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A Minnesota judge has taken the rare move of rejecting a negotiated plea agreement that would have allowed a man to avoid prison time for his role in a deadly attempted carjacking in Minneapolis. Hennepin County District Judge Michael Burns said Monday that he didn't believe 20-year-old Husayn Braveheart was "particularly amenable to probation" or that Braveheart had a "significantly lesser role" in the crime, as prosecutors and his public defender said.

'A selection of documents and answers remain unclear.' Gov. Ron DeSantis visited New York City for the annual commemoration of the 9/11 terror attacks 22 years ago. And the Florida Governor and 2024 presidential candidate is calling on the current President to make public information that is currently classified about how those attacks came to happen. “And now, decades later, we as a nation still owe full transparency and accountability to these grieving families. Yet too many politicians have broken past promises to them, and that is wholly unacceptable,” DeSantis said. DeSantis called on President Joe Biden “to publicly commit...

With David Weiss' promotion to special counsel, the future of the Hunter Biden probe appears unclear. Charges have been officially dropped in Delaware as part of a stated plan to charge the president's son in another jurisdiction. That begs the question of why the charges were ever in Delaware in the first place if they supposedly don't belong there now. If it feels like the DOJ is hoping to draw a less-skeptical judge to rubber stamp yet another sweetheart plea deal, that's probably because that's what appears to be happening. A recent leak revealed that while the FBI believes it...

The U.S. ambassador to Australia said there could be a “resolution” to the Justice Department’s pursuit of Assange. THE UNITED STATES is considering a plea deal that would allow WikiLeaks founder and whistleblower Julian Assange to return to Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday. U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy told the Morning Herald that there could be a “resolution” to Assange’s now-four-year detention in Britain. Assange, an Australian citizen, has been held in a London prison since 2019 while combating U.S. extradition efforts. He faces 18 criminal charges in the U.S., 17 of which allege violations of the...

Chris Tigani, a Delaware businessman who served two years in prison for illegal campaign donations to Joe Biden, is speaking out to ensure Hunter Biden is held to the same legal standard that landed himself and other Americans who committed similar offenses behind bars. "They were protecting the Bidens then, they’re protecting the Bidens now, and I think the evidence is overwhelming," Tigani said on "The Story" Tuesday. In 2007, Tigani, a prominent Delaware liquor distributor, said he was approached by Hunter Biden and his late brother Beau, who requested $75,000 to cover the cost of billboards in Iowa for...

Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal blew up epically. That now leaves everything on the table in terms of charges, as well as looking into Joe Biden’s connections to the scandal. We saw that on Monday as the House Oversight Committee interviewed Hunter Biden’s former partner Devon Archer. Archer confirmed Joe Biden was talking on the speakerphone into meetings, and that was the “big guy.” He also revealed information about another Chinese connection and the bizarre comment Hunter made about the Biden name and “handsome Aryan godlike men.” We will likely find out more about what he said, particularly when the...

George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley persuasively argued the Biden Justice Department was being too cute by half when prosecutors crafted a very lenient plea deal for Hunter Biden. But the judge overseeing the case would not let the deceptive gamesmanship stand. Biden was expected to plead guilty .. to two misdemeanor tax evasion charges and one illegal gun possession charge and likely do little or no jail time. The deal appeared to come together quickly in June as the GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee’s hearings into Biden’s overseas business dealings continued to heat up. However, the deal fell...

I found this a very entertaining read especially every time judge Maryellen Noreika asks Hunter "Do You Understand"? - Yes your Honor. I grabbed this from politico and turned it into a more reader friendly PDF. Hope y'all enjoy. -Roll Tide!

This video does a great job explaining exactly what happened step by step with the emails that went back and forth...

In yet another astonishing “coincidence,” the U.S. government conveniently scheduled their UFO hearings on the same day that Hunter Biden’s entire plea agreement fell apart.Normally, they would indict President Trump with a new crime on such occasions, but this time they opted for a different distraction, using aliens as a cover-up.Unfortunately for them, it didn’t succeed. Americans have become so skeptical and disillusioned with a corrupt and tyrannical government that they either don’t believe anything they say or simply don’t care.

VIDEOIt was the Mother of all CORRUPT sweetheart deals. Unfortunately what was supposed to be a joyous day for the media in which Hunter Biden would only get an incredibly mild slap on the wrist turned out to be a disaster when the plea deal collapsed because one judge they thought could be relied upon to rubber stamp it turned on them in a surprise move. Watch the tragic faces of the media due the the plea deal collapse.

The plea agreement fell apart Wednesday when Hunter’s lawyers realized it wouldn’t grant broad immunity for other crimes.The twists and turns of Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal have been hard to follow, but it’s been clear from the outset that, like his business ventures in Ukraine, the deal was thoroughly corrupt. It’s now clear that the agreement was never meant primarily to shield Hunter from future prosecution, but to protect President Joe Biden.In a Delaware federal court on Wednesday, Hunter’s lawyers ended up rejecting a plea deal once it became clear the deal would not confer broad immunity on the...

DOJ prosecutors said Hunter Biden is currently under investigation Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart during his first court appearance Wednesday morning and pleaded "not guilty" as federal prosecutors confirmed the president's son is still under federal investigation. The president's son was expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax, as part of plea deal to avoid jail time on a felony gun charge. But Judge Maryellen Noreika did not accept the plea agreement, questioning the constitutionality--specifically the diversion clause and the immunity Hunter Biden would receive. The judge pressed federal...

U.S. — According to sources, Hunter Biden's plea deal fell through in court today after his bribery check to the judge bounced due to insufficient funds. "We are disappointed with the judge's decision, but we are confident things will be made right once another transfer from Ukraine clears in one of Hunter's offshore accounts," said Biden's legal team. "This is just a minor hiccup." At publishing time, anonymous sources had confirmed that this afternoon's "coke and hookers plea deal celebration" had become a "coke and hookers strategy session."

Hunter Biden's plea deal has appeared to collapse in a stunning turn of events in a federal court in Delaware. The president's scandal-hit son has said 'yes, your honor' when asked by the judge if he was going to plead guilty, and admitted he's been to rehab six times in 20 years for addiction to drinking and drugs. But then the judge demanded a recess when an agreement between prosecutors and attorneys for the president's son appeared to fall apart. He said he was first treated for alcohol abuse in 2003 and was last in an in-patient facility in 2018,...

A nonprofit research group which combed through Hunter Biden’s laptop has sent a letter to the judge overseeing the First Son’s tax fraud case, urging her to reject the plea deal offered by prosecutors.Marco Polo, which put emails from the laptop online and wrote a 630-page report summarizing its contents, said that judges are not obligated to accept plea deals even if prosecutors and the defendant agree on them, and that “not only will the plea deal in front of you, if accepted, make a mockery of the phrase ‘slap on the wrist,’ but it will also send a sobering...

Hunter Biden would dial in his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on speakerphone into meetings with his overseas business partners, according to testimony expected before Congress this week from Devon Archer, the first son’s former best friend. Archer, 48, who is facing jail for his role in a $60 million bond fraud, is scheduled to testify to the House Oversight Committee about meetings he witnessed that were attended by Joe Biden either in person or via speakerphone when Hunter would call his father and introduce him to foreign business partners or prospective investors. snip ‘Can you ring your DAD?’ Soon...

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley blasted the sweetheart plea deal Hunter Biden struck with federal prosecutors Tuesday, which was limited to tax crimes and a firearm violation and will likely allow the president’s son to dodge prison time. President Joe Biden’s son was charged with two federal misdemeanor counts for failing to pay taxes and one felony count of improper firearm possession. As part of the deal, Hunter won’t even be prosecuted on that last charge as long as he avoids drugs for two years and never owns another firearm. The gentle treatment from the Justice Department, said Grassley, “cannot...

WILMINGTON, DE — Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, has successfully negotiated an agreement with federal prosecutors to avoid jail time for charges of tax and firearm crimes by pleading "Biden." "It's an airtight legal defense," said CNN legal analyst Laura Coates. "Our sources have reported Hunter's attorneys met with prosecutors and simply said ‘Our client's last name is Biden,' at which point prosecutors agreed to forego any jail time for the charges. Prosecutors knew they could do nothing against the ‘I'm a Biden' defense tactic. It works every time." Hunter's legal team defended the deal against claims of...

A Jewish man who was beaten by a mob in a hate attack in Midtown told a courtroom Tuesday he couldn’t “fathom” why his attacker got a plea deal from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office — as the assailant was handed an 18-month prison term. Joseph Borgen, 31, delivered a fiery victim impact statement at the Manhattan Supreme Court sentencing of Waseem Awawdeh, 24, for attacking Borgen during a clash between Israel and Palestine supporters on May, 20, 2021. “Why is he getting a break? I really can’t fathom why he’s getting a deal. Me, personally, I wanted to go...