You can’t fault the jury that found Hunter Biden guilty of falsely claiming he was not a drug user on a federal firearm purchase form. The jurors had ample basis to conclude he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction before, during and after he bought the gun.
Harry Litman
The case’s substantial flaws lay not in the evidence but rather in special counsel David Weiss’ decision to bring it in the first place, in effect throwing the book at President Joe Biden’s son. That was an abuse of prosecutorial discretion.
It hasn’t been Justice Department practice to prosecute anyone for lying on the federal firearms form unless a gun is used in a crime or, in rare cases, another extenuating factor exists — known involvement in a criminal gang, for example. Hunter Biden, by contrast, possessed his gun for all of 11 days and never used it.
