Michael Steele: Today Was a More Embarrassing Day for the Gov’t Than It Was for Hunter Biden

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STEELE: “Yeah, I don’t think it goes to trial. I think it is an embarrassing day for the government because you want to — you know, arguably, it is not in the defense’s interest to go before the judge and say something and plead something that they know they have not agreed to or that there is still a dispute about. They are not in the driving position to create that level of frustration, consternation and confusion before the bench. So, the onus is on the government and all of that matters because they are the ones bringing the charges, they are the ones prosecuting the case. They are the ones, ultimately, who sign off on the agreed-upon terms of the deal. And to the extent that they get up and say something that they know or, God forbid, don’t know is in the deal, that is a problem for them, particularly when the defense gets up and says, ‘Your Honor, wait a minute. We have paperwork that says x, he is now saying y. We do not agree to that. My client will not plea to possibly exposing himself on the back end.’ So this clearly largely rests with how the prosecutors walked into that courtroom and what they thought the other side agreed to when, in fact, maybe they knew the other side had not absolutely agreed to those terms, so now they have to go back and clean it up. And the judge is probably rightly more annoyed with the prosecution than the defense, because they are the ones who actually cut the deal — I mean, the defense cuts the deal, right, ‘This is what we agreed to,’ but the prosecutor signs off on that deal to get it in front of the court.”