Do you hear any loud noise from Republicans?
Nope?
Jonathan Chait: “Hunter Biden’s conviction in Delaware over a minor charge is significant mainly because it blows to smithereens the arguments Republicans have made on behalf of Donald Trump. There’s the small claim that Trump didn’t receive a fair trial, that blue-state juries can’t render impartial verdicts on famous political figures. Analysts predicted a jury in Delaware, a tiny state where everybody seems to personally know and adore the Biden family, would go easy on his son. But this failed to transpire.”
“Most important is the idea that Joe Biden is personally ‘weaponizing’ the justice system to target Trump. House Republicans devoted a hearing last week to pressing their unsubstantiated claim that Biden had orchestrated Alvin Bragg’s moves, as ‘evidenced’ by Bragg’s hiring of an attorney with DOJ experience, a move they seem to believe is unusual…”
“To hold this theory together — which, again, is the belief held by a supermajority of Republicans, not just the Glenn Beck audience — you have to believe Biden is directing the activities of local prosecutors while exerting no control at all over the Justice Department of the branch of government he presides over.”
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E.J. Dionne: “Hunter Biden’s conviction is the best possible evidence that the president is not ‘rigging” the criminal justice system. Will that stop Trump and his apologists from claiming otherwise? Of course not. But everyone else should challenge Trump’s dangerous attacks on the rule of law.”
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“The jury in the Hunter Biden gun case was deadlocked in an initial vote Monday night over whether to convict the president’s son, adding that ‘no politics came into play’ during deliberations before they arrived at a guilty verdict,” CNN reports.
“The male juror, No. 10, also said that it was a mistake to put Naomi Biden, Hunter’s daughter, on the stand, and that jurors felt bad that she was called to testify.”
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President Biden said in a statement Tuesday that he would accept the outcome of his son Hunter’s trial and conviction, Axios reports.
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