Hunter Biden just filed an unusual guilty plea in his tax evasion case in California to avoid an embarrassing trial that Daddy Joe would hate. The plea is unusual because while Biden is admitting prosecutors can prove their case, he’s still claiming innocence of the charges.

Here’s more from Politico:

Hunter Biden submitted a plea to accept responsibility for tax evasion and other tax crimes on Thursday just moments before his trial on those charges was scheduled to begin.

The plea offer is a major plot twist in a six-year investigation of the president’s son that exposed his lucrative business deals with foreign companies and his lengthy struggles with drug addiction.

Biden’s attorneys told the judge that Biden would like to enter an unusual plea known as an Alford plea, in which a defendant maintains innocence but concedes that prosecutors have enough evidence to obtain a conviction. Courts treat Alford pleas the same as guilty pleas.

U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi did not immediately say how he would handle the new plea and ordered a short recess to consider the matter. Prosecutors said the courtroom revelation was “the first we’ve heard of this,” and that they want to assess whether an Alford plea is “appropriate.”

Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell said it’s indisputable that his client, who had previously pleaded not guilty to the nine tax charges, has the right to enter the new plea. It’s unclear if the trial will continue Thursday as planned.

If the plea is accepted, Biden would admit that prosecutors can prove that he willfully failed to pay more than $1.4 million in taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019. He would also avoid a trial that threatens to embarrass the president’s family by dredging up unflattering details from the younger Biden’s past.

Biden has claimed that he wouldn’t pardon Hunter if convicted, however that doesn’t mean squat since he’s not running for president any longer. I fully expect him to pardon his son because he can. While it’s completely unethical, I expect that it’s probably legal.