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'Lunacy': Dem lawmaker slams GOP's 'out of touch' crusade to weaponize Biden's family

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) took his Republican colleagues to the woodshed Tuesday on MSNBC, over their years-long quest to tear down President Joe Biden by investigating and pushing conspiracy theories about his family.This comes as his surviving son Hunter Biden was found guilty of improperly purchasing a firearm while addicted to drugs — and as Republicans, many of whom demanded he be prosecuted, now admit this was a silly issue to prosecute. Still others claimed there was some sort of conspiracy behind Biden allowing his own son's conviction to happen."You have Elise Stefanik saying the facts are clear, this was a zombie case illegally brought forward blah blah blah," said anchor Joy Reid. "They're going out of their way ... to pretend that a guilty verdict in a case that would never have been brought if his last name wasn't Biden, is a conspiracy."ALSO READ: Texas AG Ken Paxton campaign ad mistakenly implicates Donald Trump"The Republicans don't know which Joe Biden to sell to the people," said Moskowitz. "At the beginning of the week, he's got dementia. By the end of the week, he's a mastermind, along with his son and [Attorney General] Merrick Garland, and they're trying to put Hunter Biden in jail as a secret plot to win the election, because that's how good Joe Biden is.""This is the lunacy we have to deal with here in Congress," Moskowitz continued. "It's just completely disjointed and out-of-touch with the American people, which is why, quite frankly, the American people don't care about this Hunter Biden thing. Even though I have to sit day-in and day-out in these hearings in the Oversight Committee and listen to them parading witnesses, some of them dealing with folks that worked as a foreign agent for China or were some witnesses that were indicted by the Department of Justice. This is what [GOP Oversight chair] James Comer has tried to sell to the American people on this committee. Look, the 118th Congress has been a mess. Unfortunately, they have used Hunter as a way to try to hurt Joe Biden."But that approach, he added, "has not worked.""Look, I feel bad for Hunter Biden," Moskowitz said. "He's someone, obviously, who suffered from mental illness. He's going to have to deal with the mistakes he made. But Joe Biden is a dad, and Joe Biden has said look, I'm the president, but I'm also Hunter Biden's father. In fact, quite frankly, I think through all the hearings we had and all the money Republicans have spent on Hunter Biden, I think the only thing they have proven, quite frankly, is that Hunter Biden is the son of Joe Biden. I think that's proven."Watch the video below or at the link here. Jared Moskowitz on the GOP's quest to take down Biden via his son www.youtube.com