If Hunter is Indicted

Real Clear Politics ^ | 5/9/23 | Charles Lipson

[CFW]

What will President Biden do if his son is indicted by the federal prosecutor in Delaware? That’s one of three questions looming over U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ fateful choice. The second is whether the indictment will go after a larger, coordinated family scheme of influence peddling or confine itself to smaller, tightly-confined issues like lying to get a gun permit and not registering as a foreign lobbyist. The third is whether Attorney General Merrick Garland will approve Weiss’ proposed charges. Significant political calculations follow from those decisions.

It’s easy enough to answer what Garland will do. He has little choice but to approve any charges Weiss proposes after the government’s multi-year investigation. Anything else would look shady, a far cry from the neutral, apolitical justice Garland’s department is charged with dispensing. Burying the charges, after Garland’s refusal to appoint a special counsel, would embroil his department in its nastiest controversy since John Mitchell befouled it under President Nixon.

Assuming the federal attorney proposes felony charges and Garland approves them, Joe Biden faces the toughest choice of his political life.

[mabarker1]

Or off a gangplank holding a bag of chum into shark infested waters.

[Eagles6]

"No reasonable prosecutor...yada, yada, yada".

[Lazamataz]

He’ll be pardoned.

[CFW]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/hunter-biden-business-partner-appeals-court-burisma

“Hunter Biden’s ex-business partner calls on appeals court to let him off the hook”

“A longtime friend and former business partner of Hunter Biden tried to convince an appeals court to help toss his fraud conviction on Tuesday as a separate federal investigation into the taxes and business dealings of President Joe Biden’s son continues.”