Hunter’s Conviction Goes Against Trump’s ‘Rigged System’ Claims.

Now that Hunter Biden suffered the same fate as Trump the former president will have a more difficult time professing the ‘rigged’ system is after him. (Washington Post)

“The moment had finally come. Late Tuesday morning, nearly five years after Republicans first went after Hunter Biden, the president’s son could finally be called a convicted felon.

But Donald J. Trump and other Republicans did not seem to be relishing the opportunity. The early reaction to a jury’s guilty verdict against Hunter Biden on three felony gun charges resembled a shriveling balloon.

“The Hunter Biden gun conviction is kinda dumb tbh,” said one close Trump ally, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, in a post on X, using an abbreviation for “to be honest.” Another Trump associate, Charlie Kirk, called it a “fake trial.””

— By Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Michael Gold, 'Washington Post'

Donald Trump has succeeded in upending the politics of law enforcement. The party of law and order, law enforcement and justice has rallied around the former president and believe his claims of a ‘rigged system’. Many people in trouble with the law claim the system is biased against them for various reasons. Donald Trump is making the same claims and his law enforcement base is in agreement 100%. But why?