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Trump's Legal Troubles Are On Hold. Biden's Are Only Just Beginning
Newsweek ^ | June 07, 2024 | Ewan Palmer

Posted on 06/07/2024 9:51:03 AM PDT by Red Badger

In a twist of events, President Joe Biden may be the one spending the rest of the year worrying about legal issues, rather than his 2024 rival Donald Trump.

Trump is heading into November's election having become the first current or former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony charges in his hush money trial.

However, it now seems likely that the former president will not stand trial in the other three criminal cases he is involved in before November's rematch with Biden. The classified documents case, the Georgia 2020 election interference investigation and the federal probe into the events which led up to the January 6 attack are all indefinitely on hold pending various appeals and legal arguments.

In comparison, the president's son Hunter Biden is currently on trial in Delaware facing federal gun charges, becoming the first child of a sitting president to be a criminal defendant. Hunter Biden is also set to go on trial in California in September over allegations he failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019, just weeks before the 2024 Election takes place.

Biden has so far distanced himself from his son's legal issues to avoid distraction, with first lady Jill Biden attending proceedings in Delaware instead. In a statement ahead of the gun trial, Biden expressed his "boundless love for my son, confidence in him, and respect for his strength."

Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to charges of making false statements that he was not a drug user on a federal form while purchasing a firearm in 2018, and of illegal gun possession while being a drug user.

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


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1 posted on 06/07/2024 9:51:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

“10% for the Big Guy.”


2 posted on 06/07/2024 9:52:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Biden has so far distanced himself from his son’s legal issues to avoid distraction,“

Yeah that’s why, to avoid distraction. Newsweak is a joke


3 posted on 06/07/2024 9:58:18 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: gibsonguy

That’s why “Doctor” Jill and the rest of the Biden crime family are there every day. To prevent a “distraction.”


4 posted on 06/07/2024 10:00:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Red Badger

Smith, Willis and Bragg were so very very smart in timing their cases for trials during the campaign. I was admitted to the bar more than 30 years ago, and the one thing I’ve learned is to plan on delay, even long delay. As to Bragg succeeding in getting his case to trial—- how has that worked out. And if Merchand pulls the trigger I can’t think of a better way to drive home the point about the corrupt trial, especially since I would anticipate that the appellate department would stay execution of sentence pending appeal. Even if not and Trump were in a double wide at Rikers, or on home detention at Mar a Lago, remote rallies or rallies headlined by surrogates since Trump wpuld be a political prisoner would be glorious


5 posted on 06/07/2024 10:00:12 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: gibsonguy

how much distance was there when visited hunter’s ex-wife?

a witness in the trial


6 posted on 06/07/2024 10:05:09 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: j.havenfarm

and this time he’ll raise $4 billion, not $400 million


7 posted on 06/07/2024 10:08:14 AM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: gibsonguy

More propaganda from a only propaganda aka “Fake News Source!”.


8 posted on 06/07/2024 10:10:16 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If voting made any difference, they wouldn't allow us to vote! Our 6th Jan PROTESTERS stood up! )
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Rats are in charge of all ‘legal controlling authorities’…no problem…


9 posted on 06/07/2024 10:12:53 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Red Badger

Let’s hope so, I have been a little concerned about momentum and timing in the race, peaking too soon, etc.


10 posted on 06/07/2024 10:14:17 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Red Badger

The Biden charges ignore laundering of foreign bribes, election interference, etc., and focus on relatively trivial matters.


11 posted on 06/07/2024 10:15:54 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Red Badger
No one in the press ever accuses Der Bribeme of bribery to his face, a man who has clearly had his family collect bribes for him. Compare that with the way the MSM constantly accuses Trump of everything under the sun without any proof of anything.

People are sick and tired of the double standard practiced by the utterly biased left wing democrat media. These Hunter Biden trials are designed to take the heat off of Joe and deflect to his son's legal issues. But just look at the venue he gets compared to Trump. This all plays into Trump's hands and boosts his favorability with everyone who can still think straight. The democrats are looking like asinine kooks as usual

12 posted on 06/07/2024 10:32:53 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Wagging the dog...................


13 posted on 06/07/2024 10:34:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I think the main reason they did a 180 on Hunter was so selective facts from the laptop and elsewhere can now be used to force Biden to step aside (which was the plan all along until Jill changed his “mind”).


14 posted on 06/07/2024 10:43:02 AM PDT by bigbob
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Jill will be the deciding factor.

She will not allow him to exit the race.

She enjoys the perks and the power.

Obama may be pulling the strings on his ‘meat puppet’ but Jill is the one guiding them......................


15 posted on 06/07/2024 10:46:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

“Obama may be pulling the strings on his ‘meat puppet’”

Obama pulls no strings. He was a puppet of the powerful!


16 posted on 06/07/2024 10:48:41 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Red Badger

There are probably a lot of Democrats that want Biden to step down. The real “puppet masters” though, want to keep all of their power, and if another democrat steps in they risk losing some of their power at the minimum. This includes Jill, and all the other incompetent freaks in his administration.


17 posted on 06/07/2024 10:53:16 AM PDT by aklurker (F )
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To: TexasGator
Yep.

His payoff was $60,000,000 for a ghost written book and $1,000,000,000 from Netflix to "create and produce", again, ghost written.

He's just a conduit, to Xiden as Jarrett is to Soetoro.

18 posted on 06/07/2024 11:02:28 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual. )
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To: Red Badger

Kyle Rittenhouse says: “Newsweek is gay.”


19 posted on 06/07/2024 11:06:02 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: j.havenfarm

That judge was not even on the rotation. Yet somehow he and only he was “randomly” selected to preside over several cases involving Trump.


20 posted on 06/07/2024 11:06:22 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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