(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The full text of a failed plea agreement involving Hunter Biden suggested that the federal prosecutors who were supposed to be holding the president’s son accountable to the fullest extent of the law instead attempted to trick U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika by sneaking in a “blanket immunity” clause.
The sudden revocation of these presumptive terms in court Wednesday came much to the chagrin of Biden’s elite, high-powered trial attorneys.
As earlier reports indicated, the deal would have protected Biden from violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act that are still under investigation by both Congress and the Justice Department. Yet, the overly vague arrangement may also have granted Biden unprecedented immunity for crimes about which the public may not even be fully aware, the Daily Mail reported.
“This was a way of hiding the ball both in federal court in Delaware, and in the court of public opinion, to give Hunter Biden a free pass on a decade of criminal activity not covered by the charges in this case,” said Will Scharf, an ex-assistant U.S. Attorney.
He said Biden’s legal team and DOJ prosecutors were effectually “spitting in the face of justice.”
The discussion of the attempt to manipulate Noreika was released via published transcripts of the trial.
Noreika began by grilling Delaware assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise over the sneaky deal he attempted to make with the defense attorneys representing the president’s son.
“We looked through a bunch of diversion agreements that we have access to and we couldn’t find anything that had anything similar to that,” the judge said.
“Have you ever seen a diversion agreement where the agreement not to prosecute is so broad that it encompasses crimes in a different case?” she questioned.
“No,” Wise responded before Noreika cut him off, telling him to “sit down.”
The judge accused both sides of attempting to get her to “rubber stamp” the plea bargain without considering the immunity they would attempt to secure for Hunter for numerous other crimes.
Scharf commended Noreika for calling out the shenanigans—a rarity in today’s two-tiered judicial system where political allegiance to the president and to the Democrat cause takes priority over legal and ethical norms.
“Judge Noreika smelled a rat,” said the former prosecutor.
“She understood that the lawyers were trying to paint her into a corner and hide the ball,” he continued. “Instead, she backed DoJ and Hunter’s lawyers into a corner by pulling all the details out into the open and then indicating that she wasn’t going to approve a deal as broad as what she had discovered.”
Other DOJ alums likewise acknowledged that Noreika was the day’s big winner while the prosecution and defense both lost.
Appearing on CNN Wednesday to discuss the trial, former assistant U.S. Attorney Shanlon Wu, coyly ignored the possibility that the plea agreement was intentionally deceptive, however, instead characterizing the unprecedented deal as “sloppy” legal work from the DOJ.
“The fact they didn’t cover this ahead of time is really sloppy on the prosecution’s part,” Wu said during the left-leaning network’s analysis of the trial fiasco.
“For Biden’s team if it’s ambiguous it’s good for them,” he continued. “But the fact that the judge is pointing it out now, that’s on the prosecution. They should have taken care of this a long time ago.”
