Tapper teed up the segment by noting that Zeleny was reporting that anonymous White House staff had leaked that “President Biden might have a blind spot, according to people around him when it comes to his son Hunter Biden’s legal troubles.” Zeleny says it is now “verboten” for anyone on the White House or campaign staff to “talk about Hunter Biden.”
Tapper then noted that in the 2020 presidential debates Joe Biden had denied Trump’s allegations that his son had made “a fortune” from China, but that, in fact, Hunter had reported over $4 million in income in 2017 and 2018, “most of which came from Chinese or Ukrainian interests.” The CNN excerpts of the debates showed these exchanges:
Biden: “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about what are you talking about, what are you talking about, China.”
Trump: “He made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow –”
Biden angrily denied it: “That is simply not true.”
The video snippets of the debates that Tapper showed are here (beginning at 1:40).
Tapper concluded by saying what Biden and the Democrats in Congress have tried to deny and hide for years: “Trump was right … and Joe Biden was wrong.”