Despite all the ways that the Deep State has tried to protect Hunter and Joe Biden from being held accountable for anything, Hunter and his legal team must know that they are in real trouble right now.
And it's hilarious, too. Would you believe that Hunter Biden's lawyers had the audacity to claim that his prosecution was due to "incessant, improper, and partisan pressure"?
How many whistleblowers have come forward with the information that the Bidens have been routinely protected by various government agencies? I've lost count. Believe it or not, Hunter's legal team sought to subpoena former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General Bill Barr as part of this Hail Mary legal effort, and Special Counsel David Weiss flat-out rejected it.
"Defendant contends that the requested material 'goes to the heart of his pre-trial and trial defense that this is, possibly, a vindictive or selective prosecution that arose out of an incessant pressure campaign that began in the last administration, in violation of Mr. Biden's constitutional rights,'" Weiss wrote in his rejection. "It is worth noting from the outset that defendant misunderstands the difference between pretrial arguments to dismiss an indictment and trial defenses. It is black-letter law that claims of vindictive and selective prosecution are not trial defenses and may only be brought and litigated pretrial. They are not defenses and, therefore, are never argued to trial juries."
It gets better.
In any event, both vindictive- and selective-prosecution claims turn on the actual intent of the specific decision maker in a defendant's case: here, the Special Counsel. But not only does defendant's motion fail to identify any actual evidence of bias, vindictiveness, or discriminatory intent on the Special Counsel's part, his arguments ignore an inconvenient truth: No charges were brought against defendant during the prior administration when the subpoena recipients actually held office in the Executive Branch. Instead, every charge in this matter was or wil be brought during the current administration one in which defendant's father, Joseph R. Biden, is the President of the United States and Merrick B. Garland is the Attorney General that was appointed by President Biden and who personally appointed the Special Counsel.
But believe it or not, the smackdown wasn't over.
"In seeking discovery for a claim of selective prosecution, defendant fails to identify even one similarly situated individual who was not prosecuted for similar conduct. This omission alone precludes his request for discovery," Weiss continued. "He also identifies no constitutionally protected class to which he belongs and does not identify any evidence of discriminatory intent by the relevant decisionmakers, which is what the law requires in order to make out a claim of selective prosecution."
Special Counsel David Weiss files a scathing rejection of Hunter Biden’s request to subpoena Donald Trump and Bill Barr to prove he is being unfairly prosecuted on gun charges.
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) December 5, 2023
“In seeking discovery for a claim of selective prosecution, defendant fails to identify even one… pic.twitter.com/DtI1Udv3An
That's pretty harsh. It makes you wonder just what Hunter Biden's legal team was trying to accomplish with such a sloppy move. These attorneys are likely desperate enough to try anything that might help their case. But this was a terrible swing and a miss. What will they think of next?
