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Hunter Biden’s Tax Trial Starts This Week. He Faces Up To 17 Years In Prison.
Daily Caller ^ | 9/2/24 | Katelynn Richardson

Posted on 09/03/2024 3:28:07 AM PDT by CFW

Hunter Biden’s tax trial is slated to begin this week in a California federal court.

Hunter Biden faces up to 17 years in prison for nine charges — three felonies and six misdemeanors — related to his alleged failure to pay over $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019. Rather than paying his taxes, prosecutors allege he spent his substantial income on an “extravagant lifestyle,” including “drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature.”

Like his gun trial in June, where prosecutors secured a conviction on all three felony counts, this should be a “slam-dunk case” for prosecutors since the evidence of guilt is “overwhelming,” John Malcolm, vice president of the Heritage Foundation’s Institute for Constitutional Government, told the Daily Caller News Foundation

“As was also the case with the gun trial, I expect Hunter’s legal team to present a sympathy defense premised on his addiction struggles in an attempt at jury nullification or, at the very least, persuading one juror not to convict which would result in a mistrial,” he said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abbelowell; alfordplea; corruption; dojfbi; hunterbiden; joebiden; markscarsi
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Nothing from corporate media on the trial. Can you imagine if it was Eric or Donald Trump Jr? All other programming would be suspended and we would have wall to wall live coverage.
1 posted on 09/03/2024 3:28:07 AM PDT by CFW
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Up to 17 years? Yah,sure! Seems to me that most members of the Biden Crime Family can count on a Presidential pardon later this year or early next year. But how about The Big Guy himself? He probably can't pardon himself so he'll have to depend on Heels Up Harris. If she loses he'll have to resign the Presidency in Nov/Dec/Jan,making her President. If she wins she'll very probably make all the family's problems go away with a call to her AG.
2 posted on 09/03/2024 3:35:40 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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He will never serve a day...


3 posted on 09/03/2024 3:36:55 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Mummy jill has been in control of the biden brand since about 20 years ago.

barack chose jill, not joe.

Nothing will happen to hunter.

4 posted on 09/03/2024 3:37:18 AM PDT by knarf
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Where can
I hire a protester like the Dems do to picket Hunters trial with a “Pay Your Fair Share” sign? Not subscribing to that just want to turn the tables


5 posted on 09/03/2024 3:39:52 AM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Just a humble view....the stress on Hunter is great. He has to be doing a fair amount of cocaine daily. I think he’ll just have a heart attack one night, and the whole process ends at that point.


6 posted on 09/03/2024 3:41:45 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Altura Ct.

Joe Biden will pardon Hunter Biden on January 19 or January 20, 2025

On everything


7 posted on 09/03/2024 3:42:10 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Joe will be told to pardon him after the November election for all crimes.


8 posted on 09/03/2024 3:43:50 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The reason Biden endorsed Harris to replace him is to assure that she will pardon him and his family. If internal polling keeps showing her losing the election, then in late September he can step down in order to try to give her a boost. She can then pardon the entire Biden family, including Joe, in return.


9 posted on 09/03/2024 3:47:51 AM PDT by CFW
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Re a sympathy defense

I always thought drug addiction was a choice made knowing the consequences. You’d have to be a hermit not to understand that…or completely stupid. At any rate I suppose if that’s all you have then that’s what you must go with. To me it’s a very weak defense.


10 posted on 09/03/2024 3:56:28 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: SaveFerris
oe Biden will pardon Hunter Biden on January 19 or January 20, 2025

On everything

Joe might pardon him the day after the trial ends.

11 posted on 09/03/2024 3:58:58 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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I have no problem believing that he does a kilo of cocaine each day. I’d wager that he’s been doing so for years. But stress? He knows that he’s as safe as a kitten.


12 posted on 09/03/2024 4:07:17 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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You know, some people will do almost anything to gain sympathy....

Death seems like such a grand gesture, until a person really has to act. But self-induced disability is almost as good, and you get to thumb your nose at the world afterwards.


13 posted on 09/03/2024 4:10:20 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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Every time I hear “Fortunate son” on the radio I think of Hunter.

Written about him 10 years before he was born.


14 posted on 09/03/2024 4:14:51 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Of course. They have no shame.

Or November 12


15 posted on 09/03/2024 4:15:52 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Oh, sure he does. Two months probation and a $500 fine.


16 posted on 09/03/2024 4:16:48 AM PDT by anton
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If convicted does the law mandate a prison sentence? Or is
a sentence of something less than prison possible?


17 posted on 09/03/2024 4:27:21 AM PDT by deport
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That dope addict isn't facing anything. Who writes this crap? They'll imprison a praying grandmother who's trying to save infant's lives, but high profile RATs always get a pass. Always.

And we need to take the blindfold off Lady Justice. That's a joke.

18 posted on 09/03/2024 4:28:02 AM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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Will he spill the beans on obama? Or does he have kamaltoes promise to pardon him? But what if he reads the paper and realizes, her honeymoon is over and she is slinking into oblivion?


19 posted on 09/03/2024 4:32:42 AM PDT by weezel
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In June 2024, she accompanied her husband to his trial on federal gun charges, where he was found guilty on all 3 counts in Wilmington, Delaware. During a break in the trial on June 4, she confronted Garrett Ziegler, a former aide to President Donald Trump, outside the courtroom. Cohen approached Ziegler, pointed her finger at him and said in a loud voice, “You have no right to be here, you Nazi piece of shit.” Her husband had filed a lawsuit against Ziegler, who has been compiling a searchable database of emails discovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop, in September 2023.[16][17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Cohen_Biden


20 posted on 09/03/2024 4:40:38 AM PDT by deport
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