It kinda seems like it is politically motivated in the other direction. They are taking this much more seriously and a wealthy white man usually would have to deal with.
I wish our system was unbiased and treated everyone equally
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The specific charge might be even more political. Lying about drug use in the questionnaire. It gives me some conflicting thoughts.
On the one hand, I don't gaf about Hunter Biden and if he's guilty of crimes, he shouldn't be shielded from that because he's the son of the guy who was elected because he wasn't Trump.
But on the other hand, the charge is such a beaurocratic safety theatre bullshit charge and I don't think any kind of justice is served by charging anyone with this.
I think they are going for a "they not only wanted to change the law to protect the person they supported, but even reduced gun control to do so".
Though a way around this might be to charge Hunter for the Ukrainian corruption stuff (if there's merit to it) and fight all of the bullshit laws still on the books. Not to save Hunter, but so that no one ever has to deal with that bullshit.
Yeah same. I don't care about the Biden's. If they are corrupt then charge them and go through a trial.
Corruption is largely not illegal though from what I understand. Hell Trumps kids very transparently used their office to get wealth and afaik they have no pending charges at all.
They finally caught their boogie man
my understanding is it is not just the "Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance? Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside. "....... but also the school issue....Biden's girlfriend discarded the gun in a trashcan across from a high school.[14] This was also an alleged violation of the Federal Gun Free School Zone Act as the firearm was within 1,000 feet of a public high school.