Mainstream conservative pundits routinely assert that “the Democrats” — not just one Democratic prosecutor — decided to lock up Trump.
Four-fifths of Republican voters, according to a recent poll, believe the decisions to prosecute Trump in New York came “from the Biden administration,”
not from “prosecutors in New York.”
To hold this theory together
— which, again, is the belief held by a supermajorityof Republicans, not just the Glenn Beck audience
— you have to believe Biden is directing the activities of local prosecutors while exerting no control at all over the Justice Department of the branch of government he presides over.
Hunter Biden was convicted of lying on a form he submitted to purchase a firearm, which his wife quickly found and threw away without its ever being used.
Elie Honig has argued that these charges, while legally valid, are the sort of case prosecutors would normally ignore.
Where are the legions of conservatives hysterically warning about rogue prosecutions?
Sadly, conservative media, which had previously treated Hunter Biden’s addiction-fueled problems as America’s most pressing issue, have found his case less compelling even as its legal phase reached its climax.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/hunter-biden-conviction-blows-up-gop-conspiracy-theories.html
Chuck Darwin
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