After Hunter Biden left behind enough evidence of assorted crimes to put away ten men for life, he was finally convicted of lying on a firearms form that probably half the country has lied about.

Admittedly that half of the country probably wasn’t smoking crack, conducting drug deals and in bed with enemy nationals.

Probably.

But the Hunter Biden trial was, unusually enough for a case involving politicians these days, he very obviously broke the law and his only defense was that even while he was smoking all that crack, he didn’t know he was an addict. The jurors interviewed afterward made it clear that they didn’t buy that one. And deprived of any basis for giving Hunter a pass, they, in some cases reluctantly, did their jobs.

Does this case matter? Not really.

Republicans were interested in Hunter as an ‘appearance’ issue and a corruption issue. The appearance issue became irrelevant a while back. Biden’s people effectively neutralized that by painting him as a suffering addict. But the reality is that few voters are going to care about this stuff while there are multiple crises.

The real issue with Hunter involved his role as a conduit for the Biden family’s business interests.

Prosecutors however chose to focus on the easiest and least controversial ‘winnable’ case that would leave the rest of the Biden family in the clear. And that’s what they did.

The gun case carefully isolated an element of Hunter’s misbehavior that could not seemingly lead to his father or his uncle.

I am very skeptical that Hunter will serve even one day in prison. And that makes it the next best thing to the full pass that he was originally scheduled to get.