What a stroke of luck for Donald Trump, just when the president’s election prospects look irretrievably bleak: A trove of incriminating emails has turned up that supposedly connect Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden to a dubious businessman in Ukraine. Uncovered by the president’s own intrepid lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his former adviser Steve Bannon, the newly discovered emails suggest that Biden is as corrupt as they’ve been saying for months.
Supposedly sent by Vadym Pozharskyi, a consultant for Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that paid the younger Biden to join its board of directors, the emails thank him for making an introduction to his father, then the vice president of the United States. If that actually happened, then the Democratic presidential nominee lied about distancing himself from his son’s business activities. Trump himself bellowed about the “smoking gun” emails at his Iowa rally on Wednesday evening, saying, “Joe Biden has been blatantly lying about his involvement in his son’s corrupt business dealings!”
From Trump’s point of view, this is too good to be true. But then it certainly isn’t true. Continue reading.