Reaction & Commentary
Willful failure to pay income tax and annotes as well that he agreed to enter a pre-trial diversion agreement for the felony crime of using a controlled substance while possessing a firearm now the free trial agreement means that charge can be dropped if he goes through alternative treatment programs tax
Evasion can be a serious charge under normal circumstances remember back in 2008 actually actor Wesley Snipes he was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion but hunter Biden is probably going to avoid that he’s expected to go on probation but avoid jail time and
Although the judge as well as gonna have the final will say on the sentencing so we’ll see what happens but this really means something else Hunters charges are going exactly as critics expected they would in fact here’s cash Patel predicting this exact outcome last month and the prediction I
Have made is that I believe Hunter Biden will be charged and soon but I think they’ll roll it up into what we call this Global plea agreement where he basically gets charged with some Mickey Mouse lower level offenses walks into a super light sentence and then they will cover up the cover-up Merrick
Garland and Company will go to the podium and say we prosecuted Joe Biden’s son even though he’s the president of the United States and they’ll gloss over the fact that any other individual who committed those crimes would have been treated differently that’s the that’s what I think is happening right now
That’s why I think that meeting occurred um because I think the lawyers some of whom I know are smart enough to realize that there’s no way he can’t get charged with anything President Biden argued that his son was innocent in fact he declared last month an msnbc’s 11th Hour that my
Son has done nothing wrong sir there is something personal that’s affecting you your son while there’s no ties to you could be charged by your Department of Justice how will that impact your presidency first of all my son’s done nothing wrong I trust him I have faith in him and it
Impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him now as for president Donald Trump well it’s another story he’s comparing it to the charges he’s facing under the same Department of Justice and he wrote this on Truth social wow the corrupt Biden doj just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability
By giving Hunter Biden a mere traffic ticket our system is broken now Trump’s sentiment is being echoed among Republicans in fact house Speaker house Speaker McCarthy said the hunter charges represent another example of what he calls a two-tiered system of justice he said if you’re the president’s son you get a sweetheart
Deal but if you’re the president’s opponent well the system will find anything it can to put you behind bars my first reaction is it continues to show the two-tier system in America if you are the president’s leading political opponent doj tries to literally put you in jail and give you
Present time if you are the president’s son you get a sweetheart now this does nothing to our investigation it actually should enhance our investigation because the doj should not be able to withhold any information now saying that because a pending investigation they should be able to provide chairman Comer with any
Information that he requires now for a hunter the plea deal does not mean he’s out of the woods in fact he’s still being investigated by House Republicans over allegations of things including influence peddling allegations of bribery and many other things as well according to Kevin McCarthy however the Department of Justice has been
Withholding evidence from the investigative committees as McCarthy notes it’ll now be harder for the doj to withhold that evidence when they’re trying to use the excuse of an ongoing investigation into Hunter which they were using before they can’t just hand over the evidence that might damage the doj’s investigation that was the narrative
But it appears Republicans actually spoke too soon on that despite the plea deal with Hunter the doj is keeping the investigations open this means they can still technically use the excuse of an ongoing investigation to continue blocking the house investigation now Catherine Herridge at CBS pointed
This out in fact she posted the doj announcement on Twitter which states this David C wise U.S attorney for the District of Delaware made the announcement the investigation is ongoing now despite that the House Republicans say this will not stop their investigations representative James Comer of Kentucky who’s chairman of the
House oversight committee said this on Twitter he wrote Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the house oversight committee reveals the bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption influence peddling and possibly bribery representative Comer also released a full statement on the case which
Represents a more official notice on the house investigation he wrote these charges against Hunter Biden and the sweetheart plea deal have no impact on the oversight committee’s investigation we will not rest until the full extent of President Biden’s involvement in the family’s schemes are revealed now when
It comes to the investigations and the charges being brought against Donald Trump there’s been a common factor every time it appears that legal precedence is being thrown right out the window with Hunter Biden however this seems to be the case as well only with Hunter Biden the disregard for legal precedence
Appears to be acting for him rather than against him former U.S attorney Brett Tolman actually the director of right on crime he alleged in a Twitter thread saying this the doj is violating its own internal policies on this case the Ashcroft memo requires they charge the highest provable offense and seek
Consistent sentences with other cases brought by doj now Tolman alleges that the doj appears to be ignoring Decades of policy and precedent to seek felonies not misdemeanors and seek sentences within the guideline range the diversion agreement on the felony offense in fact to everyone not politically connected he
Said who sought diversion and were literally laughed at by the doj on the gun charge for example with one drop for Hunter Tolman notes that under the doj’s project safe neighborhoods program they bragged about putting other people in prison for five years on average Bridge he notes if they followed policy Hunter
Would be looking at a minimum of five years in federal prison but he’s a Biden now as for Trump he was recently hit with a gag order on releasing documents or information on his current charges for the classified documents allegations and the judge in the case also recently
Fast-tracked the trial it’s now just eight weeks away on August 14th although legal observers will have noted as well the trial most likely pushed back even further but the case and the potential court date could interfere with Trump’s ability to campaign for 2024. the first 2024 Republican presidential debate
That’s going to be held on August 23rd in Milwaukee and questions are being raised as to whether he’ll be able under a gag order for that time at debate or even maybe a travel ban as well now regardless of how things unfold from here both the hunter case and the
Charges against Trump are likely going to impact the 2024 elections for Trump at least so far the polls suggest the charges are actually ironically helping his campaign for Biden however whether the doj’s handling of the case against Hunter it’s going to affect his campaign or not while that’s yet to be seen
Well stay tuned after the break special counsel John Durham has testified before Congress today on the crossfire hurricane Scandal we’re gonna have Jeff Carlson co-host of Truth over news on to discuss
