Its particularly interesting that Hunter got nabbed for evading taxes (technically failing to pay on time, but I suspect he wouldn’t have paid at all if the IRS didn’t enforce it.)

I bet all those Republicans who voted to gut the recent increase in funding for the IRS will never understand the irony.

I TOTALLY expect that to happen

God I wish. Talking to my parents about it all like last weekend over fathers day. They call the Biden’s the “Biden Crime Family”. Claiming Biden got rich from using his influence to be bought out by Ukraine and China. Makes no sense, why would Biden sign the CHIPS Act if he was bought out by China?

So many holes in the conspiracy theory…but they flat out refuse to hear anything else.

Yeah but hes getting charged with owning guns and dodging taxes, both things that conservatives love!

Oh trust me, they feel vindicated that they knew the truth all along about that slimeball hunter. See they’re 100% on top of things.

And I say great - no side is above the law. If you have the evidence show it in court. Huffing and puffing on social media and news outlets is just for show.

The wheels of justice grind slow, but grind fine.

He didn’t pay his taxes, he got caught, he paid up and now he’s on probation. Seems like he was held accountable.

because of this, i have changed my view of the current hunter biden presidency.

Guilty pleas are the norm, the vast majority of criminal cases end with a guilty plea. According to pew research, only 2% of federal defendants go to trial. 90% of them plead guilty, and the other 8 have the charges dismissed.

It’s funny when I see conservatives claiming he is getting “special treatment” by getting a plea deal when that is overwhelmingly the norm.

They’re already calling his plea agreement a “sweetheart deal” and “a slap on the wrist”.

They’ll still claim trump is being singled out

You really don’t know why? Maybe because almost the entire GOP and right wing media has been screeching about Hunter’s Laptop for literally 3.5 years nonstop?

I’m glad it’s done with now, he was never an elected official and it was only news to begin with because they wanted to paint his father as corrupt.

Strange, the top comment I see is about the punishment fitting the crime and Wesley snipes getting prison time.

I believe most of us do not know all the facts about any case. If you did something wrong you should be punished for it… and I’m glad he is. I don’t care who you are - there’s a reason why lady justice is blind, because no man is above the law.

The reason is because of 5 years of nonstop propaganda from the GOP and tax payer funded expedition into Hunter Biden (the probe began in 2018). And after all that talk, all the lies and misinformation, all of your money they spent in their retaliatory attack on Hunter Biden, they come up with two misdemeanor tax counts and a minor gun charge. Yeah, sure. He did it, he deserves whatever the consequences are for it. But what was uncovered was not worth the amount of time and money, and lets face it, propaganda, the GOP put into it. I promise they spent more money trying to uncover something, anything, Hunter did than the $100,000 he owes the IRS.

So for me it’s not so much that Hunter doesn’t deserve to be charged, it’s the means by which the charges we filed and the extreme amount of wasted time and money and poisoning the well the GOP has done to arrive as such minor charges.

It’s been the center of conspiracy theories since before Biden was elected, because they don’t actually have anything useful to accuse Pres. Biden of and paint their own candidates as the heroes. It’s honestly funnier that they found it was tax evasion the whole time, because it’s just a generic rich person crime instead of “jewish mole people space laser blueprints”-tier bs.

Right? Who gives a shit - break the law do the time, no one should be in the business of identity politics.

You are right in that if American society was functioning like a normal rational society, we would acknowledge that the president’s son did something wrong, and laud that he is being held to account for his wrong actions.

But, and this is just my guess of course, the right wing groups in America are going to see this as vindication for investigating every Biden and ignoring any Trump or Trump family illicit activities. And if there were evidence of other wrong doing by the Bidens, then by all means they should be investigated.

But this will all be used to either redirect attention away from Trump and his various court dates and activities, or be used to rationalize (more than what is already happening) all of it. Either way the end goal would be to fire up the right wing base, and use it as talking points, whataboutism, and redirection from Trump and his family.

Multiple things can be happening and be investigated at once. But the right wing media and voting base don’t want to acknowledge that.

The problem is that almost all American media prides itself on being “unbiased,” and is completely terrified of appearing otherwise. They spend millions to avoid appearing biased toward the left, specifically.

So, when they have spent lots of time talking about Trumps recent indictment, they feel the most “unbiased” thing to do is also to give a similar amount of coverage to this story, because that way they avoid accusations of being “biased.”

Every top comment talks about trump because that is the actually relevant story. An ex-president being indicted for potentially jeopardizing national security is a SIGNIFICANTLY more important story that the presidents son dodging taxes and maybe illegally owning a gun. The two are in different universes of importance. It’s frustrating to see the media in general get so easily distracted by a story like this with questionable importance when there are significantly more important things happening right now.