[HOT Air] Democrats couldn't wait to make Donald Trump's conviction in Manhattan into a campaign issue -- especially Joe Biden. Just four days after the jury returned its verdict, Biden told donors at a campaign event in Greenwich CT about the danger that having "a convicted felon" in the White House would bring:Look, folks, this campaign has entered uncharted territory. Last week, for the first time in American history, a former President is convicted — a convicted felon. He’s now seeking the office of the presidency.Biden repeated this attack nearly verbatim at a campaign event on June 18, and reformulated it in his post-debate appearance at a Raleigh campaign rally last Friday. This time, Biden phrased it more aggressively:
Look, he lied about how great he was on crime. I had to remind him that he oversaw a record increase of murder rates in 2020. And on my watch, violent crime has hit a 50-year low. There’s more to do, but 50-year low. (Applause.)Is that an unfair attack? Not really; for the moment, it's at least factual, until appeals can be heard anyway. Trump did get convicted of felonies, and he does have more trials coming up.
And then, I pointed out that the only convicted criminal on the stage last night was Donald Trump. (Applause.)
When I’ve thought about his 34 felony convictions, his sexual assault on a woman in a public place, his being fined $400 million for business fraud, I thought to myself, "Donald Trump isn’t just a convicted felon. Donald Trump is a one-man crime wave." (Applause.) And he’s got more trials — he’s got more trials coming up.
And you know who else that describes? Hunter Biden.
Now, normally that would be a non-sequitur, although Donald Trump certainly used it effectively to shut down Biden's "convicted felon" attack in the debate. It's factual that Hunter got convicted of felonies in federal court, and that he has more felony trials coming up. But Hunter's not running for president or seeking to control the executive branch of the federal government.
Or ... is he?