Hunter Biden Files Ethics Complaint Against Congresswoman

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Hunter Biden Files Ethics Complaint Against Congresswoman

It was reported over the weekend that Hunter Biden's lawyers filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for displaying sexually explicit photos (that were censored) of Hunter with alleged prostitutes during a congressional hearing. The complaint accuses Greene of “harassing and embarrassing” Hunter. Like he needs anyone’s help with that.

The Office of Congressional Ethics will review the conduct, and if the allegations are found valid, it may transfer the complaint to the House Ethics Committee for action.

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What MTG did was clearly provocative and designed to raise some eyebrows while highlighting Hunter Biden’s dodgy history, but was it unethical? It would clearly be unethical (and almost certainly illegal) to sneak around and take pictures of someone when they were naked and engaged in sexual activity and then make those pictures public. But Hunter took those pictures himself and stored them on his laptop as trophies of his various “conquests.” You could make the argument that he never published them himself, so perhaps he intended them to be private, I suppose. But if that was his chief concern, he probably shouldn’t have abandoned the laptop at a repair shop.

As to the propriety of displaying the pictures in Congress, this looks like a complicated issue. First of all, the pictures were blurred to the point where they could be displayed on television, and they were. (With appropriate content warnings.) Also, rather than simply being displayed to embarrass the Bidens, they were offered in the context of being possible evidence of a crime. She was specifically referencing the Mann Act of 1910. While technically possible, prosecutions under the Mann Act in the modern era are almost never pursued if the woman is an adult and consented to the activity. The law is still invoked in cases of the sex trafficking of minors, however, with one of the most notable, recent convictions being that of Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021.

With all of that said it’s pretty much impossible to ignore the underlying hypocrisy of Hunter Biden and his attorneys here. What is more “unethical” in this context? Displaying pictures of actual activity in the halls of Congress or being the person who was snorting crack off of the backsides of hookers? Cocaine is still a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Substances Act and prostitution is still illegal in many places, though whether or not it really should be is a debate we can save for another day. I will agree that substance abuse and addiction are terrible problems that afflict many people, so you can feel some sympathy for Hunter’s issues if you wish. (And those are issues he may not be fully over if cocaine-gate went down the way many people suspect.)

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