Hunter Biden returns to court in California for jury selection in his tax evasion trial

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Hunter Biden’s tax fraud trial begins today in California.

Jury selection in the case involving President Joe Biden’s son is based on special counsel David Weiss’ years-long investigation, which saw the first son charged with three felonies and six misdemeanors.

Hunter denies the charges, which include allegations that the 54-year-old eldest son owed $1.4 million in taxes, which have since been paid.

Weiss alleges in the incident that Hunter “engaged in a four-year scheme to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in self-reported federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 … and to evade tax payments for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns in or about February 2020.”

The case begins in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, presided over by Judge Mark Scarsi.

Hunter Biden leaves federal court in Wilimington, Delaware on June 11, 2024 in another case involving an illegal firearms purchase

Charlie Spiering, senior political reporter

Vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance on Wednesday ridiculed former Rep. Liz Cheney for supporting Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

Vance focused on Cheney’s support for wars in the Middle East, including Afghanistan and Iraq.

“This is someone whose entire career has been about sending other people’s children to fight and die for her military conflicts and her ridiculous ideas that we could somehow turn Afghanistan into a thriving liberal democracy and that Liz Cheney was willing to kill thousands of your children to do it,” Vance said, referring to the casualties in the wars that began during her father Dick Cheney’s vice presidency during the George W. Bush administration.

Vance responded to Cheney’s endorsement at a Turning Point USA rally in Arizona, in a conversation with Charlie Kirk. He called both Harris and Cheney part of the political establishment that supported wars abroad.

“Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney are interesting partners,” he said. “They get rich when America’s sons and daughters die. They get rich when America loses wars instead of winning them.”

Cheney gave her thoughts on the 2024 presidential election at an event at Duke University on Wednesday, arguing that as a constitutional conservative,

Harris would support Trump instead. She argued that Trump posed a “danger” to the United States.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump’s speech on Thursday outlining his economic proposals will include recommendations from billionaire Elon Musk.

The policy would lead to even more aggressive regulatory loosening than Trump implemented during his first term in the White House and would likely drastically cut back on unspent funds freed up by President Joe Biden’s administration.

Musk recommends that the federal government establish a government efficiency commission to conduct “a full financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” and make “recommendations for drastic reforms.”

Trump will outline his economic position during his speech to the Economic Club of New York on Thursday afternoon.

“I can’t wait. There is a lot of waste and unnecessary regulation in government that needs to go,” Musk tweeted this week amid speculation about his role in Trump’s economic policies.

Trump has an advantage over Vice President Kamala Harris among voters, who believe the former president would do a better job of addressing the economic and inflation crisis.

Donald Trump launched a wild theory about his upcoming debate with Kamala Harris by claiming that ABC News will help the vice president cheat.

The former president spoke during a Fox News event on Wednesday, where he predicted that the Disney-owned television network would present Harris with questions before the debate, ahead of their face-off.

“They’re going to get the questions, I’ve heard they’re going to get the questions ahead of time,” Trump told Fox host Sean Hannity in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “I’m not sure it’s going to help her that much.”

Trump and Harris are scheduled to hold their first debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Sept. 10, moderated by ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis.

Trump said he only agreed to the debate on the “dishonest” network because the vice president would not agree to any other debate.

Historian Allan Lichtman has finally made his prediction for the winner of the 2024 election, finding that Kamala Harris has met the key objectives for victory.

The 77-year-old professor at American University has developed his own election model, with which he has correctly predicted every presidential election winner since 1984.

He relies on an unorthodox system, ignoring polls and experts. The system is based on what he calls the “13 keys” to the White House, a model he developed in 1981 with his friend and geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok.

The model is based on 120 years of presidential election results and even allowed Allan to predict Trump’s surprise victory in 2016 a month before the election.

He then used his tactics to correctly predict the outcome of the 2020 election.