emptywheel: David Weiss immunized the gun shop owner who altered the Hunter Biden gun purchase document so he could charge Joe Biden's son for owning a gun for 11 days in 2018. And of the 50 or so journos covering the case, I've seen only CNN even report that the form did get altered.

David Weiss immunized the gun shop owner who altered the Hunter Biden gun purchase document so he could charge Joe Biden's son for owning a gun for 11 days in 2018. And of the 50 or so journos covering the case, I've seen only CNN even report that the form did get altered.

Sounds like a clear cut example of selective prosecution. Who is the bigger threat, a gun shop selling illegal guns or one of the purchasers?

It’s because the media is super liberal and unfair to conservatives, amirite?

WaPo’s story in yesterday’s print version noted it.

By whom?

Perry Stein Here’s the piece www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Here’s what to know about the Hunter Biden trial that starts Mondaywww.washingtonpost.com President Biden’s son Hunter is charged in federal court in Delaware with making false statements while buying a gun and illegally possessing that gun.

I'm not seeing it.

So sorry. It was another one that accompanied the “what to know” bit, above. The specific mention is pretty far in: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

For Hunter Biden, a dramatic day with his brother’s widow led to chargeswww.washingtonpost.com Six years ago, Hallie Biden threw out a gun that prosecutors say Hunter Biden bought improperly. His trial starts Monday.

Came here to say online version did as well. (But I was surprised it was only a note.)

This hunter biden shit is so ridiculously self-defeating. Either he's found not guilty and it looks like republicans were attacking him for no reason, or he's found guilty and democrats get to pose as righteous upholders of law and order who stand above partisanship. There's no W for the right here.

Remind me again because my brain don’t hold info like it used to, did the judge exclude that from the trial?

Yes.

AKA, the actual weaponization of the justice system. Garland needs to grow a pair.

I'm about to confess my ignorance, but this is the first time I've even heard about this fact. Everything has been the Trump NY trial.

The actual form itself is excluded from the trial too? Won’t that be a glaring omission? And what is the purported justification for excluding the form? There has to be a reason that makes sense no?

They're using a scan of it sent to ATF around October 28.

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