“If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.” William Lyon Phelps, American Author and Lecturer
June 12, 2024, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
(Check out Lest We Forget and FYI.)
It isn’t often that members of a conspiracy appear together, in public. But that’s exactly what happened this week. In court. At Hunter Biden’s trial.
As dysfunctional as they are, the Biden Crime Family was all there.
Stepmom Dr. Jill, sister Ashley, daughter Naomi, Uncle Jim, Aunt Valerie, former wife Kathleen Buhle, and current wife Melissa Cohen Biden.
They sat up front, in full view of the jury.
Hunter and his wife held hands while going into court.
Dr. Jill flew back and forth to court from France, for the loving mother optics, but everyone who is anyone knows she and Hunter hate each other.
Hunter said as much in x-rated texts and e-mails.
“You know the drunkest I’ve ever been is still smarter than you could ever even comprehend,” Hunter said in a text. “So go f**k yourself Jill let’s all agree I don’t like you anymore than you like me.”
This trial wasn’t about the money Hunter received from foreign sources and then distributed to family members, using access to Joe as a quid pro quo business model.
This trial was about a family genetics affliction: Lying.
Hunter lied on a federal gun application form when purchasing a handgun in 2018, checking a box that said he was not an addict during the time that he was.
This case and Hunter’s tax problems go back to U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss who investigated Hunter Biden’s failure to pay taxes on over $1 million dollars from Burisma in 2014 and 2015.
Weiss dragged the investigation on for five long years, allowing statutes of limitation to lapse, a fact confirmed by whistleblower IRS Agent Gary Shapley in his testimony before Congress.
Weiss then brokered a plea agreement between Biden and the DOJ that was to become known as Hunter’s “Sweetheart Deal.”
The Deal essentially exempted Hunter from any future prosecution, and minimized his tax and illegal firearm crimes.
Hunter was ready to plead to two misdemeanors on his failure to pay federal income taxes, and enter a “Diversionary Program," which would spare him prosecution for the gun charges.
However, there was a paragraph reading, “The United States agrees not to criminally prosecute Hunter Biden, outside of the terms of this Agreement, for any federal crimes” committed by Hunter for which the statute of limitations had not already expired.
It was becoming clear that the Deal was less about prosecuting Hunter Biden and more about protecting Joe and Hunter.
U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika was skeptical. She asked lead prosecutor Leo Wise whether there was an ongoing probe into Hunter's alleged dealings with foreign countries which might include Joe Biden.
Wise said yes, and the judge rejected the agreement.
Mike Howell, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, observed, “It wasn’t really about the tax or gun charges, it was about letting him (Hunter) off the hook for any crimes that may arise from running a multimillion-dollar international influence-peddling scheme with his father as the product.
“They tried to slip it past the judge.”
There are undeniable elements of politics attached to both Hunter's trial and Trump's.
When Donald Trump’s increased popularity after he was convicted by a Manhattan court, and after Hunter Biden was convicted this week on gun charges, the political bullies are feeling threatened.
They fear that they could lose it all. That they could face retribution for what they've done.
Rachel Maddow says she fears Trump will throw her "into a camp,” along with illegal immigrants.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez told podcast host Kara Swisher “I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy threw me in jail.”
And former FBI agent Andrew McCabe told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that the Intelligence Community and the DOJ is terrified, and that he fears for his life.
Turns out they can hand it out, but they can't take it.
And they are scared that eventually the tables turn.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots