 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyAfter Donald Trump's criminal conviction on 34 felony counts and Hunter Biden's criminal conviction on three felony counts I have decided I am not voting for Donald Trump or Hunter Biden.
In all seriousness, we are living in a remarkable moment in history when a former and possibly future president is a criminally convicted felon and the sitting president's son is now also a criminally convicted felon. Both facts have major implications for both the presidential election, but also the future of America's institutions. But Trump supporters celebrating Hunter Biden's conviction are doing so way too soon, and way too ridiculously—in political terms, the conviction benefits Joe Biden, not Trump.
Following Trump's criminal conviction, Trump and his allies were quick to say that we are living in a "banana republic" with a "rigged" justice system being "weaponized" by Joe Biden against Donald Trump and, next, his supporters. Despite the reality that Biden had nothing to do with Trump's New York state conviction, the narrative took hold on much of the right. But just a few weeks later, the American justice system—this time the United States Department of Justice—would find Hunter Biden guilty on criminal charges stemming from unlawful ownership of a firearm.
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