Hunter Biden’s plea deal imploded at a dramatic hearing on Wednesday, and the president’s son is still facing charges related to foreign deals with China and Ukraine. Despite the collapse of his sweetheart deal, Republicans are vowing to continue pursuing him and his family’s shady dealings.
The drama began when US District Judge Maryellen Noreika refused to sign off on the original plea agreement, saying it linked a tax-related plea deal with sparing him full prosecution on a felony gun charge. She then sat in a huff as government lawyers and the Biden team argued over the terms of the agreement. They seemed to come up with a new one within minutes, but Judge Noreika again expressed concerns about it. She also said she was worried about the time frame of the deal and what charges will be included or left out of it.
During the hearing, Biden appeared to be nervous. He wore a tan suit and stood with his ‘sugar brother’ and attorney. He also admitted to struggling with alcohol addiction, telling the judge he’d been treated for it six times in his life and had been in a rehab facility twice in the past year. He also said he was sober for 2019 and would undergo random drug tests under his probation. Those admissions could potentially backfire and give ammunition to his defense team when the trial begins in October.
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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