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“A Jury in Delaware on Tuesday found Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, guilty on three felony gun charges after a weeklong trial that focused on his history of drug addiction,” NBC News reports. “Hunter Biden was charged in federal court in Wilmington with three felony counts tied to possession of a gun while using narcotics, and had pleaded not guilty. The jury started its deliberations on Monday afternoon, and deliberated for about three hours before returning the historic verdict.” The trial was the first to involve the offspring of a sitting president, and reaction was swift.

“Remember,” tweeted John Podhoretz, “it was Hunter Biden who blew up his own plea deal by insisting on future immunity, which had clearly been some implicit understanding between his lawyers and the justice department – which made the judge think that something hinky was going on. Hunter did this to himself.” Others were amazed that a sitting president would allow his son to publish a book, Beautiful Things, about his crack addiction and criminal acts.

“This trial has been nothing more than a distraction from the real crimes of the Biden Crime Family, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine,” said a statement from the Trump campaign. “Crooked Joe Biden’s reign over the Biden Family Criminal Empire is all coming to an end on November 5th, and never again will a Biden sell government access for personal profit.” With that in mind, embattled Americans might dial it back to 2012.

“Vice President Joe Biden will take the lead on the administration’s next phase China policy,” wrote Steve Clemons in a January 2, 2012 Atlantic story headlined “Biden Gets China.” That acquisition was orchestrated by Thomas Donilon, a veteran of the Carter White House who advised Biden’s first presidential run in 1988. As it turned out, Biden got China and China got Biden. In 2013, the vice president brought along son Hunter on an official trip to China.

According to Josh Lederman, on Air Force Two with the pair, “Hunter Biden was forming a Chinese private equity fund that associates said at the time was planning to raise big money, including from China. Hunter Biden has acknowledged meeting with Jonathan Li, a Chinese banker and his partner in the fund during the trip.

As the New York Post reported, Joe Biden got a piece of the action through son Hunter, whose business associate, Tony Bobulinski, is on record that “the Big Guy” is indeed Joe Biden. Other revelations turned up on a laptop the crack-head Hunter left with a repairman.

In October of 2020, 51 members of the intelligence community signed a letter charging that the laptop was “Russian disinformation,” an echo of the Russia hoax Democrats deployed against President Trump. All 51, including CIA directors Mike Morell and John Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, knew the claim was false.

“I have seen the contents of that laptop and retain a copy to this day,” contends former CIA operations officer Charles S. Faddis. “I can assure you it was immediately obvious in looking at the laptop’s contents that it was real and that it suggested strongly that Joe Biden himself was compromised by a number of foreign actors—chief among them the Chinese Communist Party.” As Americans may recall, in 2019 Biden said the Chinese Communists were “not bad folks” and last year he let the Communist regime send a surveillance balloon across the United States, including strategic military bases.

Fox News recently asked Clapper if he would retract the letter and the former DNI said “no.” Many other signatories, including former CIA boss Michael Hayden, refused to discuss the matter. The disinformation ruse may have influenced the 2020 election, but the actual laptop served as evidence in Hunter Biden’s trial.

“There may be high-functioning alcoholics, but there’s no such thing as a high-functioning crack addict,” claimed Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell. At this point, it’s clear that there’s no such thing as a high-functioning Joe Biden, on record that he would not pardon Hunter if he was found guilty, which is now the case. Two of the counts carry maximum sentences of 10, plus maximum fine of $250.  A sentencing date has yet to be set, and many unknowns remain.

As Russian comic Yakov Smirnoff has explained, the KGB would throw a man off the roof to hit the guy they really want. Such a dynamic may come to inspire the Democrats. For all but the willfully blind, the Biden administration has been a disaster and Joe Biden’s dysfunction grows worse by the day.

As John Hinderaker explains, “there is a great deal of evidence that Joe Biden has taken upwards of $20 million in bribes from foreign powers and interests,” a serious crime. The Democrats could deploy lawfare to force out Joe, then replace him at the Democratic National Convention in August. Prospects such as Gavin Newsom are waiting in the wings.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump still faces lawfare attacks and the FBI and intelligence community are openly deployed against him. On the other hand, former Attorney General William Barr, who supported the Mar-a-Lago raid, now contends that “a continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide.” As Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.