Today was another historical day in America. Today the son of a sitting president was convicted of three felonies. That has never happened before, but then we never lived in a republic where one party had such a corrupt and degenerate standard bearer that it had to go searching for dirty laundry on any family member of the other party’s candidate. Hunter Biden was easy game. He had a lot of trauma in his life and he succumbed to substance abuse to deal with the pain as many many people do.
Hunter Biden was convicted by a jury of his peers based on the evidence. This is how the rule of law works. The clip that you’re about to see celebrates the rule of law when it does what it did in today’s trial, which is to reach a verdict which had the effect of laying upset at the door of the sitting president and his family. But take a look at the other tapes, which play side by side: the exact same set of circumstances that draws praise from Fox News hosts, applied to Hunter Biden, draws scorn and contempt when applied to Donald Trump. Bookmark this, because this is the playbook for the next three criminal trials which Trump will sit through.
CNN has a side by side comparison of Fox host reactions after the Donald Trump verdict vs after the Hunter Biden verdict pic.twitter.com/ZvS8ew0dB4
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As always, Joyce Vance’s analysis is worth the read:
If Donald Trump’s conviction gave us hope for the rule of law, this conviction, and the way the sitting president, the father of the defendant, permitted the process to proceed confirms that it still works. If you’re an institutionalist, and I unabashedly am, it was important to see a jury render a verdict based on the evidence without external influence.
That doesn’t negate the personal tragedy for a family that loves its son and father despite his struggle with addiction. Nor does it speak to whether Hunter Biden might have issues that will succeed on appeal—it’s his right to pursue them. But it helps us understand that presidents don’t have to label prosecutions witch hunts or attack judges, court personnel, witnesses, and jurors. They can accept that people who violate the law, even those dear to them, must be held accountable. Grand juries and trial juries determine whether a defendant will be indicted and whether a defendant will be convicted. No prosecutor, acting on their own, can make either of those things take place.
Hunter Biden now faces a maximum sentence of 10 years for each count of conviction, but in the federal system, sentencing is conducted under the United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines, which produce far more modest results, especially in the case of a first-time offender like Biden. As with Trump in Manhattan, his probation officer will conduct a presentence investigation and write a report for the Judge, suggesting what the appropriate guideline range is. Both sides are likely to file sentencing memoranda arguing for the sentence they believe is appropriate. Biden is likely to end up in a range where probation is possible. Sentencing will take place approximately 120 days out.
Trump supporters were not outraged by the conviction. They did not call the case a political witch hunt or the Judge corrupt. Instead, they said, and I kid you not here, that the prosecution was an effort to protect Joe Biden. Former Jeff Sessions aide turned Trump sycophant Stephen Miller laid it out:
DOJ, according to Miller, failed to charge Hunter Biden with acting as an unregistered foreign agent and other instances of foreign corruption “Because all the evidence would lead back to JOE.”
It sounds good unless you insist on listening to the facts. Miller ignores that whole episode in Congress when House Republicans tried to gin up evidence against Joe Biden on these charges so they could impeach him, only to have their case fall apart and their much-vaunted key witness end up in prison for lying to the FBI.
Why let the facts get in the way of a good story, right? And don’t be deaf to the irony here: what’s good for the goose is good for the gander but that doesn’t help the Fox News playbook any. Jesse Watters was expecting a Black jury to deliver an innocent verdict, a statement made last week that got him slapped back on social media. But that same jury delivered a verdict on the evidence and even stated openly that political considerations didn’t come into play.
The rule of law works. Thank God for that. And as long as the rule of law works, Donald Trump will lose every single trial where there is a mountain of evidence against him. This we have seen. And that’s the good news about what happened today.
The Republicans know it too. They’re more than a little upset that Hunter Biden was convicted because now they can’t keep riding the conspiracy theory train and claim bias or that Joe Biden has weaponized the DOJ, when the same DOJ that has indicted Donald Trump indicted his own son — and a jury of his peers found him guilty.
There is much gnashing of teeth at Mar-a-Lago tonight, make no mistake. The fact that Hunter Biden was found guilty takes the wind out of Trump’s sails. It’s so much easier to pout and rage and play the victim than it is to be an adult and admit that an impartial system works for everybody, “it rains on the just and the unjust alike.” That doesn’t fit into Trump’s worldview very well at all.
We’ll see how the appeals go. Trump doesn’t have any real basis, but Hunter certainly does, starting with the first plea deal which was cancelled on him after republican political interference.
I could live to be 200 years old and I would never see the Bidens “huddling”. Huddling is for football and whiny little brats like Von Shitzinpants and his family. All I have seen thus far from President Biden and his son is adults accepting the consequences of Hunter’s behavior as well as the judicial outcome of this case. Pretty refreshing after Von Shitzi’s disgraceful behavior but then his behavior is always disgraceful.
It appears to be another instance of the low down dirty right projecting their own thoughts and actions onto the other side.
Expect the truth from nazis? In WW2, as they moved through France, they completely destroyed a French town due to believing it was a center of French resistance. Did they detain the innocent civilians? NOPE! They killed EVERYONE THEY COULD FIND, including the phucking children. They locked hundreds in a building and BURNT THEM ALIVE! The town wasn’t rebuilt as it is now a monument to the NAZIS LACK OF HUMANITY! This! This is what we are dealing with in our Supreme Court, the house, state legislators, etc. BETTER WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE THIS NAZI STEALS ANOTHER ELECTION!!!!!
The Nazis completely destroyed Lidice, Czechoslovakia in retaliation for the assassination of acting governor Reinhard Heydrich, by the Czech resistance, in spite of there being no connection with the town. Then, just because, they did the same to Lezaky. They killed most of their residents except a few women who looked Germanic who were adopted them out to German families.
Their intention was to wipe it and its memory off the face of the earth, but instead it was memorialized and the few survivors testified at the Nuremberg Trials.
—The Holocaust Encyclopedia