Perhaps the biggest question today that has baffled the liberal media is, "Why isn't Trump's trial hurting him?"
It's a perfectly fair question with a rather straightforward answer. The liberal media, of course, is too blinded by anti-Trump hatred to acknowledge it.
As many on the right have been pointing out for a long time now, Trump's legal troubles aren't the product of a fair justice system, but part of a lawfare strategy against Trump by a biased justice system. There have been enough polls showing that the public largely agrees that politics have motivated the criminal charges against Trump that there's no reason why the liberal media should be so oblivious. They talk about these trials as if they were legit, and their coverage of the New York City trial over a perfectly legal nondisclosure agreement is soaked with biased language and wishful thinking.
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We've pointed out how terrible Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's witnesses have been for his case, yet most coverage by the media has been boilerplate reports about how devastating each witness has been for Trump. But, even CNN has been willing to concede that the various witnesses haven't done good for Bragg's case, and polls have suggested that the trial is backfiring on the Democrats.
So, with Hunter Biden's upcoming criminal trial coming up, one can't help but ask if this trial will hurt Joe Biden or not.
Perhaps on its face, it shouldn't. After all, it's not Joe Biden himself on trial. But, there's a case to be made that Hunter Biden's federal gun trial could be damaging to Joe Biden in a way that Trump's trial was not damaging to Trump.
And I think it can be. For one thing, prosecutors plan to introduce Hunter Biden's infamous laptop as evidence against him in the trial — a move that officially puts the Justice Department on record that the laptop is, indeed, genuine.
"The defendant's laptop is real (it will be introduced as a trial exhibit) and it contains significant evidence of the defendant's guilt," special counsel David Weiss wrote in a court filing submitted Wednesday. "Any argument that suggests his laptop is not authentic would be inappropriate because there is no foundation for such questioning, and it risks creating juror confusion about the evidence actually at issue in this case."
Hunter's defense team is pushing against its inclusion by claiming, without evidence, that "the data had been altered and compromised before investigators obtained the electronic material."
Weiss disputes that assertion.
"What are the messages the defendant is claiming were somehow retroactively planted into his non-functional laptop, and what is the evidence of that? There is none. He has not shown any of the actual evidence in this case is unreliable or inauthentic," Weiss wrote. "Instead, the defendant's theory about the laptop is a conspiracy theory with no supporting evidence."
"This is yet another example of the defendant asking people to believe Russian intelligence when it suits his interests, but not to believe Russian intelligence when it doesn't suit his interests." pic.twitter.com/DHru50O4O4
— Tristan Leavitt (@tristanleavitt) May 23, 2024
When the DOJ is arguing that the laptop is real, after Joe Biden publicly insisted the laptop was Russian disinformation in 2020, that's a real problem for Joe Biden. The judge has since ruled that jurors can be shown evidence found on the laptop.
Make no mistake about it: this trial, which is set to start next month, is going to be problematic for Joe Biden, and it will keep salacious details about Hunter in the news, and keep the pressure on Joe to pardon him. Considering the DOJ's effort to include the laptop as evidence, Joe might just go against his word and pardon Hunter. It may save his son from prison, but it will reinforce everything Trump and his allies have said about the two-tiered justice system.
