Sam Lowry said:
I would say the priorities are about the same. It's generally assumed in this forum that the laptop contains evidence of crimes, but it's never been clear what the Bidens are supposed to be guilty of other than making money.
As a country we are fixated on criminal charges because they're an easy way to attack political opponents. It makes for a good game of gotcha. Corruption is more subtle. It's concerning because it tends to make our leaders beholden to foreign interests, but most of it is legal activity. It doesn't make particularly good ammo in a partisan war, especially when both sides are involved in it. Really addressing it would mean protecting the interests of the nation as a nation and not just taking potshots at the other party. I'm not sure there's much interest in that, either among politicians or voters.
What's clear based on the emails is that he was grifting by selling access and political influence. Whether any of it is actually illegal, however, remains to be seen. Sleazy behavior is sometimes legal. Of the known trips to China made by Hunter, each one coincided with strategic foreign policy meetings between Vice President Joe Biden and the Chinese government.
He's got a grand jury on him over FARA, but the government rarely charges anyone for FARA violations.
In 2020, the District of Columbia slapped Hunter with a $450,000 lien, stemming from tax delinquencies that stretched back to at least 2017.
He might just get hit with crimes over taxes.
The 51 former Intelligence officials who labelled the laptop "Russian disinformation", sight unseen, are now exposed as propaganda artists. The public, and probably you because you trust the IC, believed the laptop was Russian disinformation. That was printed, broadcasted to millions and widely accepted as consensus. You have to understand how dangerous that is.