Republicans have been complaining about the criminal justice system being "weaponized" against Donald Trump, but recent events have made it clear that their real concern is that it's not being weaponized against their preferred targets.
The situation was revealed clearly after President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden was convicted in a federal court on three felony gun charges related to lying about his drug addiction on a form when purchasing a gun.
The verdict put Trump's allies in Congress in a bind. After all, they had been loudly theorizing without evidence all year that Trump's criminal cases were somehow directed by Biden himself, even though they were brought by local and state prosecutors and a special counsel operating independently.
Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky argued that the president's son being convicted on a charge rarely brought on its own in this kind of situation was not enough.
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