I can see it already: "Ha! Hunter Biden did crimes! Do you think he should go to jail?"

"Well, yes, we do."

"Gotcha! Why should Biden go free when Trump is being indicted?"

"That's not at all what we said."

"Clearly you're just playing political favoritism! Witch hunters!"

Next thing we know he will be running for Congress as an R. Credentials are there!

I'm interested to see how they spin the gun thing.

I'm thinking something like "they only want guns for themselves and want to take ours away!"

As of 15 minutes ago the article is no longer stating he pled out on the gun charge.

Currently it states

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and struck a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve a felony gun charge, the Justice Department said Tuesday in court filings.

And then goes on to say

“A firearm charge, which will be subject to a pretrial diversion agreement and will not be the subject of the plea agreement, will also be filed by the Government."

My guess is they more-or-less dropped it as they didn't want him challenging the constitutionality of The Gun Control Act of 1968 like he said he would.

I too care about using rich people that have actively sequestered themselves from the rest of society for imaginary board game clashes with other poor people! I want to play too!

I see your Tiger Biden and raise you a Dennys Trump with an armour boost of leaked pee papers or something!! Did I win? Am I doing it right? Wait, what, there's no winners? It's all for the sheer joy of the game? Okay!

They don't actually care about the law. Hunter Biden is only useful to them as something to deflect and waste air complaining about, they don't actually want anything to happen to him legally and they don't care about principle.

Hunter is just their bullshit scapegoat for all their idiotic outrage & conspiracy shit, and only because he's the son of the current democratic president.

He also lied about drug use on his paperwork while buying the gun. Which is also felony.

He also also admitted to drug posession while armed, which is another felony.

Pretty tame by addict standards.

I wonder how many gun loving libertarians will be at the defense of Hunter.

Shouldn't make assumptions to absolve anyone of tax evasion. Its very common with rich people. Why make excuses for this guy? Just cause it would prove the right wingers right?

I personally think right wingers are pretty stupid but if the truth is in the right wings favor then we just gotta suck it up and accept

I mean it's actually good they prosecuted him, shows that they will go after people who commit crimes regardless of politics. This hurts the conservative narrative.

Um, sort of. Biden will plea guilty to two counts Federal misdemeanor of willful failure to pay income taxes (26 USC § 7203). Additionally, has entered into a pretrail diversion agreement on a felony charge of possession of a gun by a person who is addicted to illegal drugs. The agreement requires the defendant to comply with particular conditions set in the deal to avoid prosecution.

While none of this per se is from the "laptop", an investigation was opened up and these issues were discovered along the way. The original investigation was into any kind of money laundering scheme and thus it involved his taxes. Biden's lawyer indicated:

With the announcement of two agreements between my client, Hunter Biden, and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, it is my understanding that the five-year investigation into Hunter is resolved.

So given that, that is pretty much the end of any kind of criminal investigation. Each count can offer a fine up to $25,000 and 1 year minus a day prison time. However, considering that he is pleading guilty it will be significantly less than that. In fact, I believe I read somewhere that the DOJ was recommending probation, fine, and paid back taxes which is pretty consistent with how post-1980s IRS deals with tax evasion.

I think Trump's response is classic however:

Wow! The corrupt Biden DOJ just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere "traffic ticket." Our system is BROKEN!

One... Hundreds of years? Really? Two. Yeah, funny thing when you cooperate with investigators and have a competent legal representation, they tend not to want to throw the book at you. Three. STOP NOT PAYING YOUR LAWYERS DIPSHIT!! It really runs the pool down of lawyers that represent on complex legal issues pro bono.

That last one I cannot stress enough. Proper legal representation is critical to not getting railroaded. If you've got a pretty toxic reputation where few if any lawyers will work with you, you better buckle up and say "choo choo".

I've mostly seen the laptop being related to the accusations of quid quo pro between Hunter, Joe, and some Ukrainian businessmen or officials. The same accusations as the FBI informant.

There were a bunch of photos and emails from the laptop but it seems they mostly just want to use it against Joe.

Honestly? Even though Trump fans don't give a shit about rational arguments, it's nice to know they can't pretend there's no recent precident for charging a president's family with crimes.