Hunter Biden was convicted by a Delaware jury of three felony firearms charges related to his purchase of a Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018. Hunter’s conviction puts his father, President Joe Biden, in a difficult political position, but doing the right thing for his son shouldn’t be too difficult.
Hunter GuiltyTo many Americans, this is a far worse crime than buying a gun while smoking a lot of drugs. Even Second Amendment scholars believe that hunters have a strong constitutional right to defend themselves. Law Prohibits possession of firearms by “unlawful users of, or persons addicted to, any controlled substance.”
Biden has spent decades preaching to voters about being a good father, and when Hunter’s laptop was verified as authentic and photos emerged showing the president’s son smoking crack cocaine and having sex with a woman he hired, Biden played the part of a concerned father.
But the laptop seems to reveal Biden not so much as a concerned father, but as a man who used his drug-addicted son to lead his family’s money-laundering scheme.
President Biden is faced with the choice between leaving his son in prison to prove a political point or protecting his son. There is no parent in America in this situation who wouldn’t do everything in their power to keep their child out of prison.
Biden has drawn his family into this mess by deploying the Justice Department to go after his political rival, former President Donald Trump. Luke: It’s time for Republicans to put up or shut up about Hunter Biden
The choice to pardon his son would have been much easier if the president hadn’t done everything in his power to try to send Trump to prison. Parents would sympathize with a president pardoning a son convicted of a victimless crime. But that’s not what happened.
Biden has used the full power and authority of the federal government to go after Trump, and to maintain the impression that the American justice system is fair and balanced, and to keep Democrats in the driver’s seat on that argument, Biden will have to sacrifice Hunter for the good of his party.
Sending Hunter to prison proves that our justice system is “law for you, not law for me,” but it ultimately puts an end to Biden’s “good father” trope and cements that power is more important to him than family.
