‘Really Bad Lawyering’: Morning Joe Marvels at Hunter Biden’s ‘Catastrophic Mistake’ of Taking Gun Case to Trial

Joe Scarborough and Ken Dilanian marveled at Hunger Biden’s “catastrophic” decision not to accept a plea deal in his gun case on Morning Joe while calling out his defense team for some “really bad lawyering” on Wednesday

Dilanian kicked off the conversation by noting that despite some reservations, the jury “really had no choice but to convict” Biden.

“And that sort of raises a question in my mind that I’ve been asking myself throughout the trial as I heard the prosecution present this overwhelming evidence, obviously, that Hunter Biden was using drugs when he bought the gun, which is why they couldn’t have found a way to get a plea deal in this case?” he continued. “And, you know, there’s a sort of a mythology that the judge, we all saw the judge raised questions about the plea deal in the courthouse a year ago, and the deal fell apart that day. But there’s a part two to that story, which is the two parties sat down and tried to continue negotiating. And at the end of the day, the Hunter Biden team was not satisfied with the level of immunity that the prosecution was willing to offer, and so they took their chances at trial. And in retrospect, that seems to be a catastrophic decision because Hunter Biden is now guilty of felonies and the guidelines in this case call for prison time.”

“You know, Ken,  I want to underline that fact that that they had a plea deal that they could have taken, but because they wouldn’t grant him total immunity even over the tax charges, any other charges, they rejected it,” replied Scarborough. “So instead of taking an imperfect plea deal, yeah, they they risked it all, which again, in retrospect, seems like really bad lawyering.”

“Yeah, and you know, we don’t know everything that went into their decision making. They were going to- the plea deal encompassed the tax case, which is actually really significant because that’s a more serious case than — with greater breadth of evidence which is going to happen in September unless they plead it out — then this case,” noted Dilanian. “But what the plea deal, what they weren’t willing to offer the Biden team was immunity from other conduct that they were investigating, including potential foreign lobbying violations.”

“Well, guess what? It’s been a year, we’ve seen no sign of a federal investigation leading to an indictment on those charges. That may never happen. That was a sort of a theoretical risk that they weren’t willing to take,” he concluded. “But what they actually have is an actual felony conviction here in this case and then another trial on very serious tax charges looming in California in September, guys.”

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