Hunter Biden is on trial starting today.

Reuters:

WILMINGTON, Delaware, June 3 (Reuters) – The criminal trial of Hunter Biden kicks off on Monday in federal court in Delaware as President Joe Biden’s son faces gun charges in a historic case that begins four days after Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president to be convicted.

In the first trial of the child of a sitting president, Hunter Biden, 54, faces three felony charges stemming from his purchase and possession of a revolver in 2018. He has pleaded not guilty. It is one of two criminal cases he faces, with federal tax charges brought separately in California.

The trial in Wilmington, with U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika presiding, begins with the jury selection process.

No one is above the law? Joe Biden has been trying to subtly intimidate the witnesses, judge, and prosecution, according to Miranda Devine of the New York Post:

The president flew into Wilmington, Del., on Sunday night, where his 54-year-old son’s felony gun trialbegins Monday, and will spend the whole day there with no official duties.

Joe Biden’s looming presence in the strange small city leaves nobody in any doubt of the message he is sending to Delaware special counsel David Weiss, to the prosecutors, the judge, and the jury pool being chosen Monday. You mess with my son; you mess with me.

It’s all very subtle, in a flagrant way, much like Joe’s impromptu visit to Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau and former lover of Hunter, just nine days before his son’s trial, at which she is the star witness for the prosecution.

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The potential for witness tampering in Joe’s late night visit to Hallie was obvious, and must have caused conniptions for the prosecutors, Weiss’ towering deputies Leo Wise and Derek Hines.

Yet, again, we are commanded to take Joe’s “word as a Biden” that nothing untoward went on.

Joe’s ever present suite of family tragedies was offered to explain the visit, in this case the upcoming anniversary of Beau Biden’s death, not that previous anniversaries had occasioned a high-profile presidential late-night visit.

Nor did Joe and Hallie need to discuss the trial in their 15-minute private meeting.

The president’s mere unscheduled presence said it all.

As part of this wise-guy messaging, conspicuous Hunter sightings alongside his father have accelerated the last two weeks.

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Nothing about Joe Biden’s presidency is proper or normal, despite his insistence that he has restored norms and dignity to the White House.

It is simply an extension of the grifting entitlement he and his family have enjoyed in the small incestuous state where he has ruled the roost for 50 years.

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