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After last night’s shenanigans from Team Hunter, it appears his sweetheart deal with the DOJ may be off, according to a reporter following the court proceedings:

 
This is a short summary of where we are as it stands now:

 
Here’s what’s happened this morning up to this point:

 
UPDATE: It appears Hunter’s plea deal is back on and his blanket immunity from future prosecution is not part of the deal:

 
UPDATE: From NYT’s Glenn Thrush reporting from the courtroom, saying Hunter Biden wanted BROAD immunity from future prosecution. Talk about a sweetheart deal!

“From the start, the judge seemed highly skeptical of the unusual deal — which offered Hunter Biden broad immunity from prosecution in perpetuity, questioning why it had been filed under a provision that gave her no legal authority to reject it. When she asked Leo Wise, a prosecutor, if there was any precedent for the kind of deal being proposed, he replied, “No, your honor.”

And…

Hunter Biden has pled NOT guilty to all the charges after the judge stripped his future immunity and the sweetheart plea agreement failed.

This is a much better explanation of why:

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