Hunter Biden guilty on all counts. What we just learned about smoke, mirrors and privilege
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The only surprise from Hunter Biden's trial was that it took jurors more than five minutes to convict him on all three gun charges that he faced in a federal courtroom.
Hunter’s real defense was a two-fold strategy written nowhere in the law books but sometimes plied as a desperate tactic of last resort: sympathy for a recovering drug addict and jury nullification. First lady Jill Biden, Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden leave the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building on June 11, 2024, in Wilmington, Delaware. A federal jury has convicted Hunter Biden on all three federal felony gun charges he faced. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Hunter Biden arrives to the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building on June 6, 2024, in Wilmington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Hunter Biden, joined by his his wife Melissa Cohen Biden, arrives at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building on June 5, 2024, in Wilmington. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Gregg Jarrett is a Fox News legal analyst and commentator, and formerly worked as a defense attorney and adjunct law professor. His recent book, "The Trial of the Century," about the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" is available in bookstores nationwide or can be ordered online at the Simon & Schuster website. Jarrett’s latest book, "The Constitution of the United States and Other Patriotic Documents," was published by Broadside Books, a division of HarperCollins on November 14, 2023. Gregg is the author of the No. 1 New York Times best-selling book "The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump." His follow-up book was also a New York Times bestseller, "Witch Hunt: The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion in American Political History."
It did not matter that Hunter is the son of the president of the United States. Or that the first lady Jill Biden, was a hovering presence in the courtroom from day one. Or that the accused was represented by one of America’s premiere trial lawyers.