Donald Trump is essentially trying to have his Mar-a-Lago cake and eat it too with his campaign’s response to Hunter Biden’s conviction. He and his team have found a way to continue claiming that Joe Biden is a puppet master pulling the strings of the American legal system while also getting the satisfaction of seeing the family member of a political opponent suffer. Ironically, according to former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, if anyone has reason to complain about a rigged system, it’s Hunter. Of the felonies that are now on the first son’s record, he tweeted, “Those crimes are rarely charged.”
The gun charges aren’t the last of Hunter’s legal woes, either. He has to return to court in September for a case involving tax offenses. In 2023, Hunter was offered a plea deal on both the tax and gun charges, but it later fell through. A furious Trump thought Hunter was getting off far too easily. Of special counsel David Weiss — who Trump appointed as U.S. attorney in Delaware — the ex-pres wrote on Truth Social (via X), “He gave out a traffic ticket instead of a death sentence. … Maybe the judge presiding will have the courage and intellect to break up this cesspool of crime.” So, while Trump has softened his stance on Hunter considerably, what hasn’t changed is his attempt to paint the Bidens as a family of criminals.
