ICYMI: I updated my analysis of what went wrong with Hunter Biden’s plea based on the plea agreement released by Politico and a transcript released late last night.

To teel deer it: a judge doing her job figured out the prosecution and defense bungled the documents and didn’t agree what they meant.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/hunter-biden-and-the-fog-of-war

Hunter Biden And The Fog Of War

What We Don’t Know About Why The Hunter Biden Plea Deal Blew Up

The Popehat Report
@Popehat Question: is “encompassed by” shitty drafting, or just a compromise to give each side appearance of winning? In civil transactional context, when I tried to be clear about a contentious point, clients would sometimes say “woah, don’t be that explicit, just tone it down (make it less clear) so that other side thinks they got what they want, and we can just take the position we want later in the now confused language if it ever comes up”. Hated that, but it happened lots.