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How Hunter Biden’s ‘sweetheart’ plea deal eviscerates his father’s credibility
Just the News ^ | June 20,2023 | John Solomon

Posted on 06/20/2023 11:32:45 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny

In his job interview with voters during the 2020 election, Joe Biden assured Americans that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, he never had any dealings with his family’s business partners and that his son was innocent of any wrongdoings.

While the first two claims were shattered long ago, the 46th president has held firm on the last. “My son has done nothing wrong,” he proclaimed just a few short weeks ago.

The criminal information filed Tuesday in federal court charging Hunter Biden with intentionally avoiding payment of federal taxes and lying about his drug use to buy a handgun debunks Joe Biden’s last line of defense.

Conservatives from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on down derided the plea agreement as a “sweetheart deal” and a “traffic ticket” emblematic of a “two-tiered” justice system because it spares Hunter Biden from prison while leaving Donald Trump facing hundreds of years in prison on 71 felonies in two separate indictments.

But the plain language of the deal threatens to boomerang on the Biden Democrat agenda for 2024 that has made one of its centerpieces harsher gun control and an IRS crackdown on tax cheats.

Hunter Biden has agreed to “two counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax” and can have dismissed a felony charge of “possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user,” holdover Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss wrote the court Tuesday outlining the plea deal.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidencrimefamily
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1 posted on 06/20/2023 11:32:45 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny
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To: Lakeside Granny

“But the plain language of the deal threatens to boomerang on the Biden Democrat agenda for 2024 that has made one of its centerpieces harsher gun control and an IRS crackdown on tax cheats.”

Good point.


2 posted on 06/20/2023 11:42:47 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (Desperately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: Lakeside Granny

What credibility?


3 posted on 06/20/2023 11:44:22 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: Rusty0604

They think this “slap on the wrist” will make all the Biden’s crimes investigations go away but I have the feeling it just made it much worse.

Just puts the spotlight on the 2-tier JustUs system.

Comer has issued a statement that he isn’t stopping the investigating he is doing.

The Biden’s like the Clintoon’s may never see the inside of a prison for their crimes but they will be judged guilty in the eyes of most Americans and the world.


4 posted on 06/20/2023 11:50:55 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: Lakeside Granny

Anyone with a functioning brain knew that he would not get any significant punishment for his crimes. Meanwhile, the J6 people are still in solitary and Trump faces more indictments.


5 posted on 06/20/2023 11:57:42 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. )
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To: Lakeside Granny

Just out of curiosity, does this outcome give those already convicted of the same, grounds for appeals?

Any legal folks aware?


6 posted on 06/20/2023 12:01:42 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: Lakeside Granny
Hunter Biden was caught on a "hot mic" on January 21, 2021 saying: “So just so you know my life, after waiting to do this, I just agreed to a plea sentence for [unintelligible] guy…”

Joe was giving a speech to a group of people at the White House, and Hunter's comment came over a separate mic. Biden had just taken the oath of office the day before. It looks like this plea deal has been in the works for a very long time, but was held back as it would be way too obvious to cut a plea deal the day after your father moved into the White House. They had to wait to announce it, and make sure it happened before Joe left the White House for good. The appearance of any actual investigation having taken place since that day has all been fake. I'm sure the plea deal struck at that time was already signed by both parties, which means any restrictions he was under, are already over and done with. What a bunch of kabuki theater.

7 posted on 06/20/2023 12:06:27 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Lakeside Granny

Every day I get sicker and sicker of the entire federal government..


8 posted on 06/20/2023 12:08:04 PM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: Common Sense 101
Thanks for posting this reality!:

What credibility?

9 posted on 06/20/2023 12:13:25 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, who state things as fact, and have no real idea!)
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To: Lakeside Granny

I recall many years ago speaking with an IRS agent. Some of 0bammerz cabinet selections got special treatment for “inaccurate” Federal tax returns.
Very nice IRS agent confirmed that the job had become more difficult because everyone recognized how unfair the system is.


10 posted on 06/20/2023 12:15:46 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: Lakeside Granny

Can we quit pretending their are two classes of people in America. One is the insiders who are above the law and the second is the outsiders who pay for the insiders.


11 posted on 06/20/2023 12:17:10 PM PDT by bray (Dr Fauxi killed millions)
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How Hunter Biden’s ‘sweetheart’ plea deal eviscerates his father’s credibility

Democrats and socialists don't care about the deal, because the issue is always the revolution. The rest of the nation hasn't believed a thing SloJoe has said for at least the last ten years if not longer, so nothing can make his credibility worse.

12 posted on 06/20/2023 12:21:11 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: mass55th

I didn’t know that.


13 posted on 06/20/2023 12:30:30 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (Desperately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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To: Rusty0604
Here's the link to the YouTube video:

Hunter Biden -"I just agreed to a plea sentence" Hot Mic during official EO WH video

And a National File article featuring the video within the article:

VIDEO: White House Unlists Video After Man Caught On Hot Mic Discussing ‘Plea Agreement’ While Biden Is Talking

14 posted on 06/20/2023 12:37:48 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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Robert Barnes
@barnes_law
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As a criminal tax lawyer for a near quarter-century, I confirm how rare & extraordinary the #HunterBiden plea deal is. Indeed, the deal violates DOJ Tax official policy, where Biden’s DOJ prohibit prosecutors from even offering this deal to people who did far less than Hunter.

https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1671235435404877824


15 posted on 06/20/2023 12:41:49 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: Lakeside Granny

Hunter should be jailed and that too will negatively effect Brandon, and probably in a worse way. This is because since he gets a sweetheart deal the MSM will barely cover it and instead spin it that it was a slap on the wrist because the offense was so minor.


16 posted on 06/20/2023 12:41:51 PM PDT by inchworm (al )
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Tucker Carlson Episode 5: As in most of the developing world, it’s safer to be the president’s son than his opponent.

Twitter ^ | 6/20/2023 | Tucker Carlson
Posted on 6/20/2023, 12:41:26 PM by SauronOfMordor

Tucker covers the Hunter Biden plea deal!

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


17 posted on 06/20/2023 12:49:21 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, who state things as fact, but really have no idea nor reality!)
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To: inchworm

Hunter will NEVER be jailed, just wishful thinking.


18 posted on 06/20/2023 12:50:52 PM PDT by Lakeside Granny (Vote RED~R.emove E.very D.emocrat~D&S)
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To: Lakeside Granny

We know the FBI and the DOJ violate their own laws and policies every day of the week. They make exceptions for whoever they want.


19 posted on 06/20/2023 12:50:56 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: inchworm

Biden LIED ALL THROUGH THE 2020 election.

FACT.


20 posted on 06/20/2023 12:51:39 PM PDT by Pearfect
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