Dan Mitchinson: US Correspondent on Hunter Biden's federal gun trial

Hunter Biden’s ex-girlfriend Hallie is testifying in his federal gun trial. 

Hallie described to the court how she found a gun in his truck, his drug use and how he got her into drugs. 

Biden is charged with three felonies stemming from the purchase of a gun in 2018. 

US Correspondent Dan Mitchinson told Heather du Plessis-Allan “Joe Biden has released a statement saying if his son is found guilty – he won’t pardon him.” 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business. Dan Mitchison, US correspondence with US Now,
Hey Dan, Hi, Heather. I know, I don't know if
it's true or not, but it is. It's a perfectly
UK thing to do. Hey, Hunter. Biden's trial is pretty salacious,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, yeah, the prosecution, I guess this was the most
important witness against him. He was his sister in law,
he and girlfriend, which was Halle Biden, who testified today,
and she said that she believed that he was using
all kinds of drugs when she saw him back in
October of I think it was twenty eighteen, and how
she went out to his truck while he was asleep

(00:39):
and found the gun and drug paraphernalia and then you know,
the video has been showing all over the news today,
how she took it to a grocery store at a
little trash can there and threw it away in the
trash can and said, I just I was panicking. I
didn't know what to do about this. And also the
other thing that was very interesting, Joe Biden releasing a statement.
Now he's over in France for the D Day ceremony,

(01:00):
but he did say in a statement that if his
son is found guilty, he's not going to pardon him.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh wow, would he be expected to? I mean, that
wouldn't be politically cool, would it.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
No, it wouldn't. But I think it's something that you know,
if you were a Donald Trump in office and it
was one of your children, I think a lot of
people over here would expect him to go ahead and
just do that and probably wouldn't think twice about it.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
She also spoke about starting to smoke the crack cocaine herself,
didn't she.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah she did. He was very wild and very
very paranoid, and you know, he was the one that
kind of walked her down that path and got her
into into using drugs as well. And she said, you know,
it was the most embarrassing and hardest time of her
life too.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Is she off it now?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
She is? I believe yes.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Is he off it now?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's questionable depending on who you ask. I think he
would say yes. I think his dad would say yes.
I think there are others that you know, you look
at some videos and it's questionable.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, you reckon, Does he look like he's on it?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Sometimes sometimes like yeah, yeah, sometimes.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
What are the telltale signs?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Dan, I think it's just how you see somebody acting,
like when you see the title yet very agitated, very wild,
eyes are very glassy. Yeah, there's just signs of it.
You kind of assume that somebody's on something that they
normally wouldn't be.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, how embarrassing for Joe Biden. Now Steve Bannon off
to jail on July the first.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, which I mean it's a four month prison sentence,
and this is for defying subpoenas from the January sixth Committee,
and his lawyers were arguing the sentence should be stayed
until they could appeal this to the Supreme Court. And
as you might imagine, any kind of delay would probably benefit,
you know, Steve Bannon. If Trump was elected president and decides,

(02:49):
just like he did on last day of his presidency
in twenty twenty one, to pardon Bannon on federal criminal charges,
but he's going to be serving time before any of
that can happen.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Dan, explain to me how the stuff works with the
ads on the hashtags on Twitter. So is it that
there are designated hashtags that Twitter will sell an ad
around every time that hashtags used that ad will be
able to be around it.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah. Yeah, And what they're finding is that X, Twitter,
whatever you want to call it, has been placing these
ads in their search results with hashtags to promote racist
and anti Semitic extremism. So you're finding things like hashtag
white power. And NBC did this investigation and they found

(03:29):
the advertisement by searching different hashtags, and there were religious
hatred and there was anti semitism, and they don't know
what extent. People at X were aware that the company
was monetizing this. But X is saying, now, well, okay,
we're not disputing the findings. We've taken action on this
on a number of items. We're going to continue to
expand our approach as we need to. But I mean,

(03:51):
this is one of the things that Elon Musk has
come under fire forces he's taken over that there's just
not enough people keeping an eye on this and who's
giving them go ahead to monetize.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
These A very good point, actually, Dan, listen, thank you
very much, really appreciated, Go and enjoy your weekend. That's
Dan Mitchison, our US correspondent. For more from Hither Duplessy
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