Fox News Goes All In For Hunter Biden LA Court Appearance; Tax Charges Trial Set For June As POTUS Offspring Enters Plea

“Live coverage here, as it happens,” declared Fox News Martha MacCallum today with a on screen Breaking News alert. “We are now minutes away from Hunter Biden ’s arraignment in a Los Angeles courtroom!” Mere hours after Donald Trump received the judicial equivalent of a spanking in the New York City courtroom of his fraud trial, the courtroom appearance of the presidential offspring on the other side of the country had FNC in a lather Thursday.

In the federal courthouse in downtown LA, Biden entered a “not guilty” plea before U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarci. The first appearance in the case, Thursday hearing lasted about 30 minutes with Trump appointed Judge Scarci making sure Biden was aware a warrant for his arrest could be issued if he failed to comply with any conditions of release like drinking or having a gun.

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“I do, your honor,” Biden responded, with his attorneys by his side. Putting motions hearing on the schedule for March 27, Judge Scarci then set a trial date of June 20 for the matter. Biden left right after and did not speak to Fox News or any other media outside the courthouse. Battling Congressional demands to testify behind closed doors and a GOP impeachment of his father, Hunter Biden faces a potential 17 years behind bars if found guilty of all the tax charges.

Well documented to have not paid his taxes during an extended drug, booze, sex workers, and more bender that lasted several years, the now clean and sober younger Biden has fully paid all of the nearly $1.5 million in missed taxes and the subsequent penalties. Long a target for Joe Biden ’s political enemies, Hunter Biden looked to have put these matters behind him, until a plea deal with the DOJ blew up in July 2023.

Facing Special Prosecutor David Weiss, Biden was indicted on the tax charges in December 2023. He also is up against a trio of federal charges in Delaware for filling out firearm forms incorrectly and thereby illegally posing a gun. He has plead not guilty on those charges. Starting with a live shot of the federal courthouse downtown even before Joe Biden’s oldest surviving child arrived, the Rupert Murdoch owned cable newswer pulled out all the stops to make the 1 pm PT hearing one of the top stories of a very busy day.

In a cascade of correspondents, contributors and a Republican congressman, even Biden’s motorcade made it into the spotlight. “These are nine charges, federal charges, three of them are felonies,” Fox’s David Spunt told MacCallum in a live hit from DTLA after Biden had arrived at the courthouse.

“Busy times,” MacCallum responded, before cutting to a MSNBC segment from today with First Lady Jill Biden calling the GOP “cruel” for going after Hunter Biden and “Hunter Biden was cruel to himself, the American public and the American taxpayer,” replied Rep Pat Fallon (R TX). “This is all on him.” Still, at one point in the extended interview, even MacCallum, who co hosted Fox’s town hall with Trump last night, had to pull the Texas Congressman back from the brink.

“He has not been charged with sex trafficking,” MacCallum corrected Rep Fallon as he let loose on POTUS offspring he called a “career criminal.” Earlier, Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich took out her own shiv on the younger Biden and the incumbent Democrat. “There’s the tax charges on the money, so where was the money coming from?” Pavlich said during an on air panel discussion about Hunter Biden.

“It was part of Hunter Biden’s grand business scheme around the world that Joe Biden was a partner to and involved in, which the White House doesn’t want to talk about,” she went on to say. While MSNBC focused on the chaos of the closing day of Trump’s NYC fraud trial, the upcoming Iowa caucus and inflation, CNN had a full package on Trump’s legal woes and the faint nomination hopes of his GOP rivals.

It wasn’t until almost 1:30 pm PT that the pro Biden MSNBC covered the hearing – just as Fox was back on it again. Hunter Biden’s plea hearing in Los Angeles came a day after he made a surprise appearance on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, catching Republicans off guard. Biden and his attorneys sat in the gallery at the House Oversight Committee, as GOP members moved to find him in contempt of Congress for not showing up for a closed door deposition about his business practices.

Biden, though, has offered to testify publicly. The committee voted along party lines to advance the contempt finding to the full House..