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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait

Republicans push conspiracy theories after Hunter Biden verdict: ‘A fake trial’

Two men at committee hearing with blown-up newspaper front page on easel behind
James Comer and Jim Jordan at a House oversight committee hearing on ‘social media bias’ in February last year. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

Republicans responded to Hunter Biden’s conviction on Tuesday of lying about his drug use to buy a gun by doubling down on conspiracy theories that many senior party figures have been using to try and damage his president father.

Despite the fact that Joe Biden’s son could now face a hefty jail sentence, Donald Trump’s election campaign and its surrogates repeated unfounded attack lines that the conviction was part of a conspiracy to deflect attention from more serious crimes and represented the use of the Department of Justice (DoJ) as a political weapon.

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