Conservatives and Republicans celebrated the collapse of a “sweetheart” plea deal for Hunter Biden Wednesday following a court hearing.
Conservatives and Republicans celebrated the collapse of a “sweetheart” plea deal for Hunter Biden Wednesday following a court hearing.
The Justice Department announced June 20 that Biden would plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges, while a felony charge of lying on the form filled out when purchasing a firearm would be addressed via a pre-trial diversion program. Biden pleaded not guilty to all charges after the plea deal collapsed when United States District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected both the initial plea deal and a more limited revision Wednesday.
“The Hunter Biden plea deal was a joke from the start. Judge Noreika is now smoking out the truth that this is a feigned retreat: they’re even more scared than ever of scrutiny for the real crimes,” Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy tweeted. “The *real* target should be the audio tapes of the alleged bribe for Hunter & Joe Biden from the Ukrainian executive of oligarch-owned Burisma – especially now that Biden is kicking back *hundreds of billions* to Ukraine to make good on the bribe (and don’t forget that the entire Ukrainian government employee payroll is funded by U.
