Hunter Biden asks Los Angeles judge to toss out $1.4m tax evasion case
Hunter Biden asks Los Angeles judge to toss out $1.4m tax evasion case
Lawyers for president’s son to challenge criminal charges he evaded taxes and argue prosecutors bowed to Republican pressure
Is this politics? Hunter Biden isn't a politician.
True. But the only reason people are paying this much attention to this case is because the GOP is trying to politicize stuff that shouldn’t have been political.
Attorneys representing Hunter Biden asked a US judge in Los Angeles to dismiss the criminal case accusing him of evading $1.4m in taxes, arguing that prosecutors bowed to political pressure from Republican lawmakers investigating his father, Joe Biden.
Hunter’s lawyers appeared before the US district judge Mark Scarsi in federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday to press several legal challenges to the charges, including an argument that he was selectively targeted by prosecutors in response to Republican criticism. The 54-year-old was not present in the courtroom.
He's arguing the only reason he's being held accountable is political...
Which is the same thing trump says.
It highlights a bigger issue that definitely is political:
The only time wealthy connected people are held accountable is for pissing off other wealthy connected people.
We need a system where bare minimum the exception is no accountability due to political connections instead of the current system where 99.9% percent of the wealthy can do this shit and no one cares.
It's one of the things progressives push for while republicans and "moderates" stop anything from being done.
Only if you are gullible enough to fall for the people muddying the waters. Is Hunter Biden being held to the same standard for his crime that other who did the same are vs is Trump.
Don’t let them think comparing apples to oranges is apples to apples.
We need a system where bare minimum the exception is no accountability due to political connections instead of the current system where 99.9% percent of the wealthy can do this shit and no one cares.
The people certainly care, at least the ones that want justice and an even playing field, but there's nothing we can do about it because they're playing by a different set of rules, and that's what's total bullshit. If I don't pay my taxes, I'll get my ass handed to me, but if anyone connected doesn't, they wring their hands until it goes away.
I pay my taxes because it's the right thing to do (even though I vehemently disagree on what these knuckleheads spend it on), and I don't really have a choice anyway, so I'd rather stay out of trouble. The GOP is hanging on to this issue because it's the only real tangible thing they have to show any wrongdoing connected to Biden, and they're making a political spectacle where it doesn't exist. But it does highlight the issue of how wealthy people operate under a different paradigm than the rest of us. It's just rich coming from the party that grifts and cons like it's going out of style, while attempting to shield themselves by saying it's somehow different (it's not).
You don't have to be a politician to be involved in politics. Think of all the staff, party officials, etc.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hunter’s lawyers appeared before the US district judge Mark Scarsi in federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday to press several legal challenges to the charges, including an argument that he was selectively targeted by prosecutors in response to Republican criticism.
Hunter has pleaded not guilty to failing to pay $1.4m in taxes between 2016 and 2019, while spending millions of dollars on drugs, escorts, exotic cars and other big-ticket items.
Scarsi also voiced skepticism about Hunter’s defense team’s argument that prosecutors had been pressured by two Internal Revenue Service agents who went public last year with information about his tax returns.
The trial of the president’s youngest son is due to start in June, a few months before Americans vote in a November presidential election that looks set to be a close and deeply divisive contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
The special counsel David Weiss, who brought both cases, has accused Hunter Biden’s legal team of spreading “conspiracy theories” about the prosecution.
He has said the justice department would not act at the direction of Republican lawmakers, who are pursuing an impeachment investigation into whether Joe Biden profited from his son’s activities.
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