“Hunter’s” business was the Biden family business in which Joe was a willing participant — the one person who was in a position to stop it instantly if he opposed it. That business was to sell access to the senior Biden and his powerful political influence to agents of corrupt and anti-American regimes. To have that yearslong scheme aired out in a five-week trial that the media would have little choice but to cover in the run-up to the election would have been crushing for the Biden campaign. It is such classic corruption that it would derivatively have undermined the campaign of Harris — who is already weighed down by her years of covering up the president’s mental and physical deterioration.

That is why, a couple of weeks ago, after explaining why Hunter Biden failed in his last-ditch effort to get the tax indictment against him thrown out, I opined that I still believed a guilty plea was likely and was still Hunter’s best option, even though the window for it seemed to be closing with jury selection scheduled to start September 5 — i.e., today.