Judge Rejects Hunter Biden's Sweetheart Plea Deal

Hunter Biden received a sweetheart plea deal after being caught not paying his taxes for several years, but that deal was tossed out of court after the judge determined that Biden’s lawyers weren’t being completely honest. The deal is still on hold, but things aren’t looking good for the President’s son. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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Hunter Biden's received a sweetheart deal, a big sweetheart deal after being caught not paying his taxes for several years. But that deal was tossed out of the court after the judge determined that Biden's lawyers weren't being honest. Can you imagine? The deal is still on hold, but things aren't looking good for the President's son. Now, okay. I look at this like a lawyer. They went into court and they didn't even have the boundaries of what they were agreeing to. The lawyers, and these are supposed to be, you know, this is supposed to be great lawyers representing this guy. They show up in the courtroom, the judge says, well, tell me about the deal. And he says, well, does this include future investigation? Does it include everything? Biden's lawyer say, yeah. Yeah, it does. The prosecution says, hell no, it doesn't. Can you imagine being the lawyer caught up in that where you look like such an idiot?

I mean, just, you know, from the, like, from a client's perspective, you're going in, you're also thinking like, okay, good. My lawyer's got this. They've handled it all. I'm covered for everything. Then you have to look, you didn't know that I'm not protected from everything else? Like, I'm still under investigation, possibly for foreign influence pedaling?

Look, talk about, we've done so many stories on FARA. It's, we've talked about all the people that have gone to prison, right? Because of FARA. So, it's a lot. It's an easy, easy conviction. Okay. A FARA conviction is an easy conviction. Talk about it a little bit.

Well, so what we're dealing with here, obviously when the plea agreement was announced, everybody said, oh, that's too light for not paying taxes. But you and I had talked about like, well wait a minute, isn't something missing from this?

From the beginning.

Where is the possible influence peddling working for a foreign company with ties to the foreign government?

His partner is going to prison because of it. Right?

Exactly. And so we had brought that up and now, now that this plea deal's been thrown out, what is this, Vox finally mentioned too, like, well, wait a minute. He was never covered in this plea deal from the, you know, FARA violations. And so there could be more coming down the pipeline, which is why of course, you know, his lawyers and the prosecution met together for about an hour. And they came back to the judge, judge, we got a new deal. And the judge basically says, I don't care. This, no, this is crap. I'm not doing this.

Any federal judge would've done that. Any federal judge, when you got the defense saying, yeah, we've got a deal here. The prosecution says, I don't think we got a deal. That is the most embarrassing thing that this criminal judge or this criminal lawyer could possibly experience. What does that do to his career? Do you go hire that guy? Okay. So, as we look at it, a lot of this turns on, it turns on the entire history of this case, doesn't it? The history of this case is complicated. It goes all the way back to, what was the FD 10 23? That's the whistleblower that made the accusation, that actually gave rise to the FARA claim. I mean, and other claims, but it gave rise to the FARA claim. Lesley Wolf, this female prosecutor that tried to run interference for, that's the only way you can describe it. She absolutely ran interference for Biden. She would not even allow, she would not even allow that information to surface when the investigation was going on. So now you have Weiss, this is his, you know, this is his deal. Weiss has to make sense of all this and go back and start his investigation again.