Politically, the best possible outcome of the trial of Hunter Biden for his father was a guilty verdict, which was duly delivered by a jury in Delaware yesterday. What better proof could there be that the US justice department was unbiased when it prosecuted Donald Trump for paying hush money to a porn star to subvert an election — and charged the president’s own son for lying that he was not addicted to drugs while buying a gun?
Personally, the optimal outcome of the Hunter Biden trial for his father would have been a not guilty verdict. The fact that Joe Biden is both president and dad of the deeply-damaged Hunter will have doubled the family anguish. Biden has promised not to pardon his son — to state otherwise would be politically unthinkable — but I would not be surprised if he changed his mind before leaving office. It is harrowing for Biden that Hunter, who was only two when he was injured in a car crash which killed his mother and baby sister, is now a convicted felon.
