{"id":9607,"date":"2023-10-04T01:46:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T01:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/04\/hunter-biden-enters-plea-to-gun-charges-what-about-his-other-suspected-crimes\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T01:46:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T01:46:57","slug":"hunter-biden-enters-plea-to-gun-charges-what-about-his-other-suspected-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/04\/hunter-biden-enters-plea-to-gun-charges-what-about-his-other-suspected-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden enters plea to gun charges. What about his other suspected crimes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Joe Biden\u2019s son Hunter pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal gun charges in Delaware.\u00a0But his high-priced lawyers plan to argue that the earlier \u2018sweetheart\u2019 plea deal is legally enforceable so that their client should never be tried and, thereby, skate on any prison time.<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t work.\u00a0It was a crooked deal that imploded in July when a suspicious judge exposed a hidden immunity clause buried in the ancillary documents.\u00a0At that point, Hunter\u2019s attorneys announced in court that they were \u2018tearing up\u2019 the agreement.\u00a0 Now they want to paste it back together.\u00a0Good luck with that.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that then-U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who appears to have been acting covertly as a member of Hunter\u2019s defense team, agreed to the deal.\u00a0But under the law, that\u2019s not enough.\u00a0 It must be approved by the probation officer, who declined to do so.\u00a0 Judge Maryellen Noreika also refused to accept the plea.\u00a0 That makes it dead as a doornail.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Veteran defense attorney Abbe Lowell, meanwhile, is prepping Plan B.\u00a0He\u2019ll claim that the gun law is an unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment by citing a recent decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that tossed out the criminal conviction of a marijuana user who possessed a gun.\u00a0 Ironically, Joe Biden\u2019s solicitor general is appealing the very ruling that the president\u2019s son wants to rely on.<\/p>\n

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Regardless, the Fifth Circuit\u2019s pronouncement covers Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi.\u00a0 It is not binding on Delaware, although the U.S. Supreme Court may have the final say on its validity.\u00a0 But that still leaves two separate counts of making false statements, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years behind bars upon conviction.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

If the past is prologue, Weiss \u2014who was elevated by Attorney General Merrick Garland to special counsel\u2014 won\u2019t let that happen.\u00a0 He\u2019ll likely conjure up another lenient deal or otherwise drag his feet by letting the case collect dust balls through the upcoming election cycle.<\/p>\n

How do we know this?\u00a0Because Weiss spent five years dithering in the face of compelling evidence that Hunter committed far more serious felonies of influence peddling, bribery, conspiracy, money laundering, foreign lobbying crimes, obstruction of justice, tax fraud and tax evasion.\u00a0 Those schemes netted tens of millions of dollars from overseas adversaries by appearing to sell access to Joe Biden and promises of future influence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet, no charges have ever been brought.\u00a0Indeed, Weiss deliberately allowed the statutes of limitations to run on many of the suspected crimes.\u00a0 Hunter\u2019s lawyers were tipped off about a surprise interview.\u00a0 A search of Hunter\u2019s storage locker was halted despite probable cause being established.\u00a0Privileged information was secretly divulged.\u00a0 Investigators were blocked from asking about Joe Biden\u2019s involvement, instructed to ignore Hunter\u2019s incriminating laptop, and told to ignore the immense paper trail of overseas wire transfers.\u00a0 A written agreement to bring six felony charges against Hunter was scuttled.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Who does that?\u00a0 A corrupt or incompetent U.S. Attorney who\u2019s been running an obvious protection racket to shield his boss, the president, who is implicated as complicit in his son\u2019s scams and schemes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Weiss almost got away with it until two IRS whistleblowers stepped forward to reveal the chicanery.\u00a0 They informed Congress of the constant political interference and preferential treatment that slow-walked the investigation, suppressed evidence, and diverted the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now exposed, perhaps Weiss has experienced an epiphany.\u00a0 Maybe he will suddenly embrace the rule of law and aggressively pursue the escalating evidence of pervasive crimes committed.<\/p>\n

But something tells me that lottery tickets are a better bet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Gregg Jarrett is a Fox News legal analyst and commentator, and formerly worked as a defense attorney and adjunct law professor. His new book, \u2018The Trial of the Century,\u2019 about the famous \u2018Scopes Monkey Trial\u2019 is available in bookstores nationwide or can be ordered online at the Simon & Schuster website. \u00a0Jarrett\u2019s upcoming book, \u2018The Constitution of the United States and Other Patriotic Documents,\u2019 will be published by Broadside Books, a division of HarperCollins on November 14, 2023. \u00a0Gregg is the author of the No. 1 New York Times best-selling book \u2018The Russia Hoax: The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump.\u2019 His follow-up book was also a New York Times bestseller, \u2018Witch Hunt: The Story of the Greatest Mass Delusion in American Political History.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President Joe Biden\u2019s son Hunter pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal gun charges in Delaware.\u00a0But his high-priced lawyers plan to argue that the earlier \u2018sweetheart\u2019 plea deal is legally enforceable so that their client should never be tried and, thereby, skate on any prison time. It won\u2019t work.\u00a0It was a crooked deal that imploded in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}