he signed the atf form at the time he owned the gun for about ten days was he addicted to drugs? was he taking drugs to me? that is the only possible defense he s got. and i agree with renato i m curious to see if that comes up in the opening statement. that s a good point. we re not oh, the judge overseeing this trial, delta defense, two setbacks yesterday blocking an expert witness and excluding a key piece of evidence. so what do you make of those rulings? i have to say i think the judge has been very pro prosecution in this one. there s also some prior rulings in which the judge really didn t i would say seriously consider the arguments by the defense that the essentially already completed a deal with the government on that the government essentially went back on its deal. so i actually think that defense is going through at this trial because they think they have some grounds for appeal. they also of course, have potentially
something he admitted in a in his own memoir during the time when he bought this file firearm, he bought this firearm in 2018, wolf helpful owned it for about 11 days and that s the reason why we are here for this trial. i again, we expect that this proceeding to continue through the course of this de well reminder viewers, evan, it was not that long ago when there was the so-called plea agreement that hunter biden would plead guilty in exchange for some sort of reduced sentence that was agreed by both sides, but then it died. what happened right. it it failed, it collapsed spectacularly in this very courthouse just last july. in july of 2023 this is a six year investigation that began in 2018 looking into hunter biden s business dealings, its tax issues and we finally in june of 2023, there was a plea agreement with the trump
a partisan battle. it s not a partisan battle. i think it s going to come down to if they really go to trial on this, it s going to come down to whether or not a hunter biden can get on the witness stand and convinced the jury that at the time he thought he was not addicted and he was not addicted and not taking drugs during that ten day period. that s what it s all about and i shirt only wouldn t look at this in a partisan lines well, on that issue, renato, do you think this trial potentially contradicts republicans narrative of a so-called weaponized department of justice i do. i mean, i agree with neck that you know, i don t generally like to look at i certainly judges and our system of justice and that fashion. i do think in many ways, hunter biden ironically is the victim of the fact that are is they counted the victim, but is the is the. is impacted by the fact
second amendment argument to try to invalidate the statute. so they ve got a bunch of different appellate argument, so i think they re going through the motions in this trial trial, and they re really trying to get an appellate victory nick, as you know, at both this judge and the judge in hunter biden does other case, the tax case are both trump appointees. do you think this could have any impact on either trial? i don t think we should view it that right. i mean, i really kind of cringe every time people talk about biden appointed judges, trump appointed judges. i think we have to give these judges that benefit of the doubt they re not necessarily even appointed by the president. are they really appointed by senators? in states like california, we had two democratic senators. certainly they would have had a veto power over the judge that was appointed so i just think it s a bad way to look at this. it does what donald trump does, trying to turn this into
to try to have a strategy potentially putting the prosecution on trial arguing for something like nullification. so i m very interested in what the defense opening statement looks like in the hours to come nick guy, as you know, the biden family clearly has an extensive history in the state of delaware. could this impact potentially jury selection? there oh sure, but again, i think that s gonna be all vetted during jury selection to the extent that people have a prejudice one way or the other. i think that will come out for sure. but you re right at the end of the day. i think the bidens have a lot of connections to delaware. delaware is the small one of the smallest states in the union and everybody probably knows somebody that knows the bidens so it could have an impact. i mean, i really think that the only defense that hunter biden has is is at the time at the time