{"id":1951924,"date":"2023-06-20T13:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-charges-are-nothing-but-a-diversion\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:53:35","slug":"hunter-bidens-charges-are-nothing-but-a-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-charges-are-nothing-but-a-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden&#8217;s charges are merely a distraction."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhunter-bidens-charges-are-nothing-but-a-diversion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1951924&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Accountability or Privilege?<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What a breathtaking and damaging act of misdirection. After five years of investigation into a host of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/see-composite-video-of-the-many-criminal-acts-that-took-place-in-the-atlanta-arena-on-election-night-this-will-shock-you\/\" title=\"See Composite Video of the Many Criminal Acts that Took Place In the Atlanta Arena on Election Night - This Will Shock You\">criminal acts<\/a> by Hunter Biden, the Department of Justice (DOJ) finally brought charges against the president\u2019s wayward son. But while the DOJ hopes the public focuses on words like \u201ccharges\u201d and \u201cguilty\u201d to form an image of accountability for all, it\u2019s letting Hunter walk away with the kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/20\/hunter-bidens-wrist-slap-on-gun-tax-crimes-is-a-complete-smokescreen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slap on the wrist<\/a> most defendants can only dream about from inside a prison cell.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the same breath in which DOJ announced it was filing charges against Hunter Biden, it also stated that the case had already been resolved. Hunter will plead guilty to and serve probation for two tax fraud misdemeanors while a felony firearm possession charge will disappear after he completes pretrial diversion. It\u2019s a resolution that if the defendant\u2019s last name weren\u2019t Biden would sound almost too good to be true.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-24200701\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6f3f85705366c1d6515d2595a29dadec fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6f3f85705366c1d6515d2595a29dadec\"><\/div>\n<p>The feds are notoriously tough on firearms. Nationally, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/research-and-publications\/annual-reports-and-sourcebooks\/2022\/2022-Annual-Report-and-Sourcebook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">94.2 percent<\/a> of federal firearms convictions in 2022 involved some prison time, and the median sentence was 39 months.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Hunter won\u2019t even have to end up with a conviction. This is an even rarer event. In 2021, fewer than 1 percent of cases filed by U.S. attorneys in federal court resulted in the kind of pretrial diversion offered to Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s that disparity between Hunter\u2019s case and everybody else\u2019s that\u2019s the true problem, not necessarily the sentence itself. After all, the law in question, which prohibits individuals suffering from an illegal drug addiction from possessing a firearm, likely violates the Second Amendment. Plus, diversion programs across the country have improved public safety at lower cost to taxpayers than prison alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s clearly not how things are shaking out in practice at DOJ, and President Biden has expressed an ongoing willingness to harshly punish firearms offenses. His DOJ is defending this law in court, and he signed a law in 2021 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawley-introduces-legislative-agenda-to-hire-100000-new-police-officers\/\" title=\"Hawley Introduces Legislative Agenda To Hire 100,000 New Police Officers\">increase maximum penalties<\/a> from 10 years to 15 years in prison. Apparently, President Biden does not believe offenders should be treated with kid gloves \u2014 at least when it\u2019s not his kid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8b8afca519cbe921b939497844561ec1 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8b8afca519cbe921b939497844561ec1\"><\/div>\n<p>Indeed, if Hunter\u2019s were a typical case, we could have expected a much more aggressive DOJ response. Mixing illegal drugs and firearms is usually a quick trip to the land of five- or seven<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-charges-are-nothing-but-a-diversion\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's charges are merely a distraction.\">-year mandatory minimum sentences<\/a>. Whole initiatives, such as Project Safe Neighborhoods, have been built around getting offenders combining drugs and weapons off the streets.<\/p>\n<p>That Hunter will walk away with few consequences where thousands have instead been left to languish in federal prisons in terrible conditions paints a picture of a two<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-reps-denied-entry-to-dc-jail-holding-jan-6-defendants\/\" title=\"Republicans Reps Denied Entry To DC Jail Holding Jan. 6 Defendants\">-tiered justice system<\/a> where an accident of birth can matter more than the facts of a case. We can debate which tier is better for our country or how we ought to respond to these kinds of transgressions. But the legitimacy of the criminal justice system demands that there be only one track that applies fairly to all.<\/p>\n<p>So, no, this is not a day of accountability. It is one of power and privilege securing special benefits while hoping the rest of us are too distracted by the headlines to notice. We shouldn\u2019t let this pass without calling it out for what it is and then working to improve it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b810f24f5c352efd51c866c459af3122 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b810f24f5c352efd51c866c459af3122\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DOJ&#8217;s long investigation into Hunter Biden&#8217;s criminal acts has resulted in charges against the president&#8217;s son. However, this act of misdirection aims to divert attention from the lack of true accountability. The use of words like &#8220;charges&#8221; and &#8220;guilty&#8221; is meant to create a false image of responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2139,"featured_media":1951925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3706,4035,5843,3822],"class_list":["post-1951924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-bidens","tag-charges","tag-distraction","tag-hunter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1951925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}