It’s appropriate. Too bad the Justice Department didn’t do the same years ago when Biden began his career of lies and fabrications … we wouldn’t be in the mess we are today.
He should cut his losses and plead out. He can’t escape conviction, even a cursory review of the evidence points to his guilt on campaign finance charges.
If he pleads out, he will certainly be required to resign from Congress as a condition of the deal.
If he did, that could be viewed as “job abandonment” and if Congress doesn’t do so, a court might rule that he has effectively abandoned and thus forfeited his seat by running.
Multiple campaign finance charges have the potential to put him away for decades. If he pleads out up front, he likely gets off with less than 5 years.
He is not a rational actor. But when his lawyer explains to him the difference in prison sentence from trial, versus that of a plea, maybe he will have a moment of lucidity.