In the fifth episode of his newest production, “Tucker on Twitter,” former Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson discussed Hunter Biden’s plea deal in connection to federal charges.
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was federally charged with two violations of failure to pay income tax and one violation of unlawful possession of a firearm.
The DOJ added that Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to two charges of misdemeanor tax evasion and enter a pre-trial diversion agreement on a firearm possession charge.
During his nearly 13-minute monologue released Tuesday afternoon, Carlson suggested that Hunter Biden received different treatment than an ordinary citizen would when faced with similar federal charges.
“For the children of the people in charge, there are no penalties, there are only upsides…They’re princelings, they can do what they want. You are not, therefore you can’t, so don’t get any ideas about cheating on your taxes or violating federal gun laws, unless you want to celebrate next year’s Father’s Day through the glass in the visitors’ room. The rules definitely apply to you, including rules you don’t yet know exist,” Carlson argued.
Carlson also acknowledged the timing of the DOJ’s announcement regarding Biden’s plea deal, mentioning former President Donald Trump’s previous suggestion that the DOJ would charge Biden with “something small” in order to make the department’s “strike” on the former president “look fair.”
On June 6, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “They are using the DOJ & FBI against me to Rigg the 2024 Election. They’ll hit Hunter with something small to make their strike on me look “fair.” Nothing about these Fascists is fair or honest. FIGHT!”
Noting this, Carlson added during his Tuesday monologue, “And it turned out those were prescient words. This morning, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to pretty much nothing. Biden pled to two misdemeanor tax evasion charges and then entered a diversion on a federal gun charge. That’s it. As far as Merrick Garland’s Justice Department is concerned, Hunter Biden is done. There was no pre-dawn raid carried live simultaneously on CNN. There was no perp walk, no handcuffs, no press conference.”
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
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