https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-tax-trial-justice-department-6873692c030244b450e27826e7097946>It should be noted that Hunter already paid the owed taxes and penalties and prosecution for first time offenders never occurs. This includes Trump Operative Roger Stone who refused to play twice as much in taxes as Hunter and was not brought to trial for that. So this case being brought to trial is 100% a political prosecution by Republicans.President Joe Biden’s son Hunter pleaded guilty to not paying his taxes on time in order to avoid a second humiliating trial this year.The guilty plea came as a surprise Thursday and marked a stunning turnaround for the president’s son, whose legal team fought the tax charges as motivated by political pressure from Republicans.Hunter Biden’s defense attorneys initially said Thursday that their client would be willing to make an “Alford plea,” a special type of guilty plea in which the defendant maintains their innocence but accepts punishment for the alleged crime. A grand jury indicted Hunter Biden last year on three felony and six misdemeanor charges related to his not paying more than $1 million in federal taxes on income he earned from foreign business deals from 2016 through 2019. The charges carry a maximum of 17 years in prison.The younger Biden’s overseas moneymaking has been a major source of controversy for Joe Biden, whom Republicans accused of participating in his son’s work. Republicans struggled to substantiate the allegation, however, and gave up on an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden this year.The Biden case is a strong counterpoint to Republican claims that President Biden has “weaponized” the Justice Department against Donald Trump, who faces federal charges in Washington, D.C., and Florida.
Hunter Biden had been under investigation for years when his father became president, and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland left Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, originally appointed by Trump, in charge of the case even as other Republican U.S. attorneys were replaced with Democrats.Weiss initially reached a tentative plea deal with Biden on the tax charges as well as unrelated gun charges last year, but the deal fell apart amid a disagreement over Biden’s immunity from further prosecution ― and complaints from Republicans who said he was getting away with a slap on the wrist. Garland then elevated Weiss to special counsel status so he could prosecute Hunter Biden for the tax crimes in California and the gun crimes in Delaware.In June, a jury found Hunter Biden guilty of three felonies related to his illegal purchase of a firearm in 2018, at a time in his life he has admitted he was addicted to drugs. His legal team tried to argue that their client was not necessarily high at the moment he bought the gun, but prosecutors played excerpts from the audiobook of his 2021 memoir, in which he described getting high on crack as often as every 15 minutes. The trial also featured testimony about his drug use from one of his daughters as well as a close examination of their text messages from the relevant time.Thursday’s guilty plea came as the court geared up for jury selection ahead of what would likely have been another agonizing trial. Prosecutors in the tax case planned to use material from Hunter Biden’s memoir and other sources to argue he lived a lavish lifestyle while shirking his tax duties, and Scarsi ruled against letting jurors know that a third-party benefactor has actually paid off Hunter Biden’s tax debt or that Biden’s judgment had been hampered by drug addiction.
>has no relevance whatsoever to this election cycleIt's a nothingburger
>>1338897>“Alford plea,” a special type of guilty plea in which the defendant maintains their innocence but accepts punishment for the alleged crime.It stops a drawn out trial with the only purpose of creating clickbait articles with Biden attached. Think of all the articles schzio isn't going to be able to post because now they'll never exist.
>>1338892I'M OUTRAGED!!1 HE OUGHT TO APOLOGIZE!!1
>>1338907Judge just accepted the deal. The Republican prosecutor pushing the case is pissed for your stated reason.https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4864688-hunter-biden-pleads-guilty-tax-charges/
>>1338897like russia
>>1338921Except a MAGA Media group was caught conspiring with the Russians that includes some of Trump's biggest social media shills>>1338391
>>1338923this will be fully debunked eventually, Tim Pool was already contacted by the fbi and he will be giving them any information they want
>>1338933Don't drop the soap timothy
Does tax fraud count as corruption? I guess not, this is just Democrat fraud not Democrat Corruption
>>1338933>MAGAs are willing to sell each other out to stay out of prisonSUCH MANY CASES!
>>1338933It's been debunked from the time of the indictment was released. The indictments doesn't allege any wrongdoing by any of them and alleges that the Russians they indicted lied to the media personalities and created fake personas online to support their lies and trick them
>>1338933>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-accuse-russia-effort-influence-2024-election-cnn-2024-09-04/>The commentators, who were not named in the indictment, did not know they were paid by RT, the Justice Department said.But of course the left wing shills this board just lie about it, it's literally their job
>>1338985>Take money and don't even ask who it's fromThat also doesn't change the fact that Russia went to MAGAs to push their propaganda.
>>1338989Well of course.If you're a foreign government and you want someone in America to report on news that isn't found in mainstream journalism outlets, you go to a MAGA RepublicanIf you are a foreign government and you need favorable changes in policy and want someone to take a bribe, you go to a democratIt's pretty common knowledge.
>>1338999I wonder how assblasted Republicans are given they went so far to target the son of the president to attack him and it amounted to nothing.
>>1339060Doubly assblasted, because they wanted the publicity from the trial and Hunter just sidestepped them. They're trying to get people to care about low level aides and unrelated people like Hunter being corrupt to distract from all of Trumps crimes, Republicans working with foreign governments, and cunts like Ken Paxton who got Texas to pay out hush money to cover his crimes.
>>1339061>PaxtonHe's gone full fascist by actually using gestapo to go after voters and people running for office.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ken-paxton-greg-abbott-lawsuits-warrants-raids_n_66d9b07ee4b06ce2f28f10d0
>>1339061>Doubly assblasted, because they wanted the publicity from the trial and Hunter just sidestepped themBro Hunter didn't sidestep shit but a stiffer sentence. Literally nobody cares now that Dead Man Biden surrendered to Trump
>>1339076>I-i-it didn't matter...Then why are you still throwing a tantrum over the media rightfully dumping the Russian made laptop story?
>>1338980Normally, the word "corrupt" is reserved for politicians, judges, and other people with some authority. Hunter is just a citizen who has no power over anyone.
Total Democrat Annihilation.
Starmergeddon: Total Conservative AnnihilationKamala Harris: Total Trumpist Annihilation
>>1339097nice double standards, he'd be in prison if his dad wasn't the reigning president.The people who like to pretend oh he's our the president ignore that he is directly benefiting from presidential power. Imagine if trump's son was a human trafficker and trump gave him a presidential pardon you think the far-left wouldn't talk about that?
>>1339362The mentally ill libtard mindset.
>>1339370trump's son in law is directly responsible for the israel front of a potential world war and you don't even bring it up due to your allegiances
>>1339373and you're a rapist who loves to rape kids on the street you don't see me complaining about it. Meanwhile your type loves to downplay hunter's crimes
>>1339374i hope the federal police in your vicinity look into your life
>>1339377I hope they throw your ass in prison after anally raping you until you're comatose
>Total Democrat AnnihilationThe mentally ill rightard mindset
>rape kids>kids>anally raping>anallyWeird
>>1338950He entered the plea so his daddy can pardon him before he dies of old age.
>>1338923Complete and total LIE. Even Garland said as much in his presser. Of course leftists like you can do nothing but lie.
When pressed by those who prove their retarded opinions wrong, of course rightists can do nothing but lie.
>>1339491Now now, rightists can do nothing but lie, regardless. Their shitty opinions have nothing to do with it.
