{"id":2182433,"date":"2024-02-20T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-takes-jabs-at-david-weisss-credibility-in-gun-case\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:41:11","slug":"hunter-biden-takes-jabs-at-david-weisss-credibility-in-gun-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-takes-jabs-at-david-weisss-credibility-in-gun-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden takes jabs at David Weiss\u2019s credibility in gun case"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fhunter-biden-takes-jabs-at-david-weisss-credibility-in-gun-case%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=2182433&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--><p>Hunter Biden\u2019s defense team took shots at David Weiss\u2019s credibility in a court filing on Tuesday, arguing the special counsel has \u201cgotten much wrong\u201d since charging the first son last year with illegally purchasing a firearm.<\/p>\n<p> Defense attorneys\u2019 claims that Weiss has made mistakes came as part of their fight to obtain additional discovery in the case, and they could signal that the first son intends to chip away at Weiss\u2019s credibility piece by piece as a strategy to undermine his prosecution.<\/p>\n<p> Defense attorneys, for example, accused prosecutors of misrepresenting a photo from Biden\u2019s computer data that they included in their most recent court filing.<\/p>\n<p> The photo was among three photos and several text messages prosecutors shared in the filing in part to demonstrate that Biden \u201ctook multiple photographs of videos [sic] apparent cocaine, crack cocaine, and drug paraphernalia\u201d in 2018 at the time of his alleged gun crime.<\/p>\n<p> While Biden\u2019s attorneys did not confirm the authenticity of the photos and messages \u2014 they continue to contend that Biden\u2019s now-prolific laptop data have been manipulated \u2014 they said after reviewing discovery Weiss had provided to them, they found that the photo in question was of sawdust rather than cocaine.<\/p>\n<p> They said that a fuller review of the discovery showed it was also a photo taken not by Biden but rather by his then-psychiatrist, Keith Ablow. Ablow shared it with Biden as a message of encouragement about a carpenter who chose a sober life, the discovery showed.<\/p>\n<p> (Screenshot from Hunter Biden\u2019s court filing, Feb. 20, 2024) \u201cThe prosecution was reckless in making such a hyperbolic and sensational claim in a public filing, which it surely realized would prejudice Mr. Biden in the public eye,\u201d Biden\u2019s attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n<p> The defense attorneys did not address the other photos and messages, some of which indicate that Hunter Biden was indeed using drugs in 2018 around the same time he purchased a revolver. Weiss has alleged that Biden lied on a gun form about his drug use to purchase the firearm. Biden has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is pushing to have his case dismissed.<\/p>\n<p> The defense attorneys also seized on the recent arrest of Alexander Smirnov to raise questions about Weiss\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n<p> The FBI had been using Smirnov as a confidential source, and FBI agents documented in a form in 2020 that Smirnov told the bureau that he learned that President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden once accepted millions of dollars in bribes from a Ukrainian official. Republicans widely shared the unproven claim, but in a stunning twist, Weiss indicted Smirnov last week over allegations he lied to the FBI and fabricated the story.<\/p>\n<p> Hunter Biden\u2019s attorneys tied the allegation against Smirnov to their own case.<\/p>\n<p> They said Weiss\u2019s claim in court last summer that the first son could still be charged under the Foreign Agents Registration Act \u201ccame as a surprise,\u201d and they suggested that Weiss made that claim only after he began looking into Smirnov. Weiss has never brought charges against Hunter Biden for a FARA violation, but he has also not ruled out the possibility that he still could do so.<\/p>\n<p> Defense attorneys nevertheless argued that Weiss\u2019s only interest in charging Hunter Biden with a FARA violation must have stemmed from the now allegedly debunked claims Smirnov had made.<\/p>\n<p> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p> \u201cDisclosure about why the Special Counsel abandoned its June\/July 2023 agreements with Mr. Biden [because of a possible FARA charge] and the role played by the Smirnov allegations may reveal flaws worse than mistaking sawdust for cocaine,\u201d Hunter Biden\u2019s defense attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n<p> The arguments between Hunter Biden\u2019s defense team and Weiss\u2019s prosecutors come after the first son asked the judge overseeing the case to dismiss it on several grounds. 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