On Thursday, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to tax evasion and other tax crimes in an 11th-hour about-face that surprised prosecutors as a trial was about to begin.
The plea avoided a second trial for the president’s son, who has been under federal investigation for six years. That sprawling probe scrutinized his lucrative business deals with foreign companies and his lengthy struggles with drug addiction; earlier this summer in Delaware, it resulted in Biden being found guilty on gun-related charges.
The tax trial could have given the public a detailed look at Biden’s work for Burisma, a scandal-plagued Ukrainian energy firm, and a now-bankrupt Chinese conglomerate. Republicans have seized on those deals to criticize President Joe Biden and his family, and the trial once threatened to create a political firestorm in the heat of the 2024 campaign. But the political stakes diminished after the president left the race.
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