This is the Libertarian podcast from the Hoover Institution.

I'm your host Tom Church and the Libertarian is Professor Richard Epstein.

Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow here at the Hoover Institution.

He's the Lawrence A Tish Professor of Law at NYU and is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

Richard, last week we discussed in detail the indictment against former President Donald Trump,

and this week we've got more criminal cases to discuss, or criminal intrigue I suppose,

starting with Hunter Biden, who was finally charged, at least in one case, two misdemeanor

tax offenses that he's pleading to that will go away and a gun charge that he can have dismissed

assuming he meets the conditions of the agreement. I know that I've read and heard more

speculation on other things he might be guilty of and we've seen enough photos and video from various sources to you know suspect other things perhaps but I want to get your opinion on a few questions here. Do these seem like appropriate charges considering their severity?

Do you think he's out of legal trouble, isn't it? Do you think there are more cases incoming?

And what do you think of Trump's insistence that this is

evidence of a two-tier justice system? Well on the last thing I think Mr.

Trump, whom I have no sympathy for in any of his particular charges, has a point.

I don't know what the full extent is or the Hunter-Biden case.

This is their laptop, which was rife with information in addition to the pornography on financial arrangements and so forth.

So to pick out two charges and then to put it on the light end of the spectrum,

does psych me as a situation of washing your hands out of this.

There is the following deep irony that always happens

is the Justice Department, Maric Carlin,

and the President say, they keep their hands out of this thing

and send to Mr. Weiss's hand to do it.

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