summary of the charges:

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...-or-fara-violations/

Hunter Biden was charged with one count of false statement in the purchase of a firearm,
one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance,
and one count of false statement related to information required to be kept by federal firearms licensed dealer.

Weiss’s indictment did not include any FARA or tax violations.

It is a start.....and just a start!!

I'm sure it isn't meant to be a distraction or anything, but what a coincidence that Hunter finally gets charged the day after an impeachment investigation is announced for Joe.
Weird! Isn't it?

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...throughout-vp-tenure

House Democrats acknowledged Wednesday that Hunter Biden’s then-business partner, Eric Schwerin, handled President Biden’s finances for the duration of his vice presidency.

A spokesperson for the Democrat minority of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability told Fox News Digital that Schwerin, the former president of Hunter’s Rosemont Seneca Advisors and a frequent visitor to the Obama-Biden White House, served as then-Vice President Biden’s "bookkeeper" from 2009 to 2017.

"Notably, Mr. Schwerin, who served as then-Vice President Biden’s bookkeeper from 2009 to 2017, explained that he was not aware of any transactions into or out of the then-Vice President’s bank account related to business conducted by any Biden family member," the spokesperson said in a statement.

A person familiar with Schwerin's role in handling then-Vice President Biden's finances told Fox News Digital that Schwerin worked on Biden's personal budget and helped coordinate with his tax preparers.

Schwerin’s lawyer, however, told Fox News Digital that Schwerin was not technically a "bookkeeper" to the then-VP but rather he simply assisted the then-VP with his finances.

Fox News Digital has previously reported on Schwerin’s extensive ties to the Biden family, both personal and professional, and how he was instrumental in Hunter expanding his enterprise in China.

Peter Schweizer, the president of Government Accountability Institute and an expert on Hunter's business dealings, told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo last month that "Eric Schwerin was the money guy" in Hunter's business ventures.

Schwerin, who visited the Obama White House and then-Vice President Biden’s residence at least 36 times between 2009 and 2016, was also a founding partner and managing director of Hunter's now-dissolved firm Rosemont Seneca Partners. He was working with Hunter's firms when he was appointed in early 2015 by then-President Obama to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, an independent U.S. government agency.

Hunter’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, who was married to the president’s son from 1993 to 2017, revealed in a memoir in June 2022 that Schwerin "managed almost every aspect of our financial life."

The indictment's for a revolver but didn't we see a pic of him with a pistol?

the attack ads are writing themselves

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...y-pay-raise-n2628448

This week, the White House announced Biden will veto a GOP bill that includes military pay raises for soldiers should it pass.

The House Republican legislation would have given the military's junior enlisted troops a 30 percent raise next year and ensure that no military member would make less than the equivalent of $15 per hour during a 40-hour work week.

"If the president were presented with H.R. 4365, he would veto it .," the White House said in a press release, pointing to the lack of Left-wing agenda items such as diversity initiatives, abortion, transgender issues, and climate change.

"The draft bills also include numerous new, partisan policy provisions with devastating consequences, including harming access to reproductive healthcare, threatening the health and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Americans, endangering marriage equality, hindering critical climate change initiatives, and preventing the Administration from promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion," the White House stated.

once upon a time this would have been a political campaign ender

He just cannot help himself.

Biden boasts teaching ‘political theory’ at UPenn — but he never taught a single class at the Ivy League school

President Biden, who has never taught a single semester-long course at the University of Pennsylvania, mused on Thursday about when he used to “teach political theory” at the Ivy League school.

“Our democracy is under attack, and we got to fight for it,” Biden, 80, said during a speech at Maryland’s Prince George’s Community College.

“I taught at the University of Pennsylvania for four years and I used to teach political theory. And folks, you always hear, every generation has to fight for democracy.”

Biden was an honorary professor at the Philadelphia school, serving as the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Professor of the Practice from February 2017 to April 2019, between his term in the White House as vice president and the start of his presidential campaign.

But his responsibilities never included teaching semester-long classes, conducting independent research, and handling administrative responsibilities – typical duties of professors.

Biden made a dozen or so public appearances on campus but never taught a regular class, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

One of the visits was a November 2017 event promoting his book “Promise Me, Dad,” according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.


Other Biden appearances included Q&As with UPenn administrators, one lecture to Wharton business school graduate students and public events with former Mexican President Felipe Calderon and former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Biden reaped about $900,000 in income from the school while he held the honorary post.

“The president has lied about being at Ground Zero the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, falsely claimed he saw the Pittsburgh bridge collapse, claimed his grandfather died in the hospital days before his birth. What is going on with the president? Is he just believing things that didn’t happen did happen, or is he just randomly making stuff up?” Washington Times reporter Jeff Mordock asked White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Wednesday.

The White House spokesman dodged a question about the absent professor.

The embellishment comes a day after the White House was called out for the president’s frequent factual misstatements.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/14/...yp&utm_medium=social

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He just cannot help himself.

Isn't it amazing how every time a Democrat is caught in a blatant lie it was an "error" or "oversight" or "failure of memory".

I have to admit, as I'm getting older I forget where I put things, occasionally what I'm looking for, or even sometimes why I walked in this room?!?. But I've never forgotten where I went to college, the degree I earned, and my GPA.

Yet... when a Republican gets accused of a lie (real or fabricated) they should immediately resign, find a cliff, and leap off.

Biden claims to group of rabbis that he was ‘raised in synagogues in my state’

https://nypost.com/2023/09/14/...agogues-in-my-state/

President Biden told a group of rabbis on Thursday that he was “raised in the synagogues” of Delaware — after previously claiming to have been raised by the state’s then-tiny Puerto Rican community.

“I, you might say, was raised in the synagogues of my state. You think I’m kidding, I’m not,” Biden said during a call ahead of Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish new year holiday that begins Friday.

The 80-year-old cited the Beth Shalom congregation in Wilmington, Del., as “the home of countless friends for me.” He named three rabbis, including a current one at the synagogue.

“I’ve always believed the message of the High Holidays is universal — that it’s never too late to repent, to change, to begin anew,” Biden said.

Biden’s 2007 memoir “Promises to Keep” doesn’t contain a single use of the word “synagogue” and its seven uses of the words “Jews” and “Jewish” all are when discussing history or politics. Beth Shalom is not mentioned. His 2017 book “Promise Me, Dad” has similarly sparse mentions of Judaism.

Biden previously drew scrutiny in Puerto Rico last year when he said that “I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically,” even though a paltry 2,000 Puerto Ricans lived in Delaware when he was launching his career and he had not previously described a significant connection to the community.

While speaking to the rabbis Thursday, Biden made other claims that have yielded unflattering fact-checks, including saying that he “got involved with the civil rights movement” before becoming a senator.

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Biden boasts teaching ‘political theory’ at UPenn — but he never taught a single class at the Ivy League school
Biden previously has told contested stories about his purported civil rights activism, including claiming without evidence that he was arrested during protests.

At other points, Biden has said he wasn’t so involved.

“During the 1960s, I was in fact very concerned about the civil rights movement,” Biden said in 1987. “I was not an activist.I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, Delaware. I was involved in what they were thinking, what they were feeling. I was involved, but I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma, I was not anywhere else. I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans in my own city.”

Biden has a habit of telling factually questionable stories when attempting to relate to his audiences.

Biden in 2021 told Jewish leaders that he remembered “spending time at” and “going to” Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 after the worst anti-Semitic attack in US history, in which 11 people were murdered. The synagogue said he never visited and the White House later said he was thinking about a 2019 phone call to the synagogue’s rabbi.

Later that month, Biden told an Idaho audience that his “first job offer” came from local lumber and wood products business Boise Cascade. The company said it was news to them.

More at link

The Hollow Man

or, more like it, he's Zelig

Got it, Para.

So anyways, Hunter is finally indicted on something. Lying about his drug use when attempting to buy a gun. He'll probably squirm out of it, but it is ironic how the strengthened ATF/DOJ (ok, so I almost said 'weaponized') decided to go ahead with charges on Crazy Joe's sad little boy after all the enabling for them that happened under this administration.

^^^^Yeah, they finally charged him, as he certainly should've been--though long before now--but as Matt Gaetz said, "getting Hunter on the gun charge is like getting Jeffery Dahmer on littering."

We'll see what becomes of this, but we all know this is small fry. The serious, more consequential crimes are still out there blowing around in the wind.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:


President Biden told a group of rabbis on Thursday that he was “raised in the synagogues” of Delaware — after previously claiming to have been raised by the state’s then-tiny Puerto Rican community.

Maybe he's like the guy in Welcome Back Kotter, Juan Epstien, he was Puerto Rican and Jewish.

The first no jail time plea bargain was thrown out. This is merely a way re-institute a second plea bargain. Unlike you or I, he'll never see the inside of a jail.

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Originally posted by NK402:
The first no jail time plea bargain was thrown out. This is merely a way re-institute a second plea bargain. Unlike you or I, he'll never see the inside of a jail.

On just the indicted charges, neither you or I would likely to see the inside of a jail, either.

Offense level will likely be a 12 or 10, less a two-level adjustment of acceptance of responsibility if he pleads. That's smack in the middle of the "Probation" range because unless I've missed it, Hunter has no prior convictions to push him "right" on the sentencing table, and none of the big-number offense level factors are present.

Some light reading:
Sentencing Guidelines 2K

Fun fact: You can steal a lot and still just get probation in the Fed system. You can lie a lot and still just get probation in the Fed system. It doesn't even require political interference, because the Sentencing Guidelines bake it all into the cake.

The tax charges, if/when they are filed, are the BIG numbers, because of (also) the USSG. The tax loss drives that guideline, and it's large.

The DOJ better hurry up & get this done. If they keep screwing around & dragging this out, Joe's going to be out of office, and won't be able to pardon Hunter of all the federal charges.

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Originally posted by NK402:
The first no jail time plea bargain was thrown out. This is merely a way re-institute a second plea bargain. Unlike you or I, he'll never see the inside of a jail.

I want the cynicism to cease. You don't know any such thing. Stop trying to DEFEAT members of this forum.

That goes for all of you. Some of you think that nothing good can ever happen, and it's depressing as Hell and I'll tell you- it says something about you, and that something is not good, not in any way.

People who make such claims have no idea that they're already defeated and I don't want to be associated with anyone who surrenders before a battle is through.

How many times have I said such things to you guys? And yet, some of you keep posting this shit. Stop it. I DO NOT CARE whether or not you think my approach is naive. I am telling you- I will not tolerate this shit in this forum.

What shit? It's an opinion like many other posts. Are opinions not allowed if they don't coincide with yours?

I remember hearing one of Biden's speeches where he says that he attendee catholic mass every Sunday and then attended services at a local black church. When he said his signature line "you think I'm joking, but it's true" he nearly burst out laughing. Sometimes his bull shit gets so absurd, even he has to laugh about it.