Hunter Biden's Criminal Trial Testimony Opens With Focus on Phone Messages

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Weiss, a Trump appointee, has hit Hunter Biden with federal tax charges separately in California.
33% : Hunter Biden, 54, is accused of failing to disclose his use of illegal drugs when he bought a Colt Cobra .38-caliber revolver and of illegally possessing the weapon for 11 days in October 2018.
32% : The proceeding at the federal courthouse in the Bidens' hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, comes just days after Republican Donald Trump, the rival to Democrat President Joe Biden for the Nov. 5 U.S. election, became the first former president found guilty of a crime.
29% : The trial comes days after Trump was convicted by a jury in state court in New York of 34 felony counts of falsifying documents for calling a payment to attorney Michael Cohen a legal expense.
28% : Trump is due to be sentenced in New York on July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention.
13% : Trump has pleaded not guilty in three other pending criminal cases, two related to his efforts to overturn his loss in 2020 to Biden and one charging that he unlawfully kept classified national security documents after leaving office in January 2021.
10% : Cohen had paid off Stormy Daniels to keep Democrats' efforts of tarnishing Trump before the election out of the news, but it was ultimately widely shared and Trump now faces prison time for a misdemeanor outside the statue of limitations that Democrats managed to get a jury to convict him on a felony for.

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