It is a significant problem that President Joe Biden allowed the family’s “access-peddling business,” Atlantic Magazine columnist Sarah Chayes acknowledged in a recent op-ed.
Chayes, a former NPR reporter and special adviser to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote an opinion article Wednesday describing the Biden family’s business endeavors as “image-laundering services for foreign kleptocrats.”
“The biggest problem with Hunter Biden’s access-peddling business may have been that his father, the president, thought it was fine,” she wrote. “For a president and a political party whose brand stresses integrity, that’s a self-inflicted wound.”
“It now seems quite likely that Hunter Biden has violated one or more U.S. laws,” she added. “And that’s not all the wrong he has done.”
Chayes specifically drew parallels between several influence peddling schemes and the Biden family’s elaborate business. She cited scandals in…
