Thinking Through The Hunter Biden Conviction

I often think about this photo of Hunter Biden in front of the Château Marmont, which is a little too well shot. Is Hunter staking out the place? What’s really going here?

I had had some dealings with that establishment back when I lived in West Hollywood. Nearly every person who was connected to the Russians wanted to meet me there, including someone running a sexual blackmail network who was very close to NXIVM and the servant of a Russian oligarch from France who wanted to buy a basketball team.

The French are reclaiming chateaux all over France why can’t we do the same in the United States?

Of course I’m getting ahead of myself:

A Delaware jury convicted Hunter Biden for violations of three rarely-charged gun ownership laws.

That’s the simple lede and yet the analysis which follows is anything but simple. It’s damn near intricate.

On the one hand there’s the neutralization of the Republican talking point about a two tiered justice system. President Biden can talk accurately say that he supports the rule of law — a key issue among Independents. “I am the President, but I am also a Dad,” President Biden wrote the day the trial began. “I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal.”

I mean, come on.

“As I said last week, I am the president, but I am also a dad,” the president said in his statement. “Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. So many families who have had loved ones battle addiction understand the feeling of pride seeing someone you love come out the other side and be so strong and resilient in recovery. As I also said last week, I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal. Jill and I will always be there for Hunter and the rest of our family with our love and support. Nothing will ever change that.”

Hunter will almost certainly not go to jail. (Nor, for that matter, will Donald Trump, who will likely get the Sarkozy treatment. There are those French again!) Yes, there are mandatory minimums here but the Hunter case presents an opportunity to overturn them which, if we’re honest, they probably should be.

There’s something somewhat Shakespearean about Hunter Biden being convicted under the gun laws which Senator Biden pushed forward. Small wonder that Congressman Matt Gaetz — the Republican Hunter Biden if he were smart — is arguing that the Hunter Biden gun conviction is “kinda dumb tbh.”

It seems doubtful that those backing Hunter will somehow conclude that they’ve spent enough. Kevin Morris is in this for the long haul. Never surrender, never surrender!

There are many outs here, as it were.

I suspect it sets up the civil lawsuits against many of the compromised media properties who had been targeting Hunter using hacked material from the Russians and the Israelis.

Undoubtedly Hunter’s lawyers could well argue that these publications contributed to a climate which forced his prosecution for a crime which is seldom prosecuted. “I ran the office prosecuting Hunter Biden. I can’t fathom why this trial is happening,” says Charles M. Oberly, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware. Hunter’s team could even use Trey Goudy to make the argument!

Now there’s a more interesting question here. Did Hunter want to be convicted?

After all, his conviction could strengthen his father’s re-election prospects. Hunter loves his family. He may never be able to serve in the Navy or in politics but he can help his father.

Sobriety is achieved one day at a time but strategic patience is often required in politics as in warfare. Especially when you are running an op.

Hunter’s appeal could well use an August 2023 federal appeals court decision that barred illegal drug owners from possessing firearms. Do you really think our criminal Supreme Court is going to rule against gun rights?

Add to that the very credible case that Hunter was being targeted by the Russian-Jewish mafia — which set him up and hacked his computer — and he had good reason to own a firearm, albeit if for only eleven days.

His decision not to testify in his own behalf was altogether fascinating — and unexpected.

The Financial Times notes his charm.

While Hunter’s flaws have been extensively recounted — be it arranging to meet with dealers or standing up his daughter on a visit to New York —there have also been occasional flashes of his charm, as a former stripper he briefly dated testified. “He was just so charming and so nice,” she recalled. “I felt myself having feelings for him.”

Hardly the portrait of a monster!

The more interesting case was always the tax case in which Hunter tangled with the elite members only Snctm sex club. There we’re about to see the end of the foreign blackmail networks which control much of our entertainment industry and which undoubtedly a number of people — Prince Harry and Meghan come to mind — will have an interest in ending.

And if you go with me — that Hunter Biden wanted to be convicted — you have to wonder, “Does Donald Trump want to be convicted?”

Consider that the RNC is in shambles while all of Trump’s legal bills are paid. This is happening even as Trump straight up solicits bribes from foreign governments and disgusting lobbies.

It’s a lot more fun to be an ex-president who gets to keep the Saudi cash than a President who is continually harassed.

Mar-A-Lago is a fine place if you’re an aging boomer and it’ll make an even better prison, especially when you realize it’s always been a prison.