What's Behind Republican's Anhedonic Response to Hunter Biden's Felony Conviction?
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Trump and other Republicans did not seem to be relishing the opportunity to call the president’s son a convicted felon. Instead, the early reactions to a jury’s guilty verdict against Hunter Biden on three felony gun charges seemed to more resemble a shriveling balloon.
“The Hunter Biden gun conviction is kinda dumb tbh,” said Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, in a post on X. Another Trump associate, Charlie Kirk, called it a “fake trial.” Many Trump allies had been secretly rooting for an acquittal. A person with knowledge of the Trump campaign’s fund-raising plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said there had been discussions about how much an acquittal would help Trump, potentially raising tens of millions of additional dollars as they planned to cite it as more evidence the justice system was rigged.
Prominent Republicans, including those in the Trump campaign, immediately minimized the three felony gun charges, complaining that the charges steered public attention away from unspecified crimes that they claimed President Biden has committed and a justice system that they insisted was still very much two-tiered.
It spoke volumes that the first reaction from the Trump camp did not come directly from Trump. Instead, his campaign issued a statement that described the conviction as a “distraction.”The president has not been charged with crimes, and the House Republican leadership has abandoned its effort to impeach Biden after it became clear that too many Republicans thought they lacked evidence of wrongdoing sufficient to impeach. Hunter Biden is facing another trial in September, on nine charges stemming from failure to pay $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 through 2019.
Behind all this, Trump, who aggressively attacked Hunter Biden in the 2020 election, has changed his mind about the political value of doing so now, at least over the younger Mr. Biden’s personal issues, according to people close to the former president. In a meeting last year, Trump acknowledged privately to an associate that attacks against the president’s son had the potential to backfire politically, according to a person who attended the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
The way Trump speaks today about the Hunter Biden case is markedly different from his drumbeat over what he called “the laptop from hell” in 2020. In their first presidential debate, in September 2020, Trump directly attacked the president’s son over his drug use. A Trump ally who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe private conversations explained that as soon as it was clear that the Hunter Biden gun case couldn’t be used against President Biden, the topic fell off the radar for political messaging.
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While you are not wrong, you did put quite a spin on things.
Despite vowing that he will NOT pardon Hunter, Joe Biden WILL pardon Hunter, and by doing so, lose any chance he had of winning in November.
While these gun charges are silly, there are many other things that Hunter did that should put him in prison for the rest of his life. He's a lifelong drug addict; he's raped pre-teen girls at Lolita Island - there is even a photo taken from his own laptop where he is at Lolita Island, standing naked next to a girl that looks to be 9 years old who is dressed in black bondage gear; he's been a massive tool of money laundering for his daddy Joe - the "Big Guy".
As for Joe Biden, he is untouchable, because he has been determined to be incompetent (too senile) to stand trial.
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I doubt Pedo Pete will pardon Hunter before the election, to keep voters on his side.
Win or lose, he'll pardon him after the election.
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No truth, no justice, no peace!
Biden Crime Family has NOT been brought to justice.
yet
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@spintendo you like long extracts
Rep. James Comer Says Justice Won't Be Served Until DOJ Prosecutes Biden Family's FARA Violations And Financial Crimes
"We know Hunter Biden didn't pay his taxes. His taxes were paid years later by major democrat donor Kevin Morris prior to the presidential election to help alleviate a problem Joe Biden had."
"Justice will not be served until the DOJ takes into account all of the financial crimes that the entire Biden family committed. It wasn't just Hunter Biden. It was also Joe Biden and Jim Biden. The entire family benefited from the Biden influence-peddling schemes."
"We had three Hunter Biden business partners in these schemes testify under oath that the Bidens were selling access to Joe Biden. There was never a legitimate business. We know from the IRS whistleblowers they never paid any taxes on the tens of millions of dollars that they took from our adversaries around the world."
"We have laws in Congress that prevent people from doing this. It's called the Foreign Agent Registration Act. It's called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. We know that Bidens have violated these laws. So until the Department of Justice takes the real serious crimes into account, Justice has not been served. If I listed the top 10 crimes that the president's son committed, lying on the gun application wouldn't even make it."
"We've been very transparent and substantive with the American people about the money this family was taking in. We've been transparent about the 20 shell companies that the Bidens had that appear to serve no purpose other than to launder money. And when I say launder money, I'm using the words that that six different banks used in those 170 suspicious activity reports. They laundered money to 10 different Biden family members, and according to the IRS whistleblowers, they never paid any taxes."
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@raphjd If it had been twice-impeached, adjudicated rapist, convicted felon Trump and his son, he would have pardoned him before the trial even began.
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@raphjd I must admit that I forgot about that. Senile Joe has months AFTER the election to pardon Cunter.
Bill Clinton went wild pardoning a lot of people who should not have been pardoned, just before leaving office. That caused his credibility to nosedive. -
@jaroonn You mean.. like they pardoned everybody connected to Hillary Clinton illegally destroying over 30,000 classified emails before they could even be charged?
Your HYPOTHETICAL atrocities are REALITY amongst democraps.
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Clinton pardoned a lot of domestic terrorists.
