{"id":2006474,"date":"2023-08-20T19:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T23:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunters-lawyers-threatening-spectacle-of-joe-biden-on-witness-stand-a-key-part-of-biden-doj-sweetheart-deal-talks\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T23:30:09","slug":"hunters-lawyers-threatening-spectacle-of-joe-biden-on-witness-stand-a-key-part-of-biden-doj-sweetheart-deal-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunters-lawyers-threatening-spectacle-of-joe-biden-on-witness-stand-a-key-part-of-biden-doj-sweetheart-deal-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter&#8217;s lawyers&#8217; threat to put Joe Biden on the witness stand is a crucial aspect of the Biden-DOJ deal negotiations, aiming to avoid a public spectacle."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">52<\/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%2Fhunters-lawyers-threatening-spectacle-of-joe-biden-on-witness-stand-a-key-part-of-biden-doj-sweetheart-deal-talks%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=2006474&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>Hunter&#8217;s Lawyers Threatening &#8216;Spectacle&#8217; \u2063of Joe Biden on\u200b Witness \u2063Stand\u200c a Key\u200b Part of \u200dBiden-DOJ\u200b &#8216;Sweetheart&#8217; Deal\u2062 Talks<\/h2>\n<p>When it \u2062came to\u200b getting a plea deal for their client, Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyers were ready to pull the\u2062 biggest\u2062 card they had.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of \u200dthe implosion of a \u201csweetheart deal\u201d Hunter\u200b Biden\u2019s lawyers \u2062negotiated \u2064with the Joe \u2064Biden\u2063 Justice Department, details are surfacing that\u2063 show one tactic\u200b Hunter\u2019s \u200clawyers had at the ready to get their client out of\u200b his legal \u200dtroubles with as little pain as \u2063possible.<\/p>\n<p>And, \u200baccording to a lengthy report published in \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/08\/19\/hunter-biden-plea-deal-collapse-00111974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> on Saturday, it did the trick \u2014 until a federal judge got\u200d to curious about the details.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness\u200d for the defense in \u200cany criminal trial,\u201d Clark \u200bwrote \u200bin a 32-page \u200dletter sent\u200d on Halloween, according\u200d to the\u2062 Beltway news\u200b outlet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According\u2063 to the report, Clark was pushed \u2063in particular by two leaks regarding the Justice Department\u2019s \u2064treatment of Hunter \u2064Biden that would warrant calling the president to the stand.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Earlier in October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/10\/06\/hunter-biden-tax-gun-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a> had published a report citing\u200b what the paper described as federal agents saying there \u2062was evidence to bring charges against Hunter Biden for failure 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> and for lying on\u2064 a form to buy a gun.<\/li>\n<li>That was followed within days by another leak \u2014 this one published by the U.K. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11292765\/Joe-Bidens-emotional-voicemail-Hunter-gun-purchase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily\u200d Mail<\/a>, \u2063which maintains a robust digital presence in the U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to Politico, Clark saw the leaks as \u2063part of an \u2062orchestrated campaign to \u2064pressure \u200dthe Justice Department to bring charges against his client.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dtax\u2062 charges would not even be on the table if it weren\u2019t for political pressure \u200cfrom former President Donald\u200c Trump, Biden\u2019s \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-federal-investigators-reveal-likely-reason-for-helicopter-crash-that-killed-kobe-bryant\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Federal Investigators Reveal Likely Reason For Helicopter Crash That Killed Kobe Bryant\">legal team argued<\/a>, according \u200dto Politico.<\/p>\n<p>And in an example\u200c of \u200dhow the world inside the Beltway\u2063 can look almost \u2063exactly upside down from \u2062the way it looks on the outside, according to Politico, Clark wrote in his\u2062 letter that, \u201cfederal law enforcement officials had \u200bknown about Biden\u2019s gun episode since 2018. Only politics explained why years later they were considering charges, he argued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden critics, like\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/comer-floored-doj-sends-troubling-letter-days-devon-archer-set-testify-biden-business-dealings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Republicans<\/a> \u200b on the House Oversight Committee, not to mention defense lawyers who<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunters-lawyers-threatening-spectacle-of-joe-biden-on-witness-stand-a-key-part-of-biden-doj-sweetheart-deal-talks\/\" title=\"Hunter's lawyers' threat to put Joe Biden on the witness stand is a crucial aspect of the Biden-DOJ deal negotiations, aiming to avoid a public spectacle.\">\u2019ve\u2063 represented clients charged<\/a> in similar cases, as Hunter Biden\u2019s \u200dsuspected offense \u2014\u200d lying \u2064on a federal form \u200cto buy a gun \u2014 would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/defense-attorney-furious-seeing-hunter-biden-plea-deal-client-charge-wont-prison-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">say exactly\u2062 the opposite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis \u2063of all \u200dcases\u200b justifies neither \u2064the spectacle\u2064 of a sitting President testifying at a criminal trial\u2063 nor the potential for\u2062 a resulting Constitutional crisis,\u201d Clark wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Politico report, months intervened \u200dbetween the time Clark wrote that letter and when the two sides finally hammered out an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s no doubt \u200dthe prospect of a sitting president being called as a witness in his own son\u2019s criminal trials weighed on the Department \u200bof Justice\u200c \u2014 and very possibly those working \u2062for a Biden re-election.<\/p>\n<p>The plea agreement that\u200c was eventually agreed was so favorable to Hunter\u2064 Biden, and so unusual, that it couldn\u2019t stand \u2063up \u2062in court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/inside-3-hour-hearing-destroyed-hunter-bidens-plea-deal-really-bad-everyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when it was questioned<\/a> by Judge Maryellen Noreika.<\/p>\n<p>It has been attacked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hunter-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal-now-investigated-house-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">congressional Republicans<\/a> and \u2063conservative commentators like former federal \u2063prosecutor <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/26\/the-fix-was-in-for-hunter-biden-until-a-hero-judge-stepped-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew McCarthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But from a \u200blawyer\u2019s\u2063 point of view, \u200cHunter\u2019s legal team did its job \u2014 and was\u2063 willing \u2062to play the biggest card it had.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hunters-lawyers-threatening-spectacle-joe-biden-witness-stand-key-part-biden-doj-sweetheart-deal-talks\/\">Hunter&#8217;s Lawyers Threatening &#8216;Spectacle&#8217; \u200cof Joe Biden on\u200d Witness Stand a \u2063Key Part of Biden-DOJ \u2063&#8217;Sweetheart&#8217; Deal Talks<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When seeking a plea deal for their client, Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyers played their strongest card. After a controversial deal negotiated with the Joe Biden Justice Department fell apart, new information reveals the tactics employed by Hunter&#8217;s legal team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2007,"featured_media":2006475,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/2006474","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\/2007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}