Hunter Biden was found guilty of all gun charges at his federal trial in Wilmington, Delaware.
The facts were simple, the law was clear, and the evidence of guilt can only be described as overwhelming.
The only surprise is that it took jurors more than five minutes to convict Hunter Biden on all three gun charges that he faced in a federal courtroom in Wilmington, Delaware. In sports vernacular, the case was a slam dunk.
It did not matter that Hunter is the son of the president of the United States. Or that the first lady Jill Biden, was a hovering presence in the courtroom from day one. Or that the accused was represented by one of America’s premiere trial lawyers.
HUNTER BIDEN FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS IN GUN TRIAL
In the end, there was no defending the indefensible. But that did not stop Hunter’s attorney from trying. Lawyer extraordinaire, Abbe Lowell, employed every slight-of-hand and clever feint to cast reasonable doubt. He parsed the meaning of words (past tense vs. present tense) like a pedantic schoolteacher conjugating irregular verbs.
The primary defense was a near-comical assault on credulity. That is, Hunter was a typical drug addict who was so addled that he convinced himself he was not, and he was therefore incapable of knowingly lying when he signed a federal form affirming that he was not "an unlawful user of, or addicted to," illegal drugs.
Got that? Internal denial is an external excuse for criminality.
That dumbfounding argument led Lowell to literally claim that his client was not "conscious and aware," as if that’s the kind of person we want purchasing a deadly weapon while tooling around in his daddy’s Caddy.
Makes you feel all warm, fuzzy and safe, doesn’t it?
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Beyond blatantly lying about his addiction, Hunter was also charged with unlawfully possessing a gun while abusing drugs. Lowell cavalierly dismissed the merits of this felony count by informing jurors that there were no witnesses, photos or videos of his client........