The 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.

Now Richard, we've spent a lot of air time recently talking about former President Trump's legal woes, and now it's time to talk about the Biden family.

And unfortunately for, I think, maybe the American public, there's plenty to discuss so let's start with

Hunter Biden's legal woes and the still unfinalized plea deal between Hunter and

the Justice Department.

The charges here are related to some unpaid taxes and a gun charge.

And recently when Hunter Biden went in to accept the plea deal deal which it looks like includes a two-year pretrial diversion agreement

meaning he would have to satisfy some you know restrictions and then these charges could get dropped

there were issues and then these charges could get dropped.

There were issues involving the details and the judge,

well, didn't allow this to go forward.

Hunter pled not guilty until a new agreement could be made. So I'd like to know Richard, is this a sweetheart deal like many people are saying? I mean it doesn't appear that there are more charges forthcoming for Hunter Biden and many people believe that there is plenty more that he should be charged with.

Well, the reason the judge blew this whole thing up is she was worried about whether there would be violations of various statutes which have to do with his status as an

unregistered agent for a foreign government.

And the way the agreement was worded was kind of sly, and it seems to say that virtually

everything that was not in this particular agreement could no longer be sued upon so he would get insulation with respect to a very serious charge.

And I think that's what made her ball.

And once that thing was pulled outside of it, there's still the question that Mr. Slopeck, that is David Weiss,

would start to speed up again and may want to hone in on those situations.

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