Left-wing talking heads spent Tuesday morning gloating that the justice system is working just fine after President Joe Biden’s son was convicted on three felony charges. But it’s only because they desperately want to convince the American public that convicting Hunter for the least damning allegations he could be charged with justifies their use of lawfare against former President Donald Trump.
Hunter was found guilty for lying on application paperwork while addicted to drugs to obtain a firearm and unlawfully possessing said firearm.
MSNBC’s legal analyst Andrew Weissmann said the ruling proved President Biden was the “embodiment of the rule of law” because he “could have ordered, at any time, his Justice Department to get rid of this case.”
While President Biden may not have directly ordered his DOJ to “get rid of this case,” the DOJ slow-walked its investigation into Hunter, allowing the statute of limitations to expire on his alleged tax evasion between 2014 and 2015, as IRS whistleblowers have alleged. During that time frame, Hunter was being paid as much as $83,000 per month to sit on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, where his primary contribution appeared to be the Biden “brand” and access to his father, who was then-vice president. Hunter will face separate tax charges in September after failing to pay more than $1.4 million in taxes that have since been paid back by his Hollywood patron Kevin Morris.
Weissmann also said he is “less interested in the particulars of the
