If you haven’t heard any of the nonsense yet from the Turning Point Action Conference, it’s worth watching some on YouTube. It is alarming and depressing for sure, but it is also very telling about where the base of the Republican Party is anchored politically, emotionally, and psychologically right now. If you haven’t seen or heard of the conservative activist and host of his own YouTube show, Benny Johnson check out this link to his segment of the conference. Wow, is all I have to say. I’ll say some more actually, this guy is one alarmingly charismatic fruitloop. He is entertaining, that’s for sure. For most of his presentation he spends it demonizing most of his fellow Americans as baby-killing cultists for supporting women’s reproductive rights, insulting President Biden calling him a disgusting pervert, and then at the end lionizes the liar, bigot, and supreme pusher of conspiracies Tucker Carlson. If Johnson represents even 15% of the country with his outlandish and dangerous perspective then I’m not sure how long it will be before the wheels just completely come off this country.
The attendees are fully inhabiting Nutty Conspiracy Land regarding Hunter Biden and it does not bode well for our nation moving forward. To get a little snapshot watch this question from an audience member to Ted Cruz and his podcast cohost. Neither the question nor the answer is rooted in any sort of reality that you and I who live on Earth 1 can even begin to understand. The premise is ludicrous and the answer from a Harvard Law-educated coward and phony, who knows better, is just pathetic and complete bullshit. Basically, the guy from Arizona says, “I am so tired of hearing, we are going to hold them (the Bidens) responsible. I wanna know, after six months, why is nobody in jail.”
Oh boy. Well, Mike from Arizona, first there has to be solid evidence of a crime, then there is a trial, and if the defendant is convicted they may go to jail, depending upon how sentencing goes. Unfortunately, this poor guy, who has been lied to by Trump, Fox News, OAN Network, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Kevin McCarthy for the last 8 years, actually thinks despite a lack of any evidence, that Joe Biden has committed crimes linked to dealings between his son and foreign agents. Simultaneously, of course this poor guy from Arizona, wearing a Trump hat, asking the question to Ted “the liar” Cruz thinks that Trump is a victim of the deep state and has done nothing wrong despite all of the evidence amassed for all the public to see. This is a big problem and one that can only be resolved over time as the facts and the evidence is laid out in all the cases involving Hunter and The Donald. This will eventually move the needle for some folks, but probably not for Mike from Arizona who is probably a certified member of QAnon also. That is sad for Mike and sad for the rest of us.
Hunter Biden was being prosecuted for not paying his taxes for two years, a misdemeanor violation and the type of case that is rarely ever brought to trial by federal authorities. Regarding the gun charge, it is widely known that Hunter Biden has had substance abuse problems for several years although he has never been charged or convicted for felony drug possession. He is not, to this point, a convicted felon. However, it is against the law to possess a firearm if you are a drug addict so a decision was made, due to the incredible amount of public scrutiny, to bring the charges so it did not come across that he was getting special treatment. It is likely, neither one of the charges would have been brought at all if he had been a normal guy and not the son of a President. So, it could be argued that Hunter Biden is actually getting harsher treatment because he is in the spotlight and the President’s son.
As is the case with any defendant, you are given the opportunity to enter into a guilty plea agreement. Hunter Biden has pled guilty to the tax evasion charges which rarely result in any jail time. As for the possession of a firearm as a drug addict charge, he will enter into a Pretrial Diversion Agreement which typically means an individual avoids prosecution if they meet certain conditions – a common occurence. It is alleged by Federal Authorities that he lied on a form he filled out to purchase a gun in 2018.
Hunter Biden’s personal and business dealings have been investigated extensively for years, by Justice Department officials from the current and previous administrations, including by Trump-appointed US Attorney for Delaware David Weiss, going back to 2018. Ultimately, this is what they have uncovered. That’s all they got. Folks in the MAGA – Trump conspiracy theory circles just can’t accept that’s it and continue to conjecture and spin webs of speculation and fantasy. Could there be more to the story? Possibly. But it is incumbent upon prosecutors to dig up evidence and report their facts and findings, as in any case. Tax evasion and improper possession of a firearm are all they have found. So cry me a river. Making a mountain out of a molehill about Hunter Biden, as the extreme- MAGA wing of the House of Representatives has been doing, in an effort to distract from Donald Trump’s myriad legal problems and very real multiple indictments is just a transparently pathetic, political failure.
Hunter Biden has a lot of challenging personal problems. He has made mistakes and is paying for them, literally, legally, and publicly. Is it an embarrassment for his father, President Joe Biden? Of course it is. But he loves him and supports him as any father would when their adult child is going through such struggles. There is zero evidence, however, that Joe Biden has ever done anything illegal or made any decisions that jeopardize the national security or stability of our country related to Hunter.
Contrast that with all of the things that Donald Trump has done, in plain sight for everyone to see, that he is now finally being held accountable for. He was justifiably impeached for improperly using his office to attempt to extract dirt on his political opponent in a recorded phone call with the President of Ukraine. Fact. He was impeached a second time for his failure to uphold the Constitution and ensure the peaceful transition of power following an election where he was soundly defeated. Fact. He orchestrated and carried out an effort to utilize fake electors, pressured election officials to change votes in several states including in another famous phone call, and he called for a mob to come to Washington D.C. and incited the insurrection and storming of the Capitol.
He has been indicted and will likely be convicted for illegally possessing, lying, and refusing to turn over classified and top-secret documents. He has already received notice of another pending indictment, likely coming within weeks, for his role in attempting to disrupt official government proceedings and the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th that almost resulted in a Civil War. He will be indicted for election interference in the State of Georgia, sometime in August, according to prosecutors in that state. Donald Trump has demonstrated, with his words and his actions, for all the world to see that he is an imminent threat to the health and stability of the government of the United States of America and the well-being of its citizens.
Trump has brought all his problems upon himself. No one else has done this, he is responsible for his actions and his own statements. No one, other than Donald Trump, would ever in a million years have been able to get away with what he has, up until now. The game is over though and the chickens are coming home to roost. Everything he is being indicted for happened long before he declared himself a candidate for the 2024 election. The investigations by the Justice Department were long underway before he launched his campaign to retake the Oval Office. He isn’t being prosecuted because he is a political candidate. He’s being indicted because he is a shmuck, a sociopathic liar, a cheat, a crook, an insurrectionist, and an aspiring authoritarian ruler hellbent on upending our democracy and the rule of law. You don’t get a get-out-of-jail-free card just because you declare you are running for President. Wouldn’t that be a sweet option for all the swindlers and insurrectionists out there… just say you’re running for President and it washes all your wrongdoing down the drain. Nice.
The sole reason he is running for President is because he knows it’s the only chance he has to avoid going to jail. He will use that he is a busy political candidate as an excuse to drag out court proceedings. His game plan is born of desperation and grasping at a faint hope that he can stall the wheels of justice and his convictions long enough till after the November ’24 election. Then if he wins, like a King or Emperor, he’ll just terminate the Justice Department Indictments. That’s the plan.
In the meantime, all of the idiots with their hair on fire about Hunter Biden, like Ted Cruz or Jim Jordan or My Kevin, making excuses for Donald Trump and failing to hold him accountable for his actions – they continue to look like fools as they keep walking down the aisles and punching those tickets on the Trump Train to Crazy Town.