The Pee Tape: The Media’s Obsession with Jill Biden May Undermine the Jury
At least some of the jurors who kept an open mind on Hunter Biden’s guilt were staying at the same hotel as the media who were not.
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
At least some of the jurors who kept an open mind on Hunter Biden’s guilt were staying at the same hotel as the media who were not.
When handling cross examination of the gun shop employees called by Hunter Biden, Leo Wise spent as much time shoring up his own plausible deniability as he did asking questions.
Journalists have utterly disappeared one key aspect of Hunter Biden’s conviction: It would never have happened without the partisan interventions of John Paul Mac Isaac, Rudy Giuliani, and Bill Barr.
The timeline of the collapse of the plea deal released in the last year makes it clear that David Weiss reneged on the scope of the immunity offered to Hunter Biden. But Hunter was willing to accept that narrowed scope. What killed the deal was Judge Noreika’s intervention in the Diversion (not Plea) Agreement.
The problem with most pieces scolding Hunter Biden for not pleading out before his gun trial is that Leo Wise and Derek Hines have made clear their intent to humiliate Hunter Biden no matter what he does.
On the morning of closing arguments, prosecutors in the Hunter Biden case surprised Abbe Lowell with October 10 texts they claimed proved Naomi Biden was wrong about her impression of her father over a week later.
The jury found Hunter Biden guilty off all three charges against him.
Jurors noticed that, while Hallie Biden was testifying, she was exchanging words of support with her husband, who was in the courtroom.
Before Leo Wise started presenting his evidence he made excuses for presenting so much from times when Hunter Biden did not own a gun.
Judge Maryellen Noreika first approved an order compelling Hallie Biden to testify against her brother-in-law in 2022.