By Chuck Kennedy | Official White House Photo
By Brett Rowland, for The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A Delaware jury convicted President Joe Biden’s son of gun charges on Tuesday, marking the first-ever trial of a president’s son.
Special counsel David Weiss indicted Hunter Biden in September 2023 in federal court in Delaware on three counts tied to the possession of a gun while using drugs. Two of the counts involve allegations that he allegedly lied on a form attesting that he was not using illegal drugs when he bought a .38 Special Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018. The third count alleges that he possessed a firearm while using illicit drugs.
The jury convicted Hunter Biden on all charges after about three hours of deliberations. The president’s son did not take the stand in his own defense. The judge has not yet scheduled a sentencing date.
Hunter Biden faces up to 10 years in prison on the first two counts and five years on the third count.
President Joe Biden said he won’t intervene regardless of the jury’s verdict.
President Biden told ABC News last week that he would accept the verdict in his son’s trial and would not seek to pardon Hunter Biden. The White House has repeatedly said Biden would not pardon his son if convicted of a crime.
The President was not asked about a possible commutation of his son’s sentence, but has repeatedly said no one is above the law during political rival Donald Trump’s New York trial.
Hunter Biden’s previous plea deal on gun and tax fraud charges fell apart in July 2023 after last-minute disagreements over the degree to which Hunter Biden could face future charges for other alleged crimes still possibly under investigation. That plea deal revolved around alleged tax crimes and a single gun charge.
In California, Hunter Biden faces separate tax charges that alllege he failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes and filed false tax returns. That could go to trial in September.
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The question I have is whether or not the President was complicit to any of these activities. Obviously, the hardline Left will give HIM a pass, though I hope enough will see the hypocrisy of it all an become more moderate.
I’m guessing the politically-motivated prosecution would have covered that.
Don’t worry anybody, as a last act (or maybe before) daddy will pardon poor Hunter, or commute his sentence .
The shiny object.
You bet, Tyler. Just wait now and see what Trump’s sentence will be. And while President Biden says he won’t pardon his son, he didn’t say he wouldn’t commute his sentence.
Again, it’s not over until it’s over.
For all the Anti-Gun hating liberals, here’s your chance to put your money where your mouth is, never mind this drug addict’s last name, he broke a federal law as he lied on
a firearm form 4473 and that means prison time and a fine ………………………………..
… and that includes any and all of you pot smoking gun owners out there. Guess we’d need to build more prisons if that one were to be enforced.
Look at who the prosecuting attorney was… David Weiss. Mr Dem-Well-Connected. Also the same David Weiss who configured Hunter’s previous plea deal which, if not for an alert judge, would have immunized him from all further prosecutions.
No… Mr Weiss only plays one side of the street. No switching for him. Not his style. Methinks something smells rotten in Delaware.
Anyone care to hazard a guess as to what Get Out of Jail Free card Weiss has up his sleeve in order to get Hunter off?
Sorry, bad pun.
Call me sceptical, but I don’t think you will see Hunter behind bars. If I am wrong, I will admit it, but we currently have a two types of justice in America. One fy Democrats the other for everyone else. If you are either part of the D club you will get special treatment.
I would point out:
1. gun was never loaded or fired
2. gun was not used in commission of a felony
3. defendant had no prior record
4. evidence improperly excluded by presiding justice, namely original doctored gun registration form.
5. however, evidence was introduced drawn from a recovering addict’s memoir; hardly the best place to go for forensics.
Prosecution basically boiled the case down to whether or not HB was an addict. No big mystery there. But can anyone point to any recent comparable prosecution for improperly registering a weapon? I think not.
There would have been no case to prosecute had the defendant’s initials not been HB. A phenomenal waste of taxpayers money, this trial.
In any event, given the defendant’s lack of priors, probation and/or house arrest would be appropriate. Instead, prosecutors will attempt to persuade Noreika to hit HB with 25 years.
Selective or vindictive prosecution? Or both?
Re: “1. gun was never loaded or fired.”
So what? Assuming you’re correct, Hunter Biden wasn’t charged with loading or firing anything.
Re: “2. gun was not used in commission of a felony.”
So what? Assuming you’re correct, Hunter Biden wasn’t charged with using the gun.
Re: “3. defendant had no prior record”
So what? Assuming you’re correct… But wait, does receiving an ‘administrative discharge’ from the Navy for cocaine use qualify as a prior?
Re: “4. evidence improperly excluded by presiding justice, namely original doctored gun registration form.”
The ‘original’ application form was emailed to the ATF and NOT ‘doctored’. The defense contended there were two versions of the application, the second being a paper copy that contained additional written information that the gun store staff added a couple years later. The subsequent ‘copy’ was deemed to be irrelevant.
Re: “5. however, evidence was introduced drawn from a recovering addict’s memoir; hardly the best place to go for forensics”
This is the big deal in this case. The evidence wasn’t just an ‘addict’s memoir’. It was the infamous ‘laptop from hell’. You know… the laptop Joe Biden said didn’t exist when he debated Trump in 2020. The laptop 51 former intelligence officers falsely claimed was Russian disinformation just days earlier.
In the final analysis, the laptop, and its contents, were not only deemed to be authentic by the FBI, the FBI admitted that it was in their possession for almost a year prior to the 2020 election. The evidence in the laptop confirms a lot more than Hunter Biden’s drug use. Buckle your seat belts.
Keep in mind that Hunter Biden was charged with falsifying his application to buy a gun. And he did falsify the application by claiming he wasn’t a drug user or addict.
The paradox, in my opinion, is that the 2nd Amendment says “… the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Period. Nowhere is ‘addict’ or ‘addicted to’ defined. So, is the gun application constitutional?
Yes, again, Hunter Biden broke the law. He was rightfully convicted of making a false statement to a federal agency.
But I smell a rat in this prosecution and conviction. It seems to be a setup. There’s a lot more to come. Hunter and his father and many of the Biden family are shown by the evidence to be guilty of a lot more significant illegal activities than making a false statement on a gun application. And I think those of us who can’t stand the Bidens are being sucked into destabilizing our 2nd Amendment rights because of our political preferences. I would much prefer to let HB off with a wrist slap and use the laptop to catch the bigger fish … I mean catch ‘the big guy’.
Be careful what you agree to or wish for.
hunter biden belongs in jail for many reasons/// i have been following the history of these biden crooks for many years////
Hunter Biden is as innocent as Trump is innocent. As Trumps 6th Amendment rights were violated in the NY trial, Hunter Biden’s rights were violated in this so-called gun case.
1. The government is not delegated the authority by our Constitution to compel us to waive our guaranteed 4th Amendment right to be secure from unwarranted interrogation, search, or seizure in the absence of probable cause of criminal conduct.
2. The government is not delegated the authority by our Constitution to compel us to waive our guaranteed 5th Amendment right to due process as a precondition to being allowed (or denied) the exercise of our right to keep and bear arms. This violation of our 4th and 5th Amendment rights happens every time that we are interrogated under penalty of perjury without probable cause that a crime has been committed when we fill out B.A.T.F.E form 4473 to purchase a firearm. The purpose of compelled background checks as a precondition to allowing or denying the transfer of a firearm is to deceive firearm owners and prospective owners into unknowingly waiving their rights guaranteed by the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 10thand 14th Amendments so they will have no rights left to claim when the government decides to register and confiscate our firearms.
3. The government is not delegated the authority by our Constitution to compel us to waive our 10th Amendment right to a federal government exercising only those powers delegated to it by the United States Constitution, and State governments are prohibited the exercise of any power prohibited to the States by the United States Constitution.
4. The government is not delegated the authority under the 14th Amendment to make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
I find this Ironic that Hunter Biden’s defense team on appeal will be making the same arguments that I have stated above and should go to the Supreme Court, and they take the case all the gun control that the Commiecrats have passed over the years could be as it should be swept away as it should be if the Constitution is followed. And by the way let’s not forget the Bruen Decision on gun control and the historical context of the 2nd Amendment. In 1933, the first federal background check for firearms was implemented under the National Firearms Act to regulate the sale and transfer of machine guns and sawed-off shotguns, however the present background check system started in 1993 with the Brady Bill. In regard to the National Firearms Act of 1933 we had no background checks for 144 years and the Brady Bill we had no background checks for 204 years.
You can’t take away someone’s right to free speech, freedom of assembly or freedom of religion without first taking away their ability to resist. THE 2nd AMENDMENT DOES NOT GRANT US THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. THE 2nd AMENDMENT PROHIBITS THE GOVERNMENT FROM INFRINGING ON OUR RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS – PERIOD!
Donald L. Cline: “A free citizenry does not ask its governments’ permission to exercise a right. It does not register its exercise of a right. It does not waive any other right, such as the right to privacy, or the right to due process, or the right to be secure from being compelled to waive a right in order to exercise a right, in exchange for permission to exercise a right such as the right to keep and bear arms which government does not have the authority to issue or deny in the first place. It does not permit government to claim the exercise of a right is probable cause, or prima facie evidence, or even a suspicion, of a crime having been committed. It does not discuss, or negotiate, what rights it will or will not exercise with government or with any government functionary. In short, a free citizenry, founded in principles of liberty, does not give up its right to determine what kind of government receives its Consent to Govern. A free citizenry respects, honors, and protects the lawful rights of others, by force of arms, if necessary, else liberty cannot be preserved for anyone”.
Re: “A free citizenry does not ask its governments’ permission to exercise a right.”
Whether asking permission to exercise a right or not, when the government prohibits those rights, by force, what then? This has become a kinetic struggle. President Biden has drawn the line.
“Well, guess what, man, I didn’t see a whole lot of patriots that are out there walking around making sure that we have these weapons. And if you really want to worry about the government, you need an F-16.”
Does anyone question whether or not Biden, and ‘the government’, would escalate this threat? While Biden and the government are tendering an unquestionably ‘unconstitutional’ position, in a conflict that occurs during a state of lawlessness, the winner, by whatever means, writes the history books.
He should have just printed out his own ghost gun at home, or bought one on the street. Both are god-given and Constitutional rights, right James?
message to jamesvitolanese///// you are one hundred percent right about the second amendment/// the problem is the biden family are guilty of many more crimes with the money laundering//// more will come out when tel///// lie//// vision/// has to report the truth///////////