The verdict undermines their claims that the U.S. Department of Justice has been “weaponized” against Donald Trump and his supporters.

Several prominent Republicans said they were not impressed by the guilty verdict against President Joe Biden’s son on Tuesday, complaining that the government should have busted him for worse crimes.

A Delaware jury found Hunter Biden, 54, guilty on three counts related to a gun purchase in 2018 when he was addicted to crack cocaine. Hunter Biden’s crimes carry a prison sentence of up to 25 years.

“This trial has been nothing more than a distraction from the real crimes of the Biden Crime Family, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine,” Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Donald Trump’s Republican presidential campaign, said in reaction to the verdict.

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    Poor guy is a victim of dimwitted mob stupidity. Imagine it was you suffering for your father’s career. Republicans are absolute shit humans. The whole lot of them are criminal trash.

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      Poor guy is a victim of dimwitted mob stupidity. Imagine it was you suffering for your father’s career.

      Christo fascists comparing Trump to Jesus are missing the even stronger parallel with Hunter. 😆

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    I’m such an underachiever. Here is “Sleepy Joe Biden”, a doddering fool who even tries to sit where there is no chair, yet who also is the criminal mastermind behind an entire crime family and who easily controls all government and media for his own diabolical schemes. I mean, pick a lane, Republicans!

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      Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak”. On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

      It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

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      They do that with everything. Haha look at these soyboy vegan leftist who can’t even lift a GUN. Watch out for these scary leftists, they are dangerous.

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      They don’t need to pick a lane, their base eats it up either way. My entire life Republicans have said immigrants are both lazy welfare leaches and simultaneously stealing all the jobs.

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        both lazy welfare leaches and simultaneously stealing all the jobs

        They’re half right, and I wanna talk about that.

        I’ve worked with a lot of Romanian kids in I.T, and these people are the most effective, skillful, professional and happy I.T people I’ve seen. I’m none of those things, some days.

        They’re stealing jobs by being so fucking heroic, and I know I can’t compete.

        They represent super well. That’s all I gotta say. Hire more Romanian kids for I.T, and I’ll be down at the bread line, because der takin meh jerb.

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        Now I’m wondering how old Trump’s kids are. I thought his kid was still in school per Melania’s comments about “needing to take my kid to school” burden she petitioned a court with

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          Trump Jr. is 46, Baron is 18. Trump was 59 years old when he had Baron.

          That’s a 28 year gap between the oldest and the youngest in case you didn’t want to do the math.

          Remember, Trump has 5 children from 3 different marriages (that we know about)

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    You can’t win with these people because Democrats are “the enemy”. They don’t want to compromise they want to rule.

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    I just realized that we need more political education. I mean, some people should at least stay publican and not have to republican. And what if you still pretend to vote for a candidate on the third try? Will you be rerepublican then? Not me, I’m like Dem! Oh! Crat! Lol

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    I thought the Right To Bear Arms was NOT to be Infringed? I’m SURE Republicans will be Angry soon enough that Hunter Biden’s Right To Bear Arms was Infringed on! Or does Hunter Biden need to murder a classroom full of Kindergarteners before Republicans come to his 2A Defense?

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      Applicability of the 2nd amendment is highly selective. All it took for Reagan to push through gun control in California was the Black Panthers arming themselves.

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        The republicans and Democrats were all basically pro gun control until about the late 2000s, and particularly so in the 80s and 90s.To give you a prominent example, Texas was a “may issue” state in 1995. That means that you had to have a permit to carry, and the state didn’t have to give you one and could refuse you for no reason at all. Practically speaking, only cops and security got issued permits. Even Puerto Rico has more lax gun control than Texas did 30 years ago, and even a few years ago at their peak, they were may issue and you needed a reason to request one, marginally worse than Texas in 1995.

        Now gun control is dead in America, but not because politicians saw the error in their ways. To remain relevant they have to pander, and america by and large abandoned gun control.