Shifting the goalposts on Hunter Biden

It's time to significantly shift the goalposts on the Hunter Biden plea deal. Rearranging the position of the terms isn't enough. First, U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss should be required to eliminate special treatment of Hunter's gun charges. That's a felony. He should be required to serve time in a prison for that. Period.

The list of special favors directed at Hunter Biden is the subject of Kim Strassel's latest Potomac Watch column.

The column opens by saying "U.S. Attorney David Weiss is now offering to testify publicly in front of the House, and Republicans may need to book him for a week. It could take that long for the Delaware prosecutor to unwind his office’s growing list of Hunter Biden special favors, not to mention its half-truths and outright dissembling. The House Judiciary Committee needs to ask why it took 5 years to come up with Hunter's sweetheart deal. If that's the first question, the next question must be why IRS whistleblower weren't allowed to search any Biden properties.

Strassel continued, saying this:

Yet with the deal now in limbo, Mr. Weiss has an even bigger mess. Judge Noreika instructed the parties to return in several weeks with clarity on her role and details about Hunter’s risk of further prosecution. This gives Republicans more time to inform the judge about problems with the investigation. It’s also entirely possible that Hunter’s team won’t agree to any revised provisions that treat their client like other mere mortals.
That's definitely a possibility. If we want to return to a system of equal application of the laws for everyone, then Hunter needs to take accountability for committing a serious felony. Democrats constantly lecture society that we need to treat gun crimes harshly. Here's a golden opportunity to see if Democrats mean it or whether they just mean harshly treating gun crimes for the unwashed masses.

Hunter Biden's Sweetheart Deal collapses

This took virtually everyone by surprise:

Finally, there's this unexpected mess:
In short, the Justice Department has been caught playing games—and has no good answers. That’s because it never expected to have to give any. The Hunter deal was always premised on the notion that nobody would see the sausage. The Justice Department would release the bare bones of an agreement, the press would infuse it with credibility, and the judge would sign off. It didn’t count on two whistleblowers providing evidence of political favoritism, or on a court that questions why prosecutors are acting as a Hunter favor factory.
The DOJ tried being too clever by half. Now it's stuck with answering difficult questions from House Republicans, especially considering the fact that the Democrats can't deploy their nothing-to-see-here-just-move-along strategy.

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