“A possible strategy” for Hunter Biden’s defense team in his gun trial is “jury nullification,” argues Jonathan Turley at The Hill.

“The sole issue in this case is whether Biden” falsely stated “that he was not a user of drugs” while buying a gun in 2018, and ample evidence shows he was.

Yet: “The combination of political and social elements at play in Delaware could produce a hung jury” — as “trying a Biden in Delaware is a challenge for any prosecutor,” since “Delaware is Biden country,” and “the chance that [Hunter] will get strong supporters of his father on the jury is an almost statistical certainty.”

“Biden’s case has all of the characteristics of a nullification defense.”

“The authoritarian winds sweeping through the West are going to put liberal democracy on its back while its cultural celebrities cheer,” warns Commentary’s Seth Mandel.

“The Hay Literary Festival, the most prestigious of its kind in the UK,” is at risk after news that “investment firm Baillie Gifford would no longer sponsor” it, thanks to “a sustained campaign by activists claiming the firm benefits from climate change and ‘Israeli apartheid, occupation, and genocide.’”

“And down go the dominoes, reports the Telegraph, as these anti-Israel agitators ‘plan to target all the festivals still to take place this summer,’” and Baillie Gifford “withdrawing its sponsorship from all UK literary events.”

Worse, “the social pressure campaigns are starting to mutate into out-and-out ethnic exclusion demands” against Israelis, like “Vancouver-based artist Miriam Libicki,” who has “been “permanently banned from the Vancouver Comics Arts Festival” for having served in the IDF.

The White House insists that President Biden “taking 17 days to decide to allow Ukraine to use U.S. weapons to strike targets within a limited portion of Russian territory represents ‘lightning speed,’” snarks National Review’s Jim Geraghty.

Biden’s approach let Russia bomb Kharkiv with impunity while “the Ukrainians either couldn’t strike back or could barely counterpunch with non-U.S. weapons”: He wants to “repel the Russian invaders” but feared “exacerbating tensions with a hostile, nuclear-armed state” — and seems unable to decide which goal “must be prioritized over the other.”

Biden is “famously indecisive,” but his job requires making big “decisions all day”: Should voters want someone like that “sitting in the Oval Office?”

The “lack of curiosity and understanding about the virus allowed” Anthony Fauci “to walk away unscathed” from Monday’s House hearing, laments Joe Nocera at The Free Press.

“Many Democrats now admit” his approach to school closures, lockdowns, etc. “was a mistake,” but “Fauci never has” — and “not a single Democrat called him out.”

He even “maintained that he had always kept an ‘open mind’ about the origins of the virus causing Covid-19 and that he never attempted to censor or discredit opposing voices on the policies he spearheaded during the pandemic,” a “laughable” lie.

“Until the hearing, Fauci had consistently dismissed the lab leak hypothesis” and compared his medical-world critics to “the doctors in the 1980s who claimed HIV didn’t cause AIDS.”

With both Donald Trump’s conviction and Hunter Biden’s gun trial, “the law and the truth are incidental,” sighs The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn.

On the eve of the 2020 election, Joe Biden claimed Hunter’s laptop — which contained “damning evidence” of business dealings that may have benefited Joe — was fake, yet now the Biden Justice Department itself says it’s real and is using it in as evidence in the gun case.

Likewise, Democrats don’t care if Trump’s conviction is later tossed; the “truth may come out,” but “too late.”

Then again, “after voters’ experience with the Steele dossier and the Hunter Biden laptop, the third time around may not be the charm.”

By “trying to lock up their political opponent,” Dems “may have finally overplayed their hand.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board