Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.

Today is Tuesday, June 20th, 2023. I'm John Pondhore. It's the editor of Commentary

Magazine, committing to your attention. Our full July, August issue at commentary.org,

featuring the lead article we discussed on Friday, Abe Greenwald's The Trust Crisis,

columns by our own Matt Contenetti and Christine Rosen, Hannah Myers on the accountability crisis

in relation to mental health and crime, hallfort gang on the good and bad inclusion,

and a whole host of book reviews of interesting and fascinating topics. So that's the July,

August issue at commentary.org. If you're not a subscriber, subscribe today with me as always,

the aforementioned Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. Media commentary columnist, Christine Rosen,

high Christine. Hi John. Washington commentary columnist, Matt Contenetti. Hi Matt.

Hi John. So do we talk about Trump's interview first? Do we talk about the Hunter Biden plea first?

Well, Hunter's breaking. So the Hunter, the Hunter dues is a breaking news. So Hunter Biden has

a stark appeal, apparently, with the Justice Department, to plead guilty on charges of not filing

his taxes in time that was actually more than a million dollars he owed in taxes in 2017 and 2018,

which he has already paid back. So what he is being charged with is late filing or attempting to

evade filing or something like that, and he will have to pay fines. And there is a gun charge,

him lying on a form when he applied to get a gun permit, saying that he was not an abuser of drugs

when he has admitted in a published memoir that he was abusing crack cocaine at the time,

got the gun, which somehow got thrown into a dumpster near a school either by his ex-girlfriend

or in the presence of his ex-girlfriend, I don't really understand. So what's his brother's widow,

we might add? Was that, oh, is that the ex-girlfriend? This is not the baby mama. No, this is the

brother's widow with whom he was having dalleans. Yes. So he will plead guilty. He has, he will be,

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