Hunter Biden Found Guilty in Gun Case, Faces Up to 25 Years in Prison
Hunter Biden has been charged with three felony counts tied to a handgun purchase in 2018, and faces up to 25 years in prison and $750,000 in fines.
All major TV networks broke into regularly scheduled programming with the verdict shortly after 11 am ET. You can watch ABC News‘ report above.
According to The New York Times, President Joe Biden‘s son was found guilty of lying on a federal firearms application in 2018, saying that he was not using or addicted to drugs at the time of the purchase.
Hunter, who has long been forthcoming about his addiction to cocaine, is now sober.
The guilty verdict comes as his father enters the final months of his reelection campaign, and two weeks after the Republican challenger for the White House, former President Donald Trump, was found guilty on all 34 felony counts in his hush money trial.
Just last week, President Biden told ABC News’ David Muir that he would accept the verdict and would not attempt to pardon Hunter. (According to the Times, “first-time offenders who did not use their weapons to commit a violent crime typically receive no jail time.”)
“As I said last week, I am the President, but I am also a Dad,” POTUS reiterated in a statement Tuesday. “Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. So many families who have had loved ones battle addiction understand the feeling of pride seeing someone you love come out the other side and be so strong and resilient in recovery. As I also said last week, I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal. Jill and I will always be there for Hunter and the rest of our family with our love and support. Nothing will ever change that.”
Biden and Trump will soon meet for the first debate of the 2024 election cycle, to be held on Thursday, June 27, and air on CNN. Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate.
So he’s going to get more jail time, potentially, than a murderer of 2 innocent children? (Rebecca Grossman)
He’ll probably get more jail time than someone convicted of 34 felonies. 😒
Because it’s so obvious that
“certain people” have laws that seem to have been created especially for them , while everyone else has to abide by a whole different set of laws!
I am sure Biden will pardon him after the election.
Copy and paste other people comments much?
What are you on about? Make sense much? I typed that out myself. Check the time stamp; nobody commented what I said before I posted my comment.
Exactly!
So what’s the jail time for someone who has been convicted of 34 felonies??
So far!
So,.rigged… not rigged? I’m so confused!
Wait, wait! He was the fall guy! The devious Biden crime family is only allowing this as one more step along the way to grabbing yer gawd-given gun rights! No, his daddy is gonna commute any sentence he gets, so maybe no pardon–but no time to serve either–EVIL!!! And all many of general insanity.
Stay off “X” (Twitter) folks–that way madness lies.
*manner
Sd thing is, that’s pretty much exactly how it’s going. “His guilty verdict is just a farce to make it look like it’s not rigged!”
And we’re really going to trot out Joe vs Donald again. Reality star vs nursing home patient. This is the best we can do.
Another proud moment for America. And you ask me why I don’t vote.
Shocking that neither party can come up with better candidates. I agree with you completely.
If you can’t be bothered to vote, don’t bother to comment. Yeah, neither option is great. But given the choice between a doddering old man, and a sociopathic convicted felon with dictator dreams…the old(er) guy gets my vote every time.
Seriously. One guy tried to overturn a democratic election. The other didn’t. One is a convicted .felon. The other isn’t. If anyone still thinks the choice is “so hard” or trots out the “both sides are bad” BS again, they’re an idiot, frankly. Also, I like how everyone still acts so shocked that Biden is old. You all knew this back in 2020, it’s not like he was doing a reverse aging thing, it seems dumb to make a thing of it four years later
Angela,
I agree with your comment!
Under one guy we had a booming economy, energy independence/low gas prices, low immigration, and low inflation…Yet, you want to vote for the other guy? Wow. Wish I had the disposable incoming you do (or you are leeching off the government to pay everything for you)
Booming economy? When COVID hit, there was no toilet paper for miles. It was scalped on eBay for hundreds of dollars a roll. Millions of jobs lost. Hospitals on the brink.
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But your fantasy world sounds nice. It still won’t make me vote for Felon 34 and his dictator dreams. Especially since the right still wants to control women.
Tell me, did you enjoy that government money you got during the pandemic? I mean, surely you would’ve returned it or refused to use it if you’re so concerned about “eeching off the government”, right?
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Also, Biden and the Democrats have put forth legislation to handle the border. And the GOP has refused to support it because their cult leader told them not to. They have no desire to actually do anything about any issues at the border, they just want to use it as a culture war rallying cry to keep their base whipped up and angry (and targeting minorities, ’cause, y’know, the GOP is really good at that).
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Also, our inflation is far lower than other countries. And the price issues we do have? That’s more to do with price gouging from corporations who want to take advantage of this, and the GOP (who benefit heavily from corporate support) will let them do it while trying to make it seem like Biden is responsible for it.
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Also, our economy took a pretty big hit during the pandemic – y’know, that pesky little thing that Trump knew was coming and had plenty of warning about and refused to take even remotely seriously, instead using it to pit one part of the country against the other?
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Got any more misnformation you want to put out there, or are we done here?
Shocker: The economy doesn’t react instantly to whoever is in office. It takes years to right economic stumbles, hence why Trump enjoyed the results of Obama’s hard work fixing what George W. Bush broke with his forever wars and housing crisis. The U.S. economy right now may not “feel” great to consumers but it is the strongest globally relative to other nations stuck in a post-COVID recession.
Gas prices went down once covid hit because there was low demand. They went back up as that subsided, at first to higher than pre-covid levels, and then settled back out to pre-covid levels.
Well said and I totally
agree with you!
It sounds cliche, but democracy dies with indifference. Not voting is as bad as voting for a felon.
Settling for a candidate because they happen to be the lesser of the bad options between two parties isn’t any better than indifference. Maybe if enough people showed they were willing to look beyond a two party system, each party with a candidate on the ballot would try to actually give us a quality candidate to consider.
The fact that so many are willing to settle for the less-bad option has gotten us where we are today. It got us Trump over Clinton. It got us Biden over Trump. And that’s just recent history. These folks work for us. We ought to demand better and stop worshiping at the alter of party.
For me, it’s not a choice of the lesser evil. It’s a good man versus a bad man. Sure, both are older than dirt, but one is clearly a decent man and knows how to get the job done and it’s not Trump.
Believe me, I find Donald repulsive – and have since his first primary. I just don’t necessarily consider Biden to be as good as you do. I think he’s a better human, but I don’t consider him a great choice for the job. I’m not looking to debate politics, honestly. I’m just disappointed neither party tried harder to give folks more than the last election.
I also think some will try to equate Hunter’s conviction to Trump’s on the political stage…and it’s ridiculous
Someone will be selected either with or without your vote at the end of the process. Just because people choose to ignore it doesn’t mean it will go away.
If you don’t choose then the people with more extreme/passionate/fanatical views will be chosen and makes decision for EVERYONE. So lesser of 2 evil is definitely still better then not doing anything.
Agreed. It’s disgusting that so many are willing to settle or to select the ‘lesser of two evils.” Maybe if “we the people” demanded better, we’d get better options. I’ll vote…but I’ll find a 3rd party I can stomach. We’re only stuck with a 2 party system because folks aren’t willing to step out of their boxes.
A vote for a 3rd party is the coming election will be a move in Trump’s favor. Don’t kid yourself, if you think otherwise.
Only because too many refuse to consider it an option and limit their choices to two…or no vote
There this new thing called a 3rd party I think you should look into it.
Nope. It’s a bad decision in the coming election because it will take away votes that could have been used to beat Trump. With the country split in half because half of us are clearly don’t give a crap if their candidate is a convicted felon or not, it’s too close a race to vote for a 3rd party.
This is not new! I remember Ross Perot in 1990s cutting into both the Clinton and Bush Sr. votes. All candidates in that election had less than a 50% majority.
I know it not new. He said he hate trump and binden so he not voting at all. So I said he should vote 3rd party if you don’t like either of the two.
Because politics has become so vitriolic that any person with common sense stays out of it. So instead we get a bunch of extreme lunatics on both sides and the “middle of the road” vanishes. We are just left with the ruts on the side of the road where the dirt and trash collect (and damage anything left on the road).
25 years for lying on an application? are you kidding me? I bet half of America lied about that too. 90% of Addicts don’t admit they are addicts.
I agree, convicted murderers get less jail time! It’s crazy.
So true!
That is true.
Plus, how many people that are mentally ill, people that are drug users, people that are alcoholics and people that have anger control issues have lied on applications,
yet they’re owners
of firearms.
It’s a scary thought.
I never lied on an application. Be honest and true. That’s why when on job applications I put that I have Masters from Harvard in Truth telling.
This is the problem with America and it’s judicial system. Activist prosecutors, judges, and juries convicting people for crimes they committed after they’ve been given a fair trial. What is wrong with this country? It’s Rigga Morris, girl!
A fair verdict. But like the article says, “first-time offenders who did not use their weapons to commit a violent crime typically receive no jail time.” Most likely a fine and that’s it.
Unfortunately, it appears most commenters read the headlines and then spout off. Not bothering to read the rest of the article.
But then again, IMO, the title of the article was clearly intended to trigger posters to lineup into their ideological corners and start spouting nonsensical comments. That would trigger others to post replies to those nonsensical comments.
It also appears that most commenters, if they just aren’t here to stir up trouble, spend too much time reading/watching ideological opinion based news that agree with their own biases, and not neutral fact based news. If the commenters were watching fact based news, the vast majority of ignorant uninformed comments that I have read in here would never have been posted.
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I was with you up until fact based news… I have yet to find a truly neutral fact based news source. Please share.
There are people that have committed violent crimes, that have committed more than one murder but they don’t even get a 25 year prison sentence…
Some even get out after serving a short and unfair sentence then commit more crime or crimes…
He won’t get anywhere close to 25 years.
What a great day for America. Thank you jurors for your service
Yet Trump gets off easy? This is horrible. Hunter didn’t shoot anyone or use the gun once in his position
And so far no one has whined to the media that the trial was rigged, the judge is conflicted, etc etc etc.
Well, that settles it: I’m not ever voting for Hunter Biden.
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Oh, wait…
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So, Hunter Biden is guilty. Okay. His father already said he will not pardon him but will support and love him regardless. So let the sentencing fall where it may. Hunter isn’t running for office.
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But, then again, if felons are A-OK to the GOP as far as candidates are concerned…let Hunter run for something in 2028, at this point! I can hear the screaming now on the right…
I think it’s SO ridiculous how people comment something like this or the “other” trial is rigged in any way. HOW are they rigged? They were trials just like the thousands of others going on across our country and people are quick to claim only these TWO trials were rigged.
Our Justice system isn’t perfect. NOTHING in this world is without its failures. Accept it isn’t perfect as you have accepted you and I are not perfect. Made by humans (who are imperfect) will have similar results. Live!
I am sure Biden will pardon him after the election.