That is the headline from a NYU School of Law based Just Security analysis of what Trump and Giuliani are doing and they imply that if Joe waits like Kerry did it will work again. What’s worse is their allegations aren’t just false, they are in direct opposition to known facts.
Some excerpts but you really should just go to the analysis. It’s worth it.
Even some of the best analysis that explains the falsity of the Trump-Giuliani allegations has fallen into a trap. The Trump-Giuliani allegations are called “exaggerated,” while others write that “no evidence has surfaced to support Mr. Trump’s claim.”
What’s missing from those types of assessments is evidence that actually points in the opposite direction.
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The publicly available evidence suggests that the Vice President, working in tandem with other U.S. officials such as Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, pursued anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine that would increase the legal risks to the Ukrainian gas company, Burisma Holdings, where Biden’s son, Hunter, served on the board. The U.S. government’s efforts, led by Biden, explicitly and specifically targeted the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine not only for its failure to pursue investigations – but also for blocking an investigation into allegations concerning the owner of Burisma.
The article goes into documented details from the chronological historical record to demonstrate this. It is clear this is another swiftboating.
The smear of Kerry was debunked, though Kerry’s campaign was faulted for not taking it seriously enough at first. They had mistakenly assumed Americans would not be persuaded by such a fringe and outrageous falsehood.
Part of what makes the swiftboating of Joe Biden different is that it’s clearly coming directly from within the White House. And with Kerry, the news media could at least remind itself and the audience of Kerry’s decorated service. There was always the idea that the smear was trying to flip the candidate’s strength (military service) into a weakness (alleged traitor).
The swiftboating of Biden is magnitudes more pernicious than what happened in 2004. That’s in part because, if the voluminous reporting of recent months and especially the past week is borne out, the President of the United States has used the power of his office to try to get Ukrainian authorities to “investigate” Biden not only on false accusations, but on a smear that so obviously flies in the face of known facts.
Meanwhile don’t expect the media to point this out.
Even some of the best analysis that explains the falsity of the Trump-Giuliani allegations has fallen into a trap. The Trump-Giuliani allegations are called “exaggerated,” while others write that “no evidence has surfaced to support Mr. Trump’s claim.”
Biden is not my first choice but if his campaign and the party generally doesn’t learn from what happened to Kerry then Biden will be just the first of the candidates to fall to swiftboating this election.
These lies must confronted with the truth immediately and forcefully and the perpetrators must be pilloried for the lying pieces of shit they are. Handled correctly and immediately and this could be made to boomerang on the liars. Handled wrong and Biden will be severely damaged and Trump and Giuliani will move on to their next victim.
