The verdict undermines their claims that the U.S. Department of Justice has been “weaponized” against Donald Trump and his supporters.
Several prominent Republicans said they were not impressed by the guilty verdict against President Joe Biden’s son on Tuesday, complaining that the government should have busted him for worse crimes.
A Delaware jury found Hunter Biden, 54, guilty on three counts related to a gun purchase in 2018 when he was addicted to crack cocaine. Hunter Biden’s crimes carry a prison sentence of up to 25 years.
“This trial has been nothing more than a distraction from the real crimes of the Biden Crime Family, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine,” Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Donald Trump’s Republican presidential campaign, said in reaction to the verdict.
Also, this is a high profile case for making the case to more rigidly enforce the existing gun laws. That also probably upsets them as the dog who caught the tire.
I take the opposite tack: these existing gun laws are too inflexible and draconian, they’re a relic of the war on drugs and need to be done away with. The question on the form that Biden lied about was intentionally worded very vaguely. Typically this crime is an add on charge so the feds can bypass sentencing guidelines.
Especially for a gun he only owned for 11 days. In a sane world this would be at worst a misdemeanor and a fine.
But Democrats hate guns and Republicans hate Bidens, so here we are.