Hillary Clinton’s social media post commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day drew strong backlash from conservatives on Thursday.
“Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on the shores of Normandy. This November, all we have to do is vote,” the former secretary of state posted to her X account.
The D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, is one of the most famous moments in U.S. military history. It was a turning point in World War II and the beginning of American and Allied forces’ liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany’s control.
Conservatives criticized Clinton, a Democrat who ran against Trump for president in 2016, for a post they considered disrespectful to America’s heroes.
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Joe Biden’s looming presence over Hunter’s trial serves as a warning to their political enemies
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Published June 2, 2024, 10:06 p.m. ET
The president flew into Wilmington, Del., on Sunday night, where his 54-year-old son’s felony gun trial begins Monday, and will spend the whole day there with no official duties.
Joe Biden’s looming presence in the strange small city leaves nobody in any doubt of the message he is sending to Delaware special counsel David Weiss, the prosecutors, the judge, and the jury pool being chosen Monday: You mess with my son, you mess with me.
It’s all very subtle, in a flagrant way, much like Joe’s impromptu visit to Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau and former lover of Hunter, just nine days before his son’s trial, at which she is the star witness for the prosecution.
Hunter Biden enters the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building with his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, Monday morning.Jasper Colt-USA TODAY
It was Hallie who threw Hunter’s new handgun in a trash can in October 2018 out of concern for his drug-addled mental state, creating a ticking legal time bomb that would propel him into court six years later.
It was Hallie who found drugs and drug paraphernalia in his truck. Hallie, 50, even shared his crack addiction for a time, amid multiple drug rehab efforts.
‘Word as a Biden’?
In a trial based on the allegation that Hunter lied on the gun shop’s federal background form on Oct. 12, 2018, when he checked “No” on the question, “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to” various narcotic drugs, Hallie’s understanding of his drug use will be key. Hunter’s defense is that the day he bought the gun was a rare day of sobriety in a period during which he admitted in his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” “I was smoking crack every 15 minutes.”
The potential for witness tampering in Joe’s late-night visit to Hallie was obvious, and must have caused conniptions for the prosecutors, Weiss’ towering deputies Leo Wise and Derek Hines.
Yet again we are commanded to take Joe’s “word as a Biden” that nothing untoward went on.
Joe’s ever-present suite of family tragedies was offered to explain the visit, in this case the upcoming anniversary of Beau Biden’s death, not that previous anniversaries had occasioned a high-profile, late-night presidential visit.
Nor did Joe and Hallie need to discuss the trial in their 15-minute private meeting.
The president’s mere unscheduled presence said it all.
As part of this wise-guy messaging, conspicuous Hunter sightings alongside his father have accelerated in the last two weeks.
There was Hunter at the White House, wagging his finger at staff, or attending an event in the Rose Garden.
Here he was, getting on and off Marine One and Air Force One with his father, flying for long weekends from Washington to Wilmington to Rehoboth Beach, Del., and back again, hopping in and out of the presidential motorcade, his own Secret Service detail in tow.
On Saturday morning came a new iteration: Hunter riding a bike with Dad in Rehoboth, sticking close behind as they passed the waiting media.
Perhaps the most flagrant of all was the May 23 state dinner for the president of Kenya where, yet again, the indicted first son rubbed shoulders with Attorney General Merrick Garland.
A dozen Biden family members and hangers-on also attended, including Hunter’s three daughters and niece plus boyfriends and a husband.
It’s the second state dinner Garland has attended with Hunter at a crucial moment in the first son’s legal odyssey.
Before IRS whistleblowers revealed the corrupt Justice Department and CIA obstruction of the five-year criminal tax fraud investigation of Hunter last year, he sealed a sweetheart plea deal with then-plain old Delaware US Attorney Weiss, and a few days later was swanning around triumphantly at the state dinner for the Indian prime minister. Garland was there in his penguin suit, warily trying to keep a discreet distance between them.
Melissa Cohen Biden – the wife of Hunter Biden – lashed out at a former Trump White House aide during a Tuesday appearance in court to support her husband, who has been charged with three felonies stemming from a 2018 firearm purchase.
Her remarks were directed at Garrett Ziegler, who was sued by Hunter Biden last year for publishing the contents of his infamous laptop.
Approaching Ziegler at the trial, Biden’s wife pointed her finger at him and said, “You have no right to be here, you Nazi piece of s—.”
After calling for the lynching of President Trump, she now is threatening civil war. The audacity of this nincompoop manifests its self by her lack of intelligence. In the parlance of humanity, she would be defined as a savage beast.
Maxine Waters suggests Trump-supporting ‘domestic terrorists’ are preparing to start civil war
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) blasted supporters of former President Donald Trump, who she blamed for threatening the future of the country.
In an appearance on MSNBC, Waters repeated and expanded upon earlier rhetoric, warning of Trump-supporting “domestic terrorists” committing mass violence after the 2024 election.
“I’m worried that he’s so divisive, and that he’s talking about retribution, and they’re talking about revenge, and I think that that’s dangerous. He’s even mentioned the Civil War, at one point, talked about there will be bloodshed,” Waters said, apparently referring to misconstrued remarks when Trump warned of the decimation of the auto industry, which he described as a “bloodbath.”
“I am going to spend some time with the criminal justice system, with the justice system, asking them, ‘Tell us, what’s going on with the domestic terrorists? Are they preparing a civil war against us? Should we be concerned about our safety? What is he doing with this divisive language? It is dangerous,” Waters said.
The California Democrat didn’t specify whether she was referring to Trump supporters broadly as domestic terrorists or only certain groups. In previous related remarks, she has alleged that Trump is connected with many unnamed right-wing “organizations” plotting election violence.
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The Washington Examiner reached out to Waters for comment.
She went on to bash the former president more holistically, saying he was an opponent of democracy and “in love with Putin and Russia and Kim Jong Un and all of that.”
“And so, it’s not just that he’s a criminal,” Waters said. “This is a man who disrespects the Constitution and democracy, and we have got to find out what they’re doing, as domestic terrorists tried to take over the government on Jan. 6.”
Her remarks are consistent with previous comments in which she has routinely warned that many of Trump’s supporters are “domestic terrorists” planning violence around the 2024 election.
“I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to ask the Justice Department, and I am going to ask the president to tell us what they are going to do to protect this country against violence if [Biden] loses,” Waters said in May.
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Former President Trump, fresh off his New York criminal conviction for falsifying business records, told Fox News he will get even with his adversaries by getting his old job back.
“My revenge will be success,” Trump said in an exclusive sit-down interview with “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
“These are bad people. These people are sick, and they do things that are so destructive… if it weren’t me, they’d be going after somebody else, and I know a lot of the competition. They wouldn’t do so well.”
Mexico’s Sheinbaum wins landslide to become country’s first woman, Jewish president
Mexico elected it’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, in a landslide victory on Sunday defeating her opponent, Xochitl Galvez.
By REUTERSUpdated: JUNE 3, 2024 13:33Presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party Claudia Sheinbaum, gestures while addressing her supporters after winning the presidential election, at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico June 3, 2024.(photo credit: REUTERS/ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI)
Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female and Jewish president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph.
Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a rapid sample count by Mexico’s electoral authority. That is set to be the highest vote percentage in Mexico’s democratic history.
The ruling coalition was also on track for a possible two-thirds super majority in both houses of Congress, which would allow the coalition to pass constitutional reforms without opposition support, according to the range of results given by the electoral authority.
Hunter, 54, faces three counts accusing him of illegally possessing a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine after lying on a federal gun-purchase form to obtain the weapon in the first place.
Although President Biden isn’t implicated in the case, the trial could create some unwelcome headlines for the commander in chief as his re-election campaign kicks into high gear ahead of his first debate with Trump later this month.
Here’s everything you need to know about the Hunter Biden trial.
Hunter Biden’s trial is expected to be fairly brief.AP
What is Hunter Biden charged with?
Officially, Hunter Biden is charged with three felonies: making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federally licensed firearms dealer, and possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of or addict to a controlled substance.
If convicted on all charges, the first son faces up to 25 years in prison and fines totaling more than $750,000 — though he is very unlikely to receive the maximum sentence if found guilty.
Charges against Hunter Biden
COUNT 1: False Statement in Purchase of a Firearm
Faces a maximum of 10 years’ imprisonment, a fine of $250,000, three years of supervised release, a special assessment of $100.
COUNT 2: False Statement Related to Information Required to be Kept by Federal Firearms Licensed Dealer
Faces a maximum of five years’ imprisonment, a fine of $250,000, three years of supervised release, a special assessment of $100.
COURT 3: Possession of a Firearm by a Person who is an Unlawful User of or Addicted to a Controlled Substance
Faces a maximum of 10 years’ imprisonment, a fine of $250,000, three years of supervised release, a special assessment of $100.
Ironically, Joe Biden helped pass legislation that shaped the law governing firearm applications that Hunter now stands accused of flouting.
The application asked, “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?”
Hunter Biden answered “no,” despite knowing, according to prosecutors that the statement was “false and fictitious.”
Why did Hunter Biden acquire the gun?
Hunter Biden told friends that he made the gun purchase on Oct. 12, 2018, on a whim and believed that time at a shooting range could help him avoid a drug relapse, according to a New York Times report from January 2023. He also claimed to have believed that he was sober the day he filled out the form.
The Post previously reported on images from the first son’s laptop showing him asleep with what appears to be a crack pipe in his mouth on Oct. 8, 2018.
StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply is located in Wilmington, Del.starquestshooterssupply.com
Hunter Biden later told The Daily Beast that the photograph depicted a meth pipe rather than a crack pipe and alleged that the picture had been staged.
In his 2021 memoir, “Beautiful Things,” Hunter claimed that he was “smoking crack every 15 minutes” around the time of the gun purchase.
On Oct. 11, 2018, the day before Hunter went to buy the gun, he texted a man identified in his contacts as “q” asking to meet at a 7-Eleven. “Q” asked Hunter if he wanted “the same” thing, an apparent reference to drugs.
He also bought a HKS Speedloader and 25 rounds of ammunition, according to prosecutors, who don’t have to prove that the first son was wasted on the day he made the purchases.
Hunter and Hallie Biden began their fling shortly after Beau’s death.
Disposal of the gun and the feds’ discovery
Hunter Biden held onto the weapon for 11 days before it got tossed into a trash can.
At the time, Hunter Biden was in the midst of a tryst with his former sister-in-law turned lover Hallie Biden, the widow of his late brother, Beau.
On Oct. 23, 2018, Hallie Biden, frustrated with Hunter’s drug use, discovered the .38-caliber revolver in his unlocked car and discarded it — wrapped in a black shopping bag — behind a supermarket located across the street from a local high school.
Hunter demanded that Hallie return to the trash can and retrieve the firearm for him, but when she did, it was gone, according to a police report unearthed by Politico in March 2021. Hallie then contacted the store’s management, which drew in law enforcement.
When cops called Hunter Biden to the scene, he claimed to have used the firearm for target practice.
Hunter Biden waved off questions about whether he was using drugs by suggesting Hallie had thought “I was gonna kill myself,” per the report.
When asked if he had spoken about the issue with his father, then the former vice president, Hunter responded: “I have never called my dad for anything.”
Days later, the gun was turned in by an older man who regularly went through the store’s trash for recyclable items.
“They said the firearm was involved in a case of some kind and they wanted to expedite the trace process and get access to the Form 4473,” the FBI document outlining Palimere’s interview states, referring to the transaction record filled out by Hunter. “Both agencies asked the same questions and it appeared they were not aware of each other’s investigations.”
Suspicious of the request by the Secret Service, Palimere contacted an ATF agent, who told him, in the FBI’s words, “not to turn the original Form 4473 over to anyone and to turn over a copy only if Palimere felt Palimere had to.”
The Secret Service has said it has no information corroborating Palimere’s claims, noting the Biden family was not under the agency’s protection at the time.
Who’s prosecuting the case?
David Weiss has been US Attorney for Delaware since 2018, having been nominated to that position under Trump, with the support of the First State’s two Democratic US senators, both Biden allies.
Weiss’ office has been investigating Hunter Biden on a number of tracks, including the gun charge, tax evasion and allegations of unregistered foreign lobbying.
David Weiss is overseeing the special counsel office’s prosecution of the first son.The Washington Post via Getty Images
In December 2020 — a month after his father won the presidency — Hunter Biden confirmed publicly that he was subject to a federal probe into his “tax affairs.”
In June 2023, prosecutors announced a plea deal on tax charges against the first son and a pretrial diversion agreement on the gun charges.
As a result, he was expected to get about two years of probation contingent on him remaining sober.
But that agreement went up in flames the following month when Delaware US District Judge Maryellen Noreika exposed daylight between the defense and prosecution over whether or not Hunter would enjoy blanket immunity.
On Aug. 11, 2023, Attorney General Merrick Garland elevated Weiss to special counsel status, giving him the authority to bring charges against the first son wherever he wished.
Noreika, who will also be the presiding judge at trial, rejected that claim, saying laws against drug addicts owning firearms are “consistent with this country’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
President Biden has maintained that he’s proud of his son.AFP via Getty Images
The defense team has also suggested that the 4473 form may have been “tampered with” by an employee at the gun store who helped Hunter Biden fill it out.
The Justice Department has included a photo of Hunter Biden’s signature on the form as evidence.
But lead defense attorney Abbe Lowell has teased there might be more to the case.
Key witnesses in the case
In their trial brief, prosecutors teased plans to call at least nine witnesses, mainly officials from the FBI, Delaware State Police, and Drug Enforcement Administration — along with “an employee of Starquest Shooters,” possibly Palimere, and three individuals identified as Witness 1, 2, and 3.
Buhle tied the knot with Hunter Biden in 1993 and the pair split in 2017, not long after she learned that he was having an affair with his sister-in-law, according to her book, “If We Break.”
Even after the divorce was finalized, Buhle continued to express concerns about her ex’s addiction struggles, writing in a March 9, 2018, message that she “found a few crack pipes” in the family car and removed them because their “daughter was driving” it at the time.”
Kestan — a lingerie and textile designer who uses “weed_slut_420” as her social media handle — testified before a Delaware grand jury back in 2022, The Post previously reported.
A NY Post composite on Hunter Biden’s three former lovers who could be key witnesses.NY Post composite
Kestan allegedly claimed to have been with Hunter “at the craziest point of his life” and stated that during the roughly nine months of their relationship, he smoked crack cocaine about “every 20 minutes except when he slept.”
Aside from those witnesses, prosecutors will also be allowed to cite evidence from Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell,” though the defense will be able to challenge exhibits on a case-by-case basis.
Prosecutors have also indicated they will reference his memoir,” Beautiful Things.”
Will President Biden pardon Hunter?
While the president has not spoken publicly about the case, the White House has repeatedly insisted that the president will not pardon his son should he be convicted.
“I’ve been very clear; the president is not going to pardon his son,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reiterated back in December.
In theory, President Biden could pardon his son, but the White House insists he won’t.Nathan Posner/Shutterstock
Behind the scenes, President Biden is reportedly very anxious that his son could wind up behind bars. And there have been some conspicuous crossing of paths on the eve of the trial.
On May 26, President Biden met with Hallie Biden, a move that raised some eyebrows given that she’s expected to be a star witness.
US District Judge Maryellen Noreika poked holes in the plea deal and pretrial diversion agreement last July.United States District Court for the District of Delaware
Noreika was nominated to the bench by Trump and confirmed by the Senate in August 2018 — again with support from both of Delaware’s Democratic senators.
At Pittsburgh native, Noreika holds an undergraduate degree from Lehigh University, a master’s degree in biology from Columbia University and a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
Noreika has given campaign donations to candidates on both sides of the aisle, with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a particular favorite.
Who are Hunter Biden’s attorneys?
Hunter Biden’s main lawyer responding to Weiss’ probe was Chris Clark, who played a critical role in negotiating the aborted plea and diversion agreements.
Chris Clark dangled the possibility of calling President Biden to the witness stand.Lathan and Watkins
Clark had previously hinted at plans to bring President Biden to the stand if the agreement failed.
“President Biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial,” Clark wrote at one point, Politico reported.
Lowell, a Winston & Strawn partner, then took a more pronounced role in Hunter Biden’s defense. He previously represented Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and has also helped the first son navigate through the onslaught of House Republican investigations.
In addition to Lowell, the first son has tapped Dalton Bartholomew of Dalton & Associates and more recently brought on David Kolansky, who previously helped Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).
Abbe Lowell has a reputation for being a scrappy defense lawyer.Getty Images
Legal fund could be drying up
Since his father took office as president, Hunter Biden’s primary patron has been Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, sometimes referred to as the first son’s “sugar brother.”
Morris, 60, testified before the House GOP impeachment inquiry back in January that he loaned the first son more than $4.9 million and had visited the White House on at least three occasions during that timeframe.
Other recent reports peg that figure at around $6.5 million. Morris’ cash flow to the troubled first son covered everything from divorce costs, back taxes, a paternity suit, car payments, and more.
Kevin Morris is reportedly getting tapped out as Hunter Biden now faces two major trials.Getty Images
But now there are questions about whether Morris’ resources are drying up.
“Kevin is completely tapped out. So just when Hunter is facing two criminal trials starting in a few weeks, he has no resources. It’s pretty dire,” a source familiar with the situation recently told Politico.
Kathleen Buhle is expected to be an important witness on her ex-husband’s addiction struggles.ABC News
Other charges against Hunter Biden
In addition to the firearm case, Hunter Biden is also staring down a tax indictment that Weiss secured from a grand jury out of Los Angeles in December.
He is facing six misdemeanor and three felony counts for allegedly stiffing Uncle Sam of $1.4 million in federal taxes between 2016 and 2019. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Speculation has also swirled about possible charges under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which is governed under a five-year statute of limitations. Weiss has maintained that his investigation remains “ongoing.”
James Comer has foreshadowed other potential legal trouble coming Hunter Biden’s way.Getty Images
FARA requires individuals to disclose when they’re acting on behalf of foreign principals in a bid to influence US officials.
Detractors have pointed to Hunter Biden’s position on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma from 2014 until 2019, and his 10% stake in Chinese state-backed investment fund BHR Partners between 2013 and part of 2021, among other concerns.
Yet the clock appears to be running out on some of those potential avenues.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), who is leading
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