Back-to-Back Hunter Biden Trials Are a Big Political Problem for the President

But he and his faux special counsel might yet find a solution.

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President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden disembark from Air Force One at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, N.Y., February 4, 2023.

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With the just-scheduled first presidential debate between President Biden and former president Trump only six weeks away, it appears the Democrats’ anti-Trump lawfare campaign is sputtering. Whether it revs up again in time for a pre-election federal trial will depend on how the Supreme Court resolves the immunity and obstruction cases that could have major ramifications for Biden Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s election-interference prosecution against Trump.

That doesn’t mean we’ll lack for trials, though. The president’s son, Hunter Biden, faces two criminal prosecutions, and those trials are now scheduled to take place imminently, back-to-back. The charges in these cases are so serious that the Biden Justice Department and its faux special counsel, David Weiss, could not make them disappear, despite their best efforts to bamboozle Judge Maryellen Noreika to rubber-stamp a sweetheart plea deal (the judge was having none of it).

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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