{"id":1983717,"date":"2023-07-26T21:22:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karl-rove-not-surprised-judge-questioned-hunter-biden-plea-deal-as-get-out-of-jail-free-card\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T21:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T01:23:14","slug":"karl-rove-not-surprised-judge-questioned-hunter-biden-plea-deal-as-get-out-of-jail-free-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karl-rove-not-surprised-judge-questioned-hunter-biden-plea-deal-as-get-out-of-jail-free-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Rove unsurprised by judge&#8217;s skepticism of Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea deal as a &#8220;get out of jail free card.&#8221;"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fkarl-rove-not-surprised-judge-questioned-hunter-biden-plea-deal-as-get-out-of-jail-free-card%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=1983717&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--><h2>Former White\u200b House\u2062 Chief of Staff Karl Rove Reacts \u2064to Hunter Biden&#8217;s Plea Deal\u200b Collapse<\/h2>\n<p>Former White House chief \u200cof staff Karl Rove expressed his \u2063lack of surprise \u2062regarding the federal \u200bjudge&#8217;s disapproval of Hunter\u2062 Biden&#8217;s plea agreement during his court appearance. The initial deal involved Biden pleading guilty to two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-charges-hunter-biden\/\" title=\"Justice Department charges Hunter Biden\">tax misdemeanor charges<\/a> in exchange for avoiding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karl-rove-not-surprised-judge-questioned-hunter-biden-plea-deal-as-get-out-of-jail-free-card\/\" title=\"Karl Rove unsurprised by judge's skepticism of Hunter Biden's plea deal as a \"get out of jail free card.\"\">felony gun possession\u200c charge<\/a>. However, \u200bDelaware federal District \u2063Judge Maryellen Noreika threw\u2064 a &#8220;curveball&#8221;\u2062 by rejecting the &#8220;sweetheart&#8221; plea deal.<\/p>\n<h3>Hunter Biden&#8217;s Plea Deal Falls Apart as\u200b Judge Throws a &#8216;Curveball&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>The outcome of the proceedings led to Biden pleading not guilty after Judge \u200bNoreika raised concerns about the extent of immunity provided by the deal. Rove compared the immunity plea to a &#8220;get out of jail free card&#8221; for Biden&#8217;s alleged misconduct.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Look, you give\u200d immunity\u2063 in return for,\u2063 generally, for assistance,&#8221; Rove explained in\u2062 an interview with Fox News. &#8220;So, the grant of immunity would normally be tied to cooperation in going after a bigger\u2064 fish, so to speak. And instead, it\u200b looks like, you know, that was \u200ba\u200d get out of\u2062 jail free card for anything that he might have done or might do for some period of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rove found it extraordinary when Hunter Biden&#8217;s\u2064 attorney made the request for immunity, \u2064and he wasn&#8217;t surprised that the judge had an issue with it. He\u200b emphasized the implications of such a plea, stating, &#8220;Give me a free pass \u2063on anything that you may not have been able to pin on me so far, but that you \u2064may\u200d find out about me in the months ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judge Noreika\u2062 has postponed her ruling on the agreement until she receives additional briefings from the government and Biden&#8217;s counsel, as the investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You\u200b all are telling me to &#8216;please rubber-stamp this\u200c agreement, your honor.&#8217; I am not in a position where I can decide on the plea agreement,&#8221; Noreika stated\u2064 during Wednesday&#8217;s proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Without the arrangement, President Joe Biden&#8217;s son \u2063could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morning-wire-u-s-veterans-take-afghanistan-evacuation-into-their-own-hands-texas-house-passes-election-integrity-law-mississippi-threatens-new-covid-restrictions\/\" title=\"Morning Wire: U.S. Veterans Take Afghanistan Evacuation Into Their Own Hands, Texas House Passes Election Integrity Law, Mississippi Threatens New COVID Restrictions\">face severe consequences<\/a>, including up to\u2064 12 months in prison, a fine of\u2062 $25,000 for \u200beach tax violation count, and a \u2062maximum sentence of 10 years in jail for the\u200d felony charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Rove, ex-White House chief of staff, expressed no surprise as the federal judge overseeing Hunter Biden&#8217;s case raised concerns about the plea agreement. Initially, Biden and prosecutors had agreed on him pleading guilty to two tax misdemeanors instead of a felony charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983718,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1983717","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}