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Laura Coates Live

Hunter Biden’s Guilty Verdict Undercuts Claims of Rigged System

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of Hunter Biden’s conviction on federal gun charges Tuesday, right-wing media personalities sought to downplay the jury’s decision, falsely claiming the case was a “fake trial” designed to “cover up” other supposed crimes committed by the president and his family. The reaction showcased how far to the fringes the right-wing and pro-Trump media ecosystem has drifted in recent years, with high-profile personalities defaulting to conspiracy theories and innuendo in response to inconvenient political news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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For months Donald Trump and Republicans have tried to make the case that there is a two-tiered justice system.

0:36.0

One system of justice for Trump and one for everybody else.

0:40.0

Their attacks go something like this, that the Justice Department is being weaponized

0:44.1

against Donald Trump and Donald Trump only at the direction of President

0:48.2

Biden. Never mind that Trump and his allies are also claiming that

0:50.9

Biden is slipping mentally while at the same time

0:53.6

orchestrating that conspiracy. Set that aside. Just consider the Trump

0:58.1

world allegation that Biden is behind this plot to persecute the former

1:01.9

president.

1:03.0

Just so you understand, this is all done by Biden and his people.

1:07.0

Maybe his people more importantly.

1:09.0

Democrats have crossed this line.

1:11.0

They have crossed the line in which now the court system is a political weapon.

1:15.0

This department of justice, the Biden Department of Justice,

1:18.0

is the most partisan Department of Justice in our Nation's history.

1:23.0

Today that same Biden Department of Justice secured a conviction against the

1:28.2

President's son Hunter, guilty on all three counts for lying about his drug use when he purchased a gun.

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