onsolation prize. There's a consolation prize, and it is that making fun of Democrats is sort of fun. It's a little bit better than I was hoping, and a lot of it has to do with the material they're serving up now. I'm going to say that President Trump did serve up some good material himself for his critics. I think he'll have the best four years of any president, but he did serve up a lot of red meat for the critics. Turns out that the Democrats are just as good at serving up the good stuff. Shall we dig in? Yeah, we shall.

So it turns out that Hunter Biden might be in a little trouble. And when I say he's in a little trouble, there are, within the category of what you might call financial crimes, a lot of categories. So you might have your tax-related financial crimes. Potentially somebody might be laundering a little money. That would be a financial crime. Maybe, let's see, maybe you were, let's see, what are some other financial crimes? Oh, having foreign ties. Well, you know, I suppose if there's a financial connection, that'd be a financial thing too. So it turns out that Hunter Biden has been accused of all financial crimes simultaneously. Like if it were a financial crime, somebody's looking into it on Hunter Biden. I'm only exaggerating a little bit, but the point is that we're learning after the election that he's in massive trouble. From securities fraud, there's a securities fraud unit looking into it. Doesn't mean that's the crime, so we don't know the exact allegations.

I will defend Hunter Biden the following way. Number one, Hunter Biden is an attorney. If he set up a business situation that is transparently illegal, I'd be a little bit surprised. I mean, it's not impossible, but he's a lawyer and he works with lawyers. It's hard to believe that he set up a situation that would be both easy to discover and just flat-out illegal. So I don't know that these allegations will turn into anything. How many times have we seen allegations not turn into anything? It's a pretty common thing, right? So I don't want to be the one who says Hunter Biden is guilty of anything, anything at all. You know, obviously the swampy behavior is apparently technically legal, so we're pretty sure he was involved with swampy stuff. But in terms of actually breaking the law, there's nothing in evidence. So I'm going to treat it that way. There's nothing in evidence, and it's the type of investigations that we do see when people are ultimately not charged. But there are a lot of them. There's a lot of smoke here. I'm telling you that I can't see the fire, but there's a lot of smoke. So use your judgment.

The big part of the story, of course, is that this was completely squashed as a story before the election. I was just tweeting a difference between how Politico treated it right before the election versus how they're treating it now. Now Politico is dumping out all the allegations. Before then they actually ran a major story on Politico, same site, before the election, saying that according to former and current intel people, all of the Hunter Biden allegations looked like Russian disinformation. So our own current and former intel people were working against the United States. That's interesting, isn't it? So according to Politico, our own current and former intel people are actually not on our team. That's a little scary, isn't it? Wouldn't you like to know that your former intel people were on your side? That's like the last people that you want to piss off. Ask Chuck Schumer. He said it directly. It's the last group of people you'd want to piss off because they can get back at you so many ways, according to Chuck Schumer.

So it's pretty distressing that our own current and former intel people were lying to our media so that the media could lie to us. What do you make of that? I feel like that's maybe the biggest story. The biggest story is the misinformation or disinformation from our side. Our own intelligence people, retired and current, were feeding disinformation in a massive way, massively disinformation, to our own press in real time. And what are we going to look into instead of that? Well, we'll talk about it, but that feels like one of the biggest stories in the country, doesn't it? If you were going to say to yourself, like, you know, rank the big stories, what would be a bigger story than current and former intel people starting a disinformation campaign in this country? Because that's really bad. That's really, really, really bad. That's a nine or a ten on a scale of one to ten.

And we're in this really weird new environment. You've seen it before. Maybe it's just attenuated or maybe I just didn't notice it as much, but it goes like this. In any given day, let's say there are a hundred things happening in the world that could legitimately be called news. Which of the hundred things that are happening in the world end up actually being news? Well, not all hundred, you know that. It's some little subset of the hundred things that could be news become news, and then we obsessively talk about that little group of things that we decided to use. Well, if you're not familiar with the news business, there are entities called newsmakers, meaning somebody who's in the news business who's important enough to look into the hundred things that all could be news. They're all important, but they've picked this one. And once, let's say, the New York Times picks it, it could be CNN, could be Washington Post, by any of the big entities, once they pick it they say this is news. Then we sort of ignore all the other stuff that was just that was important, and we act like that's the only news.

And so I guess the news was always able to redirect you to the only thing they cared about as opposed to things you might care about. But I feel as if their ability to simply tell you that something deeply, deeply important doesn't matter is really the superpower. Because the story about these ex and current intel people running a disinformation campaign in the middle of an election in this country, that feels like to me just about the biggest story in the country. And it's treated as it's not even a story. They simply have to treat it like it's not a story, and it becomes not a story. And if it's not a story, it's also not a crime. There's nothing to investigate. There's no call from the public to do it. It just goes away. And this could have just as easily, you could imagine it would take you no trouble at all to imagine that it became the biggest story in the country. You could imagine that, right? What would be a bigger story than current and former intel people running an obvious disinformation campaign during an election? I don't know that it