Hunter Biden finally goes down for the guilty counts but aborted trial still taints White House
No matter what the White House says, everyone believes Joe Biden will pardon his son Hunter and spare him significant jail time, after his guilty plea to felony tax crimes last week, on top of his felony gun conviction in June.Hunter’s bizarre legal strategy only makes sense in light of the get-out-of jail free card his powerful father has ready for him.He will cry victim and escape accountability for his misdeeds yet again, like he has done all his life. But the twin convictions are important because they stand forever as an antidote to the lies and gaslighting that are a Biden family specialty.The president is implicated in every part of the prosecution case that was set to unfold this week — Joe Biden was both the product Hunter sold for millions of dollars to shady foreign interests throughout his vice presidency and beyond, and an active partner who met with Hunter’s Chinese, Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakhstani paymasters for breakfast lunch and dinner, for coffees and handshakes and for chats about the “weather” on speakerphone.
If Joe were still running for re-election, the five-week trial so close to the election would have been a political liability that even the most partisan media outlets would have been forced to cover. The trial also would have hurt Kamala Harris’ campaign if it had gone ahead, as a reminder that she denied knowledge of Joe’s corruption just as she denied his cognitive decline.As it happens, the fallout of the aborted trial still adds to a taint around the White House, as much as the Democrats’ media handmaidens might pretend it has nothing to do with Joe.The charges against Hunter (pictured leaving court with his wife, Melissa) in California and Delaware were just the tip of the iceberg of corruption that was partially revealed in Hunter’s “laptop from hell” and then expanded on in the House impeachment committees’ painstaking investigations. In the process, “Honest Joe,” the self-proclaimed “poorest ...