Posted on 06/06/2024 11:01:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Thursday he was shocked by how quickly Hunter Biden’s various defenses in his gun trial have “collapsed.”
Biden’s trial began Monday and he is confronting three federal gun charges brought by Special Counsel David Weiss in September, which include providing false statements and knowingly possessing a gun while being addicted to drugs. Turley asserted on “America’s Newsroom” that the prosecution effectively countered Biden attorney Abbe Lowell’s argument that his client’s laptop, which is a key piece of evidence in the trial, is not fully authentic as well as the argument that Biden was not using drugs when he signed paperwork to purchase a gun.
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“The prosecution is doing an amazingly good job in my view,” Turley said. “This is a very disciplined case. What’s really astonishing is how fast all of the defenses put forward by Abbe Lowell collapsed within 48 hours. There was a long argument that the laptop was tampered with. They put on an agent saying there’s no tampering here. This is real and authentic. They said that Hunter Biden wasn’t doing drugs when he signed that. They have a text of him the next day trying to score drugs from a guy named Mookie, and a day after that, doing drugs on the hood of a car, according to a text.”
Corporate media, Big Tech, former intelligence officials and then-candidate Joe Biden cast doubt on the laptop’s authenticity in October of 2020, but now prosecutors are using it as important evidence during the trial.
“And all these other witnesses saying ‘of course he was an addict, he was doing crack every 20 minutes when I knew him.’ They then said well, ‘maybe someone else filled out the form.’ You had Mr. Cleveland say ‘I watched him fill out the form. I told him to take his time.’ So every one of these defenses collapsed shortly after they were stated by the defense. And that leads to this question of why, why isn’t he just pleading guilty? This is an open and shut case,” Turley added.
“It’s obvious he was doing drugs and that he had signed the form falsely,” he continued. “That might keep him out of jail. It certainly would have avoided an embarrassing trial. The answer is, this is Biden town. This is a Biden who is standing trial in his hometown and this is the opposite of Manhattan. Here the jury pool could not be better for the defendant. I think the defense is using a nullification strategy.”
Prosecutors obtained messages and material from Biden’s abandoned laptop, which is now considered real despite the previous assertions before the 2020 election, showing it to the jury as evidence of the defendant’s drug use around the period of purchasing the gun in 2018, according to CNN. Criminal defense attorney Bernarda Villalona suggested Biden plead guilty on Monday, asserting Weiss’ evidence against him is “strong” and that it may be his “best” course of action to evade incarceration.
Biden also faces nine federal tax charges, including tax evasion and tax fraud for tax years 2016 through 2019, according to the indictment against him. The president’s son’s attorneys appealed the case, but Judge Mark Scarsi denied it, with the trial slated to start on June 20.
Daddy will pardon him......................
Says Turley, who has been wrong about everything every time.
Not wrong based on the old paradigm, just the new one where only being a Democrat is legal.
BTT
“The prosecution is doing an amazingly good job in my view,” Turley said. “This is a very disciplined case.
I happen to like Turley all things considered as he seems very fair, IMHO.
But I’m having trouble with the “disciplined case”. Unlike Pres Trump, where they fabricated crap out of thin air, this case is literally ‘black and white’(if he used a pen to fill out the 4473).
It doesn’t get any easier.
To me the sinister aspect is, all the other criminal activity that is documented on a laptop that is real and has not been tampered with. Proof that the FBI and DOJ is covering other crimes that are more serious than lying on a 4473
I'm actually hoping the jury acquits him. Then people will really see where we are. It's the perfect bookend to Trump's kangaroo conviction.
If he’s found guilty and daddy does pardon him, I think it will make daddy look even WORSE in the public eye. Daddy is scum. Sonny boy is scum, jr.
Trump was innocent and yet convicted. Hunter is guilty and the jury will nullify and be hung and he’ll get off.
Any wonder why people think we have a two-tiered justice system?
The only defense he needs, and the one that he will use (unspoken) and will save him, is “I am a well-known Democrat, so the law doesn’t apply to me.”
I see it as a lose lose no matter what happens (for him)
The public now can see how they covered up his laptop, and how it is yet ANOTHER hoax played on the American people, just like Russia Collusion.
Or, simply, not guilty.
The jurors give oogly eyes to Hunter no way they convict him
I thought the point “Knowingly” signed the document could be an out.
The women are all in love with him.
Daddy won’t need to do jack. There will be a not guilty verdict.
The Shitocrats are gonna rub our noses in it
$50 and time served
OK $55 and time served
Just to break the monotony
Yeah whats not to love, a guy who molested his niece on camera, a guy who was involved in human trafficking and took pics of himself pulling the hair of prostitutes, what a guy every chick should be grateful to meet a guy like Hunter
The earliest that would/could happen is the day after the election in November
I remember there was a China based website that had videos from the laptop of Hunter doing cocaine while having sex with a Chinese child. Posting a link to the video was not allowed on any social media platform in the United States.
I think that's the likely outcome. The jurors are no more fond of IRS audits than anybody else in the nation at large.
there was a plea agreement
but the judge actually read it and did not approve it
his attorneys in collusion with the prosecutors buried immunity for the more serious charges in the agreement
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