It’s not easy for me to think of something positive to say about Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, because he’s been indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges involving tax evasion. It’s also not easy because Hunter Biden is defying a Congressional subpoena to testify during an impeachment proceeding against his father, the President, being conducted by the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. Those Republicans are saying Hunter and his father, the President, are conspiring to obstruct the impeachment proceedings. They want to question him about that, and they’ve subpoenaed him to answer questions, in private, which means, in secret. Hunter says he will answer questions, but they must be asked and answered in public. He emphatically denies any such conspiracy and says that he fears that in private Republican inquisitors will leak to the media carefully selected political questions along with a barrage of negative opinions about Hunter Biden. Which of course the Republicans will do, just like if the tables were turned the Congressional Democrats would do. The question for me, dear listeners, is do you doubt that? To which my answer is, if you doubt it, don’t.

Walter Jacobson gives his Perspective: