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In reply to the discussion: Hunter Biden Special Counsel Question [View all]Celerity
(54,743 posts)exchange for the plea agreement. The prosecution said that was not the case after the judge raised questions, and the plea deal fell apart.
The tax charge will now likely go to trial, which increases the legal peril for Hunter.
Also, there may well be new charges added, including acting as an unregistered agent for a foreign government.
The people saying that this is some Garland masterstroke (he is playing 5 dimensional chess, man!) and that is is good thing for Hunter and Joe are potentially likely to be sadly mistaken, especially as this will kick the investigations and/or trial(s) dead into the middle of the primaries and maybe even into the post primary election proper.
The low info voters (who are a HUGE bloc) will look at the shitshow and many will perhaps stupidly conclude that there actually IS something to the Rethug's bullshit rantings about the Bidens being corrupt (think mouthbreather indies sputtering 'where there is smoke there's fire man!', which will perhaps be cheered on by the likes of Andrea Mitchell and her ilk across the MSM), barring Hunter being acquitted on most everything and all investigations subsequently being dropped.
Even that last part (acquittals on most all and investigations dropped, neither of which are at all guaranteed to occur before the election) might not be enough.
Millions of non-MAGAt American voters (MAGAts are a given to be dangerous fools, dupes, marks, and thugs) are not exactly known for their satisfactory grasp of things even marginally complex when it comes to the realms of the law and of politics (and by complex I mean anything above Jack and Jill went up the hill.....).
The non voting ones (another massive bloc) are even less inclined to possess any satisfactory level of discernment, but they can indeed still (and will) spread negative bullshit into the voting bloc as well.