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Hunter Biden Is the Flip Side of Donald Trump
Hunter Biden arrives at court in Wilmington, Delaware, with his wife Melissa Cohen Biden, to face trial for felony gun charges. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
Both landed in court, facing flimsy charges because a prosecutor wants a scalp. That’s not weaponization—that’s how the justice system works.
By Joe Nocera
06.05.24 — U.S. Politics
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Hunter Biden’s trial starts today. He is charged with lying on a federal firearms application because he said he was not using drugs when in fact he was in the throes of a serious addiction. He had the gun for two weeks. It was never used in a crime. He is not taking drugs anymore. As this New York Times story notes, this crime is almost never prosecute…

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Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera is an editor and writer at The Free Press. During his long career in journalism, he has been a columnist at The New York Times, Bloomberg, Esquire, and GQ, the editorial director of Fortune, and a writer at Newsweek, Texas Monthly and The Washington Monthly. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
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