Eric Trump Guilty of Gun Charges!
Could you imagine how the right would have reacted if this actually happened?
Before we dive into this, take a look at this image. This is a father genuinely feeling pain for his troubled son. Americans all over the nation can relate to the suffering they and their loved ones experience when a family member has an addiction. His eyes are closed, and that man, the president of the United States but here a father, is doing all he can to absorb the pain, misery, and sense of failure his son likely feels. If Biden could, he’d free his son from that pain and absorb it for better or worse.
Have we ever seen Donald Trump hug anyone with such loving, paternal selflessness like this? Of course, we haven’t. The reason we haven’t is that he cannot hug the only person he loves with such passion because it is himself. Joe Biden wants to free his child of sorrow and grief, and Donald Trump “would sleep with his daughter if she wasn’t my daughter. She’s definitely my type.”
The Gun Charge
Hunter Biden was found guilty on felony gun charges. The charge was minor but a felony nonetheless. A drug addict was found guilty of lying about his drug use when he filled out a federal background check. He was probably high when he signed his name that day, and now, thanks to Republicans relentlessly pushing a narrative about the “Biden crime family,” Hunter has been held accountable for his lie.
Suppose this crime is an example of the kinds of crimes the Biden crime family is guilty of. In that case, I will choose them over the Trump mafia any day of the week — I am still stunned at how little people talk about Jared’s $2 billion investment in his fund from Saudi Arabia. Remember Jared? Remember the slaughter and then obvious chopping up of the Saudi journalist and longtime U.S. resident in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul? Jared then befriended the Saudi prince and protected him. But Hunter lied on a background check; that is definitely much worse.
Honestly, though, Hunter was thankfully found guilty. This needed to happen because if it didn’t, then Republicans would have had a feeding frenzy. The sharks would have stopped circling and made their last frenetic jabs and snaps at Biden’s paddling legs and arms in the water before yanking him under. The smell of blood would have made them nuts. I am sure many in the Biden re-election team are breathing sighs of relief, and now they must manage the president. Joe Biden is a very emotional man whose “Irish” gets riled up easily, and like a good father, this will be a pain with which any good parent can relate.
Could you imagine, though, if this whole spectacle of going after Hunter by the Republicans in Congress had been done to one of Trump’s entitled brats? The courtroom would have been filled with lunatics from Congress showing their support for their don. Fox News would have been featuring stories about how the Democrat’s weaponization of the justice system was working to turn Americans purchasing guns into felons, which then means they cannot own weapons in the future. The frenzy would have been “frenzied.” I liken it to the collective brain of MAGidiots and the Foxified sitting in a bowl on a table and Fox producers repeatedly and in no particular order, just whacking away at the brain with forks, sporks, spoons, and spatulas (thump-squish-whack-shit, I think my fork is stuck).
As I said, this had to happen, and now, for those of us who have suffered from loved ones being addicted, so move to give a virtual hug to the Biden family and move on to the brighter side. This is a personal tragedy, but it could have been a lot worse. Hunter is still alive. As a person whose brother passed from addiction (and who was married to a person with an addiction), I know how to latch onto any sliver of hope — any, even the smallest, because that is often all you have: Maybe this will be a wake-up call for him.
Maybe — and then you flip your pillow, hoping the cold side will slow the whirling of your brain, and you sigh painfully and dejectedly, never sure you will see your loved one again.
There is a political upside here, folks. Hunter was found guilty, and so this means that the justice system works not just to conduct “witch hunts” against Biden’s political opponents but also to put his own son possibly into prison. The “system is rigged” balloon has a leak, and quite quickly, right before our eyes, it loses air. Most Americans will catch onto this nuance, even Trumpists.
Nonetheless, the damage control has already begun by Republicans. They say Hunter’s crime is just a “bs-minor infraction.” So Biden commanded his justice department to find his son guilty of this, the most trivial of offenses — to distract people from the witch hunt against Trump.
“As I said last week, I am the president, but I am also a Dad,” the statement said. “Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. So many families who have had loved ones battle addiction understand the feeling of pride seeing someone you love come out the other side and be so strong and resilient in recovery.”
The president, who has stressed his determination to avoid any sense that he was improperly influencing a case brought by his own Justice Department, was largely absent from the trial itself. But his family members were such a frequent presence that prosecutors urged the jury Monday not to allow them to sway the case.
“All of this is not evidence,” prosecutor Leo Wise said during closing arguments, waving his hand at a packed courtroom that included first lady Jill Biden, who attended almost every day of the trial. “People sitting in the gallery are not evidence (Hunter Biden Guilty).”
No members of Congress were present at any time during the trial.