From the Editorial Board: In the end, the plea deal Hunter Biden accepted was a decision by federal prosecutors who, we trust, acted according to the law, without political pressure in any direction, and according to the evidence before them.
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McCarthy encapsulated an argument made by many Republicans in the wake of the plea deal offered to Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden. Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges to satisfy what prosecutors called a “willful failure” to pay some $300,000 in income tax , and agreed to a pretrial diversion agreement that meant, in essence, that he admitted to a federal gun possession charge but did not have to formally plead guilty.
So while McCarthy is of course free to link the two for political benefit, when he does so, he erodes trust in the rule of law. Republicans, of course, argue that Democrats do the same thing when what the right sees as their surrogates in the left-leaning media target Supreme Court justices whose point of view does not match their own.
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