It's a "controlled demolition" of the scandal.

Hunter to plead guilty to a gun charge: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna39623

In short, it's lying that he's not on drugs when he was on drugs, while doing the background check paperwork.

He pleads to the gun charge, gets a slap on the wrist, and the bigger fish of the bribery and prostitution, swim away.

Meanwhile, they appeal the gun charge due to a 5th circuit ruling that the crime he pled too was unconstitutional post-Bruen.

https://twitter.com/JacobDCharles/status/1702375614282604662