The president flew to Wilmington, Del., Sunday night, where his Firearm trial of a 54-year-old son begins on Monday, and will spend the whole day there without official duties.
Joe Biden's looming presence in the strange small town leaves no doubt about the message he's sending to Delaware special counsel David Weiss, prosecutors, the judge and the panel of jurors picked Monday: You mess with my son, you mess with me.
It's all very subtle, in a blatant way, much like Joe's impromptu visit to Hallie Biden, Beau's widow and Hunter's former lover, just nine days before her son's trial, in which she is the prosecution's star witness.
It was Hallie who threw Hunter's new gun in the trash in October 2018 out of concern for his drug-addled mental state, creating a legal time bomb that would land him in court six years later.
It was Hallie who found drugs and drug paraphernalia in his truck. Hallie, 50, even shared her crack addiction for a while, amid multiple drug rehab efforts.
“Word like Biden”?
In a trial based on the allegation that Hunter lied on the gun shop's federal background form on Oct. 12, 2018, when he checked “No” to the question, “Are you an illegal user of ·legal or addicted to' various narcotic drugs, Hallie's understanding of her drug use will be key. Hunter's defense is that the day he bought the gun was a rare day of sobriety in a period during which he admitted in his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” “I was smoking crack every 15 minutes.”
The potential for witness tampering in Joe's late-night visit to Hallie was obvious and must have caused collusion in the prosecutors, Weiss' top deputies Leo Wise and Derek Hines.
Again, we are told to take Joe's “word as Biden” that nothing untoward happened.
Joe's ever-present set of family tragedies offered to explain the visit, in this case the upcoming anniversary of Beau Biden's death, not that previous anniversaries had occasioned a high-profile late-night presidential visit.
Joe and Hallie also didn't have to discuss the trial in their private 15-minute meeting.
The mere unscheduled presence of the president said it all.
As part of this message of wisdom, conspicuous sightings of Hunter alongside his father have accelerated in the past two weeks.
There was Hunter at the White House, waving at staff or attending an event in the Rose Garden.
Here he was, getting on and off Marine One and Air Force One with his father, flying long weekends from Washington to Wilmington to Rehoboth Beach, Del., and back again, hopping in and out of the presidential motorcade, the his own secret service. detail in tow
A new iteration came Saturday morning: Hunter biking with dad in Rehoboth, staying close as they passed the waiting media.
Perhaps most egregious of all was the May 23 state dinner for the President of Kenya where, once again, the accused first son rubbed shoulders with Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Also in attendance were a dozen Biden family members and hangers-on, including Hunter's three daughters and niece, plus boyfriends and a husband.
It's the second state dinner Garland has attended with Hunter at a crucial time in the first child's legal odyssey.
Before IRS whistleblowers revealed the corrupt Justice Department and the CIA's obstruction of Hunter's five-year criminal tax fraud investigation last year, he sealed a plea deal with the then old Delaware United States Attorney Weiss, and a few days later he turned around in triumph. at the state dinner for the Indian Prime Minister. Garland was there in her penguin suit, cautiously trying to keep a discreet distance between them.
The optics were terrible, and one would think that Garland, who claims to be so dogged by propriety, would have recused himself from all future state dinners or White House parties where Hunter was present.
And yet here he was again, days before Hunter's gun trial.
The AG should have recused himself from the dinner as an affirmation of his own integrity, such as he is, and a statement of disapproval of the president's underground manipulations because, no matter what anyone says, they are not right or normal.
Nothing about Joe Biden's presidency is right or normal, despite his insistence that he has restored norms and dignity to the White House.
It is simply an extension of the leftist right he and his family have enjoyed in the incestuous little state he has ruled for 50 years.
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In fact, if he showed up Monday at the Caleb J. Boggs Courthouse in Wilmington to see U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika and watch jurors get sworn in, his advocates in the media would be happy to apologize, saying that it's just there. to support their child.
Ethics take a back seat in Joe's plausible deniability of eternal tragedies.
In the shadow of former President Donald Trump's convictionHunter's trial takes on an outsized political status, even though the charges are the only ones in the five-year-long criminal investigation that don't touch Joe.
Conversely, Hunter's tax trial in California in September is a big risk for Joe, as it will span 2014 and 2015, during which Hunter earned $1 million from Burisma and his vice-president father had the prosecutor fired Ukrainian who was investigating the corrupt energy company.
But if Hunter is acquitted in the Delaware gun trial, Joe will have a clear argument to throw at Trump in his first debate: “My son was tried in the same system that you say is armed against you. A unlike you, a jury found him not guilty.”
Hunter's expensive lawyer, Abbe Lowell, is a master at jury whispering, so it's possible that Hunter is off the hook, even given the slim odds of defendants in federal trials.
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