Below is my column in Fox.com on the Hunter Biden guilty plea. The plea proved vintage Hunter Biden for all of the wrong reasons. The effort to plead guilty without admitting guilt left him looking like the most privileged person since Marie Antoinette. However, it was consistent with a bizarre criminal defense that never seemed connected to a legal strategy. In a twist on the famous tag line from Love Story, Hunter believed that being a Biden “is never having to say you’re guilty.”
Here is the column:
“Guilty.” That word repeated nine times by Hunter Biden in a federal courtroom in California represented something that he had evaded for much of his life: accountability.
Five years ago, Biden had to explain the rule to ABC News reporter Amy Robach, who had the audacity to ask about his history. Biden instructed the TV journalist to “say it nicer.”
The president’s son spent his adult life with his father, his family, political allies, and reporters enabling every corrupt deal and human debauchery. Even at his plea hearing, Biden was closely shadowed by his so-called “sugar brother” Kevin Morris, who bankrolled his lavish lifestyle for years.
This week, Biden was still demanding that even prosecutors “say it nicer” on the eve of his criminal trial. He created chaos at the start of jury selection by announcing that he would plead guilty but demanded an “Alford plea.” The Alford plea allows a defendant to accept that there is sufficient evidence to convict while declining to admit guilt.
Roughly 17 percent of state cases and 5 percent of federal cases end in Alford or no contest pleas. However, as a criminal defense attorney, I have never heard of a defendant seeking an Alford plea without previously discussing the option with prosecutors. These pleas ordinarily require the approval of prosecutors and Justice Department rules require the approval of high-ranking officials or the Attorney General himself.
Prosecutors were gobsmacked by Biden’s sudden announcement and told the judge that they had not been consulted on the demand. Not surprisingly, they were miffed and quickly opposed any such plea.
The result was all too familiar for those of us who have witnessed the chaos of the Hunter Biden defense. After causing a stir, the effort failed and Biden was left standing in the courtroom repeating a standard guilty plea nine times.
It is the continuation of a legal strategy that could be best described as controlled chaos. In 2023, Biden stood with his lawyers in open defiance of a congressional subpoena outside of Congress. He demanded that the House committees meet his demands for appearing as a witness. After all the drama, the effort failed. Facing a criminal contempt sanction, he appeared as demanded by Congress and was later accused of perjury.
It was the same pattern that emerged when Biden secured a sweetheart plea deal that avoided any jail time, avoided a host of federal charges, and gave him sweeping immunity for unnamed offenses. It collapsed in court when the judge asked the prosecutor if he had ever seen such a deal offered to any other defendant. He admitted that he had not.
The response from the Biden team was the same privileged fit. One lawyer told prosecutors to “just rip it up.” Later the Justice Department attorneys stated that they still tried to reach a new plea deal but that Biden gave them the stiff arm.
The result? An unmitigated failure. Biden was convicted on every gun count before a sympathetic jury in the hometown of the Biden family.
This burning train then continued down the track to California where the team insisted that it would make the same addiction defense that failed in Delaware. It then pulled another jump scare with the Alford plea demand.
From the beginning to the end, it is a series of total failures produced by sheer hubris. As I wrote in 2023, Biden ultimately was undone by his entitlement and appetite. He expects everyone from reporters to representatives to prosecutors to “say it nicer.”
At every stage, his bravado and defiance led to the worst possible result. Ironically, he had a prosecutor in David Weiss who fought to help him avoid any prosecution or jail time. Weiss allowed major felonies to expire for now explicable reasons and refused to indict Biden for being an unregistered foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Yet, somehow, Biden succeeded in forcing Weiss to prosecute him against every apparent inclination to the contrary.
In a statement after his guilty plea, Biden continued to seek to excuse his actions. Just hours after accepting guilt for federal felonies, he insisted that he did it only to protect those he loved: “I will not subject my family to more pain, more invasions of privacy and needless embarrassment.”
It was strikingly belated. Biden could have avoided over a year of such “needless embarrassment” by pleading guilty last year. A plea at the time would likely have secured real benefits for him in sentencing recommendations. Instead, he waited literally until the start of his trial to enter a plea at the very last moment when it offered the least benefit to himself or his family.
Yet, the long road to “guilty” did bring clarity for others as well as Biden. There were no more of the mantras of how my son “has done nothing wrong” or legal experts struggling to rationalize his conduct. He now has over a dozen convicted crimes, including nine related to the millions that he acquired through a massive influence-peddling operation by the Biden family.
There is no way to say that “nicer.”
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Gun confiscation for some but not for others. Tax convictions for some but not for others. Meanwhile Kamala wants confiscation of guns with a mealy mouthed “mandatory buy back” plan. Mandatory meaning if you don’t comply a jail sell and bankruptcy of your family will be your fate. It’s only Kamala’s bleeding heart that love of guns as a campaign slogan by her and her friends that matter. Listening to these jay birds I hear nary a peep about the number one killer of young people in America named Fentanyl. The kids are expendable because they don’t want to talk about the crises at the border. Now Kamala has a campaign add out that says she will be tough on the border that pictures the Trump border wall. How sick is that? https://www.racket.news/p/a-deep-dive-into-the-opioid-crisis
No no no, flip flopper Kamakameleon, in response to the FOURTEEEN YEAR OLD shooting up a classroom, is calling for “universal background checks”. Give me a break.
But fvcking libtards like Dennis and Gigi just lap it up.
Harris has shut that fat mouth about gun confiscation, until she gets elected.
These morons don’t even have the good sense to ask, why was spending $6T on pork projects ($25 Million for the “Protection of Endangered Species in the Hawaiian Islands” in the Inflation Reduction Act), passed without a single Republican vote, more important than passing gun legislation?
Kamala isn’t even smart enough to come up with a good lie. Is this really the best we could do for our first woman President? She is basically a younger Maxine Waters. Come on, man.
Lets see, what about those universal background checks.
1. University of Texas Tower Shooting (1966)
Shooter: Charles Whitman
Firearm Acquisition: Whitman legally purchased some of the firearms he used and brought others that he already owned. At the time, background checks were not required for firearm purchases.
Background Checks: No background check system existed at the time, so universal background checks as we know them today were not a factor.
2. Columbine High School (1999)
Shooters: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
Firearm Acquisition: The shooters obtained most of their firearms through straw purchases made by an 18-year-old friend and at a gun show, where no background checks were required at the time.
Background Checks: However, they did not have criminal records that would have automatically disqualified them from purchasing firearms.
3. Red Lake Senior High School (2005)
Shooter: Jeffrey Weise
Firearm Acquisition: Weise used his grandfather’s legally owned firearms after killing him. His grandfather was a tribal police officer who legally possessed the firearms.
Background Checks: Weise did not purchase the firearms himself, so universal background checks would not have applied in this case.
4. Virginia Tech (2007)
Shooter: Seung-Hui Cho
Firearm Acquisition: Cho purchased his firearms legally after passing a background check. However, he had been previously deemed mentally ill by a court but was still able to purchase firearms due to gaps in reporting mental health records to the background check system.
Background Checks: If mental health reporting had been more comprehensive, universal background checks could potentially have prevented Cho from obtaining firearms.
5. Sandy Hook Elementary School (2012)
Shooter: Adam Lanza
Firearm Acquisition: Lanza used firearms legally purchased by his mother, who he killed before the attack.
Background Checks: Lanza did not purchase the firearms himself, so universal background checks would not have directly prevented the shooting.
6. Oikos University (2012)
Shooter: One L. Goh
Firearm Acquisition: Goh purchased the handgun used in the shooting legally from a gun shop after passing a background check.
Background Checks: Universal background checks wouldn’t have prevented the shooting since Goh had no disqualifying background under current law.
7. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Parkland, 2018)
Shooter: Nikolas Cruz
Firearm Acquisition: Cruz legally purchased the firearm from a licensed dealer after passing a background check.
Background Checks: Cruz had a history of behavioral issues and mental health concerns, but these did not disqualify him under existing background check criteria. Universal background checks would not have prevented the purchase under the existing legal framework.
8. Santa Fe High School (2018)
Shooter: Dimitrios Pagourtzis
Firearm Acquisition: Pagourtzis used his father’s legally owned firearms.
Background Checks: Pagourtzis did not purchase the firearms himself, so universal background checks would not have been relevant.
9. Oxford High School (2021)
Shooter: Ethan Crumbley
Firearm Acquisition: Crumbley used a handgun that was purchased for him by his parents as a Christmas gift.
Background Checks: Crumbley did not buy the gun himself, so universal background checks would not have applied.
10. Robb Elementary School (Uvalde, 2022)
Shooter: Salvador Ramos
Firearm Acquisition: Ramos legally purchased the firearms after turning 18, passing background checks.
Background Checks: Ramos had no disqualifying criminal or mental health history under current laws, so universal background checks would not have prevented the purchase.
Gee, Kamala, it seems universal background checks are a big fat red herring. Lap it up, Gigi.
Hunter’s long drug abuse has impaired his thinking. That’s why non-drug users are puzzled by his actions.
The DNC trolls on this website have been telling how stupid Trump’s attorneys are, and how brilliant Hunter’s attorneys are. Not so much, it seems.
It was Abbe Lowell who penned the brilliant phrase that Hunter infamously uttered on the Senate steps:
“All they have is false facts”.
Yea, he is a brilliant attorney.
Hunter is a graduate of Yale Law School, so he likely directed his attorneys to take positions they wouldn’t have otherwise done. He has a law degree, but never practiced law, so he was likely a danger to himself, thinking he knew more than he did. When you admit people to elite law schools because of some special status, such as Hunter Biden and Michele Obama, all you get is a wasted seat that could have gone to someone who would have actually used the privilege.
“… However, as a criminal defense attorney, I have never heard of a defendant seeking an Alford plea without previously discussing the option with prosecutors. These pleas ordinarily require the approval of prosecutors and Justice Department rules require the approval of high-ranking officials or the Attorney General himself. …”
Joe Biden on the Saturday evening of July 20th, 204, cut a Deal to; Pardon, Release Charges, insure a Presidential Commutation for all crimes and misdemeanors his entire Family have committed. The next morning President Joe Biden announces the end of his 2024 re-election candidacy.
Since then, He and his family have been silently enjoying themselves while posing seriously about all things the D.C. Complex has to offer.
The facade of the D.C. Elite remains untouched and the Lame Duck gets away with War-Time Murder with Money to burn.
It’s Just Sickening [!]
You’re right. It doesn’t matter what Hunter pleads to. This is just Kabuki Theater that permits the Dems to claim no one is above the law until the day after the election when Beijing Joe will pardon Hunter. It doesn’t matter who wins, Hunter still gets the pardon, and the Dems get their talking point.
I’m sure this apple hadn’t fallen far from the rotten tree. He shoulda used the kindly, old, forgetful man defense like his dad did.
Lowell is too smart a lawyer to have screwed up this badly and the only excuse is a plan of sorts behind what Turley describes as “controlled chaos.” Is it chaos or is it planned? Don’t lose sight of the goal here. The goal is to protect the family and keep the ill-gotten gains from its influence-peddling criminal enterprise. A walking, talking and sulking Hunter is a real threat to all that. In the Mafia movies, Hunter would get a kiss on the cheek from a close family member and then be found somewhere with a single .22 caliber bullet lodged in his dead brain. Lowell and his controlled chaos has been employed to design an alternate way to save the family and Hunter. Will it work? If Harris wins, it all goes away. Harris has been an obedient “fixer” since her days of cleaning up Willie Brown’s indiscretions. Her future is unknown and could quickly become burdened by what has been.
If Trump wins, he very well might nominate RFK, Jr. to be attorney general. Something like that would drive the Democrats off the cliff. Despite his rough past with heroin addiction, RFK rehabilitated himself quite well and has a JD from UVA and a Master of Laws from Pace. Taking over the department that his dad ran for years would give him a chance to fight corruption within. Frankly, it would be fun to watch. He could appoint a special counsel to look into Hunter’s past dealings and those of the Biden Crime Family. He could announce out front that prosecutions are unlikely but that the object of the investigation is simply to determine what happened, who was involved, and what was the result of all those suspicious activity reports attributed to Hunter and his business colleagues. RFK could use the immunity provisions to compel testimony by everyone and anyone, including the elder Biden himself, should he be still around. The DOJ investigation could be run in concert with the House investigations so that appropriate legislation to prevent influence peddling could be fashioned for future use.
JJC,
RFK as AG would be fun to watch!
But in his speech, he seemed to be very focused on the health of the nation namely child obesity.
Upstate: Yes, but that’s only because those are his “signature” platform planks. He talks about investigating “big pharma” and “big tech” for various violations. The interaction between the FDA and big pharma screams out for investigation and prosecution, where warranted. Only those like RFK and Trump who are unburdened by the past, that is, by ties to big pharma and big tech, can take them on. All the democrats, including the Harris-Biden cartel, are bought and paid for by industry, business, foreign dictators and other wealthy potentates and moguls so we can’t count on them to clean up the mess they helped to make. RFK has his difficulties and problems but he is freewheeling and unbeholden to the ruling class now that he has officialy cut ties to the democrat party.
Rudy Guliani will be the next Attorney General 🙂
Very unlikely. Rudy lost his marbles somewhere along the way, gave bad advice to Trump, and basically has been banned from Trump’s inner circle. He tried hard but too hard and fell flat on his face. He no longer is the Rudy of 9/11 fame. Those were his finest hours and he should have quit the game shortly thereafter. I expect Rudy will soon pedal a tell-all book as he struggles mightily to get out from under the financial and legal problems he mostly self-inflicted on himself.
Rudy’s legal problems will disappear – the Defamation case is garbage and is just weaiting for a rational appeals court to dispose of it.
The alleged defamation was during legal procedings where defamation claims are barred. The case was tried in DC – which has no legal nexus to plaintifs or defense.
Those “defamed” were working as election workers at the time – defamation claims are not a sheild against public inquiry.
They were NOT named by Guiliani.
The DC Court – corrupt judge Beryl Howell, skipped the actual trial and jumped straight to damages.
Shje precluded Guilianiu from claiming that his remarkes were TRUE.
The award is ludicxrous
All of this democrat lawfare is eventually going to be tossed – it will just take years.
Rudy is not up to the job. While the lawfare against Rudy is immoral and should be punished, the fact is Rudy is an old man with an alcohol problem.
One of the failures in the election litigation is that Rudy was soused from the start to the finish.
All good choices, but my choice for AG is Ted Cruz.
Game theory teaches that the best strategy is always tit-for-tat, with some allowances for not being too predictable. The Democrats started the lawfare so they would definitely benefit from their own medicine. I would go after every corrupt official in the federal government and Democrat party, and let Joe, Barry, and Hillary watch as their capos roast.
I would make sure those venues are never in NYC or D.C. so that the jury will NOT be as wicked as the defendants. The Democrats invented judge and venue shopping. We should be even more creative. Tit-for-tat.
I would NOT go after Joe and Hillary. Indicting Trump backfired horribly on the Democrats, so we shouldn’t make the same mistake. Destroy the roots and the weeds won’t come back.
Ted Cruz is an excellent choice, but I think he is needed where he is. There are others with his type of brains, but they cannot not replace him in the Senate.
Alan, true enough. Wherever Ted might be, he would be irreplaceable.
Diogenes: I would make sure those venues are never in NYC or D.C. so that the jury will NOT be as wicked as the defendants. I would NOT go after Joe and Hillary. Indicting Trump backfired horribly on the Democrats, so we shouldn’t make the same mistake. Destroy the roots and the weeds won’t come back.
A correction: Trump never went after Hillary as he promised to do if elected. After the election he announced the Clintons were very fine people who had suffered enough – leaving her and the remnants of the Obama/Biden/DOJ/FBI to try and take him out with Russia! Russia! Russia for the following four years. An effort that neutered much of his term in office. And continues to this day.
If Trump and the GOP have the will the second time around to the point they’re changing venues with a hard core AG and Ted Crus is that man who will put the fear of God in deep state bureaucrats that have abused and been criminal in their offices, EVERYBODY involved in all the crime and corruption since Obama took office is on the table. That includes Obama and Biden – Biden took actions to strip former president Trump of his executive privileges and immunities with the crowing approval of the media. There’s the precedent Trump/AG Ted Cruz can build their cleanup on.
IF they have the stones and operate out of a jurisdiction that is the mirror opposite of the jurisdictions the Democrats have been operating from, if you properly put evidence of crimes in front of those courts’ judges and juries, there will be no Washington DC/New York get-out-of-jail-free decisions.
A lot of those investigations and public testimony under oath won’t result in the roots of the problem being indicted – but it will lay the corruption and the partnership of the Democrat party with the DoJ, FBI – and the Mainstream Media – laying wide open, exposed to sunlight.
The propaganda legacy media will try to ignore it and spin it – but alternate media is increasingly replacing legacy media. It would make it much, much higher for the other half of the country to continue disbelieving their lying eyes.
You make a hugely important point that most overlook. Trump could have indicted Hillary and Joe, but only sought only to expose them. They, not he, took it to the next level and began the lawfare. They, not he, are the threats to Democracy.
As for the empty pantsuit, Kamala, she will be as tyrannical as the Deep State instructs her to be. She will be worse.
Trump did the right thing and protected the country from the potential of vengeful acts. I am not in favor of indicting or impeaching any President except if the evidence is overwhelming. When they decided to impeach Clinton, I thought that foolish just like I thought it foolish when they were going to impeach Nixon.
Trump is an honorable man who loves America.
Absolutely!
Where possible this should be done by State AG’s
The DOJ/FBI needs a thorough house cleaning.
It should not be re-empowered to go after Democrats.
Not that there are nopt lots of democrats who deserve it.
jjc: He could appoint a special counsel to look into Hunter’s past dealings and those of the Biden Crime Family. He could announce out front that prosecutions are unlikely but that the object of the investigation is simply to determine what happened, who was involved, and what was the result of all those suspicious activity reports attributed to Hunter and his business colleagues.
Bingo! Who WOULDN’T be liable to being examined by such a Special Counsel – whether involved politician or bureaucrat either still within the FBI/DoJ/CIA/State Department, or now working elsewhere like… their lawyers and officers now at Facebook perhaps?
And as Biden showed Americans to the applause of the news media, past presidents like Trump can be stripped of some of their Executive protections and presumed immunities: Obama and Biden become candidates for similar subpoena and questioning under oath on matters they were involved in.
Question: Would a Presidential Commission with powers of subpoena and to issue indictments be an even stronger tool to attempt to clean out the rot? I recall reading about the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice back in the late 1960s while in university in the early 1970s.
That surely would work and could even be populated by decent and honest democrats (like Dershowitz and Turley) so the media would have problems selling their propaganda. The object here is to expose as much as possible so we can make sure this sort of thing never re-occurs. Yes, it’s tempting to seek vengeance and fairness seems to demand a tit-for-tat response but the built-in protections in our legal system, all good moind you, can be manipulated by evil doers in such a way as to thwart the exposure of truth. It is truth that we are after and truth that will set us free of this treaturous regime that the democrats have constructed.
Presidential commissions are an excellent idea. They have subpoena power, but not prosecutor power.
The most important thing is NOT to prosecute people, but to EXPOSE all of this.
My reconmentdaion is something like a “truth and reconcilliation” commission.
They have a 2 year mandate to gather testimony, to offer immunity, and the deal is that you have 2yrs to gome forward and testify under oat getting full immunity. Anyone who has NOT come forward at the end of 2 years – van be prosecuted.
Anyone who lied to the commission can be prosecuted.
Everything is done is closed hearings for 2 years – then it all gets made public.
Blue ribbon commissions are a waste of time and effort. “Exposing the truth”, doesn’t quite have the same BANG that it used to have. The Russia Hoax was exposed and no one cared, the Twitter files censorship program was exposed, and no one cared. There are rooms full of evidence outlining the Biden family corruption. Dozens of shell companies, that serve no business purpose other than to obscure the origins of mysterious payments. No one cared. The Hunter laptop file, with pictures, were released, no one cared. Is anyone really going to moved by hearing a few bombshell soundbites after a two year congressional investigation into Biden corruption? This used to be the plot line of political thrillers…”when this information gets out….heads will roll”. That was the entire plot line from The Blacklist…God forbid if the damning “fulcrum” files ever got out, exposing massive political corruption at the highest levels of govt, careers will be ruined, politicians will resign, prison doors will be slamming shut. Yeah right. What happened in the TV show, is about what would happen in real life. It was exposed, and wait or it, no one cared! It was all ancient history. It got lost in the news cycle. Woodward and Bernstein were able to bring down Nixon because people got all their news from newspapers, ethical journalism in that era still meant something, people trusted it and relied upon it. What you have now is a mess. Its very hard in this era to news in front of people. I don’t read a newspaper, I don’t have cable. I have to make an effort to hear about the “news of the day”, and even then, it is very seldom “hard news”. And even if it is masquerading as “hard news”, its still slanted in either direction depending upon where I hear it.
OT, Alan Dershowitz announces he is leaving Democratic Party
“Dershowitz said the party’s trend to the far left means they no longer represent the same values that he believes in, including on matters such as the right to due process and free speech.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/alan-dershowitz-announces-he-leaving-democratic-party
Perhaps the good professor will follow Dershowitz’s lead?
Good comment! How could he not leave the dangerous mess that it has become?
UpstateFarmer: OT, Alan Dershowitz announces he is leaving Democratic Party… Perhaps the good professor will follow Dershowitz’s lead?
Whatever your friends/neighbors say or post in public, nobody is watching where you stand there in privacy making your voting choices.
Given their visceral emotional dislike of Trump (they’re certainly not alone), when they’re looking at the top of the ticket where their choices are Harris or Trump… will they vote for Trump who they despise, once again vote Soviet Democrat despite knowing the danger they pose to the country – or punt and take moral refuge in not making a choice?
What I repeatedly see from many people like Dershowitz, Turley, etc, is they’ve opposed Trump primarily on an emotional, personal basis: not a belief that his policies and actions are bad for the country and the world. There is a lot of difference between the voters who dislike a politician’s personality/character and the voters loathing a politician with the heat of a thousand burning suns. When you get to that point, you’re beyond being able to listen and change your mind.
Old Airborne “voters who dislike a politician’s personality/character and the voters loathing a politician with the heat of a thousand burning suns. When you get to that point, you’re beyond being able to listen and change your mind.”
True. I have an 80 year old cousin who challenges me to fistfights [challenge is by text] because he is enraged when I refuse to accept his claims that the Trump assassination attempt was staged for political advantage. I finally blocked him. I don’t know how anyone can hate so much and be so deranged. Though before blocking him I suggested that his multiple Covid boosters appear to have given him turbo dementia. That didn’t calm him even a bit.
Young: I don’t know how anyone can hate so much and be so deranged.
TDS is just one of the versions of Marxist intersectionality – and you don’t have to be a Marxist to step through the intersectional door and eagerly make choices that involve making choices/voting that are the complete opposite of your own self-interest.
There’s “Queers For Hamas” – supporting hajji terrorists who would happily airmail them one way from the top story of buildings to the street below if they got their hands on them. Should the Mad Mullahs ever get to the stage of Death To The Great Satan… they’ll be the first ones selected for Hajji flying lessons.
“Couldn’t happen here”, right? Didn’t think I would ever see an American political party embracing and providing a home to a new Hitler Youth Movement and supporting Muslim terrorists from the same group that committed 9/11 either.
Americans who would vote for another term of Biden/Harris – as though they’re economically better and benefit from their taxes going to supporting 20+ MILLION Illegal Aliens… many of whom if working don’t pay taxes.
And the news media turned unapologetic political activists and hitmen – doing their very best to convince Americans to ignore Democrat crime and corruption as they work towards a Democrat political hegemony in Washington DC for decades, making much of the Constitution and Bill of Rights a dead letter.
It is hard to believe these high powered Fake News Journalists and their scores of research staff and researchers simply aren’t aware of what happened to the journalists who helped Castro become Cuba’s dictator. Or the journalists who propped up Venezuela’s communists becoming dictators running that country, with “elections” no different than Putin’s, Castros, etc.
Those journalists then either permanently propped up and pushed the party line for the rest of their careers to the subjugated populace… or they were stood up against a wall and shot or otherwise died.
I believe America is teetering on the tipping point, and even if Trump wins that may be only a temporary reprieve if he doesn’t have the will (and the GOP behind him) to aggressively root this out and legally destroy it in place.
At my age, if Trump loses and the Soviet Democrats pack SCOTUS, then create two or three new reliable Democrat states, give a Reagan amnesty to 30+ MILLION Illegal Aliens (leaving them one election cycle from being Democrat voters)… I will probably be on the other side of the grass taking the long dirt nap before the full impact of that happening is felt.
Many here who aren’t insulated by wealth or position won’t be protected from it.
Old Airborne
I have to agree entirely with you. Funny that both of us see the bright side being that at our age we won’t be here to see it. On the other hand, the gangrene in our society is spreading much faster than I thought possible and the vicious antisemitism took me entirely by surprise.
I agree with both of you, but I worry for my children and grandchildren. They will be here when I am gone.
I bet he will announce for Donald Trump in November to provide an added boost. The Democrat elite has treated him horribly, and he is angry and vengeful.
S. Meyer– I had the same thought. And agree that his past loyalty and support have been rewarded with contempt and maltreatment.
I doubt that either Turley or Derschowitz will endorse a candidate.
I also doubt they will vote for Harris.
John, I am willing to give odds that Dershowitz will announce he is voting for Trump right before the election. I base my opinion on his statement, the timing, and how badly Democrats, even friends, treated him, but mainly because the administration is supporting terrorists and Trump correctly supported the sovereignty of the Israeli state.
Turley and Dershowitz will agree to write-in the names of the other. But it will turn out that Dershowitz got two votes.
Is Hunter the only one guilty, aren’t those who hide behind and protect the two tier system of justice as guilty? Will they one day utter “nolo contendere” and walk away? Ah, the saga continues and we all know how it will end.
“now explicable” or “no explicable”? Makes a difference.
Its very explicable
So, Hunter and the syndicate gets a pass on the many much worse crimes?
Another Kamala phone call where she reads from prepared remarks. You can actually hear the paper turning when she pauses.
Jobs report not so good again. Here’s my favorite.
Jobs lost by American born workers, last 12 months – 1.2 million
I believe this post is about Hunter Biden. However, I will re-read it to confirm.
“I believe this post is . . .”
And I believe that this blog is owned by JT (who permits OT). I also believe that this blog has a long history and culture of OT.
Since you are obviously capable of scrolling up and down, may I suggest that as the solution to your (chronic) complaint? Beyond that, perhaps a different blog.
And what was your comment about, EconisSpastic?
What a cute way to say no contest.
Admitting guilty.
There is no way to say it “nicer.”
So how many felonies and unpaid taxes did Hunter Biden et al walk away from through his preferential treatment of being a Biden by State AG’s, FBI and DOJ allowing the statute of limitations on these crimes to expire? RICO
This one is pretty obvious:
1. He didn’t plead guilty last year because it would have been politically damaging to his father, and was hoping to either run this out until after the election, or get the sweetheart plea deal and evade everything.
2. He pled guilty now because he was going to lose anyway and the Family didn’t want to risk information being brought out at trial that implicated the Big Guy.
The plan now is to hope Harris wins and pardons him, or if she loses, the Big Guy will do it as a lame duck.
The Bidens would be taking a huge risk, in depending on Kamala to pardon Hunter. Kamala cares only about her own political future, and if pardoning Hunter would damage that, it’s not going to happen. Her entire career has been built on using other people to get what she wants, and while Joe Biden may be daft at this point, surely Jill recognizes Kamala for what she is, and would insist that Joe pardon Hunter before he leaves office.
I think the main reason is that stringing it along this late makes the sentencing after the election, Biden and Harris can both say they won’t pardon him so they can pretend that the same rule apply to all. Regardless of who wins the election, Biden then pardons him, and Harris doesn’t get her hands dirty if she wins and Biden doesn’t care because he’s done anyway. Hunter never spends minute in jail.
My guess is that this theater was part of the deal to get Joe to step aside from the 2024 race. The fingerprints of Nancy and Barry are probably all over it.
Some day, we will be able to view Hunter’s paintings hanging in the Biden library.
Probably too late now for FARA, FCPA, RICO cases to be brought. Too late for impeachment, not that Chuckie would have ever entertained that anyhow. Not sure if we’ll ever know the depth and extent of the Biden crimes. Unless Hunter’s documentary reveals all — or perhaps he’ll write a tell-all book since Morris stopped funding him and Hunter’s got expensive tastes.
Maybe Kamala will write a book, using her brilliance and prosecutorial skills telling us what she knew and when she knew it. But by then she’ll have her own issues with the Great Walz of China.
What JT? No mention of trumps defense in his groping conviction?
Here is what trumps lawyer had to say about groping a woman on an airplane…
“Sauer argued that testimony from Leeds about the alleged airplane encounter should have been excluded because, at the time, there was no federal law against sexual assault on an airplane.”
Look judge, There was no federal law against groping so I groped. What’s the big deal?
Then, with regards to trumps “grab em by the pussy” admission…
“And Sauer argued that the Access Hollywood tape shouldn’t be considered “a confession,” as Carroll’s lawyers described it, because “they don’t point to any specific incident that it’s a confession of.””
Look judge, I didn’t say who I grabbed, I just said I grab “women” by the pussy. I never said who I grab. Well actually, I can’t remember all their names, I mean give me a break, I’m famous, I just grab.
What a dufus we have running to be President.
Yet JT rants and rants and rants about poor Hunter Biden.
We have now been governed (putatively) by Hunter Biden’s father for almost four years. The father, like son, has consistently exercised poor judgment, lied obsessively, and found everyone at fault but himself. The surviving Biden children demonstrate the effects of being raised by an enabling parent crippled by his own stupidity and corruption. Deflecting to Trump is a way of imitating Hunter Biden’s inability to see the world clearly and to understand his place in it.
Dufus ranting again^^^^
Irony rules!!!
You know what a dufus is?
Someone who thinks a defense lawyers argument is directed by the defendant.
Someone who thinks Joe Biden is not a dufus.
Someone who thinks Kamala Harris is not a dufus.
How do those boogers taste this morning, dufus?.
While I agree with your comment, a defendant can direct his defense attorney to make an argument that the attorney would not make. I’ve seen it done and have done it myself. I have simply stated to the judge that “My client has requested that I make the following argument.” It tells the judge that the client is pushing the argument, regardless of how unsupported by the evidence, the law, or both it may be.
Did you imagine i was a 3rd grader and was not aware that a defendant “could” push a lawyer to make a stupid argument? And that said pathetic, money grubbing lawyer might just do it, because $ is more important than self respect? Get a grip.
You sound like a jack ass lawyer.
As all mentally ill TDS people do, you see crimes where there are obvious schemes created and schemes where there are crimes. The access Hollywood tape was a slam on women (like Kamala) who will do anything to get close to power and money. Not an admission but an observation (unfortunately true.) The tactics of THE LEFT, which is a marxist communist movement are straight out of Stalin playbook. All propaganda all the time. Question: Who is/has been running the country while Biden out selling his influence? Obama. The only president not to allow a peaceful transition to power and stayed in DC to run shadow and undermine. Biden was chosen (stalinesque) because he had skeletons that made him easy to control. And the brain dead thing. If they had been able to assassinate DJT he would still be top of ticket. Q: Have we (voters) ever in recent history actually chosen our candidates? Trump is the first, they allowed by accident figuring he would be easy beaten (Hillary used to be the worst candidate ever but now eclipsed by KH)or have major skeletons, but they could not find any so created Russia Russia and used lawfare to create crimes for Trump while trying to use the same to let Biden’s disappear. Biden family just dumb as box of rocks so made stupid decisions. Everyone involved in turning the Republic into a third world hole needs to pay. At every level of government.
You have learned from your master well. With no proof, blame the other side for all the illegal activity you have done, act like a child in your accusations, spew infantile names, your cult leader is so proud of you.
“Dufus = not infantile name”
“Orange felon rapist god not a juvenile name”
——Lawn Boy the booger eating drunktard
There’s you a juvenile name, juvenile.
Oh, yes, BS locker room bragadocio is FAR worse than selling out your country to foreign interest….
Or selling your body for pol;itical advancement.
There has been zero corroborating evidence or testimony provided in cross examination of any of the evidence presented. Trump’s attorneys were denied the ability of standard legal procedure to do so. The evidence of this sham political action abusing our judicial system was not allowed to be heard by the jury. This scheme was derived in George Conways living room and funded by a Trump hating billionaire. The dress presented as evidence had no DNA and was then disallowed. In short it’s another Clinton style hit job by the scum bag Commie Democrats. Trump Train is rolling hard, like him or not, it’s the policies my God he has endured!
He has no defense.
They have no evidence that is corroborated, Ham sammich Sea Hunt! Watch it come unglued in a real court.
“Uh hhuh huh duh dup duh dup, he has no defense. Not bad for my first steaming turd in weeks, eh?”
—-wally the spastic idiot
He needs no defense. The plaintiff must prove his case because one cannot disprove a negative.
I accuse Wally of stupidity. You need no defense but I can point to your above statement. Then you are proven stupid.
Wally: He has no defense.
Wally, for once in your life, you posted something factual and true here. Hunter Biden had no defense when all the might of the DoJ and the president’s office could no longer make criminal indictments expire and hide his crimes.
And that, Wally, is why Hunter Biden stood in court and changed his plea to “Guilty”.
Tell us how happy you are now that justice has caught up with a wealthy felon enjoying White Privilege who “wasn’t paying his fair share”.
I believe this post is about Hunter Biden, not Donald Trump. However, I will re-read it to confirm.
I concur however when these leftists spew their nonsense one must quash their BS. It’s obligatory not to remain silent so the gullible readers have an opposing opinion.
Ref: GiGi
It seems its now about EconisStupid.
I listened to the lawyer’s statement and no such thing was said. You are a baaaaad boy. What Trump’s lawyers had to say about this sham of a personal prosecution is dead on.
What JT? No mention of trumps defense in his groping conviction? Yet JT rants and rants and rants about poor Hunter Biden.
Is that you checking in to defend your poor brother you procured prostitutes for and your brilliant father you had those special Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Incest Showers with, Ashley Biden?
“groping conviction” ?????? Where can we read the indictment and the sentence imposed after the conviction.
ATS the lawyers arguments are correct.
I know this is hard for you to accept – but this stuff is not admissible.
These are minor points. The more serious issue is that we have SOL’s for a reason – Carrol presented no evidence aside from here own – self contradictory and poor recollection that the even ever occured. By waiting multiple decades she DENIED Trump the ability to put on a defense.
Carrol could not even provide the year this occured – so how is Trump supposed to provide an alabi.
Trump and wealthy people are CONSTANTLY hit with stupid claims like these.
Until this case the courts have uniformly said if the plaintiff can not provide enough specifics such as a date time and place for the defendant to attempt to defend themselves – the case can not go forward.
It is one thing to have the Stormy Daniels he said/she said – where we know the exact date and time and there is the possibility of all kinds of witnesses to corroborate or destroy the claim.
“Oh, about 25 years ago, on a day and time I can not recall” is not good enough.
I would further note that until a few months before her spitting contest with Trump,
DJT was the ONLY person that EJC had allegedly knew that she had NOT accused of rape.
She has a tell all book that named over 40 prior men who had “raped her” – not one of which was Trump.
Then on her book tour – suddenly Trump gets added.
She has never been credible – not about Trump, not about anyone.
While bad things may have actually happened to her in her life – she is the boy who cried wolf. There is no reason to beleive her.
It may take a long time, but this case will be dismissed.
It may fail on some legal technicality, but the most important reason will be that she is not beleiveable, and the case never should have been allowed to go forward.
I never followed the details of that case, beyond the snippets here and there. How did Carroll ever get past Sullivan? She claimed defamation, but she was a published author, a public figure that wrote about her many sexual exploits, and even if that wasn’t enough, she did multiple interviews leading up to the civil trial, which even if she wasn’t a recent enough public figure before, she certainly made herself one because of her salacious accusation, and Trump’s subsequent denial. I suppose is was never meant to survive appeal.
Hunter Biden is a distraction, he should have been in prison, or homeless, or in the ground, years ago. Hunter Biden’s obvious guilt is as clear as the fact President Joe Biden will either pardon his remaining son, or at least commute his sentence. This is all theater, or more like a circus.
Yes, but it has been worth the ride, because now we know something of the depth of corruption in the Biden family. Also, I think that we can assume that Hunter’s strategy thus far has been directed by Dad. Hunter’s guilty pleas rehearse, in microcosm, the disaster of withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Yet he was able to hide the striking evidence of the Biden Crime Family from view at the last minute and continue to allow the MSM to hide his crimes and the connections to the “Big Guy”……….
Indeed. Things should have gone differently. Yet, the house, knowing that Democrats would never vote to impeach, not one Democrat would, and the press would have whined and cried to cause Republicans more damage, decided to release a report as the best possible strategy. It’s all there for the American public to see for themselves. Download it.
Pardoned/commuted by years end
3 guesses….Uncle Jim and The Big Guy pressured Hunter to cop a plea, so that the grifting “biz” wouldn’t be hauled out before a jury and the public. What I’d like to know is when DOJ plans to start enforcing FARA on these well-connected elites?…the Clintons, Menendez, Hunter, Omar?