Guilt. Investigations. Dates & Details - Top 3 Takeaways – June 21st, 2023
- Guilty. Tuesday was a day many who’ve been concerned about a two-tiered justice system have been waiting for. It was the day a Biden was determined to be guilty of crimes we’ve all seen him commit. No, it wasn’t Joe, but on Tuesday we knew where Hunter Biden was. He, along with this attorney, were conversing with David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware who has been investigating Biden corruption collusion for years. And the big news wasn’t just that Weiss was finally going to charge Hunter Biden for crimes we’d seen him commit with literal crack whores in various videos. It was that Hunter Biden was pleading guilty to them. According to the initial reports emerging from Tuesday’s developments, Hunter Biden will plead guilty to misdemeanor charges for not filing taxes on income of greater than $1.5 million annually in 2017 and 2018. He’s also to plead guilty to a felony federal firearms charge. So, the question former President Donald Trump asks about the current president’s son may not be where’s Hunter? If there is anything other than a two-tiered system of justice, it would be about what prison he’s in and for how long. About that... According to a spokesman from Weiss’ office: A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. However, the recommendations that are going to be made to that judge...probation and a diversion program. No kidding. The maximums are 2 years on the tax charges and 10 years on the gun charge. But because of reasons one can only imagine pertain to Hunter being the son of a Democrat president – he’ll not be recommended for 12 years in prison or even 12 days. Probation and diversion. This while the same Department of Justice is attempting to put the former president away for the rest of his life and the equivalent of a next. So yes, Hunter’s guilty but with what on the surface appears to be a sweetheart deal for him, surprise - surprise but here's the biggest question at this point... According to the prosecutor’s office yesterday...
- The investigation is ongoing. What exactly does that mean? Hunter’s attorney certainly thinks this is the end of the investigation based on his comments yesterday. Key to yesterday’s guilty plea, the feds decided not to charge Hunter for tax evasion but instead for a failure to file and pay his taxes. It’s a distinction with a difference. Failing to file taxes for greater than $1.5 million in income for two consecutive years is one thing. Where the money is coming from and why the taxes are evaded are another. For a while some on the left had conceded that there may be a tax and gun charge brought against Hunter Biden, but that it would be the end of the story. The key question now is whether the prosecutor is of the same mindset. The much bigger story is where the unreported millions in income came from. And it was just within the last two weeks we learned that the document the FBI had withheld until recently from the House Oversight Committee investigation into the Bidens, cited a top Burisma executive as having paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each for their dirty deeds to use US influence to exact desired outcomes for Burisma while Hunter Biden was on the board of the Ukrainian energy company. And that the Burisma executive has a total of 17 recordings with the Bidens he’s held as “an insurance policy”. Where the investigation goes from here is the true test as to whether there is in fact a two-tiered justice system based on the politics of the people involved as has long appeared to be. The money Hunter failed to report for tax purposes had to come from somewhere. It’s outrageous if the feds decide they don’t care. If they get to the bottom of where it came from there almost certainly will be far more consequential charges coming and not just for Hunter. If they choose to look the other way without getting those answers, you’ll know how much credibility is left within our justice system. And speaking of that justice system...
- Dates and details. A week after former President Donald Trump was indicted in a Miami federal court on classified document charges, we learned key dates and details about next steps in his case. The first date, July 24th, that’s the date all pre-trial motions by the prosecution and defense must be filed by. The next date, August 14th that’s the date the trial is scheduled to begin. Now based upon potential motions to be filed by team Trump, it’s unlikely the trial will actually begin on August the 14th, however that’s the date it’s currently scheduled to begin. Another key detail, these were ordered by the Trump – appointed Judge Aileen Cannon who was randomly selected to oversee the case. Based on her order and her dates, it appears she has every intention of seeing this case through – which as I mentioned last week was the right thing to do. All federal judges are presidential appointees and if you accept the premise that Aileen Cannon isn’t fit to preside over a case involving Trump because of inferred political bias, riddle me this one. What presidentially appointed judge couldn’t have the same inferred conflict? Either theoretically in favor of or opposed to the former president? In the grand scheme of BS arguments is one in which a Trump-appointed judge isn’t fit to preside due to the implication of potential political bias while a Biden or Obama appointed one is? One other key detail that emerged is the location where the next steps in the legal proceedings will take place. Judge Cannon said in her order, all hearings will be held at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce – which is her home court, and also sits in a county in which Donald Trump won the majority of the vote. That doesn’t mean the trial will take place there, however. That could still take place at the West Palm Beach federal courthouse. However, for now, the legal focus will shift to the northernmost court in the Southern District of Florida.