Liberal Media churn up sympathy for Hunty biden before gun-permit and tax-fraud trials

In two weeks or so a totally corrupt U.S. attorney for Delaware is scheduled to begin a trial of biden's son Hunty for a charge the Washington Post claims is almost never prosecuted.

That's a lie, but the Post is claiming it's true because...gotta gen up sympathy fo' po', oppressed, mistreated Hunty, eh?  Cuz unless the lib press has made Hunty look totally sympathetic to the public, then when he's escapes all punishment, a few tens of thousands of voters will say "Wow, the fix was in, eh?"

Cuz that's exactly what's up: The outcome of this sham is already certain.  No jail time, maybe a year of probation.

So the Post is busy firing up sympathy fo' po' Hunty.

One key is to portray Hunty as an innocent victim of...drugs.  The Post says "intimate texts on drug addiction could be offered as evidence."  Yeah?  As evidence of *what*?  Has no bearing at all on whether Hunty lied on a federal form when buying a handgun--and yet Post propagandist Matt Viser wrote the quoted line above cuz it's a key sympathy generator.

Here's the Post:
>>Hunter could face testimony from his ex-wife and his brother’s widow, with whom he became romantically involved, according to new filings from federal prosecutors that illustrate just how messy the seemingly simple court case could turn.>>

<<Wait...what do Hunty's former wife and his brother's widow have to do with whether Hunty lied on the federal form?

Nothing.  Those detail are designed to distract from the crime, and to generate sympathy fo' po' Hunty.

>>The filings from [U.S. attorney for Delaware] David Weiss show how prosecutors may reopen some of the most painful moments in the Biden family’s past, potentially embarrassing not only Hunter Biden but also a president whose political career has long been defined by a close-knit family that stuck together through difficult times.>>

This clearly has no bearing on the question of Hunty's guilt or innocence, but again is intended to gen up sympathy.  "Oh duh po' boy!  How cruel to "reopen some of the most painful moments in the biden family's past"!<<

>>The court filings [by the prosecutor] detail the depth of family members’ turmoil as they struggled to grapple with the death of President Biden’s oldest son, Beau, in 2015, and the drug and alcohol addiction of his younger son, Hunter. The family divisions were deepened when Hunter began a romance with Beau’s widow, Hallie.>>

<<Starting to see this for what it is yet?

>>Hunter has been charged with falsely declaring — on a form [everyone is] required to fill out to buy a gun — that he was not using illegal drugs.  Prosecutors appear to be trying to prove he was in fact abusing drugs at the time he filled out the form.>>

<<Since Hunty admitted in his book that he was using drugs at the time, that should be fairly easy.
   It's worth noting that the "prosecution" entered all of the following into the official court record a few days ago.  Ask yourself what relevance this has to the charge in the case.  If none, why would the prosecutor do this? <<

>>“I am afraid you are going to die,” Hallie wrote to Hunter at a time when he was in possession of the gun, according to one of the text messages entered into the court record by prosecutors. Two minutes later, she added: “And I can’t live without you.”>>

<<This is drama worthy of a mini-series!<<  

>>Those close to Hunter Biden worry about the toll the upcoming trial could take on someone who has struggled with addiction for much of his life.  The court documents show just how painful some of that could be.>>

<<Drama worthy of a Hollywood movie!<<

>>Much about the case is not in dispute. In Hunter Biden’s published memoir, which prosecutors have submitted as evidence, Hunter Biden described himself as someone who was “up twenty-four hours a day, smoking every fifteen minutes, seven days a week.”

“All my energy revolved around smoking drugs and making arrangements to buy drugs—feeding the beast,” he wrote.

Prosecutors are also planning to show images of drug paraphernalia and of Hunter Biden smoking crack that were backed up on his Apple iCloud account or his laptop.>>

<<Wait...have they charged Hunty with using illegal drugs?  No.  But yet again the Post article shows the prosecutors making the case that Hunty was addicted.  So the idea will be planted that Hunty is an innocent victim--any wrong was caused by duh drugs.<<

Barbara McQuade, a law professor at the University of Michigan and a former U.S. attorney, said it was unclear why prosecutors would include so much detail in a filing so close to the trial.

“If Weiss wanted to pressure Biden [to take a plea deal] he could have shared all of this information with Biden’s attorneys without filing it in a public document,” she wrote in an email. “Not sure what he is accomplishing by filing it publicly, other than perhaps prompting the witnesses to urge Biden to plead guilty.”

Still, prosecutors may face challenges at trial. Hunter Biden’s team is likely to argue that prosecutors rarely pursue someone for such a minor violation unless it is tied to a more serious crime.

>>Defense lawyers also could cite a recent revelation in court documents that at the time of the gun purchase, the store workers made copies of Hunter Biden’s passport but did not document viewing any ID with an address as required. Three years later, when the case became more controversial and officials asked for the original form, the shop owner decided to add more information to suggest he had also checked Hunter’s car registration.>>

<<Ahh, now it's the store's fault, presumably for forcing po' Hunty to lie about not using illegal drugs.  Yeh, dat's prolly it.<<

>>Prosecutors and Hunter Biden’s attorneys were close to a plea deal a year ago, but it collapsed when the two sides could not agree on whether it would preclude future charges against Hunter.>>

<<This is absolutely classic propaganda: Hunty's attorneys crafted a plea deal divided into two parts: one for the gun charge, and the other to agree that he wouldn't be prosecuted for income-tax fraud *or any other crime, known or otherwise.*  This last part was buried in a part of the plea that the judge wasn't allowed to modify.
   Hunty's attorneys came within a whisker of sneaking that in, but an inquisitive judge spotted it and got them to admit the effect it was intended to have.  Wow.<<

<<Now here's the hoot: Hunty is facing two trials: the gun charge in Delaware, and a charge of tax evasion in California.  But bizarrely, the prosecutor in both cases is Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss.
   Why would the U.S. attorney for Delaware be the prosecutor in a totally unrelated case in California, eh?
   You already know.

Weiss’s team has also entered a significant amount of sensitive material in the tax-fraud case, including documents from his divorce case from Kathleen Buhle.

Buhle, who divorced Hunter Biden in April 2017, is reported to say that “through 2018 she would check his vehicle because she did not want their children in a vehicle with drugs.”

“While searching his vehicles, she found drugs or paraphernalia on approximately a dozen occasions, says Weiss's court filing. “She is corroborated by a text message exchange with the defendant, in which she tells the defendant on March 9, 2018, ‘I also found a few crack pipes.’”

Again, what do drugs have to do with a charge of millions of dollars of tax fraud?  Nothing.  So why did Weiss file these docs with the court?

Sympathy.  "Duh demon drugs took over dis' po' boy's life!  If he did anything wrong, he's not responsible!  It's his tragic addiction to duh drugs!"
 
Weiss is acting like a defense attorney.  Oh wait...of course.

Source: WaPo

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