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I mean, he's dealt with a lot of deaths and addiction and now he's the biggest target of the entire Republican misinformation campaign...I feel a little sympathy. Send him to jail if he broke the law, but the asshole's been through a lot.
Having gone through a lot of death in my early life, including the death of a parent, I can relate. The reverberations and consequences of that trauma can have far reaching affects that you really subconsciously internalize, and often aren't able to deal with until much later. Only now, in my 30's, am I starting to really understand the complexities of how my childhood affected me.
With that being said: Hunter Biden was DEFINITELY the product of nepotism that afforded him the opportunity to indulge his hedonistic tendencies in an attempt to avoid the pain of his trauma, and he likewise bears the responsibility for his unethical actions as we all do.
However, I think it is also quite clear that what is being done to Hunter is a direct attempt at using the judicial system in order to manufacture a false equivalency between the soft-corruption of Hunter Biden and the MASSIVE corruption of Donald Trump et al., which is obviously patently absurd. Hunter is not an elected official, and him falling on his sword will only serve to weaken Biden both personally and politically which is exactly what the fascists in the GOP are counting on.
And the gop only cares because his father is president. If Joe was still a Senator I doubt they would care.
He has been through a lot, maybe his father will reconsider the cold-hearted drug laws that he helped pushed which has destroyed countless other families. Oh wait, Joe is still against legalizing even cannabis because he's a hypocritical jackass. If Hunter wasn't Joe Biden's son, he'd have been rotting in prison long ago.