Below is my column in the New York Post on the first day of testimony in the trial of Hunter Biden. Every claim of the defense seemed to collapse in the first two days of the trial. The defense argued that Hunter did not check the box on the gun form, so the prosecutors called the employee who watched him fill out the form. It claimed he was not using drugs at the time, so the prosecutors read texts from the next day in which Hunter sought to buy crack and called a series of witnesses on his continual use of crack during the period. The defense previously claimed the laptop showed evidence of tampering, so the prosecutor called a FBI agent establishing that there is no evidence of tampering and that the laptop is authentic. The defense claimed that Hunter just wandered into the store and was pressured to buy a gun, so prosecutors called an employee who testified that Hunter came in specifically wanting to buy a gun. As previously discussed, the lack of a defense is becoming glaringly obvious as is the nullification strategy.
Here is the column:
On the first day of his trial, Hunter Biden spoke to the jury . . . against himself.
The prosecutors in his Wilmington gun trial read long excerpts from Hunter’s book on his long addiction to drugs and his self-proclaimed “superpower — finding crack anytime, anywhere.”
Listening to himself was the President’s son, whose counsel had just suggested that Hunter may have had a brief moment where he was drinking as opposed to snorting or smoking.
Accordingly, defense counsel Abby Lowell suggested, Hunter did not “knowingly” deny that he was using drugs when he purchased a .38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver from the StarQuest Shooters and Survival Supply in Wilmington, Del.
Somehow the argument is that — for a brief moment on October 12, 2018 — Hunter forgot that he was a superpowered junkie.
The problem is that the next prosecution witness is likely to be, again, Hunter Biden.
The day after he bought the gun, Hunter was texting a guy named “Mookie” to score drugs behind a minor league baseball stadium.
Mookie appears to have come through for Hunter since the next day (two days after denying that he used drugs), Hunter allegedly texted Hallie Biden that he was “waiting for a dealer named Mookie.”
Then, two days after the gun purchase, Hunter texted, “I was sleeping on a car smoking crack on 4th street and Rodney.”
That corner appears less than a mile and half from the federal courthouse where Hunter is sitting. It is roughly five miles from the gun shop where he denied using drugs.
Hallie will also testify. She was the widow of Hunter’s deceased brother and started an intimate relationship with Hunter after Beau’s death. She was also allegedly doing crack.
Yet, when Hallie saw the gun in the console of Hunter’s car, she had the presence of mind to realize he was an unstable addict.
She took the gun and threw it into a dumpster behind a restaurant.
The brutal start of the hearing raises the question — again — of why Hunter decided to go to trial. There is no viable defense.
The most that the defense can come up with is a claim that someone else may have completed the form, or that he had a moment of sobriety before heading off to meet Mookie.
In his book, Hunter describes an addiction that led him to smoke crack almost every 15 minutes.
That would seem likely to come to mind when you are given a form asking “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?”
Certainly his need for drugs was much on Hunter’s mind when he was texting Mookie.
Indeed, not long after the purchase, the Biden family held an intervention at their Delaware home to deal with Hunter’s raging addiction.
These defenses are about as convincing as saying that your client got locked into the bank vault after losing his way to the restroom . . . hours after the bank closed.
So why present unbelievable defenses in Wilmington? Because it is Wilmington. This is Biden’s hometown.
The President maintains his residence in the city and remains the town’s favorite son.
As if the jury needed any reminder, First Lady Jill Biden sitting behind Hunter brings home that this is a Biden trial in Bidentown.
The combination of sympathy for a reformed addict and identification with the Bidens could be enough for a jury nullification strategy.
The defense is not asking the jury to consider the evidence. It is asking the jury to ignore it.
Every juror appeared to confirm knowing someone with a drug addiction, including siblings or other relatives.
Given that panel, Hunter could well take the stand to describe his addiction and lack of clarity of thought.
Hunter’s book offers moving descriptions of his struggle with addiction and could sway some jurors, especially given the relatively minor criminal charges.
Wilmington for Biden is the opposite of Manhattan for Trump. This is a town that overwhelmingly voted for Biden in 2016 and 2020. It is a great jury pool for the defense.
Viewed through a nullification defense, it does not matter how absurd the actual defense is in the case.
It is merely a pretense. Whether it is sympathy for a drug addict or a Biden, the defense clearly hopes that the jury will look beyond the evidence and the crime in this case.
Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
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Dennis the draft dodger is up to his old tricks again. Coming in the following day to lay his steaming turd on the front stoop, so he can sit back and admire it after everyone has left.
See below as he is dismantled once again for his stupidity and lack of self awareness.
The pedophile does this so that when someone new comes to the site, the first thing they will read on each blog is his gibberish. Now they will first get a warning for the mind numbing bull shit they are about to encounter. Reader beware. Dennis McInlyre is under investigation for child pornography in Cherokee County, TX.
“Even accepting all the government allegations as true, it’s hard to understand why it is prosecuting the younger Biden. “
Dennis has got to be the dumbest fvck on the planet, to lead with this.
Let me rephrase this for him.
“Even if Hunter was a dangerous crack addict who unlawfully possessed a gun, unlawfully carried it for 11 days without a permit, unlawfully had it in his vehicle, lost control of it, and it ended up in a dumpster next to a high school and then in the hands of a vagrant, and even if he did unlawfully perjure himself on the ATF form when he unlawfully purchased the gun, its hard to understand why a Biden is being prosecuted for it”
Every word after that opening was pure Nd utter horse shit as well.
Congrats Dennis the Draft Dodger
Dennis also doesnt see the irony and the asininity of quoting a lawyer from Bidenville, Delaware.
Jonathan: There is a reason why jury nullification might be the best way to handle the Hunter Biden trial. That’s because the case should never have been brought in he first place.
Claude Oberly has a column in USA Today today. Who is Oberly? He is the former US prosecutor in Delaware. He supervised David Weiss. Oberly prosecuted hundreds of gun and white collar crimes. This is what Oberly says about the trial of Hunter:
“Even accepting all the government allegations as true, it’s hard to understand why it is prosecuting the younger Biden. At the time he purchased a firearm, Biden was non-violent, a 40-something struggling drug addict with zero criminal history. He proceeded to possess a firearm for 11 days and did not use it for any purpose (let alone in a crime)…he is charged with a crime that has almost never been prosecuted…I cannot conceive of an office spending any resources–let alone five plus years, countless agents and numerous prosecutors” in the case.
Oberly thinks AG Garland’s “fear” of being severely criticized by Republicans was the reason he took a hands off policy and let Weiss proceed with his prosecution and “in so doing, tarnishing the DOJ and its career employee’s s reputations”. Oberly further says: “Even right-wing former congressman–and former prosecutor–Trey Goudy said last week, ‘We never prosecuted addicts for lying on federal forms'”.
I would expect a number of the jurors in Hunter’s trial also have family members who did a lot of dumb things while addicted. Will they want to convict Hunter who never used the firearm to commit any crime and whose girlfriend tossed the gun in a dumpster? I think the jurors might conclude, based on their own life experiences, Weiss overcharged the case–that it is really just a political prosecution. But you’re OK with that because you want Hunter convicted because that will serve the interests of DJT and the MAGA Republicans in the 2024 campaign!
“that will serve the interests of DJT and the MAGA Republicans in the 2024 campaign!”
Did I miss something. Is Hunter running for office now?
See above as i explain why Dennis is the dumbest fvck on the planet.
Wake up from your fever dream Dennis, your wife has your mashed bananas ready.
Wanna keep playing this game dennis
FJB, a total disgrace to our nation, and his fake Dr Jill
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“President Biden Still Has Not Met Hunter Biden’s 5-Year-Old Daughter”
Lunden Roberts, who will be called as a witness in Hunter’s ongoing federal gun trial, told Piers Morgan on Thursday that while Hunter and the girl have been “building a relationship” on Zoom, no one else in the Biden family has met Navy.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/president-biden-still-has-not-met-hunter-bidens-5-year-old-daughter/
For all of you Jill Biden loving
FascistsFashionistas:Biden Wives Gone Wild!
“Nazi accusations fly as widow-turned-mistress set to testify that Hunter got her hooked on crack
Another Biden wife, first lady Dr. Jill Biden, Ed.D., made an appearance at the U.S. District Court in Delaware earlier this week. She was wearing a “purple monochromatic pantsuit, Valentino stilettos and a perfectly coiffed mane,” according to USA Today. It is presumed that Dr. Jill was there to support her stepson Hunter, who has described her in text messages to members of the Biden family as a “vindictive moron” and “selfish silly entitled c—t” who “wouldn’t survive one class in a ivy [sic] graduate program.”
https://freebeacon.com/author/stiles/biden-administration/biden-wives-gone-wild/
All those sanctimoniously opining here on the “horribleness” of the rights and power of jury independence aught to do some reading on the vital role “jury nullification” has played in opposing government overreach and tyranny. Here’s a start:
A Historical Look at the Power of Jury Independence
January/February 2014 Policy Report
https://www.cato.org/policy-report/january/february-2014/historical-look-power-jury-independence#
“Central to the history of trial by jury is the right of jurors to vote “not guilty” if the law is unjust or unjustly applied. When jurors acquit a factually guilty defendant, we say that the jury “nullified” the law. The Founding Fathers believed that juries in criminal trials had a role to play as the “conscience of the community” and relied on jury nullification to hold the government to the principles of the Constitution. “It is not only the juror’s right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment, and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court,” John Adams once wrote.”
Spot-on! Mirrors my early comments below, and elsewhere!
I’m sure the jurors are checking their flower pots for envelopes of cash daily.
As the prosecution lays the groundwork for Hunters drug abuse, I have not heard anything of why he was dishonorably discharged from the Navy. If my memory serves me correctly, I believe it was cocaine use. Hunters been on the powder for quite some time.
My ex was tossed out f Navy Security in 1971. He was a Russian translator deployed to Kamiseya. The Walker spy ring was pretty active on base. He was just a 20 year old drunk who joined the Navy to avoid the draft. He had a flair for languages. I was with him at the time. We lived off base. We were followed by the KGB and finally approached in a train station in Yokohama. The Ex liked to brag about his important job guarding secrets about ship movements. They offered him a phone number to call which he promptly memorized. I told him to give it to base command. He flew into a rage and told me to mind my own business. So I took it to base command, but nobody was there. I finally went home and told him I wanted a divorce. He flew into another rage. He told me all about the secret ops when he was drunk. He had blackouts and forgot what he did. Well he did this at an off base party and told his shipmates – q couple months later he was tossed out. I never knew why they tossed him out until 40 years later. He told me they were cutting back on personnel. After our divorce I got an email from the guy who turned him in- explaining what happened. He was tossed out for blabbing while drunk. Of course non if this was ever reflected on his permanent file because the Navy takes care of their dirty laundry . All those files were deleted. They also deleted my name from the records in case investigators wanted to talk to me. So why would investigators want to talk to me? Because the NSA recruited him five years later. I never knew where he was- never saw him after 1980. There is so much dirty laundry in the government, so many Hunter Biden’s getting away with this- so many people willing yo sell out the country- the Bidens have no sense of morality or responsibility sublimity yo anyone but themselves. My ex had a top secret clearance at NSA for 40 years and never once was I contacted for a background check. He also got a presidential appointment which he tried yo hide. It all came out when his presidential appointment was published online. When I showed up at DOD and NSA to tell them the truth, they targeted me for talking. His FBI cronies came to my home and told me to shut up and stop talking- So I asked them, is this about the. KGB business snd the Walker Spy Ring? They ran out of my home in five minutes and never came back. Washington is full of dirty little secrets they don’t want Americans to know. Trump is just a deer in the headlights. These criminals will stop at nithing. They aren’t even ashamed of crack cocaine and illegal use, illegal handguns- in the presidents own family. The rest of us are supposed to kind our own business.
You are correct, and love the name
The prosecution’s closing arguments should center around the privilege he lived. Yes he lost his mother. Yes his father was probably skinny dippy around him (or showering with him.). But, he went to the most expensive school in the state. He attended the best colleges. He was given positions (MBNA and Amtrak) through his father. He received a special carve out to join the Navy. He is a lawyer! He should know the law.
And maybe remind the jury that Joe helped pass an anti-drug law (crack cocaine being the worst) that has put many black men in jail.
When will Joe pay those black men their reparations?
He was not “dishonorably discharged” as he was a commissioned officer. Neither was he dismissed (a punitive action) as he did not stand trial at court-martial. He was administratively separated from the Navy after testing positive for drug use.
Because he was a Biden
No consequences again.
Just like the ATF form, he was an addict when he joined, and knew he was addict, and lied about it.
The case against Hunter Biden is completely airtight in terms of the law. Why is this being taken up first before the much more serious cases against him that have to do with National Security and bribery of a government official? Is it because the gun charge is the only one that has no links to his father? This way the DOJ and his father and Dems can say there is no two tier justice system. (Look how pure we are. We are prosecuting the President’s son) Yes, and if they have to throw him under the bus, he can be convicted and given little or no time in jail
Brings to mind the old joke about the Irish acquittal – “My Lord, we find the man that stole the horse not guilty.”
In contrast to the NYC judge and jury – who found the man who did not commit the crime guilty.