WASHINGTON — Over the years, I’ve written a lot about drug offenders sentenced to decades in federal prison, even life without parole, for first-time nonviolent offenses.
Many were Black men with few resources and limited prospects.
None of them had the clout or sophistication of Hunter Biden, a Yale Law School graduate who was found guilty Tuesday on three felony counts involving his purchase of a gun in 2018 while he was addicted to and using crack.
If the president’s son goes to prison, there will be only one person Hunter should blame for the outcome: himself. (For the record, I hope the president’s son does not have to do time, as he appears to have turned his life around.)
But the evidence against Hunter Biden in this case was overwhelming. If you read his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” you know that Hunter Biden was guilty, and he knew he was guilty. Which makes me wonder why he pleaded not guilty.
The younger Biden apparently thought he would snow a courtroom — and charm jurors into not believing the mountain of evidence gathered against him.
Cable TV talking heads talk about this story as a cautionary tale about the scourge of drug addiction, when really, it’s also about the younger Biden’s sense of entitlement and failure to accept responsibility.
There’s a pattern here with Hunter Biden. In 2014, the then vice president’s son was discharged from the U.S. Navy Reserve — after he tested positive for cocaine. No criminal charges were filed.
This was different.
“No one in this country is above the law,” special counsel David Weiss proclaimed after the verdict. The outcome recognized the “illegal choices the defendant made.”
Weiss also noted that it was “the combination of guns and drugs that made (Biden’s) conduct dangerous.”
It was President Joe Biden’s misfortune that he was scheduled to speak at an Everytown for Gun Safety event Tuesday afternoon. Later in the day, the Bidens flew home to Wilmington, where they could be with their son.
After the guilty verdict, Biden reacted appropriately.
“As I said last week, I am the president, but I am also a dad,” he said in a statement. “Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. So many families who have had loved ones battle addiction understand the feeling of pride seeing someone you love come out the other side and be so strong and resilient in recovery.”
That’s an improvement over what the president has been saying for years: “My son did nothing wrong.”
You see, there’s another issue that follows the first relative of a president to be convicted of a felony — greed. The president’s son raked in more than $2 million in 2013 and 2014 as he served on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma while his father was in charge of the White House policy toward Ukraine.
That doesn’t pass the smell test.
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Pardoning Hunter’s crimes on the poor excuse of drug use, or claiming he acts like he has cleaned up his life does nothing to balance the scales of justice of the damage he has done to America and our American justice system, where all men are to be created and treated equally under the law. His dad pardoning Hunter will become just more of the same old failed father approach to solving his Hunter problems by covering his own and his son’s sins with first blankets of money, then Presidential pardons, giving Hunter no reason to change his ways or show any remorse for the damage he has done. You don’t balance the drooping scales of justice and wasted tax dollars in investigations, or social divisions created, by adding tons of more democrat crime family money taken from THE PEOPLE to further abuse the American people with their own purloined, laundered redistributed money. They should totally defund every dollar this crime family owns, and it still would only be a drop in the bucket to cover the tons of damage they have done, the plethora of other people’s money they have wasted, and Tax dollars and funding they have purloined in political slights of hand. IF Joe thinks he is entitled to be treated by THE PEOPLE to just look the other way when he commits crimes, like Joe looks away from his incoming lawbreaking illegals, it just shows how corrupt and immoral his inner core values really are. Let the pain of the punishments begin!
DEMS don’t care about that… Never have, never will.
The expression,” Get Real,” Seems Approproprate when talking about ,the Socialist, Communist, democrat party which Joe Biden and Hunter Biden are a part of. Hunter Biden, in particular, and his ” Lap-Top, His China Business dealings, His purchasing a Gun while a dope addictic, seems like the Expression,” Get Real” is quite Fitting here for the Bidens.
To “Bidenize” LBJ: “If caught I will not admit. If convicted I will not serve.”
Does anyone believe Joseph The Lyin’ F*rt wont pardon or commute Hunters sentence?
This is as satisfying as nailing Capone on tax charges. I would like to see The Bidens held accountable for selling The United States.
AND what makes you think, IF HE gets convicted of the tax charges, JOE won’t pardon him??
Nothing could make me think that. Everything I have seen of Joe tells me that is exactly what to expect.
AND You can bet, WIN OR LOSE< he'll wait till AFTER nov 5th, to DO any pardoning..
Democrat President, Joe Biden’s Son, Hunter Biden, was about to get A Lesson in Reality when he was found Guilty of purchasing AGun while on Dope. Hunter Bide was soon to be Given A Taste of Reality by A Judge who taught Hunter Biden that the World Was Full of ” Sycophants,” As Dennis Wolley Quote reminded everyone.
Democrat, President, Joe Biden, is A Good Puppet, He does wxcetly What his Wife Pdofessor Jill Biden and the cardsTell him to do.
“She should be the Surgeon General! She’s an amazing doctor!” – Whoopee (Cushion) Goldberg
Democrat ,Socialist, Communist President, Joe Biden and his wife, Professor Jill Biden, ” Education is A Weapon Whose Effects Depend on Who Holds It iin his- their -” Hands and at Whom it is Aimed.”
Josep Stalin