Hunter Biden Gets Indicted

Five years after prosecutors began investigating his finances, three years after the laptop from hell was discovered, and two years after he published a memoir detailing his illegal drug use, Hunter Biden was charged Thursday for lying about his addiction when he bought a .38 revolver that ended up thrown in a trash can outside of a Delaware grocery store across the street from a high school.

The President’s son is entitled to the presumption of innocence, but the charges vindicate critics of an indulgent plea deal cut in June by U.S. Attorney David Weiss. Under that deal Hunter Biden had been set to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors. The gun crime would ultimately have been dropped under a diversion agreement. Hunter would have served no time in jail and received immunity from further prosecution.