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White wolf drawing9/10/2023 ![]() Trump’s ravings about Hunter’s laptop in the 2020 election failed to capture the dark magic of “Lock her up!” four years earlier. Hunter and his troubles are a poor substitute. Biden never excited the base in the same way. Republicans have never found targets as rich as Barack Obama, the first Black president, or Hillary Clinton, who aimed to the be the first female president. ![]() The fixation seems a kind of displacement. James Comer has vowed to continue to investigate Hunter. Notably, Hunter Biden has also never been a public official. Such attacks were amplified endlessly by Fox News, rightwing media and commentators such as Tucker Carlson, drawing a false equivalence with Trump’s extremely different case. Trump, recently indicted on federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national security documents when he left office, wrote on his Truth Social platform: “Wow! The corrupt Biden DOJ just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere ‘traffic ticket.’ Our system is BROKEN!”įlorida Governor Ron DeSantis, also running for president, decried the “sweetheart deal” and tweeted that, were Biden “not connected to the elite DC class he would have been put in jail a long time ago”. Predictably, however, Republicans cried foul, arguing that Hunter – who has worked as a lobbyist, lawyer, consultant to foreign companies, investment banker and artist – had received favourable treatment because of his dad. It should also be noted that the charges resulted from a five-year investigation by David Weiss, the US attorney in Delaware – appointed by former president Donald Trump. When crimes are related solely to someone’s addiction and not to some larger scheme and the individual is a first-time offender, DoJ may take these factors into account and offer the individual pre-trial diversion.” The former federal prosecutor Christine Adams, a partner at Los Angeles-based Adams, Duerk & Kamenstein, says: “It is not uncommon for the DoJ to make these kinds of deals. Plea deals are very common in federal cases with just a very small number actually going to trial – only about 2% Neama Rahmani Hunter also reached a probation agreement with the justice department that could enable him to avoid a conviction that he illegally possessed a Colt Cobra revolver in Delaware in October 2018 while “knowing that he was an unlawful user of and addicted to a controlled substance”. Deals done this quickly are much less common and diversion deals are even rarer, but these sorts of charges are generally worked out in plea deals for the most part, so I don’t find it unusual.” ![]() The former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, says: “Plea deals are very common in federal cases with just a very small number actually going to trial – only about 2%. Legal experts were less shocked than Republicans would have liked. He therefore avoids the politically nightmarish spectacle of a trial and is unlikely to spend time in jail based on the tax loss amount, his status as a first-time offender and his willingness to accept responsibility for his actions. Tuesday’s court filing showed that Hunter, 53, will plead guilty to failing to pay more than $100,000 in taxes in both 20 after making more than $1.5m each year. In such cases, it would be reasonable for any neutral observer to ask whether the commander-in-chief’s family has received special treatment. There have been past scandals involving Richard Nixon’s brother Don, who was rescued from business failures by the eccentric businessman Howard Hughes, George H W Bush’s son Neil, who directed a failed savings and loan, and Bill Clinton’s half-brother Roger, who spent time in prison for a cocaine conviction. Presidents’ families are inescapably part of the political package, often seen at their side at campaign events or state occasions. It has churned through so many wild allegations against the “Biden crime family” that its moment of self-righteous indignation risks getting lost in the noise. But the Grand Old Party is like the Boy Who Cried Wolf.
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