Hunter Biden’s crashing of Congress, cracked reality are making his family look like a circus

It took a lot of brass for Hunter Biden to crash a House Oversight Committee hearing convened to hold him in contempt for blowing off a congressional subpoena, a crime which carries a punishment of as much as a year in jail and a $100,000 fine. 

But if you think of politics as a tawdry reality show, the spectacle made perfect sense in the narcissistic story arc of the first son’s drama-filled life, in which his “sugar brother,” Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, has a documentary crew trailing him all over the country. 

In this narrative, Hunter’s ambush appearance in front of his congressional tormentors Wednesday was a cinematic climax of defiant bravado in which his antihero “owned” the GOP. 

You could tell from Morris’ delighted smile that all was going according to plan as Republican committee members such as Nancy Mace played their part, hyperventilating about Hunter’s lack of “balls” and his “white privilege,” and Democratic grandstanders like Jamie Raskin and Dan Goldman ladled out rich globs of hypocrisy, while Chairman James Comer nervously swilled a bottle of water and called for order in the vain hope that the whole show would not collapse into high farce. 

As theater, it was edge-of-the-seat gold. 

Legally, well, Abbe Lowell, Hunter’s high-priced attorney, went along with the stunt, so he must have thought it was worth the risk, despite his furrowed brow.