Get ready for several months of media outlets claiming Hunter Biden’s corruption to be “old news.” The Department of Justice just cut a deal with the president’s son to reduce his tax-fraud charges to misdemeanors. Hunter will plead guilty to a felony firearm offense, but will enter a diversion program to avoid prison:

The Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney for Delaware has reached a plea agreement with Hunter Biden, in which he is expected to plead guilty to two federal misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes. Biden also faces a separate gun possession charge that will likely be dismissed if he meets certain conditions, according to court documents filed on Tuesday.

Two sources familiar with the agreement told NBC News that it includes a provision in which the U.S. Attorney has agreed to recommend probation for Biden for his tax violations. Legal experts also said that the tax and gun charges will likely not result in any jail time for President Joe Biden’s son.

What about the alleged corruption involving foreign influence and payments of millions of dollars into Biden Inc-related LLCs? Yeah. that’s going away, for now:

The resolution suggests that prosecutors did not find cause to file charges related to Hunter Biden’s dealings with foreign entities or other wrongdoing.

We can be certain that the White House will claim that as vindication. Get ready for Biden to start mimicking Donald Trump’s “witch hunt” mantra as House Republicans keep the heat on their own separate investigation into corruption and influence peddling. And the media, which buried the original Hunter laptop story effectively for more than a year, will be only too happy to mouth along, accusing Republicans of “seizing” and “pouncing” on a poor hapless family member.

How can I predict that? We saw the same playbook from October 2020 until about a year ago, when the New York Times and Washington Post finally admitted the data on the laptop was real. The FBI and DoJ had taken it seriously all along, they finally reported, even while mainstream media outlets and social-media platforms announced that it was “Russian disinformation” and censored discussion of it.

The timing of this seems pretty interesting, too. This gets Hunter out of the way now that the DoJ has indicted Trump and will go to trial, potentially soon (more on that in a later post). This will also allow Biden and his team to argue that the plea deal shows that the DoJ has not been politically weaponized. However, a cushy plea deal for a president’s son doesn’t exactly scream “equal justice under the law,” especially not after Merrick Garland’s malicious persecution of Mark Houck on felony charges on the FACE Act for an argument in front of an abortion clinic.

And let’s not also overlook the fact that this resolves Hunter’s case just as Democrats want to make Joe’s case to the American public. How … convenient. Do you believe in coincidences?

Update: Say, what happened to enforcing gun laws, anyway? My pal Katie Pavlich wants to know:

Hunter Biden gets off easy after committing a felony by lying on his firearm background check form while his father, Joe Biden, brags about making millions of Americans felons by banning a piece of plastic known as a pistol brace.

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) June 20, 2023

Update: Did the DoJ violate its own rules to cut this deal?

DOJ is violating its own internal policies on this case. The Ashcroft Memo requires they charge the “highest provable offense” and seek consistent sentences with other cases brought by DOJ. This prosecution is an absolute laughable joke. Thousands have been sent to prison for… https://t.co/Bi6iaRiDVD

— Brett L. Tolman (@tolmanbrett) June 20, 2023

“Thousands have been sent to prison for long terms for the same charges,” Tolman writes in completing his argument. As Matt Beebe tweets, “Tell me you’re effectively getting a pardon without telling me you’re actually getting a pardon.” The pardon will come on Biden’s last days in office.

Update: A concise assessment from my pal Guy Benson:

Democrats loudly proclaim their passionate commitment to “gun safety” & “tax fairness.” After an investigation that (inexplicably) dragged on for years, the Biden DOJ has handed a no-jail deal to a repeat tax cheat who also lied on a gun purchase form—whose last name is Biden.

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 20, 2023

And a member of the One Percenters who admittedly made millions of dollars off his connections to the Biden name to boot.