Hunter Biden Trial…Guilty!
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4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Hunter Biden has been found guilty on all three charges in his federal gun trial, becoming the first child of a sitting U.S. president to be criminally convicted. Prosecutors said Biden lied about his drug use when he bought a handgun in 2018. Sarah Smith - who has just returned from Delaware where the trial took place - and Justin Webb unpack the evidence and the consequences for President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.
Also, Justin and Sarah speak to Jill Biden’s former Press Secretary, Michael LaRosa on how the case will be affecting Joe Biden’s inner circle. Could the U.S. president pardon his son?
HOSTS: - Sarah Smith, North America Editor - Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter
GUEST: - Michael LaRosa, Former Press Secretary to Jill Biden
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This episode was made by Purvee Pattni with Rufus Gray, Catherine Fusillo and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Not for the first time, we're not talking about political campaigning this week, we're talking |
| 0:09.0 | about a big criminal trial because this year's election seems to have us spending more time in |
| 0:14.6 | courtrooms than it does out on the campaign trail and this week is no exception |
| 0:18.3 | because there was a big moment the first time the child of a sitting US president |
| 0:22.1 | has been criminally convicted. Hunter |
| 0:24.4 | Biden, son of Joe Biden of course, found guilty on all three charges in a |
| 0:28.1 | federal gun trial for lying about his drug addiction and illegally possessing |
| 0:32.1 | a firearm. |
| 0:33.0 | And he has the right to appeal but to be frank about it the evidence that was used seemed pretty |
| 0:38.7 | compelling to the jury and a lot of that evidence actually comes from his own writings because he wrote an autobiography and a lot of the stuff about his drug use is in that autobiography. |
| 0:48.0 | So, look, he's a private citizen. Why would it matter? Well, he's a private citizen called Hunter Biden. The |
| 0:54.2 | clue is in the second name. It has been Hunter Biden's life an ongoing issue for |
| 1:00.8 | his father who has had to cope throughout his life and in particular in the last few years |
| 1:07.8 | and the point is that Donald Trump in particular does not let Joe Biden forget about his troubled son. |
| 1:14.0 | Listen to this, it's from the presidential debate in 2020. |
| 1:17.0 | And he didn't have a job until you became Vice President. |
| 1:20.0 | What did you became Vice President? |
| 1:22.0 | He made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow, |
| 1:25.4 | and various other places. He made a fortune. |
| 1:29.0 | My son. And he didn't have a job. My son, like a lot of people we know at home, had a drug problem. |
| 1:36.3 | He's overtaken it. He's he's fixed it. He's worked on it. And I'm proud of him. |
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