THE CURRENT → THE ROSE REPORT Issue 965 · June 14, 2023

Do Scandals Matter Anymore?

So who’s in bigger legal trouble, Biden or Trump? And will any of these scandals impact, or even upend the 2024 presidential race?

Do Scandals Matter Anymore?
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For two centuries, Americans were taught to take pride in legends, factual or fictional, about presidents such as Honest Abe Lincoln or George Washington, who could never tell a lie.

Nowadays, the stench of rotten political fruit has fallen far from Washington’s fabled cherry tree, as scandals swirl around the two presidential front-runners, President Biden and Donald Trump.

If each maintains his huge early lead and wins his party’s nomination next summer, voters will be choosing between two candidates whose self-interest seems to exceed their loyalty to the oath of office.

Bearing in mind that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, let’s start with President Joe Biden and the bombshell allegations leveled by a longstanding and credible FBI informer implicating him in a $5 million bribery scheme to influence foreign policy as Obama’s vice president.

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