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Where are you getting that from!? The tabloid article, which lists off crimes like a wreck, a messy theft ring involving drug use, and an apparent case of abuse from his own father, which have plausible but lenient punishments.
This isn't some giant crypto con or insider trading from the Trump kids, it sounds more like a struggling young adult to me.
What if Tyler's mom wasn't a politician, but, I dunno, a high level, highly paid engineer? Should his screw ups be under a microscope with "a moral imperative to consider every new crime of Tyler, to be news worthy" just because of what his mom does? And the possibility she used her weight to try and help him? Attention like that is a great way to screw up a struggling adult's life.
Your omissions and alterations are interesting.
The article doesn't just mention "a wreck", it says "In September 2022, Tyler flipped his father’s SUV while driving, leaving his passenger with multiple concussions and sever lacerations, according to reports." If Tyler was driving recklessly (and he was), then the passenger was the victim and the driver the perpetrator. If you're interested in hearing the story of the passenger: https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-car-crash/ The tldr: "If I did what he did, I'd still be in jail."
The "theft ring involving drug use" doesn't mention drugs in the article. And it being theft, means that there were victims of theft. Including apparently a broke woman with a brain tumor.
And also in the case of child abuse there was a victim (the child in case it isn't obvious).
I don't get how you can't recognize the victims in these stories.