The Al Capone analogy is a good one.
.Gov loves high profile tax evasion cases to beat the sheeple taxpayers into submission.
This may be a minority opinion here—but I think this is very bad for Hunter—and a pardon from his father will also be a hard swallow for the Democrats.
High profile punishing tax evasion is religion for big government Democrats.
“a hard swallow for the Democrats.”
Hence, most believe daddy will have to pardon him and drop out of the race anointing Newsom.