In the face of President Trump's Biden-Ukraine smear, the Biden camp has declared a low intensity war on the press, determined to head off the false equivalency and other mind games that helped derail Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential bid.
When a reporter asked Joe Biden late last month how many times the former Vice President had talked to his son, Hunter, about his foreign business dealings, Biden said never, and demanded: “Ask the right questions.” A Biden campaign fund raising video posted the next day asked, “Will media see through Trump's sleazy playbook? Or fall for it again?” followed by a clip with one commentator attacking a New York Times reporter for suggesting Hunter Biden's work on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company, could be a political liability and another declaring that “at some point we have to ask if a lot of journalists don't want to learn anything.”
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