Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty Tuesday to an illegal gun possession charge, marking the latest chapter in his troubled life just as his father President Joe Biden accelerates his campaign for reelection next year.
Hunter Biden, 53, arrived in federal court in his family hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, without speaking to waiting reporters.
He entered a not guilty plea to three felony charges stemming from his purchase of a .38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver in 2018 when, by his own admission, he was heavily addicted to drugs and barely in control of his life.
Hunter Biden is charged with two counts of making false statements for claiming on forms required for the gun purchase that he was not using drugs illegally at the time.
He faces a third charge, based on the same statements, that he illegally possessed the gun — which he had for only 11 days in October 2018 — before he got rid of it.
Hunter Biden’s multiple legal troubles and controversies — which extend to facing ferocious accusations from Republican politicians that he engaged in corrupt business practices in China and Ukraine — are a constant drag on his father’s political standing as he seeks a second term in 2024.
Republicans have opened an impeachment inquiry in Congress on what they claim is a Biden family criminal conspiracy but have provided no evidence that the president did anything wrong.In response to the constant drip-drip of scandal, Joe Biden has repeatedly said he stands by his son and loves him for his attempts to recover from drug addiction.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, had asked Judge Christopher Burke to allow Biden, who lives in California, to appear by video instead of in person but the request was denied.
“The defendant should not receive any special treatment in this matter,” Burke wrote in his ruling.
If convicted, Hunter Biden could in theory face 25 years in prison, though in practice such offenses, if not accompanied by other charges, are seldom punished by any jail time.
In July, a plea bargain between Hunter Biden and federal prosecutor David Weiss — which would have erased the gun charges while Biden pleaded guilty to two tax charges and avoided prison — fell apart.
https://insiderpaper.com/hunter-biden-pleads-not-guilty-to-gun-charges/
Using official government data for deaths in England and Wales between 2010 and 2022, former BlackRock portfolio manager Ed Dowd and his partners at Phinance Technologies found that excess death rates from cardiovascular diseases were up 13% in 2020, 30% in 2021, and 44% in 2022, which "point to a worrying picture of an even greater acceleration in coming years of deaths & disabilities 🚨🚨New Report: UK Death & Disability Analysis: Cardiovascular Disease, Ages 15-44
✅The anecdotal evidence observed in media has been confirmed by a strong statistical signal
✅Excess Death Rates from Cardiovascular diseases up 13% in 20, 30% in 21 & 44% in 22
✅Z-scores of… pic.twitter.com/OufZzV0arT
— Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) September 18, 2023
What's more, they found that "deaths per year from cardiovascular diseases had been trending lower from 2010 to 2019, with a significant downward slope," until 2020, when the trend reversed. They also found that in 2022, men began outpacing women in cardiovascular diseases.
Men & women were similar until 22 where men were 56% from trend while women were only 28%. pic.twitter.com/yoRk3LpS7a
— Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) September 18, 2023
The analysis also found that disabilities are skyrocketing.
The rise in excess disabilities from UK PIP data was twice the rate of excess deaths in 22 and disabilities are 4x deaths in 22.
Morbidity leads mortality.
From the Buergin Swiss Study for “Myocardial injury after Covid-19 mRNA-1273 booster vaccination” there was an incident… pic.twitter.com/lyjCc7owfW
Dowd and co. conclude that: "When looking at excess deaths for cardiovascular diseases, the Z-score in 2020 was around 3, indicating that prior to the start of the vaccinations there was already a signal pointing to an increase in cardiovascular deaths. That trend however accelerated substantially in 2021 and 2022 where we observe Z-scores of around 7.5 and 10.5, respectively. These are extreme events that we believe need a thorough investigation."
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/excess-deaths-cardiovascular-diseases-44-last-year-among-uk-citizens-aged-15-44