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WashPost’s Matt Viser Offers Sticky Valentine to Hunter’s ‘Defiant’ Statement

When the Bidens need a really syrupy approach to its public statements, they can count on Matt “Biden Adviser” Viser to lay it on thick. After Hunter’s stunt statement before snubbing a congressional subpoena, Viser’s Thursday valentine was headlined: 

‘I am here’: Hunter Biden makes a defiant appearance

The subheadline underlined that Hunter’s stunt reflected “a desire to wrest control of his own narrative.” Viser is certainly under Hunter’s control. He wrote the speech “was by turns emotional, plaintive and contentious. It appeared to have two main aims: humanizing him after years of vilification, and emphasizing that his father had nothing to do with his business affairs despite the impeachment inquiry.” Nothing? Really? 

Hunter’s portrait of his father as a loving, supportive parent contrasted sharply with Republicans’ charges that the…

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