Hunter Biden gets the fair trial denied to Donald Trump
By
Tiana Lowe Doescher
June 3, 2024 4:39 pm
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Fewer than four days after a Manhattan jury shattered centuries of precedent in convicting a former president — and the opposition party’s current presidential nominee — on 34 felony counts, another criminal trial is rattling Donald Trump‘s competitor. In another first in the nation’s history, Hunter Biden has become the first son of a sitting president to undergo a criminal trial.
While both these trials have shaken up the 2024 campaign, with Trump quite literally still silenced by gag orders and Joe Biden reportedly distraught over his son’s legal woes, the trials on the merits could not be any more different, and the favorable proceedings leading to the first son’s criminal comeuppance only highlight the fundamental injustice of the nonsense show trial in New York.
Both Trump and the younger Biden face judges appointed by politicians of the opposite party, but the similarities end there. Hunter Biden’s judge, Maryellen Noreika, specialized in patent law and donated to both Democrats and Republicans in sparing amounts — $1,000 to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid and $2,500 to Mitt Romney’s in 2012 — before she was nominated by Trump as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in 2017. Noreika was highly regarded enough across both sides of the aisle that the Senate confirmed her via a voice vote, a choice likely made by Trump because the Senate’s “blue slip” rule would have allowed the chamber’s Democratic home state delegates to have blocked the nomination unilaterally if they had opposed Noreika. Unlike Noreika, whose scant political activities ended upon her federal career, Juan Merchan directly violated New York law in continuing to make political donations even after joining the New York State Supreme Court. Merchan did not recuse himself from Trump’s trial despite donating to Biden’s 2020 election bid, as well as a group dedicated to “resisting … Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.”
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