Hunter Biden has been in the news this week, and mostly for being just as insufferable as he always has been. Nepo babies are like that, after all.
The best example of being a nepo baby is how Hunter Biden walked on a gun charge that many have landed in prison for.
In fact, there are a bevy of examples, but one man in Iowa is serving four years for the exact same offense that the former first son dodged:
On December 1, 2023, after a bench trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, Alexander Ledvina was convicted of violating a federal law that bars illegal drug users from owning guns. Exactly a year later, President Joe Biden, whose administration had zealously defended that law in court, pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, for committing the same crime.
Ledvina, a marijuana user who was 26 when he was arrested, was sentenced to four years and three months in federal prison. Hunter Biden, a middle-aged former crack user, faced up to 25 years in prison after he was convicted of illegal gun possession and two related firearm offenses. But thanks to his father's intervention, he did not suffer any criminal punishment at all.
The president, who had repeatedly promised to refrain from intervening in his son's case, said he changed his mind because he concluded that the prosecution was politically motivated. That claim was puzzling because the prosecutor who pursued the gun charges, Special Counsel David Weiss, had been appointed by Biden's own attorney general. But Biden described the charges as highly unusual. "Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges" in cases like this, he said. "It is clear that Hunter was treated differently."
Ledvina agrees that Hunter Biden "was treated differently," but not in the sense that the president meant. "People are tried and imprisoned on these charges all the time, even absent other charges or a [criminal] background," he writes from the federal prison in Memphis. "Where is my pardon?"
Seriously, others have done time for the same offense, even as leftists in the media claimed few others were prosecuted for the crime. Even if it was only one or two, Hunter Biden's status as the president's erstwhile offspring should have gotten him prosecuted from the start. He nearly wasn't, and yes, only got prosecuted because of the outcry from the public.
But Ledvina is proof that we weren't out of line to cry out for justice.
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Hunter got his initial pass because of who he was. Once on trial, the jury convicted him because he was guilty as hell, only for Daddy to pardon him.
As the younger Biden sees fit to pontificate on political issues well outside of his apparent expertise of influence peddling and money laundering through "art sales" consisting of hundreds of thousands of dollars for work that was the equivalent of a mentally disabled toddler's fingerprinting efforts, it should be remembered that rather than talking with the press, he should be rotting in a prison cell.
You know, just like a lot of other people currently are for the same offenses.
