<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>&#8216;s law license in Washington, D.C., has been suspended after the first son was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-guilty-on-all-counts-in-gun-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found guilty</a> on all charges in his federal gun trial in Delaware earlier this month.
A D.C. Court of Appeals <a href="https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1805619568511000853" target="_blank" rel="noopener">order</a> on Tuesday said Biden is &#8220;suspended immediately from the practice of law &#8230; pending resolution of this matter&#8221; following his conviction on three felony counts that appear to be &#8220;serious crimes&#8221; as defined by D.C. Bar rules.
Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, who signed the order, also said the Board on Professional Responsibility is &#8220;directed to institute a formal proceeding to determine the nature of the offense and whether it involves moral turpitude.&#8221;
Biden has <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/18/hunter-biden-law-license-suspended/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> been a member of the D.C. bar since 2007, though CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/politics/hunter-biden-law-license-suspended/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that he has worked as an attorney in recent years as he sought income from other ventures, such as his 2021 memoir called &#8220;Beautiful Things&#8221; and his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-ethics-nightmare-hunter-biden-art-gallerist-interviewed-by-house-investigators" target="_blank" rel="noopener">art career</a>.
A disciplinary office in the nation&#8217;s capital <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/disciplinary-office-proposes-suspension-hunter-045011817.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommended</a> that Biden&#8217;s law license be suspended a little more than a week after the 54-year-old was convicted of lying on paperwork for a revolver and owning the firearm while being a drug addict in 2018.
Court records <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/06/25/us-news/hunter-bidens-dc-law-license-suspended-after-gun-conviction-in-latest-blow-to-first-son/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a> by the New York Post <a href="https://www.jud.ct.gov/attorneyfirminquiry/JurisDetail.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicate</a> that Biden also has a law license in Connecticut that has been placed on administrative suspension for a failure to pay a fee.
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The verdict in the gun trial could land Biden in prison for up to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-faces-up-to-25-years-in-prison-if-convicted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25 years</a> and lead to fines as high as $750,000. However, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/18/hunter-biden-law-license-suspended/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that Biden probably will receive a lighter sentence because he is a first-time offender.
Attorneys for Biden submitted a filing on Monday requesting a new trial while arguing that a federal appeals court did not give the trial court formal permission to proceed after dismissing his appeals, <a href="https://t.co/BWNHRbXU3t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Reuters</a>.
President Joe Biden, who is running for a second term in the White House, has said he will not <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-he-wont-pardon-his-son-if-hes-convicted-on-federal-gun-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardon</a> his son or <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-would-not-commute-potential-sentence-son-hunter-biden/story?id=111095314" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commute</a> whatever sentence Hunter may receive.
Hunter Biden is also facing a tax trial in California, which is set to begin in September. The indictments in gun and tax cases, which took shape after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-plea-deal-almost-derails-after-questions-about-scope-of-deal-immunity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collapse of a plea deal last year</a>, are spearheaded by special counsel David Weiss.

Hunter Biden

Hunter Biden’s Law License In D.C. Gets Suspended After Gun Trial Conviction

Hunter Biden's Law License In D.C. Gets Suspended After Gun Trial Conviction

Crime

Delaware

Guns

Joe Biden

U.S.

Washington D.C.

Today, a federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware, found that the president&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-guilty-on-all-counts-in-gun-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">violated the law</a> when he lied about his drug use on a gun store firearms form to obtain a revolver, speed loader, and ammunition in October of 2018.
This was not a particularly close case. Evidence showed, among many other things, that Biden was texting his drug dealer the day before he bought the gun. The upshot, however, is that Hunter Biden becomes the first son of a United States president to become a felon in the history of the country. For much of the national news media, Hunter Biden&#8217;s trial and conviction is proof that the justice system is fair and impartial. Therefore, we should conclude that Donald Trump&#8217;s prosecutions are legitimate.
It&#8217;s fine to imprison the leading presidential frontrunner on a novel and untested legal theory, they say, because the current president&#8217;s son could potentially go to jail for crimes he obviously committed.
A columnist for The Daily Beast, for example, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/hunters-trial-reveals-trumps-big-lie-about-biden-and-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>Hunter Biden’s trial &#8230; shows that Trump’s principal assertion—that he is being unfairly targeted by Joe Biden—doesn’t hold water.</blockquote>
CNN, meanwhile, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/media/hunter-biden-trial-right-wing-media/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran this headline:</a>
<blockquote>Hunter Biden trial shows America’s justice system isn’t so rigged after all.</blockquote>
In order to come to a conclusion like this, you have to ignore the circumstances of how this trial came about, as well as the many crimes Hunter Biden has not been charged with — and, thanks to the DOJ, will never be charged with. Under Joe Biden, the federal government, very simply, did not want to bring this case. And when their hand was forced by two IRS whistleblowers, the federal government did everything they possibly could to protect Joe Biden and to sabotage more serious foreign corruption and tax evasion charges.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1384-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
As the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/us/politics/inside-hunter-biden-plea-deal.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last year, the lead prosecutor on the case, David Weiss, &#8220;appeared willing to forgo any prosecution of Mr. Biden at all, and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charges. But the correspondence reveals that his position, relayed through his staff, changed in the spring, around the time a pair of I.R.S. officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation.&#8221;
One of those whistleblowers, Gary Shapley, <a href="https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Whistleblower-1-Transcript_Redacted.pdf#page=9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleged</a> in an affidavit that:
<blockquote>But the criminal tax investigation of Hunter Biden, led by the United States Attorney&#8217;s Office for the District of Delaware, has been handled differently than any investigation I&#8217;ve ever been a part of for the past 14 years of my IRS service. &#8230; At every stage decisions were made that had the effect of benefiting the subject.</blockquote>
Shapely also stated:
<blockquote>Investigators assigned to this investigation were obstructed from seeing all the available evidence. It is unknown if all the evidence in [Hunter&#8217;s] laptop was reviewed by agents or by prosecutors.</blockquote>
The testimony of Shapley and another whistleblower caused major, unexpected problems for Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ. Their plan to bury the Hunter Biden case entirely was no longer viable.
First of all, the whistleblowers revealed that Merrick Garland may have lied when he told Congress that the DOJ wasn&#8217;t interfering in the Hunter Biden investigation. That had to be resolved immediately.
Secondly, and more importantly, the whistleblowers helped establish a direct link between Hunter Biden&#8217;s criminal activity and Joe Biden&#8217;s actions. 
Here&#8217;s one recent interview, for example:
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Two IRS whistleblowers who investigated Hunter Biden and say they were stopped from following the trail leading to his dad tell their story tomorrow on Full Measure. <a href="https://t.co/hLOnUVJKtI">pic.twitter.com/hLOnUVJKtI</a>
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Confronted with statements like this from whistleblowers, the DOJ had no choice but to bring some kind of charge against Hunter Biden. So they settled on a plan: They would bring a prosecution, and then immediately seek out a plea deal. This deal, as the DOJ envisioned it, would grant Hunter Biden immunity from prosecution for unrelated felonies he may have committed — including potential violations of FARA, or the Foreign Agents Registration Act, relating to his overseas business operations. That&#8217;s the law that was essentially never prosecuted until the DOJ decided to use it to target Trump aides, including Paul Manafort.
In exchange for accepting this plea deal granting him total immunity, Hunter Biden would suffer no actual punishment whatsoever. The deal was too over-the-top, though, which is why it collapsed late last year when a federal judge refused to sign off. The DOJ admitted in court that they couldn&#8217;t think of a similar sweetheart deal ever being offered in the history of federal prosecutions.
So the DOJ was back at square one — but not entirely. Their strategy to absolve Hunter Biden completely may have failed, but their plan to insulate Joe Biden from scrutiny appears to have succeeded.
As Shapely stated in his affidavit, the sabotaged investigative process into Hunter Biden:
<blockquote>… meant no charges would ever be brought in the District of Columbia, where the statute of limitations on the 2014 and &#8217;15 [tax] charges would eventually expire. The years in question included foreign income from [Ukrainian oil company] Burisma and a scheme to evade his income taxes through a partnership with a convicted felon. There were also potential FARA issues relating to 2014 and 2015. The purposeful exclusion of the 2014 and 2015 years sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material facts.</blockquote>
In other words, the government let the statute of limitations on the most serious potential charges — the ones involving Hunter Biden&#8217;s time working at a high-paying, no-show job at a Ukrainian oil company — expire on purpose. And those potential charges aren&#8217;t simply significant because of their impact on Hunter Biden. They&#8217;re significant because, as you may remember, Joe Biden once publicly bragged about getting Ukraine&#8217;s top prosecutor fired. This was the prosecutor who, coincidentally enough, was investigating Burisma at the time. Watch:
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That&#8217;s Joe Biden admitting that, when he was vice president, the U.S. threatened to withhold funding to Ukraine until Ukraine fired its own top prosecutor. You can choose to believe that Joe Biden is just really passionate about ending corruption in eastern Europe or it might be that Joe Biden wanted to take the heat off the corruption that his own family was engaging in.
We&#8217;ll probably never have the evidence of any such corruption now, though — because as Shapely said, 
<blockquote>There is no mechanism available to collect the tax owed by Hunter Biden for 2014 other than in a voluntary fashion.</blockquote>
This is the ultimate goal of the Hunter Biden prosecution. The DOJ isn&#8217;t concerned about this gun case. Their real objective has been to slow-roll their work as much as possible, so that the more serious charges expire. And it&#8217;s very clear, as the whistleblower said, that there&#8217;s a viable reason to investigate not only Hunter Biden for potential FARA violations, but also his father.
Congressional Republicans, for example, have <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/hunter-biden-whatsapp-message-fuels-gop-assertions-corruption/story?id=100338044" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a July 2017 WhatsApp message in which Hunter Biden appears to threaten a Chinese business associate by mentioning his father. According to court documents, Hunter Biden wrote:
<blockquote>I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. … Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. &#8230; And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. &#8230; I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.</blockquote>
So that&#8217;s a conversation that strongly suggests that Joe Biden was directly involved with his son&#8217;s foreign business dealings with a Chinese private equity fund closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party — and that he&#8217;d leverage his influence to secure payouts.
These are the kinds of investigative threads that the DOJ has been working to bury since they obtained Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop all the way back in December of 2019 — as part of an investigation dating back to 2018.
These investigations haven&#8217;t taken so long because they&#8217;re particularly complicated. They&#8217;ve gone on for so long because the federal government has been trying to run out the clock. First they denied that the laptop was even real, then they slow-walked the investigation into its contents. And when two IRS whistleblowers disrupted their plan, they selected the pettiest charges imaginable so that they can obscure the real crimes they desperately don&#8217;t want to investigate.
Hunter Biden was convicted today for only one reason — so that Joe Biden won&#8217;t ever be investigated.

Jury Deliberates In Hunter Biden Gun Trial

Hunter Biden Was Convicted Today, But Not For The Reasons The Media Claims

Court

Criminal Justice

Drugs

Merrick Garland

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>, the son of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>, was found guilty on all charges Tuesday in his federal gun trial in Delaware.
Jurors convicted Hunter Biden, 54, on three felony counts of lying on paperwork for a revolver and owning the firearm while being a drug addict in 2018.
The verdict, reached on the second day of jury deliberations, could land Hunter Biden in prison for up to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-faces-up-to-25-years-in-prison-if-convicted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25 years</a> and lead to fines as high as $750,000.
Hunter Biden was seen walking out of the courthouse while holding hands with first lady Jill Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden after the decision.
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Hunter Biden leaves court hand-in-hand with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and his wife after being found guilty on all counts in his federal gun case. <a href="https://t.co/exmmVXNwhX">pic.twitter.com/exmmVXNwhX</a>
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Sentencing is expected in about four months, <a href="https://x.com/NorahODonnell/status/1800550885829066860" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; anchor Norah O&#8217;Donnell, who noted it could happen around election time.
Hunter Biden, who had pleaded not guilty to the charges, may appeal the decision. His father, President Biden, has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-he-wont-pardon-his-son-if-hes-convicted-on-federal-gun-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vowed</a> not to pardon his son.
The trial lasted a little more than a week. Witnesses included Hunter Biden&#8217;s ex-wife, a former girlfriend, and the gun store clerk who sold him the revolver.
His late brother Beau Biden&#8217;s wife, Hallie Biden, testified about her public disposal of the revolver and being introduced to crack cocaine by Hunter Biden.
Defense lawyers argued there was no evidence of Hunter Biden abusing drugs at the time he applied for the revolver and owned the gun.
Texts <a href="https://x.com/alana_austin/status/1800186110569775187" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presented</a> by prosecutors showed Hunter Biden telling Hallie Biden he was &#8220;smoking crack&#8221; and &#8220;waiting on a dealer&#8221; shortly after he bought the gun.
The defense called Naomi Biden, Hunter Biden&#8217;s daughter, to testify during the trial but the defendant himself never took the stand.
Hunter Biden has also pleaded not guilty to tax charges in California. A trial in that case is set to take place in September.
The indictments in both cases, which took shape after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-plea-deal-almost-derails-after-questions-about-scope-of-deal-immunity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collapse of a plea deal last year</a>, are spearheaded by special counsel David Weiss.
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President Biden, who is running for a second term, released a <a href="https://x.com/tylerpager/status/1800558268013498870" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> after the verdict repeating his pledge to accept the outcome.
&#8220;Jill and I will always be there for Hunter and the rest of our family with our love and support,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Nothing will ever change that.&#8221;

Hunter Biden On Capitol Hill To Challenge House Republicans

Hunter Biden Guilty On All Counts In Gun Case

Politics

Last week, Donald Trump, Biden’s chief political opponent, was convicted on 34 felony counts. And Joe Biden said that the justice system had worked. Any talk about the justice system not working was &#8220;undermining our democracy,&#8221; was &#8220;undermining our institutions.&#8221;
But now, Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter, is in the dock in Wilmington, Delaware, on federal gun charges because it turns out that he pretty clearly lied on his gun registration form when he went to buy a gun.
He clearly was a drug addict. He lied on his forms about being a drug addict. All of that culminated in a situation in which his girlfriend, who at the time was his brother&#8217;s widow, apparently was so afraid of Hunter having a gun that she took it, drove it over to a local store, and tossed it in a trash can which happened to be near a school.
The Secret Service then tried to cover it up.
As you&#8217;ll recall, this was looked into by Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ. There are whistleblowers who came forward alleging that the Biden DOJ had essentially hamstrung prosecutors from investigating Hunter Biden&#8217;s involvement with his father, Joe, and went out of their way to cut some sort of deal to close the tax case that was also being investigated against Hunter Biden.
There were two simultaneous cases being investigated against Hunter Biden. One was the gun charge. The other was the fact that Hunter Biden had spent his entire adult life traveling around the globe, picking up stacks of cash on behalf of the Biden family, because Joe Biden is an extraordinarily corrupt politician on behalf of his own family. Literally every adult member of his family has trafficked in Joe Biden&#8217;s name in order to make money, with Joe Biden&#8217;s permission and or involvement.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1978-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
So there was a full-scale tax investigation going on. Whistleblowers came forward, and they said that Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ had been told to basically look the other way on the tax investigation. This all came to a head when it turned out that the DOJ tried to cut a sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden wherein he would be essentially directed to rehab for his drug problem but as part of the plea agreement, all the tax charges would simply go away. They would randomly be dismissed.
The judge in that particular case looked at this plea agreement and said this makes no sense, how is this okay? Why is it my job to excuse him on the tax charges because you are trying to sign some sort of agreement with him on the drug charges? She asked the prosecution if they were actually freeing him up on the tax charges? They said no. The defense then said if you&#8217;re not freeing him up on the tax charges, then we&#8217;re not taking the deal. We&#8217;re not going to plead guilty in any way if you&#8217;re not going to free him up on the tax charges.
The prosecution and the defense had essentially gotten together and decided to try to sneak one past the judge. The judge said no and the whole thing blew up.
That’s how you end up with a prosecution in Wilmington, Delaware, on these gun charges.
This is an open and shut case. It is obvious that Hunter Biden lied on his federal drug forms on his federal gun forms. The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trial-of-a-presidents-son-crack-cocaine-a-colt-cobra-revolver-and-an-alleged-lie-02900b7f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>:
<blockquote>On a Friday evening in October 2018, Hunter Biden rolled up in a black Cadillac to StarQuest Shooters &amp; Survival Supply in the Delaware city where he had been born and raised. A salesman standing in the window didn’t initially recognize him as the son of the state’s longtime Democratic senator, now-President Biden, and <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82797/gov.uscourts.ded.82797.157.2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">would later recall declining a tip</a> from the younger Biden as he purchased a .38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver.</blockquote>
Hunter’s clearly guilty. Everyone in the family knew that he was a drug addict. The Wall Street Journal noted:
<blockquote>In the gun case, federal prosecutors are planning <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82797/gov.uscourts.ded.82797.119.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to use the younger Biden’s own words against him</a>. They are expected to draw from excerpts of Biden’s memoir published in 2021, ‘Beautiful Things.’ Among the excerpts is a section of the book about his return to Delaware in October 2018. ‘All my energy revolved around smoking drugs and making arrangements to buy drugs—feeding the beast,’ Hunter Biden wrote in one excerpt that prosecutors referenced in court filings.</blockquote>
Hunter literally wrote in his memoir about being a drug addict at a time he was lying on his federal gun forms. The Journal continues:
<blockquote>In <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82797/gov.uscourts.ded.82797.158.0.pdf">court papers</a> ahead of trial, federal prosecutors have also previewed a witness list that includes Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, and Hallie Biden. Prosecutors didn’t reference either woman by name, but both are identifiable by the descriptions of their respective relationships to Hunter Biden, who had a romantic relationship with Hallie Biden following his brother’s death.
Prosecutors said Buhle checked Hunter Biden’s car periodically because she didn’t want their children in a vehicle with drugs. On about a dozen occasions, prosecutors said, she found drugs or paraphernalia, which she discarded in a trash can. In a March 2018 text message, she wrote: “I also found a few crack pipes. I took them out because our daughter was driving the car.”</blockquote>
Hunter Biden&#8217;s defense supposedly is the legality of the gun sale. They&#8217;re going to try and blame it on the gun shop. They&#8217;re going to say they should have known that he was lying then. They shouldn&#8217;t have sold him the gun in the first place, because also they accepted Biden&#8217;s passport as identification.
So what is really going on here? I&#8217;ll tell you what&#8217;s really going on here. Joe Biden won Wilmington, Delaware, the jurisdiction for this trial and his hometown, 26,688 votes to 3,580 votes. Donald Trump won roughly 11.8% of the vote in the jurisdiction where Hunter Biden is currently being tried.
Delaware is a very small state. Joe Biden has long been the favorite son of Delaware because he&#8217;s brought home the bacon. Joe Biden was largely involved in the transformation of Delaware from a sleepy backwater to a place where most businesses are organized, particularly credit card businesses, which have made an absolute bundle of their association with Joe Biden over the years.
In other words, this is Joe Biden&#8217;s town. This is so much Joe Biden&#8217;s town that there are buildings named for him at the University of Delaware, where his wife got her PhD. The Biden family owns Wilmington.
This is the opposite of Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial. You have very strong charges against Hunter Biden, but you have a jury pool in which likely the vast majority of them voted for Hunter&#8217;s dad. In Trump’s case, there was a very weak case against Donald Trump, a case that didn’t even specify one specific crime, but you had a jury pool that hated Donald Trump.
So here&#8217;s the question for Biden:
Is it better for Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign if Hunter Biden is convicted or if he is acquitted? If Hunter Biden is acquitted, everyone is going to see this for what it is, which is that the DOJ tried to cut a sweetheart deal with Joe Biden&#8217;s son. They failed when a judge called them on it. Then they brought the prosecution in a jurisdiction that is the most favorable jurisdiction in human history for a defendant, and then either Hunter gets acquitted or there&#8217;s a hung jury.
Does that look like a justice system that is working on behalf of the people? Does that really sound like what Joe Biden said about Donald Trump? That no one is above the law if he gets convicted?
Will Hunter be acquitted? It’s doubtful. The charges are too strong. But could there be a hung jury?
You bet.
I’d bet there are at least one or two holdouts inside that jury who believe that the only reason that Hunter is being brought up on charges at all is because of an attempt by the DOJ to look evenhanded.
And if there is a hung jury, Biden will bloviate about how the jury system worked yet again.
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Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated Donald Trump was convicted on &#8220;34 felony counts of murder.&#8221; The line has been correct to read &#8220;34 felony counts.&#8221;

Hunter Biden’s Gun Trial Starts Only Days After Trump Conviction

The Hunter Biden Trial: The Opposite Of Trump’s 

Jill Biden

laptop computer

Opinion

Readers Pass

President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> released a statement on Monday expressing support for his son, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>, as jury selection in the younger Biden&#8217;s federal gun trial in Delaware got underway.
The elder Biden made reference to his son&#8217;s effort to overcome drug addiction — a key factor in the felony charges at the heart of the case — and sought to emphasize his statement was a personal one as some have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-house-democrat-defends-loving-father-biden-says-hunter-has-done-nothing-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized him</a> for previously speaking publicly about the federal investigation into Hunter Biden.
&#8220;I am the President, but I am also a Dad,&#8221; President Biden <a href="https://x.com/KellyO/status/1797620972637278709" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. Hunter’s resilience in the face of adversity and the strength he has brought to his recovery are inspiring to us. A lot of families have loved ones who have overcome addiction and know what we mean.&#8221;
&#8220;As the President, I don’t and won’t comment on pending federal cases, but as a Dad, I have boundless love for my son, confidence in him, and respect for his strength,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Our family has been through a lot together, and Jill and I are going to continue to be there for Hunter and our family with our love and support.&#8221;
Hunter Biden, 54, faces two felony gun offenses for lying on paperwork to buy a revolver in 2018 and a third for owning that firearm for 11 days while being a drug addict, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/grand-jury-returns-indictment-charging-robert-hunter-biden-three-felonies-related-his" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the Department of Justice. The first son pleaded not guilty to the charges, which could land Hunter Biden in prison for up to 25 years if he is convicted.
First lady Jill Biden joined Hunter Biden and his wife, Melissa Cohen, at the courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, for the first day of the trial. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/03/hunter-biden-gun-trial-live-updates-jury-selection/#author-box" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the judge predicted jury selection could last until Wednesday and the trial is estimated to last up to two weeks.
<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/03/hunter-biden-trial-witnesses-00161182" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Witnesses may include</a> Hunter Biden&#8217;s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, and his late brother Beau Biden&#8217;s wife, Hallie Biden, with whom Hunter Biden had a relationship after Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015. Hallie Biden, whose public disposal of the gun <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/02/hunter-biden-beau-widow-gun-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led up to the charges</a>, received a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-visits-hallie-biden-beaus-widow-and-hunters-lover-before-she-testifies-in-hunters-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visit</a> from President Biden at her home last week.
The trial in Delaware begins this week after a judge <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-rejects-hunter-bidens-bid-to-delay-his-june-trial-on-gun-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> Hunter Biden&#8217;s bid to delay the prosecution. Judge Maryellen Norieka also blocked an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/02/politics/judge-blocks-evidence-hunter-biden-gun-trial/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expert witness</a> that Hunter Biden&#8217;s team hoped would testify and <a href="https://x.com/GaryGrumbach/status/1797471213188780297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevented them from</a> using an annotated Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives form from 2021.
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In a separate case in California, Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to tax charges. The trial in California had also been scheduled for June 20 but has since been <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/hunter-biden-federal-tax-trial-delay/3418729/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed back</a> to September. The indictments in both cases, which took shape after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-plea-deal-almost-derails-after-questions-about-scope-of-deal-immunity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collapse of a plea deal last year</a>, are spearheaded by special counsel David Weiss.
POLITICO recently <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/15/hunter-biden-trial-psychological-torment-00158028" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> unnamed advisers who said members of the first family are fretting how the “weight” of Hunter Biden going to trial will affect President Biden in an already difficult time politically. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-says-aides-worry-president-biden-will-suffer-psychological-torment-from-hunter-standing-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> also noted that President Biden has expressed fears about the possibility that his son will end up serving prison time.

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President Biden Releases Statement As Jury Selection Begins In Hunter’s Gun Trial

President Biden Releases Statement As Jury Selection Begins In Hunter's Gun Trial

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> faced multiple blows in court Thursday, as a judge denied his motion to dismiss his three felony gun charges and an appeals court also ruled against him.
Judge Maryellen Noreika of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware set a three-to-six day trial beginning June 3.
The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected his appeal, in which Hunter referenced precedent about &#8220;former government officials claiming they are immunized from prosecution based on separation-of-powers principles&#8221; &#8212; even though the first son is not a former government official, and Democrats are zealously seeking to try former president Donald Trump, who is, in state courts.
Hunter also tried to have the charge dismissed by saying the government was bound to a &#8220;diversion agreement&#8221; that would have eventually made the gun charges go away.
U.S. Attorney David Weiss drafted the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-bidens-lawyers-claim-deal-to-resolve-felony-gun-charge-was-binding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deal</a>, then rescinded it last summer after being embarrassed when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-investigators-probe-alleged-effort-by-hunter-bidens-lawyers-to-punish-irs-whistleblowers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whistleblowers</a> provided evidence of the DOJ seemingly hamstringing investigators on the case. Prosecutors could not point to a single case in which they had agreed to such a generous &#8220;diversion agreement&#8221; for felony gun charges for anyone else, and a probation officer declined to approve the deal.
A lawyer for rapper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kodak-was-charged-for-the-same-crime-hip-hop-stars-lawyer-condemns-hunter-biden-plea-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kodak Black</a>, who received three years in prison for similar charges, said, &#8220;There’s no such thing as not getting jail time on a gun charge&#8230; 2 tiers of justice?&#8221;
Nonetheless, Hunter argued to the court that he is the victim of &#8220;selective and vindictive prosecution,&#8221; and continued to demand documents to prove it even after the judge shut down the argument. He went so far as to demand information about grand jurors, which is normally secret, because &#8220;it remains possible that in this highly-politicized matter, the grand jury was selected without regard to the bias that people might have.&#8221;
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The judge <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82797/gov.uscourts.ded.82797.113.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, &#8220;There will be no such evidentiary hearing.&#8221;
The DOJ under Hunter&#8217;s father, President Joe Biden, has charged 1,200 January 6 defendants, sometimes for conduct as petty as trespassing, in D.C., which voted 93% for Biden, and secured a nearly 100% conviction rate.
Hunter&#8217;s lawyers also sought to use the court case to compel the production of documents relating to former officials in the Trump administration, including former Attorney General Bill Barr. The judge wrote, &#8220;Defendant has failed to show how any of the requested communications among former DOJ and Executive Branch officials could constitute exculpatory evidence,&#8221; noting that no one who even communicated with them will testify at trial.
The judge noted that the DOJ has turned over voluminous information to Hunter already, including &#8220;a forensic copy of the devices seized from The Mac Shop&#8221; &#8212; an admission that the Hunter Biden laptop is real, despite government officials suggesting otherwise before the election.
Hunter&#8217;s lawyers previously threatened to trigger a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-bidens-lawyers-threatened-to-put-president-biden-on-witness-stand-if-hunter-was-charged-by-doj-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Constitutional crisis&#8221;</a> by having President Joe Biden testify at his son&#8217;s trial.
Hunter is charged with lying on federal firearms purchase forms that he was not a drug user, despite a raging cocaine addiction. His girlfriend eventually threw his gun in a dumpster. The charge carries a term of up to 10 years in prison.
Days after his gun trial, Hunter is slated to face a second trial on nine tax charges in California.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> will return to the White House this weekend to discuss the Middle East crisis with his national security team, cutting short a trip to his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home. 
Biden will return to Washington to “consult with his national security team about events in the Middle East,” the White House <a href="https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-04-13-24/h_96747590ce7877721f328f5e1db92421" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Saturday. The announcement comes amid rising tensions as American officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-warns-iran-to-not-launch-attack-on-israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> Iran is expected to launch an attack on Israel. 
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to be at the meeting with Biden, according to CNN. The meeting will come hours after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irans-irgc-seizes-israeli-linked-ship-near-strait-of-hormuz?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seized</a> a ship near the Strait of Hormuz linked to Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group shipping company. 
“The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps have seized a Portuguese civilian cargo ship, belonging to an EU member, claiming Israeli ownership,” Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign minister, <a href="https://twitter.com/Israel_katz/status/1779110154300002423" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X. “The Ayatollah regime of @khamenei_ir is a criminal regime that supports Hamas’ crimes and is now conducting a pirate operation in violation of international law.”
“I call on the European Union and the free world to immediately declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guards corps as a terrorist organization and to sanction Iran now,” he added.
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The U.S. has called for Iran to release control of the ship, saying it would hold the country accountable. 
“We call on Iran to release the vessel &amp; its international crew immediately,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement. “It must be condemned unequivocally, &amp; we will work with our partners to hold Iran to account for its actions.” 
On Friday, Biden was asked at the National Action Network Convention about when Iran was expected to attack Israel. “I don’t want to say,” Biden said. “I don’t want to get into secure information, but my expectation is sooner than later.”
“We are devoted to the defense of Israel. We will support Israel,” he added. “We will defend — help defend Israel. And Iran will not succeed.”

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Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he had officially moved SpaceX&#8217;s incorporation from Delaware to Texas — where his electric vehicle company Tesla is headquartered.
Musk announced the decision on Wednesday at the same time as he urged other businesses to get out of Delaware. His decision comes after a judge in Delaware <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-rules-favor-plaintiffs-challenging-musks-tesla-pay-package-2024-01-30/#:~:text=The%20pay%20package%20granted%20stock,escalating%20financial%20and%20operational%20goals.">sided</a> with a Tesla shareholder complaint that Musk’s compensation package was unfair.
“SpaceX has moved its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas! If your company is still incorporated in Delaware, I recommend moving to another state as soon as possible,” Musk said. 
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SpaceX has moved its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas!
If your company is still incorporated in Delaware, I recommend moving to another state as soon as possible. <a href="https://t.co/B7FLByL2dY">pic.twitter.com/B7FLByL2dY</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1757924482885583112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Musk has also proposed incorporating Tesla in Texas, which he has suggested will happen after a shareholder vote. The electric vehicle maker <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/business/tesla-texas-headquarters.html">relocated</a> its headquarters from California to Austin, Texas, in 2021. 
“Move your company out of Delaware before they lock the doors, as they just did with Tripadvisor,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1757099432078639228" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on January 30 shortly after Delaware judge Kathleen McCormick <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-leave-delaware-judge-blocks-pay-deal-2024-1">ruled against</a> his roughly $56 billion compensation package. McCormick said the deal was negotiated in a &#8220;deeply flawed&#8221; manner.
&#8220;In the final analysis, Musk launched a self-driving process, recalibrating the speed and direction along the way as he saw fit,&#8221; McCormick <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/judge-strikes-down-elon-musk-tesla-compensation-pay-package-2024-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;The process arrived at an unfair price. And through this litigation, the plaintiff requests a recall.&#8221;
Tesla could be required to come up with a new compensation package, though Musk is <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/13/teslas-board-silent-since-elon-musks-56-billion-pay-package-revoked.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected</a> to appeal. 
In late January, Musk posted a poll on X asking whether Tesla should move its incorporation to Texas. 
“The public vote is unequivocally in favor of Texas! Tesla will move immediately to hold a shareholder vote to transfer state of incorporation to Texas,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1752922071229722990" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after 87% of respondents to the poll voted in favor of moving.
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Last week, Musk <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-neuralink-switches-location-incorporation-bloomberg-news-2024-02-09/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved</a> incorporation of Neuralink, his neurotechnology company, from Delaware to Nevada. The move came after Neuralink <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-neuralink-implants-chip-into-brain-of-first-human-subject" target="_blank" rel="noopener">successfully implanted</a> a brain chip into its first human subject.
The Neuralink brain implant is a “brain-computer interface” technology that seeks to help people with debilitating conditions, such as paralysis, to interact with the world by controlling devices with their thoughts, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-says-neuralink-has-implanted-brain-chip-in-human-127a6f56">reported</a>. Musk, who founded Neuralink along with a team of scientists in 2016, said the first patient received the implant on Sunday and “is recovering well.”
The billionaire entrepreneur has faced a series of investigations into his ventures from the Department of Justice and the SEC after he acquired Twitter in October 2022.

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A car crashed into President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> motorcade on Sunday night just as he was getting ready to step back inside one of the vehicles.
Biden was walking out from his campaign office headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, after he and the first lady had finished eating when the incident happened.
The car hit a U.S. Secret Service vehicle that was being used to block an intersection near the headquarters. The car reportedly then tried to drive into the closed-off intersection when federal law enforcement officials surrounded the car and ordered the driver to put his hands up.
Video of the incident shows Biden walking outside and talking to a heckler when the incident happened as the crash was loud enough that it grabbed the attention of Secret Service agents who quickly surrounded Biden and got him into the vehicle.
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Clearer footage of the Presidential motorcade incident shows the moment when Joe Biden was walking out of his campaign headquarters and about 9 seconds into the footage, you can hear the crash as a car collides with his motorcade. The driver of the car is reportedly… <a href="https://t.co/LZnPoBkTtM">pic.twitter.com/LZnPoBkTtM</a>
&mdash; R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) <a href="https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1736582885543485878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A car collided with part of Biden’s parked motorcade tonight in Wilmington — it just rammed into an SUV that had closed down a street while Biden attended a campaign event. 
The circumstances weren’t clear; Biden and the First Lady loaded into their vehicle and left. <a href="https://t.co/M3kvbNGfCl">pic.twitter.com/M3kvbNGfCl</a>
&mdash; Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_wingrove/status/1736558012653834387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Neither the White House nor the U.S. Secret Service issued statements following the incident.
This is a developing news story; refresh the page for updates.

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Judiciary Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) subpoenaed a federal prosecutor who allegedly placed constraints on the years-long investigation into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>, House Republicans <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1727076808657682589" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Tuesday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf of Delaware was directed to appear for a deposition <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1727362535157072043" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on December 7</a> as part of the House GOP&#8217;s review of how the Department of Justice (DOJ) has conducted its criminal probe into Hunter Biden as well as the corruption-focused <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-johnson-says-biden-impeachment-inquiry-has-reached-stage-for-key-witness-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impeachment inquiry</a> against his father, President Joe Biden.
Jordan explained in a <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-11-21-jdj-to-wolf-subpoena-cover-letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Wolf the various ways in which information obtained by the judiciary panel indicates she was &#8220;responsible for many of the decisions to deviate from standard investigative protocol during the Department’s investigation of Hunter Biden.&#8221;
These included claims that Wolf, either directly or by instructing others, blocked certain lines of inquiry about Joe Biden and tipped off Hunter Biden’s legal team about a planned search of a storage unit.
In addition, testimony from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/internal-revenue-service-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internal Revenue Service (IRS) </a>whistleblower Gary Shapley alleged that Wolf &#8220;obstructed&#8221; another U.S. attorney&#8217;s team in Pennsylvania from briefing Delaware U.S. Attorney Davis Weiss&#8217; office about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-biden-bribery-file-released-burisma-head-says-he-was-coerced-into-paying-bidens-10-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bribery allegations</a> concerning Joe and Hunter Biden, the letter said.
The Daily Wire reached out to the DOJ seeking comment on the subpoena. Previously, the agency has raised concerns to Jordan about <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23886269/justice-department-letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;misrepresentations&#8221;</a> that could impede public confidence in the administration of justice.
Jordan said the DOJ has allowed other employees to testify, &#8220;albeit with substantial scoping limitations,&#8221; but noted that Wolf is an exception because of &#8220;unpersuasive&#8221; arguments that the agency has an &#8220;ongoing investigation&#8221; as well as a &#8220;longstanding policy&#8221; of not making non-Senate-confirmed and line-level DOJ employees available for interviews.
After a plea deal with Hunter Biden collapsed under scrutiny from a judge, Attorney General Merrick Garland <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/appointment-special-counsel-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">granted</a> Weiss special counsel status in August of this year, giving Weiss broader authority to bring charges outside of his own district.
A federal grand jury in Delaware indicted Hunter Biden on federal gun charges in September, after which he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-pleads-not-guilty-to-gun-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded not guilty</a>. The first son may also face an indictment on tax evasion charges, which were part of the plea agreement.
Weiss testified in a deposition before the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month, after which Jordan indicated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-shares-key-takeaway-from-hunter-biden-prosecutors-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;the key takeaway&#8221;</a> was that the prosecutor requested but did not receive <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/515#:~:text=The%20Attorney%20General%20or%20any,jury%20proceedings%20and%20proceedings%20before" target="_blank" rel="noopener">special attorney powers</a> that would have allowed him to bring charges outside of his jurisdiction in Delaware last year without the partnership of the local U.S. attorney.
That would appear to affirm concerns, spurred by whistleblower testimony from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irs-whistleblower-says-story-from-hunter-biden-prosecutor-has-been-changing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shapley and another IRS agent</a> who also worked on the Hunter Biden case, that the DOJ slow-walked the inquiry in a way that may have <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-irs-whistleblowers-expose-how-bidens-were-treated-differently%EF%BF%BC/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">precluded other serious charges</a> due to the statute of limitations.
In response to an inquiry by The Daily Wire, the DOJ shared a statement from Weiss to the House Judiciary Committee in which he said &#8220;processes&#8221; associated with investigative and charging decisions did not &#8220;interfere&#8221; with his authority.
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&#8220;At no time was I blocked, or otherwise prevented from pursuing charges or taking the steps necessary in the investigation by other United States Attorneys, the Tax Division or anyone else at the Department of Justice,&#8221; he testified.

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A federal judge rejected a request from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden&#8217;s</a> legal team this week to allow the president&#8217;s son to make his arraignment on federal gun charges through a video conference instead of having to show up in person.
U.S. Magistrate Judge from the District of Delaware Christopher Burke <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23986952-ruling-on-hunter-biden-arraignment">rejected</a> the request in an order on Wednesday afternoon.
Burke gave multiple reasons for denying, including that the Court believes the appearance in important because its one of the few times that the defendant will physically be in the courtroom and the setting &#8220;helps to emphasize the &#8216;integrity and solemnity of a federal criminal proceeding.'&#8221;
Special Counsel David Weiss indicted Hunter Biden earlier this month on three charges related to the purchase of a firearm, including allegedly making multiple false statements, and being unlawfully in possession of a firearm.
&#8220;Moreover, in this matter, most of the criminal charges that Defendant now faces are new and were not addressed at his prior hearing in July 2023-such that this will be the first time they are discussed in court,&#8221; Burke wrote. &#8220;The Court will also address Defendant&#8217;s pre-trial release conditions; while the Court expects it is likely that the currently-imposed conditions will remain in place, were either side to suggest alterations, the Court would want to be able to address that issue in person with the parties.&#8221;
&#8220;Other than during the exigent circumstances of the COVID crisis (when the Court was proceeding under the auspices of the now-expired CARES Act standing order), in 12 years as a judge on this Court, the undersigned cannot recall ever having conducted an initial appearance other than in person,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That has been the case as to defendants of all types, regardless of their location or personal circumstance.&#8221;
Burke used the words from Hunter Biden&#8217;s legal team against him, saying that he agrees that Hunter Biden &#8220;should not receive special treatment in this matter-absent some unusual circumstance, he should be treated just as would any other defendant in our Court.&#8221;
&#8220;Any other defendant would be required to attend his or her initial appearance in person,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So too here.&#8221;
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Hunter Biden&#8217;s court appearance is scheduled for October 3 at 10 a.m. in Delaware.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> sued the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/internal-revenue-service-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IRS</a> on Monday over alleged violations of his privacy when agents went to Congress with details of the agency’s investigation into Biden’s taxes.
Biden is under pressure from federal investigators and prosecutors and has adopted an adversarial stance since a plea deal fell apart in July. The first son’s approach to federal officials mirrors his stance toward Republicans accusing him of engaging in corrupt overseas business dealings.
Biden’s lawsuit targets the IRS, alleging that two whistleblowers who made claims of misconduct leaked sensitive information about his taxes to Congress. The lawsuit claims the leaks violated federal tax laws and Biden’s right to privacy, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/09/18/hunter-biden-lawsuit-irs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.
Biden “has no fewer or lesser rights than any other American citizen, and no government agency or government agent has free reign to violate his rights simply because of who he is,” the lawsuit says.
IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler went to Congress to expose what they said was a double standard in the way the IRS and Department of Justice had handled the investigation into Biden’s tax affairs and purchase of a firearm. The whistleblowers said they were blocked from pursuing lines of questioning that had the potential of implicating Biden’s father, President Joe Biden. They also said Hunter was given favorable treatment, such as unnecessary warnings ahead of certain investigative actions.
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The lawsuit claims that the whistleblowers revealed certain information to Congress that could only be gained from viewing Hunter’s personal tax information.
“This assault on Mr. Biden’s rights involved the public disclosure of his confidential tax information during more than 20 nationally televised and non-congressionally sanctioned interviews and numerous public statements,” the lawsuit says, according to the Post.
The whistleblower made “detailed allegations regarding the specific tax years under investigation, the amounts of deductions, the nature of those deductions, and allegations of liability regarding specific tax years and the amount thereof, that could only be known to them based on a review of the physical tax returns themselves,” the lawsuit says.
A plea agreement Hunter’s legal team negotiated with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, before Weiss was named special counsel, fell apart after the judge in the case began asking about the limits on immunity granted by a diversion agreement on a gun charge. The failed deal would have included Hunter pleading guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges.

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