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WASHINGTON — The charges brought against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden are rarely prosecuted, legal experts say. Like the gun charge, the tax charges are rarely brought against first-time offenders and even more rarely result in jail time, Andrew Weissmann, a former FBI general counsel and NBC News contributor, tweeted Tuesday. "This is if anything harsh, not lenient," he wrote. Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti agreed. "It insults the intelligence of the American people to compare misdemeanor tax charges to a scheme to steal Top Secret documents and obstruct justice when the government asked for them back," he tweeted,...

No one at Politico has been a bigger cheerleader for impeachment than legal affairs columnist Renato Mariotti and the recent decline in public interest in this seems to be sending poor Renato over the edge.  This can be seen in his Monday column, "There’s a Simple Term for What Trump Did and Democrats Should Stick With It." See, quid pro quo proved to not resonate well with the public according to focus group analysis which is why Nancy Pelosi began hyping "bribery" instead. Unfortunately the "bribery" shtick also did not work well either so what to do? Mariotti's suggestion is that...