• New spin: Don’t worry, he’s always been senile.
• Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal is a disgrace. Attorney General Merrick Garland, ignoring the blatant conflict of interest, refused to appoint a special counsel and insisted the Department of Justice would play it straight. Department guidelines call for prosecutors to seek a guilty plea to the most serious, readily provable count. The president’s 53-year-old son was facing multiple tax-evasion charges, each carrying a potential penalty of five years’ imprisonment. Moreover, he made a false statement (denying his drug abuse) on a required federal firearms form, based on which he not only obtained a handgun illegally but was waving it around while cavorting with an “escort” (as depicted in a video from his infamous laptop) shortly before the gun was lost near a school. The gun charge carried a penalty of up to ten years’ imprisonment — under a law enacted at the urging of then-senator Joe Biden to show how seriously Democrats take gun crime. Yet the Department of Justice allowed him to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax charges, allowing for a probation sentence. On the gun offense, Biden gets a diversion settlement that will spare him even a conviction, let alone a prison sentence. People who do what Hunter Biden did and get caught, but who lack his connections, go to jail.
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