Trying to turn your opponent’s strength into a weakness. And one of the things that I think Joe Biden was elected to do was to clear out the mess in the White House, bring ethics and decency back and this is clearly an effort to do that. Now, I think the White House and the President's re-election need to take this a bit more seriously than what they're doing. It was very easy for a long time for Democrats to just say, well that's stuff on the crazy right—
TODD: You can call it House Republican stuff right?
BUCK: Yeah, and now if it's going to be in trial, it’s going to be in front-page news everywhere. I think they can appreciate that this could damage him pretty seriously.
