If there’s any consolation for Donald Trump, he might not be the only one dealing with multiple trials next year. Hunter Biden, the crack cocaine disgraced son of Joe Biden who always had daddy’s protection, has been indicted on tax evasion charges. As many noted, the new indictment isn’t a surprise since the collapse of the sweetheart deal, which would have been a slap on the wrist for Hunter while also providing him with immunity.
Luckily, a judge saw through this legal charade and chucked the deal. With the Department of Justice trying to avoid looking as if they went along with this now-defunct agreement over political reasons, no new deal was finalized. The Biden plea agreement collapsed when IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Zeigler provided lengthy testimony about how the DOJ interfered in their investigations into the president's son. Spencer wrote about Hunter Biden’s other indictment on gun charges in September (via Washington Post):
Special counsel David Weiss has filed a second indictment against President Biden’s son Hunter, this time on tax charges, as the continuing fallout from a collapsed plea deal this summer means the younger Biden could go on trial twice next year while his father runs for reelection.
The president’s son was charged with nine counts of failing to file and pay taxes, tax evasion and filing false tax returns by a grand jury in California; three are felonies and another six are misdemeanors. Prosecutors accuse Biden of failing to to pay at least $1.4 million in federal taxes over a four-year period from 2016 through 2019.
According to the 56-page indictment, Biden earned more than $7 million in gross income between 2016 and 2020, and another $1.2 million in 2020 to support his lifestyle. Prosecutors allege he used the money to fund an “extravagant lifestyle," including drugs, escorts and girlfriends, exotic cars and clothing.
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The charges had been expected since the failure of the deal, which would have allowed Hunter Biden to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax crimes and admit to illegally possessing a gun — without actually pleading guilty to the gun offense.
Is it divine providence that has us gearing toward a race where both candidates have qualities that cancel each other out, leading to a base voter bloodbath? Trump is old; Biden is old. Yes, Trump is more vibrant and mentally sound, but he’s up there in age, too. There’s no getting around it. Both men are unpopular. And while Biden maybe can throw a few punches over Trump’s pending trials, his son is facing gun and income tax issues of his own, the latter leeching into the allegations of corruption and felonious activity from the Biden family’s lucrative government access operation.
Many voters don’t want this election, and I couldn’t care less. It is what it is. And with no moral high ground to be fought over, we can get right down to the character assassination and mudslinging, which is at the core of all political discourse. The rot and slime will be the hallmark characteristics of the 2024 cycle. Welcome to the suck. Trump and Biden will be the 2024 nominees, with an electorate that doesn’t want a rematch, though they will be spurred into action on Election Day because both sides hate each other with a passion.
Now, the media will play an obvious role, as there could be competing coverage between Trump and Hunter Biden’s legal shenanigans in 2024, among other things. Of course, the media is going to obsess over Trump, even though there’s evidence of actual wrongdoing committed by Joe Biden’s son. Newsrooms will try and block it out, but I doubt they will be successful when the smoking gun evidence that’s been revealed, though drowned out by media bias and the ongoing war in Gaza, is rehashed. That’s my hope, but I’m not betting on it.
