Dear Hunter Biden,
To be clear, the focus is not on your addiction. If you have overcome that personal struggle, congratulations. You share the difficulty of maintaining sobriety with millions of Americans.
I, for one, wish you continued success.
It is not your predilection for sexual exploits, which you prefer to document via photographs, videos and text messages, as long as they were committed by consenting adults.
If there were minors or Mann Act violations, you should be held criminally accountable.
It’s not personal relationships with your brother’s widow or any other consenting, adult. Your moral, or lack thereof, judgement is your cross to bear.
It’s not your failure to pay or file taxes. That’s a personal matter in which you have the right to legal counsel, as any other citizen does.
What is in focus?
Your failure to register your FARA status.
The relationship between your businesses, partners, associates, contracts, flights on AF2, and your father, is the focus.
You are a private citizen. Your father is not. Your father, and his access to power, policy, politicians, foreign heads of state, and tax payer funds, must be held accountable.
Quite frankly, I don’t care how much money you amassed, withdrew from your accounts, spent on a plethora of lifestyle choices.
I do care how my tax payer funds were appropriated, my freedoms were leveraged, my national security was compromised.
You have, unfortunately, been the nexus between your father and his pay to play, self serving plan.
Your familial connections, your access to privilege, first as a senator’s son, then as a VP and P immediate family member, and an AG’s brother has granted you access to people, places and power.
Those privileges carry a hefty personal responsibility.
One of the tenets that ensures our Constitutional Republic is superior to most other nations is our guarantee of Equal Justice.
As such, you are neither beneath nor above the law.
As a private citizen, you must be held accountable to the same legal standards and guidelines as the plumber or teacher’s son.
You were served a legal and binding subpoena to appear in front of the committee, today. Your testimony, preserved on record. You also had the option of exercising your 5th amendment, as any citizen does.
You do not, regardless of your familial surname, have the right to demand the
time or location of that testimony or to choose the audience, public or private.