The President's Son Is Found Guilty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Hunter Biden also will face a trial for separate federal tax charges in California in September.
51% : The cases against Trump and Hunter Biden have a couple major similarities, as it happens.
41% : Meanwhile, Trump and his allies continue to promise that he will actually use the Justice Department to get even with his political opponents.
39% : A second is that the son of a sitting president can be tried and convicted without political interference.
32% : The Hunter Biden case is a personal and family tragedy, but like the recent felony conviction of Donald Trump, it is also a demonstration of the strength of rule of law.
32% : As Kate Shaw noted in these pages one year ago, Trump has responded to being charged (and now convicted) with an outright attack on the justice system's basic integrity.
26% : David A. Graham: If Trump is guilty, does it matter if the prosecution was political?
25% : As with Trump, few of Biden's champions were prepared to argue that he was innocent.
7% : The reactions that reveal everything about Trump vs. BidenBiden's case went to trial only after an attempt at a plea deal foundered, and he opted to fight the charges; Trump declined to argue to a jury that he had committed misdemeanors rather than felonies, preferring to take the risk of a felony conviction.

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