Newsmax served up the usual right-wing talking heads to opine on the guilty verdict in Hunter Biden’s trial and trying to dishonestly extrapolate that into an attack on the entire Biden family:
- Karoline Leavitt to Newsmax: Hunter Trial ‘Distraction’ From Bidens’ ‘Real Crimes’
- Doug Burns to Newsmax: Hunter Biden Won’t Get Jail Time
- Rep. Jason Smith to Newsmax: Bidens’ Only Business Is Joe Biden’s Name
- Pete King to Newsmax: Hunter Biden Blanket Pardon Raises Questions
- Matthew Whitaker to Newsmax: Biden Will Keep Son Out of Prison
Meanwhile, Trump toady James Hirsen (who still haven’t apologized for or corrected the record after spreading lies about election fraud after the 2020 presidential election) spent a June 13 column repeating Republican talking points to insist that Biden is a worse criminal than Donald Trump:
Almost immediately after the guilty verdict had been announced, Democrats and the complicit media began singing from the identical song sheet.
Phrases such as the tediously familiar “no one is above the law” echoed through the cybersphere.
Many supposed pundits made comparisons between Hunter’s trial and the unusual Manhattan proceedings, which claimed to convict current GOP presumptive nominee and former President Donald Trump.
First a little background on the current president’s son’s case.
Hunter ended up being tried on gun crimes.
But this came about after a federal judge put the brakes on a plea deal that a previous prosecutor had attempted to push through.
[…]Now for the main distinctions between the two high-profile trials:
—Trump was never offered any deal to avoid being criminally tried. Hunter was offered a very choice arrangement.
—In Trump’s case, the prosecution conflated a bookkeeping misdemeanor into 34 felony counts. In Hunter’s case, despite having possession of a now-authenticated laptop that was purportedly loaded with material indicating potentially serious crimes, the prosecution pared things down to a charge of lying on a gun application.
—Trump found himself in an extremely hostile venue, featuring conflicts of interest, star witnesses with credibility gaps, and evidence that was short on relevance and long on salaciousness.
On the other hand Hunter’s trial played out in a friendly venue, a place where people routinely viewed him and other family members as celebrities, and he wasn’t muzzled with a gag order.
—Lastly, Trump is running for president. Hunter isn’t.
Of course, there was no need to “muzzle” Biden with a gag order because he knew how to behave both inside and outside the courtroom, while Trump clearly does not. Trump’s actions have consequences, something Hirsen clearly does not understand. He also offered no reason why Trump deserves special treatment because he’s “running for president.”
Hirsen concluded with some bullet points:
Here’s one thing you can hang your hat on.
There is no equating the Trump and Biden trials.
- Not in procedure.
- Not in fairness.
- Not in guilt or innocence.
- Not in outcome.
And not when it comes to the dispiriting effect on our nation.
Most people would consider it dispiriting that Trump cult members like Hirsen demand that their corrupt hero be placed above the law.