Another fact that's not been widely reported is that, technically, there are no charges against Hunter Biden; he hasn't been indicted for anything! The so-called "plea deal" was really a back-door pardon since it wasn't tied to an actual indictment by a grand jury, and it gave Biden immunity from "future" crimes, that is, crimes not yet discovered (or perhaps even committed).
To borrow a phrase, the plea deal was an "ex-ante" arrangement.
What Biden himself could do is claim incompetent counsel. Biden could say that he would never have confessed in open court if he had known how flimsy the plea deal was, how unscrupulously the immunity was buried in the diversion program side-deal, and that he was shocked --- shocked --- to find out that his team and the prosecutors were colluding.
Nobody would believe it, but it would have enough cover to use it to wipe this all away and start over. They've been brazen enough to this point, why stop now?
-PJ
I’m not a lawyer. And I don’t play one on TV. And your guess is as good as mine as to how this will play out. But I think we can all agree that in the end Hunter will get away with it. Joe will get away with it.