Law professor and author Jonathan Turley says even Hunter Biden's 11th hour guilty plea was part of a pattern of avoiding accountability until the very last minute
'Guilty.' That word repeated nine times by Hunter Biden in a federal courtroom in California represented something that he had evaded for much of his life: accountability. Five years ago, Biden had to explain the rule to ABC News reporter Amy Robach, who had the audacity to ask about his history. Biden instructed the TV journalist to 'say it nicer.
This week, Biden was still demanding that even prosecutors 'say it nicer' on the eve of his criminal trial. He created chaos at the start of jury selection by announcing that he would plead guilty but demanded an 'Alford plea.' The Alford plea allows a defendant to accept that there is sufficient evidence to convict while declining to admit guilt. Roughly 17 percent of state cases and 5 percent of federal cases ended in Alford or no contest pleas.
The response from the Biden team was the same privileged fit. One lawyer told prosecutors to 'just rip it up.' Later the Justice Department attorneys stated that they still tried to reach a new plea deal but that Biden gave them the stiff arm. The result? An unmitigated failure. Biden was convicted on every gun count before a sympathetic jury in the hometown of the Biden family.
Yet, the long road to 'guilty' did bring clarity for others as well as Biden. There were no more of the mantras of how my son 'has done nothing wrong' or legal experts struggling to rationalize his conduct. He now has over a dozen convicted crimes, including nine related to the millions that he acquired through a massive influence-peddling operation by the Biden family. There is no way to say that 'nicer.
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