To be fair, if you read into it, the ones who aren’t just screeching “Hunter Biden!” like a particularly obsessed parrot are claiming that Hunter is relevant to Joe Biden because the core claim that gets repeated and distorted like the world’s stupidest game of telephone is Hunter functioning as a middle man for Joe doing things that are akin to, or in some cases directly are bribery and pay-for-access. And also Hunter using his access to Joe as a bargaining chip, which if Joe was aware of is also, umm, not a good look.

Any lesser charges are either a way to expand access to evidence or just the only things they can find evidence to charge over. They’re also genuinely hoping that if they charge Hunter with something serious and federal that Joe will bail him out and they can pound the table over that in a cloud of hypocrisy.

Plus, it’s all great theater to keep their people from paying too close attention to the Trump indictments.