Liz and Andrew break down the latest developments in Hunter Biden's plea deal and help inoculate you against the coming right-wing storm of misinformation suggesting something nefarious.

In the Patreon bonus, Andrew and Liz take a deep look at the Trump SDFL docket and discover something very interesting about Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Notes Liz’s ATL on Giuliani https://t.co/CN4aal5bx9

DOJ Press release https://www.justice.gov/usao-de/pr/tax-and-firearm-charges-filed-against-robert-hunter-biden

DOJ Information 2 - tax https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-06/rhb_information_2.pdf

DOJ Information 1 - firearm https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-06/rhb_information1.pdf

DOJ Agreement to produce Weiss letter-weiss-testify.pdf"> https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23886334/doj-letter-weiss-testify.pdf

Fed R. Crim. Pro. 11 https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_11

Jason Smith amicus brief https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82801/gov.uscourts.ded.82801.7.3.pdf

Email correspondence between Kittila and Biden's counsel https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82801/gov.uscourts.ded.82801.8.1_1.pdf

Ted Kittila's (Jason Smith's counsel) letter to the Court https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82801/gov.uscourts.ded.82801.8.0_1.pdf

Clerk's office email to Ted Kittila (Jason Smith's counsel) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82801/gov.uscourts.ded.82801.13.0_1.pdf

Salerno letter in response to show cause order https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82801/gov.uscourts.ded.82801.14.0_3.pdf

Affidavit of Jessica Bengels, the litigation specialist: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82801/gov.uscourts.ded.82801.14.1_4.pdf

Unsealed Search Warrant Order https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.146.0_2.pdf

26 U.S.C. § 6531 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6531

NY Times on Hunter Biden Plea Deal Hearing biden-plea-deal-charges.html?smid=url-share"> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/us/politics/hunter-biden-plea-deal-charges.html?smid=url-share

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