No story here in terms of “weaponization of the justice system”. But it’s sad that Hunter really has turned his life around and he appears to be a sacrificial lamb to the MAGAts because of the election. That won’t stop them from digging down in their cesspool of conspiracies to test another one in order to keep their minions fed. You can bet when sentencing happens they’ll scream the Biden family is still benefiting from “something”. Hunter has the wrong last name at the wrong time.
All you have to do is show the picture of Joe hugging his son after the trial to demonstrate GENUINE love of a father for his son, something Eric and Donald jr will never get from their felon father.
I hate the whole "distraction" talking point. As if most people (well, maybe not MAGAs) aren't able to focus on more than one story or news item at a time.
Actually the Hunter case is a distraction from the constant inability of the GOP to prove there IS a "Biden crime family" led by Joe. They eagerly awaited a "preferential" acquittal they could yowl about and got a conviction for an offense that an undoubted gazillion gun owners commit every day without prosecution.
A big thing with MAGA is there’s no consistency with its logic and you simply cannot disabuse them of any erroneous theories. Incontrovertible evidence that they’re wrong is just evidence that the conspiracy runs deeper, like water rushing to fill an entire surface. Most dangerous movement in the country since the heyday of the KKK.
I don’t think people are saying there should be no responsibility, but the pervasive hypocrisy of the GOP where guns are involved is infuriating. Over one mass shooting every single day and they claim “second amendment rights” but if there is one gun violation where most first offenders get a plea deal but not a Biden, it smacks of hypocrisy AND a double standard. Don’t take away my AK 47 or my bump stock or armor piercing ammo but if hunter lies on one question on the application, all they raise all kinds of hell. Hunter is just a political pawn in the GOP’s
You’re right there. But he knew full well what he was doing…. Drug addled mind is a strange place…. But he was not that far gone where he couldn’t tell right from wrong or good from bad…. He still had his job and money.
Yep , I agree. We’ll just see if he gets a sentence commensurate with the typical sentence of a first time offender for that offense. It will be interesting but gop reaction still reaks of hypocrisy.
I’m a recovering addict myself…. And everything I did “illegal or wrong” I knew full well what I was doing and I didn’t give a shit about the consequences…. But you can control your impulses. And you CAN NOT LIE.
He’s guilty. We’ll have to see at sentencing how crooked this system is…. Every other Tom, Dick, and Harry gets off with a slap on the wrist for first offense. We’ll see how “Law and Order” everything ends up.
With MAGAts, when it concerns the Biden family, or Democrats in general, it's 'damned if you do and damned if you don't'. They will change any narrative in mid-sentence if it shores up their "alternative facts' narrative.
::Joe Biden has said he will not pardon his son — in striking contrast to Trump, who has promised to pardon those convicted of participating in the violent January 6 coup attempt.::
Yes, but would Trump pardon his own failson, Cokey McSniffleface—er, "Donald Trump, Jr."? I think not...!
As for the Bidens? I think President Joe's driven a stake through the heart of any conspiracy theorist not a Republican—and probably even broke off a small but not insignificant number of those as well.
I would truly love that, Lisa59—but it would give credence to the Right's howls of "weaponized justice", because it's provably just the sort of thing THEY'D do! And there are plenty of people out there who dislike or distrust either Joe Biden* or the Democratic Party, which went SERIOUSLY and corruptly NeoLiberal thanks to the Clintons! To them, it would give Trump's howls of "I'm the victim here!" credence, or at the very least convince then that They're All the Same in Washington.
THIS is why the Democratic Party needs to turn Hard Left—Biden, to my surprise, has started the process, now let AOC, Jamaal Bowman, The Squad, and Bernie Sanders continue that shift, and purge the DNC of the stink of Clinton.
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* I was one of them, and I'm still...skeptical of any claims to his virtue or greatness, while being well aware he's a VAST improvement over Senile Dictator Wannabe and Convicted Felon Trump!
No story here in terms of “weaponization of the justice system”. But it’s sad that Hunter really has turned his life around and he appears to be a sacrificial lamb to the MAGAts because of the election. That won’t stop them from digging down in their cesspool of conspiracies to test another one in order to keep their minions fed. You can bet when sentencing happens they’ll scream the Biden family is still benefiting from “something”. Hunter has the wrong last name at the wrong time.
All you have to do is show the picture of Joe hugging his son after the trial to demonstrate GENUINE love of a father for his son, something Eric and Donald jr will never get from their felon father.
Anytime I see an argument claiming, "just a distraction from" or, "doesn't go far enough," what I hear is, "we got nothing."
I hate the whole "distraction" talking point. As if most people (well, maybe not MAGAs) aren't able to focus on more than one story or news item at a time.
Actually the Hunter case is a distraction from the constant inability of the GOP to prove there IS a "Biden crime family" led by Joe. They eagerly awaited a "preferential" acquittal they could yowl about and got a conviction for an offense that an undoubted gazillion gun owners commit every day without prosecution.
A big thing with MAGA is there’s no consistency with its logic and you simply cannot disabuse them of any erroneous theories. Incontrovertible evidence that they’re wrong is just evidence that the conspiracy runs deeper, like water rushing to fill an entire surface. Most dangerous movement in the country since the heyday of the KKK.
Good thing none of the millions of gun owners who have checked that box have LIED, or they'd really be worried they're next.
Great reporting. One thing though. I thought Hunter was paid 50,000 per month not 5,000? 5,000 seems a bit low.
You are right, thanks. I corrected that in the piece.
I added a correction to the bottom of the piece as well.
Glad I could help!
Ah.
The eternal challenge of misbehaving relatives…
Drug abusers suffer from mental illness. Prosecuting an ex-drug user for crimes he committed when he was using is just so sad.
Are you saying drug addicts should suffer no responsibility syndrome and get away with it?! Hate to see this country if that was the case.
I don’t think people are saying there should be no responsibility, but the pervasive hypocrisy of the GOP where guns are involved is infuriating. Over one mass shooting every single day and they claim “second amendment rights” but if there is one gun violation where most first offenders get a plea deal but not a Biden, it smacks of hypocrisy AND a double standard. Don’t take away my AK 47 or my bump stock or armor piercing ammo but if hunter lies on one question on the application, all they raise all kinds of hell. Hunter is just a political pawn in the GOP’s
game of buffoonery.
You’re right there. But he knew full well what he was doing…. Drug addled mind is a strange place…. But he was not that far gone where he couldn’t tell right from wrong or good from bad…. He still had his job and money.
Yep , I agree. We’ll just see if he gets a sentence commensurate with the typical sentence of a first time offender for that offense. It will be interesting but gop reaction still reaks of hypocrisy.
I’m a recovering addict myself…. And everything I did “illegal or wrong” I knew full well what I was doing and I didn’t give a shit about the consequences…. But you can control your impulses. And you CAN NOT LIE.
He’s guilty. We’ll have to see at sentencing how crooked this system is…. Every other Tom, Dick, and Harry gets off with a slap on the wrist for first offense. We’ll see how “Law and Order” everything ends up.
With MAGAts, when it concerns the Biden family, or Democrats in general, it's 'damned if you do and damned if you don't'. They will change any narrative in mid-sentence if it shores up their "alternative facts' narrative.
::Joe Biden has said he will not pardon his son — in striking contrast to Trump, who has promised to pardon those convicted of participating in the violent January 6 coup attempt.::
Yes, but would Trump pardon his own failson, Cokey McSniffleface—er, "Donald Trump, Jr."? I think not...!
As for the Bidens? I think President Joe's driven a stake through the heart of any conspiracy theorist not a Republican—and probably even broke off a small but not insignificant number of those as well.
I would truly love that, Lisa59—but it would give credence to the Right's howls of "weaponized justice", because it's provably just the sort of thing THEY'D do! And there are plenty of people out there who dislike or distrust either Joe Biden* or the Democratic Party, which went SERIOUSLY and corruptly NeoLiberal thanks to the Clintons! To them, it would give Trump's howls of "I'm the victim here!" credence, or at the very least convince then that They're All the Same in Washington.
THIS is why the Democratic Party needs to turn Hard Left—Biden, to my surprise, has started the process, now let AOC, Jamaal Bowman, The Squad, and Bernie Sanders continue that shift, and purge the DNC of the stink of Clinton.
____
* I was one of them, and I'm still...skeptical of any claims to his virtue or greatness, while being well aware he's a VAST improvement over Senile Dictator Wannabe and Convicted Felon Trump!