Joe Biden’s agonizing wait as a jury deliberates son’s fate
Less than two weeks after Donald Trump learned he had been convicted of 34 criminal counts in his hush-money case, Joe Biden is enduring his own agonizing vigil as his son Hunter awaits the outcome of his gun trial.
Jurors return Tuesday morning, June 11, 2024, to consider evidence against the president’s son, who has pleaded not guilty to three charges related to his buying of a gun in 2018.
Prosecutors say Biden’s son violated federal law because he was addicted to crack cocaine.
The defence argued there was no direct evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he was using the drug when he got the firearm.
Takeaways from Day 6 of Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial
The two trials one in Trump’s old patch of New York and the other in Biden country in Wilmington, Delaware represent a remarkable departure from traditional presidential campaigns.
Never has a former president and presumptive major party nominee been convicted of a crime. Nor has the child of a sitting president faced that possibility in a trial.
Trump pleaded not guilty in New York, as he has three other criminal indictments ahead of delayed trials. 
The Hunter Biden and Trump cases are vastly different, as is the way the former and current first families have responded to the trials. For instance, there have been no daily rants by the president’s son about a “corrupt” and “biased” judge.
Trump’s conviction for falsifying financial records to cover up a payment to an adult film star, by contrast, prompted the ex-president to warn of retribution.
He’s also absurdly claimed he’s a persecuted political dissident who compares to South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.
In the latest stage of his legal morass, Trump sat through an online pre-sentencing meeting Monday that came two days after he used his Truth Social network to launch a fresh assault on the probity of the verdict he has vowed to appeal.
“These are not legitimate trials; they are merely part of an illegal Political Witch Hunt the likes of which our Country has never seen before,” Trump wrote.
Joe Biden, who has said he is trying to restore faith in the justice system after the Trump presidency, has pledged not to interfere in his son’s federal trial and said in a solemn ABC News interview that he won’t pardon his son.
This is especially significant since Hunter Biden could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted, although a sentence for a first-time offender is unlikely to be that severe.
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