Episode 2495 CWSA 06⧸04⧸24
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 10 minutes
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144.15503
Summary
Hunter Biden is on trial in Delaware on a gun charge, and his defense is that he was high on drugs at the time of the alleged crime, and therefore he had no choice but to get a gun. But the defense doesn t work, because he lied about his drug use when he applied for the gun.
Transcript
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All right. I don't even know what that means, but it's a cool word.
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So I guess Hunter Biden's going to court in Delaware on gun charges.
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Trump gets tried in the unfriendliest place in the world,
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and Hunter gets tried in the friendliest place in the world for Hunter.
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Now, this is an interesting case because my understanding is the facts of it are completely clear.
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You know, there's no question of what happened, which is very interesting.
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How do you defend when the law has been broken and there is no question about the details of what happened?
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There's no question that he said he was not addicted, but he was when he got the gun.
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I mean, he's on video being addicted, et cetera.
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But somebody said that his defense would be it's not his fault because he was high.
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So the defense would be, yes, I was a drug addict, and I said I wasn't when I applied for the gun.
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But you have to understand that I was a drug addict, and therefore I can't be totally responsible for saying I'm a drug addict.
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And I have to say, it's not the worst argument.
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It's not the worst argument because the whole point of being, let me just pull this together for you.
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The reason you don't want a drug addict to have a gun is what?
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Why do you not want a drug addict to have a gun?
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Why do you not want a drug addict to have a gun?
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Why do you not want a drug addict to have a gun?
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It's a weirdly good argument, but it can't be accepted.
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The reason you can't accept it is because it refused free will.
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So the problem here is that free will is what's on trial, not Hunter.
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Because if he has free will, well, then he's guilty, and it doesn't matter if he took drugs,
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If he doesn't have free will, then not only could you make an argument that on some moral grounds he's not guilty,
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although the law would say otherwise, but it was also, you know, all of the legal system.
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Like the entire legal system would have to be thrown out if, you know, if you could say, well, it's not what I was thinking at the time,
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I don't think his argument is wrong on a philosophical sense.
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I don't think it'll work as a legal argument, but what else does he have?
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And then somebody said that the charge could be up to 25 years in jail.
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How many of you think that lying about your drug use to get a gun should put you in jail for 25 years?
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I mean, it wasn't used in the commission of a crime, didn't have priors.
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I mean, I hate to wake up and have to defend Hunter Biden,
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but there's no way I think he should be in jail for 25 years for lying on a forum.
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I mean, we need to find some kind of perspective.
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It's making me wonder if this is political, too.
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Is this trial only being pushed for political reasons?
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Well, here's another question I'd like to ask you.
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which requires you to sign something, apparently in whatever state he was,
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don't you think that maybe 25% of all gun owners
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may have lied on the application in the same way?
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In my experience, at least 25% of the adult public is addicted to drugs,
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either alcohol or something else, pills or something.
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So, if you're a drug addict and you haven't had a drug for 20 years,
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You're just a drug addict who's got it under control.
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So, if you're a drug addict who hasn't had a drug for a little while,
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So, does everybody who ever used to be drinking too much
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this standard of are you or are you not a drug addict
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So, there's kind of an interesting question here