Alex Lederman
BBC News, Washington
I was in the courthouse when Hunter Biden was found guilty on three felony counts for illegal possession of a firearm.
All the reporters lined by the door of the courthouse overflow room, waiting for the verdict to be read out.
“Guilty,” we heard and sprinted down the staircase, out the door to alert our teams waiting outside.
No phones were allowed inside the courthouse.
The verdict came just over a week after former President and now President-elect Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records for hush money payments to an adult film actress.
I was at that New York courthouse too, and the decision at the time felt momentous.
What we learned in the weeks and months that followed was that neither verdict would impact the election nearly as much as it felt at the time.
Republican voters stood firmly behind Donald Trump, and Joe Biden’s candidacy wouldn’t even last until the Democratic National Convention.
With Trump’s New York sentencing now paused, his federal indictments dropped, and Hunter Biden pardoned, that moment has proved even more fleeting.
