Debra J. Saunders in dailyherald:
The outrage isn't that President Joe Biden's son Hunter got a comparatively light sentence for paying his 2017 and 2018 taxes late -- late meaning after Dad got elected president -- when he earned more than $1.5 million annually. Or that Biden the Younger is poised to plead guilty to a gun charge that will result in probation when most drug offenders would have been charged with a hard-time felony.
As a senator, Joe Biden was the force behind draconian federal drug laws that put nonviolent drug offenders behind bars for decades, even life without parole. When it came to punishing young Black men involved in the drug trade, Biden was ruthless. But when his son was doing the same crimes, he was clueless -- as if his son's epic self-destruction presented no threat to others.
As The New York Times reported, Hunter Biden"lacked any experience in Ukraine and just months earlier had been discharged from the Navy Reserve for testing positive for cocaine." by signing up you agree to our terms of service If anyone dared speak up, it was to no avail. Hunter didn't pony up the more than $200,000 in overdue taxes until 2021.Former President Donald Trump's fans gleefully point to the double standard -- slimmed down charges at Biden's son with no notice of his failure to register as a foreign lobbyist, while Trump is facing charges on 37 counts from the Biden Department of Justice.
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