How Will Hunter Biden's Nine Tax Crimes Affect President Biden's Re-Election Chances?

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On "Forbes Newsroom," political scientist Charles Lipson joins Brittany Lewis to discuss Hunter Biden being found guilty on all counts in his federal gun case.

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00:00Do you think that there's an early debate so it's baked in so it's less of

00:06maybe a closer to debate surprise? Well yes that could be. It's also the case

00:15that we now have so much early voting. I mean it's not happening in July you know

00:22or late June but we do. There was something kind of wonderful about going

00:30on election day and voting with everybody else. In my precinct on the

00:35south side of Chicago even though last time my wife and I voted the day early

00:40it was like election day. They were just the place was full and it's kind of

00:45exciting to be there with your fellow with your fellow citizens as we all vote

00:51but now with everybody mailing in their ballots and so forth that's one thing. I

00:58hadn't thought about your point but I think it's a very good one

01:01Brittany that if you fear you might not do well in the debate maybe it's a good

01:07idea to get it out of the way early. Well that could be baked in something that

01:13two things definitely are gonna be baked in the Trump verdict and then this

01:16Hunter Biden verdict but as you mentioned he's facing or he's going to

01:20trial for nine tax crimes in September. That's two months before election day.

01:25So how do you think that's going to impact President Biden politically if at

01:29all any impact on the election? It doesn't look good when your family

01:36members are constantly in court but I think the crucial issue will be whether

01:44or not a lot of this looks like a family grift or whether it looks like Hunter is

01:51doing things on his own. If it looks like the money is coming in because of his

01:57political connections it becomes harder and harder for the president to give the

02:04Hogan's heroes answer I know nothing I have no idea what's going on. It just

02:10becomes less and less credible but as I say there are other big issues far

02:16bigger ones in my opinion the economy, inflation, border security and there will

02:22be likely riots this summer at the conventions and my general view on that

02:27Brittany is that disorder hurts the party in power because the party in

02:34power is the one that is responsible for maintaining civic order and the fact

02:41that the Milwaukee which is where the Republican Convention will be and

02:46Chicago where the Democratic Convention will be are both Democratic cities in

02:53Democratic states albeit in Wisconsin's case a very purple state that's up in

03:01the air for the current election but if there's disorder there that will really

03:05hurt Biden and it'll hurt Biden more than Trump.

How Will Hunter Biden's Nine Tax Crimes Affect President Biden's Re-Election Chances?

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