“In concept, the announcement Thursday that President Biden’s son Hunter was indicted on fees associated to his buy of a gun in 2018 would appear like an apparent political win for the president’s opponents. Hunter Biden has been disparaged repeatedly by Republican politicians and the right-wing media to impugn the president; his reaching a plea settlement earlier this 12 months that included the gun query was offered as an unacceptably mild response to his alleged actions. That deal fell aside and right here we’re,” the Washington Submit stories.
“However the indictment as a substitute meant that the precise’s broader conspiracy concept about how Joe Biden is utilizing the levers of energy wanted to be adjusted… It could possibly’t each be the case that Joe Biden is leaning on the Justice Division to go straightforward on Hunter Biden and that Hunter Biden is now going through a set of fees which might be solely hardly ever introduced in opposition to defendants.”