The Hunter Biden smokescreen
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Unsurprisingly, Hunter Biden was found guilty on Tuesday of all three federal gun charges he faced relating to the violation of laws put in place to stop drug addicts from owning firearms. Ironically, President Joe Biden was speaking on the subject of gun safety when news broke of Hunter Biden’s guilty verdict.
Of course, Hunter Biden’s past drug use (which has also included the smoking of dairy products) has received widespread attention, especially with the Biden family leaning hard into Hunter Biden’s position of victimhood as an addict.
“Recovery is possible by the grace of God, and I am blessed to experience that gift one day at a time,” Hunter Biden said in a statement following the verdict, while his attorney, Abbe Lowell, said, “Through all he has been through in his recovery, including this trial, Hunter has felt grateful for and blessed by the love and support of his family.”
This followed journalist Molly Jong-Fast’s appearance on MSNBC, speaking of Hunter Biden’s “disease.”
Subtle, guys.
Setting aside the obvious reframing of this specific issue, which meandered from Hunter Biden’s total innocence to Hunter Biden being a victim of right-wing and/or Russian disinformation to Hunter Biden being a victim of a “disease.” It’s crucial that people don’t take the obvious bait here: the bait of distraction.
Societies have always had room set aside for blood sport masked as justice — for example, public beheadings in the town square — and despite our self-prescribed sense of growth, not much has changed. We might not lock criminals in wooden stocks to act as target practice for street urchins with rotting fruit, but the hunger for public punishment is still there.
And, despite the best efforts of the Biden administration and the legacy media, there is still a thirst for public punishment regarding Hunter Biden. On the surface, with this guilty verdict, it may seem that this thirst has been quenched.
But nothing could be further from the truth, at least for those who still live in reality and refuse to fall for the Biden Justice Department’s game of smoke and mirrors.
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