Absolutely yes. Dropped the gun charge when there’s irrefutable proof he did it, and a 100k fine for a guy who is worth 230 million is a slap on the wrist. Why even bring the case at that point?
@@sweetrocks610he was only investigated because of his last name. This selective prosecution for a non-politician showed that he was charged with a crime only 10% of people are charged for in the case of the lying on the form. It’s right around 10% of all people lying on that form are charged. His net worth has nothing to do with the rest of this. He also paid the taxes and admitted guilt.
So he didn't pay his taxes and defied gun regulations. All he needs to do now is make questionable statements about the age of consent and he'd be qualified to run in the Republican primaries.
Oh, please. There should be no gun regulations, and taxes should be much, much, much lower. The wealthy support you; they pay the vaaaaaaaast majority of income taxes.
Not sure how you think that's irony. Can't think of any mainstream Republicans that would agree with a serial drug abuser like Hunter to illegally possess a firearm, as well as pocket foreign business deals money, strong-arming them in conversations saying "my dad is right here with me, get the deal done or else" and telling the IRS its a loan to himself lol... He's getting off real light, but we all know why...
Actually we republicans wanted the prosecution precisely because his lawyers would argue the Bruen decision nullifies 4473’s. Lefties couldn’t tolerate that so prang we let a criminal basically off the hook. Think about it he’d have been found not guilty but then the whole 4473 database scheme would have been destroyed
As someone who's worked in taxes and accounting for 2 decades, I've seen hundreds of clients owe more money than Hunter did for far longer without ever being threatened with prosecution. If you're not famous or infamous, they just want the money paid.
The way you worded this comment, is funny. Are you down playing Hunter's tax charges? The pertinent question is: did he commit tax and fire arm violation? Yes or No
The only thing you need to know about the Republican response is that they somehow think minor tax evasion and fibbing on a gun application is worse than dozens of counts of mishandling classified information and obstructing justice.
Also that they believe it's okay for someone convicted of domestic violence to obtain a gun, but are mad someone bought a gun while being addicted to cocaine.
From CBS: "GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said in a statement Wednesday that FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed "the existence of an unclassified record that contains reporting of an alleged bribery scheme related to then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national." Comer believes the FBI record contains "a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose," he and Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Chuck Grassley said in a letter to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland in early May. The GOP lawmakers also said at the time, they believed the form "describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions."
The problem is that they don't believe that's what HB did, they believe HB was a serial rapist who kidnapped little kids and ate them all for breakfast as part of some Satanic cult. They all believe this sentence is just a cover up to his "real" crimes
Didn't Biden also keep classified documents after his vice presidency? Isn't Hunter also a crackhead? Why can't people realize that both parties are shitty oligarchs feeding on each other and stop excusing "their" side?
What no one has said, and I think is the most important - what charges were considered and dropped for this plea? If there were more serious things on the table, I might have a problem with this.
I haven't seen a single person who leans even slightly left complain about the hunter conviction, if they complained they complained that it wasn't enough, yet somehow the right thinks we are hiding something lol
See here's the thing. You can't try to argue for prosecuting Trump, but not argue that Hunter should have had the book thrown at him without arguing in bad faith. Somehow I haven't seen one person on the left complain that "it wasn't enough". I see people like you that try to act like they exist, but somehow actually finding said people is impossible.... It is almost like you are just talking out of your ass.
The right don't understand people on the left at all. I would argue the same goes for the other way around...but they routinely make it very clear the type of people they are.
As someone who leans center leftist on most things, imo the gun charge shouldn't even be a law. Who runs on the decriminalization of weed on a federal level, but 3 years after being elected its still illegal and your administration is still locking people up and taking their rights away for it?
That's why you keep losing. You are trying to play fair-game against cheaters. They will always win and you will whine from your high horse of rightfulness. That's like coming clean onto a body-building competition. Unless you change the entire system, you don't have a chance. Because it's rigged and cheating is expanded.
Every time a conservative cries, "He got a sweetheart deal" regarding Hunter, ask them about Thomas Ravenel, the GOP state legislature that got caught handing out packets of cocaine at parties as "party favors" and the deal he got. The backstory on that is mindblowing.
@@cl8804 care to explain how YOUR logic works then, Einstein??? or are you just going to run a VEILED AD HOMINEM and then strut around like a Pigeon that thinks it won a game of Chess...?
Hey, he's still got bow and crossbow hunting as an option. Probably some freakshow municipality that will issue a permit to go out with a spear if you want to get back to basics.
This doesn't bother me at all because it makes sense, first time nonviolent offenders who through a plee deal take responsibility rarely ever see prison time
President Biden stated: “There will be a ZERO tolerance policy when falsifying information on a firearms transaction…”. His son literally defied the statement by purchasing a handgun while under the influence of crack/cocaine. Meanwhile, medical/recreational marijuana users across the country are being jailed for the same charge. If you have a brain, the hypocrisy is readily apparent!
Find me someone who was given a sweetheart plea deal with zero jail time for federal firearms felonies, with said plea being arranged before they are even officially charged. I'll wait.
If even presidents and their families, no matter the affiliation all get charged and tried, then the system is working better than we're led to believe and that's refreshing.
From CBS: "GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said in a statement Wednesday that FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed "the existence of an unclassified record that contains reporting of an alleged bribery scheme related to then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national." Comer believes the FBI record contains "a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose," he and Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Chuck Grassley said in a letter to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland in early May. The GOP lawmakers also said at the time, they believed the form "describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions."
Except that there wasn't a trial. There was a series of sweetheart plea deals that no ordinary citizen accused of the same crimes would ever have been offered, plus immunity granted on multiple uncharged crimes like using underage prostitutes and other similar things.
@@danielbakergillTrump was charged and tried... thats president covered. H. Biden charged and tried... thats family. One is Rep affiliated the other Dem... it's kinda exactly what happened.
@@taylorlibby7642 sweetheart? I don't know, this plea seems pretty run of the mill to me. Can you cite a dozen or so other pleas that don't fall within this range for some comparison?
Ironic that the GOP are bleating about the gun charge, while simultaneously criticising anybody who tries to push gun regulations, citing ‘shall not be infringed’.
@@eziokill9112 funny how you just made up a bunch of bs and pretended it was stated by the op. Equally funny that you don't seem to understand what irony is.
@@roofdogblues7400 go ahead and tell me one atf ruling or law that had been put 2 the board that actually makes sense and doesn't piggyback and use buzzwords that make idiots like you think banning a STOCK or something just as stupid is somehow better for everyone. And then go ahead and tell me why no criminals ever follow the laws that are already in place? Could it be because they are criminals? 😲 Who would have thought it's almost like a majority of the guns they use are illegally required and all the senseless laws you morons attempt or do pass only affects law abiding citizens and makes them guilty of a felony when last month they were completely within their right 2 have that bumpstock that you thought was 2 scary.
Honest after Cheney shot that guy and not only didn’t catch any charges, was apologized to by the man he shot, I pretty much gave up on rich being accounted for.
It's extra stupid because he's saying "why'd Hunter get a special plea deal". Like, he got a plea deal because he agreed to plead guilty. Trump pled innocent despite the mountain of evidence against him. You don't get a plea deal for pleading innocent...
So basically it sounds like he got a pretty standard punishment for the tax issues and what might even be a harsher than normal punishment for the gun issue.
Which means that desatan or it's pac backers lost money showing it to a non-intended possible voter & a very small amount of that money will go to legal eagle, so rejoice?
he paid them late so its a misdemeanor not a felony. every president except trump gave all the documents back. clinton's personal notes to himself about himself were ruled as his personal notes imagine. like trumps golf shirt's, sweat socks and dirty laundry mixed in with the names of our spies.
I'm glad they are putting their principles aside and using whatever they can to attack you. Like the things you attack then with that they disagree with
This goes to show how the GOP is one of those groups of people who think the law shouldn't apply to them but should apply to those outside their tribe; and if they are bound by the law then the punishment for them is lighter compared to their enemies outside the tribe. I dunno is hypocrisy is the accurate term to use in this instance. Selfish might be a better choice..
I think he has the unlawful possession of a firearm charge because he had a gun but was prohibited to have it because of his use of narcotics. I think many Republicans and Democrats would agree that is reckless.
@@Iliketurtles117I do think people on both sides of the isle would agree it's reckless. But I also think that more Republicans than Democrats tend to argue that using substance abuse as a disqualifier for gun ownership is unconstitutional.
Not gonna lie, it bothers me that the fifth circuit court acknowledges that firearms in the hands of domestic violence offenders is a bad thing, but then goes on to make a historical argument when domestic violence was not exactly a priority until recently. No fault divorces only became legalized in 1970, and New York was the last state to put it in law as recently as 2010. The reference to “our ancestors is incredibly vague, but given that women could even vote until 1920, there is a lot of history where a man’s rights took priority over a woman’s safety. Not to mention, our ancestors would not have accepted a lot of things that have since been enshrined in the constitution. Feels bad. Feels a little weak as an argument. But I am a woman, what the heck would I know?
There's a good chunk of the GOP that outright believe that giving women the right to vote was a mistake and it should be corrected... in 2023..... I assume you're aware that the GOP have put repealing no fault divorce on their agenda. It's like no wonder we advance so slowly as a species. Hard to make progress when half of the species wants to drag us back to the stone age.
Liberals do not hate a tax cheat being punished. Any republican who cheated taxes and paid it back would be offered the exact same plea deal. It is a good thing that these tax cheats who pay the money back are still charged and convicted, even if the punishment is minimal. Punishments will add up if they do it again. Republicans/magas were going to be mad no matter what. They want joe biden to be punished for being hunter's father in some kind of reverse generational punishment system as if we live in north korea.
Pass background checks ✅ Get a gun for yourself ✅ Be legally required to attend strict gun ownership, responsible firearm classes ✅ Congrats, you are now equipped to protect yourself because don't we all agree we can't always trust law enforcement to protect us?
@@GomerBarnFloyd we can't trust* when seconds counts, police is half an hour away from your position. they're not here to defend you, they're here to protect the regime
Yeah aren't Republicans all for protecting the second amendment rights of every person to own and openly carry guns? Or is that every person who isn't a Democrat or isn't related to one of their "enemies"?
Despite being boring, it's also really high profile. How long have the GOP been yelling about Hunter Biden for at this point? I think it's valuable that Legal Eagle made it clear what this case was actually about to dispel the hyperbole being thrown around by the extreme right.
Some people say Hunter is getting treatment you or I would not get. I say if it was you or I we'd probably get the same treatment it just wouldn't be a news story. Plea deals happen every day.
No you wouldnt lying on a 4473 is a 10 year felony and no plea deal would get you off with no jail time and his massive tax debt would be another situation in its entirety. Not to mention it also weakens one of bidens promises of stronger gun control when we see a massive crime committed by his own family and yet lets then off scott free
@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj right? *HONEST* people plead guilty if they did the crime... ( ~she blushes and looks away a bit~ ) "Yes your honor, ma'am, I had a small amount of Marijuana that I surrendered to Officer Parker on request" *LIARS* try to "convince the jury they're innocent" when they're guilty as hell.
@@bast713 Some people just can't bother watching videos before spouting off nonsense. With how often I see responses like that, I honestly wonder what some people are even doing on a video site when they don't watch uploaded videos.
@@joefox9875 And fought it instead of taking a plea deal. When you take a plea deal, that is literally agreeing to a lighter sentence so you don't have to fight it in court and waste time and money.
Listen, the round ball goes in the square hole! The round ball goes in the square hole, and WHO could POSSIBLY figure out that round and square are different shapes???? Who could figure that out?????????
Honestly I don't know why Republican are really fixated on Hunter.... He isn't like the Trump kids who held official position, he is just a private citizen.
From CBS: "GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said in a statement Wednesday that FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed "the existence of an unclassified record that contains reporting of an alleged bribery scheme related to then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national." Comer believes the FBI record contains "a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose," he and Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Chuck Grassley said in a letter to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland in early May. The GOP lawmakers also said at the time, they believed the form "describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions."
Cause it’s all they can do. It’s pretty hypocritical that they’d hound this dude mercilessly, yet happily allow trump to do all kinds of crooked shit..
Unless he was selling American secrets to foreign nations. And he is a public figure being the son of a former vp and current resident of the white house makes hunter a public figure
exactly. the only actual crimes he's done are small and he admitted to them straight away. it's solely his name to blame for how the media is treating him because he's literally normal..
Republicans: "This law is unconstitutional! I'm so mad that this law is ever enforced!" Also Republicans: "These are very serious charges! I'm so mad that this criminal is only getting a slap on the wrist and his dad is still president!"
@@OverlyCriticalAnimewhich part is hypocritical? The same party is giving their oligarch son a slap on the wrist for crimes they have thrown black men in jail for? Y'all gonna advocate releasing all those minorities you locked up with this law you support or all the sudden don't support it cause your favorite white boy got charged with it? Tell me which part.
i wish it wasn't a democrat and republican thing. i'd never consider voting republican, but i think it's draconian that i live in a state where weed is legal but i'm not allowed to buy a gun if i use it.
@@exodia_right_leg Standing on some odd moral high ground isnt going to convince that many people. IMO weed some be legal every were and it can be said all drugs should be legal
Thats the difference between the left and right - left wants justice regardless of party, whereas the right.......just wants indemnity, but only for their party members
@@Hahvokthe only people making jokes are democrats laughing their favorite white boy son of an oligarch got a slap on the wrist while thousands of black guys are in jail and had felon status put on them for the same crime only for lefties to go "ahaha I bet those republicans would be hypocritical if it was different" how is it hypocritical to want the same treatment for everyone? We might not agree with the law but we do believe it should be equally enforced. And you're here like "hahaha got em" like you have any point at all? How does that boot taste?
Kind of weird. Since.. arent republicans still trying to push child marriage and returning back to the 1800's by weakening labor laws to allow child labor?
As a Brit we have our own messed up government, so I have zero opinions about this but I do enjoy listening to LegalEagle discussing the different cases throughout America
Imagine if the entire Labour party up and decided to make it's primary goal, to investigate one of Sunaks children for vague "wrongdoings", then they do that for about 6 years, constantly announcing "new crimes" that well, never actually appear, and evidence that always manages to get lost... instead of doing actual govt stuff.. then they find out that for 2 years, he didn't pay "all" of his taxes, a crime in which most people are well, sued for the money, but they get him criminally charged, and he gets probation, but that snot good enough, he should be in prison for life! I'm not positive on England, but I don't think it is parliament's job to investigate criminality of a private citizen, you leave that up to the police.. right? That is what is going on.
Yup, especially some court cases involving disruptive or hateful speech. Someone posted music lyrics on social media that had the N-word (the rapper was black) as part of her mourning a loved one (it was his favorite song) and she was convicted. There's lots of cases like hers. None of that is to say we don't have messed up laws and court decisions here in the US. For one the British Rule (where the winner of a civil case recovers damages from the losing party unless the relevant law says otherwise) seems to work better than the American rule (which is the exact opposite.) The American rule makes things like SLAPP suits possible and it's taken a long time to get any kind of effective reform going and we're STILL working on it.
As an American, I have zero opinion about the goings on in the UK, but I thoroughly enjoy watching the arguments and disruptions in parliament. It's incredibly entertaining 😂 Congress is practically a snoozefest
'The ban was an outlier that our ancestors would never have accepted'. Yeah, because until recently, in our culture, beating your wife wasn't domestic violence, it was how you wind down after a hard Tuesday. Maybe we shouldn't base all of our decisions on the moral standards of people who wrote with feathers and wore buckles on their damn shoes. Irrelevant, I know, I just find that argument incredibly silly by that judge.
Yeah I thought the same exact thing. It only applies when it fits their narrative ig since you know... I don't think the same ancestors who wrote that amendment would be too fond of black people owning guns, but oh no, they're not gonna bring that up when throwing around the "our ancestors". We've grown as a society and need to reflect that not revert to the minds of our ancestors.
Americans always argue "what the founding fathers intended"... like dude, THEY OWNED SLAVES. All but ONE of them. Yet Adams was STILL incredibly racist and sexing (at least publicly), dismissing his wife imagining non-white people to be human as just women being silly.
Love that you choose quill pens and shoe buckles as the proof of historical idiocy. Quills were like super cool and a great use of a natural material, and in the modern age, I've had shoes with buckles on them. Ppl weren't dumb in the past
@@mikeymullins5305 They clearly mean that just like wife beating, its something we as a society should progress beyond. A relic by people who didnt know better.
@@RSTBKT He got a slap on the wrist for the firearms charges when normal people are literally being targeted by the ATF and being made into felons overnight.
Holy crap American gun laws are bonkers! The more I learn the more I say "omg, WHAT?!" As for Joe supporting Hunter regardless of his drug use or criminal charges.... isn't that just what most parents do, they love you even when you stuff up and only want the best for you? I don't understand how people expect Joe to be any different just because he is the president... he is still a dad who loves his son 🤷
@@leedexno. hunter said that that relationship came out of grief. it's actually a common reaction. it was two consenting adults, two private citizens. it doesn't gain you anything to bring up a years old mistake that impacted no one outside of that family. his family understands him, loves him and forgives him. there's no need to villainise a man who simply struggled with immense trauma. he's been sober before and he's sober now. addiction is an illness. it's not a drag to say joe is an empathetic individual with good parenting skills.
I really hate when decisions are made based on what our ancestors would want. Even if our ancestors could possibly fathom the world we live in today, they aren't here, we are
@@milescorporosus4058 don't judge George Washinton until you went in his made-of-slave-teeth shoes! Don't question Jefferson until you raped enough black teenagers to be immortalized like he did.
Decisions made in a society whose morals and values we certainly don't share at this time. Don't forget - this was before slavery was abolished and women were allowed to vote!
These types of deals aren't special. I was also given one for diversion for a felony (original charge, it was also lowered to a misdemeanor), and I'm some random person with nothing to do with politics. It just goes to show people in politics don't even know how the country they want to run works.
Well, Trump HAS paid his taxes. They've proven that. He LEGALLY paid all his taxes. The tax code is the problem. The tax code allows too many loopholes and write-offs that are ONLY for the rich because it costs money to be able to use them.
Dishonest much? Trump paid his taxes. The argument was he took advantage of the loopholes in the tax code. The whole idea was fix the loopholes so that Trump, Hillary Clinton and other people don’t take advantage of it.
This is why I love watching LegalEagle; he breaks it down so well, not just the laws applicable, but the Supreme Court rulings, as well. This video went above and beyond going into debunking the whataboutism's.
It’s complicated. See it is unconstitutional (IMO as well as under text history and tradition test from Heller/Bruen) to bar someone from a civil right just because they use something like a controlled substance. However that being said, that is not the crime here, the crime here is that Hunter lied on the ATF form 4473 (the background check form) where he was asked “are you a user of controlled substances”… Lying on a 4473 is the felony thats punishable by prison time. So while it is definitely unconstitutional to bar someone like Hunter from their constitutionally protected right because he used controlled substances, he still committed the crime of lying to the ATF essentially.
@@camerond9941 he didn’t dump the gun. His girlfriend did. That would be an issue if he directed her to do so. Not sure what the rule is if she did so independently.
@@camerond9941 let me guess, you voted for ((source, Dec 2015 Fox News Interview...) Donald "you have to murder noncombatant WOMEN AND CHILDREN in cold blood as a form of Psychological warfare to defeat our enemies" Trump
I for one am glad that someone with wealth and influential connections still faced consequences for his crimes. That's a trend I want to see continue. Especially in regards to former presidents.
@@AvengedKittyLP Multiple felonies? You mean the one? He got the gun by lying that he wasn't addicted to cocaine, that's it. You say "multiple felonies" like he murdered people or robbed a bank.
@@AvengedKittyLPoh please. If he wasn’t Joe Bidens son you wouldn’t give a shit. 😂. Just like 99% of us don’t give a shit. Wow he didn’t pay taxes. 🙄. Like 90% of wealthy Americans.
@wyltedleaves Yeah, I've been noticing the same thing. UA-cam definitely prefers creators with frequent updates. Quantity >> Quality, probably because the former is much easier to measure :)
In 2022, I started working for a local Municipal court as a clerk & the amount of sovereign citizen nonsense I see is astounding. These people spend hundreds of dollars in certified postage for verbal diarrhea on paper instead of paying the $55 parking ticket. Also, there is a local defense lawyer that gets me excited to enter his information for the defense because his name is Devin. *Thanks for the Content!*
Does a $55 parking ticket NOT sound excessive to you? Do municipal governments pay private land owners fees when leaving municipal property on private property? i have NEVER heard of such a thing. A parking ticket is simply another tax, applied unevenly to citizens.
I hope people literally take them to the wall, for that. Because it's like everyday, the GOP keeps making stands that could easily be used against their logic, when they try to apply the opposite elsewhere. It's obvious, there is no moral or political standing for the GOP, these days. They've gone back on absolutely every one of them within the last 6 years alone. Including "States Rights". They only use them as "words for votes", that's it. I say the words, get the votes, but stand behind them? That's always conditional on whether it hurts people who vote against us. Cruelty is always the point. That's what they have left.
I love that it literally doesn't he's a well known drug addict he can't even legally be in the same home that a firearm is stored in but go off about things you obviously don't know. Lemme guess full autos are legal 2?
It was great working with you again, Devin! As always, great job on breaking this issue down for all of us non-barred people. I'm sure you hear this often, but you help A LOT of people understand these complex legal issues (I frequently see Reddit comments saying things like "I can't wait for LegalEagle's take on this"). Please keep up the great work. And, for any viewers who might be interested in Ground News, I'm happy to answer any questions you might have! Thanks.
It would be great to know how much it costs, if there are membership tiers, and if access is app-based, via a website, or both? [edit: or via email - thanks!]
you do a fantastic job working with Devin even as a frequent guest or filling in. As someone who is trying his best to learn the legal system etc from a independent point of view. You guys do great help on simplifying things for my artistic brain. Apprciate it .
@@CreativeSteve69 Thanks! This is only our second time working with Devin, but I think we align very well in terms of specific goals. Devin does a great job at engaging critical thinking and providing context, which is exactly what we hope to achieve as well.
@@MikeJProto Which standard exactly? That if you take a plea you get a lower sentence? Also, I'm not sure that the Party that's currently defending the daughterf*cker in chief should open its mouth on having standards.
One would think that after being charged with Tax Dodging and packing a firearm illegally, The GOP would've immediately adopted him as one of their own. 🤷🏻
I mean, as the other person said, both sides tend to dodge tax… It’s usually a rich vs poor thing… Often they find ways to do it legally, even if it is sneaky… And typically wouldn’t conservatives have their guns legally, even if they have more of them?… Actually it’s probably a lower class thing again rather than left or right… I dunno…
I mean, the Republicans have been trying to strike Hunter down with anything for years since Joe's too boring to go after outright as opposed to the drug-user with shady dealings.
For those who need a bit of a reality check: remember that this investigation began in 2018 by someone appointed by Trump who has stayed the lead investigator this entire time, and this is the charges they have. There are no double standards. I was a regular person convicted of worse crimes in my 20s and got a pretrial diversion. It’s not really something the judge has to offer you. You can make the motion for it. They can deny it, sure. But that’s not gonna be common for non violent crimes like this.
@@wolfiemuseno Dems don't want law abiding citizens owning guns. But oh no the president's drug addict sun and criminals? No no that's fine don't ask any questions.
Funny how you more then likely think no one (even law abiding citizens) should own firearms yet somehow you aren't mad about the DRUG ADDICT being able 2 lie and illegally possess a firearm with no actual charges other then a fine and a blowjob
while I agree that marijuana use shouldn't ban someone from owning a firearm, I hate "our ancestors wouldn't have liked it" as a reasoning for it. laws are for the living. legislation should be based on the present, not on a speculation on what thomas jefferson would have wanted
Yeah agreed, except for them when a corporation violate those exact " civil rights " in gun tooting North Texas. Then the foolish judge(s) dismiss the case, without legitimate reason.😑
In Sweden we have this game called "Pest eller kolera?" Directectly translating to "plague or cholera?". It's sort of a "would you rather?" with two different equally terrible options The options you guys in the US have when electing politicians remind me a bit of that
They're right, there is a finger on the scale of justice here. If it weren't for his last name, he'd be getting a lesser sentence or possibly not charged at all.
I love how when it comes to guns, the right is given as broadly as possible even if it doesn’t make moral sense. But when it comes to giving marginalized groups rights or more opportunities, the smallest details can strike those cases down.
Hell the GOP kicked off modern gun control in California because Reagan didn't like black people carrying guns around near the capital. The largest gun ban in the history of this country was passed and signed by Republicans in 1986. They called it the "firearms owners' protection act"...
just 2 decades ago, ELEVEN states regularly arrested LGBT people as "SEXUAL PREDATORS" ...prosecutors from those states *STILL TO THIS DAY* petition to overturn the SCOTUS case that stopped ELEVEN states from locking us up just for existing. hold tight. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
Lol no. Devon will never talk about the immunity agreement they stuffed into the diversion deal that would give hunter immunity for bribery in China and Ukraine. Devon is a partisan hack as usual. Ones you see on CNN who basically toe party lines. You will never learn anything of substance.
@@KingBobXVI "family values and rights, unless you're LGBT...in which case we want to push you back into the closet WITH A NOOSE" -TODAYS REPUBLICAN PARTY
@KingBobXVI Justice is a part of familial love. Corruption in morality lends itself to corruption in occupation or office. Are you not bothered that Hunter Biden was blackmailing ChiCom CEOs for millions using Joe's influence while his his business partners were talking about how the "Big guy" needed a cut? Who the same guy in the deal indicates it was Biden?
Based take but also he did things most people wont ever get punished for. Story would be completely different if this stuff was cared about but tbh the case feel fueled by spite by the Republican party.
I always find it weird when people argue that "our forefathers" had this and that law and therefore we should also have that law. Our forefathers felt it was perfectly okay to own other people. Our forefathers felt barricading someone inside their house and then burning it down was an acceptable way to resolve a conflict. They thought thunder was caused by the gods. They thought dead people come back to life if you don't bury them in a certain way. They thought you could become ill if someone looked at you in a certain way. Is this really people whose judgement we should follow without question?
As a Canadian, hearing a group of judges say it’s unconstitutional to stop convicted abusers from owning firearms is absolutely WILD to me “Our ancestors wouldn’t approve” BRUH your ancestors owned slaves and considered women less than human, why is this your argument??
Why helloooooo! I hear the plea deal just collapsed, today! (July 26) " _But a judge (Judge Maryellen Noreika) on Wednesday said she could not "rubber stamp the agreement_ " " _The case marks the first time the justice department has charged the child of a sitting president_ " (bebe-c)
Wesley Snipes -- who I love as an actor -- made the deliberate action of defying the IRS. Hunter was just lazy and apathetic. That's the difference. To put it another way, Hunter is guilty of impaired driving, but at least pulled over when he saw the cops' blue lights. Snipes deliberately drove his car into a building and then bailed on foot.
Hunter is part of a criminal cabal, and KNEW he would get away with his 'laziness & apathy' so long as his father and his buddies were in power. it took a Trump presidency, to hold hunter accountable finally.
@@DinantZ There's a difference between an addictive substance and an addictive personality. This is why it's pretty common for addicts to go from one addiction to another, sometimes to one that's considered more 'socially acceptable'. Like, if you were addicted to alcohol but now you're addicted to working out (it's a real and very damaging addiction). Or, if you were addicted to gambling but now you're a workaholic.
@@cmdraftbrn there is probably something to that. Ten minutes in jail after how he's lived his entire life would probably be an eternity but you know what I want? I want legal eagle to do a video on can Trump physically actually go to a real jail. The analysis on this never gets past basically saying "people go to jail for this this is the crime this is the sentencing guidelines etc". But can a former president with secret service protection go to a real jail with razor wire and alarms and bars and bunk beds or will be be sentenced to serve his life sentence at mar a Lago under house arrest?
Anybody who's ever been through the court system knows this is exactly how it works for first time offenders... it's almost always a slap on the wrist(probation & fines) for minor offenses
Hunter has a record of reckless/negligent behavior over decades, all of it he blames on drug abuse. after many, many, many trips to rehab, he fails to get clean and become a responsible member of society. Hunter is a criminal, we KNOW he is a criminal (like his father before him) and needs to be served justice! if Hunter were a Republican, democrats would be making a lot bigger deal of this!
So basically people with money can plead their way out of wrong doing and poor working schlubs go directly to jail. Deal or no deal. That has got to change.
When it comes to tax evasion it is rare you go to jail for it unless you outright refuse to pay taxes, most take a plea and pay their debts to avoid jail
What I found most amusing about the crimes involved was that they were things many Republicans would assert shouldn't be crimes, at least not if they're the ones doing the crimes. "Foot dragging on tax payments? Ignoring the rules on guns? Surely those aren't crimes!"
You can say a crime shouldn't be a crime, yet still be upset when someone is NOT given any punishment's for that crime AFTER dozens of others 'have' been given punishments for that same crime. Its called "Equal treatment under the law". If a bad law exists, you fight to have that bad law removed, but at the same time, that bad law MUST be 'equally' enforced against everyone who violates it. Otherwise BOTH parties involved are being hypocrites. Red Flag laws are bad laws, they are to easily abused. Yet Nathan Fletcher, a Democrat in California, was 'shielded' by a valid red-flag filling against him by California's DA, while Multiple people within California have had Red Flag's filed against them WITHOUT being shielded by the DA's. Hunter's case is the same example. Many people HAVE been charged with, and been given multiple years in jail for the exact same crime due to a bad law. Yet Hunter, for no reason other than who he is, gets 'shielded' from the consequences of that law.
@@Gwydion_Wolf "Hunter's case is the same example. Many people HAVE been charged with, and been given multiple years in jail for the exact same crime due to a bad law. Yet Hunter, for no reason other than who he is, gets 'shielded' from the consequences of that law." And many people have not. Hunter Biden's situation is much more typical than the sort of cherry picked cases you're likely to hear about non-stop if you listen to certain outlets. Only the gun charge is a felony, and pre-trial diversion is a common way of handling it. You're more likely to see pre-trial diversion not happening in cases where there's more at stake, but the prosecutor really needs to make sure that some charge can be proven with high certainty. Strictly speaking, that law is not a red flag law, either. I would have to examine the issue more closely to know if the problem was lying on the paperwork or the fact of being in violation of federal drug laws when purchasing or possessing a firearm, but in neither case does the usual understanding of a red flag law apply.
Actually, he is getting punished for his crimes, he's just gotten a lessened sentence because he accepted a plea deal - he's far from the first to be offered one, and far from the first to accept one. That plus the fact that his crimes (Gun possession when he had a drug addiction and Tax fraud) are, while definitely crimes, are relatively low-key and wouldn't of gotten him a huge sentence in the first place. Combined, he gets a small punishment.
@sdtwirix1126 that's the thing. Every, single, person, who has been charged with the exact same gun law violation (lying on that form), has gotten prison time. Every, single, one. No one has been given the chance to just completely, 100%, remove that charge from their record with 0 punishment for it. That is him taking advantage of a blatant 2-tiered justice system. Protected from the vary laws his father is pushing for more of.
@@Gwydion_Wolf "Every, single, person, who has been charged with the exact same gun law violation (lying on that form), has gotten prison time." Did you get that from Twitter or Fox News? Inquiring minds want to know which! I seriously doubt that there's any law in the U.S. where more than a handful of people have been charged and every person charged got prison time, except for one. For one thing, being charged isn't the same as being convicted (or pleading out, like Biden). The unlikely nature of such a claim should have made you more skeptical. Your wannabelieves (personal biases, to be more precise) are preventing you from learning the truth. In this case, Biden wasn't actually charged with "lying on the form". I looked it up. The actual charging document indicates that Hunter Biden was charged with violating 18 USC 922(g)(3): "It shall be unlawful for any person [...] who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) [...] to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce." Nothing about lying on a form there. The charging document also mentions 18 USC 924(a)(2). This is the penalty section, not the violation, though it is interesting that it actually provides for the possibility of a simple fine (prison is an option, though).
So...in other words, the Republicans' manufactured anger is just as unjustified and ridiculous as ever, gaslighting all of the sane Americans expecting Trump to pay for his crimes as a desperate distraction. Who'da thunk it???
There IS a new whistleblower from inside the case claiming interference from Biden in the investigation. He has one guy from his dept agreeing with him. But considering just how many people worked on this case and how vitriolic the Republican Party is nowadays, I’d be skeptical as to his legitimacy until we have much better evidence. Right now it’s little more than yet more hearsay. So naturally, the republicans have a full blown committee for him. Gotta put all the chips on this now that their base is bored of the 20 year Benghazi hunt xD
President Biden stated: “There will be a ZERO tolerance policy when falsifying information on a firearms transaction…”. His son literally defied the statement by purchasing a handgun while under the influence of crack/cocaine. Meanwhile, medical/recreational marijuana users across the country are being jailed for the same charge. If you have a brain, the hypocrisy is readily apparent!
Yeah, 'unjustified manufactured anger to gaslight sane Americans as a distraction tool"... seems to be *all* that the Republican party does lately. Take it from me, a trans person living under DeSantis: none of their political grandstanding has any basis in facts or logic. It's just twisting perceptions and spreading misinformation so they can outrage gullible people into voting for them. Classic straw-man bullcrap.
The Repub's anger is about the blatant hypocrisy from trying to nail regular people and dissidents with the full force of the law, but allowing those on your side to completely get away scot free. No normal person would have gotten a misdemeanor with zero jail time for lying on the 4473 and then dumping the gun illegally in a trash can across the street from a high school. In fact, if I did those exact same actions, I would be facing a decade in federal prison.
Sure if you think a slap on the wrist for a gun charge makes _all the other evidence of corruption and criminal activity magically go away,_ then yeah. The rage is manufactured. But when the man literally sells America to it's enemies and is given a _misdemeanor gun charge,_ and *now* he's legally all better, I'd say the anger is justified.
What is the percentage of plea deals accepted vs actual trial (I heard it was upwards of 90-98%) - so DENYING to offer a deal would be partisan. What is the percentage of plea deals when it comes to taxes and "white collar" crimes?
The bit about domestic violence and gun ownership is devastating. The link between domestic violence convictions and gun violence is powerful. The leading cause of death of children in America. So sad.
That's bc Republicans continue passing more & more legislation across the country making it easier for anybody to purchase & carry a gun. Also y Dateline, ID, Snapped & 20/20 never seem to run out of new episodes about white conservatives killing each other 🤷🏽♂️
That's absolutely false and only appears with an intentional manipulation of the data to consider "children" as ages 1-19 rather than 0-18/17 and only looking specifically at the year 2021. Disease and car crashes are both bigger killers than guns. ~2,000 children/year die on average from firearm related deaths in the US based on data from the last decade, which is very sad, but not nearly the scary figure you would think for the third leading cause of death. A significant portion of those annual deaths, around half, are accidental. Another large portion is, sadly, suicide. Homicides make up ~500 or less firearm deaths for children per year.
@@timothychartier So we have to have training and a test to get a drivers license. We shut down the economy due to a disease. But since suicide and accidents are the most common cause of gun deaths for children, more guns must be the solution? What about prosecuting parents who don’t secure their guns and allowing their kids access? What about making it harder for dumb parents who don’t understand what securing a firearm means to have a more difficult process of obtaining one?
I dont see how the presidents family being held to the same standard of law is anything but a good thing. All I can say is I for sure wont vote for Hunter Biden again, and I wish any one breaking laws they think they are above gets swift justice.
(same standard of the law) is a drug addict in possession of a firearm, lied on federal firearm documents, and didn't file or pay taxes on millions of dollars yet somehow gets a slap on the wrist and pays a fine.Yes that definitely sounds like the same standard of law.
@@eziokill9112 He paid off his tax bill, having money to pay off your taxes means you get to avoid jail time, that's standard, maybe not fair for poor people who can't do that, but still standard. Maybe stop thinking you know everything and get educated.
I find it funny that republicans are outraged despite if trump was in office and his family was charged with a crime he'd literally give them a pardon 😂
Seriously, Trump would presidential pardon the shit out of his kid in this situation. Clinton did so with his brother. Joe Biden honestly should just do it, I seriously doubt he's going to get a second term regardless at this stage and at his age.
My main thing is Hunter being slapped on the wrist for things black men get harsher punishments for. As a Biracial man its things like that, that concern me. Which is why we saw people in the black community call out Hunter Biden after this..
But then there are rich black celebrities who get slap on the wrists and don’t even get this far into a trial. Money talks. In his case plea deal talks.
@@itazuranakisu Eh, many cases where race plays a factor. Money helps and being whiter also helps. Both things are wrong, one is corruption other is systematic racial discrimination.
So, allow me to get this straight…many of them want gun laws relaxed, and consider owning a gun part of their rights that should not be unhindered by any circumstance, but they’re also mad that Hunter Biden is not going to be properly reviewed for illegally owning a gun. The gun they feel should be legal in all circumstances.
No they just want to get liberals and lefties on anything they can cause they are fascists. They aren't honest in their beliefs, they just look around them for what they can all shout in concert to be a group opposed to what disgusts them.
@@Jehty_ both cases it's a conspiracy theory. In Germany it's more of a corporation stuff, and in USA it's more of a not acknowledging laws. Still not as crazy as "Soviet citizens" who claim some law hijink means USSR wasn't disbanded and still exists. What these have in common is magical thinking, meaning if you find some random comma in a law, or a paper not signed, it would completely change the world, ignoring that countries exist on matter of recognition, not their internal laws. Many constitutions have mutually exclusive positions ("all people are equal" contradicts so much stuff), yet they do no implode because of it. So even IF referendum and following declaration of independence in Ukraine didn't dissolve Soviet Union, it still doesn't exist because ALL countries in the world recognized other countries on its place. Ditto with Germany at around the same time.
Investigation in to what? trumps issue is what amounts to a clerical error, and the democrats are using it to sully Trumps reputation during an election cycle. More hard ball political tactics to steal elections. nothing to see here.
@@skepticalextraterrestrial2971 no it shows that people shouldn't be pardoned when they break the law. The power to pardon needs to be removed from the president entirely. It should be in the hands of the house 100% agreement on pardons.
@@skepticalextraterrestrial2971 you guys think literally everything is a diversion. why should we believe you this time, when you've been wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME before?
@@skepticalextraterrestrial2971 Riiiiight. So if Joe pardoned Hunter, you'd applaud him for not creating a diversion? You know this is 100% not true. Please reflect on how your hatred leads you to these buffoonish positions.
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from what i heard it a no and yes the plea deal was better then most people would get but most wouldn't be prosecuted for those crime
Absolutely yes. Dropped the gun charge when there’s irrefutable proof he did it, and a 100k fine for a guy who is worth 230 million is a slap on the wrist. Why even bring the case at that point?
@@sweetrocks610he was only investigated because of his last name. This selective prosecution for a non-politician showed that he was charged with a crime only 10% of people are charged for in the case of the lying on the form. It’s right around 10% of all people lying on that form are charged.
His net worth has nothing to do with the rest of this. He also paid the taxes and admitted guilt.
So he didn't pay his taxes and defied gun regulations. All he needs to do now is make questionable statements about the age of consent and he'd be qualified to run in the Republican primaries.
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@@stephenmanuel9860 random funny thing. UA-cam tells me to translate your comment and all it does is add an extra "ha" which I find hilarious.
Oh, please. There should be no gun regulations, and taxes should be much, much, much lower. The wealthy support you; they pay the vaaaaaaaast majority of income taxes.
@@CreativityNull Thx google. 😂
@@CreativityNullha 😂
The irony that his only charged crimes are for things Republicans usually agree with. Avoiding taxes and the right to bear arms.
Not sure how you think that's irony. Can't think of any mainstream Republicans that would agree with a serial drug abuser like Hunter to illegally possess a firearm, as well as pocket foreign business deals money, strong-arming them in conversations saying "my dad is right here with me, get the deal done or else" and telling the IRS its a loan to himself lol... He's getting off real light, but we all know why...
It's not about justice but about there side winning.
it wouldnt be complete without a mountain of hypocrisy and irony.
Tax avoidance is different than tax evasion
@@FreshRh1noLegally distinct; their favorite kind of distinct.
If only Hunter stole Top Secret SCI documents, then Republicans wouldn't have a problem with it.
Good one 🤣🤣
Actually we republicans wanted the prosecution precisely because his lawyers would argue the Bruen decision nullifies 4473’s. Lefties couldn’t tolerate that so prang we let a criminal basically off the hook. Think about it he’d have been found not guilty but then the whole 4473 database scheme would have been destroyed
Yeah somehow Joe Biden is senile and drools on himself, but is also an organized criminal mastermind. Someone explain that to me?
It's weird that they're not defending his right to own a gun or evade taxes though.
A bathroom with a window and regular cleaning staff makes a perfect SCIF. Didn't you know?
As someone who's worked in taxes and accounting for 2 decades, I've seen hundreds of clients owe more money than Hunter did for far longer without ever being threatened with prosecution. If you're not famous or infamous, they just want the money paid.
The way you worded this comment, is funny. Are you down playing Hunter's tax charges? The pertinent question is: did he commit tax and fire arm violation? Yes or No
@@beebee_0136he did but most of the time the IRS just want the money back
@@sbastianbrilyanto4722 Didn't Hunter pay back the money?
My thing is he has a felony for having a gun while taking drugs. THAT is why he should be in prison. 😊
@@sbastianbrilyanto4722 WTH? So, a person can evade Tax and then tell IRS years later that they are going to pay back? Is that how it works? Lol!
The only thing you need to know about the Republican response is that they somehow think minor tax evasion and fibbing on a gun application is worse than dozens of counts of mishandling classified information and obstructing justice.
Also that they believe it's okay for someone convicted of domestic violence to obtain a gun, but are mad someone bought a gun while being addicted to cocaine.
From CBS:
"GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said in a statement Wednesday that FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed "the existence of an unclassified record that contains reporting of an alleged bribery scheme related to then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national."
Comer believes the FBI record contains "a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose," he and Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Chuck Grassley said in a letter to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland in early May. The GOP lawmakers also said at the time, they believed the form "describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions."
The problem is that they don't believe that's what HB did, they believe HB was a serial rapist who kidnapped little kids and ate them all for breakfast as part of some Satanic cult. They all believe this sentence is just a cover up to his "real" crimes
Didn't Biden also keep classified documents after his vice presidency? Isn't Hunter also a crackhead?
Why can't people realize that both parties are shitty oligarchs feeding on each other and stop excusing "their" side?
What no one has said, and I think is the most important - what charges were considered and dropped for this plea? If there were more serious things on the table, I might have a problem with this.
I haven't seen a single person who leans even slightly left complain about the hunter conviction, if they complained they complained that it wasn't enough, yet somehow the right thinks we are hiding something lol
See here's the thing. You can't try to argue for prosecuting Trump, but not argue that Hunter should have had the book thrown at him without arguing in bad faith. Somehow I haven't seen one person on the left complain that "it wasn't enough". I see people like you that try to act like they exist, but somehow actually finding said people is impossible.... It is almost like you are just talking out of your ass.
The right don't understand people on the left at all. I would argue the same goes for the other way around...but they routinely make it very clear the type of people they are.
As someone who leans center leftist on most things, imo the gun charge shouldn't even be a law. Who runs on the decriminalization of weed on a federal level, but 3 years after being elected its still illegal and your administration is still locking people up and taking their rights away for it?
That's why you keep losing. You are trying to play fair-game against cheaters. They will always win and you will whine from your high horse of rightfulness. That's like coming clean onto a body-building competition. Unless you change the entire system, you don't have a chance. Because it's rigged and cheating is expanded.
Because more crimes are being ignored by the media and liberals in the Justice Dept.
I can’t be _that_ much of a sweetheart deal. The man who has total power to pardon his son has stood by and allowed the process to proceed
Like they should. The ability to Pardon needs to be removed
Every time a conservative cries, "He got a sweetheart deal" regarding Hunter, ask them about Thomas Ravenel, the GOP state legislature that got caught handing out packets of cocaine at parties as "party favors" and the deal he got. The backstory on that is mindblowing.
Are you saying all those pictures of hunter smoking crack should also result in charges?
i'm not sure that you understand how logic works. the latter sentence of yours indicates that it is more of a sweetheart deal, not less
@@cl8804 care to explain how YOUR logic works then, Einstein???
or are you just going to run a VEILED AD HOMINEM and then strut around like a Pigeon that thinks it won a game of Chess...?
A hunter that isn't allowed to bear weapons? Somewhere is a joke in there.
Hey, he's still got bow and crossbow hunting as an option. Probably some freakshow municipality that will issue a permit to go out with a spear if you want to get back to basics.
This doesn't bother me at all because it makes sense, first time nonviolent offenders who through a plee deal take responsibility rarely ever see prison time
How many see time for not paying taxes?
@@fkknight1 depends how poor you are
President Biden stated: “There will be a ZERO tolerance policy when falsifying information on a firearms transaction…”. His son literally defied the statement by purchasing a handgun while under the influence of crack/cocaine. Meanwhile, medical/recreational marijuana users across the country are being jailed for the same charge. If you have a brain, the hypocrisy is readily apparent!
@@fkknight1 most people who fail to pay their taxes admit fault, pay up and do no time.
Find me someone who was given a sweetheart plea deal with zero jail time for federal firearms felonies, with said plea being arranged before they are even officially charged. I'll wait.
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Good for you. None of this is worth caring about.
Good god, I wish that we could just not care about this. I really do.
This is all totally bs, the vulgar, seditious gullible 'christians' are desperate for talking points, they are 'very, very' poorly educated.
Seconded
The IRS , hell even the state , rarely wants time in jail, they always want the money and fines.
No kidding. The costs of keeping a convict in prison massively exceed the average tax debt owed.
If even presidents and their families, no matter the affiliation all get charged and tried, then the system is working better than we're led to believe and that's refreshing.
From CBS:
"GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said in a statement Wednesday that FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed "the existence of an unclassified record that contains reporting of an alleged bribery scheme related to then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national."
Comer believes the FBI record contains "a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose," he and Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Chuck Grassley said in a letter to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland in early May. The GOP lawmakers also said at the time, they believed the form "describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions."
Imagine thinking that's what happens.
Except that there wasn't a trial. There was a series of sweetheart plea deals that no ordinary citizen accused of the same crimes would ever have been offered, plus immunity granted on multiple uncharged crimes like using underage prostitutes and other similar things.
@@danielbakergillTrump was charged and tried... thats president covered.
H. Biden charged and tried... thats family.
One is Rep affiliated the other Dem... it's kinda exactly what happened.
@@taylorlibby7642 sweetheart? I don't know, this plea seems pretty run of the mill to me. Can you cite a dozen or so other pleas that don't fall within this range for some comparison?
Ironic that the GOP are bleating about the gun charge, while simultaneously criticising anybody who tries to push gun regulations, citing ‘shall not be infringed’.
Ironic how you think no one should own guns but the drug addict is fine.
@@eziokill9112 funny how you just made up a bunch of bs and pretended it was stated by the op.
Equally funny that you don't seem to understand what irony is.
@@eziokill9112 Regulated does not = banned.
@@eziokill9112 He didn't say anything as such.
@@roofdogblues7400 go ahead and tell me one atf ruling or law that had been put 2 the board that actually makes sense and doesn't piggyback and use buzzwords that make idiots like you think banning a STOCK or something just as stupid is somehow better for everyone. And then go ahead and tell me why no criminals ever follow the laws that are already in place? Could it be because they are criminals? 😲 Who would have thought it's almost like a majority of the guns they use are illegally required and all the senseless laws you morons attempt or do pass only affects law abiding citizens and makes them guilty of a felony when last month they were completely within their right 2 have that bumpstock that you thought was 2 scary.
Honest after Cheney shot that guy and not only didn’t catch any charges, was apologized to by the man he shot, I pretty much gave up on rich being accounted for.
Thank you for that reminder.
Yeah but when Epstein got locked up & it gave us a tiny sliver of hope...
"Oh, so these two people get different punishments just because they committed different crimes? How is that fair?" - a sitting US Senator
It's extra stupid because he's saying "why'd Hunter get a special plea deal". Like, he got a plea deal because he agreed to plead guilty. Trump pled innocent despite the mountain of evidence against him. You don't get a plea deal for pleading innocent...
That tweet at 3:15 was saturated with stupid
There’s even a nut job replying to every comment with that bs
Look at the last two presidents. Look at that psycho DeSantis. Your country has quickly gotten worse and worse in partisanism and culture wars.
It's terrifying. The logic isn't logicing. Is it that easy to become senator if one comes from money?
So basically it sounds like he got a pretty standard punishment for the tax issues and what might even be a harsher than normal punishment for the gun issue.
Yep
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Love it when it is a "double standard" when paying your taxes late is prosecuted differently than potentially putting the country at risk.
Or not paying your taxes at all. That's fine.
@@CordialH I believe they were paid, just filed late. I think paying the tax was part of the plea bargain.
he paid them late so its a misdemeanor not a felony. every president except trump gave all the documents back. clinton's personal notes to himself about himself were ruled as his personal notes imagine. like trumps golf shirt's, sweat socks and dirty laundry mixed in with the names of our spies.
@@randolphphillips3104I think they’re referring to other cases where people have gotten away with not paying taxes.
I'm glad they are putting their principles aside and using whatever they can to attack you. Like the things you attack then with that they disagree with
Oh, my God, I love this. The one charge that could've sent Hunter to prison is the one that Republicans have spent years insisting is unconstitutional
This goes to show how the GOP is one of those groups of people who think the law shouldn't apply to them but should apply to those outside their tribe; and if they are bound by the law then the punishment for them is lighter compared to their enemies outside the tribe.
I dunno is hypocrisy is the accurate term to use in this instance. Selfish might be a better choice..
I think he has the unlawful possession of a firearm charge because he had a gun but was prohibited to have it because of his use of narcotics. I think many Republicans and Democrats would agree that is reckless.
And it's on this same premise that Trump will avoid his too. What is good for the geese is sauce for the gander
@@Iliketurtles117I do think people on both sides of the isle would agree it's reckless. But I also think that more Republicans than Democrats tend to argue that using substance abuse as a disqualifier for gun ownership is unconstitutional.
@@yuukinoyuki9064never heard any republican for felon gun ownership.
Not gonna lie, it bothers me that the fifth circuit court acknowledges that firearms in the hands of domestic violence offenders is a bad thing, but then goes on to make a historical argument when domestic violence was not exactly a priority until recently. No fault divorces only became legalized in 1970, and New York was the last state to put it in law as recently as 2010. The reference to “our ancestors is incredibly vague, but given that women could even vote until 1920, there is a lot of history where a man’s rights took priority over a woman’s safety. Not to mention, our ancestors would not have accepted a lot of things that have since been enshrined in the constitution. Feels bad. Feels a little weak as an argument. But I am a woman, what the heck would I know?
There's a good chunk of the GOP that outright believe that giving women the right to vote was a mistake and it should be corrected... in 2023..... I assume you're aware that the GOP have put repealing no fault divorce on their agenda. It's like no wonder we advance so slowly as a species. Hard to make progress when half of the species wants to drag us back to the stone age.
The mark of a good deal is that everybody hates it, but not enough not to go through with it. Thanks for video
Irony is freedom loving Americans hate this because this case could have easily gotten rid of 4473’s
Liberals do not hate a tax cheat being punished. Any republican who cheated taxes and paid it back would be offered the exact same plea deal. It is a good thing that these tax cheats who pay the money back are still charged and convicted, even if the punishment is minimal. Punishments will add up if they do it again.
Republicans/magas were going to be mad no matter what. They want joe biden to be punished for being hunter's father in some kind of reverse generational punishment system as if we live in north korea.
@@charleshetrick3152Smiting people I don’t like takes precedent over freedoms.
Same as it ever was.
@@yourwifesboyfriend6081 great, thanks! Now ie got Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” stuck in my head.
There is no double standard there. Two people allegedly committed two different sets of crime.
Ya let's go back to Hillary smashing phones with hammers and wiping her servers.
The double standard exists. If you or I had stolen classified information we would be in prison already.
And only one is facing consequences. That's the double standard Collin
Ironically there is a double standard here…but it’s to Trump’s favor
@@warlordofbritannia how is that buddy?
Any statement that has “our ancestors would never accepted this” you know it’s gonna some lizard brain insanity 😂
I wanna see a Republican argue about the gun possession issue without tying themselves up in knots.
Pass background checks ✅
Get a gun for yourself ✅
Be legally required to attend strict gun ownership, responsible firearm classes ✅
Congrats, you are now equipped to protect yourself because don't we all agree we can't always trust law enforcement to protect us?
@@GomerBarnFloyd we can't trust* when seconds counts, police is half an hour away from your position. they're not here to defend you, they're here to protect the regime
Yeah aren't Republicans all for protecting the second amendment rights of every person to own and openly carry guns?
Or is that every person who isn't a Democrat or isn't related to one of their "enemies"?
@@GomerBarnFloydso all those people who shot up schools did the same?
@@perevision no, because only step 2 exists right now
Honestly I thought this case was one of the most boring and straight forward cases I've seen all year.
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised LE even bothered to make a video on it.
@@Anvilman Only because the right are collectively losing their GD minds over their made-up injustices.
Despite being boring, it's also really high profile. How long have the GOP been yelling about Hunter Biden for at this point? I think it's valuable that Legal Eagle made it clear what this case was actually about to dispel the hyperbole being thrown around by the extreme right.
Some people say Hunter is getting treatment you or I would not get.
I say if it was you or I we'd probably get the same treatment it just wouldn't be a news story. Plea deals happen every day.
No you wouldnt lying on a 4473 is a 10 year felony and no plea deal would get you off with no jail time and his massive tax debt would be another situation in its entirety. Not to mention it also weakens one of bidens promises of stronger gun control when we see a massive crime committed by his own family and yet lets then off scott free
People always plead not guilty because they know they are guilty and thinking they can sway the jury.
@@therealomega2467 No one ever pleads guilty? Ever?
@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj right?
*HONEST* people plead guilty if they did the crime... ( ~she blushes and looks away a bit~ )
"Yes your honor, ma'am, I had a small amount of Marijuana that I surrendered to Officer Parker on request"
*LIARS* try to "convince the jury they're innocent" when they're guilty as hell.
@@abigails4088 are you trying to roleplay someone being arrested
They literally did different crimes why are people so upset that that are facing different punishment
It's literally only people who do not understand critical thinking or relativity who think that way.
Wesley Snipes did basically the same crime
@@joefox9875he covers why Snipes got a different sentence in the video
@@bast713 Some people just can't bother watching videos before spouting off nonsense. With how often I see responses like that, I honestly wonder what some people are even doing on a video site when they don't watch uploaded videos.
@@joefox9875 And fought it instead of taking a plea deal.
When you take a plea deal, that is literally agreeing to a lighter sentence so you don't have to fight it in court and waste time and money.
"They are being treated differently!"
Almost as if they committed different crimes.
Listen, the round ball goes in the square hole! The round ball goes in the square hole, and WHO could POSSIBLY figure out that round and square are different shapes???? Who could figure that out?????????
We draw criminal equivalencies by political party now, doesn’t matter how totally disparate the crimes are.
If domestic violence prevented you from owning a firearm, they'd have to disarm the police.
Ukraine could use all that cop funding to get MINE-CLEARING EQUIPMENT since USA is so stingy with missiles, planes and tanks.
Shots fired!
No police cities don’t work though. Police and criminals monitor each other, it’s a balance that needs to exist
Damn. I laughed but then felt bad cus of how true this is.
@@1mol831 whoooooooosh
Honestly I don't know why Republican are really fixated on Hunter.... He isn't like the Trump kids who held official position, he is just a private citizen.
Because he's an easy target and they are hypocritical a-holes
From CBS:
"GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said in a statement Wednesday that FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed "the existence of an unclassified record that contains reporting of an alleged bribery scheme related to then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national."
Comer believes the FBI record contains "a precise description of how the alleged criminal scheme was employed as well as its purpose," he and Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Chuck Grassley said in a letter to Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland in early May. The GOP lawmakers also said at the time, they believed the form "describes an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions."
Republicans are REAL good at playing the sheeple.
Cause it’s all they can do. It’s pretty hypocritical that they’d hound this dude mercilessly, yet happily allow trump to do all kinds of crooked shit..
because they can use the kid to shit all over the father.
you know, the christian way.
The dude isn't in any public office, his escapades have zero effect on just about anybody...
Unless he was selling American secrets to foreign nations. And he is a public figure being the son of a former vp and current resident of the white house makes hunter a public figure
exactly. the only actual crimes he's done are small and he admitted to them straight away. it's solely his name to blame for how the media is treating him because he's literally normal..
Republicans: "This law is unconstitutional! I'm so mad that this law is ever enforced!"
Also Republicans: "These are very serious charges! I'm so mad that this criminal is only getting a slap on the wrist and his dad is still president!"
It is hypocritical if nothing else.
@@OverlyCriticalAnimewhich part is hypocritical? The same party is giving their oligarch son a slap on the wrist for crimes they have thrown black men in jail for? Y'all gonna advocate releasing all those minorities you locked up with this law you support or all the sudden don't support it cause your favorite white boy got charged with it? Tell me which part.
i wish it wasn't a democrat and republican thing. i'd never consider voting republican, but i think it's draconian that i live in a state where weed is legal but i'm not allowed to buy a gun if i use it.
@@exodia_right_leg Standing on some odd moral high ground isnt going to convince that many people. IMO weed some be legal every were and it can be said all drugs should be legal
@@OverlyCriticalAnime bro
I'm GLAD Hunter got his. If you break the law, there should be accountability.... You hear that Trump?
Thats the difference between the left and right - left wants justice regardless of party, whereas the right.......just wants indemnity, but only for their party members
Except Trump is coming out unharmed from all of this
Yea you hear that Joe biden!
Exactly, no one should be above the law
@@jscrub6232 which laws has Joe Biden broken?
Am guessing that Hunter can’t run for reelection.
Hunter does not currently hold public office anyway
@@seangutierrez1337 That is the joke, the "big" gotcha moment from the right is on a private citizen lol
@@Hahvokthe only people making jokes are democrats laughing their favorite white boy son of an oligarch got a slap on the wrist while thousands of black guys are in jail and had felon status put on them for the same crime only for lefties to go "ahaha I bet those republicans would be hypocritical if it was different" how is it hypocritical to want the same treatment for everyone? We might not agree with the law but we do believe it should be equally enforced. And you're here like "hahaha got em" like you have any point at all? How does that boot taste?
The way Republicans are treating him you’d think he advocated to raise the age of consent
The GOP's motto: "Do as I say, not as I do".
Ayo shots fired, I think it's a bullseye though.
Kind of weird. Since.. arent republicans still trying to push child marriage and returning back to the 1800's by weakening labor laws to allow child labor?
Projection again
It wouldn't be surprising if he tried to lower it the way he's always pawing at strangers and sniffing them, let alone what his daughter had to say.
As a Brit we have our own messed up government, so I have zero opinions about this but I do enjoy listening to LegalEagle discussing the different cases throughout America
Imagine if the entire Labour party up and decided to make it's primary goal, to investigate one of Sunaks children for vague "wrongdoings", then they do that for about 6 years, constantly announcing "new crimes" that well, never actually appear, and evidence that always manages to get lost... instead of doing actual govt stuff.. then they find out that for 2 years, he didn't pay "all" of his taxes, a crime in which most people are well, sued for the money, but they get him criminally charged, and he gets probation, but that snot good enough, he should be in prison for life! I'm not positive on England, but I don't think it is parliament's job to investigate criminality of a private citizen, you leave that up to the police.. right? That is what is going on.
Thanks to the UK and the US people in the EU can look at their politics thinking "well it isn't that bad..."
Yup, especially some court cases involving disruptive or hateful speech. Someone posted music lyrics on social media that had the N-word (the rapper was black) as part of her mourning a loved one (it was his favorite song) and she was convicted. There's lots of cases like hers.
None of that is to say we don't have messed up laws and court decisions here in the US. For one the British Rule (where the winner of a civil case recovers damages from the losing party unless the relevant law says otherwise) seems to work better than the American rule (which is the exact opposite.) The American rule makes things like SLAPP suits possible and it's taken a long time to get any kind of effective reform going and we're STILL working on it.
As a Jamaican I agree with you 💯 (just replace your nationality with mine and that is what I mean)😅
As an American, I have zero opinion about the goings on in the UK, but I thoroughly enjoy watching the arguments and disruptions in parliament. It's incredibly entertaining 😂
Congress is practically a snoozefest
'The ban was an outlier that our ancestors would never have accepted'.
Yeah, because until recently, in our culture, beating your wife wasn't domestic violence, it was how you wind down after a hard Tuesday. Maybe we shouldn't base all of our decisions on the moral standards of people who wrote with feathers and wore buckles on their damn shoes.
Irrelevant, I know, I just find that argument incredibly silly by that judge.
Yeah I thought the same exact thing. It only applies when it fits their narrative ig since you know... I don't think the same ancestors who wrote that amendment would be too fond of black people owning guns, but oh no, they're not gonna bring that up when throwing around the "our ancestors". We've grown as a society and need to reflect that not revert to the minds of our ancestors.
Americans always argue "what the founding fathers intended"... like dude, THEY OWNED SLAVES. All but ONE of them. Yet Adams was STILL incredibly racist and sexing (at least publicly), dismissing his wife imagining non-white people to be human as just women being silly.
Love that you choose quill pens and shoe buckles as the proof of historical idiocy. Quills were like super cool and a great use of a natural material, and in the modern age, I've had shoes with buckles on them. Ppl weren't dumb in the past
@@mikeymullins5305 They clearly mean that just like wife beating, its something we as a society should progress beyond. A relic by people who didnt know better.
You missed the point of Originalism, it means what every you want to at the time, usually what ever your billionaire owner wants it to mean.
So when you actually get down to the facts of it all and ignore the Republican whining, there actually isn't anything unusual going on here.
The Republican whining isn’t unusual either. This is just another day in 2023.
idk, he got a slap on a wrist for the firearm violation when black men across the country get more harsh punishment's.
Exactly. What's a little tax evasion and felony gun possession among red-blooded Americans? Just add tacos and it's Tuesday.
@@RSTBKT He got a slap on the wrist for the firearms charges when normal people are literally being targeted by the ATF and being made into felons overnight.
@@RSTBKT Sadly still nothing unusual.
Holy crap American gun laws are bonkers! The more I learn the more I say "omg, WHAT?!"
As for Joe supporting Hunter regardless of his drug use or criminal charges.... isn't that just what most parents do, they love you even when you stuff up and only want the best for you? I don't understand how people expect Joe to be any different just because he is the president... he is still a dad who loves his son 🤷
Joe loves his son so much, that he supported Hunters cheating, with his other sons widow 😂
@@leedex wait what?
@@leedexno. hunter said that that relationship came out of grief. it's actually a common reaction. it was two consenting adults, two private citizens. it doesn't gain you anything to bring up a years old mistake that impacted no one outside of that family.
his family understands him, loves him and forgives him. there's no need to villainise a man who simply struggled with immense trauma. he's been sober before and he's sober now. addiction is an illness.
it's not a drag to say joe is an empathetic individual with good parenting skills.
I really hate when decisions are made based on what our ancestors would want. Even if our ancestors could possibly fathom the world we live in today, they aren't here, we are
Not just "our ancestors," but very specific ancestors with whom you may have little or nothing in common.
@@milescorporosus4058 don't judge George Washinton until you went in his made-of-slave-teeth shoes! Don't question Jefferson until you raped enough black teenagers to be immortalized like he did.
Decisions made in a society whose morals and values we certainly don't share at this time. Don't forget - this was before slavery was abolished and women were allowed to vote!
Like circumcision. Google metzizah b'peh and tell me how that's legal or why it's illegal to hate the people who practice it.
@@Hcaz1113 :/
These types of deals aren't special. I was also given one for diversion for a felony (original charge, it was also lowered to a misdemeanor), and I'm some random person with nothing to do with politics.
It just goes to show people in politics don't even know how the country they want to run works.
No, they know. A lot of them are bar-certified attorneys. They're lying, not uninformed.
@@RabblesTheBinx "they're LYING"
I had a dog and his name was... BINGO
Gee, I remember Republicans saying that Trump was smart when did NOT pay his taxes !!!
I literally had someone make that argument during a debate on Twitter (back when I could deal with the toxicity of it all).
Well, Trump HAS paid his taxes. They've proven that. He LEGALLY paid all his taxes. The tax code is the problem. The tax code allows too many loopholes and write-offs that are ONLY for the rich because it costs money to be able to use them.
Trump didn't fail to pay taxes. He and many other businesses uses the loses they made to not pay taxes. Hunter internationally didn't pay his taxes.
@@DionysusFTW Yeah, any of us would lie about the valuation of our properties to pay less tax on them, for sure.
Dishonest much? Trump paid his taxes. The argument was he took advantage of the loopholes in the tax code. The whole idea was fix the loopholes so that Trump, Hillary Clinton and other people don’t take advantage of it.
And it turns out that the judge hated the deal too. Prophecy!
This is why I love watching LegalEagle; he breaks it down so well, not just the laws applicable, but the Supreme Court rulings, as well.
This video went above and beyond going into debunking the whataboutism's.
Where’s that knee-jerk response from the Right about “Right to bear arms will not be infringed”??
that doesn't apply to disposing it in a garbage can near a school... jfc
It’s complicated. See it is unconstitutional (IMO as well as under text history and tradition test from Heller/Bruen) to bar someone from a civil right just because they use something like a controlled substance. However that being said, that is not the crime here, the crime here is that Hunter lied on the ATF form 4473 (the background check form) where he was asked “are you a user of controlled substances”… Lying on a 4473 is the felony thats punishable by prison time. So while it is definitely unconstitutional to bar someone like Hunter from their constitutionally protected right because he used controlled substances, he still committed the crime of lying to the ATF essentially.
They only want it to apply to themselves. Like everything else about the Constitution.
@@camerond9941 he didn’t dump the gun. His girlfriend did. That would be an issue if he directed her to do so. Not sure what the rule is if she did so independently.
@@camerond9941 let me guess, you voted for ((source, Dec 2015 Fox News Interview...)
Donald
"you have to murder noncombatant WOMEN AND CHILDREN in cold blood as a form of Psychological warfare to defeat our enemies"
Trump
After the intro I noticed the fact that joe Biden could have pardoned his son at any time was overlooked
NOT Everyone "hates" this conviction!! Most sane Americans do not care, it is a private matter, and we do not get into every private citizen business.
He committed multiple felonies and got off, that's a serious issue.
I for one am glad that someone with wealth and influential connections still faced consequences for his crimes. That's a trend I want to see continue. Especially in regards to former presidents.
🙈🙉🙊
@@AvengedKittyLP Multiple felonies? You mean the one? He got the gun by lying that he wasn't addicted to cocaine, that's it. You say "multiple felonies" like he murdered people or robbed a bank.
@@AvengedKittyLPoh please. If he wasn’t Joe Bidens son you wouldn’t give a shit. 😂. Just like 99% of us don’t give a shit. Wow he didn’t pay taxes. 🙄. Like 90% of wealthy Americans.
That *damning* list of things our ancestors wouldn't've stood for scrolling by... I see you, Devin, I see how you hung on Acceptance. Well done.
Given that they had to go to the opinions of a witchburner in order to justify a ban on abortion...
yeah that was a nice touch :D
Man, two videos in three days? What did we do to get spoiled like this?
Live in an utter disaster of a republic?
political turmoil, baby!!
@wyltedleaves Yeah, I've been noticing the same thing. UA-cam definitely prefers creators with frequent updates. Quantity >> Quality, probably because the former is much easier to measure :)
In 2022, I started working for a local Municipal court as a clerk & the amount of sovereign citizen nonsense I see is astounding. These people spend hundreds of dollars in certified postage for verbal diarrhea on paper instead of paying the $55 parking ticket. Also, there is a local defense lawyer that gets me excited to enter his information for the defense because his name is Devin.
*Thanks for the Content!*
Does a $55 parking ticket NOT sound excessive to you? Do municipal governments pay private land owners fees when leaving municipal property on private property? i have NEVER heard of such a thing. A parking ticket is simply another tax, applied unevenly to citizens.
If Don Jr did this, he'd have been pardoned. Eric... 50/50
I love that this puts the right on the side of arguing FOR strict gun law enforcement.
Their wailing and gnashing of teeth is sweet to watch.
I hope people literally take them to the wall, for that. Because it's like everyday, the GOP keeps making stands that could easily be used against their logic, when they try to apply the opposite elsewhere.
It's obvious, there is no moral or political standing for the GOP, these days. They've gone back on absolutely every one of them within the last 6 years alone. Including "States Rights". They only use them as "words for votes", that's it. I say the words, get the votes, but stand behind them? That's always conditional on whether it hurts people who vote against us. Cruelty is always the point. That's what they have left.
Lol. Such tasty irony.
I love that it literally doesn't he's a well known drug addict he can't even legally be in the same home that a firearm is stored in but go off about things you obviously don't know. Lemme guess full autos are legal 2?
@@eziokill9112 Extremism much?
@@roofdogblues7400 I'm an extremist? How moron? Go ahead I'll wait.
It was great working with you again, Devin! As always, great job on breaking this issue down for all of us non-barred people. I'm sure you hear this often, but you help A LOT of people understand these complex legal issues (I frequently see Reddit comments saying things like "I can't wait for LegalEagle's take on this"). Please keep up the great work.
And, for any viewers who might be interested in Ground News, I'm happy to answer any questions you might have! Thanks.
Is there an app or is it just email? I’m interested
It would be great to know how much it costs, if there are membership tiers, and if access is app-based, via a website, or both? [edit: or via email - thanks!]
you do a fantastic job working with Devin even as a frequent guest or filling in. As someone who is trying his best to learn the legal system etc from a independent point of view. You guys do great help on simplifying things for my artistic brain. Apprciate it .
@@CreativeSteve69 Thanks! This is only our second time working with Devin, but I think we align very well in terms of specific goals. Devin does a great job at engaging critical thinking and providing context, which is exactly what we hope to achieve as well.
Your service sounds like a wonderful tool - even an important thing for humanity! I'm definitely looking into it.
Republicans beung angry about a gun charge not getting prosecuted gives me chuckle-belly.
Why is it funny? Majority of republicans are against felons owning guns.
@@MikeJProto
Which standard exactly? That if you take a plea you get a lower sentence?
Also, I'm not sure that the Party that's currently defending the daughterf*cker in chief should open its mouth on having standards.
One would think that after being charged with Tax Dodging and packing a firearm illegally,
The GOP would've immediately adopted him as one of their own.
🤷🏻
Nah. Maybe Linday Graham camp, but not the commie Kremlin-loving wing of the GOP, since Hunter worked in Ukraine for so long.
Tbf, that first one is a bipartisan issue 😂
I mean, as the other person said, both sides tend to dodge tax… It’s usually a rich vs poor thing… Often they find ways to do it legally, even if it is sneaky… And typically wouldn’t conservatives have their guns legally, even if they have more of them?… Actually it’s probably a lower class thing again rather than left or right… I dunno…
I mean, the Republicans have been trying to strike Hunter down with anything for years since Joe's too boring to go after outright as opposed to the drug-user with shady dealings.
Funny how the second ammendment doesn't seem quite as important to the Republican party in this case 🤔
Let everyone have guns except the people we don’t want to have guns.
At least Dems are equal about it and don’t want anyone to have automatic weapons
For those who need a bit of a reality check: remember that this investigation began in 2018 by someone appointed by Trump who has stayed the lead investigator this entire time, and this is the charges they have.
There are no double standards. I was a regular person convicted of worse crimes in my 20s and got a pretrial diversion. It’s not really something the judge has to offer you. You can make the motion for it. They can deny it, sure. But that’s not gonna be common for non violent crimes like this.
@@wolfiemuseno Dems don't want law abiding citizens owning guns. But oh no the president's drug addict sun and criminals? No no that's fine don't ask any questions.
Funny how you more then likely think no one (even law abiding citizens) should own firearms yet somehow you aren't mad about the DRUG ADDICT being able 2 lie and illegally possess a firearm with no actual charges other then a fine and a blowjob
@@wolfiemusego ahead and show me where you can legally acquire a full auto gun anywhere in America.
while I agree that marijuana use shouldn't ban someone from owning a firearm, I hate "our ancestors wouldn't have liked it" as a reasoning for it. laws are for the living. legislation should be based on the present, not on a speculation on what thomas jefferson would have wanted
Those ancestors wouldn’t want a Benedict Arnold running the country either so why do you.
@@therealomega2467 why do I what? I didnt say anything about who I want running a country other than it shouldn't be 280 year old slave masters
"Guns for everyone. Unless we don't like you."
Sounds like a gop quote
@@therealomega2467 I mean they want to strip my guns away because I'm LGBT and that means I am "mentally ill" apparently...
05:04 That awkward moment when you genuinely can't quite determine whether this is parody or a direct quote from a conservative.
Yeah agreed, except for them when a corporation violate those exact " civil rights " in gun tooting North Texas. Then the foolish judge(s) dismiss the case, without legitimate reason.😑
In Sweden we have this game called
"Pest eller kolera?"
Directectly translating to "plague or cholera?". It's sort of a "would you rather?" with two different equally terrible options
The options you guys in the US have when electing politicians remind me a bit of that
They're right, there is a finger on the scale of justice here. If it weren't for his last name, he'd be getting a lesser sentence or possibly not charged at all.
Two standards of justice for two different crimes sounds about right to me lol
I love how when it comes to guns, the right is given as broadly as possible even if it doesn’t make moral sense. But when it comes to giving marginalized groups rights or more opportunities, the smallest details can strike those cases down.
yep
Hell the GOP kicked off modern gun control in California because Reagan didn't like black people carrying guns around near the capital. The largest gun ban in the history of this country was passed and signed by Republicans in 1986. They called it the "firearms owners' protection act"...
just 2 decades ago, ELEVEN states regularly arrested LGBT people as "SEXUAL PREDATORS"
...prosecutors from those states *STILL TO THIS DAY* petition to overturn the SCOTUS case that stopped ELEVEN states from locking us up just for existing.
hold tight. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
Now that the plea deal has blown up, can we have a discussion about that?
Lol no. Devon will never talk about the immunity agreement they stuffed into the diversion deal that would give hunter immunity for bribery in China and Ukraine.
Devon is a partisan hack as usual. Ones you see on CNN who basically toe party lines. You will never learn anything of substance.
No cannot because it makes the bidens look bad.
The plea deal would have given him immunity from being charged with other crimes. Which is why the judge refused to sign on it.
"Joe Biden still loves his son and the GOP is still furious about that". How true.
The party of "Family Values", of course.
@@KingBobXVI "family values and rights, unless you're LGBT...in which case we want to push you back into the closet WITH A NOOSE"
-TODAYS REPUBLICAN PARTY
"Why isn't he beating his son like a real American!?"
@KingBobXVI Justice is a part of familial love. Corruption in morality lends itself to corruption in occupation or office. Are you not bothered that Hunter Biden was blackmailing ChiCom CEOs for millions using Joe's influence while his his business partners were talking about how the "Big guy" needed a cut? Who the same guy in the deal indicates it was Biden?
The GOP is too committed in finding fault in any action by people they don't like, even if that action is what they demand.
I swear, the Republicans are absolutely dead-set on making Hunter Biden seem like the coolest person on the planet.
I keep thinking how much Hunter and Don Jr. look a like. Both are gun owning, tax evading, drug addicts too. Did Biden father Don Jr.?
A crack head pedo is cool to you?
"This Hunter Biden with his drugs, his revolver and his rock music will seduce our children into satanism. OH NO!!!"
They're incredibly jealous. Jokes aside, Hunter's life is kinda tragic and I'm rooting for anyone who's trying to face their demons.
Who would you like to meet ? Hunter or Don Jr please reply.
Hunter broke the law. No one is above the law. Joe still loves his son but right is right. That’s really all there is to it. That’s called integrity
Democrats agree with that. Republicans disagree and think they should be above the law. I haven't seen anyone argue that Hunter hasn't broke the law.
Based take but also he did things most people wont ever get punished for. Story would be completely different if this stuff was cared about but tbh the case feel fueled by spite by the Republican party.
Are you a bot?
If not, what are you saying?
What about Trump's tax evasion?
@@patmullarkey7659what do you think the person who said Joe Biden has integrity thinks about trump's tax evasion?
I always find it weird when people argue that "our forefathers" had this and that law and therefore we should also have that law. Our forefathers felt it was perfectly okay to own other people. Our forefathers felt barricading someone inside their house and then burning it down was an acceptable way to resolve a conflict. They thought thunder was caused by the gods. They thought dead people come back to life if you don't bury them in a certain way. They thought you could become ill if someone looked at you in a certain way. Is this really people whose judgement we should follow without question?
They also openly repeatedly said "we don't know everything. You're supposed to keep changing stuff. "
@@AdamdiditYeah, pretty sure if we could ouji board the founding fathers into a conversation it would all be explictives at this point.
If you put a brace on a pistol, it turns it into a gun
@@Adamdidit Yeah, and future generations will be laughing at us after we're gone. It's how it's supposed to be. :)
@@foo219 Yeah thats fine. I just want people to laugh accurately. Not take the cheap, easy, lazy route that basically ignores the actual history.
As a Canadian, hearing a group of judges say it’s unconstitutional to stop convicted abusers from owning firearms is absolutely WILD to me
“Our ancestors wouldn’t approve” BRUH your ancestors owned slaves and considered women less than human, why is this your argument??
I could swear the 2nd said “a militia full of wife beaters being totally badass, the right to bear arms to keep her in line shall not be infringed”
@@brandonburnham7831 Casually admitting you don’t agree with domestic violence laws
@@brandonburnham7831 Don't worry, we will repeal the 2nd and finally put all this stupid BS to bed once and for all.
because american "lawyers" don't understand the concept of law
@@moosesandmeese969 "... with regards to restricting access to firearms", yeah
The bots goin crazy on this one 😭😂
I still maintain that the real crime was naming their son Hunter. That was never going to end well.
Why helloooooo! I hear the plea deal just collapsed, today! (July 26)
" _But a judge (Judge Maryellen Noreika) on Wednesday said she could not "rubber stamp the agreement_ "
" _The case marks the first time the justice department has charged the child of a sitting president_ "
(bebe-c)
Devin, no fair using facts!
Wesley Snipes -- who I love as an actor -- made the deliberate action of defying the IRS. Hunter was just lazy and apathetic.
That's the difference.
To put it another way, Hunter is guilty of impaired driving, but at least pulled over when he saw the cops' blue lights. Snipes deliberately drove his car into a building and then bailed on foot.
White people are clearly better.
Hunter is part of a criminal cabal, and KNEW he would get away with his 'laziness & apathy' so long as his father and his buddies were in power. it took a Trump presidency, to hold hunter accountable finally.
So your average citizen can lie on their 4473 firearm background check and average person can not pay taxes, is what I am getting from this
Addicted to marijuana? You mean the substance that isn't addictive? I swear... governments sometimes.
Isn't everything addictive? Or are you saying it's less addictive than other any substances?
Weed isn’t addictive like crack but there are definitely people addicted to it
@@DinantZ There's a difference between an addictive substance and an addictive personality.
This is why it's pretty common for addicts to go from one addiction to another, sometimes to one that's considered more 'socially acceptable'. Like, if you were addicted to alcohol but now you're addicted to working out (it's a real and very damaging addiction). Or, if you were addicted to gambling but now you're a workaholic.
In all fairness, life in prison for Trump might be 6 months.
more like the second he finds out he cant get a diet coke and cheeseburder
@@cmdraftbrnwe will get diet coke and cheeseburgers. Jail will be a country club for him.
no covfefe, no hamberder, why even live
It's amazing how long money can keep an old ghoul alive. Look at Cheney. He effectively died decades ago.
@@cmdraftbrn there is probably something to that. Ten minutes in jail after how he's lived his entire life would probably be an eternity but you know what I want? I want legal eagle to do a video on can Trump physically actually go to a real jail. The analysis on this never gets past basically saying "people go to jail for this this is the crime this is the sentencing guidelines etc". But can a former president with secret service protection go to a real jail with razor wire and alarms and bars and bunk beds or will be be sentenced to serve his life sentence at mar a Lago under house arrest?
Anybody who's ever been through the court system knows this is exactly how it works for first time offenders... it's almost always a slap on the wrist(probation & fines) for minor offenses
Hunter has a record of reckless/negligent behavior over decades, all of it he blames on drug abuse. after many, many, many trips to rehab, he fails to get clean and become a responsible member of society. Hunter is a criminal, we KNOW he is a criminal (like his father before him) and needs to be served justice! if Hunter were a Republican, democrats would be making a lot bigger deal of this!
@@inconnu4961first time offender means first time in court
That gun charge in not minor.
Legislation based on whether it is in line with “traditional or custom” is about the worst way to draft up a bill
Well, judges rule based on “precedent” all the time; and now that the Supreme Court is turning against that, everyone’s in an uproar. 😅
So basically people with money can plead their way out of wrong doing and poor working schlubs go directly to jail. Deal or no deal. That has got to change.
When it comes to tax evasion it is rare you go to jail for it unless you outright refuse to pay taxes, most take a plea and pay their debts to avoid jail
What I found most amusing about the crimes involved was that they were things many Republicans would assert shouldn't be crimes, at least not if they're the ones doing the crimes. "Foot dragging on tax payments? Ignoring the rules on guns? Surely those aren't crimes!"
You can say a crime shouldn't be a crime, yet still be upset when someone is NOT given any punishment's for that crime AFTER dozens of others 'have' been given punishments for that same crime.
Its called "Equal treatment under the law".
If a bad law exists, you fight to have that bad law removed, but at the same time, that bad law MUST be 'equally' enforced against everyone who violates it. Otherwise BOTH parties involved are being hypocrites.
Red Flag laws are bad laws, they are to easily abused. Yet Nathan Fletcher, a Democrat in California, was 'shielded' by a valid red-flag filling against him by California's DA, while Multiple people within California have had Red Flag's filed against them WITHOUT being shielded by the DA's.
Hunter's case is the same example. Many people HAVE been charged with, and been given multiple years in jail for the exact same crime due to a bad law. Yet Hunter, for no reason other than who he is, gets 'shielded' from the consequences of that law.
@@Gwydion_Wolf "Hunter's case is the same example. Many people HAVE been charged with, and been given multiple years in jail for the exact same crime due to a bad law. Yet Hunter, for no reason other than who he is, gets 'shielded' from the consequences of that law."
And many people have not. Hunter Biden's situation is much more typical than the sort of cherry picked cases you're likely to hear about non-stop if you listen to certain outlets. Only the gun charge is a felony, and pre-trial diversion is a common way of handling it. You're more likely to see pre-trial diversion not happening in cases where there's more at stake, but the prosecutor really needs to make sure that some charge can be proven with high certainty.
Strictly speaking, that law is not a red flag law, either. I would have to examine the issue more closely to know if the problem was lying on the paperwork or the fact of being in violation of federal drug laws when purchasing or possessing a firearm, but in neither case does the usual understanding of a red flag law apply.
Actually, he is getting punished for his crimes, he's just gotten a lessened sentence because he accepted a plea deal - he's far from the first to be offered one, and far from the first to accept one.
That plus the fact that his crimes (Gun possession when he had a drug addiction and Tax fraud) are, while definitely crimes, are relatively low-key and wouldn't of gotten him a huge sentence in the first place.
Combined, he gets a small punishment.
@sdtwirix1126 that's the thing.
Every, single, person, who has been charged with the exact same gun law violation (lying on that form), has gotten prison time.
Every, single, one.
No one has been given the chance to just completely, 100%, remove that charge from their record with 0 punishment for it.
That is him taking advantage of a blatant 2-tiered justice system. Protected from the vary laws his father is pushing for more of.
@@Gwydion_Wolf "Every, single, person, who has been charged with the exact same gun law violation (lying on that form), has gotten prison time."
Did you get that from Twitter or Fox News? Inquiring minds want to know which! I seriously doubt that there's any law in the U.S. where more than a handful of people have been charged and every person charged got prison time, except for one. For one thing, being charged isn't the same as being convicted (or pleading out, like Biden). The unlikely nature of such a claim should have made you more skeptical. Your wannabelieves (personal biases, to be more precise) are preventing you from learning the truth.
In this case, Biden wasn't actually charged with "lying on the form". I looked it up. The actual charging document indicates that Hunter Biden was charged with violating 18 USC 922(g)(3): "It shall be unlawful for any person [...] who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) [...] to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce." Nothing about lying on a form there. The charging document also mentions 18 USC 924(a)(2). This is the penalty section, not the violation, though it is interesting that it actually provides for the possibility of a simple fine (prison is an option, though).
What about Hunter's legal team impersonating opposing counsel
So...in other words, the Republicans' manufactured anger is just as unjustified and ridiculous as ever, gaslighting all of the sane Americans expecting Trump to pay for his crimes as a desperate distraction. Who'da thunk it???
There IS a new whistleblower from inside the case claiming interference from Biden in the investigation. He has one guy from his dept agreeing with him. But considering just how many people worked on this case and how vitriolic the Republican Party is nowadays, I’d be skeptical as to his legitimacy until we have much better evidence. Right now it’s little more than yet more hearsay.
So naturally, the republicans have a full blown committee for him. Gotta put all the chips on this now that their base is bored of the 20 year Benghazi hunt xD
President Biden stated: “There will be a ZERO tolerance policy when falsifying information on a firearms transaction…”. His son literally defied the statement by purchasing a handgun while under the influence of crack/cocaine. Meanwhile, medical/recreational marijuana users across the country are being jailed for the same charge. If you have a brain, the hypocrisy is readily apparent!
Yeah, 'unjustified manufactured anger to gaslight sane Americans as a distraction tool"... seems to be *all* that the Republican party does lately.
Take it from me, a trans person living under DeSantis: none of their political grandstanding has any basis in facts or logic. It's just twisting perceptions and spreading misinformation so they can outrage gullible people into voting for them. Classic straw-man bullcrap.
The Repub's anger is about the blatant hypocrisy from trying to nail regular people and dissidents with the full force of the law, but allowing those on your side to completely get away scot free. No normal person would have gotten a misdemeanor with zero jail time for lying on the 4473 and then dumping the gun illegally in a trash can across the street from a high school. In fact, if I did those exact same actions, I would be facing a decade in federal prison.
Sure if you think a slap on the wrist for a gun charge makes _all the other evidence of corruption and criminal activity magically go away,_ then yeah. The rage is manufactured. But when the man literally sells America to it's enemies and is given a _misdemeanor gun charge,_ and *now* he's legally all better, I'd say the anger is justified.
What is the percentage of plea deals accepted vs actual trial (I heard it was upwards of 90-98%) - so DENYING to offer a deal would be partisan.
What is the percentage of plea deals when it comes to taxes and "white collar" crimes?
The bit about domestic violence and gun ownership is devastating. The link between domestic violence convictions and gun violence is powerful. The leading cause of death of children in America. So sad.
That's bc Republicans continue passing more & more legislation across the country making it easier for anybody to purchase & carry a gun. Also y Dateline, ID, Snapped & 20/20 never seem to run out of new episodes about white conservatives killing each other 🤷🏽♂️
Thats why we need to put restrictions on gun ownership. I actually like what Canada just did for handguns quite an interesting idea.
That's absolutely false and only appears with an intentional manipulation of the data to consider "children" as ages 1-19 rather than 0-18/17 and only looking specifically at the year 2021. Disease and car crashes are both bigger killers than guns. ~2,000 children/year die on average from firearm related deaths in the US based on data from the last decade, which is very sad, but not nearly the scary figure you would think for the third leading cause of death. A significant portion of those annual deaths, around half, are accidental. Another large portion is, sadly, suicide. Homicides make up ~500 or less firearm deaths for children per year.
ye but our ancestors said so
@@timothychartier So we have to have training and a test to get a drivers license. We shut down the economy due to a disease. But since suicide and accidents are the most common cause of gun deaths for children, more guns must be the solution? What about prosecuting parents who don’t secure their guns and allowing their kids access? What about making it harder for dumb parents who don’t understand what securing a firearm means to have a more difficult process of obtaining one?
I dont see how the presidents family being held to the same standard of law is anything but a good thing. All I can say is I for sure wont vote for Hunter Biden again, and I wish any one breaking laws they think they are above gets swift justice.
You never voted for Hunter Biden.
You voted for Hunter Biden?
(same standard of the law) is a drug addict in possession of a firearm, lied on federal firearm documents, and didn't file or pay taxes on millions of dollars yet somehow gets a slap on the wrist and pays a fine.Yes that definitely sounds like the same standard of law.
The law seems pretty clear that it’s an exceedingly normal punishment in these cases. But, sure, rage on.
@@eziokill9112 He paid off his tax bill, having money to pay off your taxes means you get to avoid jail time, that's standard, maybe not fair for poor people who can't do that, but still standard. Maybe stop thinking you know everything and get educated.
You're better than any news organization explaining this situation.
You're making a difference, thank you.
I find it funny that republicans are outraged despite if trump was in office and his family was charged with a crime he'd literally give them a pardon 😂
Seriously, Trump would presidential pardon the shit out of his kid in this situation.
Clinton did so with his brother. Joe Biden honestly should just do it, I seriously doubt he's going to get a second term regardless at this stage and at his age.
I’d vote for a banana peel before I’d vote for the Republican Party. They did this to themselves.
I love how we are talking about democrat crimes but you seem to be focusing on someone else.
@@planescapedpresident pardon exists?
@@Hcaz1113 ah yes one of the things literally discussed in the video... Maybe go bootlick somewhere else kid because it's not gonna work here 😉
Imagine going dumpster diving and finding a politicians’s kid’s gun.
My main thing is Hunter being slapped on the wrist for things black men get harsher punishments for. As a Biracial man its things like that, that concern me. Which is why we saw people in the black community call out Hunter Biden after this..
At that point it's not that Hunter is getting a weaker treatment, but that systemic racism is bad and still pretty prevalent.
But then there are rich black celebrities who get slap on the wrists and don’t even get this far into a trial. Money talks. In his case plea deal talks.
@@itazuranakisu Eh, many cases where race plays a factor. Money helps and being whiter also helps. Both things are wrong, one is corruption other is systematic racial discrimination.
Good ol' Joe was the chief architect of the crime bill that was intended to smack down black men for petty crimes. He is proud of it to this day.
Which would mean that Fox et al are arguing in favour of Critical Race Theory?
Man, the US is weird...
So, allow me to get this straight…many of them want gun laws relaxed, and consider owning a gun part of their rights that should not be unhindered by any circumstance, but they’re also mad that Hunter Biden is not going to be properly reviewed for illegally owning a gun. The gun they feel should be legal in all circumstances.
No they just want to get liberals and lefties on anything they can cause they are fascists.
They aren't honest in their beliefs, they just look around them for what they can all shout in concert to be a group opposed to what disgusts them.
Not if it is a democrats gun.Then they want it to be illegal.
So allow me to get this straight many of them want to regulate or ban guns but also carrying guns? See how it works both ways
Laws for thee, but not for me. Aka the Republican motto.
@@Hahvok "Laws for thee, but not for me." often applies to anyone corrupted by power regardless of political party.
I love visiting my in-laws, they ALWAYS bring up Hunter and the "Biden Mafia". I can't recall a mob boss who had a wife w/ a PhD tho.
It's the immunity from future possible felonies "other charges" that has people upset.
Another great video. Would you consider doing an episode on the whole "Sovereign Citizen" nonsense? What they believe and why it's wrong?
Essentially it’s a group of beliefs which boil down to “We don’t like to pay taxes” and “I don’t consent to the law so it doesn’t apply to me”
@catrybou123 Don't forget the weird "America is a Corporation, not a Government" nonsense
@@Lugage oh! That thing exists in the US as well? I thought only we Germans had these kind of nut jobs.
@@Jehty_ Stupidity knows no borders.
@@Jehty_ both cases it's a conspiracy theory. In Germany it's more of a corporation stuff, and in USA it's more of a not acknowledging laws. Still not as crazy as "Soviet citizens" who claim some law hijink means USSR wasn't disbanded and still exists. What these have in common is magical thinking, meaning if you find some random comma in a law, or a paper not signed, it would completely change the world, ignoring that countries exist on matter of recognition, not their internal laws. Many constitutions have mutually exclusive positions ("all people are equal" contradicts so much stuff), yet they do no implode because of it. So even IF referendum and following declaration of independence in Ukraine didn't dissolve Soviet Union, it still doesn't exist because ALL countries in the world recognized other countries on its place. Ditto with Germany at around the same time.
I guess the LegalBeagle doesn't get the irony of his biased coverage based on the facts and opinions he chooses to include or omit.
Gotta say... that was some British levels of dry sarcasm present there...
I just love that they are linking Trump to Hunters investigation but they won’t link Trump to his own 😂
Telling isn't it.
There I no stone left unturned with trump the only other candidate is Kennedy
@@wilbertbenjamin They investigated Trump for ever and they had to fabricate evidence with the russian dossier
Investigation in to what? trumps issue is what amounts to a clerical error, and the democrats are using it to sully Trumps reputation during an election cycle. More hard ball political tactics to steal elections. nothing to see here.
The fact that Hunter hasn't been Pardoned definitely shows integrity
No, it shows diversion.
@@skepticalextraterrestrial2971 no it shows that people shouldn't be pardoned when they break the law. The power to pardon needs to be removed from the president entirely. It should be in the hands of the house 100% agreement on pardons.
It also shows that it would be political suicide for Joe Biden to pardon his son.
@@skepticalextraterrestrial2971 you guys think literally everything is a diversion. why should we believe you this time, when you've been wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME before?
@@skepticalextraterrestrial2971 Riiiiight. So if Joe pardoned Hunter, you'd applaud him for not creating a diversion? You know this is 100% not true. Please reflect on how your hatred leads you to these buffoonish positions.