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

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“Live coverage here, as it happens,” declared Fox News Martha MacCallum today with an 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. “Do you understand?”, the judge asked. “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. That raises the possibility that the president’s son would be on trial at the same time that Donald Trump will in one of his criminal cases, although the court dates often are changed or pushed back.

Hunter Biden left right after the hearing 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.