Remember that old politics joke, "call him a pedophile, make him deny it?" https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1317133322515075073

This thread was wrong; or rather, a first and halting attempt to figure out what was going on. The strategy of going after QAnon stuff only clicked for me when I realized, counterintuitively, the DNC would like nothing more than to scapegoat Hunter, while also casting a cloud

...over the whole field of inquiry, so that the effect is one of, "oh those mean ol' conservative crazypants went after poor sweet innocent baby Hunter for no reason, and poor ol' decent lunchbox decency Amtrak middle-class Joe, he had to sacrifice Hunter, so unfair!"