{"id":2265459,"date":"2024-06-11T20:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-was-convicted-today-but-not-for-the-reasons-the-media-claims\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T20:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:37:43","slug":"hunter-biden-was-convicted-today-but-not-for-the-reasons-the-media-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-was-convicted-today-but-not-for-the-reasons-the-media-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden was convicted today, but not for the reasons reported by the media"},"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\">28<\/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-was-convicted-today-but-not-for-the-reasons-the-media-claims%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=2265459&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>Today, a federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware, convicted Hunter Biden for lying about his drug use on a firearms form while purchasing a gun in 2018. This\u2063 marked him as the first U.S. president\u2019s\u200b son to become a felon.\u2062 Notably, Hunter had communicated with\u2064 his drug dealer\u2064 just before buying \u200bthe firearm, strong evidence that \u2062contributed\u2064 to the\u200b jury&#8217;s decision. The case and its coverage suggest that the \u200cU.S. justice \u200dsystem operates fairly and without bias, countering claims that it is unfairly targeting certain \u2062individuals, such\u200d as \u200cformer President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The article also discusses the broader\u200d implications \u200dand\u200b controversies surrounding \u200dHunter Biden&#8217;s legal troubles. Critics argue that the Biden administration might have shown reluctance to prosecute Hunter and that the Justice Department (DOJ) did \u200dnot \u2063pursue more serious charges due to political reasons.\u200b This claim is supported \u200cby IRS whistleblowers who allege that the DOJ interfered in the investigation, potentially to \u200dprotect Joe Biden by not probing deeper into Hunter\u2019s\u2062 actions and preventing more serious charges from being filed. These \u2064actions included potentially criminal financial dealings with Burisma, a\u200b Ukrainian oil\u200b company, which could have also implicated Joe Biden,\u200c who had boasted about influencing Ukrainian politics.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these\u2062 complexities, the main takeaway is that while Hunter Biden is now a felon \u200bfor \u200dthe firearms violation, the broader investigative and \u2064prosecutorial processes might have been manipulated to protect broader political \u2064interests. This case shines a light on \u200dpossible governmental interference and raises significant questions about the integrity of legal processes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wnba-superstar-brittney-griner-heads-to-sham-trial-russian-court-system-under-microscope\/\" title=\"WNBA Superstar Brittney Griner Heads to \u201cSham Trial,\u201d Russian Court System Under Microscope\">politically sensitive cases<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, a federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware, found that the president\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hunter-biden-guilty-on-all-counts-in-gun-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violated the law<\/a> when he lied about his drug use on a gun store firearms form to obtain a revolver, speed loader, and ammunition in October of 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This was not a particularly close case. Evidence showed, among many other things, that Biden was texting his drug dealer the day before he bought the gun. The upshot, however, is that Hunter Biden becomes the first son of a United States president to become a felon in the history of the country. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For much of the national news media, Hunter Biden\u2019s trial and conviction is proof that the justice system is fair and impartial. Therefore, we should conclude that Donald Trump\u2019s prosecutions are legitimate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s fine to imprison the leading presidential frontrunner on a novel and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-demand-testimony-from-former-prosecutor-who-called-for-trump-charges\/\" title=\"House Republicans Demand Testimony From Former Prosecutor Who Called for Trump Charges\">untested legal theory<\/a>, they say, because the current president\u2019s son could potentially go to jail for crimes he obviously committed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A columnist for The Daily Beast, for example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/hunters-trial-reveals-trumps-big-lie-about-biden-and-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunter Biden\u2019s trial \u2026 shows that Trump\u2019s principal assertion\u2014that he is being unfairly targeted by Joe Biden\u2014doesn\u2019t hold water.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CNN, meanwhile, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/04\/media\/hunter-biden-trial-right-wing-media\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ran this headline:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunter Biden trial shows America\u2019s justice system isn\u2019t so rigged after all.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In order to come to a conclusion like this, you have to ignore the circumstances of how this trial came about, as well as the many crimes Hunter Biden has not been charged with \u2014 and, thanks to the DOJ, will never be charged with. Under Joe Biden, the federal government, very simply, did not want to bring this case. And when their hand was forced by two IRS whistleblowers, the federal government did everything they possibly could to protect Joe Biden and to sabotage more serious foreign corruption and tax evasion charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1384-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the New York Times <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/19\/us\/politics\/inside-hunter-biden-plea-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  last year, the lead prosecutor on the case, David Weiss, \u201cappeared willing to forgo any prosecution of Mr. Biden at all, and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charges. But the correspondence reveals that his position, relayed through his staff, changed in the spring, around the time a pair of I.R.S. officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of those whistleblowers, Gary Shapley, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/waysandmeans.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Whistleblower-1-Transcript_Redacted.pdf#page=9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">alleged<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in an affidavit that:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the criminal tax investigation of Hunter Biden, led by the United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Delaware, has been handled differently than any investigation I\u2019ve ever been a part of for the past 14 years of my IRS service. \u2026 At every stage decisions were made that had the effect of benefiting the subject.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shapely also stated:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Investigators assigned to this investigation were obstructed from seeing all the available evidence. It is unknown if all the evidence in [Hunter\u2019s] laptop was reviewed by agents or by prosecutors.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The testimony of Shapley and another whistleblower caused major, unexpected problems for Joe Biden\u2019s DOJ. Their plan to bury the Hunter Biden case entirely was no longer viable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First of all, the whistleblowers revealed that Merrick Garland may have lied when he told Congress that the DOJ wasn\u2019t interfering in the Hunter Biden investigation. That had to be resolved immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Secondly, and more importantly, the whistleblowers helped establish a direct link between Hunter Biden\u2019s criminal activity and Joe Biden\u2019s actions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s one recent interview, for example:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two IRS whistleblowers who investigated Hunter Biden and say they were stopped from following the trail leading to his dad tell their story tomorrow on Full Measure. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hLOnUVJKtI\">pic.twitter.com\/hLOnUVJKtI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sharyl Attkisson \ud83d\udd75\ufe0f\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83d\udcbc\ud83e\udd4b (@SharylAttkisson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SharylAttkisson\/status\/1799487153694499157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Confronted with statements like this from whistleblowers, the DOJ had no choice but to bring some kind of charge against Hunter Biden. So they settled on a plan: They would bring a prosecution, and then immediately seek out a plea deal. This deal, as the DOJ envisioned it, would grant Hunter Biden immunity from prosecution for unrelated felonies he may have committed \u2014 including potential violations of FARA, or the Foreign Agents Registration Act, relating to his overseas business operations. That\u2019s the law that was essentially never prosecuted until the DOJ decided to use it to target Trump aides, including Paul Manafort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In exchange for accepting this plea deal granting him total immunity, Hunter Biden would suffer no actual punishment whatsoever. The deal was too over-the-top, though, which is why it collapsed late last year when a federal judge refused to sign off. The DOJ admitted in court that they couldn\u2019t think of a similar sweetheart deal ever being offered in the history of federal prosecutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the DOJ was back at square one \u2014 but not entirely. Their strategy to absolve Hunter Biden completely may have failed, but their plan to insulate Joe Biden from scrutiny appears to have succeeded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Shapely stated in his affidavit, the sabotaged investigative process into Hunter Biden:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2026 meant no charges would ever be brought in the District of Columbia, where the statute of limitations on the 2014 and \u201915 [tax] charges would eventually expire. The years in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/outrage-erupts-as-hunter-biden-is-seen-living-it-up-at-high-profile-white-house-event-2-days-after-agreeing-to-plead-guilty\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden sparks outrage by attending high-profile White House event just days after agreeing to plead guilty.\">question included foreign income<\/a> from [Ukrainian oil company] Burisma and a scheme to evade his income taxes through a partnership with a convicted felon. There were also potential FARA issues relating to 2014 and 2015. The purposeful exclusion of the 2014 and 2015 years sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material facts.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In other words, the government let the statute of limitations on the most serious potential charges \u2014 the ones involving Hunter Biden\u2019s time working at a high-paying, no-show job at a Ukrainian oil company \u2014 expire on purpose. And those potential charges aren\u2019t simply significant because of their impact on Hunter Biden. They\u2019re significant because, as you may remember, Joe Biden once publicly bragged about getting Ukraine\u2019s top prosecutor fired. This was the prosecutor who, coincidentally enough, was investigating Burisma at the time. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s Joe Biden admitting that, when he was vice president, the U.S. threatened to withhold funding to Ukraine until Ukraine fired its own top prosecutor. You can choose to believe that Joe Biden is just really passionate about ending corruption in eastern Europe or it might be that Joe Biden wanted to take the heat off the corruption that his own family was engaging in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ll probably never have the evidence of any such corruption now, though \u2014 because as Shapely said, <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is no mechanism available to collect the tax owed by Hunter Biden for 2014 other than in a voluntary fashion.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the ultimate goal of the Hunter Biden prosecution. The DOJ isn\u2019t concerned about this gun case. Their real objective has been to slow-roll their work as much as possible, so that the more serious charges expire. And it\u2019s very clear, as the whistleblower said, that there\u2019s a viable reason to investigate not only Hunter Biden for potential FARA violations, but also his father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congressional Republicans, for example, have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/hunter-biden-whatsapp-message-fuels-gop-assertions-corruption\/story?id=100338044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">released<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  a July 2017 WhatsApp message in which Hunter Biden appears to threaten a Chinese business associate by mentioning his father. According to court documents, Hunter Biden wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. \u2026 Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. \u2026 And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. \u2026 I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So that\u2019s a conversation that strongly suggests that Joe Biden was directly involved with his son\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-travel-lid-for-wednesday-an-hour-after-bobulinski-interview-airs\/\" title=\"Biden Calls Travel Lid for Wednesday an Hour After Bobulinski Interview Airs\">foreign business dealings<\/a> with a Chinese private equity fund closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party \u2014 and that he\u2019d leverage his influence to secure payouts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are the kinds of investigative threads that the DOJ has been working to bury since they obtained Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop all the way back in December of 2019 \u2014 as part of an investigation dating back to 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These investigations haven\u2019t taken so long because they\u2019re particularly complicated. They\u2019ve gone on for so long because the federal government has been trying to run out the clock. First they denied that the laptop was even real, then they slow-walked the investigation into its contents. And when two IRS whistleblowers disrupted their plan, they selected the pettiest charges imaginable so that they can obscure the real crimes they desperately don\u2019t want to investigate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunter Biden was convicted today for only one reason \u2014 so that Joe Biden won\u2019t ever be investigated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware, concluded that Hunter Biden illegally lied about his drug use on a firearms form at a gun store in October 2018 to acquire a revolver, speed loader, and ammunition. 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