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But that's exactly what it looked like happened.

No, it didn't. Hunter committed the kind of willful and knowing tax evasion that can quite often land you in jail, even if you pay it back afterwards. Generally speaking, if you deliberately don't pay your taxes, a "normal" defendant can very much expect to face the very real possibility of criminal prosecution - and a jail sentence of years, not months. Even a rich and famous person can expect that - Wesley Snipes did more that two years in prison for his tax evasion.

Count me in for Brett Stephens' take:

But when a Democratic president behaves as Biden just did, it fuels the corrosive public cynicism that helped elect Trump yet again while licensing and excusing whatever plans the president-elect may have for politicizing justice and using it for the benefit of friends, family and self.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/opinion/biden-h...

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