{"id":1954051,"date":"2023-06-22T11:54:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/half-of-americans-think-hunter-biden-received-special-treatment-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:54:48","slug":"half-of-americans-think-hunter-biden-received-special-treatment-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/half-of-americans-think-hunter-biden-received-special-treatment-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Half of Americans Believe Hunter Biden Received Special Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhalf-of-americans-think-hunter-biden-received-special-treatment-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1954051&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Half of Americans Believe Hunter Biden Received Preferential Treatment, Poll Finds<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to a recent Reuters\/Ipsos poll, half of Americans believe that Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/companies-that-donated-to-gov-gavin-newsom-to-help-with-coronavirus-were-rewarded-with-no-bid-state-contracts\/\" title=\"Companies That Donated To Gov. Gavin Newsom To Help With Coronavirus Were Rewarded With No-Bid State Contracts\">received preferential treatment<\/a> from prosecutors. The deal reached would allow Hunter Biden to plead guilty to tax charges while avoiding a gun-related conviction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The two-day poll, which closed on Wednesday, revealed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-half-of-republicans-right-leaning-independents-think-trump-has-best-chance-to-win-in-2024\/\" title=\"Poll: Half Of Republicans, Right-Leaning Independents Think Trump Has Best Chance To Win In 2024\">stark partisan divide<\/a> in opinions on the case. 75 percent of Republicans viewed the treatment as preferential, compared to only 33 percent of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy, most respondents stated that the case would not impact their likelihood of voting for President Biden in the upcoming reelection.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a federal prosecutor appointed by former President Donald Trump, announced that Hunter Biden, 53, has agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-avenatti-deserves-very-substantial-prison-sentence-prosecutors\/\" title=\"Michael Avenatti Deserves \u2018Very Substantial\u2019 Prison Sentence: Prosecutors\">pay income taxes<\/a>. Additionally, he has entered into an agreement that could potentially avoid a conviction on the gun-related charge.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump and his Republican allies have criticized the plea agreement, claiming it amounts to special treatment for Biden&#8217;s son. Weiss, a Trump-appointed prosecutor, was one of the few individuals Biden asked to remain in their positions to avoid any appearance of tampering in politically sensitive investigations.<\/p>\n<p>While some media pundits have dismissed concerns about Hunter Biden receiving special treatment and downplayed the charges he pleaded guilty to, others have defended him. &#8220;What do these jerks in the House want Joe Biden to do?&#8221; remarked MSNBC commentator and former Democratic senator Claire McCaskill.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden is scheduled to make an initial appearance in federal court in Delaware on July 26.<\/p>\n<p>Court filings reveal that Hunter Biden had taxable income exceeding $1.5 million in both 2017 and 2018 but failed to pay income tax for those years, despite owing over $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the tax charges, he is also accused of unlawfully owning a firearm while using and addicted to crack cocaine. For this charge, he entered a pretrial diversion agreement, which is an alternative to prosecution that can help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/half-of-americans-think-hunter-biden-received-special-treatment-poll\/\" title=\"Poll: Half of Americans Believe Hunter Biden Received Special Treatment\">defendants avoid prison time<\/a> or a criminal conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The Reuters\/Ipsos poll surveyed 1,004 U.S. adults nationwide and has a credibility interval of about 4 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Jason Lange in Washington; Editing by Scott Malone and Matthew Lewis)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Reuters\/Ipsos poll revealed that 50% of Americans think Hunter Biden received special treatment from prosecutors. The deal allowed him to plead guilty to tax charges while avoiding a gun-related conviction. The poll, conducted over two days and ending on Wednesday, highlighted the partisan divide among Americans on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1954052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}