Hunter Biden will plead guilty to skirt prison time
Tiana Lowe Doescher
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First son Hunter Biden has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to two tax crimes and admit to possessing a firearm illegally while in the throes of his drug addictions — in exchange for skirting jail time.
“The defendant has agreed to plead guilty to both counts of the tax Information,” U.S. Attorney David Weiss wrote about Biden. “The second Information charges the defendant with a firearm offense — namely, one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance. … The defendant has agreed to enter a Pretrial Diversion Agreement with respect to the firearm Information.”
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As you may recall, Biden owed a whopping $1.2 million tax liability for 2017 and 2018, but despite multiple warnings he was flouting the law, Biden didn’t pay back the tax bill until 2021, well after the Justice Department and IRS opened investigations into President Joe Biden’s son. Prosecutors are reportedly set to recommend probation as punishment, not jail time.
The tax and gun crime investigation is far from the most of Hunter Biden’s woes. His current attempt to avoid paying child support and bestowing the Biden moniker to his illegitimate child might be the most morally repugnant reason Hunter Biden is in the headlines, and the House GOP’s investigation into whether the president was implicated in Hunter Biden’s international influence peddling will surely be the most momentous, as a practical matter.
But the grand irony of Hunter Biden brazenly breaking tax laws and gun laws, two of the apparatuses most beloved and worshiped by his father’s administration, doesn’t make the lack of jail time any less unsavory. Although Attorney General Merrick Garland said he left the Hunter Biden investigation solely under the purview of Weiss, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, voters will correctly be left asking themselves whether Hunter Biden would have faced hard time had he not been a Biden. Furthermore, how many normal people get to break tax and gun laws flagrantly and then write memoirs practically bragging about the details? (While Hunter Biden only broadly talks about his inability to pay off his bills in his memoir, Beautiful Things, he provides prosecutors all the details they need to prove he was abusing narcotics in violation of gun possession statutes.)
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The big “if” in all of this is whether Hunter Biden can play by the rules. While the plea deal would result in these charges being expunged from his record if he toes the line for a few years, that involves Hunter Biden sticking to a budget (read: no Porsches, strippers, or blow) and avoiding further international influence peddling. Do we think he’s capable of any self-control? We’ll see, but I’m not confident.